His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
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… starts to do his ministry. Remember, when John was announcing Jesus in the Jordan, give me Matthew 3, verse 12 again, please. He said, his winnowing fork is in his hand. And he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Yo! John's Jesus was coming with a fork where you thresh the wheat and throw it up and then let the chaff fall off and burn in the fire. And John was like, that's what Jesus is going to do to all of you who don't believe. You see that chaff in that fire? You see that fork? My God is strong and mighty, and he's about to burn. You better turn or burn, get right or get left. Get on the bus. Cuss. Don't cuss. Don't discuss much. He's going to burn you up in the fire, in the fork. Then they come to John. They're like, John, it's amazing. He's opening blind eyes. John's like, that's nice. …
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Might you have a seat. So last week we started this new series, the series through Advent called Waiting Well. And the reality is we call it Waiting Well because we don't know how to wait well. Here is a season of Advent, season of preparation, obviously. But it's also a season of waiting. I mean, just think of how much we dislike the season of waiting. Because right now, probably, you know, December 7th, we are probably already in a place of having gone to maybe already one or two Christmas parties that we, full disclosure, we had a Christmas party last night for our alumni. On Friday, we had a Christmas party for all of our students. And yeah, why? Well, we wanted to get in before the end of the semester, all of those things. We have excuses, but do you? No, we all have excuses. And the excuse is we don't like waiting. We want it to be here. In fact, there is actually a whole science on waiting, on the study of waiting. …
… 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 the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire. So with many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people. What is the good news today? It is this, that life narrows down and we look to Jesus. How does the narrowing come to you? Through advancing age, through illness, through adversity. Yes, such troubles come and should shift our focus more and more to the eternal. Now, the best narrowing comes through daily repentance. We are not to go into the wilderness just once to hear John's message and then return to our old ways of doing things. Young people should not put off repentance until gray hairs. Busy adults should not put off repentance until they imagine they will have more leisure time. Who knows how much time any of us has? Hebrews chapter 12 says, The good news today is that the narrowing of life is inevitable, but when the crisis of judgment for our sins comes upon us, there stands Jesus. …