Outcasts of the World

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Outcasts of the World
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• Do You Feel Like an Outcast?

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• Christians should feel like outcasts of the world.

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Ways in Which Christians Are Treated as Outcasts.

• Regarded as strange, hurtful things are spoken of
  you for abstaining from sin.

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1 Peter 43-4 (NKJV)

• 3 For we have spent enough of our past lifetime
  in doing the will of the Gentiles when we
  walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness,
  revelries, drinking parties, and abominable
  idolatries. 4 In regard to these, they think it
  strange that you do not run with them in the same
  flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.

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• Instead of examining their own lives, they feel
  threatened and cover up their fear by ridiculing
  you as if something was wrong with you!

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Ways in Which Christians Are Treated as Outcasts.

• Regarded as strange, hurtful things are spoken of
  you for abstaining from sin.
• Excluded by others.

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Luke 622 (NKJV)

• Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they
  exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your
  name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.

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• Living for Christ may result in
  the loss of friendships and companionship life
  as a Christian can be a lonely road.

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Ways in Which Christians Are Treated as Outcasts.

• Regarded as strange, hurtful things are spoken of
  you for abstaining from sin.
• Excluded by others.
• Opposed by family members / relatives.

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Your stand for the Lord may be put to the test in
your own home!

• Matthew 1034-36 (NASB) "Do not think that I
  came to bring peace on the earth I did not come
  to bring peace, but a sword. 35 "For I came to
  set a man against his father, and a daughter
  against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against
  her mother-in-law 36 and a man's enemies will be
  the members of his household.

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Who is it that we love the most?

• Matthew 1037-39 (NASB) "He who loves father or
  mother more than Me is not worthy of Me and he
  who loves son or daughter more than Me is not
  worthy of Me. 38 "And he who does not take his
  cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39
  "He who has found his life shall lose it, and he
  who has lost his life for My sake shall find it.

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Ways in Which Christians Are Treated as Outcasts.

• Regarded as strange, hurtful things are spoken of
  you for abstaining from sin.
• Excluded by others.
• Opposed by family members / relatives.
• Your own brethren may even cast you out for
  doing what is right!

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• Sometimes persecution can come from our own
  brethren, false brethren (2
  Cor. 1126), who have gone back into the world.

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1 Tim 620-21 (NASB)

• 20 O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to
  you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the
  opposing arguments of what is falsely called
  "knowledge" 21 which some have professed
  and thus gone astray from the faith. Grace be
  with you.

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• Instead of the desire to study the Scriptures and
  work out differences, you are labeled a
  troublemaker, excluded, and mocked!

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Isaiah 665 (NASB)

• Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at
  His word "Your brothers who hate you, who
  exclude you for My name's sake, have said, Let
  the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy.
  But they will be put to shame.

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Why are Christians Outcasts?

• The world hates Christians just as they did
  Christ.

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Matthew 1024-25 (NASB)

• 24 "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a
  slave above his master. 25 "It is enough for the
  disciple that he become as his teacher, and the
  slave as his master. If they have called the head
  of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members
  of his household!

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John 1518-19 (NASB)

• 18 "If the world hates you, you know that it has
  hated Me before it hated you. 19 "If you were of
  the world, the world would love its own but
  because you are not of the world, but I chose you
  out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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John 1520 (NASB)

• "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave
  is not greater than his master.' If they
  persecuted Me, they will also persecute you if
  they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

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• Friendship with the world and fellowship
  with God is impossible (James 44)
  thus we must not seek popularity,
  prestige, or prominence.

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James 44 (NASB)

• You adulteresses, do you not know that
  friendship with the world is hostility toward
  God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of
  the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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Why are Christians Outcasts?

• The world hates Christians just as they did
  Christ.
• The world hates us because we belong to Christ,
  not the world.

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The world hates us because we belong to Christ,
not the world.

• Much like a clique, if you dont belong to the
  group, then you are hated, ridiculed, and
  persecuted.
• Disciples are chosen by Christ to be outcasts
  chosen out of the world to be set apart from
  the world.

