leviticus 18 - Ecclesiastes 3 – acts 16 – 1 Timothy 3

Leviticus 18
- God tells the people to live by His rules, not by the rules of the people they live among.
- You shall not cover up naked relatatives (like Noah's children did)
- You shouldn't sleep with any close relatives nor sleep with a mother and her daughter or two sisters.
- Weren't men at that time supposed to take their brother's wives as their own wife if their brother died?
- Do not lie with a woman during her cycle.
- Do not give your children over to Molech.
- Do not lie with neighbor's wife.
- Do not lie with another man.
- Do not have sexual relations with an animal
- God says that other nations will be punished for doing these evil acts.
- God ends this command by reminding the people he is the Lord thier God.

Ecclesiastes 3
- There is a time for everything
- This list is an often quoted list of opposites.
- God puts eternity into the hearts of men.
- We cannot know all that God has done or will do.
- Be joyful and do good, work is a gift from God.
- We cannot add or take away from what God has planned. People's response to this is to fear God.
- Solomon sees wickedness in righteous and just places.
- He also find life meaningless because the best men come to the same fate, death, as beasts of the field.
- Solomon didn't know what would happen to men once they died.
- He said make the most of your work.

Acts 16
- Timothy joins Paul
- Why did Paul have Tomothy circumcised when he said earlier that it wasn't necessary for Christians to do?
- The church continued to grow and be strengthened.
- They went to Galatia
- Why would the spirit keep them from preaching the gospel in Asia?
- Paul had a vision and went immediately to preach in Macedonia.
- Phillipi was a Roman colony and the leading city in Macedonia.
- Lydia believed there and had Paul stay with her while there.
- A demon possessed slave girl kept saying that they were preaching the way of slavation and Paul got annoyed at rebuked the demon to come out, which it did.
- Why would Paul care if the demon girl was preaching the truth?
- The girl's owners had Paul thrown in jail and beaten.
- Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns at midnight.
- Where did these hymns come from?
- There was an earthquake and everyone's chains opened up.
- The jailer went to kill himself because he assumed the prisoners had escaped but Paul stopped him, preached the gospel to him, and he believed and was baptized.
- The magistrates decided to let them go peacefully anyway.
- Paul made the magistrates come and apologize to them because they were Roman citizens
- They went back to Lydia's to strengthen believers there and then they left.

1 Timothy 3
- Over seer is a noble task.a
- An overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive.
- He also should have been in the faith for awhile.
- He must be well thought of by outsiders.
- Deacons need to be dignified, not drunkards, not greedy nor dishonest.
- Deacons must be blameless as should be their wives.
- They should have one wife and manage their household well.
- Paul tells Timothy these things by letter because he is delayed in his own coming.
- Paul ends this chapter with a mini reminder of the gospel which reads: He was manifested in the flesh,vindicated by the Spirit,seen by angels,proclaimed among the nations,believed on in the world,taken up in glory.