Finding Help. Matthew 11:28-30

Bro. Jesse Byrd preaches “Finding Help” from Matthew 11:28–30, reminding listeners that when life becomes heavy and overwhelming, true help and rest are found in bringing our burdens to Jesus.

Message preached on June 7, 2026.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:35

I had two sets of scriptures I'll do. One I was going to preach this morning. But if you would turn to me this morning to Matthew 11 and verse 28, Jesus said this. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy land, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am me and lowly in heart. You shall find rest until your soul. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Father, we thank you for reading the Holy Word of God. Thank you this morning for everyone. I want to sound my voice. God, I thank you for all the ones that listen and watch in service of this person. God I pray this morning that the truth falls upon the ground. I pray, God, that the Holy Spirit move to our lives of our service. I pray this morning that you remove our physical and spiritual distraction from us. God, I pray that we focus on you to listen to the Holy Spirit. God, I pray this morning that anyone that needs prayer, anyone that needs to say, I pray to step out all upon you before us every last two late. That's just in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. The title of our sermon this morning is Finding Help. Finding help. You know, as I said this morning, life is a mystery. You know, some days life is bad and some days life is good. You know, as a child of God this morning as a Christian, we've got to remind ourselves what God's word says. And the Bible says that we should be happy when it said unto us that let's go into the house of the Lord. That means that we should be happy this morning to be able to get up and come to God's house and be with our brother and sister in Christ. You know, I hate Monday morning, but I hate when we got to get up and go back to work. Uh I know you all hate it as well, and you know many of them have to go back to school. But Sundays are different. Uh we should be uh in a joyful attitude this morning on Sundays to be able to get up and come to God's house. Because as a Christian this morning, we have a joy. We should have a joy in our heart. Uh knowing what God has given us, knowing what God has done for us. Uh we should be uh thankful this morning that we're able to get up and come to God's house. But on our searching, we realize uh at times we become tired, and we just at times feel like we need rest. Uh as I get older, I realize now that uh some days I just want to have a resume. Uh where it used to be children were young and wide open seven days a week, uh back and forth doing this, doing that, and now uh I realize that it's good to have a resume and that everybody needs a resident. Uh but we see this morning that physically uh as humans, uh we never stop. Uh we all the time got something going on. Uh from the time our feet hit the floor, we run. And the time we lay down, our feet stop running, but our minds stop running. Uh we start trying to figure out what's going to happen the next morning, the next day, the next night, two weeks down the road. Uh so maybe our feet stop running, but our mind steady runs at all times. Uh but uh we realize that spiritually, we have something more serious than physical pain. Uh as a Christian this morning, spiritually wise, uh, it hurts to see uh the world and the shape it's in this morning. It hurts to see uh our Christian brothers and sisters suffering. Uh it hurts us to see uh the sinners down the road that don't know Jesus, that's still living a sinful life. It hurts as a Christian this morning spiritually to know that uh that they uh they're not living for God and there's a better way of living than the way they live. But most people today are spiritually tired and weary. Uh many are troubled and agitated in their souls and trying to find rest in the wrong places. Uh people look everywhere else and try to find uh rest for their souls, uh, and we don't realize just how easy it is to get rest. But today in our scripture, Jesus is inviting you and me to enter that place of spiritual rest. Uh, we must ask God for help. The Bible clearly tells us that you have not because you ask not. You see, uh, we can ask God for anything this morning. That doesn't mean God's gonna give it to you, but that means that uh we asking God and we seek in God, and as I preached last Sunday, we ask Him God for His will to be done. But in order to receive things, you've got to ask for things. Uh if you don't ask God to help you, God's not gonna help you. If you don't ask God to help you get over these uh trials and tribulations you're going through, God's not gonna help you. If you don't ask God to establish your goings, establish your ways, God's not gonna do anything, but he's gonna let you wonder, do whatever you want to do. But in order this morning for us to receive things, we've got to ask God. And the Bible says, number one, there's an invitation for salvation this morning. Jesus delivers the fleet. He says, salvation is when you come to Jesus. You see, and we serve a God this morning that can save you in the dark, he can save you at night, he can save you in the morning, he can save you at lunchtime, he can save you when it's raining, he can save you when it's beautiful outside. We serve a God this morning that comes to you and can save you anytime you ask God to save you, God can find you this morning. So it tells that in order to be saved this morning, it's not only coming to church, it's not only about what denomination you belong to, it's not only about how much money we give. None of those things matter to God this morning. What matters to God this morning is whether or not you've been born again. Then we see God start moving for us. Salvation is simple whenever you come to Jesus. You know, I tell you all the time in 2010 I got saved. I didn't know how to get saved and what to do. But I kept fighting and fighting, and I realized that if God gave up on me at that moment, that I was on my way to hell. That if God gave up on me as long as he's been battling me, the Holy Spirit has been moving. If I didn't accept God, I was playing with hell. But you see, salvation this morning is easy. All you have to do is confess that you need a Savior, give your heart to Christ, and let God change you this morning. So it says