Isaiah 9:4 For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. I. SIN IS A BURDEN (Psalm 38:4). Sinners are heavy laden with this insupportable load, which detains them from God, who alone can relieve them; enfeebles their minds; and harasses them with perplexing fears, and the most uneasy reflections. A proper sense of its powerful influence, its polluting nature and dreadful guilt, like a crushing weight, depresses the spirit, becomes irksome and grievous, and if not happily removed, will prove the means of irremediable ruin. II. THE CEREMONIAL LAW IS THE YOKE OF THIS BURDEN (Acts 15:10). III. IMMANUEL HAS BROKEN THE YOKE (Colossians 2:14). (R. Macculloch.) Parallel Verses KJV: For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. |
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