The Great Commission: Go Make Disciples | Matthew 28:18-20
The Great Commandment: Love God, Love Others | Matthew 22:27-30
The Great Invitation: Come to Me | Matthew 11:28-30
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30 New International Version (NIV)
Limbic capitalism – Technologically advanced business systems that encourage excessive consumption and addiction – David Courtright
Our souls are looking for relief—and this world ensnares us to a yoke of slavery—only to make the weight heavier
Who is Jesus speaking to?
What does Jesus promise?
How do we enjoy the promise?
Yoke : a coupling, uniting, joining two together to work as one. Jesus says, “Take my yoke.”
“I want to do life with you. I want you to stop trying to carry the burden of living and following God on your own, with whatever equipment the world gives you. Instead, come to Me, come up under My yoke and do it with Me.”
Jesus is saying, ‘get involved in my work with me.’ It’s a whole-life process of doing and saying what He does…It isn’t just for church…you bring your whole life into the flow of what God is doing. Think about what you spend your time doing every day— what you did today, what you’re doing tomorrow—you do that in the yoke. As you do it, you look to Him, and you seek and trust that He will act with you…What happens is, we begin to rest in the strength of Christ which we’re walking in.
Dallas Willard
Any other burden oppresses and crushes you, but Christ’s actually takes weight off you. Any other burden weighs you down, but Christ’s gives you wings. If you take a bird’s wings away, you might seem to be taking weight off it. But the more weight you take off, the more you tie it down to the earth…Give it back the weight of its wings, and you will see how it flies.
Augustine of Hippo
Which yoke are you living in? The yoke of slavery, or the yoke of Jesus?
What’s my yoke of slavery? Am I living in that yoke, or Jesus’ yoke? And what’s His invitation to me this week to do life more in His Way?