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Here are just a few of the tasks [the deacons] can handle for the church: 1. Collect, account for and distribute the offerings. 2. Maintain the physical properties of the church – buildings, grounds, vehicles, etc. 3. Care for the widows, orphans and other needy members of the body. 4. Pay the church bills. 5. Supervise the benevolence program of the church. 6. Determine the salaries and benefit programs for the church staff. 7. Purchase and supervise the church’s insurance policies. 8. Create and maintain church budgets. 9. Provide care for those members who have physical and financial needs. 10. Supervise building programs. 11. Usher and otherwise assist at the services. 12. Assist the elders in the distribution of the Lord’s Supper. 13. Provide transportation for those members who are not mobile.
Curtis Thomas

The Old Covenant law was never given to earn salvation. God saved people back then just as He does today under the New Covenant – by faith! Even before the law we read that “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness” (Rom. 4:3). Therefore the Old Covenant law was given for God’s people to identify themselves as God’s people. The law was for those already saved so it may go well with them and they may know how to rightly honor God with their actions. In other words, the law didn’t save, but obedience to the law gave evidence of salvation. And when the law was violated, the whole sacrificial system was in place to make temporary atonement through blood for one’s transgression.
Randy Smith

    • Bible – cebuano – Malachi Chapter 4:1-5.

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    Index: Cebuano Bible

     

    Malachi 4

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    4:1 ¶ Kay, ania karon, ang adlaw moabut na, nga nagasunog daw hudno; ug ang tanang mga palabilabihon, ug ang tanang nanagbuhat sa kadautan mangahimong tuod sa balili; ug ang adlaw nga moabut magasunog kanila, nagaingon si Jehova sa mga panon, nga kini dili magbilin kanila bisan gamut, ni sanga.

    4:2 Apan kaninyo nga may kahadlok sa akong ngalan, ang adlaw sa pagkamatarung mosubang nga adunay kaluwasan sa iyang mga pako; ug kamo manggula, ug managlumpat sa kalipay maingon sa mga nating vaca sa toril.

    4:3 Ug pagatamakan ninyo ang mga dautan; kay sila mangahimong abo sa ilalum sa mga lapa-lapa sa inyong mga tiil, sa adlaw nga akong pagahimoon kini, nagaingon si Jehova sa mga panon.

    4:4 ¶ Hinumdumi ninyo ang Kasugoan ni Moises ang akong alagad, nga akong gisugo kaniya didto sa Horeb alang sa tibook nga Israel, bisan ang kabalaoran ug ang mga tulomanon.

    4:5 Ania karon, akong ipadala kaninyo si Elias ang manalagna, sa dili pa moabut ang daku ug makalilisang nga adlaw ni Jehova.

     


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