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Judges 11
It’s a terrible thing to get written off.
Have you ever experienced the hell of being rejected?
Kicked to the curb.
Dumped, and made to feel that you were less than and not equal to.
Made to feel that the sign on somebody’s life that says, /‘Keep Out no Trespassing’/ is personally meant to you.
It can break your heart, mess with your mind and sabotage your self-esteem when you experience the humiliating hell of rejection.
Yet if we all will be honest, all of us know something about being written off.
Some have experienced growing up and having somebody in your family who you looked up to, looked down their nose of sanctimonious snobbery and jealousy at you and said, /“You will never amount to anything”/.
It’s a terrible thing to be written off, and I’m already in somebody’s mail because you recognize every now and then we’re written off by people we look up to and believe in, only to discover they don’t believe in us.
*Rejection occurs on several levels*
You can be rejected in the context of relationships individually.
Have you been rejected by somebody you gave your love, money and honey to, only to discover that once you gave your all, your all was not good enough.
And subsequently you developed a bad case of */‘stalkeritis’/*.
Because your heart can’t figure out what they were doing to you.
/‘Stalkeritis’/ is a disease that forms once your heart has been broken by someone that you thought you would spend your whole life with, but they reject you and subsequently you develop /‘stalkeritis’/.
· You go on their job about noon to see who has taken your place.
If you’re not careful you will go where their tires are and there is a temptation in your spirit to make sure that if they take this person to lunch, they will go on rims.
· It’s when you go to places you all used to go to make sure that they don’t have the unmitigated gall to bring some other skeezer up there.
Because in a real sense you’re filled with so much hurt because you’ve been written off.
*Family members can write you off** *
Somebody in your home that made you feel that you won’t amount to anything.
Family members can write you off.
*Institutions can also write you off.
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Isn’t it sad that you can work hard and give everything you have to a job only to discover that they are downsizing and shipping your job overseas.
And make you feel that you’re not the right size.
And once your job has been *outsourced*, it leaves you without an *economic resource*.
There are many states that gauge how many prison cells they are going to need by the 3rd and 4th grade test scores of kids in our urban cities.
Instead of correcting a */dysfunctional educational process/*, they set up prisons so that we have a */‘classroom to prison cell pipeline’/*.
In reality this is institutional rejection that is experienced by our young black males.
It’s humiliating to be rejected either by individuals or institutions.
Being booed about a spouse who once you went home with dream or promotion God had given you they replied */“There is no way for you to do that”/*.
Booed by a parent who looked at you when you told them what you were going to do and they told you,
*/“Your momma was no good, your daddy wasn’t no good”/*.
Booed by somebody you thought would be applauding you.
Notice that is what goes down in the life of Japhthah.
The Bible says that Jephthah gets booed at home.
He knows the humiliating hell of being rejected by his family members over something he had no control over.
In a real sense they put a *label* on him and *limited* him by the *label* they put on him.
In a real sense they *categorized* him in order to *ostracize* him.
Then they *stigmatized* him in order to *demonize* him.
That’s what people will do.
We live in a nation which when they can’t figure out others, it will categorize them in order to stigmatize and demonize them.
Politicians do it all the time to get in office.
They will play on the fears of the citizenry by demonizing the other candidate.
I’m trying to tell you that is what happened in our text.
Jephthah was *categorized, ostracized* and *demonized* because the Bible says it was something that he had no control over.
He was categorized the Bible says, because his momma was a */‘hoochee’/*.
A */harlot, prostitute/*, a */ho/*.
And the daddy got with the momma.
Let me stop right there so I won’t be one-sided.
If the daddy stepped out with a */‘hoe’/* that made him a */‘whoremonger’/*.
Because were there is a demand their will be a supply.
So you have a */‘whoremonger’/*who represented the demand, and a */whore/* who represented the supply.
So once they came together and Jephthah was born, and his stepbrothers began to despise him.
You now it had to be rough growing up in Jephthah’s house.
His stepbrothers teasing him, */‘Your momma is a hoe’/*.
Jephthah is finally is kicked out of the house over something he had no control.
He is crippled emotionally because of something that went down between his momma and daddy.
He is kicked out of the home over something that he had nothing to do with and the Bible says, /‘he hooked up with some thugs, some worthless people in the land of Tob’/.
He has been kicked out of his home and has gravitated toward people who will accept him.
Running with some thugs and living a thug life.
*Stop playing holy!** *
There is in our day and time the glamorization of ‘Thug Life’.
Tupac Shakur had a song entitled ‘Thug Life’.
I believe that there are instances of honeys who want to get them some thug love.
And as a consequence honey got low, low, because they wanted some thug.
Thugs are seen as strong, hard, roughneck, they want some thug love.
But don’t ever forget that behind some */thugs story/* there is a */tragic story/*.
To read the story of Tupac and Jephthah is to read of a life that knew only dysfunction and pain.
But I serve a God who specializes in even taking a thug and straighten him out.
Wait a minute you all are acting like you can’t relate to this message because you’re too */‘churchified’/* and holy and never had been out there like that.
So since you’re playing holy on me let me give you a ‘William Reece remix of Scriptures’ to let you know that no one is better than anyone else.
The Bible says, “All have */thugged/* and come short of the glory of God”.
All we like */thugs/* */have thugged/* and gone astray.
Now you maybe a church going */thug/*, or a holy */hoochee/* but guess what there is */some thug/* in all of us!
When we do stuff that we didn’t really want to do (*/some thug in us/*).
We operate out of our pain (*/some thug in us/*).
But I’m so glad that God specializes in taking rejection and opposition to set the stage for promotion that would not have taken place unless we had had that opposition.
That’s my word for you today!
God
/Restores/
/Renews/
/Revives/ and
/Resurrects/
Those who have been rejected.
If you have been rejected God will always blow you up bigger.
I was on a plane reading a newspaper I was through with and ready to trash.
I had done all that I was going to do with it, and it as no longer any good for me.
At that moment the flight attendant came over the PA and said, */“We are about to come by and collect all of your discarded newspapers because what is trash to you is still treasure to us”/*.
At that time the newspaper looked up at me and said, /“See you were done with me, you used me, and now you have no use for me”/.
I wasn’t going crazy but I said you talking to me?
You’re only a newspaper.
Then he replied Shakespeare said there are sermons in stone.
Jesus said if these hold their peace then rocks will cry out.
So if rocks can rejoice, and sermons can come from stones, you are about to get some preaching from some paper.
I said /“preach to me then paper”/.
He said, “you’re done with me because you have used me.
But if you put me in the right hands they will not put me in the trash because they recognize there is still potential in me.
I just have to get in the right hands, and they will take me to a recycling center, where they will pick me up and clean me up and put me back into service.
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