“ 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...
"구름" 혹은 "산"을 아는 것 같은 지식? "' 구름 ' 을 아는 것 같은 지식 " 은 " 하나님과 성경 , 옳고 그름에 대한 견해들이 우리 마음 속에 그저 둥둥 떠 " 있는 것을 말한다 . " 언제라도 약간의 저항이 있으면 물러나 다른 구름에게 자리를 내줄 태세로 말이다 ." 우리는 "' 산 ' 을 아는 것 같은 지식 " 을 추구해야 한다 . 우리는 우리가 배운 성경의 진리들을 확실히 알아야 한다 ( 눅 1:4). 그리할 때 우리의 마음에는 굳건함과 견고함과 안전함과 확고함 이 있을 것이다 . ( 존 파이퍼 , " 하나님의 아들 , 마리아의 아들 , 예수 " in " 그분의 사역 ")