{"id":442,"date":"2009-08-04T19:51:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T23:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=442"},"modified":"2009-08-04T19:51:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T23:51:20","slug":"1-cor-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/442\/1-cor-65\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Cor. 6:5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In 1Corinthians 5:4, Paul says to appoint judges that are &#8220;least esteemed&#8221; by the congregation. It seems to contradict the next verse where he mentioned having a &#8220;wise man&#8221; among the saints. How do those two descriptions of the same judge fit together? Usually a person who is known as wise doesn&#8217;t tend to be lowly esteemed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Jason:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><br \/>\nPaul is ridiculing the Corinthians saints&#8217; inability to handle, in his words, &#8220;the smallest matters&#8221; (v. 2). Even the least esteemed in the assembly there ought to have the wisdom to judge the matters which the assembly there seems unable to deal with, such as a young man living with his father&#8217;s wife and one brother taking another brother to court.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1Corinthians 5:4, Paul says to appoint judges that are &#8220;least esteemed&#8221; by the congregation. It seems to contradict the next verse where he mentioned having a &#8220;wise man&#8221; among the saints. How do those two descriptions of the same judge fit together? Usually a person who is known as wise doesn&#8217;t tend to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}