“ 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...
삐뚤어진 어머니의 사랑? 어떻게 자신의 돈을 가져간 미가에게 어머니는 " 내 아들이 여호와께 복 받기를 원하노라 " 고 말할 수 있을까요 ? 어떻게 그 어머니는 " 내 아들을 위하여 한 신상을 새기며 " " 부어 만들기 위해 " 자신의 돈을 " 여호와께 거룩히 드리노라 " 고 말한 후 미가에게 돌려받은 자신의 돈을 도로 그에게 줄 수 있을까요 ? ( 사사기 17:1-3) 자녀의 영혼을 망치는 어머니의 삐뚤어진 사랑입니다 .