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Looking to Jesus

Don Mackintosh

Looking to Jesus Part 1

Looking to Jesus Part 2

We're in a little series here on Isaiah chapter 53, 52 and 3.

And last night we looked at Jesus and how it was that he was a servant, behold my servant.

And how it was that he fulfilled that role of a servant when he washed his disciples' feet, the most despicable job reserved for the lowest person in the room.

And None of the lowest people in the room volunteered to do the job, and so he came forward and did that.

Now today we continue our series on Isaiah 53 by looking at the passage that was just read to us by Rachel of, he was despised and rejected of men.

A man acquainted with sorrows and griefs.

He was despised and rejected, but we esteemed him not.

So let's invite the Lord to bless us as we open his word.

Father in heaven, we're thankful today that we can come, spend some time reflecting on your word, and we ask that you would attend it.

You've told us already in John 63 that your word is spirit and that it's life.

And we ask that it would come alive for us in Christ's name, amen.

Have you ever been despised and rejected?

To despise means to be thought lower than the person despising you.

A person looks down on you, maybe names off the things where you don't measure up to what they think.

And that's the first step towards rejection.

Someone is despised usually before they're rejected.

And Jesus was the most rejected person and still is in all human history.

And this, even though he was perfect, even though he was tempted but with no sin, even though he had no personality or character flaws that could be picked on, although there were some close manufactured flaws, he hangs out with people that party a lot, we don't like his messages, He would take the rabbi's parables and change the punchline.

And it says the common people heard him gladly.

But he had no personality or character flaws.

In fact, the Bible says if you had to, you could not have enough books to write about all the people that he healed and all the wonders he did.

And Luke says that he healed everybody in cities.

In fact, there probably was no need for a Auburn faith or a Kaiser or any health care plan, which might have been 1 of the reasons the chief rulers didn't like him, because that was their business.

He indeed had healed the hurting world and yet he was rejected.

He still, he suffered undeserved rejection prenatally and throughout his whole life.

Even before he was born, he was rejected.

So have you ever experienced rejection, being despised and rejected?

Let's just review some of his rejection and then how he handled it.

Isn't this the carpenter's son, they said, when he got up 1 day to do the scripture reading and talk about the scriptures.

In fact, they were so upset with him that they were gonna push him off a cliff.

And that just because he had scripture reading.

By the way, he also had a message that day.

And this sermon, which was a present truth sermon that actually related to the people in the synagogue that day, he said, well, that's not good.

How many think that would be a bad response to a sermon?

His family rejected him, his brothers, not even his brothers believe in him.

And of course why was it that his brothers didn't believe in him and didn't like him?

Well, he said, the world hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

Wait a minute, you're saying our works are evil?

He came to his own, and his own received him not.

The religious leaders of the day rejected him.

That word men is not Adam, not of mankind.

In fact most of the common people would have enjoyed him and would have not been led astray against him.

We don't have fishermen coming out and striking against Jesus.

There were huge strikes of all the fishermen now.

We don't have all the shepherds saying, you know what, we just don't like this guy.

It was the leaders that rejected, because it's not Ben Adam of mankind.

It actually says in the text, Ben-ish, lords, rulers, leaders, Top leaders rejected Jesus first, and then the others piled on.

Ultimately, these leaders were able to shift public opinion as a result of church-state manipulation.

The crowds that just days before were singing Hosanna were now screaming crucify him.

And when Pilate asked him, who should I release, Jesus or Jesus Barabbas?

They chose Barabbas, thereby rejecting Jesus.

With these decisions in place, most of the Roman soldiers followed suit.

He was spit on, he was beaten, he was stripped, physically violated, He was mocked as king of the Jews.

Shockingly, he was even rejected by his own disciples.

Peter denied him 3 times after saying he never would.

And he was there surrounded by his enemies, who also had already rejected him.

Roy Baumeister, 1 of the famous psychologists of our time and researcher, wrote about being rejected and alone, and I summarized some of his findings.

Rejected people become more aggressive toward others.

Rejected people, rejection increases toward, in their lives, toward neutral, innocent third parties.

They get rejected and they start picking on people they don't even know.

Rejected people leads 1 to view the world with suspicion and hostility.

Rejected people are more likely to cheat on tests.

Rejected people are less likely to help others.

Rejected people make more unhealthy food and health choices.

Rejected people have difficulty reasoning, analyzing, drawing conclusions.

Rejected people don't even like to look at themselves in the mirror.

I studied rejected people and they won't even look at themselves in the mirror.

And when someone else looks at them, they look down or they look away.

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