“ 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 징계하심 주님의 징계하심을 경히 여겨서도 안되겠지만 그렇다고 낙심해서도 안된다 . 그 이유는 주님의 징계하심은 주님께서 나를 사랑하신다는 증거요 , 주님께서 나를 자녀로 받아들이시고 대우하신다는 증거요 , 또한 주님께서는 나의 유익을 위하시고 계시기 때문이다 ( 히브리서 12:5-10).