Do you reckon that somebody who cried from
the heart, your mom will cry? Let me at a throne of mercy find
a sweet relief. Leave him here in deep contrition.
Help me, trusting only in thy merit. Have a wounded, broken spirit.
Save me by thy grace. have an eye on earth beside thee,
even when it pass me not." You reckon he'd pass by somebody
that prayed that from the heart? Nobody. Whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Matthew chapter 11. Matthew 11. I don't know what made me read
this, but I did. It made me want to preach from
it. Matthew 11, read verses 28 through
30 with me. Matthew 11, 28. Just a minute. Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come
unto me, the Lord said, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
that I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me. High and meek and lowly in heart,
you shall find rest unto your soul. For my yoke is easy, my
burden is light. I have preached from this over
fifteen times. I have never labored more studying
this, trying to prepare this, And recently, I struggled more
than I thought I knew. And I could have gone back and
grabbed an old message. I just don't do that. I need
fresh manna. Myself needed too. But the more
I looked at this, the more I thought, I know, I don't know that much
about rest. I really don't. I preach in part. I know in part. Rest means to
complete repose. Calm, quiet, peace, freedom from
any worry. Do you have that? I'm afraid
I don't have it like I want to. Do you? So I thought, we need
it. I need it. The Lord is talking
to his disciples. In Luke chapter 10, it makes
it very plainly that he's turned to them and said, said to them. And look at verse, this all goes
together. He said it in verse 25. Look at this. At that time, Jesus answered
and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. This
is right after the 70 disciples came back and were so excited
about it. So glad what the Lord had done
through them. And he says in Luke, he rejoiced
in spirit. And he said, I thank Thee, Father.
Thank Thee. You have hid these things from
the wise and the prudent and revealed them unto babes. What
things? The things of God, the things of His kingdom, the things
of Christ, which the Holy Spirit takes and shows unto all His
people. We know, John said, the Son of God hath come and given
us an understanding. This is life eternal, for they
might know Thee, the only true God. Natural manner of conceiving
about the things of God. The foolishness to it. Neither
can he know it. The spiritual discernment. But God hath revealed
them unto us by His Spirit. And so we should rejoice, shouldn't
we? If we know these things. We know very little, but we know.
We do believe. And little faith saved us. There was a time we didn't have
any faith. And now we have. Not much, but
we have a little. I do believe. Like we sang. So the Lord said, I thank you
Father, you've hid these things from the wives and the fruit
and revealed them unto babes, his little children. And he knows
they're praying. And that's how he treats us.
And that's who he's speaking to, little children. And one
time he said, except you receive the kingdom of God as a little
child, you're not in the kingdom of God. Oh, how blessed are,
he said to his disciples, your ears are here, and that was in
the same Context, Luke 10. Blessed are your ears. Blessed
are your eyes. You're so blessed. The Lord has
revealed these things unto you. He's hid these things from the
wise and the prudent. Do you think you're wise? I don't either. Well, this is
who he's speaking to, me, little children. And he said, he blessed
the Father and he rejoiced, and so should we. So should we. And this should relieve our fears.
And look at verse 26, this is the Father's good pleasure. Even
so, Father, so it seemed good in thy sight. Whatsoever the
Lord pleased, that did he in heaven and earth, whatever he
pleased. And it pleased the Father. The reason you're a believer,
a disciple, and everyone in this room, what a privilege for me. What a pleasure to preach to
a church full of everybody in here. Confidence, you know the
Lord. Man, I can say all these things
with utmost confidence. I'm pleased God to make you His
people. It just pleased Him. Now look
at verse 27. He said, now this is to his desire,
all things are delivered unto me of my Father. All things are
given to me. All power is given unto me in
heaven and earth. You remember he said in John 17, "...as thou
hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal
life to as many as thou hast given him." Who is he given to
cry? How do you know him? They come
to cry. "...all that the Father giveth me shall come unto me.
