Luke 3:7-18
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax 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.” “What should we do then?” the crowd asked. John answered, “The man with two tunics should share with him who has none, and the one who has food should do the same.” Tax collectors also came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?” “Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them. Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely—be content with your pay.” The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Christ.John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with 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.” And with many other words John exhorted the people and preached the good news to them.
Christformation is the gathering of the wheat into His barn. "Gathering the wheat into the barn" is the formation of the divine nature of Christ in the born again spirits of those called, chosen and faithful believers of His. "Burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire" is the putting to death of the sinful nature of the Devil by the power of God's Spirit in those who believe, love and obey Christ. But before that fully occurs, the treshing floor will be cleared by the Lord Jesus Christ where God the Holy Spirit will bring in the necessary conviction of guilt of sin. Without repentance of those sins there will be no Christformation. Christformation is fruit in keeping with repentance. Christformation does not occur unless you start putting to death the misdeeds of the sinful nature of the Devil in you.
Did you notice the repeated question "What should we do?" Normally, this is one question a truly repenting sinner will ask. The one general answer to that would be; give up pleasing the sinful nature of the Devil in you and start working out your salvation by obeying all that Christ had commanded.In this way, Christformation could occur in you by the power of God the Holy Spirit who dwells in you.
