“ 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...
구원은 우리에게 있지 않고 하나님께 있습니다! 우리는 우리를 에워싼 큰 역경과 위기를 통해 우리 스스로 우리 자신을 구원할 수 없음과 어느 누구도 우리을 건져줄 수 없음을 뼈저리게 깨닫는 가운데 우리의 구원은 여호와께 있음을 깊이 깨닫게 됩니다 ( 시편 3:6, 8; 요나 2:9).