“ 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...
하나님의 뜻을 행하려고 하는 사람은 구분하게 될 것입니다. 하나님의 뜻을 행하려고 하는 사람은 주님의 종이 가르치는 교훈이 하나님께로부터 온 것인지 아니면 목사님이 자기 마음대로 말하는 것인지 구분하게 될 것입니다 . 그 구분의 기준은 자기 마음대로 말하는 목사님은 자신의 영광만을 추구하지만 하나님의 교훈을 말하는 주님의 종은 자기를 보내신 주님의 영광을 위해 일합니다 . 자기 영광만을 추구하는 목사님은 거짓된 사람이지만 주님의 영광을 위해 일하는 주님의 종은 거짓이 없는 진실한 사람입니다 ( 요한복음 7:17-18, 현대인의 성경 ).