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Lord God, we thank you for 
tonight and we are grateful for 

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all that you do. 
And you've blessed us with so 

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many blessings, Lord, And your 
word is the greatest of all 

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blessings because it expresses 
to us the the beauty of your 

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name. 
It shows us exactly what it is 

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you want us to do with your 
children. 

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And we thank you, Lord, for the 
encouragement and comfort that 

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it brings. 
We are blessed people, and we 

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want to thank You for that. 
Tonight as we open Your word, we

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pray that you would instruct us 
in the way that we should go. 

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We pray, Lord, that you'd open 
our eyes to behold the beauty of

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the Lord. 
We pray, Lord, that you would 

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encourage the faint hearted, 
that you would comfort those 

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Lord, who are downtrodden, and 
that, Lord, your word would 

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speak to their hearts. 
That Your Spirit would use Your 

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word to strengthen us every 
single day until you come again,

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as you most surely will in Jesus
name, Amen. 

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Take your Bible if you would and
turn to Matthew chapter 5. 

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Matthew chapter 5. 
There are many nursery rhymes 

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that I'm sure yet you know very 
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My my favorite is Humpty Dumpty.
It goes like this. 

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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. 
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall 

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and all the King's horses and 
and all the King's men could not

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put Humpty Dumpty back together 
again. 

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Humpty Dumpty was, was quite a 
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I'm not sure you've ever met him
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control of his life. 
He, he was a man who knew what 

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he wanted to do in life. 
So one day Humpty Dumpty decided

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to take a stroll, and I'm taking
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He decided to do something he 
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was climb a wall. 
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He climbed up in the wall and he
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world that he'd never seen 
before, thinking that it would 

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give him a good worldview, a 
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But something all of a sudden, 
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He falls off of the wall. 
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he just simply fell off the 
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And lo and behold, his whole 
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His whole life was broken. 
His life was in shambles. 

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He was in desperate need of 
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And help would come, but help 
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help did not come from his 
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Help did not even come from his 
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Help came from our nation's 
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It came from Washington, DC. 
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a unique man that Congress 
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session to decide how quickly 
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needs of Humpty Dumpty. 
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King's horses and all the King's
men. 

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And upon arrival to where Humpty
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came to realize that they could 
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together again. 
And Humpty Dumpty trusted in the

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best of the land, the King's 
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But they were unable to do what 
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They could not put him back 
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And so as you read the nursery 
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the nursery rhyme is not about 
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It's all about the King's 
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King's men. 
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that the best of the land can be
when it comes to tackling man's 

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shattered lives. 
Our world has all kinds of 

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problems. 
There's crime, there's sex 

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trafficking, there's drugs, 
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child abuse, there's spousal 
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But none of those are really the
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They're just symptoms to a 
deeper problem, and that is sin 

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in the life of every person. 
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of a man, and man is completely 
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And no matter how hard you try, 
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help in this world. 
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is, no matter how important the 
help may be, they are unable, 

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they are ineffective to put 
man's broken, shattered life 

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back together again. 
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And believe it or not, that 
someone who can is sitting in 

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this room tonight. 
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man's shattered soul. 
For the Lord said you are salt 

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and you are light in a world 
that's decaying and 

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deteriorating. 
You as a child of the living God

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are its salt. 
In a world that's dark and 

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depressed, you are its light. 
And believe it or not, what 

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Washington cannot do, you can do
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do that. 
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child of the king in verses 1 to
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He very strategically interprets
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king, and then he specifically 
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those who are children of the 
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You are the salt of the earth, 
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tasteless, how can it be made 
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It is no longer good for 
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and trampled in the foot by men.
You are the light of the world. 

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A city set on the hill cannot be
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Nor does anyone light a lamp and
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the lampstand, and it gives 
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house. 
Let your light shine before men 

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in such a way that they may see 
your good works and glorify your

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Father who is in heaven. 
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that the people that are reviled
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persecuted the most, the people 
that are slandered the most, are

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the only solution to a 
shattered, decaying, Dark World.

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The peacemakers are the ones who
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shattered lives. 
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that when he identifies His 
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authority. 
They are salt and they are light

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in a world that's decaying and 
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You are the solution to the 
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ordained you to be such. 
And so we have three points this

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evening. 
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it means to be salt and light, 
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address the the condition of 
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Then we're going to articulate 
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and then we'll apply some 
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If you have an outline, you can 
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But addressing the condition of 
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all because society is is 
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Society is not getting any 
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It's never going to get better. 
I love to talk to my post 

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millennial friends because they 
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get better. 
Just get enough Christians in 

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government and just get enough 
Christian doctors and enough 

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Christian lawyers and enough 
Christian mayors and enough 

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Christian teachers and you can 
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Things will be better. 
I'm not sure what Bible they're 

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reading, but they're reading not
the same Bible I'm reading 

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because things are not getting 
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They're getting worse. 
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Even the second law of 
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that out extremely well. 
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He's getting worse. 
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300 years ago, it was Isaac 
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entitled Am IA, Soldier of the 
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And in that hymn he asks several
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answered. 
Listen to what it says. 

