The problem Paul was confronting was the influence of the unbelievers in the church masquerading as believers. They were corrupting the teaching of the Word and there by the very lives of the believers. In their attempt to discredit the truth being taught by Paul they criticized him and put him in a position of having to defend himself to the believers in the church. Paul in so doing refused to compare himself with others but boasted in what God had done and was doing in, and through, him. He gave them three reasons why they should hear him out in regard to such foolishness of having to defend himself. One, he did so because he was zealous and jealous for their spiritual protection. Two, the false teaching they were being receptive to was a corruption of the truth and turning them away from Christ. And three, he was not inferior to the self-proclaimed apostles who were leading astray having been appointed as an apostle by God. His goal was for their rescue and protection from the attacks which were ultimately from the devil through the false teachers and their followers.
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In the fall of 1969, Gil began a full-time teaching ministry as Senior Pastor of Indian Hills Community Church. He also earned his Ph.D. from the California Graduate School of Theology. The focus of Pastor Rugh’s ministry is systematic, verse-by-verse teaching of the Bible. As a...