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TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU (Part 2)

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“If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will also be. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” (John 12:26 NKJV)

 

A call to be a disciple or a follower of Jesus Christ is a call to be a yoke-fellow with Jesus Christ. Unlike the grievous yoke and heavy burden of Satan forced upon us from birth, the easy yoke and light burden of Jesus Christ is expected to be taken up willingly and joyfully by believers.

The Lord Jesus will never force your neck under His yoke, for He is gentle and lowly in heart (Matt. 11:28-30). Taking up the yoke of Christ deliberately, voluntarily, and joyfully distinguishes a disciple of Christ from a mere believer in Christ.

In the first part of this piece, we understood that the yoke of Christ is an emblem of Christ’s instructions and afflictions. It is a symbolic expression of an unreserved and absolute submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. It is a mindset to embrace and endure with joy any suffering or persecution that comes your way as you follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ (Philip. 1:29).

When you voluntarily, willingly, and gladly yield your neck under the yoke of Christ, some great rewards or profits will accrue to you here in this world and hereafter in heaven.

First, being a yoke-fellow with Christ gives you access to understanding the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.

Jesus said to His yoke-fellows, His disciples, “To you, it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.” (Luke 8:10 NKJV).

Only those who are yoked together with Christ and so learning from Him daily can understand the deep things of God. Yoke-fellows with Christ are the stewards of God’s mysteries.

Paul, a yoke-fellow with Christ, said, “Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.” (1 Cor. 4:1 NKJV).

The Lord Jesus said to His yoke-fellows, “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.” (Matt. 10:27 NKJV).  

You can only hear, know, or understand some profound things of Christ if you are a yoke-fellow with Christ.

Second, being a yoke-fellow with Christ gives you the boldness to wield the power and authority of Jesus Christ.

While all believers have been vested with the power and authority of Jesus Christ, only those who are yoked together with Christ and thus know Christ intimately can wield or demonstrate His power and authority with boldness (Luke 10:19, 22:28-29).

It takes being yoked with Christ and thus learning from Him and knowing Him intimately and increasingly to know and understand your new spiritual identity, status, position, and authority in Christ Jesus and, therefore, prevail in spiritual warfare. 

Third, being a yoke-fellow with Christ makes you a vessel of honor in God’s Kingdom.

The Lord Jesus Christ cannot work, flow, or manifest mightily through you unless you are yoked with Him. The Scripture reports that the Lord Jesus worked mightily with and through His early disciples or yoke-fellows (Mark 16:20, Acts 5:12-14).

When it was time for the early disciples of Jesus to choose another believer to replace Judas Iscariot and take his apostleship, they only sought a replacement among their yoke-fellows.

They proposed Barsabas and Matthias, saying, “Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, “beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.” (Acts 1:21-22 NKJV).

Lastly, the Lord Jesus Christ will honor and glorify His yoke-fellows when He returns to establish His physical Kingdom on earth.

Jesus assures His yoke-fellows, saying, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will also be. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.” (John 12:26 NKJV).

“But you are those who have continued with Me in My trials. “And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me.” (Luke 22:28-29 NKJV).

Beloved, if you willingly yield your neck under the yoke of Christ, thereby sharing in His sufferings, you will also share in His reign, glory, and honor when He returns (Romans. 8:16-18, 1 Peter 4:12-14).

But if you evade taking upon you the yoke of Christ in this life and thus evade suffering or persecution for the sake of Christ, you will miss your reward when Christ returns to establish His physical everlasting Kingdom on the earth.

 

Prayer:

Dear Holy Spirit, teach and help me daily to draw from You and appropriate divine grace and courage to live and walk as a yoke-fellow with Christ in this anti-Christ world, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Our mandate is to preserve the faith of the Apostolic Generation.

Eniyekpemi Fidelis Oyinpreyebi.

AWH, Blogs.

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