“REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND:”

Vrydag 3 Januarie 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Matthéüs 4:12-17) 

“BEKEER JULLE, WANT DIE KONINKRYK VAN GOD HET NABY GEKOM:”

  1. Toe Jesus hoor dat Herodes vir Johannes in die tronk laat opsluit het, het Hy na Galilea toe gegaan. 
  2. Hy het nie in Nasaret gaan bly nie, maar Hom gaan vestig in Kapernaum, by die see, in die gebied van Sebulon en Naftali. 
  3. So moes vervul word wat deur die Profeet Jesaja gesê is: 
  4. ‘+Jy, gebied van Sebulon en Naftali, aan die seekant en oorkant die Jordaan, Galilea waar die Heidene woon!
  5. ‘+Die volk wat in duisternis woon, het ‘n Groot Lig gesien; hulle wat in die skemerland van die dood lewe, vir hulle het die Lig opgegaan.’+
  6. Van toe af het Jesus begin preek en gesê: “Bekeer julle, want die Koninkryk van die hemel het naby gekom.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Friday 3 January 2025. 

(Matthew 4:12-17) 

“REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND:”

  1. When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, He withdrew into Galilee. 
  2. And leaving Nazareth He went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 
  3. so that what was spoken by the Prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 
  4. ‘+The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, 
  5. the people dwelling in darkness have seen a Great Light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a Light Has dawned.’+
  6. From that time Jesus began to preach, saying: “Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

“MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD OF GOD:”

Thursday 2 January 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Luke 4:1-13)

“MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD OF GOD:”

  1. And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness
  2. for forty days, by being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, He was hungry. 
  3. The devil said to Him: ‘If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.’
  4. And Jesus answered him: “It is written: ‘+Man shall not live by bread alone, but from every Word of God.’+
  5. And the devil took Him up, and showed Him all the Kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 
  6. and said to Him: ‘To You I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me and I will give it to whom I will, 
  7. ‘if You will worship me, it will then all be Yours.’
  8. And Jesus answered him: “It is written: ‘+You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only, you shall serve.’+ 
  9. And he took Him to Jerusalem, and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him:‘If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here, 
  10. ‘for it is written ‘+He will command His angels concerning You, țo guard You,
  11. ‘+and on their hands they will bear You up, lest You strike Your foot against a stone.’+
  12. And Jesus answered him: “It is said: ‘+You Shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’+
  13. And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time. 

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Donderdag 2 Januarie 2025. 

(Lukas 4:1-13)

“DIE MENS SAL NIE VAN BROOD ALLEEN LEWE NIE, MAAR VAN ELKE WOORD VAN GOD:” 

  1. Jesus het vol van die Heilige Gees teruggekeer van die Jordaan af. En is deur die Gees in die woestyn in, gelei,
  2. waar Hy veertig dae lank deur die duiwel versoek is; en Hy het niks geëet gedurende hierdie dae nie; en toe hulle verby was, het Hy naderhand honger geword. 
  3. Toe sê die duiwel vir Hom: ‘As U die Seun van God is, sê vir hierdie klip dat dit brood moet word.’
  4. Maar Jesus antwoord en sê vir hom: “Daar is geskrywe: ‘+Die mens sal nie van brood alleen lewe nie, maar van elke Woord van God.’+
  5. Toe bring die duiwel Hom op ‘n hoë berg en wys Hom al die Koninkryke van die wêreld, in ‘n oomblik se tyd. 
  6. Toe sê die duiwel vir Hom: ‘Ek sal U al hierdie mag gee en hulle heerlikheid, want dit is aan my oorgegee, en ek gee dit vir wie ek wil. 
  7. ‘As U my dan aanbid, sal alles aan U behoort.’
  8. En Jesus antwoord en sê vir hom: “Gaan weg agter My satan, want daar is geskrywe: ‘+Die Here jou God moet jy aanbid, en Hom alleen dien.’+
  9. Toe bring hy Hom na Jerusalem en stel Hom op die dak van die tempel, en sê vir Hom: ‘As U die Seun van God is, werp Uself hiervandaan neer, 
  10. ‘Want daar is geskrywe: “Hy sal Sy engele bevel gee aangaande U, om U te bewaar, 
  11. ‘en hulle sal U op die hande dra, sodat U nie miskien U voet teen ‘n klip stamp nie.’
  12. En Jesus antwoord en sê vir hom: “Daar is gesê: ‘+Jy mag die Here jou God nie versoek nie,’+
  13. En toe die duiwel elke versoeking geëindig het, het hy ‘n tyd lank van Hom gewyk. 

THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS:

Dinsdag 31 Desember 2024.    

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Matthéüs 3:1-10) 

IEMAND WAT ROEP IN DIE WOESTYN: 

  1. In daardie tyd het Johannes die Doper in die woestyn van Judea begin preek 
  2. en gesê: “Bekeer julle, want die Koninkryk van die hemel het naby gekom.”
  3. Hy is die een wat die Profeet Jesaja bedoel het toe hy gesê het: ‘+Iemand roep in die woestyn: Maak die pad vir die Here gereed, maak die paaie vir hom reguit.’+
  4. Hierdie Johannes het klere van kameel-haar gedra, met ‘n leerband om sy heupe, en hy het van sprinkane en veld-heuning gelewe. 
  5. In dié dae het Jerusalem en die hele Judea, en die omgewing van die Jordaan na hom toe gestroom. 
  6. Hulle het hulle sondes bely en hulle deur hom in die Jordaan-rivier laat doop. 
  7. Toe Johannes merk dat baie van die Fariseërs en die Sadduseërs kom om deur hom gedoop te word, sê hy vir hulle: “Julle slange, wie het julle wys gemaak dat julle die dreigende toorn kan ontvlug?
  8. “Dra liewer vrugte wat bewys dat julle bekeer is. 
  9. “Julle moet julle nie verbeel dat julle by julleself kan sê: ‘Ons het Abraham as voorvader’ nie. Dit sê ek vir julle: God kan uit hierdie klippe kinders vir Abraham verwek. 
  10. “Die byl lê al klaar teen die wortel van die bome. Elke boom wat nie goeie vrugte dra nie, word uitgekap en in die vuur gegooi.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Tuesday 31 December 2024. 

( Matthew 3:1-10)

THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS:

  1. In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea: 
  2. ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 
  3. ‘For this is He Who was spoken of by the Prophet Isaiah when he said: ‘+The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘+Make straight the way of the Lord.’+
  4. John wore a garment of camel’s hair around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 
  5. Then Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him, 
  6. and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 
  7. But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: 
  8. “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance! 
  9.  “And do not presume to say to yourselves: ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 
  10. “Even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit, is cut down and thrown into the fire.”