The religionists of the day

(J.C. Philpot, "Faith's Standing-Ground" 1862)

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"And everyone will hate you because of your allegiance to Me." Luke 21:17

Professors of religion have always been the deadliest enemies of the true children of God.

Who were so opposed to the blessed Lord as the Scribes and Pharisees?
It was the 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.

"The world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not." John 17:14

"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you." John 15:18-19