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Bible Verse and Prayer for Today
Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
—Romans 14:4
The apostle Paul warned early believers against passing judgment on other Christians in matters not central to the faith. He also reminded them of whose job it is to judge in these matters — the Lord. He also emphasized that the person on whom they passed judgment belonged to the Lord — that person was HIS servant. Paul then asked them (and us): What right does anyone have to pass judgment on a person for whom Christ died and who is also a servant who belongs to the Lord? (Romans 14:15; 1 Corinthians 8:11)
Unfortunately, the evil one makes it easy for us to find fault and pass judgment on others about something nonessential while never dealing with the obvious sin in our own lives. We must not judge other believers in matters that are not central to the faith. We will answer to God for our sin and our judgmentalism. Jesus warned that the harshness we use to judge others will be the harshness the Lord will use with us on judgment day (Matthew 7:2). That’s sobering, and a reminder to not judge each other.
PRAYER
Father, please forgive me. I confess that I have wrongly passed judgment on others when I had no right or authority to do so. I know Jesus died to redeem them and want to use them for your glory. I know you love them and have a plan for each of them. I know that I have things wrong in my own life. Please redeem my heart and use me to be an encouragement, never a stumbling block, to your precious, blood-bought children. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen and Amen
Bybel Vers en Gebed vir Vandag
Wie is jy om iemand anders se dienaar te oordeel? Hy staan of val teenoor sy eie heer. En hy sal staan, want die Here is in staat om hom te laat staan. —Romeine 14:4
Die apostel Paulus het vroeë gelowiges gewaarsku teen die oordeel van ander Christene in sake wat nie sentraal tot die geloof is nie. Hy het hulle ook herinner aan wie se werk dit is om in hierdie sake te oordeel – die Here. Hy het ook beklemtoon dat die persoon oor wie hulle oordeel, aan die Here behoort – daardie persoon was SY dienaar. Paulus het hulle (en ons) toe gevra: Watter reg het enigiemand om te oordeel oor ‘n persoon vir wie Christus gesterf het en wat ook ‘n dienaar is wat aan die Here behoort? (Romeine 14:15; 1 Korintiërs 8:11) Ongelukkig maak die bose dit maklik vir ons om fout te vind en oordeel oor ander te vel oor iets wat nie noodsaaklik is nie, terwyl ons nooit met die ooglopende sonde in ons eie lewens te doen het nie. Ons moenie ander gelowiges oordeel in sake wat nie sentraal tot die geloof is nie. Ons sal aan God verantwoording doen vir ons sonde en ons veroordeling. Jesus het gewaarsku dat die hardheid wat ons gebruik om ander te oordeel, die hardheid sal wees wat die Here met ons sal gebruik op die oordeelsdag (Matteus 7:2). Dis ontnugterend en ‘n herinnering om mekaar nie te oordeel nie.
Gebed
Vader, vergeef my asseblief. Ek bely dat ek verkeerdelik oordeel oor ander gevel het toe ek geen reg of gesag gehad het om dit te doen nie. Ek weet Jesus het gesterf om hulle te verlos en wil hulle tot u eer gebruik. Ek weet U het hulle lief en het ‘n plan vir elkeen van hulle. Ek weet dat ek dinge verkeerd het in my eie lewe. Verlos asseblief my hart en gebruik my om ‘n bemoediging te wees, nooit ‘n struikelblok nie, vir u kosbare, bloedgekoopte kinders. In Jesus se naam, bid ek. Amen en Amen.
Bible Teaching of the Day
The phrase “dead to sin” comes from Romans 6:11: “In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Here, the contrast is made that to be “dead to sin” is to be “alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Those who have come to faith in Jesus are no longer to allow sin to control their lives. Instead, we offer ourselves to God to serve His purposes.
Paul expands on this concept in Romans 12:1-2: “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” The phrase “living sacrifice” is a paradox—sacrifices do not “live”; they die. But it’s a good summation of the Christian life, as we are dead to sin and alive to God. The emphasis here is on living a different life as a result of God’s salvation. We no longer follow the pattern of the world but live according to God’s will.
