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W.D. Frazee Sermons Ministry

W.D. Frazee

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Our text this evening is in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 11, verses 28 to 30.

The thoughts that I wish to share with you tonight are not for everybody.

At least everything in the study is not for everybody.

You watch for the part that belongs to you.

In fact, it wouldn't be good for everybody to accept and apply in your life everything I'm going to give tonight.

Some of it won't apply to some of you, but there'll be something for everybody, like a cafeteria.

You know, ahead of us is a great crisis, we speak of it.

Many in the world are recognizing that things can't go on the way they are very much longer.

Something is going to give, something is going to snap.

But the paradox of it is, dear friends, that in order for you and me to get ready for that, some of us need to get more relaxed instead of more brought up.

To state it in another way, To accomplish more, there are some people here tonight that need to attempt less.

You will see that more clearly as we go ahead.

Now we're ready, I think, for our text, Matthew 11, 28 to 30.

Come unto me, all ye 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." Now Jesus tells me if I'll come to him I'll find what?

Now, if I haven't found rest, either I haven't come or else I came and he didn't keep his word.

Because he says here in this text, come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

May I ask you, friends, what do you think of when you think of coming to Jesus?

Do you think of something happy, cheerful?

Now notice it's to those that are weary and heavy laden if he gives this invitation.

You know, there are some people that don't know much about what work is, but I don't think very many of them are here tonight.

I think the people who are here tonight know something about work.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will do what?

Jesus says, you may be, but he says, if you will take my yoke upon you and learn of me, you'll find what?

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." We learn precious lessons in the study of physiology.

We know that all the different organs, tissues of the body, have their rhythmic cycles of work and rest, Work and rest, work and rest.

Here it is beating along 60, 70, 80 times a minute.

Contracting, relaxing, Contracting, relaxing, contracting and relaxing.

Now you might not think that the rest it gets in between those contractions amounts to very much, but makes all the difference between life and death.

And God longs that you and I, in our spiritual life, shall learn to beat rhythmically, just to beat rhythmically, just like the physical heart does, to work and rest, to work and rest, to find an experience where, like an automobile, we recharge the battery as we go along.

And that's why Jesus invites us here, to come and take what?

How in the world could I find any rest in a yoke?

Of course, I may say sometimes people have to hunt to find it.

And so I invite you tonight to study with me how it is that we can have this experience of rest and peace.

This is called the jet age, that God hasn't made you a jet engine.

He never intended that you should work and operate like a jet engine.

It's more like this heart we're talking about.

You remember in the last message, there in Revelation 14, the climax of it is in the twelfth verse.

Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

The people who keep his commandments and his faith will be what kind of people?

Oh, it's going to mean something to go into this great crisis ahead, having learned that lesson.

Now in Philippians, the fourth chapter, will you turn to that?

There's a little verse tucked away here that may help us.

You'll notice it's linked with the second advent, it's linked with the coming of the Master and our preparation for his coming.

Philippians, the fourth chapter and the fifth verse.

Let your moderation be known unto all men.

Well, if the Lord is at hand, this is no time to be moderate.

Let's put on the gas, give it all we've got, and go!" No.

The Scripture says, let your moderation be known unto all men.

In Volume 7, Page 298, I read this interesting statement, The power of man cannot hasten the work.

Oh, surely if we'd all just worked night and day we could hasten it.

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