“ 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...
그 악의와 죄악의 묵은 적은 누룩을 버리지 않고 ... 교회 안에 악의와 죄악의 묵은 적은 누룩이 반죽 덩어리 전체를 부풀게 하고 있는데도 불구하고 그 악의와 죄악의 묵은 적은 누룩을 버리지 않고 순결과 진실의 누룩 없는 새 반죽 덩어리가 되려고 하고 있습니다 ( 고린도전서 5:6-8, 현대인의 성경 ).