Leviticus 15-17; Psalm 28; Acts 18

Leviticus 15 - Laws re Bodily Discharges

• Laws, it would seem, that prevented the spread of disease.
• If unnatural conditions, sacrifices required

Leviticus 16 - Day of Atonement
Instructions for Aaron

• Not observed on just any day
• Special clothes to be worn
• Young bull for sin offering and ram for burnt offering
• Two goats - one sacrificed, the other sent out into the wilderness (scapegoat)
• Incense offering
• Sprinkle blood of bull and goat on mercy seat
• No one else to be in the tabernacle
• Sprinkle blood on the altar
• Release the scapegoat
• Leave vestments in the tabernacle
• The special day - 10th day of the 7th month
• A day of rest
• An "everlasting" statute

Leviticus 17 - Laws re slaughtering of animals
1-9 - Animal sacrifices

• Made only in the tabernacle -- nowhere else
• Punishment for disobedience - cut off from the people

10-16 - Eating of blood prohibited

• Because "life is in the blood"
• Punishment: "I will set my face against that person...and will cut that person off from the people."

Psalm 28
1 - "To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, do not refuse to hear me, for if you are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the Pit."

Acts 18
1-17 - Paul in Corinth

• Meets Aquila and Priscilla, refugees from Rome
• Part-time preacher. During the week, makes tents; on Sabbaths, in synagogues, arguing with Jews and Greeks
• Paul gives up on Jews and declares he will now preach to the Gentiles. He had told this same thing to the Jews in Antioch of Pisidia (Acts 13:46).
  
• God appears to Paul in a vision: Stay here, for "there are many in this city who are my people."
• Achaian proconsul dismisses Jews' case against Paul -- denying Paul an opportunity to defend his case and ignoring their beating of Sosthenes, a synagogue official

18-23 - Paul leaves with Priscilla and Aquila to go to Cenchrea and Ephesus

• In Cenchrea, has his hair cut, for "he was under a vow."
• In Ephesus, goes to synagogue to speak to the Jews. Apparently his declaration to go only to Gentiles was principally to the Corinthians Jews
• Leaves Priscilla and Aquila in Ephesus and goes by himself to Caesarea, Jerusalem, Antioch, then to Galatia and Phrygia

24-28 - Priscilla, Aquila and Apollos

• Priscilla and Aquila explain "the way of God more accurately" to Apollos
  
• Apollos goes to Achaia and works with the church there, refuting Jews in public, "showing by the scriptures that the Messiah is Jesus."