What is rejection
rejection can be defined as the sense of being
unwanted the
sense of being
unwanted
You want people in your life to love you yet you believe they do not love you and they never will love you
You never felt the love of your mother as a child
You never felt the love or the acceptance from your father
some of you are in a storm of rejection or resentment because
At some point in your life your wife or your husband
Betrayed you and were unfaithful to you and they left you for someone else
It's a deep wound that has never healed it left you with a wounded spirit
Some of you feel rejection and resentment because you were passed over for the promotion
at a job or you had a business partner that destroyed your business
You have built the prison brick by brick hurt by hurt tear by tear
Scar by scar the walls of that prison
Have been built by your own anguish and you have the key to the cell, but you're not getting out
You know, we cannot always avoid the pain
That wounds us
but we can choose to not let it ruin the remainder of our lives
And I think that a lot of times people park at the point of their pain
How many people get hurt by their parents and they never really ever get over that
You might have somebody who was
Adopted for whatever reason their parents didn't want them. They weren't
able to keep them and
They can spend their whole entire life
whole life
Trying to recover from that
Your entire life does not have to be ruined
Because somebody hurt you
Way back when or last week or last night or
God promises to heal and restore
I love Psalm 27:10
Even though my mother and father have forsaken me the Lord will take me up and adopt me as his own child
You hear people say pastor no one has ever felt rejection that I have known I assure you you're wrong
Jesus did Jesus the Son of God the king of heaven the Emmanuel the God with us the hope of glory
Experienced your shame and he experience your rejection on the Roman cross
Spectators walk by and mock the nakid
Savior who was hanging there in your stead and your stead and your stead
His mother was sobbing at his feet as he was being crucified
Between thieves his trial was rigged
it was rigged by the Roman government who started planning his
Execution from the time he gave his first sermon he was hated by
society he was hated by the known church
He was called a liar a demonized teacher and a false teacher. He was totally rejected
And Jesus did not die on the cross to give us the ability to cope
He died on the cross to give us the ability to conquer
Jesus was the most rejected man in the history of the world
But it never affected his decision-making
it never affected his attitude or the way, he treated people and it did not keep him from accomplishing God's purpose for his life
And He's our example all of us who are gonna be rejected every single one of us have been rejected
Rejection is our greatest scar
And it's our greatest control point many people control their entire lives by the fear of rejection
And the corresponding need for love and approval and because of this it changes how we live and make our decisions
It didn't change Jesus but many times it changes us. It changes how we treat people
And it keeps us from accomplishing God's will for our lives
Rejection wounds us and it creates bitterness and aggression
If we don't deal with it properly remember Jesus hung on the cross and looked at the people who put him there and he forgave them
And when you have been rejected the devil and what makes the devil so dangerous is his stealth
He doesn't present himself
It would be so easy to deal with him if he would just present himself because we know that we have authority over him
but when you're dealing with the devil many times you're dealing with the
Subliminal thought and he put it there and you didn't know it. You think it's your thought
He slithered in in a hard time
he slithered in in
At a time that you were hurting and being rejected and he spoke something to you and it's in there and it's you don't know it
But here are the lies that he speaks you aren't worth anything
Reason people reject is because you're not worthy. No one will ever love you
Why do you even try
You're defective
You'll never have anyone you'll always be rejected
Something is wrong with you. People don't love you because God doesn't love you
Your unlovable and your undesirable
You're a loser
You're always gonna be disappointed
Don't let people inside because they're always gonna hurt you people don't care about you. They just want to use you give what they want
I'm living for myself, and I'm not gonna let other people hurt me
These are these are the little things that are in there and they program us. It's the spirit of rejection. They program us
And because love is our greatest need
Rejection is our greatest control point
And we go through life being rejected and he speaks these lies into our spirit one after the other and then we're programmed
You see people that come out of a family
And one turns to alcohol one turns to drugs one turns to rebellion and one turns to God
And it makes a radical difference where you turn
And what Satan wants of course is for someone to hurt us and then for us to be angry and bitter
and resentful
Have a chip on our shoulder
Spend our life feeling sorry for ourselves
get into all kinds of addictive behaviors
and then spend our lives hating somebody else and hurting somebody else so they can then turn around and do the same thing
and then there it goes from generation to generation to generation, but I'm here to announce good news to you tonight
that if you've been hurt in the past it does not have to go beyond you to anyone else
you have the privilege
of speaking the name of Jesus
and believing in the power of God
to not only completely heal you and make you just as if it never happened to you
But to never let it go on to anybody else in your generation and that is wonderful
good news
when you've been hurt
When you've gone through something really really difficult
And somebody comes to you for help
there's a whole new level of understanding
and a whole new level of compassion that you can't give to anybody if everything is just a theory in your head
and nothing that you've ever had to put to practice in your life. So sometimes
One of the reasons he lets you go through things is to equip you
And qualify you to actually be in his service and have the credentials to actually help people
you know, there's so many things we don't know
And we get so bothered by the stuff we don't know
We worry about it. We try to figure it out. We ask other people
We try our best to figure out all the things that we don't know and most of the time we only get ourselves more confused
Why don't we talk more about what we do know then what we don't know
We know that God loves us
We know we're gonna go to heaven and we're gonna live for eternity
And we know that all things work out together for good you focus more on what you do know
Then what you don't know
Base your life number one base your life on God's perfect love and what his word has to say about you
I mean, I don't know who hates you, but I'll tell you there's one person who loves you and that's God
And you have to the only thing that got Jesus through was God's love
Regardless of who rejected him he knew God the Father loved him and that's what he focused on Hebrews 13
Let your conduct be without covetousness be content with such things as you have
For he himself has said I will never leave you nor forsake you so we may boldly say the Lord is my helper
I will not fear
What can man do to me God says I will never leave you nor forsake you this not only means he won't physically
Reject you he'll never turn his heart away forsake means turn his heart away
God has promised all of us. There will never be a moment in all of eternity when he turns his heart away and rejects us
His love has the power to heal us
I'll say this if you've been rejected if you're suffering from rejection, the number one thing is the love of God
And I'm not gonna live my life over here hiding and fearing
I'm gonna live my life to let the world know about the love of Jesus Christ cuz there's no love like the love of Jesus
And it's the only answer for a spirit of rejection