Coming to Christ for Rest

Q: What does the Bible say about coming to Christ for rest?

The Bible invites all who are weary and burdened to come to Christ for rest, as stated in Matthew 11:28-30. In Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus invites those who labor and are heavy laden to come to Him for rest. This passage emphasizes the comfort and promise inherent in Jesus' invitation, suggesting that He provides relief from the burdens of life and sin. The assurance of finding rest for our souls is central to the Christian faith, pointing to the sufficiency of Christ's work for our redemption. In this way, coming to Christ is not just a momentary pause from toil but a transformative experience leading to peace and wholeness through faith in Him.

Q: How do we know the doctrine of grace is true?

The doctrine of grace is firmly rooted in Scripture, affirmed by the promises of Christ and the testimonies of believers throughout history. The doctrine of grace teaches that salvation is a gift from God, not earned by our works but freely given through faith in Jesus Christ. This is evident in passages such as Ephesians 2:8-9, where Paul states that we are saved by grace through faith, and not of ourselves. Furthermore, the historical witness of the Reformed faith and the consistent testimony of believers across generations affirm the truth of this doctrine. God's faithfulness, as seen in the covenantal promises throughout Scripture, underlines that salvation is entirely His work, designed to ensure that no one may boast in their own efforts but only in Christ alone.

Q: Why is the concept of total depravity important for Christians?

Total depravity underscores the necessity of divine grace for salvation, as it affirms that humanity is incapable of saving itself. The concept of total depravity, one of the key tenets of Reformed theology, asserts that every part of humanity is affected by sin, leaving us unable to come to God on our own. This is foundational for understanding the need for grace; if we were not wholly fallen, we might believe we could contribute to our salvation. Scripture supports this view in Romans 3:10-12, where it states that no one is righteous, and all have turned aside. Acknowledging our total depravity emphasizes the graciousness of God in choosing to redeem us through Christ, who is our only hope. It acknowledges our need for the saving power of Christ and the working of the Holy Spirit to bring us to faith.

Q: How can Christians find true rest in Jesus?

Christians find true rest in Jesus by placing their faith in Him and surrendering their burdens to Him. Finding true rest in Jesus requires believers to recognize their own limitations and the burdens they carry. Jesus invites us to exchange our heavy loads for His light yoke, as described in Matthew 11:28-30. By coming to Him in prayer and reliance, we discover that in Him, we can cast our anxieties and cares. Resting in Christ means trusting His finished work on the cross and recognizing that He has completed all that is necessary for our salvation. This spiritual rest is experienced when we align our hearts and minds with His Word, allowing His promises to provide peace amid life’s trials.

Song of Solomon says, draw me and we will run today, draw me. Our Lord said, no man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me, draw him. So I hope we prayed that, sang that from the heart. Go with me to Matthew chapter 11, Matthew 11. Matthew chapter 11. We've looked at this so many times. I've preached from this perhaps as much as any verses in all the Bible. But there's no greater promise and no greater comfort to be had than what our Lord says here. Look at verses 28 through 30. Matthew 11, 28, our Lord says, come unto me. All 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 ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Pete, did you get a bulletin? I want you to, we don't, I don't produce these much anymore, so it's a rare and valuable thing. I want you to look at it with me. We're gonna read this article and not read a better one on these verses, okay? J.C. Ryle, an old English preacher, look at it with me, Coming to Christ. He said, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Are you with me? I'm reading it. Are you one of those who are laboring and heavy laden? I think it very likely that you are. I'm firmly persuaded that thousands of men and women in the world are inwardly uncomfortable and yet will not confess it. They feel a burden in their hearts, which they would gladly get rid of, and yet they do not know the way.

They have a conviction that all is not right in their inward man, which they never tell to anyone. Husbands do not tell it to their wives. Wives do not tell it to their husbands. Children do not tell it to their parents. Friends do not tell it to their friend. But the inward burden lies heavily on many hearts. There's far more unhappiness than the world sees. Disguise it as some will, there are multitudes uncomfortable because they know they're not prepared to meet God. And our Lord, let me add this, our Lord said there's no rest for the wicked. No rest, no peace for those who ignore God. who forget their maker, who do not worship his son. No peace, he said, no rest. That's what our Lord said.

