SLAVERY IS FREEDOM (2 OF 5)
Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30
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Slavery Is Freedom (2 of 5)
Series: Paradox
Dave Gustavsen?
Matthew 11:28-30
We're taking a few weeks to talk about this idea of ''paradox.'' A paradox is something that appears contradictory or absurd...but then, when you look closer, you realize that it actually makes sense in a way that you never saw before.
In the world of physics, a great example of paradox is when you drop a pencil into a glass of water. How does that pencil look? Crooked. Disjointed. Is the pencil actually crooked? Of course not! It's completely straight, but the water makes it appear crooked. So here's the point: when you take God's perfect truth from heaven, and you pass it into this imperfect world, it sometimes looks crooked. It doesn't make sense to us. And very often, when Jesus taught, that's how people reacted. They didn't get it. It didn't seem to line up. Sometimes it seemed offensive, and people turned away from him. And yet, for those who had ears to hear-for those who stuck around and looked closer-they realized that his words were more true and more wise than anything else in the world.
So the paradox we looked at last week was: if you want to find your life, you have to lose it. Today's paradox is probably even more challenging: if you want to be truly free, you have to enter into slavery. Hmm...
Our main passage is one that's extremely important to me personally-Matthew 11, verses 28 to 30. This is Jesus speaking:
28 ''Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.'' This is the Word of God.
This is a very popular passage, because so many of us feel weary and burdened by life, and we love the idea of finding ''rest for our souls.'' That's a great thought, isn't it? Rest for my soul. You know what part we don't focus on much? The ''yoke'' part. You know what a y ...
Series: Paradox
Dave Gustavsen?
Matthew 11:28-30
We're taking a few weeks to talk about this idea of ''paradox.'' A paradox is something that appears contradictory or absurd...but then, when you look closer, you realize that it actually makes sense in a way that you never saw before.
In the world of physics, a great example of paradox is when you drop a pencil into a glass of water. How does that pencil look? Crooked. Disjointed. Is the pencil actually crooked? Of course not! It's completely straight, but the water makes it appear crooked. So here's the point: when you take God's perfect truth from heaven, and you pass it into this imperfect world, it sometimes looks crooked. It doesn't make sense to us. And very often, when Jesus taught, that's how people reacted. They didn't get it. It didn't seem to line up. Sometimes it seemed offensive, and people turned away from him. And yet, for those who had ears to hear-for those who stuck around and looked closer-they realized that his words were more true and more wise than anything else in the world.
So the paradox we looked at last week was: if you want to find your life, you have to lose it. Today's paradox is probably even more challenging: if you want to be truly free, you have to enter into slavery. Hmm...
Our main passage is one that's extremely important to me personally-Matthew 11, verses 28 to 30. This is Jesus speaking:
28 ''Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.'' This is the Word of God.
This is a very popular passage, because so many of us feel weary and burdened by life, and we love the idea of finding ''rest for our souls.'' That's a great thought, isn't it? Rest for my soul. You know what part we don't focus on much? The ''yoke'' part. You know what a y ...
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