“ 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...
교회 안에서도 잘못을 행하는 사람들 잘못했다는 증거를 전혀 대지도 못하면서 잘못한 일이 전혀 없는 사람에게 잘못을 행하는 무리들은 잘못을 범하면서도 자신들의 수치를 알지 못하고 있습니다 . 그들의 행위는 비뚤어지고 잘못되었습니다 . 그들은 잘못 생각하고 있고 잘못 가고 있는 것입니다 ( 참고 : 잠언 2:15; 19:2; 스바냐 3:5; 마태복음 22:29; 요한복음 16:8; 사도행전 25:5, 7, 10, 현대인의 성경 ).