Title / Scripture: Those Who Are Weary and Heavy Laden (Matthew 11:28-30)
Speaker: Pastor Ryu Kwang-su
Date / Location: March 6, 2022 / Immanuel Church
Matthew 11:28-30
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.
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Those Who Are Weary and Burdened
(Matthew 11:28-30)
Introduction
1. Painful burden
2. Incurability
1) Great powers (2 of them) 1) Doctors
Incurable disease 4) Confusion
Demons – mental illness
Spiritual problems
Main
1. Come to me, all of you 2. Take my yoke 3. I will give you rest
[Absolute impossibility] [Absolute possibility] (Blessings of the throne)
1) No power 1) Editing / planning / designing 1) Trinity
2) Imprinting, roots, disposition 2) The Word, prayer 2) [Throne]
3) 3, 6, 11 3) Trinity, throne, age 3) Age
13, 16, 19
6 fates
1) Three courtyards 24
2) Prayer (resources)
3) 237, healing, summit
2. Take my yoke
[Absolute possibility]
1) Editing / planning / designing
2) The Word, prayer
1. Come to me, all of you
[Absolute impossibility]
1) No power
2) Imprinting, roots, disposition
3. I will give you rest
1) Blessings
2) The throne
3) In-person church / non-contact church / media church (?)
Summary
▷ “Those who are weary and burdened.” If you understand this word, you can easily receive answers to prayer. Also, those who are failing can easily find resolution. And you will come to understand what the church is for and why the church must exist.
▣ Introduction
1. The painful burden – This speaks of people who are carrying an extremely painful and heavy burden.
1) Great powers – The great powers may appear to be strong nations, but they are carrying this burden.
2) Weak nations (slaves) – Weak nations are enslaved to the great powers.
3) Incurable diseases – Incurable diseases that even doctors cannot cure are beginning to spread rapidly.
4) Demons – Mental illness; in the Bible there is much mental illness caused by demon possession. These illnesses cannot be cured by medicine.
5) Spiritual problems – All kinds of spiritual sicknesses and spiritual problems are arising. There is no one who can treat these problems.
2. Incurable
1) Doctors – Even hospitals cannot cure them.
2) Church – Even the church cannot treat them.
3) Confusion – And so people fall into confusion.
3. Jesus Christ – He said, “Come to me, all of you.” He did not say come after you have resolved things; He said come as you are.
1) Come as you are – If you come after resolving things, you can never come. Come in the very state of being weary and burdened.
2) My yoke – “Take my yoke upon you.” “For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
3) You will find rest – He said, “You will find rest for your souls.”
▣ Main
1. Come to me, all of you – “Come to me, all of you.” This word means there is no ability to heal anywhere else.
Absolute impossibility – Jesus is saying He will heal what is absolutely impossible. Not the Pharisees, not going to idol nations, no one can do it, yet Jesus said, “Come to me.”
1) No power – Because there is no power to heal, no one can say “come.” Jesus boldly said, “Come to me, all of you.”
2) Imprinting, roots, disposition – It has been imprinted that failure is inevitable. Because the absolutely impossible has been imprinted, rooted, and made into disposition, if you discover this and change it, healing begins.
3) 3, 6, 11 → Remove what has been completely imprinted through Genesis chapters 3, 6, and 11.
13, 16, 19 → Idolatry has completely taken root through Acts chapters 13, 16, and 19.
6 fates → It has become completely dispositional through the 6 states of unbelievers, through this fate.
The moment you discover this, you overcome.
2. Take my yoke upon you
Absolute possibility – “Take my yoke” means to attach and bind your yoke to Jesus’ yoke. So there is nothing heavy for me at all.
1) Editing, designing, planning – Even if you have difficult problems, the way to receive answers to prayer is to discover the absolute impossibility and newly edit, design, and plan something possible. Edit, design, and plan it into something that can change the world, into something of God’s wonder, and it will become new.
2) The Word, prayer – If it is edited through the Word and prayer, history will certainly occur.
3) The Trinity, the throne, the age – Invisibly, God the Trinity will work; you will enjoy the blessings of the throne which unbelievers know nothing of; and you will receive answers that save the age.
▷ The Remnant should identify what is a problem for me and then establish what I need to do. In the remaining life, you must create answers with what God has truly given.
3. I will give you rest – This does not mean He will let you play; it speaks of the absolute system God gives us.
It is the recovery of the three courtyards.
1) Three courtyards 24 – There is no courtyard for prayer, no courtyard for children, no courtyard for the Gentiles. Make it so that the three courtyards can be used 24 hours.
