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Date: July 12th
Occasion: 6th After Pentecost
Psalm 119
Old Testament: Genesis 25: 19-34
Letter: Romans 8: 1-11
New Testament: Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23
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Theme: Life of the flesh and life in the spirit
Here are the songs for Sunday morning service. Click or tap on a song to open it in YouTube or go to the Songs for worship webpage to find them embedded.
Christ be our light.
Worthy is the Lamb (Thank you for the cross).
Be lifted up.
If you would also like to use prayers from the Methodist Service Book, they can be found at the Prayers for worship webpage.
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Psalm 119
Click here to hear a recording of all 176 verses of Psalm 119 (it takes about 15 and a half minutes).
Genesis 25
19 Isaac was the son of Abraham, 20 and he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. She was also the sister of Laban, the Aramean from northern Syria.
Almost twenty years later, 21Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac asked the LORD to let her have a child, and the LORD answered his prayer.
22 Before Rebekah gave birth, she knew she was going to have twins, because she could feel them inside her, fighting each other. She thought, “Why is this happening to me?” Finally, she asked the LORD why her twins were fighting, 23 and he told her:
“Your two sons will become two separate nations.
The younger of the two will be stronger,
and the older son will be his servant.”
24 When Rebekah gave birth, 25 the first baby was covered with red hair, so he was named Esau. 26 The second baby grabbed on to his brother’s heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
Esau Sells His Rights as the First-Born Son
27 As Jacob and Esau grew older, Esau liked the outdoors and became a good hunter, while Jacob settled down and became a shepherd. 28 Esau would take the meat of wild animals to his father Isaac, and so Isaac loved him more, but Jacob was his mother’s favourite son.
29 One day, Jacob was cooking some stew, when Esau came home hungry 30 and said, “I’m starving to death! Give me some of that red stew right now!” That’s how Esau got the name “Edom.”
31 Jacob replied, “Sell me your rights as the first-born son.”
32 “I’m about to die,” Esau answered. “What good will those rights do me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Promise me your birthrights, here and now!” And that’s what Esau did. 34 Jacob then gave Esau some bread and some of the bean stew, and when Esau had finished eating and drinking, he just got up and left, showing how little he thought of his rights as the first-born.
Romans 8
1 If you belong to Christ Jesus, you won’t be punished. 2 The Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set you free from sin and death. 3 The Law of Moses cannot do this, because our selfish desires make the Law weak. But God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ’s body to condemn sin. 4 He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires.
5 People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things. 6 If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace. 7 Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God’s laws. 8 If we follow our desires, we cannot please God.
9 You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God’s Spirit, who lives in you. People who don’t have the Spirit of Christ in them don’t belong to him. 10 But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you, even though your bodies must die because of your sins. 11 Yet God raised Jesus to life! God’s Spirit now lives in you, and he will raise you to life by his Spirit.
Matthew 13
1 That same day Jesus left the house and went out beside Lake Galilee, where he sat down to teach. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he had to sit in a boat, while the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he taught them many things by using stories. He said:
A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field. 4 While the farmer was scattering the seed, some of it fell along the road and was eaten by birds. 5 Other seeds fell on thin, rocky ground and quickly started growing because the soil wasn’t very deep. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched and dried up, because they did not have enough roots. 7 Some other seeds fell where thornbushes grew up and choked the plants. 8 But a few seeds did fall on good ground where the plants produced a hundred or sixty or thirty times as much as was scattered. 9 If you have ears, pay attention!
18 Now listen to the meaning of the story about the farmer:
19 The seeds that fell along the road are the people who hear the message about the kingdom, but don’t understand it. Then the evil one comes and snatches the message from their hearts. 20 The seeds that fell on rocky ground are the people who gladly hear the message and accept it right away. 21 But they don’t have deep roots, and they don’t last very long. As soon as life gets hard or the message gets them in trouble, they give up.
22 The seeds that fell among the thornbushes are also people who hear the message. But they start worrying about the needs of this life and are fooled by the desire to get rich. So the message gets choked out, and they never produce anything. 23 The seeds that fell on good ground are the people who hear and understand the message. They produce as much as a hundred or sixty or thirty times what was planted.