To be dead to sin does not mean we are sinless. Paul made clear that he continued to struggle with temptation and sin: “For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it” (Romans 7:19-20). If Paul could call himself the “worst of sinners” (1 Timothy 1:16), then we should certainly expect to continue our conflict with sin until we reach heaven.
To be dead to sin means we no longer need to be controlled by our sin nature. Romans 6:17 teaches that “though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.” Before Christ, we are “slaves” to sin. Now we have a new Master. Sin continues to exist, but we are no longer dominated by it.
Bybel Lering vir die Dag
Die frase “dood vir die sonde” kom van Romeine 6:11: “Net so moet julle julleself as dood vir die sonde beskou, maar lewend vir God in Christus Jesus.” Hier word die kontras gemaak dat om “dood vir die sonde” te wees, beteken om “lewend vir God in Christus Jesus” te wees. Diegene wat tot geloof in Jesus gekom het, moet nie meer toelaat dat sonde hul lewens beheer nie. In plaas daarvan bied ons onsself aan God aan om Sy doeleindes te dien.
Paulus brei hierdie konsep uit in Romeine 12:1-2: “Daarom vermaan ek julle, broers en susters, by die ontferming van God dat julle julle liggame as ‘n lewende, heilige en welgevallige offer aan God stel – dit is julle ware en gepaste godsdiens. Moenie julle aanpas by die voorbeeld van hierdie wêreld nie, maar word verander deur die vernuwing van julle gemoed. Dan sal julle kan onderskei wat die wil van God is, wat goed en welgevallig en volmaak is.” Die frase “lewende offer” is ‘n paradoks – offers “lewend” nie; hulle sterf. Maar dis ‘n goeie opsomming van die Christelike lewe, aangesien ons dood is vir die sonde en lewend vir God. Die klem hier is op die leef van ‘n ander lewe as gevolg van God se verlossing. Ons volg nie meer die patroon van die wêreld nie, maar leef volgens God se wil.
Om dood te wees vir die sonde beteken nie dat ons sondeloos is nie. Paulus het dit duidelik gemaak dat hy steeds met versoeking en sonde geworstel het: “Want die goeie wat ek wil doen, doen ek nie, maar die kwaad wat ek nie wil doen nie, dit doen ek. Maar as ek doen wat ek nie wil doen nie, doen ek dit nie meer nie, maar die sonde wat in my woon” (Romeine 7:19-20). As Paulus homself die “ergste sondaar” kon noem (1 Timoteus 1:16), dan moet ons beslis verwag om ons konflik met sonde voort te sit totdat ons die hemel bereik.
Om dood te wees vir die sonde beteken dat ons nie meer deur ons sondige natuur beheer hoef te word nie. Romeine 6:17 leer dat “alhoewel julle vroeër slawe van die sonde was, julle van harte gehoorsaam geword het aan die leer wat nou julle trou geëis het.” Voor Christus is ons “slawe” van die sonde. Nou het ons ‘n nuwe Meester. Sonde bestaan steeds, maar ons word nie meer daardeur oorheers nie.
As Christene het ons God se Gees binne-in ons om ons te bemagtig. Ons staar egter steeds versoeking in die gesig en moet daarna streef om teen die sonde te staan. Ons kan “dood vir die sonde” leef terwyl ons Christus volg, wetende dat ons Here eendag die vloek van die sonde heeltemal sal verwyder (Openbaring 22:3).
Today’s Devotional
Romans 6:1-2, “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” The idea that a person could “trust in Jesus Christ” for salvation and then go on living just as he/she lived before, is absolutely foreign to the Bible. Believers in Christ are new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17). The Holy Spirit changes us from producing the acts of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21) to producing the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). The Christian life is a changed life because the Christian is changed.
What differentiates Christianity from every other religion is that Christianity is based on what God has done for us through Jesus Christ—divine accomplishment. Every other world religion is based on what we must do to earn God’s favor and forgiveness—human achievement. Every other religion teaches that we must do certain things and stop doing certain other things in order to earn God’s love and mercy. Christianity, faith in Christ, teaches that we do certain things and stop doing certain things because of what Christ has done for us.
