You are the Light for Owingsville and your families
You are the Light for Owingsville and your families!
Matthew 5:13-16KJV
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
With a bowl of salt sitting beside a bowl of sugar; both ground the same, how do you tell one apart from the other? Taste!
A Christian beside a sinner, both with the same background and styles of clothing, how do you tell them apart? Sometimes that one is even tougher!
1. We are the Salt of the Earth.
a. Even before someone knows you personally they should be able to see something in you! Jesus!
Ephesians 4:29-32KJV
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
b. Many Christians today no longer can be told from the rest of the world!
1 John 1:5-7KJV
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
c. Many are allowing themselves to live lives we would call “trashy” they will be cast out and trodden upon
2. We are the Light of the World
a. If you have Jesus in your heart you have Light and you are light. (a light bulb doesn’t give light because of the glass on the outside but what is on the inside) God has given you that power to be a witness for Him!
1 Thessalonians 5:5KJV
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
b. You are the only light to shine here in this town don’t wait for someone else to show the way they may not be the one God sent!
James 1:22KJV
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
c. You are the only hope many out there will have because you are the one God sent!
3. Let your Light Shine here in Owingsville!
a. Too many “Christians” like to hide their light like they are ashamed of it!
b. How will they hear without a preacher? Not just the one behind the pulpit but also the soul winner willing to take the gospel outside the church!
Romans 10:14KJV
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
c. Too many say I can’t say it right but God will give you the words to say God will give you the help you need! Every time you try you plant a new seed! Keep planting those seeds keep shining your light keep up your saltiness!
John 15:8KJV
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.