Dealing with Rejection — Don Wilkerson

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The Pain and Reality of Rejection

...chapter 9 and just keep it open. It's going to take me a little while to get there, about a third of my message until I get there, but I want you to be prepared. 2 Samuel chapter 9. Pastor Bob challenged our hearts this morning, a wonderful message on the spirit of victory.

And tonight I want to apply that to a given area. And as I talk to you about dealing with rejection. Dealing with rejection. And let's bow in a word of prayer and ask the Lord to anoint his word. Our Father, we thank you tonight again.

Oh, how faithful you are to minister by the spirit to our hearts. You lift us into your very presence. Lord, we felt it again here tonight. We thank you that we have you. We can lean upon your everlasting arms, hallelujah.

We're a people who lean, a people who are dependent upon you. We're a people also, Lord, that you are bringing into victory. And we thank you, Lord, in every area of our life. Those known areas as well as the hidden areas of our lives that you speak to the deep of them.

And Lord, you can release us from that which binds us presently or past. And we thank you tonight and ask that you would anoint this, the word to your people, we pray. Set us free, Lord, from anything that would bind us.

Lord, may we know that in you there is no rejection, hallelujah. We are accepted in the beloved. Minister life to us, we pray, in Jesus' name, amen. A letter came to our office recently from a pastor's wife.

And if I'm not mistaken, I believe that David referred to it or read part of it from the pulpit one night. In the letter, she told how her husband unexpectedly got up on a Sunday morning in their church and suddenly announced his resignation.

She didn't know anything about it, not even told her. Resigned his church immediately. And on the way home in the car, she asked him for an explanation. And he told her that, yes, he was resigning, but furthermore, that he was leaving.

And she said, what do you mean? He said, I'm leaving you. And it seems that he had taken up with a young woman in the church and the next day, Monday, they were gone. And left behind in this mess were two teenagers and, of course, the wife.

And overnight, this family, this pastor's family, are without a father, without a husband, without a pastor, without a breadwinner. Needless to say that the family was in a state of shock. Now, what has happened since, I do not know.

Nor do I know how that wife and that mother and those teenagers have handled the pain of it all. But I do know this, without knowing anything about it, I can be sure, you can be sure of this, that they're experiencing and they have experienced deep, deep hurts and the pain of rejection.

The wife, no doubt wondering why she was rejected for another woman. The kids feeling their own rejection and abandonment and how, after 15 years or more, their father could just walk out on them like that and leave them.

And then, of course, a church witnessing it all. A man of God, or supposedly a man of God, who suddenly lays down his calling and forsakes his flock. And so, in the wake of it, there is strung behind a flock of people who are feeling the sting of rejection.

In another case, I witnessed this for myself, a young man who was in a Christian drug rehabilitation program. Received a letter one day from his mother. He opened it, and in addition to the letter that was there, there was another piece of paper.

He looked at the piece of paper, and to his surprise, it was his birth certificate, or at least a copy of it. And he said to himself, he said, why is this in the letter? I didn't ask my mother for it.

I have no need of it. Why would she send it? And so he read the letter. And when he finished it, tears filled his eyes. And he stood and he looked out the window for a long, long time. Finally, he spoke to somebody.

Finally, he spoke to one of the staff, one of the counselors. And explained to them and told them what was in the letter. Words to the effect. His mother had said to him, you've caused me so much. You've caused me nothing but heartache and grief and sorrow.

And I can't take it anymore. Here's your birth certificate. No longer consider yourself my son. The young convert was stunned. He was devastated. Perhaps he didn't know. Was this his mother's way of getting a message through to him?

Was this her effort to try to shake him up, to try to motivate him to change his life? Or did she really mean it? He didn't know. But he told me, he said, when I read that letter, my first immediate thought, of course, was that I wanted to run out.

And I wanted to take some heroin. And I wanted to put the needle into my veins. And I wanted to escape. Escape the pain of rejection. I think of another young man who told me, shared his testimony. He's now a follower of Jesus Christ.

But before this, he was a drug user. But worse, he was a violent young man. He loved to fight. He loved to get into fist fights. And if he couldn't find one, he would provoke one, one way or the other.

