Religionists persecute
God's children
It was not the people
generally, but their religious teachers and leaders who
crucified the Lord of glory. And so in every age the
religionists of the day have been the hottest and bitterest
persecutors of the Church of Christ. Nor is the case altered
now. The more the children of God are firm in the truth, the
more they enjoy its power, the more they live under its
influence, and the more tenderly and conscientiously they walk
in godly fear, the more will the professing generation of the
day hate them with a deadly hatred.
Let us not think that we can disarm it by
a godly life; for the more that we walk in the sweet
enjoyment of heavenly truth and let our light shine before men
as having been with Jesus, the more will this draw down their
hatred and contempt.
- Joseph Philpot
