CHAFF

“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."  (Luke 3:17 - ESV)

At harvest time the grain would be brought into the barn and something called a winnowing fork would be used to throw the grain into the air, and the grain would separate.  The heavier wheat would fall to the ground and the lighter chaff would blow away.  Jesus is saying, “Some people are wheat.  Some people are chaff.  Some people are fully devoted to Me, and some are blown away by temptation or false doctrine and deception.”

Here's my question to you: Wheat or chaff?  Which are you?  Because sometimes the misperception in our culture is that everybody in church is wheat and everybody outside the church is chaff.  But that’s not true: there's a lot of chaff in the church.  There are people who have not deeply committed to Jesus at their core.  They're about something other than Jesus.  They want to worship Him when it’s convenient or when it suits their purposes.  That’s chaff. 

Temptation comes: blown away.  Suffering comes: blown away.  Difficulty comes: blown away.  False teaching comes: blown away.

God really wants you to be wheat and not chaff.  But here's the good news.  There isn’t one person who would come to Christ to ask for help with this that He would reject.  Not one.

Wheat.  Not chaff.

And be blessed.