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Comparisons
The next section of the Sermon on the Mount is the Similitudes.
Literally, the comparisons.
In the next few verses, Jesus compares us to things as a way of helping us understand not only our role in this world, but our responsibilities.
Salt of the earth
Merriam-Webster defines “Salt of the earth” as “a very good and honest person or group of people”
Today, salt is a seasoning.
Occasionally, we use it to preserve, like salted meat.
However, that’s more a culinary preference than a necessity.
So what does it mean to be the “salt of the earth”?
Salt is a preservative.
It draws out moisture and makes the food around it inhospitable to dangerous organisms.
To do that, it must be in contact with what it is to preserve.
Are you a preservative for the earth?
Do you make the world around you inhospitable to dangerous ways?
Do people stop swearing or telling bad jokes when you walk into a room?
Are you standing against corruption in our society?
Do you stand like Jesus stood?
Do we stand up to those who wish to corrupt the Gospel?
Or are we more interested in being called “nice people”?
mk 12 38-39
Do we transgress the commandments of God with our traditions?
Are we willing to sacrifice the clear Word of God for the acceptance of others?
mt
mt 15
The United Methodist recently said no, but just barely.
And more fights are to follow.
Do we transgress God’s Word to honor the homosexual lifestyle?
Do we worship what others call “love” and “tolerance”?
Ignoring what God’s Word says about both?
Or do we just want to avoid being called names?
Do we transgress what God has said with the tradition of unity?
Do we treat Jesus as an outcast for calling out those who are wrong?
Are we looking for unity in Christ or peace and quiet in our church services?
mt 23 13-
Salt is not changed by its surroundings, It changes its surrounding.
It changes its surrounding.
Even the sea is changed by the addition of salt.
Do you change your surrounding, or are you changed by them?
Or do you just wait in your salt box waiting for Jesus to take you home?
Do you avoid encountering evil ideas?
Afraid they may corrupt you?
Or decide it’s just not worth the effort?
Do you not speak up or stand up?
Because you don’t want to be called names?
Do you think being nice will bring more people to Jesus?
Then you have lost your saltiness.
Salt is not changed by what it is put on
It changes its surrounding.
Even the sea is changed by the addition of salt.
You are no longer able to preserve the world around you.
You can no longer season the world with Christ.
As Jesus says, you are good for nothing, but to be trampled underfoot by men.
Why do you think so many modern churches have been taken over by man’s perverted ideas?
Why have do many “christians” look more like the world than like the Lord they profess to follow?
Why is divorce and pornography so rampant about the church pews?
Why will churches not stand up for what Jesus has said?
Why do they compromise to get along?
Because they have lost their saltiness.
They are now good for nothing but to be thrown own and trampled by man.
They have been changed by their surroundings.
They have nothing left to stand on.
Literally, you are to be the light source of the earth.
Does your light shine before men?
Are you where those of the world go to find the light?
Are you sitting on a hill, showing the light of God to all the earth?
Picture an open plain at night.
Why not?
Picture an open plain at night.
For miles around, there is a light sitting on a distant hill for all to see.
If God’s people are to be that city, should we not be on a hill for all to see?
And not in a valley hiding from it?
If you are that city on the hill, your light cannot be hidden.
If you are a city in a valley, your light does no one else any good.
How is the world to see the truth if we hide it in our little groups?
Similarly, it makes no sense to light a lamp only to hide it.
Do we take our light and hide it?
If a city on a hill can be seen for miles, a lamp is meant to light a specific place.
In our families?
Is your light hidden in your home?
Can others see it to light their way to truth?
In our churches?
Do you hide God’s Word in your heart, only to hide it from everyone else?
Are you selfishly keeping God’s Word for yourself?
How many believers get their lamps lit at church, take them home and hide them under a basket until the next Sunday?
magg 5 16
I think of the light like the moon.
I do not create the light, I am to reflect God’s light.
Just as when the moon is hidden behind the earth, hiding behind the World and it’s ways prevents my light from shining.
Just as when the moon is hidden behind the earth, hiding behind the World and it’s ways prevents my light from shining.
Similarly, as I grow distant from the world the light I shine fades.
But when I am in position to reflect God’ Glory, what people see as my light shines brightly!
Like a full moon on a clear night, I can light up the whole land.
Yet it is not me, but the light I reflect from God.
When others can see what I do for God.
They see me doing my Father’s will.
They see me helping the poor and loving my neighbor,
They see me assisting a brother or sister in Christ to stand for God’s Word.
They see me thanking God for all He has blessed me with.
By seeing us glorifying God in what we do, they will learn to glorify our Father in heaven as well.
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