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Introduction
We’ve looked at:
The King and His Kingdom
Stories of the Kingdom
(Now) Life in the Kingdom
ILLUST - My first week here I asked someone where Goshen College was.
That was the first indication that I was not from around here.
Pop vs soda, sucker vs lollipop
Matthew Chap 5-7 Jesus describes the life and character of Kingdom citizens.
He describes the actions, attitudes, and areas of character that lead people to believe that followers of Christ, Kingdom people, are ‘not from around here.’
This is what we popularly know as ‘The Sermon on the Mount.’
Gen 2:5
God created woman
This was the good life - man was satisfied and flourishing vocationally, relationally, and spiritually.
Then sin entered and
Matthew
This is what we popularly know as ‘The Sermon on the Mount.’
This is what we popularly know as ‘The Sermon on the Mount.’
“blessed are. .
.” - this is more spiritual than it really means
"He went up on the mountain," as this very same wording is used in the Greek Old Testament when Moses went up onto the mountain to receive the law ().
Just as Moses went up on the mountain, Matthew is telling us, so Jesus went up on the mountain, and in the same way that Moses spoke with authority, so now Jesus speaks with authority
- Kingdom life and character - our relationship to the world
- The world’s response to those with kingdom life
- Kingdom life disbursed and displayed throughout the world.
Platt, David.
Exalting Jesus in Matthew (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary) (Kindle Locations 1758-1767).
B&H Publishing Group.
Kindle Edition.
Morgan points to the permanent applicability of what Jesus said, for people continue to be “in circumstances of corruption and darkness.”
While these circumstances last, there will still be the need of this teaching of Jesus.
The Master is conveying a warning: salt must be salty or it will be thrown out; light must shine.
How much of a difference do you make?
How much of a difference should you make?
What difference does a Kingdom Life make?
The Kingdom life is one of integrity and influence.
(Explanation)
Couple of observations about the passage before we can really unpack some of the implications of the passage to our lives:
The world is corrupted and dark.
Does much really need to be said here?
The statements describe a state of BEING not a state of DOING
** Interestingly, neither of these statements as calling us to do something.
They are calling us to BE something.
** Jesus was smoking out the difference between a description of something and the reality of something.
‘You ARE’ - Present Active Indicative - state of being
You are salt, not can be salt
You are light, not can be light
Speaking to followers of Jesus
You can’t separate what salt is from what salt does
preservative
flavoring
payment
blessing
If salt looses it’s saltiness it is not salt
It is impossible for salt to not be salty
salt in ancient Israel was usually from Dead Sea or other sources where the salt is impure - mixed with other substances
As the soluble salt would be diluted out, the remaining substance was not salty and neither was it salt.
It would typically be thrown on a rooftop to be compacted into the hard surface of the roof
In the same way, light is fundamentally different from darkness
There is no light dark or dark light.
Leon Morris
“Giving light is not an option, so to speak, which the disciple may or may not choose.
It is part of being a disciple, just as much part of discipleship as giving light is of a lighted lamp.
Jesus has chosen his own so that they may give light.
It is the nature of light to shine, and when people have received the light of the gospel they will shine in a dark world.
That is the point of both comparisons.
It is of the very nature of light that it brings illumination.”
These pictures are both particular and corporate.
YOU are - You is plural
You don’t get off the hook
One grain of salt doesn’t do much difference, yet each piece matters
It is the collective nature of light that allows it to be seen from a distance
The church (not just church service) needs to be the display of children of light to the dark world
Neither salt nor light exist for themselves.
No one ever put vegetables under their salt in an effort to make their salt taste better.
The fundamental reason for putting salt on you food is to preserve your food or to flourish the flavor of the food you put it on.
(corn on the cob)
No one ever turns on a light in a room just to stare at the bulb.
The point of the light is to help others see.
This sounds funny, but Jesus is telling us that we do not live out Kingdom life simply to make our lives better or to make us a ‘shinier’ Christian.
‘Good works’ is actually ‘attractive works'
Our light is a borrowed light
Be different enough to make a difference.
Be invested enough to have an influence.
Be passionate enough to actually pursue it.
The Kingdom life is one of integrity and influence.
(Application)
** Finish the saying, “You are to be in the world but . .
.”
What Bible verse is this found in?
It’s actually not found in a verse at all.
Be Different In the World
Be Different
A better word may have been ‘distinct’ We are to be distinct, not simply different (some of you all are just different!)
Something salted is distinct form something unsalted.
A room in the light is distinct from a room in the dark.
What ways are we to be different?
Kingdom life changes our attitudes, our actions, and our relationships.(Platt)
What we are talking about here is way more than religion or behavior modification.
In essence, what we are talking about is the good life - the way God always intended people to live because it is the way we flourish.
not good for man to be alone
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