And when he would be fighting, a spirit would come over him. And as he was coming up against his opponent, superimposed over the face of his opponent would be the face of his mother. And when that would happen, he would want to just beat that face to a pulp.

And then suddenly, he would come out of it. He realized that it is not his mother. And he'd come back to a state of normalcy. And he said the reason for his wanting to cause harm to his mother was because of his cruel treatment as he grew up with her.

His father had left them when he was just a baby. But unfortunately for him, he grew up looking exactly like his father. As we say, a spitting image of his father. And so as he began to grow up and the mother would see that, she would take out her own frustrations, her own sense of rejection upon him.

And rejection fostered rejection and the cycle went on. Nikki Cruz, who is well known from the Cross and the Switchblade story. He was, I believe, one of about 13 children. Became a gang leader in Fort Greene.

But he recalls as a child, he overheard his mother talking one day. And saying to another woman that Nikki was really not wanted. That it was a mistake, that they really didn't want her. But she had enough children.

I didn't need him as well. And he heard that and something began to fester down deep inside him. That sense of not being wanted, of rejection. And it finally burst forth on the streets of Brooklyn and Fort Greene as he was the vice president of a mile mouse.

Who of us tonight have not felt to one degree or another the sting of rejection? To live is to feel at one time or another or in one situation or another. To live is to feel the hurt of rejection. Let me say that again.

To live is to feel the hurt of rejection. Listen to some of these words of rejection from men in the scripture. And let me ask you if you cannot identify with what they're expressing. Maybe right here tonight you can identify with it.

Or if not, from some time or experiences in your past you might have said what these men said. One said this, my spirit is broken. My days are exhausted. The grave is ready for me. My relatives have failed and my intimate friends have forgotten me.

He has removed my brothers far from me and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. All my associates abhor me. They are completely estranged from, excuse me, all my associates abhor me and those I loved have turned against me.

Pity me. Pity me all you my friends for the hand of God has struck me. That's Job speaking. And then there's King David. David the psalmist who shared these words. And I believe they came out of the pain of two very tragic experiences in his life.

One was that Saul had turned against him. When God rejected Saul as king and David was going to be placed in his stead. Saul turned against David and he became a fugitive. David knew what rejection was.

And then when he was king his own son Absalom turned against him. Led a revolt and men that he had, that he fell to were his acquaintances. Men who had seemingly been loyal to him turned against him. When Tapsalom, and when you read some of his psalms for example. He says because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach.

Especially to my neighbors and an object of dread to my acquaintances. Those who see me in the streets flee from me. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am a broken vessel. For I have heard of the slander of many terrorists on every side.

While they took counsel to gather against me. In other words plotted to overthrow him as a king. He said they schemed to take away my life. In another place he says all who hate me whisper to gather against me.

Against me they desire my hurt. Even my close friends whom I trusted. Who ate my bread who lifted up and has lifted up his heel against me. David understood rejection. Now tonight I want to consider with you three other biblical characters.

Biblical Characters Who Experienced Rejection

Who faced rejection. They're not the most popular in the scripture by no means. In fact no one faced more suffering and more rejection than our Lord Jesus Christ. The scripture says that he came to his own.

And his own rejected him his own turned away from him and they received him not. But they were not just satisfied to reject him. They wanted to do him in and they nailed him to the cross. The ultimate symbol or the ultimate act of rejection.

Paul faced rejection on many hands. And some of you may be in the ministry tonight. And you know what it is to be rejected by a people. And Paul went through many rejections. There's Joseph and we'll speak of him a little bit later.

But Joseph who was put into a pit sold by his brothers. Rejected by his brothers over jealousy. And then he's lifted up. But then when he refuses the advances of Potiphar's wife. Again he is rejected and you find him in a prison.

Mephibosheth: The Forgotten Prince

And so tonight I want to talk to you about two Old Testament persons. One a New Testament person. First of all there is a fellow by the name of Mephibosheth. I may have to change that. Give me another name.

A little long handle and I don't know maybe when he was growing up. With a name like that they might have called him Mo. And you'll pardon me if once in a while I don't slip and say that. I don't want to be disrespectful to the Word of God.

