The Rabbi

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. Matthew 11:29 NASB My yoke – Western readers of the gospels tend to interpret the teachings of Yeshua as if he were a Sunday school instructor or a pulpit preacher….

The Scales of Justice

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am gentle and lowly of heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  Matthew 11:29  ESV Yoke – Yesterday we connected Paul’s idea of “bond” with Yeshua’s statement about “yoke.”  “Freedom comes in chains,” we said.  When Yeshua invites us to take His…

Soul-Sleep

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls”   Matthew 11:29  NASB Rest – One measure of the integrity of your life is the tranquility of your sleep.  To sleep without anxiety, without fear, without the restlessness of compulsive…

Reading the Shema

“Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.” Mathew 11:29 NASB Yoke – Yeshua quotes Jeremiah 6:16 in this famous passage.  The context of the Jeremiah citation should help us understand the key words here.  Those words are…

A Burden Accepted

December 25 Submit your neck to her yoke, that your mind may accept her teaching. For she is close to those who seek her, and the one who is in earnest finds her. Sirach 51:26 Yoke – On this day when the ancient world celebrated the renewal and return of the fertility gods, a day…

Jesus and Jeremiah

“Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS”  Matthew 11:29 Find Rest – What did the listeners hear when Jesus quoted this passage from Jeremiah (see Jeremiah 6:16)?  They knew it, of course, since they were schooled in…

Discipleship Not Required

“Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS”  Matthew 11:29 Learn – This Greek verb manthano is not the same as the word used in the Great Commission passage.  The verb in Matthew 29:18 is matheteuo (see February…

Prepositional Power

“Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS”  Matthew 11:29 From – Don’t read this too quickly!  You might see the King James Version instead.  That version says “learn of me.”  The implication is that the more we…

Rest Under Restraint

“Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS”  Matthew 11:29 Yoke – How can we enter into the second rest that Jesus promises?  Well, not by sitting under a tree!  Jesus says that rest comes when we are…

Rest From The Rabbi

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:29 Will Give Rest – Jesus gives rest like no other.  Why?  Because He knows exactly how you were designed and what purpose you are to serve.  No one, not even you, knows more precisely what you need…