Who are you Pulling for?

Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30

• Pulled in two ways?
  • An old-time plow…
    • Some of you may have had this experience (growing rare)
    • For first-century Jews, it was instantly relatable
  • The Weight of the Yoke
    • To rabbis, the “yoke” was their teaching (the Yoke of Law)
    • Jesus called them out on having too heavy a yoke (uselessly burdensome teaching) [Luke 11:46]…and countered that His yoke was light and restful [Matthew 11:29]
    • Pulling the Pharisees’ yoke (judgmental legalism) steals the joy out of life and weighs you down.
    • If we’re not joyful in Christ, if our burdens are wearing us out, we may have become yoked to something other than Him, because He has taken a L [...]