Rest for your Souls - 119 Ministries

[Music] [Music] hello and welcome to another teaching from 119 ministries our ministry believes that the whole Bible is still true and directly related to our lives today if you would like to know more about what we believe in teach please visit us and test everything net we hope that you enjoy studying and testing the following teaching [Music] [Music] in Matthew 11 our Messiah instructed us to take on his yoke to learn from him and that we will find rest for our souls Matthew 11:28 through 30 come to me all who labor and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light according to Jesus his Hebrew name being Yeshua we are to learn from him and when we learn from him we are taking his yoke upon us so some questions might come to mind what is the yoke what is a light yoke what is a heavy yoke what is the rest that the Messiah referred to the instruction of taking on Yeshua is a yoke is a metaphor a yoke is a wooden cross piece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plough or cart that they are to pull the farmer of biblical times when plowing his field with a team of oxen had to ensure that the yoke fit well the yoke had to fit comfortably on the necks of the animals pulling the plough and improperly shaped and heavy yoke would irritate the oxen making the task of ploughing difficult for both the animals and the operator while a comfortable well fitting yoke made the task much easier so a yoke is a means for the farmer and the farming animal to efficiently accomplish the work of producing a harvest the idea of a harvest is another metaphor used in some of us us parables in the prophets and in the book of Revelation Matthew 13 39 the harvest is the end of the age and their Reapers are angels Luke 10:2 and he said to them the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest Revelation 14 fifteen and another angel came out of the temple calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud put in your sickle and reap for the hour to reap has come for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe we could go into much more depth pertaining to the nature and details of the different biblical harvests but for the purposes of this teaching it should be understood that the harvest refers to people these people grew from a seed there is the bad or corrupt seed and there is the good seed Matthew 13 the bad seed is against the Word of God the good seed is the word of God Luke 8:11 now the parable is this the seed is the word of God so when we take on Yeshua's yoke we are to be sowing the Word of God into the field or really the nation's let's read Matthew 11 again come to me all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light yeshua was not inventing this metaphor of a yoke this metaphor existed well before you schewe and a study of the Old Testament also called the Tanakh also demonstrates this for example first Kings 12 for your father made our yoke heavy now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and is heavy yoke on us and we will serve you despite this it appears that the original context for Yeshua's comfort for the heavy-laden saying has been lost to modern understanding the apocryphal book of Ben Sira may help us better determine Yeshua's contextual intent the Ben Sira texts indicate that Yeshua was speaking of this study and the interpretation of the Torah and their rigors of first century discipleship one interesting quote comes from the Apocrypha about 200 years before Yeshua it is talking about learning wisdom it sounds a lot like proverbs chapter 2 through 4 that speaks about the value of see wisdom draw near to me you unlearned and lodge in the house of study why are you slow and what do you say about these things your souls being very thirsty I open my mouth and said by her wisdom for yourselves without money put your neck under her yoke and let your soul receive instruction she is to be found nearby see with your eyes how with only a little labour I have gotten much rest here we see how attaching a yoke is metaphorically associated with receiving instruction this agrees with the issue is saying take my yoke upon you and learn from me but learn what unfortunately many have misunderstood what Messiah is sure was teaching in Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30 many have come to believe that Yeshua is speaking against the Torah as written by Moses when he have come to believe that it was the Torah that your shoe is labeling as heavy burdens and then when we abandon the Torah we will find rest in Messiah Yeshua or so it is taught however it is Yahweh's Torah that is indeed to be the good way the ancient path that we are to walk in and then we will find rest for our souls Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 16 thus says Yahweh stand by their roads and look and ask for the ancient paths where the good way is and walk in it and find rest for your souls but they said we will not walk in it Israel has already given the ancient path the way to walk and it is called the Torah the law of God of course just like many of us today Israel chose to not walk in it despite that it would lead to rest for our souls the light yoke that is of Yeshua is the ancient path the Torah and through such instructions we will find rest for our souls Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30 come to me ah who labor and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly and heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light but the law of God is a burden right yes so many say but that is not what the Bible says 1st John chapter five verses one through three everyone who believes that Yeshua is the Christ has been born of God and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him by this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and obey his Commandments for this is the love of God that we keep his Commandments and His commandments are not burdensome so what is the heavy yoke if it is not the Torah as written by Moses then what is it it was the heavy burden of the system of works at the Pharisees laid on the backs of the people that Yeshua is offering to relieve later on in Matthew Yeshua will rebuke that Pharisees for laying heavy burdens on the shoulders of the people Matthew 23 verse 4 they tie up heavy burdens hard to bear and lay them on people's shoulders but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger it was that Moses that gave me burden to us by giving us yahooeys Torah it was the Pharisees but then the Pharisees keep and teach the Torah not exactly Matthew 23:23 through 24 woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you tithe mint and dill and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law justice and mercy and faithfulness these you ought to have done without neglecting the others you blind guides straining out a net and swallowing a camel the yeshua state that the pharisees should not be practicing or teaching the law of god no the Gracie's neglected important aspects of the Torah Yahshua also said this speaking to the Pharisees John chapter 7 verse 19 has not Moses given you the law yet not one of you keeps the law the Pharisees invented all sorts of rules and traditions that were above and beyond the Torah they expected others to keep