02 February 14, 2016, Matthew 11;20-30, An Open Invitation

Matthew 11:20-30
An Open Invitation
February 14, 2016
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1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink,
or whatever you do, do all to the glory
of God.

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7
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in the light, we have fellowship with
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Matthew 11:20-30
An Open Invitation
Today
February 14, 2016

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Warren Wiersbe
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Matthew 11:16-19 NKJV
16 “But to what shall I liken this
generation? It is like children sitting in
the marketplaces and calling to their
companions, 17 and saying:

‘We played the flute for you,
And you did not dance;
We mourned to you,
And you did not lament.’
18 For John came neither eating nor
drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

19The Son of Man came eating and
drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a
glutton and a winebibber, a friend of
tax collectors and sinners!’ But
wisdom is justified by her children.”

These four verses compose one of the
Lord's parables that was loaded with
biting sarcasm and irony.
The Lord did not give this story to
hurt or to harm but to illustrate a
great truth.

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This is a picture of a group of children out
playing in the streets.

One group says, "Let's play funeral."
They play funeral for a while, soon tire of it
and then say, "Let's play wedding."
Soon they grow tired of playing wedding
and they go from one extreme to another.

They are spoiled children.
The generation Jesus was speaking to
was like that, and our generation is
also.
Whiners – “I want my Mommy!”

Christ rebuked the people of that
generation for their childishness.
Nothing pleased them!
There is a difference between being
childish and childlike.

Later in Matthew 11:25-26, Jesus says
that only the childlike can understand
HisWord.
The world today is like spoiled
children who demand entertainment
and something new all the time.

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John and Jesus were opposites in their lives and
ministries, yet neither one could satisfy the
childish crowd.

For John came neither eating nor
drinking, and they say, He hath a
devil. [Matthew 11:18]
John was both austere and severe and
they didn't feel comfortable with him.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and
they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a
winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
But wisdom is justified of her children.
[Matthew 11:19]
Jesus was friendly.
What about Him?

"Oh, He is gluttonous. He's too friendly
with sinners!"
They weren't pleased with Jesus.
There are some folk that you simply
cannot please and you are better off not
trying to please everyone.

They don't like one preacher because
he just stands up there and in a
monotone gives his sermon.
Then the next preacher they don't like
because he is very demonstrative and
pounds the pulpit.

Or one is too profound, and they don't
understand him, and the other is too
simple -- so they don't like him either.
There are a lot of people whom no
one can please, and that was certainly
true in our Lord's day.

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Today’s Passage
Matthew 11:20-30

Woe to the Impenitent Cities
20Then He began to rebuke the cities
in which most of His mighty works
had been done, because they did not
repent:

21 “Woe to you, Chorazin!Woe to you,
Bethsaida! For if the mighty works
which were done in you had been
done inTyre and Sidon, they would
have repented long ago in sackcloth
and ashes.

(How unusual to find the word “Woe”
on the lips of Jesus!This is the first
time in Matthew we find Jesus
uttering words of condemnation.The
word woe means judgment, but it also
includes pity and sorrow.)

The Greek word for woe is ouai; and ouai
expresses sorrowful pity at least as much
as it does anger.
Jesus had done many mighty works, and
His disciples had performed miracles too,
yet the cities rejected Him.

This sorrow of Jesus is the sorrow of One
Who offered men the most precious thing
in the world and saw it disregarded.
Jesus’ condemnation of sin is holy anger,
but the anger comes, not from outraged
pride, but from a broken heart.

The greater a person’s privileges have
been, the greater is their
condemnation if they fail to shoulder
the responsibilities and accept the
obligations which these privileges
bring with them.

These cities did not attack Jesus
Christ; they did not drive Him from
their gates; they did not seek to
crucify Him; they simply disregarded
Him.

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This was the sin of indifference.

And so we are face to face with one
great threatening truth — sometimes
it is a terrible sin to do nothing.
There are sins of action, sins of deed;
but there is also a sin of inaction, and
of absence of deeds.

The sin of Chorazin, of Bethsaida, and
of Capernaum was the sin of doing
nothing.
Many a man's defense is: "But I never
did anything" and that defense may
be in fact his condemnation.

