Christ Is Meek | February 1, 2026 AM

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Matthew Chapter 11, if you would in the word of God, please,

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Matthew Chapter 11 this morning, as I just alluded to a few

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moments ago, the title of the message today as we look at the

next characteristic of Christ is that Christ is meek.

Christ is meek. You know, if you call a man

knowledgeable, he'll probably be pleased.

If you call a man wise, you'll probably shake your hand.

You call him joyful, he'll probably give you a pat on the

back. But if you call a guy meek,

you'll probably punch you in the mouth just to prove that he's

not meek. That's kind of the way people

feel about meekness, isn't it? I mean, meekness isn't exactly

something that people usually use as a way to, you know, be

kind to somebody. But you know, you know, one of

the things I love about you, you're just so meek.

It's really not something that people would say 1 to another.

But yet we're going to find in our text this morning that it's

not just that Christ is called meek, but that Christ calls

himself meek. And so that means this, there's

got to be something good about it.

There must be something right and righteous about this issue

of meekness, that Christ calls himself meek and lowly of heart.

And so as we go through our series and we continue to go

through looking at these different characteristics, just

as we saw he was healer this week or last week, rather, we're

going to look at this issue of Christ being meek this morning

and why we should be so thrilled that Christ is meek when he

deals with us in our lives. Would you stand pleased for the

reading of God's Word? We're going to read 3 verses

this morning. Matthew Chapter 11, beginning in

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verse #28 And just as we read from Matthew chapter 8 a few

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moments ago, these verses, these 3 verses are also what I would

call some of the pinnacle verses that you will find within the

New Testament, often quoted, often used as a comfort and

encouragement. And you'll see why in just a

moment. If you're not familiar with it.

Matthew Chapter 11 verse #28 says, Come unto me, all you that

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labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly

in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke is easy and My burden is light.

Now if you have one of those Bibles that have red letters,

you'll find everything that we just read is in red letters,

isn't it? That means that the person who

is speaking is none other than Jesus Christ.

So this is Jesus who says, come unto me all you that labor and

are heavy laden. Remember I just asked a few

moments ago who needed encouragement, maybe a labor.

You're heavy laden. He said, I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek, I am meek

and lowly in heart. You shall find rest unto your

souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

We be seated as we get into the message this morning.

Heavenly Father, we do thank you for Your word.

We thank You for Your great love for us.

We're undeserving of that which we just heard sung a few moments

ago, and we know we're undeserving of it because of

Your word, but yet we know You also give it to us that great

love because of your word. So Lord, as we look at the issue

of Christ being meek this morning, help us to truly

understand what meekness is, understand how it applies to

Christ and how it applies to us as well in our lives.

And we ask it in Jesus name, Amen.

The verses we just read represent some of the most

comforting and beautiful verses that you'll read anywhere in the

Word of God. And nestled right into middle of

these verses is this proclamation that Jesus makes of

himself when He says these 3 words.

I am meek. Now for us to truly understand

how Christ is meek, and I just alluded to a few moments ago, we

need to actually understand what meekness is because a lot of us

don't feel like meekness is a very good quality, certainly not

one that would be applied to Jesus Christ, at least in the

way that we normally think about what meekness is.

Now meekness, if you were to look at it in the dictionary and

really boil it down to what the dictionary would teach, and this

is just about any dictionary looked at several this week that

would try to define what meekness is.

It would really it down to this one word, gentleness.

Gentleness is meekness. Now listen, this is true.

There is no doubt within my mind that meekness and gentleness do

go together. However, just simply saying that

meekness is gentleness does not give the full and total picture

of what meekness is. I have defined it before here in

this church. I've defined it before through

preaching as this, and I believe I'm on solid biblical ground for

saying this, that meekness is not simply gentleness, but

rather meekness is power under control.

I'll say that again. Meekness is not simply

gentleness, but rather meekness is power under control.

We can put it this way, Meekness is not weakness.

And that's really what it comes down to, isn't it?

That's why a lot of us don't like the term meekness, because

we think inherently meekness is weakness and so we don't really

want to think of it anymore. And certainly if Jesus was

considered to be weak, well, he wouldn't have been the savior.

