Come to Me | Rest For Your Soul - Jon Tyson
Church of the City New York
COTC NYC
4.8 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This Sunday, Pastor Jon concluded the "Come to Me" series by asking a question worth sitting with: why Jesus?
He pointed to a cultural moment where confident secularism is losing its footing, and the Christianity quietly growing is not the therapeutic, accommodating kind — it's the traditional, committed, and costly one. From there, Pastor Jon offered three reasons to come to Jesus: longing, forgiveness, and rest. He challenged us with the idea of "miswanting": the gap between what we think will satisfy us and what actually does, and made the case that Jesus doesn't shame us for our desires, but wants to save us from the lesser loves we've been chasing. Jesus's invitation in Matthew 11 is not to a system or a philosophy. it's to a person. One you come to, and keep coming to.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, if you guys would remain standing, |
| 0:04.0 | remain standing for the reading of the teaching text today. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's teaching text comes from Matthew chapter 11, |
| 0:14.0 | verses 25 through 30. |
| 0:17.0 | At that time, Jesus said, |
| 0:20.0 | I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you've hidden these things from the wise and the learned, and reveal them to little children. |
| 0:29.9 | Yes, Father, for this is what you are pleased to do. All things have been committed to me by my father. No one knows the son |
| 0:40.0 | except the father, and no one knows the father except the son and those to whom the son chooses |
| 0:46.2 | to reveal him. 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, |
| 0:56.7 | for I'm gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, |
| 1:04.5 | my burden is light. This is the word of Lord. You may be seated. Good morning. |
| 1:12.2 | It is great to see you. |
| 1:17.4 | I just want to touch on just a couple of things before we look at God's word together. |
| 1:22.7 | Did any of you get a chance to go to the gallery opening this past week? |
| 1:23.8 | Who got a chance to go to it? |
| 1:25.9 | Gosh. |
| 1:32.9 | I actually sat in the corner and wept. I just wept, overwhelmed, |
| 1:40.1 | getting choked up now. The international arts movement, which is probably the biggest sort of arts movement that came out of New York City, Marco Fujimura, an amazing artist |
| 1:45.6 | said when visiting our ministry, I dreamed and dreamed that a room like this would exist |
| 1:53.1 | in New York. And it was just so beautiful to watch. The church at its best is a patron of the arts. It gives, a lot of times |
| 2:03.6 | the church and artists have a strained relationship. The church takes the gifts of the artist, |
| 2:10.4 | utilizes it in sort of dramatic church services, doesn't compensate the artists and then |
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