Read on, it says, if you're reading this volume, perhaps you're one of these. If any reader of this article is labor and heavy laden, you're the person to whom the Lord Jesus Christ sends this word. If you have an aching heart, a sore conscience, If you want rest for your weary soul and know not where to find it, if you want peace for a guilty heart, you're at a loss which way to turn, you're the man, you're the woman, the young person to whom Jesus Christ speaks today. There's hope for you. I bring you good tidings. Christ says, come unto me, I'll give you rest. Coming to Christ is coming to Him with the heart by simple faith, believing on Him, coming to Him. That's a good article, good article. No Greater Promise. And no man is able to fulfill promises he makes, but our Lord, all the promises of God in him are what? Yea, means yes, no doubt about it, not maybe, not contingent on anything. He's able. Yea and amen.

So the Lord says to all who are laboring and heavy laden. Brother Ryle says those people are that don't even know it or won't admit it. Laboring and heavy laden in this world. Every human being is laboring and heavy laden. Our Lord When Adam fell and rebelled against God, he sentenced Adam and mankind to a life of hard labor. He said, in the sweat of your brow, you'll labor.

And you'll labor in this dirt called planet Earth. labor to get some happiness, some enjoyment, some whatever out of dirt, but it won't fulfill it. It won't fulfill you. It won't give you this happiness. And when it's all over, you go back to that dirt from which you're made. There's no happiness here. All from dust, and you go back to dust.

But he said, your man is sentenced to a life of labor, women, and sorrow. He said, I'll greatly multiply your sorrow, sorrow of your children, sorrow of giving birth to them, pain and suffering, sorrow in raising them, and sorrow in losing them. Sorrow.

Laboring and heavy labor, people, everyone is, whether they know it or not. Now there's some, and I'm certain our Lord means this, there's some laboring in religion. Religion, like the rich young ruler came to Christ. And he thought he had kept the law, the commandments all his life. He said, good master, what good thing must I do to inherit eternal life? He said, you know the law. And the rich young ruler said, I've kept all this for my youth up. Oh, then why are you asking Christ? Why have you come to Christ? If you can keep the law, this do and live, he said.

But he couldn't. He thought he was trying and he couldn't do it. And he came to Christ and he went away sorrowful. You know that I believe that rich young ruler was Saul of Tarsus. I really did. The Lord says he loved him. And he went away sorrowful. Like Barnard said, If you hear the word, it'll either make you mad, sad, or glad, if you really hear it. And Saul may have went away sorrowful, then he got mad.

He thought, I'm righteous. I've worked all my life, and surely it counts for something. And I don't want to hear about this righteousness of Christ only." And so he got mad. He said, I'm going to do away with that. Well, thank God, Christ met him again. And he was glad.

Some labor in religion. Religion. Some. Romans 10, Paul said, bear them record, they have a zeal for God. Many people are very zealous about their religion, about their their morality and keeping the law and so forth. Some people are very, very zealous and think they are keeping the law. There's a whole sect or denomination called Seventh Day Adventists who think that you still must meet on Saturday.

Do you understand that Christ is our Sabbath? I rest, we don't rest in a day. We rest in a person. He's called the Lord of the Sabbath. Many times he broke the Sabbath according to them. And, um, and it's significant that our Lord laid in the grave on the Sabbath day. Do you understand why? Because we are dead to the law by the body of Christ.

And he arose the first day and gave us, gave his people real rest. Not in a day, but in a person. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that does what? Worketh and believeth. Come unto me Christ said all you that labor and religion are heavy laden trying to keep the law trying to be good enough You can't be good enough Trying to redeem yourself you can't redeem yourself you can't pay for your past crime you can't do it no matter how hard you work But Christ said come unto me I'll give you rest rest in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. rest in his work.

Go with me to the Little Book of Ruth. If I had a favorite book, well, no, I can't say that, goodness gracious, it's a Genesis, it's a Psalms, but boy, do I love this Little Book of Ruth. Right before judges, I said that because I'm having trouble finding, right after judges. Ruth, Little Book of Ruth, this is such a wonderful story. of this young woman and a friend, Naomi, an older woman, young or old, it doesn't matter, laboring and heavy laden, troubled, sin-stricken, sorrow-smitten, troubles and sorrows and pain and suffering, no end in sight, no way to get at it, no one to help them, okay? And it says in Chapter 2, Verse three, you know, these poor widowed women came to Bethlehem, that's the house of bread, and you're here not by accident. This is where you're gonna hear of Christ, the bread from heaven.