But what you know about the Word of God and what I know about the

Word of God this morning, we can certainly say this.

Jesus was not weak. No, he is all powerful.

No, he has all power within him. And yes, he is not weak, but he

is gentle. And so that leads us to this

understanding that it must be gentleness or power under

control, that those two going together, power and gentleness

together. You know, I think of a fire that

would take place. And, you know, even this time of

year, it's sometimes ironic that there could be large fires that

take place even with all the snow that's around.

But sometimes some of the worst fires can take place during this

time of year. You think of a fire that

ravages, the power of a fire that can RIP through a home.

It's uncontrollable, isn't it? It's unquenchable in a lot of

ways. It will eat up everything that's

around. There's no thought process to

it. It's wild.

It just goes in every direction until it has consumed everything

that it can possibly consume. That is a wildness.

There's no meekness that's involved in that whatsoever.

But maybe a better way for us to think of meekness would be not

weakness, but rather the firefighters that would go and

would take care of that fire. You know, I imagine when that

fire bell rings that they're not just running around going fire,

fire, What do we do? What do we do?

You know, they're not running around like that.

I've never done that church. That was kind of fun.

They're not running or what do we do?

There's an orderliness to what takes place Immediately the fire

bell rings. They get to the trucks, they get

to the fire. There's a procedure to getting

the equipment that they need out to hooking up to the water, from

going into the home, from going to place to place.

There's a lot of power that those firefighters have, but

that power is different than the power of the fire.

This is power that is under control.

Every movement, every thought, every action has discipline and

control. And you could make the argument

that those firefighters serving in the face of those wild flames

are the ones who really exemplify what true meekness is

all about. And wouldn't that say what our

Savior is? Wouldn't that explain to us who

our Savior is? Because Jesus Christ is not

weak. Jesus Christ is not one who has

no power, no, but rather Jesus Christ has power which was and

is under his control. Now, there's a passage that can

really help us to understand this.

So put your ribbon here in Matthew Chapter 11, if you

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happen to have one. If not, put your finger in there

for just a minute. We'll go back to it.

But go to 2nd Corinthians chapter #10.

Second Corinthians chapter #10 you can go a couple 100 pages

maybe in your Bible here or there ahead to 2nd Corinthians

chapter #10 you're not sure where that is right after First

Corinthians. All right, you got that.

All right, good. Second Corinthians chapter #10

And Paul says this. Now I, Paul myself, beseech you

by the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

So here it is, the word gentleness.

There it's associated with meekness.

No one is trying to deny that here.

Who in presence and base among you but be absent and bold

toward you. But I beseech you that I may not

be bold when I am present with that confidence that we'll stop

right there. Paul is ascribing to himself as

he is writing to the people of Corinth, He says, I, I want to

talk to you with the meekness of Christ.

But as soon as he says that he also associates some other words

as well. So as Paul is dealing with the

people of Corinthus meekness, he is also dealing with them well,

obviously in gentleness. That's number one, but he also

deals with them in humility. Do you see where it says he says

who in presence and base among you, meaning this, that Paul

says when I'm among you, I have humility.

When I'm among you, I don't act as I'm above you or I'm better

than you. He says when I'm among you, I

act with humility. That's part of meekness.

And wouldn't that again describe who Jesus Christ is, that he was

the humble one who humbled himself to come from the throne

of heaven to be able to be with sinful man and walk this earth

and die on the cross. What humility?

Who's ever been more humble than our Savior?

But he also says this, but being absent and bold toward you.

So this means that Paul says you can have meekness and boldness

at the same time. A lot of times the idea we have

of meekness, I think of someone who's kind of mousy and kind of

goes around corners and maybe talks really quiet so that

nobody knows anything that's going on.

But Jesus Christ was meek and he turned over tables.

Jesus Christ was meek, and he called the Pharisees Vipers and

whited sepulchers. Could we put it this way that

Jesus Christ, even in His meekness, was bold?

But it wasn't brashness. It wasn't out of control like

our boldness often can be. No, Jesus Christ in His meekness

showed power under control, which gave what?

Give confidence. Verse #2 I beseech you that I

may not be bold when I'm present with that confidence, the idea

that this is not a cockiness, that Jesus Christ, when we put

it this way, knew who He was and that as such, He showed and

exemplified these things to those who He was around.

