Matt 11:30, “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (M. Poole)

… It is easy, considering that we do it not in our own strength, but by assistance from God, #Jer 31:33 Eze 36:25,26 Joh 15:3, we are delivered even from the moral law, considered as a covenant, and as merely commanding us, and affording no help and assistance.

It is also easy; as we’re by the love of God constrained to our duty, so we are freed from the rigor of the law. It is easy & light, as it is a course of life highly consonant to our reason, once delivered from a bondage to our passions. Finally, it is much more easy and light than the service of our lusts is. There is no greater slavery than a subjection to our lusts, that if a drunkard saith "Come," we must come, if an harlot saith "Go," we must go. Or than our service to the world, &c. To say nothing of the exceeding easiness of it, from the prospect of the great reward proposed & promised to those who keep the commandments of Christ, the exceeding & eternal weight of glory, #2Co 4:17; as Jacob’s hard service of fourteen years seemed to him but a few days.

You Would Not (Matt 23:37-38)

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.”

The problem is not the Lord’s inability or unwillingness to save; it is men’s REFUSAL to be saved by the grace of God unto good works. People refuse cleansing by the blood of the Lamb, and so we die in sinful religion, exalting ourselves, and not obeying. When God cursed mankind, He left us
spiritually dead, both INEXCUSABLE and unwilling: we WILL NOT come to Christ.


Therefore, salvation is by absolute grace from start to finish. We do not start “by God”, and then move into “by us”. God gives us faith in His grace to save us, the sinner. He will save us according to the word, and we come to Him because we believe both the warning, “your house is left unto you desolate”, and we believe the promise, “How often would I have gathered you”. For the believer, there is no time when we’re REJECTED of God, no matter what preceded our need. I may have sinned horribly, but Christ’s OPEN ARMS to the perishing not only warns me against NOT coming, but it bids me to come saying, “Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Rev 22:17). Therefore, let every sinner come to Christ, knowing that you could not have come, except God saved you in love and opened your eyes to what others just like you cannot see. Jesus said, “No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:44).


Salvation by grace is God SAVING people who despise Him more than anything, a people who hate holiness, who He changes into WILLING comers to Christ, willing bathers in the blood of acceptance, and thereby willing servants to do His will.


We come because Christ says, “Come”, we come because have GREAT need, and we come to be made obedient by the grace of God.