that in 1 John 5 and 12, it says, He that has the Son has life, and he that has not the Son has no life. Anyone who sees their need at a Savior can come down at Jesus and he will save you. Jesus says, Whoever comes to him, he will no wise cast out. That means you this morning, right where you are this morning, the things you got going on in life, the things that you're dealing with, the Bible says that if you come to Jesus, he will no wise cast you out. That means if you come to God, you tell God all your problems that you have this morning. You tell God the struggles you have this morning, that once you accept Christ as your Savior, it says that he will nowise cast you out. That means that he won't take you away from salvation again. That means once you accept Jesus, once you're really born again, that means you have eternal salvation, that no man, no woman, no power can pluck you out of the hands of God this morning. That's when you have true salvation this morning. That when you call on Jesus, that means once you get saved, once you get truly saved, that means you're living for God, and then the only way to heaven is push your ticket to heaven. But in order to get to heaven, you have to be really saved, really born again this morning. You cannot get saved and live like the devil Monday through Saturday. You've heard me said plenty of times. In order for you to get truly saved this morning, that means you ask God to come into your heart and you strive to be Christ like and you move like God moves, you do things God tells you to do, and that moment, that's when you realize that you're born again. This morning, I pray that we're all born again this morning, that we're truly born again. Not just saying that I'm a Christian, but really living as a Christian. Really give your heart to God this morning. Because the Bible says that Jesus will save the uttermost everywhere. That means you'll go to the top of the mountain, that means he'll go to the bottom of the mountain, that means you'll go to the hole of the church this morning. No matter how deep you're buried in sin this morning, Jesus Christ can save you this morning. But you've got to be willing to make your way to God. God hasn't moved. God hasn't changed. A couple weeks ago we studied Bible study about how the Bible, how churches have changed. You see, we don't do the things they did back in the Old Testament. We don't do the things they did in the New Testament. We live in the New Testament, we've changed. We don't pray as much as the old churches prayed. We don't live by strict rules like the old churches ruled and live by. So that's why we don't see God move like He did once before, because we've lost our way with God. We don't pray as hard as we used to pray. You see, in order for God to move, we've got to be in one unity and one accord and friend with each other. The Bible says this morning that the people Jesus is talking to here, some are struggling under the burden of doubt. You see, Jesus was telling the people as he was preaching that sermon that day. He was helping them, trying to help them. Because they were going through a time of doubt. We're living in a time this morning where a lot of people have doubt. A lot of people don't have certainty about tomorrow, about what's going to happen with this war going on, what's going to happen with our comedy, we don't know what's going to happen with anything. A lot of people is living in this day and time just as they were back then when Jesus preached that sermon about having a burden of doubt. You see, doubt is one of when you lose faith. When we start doubting God, that means we don't have faith in God. You see, but we have faith this morning. When you have faith, that doubt removes and you have faith in God this morning. How many times have you done have you gone through things and you didn't know how you were going to make it to Friday? But God threw it away. There'd be plenty of times where we didn't know as a church the stories I've heard of how the light bill was going to get paid years and years ago. Have five, three to five people in the congregation. But I don't recall anybody telling me that they had to come to service without life to be home with them and broke. God made a way. You see, when you have faith this morning, you lose doubt. And you have faith in God. It's not about how is God going to do it or when God, it's I know God can do it. You have faith this morning. You can't live without faith. When you start letting doubt overtake faith, you start losing your way with God. You see, we've got to have faith in order to make it this morning. Without faith, the Bible says it's impossible to please God. You can't be a follower of God without faith this morning. Everybody had faith in something this morning. You got up, you trusted, you trusted the floor to hold you when you got out of bed. You trusted to be able to get you to church. You trusted so-and-so to do this. Everybody's put faith in something this morning. But a lot of us have got faith in the wrong person. Do you have faith in God this morning? So it tells us that he wants them to all come to him and have rest. So we see faith removes out, and when we believe in Jesus, we call on Jesus, eternal life as a destination that we are going and looking to and looking forward to. The sin bondage Jesus can and will set you free. Many people this morning are still living in sin. Well, they don't think there's any hope. Well, they don't think they can break this bondage of sin. But to remember this morning the story of the legion that had many demons in it. He was bound by chains, he was separated from all segregation. Congregation was separated from everybody. But the only one that could cure him was Jesus. When he came to Jesus, the demons flee from him. So this morning, in order for us to make it right for God and be set free, we've got to come to Jesus. As long as we stay away from God, the worst of the sin is going to be. But the moment we come closer to God and ask God to forgive us, then we start moving back close to God again. Romans 5, 1 says, therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God for our Lord Jesus Christ. We have a command this morning to surrender to God. Salvation requires us to surrender. You can't live this morning and ask God to move for you without fully surrender. You see, that's when we have problems. A person can't get out of the ditch if you keep following the man in the ditch.

