“I AM INNOCENT OF THE BLOOD OF ALL:”

Vrydag 28 Junie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 20:22-30)

“DIT IS NIE MY SKULD AS ENIGEEN VERLORE GAAN NIE:”

22. “En nou is ek op pad Jerusalem toe, gebind deur die Gees. Wat daar met my gaan gebeur, weet ek nie.

23. “Wat ek wel weet, is dat die Heilige Gees my in elke stad verseker dat gevangenskap en vervolging voorlê.

24. “Al is my lewe kosbaar, ag ek dit van geen waarde as ek nie my lewenstaak en my bediening wat ek van die Here Jesus gekry het, kan klaarmaak nie: Om die Goeie Nuus te verkondig, dat God mense liefhet sonder dat hulle iets hoef te doen om dit te verdien.

25. “En nou is dit duidelik: Ek weet dat nie een van julle my weer sal sien nie – julle onder wie ek rondgegaan, en die Konings-heerskappy van God verkondig het.

26. “Daarom stel ek dit vandag duidelik aan julle, dat dit nie my skuld is as enigeen van julle verlore gaan nie,

27. “want ek het nie weggeskram om die volle plan van God aan julle te verkondig nie.

28. “Pas julleself op en die hele kudde oor wie die Heilige Gees julle as ouderlinge aangestel het. Julle moet as herders die Kerk van God versorg, dié Kerk wat Hy vir Homself verkry het, deurdat Sy eie Seun gesterf het.

29. “Self weet ek dat na my vertrek, wrede wolwe onder julle sal indring, en hulle sal die kudde nie spaar nie.

30. “Selfs uit julle eie geledere sal daar mense na vore kom wat, deur verdraaide dinge te verkondig, die gelowiges sal probeer verlei om hulle te volg.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Friday 28 June 2024.

(Acts 20:22-30)

“I AM INNOCENT OF THE BLOOD OF ALL:”

22. “And now behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,

23. “except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions awaits me.

24. “ But I do not account my life of any value, or as precious to myself, if only I would finish my course, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the Gospel of the Grace of God.

25. “And now behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom, will see my face again.

26. “Therefore I testify to you this day, that I am innocent of the blood of all,

27. “for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

28. “Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit Has made you overseers, to care for the Church of God, which He obtained with His own blood.

29. “I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

30. “and from your own selves will arise men, speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after 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.

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.)

PAUL CALLED THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH TO COME TO HIM:

Donderdag 27 Junie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 20:11-21)

PAULUS HET DIE

OUDERLINGE VAN DIE GEMEENTE ONTBIED:

11. Paulus het weer boontoe gegaan, brood gebreek en geëet. Hy het nog ‘n hele ruk met hulle gepraat, tot dagbreek toe, en toe vertrek.

12. Die mense het die seun lewend huistoe gevat. Dit was vir hulle ‘n buitengewoon bemoedigende ervaring.

13. Paulus is padlangs Assus toe, maar ons is vooruit na die skip toe, en het na Assus gevaar, waar Paulus afgespreek het dat hy aan boord sou gaan.

14. Hy het ons daar gekry; ons het hom aan boord geneem en Mitilene toe gevaar.

15. Die volgende dag het ons by Chios verby gevaar. Die dag daarna het ons by Samos aangedoen, en nog ‘n dag later het ons Milete bereik.

16. Paulus het reeds voorheen besluit om by Efese verby te vaar, sodat hy nie nog langer in die provinsie Asië tyd hoef deur te bring nie. Hy was haastig om as as die moontlik was, op Pinksterdag in Jerusalem te wees.

17. Maar Paulus het van Milete af ‘n boodskap na Efese toe gestuur, om die ouderlinge van die Gemeente te ontbied.

18. Toe hulle by hom kom, sê hy vir hulle: “Julle weet dat ek die hele tyd, van die eerste dag af, dat ek in die provinsie Asië gekom het,

19. “die Here met my hele wese in alle nederigheid gedien het, in dat dit met trane gepaard gegaan het. Dan was daar ook die beproewings wat oor my gekom het, vanweë die komplotte van sommige Jode.

20. “Julle weet ook dat ek nooit weggeskram het van die waarheid, toe ek by julle gepreek en julle in die openbaar en in julle huise onderrig het nie.

21. “Ek het één boodskap vir Jode en Grieke gehad; dat hulle, hulle tot God moet bekeer.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Thursday 27 June 2024.

(Acts 20:11-21)

PAUL CALLED THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH TO COME TO HIM:

11. And when Paul had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.

12. And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.

13. But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.

14. And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitilene.

15. And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus.

16. For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost.

17. From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the Church to come to him.

18. And when they came he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time, from the first day that I set foot in Asia,

19. “serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

20. “how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

21. “testifying both to Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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.)

HE FELL FROM THE THIRD STORY, AND WAS TAKEN UP DEAD:

Woensdag 26 Junie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 20:1-10)

HY HET UIT DIE DERDE VERDIEPING GEVAL, EN AS DOOD OPGETEL:

1. Met die betoging verby, het Paulus die gelowiges bymekaar geroep en hulle moed ingepraat. Daarna het hy hulle gegroet en Masedonië toe vertrek.

2. Op sy reis daarheen, het hy die gelowiges met baie preke bemoedig. Hy kom toe in Griekeland aan,

3. waar hy drie maande lank deurgebring het. Toe hy op die punt staan om Sirië toe te vaar, het ‘n komplot teen hom aan die lig gekom. Hy het toe besluit om landlangs deur Masedonië na Sirië toe terug te gaan.

4. Heelwat mans het saam met Paulus gereis. Hulle was Pirrus se seun Sopater van Berea, Aristargus en Sekundus, albei van Tessalonika, Gaius van Derbe, Timótheüs en Tigikus en Trofimus, albei van die provinsie Asië.

5. Hulle het vooruit gegaan en in Troas vir ons gewag.

6. Na die Pasga het ons per skip van Filippi af vertrek, en vyf dae later by hulle in Troas aangekom. Daar het ons ‘n week gebly.

7. Ons het die Sondag bymekaar gekom, vir die ‘Maaltyd van die Here.’ Paulus het ‘n bespreking met hulle gehou, en omdat hy die volgende dag wou vertrek, het hy tot middernag aanhou praat.

8. Daar was baie lampe in die bovertrek waar ons vergader het.

9. Terwyl Paulus aanhou en aanhou met die bespreking, het ‘n jongman met die naam Eutigus, wat op die vensterbank gesit het, in ‘n diep slaap begin wegsink. Vas aan die slaap het hy uit die derde verdieping tot onder geval. Hulle het hom as ‘n lyk opgetel.

10. Paulus het ondertoe gegaan, op Eutigus gaan lê, sy arms om hom gesit en gesê: “Moenie julle ontstel nie. Hy lewe!”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Wednesday 26 June 2024.

(Acts 20:1-10)

HE FELL FROM THE THIRD STORY, AND WAS TAKEN UP DEAD:

1. After the uproar ceased Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell, and departed for Macedonia.

2. When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece.

3. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews, as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

4. Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians Tychicus and Trophimus.

5. These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas,

6. but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread. And in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

7. On the first day of the week, we were gathered together to ‘Break Bread.’ Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, he prolonged his speech until midnight.

8. There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.

9. And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep, as Paul talked still longer. After being overcome by sleep, Eutychus fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

10. But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said: “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”

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.)