Then become their happy joy Sweet
as home to pilgrims weary Light to noon and night Oracle Springs
and deserts dreary All who taste it All right, let's go back to Matthew
11. I cannot be accused of saving
the best messages for Sunday morning, though I Though I do
consider that. This message, I thought, I would
like for everyone to hear this, at least all that are able to
come. And knowing that there would
be some absent tonight, as there usually are, but yet I thought,
no, I'm going to bring it tonight. Perhaps somebody will need it. There may be no Sunday morning.
We may not have a Sunday morning. And this is such a vital and
helpful message. I hope you're needy tonight. Let's read verses 28 through
30. This is our text. Our Lord says, Come unto Me,
all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn
of Me, for I am meat and lowly in heart, and you shall find
rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden
is light." Coming to Christ, that's what this message is about. Coming to Christ. Now, it's not
a one-time thing. Don't think of this for a moment
as something that we've done in the past. and an act of conversion. No, no, no, no. This is a daily
thing. That's the reason I knew you
would need this tonight. This is not a message for the
unconverted only. This is a message for all of
God's people. That's who Christ is talking
to. We need to come to Christ tonight. And in fact, if you have not
yet come to Him tonight, you may not get anything from
this message. That's how important it is, to come to cry, what it
means to come to cry. Now, our Lord said many things
before he said this, and I want to look at a few of them, and
then we'll dwell on them. He said in verse 15, and this
is written quite often in the scriptures, our Lord says this
often, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Do you realize
how many times he says that in the scriptures? We have ears.
They don't always hear, do they? Well, the seeing eye and the
hearing ear, where do they come from? Of the Lord. That's right. So you've got to come to Christ
right now to ask Him to give you ears to hear. Right? I can't do it for you. This is a personal thing. You
come to Christ in your heart to give you hearing ears. Verses
16 and 17, he rebukes some. He says, Whereunto shall I liken
this generation? It is like unto children sitting
in the markets, calling unto their fellows, saying, We have
piped unto you, and ye have not danced. We have mourned unto
you, and ye have not lamented. And I preached to some who never
seemed to dance or mourn. May the Lord give us spiritual
feet to dance. May the Lord give us wet eyes
to hear the gospel. In Bunyan's Holy War, it says
the people in the town of Mansoul said, let's send word to Emmanuel,
let's send Mr. Wet Eyes, asking him to come.
Send Mr. Wet Eyes. Verse 20-22, he began
to upbraid the cities. I'll not read all of those, but
the cities where the gospel was preached, where Christ himself
entered in, and our Lord said wherever his
people are, he is there, so he is no less here than he was in
those cities physically. Right? Wherever the gospel was
preached, that's where Christ is. the accountability of those that
live where the gospel is preached, especially those that sit in
the pew where it's sitting. So our Lord gave many words of
rebuke, did he not? And warning. And since we're
the only ones hearing this tonight, this is to us, isn't it? All
right, verse 25, then, after these words of warning and rebuke,
verse 25, I believe he looked heavenward. He's speaking, he's
teaching, he's preaching, and it says, at that time, Jesus
answered. Well, no one asks him a question.
What do you mean, answered? Well, our Lord was always in
communion with his heavenly Father. It wasn't written, everything
that transpired between them. Nor was everything written that
was spoken to Christ, asked of him, and so forth. The world,
the scripture says, couldn't contain the books if everything
was recorded that he said and did. Nevertheless, it says he
answered as if the Father was speaking to him, as he did. We know. And he said, as I said,
I believe he looked heavenward. Christ is the only one who can
properly look God in the eye. Right? And he said, I thank thee,
O Father. After considering those who will
not hear, after considering those who have ears but don't hear,
after thinking about those who refuse to dance, those who are
unmoved by the gospel, he thinks about those who are. And he thanks
God for them, as do I. He says, I thank thee, O Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from
the wise and prudent and has revealed them unto me. There's
one of the only times in Scripture it says that Christ rejoiced.
