THE SALT
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“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.
Main Idea: God desires for you to live with purpose and value.
Main Idea: God desires for you to live with purpose and value.
Main Idea: God desires for you to live with purpose and value.
Main Idea: God desires for you to live with purpose and value.
Key question Have you been compromised?
Key question Have you been compromised?
The New American Commentary: Matthew 2. Paradigmatic Preaching: The Sermon on the Mount (5:1–7:29)
Christians must permeate society as agents of redemption.
1. Salt has purpose.
1. Salt has purpose.
“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.
A. Salt adds flavor.
A. Salt adds flavor.
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
B. Salt preserves.
B. Salt preserves.
It helps protect and purify the meat from bacteria and other contaminants.
Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
2. Salt can be compromised.
2. Salt can be compromised.
“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.
Pure salt cannot lose its saltiness. Only when mingled from impurities would the salt dissolve.
You would have to add salt to salt to make it salty again which actually isn’t doing anything to it.
“Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?
It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3. Salt when compromised is useless
3. Salt when compromised is useless
“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.
“Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?
It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”