Rejection. I mean even the sound of the word is negative. No one is immune to it.

Everyone will experience to some degree rejection. Here's the issue. It'll either make you or break you. We'll all be

shaped by rejection. Today you'll learn how to leverage your rejection for good. Good. Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chippingbrook.

The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians

through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. And can it really be possible for

something good to come about when we experience a harsh rejection? Well today Chip will answer that question and

confront the cruel lies we believe about ourselves when we feel discarded and

cast aside. So if you're ready go in your Bible to Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7 as chip continues our series

unstuck. I want you to lean back if you will and just know, the word association sort of thing.

I want you to think about where you were, what people come to mind,

and what just sort of emotions pops your mind,

lean back, even shut your eyes if you want to.

And I'm just going to say some words very quickly

and I just want to give the spirit of God a chance

to maybe conjure up some thoughts so that we can get in touch with where we've been

so God can speak to us where we are. What comes to your mind, what people, what

circumstances, what painful memory when you hear dropped

discarded pushed away shoved aside spurned jilted brushed off excluded not

invited disinherited, fired, broke up, abused, neglected, abandoned, abandoned, ignored, dismissed, kicked in the teeth, replaced, forsaken, betrayed.

Everybody has some situations like that,

and what I will tell you is that you are today in significant measure a result of the rejection of your past. We all experience rejection. Those words, everyone in this room, some of those

words you have experienced, some people have experienced them in traumatic, horrendous ways, other people in significantly deep ways.

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