Now this isn't my message this morning, but that spirit of

meekness is the way we're supposed to live.

Wow, that didn't go over well. The spirit of meekness is how

we're supposed to live with gentleness, humility, boldness

and confidence in who confidence in me.

I have no confidence in my flesh.

My confidence is in him. And we're called to have this

type of meekness within our lives as well.

And again, that's not my message this morning because the message

is about Christ is meek and how that applies to us.

But I do think it's important for us to take a moment and say,

yes, we should be meek as well even as Christ is meek because

let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

Now, last week we saw that Christ was healer, and our

understanding of this was broaden not just by looking at

the word heal, but also looking at the text around it.

I want to be careful when we're in this series that we're not

just taking one word and plucking it out and then just

going to wherever we want in the Bible to try to make our own

connections. No, those words are there in

context. Those words have meanings, and

the context helps us to broaden our understanding of what that's

about. South Jesus talked about this

word of being meek in and of himself, but what was the other

things that he was talking about to help us understand why it's

so important? So go back to where you were,

where your ribbon was, or where your ribbon is in Matthew

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Chapter 11, and let's read this again where it says this.

It wasn't just that He was meek. All the words surrounded are

this. Come unto me, all ye that labor,

and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly

in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

So this is not just the fact that Jesus is explaining His

meekness to a crowd, but rather what He is doing is making a

call to a crowd and the call is this, Come unto me.

Why can you come to me? Because I am meek and lowly in

heart. This is important.

He is speaking to an entire crowd and He is telling them,

come to me and you can come to me in confidence because I am

the meek and lowly one of heart. So here's the question as we

broaden it out even more. So we took the word meek and

then we broaden it out to see the text of which He was

speaking about His meekness. But let's broaden it out even

more. Ask ourselves this question.

Who is He speaking to? OK, so he's making this call for

people to come, but who's supposed to come?

Who are the people that he's talking to?

Well, the good news is all the answer for us today is contained

in Matthew Chapter 11. So go all the way back to the

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beginning. We're reading the whole chapter.

Just kidding. All right?

But some of you are really quite sad.

Should I say Amen to that? I don't know what I should say.

We're going to read some different sections here very

quickly, and I want to explain just for sake of time, but I do

want us to see here. Look at verse #1 Chapter 11.

And it came to pass when Jesus had made an end of commanding

His 12 disciples. He departed thence to teach and

preach in their cities. But that sounds familiar,

doesn't it? That's what we saw last week,

that He was healing to teach and preach because the healing was

to authenticate the message in the messenger.

Well, here he is again. He's still teaching and he's

still preaching. Verse 2.

Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ, he

sent two of his disciples. Now which John is this?

You may ask? John the Baptist.

Not John the Baptizer, but John the Baptist as we talked about

last week. And John the Baptist sent two of

his disciples to Jesus, and look at what he says.

Some of you may never even seen this verse before, and some of

you might be surprised about what John the Baptist is about

to ask. Because John the Baptist was the

one who said, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of

the world. John the Baptist was the one who

was supposed to be baptizing Jesus and when he was approached

by Jesus about this, he says I'm not even worthy to unlatch your

shoe. But then Jesus said no, you are

to do this, for I am to follow to give an example to others.

John had great faith, but look at what it says in verse 3 and

said unto him, Art thou he that should come or we should look

for another? Do you understand the

ramifications of what we just read?

John is starting to question his own faith in the message that he

preached to the masses. Say, Pastor, how's that

possible? You've never doubted your faith

before. Don't make me come down there.

I'm coming all the way down. All right?

I'm about to go to the sound booth.

You've never doubted your faith? No, no.

Let's get down to brass tacks this morning.

Some of you just looking at me like this is pie in the sky

stuff here that we're just. This is what pastor has to do.

Because, you know, it was even ready because he thought there

was going to be a storm. Was he?

Did he have a sermon ready? Yeah, I had a sermon ready.

I got one for tonight, too. And I had one for this morning

for Sunday school. Right.

I was ready for all of it. But.

But understand, have you ever doubted?

You were just in your face. They got.

Are you good? Because I don't feel like it.

