“ 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...
온갖 허상을 깨트려야 우리에게는 현실을 직시하는 용기가 있어야 합니다 . 더 이상 우리의 옛 본능대로 그 현실을 부인하고 스스로를 기만해서는 아니 됩니다 . 우리는 우리 자신을 스스로 보호하기 위해 쳐 놓은 온갖 허상을 깨트려야 합니다 . 하나님의 말씀만이 그 허상들을 깨트릴 수 있습니다 . ( 유진 피터슨의 " 물총새에 불이 붙듯 " 을 읽으면서 )