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Everybody is yoked

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“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” — Matthew 11:28-30 esv

Wednesday nights at CPCC we’re looking at “famous verses of the Bible” and this verse from Matthew is certainly one. We had a fantastic discussion of it, and i encourage you to meditate upon it. For instance, notice that Jesus speaks of “HIS yoke” when He gives out this invitation. Everyone is harnessed to some master; everyone serves someone or some thing. And some “masters” are harder than others. Men are born enslaved to sin (Romans 6:6). When men are born again, they are set free from sin’s mastery, to serve the Lord Jesus Christ, as “slaves of God” (Rom. 6:22).

Did you ever hear these Bob Dylan lyrics (c. 1979)?

Gotta Serve Somebody

You may be an ambassador to England or France,
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance,
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world,
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls

REFRAIN:
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody….

Consider who you serve. Is it Jesus Christ as your Lord?
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Put Your House in Order

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Our Sunday morning sermon was on these sobering words from Isaiah 38…

38:1 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.” 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 and said, “Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. (esv)

I hope to have the audio of the message online here by Tuesday. In the meanwhile, here are a couple of key points made by C.H. Spurgeon —

The text says, Set thine house in order. This shows that we are not to destroy it, nor even to injure it Our body should be the temple of the Holy Ghost. Nothing should be done by us that may injure our body; for, in the case of the believer, it is a precious thing, ordained to rise again at the last day, since Chris Jesus has bought it, as well as the soul which it contains, with his own blood. Nor are we to waste our substance, for this is the accusation which, of old, was brought against the unjust steward, that he had wasted his master’s goods.

We are to set our home in order, that is, our own house. Some persons are very busy setting other people’s houses in order, and oh, how fast their tongues will go when they are sweeping out their neighbor’s kitchen, or dusting our his cupboard! Set your own houses in order, sirs, before you attempt to arrange the affairs of other people.

Again, the tenant himself must do it Set thine house in order. You must not leave it to a priest; you must not ask your follow-man to become responsible for you. You must make personal application to him who can set all in order for you, even to him who came into the world, and died for this very purpose. If you need oil for your lamps, you must go to them that sell, and buy for yourselves, for your fellow-virgins can give you none of their oil. Set thou thine own house in order. This is the chief business of every living man as a tenant under God.

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