As the Lord Jesus walked this earth, his preaching and teaching received a mixed reaction. It received a mixed reaction. There were those who delighted in the Savior, and they listened attentively to his words and worshipped him with a heart filled with faith and love. We could think of the family of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. Here was a home that delighted in the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus often visited their home in Bethany. He was a welcome guest there, and they loved to see him They loved to sit at his feet and hear his word. We could also include in this number that loved the Lord, the 11 disciples, and many of the people who sought the Lord Jesus for help. These people, as they heard Christ speak, and as they witnessed his life, did not just see him as another man, but they saw one who could save and deliver them, one who could meet their need. And so with determination and delight, they sought after him. And they listened to his word. and they attended on to his ministry. We could say of these people, their response to the Savior is a good example to all men. For this is how we ought to respond to Christ today. This is how we ought to respond to his word as individuals. We should desire after that what Christ says, and we should desire to know him in a fuller and in a greater sense. We should desire to fellowship with him and to know his presence in our lives. But then there were others, and their response to Christ was very much different. was different. There were some who were fascinated by his miracles and they followed the Lord Jesus from place to place hoping to see another mighty work from the one who could heal the sick, feed the hungry, still the storm, and raise the dead to life. These people were not so much interested in the message of the Savior but just in his miracles. They were fascinated by his miracles. They maybe even found them entertaining. and amazing. And of course, his miracles were most wonderful and most glorious. And great crowds followed Christ, no doubt, just to see some mighty work. But these people who only followed Christ to observe his miracles, the time came when they turned their backs on Christ and they went their own way. And we know this because we read in John 6, in the verse 66, from that time, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. Many of his disciples, in other words, these people who followed him from place to place, they weren't truly converted, but they just followed him from place to place, therefore they're referred to as his disciples, they went back and they followed him no more. The good seed which these people had received had merely fallen into shallow ground, the shallow ground of their hearts. And so after a time, they ceased to follow the Savior. After a time they just left and they went their own way and they were taken up with something else in life. And then in scripture we see another group of people who responded in another way to the Lord Jesus. We can say their response to the Lord Jesus and to his ministry was the worst possible response that any man could have made to Christ. This group of people were openly hostile to the Savior They were not interested in His message, nor were they interested in His miracles. Instead, they opposed Him. And with all of their strength, they tried to turn other people from the Lord Jesus. And there was a group of people, and this was their behavior. This was how they responded to Christ. They opposed Him. They rejected Him. And they tried their very best to hinder Christ's ministry and to turn others from Him. In this passage we have just read this evening, this wicked Christ-rejecting element is brought before us. See what it says in verse 20. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not. Here were people who repented not. Verse 21 says, Woe unto thee, Gorazon! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done on you had been done on Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Again, verse 23 tells us And thy Capernaum, which are exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to earth. For if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. The Lord Jesus speaks here of places where many of his mighty works had been carried out. Many of his mighty works had been performed. He speaks of Chorazon, Bethsaida, and Capernaum. The people who lived in these places had been greatly privileged to hear and to witness the power and truth of Christ. But they repented not. There was a rejection of Christ. Another rejection of Christ. They wouldn't repent from their sin. They wouldn't turn from their wicked ways. Their response to the Savior was similar to that of Pharaoh's response to Moses. As Moses brought to Pharaoh God's word. Remember what Pharaoh said. He said, who is the Lord that I should obey his voice? I know not the Lord. He had total contempt for the Lord. He despised the Lord. He said, don't speak to me about the Lord Jehovah. I don't know who he is. Well, the people in Geras and Bethsaida and Capernaum, in reality, said this in their heart. Who is Jesus Christ? That we should obey his voice? We know not Jesus Christ. The response of these people to the Lord Jesus is the worst possible response that any man could ever make. And it is the worst possible response for it brings the most dreadful of judgments. It brings the most dreadful