“ 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...
우리는 하나님의 걸작품이다. 우리는 하나님의 걸작품이다 ( 엡 2:10). 하나님께서 죄와 허물과 죽었던 우리를 하나님의 피로 사시사 ( 행 20:18) 하나님의 걸작품으로 만드셨다 . 그리고 하나님께서는 하나님의 걸작품인 우리를 천상에 전시하셨다 ( 엡 2:6). 그 목적은 우리로 하여금 그리스도 예수님 안에서 선한 일을 위하여서이다 (10 절 ).