Burden-Bearer

I. EXORDIUM:

Do we worry? or do we let go and let GOD bear our burdens?

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD will bear our burdens if we let Him

IV. TEXT:

Psalms 68:19 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

Praise the Lord; praise God our savior! For each day he carries us in his arms.

V. THESIS:

GOD will bear our burdens if we obey His commands of casting all our cares to Him.

VI. TITLE:

Burden-bearer

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Psalms - book of praises

B. Author: King David wrote about 73 songs, sons of Korah wrote about 11 songs, Asaph wrote 12 songs, Solomon wrote 2 songs, Moses wrote 1 and others

C. Time of writing: Various times

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. Praise the LORD, the GOD who saves

"Praise the Lord; praise God our savior!"

Psalms 68:19 (King James Version)

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

Psalms 68:19 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

Praise the Lord; praise God our savior! For each day he carries us in his arms.

We end up praising and worshipping the LORD GOD more and loving Him more and more everyday as our love for Him grows everyday. We love Him because He first loved us. Since we make the exchange with GOD, GOD bears our cares which will be detrimental to our spiritual health, and then He exchanged it daily with benefits.

1. Loadeth came from the Hebrew word:"awmas" meaning to load, impose a burden, borne. And His burdens are worthy to carry, it's good thing to carries His benefits everyday. What benefits? Benefits of salvation, He daily gives it to us: (a) healing, (b) forgiveness of our sins, (c) sanctification, (d) justification, (e) righteousness and it's an unending lists of benefits.

Psalms 68:19 (Amplified Bible)

Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the God Who is our salvation! Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

Psalms 32:7 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

For you are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory. Interlude

Psalms 139:17 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!

Lamentations 3:23 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.

B. GOD carries our burdens everyday. (Matthew 11:28, Isaiah 53:4, Matthew 8:17, 1 Peter 5:7)

"For each day he carries us in his arms."

He bears us or carries us in His arms and also He carries our burdens, cares of this world if we only let Him.

Matthew 13:22 (New King James Version)

Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Mark 4:19 (New King James Version)

and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

James 1:11 (New Century Version)

The sun rises with burning heat and dries up the plants. The flower falls off, and its beauty is gone. In the same way the rich will die while they are still taking care of business.

- The thorns or cares of this world will lead us nowhere, if we have accepted the Seed which is the LORD JESUS CHRIST, we also need to receive His command for us, and let us give cares of this world to the LORD. Instead we carry it ourselves or shoulder it ourselves, thinking we can do it, and end up being choked. That's why the rich man will die in the midst of their being busy. Whenever you invite a rich man to church services or even a one hour bible study, the response is almost automatic, "I'm busy." just taking a 1 hour break is not acceptable to the rich man because he has a lot of cares. If you are poor, and think for yourself that if you get rich, you'll be ok, but think about the rich man and he can't even sleep at night because he's thinking about someone robbing his wealth.

Ecclesiastes 5:12 (New International Version)

The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of a rich man permits him no sleep.

Matthew 11:28 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

Isaiah 53:4 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!