# The rejection

October 6, 2025

You’re glad you’re born again? Doesn’t it just fit if you’re country now, just born again, doesn’t that just fit? It sounds better now. You know, I don’t know if you’re from New Jersey or something that doesn’t fit, you know, but born again just fits now, you know. I’ll tell you what. And then, oh, the power of Jesus’ name. All that. Think about that day. Revelation 4 gives a great description of it.

When Jesus, He’s already King, but when we cast the crowns at His feet and the choirs of all time basically sing to Jesus and He’s on the throne, that’s going to be an awesome, awesome day. You ought to read Revelation 4. It just kind of culminates the 24 elders, us, I think it represents, and the beast, and by just worshiping Jesus.

It’s going to be awesome. Can you imagine? Can you imagine when Jesus—the closest I think I’ve been to kind of just something making it a little bit real to me is going to… It’s not because it was the tendency of halls, it wasn’t because of that, but that’s a good start there, you know? But walking out in that stadium, we’re about halfway up, about midfield, and we walked out. You walk through these tunnels and you walk out in the arena, if you were the stadium…

And I think it was 92,000 people there that day. Amen, just a sea of people. Of course, they’re cheering for football. But there’ll be millions of people cheering for Jesus. And everybody’s going to be just bowing down and praising millions. It’s going to be awesome. And that’s a great, great song. All those songs are great. And to praise the Lord for them. Look over in Isaiah 53, if you would, please. Isaiah 53.

And just briefly, we’re going to talk about—we try to pick out different things of the cross on Lord’s Supper Night. That way it’s not always the same. But just for a minute or two, I want to focus on the rejection of the cross. And if you’ve ever been rejected, you just feel rejected or you have felt rejected.

By the way, I love that over in Hebrews talking about our great High Priest. It says which cannot be touched. We have not a High Priest, which cannot be touched not just by infirmities or weaknesses, but by the feeling of our infirmities. So He can be touched by your feelings.

Feelings. And in our day and time, you’re in your fields or you’re in your fields right now, you know, and all that. But He can be touched by the feeling of your infirmities. You ever feel inferior? You ever feel hurt? You ever feel rejected? All these feelings. He’s touched by those. There’s a feeling of your infirmities.

And one of those feelings that we can experience is rejection. And especially maybe if you’re raised in a home where mom or dad left, maybe his death or whatever, maybe, but you just had to go. You’re very vulnerable to the feeling of rejection. Maybe you’ve been through a divorce. Maybe there’s been through a parent that was there, but they were very verbally abusive to you, and you’re just very, very vulnerable to rejection. And Jesus went through rejection, and for just a bit, we’re just going to focus on that tonight, and then we’ll get over to the Lord’s Supper here in just a minute. But you’re in Isaiah 53. It’s a great, great chapter about Jesus and a prophecy of the coming Messiah.

Isaiah has more prophecies about the coming Messiah than any other Old Testament book, and is just full of them. And Isaiah 53 is a great chapter on that. Would you please stand as you read just the first five verses of Isaiah 53, and we’ll start in verse number one. “Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”

“For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness when we shall see Him. There is no beauty that we should desire Him.” We see all these paintings and pictures of Jesus in our day and time. We don’t know what He looked like.

They’re just copying some 14th, 15th, 16th century artist. That’s why often you’ll see Him with long hair. He didn’t have long hair, I can tell you that, because the Bible says that’s wrong. And He’s not going to go against this Word. But we don’t know what He looked like. Besides this, we get a little glimpse of what He looked like. Interesting.

Can I just say this? Of course, no respect towards Jesus, but He knows every feeling we have, especially of rejection. But it wasn’t physically that form that He took upon. Over there, you know, Philippians 2 talked about that form as a man. He wasn’t a good-looking man. He wasn’t. That’s what He’s talking about right there. Look at that right there.

Verse number two: “For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness. When we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.” That’s Bible. That’s not Hollywood. That’s Bible. And so, you say, but I don’t measure up with so-and-so. Jesus, He far exceeds everybody, everything.

But He took upon Him the form of a servant, of a man. And His form wasn’t a good-looking man. He wasn’t. And He says, “And when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.” Watch this, verse number three: “He is despised and rejected of men.” You’ve been through rejection. He understands that.

