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Salt & light
Turn with me in your bibles to
13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?
It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
14 “You are the light of the world.
A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?
It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
14 “You are the light of the world.
A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavour, how shall it be seasoned?
It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), .
Today I would like to ta
14 “You are the light of the world.
A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lamp-stand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), .
Many of us have read this passage of scripture and some of us have probably only read it once or twice.
When we read this passage to understand this we need to understand the back story first.
Right before we read what Jesus says this he has given the sermon on the mount he is in Galilee.He had been healing and teaching.
Again Jesus see a crowd and an opportunity to teach.
The nine Beatitudes form how one should live.
They are simple and not complicated.
Jesus use salt as everyone new what it was used for.
At the time of Christ's first advent, salt was used both to make food palatable and to preserve it.
Christ's hearers must have been conscious of the role they should have been playing in making attractive and preserving the values of the kingdom of God in society.
Jesus had just enunciated the operating principles of God's government in heaven, as well as on earth.
All those who claimed to be friends of God had the responsibility of living these principles, as well as sharing them with their non-believing friends.
1. Jesus stressed the fact that His followers were to use their truth filled insights to help others.
Meaning when we see a need we should help without issue.
"Salt is valued for its preservative properties, and when God calls His children salt, He would teach them that His purpose in making them the subjects of His grace is that they may become agents in saving others."--Thoughts
From the Mount of Blessing, p. 35.
As salt mingles with the food in order to give it flavour, so Jesus came to this fallen world to associate with people, "salting" their lives with His life.
He took the initiative to reach them where they were, and to bring them the flavour of His love and the zest of His life.
"It goes without saying that salt is sprinkled on the food, and not vice versa!
Salt takes the initiative.
We would consider it laughable if someone sprinkled food over the salt."--Philip
G. Samaan, Christ's Way of Reaching People, p. 48.
“You are the salt of the earth.”
What kind of ministry model is this?
How does salt do its ministry?
It mingles with the food and disappears.
It becomes part of the crowd, so to speak.
But as a result of that ministry, what happens?
The food tastes better.
The salt has an effect upon the whole.
It is a quiet ministry, an infiltration ministry.
But the “salt model” of ministry takes one outside the walls of protection.
Matthew 5:13, therefore, underlines the same message as 1 Corinthians 9.
If the salt becomes tasteless, it will no longer function as salt.
It can no longer accomplish anything by infiltration.
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