And it says in verse three, she went and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and her hap was delight. It just so happened. So she lit on a field that belonged to her kinsman redeemer, the only one that could do for her what she could not do for herself, buy back, redeem her, bring her happiness. Look at verse 20. It says that Naomi said to her daughter-in-law when she found out she was in Boaz's field, Boaz was the kinsman redeemer.

He's a type of Jesus Christ. She said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, she said, blessed be he of the Lord who hath not left off his kindness. And you're so blessed to be sitting here this morning to hear this message. Honestly, I'm not a good preacher, but this is a wonderful passage of scripture. This is a good word. There's no better word. There are better preachers. There's no better promise. There's no better gospel than what you're gonna hear this morning.

And Naomi said to her, verse 20, this man is one of our next kinsmen. Ruth the Moabitess said, well, he told me to keep fast by his young men until they've ended the harvest. That's the preachers of the gospel. You stay right there. Verse 23, she kept fast by the maidens until the end of the harvest. Look at chapter 3, verse 1. So Naomi said, her mother-in-law said to Ruth, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee? This is what I want for you more than anything. And daughters, this is what I want for you more than anything, that you might rest in Jesus Christ.

You're not going to find rest in this world in anyone or anything. There will be some temporary cessation of troubles and pain and suffering, but it won't last. You won't find bodily rest. There's not going to be any rest for this body. We're going to have to work. There's going to be pain and suffering and toil and strength and labor and sorrow. There's not going to be rest of our bodies until they rest in the grave.

Shall I not seek rest for you? That's what I want for you. That's why I'm preaching it. That it may be well with thee, verse one. My daughter, I seek rest for thee that it may be well with thee. You know what I want? It's not... What you need to be well with you is your soul. Our Lord said, I'll give you, you'll find rest in your soul.

David said, although it be not so with my house, everything's wrong. He had children that gave him nothing but trouble. He had pain, he had sorrow, he lost several children, and on and on it went. His wives are against him, nothing but trouble. He said, although it be not so with my house.

God hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure, and this is what saves me. This is my salvation. This is how I can go on. This is how I can live in this world. Gives me rest, gives me peace. This covenant of grace. All right, look at chapter three, verse four. And here's what Naomi said.

It shall be when he lieth down, your kinsman redeemer, who represents Christ, Mark the place where he lies and go in and uncover his feet and lay down right there. He's going to tell you what to do. He's going to tell you what to do. And when we come to Christ for rest, he's not going to tell you, well, you need to keep the law. He's not going to tell you that. He's not gonna tell you, you need to quit this, and you need to quit that, and you need to do this, and you need to do that. He's not gonna tell you what you should do. You know what he's gonna tell you? He's gonna tell you what he has done.

Are you with me? Are you with him? Go over to verse 11. So she did, she went there and laid at his feet, and he woke up, and there she was, and he said in verse 11, He said, now my daughter, fear not, I will do to thee all thou requirest. Do you understand what he's saying there?

Verse 12, it's true, I'm your near kinsman. I'm the one with the right to redeem. I'm the only one that can, that's able, and apparently he was willing. And here's what he said, verse 13, tarry this night, it shall be in the morning, There's another fellow I have to deal with. That's the law. Boaz had to deal with this other fellow who had claim against her. That's the law of God.

It's claims on you. The soul that's in it shall surely die. You have to die. You have to pay for your sin. Or somebody else pay for them. And you can't do it. You have nothing to pay. Verse 13. He said, if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then I will do the part of a kinsman to thee.

As the Lord liveth, lie down until the day break, until the morning, until the sun rises with healing. Lie down right there, just stay there. And Naomi said, well she came home, Ruth came home and told her what he said. She has hope now, verse 18. Naomi said to Ruth, sit still. My daughter, until you know how the matter will fall, the man will not be in rest until he has finished the thing this day.

