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is some Matthew 11 chapter by chapter 11 verses 25 to 30 The Father revealed in his son At that time Jesus said I praise you father Lord of Heaven and Earth because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned it and reveal them to Little Children. Yes Father for this is what you will please to do. All things have been committed to me by my father. No one knows the son except the father and everyone knows the father except the Sun and those to whom the son chooses to reveal him. Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

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3 Mable Again, before I start I just wants to ask you a question. This is not a trick question. This is the no right or wrong answers. But can I ask you what makes me weary just have a few. What makes me weary? Evil, that's a good good all set stress. Denise I meant who else makes you wary.

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what you didn't see nobody get weary. I'm going to talk about that.

Jesus is just before our passage. Jesus is furious and the Furious so he's frustrated always exasperated invested 2224.

that in Galilee and it says which in which he did most of his miracles and why does he denounced the move because they didn't repent even his

so what does Jesus do?

Account, I don't know what to do with this. Frustration this exasperation. Well, he

He comes to his father. He's he's he's expressed his way to you. Odysseus and he sang to the people. The people that use salt or Wicked would get better mods from God than you. Ancient pause ask where the good way is walking it and you'll find rest for your souls. But you said we will not work in it.

So with that frustration that exasperation that Jesus is God, what does he do when he comes to his father and it was very reminiscent of the praise his father. So he said I praise you father. That's a Greek translation of a you know, Daddy I crazy father Lord of Heaven and Earth because you've hidden these things from the wise in the Atlantic and revealed them to Little Children. Yes Father for this is what you are pleased to do. So he responds about frustration with a sense of thanks and praise to his father.

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you hidden these things from the wise and then didn't reveal them to little children and the green where they're a little children is nepios.

But it's awesome. What it means is literally too young to speak. So he's he's referring to children.

I've been saying that you've revealed these things to those not with phds nothing with a PhD don't get me wrong. But you've revealed it to people who stood in that is then the people that you've revealed little babies.

Now it says reading that to me seems a bit weird because it sounds like only the one who chooses to reveal to the father will get through to his father sounds a bit old to me. How can that be when it's free choice in. So we have to ask the song choose to reveal to the father and this is why Jesus is crying because he said come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. It doesn't say come to me some of you who are in bed, and he says come to me.

And eventually, of course these words will be an active upon the cross when Jesus does not have a listing of that burden of sin and rebellion and broken it and it takes it from you and me and he puts it on himself.

But his invitation is for all who are weary and burdened. Play rain thunder invited.

Those are the ones that will find Jesus and serve him find the father. I want to find this helpful. If everything is just fine in life if life is lying to me easy and you go over energy and resources you need you're not really going to be attracted. When is a prerequisite. Do you like it baby still in not this and that you feel weary and worn out. And I got really good friends who are not Christian and stubbornly still refusing to become Christian because everything at the moment is just fine my friendships to be real and meaningful. I'm not just to witness I won't they are real friends, but I want to be there for the Long Haul so that when they get that moment we're innocent then maybe I can be one of the people that might be able to tell him that someone who takes your burdens and your weariness. So come to me all who are weary and burdened cities and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy. And my burden is light. But my Galaxy is easy and my burden is light.

Many of you will know this but the yolk traditionally was personal don't kizzle and this is important slaves we go together in a line, but the sooner you go team Jesus is talking about is side-by-side.

And it's it's bearing the load together for the image. This is creating is I want you to be hurt to me. So I'm by your side and we pull a load together.

Yonkers used repeatedly in the Old Testament scriptures and sometimes it's used in terms of slavery. It's quite often used against us When God says the yolks themselves, too. I'm walking along with false prophets and you will find rest for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

So I want to apply these Woods to us simply by looking at who was it that was listening to Jesus as he spoke these words. It was listening what it's only Usual Suspects as we love this pic time with Pharisees.

And it's as if Jesus is speaking against the fact that the Pharisees built like a fence or a barbed wire fence or wall around to make it as complicated and difficult as possible for people to come to God.

I don't know if you remember. This is a person Matthew 23 where Jesus says they will not be willing to lift a finger to move them. Say anything to the religious stop blocking that the way by putting burdens on people that the father never intended. Stop being blind guy stopped paying people to something that has nothing to do with life and freedom and puts them into slavery.