How could anyone, having been delivered from sin’s penalty, eternity in hell, go back to living the same life that had him on the path to hell in the first place? How could anyone, having been cleansed from the defilement of sin, desire to go back to the same cesspool of depravity? How could anyone, knowing what Jesus Christ did on our behalf, go on living as if He were not important? How could anyone, realizing how much Christ suffered for our sins, continue sinning as if those sufferings were meaningless?
Romans 6:11-15 declares, “In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!”
For the truly converted, then, continuing to live sinfully is not an option. Because our conversion resulted in a completely new nature, our desire is to no longer live in sin. Yes, we still sin, but instead of wallowing in it as we once did, we now hate it and wish to be delivered from it. The idea of “taking advantage” of Christ’s sacrifice on our behalf by continuing to live sinfully is unthinkable. Christians who have no desire to live for Christ, but instead find themselves living lives indistinguishable from those of unbelievers, should examine whether they have ever genuinely received Christ as Savior. “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?” (2 Corinthians 13:5).
Vandag se Bemoediging
Romeine 6:1-2, “Wat moet ons dan sê? Sal ons aanhou sondig sodat die genade meer kan word? Nee, nie! Ons het die sonde afgesterf; hoe kan ons nog langer daarin lewe?” Die idee dat ‘n persoon op Jesus Christus kan “vertrou” vir verlossing en dan aanhou lewe net soos hy/sy voorheen geleef het, is absoluut vreemd aan die Bybel. Gelowiges in Christus is nuwe skepsels (2 Korintiërs 5:17). Die Heilige Gees verander ons van die dade van die vlees (Galasiërs 5:19-21) na die vrug van die Gees (Galasiërs 5:22-23). Die Christelike lewe is ‘n veranderde lewe omdat die Christen verander is.
Wat die Christendom van elke ander godsdiens onderskei, is dat die Christendom gebaseer is op wat God vir ons gedoen het deur Jesus Christus – goddelike prestasie. Elke ander wêreldgodsdiens is gebaseer op wat ons moet doen om God se guns en vergifnis te verdien – menslike prestasie. Elke ander godsdiens leer dat ons sekere dinge moet doen en ophou om sekere ander dinge te doen om God se liefde en genade te verdien. Christenskap, geloof in Christus, leer dat ons sekere dinge doen en ophou om sekere dinge te doen as gevolg van wat Christus vir ons gedoen het.
Hoe kan enigiemand, nadat hy van die straf van sonde, die ewigheid in die hel, teruggaan na dieselfde lewe wat hom in die eerste plek op die pad na die hel gehad het? Hoe kan enigiemand, nadat hy van die besoedeling van sonde gereinig is, begeer om terug te gaan na dieselfde put van verdorwenheid? Hoe kan enigiemand, wetende wat Jesus Christus namens ons gedoen het, aanhou leef asof Hy nie belangrik is nie? Hoe kan enigiemand, wat besef hoeveel Christus vir ons sondes gely het, aanhou sondig asof daardie lyding betekenisloos is?
Romeine 6:11-15 verklaar: “Net so moet julle julleself as dood vir die sonde beskou, maar lewend vir God in Christus Jesus. Laat die sonde dan nie in julle sterflike liggaam heers sodat julle aan sy begeertes gehoorsaam nie. Moenie julle liggaamsdele as werktuie van ongeregtigheid aan die sonde stel nie, maar stel julleself aan God as mense wat uit die dood tot die lewe gebring is, en stel julle liggaamsdele as werktuie van geregtigheid aan Hom. Want die sonde sal nie oor julle heers nie, omdat julle nie onder die wet is nie, maar onder die genade. Wat dan? Sal ons sondig omdat ons nie onder die wet is nie, maar onder die genade? Hoegenaamd nie!”
Vir die ware bekeerdes is dit dus nie ‘n opsie om sondig te bly lewe nie. Omdat ons bekering ‘n heeltemal nuwe natuur tot gevolg gehad het, is ons begeerte om nie meer in sonde te lewe nie. Ja, ons sondig steeds, maar in plaas daarvan om daarin te ploeter soos ons voorheen gedoen het, haat ons dit nou en wil daarvan verlos word. Die idee om Christus se offer namens ons te “benut” deur sondig te bly lewe, is ondenkbaar. Christene wat geen begeerte het om vir Christus te lewe nie, maar eerder lewens lei wat nie onderskei kan word van dié van ongelowiges nie, moet ondersoek instel of hulle Christus ooit werklik as Verlosser aangeneem het. “Ondersoek julleself of julle in die geloof is; toets julleself. Besef julle nie dat Christus Jesus in julle is nie – tensy julle die toets druip?” (2 Korintiërs 13:5).
