“ 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...
믿고 순종해야 ... 하나님의 아들이신 예수님을 믿는 자는 영생이 있고 영생이 있는 자는 예수님의 이중 계명 ( 하나님 사랑 & 이웃 사랑 ) 을 순종하므로 천국을 경험합니다 ( 요 3:36). 그러므로 마음의 천국과 가정의 천국과 교회의 천국을 이루기 위해서는 예수님을 믿고 예수님의 이중 계명에 순종해야 합니다 . 기억하십시다 , 순종이 없는 믿음은 죽은 믿음이요 ( 약 2:26) 믿음이 없는 순종은 무의미한 순종입니다 .