of judgments. And that again is brought before us in this passage. See verse 22. But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon of the day of judgment than for you. Verse 24. But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee. How tragic and terrible. will the end of these people be. Christ returns. Their judgment will be most terrible. There will be eternal damnation forever, and utter darkness and hell itself. They rejected Christ. Their response to Christ was one of dismissing Him and refusing to repent. Christ speaks about their great destruction and their eternal ruin. However, after the Savior speaks of these people who rejected him, notice in this passage that he prays to his Father in heaven. And he does this in verses 25 to 27. This is a prayer of thankfulness, thankfulness that God the Father had given to him a people in this world. See what it says in verse 25. At that time, this is the time that these people were rejecting Christ, at that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." See what the Savior is saying here. He has just spoken of the people that rejected Him. But now He thanks His Father that there were those that would come to Him, those that would receive Him. And as the Savior finishes praying, He then is moved to offer a great invitation to men to leave their sin and to come to Him. And we have this in verses 28 to 30. It is almost as if Christ, in the face of these people rejecting him, in the face of their opposition, in the face of their refusing to repent, it's almost as if Christ calls to remembrance the great truth. God the Father had given to him a people, a people that would come to him, a people that would be saved. And as Christ ponders this truth, he very clearly and very openly extends to man the great gospel invitation to come to him. As he thinks about these people that rejected him in Bethsaida, and Chorazon, and Capernaum, as he thinks about their rebellion and their refusal, he remembers that the Lord has given to him a people And there are people to be saved in this world. There are people who will believe. There are people who will repent. And as Christ thinks upon this, he offers this great gospel invitation. Come to me. Come to me and I will give you rest. This evening then, I want us to look at this invitation. This invitation of Christ. In the closing verses here in Matthew chapter 11. We could call it Christ's glorious invitation. Christ's glorious invitation. And oh, what an invitation it is. What a terrific invitation it is. Christ's invitation. His gracious and merciful invitation to sinners to come to him and be saved. Notice then with me a number of things here about this glorious invitation of the Savior. Firstly, I want us to consider the people in Christ's invitation. The people in Christ's invitation. Verse 28 tells us, come on to me, all you that labor under heavy laden, and I will give you rest." The invitation of Christ to sinners is proclaimed to all that labor under heavy laden. This is who Christ invites to come to him, those that labor under heavy laden. The first thing we need to consider here is what does the Savior mean? What does he mean as he speaks of those who labor under heavy laden? What is he referring to here? What group of people has he got in mind? Who has he in view here as he refers to those who labor under heavy laden? Well, the Savior is addressing those who are burdened down under the weight of their own sin. He's speaking to people who are conscious of their own poor, lost, and ruined condition. These people are heavy laden for they realize they have broken God's law and are guilty in his sight. And as such, they are under the sentence of eternal death. This awareness of their dreadful spiritual state weighs heavy upon their hearts. It greatly concerns them. It troubles them. And so they are laboring under this grievous and heavy burden. And they can find no rest for their souls. This is the people who are in view here. Those who are troubled about their sin. Those who are concerned about their sin. Those who see the awfulness and the weight of their sin. Those who feel this upon their own conscience. You see, the invitation of Christ to the sinner is proclaimed to all that realize something of their own ruined and fallen condition. This is who Christ invites to come to him. That person who realizes something of their own sinful and ruined condition. The Philippian jailer cried out, what must I do to be saved? because there was a heavy burden that weighed upon his soul. He realized he was a guilty sinner under God's judgment. And that is why Paul could reply to him, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. The Philippian jailer received the invitation. He received it because he had taken the place of the sinner. He had owned his sin. It was real to him. It was a serious problem to him. And the point is this, the invitation of Christ in the gospel is only to those who are grieved and vaxed by their own sin and sinful state. It is to those who see something of their own corruption and condemnation. This is who God's invitation in the gospel is to. The man who's troubled about his sin. The Lord said he hadn't come to call the righteous, but he'd come to call sinners to repentance. That's the words of the Savior. And who's he referring to? As he speaks about the righteous there. He's referring to those that aren't, they're not