Why Do You Lay A Charge Upon A Christian For Whom Christ Died? A Biblical Response to Slander and Gossip

The Bible says in Romans 8:33, "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth" (KJV).  There are Christians who slander and gossip about someone's alleged sins.  All of us are actual transgressors against God's written law.  All of us have failed to keep the law perfectly.  None of us should make excuses for our personal sins.  Rather we ought always to bring them to the crucified Savior!  He alone can pardon, forgive, cleanse and provide grace.  No one else has the divine authority to forgive but our Lord and Savior.  If someone looks at life biblically, there is no charge against God's elect.  That means since Jesus died in our place their is no way any accusation can stand up to the judgment seat of God.  If you accuse, don't you realize that you are acting in Satan's place?  He comes to destroy by accusing Christians night and day.  Making an accusation is to be in Satan's place.  But for the Christian that means there is no just basis for accusing anyone for whom Christ shed His precious blood at Calvary on His Cross.  If you accuse someone, it should be for their overall good and well-being.  That is, it should be for personal repentance through the Cross of Jesus.  If a person repents a Christian must accept him or her back to the Christian fellowship.  If the repentance is rejected that person is not walking in love.  For John Wesley wrote,

We will not listen or willingly inquire after ill concerning one another; that, if we do hear any ill of each other, we will not be forward to believe it; that as soon as possible we will communicate what we hear by speaking or writing to the person concerned; that until we have done this, we will not write or speak a syllable of it to any other person; that neither will we mention it, after we have done this, to any other person; that we will not make any exception to any of these rules unless we think ourselves absolutely obligated in conference.

Slander is destructive (Proverbs 11:9) deceitful (Psalm 5:2) deluding (Proverbs 10:18) and devouring (Proverbs 16:27-30).  It was hurled against all the great saints of the OT and NT.  It is designed by Satan against the righteous in Christ.  Slander was hurled against Christ on many occasions.  We are warned against slander (Titus 3:1-2) we must endure it (Mt 5:11, 12) and we must lay it aside (Eph. 4:31).  (Topical Bible Index, pg. 580).  Gossip about someone's sin is forbidden in the Bible in light of holiness.   We ought to praise God and rejoice to His Spirit that someone is forgiven.  It is not wise to "dwell" on someone's sin for whom Christ shed His blood.  There is no greater or sufficient or necessary justice than the Cross.  Every Christian who has trusted Christ has their sins washed away.  There is no sin that can touch them because they are forever in Christ.  For Matthew Henry wrote,

It is required of us that we be tender of the good name of our brethren; where we cannot speak well, we had better say nothing than speak evil; we must not take pleasure in making known the faults of others, divulging things that are secret, merely to expose them, nor in making more of their known faults than really they deserve, and, least of all, in making false stories, and spreading things concerning them of which they are altogether innocent. What is this but to raise the hatred and encourage the persecutions of the world, against those who are engaged in the same interests with ourselves, and therefore with whom we ourselves must stand or fall?