Come to me…

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Come to me

• Come to Me
• all you who labor
• and are heavy laden,
• and I will give you rest." 
• - (Matthew 1128)

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All you who labor
labor    source www.dictionary.com .Physica
l or mental exertion, especially when difficult
or exhausting
Exodus 54 Then the king of Egypt said to them,
"Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from
their work? Get back to your labor." Exodus 55
And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land
are many now, and you make them rest from their
labor!" Exodus 59 Let more work be laid on the
men, that they may labor in it, and let them not
regard false words."
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Laden

• Definition of

• laden     P   Pronunciation Key  (l d n)v.
• A past participle of lade.
• adj.
• Weighed down with a load heavy the warmish
  air, laden with the rains of those thousands of
  miles of western sea (Hilaire Belloc).
• Oppressed burdened laden with grief.

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• What is the heavy Laden in my life ?

Work
school?
Sin
uncertainty
Family problems
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Escape ??

• What do people do about their burdens?
• What do Kids in school do?
• What does the media give as options?

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Getting drunk

• Why it may be attractive to do?

• What are the consequences?

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Drugs

• Why it may be attractive to do?

• What are the consequences?

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Metal/Hard Music

• Why it may be attractive to do?

• What are the consequences?

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Abuse ofTV, online, shopping

• Why it may be attractive to do?

• What are the consequences?

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Can you think of others?

• Why it may be attractive to do?

• What are the consequences?

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Things in common

• They are all escapes, they dont heal..merely
  patches
• No benefit
• Cause the user to want more
• No benefit/harmful
• Effects lasts for a few hours if not minutes
• Feel more worst afterwards

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Story Time
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Reality of Hardships

• Burdens are a fact of life.
• The tree of knowledge of good and evil

Knowledge experience
Experience of good evil
Experience of good
Adam Eve
Adam Eve
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The rest of Christ
Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest
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Build on Rock or Sand?

• Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine,
  and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who
  built his house on the rock and the rain
  descended, the floods come and the winds blew ,
  and beat on that house and it did not fall, for
  it was founded on the rock. Now everyone who
  hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them,
  will be like a foolish man who build his house on
  sand and the rain, descended, the floods came,
  and the winds blew and beat on that house and
  it fell. And great was its fall Matth 724-27

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Word of God gives comfort

• Hear a just cause, O Lord, Attend to my cry
  Give ear to my prayer that is not from a
  deceitful lips. Uphold my steps in Your paths,
  that my footstep may not slip. I have called upon
  you, for you will hear me, O God psalms

Exercise 3 teams find 5 verses to give comfort (
Old, Psalms, New testament)
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Prayer gives comfort

• Pope Kirolos
• Liturgy

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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 316

• Christ gives Eternal life.

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• I laid my life for you so that you may have
  eternal life with me

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On my shoulder you cry In my hands you rest
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God promises to take care of us
Can you think of verses? Mother forget her
child? Palm of hands? Touches the apple of my
eye!!
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The fruits of the Holy Spirit Galatians 521-23

• Love
• Happy, get a long with people.
• Joy
• Make you super happy!
• Peace
• Happiness deep within
• Longsuffering
• Give you the power to endure!

• Kindness
• Relationships, friends
• Goodness
• Role model, respect
• Faithfulness
• Get you through difficult times, hope for the
  future
• Gentleness
• People love you
• Self-control
• Power over sin, feel better about yourself

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• Wouldn't you rather rest in him?