My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me." You're
here tonight because he called you by his gospel, because the
Father chose you, and loved you, and gave you to Christ, and called
you by his grace, and you've come to Christ, and we're going
to look at what that means. For rent, for peace, for help
in time of trouble. And he says, first of all, all
things are delivered unto me. All things. Like Joseph. Remember Pharaoh said, Go to
Joseph. He's got everything. Everything
you need. In a time of famine, fear, drought. In Egypt, Joseph
was Lord over Egypt. And his people, Joseph's brethren,
lived in the land of Goshen. The blessed land. The blessed
land. That's where we went. the best land. Where's that? Zion. Jerusalem. And we have
total freedom, access come boldly to our Joseph, the Lord Jesus
Christ. He has everything. Everything
from there. And all things are in his hands,
all people, all places, all things, all events, every principality,
power, Everything. Germs. All things. When he said all things are delivered
into his hands, what does that mean? What's all mean? All. All power is given unto man.
Boy, that ought to make us... And we belong to him. And it says in verse 27, all
this goes together. He said, No man knoweth the Son,
but the Father. Nobody even knew there was a
Son until He came. But He revealed Himself, the
Son, down through time, didn't He? I believe that was Christ
in the garden talking to Adam and Eve, don't you? I'm just
certain of it. The voice of God came walking in the kingdom of
God. Who's the voice of God? And walking, that's the word
they play. a pre-incarnation visit of our
Lord, and he visited many of his people to reveal himself
to them. God's Spirit. No man has seen
God in any time. The only begotten Son he had to claim. And nobody
knew the Son to whom the Father revealed Him. And remember when
Christ came at His baptism, and He told John, when you see the
Holy Spirit landing on Him, that's Him. That's my son. That's the
Christ. And John says, I saw him. And
I have too. The Holy Spirit has taken the
face of Christ and shown me that's Him. That's Him. Neither knoweth any man the Father
save the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal Him. No man comes to God but by Christ.
How many millions of people think they know God and don't? trying
to get to God in camp. And they'd go do this and do
that. We know. We know, don't we? It's one.
One person. One mediator. One way. One truth. One life. One umpire. One daysman. One prophet, priest, king. One.
One. Who's that? Jesus Christ. So everybody that knows that
He is the Son of God, that He is the God incarnate, that He
is the Way, the Truth, the Life, Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification,
Redemption, all these things. Everybody knows that. The Father.
You're one of His children. He's revealed the Son to you.
This is my beloved Son, whom I'm well pleased. Hear ye Him,
and we do it. OK. Now, verse 28. This is all
together. Come under that. He's got it all. Remember old
Joseph, one of your favorite stories in the Bible, Joseph
and his brethren. Maybe I'll preach on that Sunday.
Remember, they were guilty of their brothers, of hating their
brother and despising him and rejecting him. Isaiah 53 says. We did esteem him strictly and
we despised and rejected him. There was a time I didn't give
him a thought. Could care less if he lived or
died. But God. And now Christ, and I've told
you many times that the word that he sent to my heart, Father
forgive them. They know not what they did.
Like Joseph, on the throne, his brethren came and when they found
out it was him, they feared him. They were afraid. Why? Because
we crucified him. Joseph, come near. Didn't he? Remember that? Joseph,
come near. Oh, he's going to kill him. No. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. God
meant that. You meant it for evil. God meant
it for good. Come near. Come unto me. He said
to Peter, he said to Simon Peter, he said to Jane, and John, and
Matthew, the public, and all of them, come unto me. Come unto
me." And he said, if you can come boldly and come freely,
come unto me. In fact, if you couldn't come,
I wouldn't have come for you. I would have come here. You see, this is a fact-faithful
saint. It's worthy of all expectations of all who are sinners. All have
sinned to come short of the glory of God. That Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners, even the chief. He said, I'm
the worst. Well, that entitles you to come. Brother Scott used to say, the
only thing that entitles you to come is your sin, not merits. Come for mercy. That's why he
came. He says, come unto me. Come unto me. All you that labor
and are heavy laden, I'll give you rest. Again, he's talking
to his disciple. You know, people in the world,
they're not laboring. This is talking about laboring
with sin and unbelief and this world full of lust and this man
within that you're struggling with and all these troubles and
trials. The world is not a troubling
place to the world. The world doesn't labor heavy
laden with any kind of burden of sin or unrest. The only thing the world is afraid
of right now is this pestilence. And as soon as it's over, they're
going right back to the world. It made us stop and think, haven't
it? What's really important? Food. So he's talking to his
disciples here. Come unto me, all you that labor
and heavy labor. Now, I've always, and this is
the first application. Because Hebrews 4, turn over
there, Hebrews 4. Hebrews 4 is the chapter that
talks about rest, isn't it? Hebrews 4. And there are some
that labor to get to heaven. And some that are laboring in
religion. Some are laboring, spiritually
laboring, trying anyway, to earn their way to heaven. Not many. Most people hit crits. Most people
play games, make appearances. But son, a son like the rich
young ruler. Remember the rich young ruler?