But after all Mephibosheth is you know a little difficult to get out sometimes. But let me tell you about Mo. If you please. He was a son of Jonathan. An heir to his grandfather Saul's throne. He was born into royalty.

He was a little prince. In fact he was born with what politicians would say today a silver spoon in his mouth. But at the age of five the spoon turned to rot and to rust as tragedy struck Mephibosheth's life.

His father Jonathan and grandfather Saul were killed in a battle on Mount Gilboa. And in the tear that swept the land and when the enemies of Saul began to advance towards the palace. This young lad's nanny or maid took him in great haste to flee because of what was happening.

Because of the terror that was there. You know that when somebody comes to take over in a country they immediately go for the palace. As the symbol of headquarters or the symbol of the place of rule. And once they occupy that then it's a sign that they occupy the land.

And so they had to flee. And it was then that tragedy struck this young lad. You see the maid in her haste dropped the boy. Somehow he was dropped. Perhaps I can picture them having to flee down the long corridor stairs as it were of a palace.

Or maybe he was being handed out a window somewhere. We don't know just how but some way he fell. She dropped him and an injury resulted to his feet. A handicap that he would carry with him the rest of his life.

Now the boy managed to be taken to a safe house. What we would call today a safe house. It was in a lonely out of the way place called Lodibar. And there a loyal friend of the family, Mishar, took in the disposed prince and raised him.

And he grew, became a teenager, became a young man. We know from the scriptures that he married, he had a son. But growing up he knew of course the whole story. He could remember I'm sure the occasion of his injury.

If not faint memory at least he wanted to know and somebody probably told him the details. He also knew that he had spent five years of his life in a palace. And he also knows that now he is a forgotten rejected heir to the throne.

And you tell me that he did not feel the pain of rejection. A former king's kid becomes an orphan. His physical handicap perhaps made him feel as often it may be. His physical handicap may have made him feel less than a man.

Other kids have a father but he did not. Other kids can run and play but he cannot. He can only sit around and play on the ground or move himself or has to wait for somebody to carry him. And a five-year-old boy has memories of his childhood.

And perhaps he has memories of his gentle loving father Jonathan. But he was snatched from him at the age of five. He perhaps has memories of sitting on his grandfather's knee. As David would come with his harp and would sing to his grandfather.

He can remember also when he can walk and run through the palace corridors. Or go out and play in the palace gardens or swim in the palace pool. And then also he can remember eating at the king's table.

Oh the memory of eating at the king's table. And all of that food that would delight anybody. But all he could eat sitting there in the safety and protection of the king's palace. But you see all of that is a past memory, a faded memory.

Instead he's just a crippled boy growing up in an obscure place. A forgotten former prince, a former rejected ex-resident of a palace. And you ask Mephibosheth if he can identify with rejection. And no doubt he can relate much more than what the scriptures indicate.

But then the years pass, the years pass.

He now has grown. And one day a messenger comes to the village of Lodibar.

And the messenger says, we got it taken care of.

Years pass, one day the messenger comes to that little village of Lodibar. And comes to this young man and says, are you the son of Jonathan? He said, yes I am. Is your grandfather Saul? He said, yes I am.

He said, pack your bags. Pack your bags. The king David has summoned you to come to the palace. And so he goes with great anticipation. He doesn't know exactly what's awaiting him there. But he has something down deep inside says to him, there's something good that's going to happen regarding this.

And here's what happened. Turn to 2 Samuel chapter 9. 2 Samuel chapter 9. And this is the account of what happened to this forgotten young lad, rejected young lad. 2 Samuel chapter 9, it says,. Then David said, is there yet anyone left to the house of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba. And they called him to David. And the king said to him, are you Ziba? And he said, I am your servant. I'll do whatever you want. And the king said, is there not yet anyone of the house of Saul to whom I may show the kindness of God?

And Ziba said to the king, yes, yes. Come to think of it, there's still a son of Jonathan who is crippled in both feet. And so the king said to him, where is he? And Ziba said to the king, behold, he is in the house of Mishar, the son of Amriel, in Lodibar.

Then king David sent and brought him from the house of Mishar, the son of Amriel, from Lodibar. And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and prostrated himself.

