If you take your Bibles and turn
with me to Matthew chapter 11. Matthew chapter 11. The title of this message simply
is come unto Christ. Come to Christ. My text will be found in verse
28 and 29 when Jesus said come unto me. all you that labor and are heavy
laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest
unto your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Now in this chapter we find,
in the beginning of this chapter, that John the Baptist is in prison. John the Baptist is in prison
facing death. And he knowing by the revelation
of God his end was near, he sent his disciples. He sent his disciples. In verse 2, When John had heard,
was in prison, When John had heard in the prison
the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said
unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? I like this text because there
was no, our Lord's going to reveal this, there's no greater man
born of woman than John the Baptist. And yet we hear John the Baptist
sending forth his disciples with this question. Are you he? Or do we look for another? I
know men like to defend John and think John was above the
sin of unbelief, but I know he wasn't. He was in prison facing
death. And here it was, Christ was out
preaching the gospel and yet he was about to die. He sent
his disciples. And this goes to show you that
even the greatest of God's men at times their faith is low in
exercise. This encouragement, this was
written for you who do believe. Often our faith is low. Many
times we experience great things concerning Christ, but when we're
in the great circumstances of trials and difficulties, our
faith can become low and we doubt. But take heart that if you have
small faith, then this is true, you don't have false faith. You
have true faith. Small faith is not evidence of
false faith. The amount of faith is not our
foundation of our salvation. But what is? The object. John
was making sure he had the right object. And so when our faith
is low, what do we seem to do? We want to make sure we have
the right object. Christ. is the object. And so
Jesus tells John by his disciples, he says this, you go and tell
John. Jesus answered and said, go and show John again the things
which you do here and see. The blind receive their sight,
the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the
dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me. He tells John Go tell him this,
the Scriptures are being fulfilled. What Christ was testifying of
was a prophecy in Isaiah. He said, You go tell him that
this prophecy is being fulfilled. How do we know that our faith,
that we worshipped the true and living Christ? Because He is
the fulfillment of all Scripture. He is the fulfillment of all
that God had promised, the salvation of Israel. And those who are
not offended in him are blessed. Are you offended by him? I'm
not offended by him. I'm thankful and thankful. So
to all who hold fast as Christ is the object of our faith, the
sole source of our salvation. We know this. There is none other
name given among men whereby we must be saved. There is no
salvation in any other. And then in verse 7 to 19, Jesus
begins to vindicate his prophet. He's asking him, he says, what
did you, when you saw John the Baptist, what did you go see?
What did you expect to see? Did you expect to see a man with
smooth words and fine clothing? That's what they expected. They
expected that that forerunner that was to come, he would be
regal, that he would be a man announcing a physical king over
a physical kingdom. He said, I'm sure they expected
much more than a man, a rough looking man in camel skin out
there preaching in the wilderness. But he was not what they expected. He was not what they expected.
And usually God's men aren't what men expect. Usually men
want smooth words. They want a great orator, a great
speaker. God's men, those are few and
far between. There are some that have good
oratory skills, but most of us, we're just simple men. We're
simple men. Isn't that how God chose his
disciples? He chose fishermen, the roughest
of men, the most uneducated in the group. It's not usually what
you expect. They expected something different. Christ says he was not but he
Christ testifies this that John the Baptist was the greatest
among those born among women. He was the forerunner the king
of glory and he said this if you'll believe it this is Elijah
this Elijah was said to come and he said that's here if you'll
receive it but these Our Lord says this in verse 16,
He said, Where unto shall I liken this generation? Like children
sitting in the market, calling their fellows, saying, We have
piped unto you, and you have not danced. We have mourned unto
you, and you have not lamented. John neither came drinking, eating
or drinking. And they say, He hath a devil.
The Son of Man came eating and drinking. And they say, Behold,
a gluttonous, a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Wisdom is justified of her children Christ likens this generation
to a pouting children They say we pipe, but you didn't dance
and we mourned and you didn't cry. I Like what brother Don had said
about this verse he said that there are men Who are very critical
of God's me there are certain men are just very critical of
God's being and John came and he didn't eat and you said, he
has the devil. Christ came eating and drinking
and he said, oh wine glubber, wine gluttonous and a wine bibber,
you know, friend of publican and sinners. John ate too little and Jesus
ate too much. They never satisfied. Like pouting children. These
men, there are men even in our local churches who find excuses
to separate themselves from the worship of God, from hearing
God's message. They're like pouting children.
