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Oct 30, 2016
Preacher: J.C. Philpot
Passage: Matthew 11:28

Rest For His Family

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
and I will give you rest

(MATTHEW 11:28)

The believer is heavily burdened with a daily conflict. This conflict between a body of sin and the holy, pure, and divine nature of which GOD’s people are made partakers lasts during the whole of our mortal span upon earth. Lasts, did I say? It increases in intensity. This internal warfare is more or less experienced by all GOD’s family. But what a burden it is to have such a daily conflict with a body of sin! It is the greatest burden that we have on earth. We all have our trials heavy trials. But of all the burdens that I am acquainted with the daily conflict with the workings of my corrupt heart my fallen and depraved nature perpetually lusting to evil entangling my eye, catching my affections, ensnaring my soul, dragging me, or drawing me into everything that is foul and filthy, base and vile, not externally, through mercy, but internally forms the heaviest burden I have to carry. The conflict I daily and sometimes hourly feel with my wretched heart has been my trouble and grief continually.

Now when we are so laden with a body of sin and death when we feel such vile sins perpetually struggling for the mastery and such a depraved heart pouring forth its polluted streams when we feel this common sewer of our depraved nature pouring forth this polluted stream must it not make us grieve and groan? Yes, daily make a living soul grieve and groan draw at times scalding tears from his eye and force convulsive sobs from his burdened bosom to feel that he is such a monster of depravity and iniquity that though GOD keeps his feet so that he does not fall outwardly and manifestly yet there is such a tide of iniquity flowing in his heart, polluting his conscience continually.

Jesus fixes His penetrating gaze, His sympathizing eye upon, and opens the tenderness and compassion of His loving bosom unto those who are weary and carry heavy burdens to His poor, suffering, sorrowing, groaning, and mourning family to those who have no one else to look to those who are burdened in their consciences, troubled in their minds, and distressed in their souls. He says to such, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.”



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