Atonement: Your Appointment With God by Derek Prince

Author:Derek Prince
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, General
ISBN: 9780800792770
Publisher: Chosen
Published: 2000-03-15T23:44:44+00:00

Who can number the people in our world today who feel rejected because a marriage broke up? Imagine a woman who has given everything to her husband, determined to make a successful marriage. And then he goes off with another woman! I recognize that there is no way for me to understand what she has gone through, to put myself in her place, to feel what she feels. How wonderful that God can-and does!

Other causes of rejection include even physical appearance. Most young women today have to be slim to be popular, which is ridiculous! A girl may be a little plumper or quieter than her schoolmates, or wear the "wrong" clothes, and feel rejected. A boy may be a little shorter or slower or less good at sports. It does not take much to make a person feel rejected.

We can easily identify-and perhaps identify withthe problem. Now let's look at the solution. Once again it is provided by Jesus, who on the cross endured total rejection.

Jesus' Rejection on the Cross

Isaiah 53:3 offers a prophetic picture of the cross painted seven hundred years before it happened:

He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows [or pains] and acquainted with grief [or sickness]. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

The suffering Servant was "rejected by men." John says, "He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him" (John 1:11). His own brothers, His mother's children, rejected Him. We also see this in Psalm 69, the messianic psalm that we looked at in the last chapter:

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