Now, I'm sure that the church could never be accused of doing that acts 15 verse 10 pulses now, then why you trying to test gold by putting on the necks of the Jen's house that neither we nor our ancestors were able to bed. Is there any chance did it we could have worked out that we've done as well call The Oaks on people or heavy burdens, which means people looking for Faith. Don't find it. May God forgive us.

Second grade people that Jesus is Jesus.

People who knew that they could ever be good enough. I knew that they couldn't save themselves people who own weary with the Bhajan of that sitting in the Brokenness and I will give you rest notice. He doesn't say come to a religious order or an institution or even to us.

And if we're only some of us have been Christians so long that we've forgotten the enormity of what it felt like to realize that white was mr. We had that amazing sense of inner peace that we would be with him for eternity.

Because we can now become friends with go through Christ. We've sometimes felt like By the way, if you've never had that feeling but I don't know but it says anyone who has never had that feeling it. Let us pray with you.

the dangers of speaking to the the religious people and to the little people, but the other people he was speaking to

he's choking. Change disciples and to us because we get weary and burdened. Initially when we Christians were just floating on air.

An even pool admits this means he says therefore we do not do not lose her in other words. I was about to lose her.

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A-line unlimited troubles are achieving frosting eternal glory that far outweighs the mall. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen anything since what is the temp? What is unsane is eternal?

And don't say I sometimes. Mimosa this last couple of weeks. I'm feeling weary and sometimes like I might lose her know because I'm physically because of what I'm saying with my eyes.

700 to 3 months ago. I saw this young man in Uganda and his wheelchair is so rubbish his mom come get him out of this slump after election. He had both suspects are on the way things go very severe cerebral palsy Atlantic intelligence at the moment. He coughs Pinky, and I'd come back wanting to do something about that. The kind of Is a weariness and yet I feel a burden this with pictures Maxine Mason and the others it would simply if they would still be alive if it was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I'm kind of running out of steam doing them because it goes on and why hasn't the leadership in Russia change? Why is this all going on in Garza y y a y politics here in the US climate change my feeble efforts divisions in the church. I feel so weary that the church is sometimes so preoccupied by internal divisions. See those around you need to stop pointing towards the Lord.

and they were there are many others and yet I had Jesus say to me all you who are weary, and I will give you rest. Maybe you were wearing. This is the same as that or maybe it's something things. Maybe it's because of illness people mentioned a few things. Maybe it's because of I don't know surprise for siblings or family singing Lionel see things with your kids so repairing so it could be any number of things that make us feel weary. Jesus is saying come to me. Do you spell weary? For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

With without salvation comes this amazing Crown of Glory. Just by the way, can you believe that? I'll say it again. When a Salvation comes incredible Crown of Glory. Yes.

Stop Oso comes in Yoakum service is being yanked him to pass the load with us.

And sometimes we feel it, but why should we be surprised because discipleship is demanding for was nothing less than whole life commitment and self-denial.

The with joy of Salvation that comes out good and responsibility and burden of responsibility.

Jesus just keeps saying come to me all who are weary and I will give you rest for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

So distracted, so what can we do with what we see? This come to him in prayer. Like Jesus did evening tanks.

Let's take that yellow to Friendship of Hippo working with Jesus take responsibility to be his person at this time in this situation that you find yourself and that will be different for each of us at the moment. I sent a real sense of being in the West I'm not supposed to microwave then that might changing in months or years ahead. It might well change but each of us needs to know what wood is that responsibility that we take from the Lord as we are young to him. Johnson petition to the person next to you. But we need to keep coming back thanking him and renewing that wrote that joke in that responsibility.

No fries, no picking up a third in the league Elizabeth feeling self-righteous. Do any of those things but freedom and forgiveness that Jesus gives us and asking the holy spirit daily. What is my what is my responsibility to get myself to you today?

And as we off the spirit. Place to his joy and his presence is we carry.

I'm going to finish with some words from Jude's letter when we rarely read and I are going to get the band to come up and get ready to sing. This is a doxology and I want to pray a blessing over Ross. And then we going to remain seated As we sing that song all who are thirsty and will remain seated and maybe we can just listen to it as a prayer. But this is a this is a prayer that Jude says in the end of his letter. To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without Fulton with great joy to the only go down save it be glory Majesty power and authority through Jesus Christ Our Lord before all ages now and forevermore. Answer that goes people say amen.