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Amen.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

You see what I'm saying? You can't get out of that rut this morning. I remember when we were growing up, and everybody that probably was too. When you got stuck on the side road and your phone was or your trucks or whatever, somebody had to get out of that rut and get you out of the rug. It was hard to pull for them to get the rug and pull you through the rudder. They had to get on the dry ground and pull you out of that rut. This morning, we're living in a spiritual rut and we're looking for somebody in the rut to pull us out. But look on that dry ground this morning where Jesus is, and then Jesus pull us out of that rug. That's the only way you're going to get out of that rug this morning is by asking God to help you. In order for us to get out of it, we've got to ask God to help us. So it says that a yoke was a wooden piece design to allow two oxen to fall over together. I'm not no farmer, but I had to go back and read about it. In order for two oxen with one yoke, they can always put one old ox together with a younger young ox to train that young. That's the way Jesus is. When we come to Christ this morning, we take Jesus' yoke. He's been through everything, he's felt everything, he's conquered everything. We young in this age, so we've got to have somebody with experience to show us how to do it. So when we call on Jesus, that's why he says, take my yoke. That means join with Jesus this morning and let him lead you. You see, when you get on a job, you don't get paired up with somebody inexperienced as you. They put you on somebody that's got a little bit of experience to show you how to get it done. This morning, in order to get it done as a Christian, we've got to call on somebody that lived for 33 and a half years and conquered the word. Somebody that told Satan to get behind him. Somebody that told Satan he is finished. That's who we paired with this morning. And in order for us to get out of what we're living in, get out of the right, do the wrong and do the right things, we've got to call on Jesus. So it tells us this morning that we must surrender. Jesus wants us to fully surrender to him this morning. Think about it this morning. Jesus is calling his name. It's easy. We can't make it without Jesus. But the moment we call on Jesus, we can attach to that yoke with him. When you go through trials and tribulations, he's been through it. When you go through troubles, he's been through it. When you go through pain and suffering, he's been through it. Everything that you go through this morning, Jesus has already gone through it. He's conquered it. So it tells this morning that he knows that we can't live this life on our own, and it says we have a challenge to serve. We must serve like Jesus. Jesus was gentle and humble. You see, you've heard me say many times before that when Jesus ruled this earth, when he called this earth for 33 and a half years, he was a savior. Now we have the Holy Spirit still saved. But when that time winds down, when the clock hits 12 o'clock or 3 o'clock or whatever it hits, that time for God, for Christ to return. When he comes back, he won't longer be a savior. He's going to be the judge. This morning you have an opportunity to call on Jesus to save you. And it says that when you get saved, he wants you to serve. You see, to be a servant this morning, you've got to do what God has called you to do. See, whether it's working as a church, whether it's getting out witnesses, whether it's getting out praying for people, whether it's getting out just letting other people see your light shine. You should be a servant this morning, showing others what God has done for you. Because God has changed all. If you're born again this morning, God's changed you. You went from the old things to new things. You went from times where you didn't like to pray where you love to pray now. You went from where you didn't read the Bible, didn't know what the Bible was, and now you know just about every story in the Bible. You see how God changes you. You see, a preacher can't preach this morning without going through trials and tribulations. A Christian this morning can't walk with God without going through trials and tribulations. Because that's how God humbles you. The Bible says this morning that we go through these things for God to humble us. You see, we get chastised every day. But I'm not giving up on God because I trust God. This morning, as we go through these things, we get chastised. Maybe you get sick, maybe you lose your job. Maybe you lose your health, maybe you lose your wealth. Whatever the situation is this morning, God is testing you to see if you're still gonna have that faith. You're still gonna say, God, I still love you. You're still gonna say, God, I still trust you. So we understand this morning that we'll have served by works, we're not saved by works, but we're willing to save the work. Jesus is looking for you this morning. Now, this morning, I want you to think about it. In Romans 12, you can go back and read it later. Paul wrote to the Romans to tell them, in order to be pleasing to God, you had to present your body as a living sacrifice. That means you just can't give God your right hand and hold your left hand back. That means you can't give God your mind without giving him your heart. Well, we present ourselves as a living sacrifice, that means that we're surrendering everything we have to God. That means I'm giving God my health, I'm giving God my marriage, I'm giving God my family, I'm giving God my job, I'm giving God everything you can think of. Well, if you present it to God, that means you give it to God. You