God, are you watching? Because it doesn't feel like you

know where I'm at. What are what are you doing?

And John had one of those moments.

What I love about it is that Jesus did not rebuke John, but

he also didn't leave him in that state.

What John told him to do is so illustrative for us.

Look at it. I could probably quote it for

you, but I want to make sure I say it correctly.

Look at what it says. And Jesus answered, said to him,

Go and show John again the things which you do here, and

see. The blind receive their sight,

the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf here, the

dead are raised up, the poor of the Gospel preached unto them,

and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me.

His answer was this. Go tell him again the things

that he saw. Could I maybe help you with what

you deal with when you deal with doubts?

What do I need to do? Go back to those things that you

know God has already taught you. Go back to those times you had

spiritual victories. Go all the way back to the time

that you got saved if you need to.

I can't tell you how many times that even in my own mind when

when when Satan has tried to get me twisted up in my own mind or

my flesh has gotten me into trouble and I start to question

if is there something within me that's wrong or did I maybe that

I never even get saved in the first place.

That I get taken back to that office at 5121 Kelly Rd. in

Tampa, FL where I was in the office of Steve Baker, where I

knelt down in front of a chair and asked Jesus Christ to save

me. I have to go back again.

But then I wondered, did I really?

Did that really happen? And then I had to start asking

myself, but what about when God spoke to me during these

messages and I got things right? Who's speaking to me then?

The Holy Spirit is inside of me. What's the Holy Spirit inside of

you? Proof of your salvation, It says

go tell him again. Go back to those passages you've

read in your Bible. You ought to have a, you ought

to have a top ten list in your Bible reading top 10 passages

that have blessed you in the past.

By the way, doesn't have to be 10.

But do you understand what I'm saying?

That when you start doubting certain things and you start

having trouble, that you go back to some old favorites.

You know, don't turn on the same old song that makes you feel

sorry again. Go back to the book of Psalms or

to some other book in this book that reminds you of what Jesus

has done in your life. So who is he speaking to?

Well, he's speaking to John through his disciples, but then

it says in verse number 7. And as they departed, Jesus

began to say to the multitudes concerning John, meaning that as

soon as he said this to the disciples and they left, Jesus

then turned to the crowd who had already been there, and now he

speaks to them. This is one event that's taking

place. This isn't several events that

are taking place. It's one event.

Are you following me right now? This means yes, and this means

no. All right.

Are we following? OK, good.

All right, he said. What went ye into the wilderness

to see a Reed shaken with the wind?

It's almost as if the crowd starts murmuring to themselves

like, what's John? Was John that great?

Why is John doubting that? It's almost like they're

starting to wonder if John the Baptist was the real deal.

And Jesus. Starts to explain to them don't

you take this out on John. That's what explains them.

Look at what he says but when you went out to see a man

clothed and soft raiment. Behold, they that wear soft

clothing are in King's houses. But what we out to see a

prophet. Yeah, I say unto you and more

than a prophet for this is he of whom it is written.

Behold, I send my messenger before thy face which shall

prepare the way before me. He even goes back to Malachi

Malachi 3:1

chapter 3 verse 1. He said John and his mission and

his ministry was biblically ordained by God.

Don't look down on him because of his doubts.

And he continues on, and he finishes.

Verse #15 He says, He the hath ears, let him hear.

Then verse 16 he continues, But we're in too shy like in this

generation. It's like unto children sitting

in the markets and calling under their fellows, and saying, We

have piped unto you. We've not, you've not danced,

we've moored with you, and you've not lamented.

For John came neither eating nor drinking.

And they say He had the devil, the Son of man came eating and

drinking. And they say, behold, a man

gluttonous and a wine bib, or a friend of publicans and sinners.

But wisdom is justifies of her children.

And Jesus now exposes the duplicitous of the people.

He says this, you can't ever be satisfied.

You didn't like John and so one came with a different spirit

than John. And you didn't like me.

He says, like someone saying, Hey, did you?

Why don't you rejoice with me? And they turn around and say,

why don't you mourn with me? And you'd kind of say, well,

what do you want? And that's what Jesus is

exposing to the people. He says, what do you want?

And he's showing them how fickle they truly are.