2) Prayer (resources, holy meditation) – Create a place for prayer on every floor of every building. It must be made so that the Remnant can go in on their own, look at the resources, and pray and gain strength. Those who are spiritually weak must be able to come to the church on their own, look at the resources, pray, receive the Word, sing hymns, and have healing occur. There must be a place to have holy meditation here.
3) 237, healing, summit – We must move toward the work of healing 237 nations and making them into summits.
▣ Conclusion
1. My problem – my answer. Turn my problem into my answer.
2. Calvary, Mt Olive, the upper room of Mark – Gain strength through this covenant.
3. In-person church – Create a system where an in-person church inevitably forms, a platform where people inevitably come.
This is 237, healing, and the summit.
Non-contact church – A non-contact church toward the whole world.
Media church – Prepare a media church so that the gospel can be proclaimed to the whole world.
▷ Those who are weary and burdened! No one has ever said these words. Only Jesus said, “Come to me.” “I will give you rest.” Sundhar Singh is a person whose life was changed by this one scripture verse. If you change what is truly a problem for you into God’s thing — that is, if you change the imprinting, roots, and disposition — answers will certainly come.
Transcript
“Those who are weary and burdened” is Jesus’ famous word.
Those who are weary and burdened (Matthew 11:29-30)
If you understand this word, you can easily receive answers to prayer. Also, those who are failing can easily find resolution. And you will come to understand what the church is for and why the church must exist.
Matthew 11:29-30
So this is a famous word, but it is an extremely important word.
▣ Introduction
1. The painful burden
First of all, this “those who are weary and burdened” — this is not just any word; it speaks of those who are carrying an extremely painful burden. It speaks of people who are carrying an extremely painful and heavy burden.
1) Great powers
When you look at it, most people are in this situation. These great powers may appear to be strong nations, but they were carrying this burden.
Actually, in the 1800s, America first went to Japan and pressured them to open up. Our country was just sitting there foolishly, but the Japanese people thought, “Ah, this won’t do.” So they began developing technology and developing weapons. From there they made the mistake of thinking, “If we don’t occupy others, we will die.” The great powers. They could have lived peacefully and helped each other, but they thought, “We must occupy.” So they thought, “This is how we survive,” and they occupied Korea. They even attacked the Qing dynasty. They attacked Russia. They won. Later they even started the Pacific War. In the end they were completely destroyed, but all the great powers are making this same mistake. They are still doing it now. The current situation is more difficult than in the past. You don’t know what might happen. Doesn’t North Korea just fire missiles whenever it feels like it now? How difficult is that? We cannot say a single word. We can’t even ask why they’re firing. It’s really become ridiculous.
2) Weak nations (slaves)
These weak nations have become enslaved to these great powers, so what is their situation?
3) Incurable diseases
Even that is manageable. Incurable diseases that even doctors cannot cure are beginning to spread rapidly.
4) Demons – mental illness
Especially, when you look at the Bible, there is much mental illness caused by demon possession. Now, these illnesses cannot be cured by medicine, can they?
5) Spiritual problems
And then, all kinds of spiritual sicknesses and spiritual problems are arising. There is no one who can treat these problems.
2. Incurable
1) Doctors
Because there is no cure, even diseases that hospitals cannot treat are arising, aren’t they?
2) Church
Even the church cannot treat them.
3) Confusion
So confusion is rapidly coming. And so people fall into strange confusion. Because hospitals don’t work and churches don’t work either. That was the situation. At that time, Jesus spoke.
3. Jesus Christ
What did He say? He said, “Come to me, all of you.”
1) Come as you are
He did not say come after you have resolved things; He said come as you are. If you come after resolving things, you can never come. Come in the very state of being weary and burdened. And He said something extremely important.
2) My yoke
And take my yoke upon you. For my yoke is easy and light.
3) You will find rest
And He said you will find rest for your souls.
Now, if that is the case, what we are now building a church and trying to do in ministry is, when you look at it, simple.
▣ Main
In the Main, Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you.”
1. Come to me, all of you
This is an extremely important word. What does “come to me, all of you” mean? This word, “come to me, all of you,” means there is no ability to heal anywhere else.
[Absolute impossibility]
Simply put, this speaks of the absolute impossibility. Jesus is saying He will heal this. How does He heal it? Not the Pharisees, not the idol nations of today, no one can do it, yet Jesus said, “Come to me.”