He came to our Lord to be a good master. He came to Christ. He knew that this was a wise
man. He didn't know who he was yet,
but he just knew that. Hadn't learned something yet. And he
came from Nicodemus. He was sincere. Saul of Tarsus
was very sincere. He said, I was zealous. Rich
young Ruger came to Christ and said, good master, what must
I do to be saved? What good thing must be said?
You know the law, keep the law. He said, all these things I've
done for my youth. Well, then why are you in trouble,
young Ruger? Why have you come? You know,
the Lord, I know he belonged to the Lord. I know he did. Because
it says the Lord loved him. And he went away sorrowful, didn't
he? That didn't mean he didn't come
back. And Brother Nyberg and I think that was Saul of Tarsus. Well, anyway, he went away sorrowful. Brother Barnard used to say that
preachers preach in such a way so clearly and so plainly that
people get mad, sad or glad. You want them to hear what you're
saying. Mad. Mad's not always bad, is it,
Robin? Robin said, I don't know. That's not there, what he said.
It's not in the Bible. I'm going to go home and read
it and find it. She couldn't prove it wrong,
but the Lord proved her to be what? Just a religious Methodist
that didn't know the Lord. The Lord saved her, or he would
have saved her. The rich young ruler went away
sad. Sad. Sorrowful. Why? Well, the Lord
said, sell everything you've got, follow me. In other words, you can't get
to God except by me. And he went away sorrowful. You
mean all I've done all my life doesn't count for nothing? I told that to my neighbor. She
got so mad at me. Oh, you can't believe how mad
she is. She's still not over it. But it's not funny. I still feel sorry for her. I
pray for her all the time. I do. It's never too late. But
he went away sad. Broken hearted. Good. Or glad. Oh, I'm glad. Aren't you? Glad that It's not
by works of righteousness we do. Aren't you glad? I never
tried that. Maybe you did. Maybe you did. You did, didn't you? Climbing
Mount Sinai is the impossibility. There's some that labor in religion and works. You know, rest is not work, is
it? Well, what should I do? Believe. No, wait a minute. Believe. If
Abraham was justified by works, he had something to go around.
But no. He was a heathen. He was an idolater.
The Lord came to him and said, Abraham, this is what I'm going
to do. This is my purpose. I've chosen you. This is what
I'm going to do for you. I've chosen to save you, to rename
you, to reveal myself to you, to keep you all the days of your
life. This is what I have done, what
I'm going to do for you. Now, Abraham, what do you have
to say to that? I believe. And that's it righteous. That's resting. That's right. Saul of Tarsus, he was working
so hard, being moral, reading, doing, doing, doing. The Lord
came to him, struck him down. First thing it created was fear.
Next thing he was, it created in him was guilt, didn't it? I was, I thought I was blameless.
I thought I was righteous, but what'd I do? He said, I'm the
worst sinner of all. What am I going to do? Christ
said, you're not going to do anything. I've done enough for you. Believe
me. Now, you just go tell people
what I've done for you, and they're going to hate you just like you
hated me. But do it anyway. So, you know, our freedom, our
fear of death is largely because of sin. Guilt. And that's Sunday's message.
Let me go on here. Martin Luther, one more. One
more example. Martin Luther. He was sincere. He was zealous.
Pennants, pennants, pennants, pennants, pennants. Like the
Islams, the Muslims. The Moslems, you know, they literally
beat themselves, trying to beat the sin out of them. Seriously. Trying to beat the sin out of
them. I think that's what the Republican
was doing in the temple, was smiting on his breath. Get the
sin out of me. And all he could say was, God
be merciful to me. Smote on his breath. Be merciful
to me, the sinner. You can't beat it out of you.
You know what God did? He put it on His Son and beat
Him for it. Boy, that's one way to look at
it. That's by His stripes. We're healed. Now, rest. Sin hath no more dominion over
you. The law hath no more to blame. I was going to say Luther. Just
beating himself up, beating himself up, crawling up those steps.