their man-made rules that were supposedly based on the Torah the Pharisees made simple Torah observance more complicated and difficult you should details this problem to the Pharisees at length in mark chapter 7 you have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men and he said to them you have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions for Moses said honor your father and your mother and anyone who curses his father and mother must be put to death but you say but if a man says to his father or mother whatever help you might otherwise have received of me as Corbyn that is a gift devoted to God then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother thus you nullify the Word of God by your tradition that you have handed down and you do many things like that the yoke of the Pharisees is the burdensome yoke of self-righteousness and legalistic law keeping and has been said by biblical scholars that the Pharisees added over 600 regulations just regarding what qualified as working on the Sabbath that is a heavy burden so the heavy yoke is the yoke of the Pharisees or anything above and beyond the Torah the light yoke of Yeshua is the ancient path that leads to rest for our souls Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30 come to me all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light Jeremiah 6 thus says Yahweh standby the roads and look and ask for the ancient pass where the good way is and walk in it and find rest for your souls but they said we will not walk in it don't be like ancient Israel and say we will not walk in it immediately after your shoe if states that his light yoke leaves to rest for our souls an interesting interaction with the Pharisees takes place seemingly proving issue his point about the heavy yoke that the Pharisees place on those in the faith remember this takes place immediately after Matthew chapter 11 Matthew chapter 12 verses 1 through 8 at that time Yeshua went through the grain fields on the Sabbath his disciples were hungry and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat but when the Pharisees saw it they said to him look your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath he said to them have you not read what David did when he was hungry and those who are with him how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the presence which it was not lawful for him to eat nor those who are with him but only for the priests or have you not read in the law how this Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and our guiltless I tell you something greater than the temple is here and if you had known what this means I desire mercy in that sacrifice you would not have condemned the guiltless for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath the commandments pertaining to this Sabbath are as follows you do not work your servants do not work or cause someone to serve you and your animals do not work so the Pharisees decided to invent hundreds of bullet-point commandments under the Sabbath heading defining what it meant to break the Sabbath according to their own understanding today this is known as the Talmud or the oral law it is a collection of interpretations of the Torah that the Pharisees made binding on the people harvesting crops is indeed work the Pharisees then decided to define harvesting has taken a piece of grain and run between ones fingers by referring to plucking the grain Luke is offering us insight to the exact nature of the Pharisees objections according to the Tom mood disciples were breaking the Sabbath in quite a number of ways according to the Mishnah he that reapeth corn on the Sabbath is guilty and plucking corn is reaping rubbing the grain out was considered to be threshing another violation in case a woman rolls wheat to remove the husks it is considered sifting if she rubs the head of wheat it is regarded as threshing if she cleans off this side adherence --is it is sifting out fruit if she throws him up in her hand it is winnowing this is exactly what issue the disciples did in order to eat because they were hungry so Yeshua and his disciples intentionally violated an oral law of the Pharisees right in front of them given the pattern of Yeshua and his disciples doing similar things in the presence of the Pharisees who is not likely an accident for example mark chapter 7 issue did not even argue with them whether that what they're doing was work or not that was not the point he wanted to make in this instance if she wanted to make the point that sometimes weightier matters prevail does it make sense to let someone go hungry on the Sabbath if it is not necessary Yeshua's point as evidenced by his defense is no for more on this we would recommend our teaching titled weightier matters it is Yeshua's interaction with the Pharisees in this instance and many others that cause he is sure to say what he said to the Pharisees in Matthew chapter 23 woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for a tithe mint and dill and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law justice and mercy and faithfulness these you ought to have done without neglect in the others you blind guides straining out a net and swallowing a camel it is awesome and amazing that many are coming back into the Torah today learning practicing and teaching the Torah but let's also remember justice and mercy faithfulness and love kindness and good and and that's we like the Pharisees who forgot all of these things following the Torah is about following Yahweh not about following man in man's ways that is why the Torah is defined as freedom psalm 119 verses 44 through 45 and it's also called the perfect torah psalm 19:7 is simple and details how we should live our lives in the faith and the literal and in the intent behind each commandment in following yeshua we will indeed find a rest for our souls this Sabbath is all about rest and our Messiah is the master over the Sabbath the Sabbath was made for all man it was made as a gift for man not as a burden for man to serve a Sabbath our Messiah represents the Sabbath rest and through him being our example on how to walk the ancient paths we learn how to walk the Torah not as the Pharisees with a heavy yoke of extra difficult rules that missed the point with the light yoke that teaches that the Torah is a gift to mankind detailing how to love God love others and it is not a burden first John chapter five verses two through three our Messiah as the Sabbath rest both metaphorically and prophetically is a fascinating subject if you would like to learn more we would recommend the following teachings Hebrews four in his rest now or later the fourth and seventh day parts 1 and 2 and the Sabbath day we hope that this teaching has blessed you and remember continue to test everything Shalom [Music] it is because of you our generous supporters who make it possible to offer these high-quality teachings completely free of charge if you feel led to support 119 ministries so that we can continue this effort please visit 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Keywords: Rest For Your Souls, What did Jesus mean when he said, Jeremiah 6:16

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Length: 18min 55sec (1135 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 03 2018