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Dilize Light has Managed a TruLight Ladies Group on Telegram for the Past 6 Years and from Today . she will be Sharing her Manna with the Ladies in The TruLight Daily Manna Platform . Dilize is the only Daughter of Pastor Dirk and has been part of the Ministry since the age of 11 . Dilize is also the Radio Host for the Popular TruLight Top 10 that airs on TruLight Radio XM saturdays at 17h00′
Dilize Light bestuur die afgelope 6 jaar ‘n TruLight Damesgroep op Telegram en van vandag af sal sy haar Manna met die Dames deel op die TruLight Daaglikse Manna-platform. Dilize is die enigste dogter van Pastoor Dirk en is deel van die bediening sedert die ouderdom van 11. Dilize is ook die radio-aanbieder vir die gewilde TruLight Top 10 wat Saterdae om 17:00 op TruLight Radio XM uitgesaai word.
Om Weer Die Preek Te Hoor:
Sommige preke is so goed dat jy dit oor en oor wil hoor totdat jy die preek werklik begin uitleef !
Jesus se preke het ‘n merkwaardige herhalende tema gehad. Dit is geen verrassing dat die Koning van konings seker wou maak dat die mense verstaan wat van hulle vereis word om deel te wees van Sy koninkryk nie. Hy het gekom om ‘n hele nuwe wêreldorde aan te kondig wat heeltemal uit pas was met die lewe soos dit gewoonlik geleef is. Temas soos vergifnis, diensbaarheid en onvoorwaardelike genade was herhaaldelik op Sy lippe.
Tweeduisend jaar later bevind ons onsself in die behoefte aan dieselfde boodskap. Sodra ons begin om berou te hê en onder die gesag, heerskappy van Jesus ons Koning te leef, sal ons voordeel in ons lewens ervaar, eer aan Sy Naam en seën aan ander.
Die Bybel gee ons alles wat ons nodig het
Om elke dag ons lewe vir God uit te leef,
Maar dit sal nie help as ons dit nie lees nie
En oefen wat die bladsye sê nie.
‘N Preek is nie volledig totdat dit in die praktyk toegepas word nie.
To Hear The Sermon Again:
Some sermons are so good that you want to hear them over and over again until you start to really live the sermon!
Jesus’ sermons had a remarkable recurring theme. It is no surprise that the King of kings wanted to make sure that people understood what was required of them to be part of His kingdom. He came to announce a whole new world order that was completely out of step with life as it was usually lived. Themes such as forgiveness, service, and unconditional grace were repeatedly on His lips.
Two thousand years later, we find ourselves in need of the same message. Once we begin to repent and live under the authority, rule, and power of Jesus our King, we will experience benefit in our lives, honor His Name, and bless others.
The Bible gives us everything we need
to live our lives for God every day,
But it will do no good if we don’t read it
And practice what its pages say.
A sermon is not complete until it is put into practice.
BIBLE PROPHECY IN THE NEWS
Survey: More Israelis Support Judea/Samaria Sovereignty than Negotiations with PA
For the first time in months, the numbers show a measurable shift away from diplomatic formulas and toward a decisive step that many Israelis increasingly see as necessary for national security and long-term stability.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Netanyahu Rebukes Macron for Calling Abbas a “Prince of Peace” Amid Ongoing PA Terror Stipends
The praise contrasted sharply with the record of a leader whose doctoral thesis in Soviet academia denied aspects of the Holocaust, whose movement descends directly from the terrorist PLO under Yasser Arafat, and whose government still pays stipends to terrorists under the pay-for-slay system.