And it was this same time when he said, it says at that time,
I think it's Luke's Gospel, It says he rejoiced in spirit and
said, I thank you. He said this with a smile on
his face, I know. When you rejoice, you smile.
I thank you, Father, you've hid these things from the wise and
prudent and revealed it unto me, don't you? Are you thankful? You are if you feel yourself
to be unwise and not so prudent. And not one of these wise, mighty,
and noble that Christ hides the word from, but one of the base,
the nothings, the things that are not, the despised, the lowly. If you consider yourself that,
you've got to thank God that he's revealed this gospel to
you. I'm thankful. Blessed are you
if he has. Flesh and blood didn't reveal
it, but the Father. You're chosen. You know, you're
one of the chosen. Verse 26, he said, Even so, Father,
for so it seemed good in thy sight." I read a message by John Newton
years ago as a young believer that I've never forgotten. It's
called The Character and Genius of the Gospel. The Genius of
the Gospel. And he took this as his text,
that Christ hid these things from the wise and prudent and
revealed them unto me. and the genius of the gospel,
how God designed this gospel to meet the needs of those that
needed it. And those who did not need it
couldn't even understand. In God's wisdom. Oh well, verse
27, now he says, I believe he turned to the people again. And
he says to us, all things are delivered unto me of my Father. And no man knoweth the Son, but
the Father. Well, men say, well, we know
who you are. You're a carpenter. No, you don't.
He said, you neither know me nor my Father. Remember that? We know who He is. He's Jesus.
No, you don't. If that's all you think about.
No man knoweth the Son, but the Father. Neither knoweth any man
the Father, save the Son and He to whomsoever the Son will
reveal him. Christ came down to reveal the
Father. Christ came here to reveal God,
the living and true God. God walked this planet. We wouldn't
know what God was really like had not God come here. And he
did. So he came to reveal the Father. And he reveals him to
his chosen people. If you know anything about the
living and true God, Oh, you're blessed. It's been revealed to
you. But he says here, all things
are delivered unto me of my Father. All things are delivered and
all things must be revealed. So what does that tell you? We've
got to come to Him. We've got to come to Him. That's
why he says in the next verse, come unto me. All things are
delivered unto me. All things. Like Joseph, you
remember the story of Joseph? Having charge of the storehouses
in Egypt, where the people are dying, if they're going to get
anything, if they're kept alive, they're going to have to go to
Joseph. They're going to die if they don't go to Joseph. In
the same sense, our Lord says, all things are delivered unto
me. All power over all flesh is given unto me. Heaven and
earth. You better come to me. Got any needs? Come unto me. All things are revealed. They're
only revealed if I reveal them. Need to know anything? Better
come unto me. So you see, that's why he says,
and that's why we looked at these verses, up to this. So he says, in verse 28, I tell
you, come unto me. Come unto me. Come unto me. Now, there are three things I
want to ask. What does it mean to come to
Christ? What does it mean? Secondly, who may come to Christ? And thirdly, what will you find
if you come? Alright, what is it to come to
Christ? Well, turn with me to Matthew
8. Back a few pages to Matthew chapter 8. To come to Christ,
first of all, and this is important, and very few people know this,
the only ones that do know this are those who come to Christ.
Right. Those who really come to Christ
are the only ones that know this. So the first thing it is to come
to Christ is to come to worship him. It's to come to worship him.
This is vital, this is important. As I said, the world doesn't
know anything about it. They say it, but they really
don't believe it. That's not why the world is coming
to a Jesus. No, no, no. But it's the first
thing, when the Spirit of God reveals to a person who Christ
is, this is what they do. They come to worship. Look at
Matthew 8, verses 1 and 2. It says, when he was come down
from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. You see, there
were great multitudes following Jesus. They saw the miracles. Many times he said that. Many
times he turned and said, you're following me because you've got
your belly filled. Or you've followed me because
you saw the miracles and you're just amazed by the miracles.
You follow me. But behold, there came a leper and worshipped him. Multitudes were following him
out of curiosity to have their bellies filled, but here came
a leper. And what did he do? What's the
first thing he did? That's how you come to Christ.
