Saterdag 20 Julie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 26:19-32)

“EK PRAAT DIE WAARHEID WAT ELKEEN KAN VERSTAAN:”

19. “Van toe af koning Agrippa, was ek nie aan die gesig uit die hemel ongehoorsaam nie.

20. “Ek het eers vir die mense in Damaskus en in Jerusalem, en toe deur die hele Judea en daarna in die heiden-nasies gepreek dat hulle tot inkeer moet kom, en hulle tot God moet bekeer; en dit moet hulle bewys met dade wat by die bekering pas.

21. “Daarom het die Jode my by die tempel aangeval, en probeer vermoor.

22. “Omdat God my tot vandag toe bewaar het, staan ek hier as Sy getuie voor klein en groot. Ek verkondig maar net waarvan die Profete en Moses gepraat het.

23. “Die Christus moes ly en die eerste wees wat uit die dood opstaan. Daardeur sou Hy aan die Jode en aan die heiden-nasies die Lig bring.”

24. Terwyl Paulus homself nog só verdedig, skreeu Festus hard uit: ‘Jy’s mal Paulus! Jou groot geleerdheid maak jou mal!’

25. Maar Paulus antwoord: “Ek is nie mal nie, u edele Festus, maar onder die leiding van die Heilige Gees, praat ek die waarheid, wat elkeen kan verstaan.

26. “DIe koning weet van hierdie dinge, en daarom praat ek openhartig met hom. Ek is seker dat dit nie sy aandag ontgaan het nie, want dit het nie êrens in ‘n hoekie gebeur nie.

27. “Koning Agrippa, glo u die Profete? Ek weet u glo.”

28. Koning Agrippa sê toe vir Paulus: ‘Jy dink seker jy kan my sommer gou-gou ‘n Christen maak!’

29. “Of dit nou gou-gou gebeur of langer duur,” antwoord Paulus, “Ek bid God dat nie net u nie, maar almal wat vandag na my luister, sal word soos wat ek is, natuurlik net sonder hierdie boeie.”

30. Die koning het opgestaan, en saam met hom ook die goewerneur en Bernice, met hulle gevolg.

31. Toe hulle uitgaan, sê hulle vir mekaar: ‘Hierdie man het niks gedoen wat die dood of tronkstraf verdien nie.’

32. Agrippa sê toe vir Festus: “Hierdie man man kon vrygelaat gewees het, as hy hom nie op die keiser beroep het nie.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Saturday 20 July 2024.

(Acts 26:19-32)

“I AM SPEAKING TRUE AND RATIONAL WORDS:”

19. “Therefore o king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

20. “but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.

21. “For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

22. “To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said, would come to pass:

23. “That the Christ must suffer and that by being the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim Light to our people and to the Gentiles.

24. And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice: ‘Paul, you are out of your mind; Your great learning is driving you out of your mind!’

25. But Paul said: “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking true and rational words.

26. “For the king knows about these things, and to him I speak boldly. For I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this has not been done in a corner.

27. “King Agrippa, do you believe the Prophets? I know that you believe.”

28. Agrippa said to Paul: ‘In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?’

29. And Paul said: “Whether short or long, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am – except for these chains.”

30. Then the king rose, and the governer, and Bernice, and those who were sitting with them.

31. And when they had withdrawn, they said to one another: ‘This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment’

32. And Agrippa said to Festus: “This man could have been set free, if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Vrydag 19 Julie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 26:11-18)

“DIT IS VIR MY WAT JY VERVOLG:”

11. “Dikwels het ek hulle in die sinagoges laat straf, om hulle te dwing om hulle geloof af te sweer. Ek het hulle so gehaat, dat ek hulle selfs in die buitelandse stede vervolg het.

12. “Terwyl ek hieroor na Damaskus toe op reis was, met volmag en ‘n opdrag van die priesterhoofde,

13. “het ek, u majesteit, helder oordag langs die pad ‘n lig gesien wat uit die hemel gekom het. Dit was helderder as die son, en dit het op my en my reisgenote geskyn.

14. “Ons het almal op die grond neergeval, en ek het ‘n stem in Hebreeus vir my hoor sê: ‘+Saul. Saul, waarom vervolg jy My! Jy maak jouself net seer, deur jou te verset’+

15. “Wie is U Here?” vra ek toe. ‘+Ek is Jesus,’+ sê die Here. ‘+Dit is vir My wat jy vervolg.

16. “‘+Maar staan regop. Ek het aan jou verskyn, om jou as My dienaar aan te stel. Jy moet getuie wees van wat jy van My gesien het, en van wat Ek jou nog sal laat sien.

17. ‘+Ek sal jou beskerm teen die volk Israel, en teen die Heiden-nasies na wie toe Ek jou stuur.

18. “‘+Jy moet hulle oë oopmaak, sodat hulle, hulle van die duisternis tot die lig, en van die mag van die satan, tot God kan bekeer. Deur in My te glo, sal hulle sondes vergewe word, en sal hulle deel word van die volk van God.’+”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Fridsy 19 July 2024.

(Acts 26:11-18)

“I AM JESUS WHOM YOU ARE PERSECUTING:”

11. “And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

12. “In this connection, I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.

13. “At midday, o king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me.

14. “And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language: ‘+Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’+

15. “And I said: ‘Who are You Lord?’ And the Lord said: ‘+I Am Jesus Whom you are persecuting.

