Take My Yoke Upon You

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Take My Yoke Upon You

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My Favorite Valentine By Jim Brown

• Collards is green
• my dog's name is Blue
• and I'm so lucky to have
• a sweet thang like you.
• You move like the bass,
• which excite me in May.
• You ain't got no scales
• but I luv you anyway.
• You have som'a yore teeth,
• for which I am proud
• I hold my head high
• when we're in a crowd.
• Like a good roll of duct tape
• yo're there fer yore man,
• to patch up life's troubles
• and fix what you can.
• Yo're as cute as a junebug
• a-buzzin' overhead.
• You ain't mean like those far ants

• Cut from the best cloth
• like a plaid flannel shirt,
• you spark up my life
• more than a fresh load of dirt.
• Some men git roses
• on that special day
• from the cooler at Kroger.
• "That's impressive," I say.
• Some men buy fine diamonds
• from a flea market booth.
• "Diamonds are forever,
• they explain, suave and couth.
• But for this man, honey, these jest won't do.
• Cause yo're too special, you sweet thang you.
• I got you a gift, without taste nor odor,
• more useful than diamonds...
• IT'S A NEW TROLLIN' MOTOR!!

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Explain this to me, please.
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Exodus

• And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and
  told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of
  Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a
  feast unto me in the wilderness.
• And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I
  should obey his voice to let Israel go?
• And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath
  met with us let us go, we pray thee, three
  days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice
  unto the LORD our God lest he fall upon us with
  pestilence, or with the sword.
• And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore
  do ye, Moses and Aaron, to let the people rest
  from their works? get you unto your burdens.
• And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land
  now are many, and ye make them rest from their
  burdens.
• And Pharaoh commanded the same day the
  taskmasters of the people, and their officers,
  saying,
• Ye shall no more give the people straw to make
  brick, as heretofore let them go and gather
  straw for themselves.
• Let there more work be laid upon the men, that
  they may labour therein and let them not regard
  vain words.

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Saviors invitation

• Come unto me, all ye that labour 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 ye shall find rest
  unto your souls.
• For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
  
• (Matt. 1128-30.)

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Brigham Young

• They who try to serve God and still cling to
  the spirit of the world, have got on two
  yokes--the yoke of Jesus and the yoke of the
  devil, and they will have plenty to do. They will
  have a warfare inside and outside, and the labor
  will be very galling, for they are directly in
  opposition one to the other.
• Cast off the yoke of the enemy, and put on the
  yoke of Christ, and you will say that his yoke is
  easy and his burden is light. This I know by
  experience.
• JD 16123

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Question

• What is the Yoke of Jesus?

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Brigham Young

• the person that wears the yoke of Jesus
  and bears his burden is the one who loves
  the cause of truth and righteousness more than
  all else.
• The person that wears the yoke of Jesushas
  communication with the heavens, finds his yoke
  easy and his burden light he is master of it.
• all that men can imagine and a million times
  more, God has in store for us. If we are
  faithful, all is ours. If we trample sin and
  iniquity under our feet, then we are the masters,
  which makes the yoke easy and the burden light.

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Pathway to Exaltation
New Converts (and Teenagers)
Conversion Or Taking on His Yoke
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Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• Happily, the commandment Take my yoke
  upon you, and learn of me for I am meek
  and lowly in heart (Matt. 1129) is a
  principle which carries an accompanying and
  compensating promise from Jesus and ye
  shall find rest unto your souls.
• This is a very special form of rest resulting
  from the shedding of certain needless burdens
  fatiguing insincerity, exhausting hypocrisy, and
  the strength-sapping quest for recognition,
  praise, and power.
• Those of us who fall short, in one way or
  another, often do so because we carry such
  unnecessary and heavy baggage. Being overloaded,
  we sometimes stumble, and then we feel sorry for
  ourselves.
• (The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book, 34-35.)

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Elder Gene R. Cook
Sacred Pattern Here?

• Clearly, we must teach our children to
  keep the commandments. If we have taught
  them to turn their hearts to the Lord and to feel
  the promptings of the Spirit, teaching them to
  keep the commandments of the Lord will be
  relatively simple.
• Also, as children watch their parents living the
  commandments, they will see, feel, and know the
  importance of so doing. They will experience the
  blessings that come from keeping the commandments
  in a faithful family and thus will not have to be
  convinced or go through a period of
  rebelliousness. Still, they do need to be taught.

1- First, we see
2- Second, we feel
3- Third, we know
4- Fourth, we understand
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Last Weeks Story

• The Christopher Williams family was struck
  late Friday, in Salt Lake, when a Jeep
  Cherokee traveling south on 2000 East slammed
  into the family's northbound Volkswagen Jetta
  beneath the Interstate 80 overpass.
• The SUV flipped, and the driver, who suffered
  minor scrapes and bruises, fled on foot.
• The sedan suffered heavy passenger-side
  damage, killing the pregnant mother, Michelle
  Williams, 41, and two of her children Ben,
  11, and Anna, 9. The surviving father and
  6- year-old boy, Sam, were transported in
  extremely critical condition to Salt Lake City
  hospitals. The couple's other son, Michael,
  14, was not in the car.
• Family spokesman James Wood said the father an
  LDS bishop in the Crystal Heights 2nd Ward - has
  improved considerably since the crash. His son,
  however, remains in the intensive care unit at
  Primary Children's Medical Center with bleeding
  and swelling of the brain, a broken collar bone
  and cracked ribs.
• From his hospital bed, Christopher Williams asked
  for a prayer - not for himself, but for the
  teenage driver who police say smashed into his
  family sedan, killing his wife and two of his
  children.
• At Williams' request, the 17-year-old's name was
  added to the prayer roll of an LDS temple, hoping
  to give some comfort to a teen now jailed on
  suspicion of automobile homicide.    
• "I don't know of anyone who believes in the
  redemption more than Chris Williams," said
  lifelong friend

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Now, The Rest of the Story

• To those who wonder how Chris Williams was so
  quick to forgive the teenager who crashed into
  his car Friday, killing his wife and two
  children, consider this    
• When Williams was 16, he accidentally struck and
  killed a 4-year-old boy in the Avenues.    
• On July 18, 1981, when he was going to his job as
  an orderly at LDS Hospital, two young boys ran
  from between parked cars and onto 8th Avenue   
  
• Williams' car struck both boys, who were
  brothers. James B. Forster, 4, died three days
  later at Primary Children's Medical Center. His
  3-year-old brother survived. Police said Williams
  was traveling about 20 mph.    
• "He had absolutely no chance to react," said
  Williams' father, Paul Williams, in an interview
  on Monday.    
• As a result of that accident, said Paul
  Winterton, a longtime friend, Williams "knows
  exactly what this young man in Friday's
  accident is going through."    
• Following the 1981 accident, "People showered
  Williams with forgiveness and kindness," said
  Winterton.