And then it says in verse #20 then began he to upbraid the

cities wherein most of his mighty works were done because

they repented not. What does that word then mean?

It's just still the same conversation.

Now I'm going somewhere with this.

All right? If you think I'm not going

anywhere with this, I am getting there.

It just may take a while to get there.

All right. So he's talking about John the

Baptist, and then he talks to the people who are complaining

about John the Baptist. And then he talks about how

fickle the people are in their complaints.

And then in the same conversation, he starts to bring

condemnation on three towns in particular, Cherazin and Besadia

and Capernaum. And he says, in essence, he says

if the works that were done here were done in Sodom and Gomorrah,

they would have repented. He says, you are so hard in your

heart that what's been done in front of you, you don't even

recognize it. And he's talking to these what

could only be called unsaved people.

And he says this, why don't you get it?

And then verse 25, it says at that time, no, at that time.

Does that mean at a later time or at the same time?

A later time or the same time? OK, good.

Some of you want to participate. All this time I'm giving you a

chance, and now you don't want to take it at the same time.

This is the same conversation that's taking place all the way

from verse one to now. And so he says, I thank thee, O

Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid

these things from the wise, and the prudent has revealed them

unto babes. Even so, Father, for it seemed

good in thy sight. All things are delivered unto me

and my father. And no man knoweth the Son but

the Father, and neither knoweth any man by the Father save the

Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him to.

And then after all that he says, come unto me, all you that

labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I meek and lowly in

heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls, For my yoke is

easy, and my burden is light. So you see how we expanded it.

We took the word meek and we asked ourselves, what?

What is he saying about meekness?

It's really a conversation about coming to him.

And then we asked ourselves, well, who's supposed to come to

him? And we enlarged it to the whole

chapter. And then the chapter we found

that he was talking about John. And then he was talking to the

people and calls out their hypocrisy and brings

condemnation upon them because of their unbelief.

And then in the same conversation he says, come.

So who was he talking to? Two groups of people.

First of all, he's obviously talking to the unsaved.

What was he saying to the unsaved?

Come, you know what the message is today?

Come unto him. You know what's interesting?

After all that took place and Jesus exposes the fickleness of

the people, brings condemnation upon them, and still he follows

that up with come unto me. This message is unique to Jesus

over every other person in history.

My message to you this morning is run to him.

Peter's message in Acts was believe on him.

Paul's message in the epistles was consider him and look unto

him. John the apostles message was to

have fellowship with him. The author of Hebrews message

was to diligently seek him. When man preaches, the finger

should always point to him. But Jesus is unique because he

didn't say to go seek someone else.

Jesus said this come to me and that ought to make us excited

this morning. Then I make a dead Baptist

excited this morning. Then everyone else says go to

him. But Jesus says come to me.

And he's the only one who legitimately can say come unto

me. For my yoke is easy.

My burden is light. The yoke of sin is heavy.

The yoke of bondage is heavy. The yoke of condemnation that is

upon you as unsaved is so heavy you can't even fathom it.

How heavy is it? It's as heavy as the lake of

fire for all eternity. And yet people would say, what

an angry God, what an unjust God, what a miserable God, when

that God is saying, come, come unto me, because only He can

lift that condemnation that's upon you.

No, only He can lift the condemnation that's upon you for

your sins. The wrath of God abideth on

those who are unsaved. You know what cannot remove the

wrath of God? The Eucharist, you know it

cannot remove the wrath of God, the baptismal waters, you said

when you're talking about the the other denominations, because

that pool that you have here, that horse through that can

remove that one can't remove it either because that's a picture

of what Christ has already done in the heart, not the actual

removal of sins. Your good works cannot remove

the condemnation. The heavy burden of sin and

judgment is upon you, and the Bible says that the wrath of God

abideth on you, and the only way that can be lifted is to come.

He didn't say come unto me in your works.

He didn't say come unto me with your excuses.

He just didn't say come unto me and be a good person says come

unto me, take my yoke upon you. He carried the burden for us.

You thought the cross was heavy. The cross was light compared to

the weight of your sins and the weight of my sins.

Come unto me. I'm meek and lowly of heart.

He showed His meekness on the cross.

