Key Verses: "Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is comfortable, and My burden is light.”Matthew 11: 28-30

Key Bible Verse: "Even to your old age I will be the same, And even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you." Isaiah 46:4

We live in a world in which sooo many people are heavily burdened. God did not intend for His people to live that way. This week we examine three sources of burdens and the solutions people come up with to try to remove them that often make things worse. We begin to look at God's answers and will finish that study next week.

Key Bible Verse: "Therefore, remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and I will remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent." Revelation 2: 5

Key Bible Verse: "But I have this against you, that you have left your first love."  Revelation 2: 4

Key Bible Verse: "For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost. Luke 19: 10

Key Bible Verses:  Matthew 7: 23; 25: 410

Key Bible Verse: "For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified."  Hebrews 10: 14

Key Bible Verse:  "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."  John 1: 14

Key Bible Verse:  "For by him all things were created, lin heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether mthrones or ndominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created othrough him and for him."  1 Corinthians 1: 16

Key Bible Verse:  "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,"  James 1: 2