Gog and Magog Update
BRICS NATION / MAGOG / South African president says ‘boycotts never really work’ despite BDS support
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa insisted that “boycott politics doesn’t work” following the Trump administration’s announced absence from a summit in his country later this month — despite his ruling party’s ongoing support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
On Wednesday, Ramaphosa urged US President Donald Trump to reconsider his decision to boycott the G20 Leaders’ Summit, scheduled for Nov. 22-23 in Johannesburg, northeastern South Africa.
Ramaphosa criticized Washington for “giving up the very important role that they should be playing as the biggest economy in the world” in its decision to skip the summit — the first to be held in Africa.
“It is unfortunate that the United States has decided not to attend the G20. All I can say in my experience in politics is that boycotts never really work. They have a very contradictory effect,” the South African leader told reporters outside parliament in Cape Town.
Trump, who has previously accused the South African government of human rights abuses against white minorities — including land seizures and killings — called the decision to host the G20 summit in the country a “total disgrace.”
“No US government official will attend [the summit] as long as these human rights abuses continue,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social.
However, the South African government has strongly rejected any claims of genocide, saying such accusations are “widely discredited and unsupported by reliable evidence.”
Ramaphosa reaffirmed that the summit will proceed as scheduled, regardless of Washington’s absence.
“The G20 will go on. All other heads of state will be here, and in the end, we will take fundamental decisions. And their absence is their loss,” he said.
“The US needs to think again whether boycott politics actually works, because in my experience, it doesn’t work. It’s better to be inside the tent rather than being outside the tent,” he continued.
Despite such claims, Ramaphosa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party has officially endorsed the BDS campaign against Israel for years.
The BDS movement seeks to isolate the Jewish state internationally as a step toward its eventual elimination. Leaders of the campaign have repeatedly stated their goal is to destroy the world’s only Jewish state.
In 2012, the ANC announced its full backing of the BDS movement, urging “all South Africans to support the programs and campaigns of the Palestinian civil society which seek to put pressure on Israel to engage with the Palestinian people to reach a just solution.”
Following Ramaphosa’s comments this week, it remains unclear why he continues to back anti-Israel boycotts if he believes they don’t work.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, the South African government has been one of Israel’s fiercest critics, actively confronting the Jewish state on the international stage.
Beyond its open hostility toward Israel, South Africa has actively supported Hamas, hosting officials from the Palestinian terrorist group and expressing solidarity with their “cause.”
In one instance, Ramaphosa led a crowd at an election rally in a chant of “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free” — a popular slogan among anti-Israel activists that has been widely interpreted as a genocidal call for the destruction of the Jewish state, which is located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Since December 2023, South Africa has also been pursuing its case before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of committing “state-led genocide” in its defensive war against Hamas in Gaza.
Israeli leaders have condemned the case as an “obscene exploitation” of the Genocide Convention, noting that the Jewish state is targeting terrorists who use civilians as human shields in its military campaign.
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Daniel prayed three times a day, a habit documented in the Old Testament book of Daniel, where he would kneel, pray, and give thanks to God facing Jerusalem. This practice is described in Daniel 6:10 as having been his custom since early days, and he continued it even after a decree made prayer to any other god illegal. His prayer schedule was likely early morning, noon, and evening. I really think he continued this in the Lion’s den, for Morning, noon and Evening was Breakfast, supper and Dinner time for the Lions. Maybe his Habit helped saving him, but he did not know, God locked the jaws of the Kings of the Forest.
Daniël het drie keer per dag gebid, ‘n gewoonte wat in die Ou Testamentiese boek Daniël gedokumenteer is, waar hy sou kniel, bid en God dank terwyl hy na Jerusalem kyk. Hierdie praktyk word in Daniël 6:10 beskryf as sy gebruik sedert die vroeë dae, en hy het dit voortgesit selfs nadat ‘n bevel gebed tot enige ander God onwettig gemaak het. Sy gebedsskedule was waarskynlik vroegoggend, middag en aand. Ek dink regtig hy het dit in die Leeukuil voortgesit, want Oggend, middag en Aand was Ontbyt, Aandete en Aandete tyd vir die Leeus. Miskien het sy Gewoonte hom gehelp red, maar hy het nie geweet nie, God het die kake van die Konings van die Bos gesluit.
Why is there NO MANNA on Sundays on this Platform ? / Hoekom is daar GEEN Manna op die Webwerf Sondae nie ?