righteous, but they see themselves as righteous. He's referring to the Pharisees and to the scribes and to leaders of the Jews who thought they had no need of salvation. Christ says, I haven't come to call you to repentance because you're beyond it. But I've called to come, I've come to call the sinner. I've come to call the one who's burdened and troubled, weighed down with the heavy load of their sin. Christ says, come only to those that labor under heavy lame. Oh, how important it then is that we see and understand something of our own sin and sinful condition. The truth is all men ought to be grievously concerned about their sinful state. This is something that ought to trouble. Indeed, this is the one thing that ought to particularly trouble every single soul. I am a sinner. I have broken God's law. God's wrath hangs over my head and my sin is going to condemn me. It's going to bring the sword of God's judgment upon my soul for all eternity. Oh, how this ought to trouble our hearts. It is blindness. It is ignorance. It is folly. Live and die as a sinner and not be concerned about appearing before the judgment seat of Christ. The reason why God in his word speaks to man about his sin and the terrible judgment will come upon those who die in sin is so men will rightly be concerned and heavy laden and burdened about the miserable lost state in which they are found. God speaks to man about a sinful corrupt condition so that he might have some comprehension of his utter hopelessness and then in turn seek Christ for salvation. You see dear sinner If you will not take the place of the sinner, if you will not take the place of the sinner and confess the sinfulness of your state before God, then Christ issues to you no invitation to come to Him. Christ is the cure. He is the cure for your sin sick soul. But if the sickness of your soul does not trouble you, if you don't recognize that you are actually sick, then Christ cannot be your physician. That's the point. He cannot be your physician. If you come to him on your self-righteousness, if you come to him thinking that you've got something of value and worth, and really you have no need of his salvation, he cannot be your physician. Therefore, his invitation is only for those who recognize their sin. They're heavy laden and burdened down by it. in the prophecy of Isaiah. We see again who the gospel invitation is proclaimed to. Turn with me for a moment to Isaiah chapter 61. Isaiah chapter 61, notice what it says here in the opening verses of this chapter. Isaiah chapter 61, we'll read verses 1 to 3 here. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, this is Isaiah speaking, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings. And so see what Isaiah is saying, saying the Lord has anointed me to preach the gospel, to declare the truth, to preach good tidings unto the meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourn, to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. Notice here, as the Lord sends Isaiah to preach the gospel, and again, that's what he's doing here in verse one. He clearly tells us this, to preach good tidings. He's preaching the gospel. But as the Lord sends Isaiah to do this, who is the gospel proclaimed to here? It is proclaimed to them that are broken hearted. To those that mourn. To those that have heaviness. This is not speaking about a physical state or some kind of mental state. This is speaking about man's spiritual condition. That's the point. Those that mourn over their sin. Those that are heavy because of their sin. Those that are broken because of their sin. God has sent his allies to preach liberty and freedom and joy and good tidings to such people. Because it's such people, it is such people that Christ invites to come unto him. People who see their sin as that overwhelming weight that is dragging them out of this world down even to the depths of hell itself. This is the people that Christ's glorious invitation in the gospel is addressed to. Remember also the man in the parable in Matthew 22, who came to the wedding feast without the wedding garment on. We're familiar with that parable. This man came to the wedding feast without the wedding, the proper wedding garment on. And he tried to take his place among the other guests still clothed in his own garment, in his own clothes. what happened when the king came in and saw him? What happened? The invitation to this man was withdrawn. And he was put out. The invitation was withdrawn and he was cast out. He was cast out because he didn't recognize he needed he needed the garment provided. And so it is for man and sin. You cannot come to Christ. If Christ does not invite you to come to him if your sin does not concern you and weigh heavy upon your soul. In short, you cannot have your sin and have Christ. Cannot have your sin and have Christ. And so this is why Christ only invites those who are concerned and troubled about their sin to come to him. They want their sin dealt with because it's either your sin or the Savior. This is who Christ proclaims this glorious invitation to you. This is the people he has in view here. Those troubled about their sin. But then notice something else here in this passage. Not only the people in Christ's invitation, but the purpose of Christ's invitation. Again, this is brought before us in verse 28. Come unto me, the Savior says. Come unto me. The purpose of this