One commentator said. His meekness shone brightest at

the cross where love restrained. His omnipotence and patience

triumphed over power. The literal embodiment of power

under control was Jesus on the cross.

That is meekness. First Peter 223 who when he was

reviled, reviled not. Again, when he suffered, he

threatened not, but committed himself to him.

That judges righteously. Yes, we considered John the

Baptist, yet rather we consider John the Baptist that the

message of come was to the unsaved.

But remember, the same conversation started with what

John, who was John? A believer.

So the message of Come, come unto me was not just to the

unsaved, but also goes all the way back to the beginning of

that chapter, and it goes to John the Baptist and to all the

saved. Wouldn't it be great that after

you got saved, you had no more burdens?

Listen, the greatest burden has been lifted from you when you're

saved. But the trials and troubles of

life still weigh upon us, don't they?

Sickness is still real difficulties, still real

hardships, finances, work situations, family situations,

they all weigh upon the soul and your need to come to Christ is

true in salvation, but it never truly ends in your life.

I'm not saying you lose your salvation.

The Bible doesn't say that. It says quite the opposite.

But I will tell you this is that you still need to come to Him

every day. Like the old hymn says, I need

the every hour, every hour. And if you're saved this

morning, aren't you glad that the call for come unto me isn't

just to the unsaved, but that he's still calling you this

morning? And I could be so bold to even

tell you this morning, Jesus Christ is calling you today at

this moment, and says, Come unto me, all ye that labor and are

heavy laden, for I will give you rest if you're discouraged.

He says come unto me if your faith wavers.

He says, come unto me. When you have doubts, He says,

Come unto me. When you're confused, He says,

Come unto me. When you're tempted, he says,

Come unto me. Why is it so important to read

your Bible every day? Well, it's because it's an

extension of the call come unto me.

Why is it important to have an active prayer life?

Because it's an extension of the call.

Come unto me. He calls us through His word.

He beckons us to meet with Him every day.

He calls to us to pray. He He beckons to fellowship with

us. Why is it important to be in a

vibrant Bible preaching church? Because we come together to be

able to fellowship with Him and to fellowship with one another

so we can encourage one another. But all of that is to come unto

each other. No, the call is to come unto

Him. You can come that confidence

because he's meek. Really, all this comes down to

the fact that Jesus Christ is meek and because of his

meekness, you can meet with him. In fact, I would put it this

way, you can meet with Christ because of the meekness of

Christ. If you remember one thing this

morning, remember this, You can meet with Christ because of the

meekness of Christ, because there's a lot of people who

would tell you, hey, if you need something, come see me.

And then you need something and you're like, where'd they go?

As a pastor, it's often something that I will say if

someone extends to me the need that they have trouble, I'll say

if you need anything, let me know.

But something I've learned very quickly in ministry is if you

say that, you better mean it because everybody will tell you,

hey, you need something, call me and all of a sudden the phone's

off the hook. Wait, there's no hooks anymore,

But you understand the phone's on silent.

Is that better? The phones on do not disturb

people And I look, I understand that sometimes we can't be

available to everyone 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

I understand that. I'm not trying to say that we

are. But there is that element that

man will say come and then push away.

But Christ is so meek and lowly in heart that to every person

he's ever said come, He has never turned away.

That's a beautiful thing. Say well, you don't understand

what my life has been like. Jesus Christ couldn't save me.

He said come. He said come, you can be saved

today. He paid the penalty for your sin

on the cross. You can come to him today and

call upon him in salvation and you can be saved.

I'll ask you when it was truly the last time saved person here

this morning that you really went to him and had a real

fellowship with him. No, I mean that you, you read

your Bible and maybe just read a few verses and you just stopped.

So, you know, I'm going to sit here and think about this for a

while and maybe your mind starts to wander because our minds do,

don't they? And they kind of just bring it

back and bring it back again. When was the last time you were

in church and you felt like you really met with God?

Now he's here, He wants to meet with you, but that doesn't mean

we meet with him. That your heart was ready for

the Word of God, that as the word was preached, you thought I

need to respond to this. And again, that doesn't mean

that meeting with him means everyone has to flood the altar.

It just means this. You need to be responsive to the

word of God. Now, if you pray here at the

altar, that's a wonderful thing. We encourage that.

