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Matthew 11:28-30
Excerpted from: God's Promise of RestIn Matthew 11, verses 28 through 30 we have Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, repeating a message to us in back-to-back scriptures. Is He trying to get our attention? I think so. He is giving us a promise of how we can have rest in this chaotic, burdensome world.
Let us first note the back-to-back promises in two scriptures, 28 and 29. "I will give you rest" and "you will find rest." Now, I want us to look before both of these promises. And what word do you see before both of these promises? You see that little word "and" which connects the promise to the action just before it. Jesus is telling us, here is how we can have that rest.
In verse 28, we have an invitation first from Jesus Christ, who sits at the right hand of God. He says, Come to Me at the beginning of each day, throughout the day, at the end of the day. Come to Me and put your focus above the sun. He is telling us we will never find rest in this physical world, but when we come to Jesus with our thoughts and prayers continually, He will give us rest.
Again, in verse 29, Jesus promises, we will find rest for our souls if we do our parts. What is our part? To take Jesus' yoke on us and learn from Him how to develop a heart that is like God, a heart that is gentle and lowly, meek. There is a choice here. Jesus is telling us you have got two yokes. You have got to pick one or you are by default going to have the other. And He says, take My yoke so that you are not overcome from the heavy burdensome yoke of Satan and sin in this world. And when we take His yoke, we are actually hitched to Him and we have the opportunity side-by-side with Him throughout the day as He helps us pull the load.
When we come to Him and take His yoke, then and only then does He provide us rest. When we choose to take Jesus Christ's yoke each day, we gradually learn to overcome our carnal, evil heart that is so self-focused in this dog-eat-dog world. When we take Jesus Christ's yoke, we are keeping our focus above the sun, to trust in God and ask for His help to lead us to the rest from the burden and toils in this world.
In verse 30, Jesus explains that contrasted to the burdensome yoke of Satan and sin in this world, He says, "My yoke is easy and My burden is light." His yoke is gracious, kind, merciful, not harsh, overbearing, and oppressive. His laws are not only reasonable and easy to obey, they are designed for our own good. His burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30
Excerpted from: Government (Part One)It is not God's government that is burdensome. It is Satan's, and man's. What is so difficult is overcoming the enmity against God—the attitudes, and the character, instilled in us by living under those governments of Satan. In our lives, we have followed the patterns exemplified before us. That is, we see these things happening all the time by our leaders. And the vanity, and the competitiveness, and the greed, and the deceitfulness—we have picked that up, from the leaders of this world.
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