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I) *“What the World Needs”*
A) File: matthew 5 salt and light.doc
B) Audio: What the World Needs
C) Series: Matthew
D) Preached: November 25, 2007
II) *Introduction: Matthew: *The Sermon on the Mount:
A) The requirements for becoming a citizen of His Kingdom.
B) The characteristics of Kingdom citizens.
1) Part one: Spiritual Poverty – The citizens’ focus on God:
2) Part two: Spiritual Overflow – The citizens’ ministry to others:
C) Part Three: Spiritual Overflow continued: Salt and Light – What the World Needs.
III) *What the world needs*:
A) *The World Needs Salt*
1) Emphasis on Preservation
(a) Righteousness a major theme of sermon on the mount.
(b) Not flavor in the sense of being interesting, making the world easier to swallow.
(c) Flavor in the sense that it is obviously present.
Distinct.
(d) Righteousness is dominant theme – therefore salt’s ability to preserve is more in view here.
2) The World is in decay
(a) Turning away from scriptural roots
(b) Increased acceptance of alternative lifestyles
(c) Increased tolerance of dishonesty
(d) Increased tolerance of broken families
(e) Increased violent crimes – murder and stealing
(i) To spite our general prosperity.
3) Proper Biblical worldview supports this idea
(a) Garden – perfection to sin
(b) Conscience – jealousy and murder, polygamy.
Flood.
(c) One world government – tried to be like God and reach heaven.
(d) Then nations – wars began, empires spread.
(e) Promise – lied, tried to fulfill promise with Hagar
(f) Law – disobedience
(g) Perfect land conquered – idolatry and exile
(h) returned remnant – legalism
(i) Christ: crucified
(j) Church age:
(i) Doctrinal disputes
(ii) Denominations
(iii) Union with government
(iv) syncretism
(k) What the world needs is preserving – something to stop the decay and corruption
4) What the World needs is salt
B) *The World Needs Light*
1) Light – representative of God’s truth shining in a dark world.
Light = truth.
God is the solution to all world problems.
2) Real truth: All the world’s reactions to the decay sends us in an ever-downward spiral.
(a) Drugs – natural cures left untested,
(b) Internet – largest single use – pornography.
Money.
(c) Welfare – no amount of it cures poverty.
(d) High-tech – numbing ourselves with entertainment.
(e) Global communication – world-wide voyeurism.
(f) All our technology, knowledge, thought, expression, ends in meaninglessness.
We still have the same old problems.
(i) War, Crime, Genocide, poverty, abandonment, lying,
(g) There must be another source of information.
(h) All these achievements have failed to produce real truth – meaningful change to our lives.
(i) No matter how much we seem to advance – it only shows more clearly who we are.
3) The World Needs Light – God’s truth shone on every problem – lighting the way to true change, true solutions.
IV) *Salt and Light Influence* *the World*:
A) Salt – *To prevent corruption*.
1) Natural preservative.
2) Prevent decay.
3) Rotting meat is poisonous.
4) Distinctly different from what it preserves.
B) Light – *To provide God’s truth.
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1) expels darkness.
Informs.
2) Biblical imagery – light = truth, goodness, life.
darkness = ignorance, sin, death.
All of these meant here.
(a) Again, distinctly different from what it preserves.
3) Jesus’ followers are to reflect His light.
C) You – plural:
1) v1 – speaking to disciples.
2) All followers of Jesus are to partake.
D) Are – continuous sense.
1) Emphasizes /being /not just /doing /
2) *Salt and Light are Inherent traits.*
3) Not a command – a statement of fact.
4) Salt and light are what our world needs, so our King has declared that we are those very things!
V) *Both Salt and Light Can Become Ineffective*:
A) By losing its saltiness.
How can salt lose its saltiness?
Two ways salt could ‘lose its saltiness’ in the New Testament world.
1) Background: mixture – Dead Sea Salt, gypsum, calcium, etc.
2) Rubbed on meats to preserve.
Its work dependent on /concentration/!
3) First, continually using the good parts, leaving impurities in the container.
(a) What’s left in the container is saturated with salt but because of the contaminants, that salt is unable to be used to preserve something else.
4) Second, Salt stored on the ground.
(a) salt leaches out into the ground leaving behind mostly salty dirt – useless to put on your fish.
5) Neither way does the salt become different – it simply becomes so diluted with contamination that it is no longer effective.
6) Either way, now it is only good for being thrown out.
(a) Thrown out to be trampled – shows that Jesus meant it was still salt – not thrown on the field.
(i) No good but to throw out on the path
(b) still salt – has not changed it’s nature but has taken on enough corruption it is diluted and has lost influence
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