“ 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...
주님의 뜻? 요나 선지자는 불신자 사공들에게 " 나를 들어 바다에 던지라 ..." 고 말했습니다 . 주님의 뜻은 요나가 바다에 던진바 되는 것이었습니다 . 그러나 불신자 사공들의 뜻은 " 힘써 노를 저어 배를 육지로 돌리 " 는 것이었습니다 . 그들은 요나 선지자 때문에 큰 폭풍을 만났음에도 불구하고 요나를 바다에 던지지 않았습니다 . 그럴수록 바다가 그들을 향하여 점점 더 흉융해서 능히 배를 육지로 돌리리 못했습니다 . 결국 그들은 "... 주 여호와께서는 주의 뜻대로 행하심이니이다 " 하고 요나를 들어 바다에 던졌습니다 . 그랬더니 바다가 뛰노는 것이 곧 그쳤습니다 ( 요나 1:11-15).