invitation, this glorious invitation of Christ to sinners, is that they will come unto him. The sense of these words is that man and sin would come and be joined to Christ, be united to Him. In John 6.37, the Lord Jesus said, All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no ways cast out. See how the person who comes to Christ is not cast out, but they're brought in. They're joined and united to Him. This is the great purpose for which Christ invites sinners unto Himself. that they might come and be joined unto him. And these three words of Christ come unto me. We have what is really the goodness news that man and sin could ever receive. The goodness news of all. Let's think about it for a moment. Here we are sinners perishing in our sin. Here we are sinners born onto the broad road which leads to destruction. In our sin we have offended a holy God. What we then justly deserve from God is to be cast out forever from His presence and to be punished for our disobedience. This is man's fallen position. This is our position by nature. We are sinners, lawbreakers. We're guilty in God's sight. We deserve hell. We deserve God's judgment. Then we have Christ. He has come into this world, taken our nature. He has lived a holy and obedient life, a life in which there was no sin, after which he was taken and crucified upon the cross and made to suffer for sin. He then was buried, rose again from the dead, and now lives and reigns in the power of an endless life. In short, what Christ has done through his coming into this world, through his dying, through his rising again from the dead, what he has done is he has provided all that is necessary to save and deliver the sinner from the punishment of their sin and to present the sinner before his father's face as one that is righteous. This is what Christ has done. This is what he has done. Earned and merited salvation for his people. Earned and merited a full salvation for undeserving sinners such as you and I. This is what Christ has done. And so here we have this great invitation now. Here we have this great invitation. Again, remember the context here. We are sinners deserving of hell, but Christ came and he lived for us. He died for us. He rose again for us. He's provided the full salvation for sinners. And now he comes with this great invitation, this glorious invitation. And he says, come on to me. Come on to me. Those invited are wicked, hell deserving sinners perishing in their sin. And the one inviting is the savior. who has power to save and to deliver. You see now why these three words of Christ are the greatest words you could ever hear? It is the invitation of the one, the only one, who can meet man's need as a sinner. It is the invitation to come and be joined to him and be saved. You come to him. You are united to him. and all that he has done to save sinners will become yours. That's what he's saying here. That's the significance of these words when he says come to me. He's saying come to me and all that I have done to provide salvation for sinners will become yours. His life of obedience will become yours. It'll be counted as the sinners that comes to him. That's what happens when a sinner comes to Christ. His perfect life of obedience is therefore counted as the sinners. That sinner is declared righteous in God's sight. His suffering for sin, the blessing and benefits of that suffering, becomes the sinner's who comes to him. In other words, their sin is cancelled, it is forgiven, it is cleansed away the moment you come to Christ. This is what it means to come to him. Oh dear sinner, tonight, Christ's glorious invitation to you is, is come to me. Come to me. And all that I have done for you will become yours. The great salvation I have provided for you will be that which you will possess and have. And your sin will be forgiven. You will be declared righteous in God's sight. And the hope of eternal life will become yours. Christ's purpose as he issues the invitation to sinners in the gospel is that they will come to him. and be saved. Of course, there's another one, and we should never forget this, there's another one who has a different purpose for the lives and souls of men and women. That one is Satan himself. That one is the devil, the wicked one. The devil has got one great purpose for your life tonight. You who sit in this meeting out of Christ, the devil has one great purpose for your life. And that is to stop you coming to Christ. That's really all Satan cares about. That's all he's worried about. He does not care how you live. He does not care how you behave. He does not care one iota about the things that you do in life or do not do. All he is concerned about is that you will not come to Christ. Because he knows that in coming to Christ you will obtain salvation. and eternal life. And he's doing all in his purpose to stop this taking place. Indeed, the devil will even try stealing the invitation of Christ and the gospel from your heart and soul. And this is how he works as the gospel is being preached. He's there waiting to steal it away. And this is what Mark 4 verse 15 shows us. Listen to what it says. And these are they by the wayside. Of course, this was the parable of the sore going out And the Savior speaking here about how the seed sown in the wayside was stolen by birds, and he explains it here in Matthew, Mark 4, verse 15, saying, And these are they by the wayside