Hebrews 4, go over to Hebrews 4 with me. You know I've got to go there, those of you who know the word. Christ says, come unto me, I'll give you rest. Rest from trying to get to God, trying to do enough, trying to keep the law, religion. When there's no rest in religion, you know Jesus Christ is all the religion you need.

Hebrews 4 could be some laborer thinking I'm not good enough, I haven't done enough, I don't have enough faith. No, you don't. You're not saved by your faith. Oh, amen, the just shall live by faith. That's true, that's true. Be it therefore being justified by faith. That's true, okay. But what is faith? Is that of yourself? Is it something you do? If you drum up enough, now I got it, I got it.

You ain't got nothing. Faith is just this, Lord, if you don't save me, I won't be saved. If you don't keep me, I won't be kept. If you haven't kept the law, I can't do it. If you don't save me, if you don't redeem me, if you don't forgive me, if you don't pardon me, if you don't keep me, if you don't do for me everything I need done, it won't be done. I'm undone.

That's faith. It's not what you do or how you feel or whatever. It's who you look to. Christ said, come unto me. There is no rest in trying to But drum up enough faith. It's never enough. Hebrews 4 verse 1, there's a, therefore let us fear lest the promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. Everybody in the Old Testament heard the gospel. Yes, they did. The word preached did not profit them, not to be mixed with faith.

What's that mean? It means they were trying to keep the ceremonies and keep the law and go through the motions and all that. And those things, by the deeds of the law, no flesh will be justified. No lambs or bullocks can put away sin. What's it all about? What was it all about? The Jews are still trying to do that. It's all about Christ is what it was. Every single thing in the Old Testament, every jot and tittle of the law pictured Christ who came to fulfill it.

You understand, you understand. Okay, verse 10. He that is entered into his rest, that is Christ, your rest, hath ceased from his own works as God did from his. As God quit working, the world would stop if he did. We'd all die in him. We live and move and have our being. What that means is when God finished everything, he made everything.

He said, it's good. We made man is very good. It's all over and finish. He said, it's good. It's finished. It's finished. Nothing left to be done. It's complete. It's complete. Don't need to add this, don't need, and the world is going exactly like it was when God created it. Turning, season, spring, summer, fall, winter, rain. God's so good, it's perfect. Nothing to add to it, okay.

When Christ went to the cross and hung on that cross, what was his last words? It is finished. Who finished it? Who did the work? Salvations of the Lord. Who did the work? You and Him. He's done all He can do, now it's up to you. Then He didn't finish it, you and Him finished it.

That's blasphemy. And there'd be no rest for that person. In fact, they're gonna stand before Him at a judgment some day and say, look what all we've done for Jesus. And He'll say, Cast them out, I never knew you. They were not trusting in Christ. They were trusting in their works and their religion and their morality and what they'd done and their faith and so forth. And it's going to be a dreadful realization by so many that you thought you'd done enough.

There's nothing you do. Nothing. He didn't look to Christ. that all those who look to Him, and here's the thing, Satan will bombard those that are looking to Christ alone, bombard them with doubts and fears and on and on it goes, thinking, you're not good enough. No, you're not. You haven't done enough. No, you haven't. But let me tell you this, what Christ did is enough. Is that enough for you?

My faith, the song says, has found a resting place. It's not in devise nor creed. I trust the every living one. His wounds for me shall plead. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that when Jesus Christ lived and died, he lived and died for me. Let's rest. I can quit right now. Good enough.

Then everyone labors in this life. Ecclesiastes chapter one. Every one of us labor in this life with the toils and troubles of life. With all of its sadness and sorrow and sickness and pain and suffering and disappointment we're trying As I said, when Adam rebelled, the Lord sentenced him and us in him to a life of labor, no rest.

It says, by the sweat of his brow, and a woman with sorrow in her labor. You know, the second Adam came from above and he sweat blood, he called a man of sorrows. Did you hear that? To the man, he said, you're going to labor with the sweat of your brow? Christ sweat blood. Laboring for what?

The souls of his people. His soul was made an offering for sin. Our Lord literally worked every day all his life. He never quit working until he rested. And then that woman in travail said, you'll be sorrowful. He's called a man of sorrows, the Queen of Grief.

