Memory Verse: "Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel."
-Phillipians 1:12
Leviticus 22
Verse 11 mentions that a slave may eat the food of his master if his master if he falls under the priest's household. This is very interesting, as in the next verse it mentions that not even the priest's daughter is able to eat from the priest's food if she is married and no longer falls under his household. What does this say about the authority of a father over the people of the household. Also, what does this concept parallel?
The priest eats a portion of what is sacrificed in thank offerings. Maybe it is because he is not allowed to eat anything that is unclean. Do you think this can relate to the Last Supper and what we now call communion in some way or another?
Psalm 36
Verses 10-12 are talking about the psalmists enemies again. He prays to God that God's love will continue for those who know God and in a way curses the proud. Just a thought.
Acts 14:6
Paul and Barnabas hear that they are going to be stoned if they stayed in the city. This was right after God gave them the power to perform many miracles and wondrous signs. Why do you think God did not save them from the hands of these people with the same power he used to heal others? I think it has to do with being wise and making a decision-they left.
I wonder how they must have felt to be called gods...it says that they tore their clothes. I feel that we Christians need to be more serious about our reverence of God. To them it was blaspheme...is there anything in our lives that we need to take more seriously and realize the extent of it in God's eyes?
After being stoned...they went back into the cities. I think there is a time and place for everything. They left a city when they had to. By doign that, they made the right choice because as we read in Phillipians "To live is Christ and to die is gain." They lived on to return to the same cities and continue what had begun! Let's be wise in our decisions. We can compare this to our evangelism with people. As Christians, let's not alienate ourselves from non-believers because of one instance/mistake we make...but let us be wise and find the right time to make the greatest impact possible in the name of Jesus Christ!
I think the priest eats the sacrificed food not because he must eat holy food but because that is how he stayed alive. The entire nation was called to eat "clean" food and the methods to make food clean is listed in the previous chapters of Leviticus. In modern times we donate money to the church and that is given in part to the teachers so they may provide for themselves and there family.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot can be gained by looking at the responsibility of the head of a house. The priest is responsible for the nutrition and therefore life of all that live in his house, even slaves. Once his daughter marries, she leaves that family and enters a new one. At that point it is the husbands responsibility to provide for his wife just as the priest would provide for his. A christian radio station said that women are called to be submissive only to God, their father, and their husband. I would argue a different definition of submission then the station (James 3 describes the wisdom of heaven as submissive), but the principle of the radio's statement is true. When a man wife join in marriage their principle family duty switches from their parents to each other and then there children.