Well, He understands; He gets it fully. “Despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid as it were our faces from Him. He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He had borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.”

“Yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, and He was bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes, we are healed.” Boy, I like that. With His stripes, the stripes He bore. This morning we talked a little bit about the cat an eye, and says,

“…with His stripes we are healed.” One day that’s going to be totally, fully physical healing. I was talking about to Brother Mine just a minute ago, and he’s got rotary cuff surgery coming up. Hey, we’ll be totally healed, whatever may be. I mean, just all these, but not just physical healing, spiritual and emotional. Some of those wounds go real, real deep.

And He says, “Hey, by His stripes, we’re healed.” Total healing. Total healing. We get to be with Jesus one day. But just for a bit, we want to focus about… Maybe we talked about His looks a little bit. By the way, one day we’ll see Him in His glorified body. It’ll be very desirable. And it won’t be in His form like, oh, it’ll… It’ll be better than anybody, anyone could ever imagine. But while He was here, He was despised and rejected of men. It’s that rejection for just a bit tonight. We want to focus on that. And I want you to think about it. He understands when you go through rejection. All of us somewhat have been through that. He understands. And then we’ll kind of end up with: He’s taking the rejection.

As far as with God Almighty, we’ll never have to go through rejection because Jesus took it. We’ll finish with that briefly tonight. Pray with me that God does speak to our hearts. Father, Your Word’s amazing, Lord. I, for sure, would get off here, there, and yonder without Your Word. Lord, and I sometimes don’t know what to think, apart from Your Word. Thank You for it. Help us to just get from Your Word. And, Lord, help us to get a better glimpse of Jesus.

And specifically, Lord, His time down here when He walked the shores of Galilee. Make it real to us, Father, even now. Would You bring healing through what Your Son Jesus went through? And, Lord, we’ll thank You for what You do, Father. We ask for this in the name of Jesus. We pray. Amen.

I wonder, I wonder, you know, the Bible talks about Jesus. He grew in wisdom, favor, and stature toward God. I wonder how old now Jesus always was, as far as this life down here. I wonder how old Jesus was when He realized those babies that were killed by Herod at the Great up there in Bethlehem—they were trying to kill me.

You ever think about how would you feel if a bunch of babies were murdered? And the reason why they were murdered was because they were trying to kill you.

Look, you have somewhat of a feeling of rejection. He was despised and rejected. I just talked about what all Jesus went through. We think of the cross, rightly so. But imagine, how old was He when that really sunk in? There was crying up there in that region, the Bible tells us. The mothers weeping for their babies that were murdered.

And Jesus, when He realized, “Hey, they were trying to kill me.” He was just a baby as far as here on earth when His mom and dad had to move to Egypt because they were trying to kill Him. Imagine growing up and realizing your parents had to move—while His mom and His stepfather had to move—because they wanted to kill you, and you’re a baby. So mom and dad had to run over to this foreign country and then back, and then warned by the angel, “Oh, don’t stay here, go up to Nazareth,” their hometown. But when Jesus… man, mom and dad had to move all over the place because of me.

Twice in His public ministry. You know, He’s 30 years old as far as here on earth, and He starts His public ministry, and He’s down in Galilee a lot or up in Galilee a lot, down in Judea and Jerusalem some. But He made two trips back up to His hometown of Nazareth, and both times they totally rejected Him. I mean, one time He went to His hometown and…

…and they took Him out to the brow or a cliff, an overhang, and they were going to push Jesus off the cliff. That’s His hometown. That’s the kids He hung out with when He was a boy. That’s the people He knew. He went to the synagogue often, or church often, when He was growing up. They knew Him. And yet His hometown… was trying to kill Him. Now that’s when He went through the midst of them.

But just imagine how you go to your hometown and imagine the rejection. Wow. That’s when He makes those statements: “A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and among his own kin.” That’s what He’s talking about. But I’m just talking about the rejection that Jesus… You said, “Preacher, I’ve been rejected.” Oh, my goodness, Jesus understands.