They'll never be taught because they think they know everything. And that, you know, that pastor,
he's just not, he's just not smart enough. I need somebody
smarter. You get somebody really smart, you say, well, man, that
guy's too smart. Never satisfied. You always if you want to find
fault with the pastor, you have not a difficult task, not a difficult
task. Remember the church in Colossian,
the Colossian church, they separated over pastors, didn't they? They
said, I'm of this guy. I like this guy. I like that
guy. What are we? We're nothing. We're nothing. But I'll tell you this, our message
is everything. Our message is everything. So Christ in these
verses is warning. Then he gives a warning to these
cities in whom the gospel was preached in verse 20 began to
abrade the cities wherein those most mighty works were done because
they had not repented. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe
unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which
were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would
have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you,
it is more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment
than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted above heaven,
thou shalt be brought down to hell. For if the mighty works
which were done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have
remained unto this day. But I say unto you that it shall
be more tolerable in the land of Sodom in the day of judgment
than for thee. He abrades these and He warns
them. Consider this truth that he just
said. He said if the gospel was preached
in these wicked cities, they would have repented. Consider
the sovereignty of God in withholding the gospel from them. In withholding it. But now Christ himself had come.
How much greater of a preacher did they need? and Christ himself
came preaching the gospel and they still reject it. You know
what this testifies of that no matter what man preaches, it
doesn't matter if it's Jesus Christ himself. If Christ himself
were standing in this pulpit, if you do not receive him, it
is because of God's withholding. That's just it. God won't reveal
it to you. The gospel is preached, and unless
God reveals Himself, no man can know Him. That's what He's testifying
of here. He's saying, you heard John,
you didn't listen to him, I'm preaching to you, you still won't
believe Him. Let me tell you why. You're not my sheep. You're not my sheep. In order
for you to know Christ, He must reveal Himself to you. He must reveal Himself to you. God hid Himself. He hides Himself. Look at verse 25, And at that
time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord
of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things. That's astounding, isn't it? You don't know the gospel? You
understand why? He has hid these things. Hid
these things from a certain group of people. Who? The wise and
the prudent. Those who are wise in their own
self. Self-wisdom. You are wise in
yourself. God will hide the gospel from
you. Self-righteous. Those are the people that God
hides the gospel. They are wise in their own eyes.
They think they know God by their own wisdom and hearing, by their
own abilities and powers. They believe they can make themselves
acceptable to God. Do you believe you can make yourself
acceptable to God? Do you believe you can know God
if you just study enough, if you just put your mind to it
and you go, Go to university and you spend all your time in
the Word of God. Do you suppose that somehow you
are going to know more of God by doing those things? No. God has to reveal Himself. If
you know anything at all about God, God has to reveal it. That's
how ignorant man is. Man's not smart. He's ignorant. In the things of God, he's ignorant. God hides Himself from you. But notice whom He reveals this.
He says He hides it from the wise and the prudent, but reveals
it unto who? Babes. You take a little baby,
what does he know? He can't even... He can't change
himself. He can't feed himself. He has
no ability. He has no power. He is totally
dependent upon his parents for care. That's how we come to Christ. If God ever reveals your sin
to you and your inability, you will come to Christ as a babe. Defenseless, helpless, weak,
unable to please God. To babes, he reveals himself
to those. Who are made like children. I
was once wise in my own conceit. I once thought myself able to
please God by my knowledge. I was a Calvinist from a youth. Annie, I was your children's
age when I learned Calvinism. I learned Calvinism as a boy.
You know what I thought? Knowing Calvinism was going to
get me to heaven. That's what I believed. Until
God showed me my sin. And I knew that wasn't enough.
I knew I was helpless. I knew this. I would not come
to God and I could not come to God. That's how helpless I was.
I couldn't do it. I had no ability. Well, good. That's who God reveals himself
to. Babes. To those who have no ability.