They told him if you kiss these what are supposed to be blood
spots of Christ. They took the stairs, supposedly,
from Pilate's judgment hall, supposedly, and moved them all
the way over to Rome. They're still there, supposedly. And Martin Luther was on his
hands and knees kissing those blood spots. Somebody told him
if you do that enough, your sins are gone. And he was doing that. And, you know, nobody had Bibles
back then, but the monks, they had them chained up in the monastery. Didn't want people reading them.
And Luther was reading them. And he was crawling up those
stairs, and this verse came to his mind. The just shall live
by faith. Luther said he jumped out. Somebody
spoke it out loud. Ran out of that dark dungeon
of captivity and religious captivity into the sunlight. A just shall
live by faith. Live before God. Eternal life. How? Not by doing, but by faith
in Christ. Come on now. Anybody listen to
this? Trying to work your way to God? Atone for your sins. Christ said,
Come unto me. I'll give you rest. Hebrews 4. Hebrews 4. Look at this. Oh,
man. We're running out of time already. He said, Verse 1, Let us therefore fear
lest a promise be left us of entering in His rest. Any of
you should seem to come short of it. Unto us was the gospel
preached as well as unto them, the children of Israel. The word
priest does not profit them. It wasn't mixed with faith. They were going through all these
ceremonies and rituals and all that, and they were Jews, you
know, thought, we're good Jews, so we're going to heaven. You
get the glory about Christ. No other way. And verse 3 says, But we which
have believed do enter into rests. Rest. Down in verse 5, he says,
they enter into my rest. My rest. And down in verse 9,
it says, they remain in the rest of the people of God. Verse 10,
he that's entered into his rest. Christ. Noah. What does Noah
mean? The name Noah means rest. That's what his name meant. Rest.
All right. Everybody was in the ark. Well,
say, how'd they get there? Noah brought them there. Put them in there. God put them
in there. Noah brought all the animals, skunks included. What'd
they all do in the ark? Rest. Ate. Served one another. That's it.
How'd they gonna get to the promised land? The ark. Noah. Rest right there. So we're in
Christ, verse 10. He was entered into his rest.
He ceased from his own works as God did from his. Let us labor,
therefore, to enter into that rest, which is Christ. All right. I wasn't going to labor that long
in that, but all right. Look at Ecclesiastes 1 with me.
Ecclesiastes 1. Our Lord said, Come unto me,
all ye that labor and are heavy And I don't give you rest. This
is for those who are laboring in life, in all that this life
brings us. The labor of life. Everything in this life is pretty
much hard labor. Look at Ecclesiastes 1, verse
2. Vanity of vanity saith the creature, vanity of vanity, all
is vanity. What prophet hath the man of
all his labor which he taketh unto the Son? And this whole
book goes on to talk about laboring, laboring, laboring. For what?
For what? Look at verse 11, or verse 13. I gave my heart to seek, to search
out my wisdom concerning all things done under heaven. And
this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man, the exercise
to afflict them." Travail means hard labor. You know Psalm 90,
don't you? He said, if we live 70 years
or 80 years, yet there's strong labor and sorrow, we'll cut off
and fly away. What was it all for? This is what I'm talking about.
This is what Christ is saying. Come unto me. Chapter 2 of Ecclesiastes. Look at this. Chapter 2, verse
11. You have it? Solomon, the wise man, said,
I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on
the labor I labored to do. Behold, it is vanity and vexation
of spirit. There's no profit. Look at verse
18. He said, I hated all my labor.
They just hated it. That's not the attitude to take. He went on to say, no, we can
enjoy, the Lord gives us to enjoy, but we need to realize we've
got nothing in this world. That's what Joe said, and he
certainly can take nothing with him. Naked I came, and naked
I'll leave. Look at chapter 3, verse 1. Everything
is a season, it's time, every purpose, time to be born, time
to die, time to plant, pluck up, kill, heal, break down, build
up, time to weep, laugh, mourn, dance. Go on down, verse 9. What profit hath he that worketh
in that wherein he labored? I've seen this travail which
God hath given the sons of man, to exorcise them. Verse 12. I know there's no good
in these things, A man to rejoice and do good in his life, but
also every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all
his labor. It's the gift of God. But I know this. I know this.
