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Resting in the Lord
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
Ever get so tired that your bones ache and your mind so
exhausted that you can barely think?
You know one of those
days that all you want to do is crawl into bed and sleep?
Are you
weary from the
struggles of life?
Are you weary from
the storms that rage
all around you
threatening
to
strangle
out
normalcy
and
decency in your
daily routines?1 Or
maybe you are
simply exhausted due to having worked too many hours at your
job and have filled your calendar with way too many
obligations?2
If physical and mental struggles were not
challenging and energy draining enough, maybe you are simply
worn out from trying to serve the sinless Lamb of God by your
own effort and the burden of sin is crushing your soul?
One
Alan Carr, “There Is a Place of Rest (Matt.
11:28–30),” in The Sermon Notebook: New
Testament (Lenoir, NC: Alan Carr, 2015), 171.
2
Alan Carr, “There Is a Place of Rest (Matt.
11:28–30),” in The Sermon Notebook: New
Testament (Lenoir, NC: Alan Carr, 2015), 170.
3
Alan Carr, “There Is a Place of Rest (Matt.
11:28–30),” in The Sermon Notebook: New
Testament (Lenoir, NC: Alan Carr, 2015), 170.
1
can’t help but wonder … are we not “looking, running, seeking,
struggling, fighting, loving, rushing, searching all to find what
only Jesus Christ can give?”3
Today’s passage found in Matthew
11:28-30 appeals to us because it is the Great Shepherd’s
invitation for those who are “weary in their spirit”4 to come to
Jesus and receive rest! St Augustine stated that there is nothing
sweeter than this, “thou have made us, O God, and our heart is
restless till it rests in Thee.”5
The following sermon is going to show how
true rest begins with faith in a risen Savior
and once born again is cultivated in the fertile
soil of the humble and gentle hands of the
Master.
We will learn that the crushing weight of sin is alleviated not
through more “human effort” but through partnering, learning,
and receiving the divine yoke of our sympathetic high priest
Jesus who when invited moulds the clay of our lives back into
His image whence we came!
The sermon will finish by
describing divine rest both now and our final resting place in
heaven in Jesus’ arms, a place that is more peaceful and joyful
than we could ever ask or imagine!
Alan Carr, “There Is a Place of Rest (Matt.
11:28–30),” in The Sermon Notebook: New
Testament (Lenoir, NC: Alan Carr, 2015), 170.
5
D. L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons (New York; Chicago; Toronto:
Fleming H. Revell, 1896), 99.
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Coming to Jesus - Salvation
The journey of finding rest for one’s soul begins with
faith in the Lord’s vicarious sacrifice!6
All have fallen short of
the glory of God, and all have become altogether worthless and
incapable of either knowing or pleasing God (Ephesians 3:23;
Romans 3:9-18)!
By our own efforts we cannot earn our
salvation, nor can we
know
the
Unknowable7 for our
intelligence
and
wisdom can not lead
to the way, truth and
life but remains the
dust’s
foolish
attempt (Isaiah 55:89) to receive what
can only be obtained by faith and grace (Ephesians 2:8-9)!
When
Jesus states, “come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened
and I will give you rest,” He is pointing out the truth that He
alone is the epicentre of God’s self-disclosure8 and the only
means of approaching the Father’s throne of grace (Hebrews
4:16).
The burden of being simultaneously “under the dominion
of Satan”9 and the righteous wrath of God can only be removed
through faith10 in the divinely appointed Lamb who was slain
before the foundation of this world (Revelation 13:8).
“Your sin
C. H. Spurgeon, “Rest, Rest,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol.
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