22 But I say to you, it will be more
tolerable forTyre and Sidon in the day
of judgment than for you.

23 And you, Capernaum, who are
exalted to Heaven, will bebrought
down to Hades; for if the mighty
works which were done in you had
been done in Sodom, it would have
remained until this day.

24 But I say to you that it shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom in the
day of judgment than for you.”

Capernaum had been especially blessed,
since this was Christ's "headquarters" for
the early part of His ministry (Matthew
8:5-17; 9:1 ).
Where the light shines the brightest,
people have the greatest responsibility.

There will be degrees of judgment
according to the amount of light a
person had.
It is a serious thing to know the truth
and turn from it!

It is J.Vernon Magee’s understanding
that there will be degrees of
punishment as well as degrees of
reward at the time of God's judgment,
according to the amount of light a
person had.

He said: “I would much rather be a
Hottentot in the darkness of a jungle
without having heard the Gospel than
to be an officer in one of our modern
churches, having a Bible but never
truly having accepted Christ as
Savior.”

Matthew 11:25 NKJV
Jesus GivesTrue Rest
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, “I
thankYou, Father, Lord of Heaven and
Earth, thatYou have hidden these things
from the wise and prudent (leaders) and
have revealed them to babes (common
people).

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…revealed them to little children.

This is a crucial moment in His ministry
because the rebellion against Jesus has
already set in and will culminate in open
rejection.
Christ turns to His Father and gives thanks
and what an example for us when we
come to times of difficulty.

God bypassed the wise and prudent
scribes and Pharisees and chose the
simple but believing common people for
salvation (see 1 Corinthians 1).
We cannot explain the mystery of the
Father's will, but we can adore and obey
Him.

Christ's invitation here is for all to come to
Him.
It is no longer a message limited to the
Jews, as it was in 10:5-6.
Christ now opens the door to all who will
come and believe and take His yoke.

There is a vast difference between the
spoiled children of the parable
(Matthew 11:16-19) and the
submissive children of this statement
of praise.

The Pharisees had laid many burdens
on the people (Matthew 23:4), and
their religion did not give rest and
peace.
No human religion can give peace to
the heart.

26 Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in
Your sight. 27 All things have been
delivered to Me by My Father, and no one
knows the Son except the Father. Nor
does anyone know the Father except the
Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to
reveal Him.

The Father reveals Himself to the Son,
and the Son, in turn, reveals Himself
and the Father to those who are
willing to come to the Son in faith.

28 Come to Me, all you who labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. 29Take My yoke upon you and
learn from Me, for I am gentle and
lowly in heart, and you will find rest
for your souls.

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30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

This is a new message from Jesus as He
turns from the corporate nation to the
individual.
It is no longer the national announcement
about a kingdom but a personal invitation
to find the "rest" of salvation.

Three commands summarize this
personal invitation:
“Come.”
“Take.”
“Learn.”

"Come."
The Pharisees all said "Do!" and tried to make
the people follow Moses and the burdensome
traditions.
Jesus said in Matthew 23:4a
4a "For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear,
and lay them on men’s shoulders;

True salvation is found only in a
Person, Jesus Christ, not by doing
something or by keeping a set of
rules.
To come to Him means to trust Him –
faith in Christ alone.

This invitation is open to those who
are exhausted and burdened down.
That is exactly how the people felt
under the yoke of pharisaical legalism
(Matthew 23:4; Acts 15:10).

"Take."
This is a deeper experience.
When we come to Christ by faith, He gives us
rest.
When we take His yoke and learn, we find rest
that deeper rest of surrender and obedience.

The first is “peace with God" (Romans 5:1); the
second is "the peace of God" (Philippians 4:6-
8).
To "take a yoke" in that day meant to become a
disciple.
When we submit to Christ, we are yoked to
Him.

"Learn."
The first two commands (Come and Take)
represent a crisis as we come and yield to
Christ, but this step (Learn) is a process in
which we learn more about Him and we
find a deeper peace since we trust Him
more.

Christ offers a yoke that is easy in
contrast to the grinding, binding yoke
of the law (Acts 15:10).
"I will give you rest" is literally "I will
rest you" and this is the peace with
God that comes with salvation.

Romans 5:10 NKJV
10 For if when we were enemies (of
God) we were reconciled to God
through the death of His Son,
(also Colossians 1:19-21)

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Romans 5:1 NKJV
1Therefore, having been justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ,

When Christ gives us rest, that brings
peace with God but when we find rest,
we learn of the peace of God that
comes with surrender (see Philippians
4:6-9).