Whatever God doeth. Now, here's the conclusion we
need to come to. All of this is nothing. It's
vanity. We're going to lose it. We cannot
satisfy self. We cannot satisfy the flesh. We cannot do it. There's always
satisfaction in Christ. That's what Christ said, come
unto me. Oh, you're laboring for this? He said, why do you
spend money for that which is not great? Why? Come unto me.
Eat that which is good. Your soul, delight itself in
the fat that is coming. Here, your souls will live. Isn't that what Christ said?
Why are you after? What are you after? You may come
after me. Food and drink, that's all you need.
These things give us a hut and rest, don't they? I know that
whatever God does, it shall be forever. What's that? Salvation. Eternal life. Nothing can be
put to it or taken away. Have you ever looked at that
verse like that? That's what that means. Verse
14. Nothing can be put to it. Nothing
can be taken from it. What's that? You. And whatever
God doeth, men should fear it. Well, I was going to have you
turn to Isaiah 55, but I just quoted it partially to you. I
have to go back to our text. He said, Come unto me, all you
that labor, or heavy labor, and I will give you rest. What does
it mean to come to Christ? What does it mean to come to
Christ? Well, it means to believe it.
Hebrews 11, verse 6 says, He that cometh to God must believe
that he is. And he's a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him. Didn't he say there in Isaiah
55, Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while
he's near. Let the wicked forsake his way,
the unrighteous man his thought. Return unto the Lord. And we're
going to see coming to Christ is to keep coming. He will have
mercy. He will abundantly pardon. His
thoughts are not our thoughts. He's God, not a man. Aren't you
glad? And His Word won't return void. You're going to go out
in the trees and be clapping hands when you hear Christ's
coming. He'll give you rest, give you
joy, give you peace, comfort, and all this labor, heavy-laden.
It's to believe Him. It's to trust Him, laboring with
We're laboring with fear, we're laboring with worry, we're laboring
with burden because of this sin, burden for our children, burden
for our grandchildren, burden for others, striving to obtain,
striving to do this, striving in our relationship, doing this
and that and the other. What does it mean to come to
Christ? First of all, it means to believe Him, to trust Him. Secondly, it means to call on
Him. Come to Him in prayer. Look at
Hebrews 4. Hebrews 4, verses 15 and 16. And the whole book of Hebrews
is about Christ who came and coming to Christ. You know that?
That's right. The whole book of Hebrews is
about the Christ who came and telling us to come to Him. He's
a great high priest. He's everything. He's a tabernacle. He's a sacrifice. He's everything.
That's the whole book of Hebrews. It's about the Christ who came.
and tell us to come to Him. Look at Hebrews 4, verse 15. We have not a high priest which
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmity. We have some
brothers and sisters who were in Catholicism, and they would
go to the confessional booth and confess their sins to a man
that And that Pope that they believe in, he's the worst sinner,
one of the worst sinners of all. And these priests and these Popes
and these Cardinals, they hide away in these places, but Christ
came, the great high priest, became one of us. Touched with
a feeling. lived in the sinful world. He
knows our pain. He was made in the likeness of
sinful flesh, but without sin. He's touched with the feel of
our infirmity, and when we come to him, he knows. He knows. Verse 15, it's tempted in all
points like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace. Didn't he say, all things are
delivered unto me in heaven and earth. He's on the throne, reigning
in Ruth. What do you need? What do you
need? Well, Lord, first thing, mercy. Second thing, grace. Third thing, wisdom. Third thing,
it's all fear of the faith. Oh, I need everything. How? To the throne of grace. And another
place, he says, come boldly. This place. Come boldly to the
throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time
of need. But to come to Christ is to call
on Him, to ask Him, to seek Him. And we can come boldly. We can
ask Him any time. To get rest. He said, Come and you'll be able
to find rest. Verse 29 in our text says, Take my yoke upon
you. Take my yoke upon you. Oh my, there's so many places
I want us to turn. Jeremiah said this,
let me just read this to you from Jeremiah. He said, stand
in the ways, Jeremiah 6.16. He said, stand ye in the ways
and see. That is, take a look around.
What do you see? A world in darkness, and sin,
and anguish, and vexation, and trouble, and no light, and full
of fear. You see that? Okay. Ask for the
old paths, where it is a good way. That is, and walk therein. What's that? My path. Not my
side. Come unto me, Christ. Look, take
a look around. Has anybody got any rests? Anybody
got any peace? Anybody? What's it all about?
