The Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Can’t Heal

Scriptural Text: Matt. 11:28

“The Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Heal”

This statement was coined by Thomas Moore.

Singing for a Day of Rest

I grew up in the Deep South. Before the era of mechanized farming large plantations had many black field hands. As they worked, they sang. Sometimes they sang in chorus; at other times only one person sang. One little song went like this. “Come day, go day, God send Sunday.” The hard-working field hands looked forward to a day of rest. That was one of God’s intentions for the sabbath.

 Herschel H. Hobbs, My Favorite Illustrations, (Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1990), 169.

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Sorrow is an emotional, mental, or physical pain or stress.  Trouble and sorrow were not meant to be part of the human experience. Humanity’s sin brought sorrow to them (Gen. 3:16–19).

However, Many are stress out resulting from the pressures of human life. Our lives are in a pressure pot.

How Pressure cooker works:

Pressure cookers are fantastic tools. They develop the characteristic flavors and textures of foods so quickly that what is conventionally a long, labor-intensive process becomes one hardly more time-consuming than a casual sauté.

A pressure cooker is essentially just a pot with a semi-sealed lockable lid and a valve that controls the pressure inside. It works by capturing the steam that, as it builds up, increases the pressure in the vessel. The pressure increase in turn raises the boiling point of water, which normally limits the cooking temperature of wet foods to 100 °C / 212 °F (at sea level; the boiling point is slightly lower at higher elevations). Because the effective cooking temperature is higher in the pressure cooker — as high as 120 °C / 250 °F — the cooking time can drop substantially.

High-pressure steam rapidly transfers heat to the surface of any food not submerged in liquid.

Water vaporizes into steam, increasing the pressure inside the cooker as it heats. Because the boiling point of water depends on pressure, it rises too, just enough to keep the water and steam temperature hovering around the boiling point for the higher pressure. The pressure continues to rise until it is stabilized by the valve.

Add enough water to the pot, either around the food or under a container of food elevated above the bottom of the pot, to enable plenty of steam to form.

The Pressure Pot of Life (Job 14:1; Job 5:6-7;Matt. 5:45; Jn 14:1,26)

Job 14:1–2 (ESV) — 1 “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. 2 He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

Trouble is a part of life. As Christ said, “(God) makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matt. 5:45). As Christians, we should understand both the promise that trouble will occur and the plan Scripture lays out to deal with it:

Job 5:6–7 (NKJV) 6For affliction does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble spring from the ground; 7Yet man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

The Promise of Trouble (Job 5:7). A. We Are Born into a Sinful World (Rom. 5:12). B. We Are Born into a Sinful Body (Ps. 51:5). C. We Are Born into a Spiritual Warfare (1 Pet. 5:8).

John 14:1 (NKJV) 1“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

John 14:26 (NKJV) 26But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

The promises that the last days[Acts 2:16-17] will be mark by times of special stress and danger [2 Tim. 3:1]

Scripture promises us that the last days (that is, the period between Pentecost and the return of Christ [Acts 2:16–17]) will be punctuated by times of special stress and danger (2 Tim. 3:1).

This will reach a climax at “the time of the end”: “there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time” (v. 1).

The Roots of Trouble (3:1-5) The Spread of Trouble (3:6-9)

Isaiah Chapter 24-27 is about Gods Judgement of the World

According to Isaiah, the original curse of sin is aggravated by the inhabitants who,

defile God’s earth, transgress His Laws, change His commands, and break His everlasting covenant (v. 5).

“Therefore,” Isaiah writes, “the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate” (v. 6). [Isaiah 24:3–6]

All of this is lost in the final day of judgment. Cultures will be shattered, communities will crumble, families will be broken, and every inhabitant of the earth will be scattered without regard for position, prestige, or power (vv. 2–3).

The pressure is building in Matt. 24-25, The Prophecy of Jesus Return and The End of The Age, Watch-Be Ready-Be Faithful and Wise (24:42-51).

"However Humanism says, we rejects the importance of belief in God. Our interests, values, and dignity predominate. We emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world.”  As predicted in Daniel 12:4...

Daniel 12:4 (NKJV) 4“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

While believers are able to rest secure in the knowledge of God they receive through God’s Word, unbelievers are agitated in their search for the truth— “many shall run to and fro” in the quest for reality. As a result of their quest, “knowledge shall increase” (v. 4). Apart from the knowledge of God’s Word, that increased knowledge will simply be in vain.

The pressure pot of human life is about to explode, It is written:

Come unto Me (v.28). Take my yoke - learn of Me (v.29-30).

Christ paints two pictures in this passage. One picture is of extreme weariness. This is the person who has gone as far as he can; he can go no farther—he cannot take another step.

The other picture is of extreme pressure (heavy burdens). This is the person who is about to explode; he cannot take anymore.

Christ does not say what caused the weariness or pressure (heavy burdens). It does not matter, for His invitation is open to all. It is a simple invitation, requiring so little and offering so much.

Who is to come? The weary and the burdened-exhausted and despairing, extremely tired and weighed down.

—the person who is laboring and heavy laden, weary and burdened, exhausted and despairing, extremely tired and weighed down, ready to stop and collapse.

Thought 1. Some of the things that exhaust us are...

•  Work; being overburdened with too much to do

•  Worldliness and carnality (fleshly pleasure)

•  Sin and guilt and the power of both

•  Money & material possessions and the unsatisfying spirit of both

•  Fame and the emptiness of it

•  Power and the loneliness of it

•  The rituals and traditions of religion

•  Rules and regulations

Why should the weary and the heavy laden come to Christ? Very simply, Christ will give them rest. (Isaiah 1:18; 55:1; Revelation 22:17)

Christ will give rest to the struggling and despairing soul and to the empty and lonely soul—no matter how intense the struggle and despair or the emptiness and loneliness.

Isaiah 1:18 (NKJV) 18“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.

Isaiah 55:1 (NKJV) 1“Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.

Revelation 22:17 (NKJV) 17And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

God comforts believers under stress( Ps 94:19; Mt 11:28; 1 Pe 5:7, See also 1 Sa 30:6; Ps 107:6; Ps 119:143; Jn 14:1; Jn 14:27; Jn 16:33; 2 Co 4:8–10; Php 4:6)

Psalm 107:6 (NKJV) 6Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He delivered them out of their distresses.

John 16:33 (NKJV) 33These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Philippians 4:6 (NKJV) 6Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

Conclusion: And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven …—2 Thess. 1:7