That's what it means to first come to Christ. This is the difference
between true believers and just the merely religious. This is the difference between
true believers, true sons of God, worshipers. The Father seeketh
such to worship him. This is the difference between
those and just the religious. That's right. Most people come
for material gain. Most people come for physical
and emotional needs. So most people come for what
they can get out of the Lord. But when God shows people, sinners,
lepers, who Christ is, they come to worship him because he's worthy
to worship. Are you going to church tonight? Well, sure I am. I worship thee. Sure I am. Going home tonight?
Yeah. Why? I love my wife. What a silly
question. I may not go home tonight. That's
not possible unless something providentially hinders me. I'm
going home. So it is with worship. That's what it means to come
to Christ. You've got to. He had adored him to worship. This man came to worship him.
The first thing he did was worship. That means adore him. He heard
him speak and he saw his beauty and he adored him. He admired
him. He fell at his feet. He saw in Jesus Christ the Lord,
one high and mighty and worthy of adoration. He saw in him glory. And that's what he said to him.
First thing out of his mouth, Didn't they? Glory. So a person who truly comes to
Christ after hearing who Christ is and believing who Christ is,
they come to worship first and foremost. That's why we come,
is it not? You know, I remember, I came,
And by God's grace, I remember coming to the worship service
for quite a long time before I had any assurance at all of
my own personal salvation. I'll say that again. I remember
coming quite a long time before I had any assurance of my salvation
and before I confessed the Lord. But I came because I loved to
hear the gospel. And I really did not have that
great assurance that I was one of the Lord's own, but I sure
loved to hear the gospel. I loved to hear God exalted,
Christ exalted. I didn't even know it, but I
was worshiping. And then he finally gave me some
assurance. Well, we come to Christ, and
you know, this is why I said this is not a one-time thing.
Coming to Christ is not something you do in the past. It's not
something that only the unconverted must do. We come here tonight
to worship the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's why we come. Primarily
to worship. If we don't do anything else,
we do that. We worship. Alright, what is
it to come to Christ? It's to come to worship. And
secondly, it's to come with a need. Look at the leper again. Verse
2, Behold, there came a leper, and worshipped him, saying, Lord,
if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. Now again, this is the saving
difference between a true worshipper, a true child of God, and the
merely religious. Sinners come to Christ for salvation. That's the difference between
a true worshipper and the world of the religious. Sinners come
to Christ for mainly one thing, to have their sins taken away. Huh? What'd this leper want? One thing. He didn't ask for
a big house or a new job. I'm a leper. I want to be clean. And so it
is with every leprous sinner. We come to Christ. You see why
this is not a one-time thing? It's not just a thing in the
past. It's not a thing for the unconverted. We are lepers until
the day we die. So we come to Christ to be made
clean. That's our principal need. Sinners
come to Christ for saving. We come to Christ as sinners
to receive forgiveness. We want forgiveness. Our sins,
like David said, are ever before. We come to Christ as unrighteous
because we need His righteousness. We come to Christ as spiritual
beggars. We need a handout. We can't do
anything spiritually. We come to Christ as guilty.
We want it removed. We need mercy. We come to Christ
as weak. We need His strength to bear
us up. We come to Christ as ignorant. So ignorant. He's made unto us
wisdom. We come to hear His wisdom. And all things needful and all
the material things. Yes, we come to Christ for all
our material needs. Yes, He told us to come for all
these things. But we come principally, number
one, to worship. And we come to have our needs
met. And our greatest need, and the
world doesn't know it, you don't hear people talking about sin.
That's all you hear God's people talking about. You don't hear
the religious world talking about it. You hear them talking about
finances and drug addiction. God's people talk about the plague
that's in their heart. Lord, they come to Christ for
that. We come to Christ believing. You know, coming to... Old Brother
Scott, I quote him often, he said, come to Christ, but don't
move a muscle. Don't move a muscle. A hundred or so years ago, maybe
two hundred, a hundred and fifty years ago, somebody started this
move down front, an altar call, so to speak. It's not biblical.