But Ecclesiastes 1, look at the words of the preacher, verse 1, the words of the preacher, capital P. You see what an emphasis, what God puts primary importance upon? The preacher. The son of David, King, small K. You see that? What's the most, who's the most important man on earth, president or the preacher? What's God's side? Why?

Because President is dealing with vanity. The words I'm giving you are not vanity, they're life. Verse 2, vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun? All this labor for what? What? Naked you come into this world, and you're gonna go out naked. Isn't that right? Look at verse seven.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea's not full. Unto the place from whence the rivers come, till they return again. Verse eight, all things are full of labor. Trying to get enough, trying to satisfy. Are you with me? The eyes are not satisfied with seeing. The lust of the eyes or the ear filled with hearing. And this is nothing new. The thing that hath been, it shall be that which is done is that which shall be done. It's nothing new. Keep laboring, laboring, laboring, try to get some happiness, trying to get some joy, trying to get some, some peace, some contentment in this world.

Look at verse, uh, verse 17. He said, I gave my heart to know wisdom, to know madness, and finally I perceived this is vexation of spirit. Much wisdom is much grief. He that increases knowledge increases sorrow. Look at the next chapter. Look at verse 18, chapter two, verse 18, verse 17. And this is why people take their lives. because you can't find anything here. He worked so hard. Verse 17, I hated life because the work that's wrought under the sun is grievous unto me. It's vanity and vexation. I hated all my labor I'd taken under the sun because I shouldn't leave it to somebody else. Listen to our Lord in Isaiah 55. Listen to what he said.

Ho, everyone that thirsteth, We're in a dry and a thirsty land where no real water is. I'll tell you where there is some water, but it's not in the things, the people of this world. Christ is the water of life. Come to the waters, either hath no money, come. Buy and eat, come. Buy wine and milk. Without money, without price, won't cost you anything. Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which satisfies not?

Hearken diligently unto me. Who's saying it? Jesus Christ. Hearken diligently unto me. Listen carefully. Eat that which is good and let your soul delight itself in fattening. Incline your ear and come unto me. And your soul shall live. Anybody hearing, he that hath ears to hear, got a bunch of ears in here. Some of you have pretty big ones. Are you hearing this? Today, if you will hear his voice, two day, two day, two day. Here in your soul shall live and I'll make an everlasting covenant with you, the sheer mercies of David. I've given him, he says, for a witness to be a leader and a commander. You just come to him. Go to John chapter four with me. John chapter four.

Everybody's laboring for happiness, wealth. That'll make you happy, yep. No, it won't. Riches have wings. Ask everybody in 1929. Everybody. The Great Depression hit. Can it happen again? Who did that? God did. Security. It's vanity. It won't satisfy. Those that trust in their riches. There's only one to trust in. The one who gives them and the one who takes them away. If he gives them, fine. If he takes them away, you'll be fine. Look at John chapter four.

This is a story of a woman who didn't know what she believed and didn't know what she wanted and didn't know what she needed. She's in her 50s or her 60s. How do you know that? Because she's been married five times. And if that marriage, each marriage lasted four or five years, then she's in her 50s or 60s, maybe older. She's still trying to find some contentment in a man, in a relationship, in marriage.

You're not going to find it, except you're married to Jesus Christ. You're not going to find it. Paul wrote about that. He said, it's better off not to be married, but to be like me. But if you can't contain Mary in the Lord, marry someone who knows the Lord.

But he said, you're still going to have trouble. You're still not going to have peace and rest and total contentment. You're going to have trouble with the flesh. You've got two sinners living together, no matter what. Isn't that what he said? This is why he said in Isaiah 54, your maker is your husband. Didn't he? He said, where's your bill of divorcement? That's what he said. That's what Christ said. Where's your bill of divorcement? Is that Isaiah 50? You won't find it. But he'll never leave you or forsake you. Isn't that who you need to be married to for happiness? You're not going to find it in people and things. You're not going to find it.

