Julie
So Paul is continuing to talk to people about God and baptizing people in the Holy Spirit. He is condemned in places and angers those that are worshipping other gods, but continues on his mission for God.
This seems like a prayer to God to help protect David against his enemies. He seems to do that a lot in the Psalms and then praise God for his salvation.
Michelle
So a couple of things stood out in this reading. Paul is continuing to share about God and the Holy Spirit. At one point God tells him, "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city." It sounds like Corinth has alot of believers and they will help Paul. Paul then baptizes some people in Ephesus and they were then given the Holy Spirit. The end of the reading, it talks about some Jews trying to drive out evil spirits and invoke the name of Jesus over the demon possessed. At one point, the evil spirit answered them and said, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?" The man with the evil spirit then jumps on the others and beats them. This turns out to be a powerful lesson to the Jews and Greeks as they became fearful and started burning their sorcery scrolls. This became a catalyst for the word of God to spread. I found this part very interesting. That it took an evil spirit speaking about knowing who Jesus was and wreaking havoc on people to get them to change their thinking. I'm not sure why this stands out so much.
It does seem a prayer of protection as you stated. It's interesting because it seems that David is always speaking about his enemies and all the bad things they are doing to him and then stating what he does for them, which is all good vs. negative. He seems to have alot of enemies. He also praises God for all he has done.
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