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! Introduction:
Obviously you and I should want our words, actions, and very presence automatically to produce positive results.
In no way should believers ever want to have a negative influence.
Even though we live, work, study, and play in this world, we are not supposed to reflect its values and attitudes
I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
(John 17:15-16 NKJV)
Do not love the world or the things in the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(1 John 2:15 NKJV)
Because of who we are we must influence the world toward salvation and God’s standards of righteousness, not toward more selfishness, immorality, and worldliness.
We are to be in the world but not of the world.
Read 2Thess.2:7-8
& Matt.5:13
1.
The Greek pronouns translated “you” are in both verses emphatic /and /plural.
2. The emphatic form means that believers are the only person’s in a culture who can truly be salt in it.
3. The plural indicates that Christ wants His entire body, the church, to be influencing the world.
I.
The Salt of the Earth – Matt.5:13
A. The disciples’ character is like salt.
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Salt is distinctive – /It is totally different from the food or object upon which it is placed.
/
a) Believers are to be different from the world.
/(1) //The power of our lives and testimony lies in our being different and distinctive./
(a) Romans 12:1-2 /do not be conformed to this world but be transformed/
(b) 2Cor.6:17-18
/come out from among them/
(c) 1Jn.2:15
/do not love the world or the things in the world/
2.
Salt penetrates/ – //It changes that upon which it is put.//
/
a) Believers are to penetrate the world
/(1) //2 Corinthians 5:17; Eph.4:24; Colossians 3:10/
3.
Salt flavors/ – //It influences the taste of things./
a) Believers are to flavor & influence the world for Christ./
/
/(1) //Galatians 5:22 cf.
1Jn.1:3/
4.
Salt is quiet –/ //It is visible, but it works silently, making no noise during its work/
a) The Hidden Person of the Heart
/(1) //1 Peter 3:4/
5. Salt spreads
a) A sprinkle of salt has a wide spread effect
/(1) //Acts 4:20/
/(2) //1Peter 3:15/
/(3) //1 Thessalonians 4:11-12/
6.
Salt creates thirst –/ //Christians are to create a thirst in others by the lives in which we live.
/
7.
Salt preserves – /It keeps things from going bad and decaying.
/
a) It prevents Infections from Setting In – 2Thess.2:6-7
/cf.// /1 Peter 1:22-25
/(1) //Christians are to have an antiseptic effect on the open sores of this world/
(a) Lot was not a dedicated man, but his presence in Sodom held back the wrath of God (Gen.19:12-29).
(b) loving one another fervently with a pure heart
B.
The Disciples’ Place & Mission of Ministry is the Earth.
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The disciples place of ministry—The earth.
a) Too much salt is being stored and locked up at the church.
/(1) //The Result – The world is not being salted and flavored enough./
(a) Pray the Lord of the Harvest would send out laborers (Luke 10:2)
/(a) /John 4:35
/(b) /Galatians 6:9
b) Believers must Spread Out Into the World.
/(1) //Many people are spiritually lost due to the sinful preoccupations of this world./
(a) They can’t find their way to the Fathers house unless believers sweep through the world, searching collectively to rescue them.
/(2) //This is the task of the believer./
(a) The Father has sent Jesus, now Jesus sends us (John 20:21).
(b) We are to go into all the world, teaching all nations (Matt.28:19-20;
Mark 16:15)
(c) We are to do this with, not in our own power, but by the power of God (Acts 1:8)
(d) We are to sanctify the Lord God in our hearts, being ready to always have an answer to every man (1 Peter 3:15)
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The disciples mission of ministry—To salt the earth.
a) Believers Must Have Salt in Themselves – Mark 9:50
/(1) //This is done by the Word (Col.3:16)
& the Spirit (Gal.5:22-23)./
(a) The Word of God & the Spirit of God produces godly character, enabling a person to acts as a preservative in society.
C.
The Danger—Judgment—Fear of Being Useless and Destructive.
Salt does not lose its saltiness and flavor.
However, in the time of Christ the salt of Palestine was gathered in such a manner that dirt and other impurities were often mixed with it.
The salt was thus useless and good for nothing.
In fact, it actually destroyed the fertility of the soil.
Therefore, it was not only useless, but destructive.
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The backslider, a believer who loses his flavor and saltiness or testimony.
a) Definition of Backslider
/(1) //To draw back or apostatize in matters of religion (Acts 21:21; 2 Thes.
2:3; 1 Tim.
4:1)./
(a) may be either partial (Proverbs 14:14)
(b) or complete (Hebrews 6:4-6; Hebrews 10:38-39).
The apostasy may be both doctrinal and moral.
/(2) //Backsliding is Caused By:/
(a) Carnal Commitment (Luke 22:31-38)
(b) Complacency; Failing to be steadfast (2Pet.1:9)
(c) Failing to become rooted and grounded (Luke 8:11-15)
(d) Trials & Temptations (Luke 8:11-15) /cf.
/ Things of the world (Matt.13:7,
22)
(e) Fear PETER DENIYING CHRIST—FOLLOWING AT A DISTANCE (Luke 22:54-62)
(f) Looking back – Remember Lot’s wife (Luke 9:61-62)
(g) Lukewarmness (Rev.3:16-17)
(h) Overconfidence (Matt.26:33)
(i) Drifting away (Heb.2:1-4)
b) Three Things Can be Said About the Backslider
/(1) //Becomes Useless/
/(2) //He is of No Value—May as well be cast out and trodden underfoot (Matthew 25:30)/
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