“ 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...
내가 이 세상을 떠나 주님께 가기 전에 ... 내가 이 세상을 떠나 주님께 가기 전에 마음 속으로라도 남아 있는 사랑하는 아내와 딜런과 예리와 예은를 주님께서 안전하게 보호하여 주시고 지켜주시되 그들의 믿음을 지켜주셔서 그 중에 한명도 멸망당하지 않고 영원한 생명을 얻기를 간절히 기도하고 싶습니다 ( 참고 : 요한복음 17:11-12, 현대인의 성경 ).