Vanity. Come on to me. Try to sit. And
I'll give you rest. And you'll find rest, Jeremiah
616, when you're so old. Take my yoke upon you. The yoke
means ownership. If you've, I had some horses
that had a yoke on them. And a yoke is always two. A yoke. Don't put a yoke on a can. It's usually two. And Christ
said, take my yoke upon you. Oh, it's good that a young man
bear this yoke in his youth before those evil days come nigh. We
pray, we hope the Lord will reveal himself and take hold of our
children and our grandchildren. Our Lord said, take this yoke.
And come to Christ and say, Lord, put your yoke on me. Don't you? The world wants to be free. I
don't. Do you? Martin used to say, the
only free man is the Lord's servant. Otherwise, we're running wild.
I've said this before. I want to be on short leash,
don't you? Can't get shorter than the yoke to him. Bound to
him by love's strong core. Lord, own me. Take hold of me. Take my yoke to be joined to
Christ. He warns us not to be unequally
yoked with unbelieverdom. See, yoked to Christ, and Kelly
will tell you this, he has a lot of experience in it. If you've
got a real young horse, especially a plow horse, Mac probably doesn't. How are you going to teach him
to plow? How do you teach him to go in one direction? You yoke
him to an old horse, don't you? Yoke him to an old, stable, gentle,
submissive, meek, and lowly servant, the one behind the plow. He's
going to stay in one direction. So you yoke that young, wild
buck. to that old horse, and he's trapped. And that old horse is not going
to let him go. That old horse, my son, you know,
if they could talk, this is what they'd be saying, if you'd just
settle down, it'd be a whole lot easier for you. Just follow
me. Just settle in right beside me,
and we'll get there. And when it's over, what are
we going to do? That's a good illustration of
it. Take my yoke upon you. Learn it from me. I'm me, Kelowna. And we're in this world, we can
go after this, go after that. Why? What are you going after? Have a look at that. Don't let... They put blinders on those horses
too, don't they? Yeah, they do. They put blinders
on them. You have to yoke on them. To do what? Go in one direction. Anyway, it's over. We've got
some labor, we've got some trials, we've got some trouble, we've
got some plowing to do, we've got some service to do to the
one that owns us, to the Master, the Lord that called us in His
field. We're laboring in His field for
Him. Okay? We're going one direction,
we're pulling one purpose. And the Lord said, don't be yoked
together with unbelievers. Why? Because that's not where
they're headed. That's not even on their mind.
So here we are. Be yoked to Christ, be yoked
to his people. Be pulled in the same direction, same purpose,
same cause, kingdom of Christ. Pilgrim, Christian and his companion,
they were both going one place. Flee in the city of destruction,
headed to the celestial city, both of them. And buddies, they
were walking in one way. And everybody came along, brother,
trying to pull him apart from them. Mr. Pliable, Mr. Talkative,
Mr. This, Mr. That, were trying to
get them away from that way, and nobody could dissuade them. Thank God. Take my yoke upon
you. Learn of me. I am meek and lowly
in heart, submissive. I came to do God's will, Christ
said. That's what that meant, meek
and lowly. The opposite of that is proud, haughty, high-minded. God's going to bring everybody
down. But blessed are the meek. They'll inherit the new earth. And you'll find rest for your
souls, he said. Yoke to him, his cause, his people. Rest your
soul. There's no rest for the wicked.
There's no peace for the wicked. And he says in verse 30, my yoke
is easy. My burden is light. And it's
not a burden at all, really. Remember those two milk cows
pulling that cart? Remember that? They had one job,
to haul that ark to the place that God was sending it for the
people of God. That's our purpose in life. Like that donkey the
Lord was riding on. One purpose, to hold him up,
set him forth. That's not it. If you'd ask that donkey, he
ain't happy. Oh, he's not happy. At all. He's a good master. He's
a gentle master. If he went with me, I'd eat him.
Why? Goin' astray. If he just lets
me keep my eyes straight on him, right on him, it's all good. The yoke is easy. The way of the transgressor is
hard. Is it ever hard? Climbing Mount
Sinai is not only hard, it's impossible. Believe. Trust. Look. Follow. Come with me, you guys. Rest.
No catch. Stay with me.