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Luke chapter 3 verse 17

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. This is a sobering verse. It's John the Baptist answering questions about

whether or not he is the Christ and he's saying no I'm not I'm pointing you to the Christ to the

one who will baptize you not just with water but with the Holy Spirit and fire and

then this description, 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.

Like the meaning here is unquestionably clear.

Like Jesus. unquestionably clear. Jesus divides all people into two categories. Those who trust in him, he welcomes into his father's house for eternity. He gives eternal abundant life, reconciled to God, forgiven of sin, adopted as a child of God. Like these are all gifts,

rewards, grace that is given through trust in Jesus.

And then those who turn from Jesus,

those who do not trust in Jesus will burn, John the Baptist says, with unquenchable fire.

And so we have this picture from the very beginning of Luke and we will see it all throughout Jesus teaching in the Gospel of Luke and then in the rest of the New Testament.

This picture of unquenchable fire that this is the

destination for all those who do not trust in Jesus and eternity an everlasting picture of fire that never goes out.

And people wonder like, like like was that like literal is how a place of

literal fire and it certainly seems to be a prevalent image that Jesus uses that the Bible uses to talk about hell,

but even if, so just for a second, like even if hell is not literal fire even if it's symbolic then

what's it a symbol for like a nice summer vacation or a wintry retreat like no it's a simple

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