Men of God get slandered

Matthew 5: ¹¹ Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. ¹² Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.


"There is no blessing in suffering for our own sins (1Peter 2:19,20), but when we suffer for Jesus' sake, what wonderful reward is to be ours. We ought to rejoice openly, happily, gloriously if we are allowed to suffer for Jesus' sake. The same thing is told in 1 Peter 4:16. The true Christian ought to expect persecution for he will get it. See 11Timothy 3:12. The example of Christ and all the apostles particularly Paul, ought to teach us to expect persecutions, Spurgeon was despised by the baptists of his day, withdrew from the Baptist Union of England because of it's modernism. Finney was feared and slandered as a sensationalist, accused of variously religious excesses and heresies. Moody was called "Crazy Moody." Torrey was counted a fanatic on the Holy Spirit and prayer, misunderstood and hurt even by good Christian men in his old age. Yes, God's truest saints have suffered persecution. The apostles were truest saints have suffered persecution. The apostles were "rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name" (Acts 5:41)." John R. Rice King of the Jews: A commentary on the gospel according to Matthew, page 87.