“ 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...
성령님의 인도하심 따라 교제를 ... 만일 우리가 성령님의 인도하심 따라 진정으로 하나님 아버지와 예수 그리스도와 교제를 하고 있다면 ( 요일 1:3), 우리는 사랑이신 하나님 아버지 (4:8, 16) 의 뜻대로 (2:17) 진리이신 예수 그리스도 ( 요 14:6) 를 믿으며 또한 서로 사랑하되 (3:23) 말과 혀로만이 아니라 행함과 진실하므로 사랑하고 있을 것입니다 (3:18).