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1 | What is Christ's rest? | Matt 11:28 | Bill Mc | 12979 | ||
What is the rest that Christ offers here? Why were people 'heavy-laden and weary?' Vs. 29 - What is Christ's yoke? Vs. 30 - How is His yoke easy and His burden light? See also Hebrews 4:1 - How can we come short of entering God's rest? Hebrews 4:9-11 - What is this Sabbath rest? Please use scripture to support your answer. |
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2 | What is Christ's rest? | Matt 11:28 | prayon | 13034 | ||
People were heavy-laden and weary from carrying around their burdons of sin, excessive demands of religious leaders (Acts 23:4), oppression and persecution, and plain worry. A yoke is a heavy wooden harness that fits over the shoulders of an ox or oxen. In Jesus day a man would by an ox and take it to a carpenter who measured its shoulders and made a yoke to fit. Jesus was probably thinking back to his days as a carpenter when he used this anology. If a yoke wasn't fitted properly an ox was sure to of suffered badly, but Jesus always made the yoke to fit perfectly. Oxen were sometimes yoked together to pull the load or do the work. Christ made our yoke to fit together with Him perfectly so that He can help us with our load and give us rest. His yoke will fit us easily. When we become Christians we are immediately yoked together with Him. When we are yoked together with Him he shares our load with us and if we run out of strength he can let Him pull the entire load. We no longer have to bear our burdens alone. Therefore when we are yoked together with Him we have the ability to rest and let Him carry our many burdens. We will come short of entering God's rest when we keep some of our burdens instead of giving them to Him entirely. If we carry any of our own load of burdens we can not have rest. According to the Old Testament the Sabbath was a day of rest (Exo. 20:8-11). You were not to do any work whatsoever on a Sunday. You were even forbidden to carry more than a pound (which means you could take a pen to church but you couldn't take your bbible :o)..) In Heb 4:9-11 we are told again to give our burdens to Christ and rest, but it our choice whether we enter into that rest. |
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