16. ‘+But rise and stand upon your feet, for I Have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as servant and witness to the things in which you have seen Me, and to those in which I Will appear to you,

17. ‘+delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles,

18. “‘+to whom I Am sending you,

19. “‘+to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to the light and from the power of satan, to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’+

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Donderdag 18 Julie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 26: 1-10)

“OOR HIERDIE HOOP WORD EK BESKULDIG:”

1. Agrippa sê toe vir Paulus: ‘Jy kan maar jou saak stel.’ Met ‘n hand-beweging het Paulus sy verdediging begin:

2. “Koning Agrippa, ek ag myself gelukkig dat ek my vandag juis voor u teen al die beskuldigings van die Jode kan verdedig,

3. “veral omdat u so goed bekend is met al die Joodse gebruike en twisvrae. Ek versoek u dus om geduldig na my te luister.

4. “Al die Jode ken my geskiedenis van jongs af. Van die begin af het ek tussen my volk en in Jerusalem gewoon.

5. “Hulle ken my al lankal en kan getuig as hulle wil, dat ek my hele lewe lank lid was van die Fariseërs, die strengste party van ons godsdiens.

6. “En nou staan ek tereg omdat ek my hoop gevestig het op die belofte wat God aan ons voorvaders gemaak het.

7. “Ons twaalf stamme dien God nougeset dag en nag, juis omdat hulle die hoop het dat Hy sal doen wat Hy belowe het. Oor hierdie hoop, u majesteit, word ek deur die Jode beskuldig.

8. “Waarom is dit vir u en ander onmoontlik om te glo dat God dooies opwek?

9. “Ek het self gedink dat ek alles in my vermoë moes doen, teen die Naam van Jesus van Nasaret.

10. “Dit het ek ook toe in Jerusalem gedoen. Met die magtiging van die priesterhoofde, het ek baie van die gelowiges in tronke gestop, en as hulle die doodstraf opgelê word, het ek daarmee saamgestem.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Thursday 18 July 2024.

(Acts 26:1-10)

“FOR THIS HOPE I AM ACCUSED:”

1. So Agrippa said to Paul: ‘You have permission to speak for yourself.’ Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense:

2. “I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, king Agrippa, I am going to make my defense today, against all the accusations of the Jews,

3. “especially because you are familiar with all the customs and controversies of theJews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

4. “My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.

5. “They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I have lived as a Pharisee.

6. “And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,

7. “to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope, I am accused by the Jews, o king.

8. “Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?

9. “I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the Name of Jesus of Nazareth.

10. “And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison, after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them. “

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Woensdag 17 Julie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 25:19-27)

“HY BEHOORT NIE LANGER TE LEWE NIE:”

19. ‘Dit het alles gegaan oor twisvrae in hulle eie godsdiens, en oor ‘n sekere Jesus wat dood is, maar van Wie Paulus beweer dat Hy lewe.

20. ‘Omdat ek nie geweet het hoe om hierdie saak te hanteer nie, het ek gevra of hy gewillig sou wees om Jerusalem toe te gaan, en daar oor hierdie dinge verhoor te word.

21. ‘Maar Paulus het hom op die keiser beroep. Hy wou liewer ‘n gevangene bly en om deur die keiser verhoor te word. Ek het toe beveel dat hy aangehou moet word, totdat ek hom keiser toe kan stuur.’

22. Koning Agrippa sê toe vir Festus: “Ek sou self ook graag die man wil hoor.” ‘Môre sal u hom hoor,’ was Festus se antwoord.

23. Die volgende dag het Agrippa en Bernice met groot vertoon die saal binnegekom, in geselskap van die generaals en die vooraanstaande inwoners van die stad. Op Festus se bevel is Paulus ingebring.

24. Toe sê Festus: ‘Koning Agrippa en almal hier teenwoordig, kyk, dit is die man teen wie al die Jode in Jerusalem en hier ‘n aanklag by my ingebring het. Hulle het geskreeu dat hy nie langer behoort te lewe nie.

25. ‘Ek kon egter nie vasstel dat hy iets gedoen het wat die doodstraf verdien nie. Aangesien hy hom op die keiser beroep het, het ek besluit om hom daarheen te stuur.

26. ‘Maar ek weet eintlik nie wat ek vir die keiser moet skrywe nie. Daarom het ek hom voor u gebring, en veral voor u, koning Agrippa, sodat ek ná die ondersoek iets kan hê om te skrywe.

27. ‘Dit is sinloos lyk dit vir my, om ‘n gevangene te stuur, sonder om die aanklag teen hom duidelik aan te gee.’

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Wednesday 17 July 2024.

(Acts 25:19-27)

“HE AUGHT NOT TO LIVE ANY LONGER:”

19. ‘Rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion, and a certain Jesus, Who was dead, but Whom Paul asserted to be alive.

20. ‘Being at a loss to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem, and be tried there regarding them.

21. ‘But when Paul had appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of the emperor, I ordered him to be held until I could send him to Caesar.

22. Then Agrippa said to Festus: “I would like to hear the man myself.” ‘Tomorrow,’ said he, ‘You will hear him.’

23. So on the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military generals and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

24. And Festus said: ‘King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.

25. ‘But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.

26. ‘But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you king Agrippa, so that, after we examined him, I may have something to write.

27. ‘For it seems to me unreasonable in sending a prisoner, and not to indicate the charges against him.’

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)