Maandag 11 November 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(2 Korinthiërs 1:11-20) 

“WORD EK DEUR MENSLIKE OORWEGINGS GELEI?:”

1. Daartoe werk julle mee om vir ons te bid. So sal die gebede van baie, ‘n seën van God vir ons bring, en dan sal baie Hom vir ons dank. 
2. “Daar is een ding waarop ons trots is: Ons gewete verseker ons dat ons oor die algemeen, en teenoor julle in die besonder, opgetree het met die openhartigheid en eerlikheid wat van God kom. Daarin is ons nie deur die wysheid van mense gelei nie, maar deur die genade van God. 
3. “In ons briewe skryf ons aan julle niks wat julle nie self kan lees en verstaan nie. Ek hoop net julle sal ons eendag heeltemal verstaan. 
4. “Tot nou toe het julle ons maar gedeeltelik verstaan. Op die dag dat ons Here Jesus kom, sal julle dan net so trots op ons wees, soos ons op julle. 
5. “Dit was in hierdie oortuiging dat ek vroeër die plan gemaak het om julle te besoek, sodat julle twee keer ‘n bewys van Genade kon ontvang. 
6. “Ek wou julle op die deurreis na Masedonië toe besoek, en weer op die terugreis van Masedonië af, en dan met julle hulp my reis voortsit na Judea toe. 
7. “Was ek miskien oorhaastig toe ek hierdie plan gemaak het? Of word ek deur menslike oorwegjngs gelei as ek planne maak, sodat ek in een asem ‘Ja’ en ‘Nee,’ sê?
8. “So seker as God getrou is, ons woord aan julle was nie tegelyk ‘Ja,’ en ‘Nee,’ nie, 
9. “want Jesus Christus, die Seun van God, wat ons: Dit is ek en Silvanus en Timoteus, aan julle verkondig het, is nie ‘ja’ en ‘nee’ tegelyk nie. Jesus is die ‘ja’ van God,
10. “die ‘ja’ op al die beloftes van God. Daarom is dit ook deur Christus dat ons tot eer van God daarop ‘Amen,’ sê.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Monday 11 November 2024. 

(2 Corinthians 1:11-20)

“DO I MAKE MY PLANS ACCORDING TO THE FLESH?”

1. You must also help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many. 
2. “For our boast is this: The testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity, not by earthly wisdom, but by the Grace of God, and supremely so toward you. 
3. “For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand – and I hope you will fully understand – 
4. “just as you did partially understand us – that on the ‘Day’ of our Lord Jesus, you will boast of us, as we will boast of you. 
5. “Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of Grace. 
6. “I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia, and have you send me on my way to Judea. 
7. “Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say: ‘Yes, yes,’ and ‘No, no,’ at the same time?
8. “As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’
9. “For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not ‘Yes,’ and ‘No,’ but in Him it is always: ‘Yes!’ 
10. “For all the promises of God find their ‘Yes’ in Him. That is why it is through Him that we utter our ‘Amen,’ to God, for His Glory.”

Sondag 10 November 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(2 Korinthiërs 1:1-10)

“WAT JULLE BETREF HET ONS ‘N VASTE VERWAGTING:”

1. “Van Paulus, ‘n apostel van Christus Jesus deur die wil van God, en van die broer Timoteus. Aan die Gemeente van God in Korinte, en aan almal wat aan die Here behoort in die hele Agaje. 
2. “Genade en vrede vir julle, van God ons Vader en die Here Jesus Christus. 
3. “Aan God, die Vader van ons Here Jesus Christus, kom al die lof toe! Hy is die Vader wat Hom ontferm, en die God wat in elke omstandigheid moed gee. 
4. “In elke moeilikheid bemoedig Hy ons. Daarom kan ons ook ander bemoedig wat in allerlei moeilikhede verkeer. Ons kan hulle bemoedig met dieselfde bemoediging waarmee God ons bemoedig,
5. “want net soos daar vir ons ‘n oorvloed van lyding is, ter wille van Christus, is daar ook vir ons ‘n oorvloed van bemoediging deur Christus. 
6. “As ons dus in beproewing kom, is dit dat julle bemoedig en gered kan word. As ons bemoedig word, is dit om julle te bemoedig en versterk, sodat julle met geduld dieselfde lyding kan verduur wat ons ook verduur. 
7. “En wat julle betref, het ons ‘n vaste verwagting: Ons weet dat net soos julle saam met ons deel het aan die lyding, julle ook aan die bemoediging deel het. 
8. “Ons wil hê broers, dat julle moet weet van die moeilikhede wat ons in die provinsie Asië ondervind het. Die swaar wat ons moes verduur, het ver bo ons kragte gegaan, sodat ons selfs die hoop om te bly lewe, laat vaar het. 
9. “Trouens, dit het vir ons gevoel asof die doodvonnis klaar oor ons uitgespreek is. Maar dit het gebeur, sodat ons nie op onsself sou vertrou nie, maar op God wat die dooies opwek tot die lewe. 
10. “Dit is Hy wat ons uit so ‘n groot doodsgevaar gered het, en ons weer sal red. Op Hom is ons hoop gevestig: Hy sal ons ook verder red.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Sunday 10 November 2024. 

(2 Corinthians 1:1-10) 

“OUR HOPE FOR YOU IS UNSHAKEN:”

1. “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the Will of God, and Timothy, our brother. To the Church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2. “Grace to you and peace from our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
3. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 
4. “Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 
5. “For as we share abundantly in Christ’s suffering, so through Christ abundantly in comfort too. 
6. “If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 
7. “Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. 
8. “For we do not want you to be unaware brothers of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength, that we despaired of life itself. 
9. “Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not to ourselves, but on God, Who raised the dead. 
10. “He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He Will deliver us. On Him we have set our hope that He Will deliver us again.”

Saterdag 9 November 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Saturday 9 November 2024. 

INTRODUCTION:

Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, discusses some of the things previously addressed, but also deals with new issues. 

While 1 Corinthians called for believers to be unified with each other, in this letter Paul urges the Church to be unified with him in his ministry. Paul’s opponents were undermining his work, claiming that his suffering proved he was not a true apostle. Paul responds that his suffering highlights his dependence on Christ, as it points to Christ’s strength rather than his own. 

Second Corinthians lncludes stirring perspectives on Gospel Ministry, encouragements to holy living, and instructions about giving. Paul wrote this letter from Macedonia, a year after writing 1 Corinthians, about A.D. 56.