Does God reject people?

Yes, He does. He rejected King Saul. God can call a person and then reject him. What can bring about that rejection? It is selfwill. Only his will should be done not yours. It was selfwill that brought about king Saul’s rejection.

1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

God calls you to do His will. You ought to do His will, as a child of God. “Get thee behind me, ye workers of iniquity, I know you not.” Will be the final words of rejection to many on the last day.

Friend, in selfwill, a person does the work of God halfheartedly, deceitefully, pretensiously, or even perversely. Such a person must therefore be rejected. When you are in selfwill, you either do God’s work amiss or obey Him halfway: you can never do it completely or acceptably. God doesn’t expect you to obey him halfway. He said, “what is the chaff to the wheat?” Jer 23:28. We ought to like Noah do all as the Lord has commanded. Assuming you didn’t know His will and you did things worthy of stripes, He said you will be beaten with a few stripes, because you are a servant. But what if you know the will and didn’t do it, He said you deserve many stripes.

Luke 12:47 And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

The few stripes could be correction, while the many stripes could be rejection, even as the employee who knows his employer’s will but will not do it may end up losing his job.

What servant of yours is that, who resist your will and do things as it seems good in his own sight, wouldn’t you not kick him out? Should you employ a worker and he or she doesn’t do the job the way you want, won’t you sack him or her? Let us therefore deliver ourselves from selfwill lest we secure the LORD’S rejection.

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