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The wicked things to God
he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire, and the
previous verse 9 says, The axe is already at the root of the
trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will
be cut down and thrown into the fire. Like this, John the
Baptist cried out the one who would baptize ‘with the Holy
Spirit and with fire’ and would come as the Lord of salvation
and judgement.
Also, people have assumed that ‘the Holy Spirit is like the
wind’ with what it says in the verse 2 in today, because it says
in the verse 2, ‘Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent
wind’. So now they have concluded that the Holy Spirit has
appeared like that. People have also concluded that the Holy
Spirit is like the wind with what it says in John 3:8, The wind
blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you
cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it
is with everyone born of the Spirit. Because they connect
it to the verse 2 saying, ‘Suddenly a sound like the blowing
of a violent wind’, they have confidence that the Holy Spirit
is like the wind. But Jesus is not saying to tell the Holy Spirit
is like the wind. See, the wind is not seen to our eyes, so do
you know where the wind comes from and to? No one knows
it, right? This is that Jesus said in parables to explain how
do we know the Holy Spirit has come to us by taking an ex-
ample from the part of natural phenomena. As if we cannot
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