LEVITICUS 14:After hearing about the serious skin diseases yesterday, today we hear of the regulations if someone is healed from one. Note that these regulations were probably almost never done— until perhaps when Jesus caused a wave of men who had been healed to come with offerings.

Note that our modern translations use either 'serious skin disease' or 'contagious skin disease' instead of calling these 'leprosy' as in older translations. Leprosy— also called Hanson's Disease, is a very different disease from the ones described in Scripture.

PSALM 17:This is one of David's poems. Olsen quotes Spurgeon commenting on this psalm: "David would never have been [called] a man after God's own heart if he had not been a man of prayer. He was a master in the sacred art of supplication."

LUKE 11b:Yesterday in the first half of Luke 11, Jesus taught about prayer, and persistence in prayer, and taught refuting those who slandered him saying that he worked by the power of Satan. Jesus also taught that demons can leave on their own, but spiritual vacuum will result in more demons than before.

NLT Translation notes:Luk. 11:2 Jesus said, "This is how you should pray"Father, [PET: Our Father, may everyone honor You as the Holy God.//may your name be kept You always be regarded as holy.]May your Kingdom come soon.[As in many other places, 'name' is a metonymy for all of God. It is not just the name of God that Jesus wants us to hold as holy, but the whole Person of God as well.]21-22 [PET: "Satan can be illustrated as a strong home owner who— fully armed, always guards his house. He trusts in his weapons to keep all his possessions safe, and to defeat the One who opposes him— which is Me. But I'm stronger than he is! When I attack him, I will certainly defeat him, take all of his weapons, carry away his possessions and distribute them according to My will. //21 For when a strong man like Satan is fully armed and guards his palace, his possessions are safe—22 until someone even stronger attacks and overpowers him, strips him of his weapons, and carries off his belongings. ]44 Yes, what sorrow awaits you! For you are like hidden graves in a field. People walk over them without knowing the corruption they are stepping on." [So also your defiling corruption is hidden and contagious.//0]

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