Philippians 4:6-7 & 9 NKJV
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything
by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, let your requests be made
known to God; 7 and the peace of God,
which surpasses all understanding, will
guard your hearts and minds through
Christ Jesus.

9The things which you learned and
received and heard and saw in me,
these do, and the God of peace will be
with you.
Philippians 4:6-7 & 9 NKJV

With the peace of God to guard us
and the God of peace to guide us –
what could we possibly have to worry
about?

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Matthew 11:30 NKJV
30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

The word "easy" in Greek is chrestos
which means “well-fitting”.
Jesus has just the yoke that He tailor-
made for your life and for your needs.

There is a legend that Jesus made the
best ox-yokes in all Galilee, and that
from all over the country men came to
Him to buy the best yokes that skill
could make.

In those days, as now, shops had their
signs above the door; and it has been
suggested that the sign above the
door of the carpenter's shop in
Nazareth may well have been:
"My yokes fit well."

What He means is: "The life I give you
is not a burden to gall you; your task is
made to measure to fit you."
Whatever God sends us is made to fit
our needs and our abilities exactly.

Therefore, the burden of doing His
will is not a heavy one (1 John 5:3).
1 John 5:3 NKJV
3 For this is the love of God, that we
keep His commandments. And His
commandments are not burdensome.

When He speaks of being "heavy laden," He is
referring to being burdened with sin. (see 1
Peter 2:24)
1 Peter 2:24 NIV
24 Jesus Himself bore (the burden of) our sins in
his body on the cross, so that we might die to
sins and live for righteousness; “by His wounds
you have been healed.”

To be yoked to Christ (I am crucified
with Christ – Galatians 2:20) is the
greatest blessing possible.
He will put you exactly where He
wants you when you are yoked up to
Him.

Jesus says, "My burden is light."
As a Rabbi said: "My burden has become my
song."
It is not that the burden is easy to carry; but it is
laid on us in love; it is meant to be carried in
love; and love makes even the heaviest burden
light.

When we remember the love of God,
when we know that our burden is to
love God and to love men, then the
burden becomes a song.

There is an old story which tells how a
man came upon a little boy carrying a
still smaller boy, who was lame, upon
his back.
"That's a heavy burden for you to
carry," said the man.

"That's no' a burden," came the
answer. "That's my wee brother."
The burden which is given in love and
carried in love becomes light.

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He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother!

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John MacArthur, Jr.
(born June 19, 1939)
Radio program: Grace toYou

Matthew 11:28 NKJV
28 Come to Me, all you who labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest.

Matthew 11:28a “Come to Me”
Just as man's part in salvation is to
come humbly, it is also to come in
faith.

Although finite minds cannot fully
comprehend the truth; divine grace and
human faith are inseparable in salvation.
“For by grace are you saved through faith”
(Ephesians 2:8)

God sovereignly provides salvation,
which includes the fact that man must
give himself to the Lord Jesus Christ in
commitment before it becomes
effective.

Romans 12:3 NKJV
3 For I say, through the grace given to
me, to everyone who is among you,
not to think of himself more highly
than he ought to think, but to think
soberly, as God has dealt to each one
a measure of faith.

19Then the disciples came to Jesus
privately and said, “Why could we not
cast it (the demon causing epilepsy)
out?”

20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of
your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to
you, if you have faith as a mustard
seed, you will say to this mountain,
‘Move from here to there,’ and it will
move; and nothing will be impossible
for you.

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21 However, this kind does not go out except by
prayer and fasting.”

To come is to believe to the point of
submitting to the lordship of Christ.
"I am the bread of life," Jesus
declared; "he who comes to Me shall
not hunger, and he who believes in Me
shall never thirst" (John 6:35).

“Comes” and “believes” are parallel
just as are hunger and thirst.
Coming to Christ is believing in Him,
which results in no longer hungering
and thirsting.

Other Biblical synonyms for believing
in Christ include:
1) confessing Him,
2) receiving Him,
3) eating and drinking Him, and
4) hearing Him.

REPENTANCE AND REST
“all who are weary and heavy-laden,
and I will give you rest.” Matt 11:28b
‘All who are’ indicates a condition that
already exists.

