Have you ever been rejected? Did it make you feel like you weren’t good enough? Like you were lacking something? Let this clip encourage you, as Pastor Steven reveals that sometimes rejection is the best thing that can happen to you.
in the book of Matthew when it starts
out it it gives what’s called the
genealogy of Jesus Christ it tells all
of the different generations through
which Jesus was born and traces it all
the way back to the top it’s like Jesus
version of ancestry.com and if we could
show if we could show Leah Matthew
chapter 1 I don’t think she would have
been as frustrated you know why because
in Matthew chapter 1 I’m getting ready
to blow somebody’s mind in the back of
the room okay in the back of the room
get ready it’s going to freak you out
Matthew is telling us how Jesus came
into the earth and he said this is the
genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son
of David the son of Abraham Abraham was
the father of Isaac Isaac the father of
Jacob Jacob the father of Judah wait a
minute Judah was Leah’s son Leah was the
one Jacob never even wanted to marry and
if you keep reading Matthew I’m not
going to do it because it’s got a lot of
names that I don’t know how to pronounce
but it says so and so begat so and so
begat so and so begat so and so begat so
and so and it goes for fourteen
generations and then fourteen more and
then fourteen more and it’s just a long
list and normally I would skip over it
but it says we need to think about this
it says that Abraham begot Isaac Isaac
begat Jacob Jacob begat Judah now skip
all the way to verse 16 after all of the
so-and-so’s and the Bhagat’s and the
so-and-so’s and the B gods it says and
then there was Jacob the father of
Joseph the husband of Mary and Mary was
the mother of Jesus who is called the
Messiah now here’s why I said it was
going to blow your mind because Jesus
came from the line of Judah Judah came
from Leah beloved Jacob never even
wanted the savior of the world was born
out of the reception of a woman who was
unload by break-up now I want to tell
you if you’re feeling rejected today
feeling like a failure today God has a
plan to bring forth Jesus in your life
out of your reflection out of your
frustration out of your failure out of
your defect out of your flaws so in that
cool that amazing stand-up I’m closing
in that amazing in an amazing that God
will turn rejection into a blessing the
one that Jacob never even wanted gave
him the child that would ultimately
produce the one who would save the world
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you’re chosen Leah you’re chosen Leah
your chosen Leah I’m looking for
unlovely as I want to tell you you’re
chosen to give birth to Judah a praise
that comes from your pain that will
produce the presence of Jesus
you