Nowhere in the Scriptures will you, as I said Sunday morning,
nowhere will you see or hear the apostles or anybody saying,
come to them. People did, didn't they? Didn't
they, Jeanette? Every now and then they would swarm the apostles
and they'd say, don't worship us. We're just men like you are. Don't come to us. Don't move a muscle. To come
to Christ is to come from the heart. You can come to Christ
wherever you are. Come to Christ from the heart.
It's the heart coming. It's the heart going out to Christ. We're not heard very much speaking
either. But our hearts are heard. What is it to come to Christ?
It's to come to Him as our everything. Our prophet, our priest, and
our king. Now, folks, the world has their
prophets, have their priests, and they have their kings. We've
got it all in one person. All we need to do is come to
one person. Prophets. You remember the woman
at the well? She said, when Messiah comes,
he'll tell us everything. He said, I'm here. Ask me. We don't have to go to different
fellows to tell us. Come to Christ. He'll tell us.
He's our prophet. He'll tell us all things. He'll
tell us things he's not telling the world. He's our prophet.
He's the last prophet, our noble prophet. Christ fulfilled all
prophecy. Everything we need to know, Christ
wrote it down for us. He's our prophet. He's our priest. We come to him as our great high
priest. Don't need to come to a man who's
no better than we are. We come to him as our king. He's
king too. He's not a mere figurehead. He's
king. Everything's his. He's greater than Solomon. You
remember that study? It said every man under Solomon's
reign sat under his own vine, his own fig tree. Every man under
Solomon's reign was just blessed supremely. We've got a better
king than him. Solomon ended up bad, didn't
he? We've got the King of Kings.
All things are mine, he said. All things are mine, what do
you need? He's the King. We come to Christ as our mediator,
as our intercessor, as our daysman. You feel unworthy to go to God?
Somebody will go for you. I'm so thankful I don't pray
to Mary. Aren't you thankful? I'm thankful you don't pray to
Mary. I'm thankful the Lord has revealed to us that there's one
mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. And we
can come to him, and he said, just ask, I'll take it to the
Father. We come to him, oh, everything. We come to him, I was reading
one old writer this week, and coming to Christ, and he said,
Charles Hodge, he said, to come to Christ is like the people
Out in the wilderness, when Aaron brought that scapegoat up there,
brought it out there before all the people and said, everybody
there laid their hands on the head of that scapegoat, confessing
their sins. And then a fit man took that
goat and took it out in the wilderness. With their sins on it, all the
people, those that really had sins that, oh, wanted their sins
gone, this scapegoat Symbolic of Christ, our scapegoat would
bear away our sin. Christ the fit man. And all who
really needed their sins gone would confess on that scapegoat
and that man would lead it out into the wilderness and leave
it somewhere where it never would return. as a symbol of Christ, the believer's
scapegoat, the sinner's scapegoat. Any sinner, just cast your care
on him. Cast your sins on him. And he
says, I'll remember them no more. I'll take them away. He put them
away. Christ, when He died and was buried, He took our sins
somewhere and put them away. He says, remove them as far as
the east is from the west. In the uttermost parts of the
sea, And old Jack Shanks, you were waiting for this, old Jack
Shanks said, he preached on the scapegoat, and he said, and God
ain't doing no goat hunting either. God ain't going to hunt that
go-goat. It's gone. Do you ever hear the religious
talk about these things? You don't. Oh, but blessed are
you if you do, if these things have place in you, if these things
mean something to you. These things, we take this for
granted. I know we do. But this is all
we talk about mostly. This is what we dwell on. You
rarely ever hear the religious mention these things. Meeting
Christ, do you Ed? Meeting Christ righteous, meeting
the scapegoat, meeting the intercessor? Blessed are you, Ed Barberry,
son of Barry, flesh and blood didn't reveal it to you. It seemed
good to the Father. Well, we're daily in need of
all these things, so we daily come to Christ. What is it to
come to Christ? It's to come daily. Listen to this. If you don't have a need right
now, then that's your need right now. Let me say that again. If you don't have a need right
now, then that's your need right now. You need to come to Christ
right now and say, Lord, I don't feel a need. I need the need. That's because if we don't feel
the need, we're like the people in Laodicea, was it, that the
Lord said, you're rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing?
