Welcome back. I hope you all were able to gain some insight into what we're doing here. We're here to seek the Living God. He will reveal himself to us as we seek him by obeying what we already know he wants us to do. Now we all tend to not want to do anything anyone tells us to do. Obedience is a major chore that none of us like and that' s why we need to be reminded that obeying the Living God is way different than obeying just a list of rules. In fact, the whole point to Jesus coming was so that he could reveal to us what the Living God wanted us to know about him and how we should live. Today we're going to check out what Jesus had to say about obeying the Living God in Matthew 11:25-30.
Start by praying and thanking the Living God that He is real and wants us to know him. Ask him to reveal himself to you through His Word (Scripture) and through everything else around you. Then dig into the text and the questions below.
- Why did Jesus praise the God the Father?
- What has been committed to Jesus? What do you think it means that "all things" have been committed to him by the Father?
- Who knows the Son (Jesus)?
- Who knows the Father?
- What does Jesus promise for those that are weary and burdened? What do you think might be wearying (tiring) and burdening these people?
- Read Matthew 12:1-14 and Luke 11:46. What "burdens" was Jesus talking about that would wear people out? [Side note- The Pharisees had 100s (somewhere between 300 and 700) rules to maintain their ritual purity before God. Do you think that might be the "burden" Jesus is referring to?]
- What is a yoke? Look it up at www.dictionary.com if you don't know what it means. What is Jesus referring to by his "yoke" and his "burden"?
Close this time with the Living God with a brief prayer thanking the Father for lifting our burdens and replacing them with a yoke that is easy and light and refreshes us.
-Richard
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