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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Whenever I utter the formula “I swear by God,” I am really saying, “Now I’m going to mark off an area of absolute truth and put walls around it to cut it off from the muddy floods of untruthfulness and irresponsibility that ordinarily overruns my speech.” In fact, I am saying even more than this. I am saying that people are expecting me to lie from the start. And just because they are counting on my lying I have to bring up these big guns of oaths and words of honor.
Helmut Thielicke

If sin is not our core problem, the gospel itself – the thing of first importance – is marginalized. The good news that Jesus proclaimed and offered is that there is forgiveness of sins, not through our own attempts to please God but by placing our confidence in Jesus Himself, in His death and resurrection. If sin is not our primary problem, then the gospel of Jesus is no longer the most important event in all of human history.
Edward Welch

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 16:1-11.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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16:1 ‘n Gedig van Dawid. Bewaar my, o God, want by U skuil ek.

16:2 Ek het tot die HERE gesê: U is my Here; vir my is daar geen goed bo U nie.

16:3 Maar aangaande die heiliges wat op die aarde is, sê ek: Hulle is die heerlikes in wie al my behae is.

16:4 Die smarte van hulle wat ‘n ander god met gawes vereer, sal menigvuldig wees; ek sal hulle drankoffers van bloed nie uitgiet en hulle name op my lippe nie neem nie.

16:5 Die HERE is die deel van my erfenis en van my beker; U onderhou my lot.

16:6 Die meetsnoere het vir my in lieflike plekke geval, ja, my erfenis is vir my mooi.

16:7 Ek sal die HERE loof wat my raad gegee het; selfs in die nag vermaan my niere my.

16:8 Ek stel die HERE altyddeur voor my; omdat Hy aan my regterhand is, sal ek nie wankel nie.

16:9 Daarom is my hart bly en my eer juig; ook sal my vlees in veiligheid woon;

16:10 want U sal my siel aan die doderyk nie oorgee nie; U sal nie toelaat dat u gunsgenoot verderwing sien nie.

16:11 U sal my die pad van die lewe bekend maak; versadiging van vreugde is voor u aangesig, lieflikhede in u regterhand, vir ewig.