“ True Believers Like Wheat ” and “ The Wicked Like Chaff ” “John answered them all, ‘I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire’” (Luke 3:16–17). Let us meditate on this passage and receive its spiritual lessons: (1) When the people, who had long awaited the coming of the Messiah, began to wonder in their hearts whether John the Baptist might be the Messiah (Luke 3:15, Modern Translation ), John testified clearly that he was not the Messiah, but that the One coming after him was. (a) John 1:8 says: “He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light” ( Modern Translation : “He was not the light himself but came only to bear witness to the light”). (i) The purp...
보이지 않는 영원한 것을 바라봅니다! 우리는 보이는 쇠약해 가는 우리의 겉 사람과 이 세상에서 잠시 받는 가벼운 고난을 바라보지 않습니다 . 우리는 보이지 않는 날마다 새로와지고 있는 속사람과 그 무엇과도 비교될 수 없는 다가 오는 세상의 크고 엄청난 영원한 영광을 바라봅니다 . " 보이는 것은 잠깐이지만 보이지 않는 것은 영원하기 때문입니다 ."( 고린도후서 4:16-18, 현대인의 성경 ).