Today’s message in Ndebele language:
Babusiswe abandlela zabo zimqotho abahamba ngomlayo weNkosi. Babusisiwe abagcina imilayo yayo abayidinga ngenhliziyo yonke, abangenzi ukungalungi, kodwa behamba endleleni zayo. Wena usilayile ukuba sigcine kakhulu imilayo yakho. Ku ngathi zingaqondiswa indlela zami ukuthi ngigcine izimiso zakho. Ng it all binge lela lonke bandla ngeHubo likaDavida eliku 119:1-5. Amen. Iculo lokuvula inkonzo yethu namhlanje silithola esihlabelweni sesi Zulu 37, lithi:- Ngapha ulimi lokumbonga iMkhululi wami Ngilandise ngobuNgcwele bale Nkosi yami. Asikhulekeni. Egameni likaYise leleNdodana lelikaMoya ongcwele. Siyabonga Jehova isipho osinike sona esiyiKuphila. Sibonga ukuphuma kwelanga sibona imini entsha. Babusise Somandla abathe bathola leli Thina lokuku khonza. Silisa abagulayo. Duduza abatshiywe yizihlobo zabo. Busisa zonke izingane zikhule ethandweni lwakho. Sihawukele Messiah usivikele komubi. Ngaye uMsindisi wethu onguJesu Kristu Amen. Izifundo zanamhlanje zitholakala encwadini ezilandelayo:- esokuqala: kuGenesis 25:19-34, esesibili: kwabaseRoma 8:1-11, esesithathu: kuMatewu 13:1-9, lo verse 18-23. Indikimba yethu ithi:- Impilo ngokuka muntu Lempilo kuMoya. Life of the flesh and Life in the Spirit. Namhlanje iLizwi leNkosi sizwa lisichasisela ngempilo zabanye abantu. Eqinisweni uJehova wehlukanisa kuhle imisebenzi yakhe ayenzayo, kungaba semhlabeni esikuwo kumbe kulo izulu elilikhaya lamakholwa onke. Encwadini kaGenesisi zinengi izinto azehlikanisileyo, aze ahlukanise la bantu abadalileyo. >wehlukanisile ukukhanya lobumnyama; >isibhakabhaka lomhlaba; >inlwandle lokoma komhlaba; lathi bathandekayo isono sethu sisehlukanisa loNkulunkulu utshonjalo uIsaiah 59:2. Kodwa abakholwa kuye uJehova uyabahlukanisa labomhlaba ngokubavikela ko kubi. Ukuzalwa kuka Esawu loJakobe kuveza ukuthi ukungezwani kulaba bantu kwasukela esiswini somzali wabo. Siyezwa indaba ithi yona abantwana laba babedubana ngaphakathi kuka Rebecca unina wabo. Ngokuba seduze leNkosi, kwamkhathaza uRebecca waze wasukuma wabuza ukuthi kungani esizwa lokhu kubindana emibilini yakho. INkosi yamchazela isithi umthwalo wakhe ngowe zizwe ezimbili. Lakanye kunjalo. Sebekhulile baba leziphiwo ezutshiyeneyo kakhulu. Lemicabango yabo yatshiyana. UEsawu wayenguMzingeli eletha inyama egumeni. UJakobe waba kuLockdown kunge la Covid 19. Wayetholakala ematendeni engu muntu omnene. Uyise wabo uIsaka wathanda kakhulu uEsawu ngoba emlethela inyama. Ngilethemva lokuthi bathandekayo ngalezinsuku sonke njenge bandla uEsawu sasingamupha lolo thando ngoba esilethela inyama. Indikimba nxa sibuyela kuyo ithi:- impilo ngokuka muntu lempilo ngokoMoya. Impilo yako muntu iyikufa kumbe ngithi ukubhubha lokutshabalala njengotshani obomileyo nxa butshisiwe. Abula lahle, abulamlotha akula Mpilo kibo lobu tshani. Besengithi impilo ngokoMoya yiyo impilo engela kutshabalaliswa, engabhubhiyo, enaphakade. Mzalwane, phela leyo Mpilo. Tshiya ukubambelela isithende somunye njengoJakobe. ILizwi lithi isikhathi sikaRebecca sesifikile waqala ukuphuma uEsawu, kwalandela uJakobe, ilizwi lithi umnawakhe kaEsawu. Singehla ngayo indaba le laba bafana sebekhulile sibona ukuthi umzingeli uJakobe wafika eyatha ngendlala ngenye imini evela egangeni, wathola umakhitshini uEsawu epheka ukudla okwamenza wakuhawukela wacela. Yikho lapha iqili elinguJakobe elahle lazuza ithuba lokweba ubuzibulo bakhe uEsawu. Siyayazi indlala ilamanyala. Wazibona esengumuntu walutho esengozakwedlula kulowomhlaba, wamupha umfowabo lobo buzibulo. Mzalwane, kwezinye zezikhathi ngicina ngisiba