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Matthew 11:29-30, "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
Jesus is saying to take His yoke upon us. That He is meek and lowly in heart. That we shall find rest. For His yoke is easy.
Each statement relates to the cross. What Jesus did for us on that cross, although He was alive when He made that statement. When it is difficult, we can "Look unto Jesus" by taking up His yoke. When we suffer persecution, we can "Look unto Jesus," take up His yoke, and Jesus provides us comfort as He conforms us to righteousness. When we suffer in the flesh and are working towards putting off the old man, we are to "Look unto Jesus" to find our strength!
"Look unto Jesus" where His burden is light, and we will find peace. The reason Jesus's burden is light, and He gives us peace, is because there is Power in what Jesus did for us on the cross, which comes with promises of peace and comfort. "I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me" is that Power and promise.
We are to put the old man off. But how? The Power of the cross does it, and it offers Jesus yoke, which is light, which we find rest. Because when we truly understand, and truly realize that we have been crucified with Christ on that cross with Him, we can then see that we have nothing to offer, that we don't live. How can a dead man live? So we will start to see that we have no power aside from Christ, because God took away the fleshly man crucified it on the cross with Christ, Galatians 2:20. Knowing and realizing this and yielding to this, halts the process of us continuing to fight with the flesh. Halts (God's Power). We then realize and start to see that there is no reviving a dead fleshly man that has been crucified, and our attempts to change ourselves ceases. So, we turn ourselves, our minds, our thoughts to Jesus, thus we "Look unto Jesus." What Jesus did for us on the cross.
There are two places. One is under the dominion of the flesh, the Old Man, where there is struggle to do right, be right, talk right, think right, act right, and as a result, there is the guilt, shame, anger, frustration, etc. etc.. The other is under the dominion of the Spirit of Christ, the New Man, where there is meekness, peace, and lowliness of heart (humble spirit). If the flesh has been crucified with Christ, then we are not under that dominion any longer. And having been crucified with Christ, we are now under the dominion of the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, where there is Power to live righteous, where we take Jesus's yoke upon us. Jesus yoke raises us above all situation, takes away all fleshly carnal activity in the inner man, gives us the Power to walk holy, and cleans our conscious, by His blood, Hebrews 9:14.
Jesus set us free. None of us are capable of this work. God did the work for us by crucifying the flesh with Christ on the cross. The revelation of what God has done, and our looking unto those things that is promised to us from Jesus death comes with Power from on High into our lives to change us, as is the purpose of the cross, and for our salvation. We are to believe everything that was done for us, and truly want to put the old man off, and truly look to Christ in every circumstance. This one - Look to Christ. That on - Look to Christ. The other one - Look to Christ.
For example: If I'm struggling with a particular sinful behavior, (and all behavior generating out of the flesh is sin), where I find myself constantly trying to stop the behavior, constantly trying to turn the wrong behavior into a right behavior, I'm dealing with the law of sin that has power over me, Romans 7:21 & Romans 7:23. Continuing on in this madness, I'm really saying Christ did not die for me. The reason is because if we were able to walk right before the Lord, then Christ would not have had to die for us. It was because we could not be righteous, right behavior, before the Lord that He died to save us. There is nothing that we can do that is acceptable to God, even if we do manage to change our behavior. All of the change in behavior is done by the Spirit of Christ. So, we don't try an do it on our own power, which is not acceptable to God, but we do it by the Power of Christ, by the cross, Romans 7:24-25.
Every troubling behavior, every sinful behavior we are plagued with in the fleshly man, which has been crucified, we realize that it does not exist in Christ because we have been crucified. When Christ died on the cross, He said "It is finished," John 19:30. All Power is given into Jesus hands, Matthew 28:18. " So, the first step is that we Look unto Christ. Then when we truly realize that the behavior we are struggling with, fear, anger, self-pride, self-pity, etc. we are automatically placed in the domain of the Spirit, which has power over sin, Romans 6:14, Romans 8:10, which molds us, and changes us. There is a real conscience of the Spirit "given to us" when we allow the process to play out the way God has designed it, by yielding, not to the flesh, but to the Spirit, thus we are "made alive," Romans 6:13, Romans 6:16. The Spirit then works in our lives to guide us, strengthen us, grow us up in Christ. But we have to see it, meaning we are to believe. But without following the process of the cross the way God designed it to be with Power, we neglect the Spirit, and we try doing it ourself, which is not acceptable to God.
Take up Jesus yoke and learn of Him, that is through the cross and what He did for us with Power to change us!
