People’s rejections are really God’s redirection. In “God, Why Did They Reject Me?,” Pastor Steven Furtick shows us how to shake off rejection so we can move forward in faith. This is an excerpt from ” Trapped In Nazareth.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch , click here: 
• Trapped In Nazareth | Savage Jesus | … #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch #trapped #rejection #moveforward #motivation #mindsets Chapters: 0:00 – Why Did They Reject Me? 2:29 – Where You Get Trapped 4:37 – How To Get Unstuck 6:50 – Rejection Is Not The End 8:52 – Shake It Off Scripture References: Mark 6, verses 6-11
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as a matter of fact I want to help set
somebody free who has been disappointed
because someone rejected you a lot of
times they’re not rejecting you a lot of
times what they are rejecting is
something that had nothing to do with
you and sometimes they push you away
because there’s something
pushing on the inside of them a lot of
what we experience as rejection is
really just
projection it’s people who have been
disappointed who have been hurt and now
you’re thinking what’s wrong with me why
doesn’t she appreciate me it’s not you
she doesn’t appreciate it’s that she
can’t appreciate herself because she has
not yet healed from something sometimes
when people are pushing you away it’s
not even about you stop being so
self-centered stop thinking that people
are responding to you people have real
hurts people have real issues sometimes
they can’t get over what happened to
them to celebrate you will you love them
anyway are you strong enough in God is
your relationship with him strong enough
to know that what they say about me
doesn’t change who I
am men’s denial cannot block my
destiny Jesus was still a prophet
whether they knew it or not whether they
celebrated him or not whether they
rolled out a red carpet or ran him out
of town he knew who he was do you know
who you are or do you need people to
tell you who you are because if you let
people tell you who you are they’ll say
you’re just a carpenter they’ll say
you’re just a single mom they’ll say
you’re just a teenager they’ll say
you’re just a divorce but if you know
who God is you realize your life is not
defined by an event oh as a matter of
fact it actually is that event happened
on a Hill Called Calvary when he shed
his blood for me when the precious lamb
of God looked at me through time and
said I’ll die for
him so now I
know that I am
accepted by
him I love Jesus
tenacity cuz a lot of
us if we would have been rejected in our
hometown that would have been enough to
kill our
mission
but what I want to show you for
everybody who has been rejected or has
been rejecting the grace that God has
been trying to give you sometimes you’re
rejecting
yourself is that something good can come
from
Nazareth I say something good can come
from
Nazareth and I want to tell you another
thing while I got you here you don’t
have to stay where you started
how many praise God for that I don’t
have to
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stay I don’t have to stay where I
started I don’t have to be who I
was I don’t have to be trapped in
Nazareth amen now don’t go home and tell
your husband you’re
leaving like he’s
Nazareth people will abuse my little
sermons sometimes take them out of
context be quitting your job like it’s
Nazareth you got a mortgage to pay bro
and I need you to tithe so keep that
job keep that
job may maybe Nazareth isn’t a place
maybe it’s a
perspective that’s where we get
trapped not where we are but what we
think about where we are Jesus could
have done it in Nazareth
they just weren’t willing to receive it
and watch what he did because this is
what somebody under the sound of my
voice needs to do today and I don’t know
why but I feel like when I show you this
it’s going to help you understand how to
get
unstuck that something that has been
playing like it’s on repeat on your
playlist over and over in your mind that
you can’t get out of could be a failure
it could be a friend that left you it
could be somebody you keep trying to
prove yourself to but you’re never going
to prove yourself to them because
they’ve never proved themselves to
themselves so how are you going to get
their approval if they don’t even
approve of thems this is what’s going to
help you cuz I never saw it before
because I preached this passage one day
I’m going to do a whole series called I
apologize and it’s going to be all the
passages that I preached and I screwed
them up and I’m going to go back and
apologize to those passages of scripture
in a whole series and this is
installment one I apologize for stopping
in verse six cuz often I would stop stop
right here and say he was amazed at
their lack of faith but right there in
the same
verse that says he was amazed at their
lack of
faith right there in that same verse
where it says he was rejected by the
people who should have respected him the
most have you ever felt that