No, it's not. No, it's not. They're poor and
wretched and miserable, blinded, naked, have need of everything. So if we have not a need, we
need to come to Christ as I speak. Say, Lord, I don't need you like
I ought to need. I want to need you. What is it
to come to Christ? It's to come to worship. It's
to come with a need. Look at our text again. He said in verse 29, take my
yoke upon you and learn of me. To come to Christ is to come
as a disciple. come as a disciple. Take my yoke
upon you and learn of me." Men and women and young people
the world over idolize various men and women. They idolize various persons,
and they make these persons to be their lifelong study and idol,
as it They become followers of men. They become enamored with various
men. I didn't write any names down.
There's too many to number. that they do. People idolize
men and become lifelong disciples and followers of those men or
women and study these people and emulate these people and
want to look like them and talk like them and talk about them.
They're consumed with them. They're able to tell you much
about these people, much about their lives. name various names
and places and dates in that person's life, quotes various
quotes by those persons. If that person is a famous songwriter
or whatever, they can sing every song they've ever written or
play every note they ever composed to a T, because they are disciples
of a person. We are disciples of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He's the only person to ever
live that's worth studying. That's right. He's the only person
to ever live, really, that's worth putting. He said, take
my yoke upon you to learn of me. Well, that ain't saying much.
You know what? Albert Einstein, John, is no
better than you. As a matter of fact, our Lord
said about John, another John, the greatest in the kingdom,
he didn't invent anything. Einstein, well, never mind him,
his name's not worth mentioning, but what I'm trying to say is
men and women and young people idolize worms, human beings that
aren't worth studying. They're not. Most of them are
perverts. All these famous artists and
musicians are perverts. That's right, Vincent van Gogh.
All these guys are homosexuals. Ernest Hemingway, homosexual. Godless, worthless human beings. God gave them everything they
created and everything they did. They're not worth being disciples
of. Boy, but Jesus Christ is. Isn't
he? Everything about him is worth
studying. Everything about him is worth
emulating. Oh, to quote his quotes. Huh? Oh, to memorize everything he
said and did. Huh? He said, be a disciple. Who gives a crap what Martha
Stewart says? Or what Oprah says? Who in the
heck are these people, anyway? Where did they come from? That's
what I'd like to ask is, where in the world did Martha Stewart
come from? Out of the blue? She's going
to end up in prison, probably. Ah, but Jesus Christ now, He's the only one worth studying,
the only one worth remembering, the only one worth emulating,
the only one worth following. He said, take my yoke upon you,
learn of me. Let's go to school, Christ's
school, study. Huh? Learn of me. Take my yoke upon
you. Learn of me. Look at what he
said about himself. Oh, so unlike the men and women
of our day, I am meek and lowly in heart. We did a two-part message
on that years ago, the meekness of Christ and the lowliness of
Christ from this birth. I am meek and lowly in heart. Let me ask you, what is the most
endearing quality of all of someone to you? What's the most endearing quality,
Bob, when you think of it? It's meekness. Someone who's
truly humble. Who's not self-promoting. Someone who's not puffed up.
Someone who is truly interested in you more than themselves.
That's a meek person. I've thought about, there are
various men that I admire, brilliant men, gifted men, talented men,
but the thing I admire most about these men is their meekness,
their humility. They're infinitely, well not
infinitely, but they're much smarter than I'll ever be, more
talented than I'll ever be, but you never know when you talk
to them. They're more interested in me than themselves. Now, you think about the Lord
of Glory. I wish we had time to stop and
just think about His meekness. Have you ever been around somebody
that knows everything? Have you ever been around somebody
that knows everything, and they're going to tell you? How long do
you like to be around them? Well, let me tell you something. Our Lord did know everything. He did. Yet, people could sit
and listen to Him. He said things, He taught, He
spoke in such a way as to not be condescending and treat you
like an ignorant fool, though we are. He spoke like a little
child to a little child. how endearing he was, is. I've got to go on. I could stay
right there for a long time. Take my yoke upon you, learn
of me. Oh, to emulate the Lord in every
way, his character. Wouldn't you? Imitation is the
sincerest form of flattery. I want to be like Christ, don't
you? Well, learn of me. I'm meek and
lowly. And you'll find, look at this.