lombuzo wokuthi kambe ngempela uEsawu wayeli zibulo elipheleleyo? Wona umbhalo utshonjalo. Ngendaba yokuthi imicabango yethu iyatshiyana ngizalilandisela ngisithi Mina, nxa umuntu ongu mdwebi “artist” edweba imisebenzi yakhe ethile, umsebenzi wakhe aqale ngawo wawuphetha uyawubeka laphana eceleni. Abesethatha olandelayo awusebenze nxa ewuphetha lawo uyawubeka phezu kowokuqala. Uzaqhubeka umdwebi esenza indlela efanayo. Ngikhuluma bantu bakaJehova ngikhangelisisa amajaha la angi UEsawu loJakobe. UEsawu engabe waphuma kuqala ku nina, kungenzakala ukuthi uJakobe wabunjwa wabekwa emsamo wesisu sika nina, uEsawu wabunjwa walandeliselwa emsamo. Kwathi sokumele babone ukukhanya waqala ukuphuma uEsawu kube kanti omdala nguye oseleyo, ovele ebunjwe kuqala. Umuzwa wami bathandekayo ungichazela ngalolo hlobo. Kwakungeke kubelula kangako kuEsawu ukuqhubela ubuzibulo bakhe kuJakobe. Okwanamhlanje sizayitshiya ini kanjalo indaba eyokuzalwa kwabo lokukhula kwabo. Sizahlangana layo ngenye imini uJakobe esebindana loNkulunkulu njengoba kusobala ukubindana uphuma lakho esiswini sika nina. Incwadi kaPawuli kwabaseRoma ithi ukunakana ngokwabantu kuyikufa kodwa ukunakana ngokoMoya kuyikuphila lokuthula. Bazalwane kuhle kakhulu ukuphila ngemilayo yeNkosi. Kwenza sihlale sivikelekile ngoba iseduze lathi. Impilo zethu zisezandleni zayo. Ngakho ngithi kasingethuli lesi siphambano noma sokunzima. Yebo kayilula indlela yakhona, ilukhuni, iyabekezelelwa. Lapha sikhubeka kumele sivuke sisetshate lesi siphambano ukuze sibe lokuthula empilweni zethu. Siyawubona umhlaba uyaphithizela mihla yonke. Ngizaphetha ngisisithi:- sizinhlanyelo lezo ezaphuma lomhlanyeli esiya hlanyela. Wahlanyela endaweni ezine. Inhlanyelo yayifana kwehkukene izindawo. Bazalwane uNkulunkulu usidale ngokufanayo, ngesimo sakhe kakhulu. Ukuwuphi umhlabathi muntu kaThixo? Usendleleni yini? Qaphela, uzadojwa zinyoni uphelelwe yimpilo. Usedwaleni na? Idwala okilo alilamhlabathi ilanga lingafika uzabona njalo uswele lempande ubhubhe. Usemeveni na? Ameva azathi ukukuhlaba akuminyanise ungaphefumuli utshabalale. Ukhona umhlabathi onguJesu bathandekayo. Bekani khona inhliziyo zenu, iminakani yenu yonke, lizathela izithelo nge khulu, ngamatshumi ayusithupha langamatshumi amathathu. KoJesu kuko mthombo ogobhozayo, komhlabathi ovundileyo. Asiphakameni bazalwane siyidumise iNkosi. InguMsindisi loMkhululi wamakholwa. Mayidunyiswe iNkosi ngelizwi elizwakalayo ngoba ingummangaliso kwabayikhethileyo. Siphetha inkonzo yethu ngomhlabeleli kusiZulu 116 ethi Ligcwalise izwi lakho, Nkulunkulu weqiniso , Zonke inhlanga zonke izizwe mazizuze uSindiso. Sokungathi uMusa weNkosi yethu enguJesu Kristu lothando lukaBaba olujulileyo, lobudlelwane bukaMoya ongcwele kube lani bathandekayo kuze kube nini lanini Amen.
Today’s message in Shona language:
Life of flesh and life in the spirit
Bible readings
Gen 25; 19-34
Rom 8:1-8
Matt 13:1-9, 18-23
Note; In this context the word
(i)Soul-is translated to Moyo
(ii)Mweya with big M is translated to Holy Spirit and with small m means human spirit.
Introduction
Munhu ari muutatatu hunoti, Mutumbi wenyama ,Mutumbi weMweya neMoyo.Mutumbi wenyama ndiwo mutumbi usina simba, makaro, kuzvukudza, ruchiva uye nekudokwaira kuita upombwe .Ndosaka Esau akatengesa udangwe hwake nekuda kufadza nyama yake nekuda kufadza nyama pamwe chete nemkararo. Vamwe vakatengesa utano hwavo,ramangwana ravo nokuda kufadza nyama nehupombwe.Hudyire hwenyama ndihwo hunoita kuti vanhu vabe nekutambira chioko muhomwe.Saka hatigone kufadza mwari tichirarama muhupenyu hwenyama.
