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Jesus Gives an Easy Yoke

July 09, 2014

Matthew 11:25-30 Ever since Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit the question for humanity has been: “How can I avoid death?” How can I fix the fact that I am no longer what God created me to be? How can I become right with God? From these questions spring forth every doctrine, every religious practice, every value system on the planet. We have asked the question, and there are always plenty of teachers out there ready to give us an answer. Jesus says, “ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light .” The yoke was an image that rabbis in the days of Jesus used to describe their teaching and the teaching of the law. A true yoke ...

I Corinthians 15:51-58

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.