“ 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...
머리로는 올바른 성경 지식이 있으나 ... 머리로는 올바른 성경 지식이 있으나 마음으로는 자기를 옳게 보이려고 하는 사람은 그 올바른 성경 지식을 실천에 옮기려고 하지 않을 뿐만 아니라 옮긴다 해도 하나님의 영광을 드러내기보다 자기의 영광을 들어낼 것입니다 ( 누가복음 9:27-29, 현대인의 성경 ).