Find Rest

We Tuned our Hearts, Prepped for the Journey today we’ll hopefully find rest.

Joke: People in Athens don’t wake up before noon;

Dawn is tough on Greece

Desire to teach you a little and help you apply Scripture:

Matthew 11:25-30

v. 25: Some things are hidden

Today [post-Pentecost], revealed via the Holy Spirit

John 16:8–14 ESV

[Holy Spirit] will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment.... he will guide you into all the truth...He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

v. 27: the Son reveals the Father

John 14:6 ESV

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Romans 10:9 ESV

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

v. 28: the Son gives rest

Same as Prov. 9:1-6

Proverbs 9:1–6 ESV

Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table. She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says, “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”

v. 29-30: Take his yoke, its easy (Gr. word for easy is also translated good, kind, benevolent)

Yoke is a device that was placed on the shoulders of animals that would pull a plow

Yoke is often a symbol for submission and slavery

When the law was understood as a way of meriting salvation, it became a “yoke of slavery” (Gal. 5:1). (RSB:ESV2015E)

Galatians 5:1 ESV

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Viewed as a heavy burden due to Scribes’ oral tradition and the sinfulness of humanity

His yoke is easy

its easy because he is gentle and lowly

its easy because He paid the price; our price

Rom. 8:1-8

His burden is light

it the task/ job

Matthew 28:18–20 ESV

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

the Great commission

Love God and love Neighbor (Matt. 22:34-40)

How often do we think what God requires from us is too much?

Why do we struggle to “do all things to the glory of God”?

Why do we struggle to understand what He’s saying to us?

Ps. 25: Answers the why and provides the solution.

1) Our Focus has shifted

5) Our Willingness has waned

14) Our Fear and reverence have diminished

16-18) Our Comfort has increased

21) Our Patience has grown thin

Do you desire to rest in him?

Are you believe His yoke is easy and His burden light?

Has your focus, willingness, etc changes?