I mean, He just totally gets it, if you will. His own nationality, His own Jewish people—He came unto His own, speaking of the Jewish people, and His own received Him not. His own nationality, they rejected Him. Jesus understands rejection. And then for a while, in His public ministry, the thousands were with Him, and it’s hard just to get to see Him or touch Him. And I remember they had to let one man down from the rooftop, and it was just… it was amazing. And maybe the devil really tried to get Him where He was maybe giving some things that ought to come from His Father, and maybe He was tempted to give it to people—that’s always a temptation.

And both of the thousands were there. The one lady, she had to really get depressed just to touch the hem of His garment. But you know, as they got closer to Him going to the cross, and He got more clear and more clear about what He was going to do, and He wasn’t going to set up His throne on the earth at that time, and the time wasn’t right, and the Jewish people as a whole had rejected His kingdom. And as He got closer, you know, the crowds thinned out.

And boy, people just began to leave Him. And then it came to one point right before the cross—even His own apostles that He had trained—all men forsook Him. And He’s alone. Just the rejection of that. He said, “Man, I get rejected at work because, hey, no, I go to church Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night.” Hey, friend, Jesus understands.

He understands totally. “Well, you know, my aunt, my uncle, or my mom, my dad, or my sister, or whoever may be, they just treat me like mud.” Jesus understands every single bit of them. You talk about understanding of rejection. He was despised and rejected of men.

He about to go to the cross, and He’s over there in the garden praying. He asked the three—inner three—Peter, James, and John, “Would you go, would you go a little bit further and pray with me?” And you know what happened? Sarah, Sarah usually comes down over Sunday afternoon, eats with us, and she rode the bus this afternoon, then took Miss Jennifer home and all that, so she’s a little bit late. And so we had a meal waiting for her—or excuse me, Tammy had a meal waiting for her. But I was in the back bedroom, and I’d seen her a little before church, and I said something along the line. I said, “Sorry, missed you, did you? You came,” you know. But I was back there snoring.

And she said, “Yeah, actually I did hear some snoring going on back there,” you know. I said, “As your mom, right?” You know, she said, “Well, I don’t think so,” you know. And that’s what Peter, James, and John were doing. And Jesus was there alone, praying, sweating as if it was great drops of blood. He just… He understands. He gets it when people disappoint you.

And then He leaves the garden, and who is it but old Judas? Wonderful, friendly, loving… Judas. And he’s bringing those soldiers with him. And boy, it can kind of infuriate you if you’re not careful, if you’re flesh-led instead of Spirit-led. But Judas, the very sign that he’s the one, is Judas going, “Oh, Jesus, we love you.” And what’s your culture? And they would kiss Him on the cheek—the kiss of betrayal. Boy, you want to say, “You two-faced liar, acting like you’re my friend! I know what that kiss means.”

I’m just saying Jesus understands. They’ve been betrayed and rejected. Jesus understands all that. Man, if anybody gets it, He gets it. And then they lead Him away for the cross. And Caiaphas and Annas, the high priests there, and then the next morning over to Pilate and the judgment hall. And Pilate, twice Pilate really puts a little fake trial, if you will, on.

And He brings them out to the people out behind the judgment hall, out there to the open. The Jews can’t come in there, and the dead preparation of all that. And He comes out there, and He says, “Hey, I’m finding him no fault.” And it’s the day that we’re supposed to give up one of our… “Let me release him to you, Jesus.” “You don’t want Barabbas, that murderer, a filthy, dirty guy?” And what do they say? “No.”

“Now we don’t want Barabbas”—excuse me—“Release Barabbas. We want Jesus to be crucified, crucified, crucified!” Can you imagine how Jesus must have felt when He heard the cries of His own people saying, “Crucify Him”? You talk about your heart getting stabbed. You talk about hurt. You talk about rejection.

You talk about hurting. Some of you have been through some hurt and some pain. And Jesus understands that. Oh, if anybody understands—Jesus despised and rejected of men. He understands it. “Well, my dad was supposed to come pick me from Mom or whatnot and take me here and yonder. They never showed up for the most part. And I just got you after I just wrote it off.” Oh, that leaves some wounds, friend. Jesus understands it. Despised and rejected of men.