way it could be a parent it could be a
child that you’ve done the most for the
only people that can really hurt you are
the ones you really love there’s nothing
like being
rejected by people that you expected
more from and even had the right to
expect more from he should have been
able to do 10 times the Miracles in
Nazareth he should have been able to do
much more for the people who already
knew
him and that could have been enough to
stop
him soft Jesus would have stopped in
Nazareth oh I’m
sorry y’all think I’m taking it too far
I’ll tone it down I apologize I’m so
sorry I won’t say these things anymore
I’m sorry I won’t heal anybody if y’all
don’t like it I’ll go back to the
carpenter shop it’s cool just please
don’t make fun of me we we get so
worried about
rejection that we miss God’s next
direction for our
life and the moment you understand that
many of the rejections that we
experience are really
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redirections you will no longer be
trapped in that
Nazareth some of us have gotten
bitter offended we’re trapped scandalon
to set a trap trapped in Nazareth what
is Nazareth the place where people said
you couldn’t the the place where who was
who was supposed to be there wasn’t
there the place where you failed and you
had great expectations and you
disappointed them here’s what happens
next he was amazed at their lack of
faith then
Jesus so rejection is not the
end cuz the next thing he did after they
rejected him in Nazareth watch this went
around teaching from Village to Village
calling the 12 to him he’s already
called them to be his disciples now he
can release them into their
Ministry calling the 12 to him God I
love your word thank you for showing me
this cuz I thought rejection minute was
over but when I read this I realized
that some of our greatest blessings can
only come on the other side of
rejection he began to send them out two
by
two and gave them authority over impure
Spirits these were his instructions a
take nothing for the journey except the
staff touch somebody say you don’t need
it you don’t need it whatever you don’t
have you don’t need it whatever they
didn’t give you you don’t need it
whatever they didn’t say you don’t need
it whatever wasn’t put in your path you
don’t need it don’t take it with
you wear sandals but not an extra shirt
verse 10 whenever you enter a house stay
there until you leave that town and if
any place will not welcome you or listen
to you leave that
place don’t you stay trapped in
Nazareth don’t you spend the rest of
your life trying to prove yourself to
people don’t you spend the rest of your
life apologizing for a weak season
if they won’t welcome you if it doesn’t
work out there if you can’t get it right
this time leave that
place leave that place it’s not it’s not
an address it’s not a zip
code it’s a
perspective and Shake the Dust off your
feet as a testimony against him this
must be why he brought the disciples to
Nazareth because he wanted to show them
what to do with rejection
and he knew that they were not
ready to be released in
Ministry until they had first been
rejected the road to
Resurrection is paved with
rejection and the
stone that the builders
rejected that the people tripped
on became the Chief
Cornerstone Jesus had showed them how to
cast out Devils Jesus had showed them
how to heal the sick Jesus had showed
them how to touch lepers but now he show
showing them how to do one more thing
that they’re going to need and then they
can be released he had to show them how
to shake it
off oh I feel the spirit of Taylor Swift
and he had to show him one more thing
it’s not always going to go like you
want it to go and not everybody is going
to see what you want them to see and
you’re not always going to make the
Right Moves and there are going to be
some mistakes but if you will shake it
off and move forward in
faith you’re ready
now you’re ready
now you failed some and you’re ready now
you’ve heard a lot and you’re ready now
you’re humbled by it you’re stronger
because of
it you now know that only God can
approve of
you you now know not to look to people
for their
validation you’re coming out of
Nazareth stop
tripping stop
tripping over what people
think stop tripping trying to get
somebody to clap for you who’s not even
paying attention
they got their own car
payment stop needing people to validate
what you know God made you
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already those disciples went out from
there and they started casting out
demons taking
Authority but first they had to go
through rejection
first they had to go through
disappointment first they had to go to
Nazareth 25 M trip Jesus Took the boys
on just to show them what to do when it
doesn’t
work just to show them that even Jesus
had to be rejected he was despised and
rejected you know why so you would never
have to
be you might be rejected by people but
you will never be rejected by him
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