“I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.”
2 Corinthians 12:11 KJV
The church of Corinth had become self sufficient. Carnal. Unable to receive spiritual strong meat. The word of righteousness. Some were elder believers but they were as babes, able only to remain in the milk of the word, lacking in understanding and knowledge. They bristled at correction, for they were festered with schisms and jealousies. And communing with UNCLEANNESS and with the unfruitful works of darkness, “It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.” 1 Corinthians 5:1 KJV
The apostle Paul was as Moses having to deal with the falling away GAINSAYERS of Korah.
Who attempted to usurp authority from Moses and God opened the earth and swallowed them up and struck the remaining that were standing with all consuming fire.
“Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;" (Galatians 1:1)
Jesus Christ, the Head Who found Paul faithful and placed him in the ministry.
As Christ has placed in the church, first apostles, then prophets, teachers, etc. For the perfecting and equipping of the saints.
But now, the pastors rule. And the people mourn.
EKKLESIA 181
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