“ 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...
심한 논쟁과 심한 말다툼 비성경적인 구원론을 가르치고 있었던 어떤 사람들과 “ 심한 논쟁 ” 을 했었던 바울과 바나바는 마가라는 요한을 데리고 주님의 말씀을 전한 곳으로 다시 가서 신자들이 어떻게 지내고 있는지 살펴보는 일로 인해 “ 심한 말다툼 ” 끝에 서로 갈라졌습니다 ( 사도행전 15:1-2, 36-41, 현대인의 성경 ).