To all who know God, they must come with no wisdom, no righteousness,
knowing the only way to know God is if Jesus reveal Him to
them. And it's here we come into our
text. Now look at this. Jesus said, Come unto me, all
you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
I want to see four things here. First of all, I want to see a
gracious command. Come unto me. Come unto me. Secondly, I want to hear a grievous
qualification. Only those who are labored and
heavy laden. That's who he's calling. Not
calling anybody else. You ain't got no burden. He ain't
calling you. It's a grievous qualification
you must meet. And thirdly, a glorious result. I will give you rest. And fourthly, A blessed. Privilege. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me, for I'm meek and lowly in heart, you shall find rest
under your soul. Let's see these things together.
First of all, a gracious command. Jesus says, Come unto me. Now,
as I say that, listen to him. Listen to it. Come unto me. Coming to me. This is not an
invitation. Don't mistake this for Christ
inviting you to come. He's commanding you to come.
I don't like that. Don't come. See what happens. Don't come. He's not asking. He's demanding. Come unto me. Come unto me. But it is not a
command of grief. It is a command of grace. Come unto me. And as I say this,
he goes out to everybody who hears me. This is what we call
a general call. He says, come unto me. And everybody
that heard that understood it coming to me. Many heard Christ that day, but
many did not come. And there are even now some of
you who will not come. You will not come. Why will you not come because
of your rebellion? You hear His command, but you don't want to
hear it. You love your sin and love the things of this world,
you will not come. But if there are any who seem
to desire to come, do you desire to come? Do you hear His words
and entertain this thought of coming to Christ? You that already profess to have
come, you hear that word and you desire still to come, don't
you? He says, come to me? He says, yes. You bet. You still long to come. I'll
start by asking a couple of questions. To whom are we to come? That's
an important one, isn't it? Come unto me. Well, who's the
one speaking? The words here are spoken by
Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He says, come unto me, not come
to the preacher, not come to your brother, your sister, your
mother, your cousin. Don't come to them. Don't come
to us. We can't help you. Come to Christ,
come to Jesus. For any to come to them, listen,
don't you have to know who he is to come to him? You do. Paul said this, whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Great! How shall
they call on him in whom they have not heard? And how shall
they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be sinned? You see the need of a preacher? Just to simply
declare Christ to you. That's what we are called for.
To all who come to Christ, you must see this, that Christ has
all things given to him. Look at that in verse 27. He
said, All things are delivered unto me of my Father. I want
you to know the one you're coming to is God. When this man was
speaking, he himself is God, none other. God manifests in
the flesh. Therefore, we know this, all
things are delivered into his hands. As the eternal Son of God, He
had all things in His hands. John said, In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And
all things were made by Him. This one speaking, coming to
me, He made all things by the Word of His power. He made all
things. Therefore, all things are subject
to Him as God. He being one with the Father
and the Spirit, shared in the glory of God. Yet now, he being
a man, the God-man, mediator, he by his righteous obedience
to God, merited the rule of all things. See the difference? As
creator, naturally he had the right of all things. But Jesus
Christ, the one that's telling you to come to me, he said, look,
all things are in my hand because I earned it. I earned it. As a man, he obeyed. And made the righteousness of
God by his obedience. What Paul tells us in Romans
chapter three, he said, even the righteousness of God, which
is by the faith of Jesus Christ, the righteousness of God was
merited by the faith of Jesus Christ. In John, Chapter 17, in his high
priestly prayer, he said, Father, glorify the son. And give him the glory that I
shared with thee from the beginning. He said he merited the glory
of God. He merited the rule of all things,
as thou has given him power over all flesh, that he should give
eternal life to as many as thou has given him. You see, Christ
Jesus came into the world to finish the work of God, and as
a result of Him finishing the work of God, all power is given
unto Him. Therefore, God has set Christ
at His right hand, and He is now on the throne. This is the
one you're coming to. You're coming to the God manifest
in the flesh who now sits on the throne of God. He rules over
all things. To come to Christ is to see that
all things, good and evil, heaven and earth, time and eternity,
men, women, circumstance, providence, devils and angels, all are in
His hand and He is doing with you and them what He wills. Now to a believer, this is comforting. This is comforting. I come unto Christ simply this,
because He controls all things. He who controls all things is
the one I come to. There is nothing that has ever
happened or ever will happen that he is not purpose for the
salvation of his people. And that's what he's doing. The
sovereign son of God is sitting on the throne ruling all things
for one reason. Don't be confused. To save his
people. That's it. Everybody's all up in arms about
the fools that rule this country. You get kind of frustrated hearing
about it, but we have fools running our nation. Who put them there? Now, why did he put them there?
