Why Trouble Follows the Preaching of God’s Truth

Good points Mike. I often hear of Tyndale and his translation work and martyrdom, but can’t recall ever reading someone quoting him!

“The greatest number come and ever came and followed even Christ himself for a worldly purpose. As thou mayest well see (John 6) how that almost five thousand followed Christ and would also have made him king, because he had well fed them. Whom he rebuked saying: ye seek me not, because ye saw the miracles, but because ye ate the bread and were filled: and drove them away from him with hard preaching.” –

Sad but true…

John 6:66  From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

“I pray you also noticed that even in the 16th Century people were perverting the Gospel for money and for fleshly pursuits.”

Titus 1:7  For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;