WHY FEAR REJECTION

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WHY FEAR REJECTION?

• MARK 831-38

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WINSTON CHURCHILL

• WE MAKE A LIVING BY WHAT WE GET. WE MAKE A LIFE
  BY WHAT WE GIVE.

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FEAR OF REJECTION GRIPS ALL OF US

• WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, WE FEARED
• HAVING ZITS
• THE KIND OF CLOTHES WE WORE
• THE KIND OF CAR WE DROVE
• THE NEIGHBORHOOD WE GREW UP IN

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WE LONG FOR ACCEPTANCE WE DREAD REJECTION

• REJECTION IS REAL
• REJECTION HURTS

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HEROES OF THE BIBLE HAVE BEEN REJECTED
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EXODUS 214,15

• The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over
  us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed
  the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought,
  "What I did must have become known."
• When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill
  Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to
  live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

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1 SAMUEL 188-11

• Saul was very angry this refrain galled him.
  "They have credited David with tens of
  thousands," he thought, "but me with only
  thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?"
  And from that time on Saul kept a jealous eye on
  David.
• The next day an evil spirit from God came
  forcefully upon Saul. He was prophesying in his
  house, while David was playing the harp, as he
  usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand and he
  hurled it, saying to himself, "I'll pin David to
  the wall." But David eluded him twice.

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OUR SAVIOR WAS REJECTED

• ISAIAH 533
• He was despised and rejected by men,
• a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
• Like one from whom men hide their faces
• he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Surely he took up our infirmities
• and carried our sorrows,
• yet we considered him stricken by God,
• smitten by him, and afflicted.

• MARK 831
• He then began to teach them that the Son of Man
  must suffer many things and be rejected by the
  elders, chief priests and teachers of the law,
  and that he must be killed and after three days
  rise again.

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WHEN REJECTION COMES

• LIVE A LIFE THAT YOU ARE NOT ASHAMED OF, THEN YOU
  WILL
• KNOW WHERE YOU STAND
• KNOW WHAT TO SAY
• KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE

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• SHALL I COMPLAIN, GROAN, AND MOAN. SHALL I CUSS,
  FUSS, AND FIGHT, SHALL I CRITICIZE, SCRUTINIZE,
  AND SCANDALIZE? WHAT WILL I SAY? TELL SOMEONE,
  WATCH WHAT YOU SAY.

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TO OVERCOME REJECTION

• FOLLOW GODS PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE
• DETERMINE IN YOUR HEART AND MIND TO FOLLOW JESUS
• KEEP ON KEEPING ON
• REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS LOVED BY JESUS
• YOU GOD IS ALWAYS A MAJORITY

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JOHN 9
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CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT
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REMEMBER

• CHRIST KNOWS HOW IT FEELS TO BE REJECTED
• CHRIST WILL NEVER REJECT YOU