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Right.

This morning.

We're going to be continuing an r-series Through The Sermon, on the Mount.

We began The Sermon on the Mount last week.

We're going to Matthew 5:13 through 16 this morning as you're turning.

Do you want to just quickly remind you that right?

Now?

We are collecting Easter eggs, cuz we're going to be having a small Easter egg hunt after Easter Service, on the 17th, which is in 3 weeks.

And so, we're just asking everybody to bring a dozen or more eggs that are already filled with candy.

So bring the Dozen or more eggs, filled with candy, and there's a donation box downstairs in the basement and you can drop them off there.

I just we're hoping if we can all work together than we can collect plenty and then we'll be ready for that egg hunt.

So you can bring those at any time over the next three weeks.

I'll be a tremendous help.

Rodger, finding your way to Matthew 5 1316.

I wanted to share with you a story that I read earlier this week about adoniram Judson to add an arm Judson, was a missionary to India.

And by all accounts.

He was one of those people that maybe you've met one of those people before you spent time around one of those people that just reminds you of Jesus, you know, it's just there's something about them that just exudes christlikeness.

And when you spend time around, then you just find yourself wanting to draw closer to God, wanting to know, God more just by being around that person by all accounts.

Adoniram Judson was one of those people.

And so he was, he gave his life to make Christ known among people who have never heard the gospel before in India, and one time upon her return visit to America.

As he got off the ship.

There was a young boy Playing at the Wharf and immediately was struck by the very presence of adoniram Judson and later on and lock the youngboy reflected that he said never before.

Had, I seen such a light on any human face.

When the boys saw Judson.

He ran to find his minister to go ask his Minister, who this man is the boy and his minister went to find Judson and the minister himself got so engrossed in conversation with Judson that he completely forgot about the young boy that was standing by his side.

Many years later that young boy became the famous preacher Henry Clay Trumbull and Trumbull served as a Chaplain in the Union Army and is a faithful preacher for decades afterwards and his encounter as a Young Man without an arm Judson had such a powerful effect on him that later on in life when he wrote his Memoirs.

He entitled one of the chapters, what a boy saw in the face of Adonai on Judson.

Henry, Clay Trumbull could never get away from the influence of Judson and countenance, because he saw Christ exuded from him.

Adult the life of a person who has been transformed by the gospel, can have an enormous impact on those around them and we began our Series in The Sermon on the Mount last week and The Sermon on the Mount we said last week that Doug told told us last week, The Sermon on the Mount describes the true people of the true king.

In other words, you want to know what a disciple of Jesus is supposed to look like read The Sermon on the Mount.

Do you want to know what a disciple of Jesus is supposed to look like read The Sermon on the Mount?

The last week we looked at the Beatitudes and verses 1 through 12 the character of a true disciple Spirit.

True disciple is Meek.

Pure at heart, merciful a peacemaker Etc.

And then the rest of the sermon Jesus unpacked, the conduct of a true disciple.

To the Beatitudes are like an introduction to the rest of the sermon.

They describe the heart of a true disciple in the primary point of verses 13 to 16.

Is that a transform heart will lead to a transformed wife.

If you embody the characteristics describe and verses 1 to 12, it will be evident in your life.

Your conduct in your conversation will be Salt and Light to a dying and Dark World.

So let's read.

Matthew 5, 1316.

I'm going to pray and then we'll dive into the text is what God's word says.

You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?

It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and Trampled Under people's feet.

You are the light of the world.

A city on a hill cannot be hidden, nor two people light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a stand and it gives light to all in the house.

In the same way, let your light shine before others.

So that they may see your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven.

I pray, God, I thank you for your word.

And I pray now that you would help me to accurately, teach your word this morning.

I pray that you would fill me right now.

Holy spirit told me to get out of the way, but I pray that God, you would work through me in my weakness and I pray that you would all all of us ears to hear.

So that you can shape and mold us and in sanctify us as your people this morning.

We love you and we pray this in Jesus name.

Amen.

Main point of the sermon this morning is that true disciples glorify God by pointing people to Jesus.

They're transformed lives the lips.

Your disciples glorify God by pointing people to Jesus, Through transforms lives and lips.

Jesus uses to illustrations to describe how this happens and their fuel stations are going to make up our two points.

This morning's are two points.

First pointed true, disciples are salt to a Dying World in the second point is that true disciples are light to a dark world.

True disciples are salt to a Dying World on the heels of describing the character of a true disciple.

In the Beatitudes.

Jesus says to anyone who is his disciple.

He says you are the salt of the earth.

And salt was an extremely valuable commodity in the ancient world with many uses.

We don't typically think of salt is valuable today because we have an abundance of it.

And it's just that thing that sits on the table and you put it on your ticket on your rice or whatever, right?

With salt was extremely valuable in the ancient world.

It was obviously used to flavor food and help food tastes a lot better.

I was also used as a purifying agent to disinfect woodz in the ancient world doesn't feel very good.

But it's good for you ever heard the term rubbing salt in the wound, right?

That's what you do.

Cuz it makes the Moon actually hurt worse, but it actually does purify the wood.

But most importantly, salt was used as a preserving agent to prevent meat from rotting and decaying.

Before the age of the refrigerator salt was the primary way.

The meat could be preserved.

So salt literally saved lies and kept entire populations from starving.

And because of this, it was extremely valuable.

It was even used as currency around the world in trading.

And Roman soldiers.

Often times, our actually paid and salt.

You ever heard the phrase that he's not even he's not worth his salt.

That's where that phrase actually comes from.

Cuz salt was actually uses wages many places in the ancient world.

It was so important that wars were actually, fought over salt and entire economies were based on it.

So, when Jesus says, the Christian you are the salt of the earth he is.

I think first of all, saying that our lives could stand out in stark contrast to the world.

If you have the character of a true disciple, as described in the Beatitudes, it will be evidence.

Your life will bring a distinct flavor to the world.

It will do good in the world will bring value in the world.

Someone who hungers and thirsts for righteousness, rather than groping for pleasure in the, in the fleeting pleasures of sin will stand out.

Someone who is merciful and forgiving instead of taking Revenge will be distinct.

Not only does the life of a true disciple stand out.

But in a sense, Our Lives should be like a preserving agent in a dying and decaying world.

Scripture explains that the world is in bondage to corruption.

When sin entered the world, death entered in and for all of creation is under this curse of corruption.

In The Godly lives of Christians who embody the beatitude, the whole world from moral Decay to some extent.

This doesn't mean that we can stop the world from corruption.