1) No power
There is no power to heal those who are sick and suffering and toiling. Because there is no power, no one can say “come.” Jesus boldly said, “Come to me, all of you.”
Do you know what this is? It is simple for you. Even in getting sick, healing is actually simple. What is it?
2) Imprinting, roots, disposition
It has been imprinted that failure is inevitable. They say cancer happened by chance, but there is no such thing. It came out of imprinting. Because the absolutely impossible has been imprinted, rooted, and made into disposition, you cannot be healed. If you discover this, you will be healed. Isn’t that right? When you discover this, healing begins. For those who are mentally struggling — both their families and themselves — don’t immediately try to go somewhere and get healed. What I’m saying is that there is a long-standing imprint within you. You just need to change it. But people don’t know that and keep making excuses. “Because of what someone did…” No. Jesus said come to me. Why? Because you can’t heal yourself. Going to the Pharisees won’t work, going to Rome won’t work, so come to me.
3) [3, 6, 11]
What is it? Remove what has been completely imprinted through Genesis chapters 3, 6, and 11.
[13, 16, 19]
Acts chapters 13, 16, and 19 — idolatry has completely taken root.
[6 fates]
Now it has become completely dispositional through the 6 states of unbelievers, through this fate. The moment you discover it, you overcome.
2. Take my yoke upon you
Now then, He said take my yoke upon you. What does this mean? This is an extremely important word.
[Absolute possibility]
This speaks of absolute possibility.
What does “take my yoke upon you” mean? “Take” — this word means “attach your yoke to Jesus’ yoke and bind them together.” So there is nothing heavy for me at all.
1) Editing, designing, planning
So no matter how difficult your problems are, the way to receive answers to prayer is to discover the absolute impossibility and newly edit, design, and plan something possible. Don’t just simply do construction — challenge your life and receive answers. Truly, edit, design, and plan it into something by which I can change the world. It changes easily. If you change the wrongly placed imprinting, roots, and disposition within you, history is bound to occur. Now, if you additionally edit, design, and plan it with God’s wonder, it will become new.
2) The Word, prayer
So for us, the easy thing is to just edit it with the Word and prayer. History will certainly occur.
3) The Trinity
What does that mean? God will work invisibly as God the Trinity.
The throne
You will enjoy the blessings of the throne which unbelievers know nothing of.
The age
And as you know, you will receive answers that save the age. This is what we do. So it’s not difficult.
Crosby was not without difficulty. While all believers were rejecting her, this Crosby — because she could not see — completely looked only to God’s grace. Even now, Crosby’s influence is great. It shows how much we are looking at other things. If you change it, history occurs.
Our Remnant can do it easily. “What is a problem for me?” Identify it clearly. “Then what do I need to do?” Establish that clearly.
I was not without difficulty. But when I looked at things as a child, my neighborhood was full of possibility. And people were always fighting and had no power. And looking at it, the church was not growing. Evangelism was not happening. I clearly checked that. And I thought about the opposite. History truly occurred. I mean, going to every church, they were saying useless things and fighting. Every church. So what did I discover? I discovered prayer. History will certainly occur. In your remaining life, you must create answers with what God has truly given.
3. I will give you rest
What is the third? He said “I will give you rest.” This does not mean He will let you play around. “I will give you rest” speaks of the absolute system God gives us. What is it?
1) Three courtyards 24
It is about recovery. The three courtyards. There is no courtyard for prayer, no courtyard for children, and no courtyard for Gentiles. Make it so that the three courtyards can be used 24 hours.
2) Prayer (resources)
And our church needs to think about this. Don’t build separate buildings — create places for prayer on every floor of every building. You must do this. So when people go in on their own, when they enter inside, our Remnant can look at the resources. There’s no need to deliberately set it apart. When you open the door and enter what’s there, it should be there. Even the pastor’s office should have a place for prayer. That’s right. Like this.
When you come to church, you cannot pray at all. On the contrary, even the little prayer you were doing, you can’t do it when you come to church. Isn’t that right? Isn’t that a serious problem? So when you come to church, you only hear the sound of people. I have nowhere to go into somewhere quiet to pray, no place to go and escape and pray. There isn’t. All the world’s religions have it, but only the church doesn’t. Whose trick is this? I see this as Satan’s trick.
When you go to the airport, there’s a prayer room, right? Do you know who made those? When you go to international airports, there are prayer rooms everywhere. Do you know who made them? Muslims made them. What kind of church member would say they want to pray and ask for a prayer room to be made? Muslims pushed for it all with pressure. It’s a big deal now. If you’re not careful, when you come to church, you cannot pray at all. Why? Because you hear the noise of people, you have to listen to unbelief, like this. Everyone falls into this trap. And so the children are all dying spiritually, unable to receive grace.