Mutumbi wemweya ndiwo watisangaone nemaziso, ndiwo mutumbi une simba, ndiwo unotaura nenyika yemweya(Ndiwo unotaura naMwari(John 4;24) kana nemweya yakaipa).Zvaunoda zvinorwisana nemeya sekurwisana kwaiita mapatya Esau na Jakobho vari mudumbu mundima dziri pamusoro.
Moyo ndiwo unotungamira mutumbi pane zvese zvaunoita.Vanoda kunzwisissa zvizere nezveUtatu hwemunhu mgavaverenge bhuku rakanzi ‘’he came to set the captivities free ‘’ Chapter 14 ,rakanyorwa naRebeca Brown,M.D (Rinowanikwa paPlay Store)
Mweya waKritsu unofanira kuchengetedza mweya,moyo nenyama yedu nekuda zvikonzero zvitatu zvinoti
1)Vamwe vakanzwa shoko vakanzwa shoko vakasarinzwisa wakaipa anouya oritora pamoyo pavo.Mweya waKritsu unotichengetedza kumasimba ese akaipa.
2)Vamwe vakadzwa shoko vakarigamuchira nemufaro asi kana akasanga nekuvengwa nekutambudzwa kuchiuya pakarepo anogumburwa nekuti hana Mweya waKritsu.Nekuti vamwe vanorwambwa nevakomana wavo kana kana nevasikana nekuti varamba kudarika muchato,vamwe vanonyimwa matender nekuti havadi kubhadhara fufuro.Unoshungurudzwa kakawanda.Kana uchifamba paMweya Mweya anokukundisa.
3)VMWE vakanzwa shoko vanoshaya zvibereko(zvinova rudo,rufaro,moyo murefu,runyararo,moyo munyoro,kutenda nekuzvidzora) nekuti mirangariro inonyengera nokuda kwefuma.Shoko resungunuko rinoshandura kuvarepfuma nekuda kwekunyengera kwenyama.Muenzaniso Mathew 19;26 ,asi naMwari zvose zvinobvira’’All things are possible’’inodudzirwa zvichinzi NaMwari unokwanisa ketenga Motakari,Najesu unotenga imba.Asi Kritsu haana kureva izvozvo.Aireva kuti vasina kururama nevakurarama munhu wese agona kuponwiswa.Saka shoko rinoshaya zvibereko nekuda kweminzwa yekukara pfuma.Vanofamba muMweya wakritsu havana minzwa nekuti vakafa pamifungo yenyama.Vakanzwa shoko Mweya anodudzira.
4)Vanofamba Mumweya vanobereka zvikereko zvakarewa kuna VaGaratia 5;22
5)Hakuna kupiwa mhoswa kuna vari muna Kritsu nekuti pakavakatadza varipanyama iye Kritsu wakauuya arimunyama akaripa zvivi zvavo paakafa arimunyama.Zvichireva kuti panotifamba tiri Mumweya waKritsu hatipiwi mhosva nekuti Kristu wakaripa kare.
6)Vanofamba munaMweya vanoMweya Mutsvene wakamutsa Jesu Kritsu kuvakafa.Saka Mweya iwowo wakamutsa Kristu uchavamutsa kumagumo enyika.
Conclusion.
Paive naMambo aiva nevakadzi vana.Akati orwara otandadza akabvunza vakadzi vake kuti ndiani anoda kuenda nani kuupenyu hunouuya.Mukadzi wechina akati handikwanise akabva aenda hake.Wechitatu waaida zvikuru aifamba achimuratidza mamwe madzishe akatenderedza akati ‘’uchingofa ndinobva ndaroorwa nevamwe varume’’.Wechipiri akati kana wafa kure kwandinokusvitsa kuguva chete.Mukadzi wechipiri achiri kutaura Vahosi(Uyo anga akacheneruka nekushaya mafuta ekuzora uye aive nenguwo sharu,mambo anga asina hanya naye zvachose) vakati ndoenda newe kuhupenyu hunouya.Iye akachema kwazvo.Akati dai ndaiziva ndakakuchengeta zvakanaka.Tose tinavo vakadzi vana.Mukadzi wechina ndiye mutumbi tichifa unobva watisiya.Wechitatu ndiyo pfuma yedu.Tinoiratidza hama dzedu tiri vapenyu asi tafa inogowewa nevasara hatinde navo. Mukadzi wechipiri ndidzo hama neshamwari dzedu dzinokwanisa kutisiya kumakuva asi atiende nadzo kumusha.Asi mweya(Mukadzi wekutanga) yedu inoenda nesu kwese kwatinoenda.Saka ngatiedze kufadza musiki nguva dzese mweya yedu iwanw rugare.
Songs
Hymn 1 Anglican Shona hymn book
Hymn 157 Anglican Shona hymn book.
References
He came to set the captives free-Rebecca-Brown
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