HOW TO HAVE VICTORY OVER REJECTION

 

HOW TO HAVE VICTORY OVER REJECTION

 

In a children’s story, the ugly duckling was rejected. The story says the ugly duckling was born next to little yellow ducks. After coming out of a egg that was larger then the rest, and coming out all grey and not yellow.  The little ducks made fun of him.  Then chickens made fun of him, and so did other animals who all said he didn’t look like a duck.   So he went into the world to be alone. He was persecuted because he looked different from what others said he was supposed to be, and they called him ugly. He saw the graceful swans and envied them. After a long cold winter, spring arrived. He looked at his reflection in the water and discovered that he had become a beautiful white swan, and was never a duck at all.

Matthew 21:42  “Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?”

Isaiah 53:3  “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”

·       Despised- H959- Disdained

·       Rejected- H2310- Dismiss as inadequate, inappropriate, not to one’s taste.

·       Sorrow- H4341- Anguish or affliction.  Grief, pain, and sorrow

·       Grief- H2483- Malady, anxiety, calamity, disease, sickness

·       Esteemed- H2803- Interpenetrate, literally to weave to fabricate, to think, to regard, value, compute, make account of, conceive, consider, devise, find out, forecast, imagine, impute.

 

1.    ADAM WAS THE FIRST TO FEEL REJECTED AND DEJECTED

 

Adam felt rejected and hid himself (Dejected) in the bushes.

 

Genesis 3:10  “And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

 

2.    CAIN WAS REJECTED

 

Genesis 4:7  “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door . . . .”

 

3.    SINNERS REJECT GOD’S LAW

 

Jeremiah 6:19  “Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.”

 

4.    CHRIST WAS REJECTED BY HIS GENERATION

 

Luke 17:25  “But first must He suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.”

 

5. WHY DO HUMANS REJECT OTHER HUMANS?

A. Many are rejected because of their unusualness; they do not follow the crowd.

B. Some are rejected because they refuse to act as others do.

C. Another cause of rejection is a difference in culture.

1) Acts 2:7  “ . . . are not all these which speak Galileans?”

2) Foreigners often feel rejected.

 

6. REJECTION CAN BE THE RESULT OF CARELESSNESS

 

A. Some people do not watch over their families.

B. Others do not watch over their businesses.

C. Many people do not watch over spiritual things.

 

7. SOME ARE REJECTED BECAUSE OF MEANNESS AND SIN

            A. Peter felt rejected.

 

Matthew 26:75  “And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.”

B. Esau was rejected.

Hebrews 12:17  “For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.”

8. JESUS WILL NOT REJECT

1 John 1:9  ^“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

 

2 Peter 3:9  ^“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward ^[a]us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

 

Psalm 27:10  “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”

9. DIVINE REJECTION

God rejects sin.

God rejects rebellion.

God rejects unbelief.

10. CHRIST KNEW REJECTION

Jesus knew rejection from the religious and political system as well as His disciple Judas. He was rejected by the masses.

Luke 17:25   “. . . be rejected of this generation.”

Isaiah 53:3  “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”

Matthew 21:42  “Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?”

11. REJECTION WITH PATIENCE

I Peter 2:20  “For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.”