This is urgent. “I will give you rest.” There needs to be a system like this. The resources are being prepared now, and it is not difficult. The Remnant must be able to come in on their own, look at the resources, pray, and gain strength. Isn’t that right? Where will spiritually weak people go to ask? They should come to church on their own, go inside on their own, look at those resources, pray, receive the Word, sing hymns, and healing must occur, 24 hours.
(Holy meditation)
There must be a place to have holy meditation here, that’s what I mean.
3) 237, healing, summit
So 237 nations must be healed, and we must move toward the work of making them into summits.
“Those who are weary and burdened, come to me” — this is no ordinary word. “Take my yoke upon you” — this is even more than an ordinary word. If you discover your absolute impossibility and change it to absolute possibility, history will unconditionally occur.
You know, when I think about my father as a child, all I can think of is pain. He was always lying down. Because he was sick. Does that make sense? I thought, “Why is that?” So I truly prayed. My father passed away at age 53, and when I reached 53 I thought about it. Well, truly God has given me answers up to now so that I wouldn’t be sick, for whatever various reasons. Why? Because I need to do evangelism. All the churches around the world are set up so that you cannot pray. When you come to our church, you should be able to. Build the best church in the world. It can certainly be done. I will prepare the resources. If you just make the inside a place where they can pray, these days the media is so good, these Remnant should be able to see the entire world.
▣ Conclusion
Answers will certainly come. So the reason it is not difficult at all is that everywhere I went, I could see there was a problem. I looked at that problem and found the opposite. What’s so difficult about that? No special power is needed. I have no special talent. Talent is not needed. Isn’t that right? You don’t need any special talent. Just look clearly at what is wrong and find God’s thing. Edit it, plan it, design it, and pray — that’s what I’m saying. Then history cannot help but occur. No matter what anyone says, what goes in comes out. Isn’t that right? What has been imprinted comes out. So you imprint God’s things. Then world evangelization will certainly happen. Don’t we have to receive this answer within our lifetime? Isn’t that right? While we live in this world, don’t we have to show the next generation that God’s work is truly alive, and then go?
1. My problem – my answer
Turn your problem into your answer. You absolutely must do it. You cannot just let it pass. You must not just let what is a problem for you pass by. There’s no need to ask someone else or to blame anyone. I discover it myself.
2. Gal, Gam, Mak
So it is about gaining strength through the covenant of Calvary, Mt Olive, and the upper room of Mark, which Jesus directly revealed to us.
3. In-person church
Going forward, we must create it. We must create a system where an in-person church — a church where our church meets in person — inevitably forms, must make it so that people inevitably come. Make a platform where people inevitably come, that’s what this is. That is 237, healing, and the summit. You must create it.
Immanuel, our Seoul church is in the Gwangju area, so it is a little far. That’s alright. Going forward, once COVID is somewhat resolved, we must make it so that 237 nations inevitably come. That is what we mean by in-person church.
Non-contact church
It’s not just doing that much. Non-contact church. A non-contact church toward the whole world.
Media church
And it’s not just that much either. We need to open our eyes. Media church. You must open your eyes to all of that. So that the gospel can be proclaimed to the whole world.
“Those who are weary and burdened,” He said. No one has ever said these words. No one has said “Come to me, all of you.” Only Jesus said “Come to me.” “I will give you rest” — Sundhar Singh is a person whose life was changed by this one scripture verse. Isn’t that right? A certain person, caught in darkness, sitting in prison — at these words, “Those who are weary and burdened, come to me, all of you,” change occurred. God’s word entered.
Today must not become a worship service where we offer a dedication worship service out of obligation. You must find it clearly in your life. Truly. What is truly a problem for me, that’s it. Then, to change it to God’s thing, what do you need to edit, plan, design? If you change the imprinting, roots, and disposition, answers will certainly come. They inevitably will. So if you plant a seed like this, it cannot help but sprout. When you listen to what the elders used to say — “Plant beans and beans grow, plant red beans and red beans grow.” It cannot help but sprout. I bless you in the name of the Lord Jesus that this week will also be another gracious and best week. Let us pray.
Prayer. We give thanks to God. May this week become a new week. May it become a week of new grace. May it become a week in which our great eyes are opened. May it become a new week in which we receive the great strength that God gives. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.