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• We cannot leave this world, so we must make the
  choice to not be of the world and as a result we
  expect to be hated by the world.

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John 1714-16 (NASB)

• 14 I have given them Thy word and the world
  has hated them, because they are not of the
  world, even as I am not of the world. 15 "I
  do not ask Thee to take them out of the world,
  but to keep them from the evil one. 16 "They are
  not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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• We are different because we are from God we
  choose to listen to the words of God instead of
  the spirit that is in the world.

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1 John 44-6 (NASB)

• 4 You are from God, little children, and have
  overcome them because greater is He who is in
  you than he who is in the world. 5 They are from
  the world therefore they speak as from the
  world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are
  from God he who knows God listens to us he who
  is not from God does not listen to us. By this we
  know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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Why are Christians Outcasts?

• The world hates Christians just as they did
  Christ.
• The world hates us because we belong to Christ,
  not the world.
• We are outcasts because we refuse to conform to
  this world.

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We are outcasts because we refuse to conform to
this world.

• The way we think, speak, clothe ourselves, and
  the way we behave is contrary to the world.
• By refusing to conform to this world, you set
  yourself apart and open yourself up to close
  scrutiny and criticism.

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Romans 122 (NASB)

• And do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what the will of God is, that which
  is good and acceptable and perfect.

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• We dont think like the world does.

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• We dont talk like the world does.

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• We dont dress like the world does.

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• We dont dress like the world does.

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• Our commitment to marriage is different.

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• Our commitment to training our children in the
  Lord.

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• Our abstaining from worldly entertainment and
  recreation.

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• The Christian must keep themselves from being
  spotted by the world by its immoral filth and
  pollution (James 127b cf. 2 Cor. 614-71).

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Dont Be Afraid to be an Outcast.

• Fear can prevent us from taking a stand for the
  Lord.

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John 918-19 (NASB)

• 18 The Jews therefore did not believe it of him,
  that he had been blind, and had received sight,
  until they called the parents of the very one who
  had received his sight, 19 and questioned them,
  saying, "Is this your son, who you say was born
  blind? Then how does he now see?"

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John 920-21 (NASB)

• 20 His parents answered them and said, "We know
  that this is our son, and that he was born blind
  21 but how he now sees, we do not know or who
  opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him he is
  of age, he shall speak for himself. "

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John 922-23 (NASB)

• 22 His parents said this because they were
  afraid of the Jews for the Jews had already
  agreed, that if anyone should confess Him to be
  Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. 23
  For this reason his parents said, "He is of age
  ask him."

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• Fear to confess Jesus or stand
  for what is right can cost us
  our souls! (Mat.
  1032-33 Rev. 218)

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Dont Be Afraid to be an Outcast.

• Fear can prevent us from taking a stand for the
  Lord.
• There is a great reward in Heaven for those who
  are cast out for Christs sake!

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• It is not easy to live life as an outcast, yet
  there is no comparison to the great reward that
  will follow!

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Luke 622-23 (NASB)

• 22 "Blessed are you when men hate you, and
  ostracize you, and cast insults at you, and spurn
  your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of
  Man. 23 "Be glad in that day, and leap for joy,
  for behold, your reward is great in heaven for
  in the same way their fathers used to treat the
  prophets.

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Hebrews 1113-14 (NASB)

• 13 All these died in faith, without receiving
  the promises, but having seen them and having
  welcomed them from a distance, and having
  confessed that they were strangers and exiles on
  the earth. 14 For those who say such things make
  it clear that they are seeking a country of their
  own.

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Hebrews 1115-16 (NASB)

• 15 And indeed if they had been thinking of that
  country from which they went out, they would have
  had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is,
  they desire a better country, that is a heavenly
  one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called
  their God for He has prepared a city for them.

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• Let us rejoice when we are treated as
  Outcasts of the World.
  Such treatment by the
  world is an indication that we are like Christ!