“ 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...
믿음이 있어보일지라도 실제로는 ... 교회 안에 양심이 마비된 거짓말하는 위선자들은 우울증이 걸린 형제에게 우울증 약도 먹지 말고 믿음으로 기도만 하면 된다고 말합니다 . 그들의 거짓된 말은 믿음이 있어보일지라도 실제로는 하나님이 베풀어주시는 일반 은총도 부인하는 것입니다 ( 참고 : 디모데전서 4:1-3, 현대인의 성경 ).