Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Leviticus 4-6; Psalm 26; Acts 14

Leviticus 4-6
Chapter 4 - Sin Offerings for Unintentional Sins
  • Anointed priest - bull sacrifice
  • Whole congregation - bull
  • Ruler - male goat
  • Ordinary person - female goat or female sheep
5:1 - 6:7 - Sins and Appropriate Sacrifices
  • Withholding testimony -Touching an unclean thing -Rash oath
  • Sacrifice: If not a goat or sheep then 2 turtledoves or 2 pigeons. If those are too expensive, then flour
  • Offerings with restitution: Unintentional sinning in holy things of God
  • Sacrifice: a ram for a guilt offering
  • Sin of fraud: Pay the principal plus 1/5, plus a ram
6:8ff - Sacrifices - Instructions to Priests
  • Burnt offering - a perpetual fire
  • Grain offering - majority for priests to eat
  • Grain offering given by priests, sacrificed totally to God
  • Sin offering eaten in court by priests
Psalm 26
v. 8 - "O LORD, I love the house in which you dwell, and the place where your glory abides."

Acts 14
1-7 - Iconium
  • Both Jews and Greeks believe
  • Unbelieving Jews stir up Gentiles and "poison" their minds
  • The Lord "testifies to the word of his grace" with signs and wonders
  • Both Jews and Gentiles plot to stone Paul and Barnabas, and they flee
8-19 - Lystra and Derbe
  • Heal a crippled man
  • Are mistaken for gods. There is a tendency for men to praise the creature (the preacher) rather than the Creator.
  • Lystra - Jews from Iconium come and incite crowds, who stone Paul and drag him out of the city, leaving him for dead.
  • 20 - A miracle here? The disciples surround Paul, and he calmly gets up and goes on to Derbe with Barnabas
21-28 - From Derbe back to Antioch of Syria
  • Many disciples in Galatia
  • Paul and Barnabas encourage disciples in Lystra, Iconium and Antioch of Pisidia. They go right back to those place where they had been so mistreated. Under the circumstance, it was vital for those who believed. What encouragement they must have received from seeing Paul and Barnabas again!
  • Paul's message: "It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God."
  • They appoint elders in each church
  • They return to their sending church - Antioch of Syria

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