And David said, Mephibosheth. And he said, here is your servant. And David said to him, do not fear, for I will surely show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan and will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul.

And you shall eat at my table regularly. Oh, can you imagine? Can you imagine how this rejected one now feels? All the years, some decade and a half perhaps, the forgotten one becomes the remembered one.

At long last, his rejection is over. He now eats at the king's table. All is well. The lost years, the rejection is over. And in fact, we have an indication of how he felt about himself. Look at verse 8.

And again, he prostrated himself and said, what is your servant that you should regard a dead dog like me? You see, when he was in Lodibar, he had felt that God, everybody had forsaken him. He felt like a dead dog.

But now he feels like a living soul. He feels like a man again. And in verse 13, Saul Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate at the king's table regularly. And he lived happily ever after. No, it doesn't say that, because that's not what happened.

Hold on. Hold on just a minute, because tragedy struck twice for this young man. History repeated itself. For a second time, when he is living in the palace, suddenly an enemy comes. And now a revolt is going on.

Absalom is leading a revolt against David. And the word comes into the palace, you must flee, you must flee. Many have turned against you, David. The kingdom is about to be lost. And so David must take his wives and his children and some of his servants.

And they make their way and they go off into the wilderness, into exile. But you see, Mephibosheth, he's crippled because of his lameness. He must depend upon Ziba, his servant. And so he tells his servant, please saddle the donkey, I must go as well.

And Ziba goes and he saddles the donkey. But he takes off and he leaves Mephibosheth behind. And the servant goes out and meets David. And David wants to know, well, what are you doing here? He said, oh, he said, I just came out to help you.

I came out to bring you some supplies. And so he handed them over to David. And David said, but where is Mephibosheth? He said, oh, he said, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, king. But he's with the other side.

He's turned against you. He told me that he's very glad what was happening. And he believes that this is the act of God to give the king. In fact, here's exactly what the servant reported. He said, this is what he told me.

He said, today the house of Israel will restore the kingdom of my father to me. And so David, hearing that, he says to his servant, all right. He said, if that's how he feels, then I'm going to give you the land.

I'm going to give all that was his to you. It's yours. And David goes off into exile. And left behind again is Mephibosheth again. He is rejected again. He's no longer the resident, cannot be a resident of the palace.

And furthermore, he's been slandered by his servant. And he goes into mourning, even to depression. And all the days that David are gone, he will not shave, he will not wash his clothes. Once again, he is an outcast.

Once again, something precious has been taken from him. My friend, that's the story of Mephibosheth. It's not the complete story. I'll come back to it in just a moment. I want to give you a second example of another person who understood what it was to feel rejection.

Hannah's Rejection and Her Prayer for a Child

And I speak of, in the first chapter of 1 Samuel, a woman by the name of Hannah, a would-be mother. We know her now as the mother of Samuel. And what a precious testimony it came out to be in her life.

But it wasn't that way when she started out. For years, she suffered the bitter sorrow of rejection, of ridicule, of being the victim of jealousy. You see, Hannah desperately wanted a child, but she was barren.

Her husband, she was one of two wives to her husband, Elkanah. And her husband loved her very much. But that could not compensate for the fact that the two little children that were running around the house and running around the tent belonged to the other woman.

Did not belong to her. And oh, every time she would see those children, it would strike a pain in her heart. She would go to the house of the Lord. She'd pour out her soul to the Lord. And so, oh Lord, give me a man.

Give me a child. And to add insult to injury, the other woman with the two children, Peniah, she would irritate her. She would throw it up into her face. She would laugh at her. She would flaunt the fact that she had children, and Hannah did not.

1 Samuel 1, 6 says, her rival, meaning the other woman, her rival, however, would provoke her bitterly to irritate her. Even her husband did not understand the depth of her grief. And he said to her on one occasion, is not my love worth more to you than ten children?

And when she hears that, that adds to her feeling of rejection as now she says, oh, my husband does not even understand. He does not understand. Listen, when you wait for something a long time, or if you want something very, very bad, it doesn't matter what else good may happen to you.

The loss or absence of one compelling, overwhelming desire you know can overshadow everything else. How many of you know that? You've experienced that? But in addition, Hannah's pastor temporarily rejected her.

