“ 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...
하나님을 전적으로 신뢰한다는 것 나의 명철을 의지하지 않고 하나님을 전적으로 신뢰한다는 것은 ( 잠 3:5-6) 비록 지금 내가 보기엔 전혀 이뤄지지 않을 것 같아 보일지라도 진실하신 하나님은 나에게 주신 약속의 말씀을 하나님의 때에 하나님의 방법으로 반드시 신실하게 이루신다는 사실을 의심하지 않고 믿고 확신하는 것이다 ( 롬 4:20-21).