November 2, 2014

Membaca

kebijaksanaan 3: 1-9

3:1	But the souls of the just are in the hand of God and no torment of death will touch them.
3:2	In the eyes of the foolish, they seemed to die, and their departure was considered an affliction,
3:3	and their going away from us, a banishment. Yet they are in peace.
3:4	And though, in the sight of men, they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality.
3:5	Troubled in few things, in many things they will be well compensated, because God has tested them and found them worthy of himself.
3:6	Like gold in the furnace, he has proved them, and as a holocaust victim, he has received them, and in the time of their visitation
3:7	they will shine, and they will dash about like sparks among stubble.
3:8	They will judge the nations and they will rule over the people, and their Lord will reign forever.
3:9	Those who trust in him, will understand the truth, and those who are faithful in love will rest in him, because grace and peace is for his elect.

Bacaan Kedua

Letter of Romans 5: 5-11

5:5	tetapi harapan bukanlah tidak berasas, kerana kasih Tuhan dicurahkan dalam hati kita melalui Roh Kudus, yang telah diberikan kepada kita.
5:6	Namun mengapa Kristus, semasa kita masih lemah, pada masa yang sepatutnya, menderita kematian untuk orang-orang yang maksiat?
5:7	Sekarang seseorang mungkin hampir tidak sanggup mati demi keadilan, sebagai contoh, mungkin ada yang berani mati demi lelaki yang baik.
5:8	Tetapi Tuhan menunjukkan kasih-Nya kepada kita dalam hal itu, semasa kita masih berdosa, pada masa yang sepatutnya,
5:9	Kristus mati untuk kita. Oleh itu, telah dibenarkan sekarang oleh darahnya, lebih-lebih lagi kita akan diselamatkan daripada murka oleh Dia.
5:10	Sebab jika kita telah didamaikan dengan Allah melalui kematian Anak-Nya, semasa kita masih bermusuh, lebih-lebih lagi, setelah didamaikan, adakah kita akan diselamatkan oleh nyawanya.
5:11	Dan bukan itu sahaja, tetapi kita juga bermegah di dalam Tuhan melalui Tuhan kita Yesus Kristus, melaluinya kita kini telah menerima pendamaian.

Injil

John 6:37-40

6:37	All that the Father gives to me shall come to me. And whoever comes to me, I will not cast out.
6:38	For I descended from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
6:39	Yet this is the will of the Father who sent me: that I should lose nothing out of all that he has given to me, but that I should raise them up on the last day.
6:40	Jadi kemudian, this is the will of my Father who sent me: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”