“ 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...
언젠가 주님의 때에 내가 승리장로교회를 떠나기 전에 드리고 싶은 기도 내가 언젠가 주님의 때에 승리장로교회를 떠나기 전에 마음 속으로라도 남아 있는 성도님들을 생각할 때 주님께서 그들의 믿음을 지켜주셔서 그 중에 한명도 멸망당하지 않고 영생을 얻을 뿐만 아니라 당회가 주님 안에서 하나인 것처럼 그들도 주님 안에서 하나게 되게 하여주시길 간구하고 싶습니다 ( 참고 : 요한복음 17:11-12, 현대인의 성경 ).