Category Archives: Relationship with God

ACAD – Rejection: Ezekiel 5

Jerusalem’s disobedience in the sight of surrounding nations that had always rejected God’s statutes receives a punitive sentence. “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, therefore… Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.”

ACAD – Rejected: Jeremiah 6

Jerusalem rejects God’s law, He promises destruction to the city. “I have made you a tester and a refiner among my people so that you may know and test their ways. They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly. The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed. They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them.”

ACAD – Rejected: Jeremiah 2

Israel is judged guilty of two evils: forsaking God and making broken vessels for themselves to worship. ” What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthless things, and became worthless themselves?”

ACAD – Rejected: Psalm 89

Cast down and rejected but not removed from God’s steadfast love and faithfulness – God’s promise to David’s line. “He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!’ I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and my covenant with him will stand firm. I will establish his line forever, and his throne as long as the heavens endure.”

Song & Verse: Worth by Anthony Brown

You thought I was worth saving | So you came and changed my life | You thought I was worth keeping | so you cleaned me up inside | You thought I was to die for |
so you sacrificed your life

So I could be free
So I could be whole
So I could tell everyone I know

ACAD – Rejection: 1 Samuel 15

Saul disobeys God’s instructions; God rejects Saul as king. “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obedience to the voice of the Lord? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is no less a sin than divination, and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.”

ACAD – Rejected: 1 Samuel 10

Israel continues to reject God while accepting Saul as their king and savior. “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’ But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said, ‘No! but set a king over us.’”