Today's Sermon:
"Lay Your Burden Down"
Discipleship, Part 3

I. Condition of Discipleship:

II. Description of Discipleship

Quote- Ryle- Believing on Christ is coming to Him, and coming to Christ is believing on Him. It is that act of the soul which takes place when a man, feeling his own sins, and despairing of all other hope, commits himself to Christ for salvation, ventures on Him, trusts Him, and casts himself wholly on Him. When a man turns to Christ empty that he may be filled, sick that he may be healed, hungry that he may be satisfied, thirsty that he may be refreshed, needy that he may be enriched, dying that he may have life, lost that he may be saved, guilty that he may be pardoned, sin-defiled that he may be cleansed, confessing that Christ alone can supply his need—then he comes to Christ.
-J.C. Ryle, Old Paths

III. Motivation to Discipleship

A. Who Jesus is:

B. What Jesus Offers:

"Jesus removes those crushing burdens which would destroy any human being, and replaces them with a yoke of appropriate stress designed specifically for me."
-Dr. Paul Brand

Lay your burden down, lay your burden downTake your troubled soul, your tired mindAnd lay your burden down, get your feet on solid groundTake your worries to the foot of the cross, and lay your burden down
Take your weary life, your heavy load, and lay your burden downTake your failures to the foot of the cross, and lay your burden down
-Chuck Girard, “Lay Your Burden Down”