# Freed | Rejection - Sam Gibson

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Podcast: [Church of the City New York](https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-of-the-city-new-york-203880)
Published: 2026-06-01T19:40:00+00:00
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## Resource

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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