Rejection to Resurrection
Steve Martin
“This Yeshua is the
stone rejected by you builders which has become the cornerstone. There is
salvation in no one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to
mankind by whom we must be saved!” (Acts 4:11-12, Complete Jewish Bible)
A highly respected and noted
Bible teacher in the 1970s and beyond, Bob Mumford of North Carolina, had a
unique way of presenting truth as he spoke. He would get the gathered believers
laughing about an incident or story he would tell, and then, “Bam!”, the truth
would hit you, figuratively, in your smiling teeth, with your mouth wide open, when
the last sentence of truth proclaimed came forth. When the reality of the
situation he was telling became shockingly clear, suddenly exploding in your heart’s
understanding, it was like you just got hit in the mind with clarity. You never
saw it coming, but when it did, the presented truth immediately enlightened your
head and heart. It was, “Yes, that is it. I never saw it before. How could I
have missed that? Wow!”
Bob Mumford |
But as happens far too
often, we at first dismiss it. We at first toss it aside. We let it be buried
in the ground.
As happened with Jesus
Himself, that which was rejected and buried later became that which was the
very cornerstone that was needed. Salvation has come. We need only to receive Him,
day in and day out, to get out from under that which had been dead and buried.
And so it was when
Yeshua came the first time. The very one that could save each from all that
held us in bondage was the very one rejected. Only after His resurrection did
the understanding come, to fully realize He was Who He said He was. The Truth
once rejected was the Truth resurrected.
How often have you and I
been presented the truth of reality, the “way it is, because that is the way it
is?” When we first hear what can save us, what will give us the answer to that
which we have prayed for, we dismiss it. Only after the Holy Spirit continues
to open our closed eyes and our closed heart do we finally realize that, yes,
that is what I need, this is what I have been looking for, this is what my
spirit has been longing for, for so long.
That very thing we
rejected, in the beginning, is the very one thing that will bring resurrection to
the dead reality we had brought on ourselves.
The builders rejected
the cornerstone. So had we.
We have been given the
opportunity to hear the Lord speak to us in our daily walk, directing our
steps, and moving us onward in resurrected power and anointing. We must take
heed to not reject that which He sends our way, but to trust in His guidance
and provision. The walk of faith is a daily movement away from rejecting His
Word to us and receiving His resurrection power to carry it out.
The world is waiting for
believers to demonstrate the living resurrection power that has been given to
us. They too will reject it at first, but when the Holy Spirit opens their eyes
to the eternal truth, they will join the saved ranks and likewise be witnesses
of His resurrection too.
Let the rejection in
your life become His resurrection in your life. Accept the truth He brings, for
He alone has the power to raise you up and get you to where He is ultimately wanting to take you.
Shalom and ahava (peace
and love in Hebrew).
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People,
Inc.
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04.13.19 – “Rejection to Resurrection” – Saturday 4:50 am.
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Thanks for sharing. Blessings on your head from the Lord Jesus, Yeshua HaMashiach.
Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People
Charlotte, NC USA