Those whom Jesus invites to Himself
are those who already are weary and
heavy-laden.

Although this aspect of Jesus'
invitation is mentioned after faith
("Come to Me"), chronologically it
precedes faith, referring to the
repentance that drives the humble,
seeking person to Christ for salvation.

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Kopiao (to grow weary, or "to labor")
carries the idea of working to the point of
utter exhaustion.

Weary refers to arduous toil in seeking
to please God and know the way of
salvation.
Jesus calls to Himself everyone who is
exhausted from trying to find and
please God in his own resources.

Jesus invites the person who is
wearied from his vain search for truth
through human wisdom, who is
exhausted from trying to earn
salvation, and who has despaired of
achieving God's standard of
righteousness by his own efforts.

Heavy-laden indicates that at some
time in the past a great load was
dumped on the wearied person.

Whereas weary refers to the internal
exhaustion caused by seeking divine
truth through human wisdom, heavy-
laden suggests the external burdens
caused by the futile self-efforts of
works to achieve righteousness.

In Jesus' day, the rabbinical teachings
had become so massive, demanding,
and all-encompassing that they
prescribed standards and formulas for
virtually every human activity.

It was all but impossible even to learn all
the traditions, and was completely
impossible to keep them all.
Jesus spoke of the heavy loads of religious
tradition that the scribes and Pharisees
laid on the people's shoulders (Matthew
23:4).

At the Jerusalem Council, Peter noted
that the Judaizers were trying to
saddle Christianity with the same
man-made "yoke which neither our
fathers nor we have been able to
bear" (Acts 15:10).

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Jesus gives a call to repent, to turn away from
the self-centered and works-centered life and
come to Him.

The person who is weary and heavy-
laden despairs of his own ability to
please God.
He comes to the end of his own
resources and turns to Christ.

Desperation is a part of true salvation,
because a person does not come to Christ
as long as he has confidence in himself.
To repent is to make a 180-degree turn
from the burden of the old life to the
restfulness of the new.

Repentance was the theme of John
the Baptist's preaching (Matthew 3:2)
and the starting point of the
preaching of Jesus (Matthew 4:17),
Peter (Acts 2:38; 3:19; 5:31), and Paul
(Acts 17:30; 20:21; 2Tim 2:25).

The person who humbly receives
God's revelation of Himself and His
way of salvation, who turns from the
unbearable burden of his sin and self-
effort, and who comes to Christ
empty-handed is the only person God
will save.

Anapauo (to give ... rest) means to
refresh or revive, as from labor or a
long journey.
Jesus promises spiritual rest to
everyone who comes to Him in
repentance and humble faith.

God's rest is a common OldTestament theme.
The Lord warned Israel, "Do not harden your
hearts, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in
the wilderness; when your fathers tested Me,
they tried Me, though they had seen My work
....Therefore I swore in My anger, truly they
shall not enter into My rest" (Psalm 95:7-9,11).

After quoting that passage, the writer of
Hebrews warns those who make a
pretense of faith in Christ but have not
really trusted Him: "Take care, brethren,
lest there should be in any one of you an
evil, unbelieving heart, in falling
away from the living God" (Hebrews 3:12).

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To intellectually acknowledge Christ's
deity and lordship is a dangerous
thing if it does not lead to true faith,
because it gives a person the false
confidence of belonging to Christ.

In the time of the early church many
Jews were attracted to the Gospel and
outwardly identified themselves with
the church.

But for fear of being unsynagogued,
ostracized from the worship and
ceremonies of Judaism, some of them did
not truly receive Christ as saving Lord.
They went part way to Him but stopped
before full commitment.

"As a result" of such superficial
allegiance, John says, "many of His
disciples withdrew, and were not
walking with Him anymore"
(John 6:66).

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Consequently, they would not enter God's rest,
that is, His salvation, because they still
possessed "an evil, unbelieving heart"
(Hebrews 3:11-12).

Just as those Israelites who rebelled
against Moses in the wilderness were
denied entrance into the Promised
Land because of unbelief, so those
who refuse to fully trust in Christ are
denied entrance into God's kingdom
rest of salvation for the same reason.

"Therefore, let us fear lest, while a
promise remains of entering His rest, any
one of you should seem to have come
short of it. For indeed we have had good
news preached to us, just as they also; but
the word they heard did not profit them,
because it was not united by faith in those
who heard.