see, how many times do you come before God and say, God, I'm giving you everything. I'm going all in. How do you went all in on God this morning? You see, whenever you go partial with God, God's only going to return partial. But the moment you go all in, that's when God took you to give back. You see, Job had to give it all. Job lost it all and gave it all in order to receive. But if Job wasn't worried about giving back, getting back. All he was worried about is just staying true to God. This morning, you've got to understand, Jesus is the hope this morning. A troubled heart, a troubled spirit cannot get rest without calling on Jesus this morning. How many times have you called on Jesus when you didn't have any other way to go? You tried every other thing that was to try, and it didn't work. But when you call on Jesus, felt that weight of the world lifted off your shoulders. I've been in that situation before. Where I couldn't hardly walk. I was burdened with so much pain. Or I was burdened with so many people lost, burdened with so many problems in this world. Where I couldn't hardly get up out of the bed. I didn't know which way to go. But I only found hope in Jesus. That the only way I found for my law to be like was calling on Jesus. Jesus said, for I am meek and low in heart, he'll help you carry the heavy load this morning. When the trials of life become heavy, we should come to Christ, legal at the altar. See, back then they had altars. When they come down, they presented a sacrifice. They didn't take the sacrifice back with them. When they come down to the altar, they presented a sacrifice, they left it at the altar. This morning the Bible's telling us in Romans that when you come down and give God a sacrifice, that don't mean take your sacrifice back with you. That means you bring your sacrifice to the altar and you leave it at the foot of the cross, and you say, God, here's the problems you held behind. That's what living a sacrifice is. Leaving a sacrifice means you're leaving it all. You know, I read illustration this past week. Many of us is trying to give sacrifices like chickens. You get a plate before you. Tony Evans says you get a plate of breakfast. You get eggs, you get bacon. The chicken gave the egg. Chicken is egg is just a partial of the chicken given back. But in order to get bacon, you've got to get the whole pig.

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That's right.

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Can't just give bacon to keep living. Many of us are doing that this morning. We're living as chickens. We're only giving an egg back to God here and there. We're not doing it this thing and giving the whole thing to God to let him do whatever he's got to do with it. So therefore, that's why we're struggling because we're only giving certain things to God. We can't live like these chickens and only give eggs here and there. We've got to live like this thing and give it all to God. When we go all in with God, that's when you see God start moving in your life. You see, but we struggle. We struggle because it's hard. To give God everything. The old devil, the whole world will tell you. You give God this, you can't live like this. You give God this, you can't have fun. The devil is a liar. This morning you can have more fun as a Christian than you ever will as a sinner. Then on top of that, not only are you having fun, you have a place all heaven waiting on you this morning. That's what's worth it. I don't care if we have to live in struggle and turmoil for the rest of our lives. Who cares? Because I know I want God to, when I stand before God, I want God to say, Well done. I want him to say, You know everything he was called to do. I don't care how many people get mad, okay what we do, I want God to give the credit this morning. So it tells us that we've got to understand, we've got to serve one another and help out with each other's burdens. This morning, it's not a shame. This morning, it's not no surprise. Your pastor has a burden. The burden I have this morning, as I've told you from day one, is this young generation coming up. That's what type of burden I have this morning. I have a burden. For this generation that's getting out into the real world, they're just getting a taste of the real world. They're just getting a taste of how it is whenever you've got problems all around you. This generation has the odds against them. Because they have the devil now with the most powerful tool in the world, social media. The devil has the greatest tool he has. I believe since the beginning of times, is social media. The devil can use it for a five-year-old. All he's got to do is get one word right on Google and then pull up anything at the children. See what I'm saying? The devil knows that. So my burden this morning is for this generation. Because it's so easy for them to lose their way from God. The devil gives them just breaks of gold after gold to follow him. You want this, he gives you double that. You see, that's my burden this morning is that this generation has lost their way, but we as individuals have got to be the one to tell them that there's only one way. That way is Jesus Christ. So this generation that's coming up, sure they're going to struggle, they're going to sin. But it's on us to keep praying for the other day's library and away back to God. We also, as a church this morning, have a burden that we feel that Satan has set in trap after trap for us to fall in. You see, we as individuals have got to know when the devil has set a trap for us. And he sets it daily. For Christians, for pastors, for deacons, for doorbreeders. The devil sets trap just because I'm a preacher. Not only does he set a trap for me, he's