Jesus is saying to take His yoke upon us. That He is meek and lowly in heart. That we shall find rest. For His yoke is easy.
Each statement relates to the cross. What Jesus did for us on that cross, although He was alive when He made that statement. When it is difficult, we can "Look unto Jesus" by taking up His yoke. When we suffer persecution, we can "Look unto Jesus," take up His yoke, and Jesus provides us comfort as He conforms us to righteousness. When we suffer in the flesh and are working towards putting off the old man, we are to "Look unto Jesus" to find our strength!
"Look unto Jesus" where His burden is light, and we will find peace. The reason Jesus's burden is light, and He gives us peace, is because there is Power in what Jesus did for us on the cross, which comes with promises of peace and comfort. "I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me" is that Power and promise.
We are to put the old man off. But how? The Power of the cross does it, and it offers Jesus yoke, which is light, which we find rest. Because when we truly understand, and truly realize that we have been crucified with Christ on that cross with Him, we can then see that we have nothing to offer, that we don't live. How can a dead man live? So we will start to see that we have no power aside from Christ, because God took away the fleshly man crucified it on the cross with Christ, Galatians 2:20. Knowing and realizing this and yielding to this, halts the process of us continuing to fight with the flesh. Halts (God's Power). We then realize and start to see that there is no reviving a dead fleshly man that has been crucified, and our attempts to change ourselves ceases. So, we turn ourselves, our minds, our thoughts to Jesus, thus we "Look unto Jesus." What Jesus did for us on the cross.
There are two places. One is under the dominion of the flesh, the Old Man, where there is struggle to do right, be right, talk right, think right, act right, and as a result, there is the guilt, shame, anger, frustration, etc. etc.. The other is under the dominion of the Spirit of Christ, the New Man, where there is meekness, peace, and lowliness of heart (humble spirit). If the flesh has been crucified with Christ, then we are not under that dominion any longer. And having been crucified with Christ, we are now under the dominion of the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, where there is Power to live righteous, where we take Jesus's yoke upon us. Jesus yoke raises us above all situation, takes away all fleshly carnal activity in the inner man, gives us the Power to walk holy, and cleans our conscious, by His blood, Hebrews 9:14.
Jesus set us free. None of us are capable of this work. God did the work for us by crucifying the flesh with Christ on the cross. The revelation of what God has done, and our looking unto those things that is promised to us from Jesus death comes with Power from on High into our lives to change us, as is the purpose of the cross, and for our salvation. We are to believe everything that was done for us, and truly want to put the old man off, and truly look to Christ in every circumstance. This one - Look to Christ. That on - Look to Christ. The other one - Look to Christ.
For example: If I'm struggling with a particular sinful behavior, (and all behavior generating out of the flesh is sin), where I find myself constantly trying to stop the behavior, constantly trying to turn the wrong behavior into a right behavior, I'm dealing with the law of sin that has power over me, Romans 7:21 & Romans 7:23. Continuing on in this madness, I'm really saying Christ did not die for me. The reason is because if we were able to walk right before the Lord, then Christ would not have had to die for us. It was because we could not be righteous, right behavior, before the Lord that He died to save us. There is nothing that we can do that is acceptable to God, even if we do manage to change our behavior. All of the change in behavior is done by the Spirit of Christ. So, we don't try an do it on our own power, which is not acceptable to God, but we do it by the Power of Christ, by the cross, Romans 7:24-25.
Every troubling behavior, every sinful behavior we are plagued with in the fleshly man, which has been crucified, we realize that it does not exist in Christ because we have been crucified. When Christ died on the cross, He said "It is finished," John 19:30. All Power is given into Jesus hands, Matthew 28:18. " So, the first step is that we Look unto Christ. Then when we truly realize that the behavior we are struggling with, fear, anger, self-pride, self-pity, etc. we are automatically placed in the domain of the Spirit, which has power over sin, Romans 6:14, Romans 8:10, which molds us, and changes us. There is a real conscience of the Spirit "given to us" when we allow the process to play out the way God has designed it, by yielding, not to the flesh, but to the Spirit, thus we are "made alive," Romans 6:13, Romans 6:16. The Spirit then works in our lives to guide us, strengthen us, grow us up in Christ. But we have to see it, meaning we are to believe. But without following the process of the cross the way God designed it to be with Power, we neglect the Spirit, and we try doing it ourself, which is not acceptable to God.
Take up Jesus yoke and learn of Him, that is through the cross and what He did for us with Power to change us!
