Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:30
Do we know what Yahuah's Yoke is? If we did know, would it compare to the Yoke placed upon people by Religion? The question is, Does Yahuah want life to be horrible, hard or easy?
Have you not known? Have you not heard, everlasting Yahuah, the Elohim, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon Elohim shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:28-31
It was the Pharisees that added over 600 regulations on what is considered working on the Sabbath. A religious yoke is self-righteousness and legalistic law-keeping regulated by man. This was something Faith in Yahuah was never meant to be.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of Yahuah Elohim. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days Yahuah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore Yahuah blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Exodus 20:8-11
Hallowed it is to say dedicated and sanctified the seventh day. To add or take away from the Sabbath is to pollute the Sabbath. To say, I'm not working Sunday is not keeping the Sabbath.
1. Sunday is the first day, not the seventh. 2. Your maidservant is working. The gal behind the counter is your maidservant. You don't own her, you are renting her on the Sabbath by being at the store.
3. Why are you out shopping anyway? Can't it wait for another day or do we worship stuff?
4. People are confused about the Sabbath. See how the Pharisees fell into the trap of writing 600 some odd regulations out of self righteousness just by adding to the details of what is or not violating the Sabbath.
Going for a ride on the Sabbath is not wrong. You are not limited to how many blocks or miles you can travel for pleasure or to be near to Yahuah. It's not like your horse is in the field pulling a plow or pulling you down the road. You are in a car. Now if you drive for a living, that's between you and Yahuah. It's not for any person to regulate it for you. You my not have a choice. Now if you are needed to help in an emergency on the Sabbath, this is following the Greatest Commandment.
Yahusha said unto him, You shall love the Yahuah Elohim with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. The second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:37-40
Now on the other hand, most people are without the Sabbath, not sanctified and without rest, never thinking about Yahuah. Their Yoke can be materialistic, pleasure seeking for themselves. In other words, their Yoke is lust, their own self expectations, limits or no limits. Most people see no fault in this. However self is controlled by the senses. Senses are controlled by the artist of good and evil in the society they live in. Good and evil is controlled by Satan. Somebody growing up in Judaism is Jewish. Growing up in Islam will be Muslims. Growing up primitive will be primitive unless they are taught by someone from the outside. Societies have yokes. Living in a society has expectations of taxes, civil duties and conformities. Thinking you are without a yoke, you are blind to the Yoke.
Once Born again, gradually you become aware of the spiritual world around us. You become aware of our Father in Heaven. You become aware of Yahusha. Time itself is not an issue when speaking and hearing Yahusha. To feel Yahusha's agony when He was on the cross almost 2000 years ago and knowing He heard you speaking in your heart almost 2000 years in the future is beyond understanding. You become aware of the Holy Spirit. Our spirits are in the Holy Spirit like a child is in its mother's womb. This is saying there is a Heavenly Yoke on us already. We work this world today and someday Yahuah Elohim will bring us into His Kingdom. We will be transfigured and transmitted into the Third Heaven if we have Yahuah's Yoke upon us.