got you trapped set out as well. He knows where you're going when you leave church. He knows what Johnny's going to do tomorrow evening. The devil knows everything about you just as God does. The devil's going to set trap after trap. You get through one trap, if you're not prayed up, you're going to fall into another trap. You get through that trap, if you're not prayed up, hit that five more traps just like that. The devil has no quit. The devil knows that this population, this generation, is weak. All you have to do is give a little bit and they'll take it. They'll run with it. You see, the Satan had Satan has said all these traps for this church, for the church down the road, for your family, my family, your family, everybody's family. The devil said traps. But in order to move through these, you have to call on Jesus. Jesus is there on the way this morning. We have a word this morning. For those that are breaking points. We read letters, we read text, we read all these things that we see while our brothers and sisters are going through. They're at a breaking point. They call on the church to pray for them. The Bible says the elders of the church should pray. This morning, we are the elders of the church. So we should have a burden this morning for these members, for these family and friends that's at their breaking points. They don't know which way to go. They've tried every way, everything, they still can't find their way. So they call on the church this morning. We should have a burden to pray for these individuals that they're at a breaking point. But they got to give up. You see, many people have turned on God this morning. The second second. Much as God has done for us, much as God done for everybody that's never drawn breath. There was a lot of people this morning woke up and turned against God by things that happened yesterday. Many people this morning turned against God because He hadn't gave them what they wanted. You see, the Bible clearly tells us we can ask, we can seek, we ask, and it shall be given, we seek, we shall find it, we knock, and it shall be open. But the Bible clearly tells us that God is not going to give you what you want. God's going to give you what you need. This morning, this world needs Jesus. This congregation needs Jesus. I need more Jesus. You need more Jesus. We need Jesus this morning more than we've ever needed before in our lives. We've got to call on him. So in closing this morning. It's simple how we can fix these problems. Jesus says, Come unto me. All ye that are heavy with burdens, and I will give you eternal rest. I will lighten the Lord this morning. Maybe you have something that's holding you back from joining the church. Maybe you have something this morning holding you back from joining God's army. Whatever it is this morning, in order to fix these problems, you can't break that chain, you can't break that addiction, you can't break that, get out of that trap, only by calling Jesus this morning. So we ask ourselves, if we're dealing with burdens, how do we get help? You've got to say God help you. Maybe you've got everything going good in your life. Maybe it's the person sitting beside you. Maybe it's the person sitting behind you, maybe it's your neighbor, maybe it's somebody on a job that tell them that they're breaking points. All we've got to do is tell them to come to Jesus and He fixes it. God has no age this morning. You don't have to be 105 and accept Christ and I'll be 30.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Yes.

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Well, if you feel the Holy Spirit booming, God is asking you to come now. Come unto me. Are you weary and tired from the struggles of life this morning? Are you weary from the storms you have been in this morning? Are you just spiritually worn out this morning? Are you burned from sin? There is rest in Jesus this morning. Will you call for Jesus this morning? You know, I preach it every Sunday. But it's a sermon that will never get old. You must be born again. We're going to preach it from the time when you begin from the time again. You must be born again this morning. So I'm asking you as a pastor this morning. If you have problems, Jesus says, Come unto me. If you're looking for a Savior, Jesus says, Come unto me. If you're looking for a way out this morning, the only way, the only true way is through Jesus this morning. What are the words of this morning? Bring it to Jesus. He already knows. He just wants you to confess it to him. Will you find Jesus this morning before it's ever lasting too late? Let's pray. Father, we thank you again for this scripture, God, this very, very familiar scripture that we've all read throughout our whole lives. God is very powerful and very important. God, I pray this morning for the ones that feels the weight of the world on their shoulders this morning. I pray for the ones this morning that feels like their hearts are about to break. I pray this morning, God, for the ones that's standing at the end of the road and ready to give up. I pray this morning, God, for the ones that are lost and don't know you as Savior. God, I pray this morning for those that's lost their way. I pray that they find their way back to you. And God, I also pray this morning for myself, my family, and all the Christians throughout this church and all throughout the world. I pray, God, that you help us as we go through the trials and the tribulations, the temptations. I pray, God, that you give us more strength to serve you. Father, I pray this morning that if anyone's a being able to save you, I pray they call upon you before it's everlasting too late. We ask this in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.