And then just the scenes of the cross: every pounding of that scourge, 39 times typically—it’s just rejection, rejection. And that crown of thorns and beat it down with that reed—rejection, rejection. And the nails in His hands and His feet—rejection, rejection. They spit upon Him. Man, that’s just horrible. Can you imagine someone spitting on Jesus, the Creator of the universe? They’re spitting on Him. And can you imagine the spittle coming down on His face? The rejection.

Despised and rejected of men. Now, friend, He was going through that for you. I don’t want you to think about anybody else. I want you to think about He was going through that. Imagine Him there with that spittle dripping off His face, and He said, “I’m doing it because I love you. I’m doing it for you.”

You’re going through rejection, or you’ve been through rejection. You’ve got some wounds there. Oh, He gets it for you. He gets it. And He went through that because He loves you. He said, “I want to go through this for…” He looked out through time and saw you in 2025, a brother of a county Baptist church, and Brother Patterson or Brother Jim, or He saw you. And imagine Him looking at you saying, “I want to go through this to show you how much I love you.”

He gave seven utterances on the cross. Of course, three and three, and then that middle one, the fourth one, kind of the center of those seven utterances: “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani.” What does that mean? “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”

When our sins were placed on Him, and all the dirt and filth of our lives, the parts, the skeletons, and the claws of that—I don’t want anybody knowing about my life—it was placed on Jesus. God Almighty said, “Hey, you’ve got the sins of Paul Chisgar. You’ve got the sins of all those,” but you got their sins on you. God the Father says, “I can’t look at that sin.”

And Jesus bore our sin. I think the greatest rejection was at that moment. And He cries out. Now, He’s not bitter and mad at God. He still says, “My God, You’re still my God. My God, my God.” Still His God. “Why hast Thou forsaken?” You just… you left Me, if you will.

Here’s a wonderful thing: because Jesus took our sins aboard on the cross, we’ll never, ever have to experience that rejection. Why? Jesus said, “I’ll never leave thee nor forsake thee.” Jesus said, “I went through that so you’ll never have to go through that. Never have to experience that rejection.” Nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. Jesus paid it all.

So if I’m rejected, I experience that sometimes, and you will—somewhat all of us. Jesus understands. And Jesus took our rejection, if you will, the separation of the Father. But we’ll never, ever, ever have to experience that again. By the way, when Jesus comes back for us, the blessed hope—what is it over there in Philippians? He says, “So shall we ever be with the Lord.” Ever. He took that rejection so we never have to experience that.

Would you bow your heads and close your eyes for just a bit tonight? Would you just think on Him a little bit tonight? Would you love Him a little bit tonight? Would you say thank you? Maybe you have all just times of rejection that affect you. Would you say, “Thank You, Jesus, You understand. You understand.” Would you thank You for going through that? Would you love Him? Would you thank You for taking the rejection so we never have to experience that rejection from the Father? Jesus bore all on the cross of Calvary. Then let’s just spend some time loving on Him. We’re about to get close to the Lord’s Supper here in just a minute. Let’s just spend some time thinking and loving on Him, getting ourselves clean and right.

And we’re about to go to the cross in a special way. Would you do that? Would you stand tonight? Would you stand? And let’s spend some time with the Lord. Father, thank You. You’re amazing that You understand this. Thank You, Father, for giving Your Son. Thank You, Lord. We won’t have to experience that. You’re always with us. You’re always on our side. God, Jesus paid it all. Lord, would You send Your Spirit just taking us back to the cross in a special way tonight? Lord, we’ll thank You for what You do. Jesus, now we pray. Amen. Would you just love Him? Just love Him. Spend some time on the altar. Have the Lord lead and guide you. Just love on Him. Thank Him a little bit. He bore it all. He understands.

“We have not a High Priest which cannot be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.” Wow, what a wonderful thing. Just love Him a little bit, praise Him a little bit. Thank You, Lord. We don’t serve a God that doesn’t understand this a million miles away. He doesn’t care. Oh, He understands everything. He’s been through it. Despised and rejected of men. He understands.

Original File: 2025-10-06 - Pastor Paul Chisgar ＂The rejection＂ - Sunday PM 10⧸05⧸2025