BLESSINGS IN MINISTRIES OF CORRECTION

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's first recorded letter to the Corinthians, he advised the people in the church to judge the ministers in their administration of My mysteries.  My instructions have always been that you must judge the people in the body of Christ but to never judge people outside of the body because of the lack of spiritual knowledge of the unbelievers.  If you do not discern the spirits that the ministers are exhibiting you are liable to be deceived and become bewitched by false prophets like the Galatians and Corinthians had done.  (I Corinthians 4:1; Galatians 3:1))
    He wrote that the first thing that they must judge in a minister is that he or she must prove to be trustworthy.  Paul wrote that it didn't matter to him whether any human court passed judgment on him or not because he had nothing on his conscience so he didn't pass judgment on himself.  However, he didn't declare himself to be completely innocent because Christ the Lord was his Judge and his Redeemer so they must refrain from passing judgment before His return because His judgment would bring to light what is hidden in darkness and would manifest the intentions of his heart.  He said that when Christ brought evil into the light that everyone would receive his reward from Me.  (I Corinthians 4:2-5)
    In addressing the church members as brothers, Paul wrote that he had applied everything that he had written to himself and to Apollos as an example for their benefit.  He wrote that they should use what he had written down as examples to learn so that no one would grow self-important by reason of his or her association with one person rather than another one.  He asked them who among them confers any distinction on them?  In fact, he wrote that they should name something they had that had not been given to them by Me so they should not boast about it being of their own as derived from human knowledge.  He observed that they had grown rich and completely satisfied, that they had attained their reign over evil with no help from the apostles.  He wished that they had begun their reign over evil as mirroring the virtues of the apostles so that the apostles would also be reigning with them.  (I Corinthians 4:6-8)
    Paul wrote in his letter that in his view I had put the apostles at the end of the line, men doomed to die.  He observed that they were spectacles in the universe to men and angels alike, their being fools on Christ's account.  He wrote that the church members had become strong while the apostles had become weak with people honoring the church members while they sneered at the apostles.  He admitted that even at that present hour that he was writing in the letter that the apostles had gone hungry, thirsty, were poorly clad, were treated roughly, wandering around like homeless people while they worked hard at manual labor.  He wrote that when the apostles were insulted that they responded with a blessing to those people who sneered at them.  He admitted that persecution came the way of the apostles which they bore patiently.  He wrote that when they were slandered that they tried to bring peace, that they had become the world's refuse, the scum of the earth, admitting that that was the present affairs of the apostles. ( I Corinthians 4:9-13)
    In Paul's defense of himself and the other apostles he wrote the truth not in an effort to shame the people in the church of Corinth but to instead to admonish them like a father does with his children.  He admitted that they had ten thousand guardians in the church but only one father, himself, who had caused them to be born again through his preaching of the gospel.  So he begged them to imitate him, that that was the reason that he sent Timothy to them, Timothy being his beloved and faithful son in the Lord.  He wrote that Timothy would remind them of the virtues of Christ just like Paul taught them while he was with them and taught in the churches.  Because of his imprisonment he could not join them in person, but he reminded them that he would soon come in person, if I was willing, and find out how the gospel was being lived in their lives. (I Corinthians 4:14-19)
    In his closing, Paul wrote that My kingdom does not consist of human talk but My kingdom consists of their having and using My power over evil along with their exhibiting righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  (I Corinthians 4:20) Paul's disappointment in the divisiveness and other demonic actions in the church was apparent in his writings so he asked in his letter if they preferred that he come to them with a verbal rod of correction or with love and a gentle spirit?(I Corinthians 4:20-21)  Paul's disappointment in how far the Corinthian Christians had fallen from My grace was apparent in his letter of correction. Just like with the Galatians, after Paul left to further his ministry of taking the Good News to the Gentiles the devil had sent false prophets into their church at Corinth to lead them into the evils of division and strife, neither of which is welcome into My body of Christ.   They are from hell, not from My kingdom.
    Paul's correction reserved no words.  He had left them in good hands when he left, but evil had sown seeds of destruction in My body of Christ which had multiplied and polluted the entire church.   Paul was not shy in his corrections and his exhortations, per My instructions to him.   Jesus had told His own disciples that they had been pruned by His words, meaning they had been exhorted and corrected after their wandering off of the paths that lead to righteousness.   The devil is a cruel taskmaster and his temptations in your thoughts  lead to destruction and death.  My words lead to life and soul peace.  It's always your choice which words to follow.
     Your Father of Wise Instructions and Corrections