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Sermon on God’s Invitation | The Invitation of Jesus

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The Invitation of Jesus – Sermon outline by Foy Forehand from the text Matthew 11:28-30. Man separated from God has an invitation to come to God under certain conditions and with certain blessings.

SUBJECT: Salvation

TITLE: The Precious Invitation

PROPOSITION: To set forth the precious invitation.

OBJECTIVE:To help us respond properly to the precious invitation.

INTRODUCTION:

1. Read: Matthew 11:28-30.

2. Regarding the text:

1) These words were spoken by Jesus to the multitudes that surrounded him.

2) These people were oppressed by the government, those who had money, and even their own peers.

3) This was a time of political, moral and social unrest.

4) These people were laboring and were heavy ladened under the Romans.

5) The Romans took heavy taxes from all conquered people. (6) The Jews were no exception. (7) The last straw was that they were burdened by their own religious leaders, Matthew 23:4.

3. Reference to S.T.P.O.

DISCUSSION: Let us consider —

I.   Some reasons for the invitation of Jesus.

1. God and man were separated.

1) Isaiah 59:1-2.

2) An invitation implies a separation.

2. God loved man, even in his sinful condition, John 3: 16, Romans 5:8

3. God is merciful and desires the salvation of all, 2 Peter 3:9; 1 Timothy 2:3-4

4. Man needs salvation and could not secure it unaided, Ephesians 2:11-12.

5. Jesus is meek and lowly.

II.  The contents of the invitation of Jesus.

1. Have there ever been any words like these?

1) Would men have allowed any such statement from anyone except Christ?

2) Has any one ever been repulsed by this invitation?

2. This invitation is addressed to all who labor and are heavy ladened.

1) Think about the laboring multitudes that surrounded Jesus.

a. Farmers,

b. Fishers,

c. Carpenters,

d. etc.

2) Think about the heavy ladened.

a. Labor is active,

b. To be heavy ladened is passive,

c. There are two classes of burdens:

a) The self-imposed; and

b) Inevitable.

d. The vast majority of ours are self-imposed.

3) Jesus must have been destressed by the fact that men had turned their religion, not to mention God’s religion into a burden, Acts 15:10.

3. What is a yoke?

4. Jesus was addressing himself to the problem of sin, the sin problem.

III. The gift of the invitation of Jesus.

1. Rest: Hebrews 4:9.

2. All great gifts are non-transferable.

3. The rest that Jesus gives is based on reconciliation to God, 2 Thessalonians 1:6-7.

4. THIS IS NOT REST FROM TOIL, BUT IT IS REST IN TOIL.

IV.  When is the invitation of Jesus to be accepted?

1. 2 Corinthians 6:2.

2. Hebrews 4:7.

V.   How do people go to Christ?

1. John 6:44-45.

2. Apostolic teaching and beseeching, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20.

3. Through the preaching of the Gospel:

1) 1 Corinthians 1:21;

2) Acts 2:1-41.

CONCLUSION:

1. We have considered:

1) Some reasons for this invitation;

2) The invitation itself;

3) The gift that is promised;

4) When the invitation is to be accepted; and

5) How men go to Christ.

2. The invitation of Jesus is still extended: will you come to Christ?

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