“ 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...
비록 우리가 고난을 당하기 마련이지만 ... 비록 마귀의 지배 아래 있는 이 세상에서 하나님께 속한 우리 성도들은 고난을 당하지만 , 예수님께서 우리에게 말씀하신대로 우리는 담대해야합니다 , 용기를 내야 합니다 . 그 이유는 예수님께서 이미 세상을 이기셨기 때문입니다 ( 요한복음 16:33; 요한일서 5:19, 현대인의 성경 ).