“ 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...
우리가 다른 사람의 죄를 용서하지 않으면 ... 우리가 다른 사람의 죄를 용서하지 않으면 우리 하나님 아버지께서도 우리의 죄를 용서하지 않으실 것입니다 . 그리고 우리는 “ 우리가 우리에게 죄 지은 사람들을 용서해 준 것처럼 우리 죄를 용서해 주소서 ” 라고 하나님 아버지께 기도할 수가 없습니다 ( 참고 : 마태복음 6:12, 15, 현대인의 성경 ).