Sorry for the delay, we had inadvertently sent this on August 24, rather than September 24.
Ufundo Lokuqala
uIsaya 55: 6-9
55:6 Funani iNkosi, ngelixa enokufunyanwa. Mbizeni, ngoxa ekufuphi.
55:7 Ongendawo makashiye indlela yakhe;, indoda enobutshinga iingcinga zayo, makabuyele kuYehova, kwaye uya kuba nemfesane kuye, nakuThixo wethu, ngokuba mkhulu ngokuxolela.
55:8 Kuba iingcinga zam asizizo iingcinga zenu, neendlela zakho asizizo iindlela zam, utsho uYehova.
55:9 Kuba kanye njengoko izulu liphakamile phezu komhlaba, ngokunjalo iindlela zam ziziphakamele iindlela zenu, kunye neengcinga zam ngaphezu kweengcamango zakho.
Ufundo Lwesibini
KwabaseFilipi 1: 20-24, 27
1:20 by means of my own expectation and hope. For in nothing shall I be confounded. Kunoko, with all confidence, now just as always, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
1:21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 1:22 And while I live in the flesh, for me, there is the fruit of works. But I do not know which I would choose.
1:23 For I am constrained between the two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, which is the far better thing,
1:24 but then to remain in the flesh is necessary for your sake.
1:27 Only let your behavior be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, lo nto, whether I return and see you, or whether, being absent, I hear about you, still you may stand firm with one spirit, with one mind, laboring together for the faith of the Gospel.
IVangeli
IVangeli Engcwele ngokukaMateyu 20: 1-16
| 20:1 | “The kingdom of heaven is like the father of a family who went out in early morning to lead workers into his vineyard. |
| 20:2 | Emva koko, having made an agreement with the workers for one denarius per day, he sent them into his vineyard. |
| 20:3 | And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace. |
| 20:4 | Wathi kubo, ‘You may go into my vineyard, ngokunjalo, and what I will give you will be just.’ |
| 20:5 | So they went forth. But again, he went out about the sixth, and about the ninth hour, and he acted similarly. |
| 20:6 | Kodwa ngokwenene, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, wathi kubo, ‘Why have you stood here idle all day?' |
| 20:7 | They say to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also may go into my vineyard.’ |
| 20:8 | Kwaye kwafika ukuhlwa, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last, even to the first.’ |
| 20:9 | Kwaye, when those who had arrived about the eleventh hour came forward, each received a single denarius. |
| 20:10 | Then when the first ones also came forward, they considered that they would receive more. Kodwa bona, ngokunjalo, received one denarius. |
| 20:11 | And upon receiving it, they murmured against the father of the family, |
| 20:12 | esithi, ‘These last have worked for one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who worked bearing the weight and heat of the day.’ |
| 20:13 | But responding to one of them, uthe: ‘Friend, I caused you no injury. Did you not agree with me to one denarius? |
| 20:14 | Take what is yours and go. But it is my will to give to this last, just as to you. |
| 20:15 | And is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Or is your eye wicked because I am good?' |
| 20:16 | Ngoko ke, the last shall be first, and the first shall be last. For many are called, but few are chosen.” |