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The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth. Purity To the Romans, salt was the purest of all things because it came from the purest of all things, the sun and the sea. Matthew 5:13. The Salt of the Earth. Purity Salt was a part of the Jewish sacrificial system

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The Salt of the Earth

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  1. The Salt of the Earth • Purity • To the Romans, salt was the purest of all things because it came from the purest of all things, the sun and the sea Matthew 5:13

  2. The Salt of the Earth • Purity • Salt was a part of the Jewish sacrificial system • Everything offered had to be pure "covenant of salt“ - Lev 2:13; Num 18:19 • Because of its purifying qualities Matthew 5:13 Eating salt was considered a pledge of fidelity Also a sign of an everlasting covenant

  3. The Salt of the Earth • Purity • Christians, as the salt of the earth, are to be examples of PURITY and have a PURIFYING effect on the world around them - Titus 2:12-14 • Evelyn’s boss liked to tell dirty jokes, but knew she did not approve. • It used to be gutter language was not spoken around women, children. Matthew 5:13

  4. The Salt of the Earth • Purity • Standards of the past are being lowered and destroyed • Honesty - at work, school, even in the church • Morality - abortion, fornication, adultery • Family life Matthew 5:13

  5. The Salt of the Earth • Purity • We MUST hold diligently the purity God has established - Titus 3:8, Jas 1:27 • Not only for our own sake • But for the whole world's sake Matthew 5:13

  6. The Salt of the Earth • Preservation • Salt was used to help preserve things; hold back decay • Curing meats and other foods • Plutarch: (a Greek biographer of Paul's day); "Meat is a dead body and if left to itself, will go bad; but salt preserves it and keeps it fresh and it is therefore like a new soul inserted into a dead body." Matthew 5:13

  7. The Salt of the Earth • Preservation • So then salt preserves from corruption • Christians are to have an "antiseptic" influence on life (fight corruption) • “A Galilean peasant, with a few of His rude countrymen who had gathered round Him, stands up there on the mountain, and says to them, ‘You, a handful, are the people who are to keep this world from rotting, and to bring it to all its best light.’” (Nelson Smith) Matthew 5:13

  8. The Salt of the Earth • Preservation • One way of being a preservative is the putting off of God's judgment. • Noah's righteousness saved the human race • 10 righteous would have saved Sodom and Gomorrah; 1 will save the world • The wheat are saving the tares until judgment - Matt 13 Matthew 5:13 • As long as there was some purifying influence, God spared the nations, but when all godliness had departed, that nation fell (i.e. Israel, Judah, Babylon, Nineveh, etc) - 2 Pet 3:9

  9. The Salt of the Earth • Preservation • It is not merely being proclaimers of the Word that will preserve but WE MUST BE DOERS of it to have it affect society - Rom 12:2, Jn 8:31-32 Matthew 5:13

  10. The Salt of the Earth • Enhances • Salt is used to enhance the flavor of foods Matthew 5:13

  11. The Salt of the Earth • Enhances • Christianity is to life what salt is to food...enhances Matthew 5:13

  12. Are we guilty of portraying a picture of Christianity as taking the vividness out of life? The Salt of the Earth • Enhances • Often people have thought of Christianity as doing exactly the opposite. • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Robert Louis Stevenson Matthew 5:13 “I might have entered the ministry if certain clergymen I knew had not looked and acted so much like undertakers.” “I have been to church today, and am not depressed.”

  13. The Salt of the Earth • Enhances • As the salt of the earth, we are to enhance life, not destroy it - Jn 10:10, Phil 4:4, 1 Jn 5:3-4 • It is a blessing to be a Christian, not a curse • It is the way to get the most out of life, not the least Matthew 5:13

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