This woman thought she'd find happiness in Mary. Well, she tried it five times. I have time and she kept coming to this well every day doing the same thing every every day day in day out She'd bring her water pot try to fill up her her water pot and go home and do her Laundry and do her cooking and all that and try to you know, get along with this fella She's now living with a fella trying it trying it out. I'll try it out this time Okay Vanity vanity One day, she came to the well. She's not looking for Christ. She's religious. Our fathers, you say in Jerusalem, our fathers meet in the mountains and I'm a Methodist and you're a Baptist. Your religion's not gonna do you any good. And our Lord said, you don't know what you worship. You don't know what you believe.

Someone was waiting on her, a man, sitting at the well. Isaiah said in chapter 30, in returning and rest, you'll find strength and quietness and confidence shall be your peace, but you would not. You go on, he said, but it goes on to say, but he'll wait to be gracious to you. I hope for some of our lost children and grandchildren and so on and so forth, that our Lord is waiting. He's not coming back yet because He's waiting.

And they'll come to this place, this house of bread, to come where the well is, where Christ, the water of life, is preached, and He'll be waiting on them. He's not waiting on them to come, because no man can come except He draws them. But when He does, He'll be there. And he'll speak to them. Is that right? Anybody?

Again, and again, and again. She said, well, you're, you know, are you greater than our father, Jacob, who made this whale? She had no him, and no man knows the son, but the father, neither knoweth any man the father, but the son, and he to whom the son will reveal him. This is not just Jesus. This is not just a man.

He's hoping she'll accept him. This is the one who came for her, who loved her, and chose her. She didn't choose him. Who was seeking her. He finds everyone he seeks. Every single lost sheep he looked for, he finds them. What does he do? Well, now, get along little sheep. Get there. You can make it. You can make it. No, no, he puts them on his shoulder and carries them all the way home.

That's Isaiah 46. I've carried you from the cradle and I'll carry you to the grave. That's the great shepherd of the sheep. This is Jesus Christ the Lord. That's why all this goes together. He said, all things are given unto me. This is why he's saying this. Come unto me.

There is no one, no thing, nothing and no one can help you in any way because everything is in his divine hands. You, your children, your grandchildren, your life, your past, your present, and your future. Your soul, your breath, and your body is his. Now, why are you going anywhere else to try to find something? He's not going to allow you, not going to give you any peace. None. Zero. That's what he says. Come into bed.

And this woman, she wouldn't have come if he hadn't been waiting on her and drawn her. This is the day. She said, well, when Christ comes, and He had to make her thirsty, she said, this water, our Lord said to that woman, this water you keep coming back to every day at this well is going to keep leaving you thirsty. That's why you keep coming back. Marriage, none of these things will satisfy you. None of them give you peace or comfort or happiness or contentment. That's why you keep trying things.

He said, but the water I give you, will be a wellspring. You'll never thirst again. She said, give me this water. She said, I know this, that when Christ has come, he'll tell us all things. She didn't know Christ. She's right in front of her. Some people can hear this message. He said, I am. What happened to her? Oh, she did. That water pot that she needed, dropped it. Dropped that water pot. Went running. Running home. Come see a man. Is not this the Christ? This is the Christ. Come unto me.

Oh, you that labor and are heavy laden. Heavy laden with the worries and fears and anxieties and depression trying to provide for your family, trying to weather the storms, trying to get through all the troubles. And listen to this, Paul said, we're troubled on every side. Man that's born of woman is full of trouble, but not in distress. Distress. You know, distress means you're under such stress that you don't know, I can't make it.

Christ said, come with me. The disciples were in that ship, and they all thought, we're gone. Going through that storm, one that they'd never been through before. And they thought, we can't make it. What happened? The Lord came walking. Who raised the storm? He did. Who quieted the storm? He did.

How? He got in the ship with them. He said, for peace. And he, please lay down. I'll give you rest. You know, before that, Sally, they were all hoisting the sails, they were rowing, they were bailing water, bailing, trying to bail themselves out and trying to get, whether this, we can't do it. You know, now what, you know what they're doing now when Christ is in the ship, when he gave them rest? Nothing. Rest means relax.

When you're working, you're not relaxed. You're full of doubts. Have I done enough? It's not over. I've got to work tomorrow. When you rest, you're at peace. As I said, there's no rest for these bodies. When you're young, you don't want to sleep. You want to go. When you're old, you want to sleep, but you can't. When you're young, you can sleep till noon or so. When you're old, you can't sleep till 2 a.m. until you wake up. These bodies are never gonna rest until they rest in the ground.