Well, no, that's my last point. Who may come? The second point
is, who may come? Who may come? He says, come unto
me. Well, who may come? Look at it again. Come unto me
all. This is why the gospel says in
Christ there's no Jew or Gentile, male or female, young, old, in
Christ. They're all equal. Great, nothing's smart, ignorant,
rich, poor. No. All. Come. All have the same duty. Come
to Christ. All may come. All may come. Anyone may come. Anyone may come. Everyone needs to come. Everyone
needs to come. There's nothing to hinder anyone
from coming except your self-righteousness. When
people say, oh, I'm not worthy to come, that's a little subtle self-righteousness,
what that is. That means, well, I'll get better
and then I'll come. Then you don't need Christ. You
come to him as, like I said, all those things. He said, Who
may come? He said, Come unto me, all ye
that labor and are heavy laden. Labor and heavy laden. Now, this
is not physical labor. Listen to me carefully, folks,
and everybody in here works hard. And I feel for you, and the Lord
does too. The Lord knows our frame. Yes, He does. The Lord
worked hard. The Lord, one time He said, rest. He said, no, there are twelve
hours in the day. Our Lord worked twelve hours
a day, seven days a week. Right? Yes, He did. But He was resting
seven days a week. Figure that out and you'll learn
the gospel. Anyway, our Lord has a feeling of our infirmities
because he himself was compassed with these infirmities. He labored. Our Lord knows what
it is to labor all day, hard physical labor, and be tired.
Yet that's not what he's talking about. And let me tell you this
before we go on. That is man's lot. The Lord said it to the very
first man in the garden, the very first man and woman, he
said, just sweat of your brow. And that's the way it's been
for thousands of years. And the sooner we accept that, the happier
we'll be. Oh, I worked too hard today.
And you're going to have to do it tomorrow. And you're going
to have to do it until you get old, until you retire. And then you wish you were back
to work. It's about Depending on where you work,
I guess. But that's man's lot. That's a woman's lot. The sooner
we accept it, the better it will be. But the laboring he's talking
about here is, well, many things. But he said, come unto me all
ye that labor, I'm a heavy laden, I will give you rest. It's laboring
and people do this. Find out how to get to God. How
to be accepted with God. And we do that. We still do that,
don't we? Yeah, we do. We still do that.
But then we get heavy laden with our sin. Christ says, come to
me. We try to find peace within. We're guilty of this. We labor
to find some peace, some comfort, some hope, some something. We labor. It's an inward labor
and a toil and a struggle within. We labor for this, but then we
become heavy laden with our own guilt. Crisis coming in. It's really very simple. It's so simple we pass over it
all the time. We labor to get better. Don't
you want to be more holy, huh? Don't you want to be until you
labor to get better? But then you become heavy laden
with your own failure. You think, I'll make some progress.
And then something worse comes along. You do something worse.
You feel like you've made twelve steps back. One baby step and
then fall back and start over again. You become heavy laden
with your failure. Christ says, come to me. Who may come with a laboring
and heavy laden, oh sinful, heavy laden with sin? How long are
we going to be heavy laden with our sin? Till the day we die. Come unto me, he said. To whom
coming, Peter said, daily. I need thee every hour. Come unto me. It's really very
simple. Who may come? The vilest of the
vile. Who may come? The wicked, the
poor, the needy, the helpless, the hopeless, the ungodly. I
love that story about David. It says he went to the cave of
Adullam and 400 men came to him. He became captain over them.
