IF ANYONE LOVES GOD, HE IS KNOWN BY GOD:

Vrydag 11 Oktober 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(1 Korinthiërs 8:1-11)

AS IEMAND GOD LIEFHET, KEN GOD HOM: 

  1. “En nou julle vraag oor vleis wat aan ‘n afgod geoffer is. Ons weet dat ons almal kennis het. Kennis maak verwaand, maar liefde bou op. 
  2. “As iemand meen hy het kennis van iets, het hy nog nie die kennis wat hy behoort te hê nie. 
  3. “Maar as iemand God liefhet, KEN God hom. 
  4. “Wat nou betref die eet van vleis wat aan ‘n afgod geoffer is: Ons weet dat daar geen afgod in die hele wêreld is wat iets beteken nie, en dat daar ook geen God is, behalwe EEN. 
  5. “En al is daar ook sogenaamde gode, of dit in die hemel, en of op die aarde is, soos daar trouens baie is wat ‘god’ en baie wat ‘here’ genoem word, 
  6. “is daar nogtans vir ons net EEN GOD DIE VADER uit Wie alles is, en vir Wie ons lewe; en net EEN HERE JESUS CHRISTUS, deur Wie alles bestaan, en deur Wie ons lewe. 
  7. “Maar nie almal het hierdie kennis nie. Daar is party van julle wat so gewoond is aan afgode dat hulle nog altyd vleis eet asof dit ‘n offer aan ‘n afgod is. Daardeur word hulle gewete wat reeds swak is, verder beswaar. 
  8. “Wat ons eet bring ons egter nie nader aan God nie. As ons niks eet nie, verloor ons niks nie; en as ons eet, wen ons niks nie. 
  9. “Maar pas op dat hierdie vryheid van julle nie vir dié wat swak is, ‘n aanleiding tot sonde word nie. 
  10. “As jy, wat hierdie kennis het, in ‘n afgodstempel gaan eet, en iemand met ‘n swak gewete sien jou, sal dit hom dan nie aanmoedig om die vleis as afgods-offer te eet nie?
  11. “Dan gaan die swakke verlore deur hierdie kennis van jou, en dit ‘n broer vir wie Christus gesterf het.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Friday 11 October 2024. 

(1 Corinthians 8:1-11)

IF ANYONE LOVES GOD, HE IS KNOWN BY GOD: 

  1. “Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that all of us possess knowledge. This knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 
  2. “If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not know what he ought to know. 
  3. “But if anyone loves God, he is KNOWN by God. 
  4. “Therefore as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol has no real existence, and that there is no God, but ONE. 
  5. “For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth,  – as indeed there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’ – 
  6. “yet for us there is One God the Father, from Whom there are all things, and for Whom we exist, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and through Whom we exist. 
  7. “However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled. 
  8. “Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. 
  9. “But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 
  10. “For if anyone sees you that have knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
  11. “And so, by your knowledge, this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.”

“I TOO HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD:”

Donderdag 10 Oktober 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(1 Korinthiërs 7:37-40)

“OOK EK HET DIE GEES VAN GOD:”

  1. “Maar as iemand in sy eie gemoed oortuig is dat hy nie moet trou nie, en hy nie onder enige dwang verkeer nie, maar volle beheer oor sy eie wil het, en hy by homself besluit het om nie te trou nie, doen hy ‘n goeie ding. 
  2. “Dus, hy wat met sy verloofde trou doen goed, wie egter nie trou nie, doen beter. 
  3. “‘n Vrou is aan haar man verbind solank as hy lewe. As hy sterwe is sy vry om te trou met wie sy wil. 
  4. “Tog is sy na my mening gelukkiger as sy ongetroud bly, en ek dink dat ek ook die Gees van God het “

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Thursday 10 October 2024. 

(1 Corinthians 7:37-40)

“I TOO HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD:”

  1. “But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity, but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well. 
  2. “So then he who marries his betrothed, does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better. 
  3. “A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.   
  4. “Yet in my judgement she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too, have the Spirit of God.”