where the word is sown. But when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. See how the old fowl of the earth, Satan, seeks to steal the invitation of Christ from the hearts of men and women. perishing in their sin. And that's what he's doing. And he works at this continually. Even perhaps tonight as the gospel is preached in this meeting. Satan is waiting there and as the seed is almost dropping into your soul, he's stealing it away. How does he do this? Well, he'll bring something else into your heart and mind. Maybe plans for the sin coming week, things you have to do later on. Some great idea that you have. Some concern you have. And you're sitting in God's house and the seed of truth is falling upon your soul. So, but as it falls, Satan is just snatching it up away. He's stealing it. Why? Because his purpose is to stop you coming to Christ. His purpose is to keep you in your sin. His purpose is to damn your soul. Sinner, listen to Christ's invitation tonight. Come on to me. Come on to me. And respond to this invitation Don't let him steal this invitation from your very soul tonight. Respond in faith and come to Christ. We have then the purpose of Christ's invitation as well as the people in this invitation. Notice also here the promise in Christ's invitation. The promise. This is brought before us in verses 28 and 29. Come unto me all ye that labour 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. The invitation which Christ gives to sinners is not an empty one. Instead, it comes with a great promise. I will give you rest. Notice here rest is mentioned not only in verse 28, but in verse 29. And so this is the great promise of God to sinners. You come to me. You will have rest. When we are troubled, we are troubled, lost, and perishing sinners. But the invitation of Christ in the gospel is come to me. And if you do so, you will come to know and you will come to enjoy rest. You will know rest. And now what is this rest? What is the rest that Christ promised to those that come to him? What does the Savior mean as he speaks of rest? What is the rest found in the gospel? Well, unrest, trouble, and strife are the results and consequences of sin. Our world is a troubled world tonight. And man's lives are troubled because it is a world that has been blighted and destroyed and defiled by sin. Isaiah 57 verse 20 says, but the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt. And again, remember the word wicked there, it simply means a lawbreaker. Every sinner is a lawbreaker. And that's the thought here. But the lawbreaker, the lawbreakers are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. And it brings before this ideal of the sinner being in a state of unrest, of trouble, of distress, of misery. If you think back to creation before Adam and Eve fell in sin, that which characterized their lives was peace and rest. They lived in paradise. Adam and Eve, before they fell, knew nothing of trouble. They knew nothing of distress or heartache. But after the fall, things were very much different. After the fall, God told Adam, curse it as the ground for thy sake, and sorrow shall eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee. And thou shalt eat the herb of the field, and the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground. This is what God said to Adam. Listen also what God said to Eve. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. What is this telling us? It is telling us grief and trouble in life are all connected to sin. all connected to sin. This is the reason for trouble. This is the reason for heartache and distress. It is sin. Unrest in this world, unrest in the lives of men and women is a direct result of sin. But then the promise of Christ's gospel invitation is, I will give you rest. I will give you rest. Christ will give rest unto all that come unto him. Therefore what Christ is saying to us is, I will deal with the consequences of sin. I will remove from your life the misery and heinous consequences of sin. I will give you rest. That's the thought here. That's the idea. The rest Christ gives is rest in conscience. Guilt that would greatly disturb the soul and heart of man is banished. In other words, he's no longer heavy laden and burdened. Remember here, the opening words of verse 28, come on to me. All ye that labour and are heavy laden. That's speaking about a state of conscience, troubling of the conscience, troubling of the mind, a problem with guilt. Christ delivers from this. He delivers from this. In Christ we can say, it is well, it is well with my soul. Because he brings rest to the conscience. Christ also gives rest from corruption. the corruption of sin. 2 Corinthians 5.17 says, Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. All things are passed away. Behold, all things become new. The saved man is no longer a slave to sin and to Satan. Of course, the man who is converted, the saved man in this world, will still sin, but he is no longer a slave to sin. He is no longer held fast by sin's bondage and grip. He has been delivered from sin's corruption. Christ saves man from sin's corruption. He gives him liberty in this sense. Therefore, he is rest. He is rest from the tyranny of Satan and the bondage of sin. And of course, we can also say Christ gives rest from sin's condemnation. Romans 8 and 1 says, there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. No hell shall