But we're not counting numbers here.

You know, I'd much rather have people who show lives that

they've met with God, not having numbers of people that have come

to the front. If you're weary, if you have

difficulty, you don't know where to turn.

Come unto him. He's meek and he's lowly of

heart. I remember when I was in first

grade, I don't remember the name of the teacher because I was in

her classroom for maybe a couple months.

It's a long story, one that no, all right, my teacher supposed

to be available. She's supposed to help students,

and for whatever reason, my teacher probably did not have

the real desire to teach. I'm not saying that everyone

that's in the teaching profession really has that

desire, and she certainly did not for whatever reason.

I remember very few things about this, but I do remember a little

bit. But I just remember thinking

that, well, I don't really like this class.

And apparently my parents saw enough that made them

uncomfortable that they wanted me out of the class and actually

changed me to a different class with a teacher that I do

remember whose name was Miss Lutheran, that was a Miss

Luthan's class. I loved Miss Luthan's class.

But then I got to 2nd grade. I had a teacher named Missus

Noriega. Now I love to read today.

And the reason I love to read is because of Missus Noriega.

And I remember she would read to us as all teachers are supposed

to. They read to you at that age.

But she had this bookshelf just filled with books.

And she said if you want some books, just come and get them.

And I remember after school I would stay in her classroom

sometimes and and read, grab a book.

I'd grab a book on Friday and bring it back on Monday and get

a new book. And I'd love to read today

because I would read in those little 5060 page books back in

Miss Noriega's class in second grade.

Now I read 607 hundred page books that still sometimes test

me. But was there more pictures in

them? Be honest with you.

But but 500 pages of pictures and 200 pages of reading might

be better. But I just remember that the

spirit of the two teachers was so different that I wanted to

stay with Miss Noriega. It was interesting.

When I was in 3rd grade, after school, I'd go back to Miss

Noriega's class. I didn't get passed over.

I'm just saying I went back and get more books and she became a

friend of our family by the time I was in fifth grade there at

Westgate or at Woodbridge Elementary School in Tampa.

I just remember, well, both of them were supposed to be

available. They're teachers, right?

Well, the spirit of one said I'm good, In fact, I want to get out

of here. The spirit of the other kept

bringing me back over and over and over again.

If you don't feel like you can come to Christ, is it because of

something that he has done in his posture or in his character

that would push you away? Well, he's not fair.

I can't be around him. Boy, He is so angry.

I can't be around him. Oh boy, He, he is not worthy of

faith. I can't be around him.

Or is it that he's always said come and he's meek and lowly of

heart and the reason you don't want to be around him as much as

because of you? That's tough talk, but it's not

meant to be mean. I'm just trying to present to

you what the Bible says. I'm not here to make you feel

good. I'm here to be your pastor.

Now, if I make you feel good along the way, that's good.

But sometimes we got to feel bad before we feel good.

And I'm saying if we go, I don't know what you said, Ralph, but I

like it. All right.

And if we don't want to be around him, is it because he's

not meek, he's not lowly? Because the whole central

message of come because his yoke is easy, it's his burden is

light is you can come to me because I'm meek and I'm lowly

and again, not weakness, but that meek Savior is so powerful

that he can help you with whatever you need, including and

most importantly your salvation. And if he can help you with your

salvation, you think he can help you with your bank account.

You know, I'm not going to be flipping.

I'm just saying, if he could save your soul for all eternity,

you think he can help your bank account or he can help you at

the job, or he can help you with a with a physical illness, or he

can bring you grace to be able to sustain you through those

things. Even if he doesn't solve them

the way you want them to be solved.

He can do it. But it all comes down to this

phrase. Come and you can come to him

because He's meek and lowly of heart.

I'll leave you with this verse. And we end the word of God with

it just two verses shy of the end of the Bible.

The Spirit and the Bride say come, but him that Heareth say

come and let him that is athirst come, and whosoever will let him

take the water of life freely. The very end of the Bible, Jesus

reminds us you need to come. Come to him in salvation.

And once you get saved, don't stop coming to Him.

Keep coming to Him because he is meek and lowly of heart.

Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of

Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing

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grow in His Word.