“ 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...
기도와 말씀 순종을 통해 깨닫는 하나님의 뜻? 베드로가 기도하려고 하는 중에 환상을 보고 무슨 뜻인지 속으로 의아해 하고 그 환상에 대하여 생각하고 있었습니다 . 그 때 이미 주님은 그 환상의 뜻을 이루시고자 주님께서 고넬료의 집에서 보낸 두 사람이 베드로를 찾고 있었고 성령님께서 그에게 의심하지 말고 그 두 사람과 함께 가라고 말씀하셨습니다 . 그러므로 베드로는 성령님의 말씀에 순종하였고 그 순종의 결과로 그 환상의 의미를 깨닫게 되었습니다 ( 사도행전 10:9-35).