For we who have believed enter that
rest, just as He has said, 'As I swore in
My wrath, they shall not enter My
rest'" (Hebrews 4:1-3).'"

The dictionary gives several definitions of
rest that remarkably parallel the spiritual
rest God offers those who trust in His Son.
First, the dictionary describes rest as
cessation from action, motion, labor, or
exertion.

In a similar way, to enter God's rest is
to cease from all efforts at self-help in
trying to earn salvation.
Second, rest is described as freedom
from that which wearies or disturbs.

Again we see the spiritual parallel of
God's giving His children freedom
from the cares and burdens that rob
them of peace and joy.

Third, the dictionary defines rest as
something that is fixed and settled.
Similarly, to be in God's rest is to have
the wonderful assurance that our
eternal destiny is secure in Jesus
Christ, our Lord and Savior.

It is to be freed from the uncertainties
of running: from philosophy to
philosophy, from religion to religion,
from guru to guru, hoping somehow
and somewhere to discover truth,
peace, happiness, and eternal life.

Fourth, rest is defined as being confident
and trustful.
When we enter God's rest we are given the
assurance that "HeWho began a good
work in us will perfect it until the day of
Christ Jesus" (Philippians 1:6).

Finally, the dictionary describes rest as
leaning, reposing, or depending on.
As children of God, we can depend with
utter certainty that our heavenly Father
will "supply all our needs according to His
riches in glory in Christ Jesus" (Philippians
4:19).

SUBMISSION
Matthew 11:29-30
29Take My yoke upon you, and learn
from Me, for I am gentle and humble
in heart; and you shall find rest for
your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy, and
My load is light."

Salvation involves submission, because it
is impossible for Christ to exercise lordship
over those who refuse to obey Him.
Jesus' invitation therefore includes the call
to submission, symbolized by a yoke.

A yoke was made of wood, hand-hewn to
fit the neck and shoulders of the particular
animal that was to wear it in order to
prevent chafing.
For obvious reasons, the term was widely
used in the ancient world as a metaphor
for submission.

The yoke was part of the harness used
to pull a cart, plow, or mill beam and
was the means by which the animal's
master kept it under control and
guided it in useful work.

A student was often spoken of as
being under the yoke of his teacher,
and an ancient Jewish writing
contains the advice: "Put your neck
under the yoke and let your soul
receive instruction."

That is the particular meaning Jesus
seems to have had in mind here, because
He adds, and learn from Me.
Manthano (to learn) is closely related to
mathetes (disciple, or learner) and
reinforces the truth that Christ's disciples
are His submissive learners.

They submit to Christ's lordship for many
reasons, among the most important of
which is to be taught by Him through His
Word.
A yoke symbolizes obedience, and
Christian obedience includes learning
from Christ.

The power of salvation is entirely of grace
and nothing of works.
An unbeliever has neither the
understanding nor the ability to save
himself, just as a babe has neither the
understanding nor the ability to help itself.

But although good works do not produce
salvation, salvation does produce good
works.
Believers are, in fact, "created in Christ
Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in them"
(Ephesians 2:10).

Because Jesus is gentle and humble in
heart, He gives rest, not weariness, to
the souls of those who submit to Him
and do His work.
When you yoke up with Him, His yoke
is easy, and His load is light.

His burden is not like that of Pharaoh,
who bitterly oppressed the children of
Israel, or like that of the scribes and
Pharisees, who burdened the Jews of
Jesus' day with a grievous legalism.

His yoke is easy, and His load is light.
(Matthew 11:29-30)
Christ will never oppress us or give us
a burden too heavy to carry.

His yoke has nothing to do with the
demands of works or law, much less
those of human tradition.
The Christian's work of obedience to
Christ is joyful and happy.

"For," as John explains, "this is the
love of God, that we keep His
commandments; and His
commandments are not burdensome"
(1 John 5:3).

Submission to Jesus Christ brings the
greatest liberation a person can
experience — actually the only true
liberation he can experience, because
only through Christ is he freed to
become what God created him to be.

The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died
in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

Revelation 21:8 NKJV
8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 21:7 NKJV
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will
be his God and he shall be My son.”
•Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how become an
overcomer.

Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved.”

If you have questions or would like to know more,
Please, contact First Baptist Church Jackson at
601-949-1900 or http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/

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