But our Lord said, come unto me, all you that labor in heavy light, laden with worries and fears and anxiety and depression. He said, we're perplexed, perplexed, perplexed. Why? That's what it means. I don't understand, Lord. Why? Come into me. Brother Ron read Isaiah 11. Listen to this. Do you hear this? The spirit of the Lord is upon him. That's the Christ. Spirit, the anointed one. Spirit of wisdom.

You don't know what you're doing. You don't know where you're going. As we said, we're all ignorant, aren't we? Not him. He's made unto us wisdom. Understanding. I don't understand. He does. You just need to come to him. He understands. He understands you. I understand. It says the spirit of counsel. Who can tell us what to do? Men and women don't know what to do. They don't know where they're coming or going. Man's counsel, the counsel of the heathens shall be brought to naught, scripture says.

The counsel of the Lord shall stand forever. He's the wonderful counselor. He said, come unto me. And might, that's power. Scripture says in Psalm 89, I've laid help on one that is mighty, the only one that can do anything for us. We need to hear this message. It says the spirit of knowledge, fear of the Lord. We don't fear the Lord like we should. And he knows that.

Come unto me, Christ said. Come to Christ. Come to Christ. What does that mean? Well, it means to come where he is. He said where two or three are gathered, that's where I'll be. You need Christ? Do you? You're laboring and heavy laden, you need some help. That woman whose daughter was vexed, she needed help. She came to the Lord and cried, Lord, help me. Did he? He helped her and her daughter. Christ said, come to me. No one else. Don't go to anyone else. Come where he is. Come where the gospel is. Come and hear. He said, hear and your souls will live. Didn't he? Didn't he say that? Hear and your souls will live.

What does it mean to come to Christ? It means to believe him. That he's the only one. Trust him. To come to Christ is You know, Christ gives us, you know, the rest he gives us is eternal. And someday we're going to be, we're going to understand that he gave us, that all our doubts and fears and everything, we didn't need to have them. It's true. We didn't have enough faith to give us some, some peace at the time, some comfort. If we had like Paul, Paul was in a ship and everybody's worried, Paul wouldn't worry a bit. Was he? He said, I told you this was gonna happen. He said, don't get out of the ship. There's no loss of life in this ship. He said, I know it.

But we don't have enough faith. Someday we'll see. We'll know as we've been known. But it's to believe him and trust him. So here was the point I was gonna make. we seem to get temporary times of rest and peace from all these fears and doubt knowing. Right now, you have some, you're having more rest and peace than you did yesterday. I venture to say, because Christ is here, because his word's been preached, you have more peace and rest and faith and trust right now as you sit still and know that he's the Lord You're not worried about anything, are you? I see it. What about tomorrow?

So this is why Peter said, to whom? Come him. You keep coming back to him. You can't come here and hear all that, but you can come to him every single day and call on him, Lord, help. Help me. You come to him in his word. This is how you speak. Jesus Christ does not speak through the wind and the waves and the sun and out on the city and on the hill, cross his leg. He doesn't speak that way. No sir, he doesn't do it. He speaks one way, through his word.

You wanna hear from him? You need peace, you need rest, you need help, you need counsel. You don't know which way to turn, then turn to the scripture. Turn to his word. I'm telling you, you couldn't hear a more valuable message. You need help, you wake up in the morning, don't turn on the TV or your phone. Turn to the Lord. And I tell you what, you'll probably go back to sleep. Read Psalm 121. You wake up and can't sleep, read Psalm 121. You know what it says? He that keepeth Israel never sleeps. So go to sleep. You're not in control of anything. You're not providing for your family. You're not protecting your family.

He is. Is that right? He said all things is given to me, didn't it? I gotta quit, but look at this. No, I'm going to preserve. I want to reserve this for Wednesday night. The heart and yoke of Christ. He said, take my yoke upon you and learn of me. You'll find a rest for yourself. And I said, enough. He said, enough? He's Christ enough? Yes, he is. He said, come to me. Don't go anywhere. All right, let's sing in closing a hymn, number? 228. 228, my faith has found the rest of you.

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