“ 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...
이미 하늘의 모든 영적인 복을 받았습니다! 화목 제물로 십자가에 우리 대신 죽으신 예수 그리스도 ( 요한일서 2:2) 로 말미암아 하나님과 화목하여 ( 로마서 5:10) 평안을 누리고 있는 우리 ( 요한복음 16:33) 는 이미 하나님 아버지께 그리스도 안에서 하늘의 모든 영적인 복을 받았습니다 ( 참고 : 욥기 22:21; 에베소서 1:3, 현대인의 성경 ).