Turn with me, if you will, to 1 Samuel, 1 Samuel chapter 1. Let's look at the prophet, excuse me, at the priest Eli. And she would go, it says, and Hannah rose after eating and drinking at Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the temple of the Lord.

And she greatly distressed prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. And she made a vow and said, oh, Lord of hosts, if thou will indeed look on the affliction of thy maidservant and remember me and not forget thy maidservant, but will give thy maidservant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life.

A razor shall never come on his head. Now it came about as she continued praying before the Lord that Eli was watching her mouth. As for Hannah, she was speaking in her heart. Only her lips were not moving, but her voice was not heard.

You see, she was so overwhelmed with her grief. How many of you know what it is to cry so long that you can't cry anymore? How many of you know what it is to pray for something and you just can't seem to pray anymore?

And Hannah had come to this place of feeling so rejected for so long that she moved her lips, but her words didn't say anything. And her pastor thinks she's drunk. Her pastor thinks she's drunk. Look what it, that's what it says.

So Eli thought that she was drunk. You see, rejection is often the result of misunderstanding and misunderstood motives. Here she's crying out to God, but her pastor falsely or temporarily falsely accuses her.

But listen to her language. Verse 15,. But Hannah answered and said, No, my Lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the Lord.

The Sick Man at Bethesda and the Pain of Lost Opportunity

Let me give you one more example in the New Testament. Go to the Gospel of John, if you will, in the fifth chapter. And here we have the example of an unnamed man, an unnamed man. But his story is very well known from this incident in chapter five.

He is simply referred to in the Gospel of John as the man by the side of the pool. This pool of the angels would come down reportedly or supposedly and stir up the waters. And whoever would go first into the troubled waters, these therapeutic waters would be healed.

And for 38 years, this man suffered from some type of terminal or, I should say, not terminal, but permanent sickness, 38 years. And therefore, I believe that his life was, he had the feeling that life or God had dealt him a personal blow.

To be sick is to feel a divine rejection. The question is, why me, Lord? Why me? And I've seen the bitterness that grows out of this feeling that God has deprived someone of health or of happiness or the things that others have that they do not.

And it seems to be indicated in this man's life. I've seen some people feel a sense of rejection. He felt rejected because he was sick. Others feel rejected because they wish they had more in life than what they have.

They may feel, some people feel, may, life, in life, I'm too short, I'm too tall, I'm too ugly, I'm too dumb, I'm too this, I'm too that. God, you left me, what's the expression, a day late and a dollar short.

Lord, you came up short when it came to satisfying my needs. Jesus apparently understood this, he said in Matthew 6, 27. And which of you, by being anxious or thinking or hoping or wanting it, can add one cubit to his stature or his situation in life?

And some people live their whole lives breeding over regrets because of unfulfilled wishes, wanting to be something else, wanting to be somewhere else. Of building sand castles in their mind and never being able to take possession of the castle.

And when they don't find anybody else to blame, sometimes they have an object for their blame, other times they don't. And when they don't, of course, it's always God who is blamed. The man by the side of the pool also had to deal with lost opportunities.

When Jesus said to him, do you wish to get well, listen to the self-pity in his answer. He said, sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirring. But while I am coming, another steps down before me.

Oh, listen, is that your testimony tonight? You look around and you always see somebody else got ahead of you. Somebody else in your family had it better than you. Somebody else you always are reaching out, trying to make it.

But always, always, you never seem to get into the pool of Bethesda. Now, how did these three deal with their rejection? What can we learn from this? And how can you face your rejection and not be crushed by it?

Mephibosheth Chooses Gratitude Over Bitterness

First of all, I want you to go back to the story of Mephibosheth. We did not finish it. We left him. David has fled into the wilderness. And he is in a state of depression. He will not wash his clothes.

He will not shave. He will not trim his mustache because of the situation. But then the news comes. The news comes that the revolt has been put down. Absalom is dead. And now the word is that David is coming back to occupy the palace.

And so by some means, by some means, Mephibosheth is able to get somebody to saddle him on a donkey. And he goes out, turn with me to 2 Samuel, the 19th chapter if you will. 2 Samuel chapter 19. He rides out on his donkey.

