The church @Corinth was Paul's BRAT church.
Corinth was a cosmopolitan of business and multiple forms of paganism. Some IN THE CHURCH WERE NOT WILLING TO COME OUT OF THE WORLD SURROUNDING THEM. They also had the Jewish population to contend with and the Mosaic laws.
They squabbled & fussed among themselves, let sexual immortality go unchecked; (the one who had his father's wife.)
They fancied themselves elitist, one was of Apollo, another of Paul ect.
Yet poor Paul tried to correct them by sending them not one letter but two.
He explained the relationship of God to man, those having faith in the Christ and how to live righteous in the Spirit to the edification of the body & to the glory of God.
These divisions in the gathering were such that IN THEIR OWN MINDS, each imagined themselves superior to each other.
When they gathered everyone was trying to be TOP DOG, with the message, the prophecies, psalms,revelations, tongues ect ect.
We see this very thing here and most organizations. Everybody has the TRUE word, all feel their enlightenment is the only one ect ect.
This sounds real familiar . And yet i say to us all , we have many churches today which are far worse
off than even corinith . For their leaders did not do as paul did . HE corrected , rebuked and seperated out
those in sin who refused to repent . Yet today they honor those who sin , homosexuality and other sins too .
And when one comes along like paul would have and tries to warn , WELL THEY BOOT THEM OUT calling them hater .
The leaven paul wrote about to that church . A little leaven will infect the whole lump , IS TRUE
and when churches stopped correcting and heeded rather this doctrine o false unity and overlooking errors of sin
for sake of fellowship , THEY TANKED BIG TIME . IF we think the church of the corinthians had problems
I invited us to GO look at many of our own churches who are within our own realm . Its getting real bad now dear sister .
Leaven has swollen places full now and worse it gets at a break neck speed , due to
they now attack anything or anyone who dares speak TRUTH and correction . THEY have no idea
they are following another spirit who has led them to an all out war AGAINST CHRIST and the lambs .
WE must do all now to remind folks about the pure and holy pattern given to us from Christ and the men in that bible .
Cause many are not gonna make it on this other BROAD ALL INCLUSIVE ROAD . We must do all now to POINT to CHRIST
and stay dug in that BIBLE and be hearers and doers of all they did teach .