His Yoke is Easy and His Burden is Light

Radical with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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If we assume that the Christian life should be carefree and filled with uninterrupted joy, we are likely to be shaken when reality hits. The truth is, in a fallen world, faith can be hard and our burdens can be heavy. Gratefully, Jesus knows life in the real world, and he knows what we most need—his grace and his power. In this message by David Platt from Matthew 11:30, we hear Jesus call the weary and heavy laden to himself to find rest. He reminds us that his yoke and his burden is light.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Radical with David Platte, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from pastor, author and teacher David Platte.
0:10.0	If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with, let me invite you to open with me to Matthew chapter 11.
0:19.0	And Jesus is speaking here to a crowd of people who are feeling heavyhearted and weighed down by the burdens of life and even by burdens of religion, feeling the weight of trying to do this or that to please God.
0:38.0	And Jesus says to them, I'll have it on the screen if you don't have it in front of you.
0:42.0	Jesus says, come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
0:51.0	Take my yoke upon you and learn for me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls.
1:02.0	For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
1:09.0	Jesus says, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. What does that mean?
1:19.0	Well, if you're taking notes, which I would encourage you to do, don't really like this word so again.
1:24.0	Here's one truth that we're going to unseen. I just want to unpack, that we're going to see and I want to unpack, phrase by phrase.
1:32.0	Here it is, when faith is hard and burdens are heavy, Jesus yoke is easy and his burden is light.
1:45.0	So that's the truth. We're going to unpack. Let's just let it soak in.
1:49.0	When faith is hard, the context of this passage in Matthew 11 is fascinating and revealing.
1:58.0	So Jesus is speaking, as I mentioned, the crowds are feeling weighed down, not just in their lives but in their faith by rules and regulations that religious leaders are piling on them.
2:10.0	And then even before that, you go back to the beginning of this chapter.
2:14.0	Jesus is talking about the greatest prophet ever, the man who, Jesus called the greatest man ever born, John the Baptist.
2:24.0	And John's faith was struggling. Look back up at Matthew 11, verse 2 with me.
2:31.0	Bible says, when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples and said to him,
2:37.0	are you the one who is to come? Or shall we look for another?
2:41.0	So see this, John had been thrown into prison by now. He'd likely been there a while and he was perplexed.
2:51.0	And what's going on? And what is Jesus doing? He basically says, I believe that you're the Messiah. That's what the Christ means.
2:59.0	I've been pointing people to you, but I'm starting to wonder, are you really the one? Or not?
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