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My Savior, My good friend(Mat 11:28)
“28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Today's topic of my preaching is 'My savior and my good friend' and what I am going to tell is about 'Going along with Jesus'. It will be happy and pleasant for us to be with good friends. Even when we are doing hard and difficult things.... if we are with good friends we can easily do all things. For Good friend... only staying together is good and make us feel happy and comfortable. Jesus said to us that He is our friend. The book of John 15:14....
"You are my friends if you do what I command."
And our friend Jesus today says to us through the book of Mat chapter 11:28 that ..... “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
1. Jesus invites us.
Today I have been invited to preach before you and this is very honorable for me. But the more honorable things for me and for you is the fact that Jesus is inviting us to him. He wants us to stay or to go along with Him. My thought may be wrong but normally I think there is only one reason people are with you or nice to you, because they want something from you. And when they receive what they want, they don’t contact you again. Usually people want to be with good persons, good able person, or the persons who give them benefits. If we are normal persons or disable persons... people don't want us to be with them. People only want to be with the people who can give them something good. That is the way the people in the world to live along with other people. But Jesus is not like that. Jesus is better than anybody of this world. He is the son of God. Actually He is God. Everything in the world and heaven belong to Jesus. He Knows Everything about us and even our future. So He can do everything for us. There is nothing impossible to Jesus. The apostle Paul said like this in the book of Philippines 4:I3....
"I can do everything through him who gives me strength...."
'Through Him....' Then who is the Him who gives Paul strength? Yes! Jesus. Jesus gives us strength. Even Jesus gives us knowledge, wisdom, power to do all things. Actually Jesus can give us all we need. How wonderful and how great is Jesus, our friend! Such a great friend, Jesus is inviting us to be with us all the time through our lives. What a amazing thing is this fact!
But If Jesus does not invite us to Him we cannot stay with him. We cannot be with Him together even one minute, or even one second. How can we imagine to be with God? Even it is almost impossible in our life to meet our new president Duterte. Am I wrong saying like this? But this time with joyful exciting mind I announce that Jesus, the Son of God, and the King of Kings invites us to Him. Can you read the book of Mat 11:28 together?
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
2. The persons who are weary and burdened
Then how does Jesus describe us in the book of Mat 11:28 ? ...
“all you who are weary and burdened.....”
The word 'weary' means being tired because of living in this world. People are tired because of worrying. People are tired because of studying. People are tired because of earning money. People are tired because of having relationship with other people. All these things people doing in this world are burdens. Why did all those things become burdens for people?
It is because our ancestor Adam and his wife Eve betrayed God and left God. From that time on all the good and beautiful things in this world changed into bad things. The book of Genesis 3 said about this fact. Especially in verse 17 and 18, 19 God cursed Adam because of his sin. So these verses are very important to understand the reason why All the things people doing in this world are burdens. So let us read together.
"17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Because of Adam's sin God cursed everything in the world. After God created everything in the world He said It was good. But all the good things were changed into bad things because of Adam's sin.
But by coming to Jesus who is called second Adam, everything will be changed into good things. The book of 2 Corinthians 5:17 says................
"17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"
If bad things are changed into good things, this is new creation. And if we do good things then we are never tired and even we are very joyful and exciting.
3. Doing good things is rest
So Jesus says through the book of Mat 11:28 again that He will give a rest to the people who come to Jesus. This is the meaning of the book of 2 Corinthians 5:17....
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"
When you have holyday and you can have a rest, then what will you do? Does having rest means doing nothing? Doing nothing is not having a rest at all. Maybe it can be one way to wasting your holyday, though. When people have holyday, instead of staying at home they come to the city of Baguio and they spend a lot of time in the car because of heavy traffic. The people spend 7, 8, or even 10 hours in the bus or driving cars from Manila to Baguio. And they spend their time all day under hot sun in the city of Baguio. And after going back home... they will say to other people "I have a good rest." But it will be actually very tired and stupid things spending time like that way to some people.
4. Conclusion
Why am I saying like this? I do mean that If you do something with Jesus it will be no work any more. It will be no labour. It will be no burden anymore. It will be very joyful for us to do everything with Jesus. When you are with Jesus and do something, He will give you strength, knowledge, wisdom, skill, insight,,, Then everything will be easy and become interesting. Actually it is like a rest. So if you accept Jesus' invitation all these wonderful things, all these blessings are happen to you. Let us pray together.
[Pray]
Heavenly Father, we very thank you for this wonderful announcement of Jesus' invitation for us. Help us know being with Jesus is blessing. And Help all of us accept the invitation of Jesus Christ. So we may no more do anything by ourselves without Jesus. We thank you again for giving us the chance to worship you, Lord. Heavenly Father, I beg you to bless this church and each member of this church with prosperity in all things. So may their blessings will be overflowing to the unbelievers in this local community. I pray in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ. A-Men
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