“ 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...
그 이유는 주님께서 그들의 죄를 다 용서하실 것이기 때문입니다. 선한 목자가 되시는 주님께서는 흩어진 하나님의 양떼들을 주님의 교회로 돌아오게 하시사 그들을 하나님의 말씀으로 마음껏 먹게 하실 것입니다 . 그 때에는 그들의 죄를 찾아도 없을 것이며 발견하지 못할 것입니다 . 그 이유는 주님께서 그들의 죄를 다 용서하실 것이기 때문입니다 ( 참고 : 예레미야 50:17-20, 현대인의 성경 ).