“ 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...
하나님께서 힘써 가르쳐주시고자 하신 것? 불신자 사공들을 요나 선지자를 살리려고 힘써 노를 저어 배를 육지로 돌리고자 한 반면에 하나님께서는 큰 성읍 니느웨에 좌우를 분별하지 못하는 120,000 여 명과 많 은 가축도 아끼시는 하나님의 마음을 요나 선지자에게 힘써 가르쳐 주시려고 하신 것 같습니다 ( 요나 1:13; 4:11).