“ 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...
아무리 바른 목적을 가지고 복음 전도 선교 사역을 한다 할지라도 ... 우리가 아무리 주님을 위해서 하나님의 말씀을 전하는 바른 목적을 가지고 복음 전도 선교 사역을 한다고 할지라도 우리는 성령님의 인도하심에 복종해야 합니다 . 그 이유는 첫째로 우리는 연약한 존재이기 때문이요 둘째로는 성령님께서 우리의 연약함을 도우사 우리가 어디로 가서 어떻게 복음 전도 선교 사역을 해야할지 모를 때에 성령님께서는 하나님의 뜻을 따라 우리를 위해 기도해주시고 또한 인도해 주시기 때문입니다 ( 사도행전 16:6-10; 로마서 8:26-27, 현대인의 성경 ).