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The analysis of an unsettled heart.
(1) A. The unsettled heart is a heart full of guilt.
An awareness in our heart that we have done something wrong.
Sin quenches the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Our fellowship with God is hindered.
It robs us of our peace.
(1) A. The unsettled heart is a heart full of guilt.
The peace of God is not ruling in our hearts.
Guilt is.
Either guilt from sin.
Or false guilt from the past.
(1) B. The unsettled heart is a heart full of fear.
Do you have feel like something bad is going to happen in your life?
Anxiety because of what MIGHT happen in the future.
What is going to happen in the world?
What is going to happen to my life?
What is going to happen to my children or my loved ones?
An unsettled heard is full of fear.
A sense of pending doom.
You have lost trust in God.
(1) C. The unsettled heart is a heart that is trying to run away.
How do I escape this pain?
How do I remove myself from this difficult situation?
Would you rather God remove the difficult situation or work His plan through you?
(1) D. The unsettled heart is caused by reducing life to what you think you need.
We are trying to live according to what we think is right.
We are trying to achieve what we think is best for our lives.
We think we know what we need in our lives.
Then God sends things along that mess that up.
Our heart becomes unsettled because we have reduced life to what we think we need rather than trusting God’s plan.
(1) E. The unsettled heart is caused by trying to live life without God.
This seems harsh but it is true.
Anxiety in our heart comes because we are trying to do it on our own.
We have lost faith or never had faith in God.
An unsettled heart is a heart that is downcast, broken, doubtful, fearful, divided, and does not have peace.
Maybe you are one of these people.
We might say life throws a lot of difficult things our way.
Life has thrown a lot of really difficult things into the lives of our church family.
Remember what we said about the sovereignty of God?
Nothing comes into your life that God hasn’t approved or decreed.
Many of you are walking through a season where God has allowed or decreed what we would perceive to be really difficult things in our lives.
So your heart is unsettled.
There is a remedy for our unsettled hearts.
2. The remedy for an unsettled heart.
(2) A. Jesus calls us to come to Him.
Jesus is calling us to establish a relationship with Him.
The call to come is offered to those who are weary or laboring in this life.
Those who are feeling fatigue in this life.
Those who are tired from the hard toil of life.
The call to come is offered to those who are heavy laden.
Over burdened with spiritual anxiety.
The call to come is offered to those who become incredibly burdened down with sin that imprisons them.
This is salvation.
Repenting of our sins and believing in Jesus.
(2) B. Jesus calls us to take His yoke.
A yoke is what is used to hitch oxen to a wagon.
Is signifies working for someone.
Understand the context...
Jesus is speaking to Jews who have the yoke of the law.
They have been carrying the heavy burden of trying to keep the law.
The law has been their master.
We too will be slave to something...
(2) B. Jesus calls us to take His yoke.
Submit to Jesus as His follower.
This is a call to sanctification.
The we take the yoke as His followers.
That yoke calls us to the same characteristics of Jesus.
Jesus calls us to learn gentleness.
This requires a willing submission from our heart.
We are submitting to God’s rule and plan in our lives without complaining or grumbling.
Jesus calls us to learn gentleness.
Saying I will go with the flow of the Father’s will, because God will never waist pain in our lives.
Jesus calls us to learn humility.
Even in our struggles, we have a willing heart to esteem others about ourselves.
Jesus calls us to learn humility.
Saying I will go with the flow of the Father’s will, because God will never waist pain in our lives.
We question the character of God when what He is doing in our lives doesn’t match our own plans and ideas.
We no longer trust what God is doing.
What we are really saying is that we don’t trust who God is.... we don’t trust His character.
When God is no longer trustworthy our hearts become anxious.
Think about it a different way.
If you heart is anxious you do not trust God.
Jesus calls us to learn humility.
We have a have a knowledge but we often struggle to live what we know is truth.
We know God is good, sovereign, and loving.
But then we we get angry at Him.
We worry about the things that are happening in our lives.
3. The promise for the unsettled heart.
(3) A. The unsettled heart will be given rest.
“I will GIVE you rest.”
vs 28
Come unto me - when we go to Christ - when we are regenerated - we find peace with God.
(3) A. The unsettled heart will be given rest.
This is a peace that is given by grace and recieved through faith that is given to us.
(3) B. The unsettled heart will find rest.
When we submit to His yoke and follow Him, we find the rest He promises.
This is the tranquility of God in our hearts.
This is not simply peace with God, but the peace OF God.
(3) B. The unsettled heart will find rest.
Because of this, Jesus calls his yoke “easy”.
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