they know. who have come to enjoy the rest found in Christ. No hell shall they know who have come to Jesus Christ for salvation. The reason why Christ is able to promise such rest, glorious rest to all that come to Him, is because He has earned it for His people. This is what Christ has earned. How has He earned it? He has earned it by facing the greatest unrest that any individual has ever faced. He suffered the unrest of the cross, the affliction of the cross, the wrath of God, hell itself. And this is what Christ did as he died upon the tree. All the unrest, all the trouble, all the heartache, all the condemnation, all the wrath, all the hell of his people. He endured this. He took it upon himself. He stood into our place. He drank damnation dry for his people. And therefore, because he has taken our unrest, we can find rest in him. He took our unrest to give all that he does invitation. Rest and eternal life. What a promise this is. What a promise this is to sinners. Rest for your soul. Sinner, will you respond to Christ's invitation? Will you respond to this invitation? If you do, you will find rest for your soul, knowing it as well. well with you and you're ready for eternal day. One last thing I want to note here, not only the people in Christ's invitation and the purpose of it and the promise of it but the precept in Christ's glorious invitation. See again the words of verses 29 and 30. 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. As the Lord Jesus issues this great invitation to sinners, at the same time He speaks of how men must take Christ's yoke upon them and how they must learn of Christ. We must not miss this, for so often this is missed as the Gospel is preached. Yes, the invitation of the Gospel is, Come unto me. And when a sinner comes to Christ, they will enjoy all the benefits and blessings of salvation, they obtain rest for their souls. I've just noticed that, noted that. A sinner comes to Christ, they will have rest for their souls. What we see here is those that come to Christ and find rest for their souls also take Christ's yoke upon them. And they learn of Christ. If you do not take Christ's yoke upon you, which is a reference to serving Christ and living to honor Him, That's his yoke, serving him and living to honor him. If you do not desire to learn of him, the idea there is to be like him, to be informed onto his likeness. That only serves to show that you have never actually come to Christ. Do you see the significance of this? There's many people in this world and they claim to be saved. And they will even speak about a time perhaps when they came to Christ. Oh, I came to Christ at such a date. But there's no yoke bearing in their lives. There's no seeking to honour Christ and serve Him. There's no learning of Christ. There's no conforming unto the likeness of Christ. But you see, this coming to Christ also involves taking up his yoke. It also involves following here Christ's precept take my yoke upon you and learn of me and notice after this the Lord says and ye shall find rest unto your souls this is all part of finding rest for your soul taking Christ's yoke upon you and learning of him you see we are saved through faith through faith in Christ but saving faith is manifested It is manifested in our life, in our yoke bearing for Christ, and in our learning of Christ. This is how we manifest that we are saved and we're Christ's. Through the fruit of our lives, through the testimony of our lives, not our verbal testimony, but the very way in which we live, in our actions, in our yoke bearing, in our learning of Christ. James puts it this way in James 2 verse 18. Yea man may say that was faith and I have works. Show me thy faith without thy works and I will show thee my faith by my works. See what James is saying there. He says show me thy faith without thy works. Show me how you can believe in Christ and not manifest this through your works. That can't be done. impossible. It's impossible because the person who has faith in Christ will bear a yoke. And then James says, and I will show you my faith by my works. I will show you that I'm a believer in Christ. Through my through my works, through the way I live, through my yoke bearing. When this invitation, this glorious invitation from the savior is accepted in the heart, it will bring transformation in the life. This will always happen. When Christ's glorious invitation is accepted in the heart. In other words, when a sinner comes to him, then this will bring transformation in the life. Oh, do not despise the invitation of the Savior. What a glorious invitation this is. What a gracious invitation this is. Christ would come tonight even to each one in this meeting, and he would extend this invitation to you again. Therefore, do not despise this invitation. Do not behave like these wicked cities mentioned in verses 20 and 24, whose judgment is great, whose condemnation will be worse than Sodom and Gomorrah, but come to the Savior tonight. take his yoke upon you. Learn of him. I know the blessedness of rest for your soul. Eternal rest in Christ. Eternal rest in his salvation. Christ's glorious invitation to sinners is, come on to me. All you that labor under heavy laden and I will give you rest. will heed the invitation of Christ and by faith come unto him. May the Lord be pleased to bless his word to each one of our souls for his own name's sake. Amen and amen.