Transcript Salt - MPCAC

Salt
• Mat 5:13 “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.”
Salt
• What is “the salt of the earth”?
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Preserving
• To preserve the earth from
immoralities
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Everlasting
• An everlasting covenant is called a
covenant of salt (Num 18:19)
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Seasoning
• Let your speech always be gracious,
seasoned with salt, so that you may
know how you ought to answer each
person. (Col 4:6)
Salt
• How does salt lose its taste?
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Impurity
• Contaminated by earthy substances
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Inaction
• What good is it, my brothers, if
someone says he has faith but does
not have works? Can that faith save
him? (Jas 2:14)
Salt
• What challenges do we face being
the salt of the earth?
Light
• Mat 5:14 “You are the light of the
world. A city set on a hill cannot be
hidden.”
Light
• Mat 5:15 “Nor do people light a
lamp and put it under a basket, but
on a stand, and it gives light to all in
the house.”
Light
• Mat 5:16 “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.”
Light
• What is “the light of the world”?
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Illuminate
• The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has not overcome
it. (Joh 1:5)
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Shine
• that you may be blameless and
innocent, children of God without
blemish in the midst of a crooked
and twisted generation, among
whom you shine as lights in the
world, (Php 2:15)
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Follow Jesus
• Again Jesus spoke to them, saying,
“I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will not walk in
darkness, but will have the light of
life.” (Joh 8:12)
Light
• What challenges do we face being
the light of the world?