Silent Killers Pt.1 REJECTION 

Sunday, May 3, 2020

1 Samuel 16:1, 6-12

Infection occurs when viruses, bacteria, or other microbes enter your body and begin to multiply. Disease occurs when the cells in your body are damaged as a result of infection, and signs and symptoms of an illness appear. An infection is when something from the outside gets on the inside and starts to destroy your body from the inside out. The infection is silently killing you before the symptoms appear. 

Example/illustration; Building barbed wire fence as a kid, I was always getting cut. Eventually it would scab over and then go away. Sometimes, if the wound was deep enough and it went unaddressed, it could get infected. It may scab over and look ok on the outside (for a time) while still doing damage on the inside. Eventually, symptoms would start too manifest on the outside eluding to what was going on on the inside. Redness, swelling, pus, etc... If still left untreated, this small wound could eventually set up gangrene and cause me to loose a limb or die! The danger of unaddressed wound is it becomes subject to infection! The cut might not kill you, but the infection will! 

Today I want to talk about a silent killer called rejection! Rejection is something that everybody has to deal with. No mater who you are, your educational background, your cultural background, socioeconomic background, you either have or will experience rejection on some level.

Jesus’ life was full of rejection! 

Transition: Rejection is a silent killer! If left unaddressed, it is a wound that will destroy your life from the inside out. Our text and the overall story of our text is full of rejection and the corresponding manifestations. I can not find anyone in the Bible other than Jesus who experienced more rejection that David. But David was not the only one in our text to experience rejection. 

“Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.” 

6 So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!” 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!” 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “…I have refused him.

1 Samuel 17:28 Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”29 And David said, “What have I done now? Is there not a cause?” 30 Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing

10 Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.” 11 And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all the young men here?” Then he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and there he is, keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him. For we will not sit down till he comes here.” 

12 So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with bright eyes, and good-looking. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!” 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.

Jesus was despised and rejected so you could be loved and accepted!