To save his people from their sins. Move providence, heaven
and earth, wars and rumors of war. What does it do? He's saving
his people from their sins. You realize that. You and I only
breathe at his command. That's the one you're coming
to, the one who rules all things. He is God. Remember that rich
young ruler, he came to Christ and he said, good master. And
Jesus asked him, why are you calling me good? There's one
good God. What this rich young ruler did
not understand is he was speaking to God. He was good. Christ is good because He is
God. So when Christ says, Come unto
Me, He is commanding you to come unto Him as the only God-man
mediator. There is only one mediator between
God and men. Very narrow, isn't it? There
are not many mediators. A bunch of silly men running
around in robes and hats and making Religious symbols tell
you there are many mediators. You can go to God and marry,
you can go to God by the apostles, liars, all of them. There's one
mediator between God and men, the man. Christ Jesus. So the
one you're coming to is the God man. And I want you to know this.
He's not only sovereign over all things in providence and
time and eternity, but listen, he is sovereign in salvation.
He said, all things are delivered unto me and my father and no
man knoweth the son, but the father neither knoweth any man
the father except the son. And to whomsoever the son will
reveal him. No man knows the son, but the
father. By nature we could never understand
or know the person and work of Christ. The Father knew it. From eternity He chose Him to
be the Savior. The Father knew the Son and many
times the Father testified of His Son through works and wonders
and often, sometimes even verbally He testified, this is my beloved
Son in whom I am well pleased. But no man can know Jesus but
the father. No man can know the father except
the son. And to whomsoever the son will
reveal him. The only way a man may know God
is through Jesus Christ. That's the only way you're going
to know God. You're not going to walk in nature
and know God. You can know of God. You know of his power and
deity by creation, but you can't know his salvation. You can't
know his son. You can't know how a man is made
acceptable to God, except through his son. You can't know the holiness
of God, except the sun reveal it to you. Jesus Christ came to the world,
he was the express image of God. He was the express image of God.
Therefore, he came. And God determined that every
knee should bow to him. And he honored God in every way,
shape and form, and behold, this man alone has obtained the righteousness
of God by his obedience. This man, this man alone has
suffered the wrath of God for the sins of his people. This
man alone, Jesus Christ. No man knows the Father, whom
is to know life eternal, except he see him through Jesus Christ. So when we come to Christ, we
see this. We see the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ. We see the fulfillment of righteousness. the obtaining of redemption,
we see the only hope for sinners is found in this one man. So when Christ is saying, come
unto me, I am the God-man mediator, I
alone obtained righteousness, I alone obtained redemption. So you cannot know God by education
or religion or by your sincere feelings. You cannot will yourself
to know God. This is something that God must
do for you. He must reveal Christ to you
or you will never come to Christ. You will never come to Christ. To come to Jesus, who accomplished
salvation of God's elect. To come to him. who gave his
life for sins is to simply this, surrender all to him. A man's
got to forsake everything to come to Christ. What does that
mean? He forsakes his own righteousness. There's nothing more valuable
to the natural man than his own righteousness. You have to forsake your righteousness.
Forsake your religion. Forsake your God. and come to
Christ. It is to surrender by faith to
Him alone. Okay, so we see who He is. We
see what He's done. Who's going to come? Only these
who meet this qualification. Come unto Me, all you that labor
and are heavy laden. Who will come? Only those who
are bowed down with burden. Seeing God has only exalted his
son and seeing and he alone can reveal himself, how can one come? If anyone is to ever come to
Christ, he must come as one that labors and is heavy laden. Now,
all men by nature are sinners who sinned against God both by
birth and by choice. Right now, if you are outside
of Christ, you are under the condemnation of God. And what
astounds us, who do believe, is that they feel no weight. You know, that's what astounded
Asaph. Remember in Psalm 73, he said, There's no bands in
their death. They're not afraid to die. I'm
afraid. I fear. And yet, these wicked
men, they raise their hand to God, they lift their voices against
the Most High, and they're not afraid. Why? They're dead. You can put as much weight as
you want to on a dead man, he'll never feel it. He'll never feel
it. They're not burdened. They don't
know or feel their enmity against God. They don't feel their guilt. Sometimes people come in here
and they feel a twinge of guilt, you know. How many of your family
members have come in here? They felt, oh, they come crying
and they feel bad about their sins and where they go away.
