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[2896.68 --> 2899.90] than to take on a work equipment, |
[2900.80 --> 2903.02] the yoke of Christ, Jesus says. |
[2903.02 --> 2904.88] Because when you think of it, |
[2905.38 --> 2906.56] you could ask the question, |
[2906.68 --> 2909.12] why did Jesus use a yoke image |
[2909.12 --> 2913.48] to teach us what it means to be his followers? |
[2914.20 --> 2916.16] And so that's what we want to look at, |
[2916.38 --> 2918.44] to take on Jesus' yoke, |
[2919.10 --> 2921.58] which is light and his burden is easy. |
[2922.80 --> 2924.38] Does it always feel that way? |
[2924.78 --> 2925.66] Not too sure, |
[2925.78 --> 2928.84] but that's the wrestling that we get to do together |
[2928.84 --> 2929.80] with God's word. |
[2929.80 --> 2931.62] This is good news for us. |
[2931.70 --> 2933.02] And I want to invite you |
[2933.02 --> 2937.00] to receive Jesus' yoke as good news. |
[2937.20 --> 2938.84] Not as an extra burden, |
[2939.04 --> 2941.56] oh, it means that we have to do this as Christians, |
[2941.68 --> 2942.56] we have to do that. |
[2942.92 --> 2948.64] No, it is to be truly rested in Christ's presence. |
[2948.88 --> 2950.46] That's what it means to take on his yoke. |
[2950.68 --> 2952.20] And that is good news for us. |
[2952.48 --> 2953.66] So with that in mind, |
[2953.90 --> 2955.60] I would like for us to see |
[2955.60 --> 2957.66] what an actual yoke looks like. |
[2957.66 --> 2959.50] If we can see it on the screen, |
[2959.64 --> 2960.22] there we go. |
[2960.58 --> 2962.78] So, I mean, if you're not familiar with it, |
[2962.88 --> 2964.58] obviously I didn't grow up on a farm, |
[2964.74 --> 2967.20] and so I had to remind myself what a yoke is. |
[2967.58 --> 2968.78] This will come up again. |
[2968.90 --> 2971.30] So I invite you to keep this image in your head, |
[2971.94 --> 2974.06] just this image of a yoke. |
[2974.14 --> 2976.14] This is what a stereotypical yoke looks like. |
[2976.78 --> 2979.58] And so when you think about work, |
[2980.04 --> 2981.24] you know, in your workplaces |
[2981.24 --> 2984.20] or whatever you think of when you think of work, |
[2985.48 --> 2987.76] when you actually do the hard work, |
[2987.88 --> 2989.90] the right way to do something, |
[2989.96 --> 2991.06] instead of taking shortcuts, |
[2991.84 --> 2993.70] can you try to think of the times |
[2993.70 --> 2995.92] when it was so fulfilling to do that hard work? |
[2996.68 --> 2996.84] Right? |
[2996.92 --> 2998.32] Not taking shortcuts, right? |
[2998.36 --> 3000.68] Doing the actual hard work of doing it the right way, |
[3000.94 --> 3003.68] and how fulfilling it was afterwards. |
[3004.52 --> 3004.76] You know? |
[3005.46 --> 3007.12] I know this doesn't really count as work |
[3007.12 --> 3010.10] because it's not necessarily what I do as a vocation, |
[3010.48 --> 3011.66] but I grew up as a drummer. |
[3012.30 --> 3013.64] I've drummed my whole, |
[3013.90 --> 3015.04] I can't say whole life, |
[3015.16 --> 3016.96] I've drummed more than half of my life, |
[3016.98 --> 3017.48] I'll just say. |
[3018.02 --> 3019.84] I've served on worship teams, |
[3020.10 --> 3021.66] from my memory, |
[3021.84 --> 3023.28] almost ever since I was youth, |
[3023.52 --> 3025.52] I've never stopped until maybe adulthood. |
[3026.24 --> 3026.78] But anyways, |
[3027.34 --> 3029.36] when I recall the countless hours |
[3029.36 --> 3030.98] that I tormented my family, |
[3031.14 --> 3033.82] playing and practicing the drums in my home, |
[3033.82 --> 3036.28] that's when I think of doing it the right way, |
[3036.38 --> 3037.34] like doing hard work. |
[3037.90 --> 3038.98] Like if you know the movie, |
[3039.54 --> 3041.66] like think of me like that guy in Whiplash, |
[3042.06 --> 3042.28] right? |
[3042.34 --> 3043.94] Where he's just working on his craft, |
[3044.10 --> 3045.48] like he's getting sweaty and bloody, |
[3045.88 --> 3046.84] like in his hands I mean, |
[3047.14 --> 3048.52] and he's just trying to work |
[3048.52 --> 3050.70] so that he can hone his craft. |
[3051.40 --> 3052.90] Now I didn't go to that extreme, |
[3053.00 --> 3053.38] and again, |
[3053.46 --> 3054.58] I'm not a professional drummer, |
[3054.98 --> 3056.92] but instead of taking shortcuts |
[3056.92 --> 3058.92] and just spinning sticks and showing off, |
[3059.12 --> 3060.58] I did the hard work |
[3060.58 --> 3062.74] and it was freeing and rewarding |
[3062.74 --> 3065.36] when playing with the rest of the worship band. |
[3066.40 --> 3068.10] And I think this is the sort of image |
[3068.10 --> 3070.12] of what our passage that we're going to look at |
[3070.12 --> 3071.26] is trying to teach us, |
[3071.54 --> 3073.22] what Jesus is trying to teach us. |
[3073.32 --> 3077.12] Because Jesus offers us the way to true rest, |
[3077.88 --> 3079.52] which is true life, |
[3079.64 --> 3081.94] to flourish and to live the way |
[3081.94 --> 3084.56] God intended for us from the beginning. |
[3084.98 --> 3087.26] It is hard work in some ways, |
[3087.26 --> 3089.80] but it's the right way to live. |
[3090.06 --> 3092.04] And Jesus offers the flourishing, |
[3092.26 --> 3094.98] freeing gift of real life. |
[3095.98 --> 3097.42] And I think that's the tough part |
[3097.42 --> 3098.22] of the passage today. |
[3098.74 --> 3099.96] It is hard work, |
[3100.30 --> 3101.40] doing the right thing, |
[3101.48 --> 3102.44] not taking shortcuts, |
[3102.64 --> 3104.38] living with Jesus in the way of blessing. |
[3104.64 --> 3106.70] It may not always feel easy |
[3106.70 --> 3108.64] and light all the time, |
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