Freed | Rejection - Sam Gibson
Church of the City New York
COTC NYC
4.8 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, Pastor Sam Gibson continued our FREED series with a sermon on rejection—opening by admitting he couldn't promise freedom from it. Rejection is inevitable. The real question is whether it will deform you or transform you. Pastor Sam unpacked the snare of recognition as rejection's dangerous shadow side, walked through the Greco-Roman context of adoption in Romans 8, and landed on this: in Christ, we are not rescued strays but chosen heirs—named, inheritance transferred, legally irrevocable. That is the spirit of adoption available to us, and it is what sets us free.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's teaching text is taken from Romans chapter 8. We'll be reading verses 15 to 17, |
| 0:07.0 | and then verses 31 to 39. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, |
| 0:15.0 | but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry, Abba, Father. The spirit himself bears witness with |
| 0:23.3 | our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow |
| 0:28.9 | heirs with Christ. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us, |
| 0:36.0 | he who did not spare his own son, but up for us all how will he not also with him |
| 0:41.4 | graciously give us all things who shall then bring any charge against god's elect it is god who justifies |
| 0:48.9 | who is to condemn christ jesus is the one who died, more than that, who was raised, who is at the |
| 0:56.1 | right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? |
| 1:02.2 | Shall tribulations or distress or persecutions or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? |
| 1:10.2 | As it is written, for your sake, we are being killed all day long. |
| 1:14.1 | We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. |
| 1:16.9 | No, in all of these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. |
| 1:21.8 | For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, |
| 1:29.8 | nor things to come, nor powers, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, |
| 1:34.6 | nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord. |
| 1:38.6 | This is the word of the Lord. |
| 1:40.6 | Go ahead and grab a seat. |
| 1:50.6 | Good morning, church. Thank you. go ahead and grab a seat good morning church if i haven't met you before my name is sam one of the executive pastors here at church of the city so honored to be with you last sunday and may |
| 1:56.8 | and before we dive in today uh just two things I need to make sure you're aware of. |
| 2:02.3 | I know it's coming on. |
| 2:03.4 | Summertime is starting in the city. |
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