Why the Castaways Still Carry the Crown

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They called them outcasts. Madmen. Mystics. Men who raved in the wilderness, cried in the streets, wore rags for robes, and spoke words that no one wanted to hear—yet couldn’t afford to ignore. Their lives didn’t follow the script of cultural acceptance; their obedience made them strange, and their calling made them dangerous.

From Noah’s hammer pounding dry earth, to Jeremiah’s tears on prison walls, from Hosea’s aching marriage to John the Baptist’s blazing sermons in the wild—Scripture is full of voices that came from the margins. And none more so than the One called a demon by His own people—Jesus, the cornerstone the builders rejected.

But rejection is not the end of the story. It is the beginning of divine disruption.