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Rowland Wheatley

The illustration of a yoke

Matthew 11:29-30
Rowland Wheatley March, 8 2026 Video & Audio
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So firstly, Jesus' yoke. I want to look first at the illustration here of a yoke and look at it in two ways. Firstly, as what is used to perhaps carry burdens. In some countries they use them quite commonly. Perhaps a piece of wood that is shaped to go around their neck and rest on their shoulders and then at the end of each piece of wood a hook that they would hang say a pail so they could carry two pails of water or maybe some rocks or stones or something like that quite easy not on their hands but actually bearing on their shoulders and that yoke enables them to carry And of course, you could have one person carrying, like I said, rocks, which would be a very heavy load. Another might be labouring in the field and they be picking fruit and things that are quite light. The pails would be still full, but the burden would be very much lighter. And this is the picture what our Lord is saying. These that are heavy laden, they have a yoke. And what they are carrying is a very heavy burden. But what he is carrying, the yoke that he is inviting them to take on, is a lighter burden, a lighter yoke. This is the illustration that is
Rowland Wheatley
About Rowland Wheatley
Pastor Rowland Wheatley was called to the Gospel Ministry in Melbourne, Australia in 1993. He returned to his native England and has been Pastor of The Strict Baptist Chapel, St David’s Bridge Cranbrook, England since 1998. He and his wife Hilary are blessed with two children, Esther and Tom. Esther and her husband Jacob are members of the Berean Bible Church Queensland, Australia. Tom is an elder at Emmanuel Church Salisbury, England. He and his wife Pauline have 4 children, Savannah, Flynn, Willow and Gus.

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