And he meets David as he's about to cross the Jordan to come back in and to possess the palace again. And retake his throne, rightful throne. Now Mephibosheth knows that he's been slandered. And remember that David thinks that he's rejoined the rebellion against him.

And so in verse 25,. Then Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had neither cared for his feet nor trimmed his mustache nor washed his clothes from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

And it was then that he came from Jerusalem to meet the king. And the king said to him, Why do you wish, why did you not go with me? Why did you not come out with me when I fled? And so he answered, Oh my lord the king, my servant deceived me.

For your servant said, I will saddle a donkey for myself that I may ride on it and go with the king. Because your servant is lame. Moreover he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God, therefore do what is good for thee.

In verse 27 moreover, excuse me verse 28,. For all my father's household was nothing but dead men before my lord the king. Yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right do I have yet that I should complain any more to the king?

Now there's a lot that we don't know about this. There's a lot of unknown details here. But his words tell us something about how he dealt with rejection. And listen to me and listen carefully. I believe that his love for David,.

And remember here David is a type of Christ. That his love for David far outweighs his bitterness and the rejection that he faced. There is one thing that Mephibosheth does not forget. That when he was an outcast, That there sitting for many years as a forgotten rejected young man in Lodibar,.

That David sent that word and brought him. And this is what he said, he said, For all my father's household was nothing but dead men before you the lord, before my lord the king. Yet you set your servant at his own table.

He realized that God had not forgotten him. David is a symbol of Christ who has saw his condition. I told you about the young man before who received the birth certificate. It so happened that morning in the chapel, Somebody had quoted a scripture and he heard it for the very first time.

He just was new in the Lord. But he heard the scripture that said this, If my mother and my father forsake me, God will lift me up. He said, oh brother down. He said, I'm so glad I heard that. He said, I'm holding on to that.

That young man had a concept of the table. The table of the Lord that he was sitting at the king's table. And I want to tell you tonight my friend, There is one table where there is no rejection. Jesus has spread that table for you.

And he calls out to us tonight, come and dine. The master calleth, come and dine. And he says, sit at my table regularly, hallelujah. And when you sit at that table, My friend, all other rejections of men or whatever you have faced, As we sing it here, turn your eyes upon Jesus.

Look full in his wonderful face. And the things of this world and the rejections of your past Will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace, hallelujah. Jesus has spread that table tonight.

And I want to tell you there's no discrimination at that table. There's no class distinction at that table. There's no put downs at that table. There's no put offs at that table. Like the crippled Mephibosheth, This is the table that the king invites you to eat at here tonight, hallelujah.

Songs of Solomon 1 -4 says, draw me and we will run after you. The king has brought me into his banqueting table. And his banner over me is love. We will rejoice in you and be glad. We will extol you more than wine.

And it's that table, my friend, That those rejections that this young fellow mow. He said to David, he said, yes. He said, one thing far outweighs. You didn't forget me. You opened your table to me. Jeremiah 31 -3 says, the Lord appeared to us saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love.

I have drawn you with loving kindness. And again, I think he understood what Hosea said in Hosea 11 -4. I led them with the cords of human kindness. With ties of love, I lifted the yoke of rejection from their neck and beat and bent down to feed them.

Hallelujah. But look again back at Samuel 2, Samuel 19 and verse 28. 27 and 28, let me read it again. Moreover, he has slandered your servant, my Lord the king. But my Lord the king is like the angel of God.

Therefore do what is good in thy sight. For all my father's household were nothing but dead men before my Lord the king. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. And then I like what he says here.

He does not lay the actions of man. He does not charge it to God's account. Yes, Ziba had slandered him. Yes, the maid, the nanny had made a mistake perhaps. And had dropped him, caused him injury in his feet.

But he says, what right do I have yet that I should complain anymore to the king? In other words, you didn't do this to me, David. And what about Ziba? What about the rejection of men? Well, my friend, when you sit at the king's table, you eat the king's food.

And you catch the king's spirit. And when you catch the king's spirit, my friend, that rejection, you'll lay it down before the altar. And you'll be able to do what Jesus said. And what Stephen said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.