8 Sermons Tagged "Reject"

This is the third sermon from the 2023 Lent series "Why Must the Servant of the LORD Suffer?" Pastor Schurman uses 3 more verses from Isaiah's prophecy to explain that Jesus lacked any worldly glory or tricks, so that we are not drawn to him by our sinful nature, but instead by the faith that God gives to us.

When reading through the Bible, it may seem like God is sometimes playing favorites with those who are saved and those who are not, especially those people who at times worked against Christ. However, through several parables Jesus explains the key differences between those people, and we see how it applies to us today.

Jesus explained that he would die on the cross and then rise again, but Peter did not understand and initially rejected what Jesus said. Jesus rebuked Peter and then told his followers to take up their crosses and follow him. That message applies to us today, but if, like Peter, we don't understand the crosses in our lives, we may reject them.

Jesus told the Parable of the Wicked Tenants to the chief priests and the Pharisees and ended it by telling them "the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces its fruit." However, we can apply this parable to ourselves, since, as members of the priesthood of all believers, we are the ones that produce the fruits of faith.