And what they all had in common was they were all in debt. distress,
discontent, they came to David and he became
captain over them. He said, come to me, I'll take
care of it all. And whoever came to David in that cave, whoever came to David on that
cave sat with him on the throne when he entered the throne. Now,
who's that talking about? The Lord Jesus Christ. They were
in debt, deeply in debt, and they came to David in a cave. And when David ascended the throne,
did he bring up a debt? He said, now, we'll take three
easy payments. No. It's gone. David absolved
everybody by every debt. Discontent. They were discontented
because they were under the rule of the evil King Saul. Oh, when
they came to David, they were free men. They loved to have
David reign over them. They said, we will have this
man reign over us. Oh, and he reigned in love and
wisdom. They came to David discontent. Who may come? Lepers may come.
Who may come? The lame may come. How do you
come? Well, a lame man can't come.
He has to be brought, doesn't he? Like old Mephibosheth. Well, the Lord says to every
lame fellow, fetch him. Says it's his Holy Spirit. See,
Mephibosheth couldn't move a leg. He couldn't wiggle a toe. He
couldn't come if he wanted to. But David said, fetch him. All that the Father giveth me,
Christ said, shall come to me. They shall. and him that cometh
to me, I will in no wise cast out." That's
the promise. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest and causest to approach unto thee. And what will you
find when you come? The last point. He said you'll
find, I'll give you rest. In verse 28 he says this twice.
I'll give you rest. The first thing I'll give you
rest. You'll find your rest in me.
You come to Christ, and you'll find Him to be your Sabbath,
your rest, all your works, you'll find complete in Him. You understand
what I'm saying? You'll find Him that you're complete
in Him, that there's nothing you need to do to be saved. If you come to Christ, He'll
tell you, It's finished. And you rest. And you quit trying. You know what I'm saying. I don't
mean you quit trying to do what He said. You quit trying to be
saved. You come to Christ. He said,
I'll give you rest. And then the second rest He talks
about in verse 29, He says, learn of Me. I am meek and lowly in
heart. You become a disciple of Mine. Learn of Me. Keep your
eyes on Me. and follow Me, do what I say,
you'll find rest unto your soul." This is a little different rest.
This is daily rest. This is peace of heart and mind
and soul. Things won't trouble you too
much. Our Lord, as a man, committed
Himself unto God. Did things bother Him? Huh? What? He was a man of sorrows
acquainted with grief. He was troubled from his youth
up. He was afflicted and persecuted and hated and pursued by everybody. Everybody was his enemy. Was
he worth it? Huh? He'd enter a whole crowd
of people who were calling out to kill him. It's no different with you and
me. It's no different with you and me. That's what Psalm 91
tells us. A thousand will fall at your
side, ten thousand will die right here. It will not come to you
unless God says so. You don't know how much we've
walked through the midst of. It's appointed unto man once
to die. Our bounds are set that we cannot pass. Who set them?
The Lord did. good sovereign wisdom and providence. That'll give you rest to your
soul. Go to sleep at night. Huh? No one who's in control. Rest unto your soul. Rest. Rest. Rest for your soul. Assurance. You know, like I said, I don't
believe I came worshipping for a good
while before I think I really came to Christ. I didn't have
any insurance, didn't have any peace, and I don't know what,
well I do know what. Finally the gospel, you know,
sunk in, and I believe the Lord came to him, and been coming
ever since. The first way it came. I haven't
made any progress to speak of. I don't think I have, really. So I keep coming to it. Keep
coming to it. Same way it came the first time.
All right. Well, I hope that Sunday morning
message helped you. Stand with me. Our Lord, thank you for uttering
these words. Thank You for Your Word. It meets
our every need, how we need it, how we need to need it. You told
us to desire the sincere milk of the Word that we might grow
thereby. Lord, we want to desire it. We do desire it. We want
to desire it more. And Lord, we come to Thee. We
come believing. We come as needy sinners. We come to have all our needs
met. We come for rest, we come for
salvation, we come to Thee all over again. Lord, cause us to
continue to come to Thee. Don't leave us to ourselves or
we get in a bad state, Lord. So by Your Spirit, lead us to
Christ daily, hourly, for everything needful. For Christ is all and
in all. It's in His name we're met here
tonight to worship. Amen.