WORD OF THE DAY:
[John 4:35-36]
35. "Do you not say: 'It is still four months until harvest time comes?' Look! I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields and see how they are already white for harvesting.
36. "Already the reaper is getting his wages (he who does the cutting now has his reward), for he is gathering fruit (crop) unto eternal life,
MESSAGE OF THE DAY:
LIFE AND JUDGEMENT ARE FROM THE SON:
1. English - (Amplified Bible Version)
[John 5:37-47]
37. "And the Father Who sent Me Has Himself testified concerning Me. Not one of you has ever given ear to His voice or has seen His form, (His face, what He is like). [You have always been deaf to His voice and blind to the vision of Him].
38. "And you have not His Word (His thought) living in your hearts, because you do not believe and adhere to and trust in, and rely on Him Whom He Has sent. (That is why you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the Messenger Whom He Has sent).
39. "You search and investigate and pore over the Scriptures diligently, because you suppose and trust that you have eternal life through them. And these (very Scriptures) testify of Me!
40. "And still you are not willing (but refuse) to come to Me, so that you might have life.
41. "I receive not glory from men (I crave no human honour, I look for no mortal fame).
42. "But I know you and recognize and understand that you have not the love of God in you.
43. "I have come in My Father's Name and with His power, and you do not receive Me (your hearts are not open to Me, and give Me no welcome); but if another comes in His own Name and his own power, and with no other authority but himself, you will receive him and give him your approval.
44. "How is it possible for you to believe (how can you learn to believe), you who (are content and seek and) receive praise and honour and glory from one another, and yet do not seek the praise and honour and glory which come from Him Who alone is God?
45. "Put out of your minds the thought and do not suppose (as some of you are supposing) that I will accuse you before the Father. There is one who accuses you - it is Moses, the very one on whom you have built your hopes (in whom you trust).
46. "For if you believed and relied on Moses, you would believe and rely on Me, for He wrote about Me (personally).
47. "But if you do not believe and trust his writings, how then will you believe and trust My teachings? (How shall you cleave to and rely on My words?)"
Naweek 12 & 13 Julie 2014.
WOORD VAN DIE DAG:
[Johannes 4:35-36]
35. "Sê julle nie: 'Dit is nog vier maande, dan kom die oes' nie? Kyk! Ek sê vir julle, slaan julle oë op en aanskou die lande dat hulle al wit is van die oes.
36. "En hy wat maai, ontvang loon en vergader vrug vir die ewige lewe, sodat die saaier en die maaier saam bly kan wees.
BOODSKAP VAN DIE DAG:
LEWE EN VEROORDELING IS VAN DIE SEUN:
2. Afrikaans - (Ou Afrikaanse Vertaling)
[Johannes 5:37-47]
37. "En die Vader wat My gestuur het, Hy het van My getuig. Julle het nog nooit Sy stem gehoor of Sy gedaante gesien nie.
38. "En julle het Sy Woord nie as iets blywends in julle nie, omdat julle Hom wat Hy gestuur het, nie glo nie.
39. "Julle ondersoek die Skrifte, omdat julle meen dat julle daarin die ewige lewe het; en dit is dié wat van My getuig.
40. "En julle wil nie na My kom om die ewige lewe te hê nie.
41. "Eer neem Ek van die mense nie aan nie.
42. "Maar Ek ken julle, dat julle die liefde van God in julle nie het nie.
43. Ek het gekom in die Naam van die Vader, en julle neem My nie aan nie. As 'n ander een in sy eie naam kom, hóm sal julle aanneem.
44. "Hoe kan julle glo wat van mekaar eer aanneem, en die eer wat van die enige God kom, soek julle nie?
45. "Moenie dink dat ek jullle by die Vader sal beskuldig nie. Daar is een wat julle beskuldig - Moses op wie julle gehoop het.
46. "Maar as julle Moses geglo het, sou julle My glo, want Hy het van My geskrywe.
47. "En as julle sy geskrifte nie glo nie, hoe sal julle My woorde glo?"
Wild fig tree in a National Park in Kandy, Sri Lanka
Many thanks to the photographer.
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