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The Great Invitation

Matthew 11:28 - 30 (NIV) 28“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

• Jesus assumes that people are

and need .
• Who gives rest?
• Jesus says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (v. 28).
• Jesus is the answer for an soul, Jesus is the answer for the soul, because Jesus is the One who heals our souls and gives us gives us rest.
• You don’t find rest in your . You find rest in being to Jesus.

• Martha was making

that Jesus never ordered (Luke 10:38-42).
my yoke upon you and from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls (Matthew 11:29).

• The way we find rest is by laying down every other

, every other , and taking upon ourselves the yoke of Jesus.
• Freedom is not found in discarding the yoke of Christ; it’s found in our own burden.