And what happened? Also, they're like a man that
looks in the mirror and forgets what he saw. He's our hair's
all messed up, he hadn't shaved in four months and he he looks
at man, I look bad. He turns away and forgets he
hadn't done anything, forgets it. That's what people do when
they come in here. They feel a little twinge of
guilt, not a burden, but by God's grace there are some who will
feel a burden for sin. There are some who have been
toiling, striving to free themselves from sin. There are some who
have sought to forget their condition before God becant. They have labored to put God
out of their minds, but they can't. The more they try, The
more the burden grows. Remember that woman with the
issue of blood? The scripture says she 12 years, right? She spent all she had on doctors. She labored real hard to get
rid of that issue of blood, didn't she? But the scripture says she grew
none better, only worse. Listen, if Christ ever calls
you, you'll grow none better, only worse. The weight will not
get lighter, it will get heavier. And so they go to religion. Christ
says come unto me, but man by nature goes to religion. You
know what happens? The burden gets heavier. They
try religion, they start going to church, stop drinking, stop
smoking, stop doing this, start doing that. I try to obey the law of God
and the church bylaws and the rules and regulations and what
the burden gets heavier. Heavier. But the more they try,
the more they feel they must do. And so that their labor to earn
salvation becomes too heavy to bear. You that are trying to
earn your favor with God, when is enough enough? When have you ever done enough? The answer is you can never do
enough. You that would try to earn your
favor by law, have you heard the law? Cursed is everyone that
continueth not in all things written in the book of the law
to do them. Do you see no hope in religion? Do you who are burdened
with sin? Do you who are weary? Christ
says this to you, come to me. You see who he's calling? He's
calling those who are weary and heavy laden. Come unto me sinners, come. You that are weighed down with
sin, come to him. Remember that hymn, if you tarry
till you're better, you will never come at all. Don't wait
till you're better, come now. Why? And listen, it doesn't matter
how bad of a sinner you are. It doesn't matter how low you
are. He says, come unto me. Come unto
me. Our Lord Jesus never called the
righteous but sinners to repentance. Is this you? Do you need pardon
and forgiveness of sin? And Christ said, Come to me,
the only God man mediator, the only one who has ever been accepted
of God, come to me. And notice this, the gracious,
the glorious result, I will give you rest. This is the promise
of God. The one who sits upon the throne
of God. I will give you. Rest. Every soul that comes to him
by faith, to every burdened sinner that seeks rest will find it. I don't know if you've ever found
one who's come to Christ for mercy and been turned away. Have
you found one? Listen, if you've been turned
away from Christ, then you're not really asking for mercy. Those who come to God for mercy
will find it. So then let me ask you this.
Why will you not come? If he has obtained righteousness
and redemption for sinners and he tells sinners, come to me
and you'll get rest. Why will you not come? The only
reason is you don't need rest. You don't want rest. You're fine. I'm good. OK, go on. He's not calling you. But if you're weary, come to
me and find perfect rest. What is this rest for our souls?
Not rest for the body, is it? You that believe in Christ, you
that have come to Christ, you found rest for the body? No. There's trouble on every side. We are plagued without and within,
constantly tried, constantly pressed down, But you know what
gives me strength? Rest for my soul. What's that
hymn we like to sing? It is well with my soul. So everything outside of me is
not well. I'm not well physically or I'm not well mentally or.
Those around me persecute me and hate me, what is it? What
does it matter? It is well with my soul. That's what it is to rest. that
by his obedience, he merited the righteousness of God and
gave it to me. He gave me the righteousness
of God, it's mine. He earned it. And he gave it
to me. Do I lack righteousness before
God, you that have come to Christ, do you lack righteousness? Are you scurrying about to try
to earn your righteousness? No. What are we doing? We're
resting. To rest is simply this, to cease
from work. Isn't that what Christ did when
he finished his work? He sure did. Look at Hebrews
chapter 1. Look at that. Think of a couple of places here. Hebrews
chapter 1. And look at verse 3. Who being
in the brightness of His glory, in the express image of His person,
upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by
Himself. I like that. I'm glad it didn't say when He
had by a cooperative effort purged our sins. That's not what it
said. He did it by Himself. He purged our sins. He did what?
