How Can God Use Corrupt Leaders?
Many people ask, Why does God put people under leaders who make serious mistakes and even some that are wicked? Look at the childhood of Samuel (see 1 Samuel 2-5). God, not the devil, was the One who put this young man under the authority of a corrupt priest named Eli and his two wicked sons, Hophni and Phinehas, who were priest as well. These men were very wicked. They took offerings by manipulation and force, and they committed fornication with the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle. Can you imagine if you were serving a minister who lived this kind of life? A minister who was so insensitive to the things of the Spirit that he couldnt recognize a woman in prayer and accused her of being drunk! So fleshly that he was grossly overweight. So compromising he did nothing about his sons, whom he had appointed as leaders, who were committing fornication right in the church. Most Christians today would be offended and search for another church, telling others as they went of t
