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Jesus Said
Matthew 11:2
28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
29 “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.
30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Rest - anapausis - where we derive the english word pause. It means a resting place. relief from anxiety and trouble.
This morning, in the time we have together we are going to look at what Jesus meant when he spoke these words, and as we do so I want you to press pause on the things that are troubling you. The things or people that give you anxiety. I want you to find rest. This message from Christ is best experienced as it is heard.
Whatever you worries, set them aside for a little while. Financial, material, relational. Push pause.
If you become so relaxed that you fall asleep and snore during this entire message walking away only knowing you had a good nap and Jesus is Lord, then you will be better for it.
Pray for peace of mind.
The best sleep you will ever get is with a clear conscious after an honest day’s work.
The best sleep you will ever get is with a clear conscious after an honest day’s work.
Get you, have a time of study and prayer.
Go to work, if you don’t have a job, then go to work.
23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,
24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.
Thank God for the work he laid out for you.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Repent of any wrong doing and seek his forgiveness.
Go to bed.
That is rest!
Context
Jesus is going to the cities of his disciples to preach.
John the Baptist was in prison and sent his people to find out if Jesus was the Christ.
3 and said to Him, “Are You the Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?”
Matthew 11:
4 Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you hear and see:
5 the blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
6 “And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”
Matthew 11:
Jesus speaks to the crowds about John the Baptist.
10 “This is the one about whom it is written,
‘Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,
Who will prepare Your way before You.’
Among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist!
Jesus then pronounces judgement on the cities that have rejected him.
Chorazin
Bathsaida
Capernaum
25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.
Matthew 11:
We are happy, ignorant fools.
27 “All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
Matthew
Have the same knowledge of. Know intimately.
Son wills to reveal Him.
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Jesus offers his invitation:
28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew
Weary and heavy-laden.
If in you pursuit of Pleasing God. Living the Christian life. You feel just overwhelmed, burdened, wore smooth out.
You are putting on yourself what Jesus condemned the Phrases put on the Jews.
4 “They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.
Seems like the opposite of what we tend see in scripture.
12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you;
13 but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.
12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
29 For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,
12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you;
Phil
13 but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.
A good leader.
The apostles are preaching Jesus and healing people they are thrown in Jail by the High Priest.
Brought before the council and told to quit it.
Peter among them said, we must obey God rather than men.
High priest and his folks were filled with jealousy and had
Gamaliel said hold up.
40 They took his advice; and after calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then released them.
41 So they went on their way from the presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name.
Acts 5:
Paul
17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Suffer together:
Kind of scary to think about how okay I was with the idea of dying while i was in the in the military because it felt like that was okay, a part of the job. But it was also something I never shared with my family because I did not want them to hurt from my mindset... A warrior’s death was an honor in some way, it was this idea that I died for something bigger than myself. I was dying for my brothers, my kin, and my country. In the military you almost become passive aggressive suicidal. You don’t want to die. You don’t hope you die... but you become so okay with the idea that it just becomes the normal. And psychologically I don’t think you ever come back from it. You leave the military you try to go to school, you try to fit back in and adjust to civilian life once again. You struggle to relate with your family, you struggle to relate with other students, you struggle to relate to your coworkers. You find the only people that actually make sense to you are veterans or your friends that are still in. They understand you. They know the same feeling all too well. The only way to supplement this idea, is to find some kind of purpose. But it is rare to find another job that gives you the same level of purpose that you once felt. I think that is why so many veterans feel so depressed and suicidal so often. We are lost. So extremely lost in the world. Searching to fill a void. Sometimes there are voids that we looked to be filled by joining the military, and for some it does for a while. Broken families breed some of the best Marines I have ever had the privilege of serving beside. Being a product of a broken family, I looked at the Marine Corps as a place to fill a void, to be a family and a sense of belonging I lacked growing up. And for the years I spent in, it did. I met some of the best people I’ve ever known, but our times in the Corps all ended at different times. But our pains all started again at different times. We longed for a family that we found. We bonded over pain, blood, sweat, and genuine love for one another. When we become separated from that family, the search for it begins again. Some of us never find it, not in the same way we did before. Sure, you see veterans or old friends you served with at reunions or hikes. But that everyday living and suffering together, that is what you miss and long for once again. Since I got out it has been a constant struggle to find that sense of belonging, but I have yet to find it. It makes me question my career choices, the people I spent my time with, and worst of all it makes me wonder if I will ever have a purpose worth being alive for again. Hidden behind forced smiles and sad eyes, I’m still empty searching for that thing to fill the void. I hope one day I find it. Or I am lucky enough to be granted a warrior’s death. Not sure which one I will find if either. But I will keep searching until I do find it. I am a broken warrior, but I keep fighting on...even though I feel like I am losing most days.
Adam Hill.
But that everyday living and suffering together, that is what you miss and long for once again.
29 “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.
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
10 “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
12 “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 11:39
Matthew 5:3-
Learn from Christ
Rest for your souls
16 Thus says the Lord,
“Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths,
Where the good way is, and walk in it;
And you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Matthew
Asked you to lay down your worries, anxiety, trouble, fears, earthly desires.
Jesus is asking you not to pick them up again.
Wake up and praise God, do work, thank God and get some sleep.