He sat down. on the right hand of the majesty
on high. In Hebrews chapter 4, let's see,
in verse 9, he's talking about the Sabbath, he said, There remaineth
therefore a rest for the people of God. He said that old Sabbath,
that's not the rest. There remaineth a rest, there's
coming a rest. He's talking about Christ. He said, For he that
is entered into His rest, He also seeth from his own works
as God did from him. Let us labor therefore to enter
into that rest, lest any man should fall short of the same
example of unbelief. See Christ is our Sabbath, Christ
is our rest. And when Christ had offered himself,
if you see that in Hebrews chapter 10, Hebrews chapter 10, But this man, those priests,
they stand working all the time. But this man, after he'd offered
one sacrifice for sins, forever sat down on the right hand of
God, henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool,
for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
You that are sanctified by the will of God, by the blood of
Christ, by calling of the Spirit, what else do you need to add? to his work. Nothing. Let us therefore labor
to stop trying to labor. Labor to enter into his rest. And notice this last thing. He
says this. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. For I am meek and lowly in heart.
You shall find rest under your soul. My yoke is easy and my
burden is light. I was talking to Andrew as we
come here, and he said, Dad, every time I hear that word yoga,
think of eggs. So I want you to know that's not what it's
talking about. A yoke, a yoke is what they bind
to oxen together, so they plow the field straight. And what
he's doing is those who come to Christ have taken that heavy
yoke of the law and put it off. You're no longer under the law,
no longer under the law of Moses. But yet we are not free from
a yoke, are we? He said, take my yoke upon you. What is his yoke? It is his law. We come to him, we are bound
to his law. What is that? Look over in First
John, he tells us what that law is. 1 John chapter 3, look at verse
22. He said, Whatsoever you we ask,
we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do
those things that are pleasing in his sight. Now is he talking
about the law of Moses? Can you say that about the law
of Moses and your conduct? In any part, find me a part. You can't. But that's not what
he's talking about. Look at the next verse. He tells
you what his commandments are. And he that keepeth his commandments
dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know. I'm sorry. Verse 23 and his commandment
that we should believe on the name of his son, Jesus Christ,
and love one another as he gave us commandment. You see what
his commandment is. What is his commandment? Believe on me. When
all times. Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart, and lead not on to thine own understanding. In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy path. That's
what he's telling you. Believe me. Trust me. Trust my righteousness. Trust my blood. Trust my resurrection. Trust my power. Trust my grace. Trust my pardon, my forgiveness,
my love. Trust me. and to love one another as he
gave his commandment. How are we to love one another?
As he loved us. And John says in chapter 5, these
commandments are not grievous. Is it grievous to love? Is it
grievous for you to believe on Christ? Is that a heavy burden? No. And how do we carry this
burden? He said, I am meek and lowly
in heart. Learn of me. And that what we're
doing. We come to him, we learn of him.
Listen, I know he's God manifest in the flesh, but I tell you
what, I want to know he's God manifest in the flesh. I want
to learn of that. I want to know more of that. I know that he gave himself for
my sins. I know this, that he has called
me by his grace. He has saved me. He keeps me. I tell you what, I want to know
more of that. Why? I forget. You that come to have
come to Christ, any of this stuff new to you, you've heard this
before. And yet I heard someone say it's
like a brother said, I just I heard the gospel the other day and
said, man, just like I first time I heard it. Why is that?
We're forgetful. We're forgetful. We need to be
constantly learning and reminding of Jesus Christ and his work. And he is meek and lowly in heart,
isn't he? And he said this, you shall find rest unto your souls. Do you need rest? No? That's all right. Okay. Christ said, come unto me, you
that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. Take
my yoke of faith and love upon yourself. And you will find rest
under your soul. I pray that God would open the
eyes of the blind and you that come to Christ, let me ask you,
when do you stop coming to Christ? When do we stop? When is enough
of that? Only when I see him face to face
is it going to be enough. The day I stop believing is the
day I see it. I don't need to believe him anymore
because I see it. I pray God would open the eyes
of his people. Let's stand, be dismissed, and pray.