That Do We Mean When We Say That Jesus Is A Burden Bearer?

And most of the time, we won’t even share them with Jesus, because they sting us to the core of our existence. We are so embarrassed by them that we try to walk around and act like they never existed. But don’t you know that GOD already knows what you’ve done or what was done to you? You may not be able to tell your friends or your family about it, but if you tell Jesus about it, he will deal with it and nobody will ever know about it. As one hymnologist reminds us that you’ve got to surrender all to Jesus. And He will take away your burden and give you rest.

The third and last kind of burden that we must bear today, are semi-private burdens. These are the burdens that are secret, but somehow and somewhere along the way, somebody else found out about it.

The bible tells me that David, the great king of Israel, had a semi-private burden that he had to deal with. For in the eleventh and twelfth chapters of second Samuel, we find the story of David and Bathsheba. Can I get a witness?

David had seen this beautiful woman that he wanted all for himself. But you see there was one small problem. For the Bible tells me that this woman was another man’s wife. Can I get a witness? But David was the mighty King of Israel and was used to having his own way. So the bible tells me that he went unto her anyhow and knew her as if she was his own. But you see, my brothers and sisters, every thing that’s done in the darkness will surely come to the light. For the Bible says that Bathsheba got pregnant. And it would have been all right if she had been sleeping with her husband, but her husband, a Hittite named Uriah, had been out at battle, fighting for the kingdom of Israel. Can I get a witness?

So the Bible tells me that King David tried to get Uriah to take some time off so that he could go in and lay with his wife? But Uriah, being the man of valor that he was, refused to leave the sides of his at battle to enjoy some moment of relaxation that they wouldn’t have. Wouldn’t it be grand of all of GOD’s children were as faithful to the cause as this man called Uriah. Can I get a witness?

But David had many men in his army and many men under his control. He had the ability to send men here or to send them over there. He could put them at the rear end of a battle, or right up on the front line of the battlefield. So the Bible tells me that David sent Uriah out to the front line of battle against the people of Ammon, knowing that he would be killed in battle. And when David received the word, that Uriah was dead, he took Bathsheba to be his own wife. Am I right about it?

But you need to know today, my brothers and sisters, that even though you may be able to hide what you’re doing from your husband or your wife, even though you may be able to keep your dirty dealings from your brothers or your sisters, even though you may keep your momma and your daddy thinking that their baby is as white as pure snow, you can’t hide what you’re doing from the Lord. Can I get a witness?

Just when you think that you’ve hidden all the dirt from everybody, the LORD will send somebody unto you, with a message that it doesn’t matter who doesn’t know, because He still knows what you did. Am I right about it?