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[1163.46 --> 1164.64] What is it speaking to?
[1164.90 --> 1166.38] It's speaking to pride.
[1167.38 --> 1167.54] Right?
[1167.66 --> 1168.40] Same message.
[1168.92 --> 1170.38] God opposes the proud.
[1170.76 --> 1171.56] Not just scholars,
[1171.70 --> 1172.64] not just smart people.
[1172.86 --> 1173.90] That's not the heart of it.
[1173.90 --> 1175.46] He opposes the proud.
[1175.80 --> 1176.36] Those who think
[1176.36 --> 1177.86] they have it all figured out.
[1178.26 --> 1179.10] Those who think
[1179.10 --> 1180.30] that they don't need God.
[1180.44 --> 1181.40] Or those who think
[1181.40 --> 1181.96] they're privileged
[1181.96 --> 1183.20] because they work for God.
[1183.60 --> 1185.26] They have a holy job or something.
[1186.16 --> 1186.38] No.
[1186.92 --> 1188.66] God calls and invites
[1188.66 --> 1190.46] the humble and the lowly.
[1193.38 --> 1194.92] So no one can boast
[1194.92 --> 1196.62] and our whole lives belong to Him.
[1196.84 --> 1197.92] And then you have to ask
[1197.92 --> 1198.80] the follow-up question.
[1199.16 --> 1200.42] Because Paul doesn't end there.
[1201.34 --> 1202.54] Paul doesn't stop his letter
[1202.54 --> 1202.92] saying,
[1202.92 --> 1203.74] not by works
[1203.74 --> 1204.54] so that no one can boast.
[1204.62 --> 1204.78] Alright.
[1205.38 --> 1205.78] The end.
[1206.06 --> 1206.28] Go.
[1206.56 --> 1206.80] Live.
[1208.34 --> 1209.12] You have to ask
[1209.12 --> 1209.90] the follow-up question.
[1210.06 --> 1211.06] For what purpose?
[1211.80 --> 1212.90] What is the purpose
[1212.90 --> 1214.30] of God saving us
[1214.30 --> 1215.14] and calling us
[1215.14 --> 1216.02] by His grace?
[1217.02 --> 1217.58] Verse 10.
[1217.74 --> 1218.38] He goes on.
[1219.32 --> 1219.66] For
[1219.66 --> 1221.82] we are God's handiwork
[1221.82 --> 1223.74] created in Christ Jesus.
[1224.66 --> 1225.64] For what purpose?
[1225.84 --> 1227.58] To do good works
[1227.58 --> 1229.18] which He prepared
[1229.18 --> 1230.70] in advance for us to do.
[1231.80 --> 1233.22] And then the yoke imagery,
[1233.36 --> 1234.30] what Jesus is teaching us
[1234.30 --> 1235.60] from our passage today
[1235.60 --> 1238.18] is preparing us
[1238.18 --> 1239.58] and equipping us
[1239.58 --> 1240.34] for the good works
[1240.34 --> 1241.04] He has prepared
[1241.04 --> 1241.52] in advance
[1241.52 --> 1242.44] for us to do.
[1243.92 --> 1245.08] That's our last question.
[1245.34 --> 1246.28] That's kind of the title
[1246.28 --> 1246.74] of the sermon,
[1246.84 --> 1247.18] isn't it?
[1247.92 --> 1249.44] The yoke of Jesus.
[1249.56 --> 1250.86] Putting on the yoke of Jesus.
[1251.08 --> 1252.80] How exactly is it easy
[1252.80 --> 1253.90] and is burdened light?
[1253.90 --> 1254.54] How?
[1256.96 --> 1258.28] Because our calling
[1258.28 --> 1259.08] as disciples
[1259.08 --> 1260.46] is to take on
[1260.46 --> 1261.94] His yoke.
[1262.38 --> 1263.08] That's the point.
[1264.98 --> 1265.98] We are called
[1265.98 --> 1267.36] to take on His yoke,
[1267.54 --> 1268.46] not our own.
[1269.62 --> 1270.16] Not
[1270.16 --> 1271.92] trying to come up
[1271.92 --> 1272.42] with the answers
[1272.42 --> 1273.70] for every little thing
[1273.70 --> 1274.36] in our lives.
[1274.80 --> 1276.46] Jesus is not offering us
[1276.46 --> 1276.92] some sort of
[1276.92 --> 1277.98] self-help method
[1277.98 --> 1279.18] to somehow make
[1279.18 --> 1280.18] our own yokes
[1280.18 --> 1281.16] easier and lighter.
[1281.98 --> 1282.54] That's not what
[1282.54 --> 1283.16] He's getting at.
[1283.16 --> 1284.76] Jesus invites us
[1284.76 --> 1285.24] to Him
[1285.24 --> 1286.54] to take on
[1286.54 --> 1287.52] His yoke.
[1288.98 --> 1290.62] Because in Christ
[1290.62 --> 1292.26] His yoke
[1292.26 --> 1293.76] is to do good works.
[1294.60 --> 1295.78] And God equips us
[1295.78 --> 1296.80] for that good work.
[1301.00 --> 1302.06] And that's kind of
[1302.06 --> 1302.60] my answer
[1302.60 --> 1304.14] for why Jesus uses