“ 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...
잘 섬기고, 잘 대접해야 합니다. 우리는 우리에게 구원의 은혜를 베풀어 주신 하나님과 하나님의 집 ( 교회 ) 을 아주 잘 섬겨야 합니다 . 그리고 우리는 하나님의 구원의 도구로 쓰임 받아 우리에게 구원의 복음을 전하면서 우리에게 모든 은혜를 베풀어준 하나님의 종과 그의 집을 후대 ( 잘 대접 ) 해야 합니다 ( 사사기 8:34, 35).