Matthew 11:30

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT. Matchless paradox, even among the paradoxically couched maxims in which our Lord delights! That rest which the soul experiences when once safe under Christ's wing, makes all yokes easy, all burdens light. Remarks: (1) Perhaps in no section of this wonderful History is the veil so fully lifted from the Redeemer's soul, and His inmost thoughts and deepest emotions more affectingly disclosed, than here. When we think how much more profound and acute must have been His sensibilities than say other's-from the unsullied purity of His nature and the vast reach of His perceptions-we may understand, in some degree, what "a Man of sorrows" He must have been, and how "acquainted with grief" - to see His Person slighted, His errand misapprehended, and His message rejected, in the very region on which He b...

25-30 It becomes children to be grateful. When we come to God as a Father, we must remember that he is Lord of heaven and earth, which obliges us to come to him with reverence as to the sovereign Lord of all; yet with confidence, as one able to defend us from evil, and to supply us with all good. Our blessed Lord added a remarkable declaration, that the Father had delivered into his hands all power, authority, and judgment. We are indebted to Christ for all the revelation we have of God the Father's will and love, ever since Adam sinned. Our Saviour has invited all that labour and are heavy-laden, to come unto him. In some senses all men are so. Worldly men burden themselves with fruitless cares for wealth and honours; the gay and the sensual labour in pursuit of pleasures; the slave of Satan and his own lusts, is the merest drudge on earth. Those who labour to establish their own right...

Verse Matthew 11:30. _FOR MY YOKE IS EASY_] My Gospel imposes nothing that is difficult; on the contrary, it provides for the complete removal of all that which oppresses and renders man miserable, viz. _sin_. The commandments of Christ are not grievous. Hear the whole: _Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and_ _thy neighbour as thyself_. Can any thing be more congenial to the nature of man than _love_?-such a love as is inspired by God, and in which the soul rests supremely satisfied and infinitely happy? _Taste_, and know, by experience, how good the Lord is, and how worthy his _yoke_ is to be _taken, borne_, and _loved_. This most tender invitation of the compassionate Jesus is sufficient to inspire the most diffident soul with confidence. Mark 8:34...

MY YOKE IS EASY ... - That is, the services that I shall require are easily rendered. They are not burdensome, like all other systems of religion. So the Christian always finds them. In coming to him there is “a peace which passeth all understanding;” in believing in him, “joy;” in following him “through evil and good report,” a comfort “which the world giveth not;” in bearing trials and in persecution, “the hope of glory;” and in keeping his commandments, great reward. Remarks On Matthew 11 1. A spirit of inquiry about the person and works of Christ is especially proper, Matthew 11:2. John was solicitous to ascertain his true character, and nothing is of more importance for all than to understand his true character. Upon him

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 11:1 Matthew only. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END. The same formula recurs in Matthew 7:28; Matthew 13:53; Matthew 19:1; Matthew 26:1. In all five cases it marks the end of important speeches. (1) The sermon on the mount (Mt 5-7:27); (2) the charge to the disciples (Matthew 10:5); (3) the parables ...

FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT. Christ calls a profession of faith in him, and subjection to his ordinances, a yoke, in allusion to the law of Moses, and in distinction from it; and a "burden", with respect to the very heavy ones the Scribes and Pharisees laid upon the shoulders of the people, obliging them to a strict observance of them; though of a different nature from either of them; "for his commandments are not grievous", hard and heavy to be borne, as their's were, but "easy and light": not that they are so to unregenerate men, or are easily performed by the strength of nature, and power of men's free will: but they are good and amiable, and lovely in their own nature, and are cheerfully complied with, and abundance of spiritual pleasure and delight is enjoyed in them by believers, when they have the presence of God, the assistance of his Spirit, and the discoveries o...

Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?_ Had John's faith begun to waver? It is possible that it had. Elijah had his times of trembling and depression; then, why might not the second Elijah have the same sort of experience? Possibly, John wished to strengthen the faith of his followers, and therefore he sent two of his leading disciples to Jesus, that they might make the enquiry for themselves as to whether he was the Christ or not. Matthew 11:4. Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again

8. THE FORERUNNER IN PRISON. THE KINGDOM PREACHING REJECTED. CHAPTER 11 _ 1. John Imprisoned Sends his Disciples. (Matthew 11:1 .) 2. The King's Testimony Concerning John. (Matthew 11:7 .) 3. The King Announces Judgment. (Matthew 11:20 .) 4. The Greater Invitation. (Matthew 11:25 .)_ The first verse of this chapter belongs to the sending forth of the twelve, and should be put to the previous chapter. “And it came to pass when Jesus had finished commanding His twelve disciples, He departed thence to teach and preach in their cities.” He took the work upon Himself once more, and with the disciples He had

JESUS AND HIS MISSION. Matthew 11:25 treats of the relation between the Father and the Son (Luke 10:21 f.), Matthew 11:28 of the yoke of Jesus (Mt. only). No stress can be laid on at that time, though these things might mean the significance of the wonders which Chorazin and the other towns had not perceived, or (excluding Matthew 11:20) the methods of the Divine wisdom. Lk. makes the words refer to the theme of the preaching of the Seventy, and we may well place them after Mark 6:31. They mark that period in the ministry when the refusal of th

FOR MY YOKE IS EASY. The yoke that sin imposes is heavy, and bearing it brings no rest. So too the yoke of false or corrupted religion is burdensome; but Christ's yoke is easy. It is not hard to bear it because it is borne in love. His burden, even if it be the cross, is light, because he helps us to bear it. PRACTICAL AND SUGGESTIVE. Faithful preaching makes those who reject the message still more guilty. Those who have the Bible, Sunday-schools, churches, and yet neglect duty, will have. fearful account. Our privileges are not less than those of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum. If we do not repent it will be more tolerable for those of Sodom in the day of judgment than for us. There is. future Judgment,. judgment beyond the grave. Men will be judged according to their opportunities and punished according to their degree of guilt. One must "be converted and become as. little chi...