“WE ARE THE AROMA OF CHRIST TO GOD:”

Donderdag 14 November 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(2 Korinthiërs 2:12-17) 

“ONS IS DIE WIEROOK WAT DEUR CHRISTUS VIR GOD GEBRAND WORD:”

  1. Toe ek in Troas gekom het om die Evangelie van Christus daar te verkondig, het die Here die deure vir my wyd oopgemaak. 
  2. “Tog het ek nie gemoedsrus gehad nie, omdat ek my broer Titus nie daar gekry het nie. Daarom het ek van die mense daar, afskeid geneem, en Masedonië toe vertrek. 
  3. “Maar aan God die dank! Hy voer ons altyd saam in Sy triomftog, omdat ons een is met Christus. Deur ons versprei Hy die kennis van Christus orals, soos ‘n aangename geur. 
  4. “Ons is die wierook wat deur Christus vir God gebrand word, waarvan die geur diegene bereik wat gered word, sowel as dié wat verlore gaan. 
  5. “Vir dié wat verlore gaan, is dit ‘n doodsreuk wat dood bring; vir dié wst gered word, is dit ‘n lewensgeur wat lewe wek. En wie is tot sulke dinge in staat? 
  6. “Ons, omdat ons nie is soos baie ander wat geld maak uit die Woord van God nie. Ons verkondig die Woord in opregdheid, in verbondenheid met Christus, in opdrag van God, en aan verantwoordelikheid aan God.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Thursday 14 November 2024. 

(2 Corinthians 2:12-17) 

“WE ARE THE AROMA OF CHRIST TO GOD:”

  1. “When I came to Troas, to preach the Gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened to me in the Lord, 
  2. “my spirit was not at rest, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. 
  3. “But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere. 
  4. “For we are the aroma of Christ to God, among those who are being saved, and among those who are perishing, 
  5. “to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
  6. “For we are not, like so many peddlers of God’s Word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.”

“REAFFIRM YOU OUR LOVE FOR HIM:”

Woensdag 13 November 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(2 Korinthiërs 2:5-11) 

“BEWYS LIEFDE AAN HOM:”

  1. “As iemand droefheid veroorsaak het, is dit nie vir my wat hy hartseer maak nie, maar vir julle almal, om nie te oordryf nie, ten minste ‘n deel van julle. 
  2. “Vir só iemand is die bestraffing deur die meerderheid swaar genoeg. 
  3. “Nou moet julle so iemand liewer vergewe en bemoedig, anders ksn hy so hartseer word, dat hy heeltemal moed verloor. 
  4. “Daarom vra ek julle: ‘Bewys liefde aan hom.’
  5. “Toe ek geskryf het, was dit juis om te wete te kom of julle aan my getrou getrou gebly het, en in alles gehoorsaam is. 
  6. “As julle hom iets vergewe, vergewe ek hom ook. Wat my betref, as ek iets moes vergewe, het ek dit klaar gedoen om julle ontwil. Daarvan is Christus my getuie. 
  7. “Die satan moet nie die oorhand oor ons kry nie. Ons ken sy planne maar alte goed.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Wednesday 13 November 2024. 

(2 Corinthians 2:5-11)

“REAFFIRM YOUR LOVE FOR HIM:”

  1. “If anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure – not to put it too severely – to all of you. 
  2. “For such a one, the punishment of the majority is enough, 
  3. “so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 
  4. “So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. 
  5. “For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. 
  6. “Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, 
  7. “so that we would not be outwitted by satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.”

Met dank aan Toy Smook vir hierdie mooi en toepaslike  Gebed. 

REAFFIRM YOU LOVE FOR HIM:

Woensdag 13 November 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(2 Korinthiërs 2:5-11) 

“BEWYS LIEFDE AAN HOM:”

  1. “As iemand droefheid veroorsaak het, is dit nie vir my wat hy hartseer maak nie, maar vir julle almal, om nie te oordryf nie, ten minste ‘n deel van julle. 
  2. “Vir só iemand is die bestraffing deur die meerderheid swaar genoeg. 
  3. “Nou moet julle so iemand liewer vergewe en bemoedig, anders ksn hy so hartseer word, dat hy heeltemal moed verloor. 
  4. “Daarom vra ek julle: ‘Bewys liefde aan hom.’
  5. “Toe ek geskryf het, 

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Wednesday 13 November 2024. 

(2 Corinthians 2:5-11)

“REAFFIRM YOUR LOVE FOR HIM:”

  1. “If anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure – not to put it too severely – to all of you. 
  2. “For such a one, the punishment of the majority is enough, 
  3. “so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 
  4. “So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. 
  5. “For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. 
  6. “Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, 
  7. “so that we would not be outwitted by satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.”

Met dank aan Toy Smook vir hierdie mooi en toepaslike  Gebed. 

“HE GAVE US HIS SPIRIT AS GUARANTEE IN OUR HEARTS:”

Dinsdag 12 November 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(2 Korinthiërs 1:21-24) 

HY HET DIE HEILIGE GEES IN ONS HARTE GEGEE AS WAARBORG: 

  1. God Self het ons saam met julle op hierdie vaste grond gevestig: op Christus. God het ons vir Hom afgesonder, 
  2. “ons as sy eiendom beseël, en die Heilige Gees in ons harte gegee, as waarborg van wat ons nog sal ontvang. 
  3. “Ek roep God tot getuie en staan met my lewe daarvoor in: Dit was om julle te spaar dat ek toe nie na Korinte toe gekom het nie. 
  4. “Ons wil nie as heersers voorskryf wat julle moet glo nie. Julle staan immers vas in julle geloof. Maar ons wil medewerkers wees, om julle geluk te bevorder.”

(2 Korinthiërs 2:1-8)

  1. Daarom het ek besluit ek kom nie weer na julle toe, as my besoek op droefheid uitloop nie, 
  2. “want as ek julle hartseer maak, wie bly dan oor om my op te beur, behalwe dié wat ek hartseer gemaak het? 
  3. “Dit is waarom ek liewer aan julle geskrywe het. Ek wil nie daar kom en hartseer gemaak word deur mense wat my gelukkig moes gemaak het nie, want ek is seker daarvan dat julle almal gelukkig is, as ek gelukkig is. 
  4. “Ja, met groot bekommernis en beklemming van hart, en onder baie trane, het ek aan julle geskrywe. Dit was nie om julle hartseer te maak nie, maar om julle te laat besef dat ek julle baie liefhet.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Tuesday 12 November 2024. 

(21. Corinthians 1:21-24)

“HE GAVE US HIS SPIRIT AS GUARANTEE IN OUR HEARTS:”

  1. And it is God Who establishes us with you in Christ, and Has anointed us, 
  2. “and Who Has also put His seal on us, and given us His Spirit in our hearts, as guarantee. 
  3. “But I call God to witness against me – it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth. 
  4. “Not that we Lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.”

(2 Corinthians 2:1:4)

  1. For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.  
  2. “For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one who I have pained?
  3. “And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer pain from those, who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. 
  4. “For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. “