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Am IA Soldier of the Cross, the 
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Good question. 
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his cause or blush to speak his 
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That's a good question. 
Must I be carried to the skies 

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on flowery beds of ease while 
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and sail through bloody seas? 
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And they says this. 
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face? 
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Is this vile world a friend to 
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Great question, is this vile 
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me on to God? 
The answer is no. 

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If you set under university 
professors, will they help you 

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unto God? 
If you read the books of 

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society, will they help you unto
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If you were to receive counsel 
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help you unto God? 
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If I if I live the way of the 
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way get closer to God? 
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Because we live in a vile world.
We live in a decaying society 

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that's only getting worse and 
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It's not getting any better. 
Paul would say that evil men and

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imposters, Second Timothy 
Chapter 3, are only going to get

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worse and worse, not better and 
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Why is that? 
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It says the whole world lies in 
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It's no wonder all the King's 
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could not put Humpty Dumpty back
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Why? 
Because they're under the power 

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of the Evil 1. 
They're directed by Satan 

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himself. 
They have no answer to man's 

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dilemma. 
Oh, they can change laws and 

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they can rewrite all kinds of 
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going to change man's inner 
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They can't do that. 
The Bible says in John 1611 that

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Satan is the Prince of the 
world. 

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The Ephesians 22, he's the 
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Second Corinthians 44 says he's 
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I mean, everything about the 
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The Lord has allowed that to 
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He's allowed Satan to run his 
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So everything in society is 
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It's no wonder that nothing of 
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God because it's not a friend of
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It only takes you further and 
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Over in Philippians chapter 2, 
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Do all things without grumbling 
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prove yourselves to be blameless
and innocent children of God 

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above reproach in the midst of a
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So so Paul is addressing the 
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years ago and says that you need
to appear as lights in the world

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because you live in a crooked 
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He goes on to say this, Among 
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world, holding fast the word of 
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I will have reason to glory, 
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nor toil in vain. 
So we live amidst A perverse and

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crooked generation. 
Paul would say it this way in 

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Romans 3 verse #10 There is none
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There is none who understands. 
There is none who seeks for God.

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All have turned aside. 
Together they have become 

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useless. 
There is none who does good. 

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There is not even one. 
Their throats are an open grave.

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With their tongue they keep 
deceiving. 

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The poison of ASPs is under 
their lips, whose mouth is full 

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of cursing and bitterness. 
Their feet are swift to shed 

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blood. 
Destruction and misery are in 

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their paths, and the path of 
peace they have not known, and 

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there is No Fear of God before 
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You see, the reason all the 
King's horses and all the King's

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men could not put Humpty Dumpty 
back together again is because 

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all the King's horses and all 
the King's men were as broken 

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and shattered as Humpty Dumpty 
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They just did not recognize how 
broken they were. 

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But they were. 
That's why they could offer no 

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help. 
There was no solution. 

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Why? 
Romans 3 tells you, Philippians 

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2 tells you, Second Timothy 3 
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That's the world in which we 
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It's the world under the reign 
of Satan, and he wants to 

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destroy everything that God has 
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So the world is is decaying. 
In fact, all you got to do is 

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read the book of Genesis right 
in the beginning. 

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God created the heavens and the 
earth. 

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And when you get to the end of 
Genesis chapter 1 and Genesis 

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chapter 2, everything's good. 
The fact is very good. 

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Oh, Genesis 3, the fall of man 
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And in Genesis 6, the Bible says
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The Lord saw that the wickedness
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and that every intent of the 
fonts of his heart was only evil

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continually. 
From Genesis 3 to Genesis 6, God

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says that every intent of every 
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evil continually. 
So what did He do? 

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He destroyed the whole planet. 
Everybody on it except for eight

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souls started over again. 
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Abraham pleads with the Lord. 
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city, will you spare the city? 
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for 50. 
How about 45? 

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in Sodom and Gomorrah? 
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spare it. 
How about 30? 

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Yep. 20. 
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Whoa. 
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Yep, that's where Abram stopped 
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and Gomorrah because there was 
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And isn't it interesting in Luke
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wife because she was turned into
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A pillar of salts as a reminder 
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that you need to be salt in 
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and then in your city. 
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in your family, how do you 
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We, we love to, to, to send 
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love to tell people how, how we 
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work. 
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your very own home? 
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failed miserably and Lot failed 
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We we would never know that Lot 
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for Peter telling us he was 
righteous law. 

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Because when you read the book 
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anything about that from Lot's 
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righteous man and yet God did 
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the wife, do not look back. 
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But that's a, that's more of a 
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than anything else. 
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the back. 
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right? 
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Because no one there could scold
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No one there could stop her. 
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Leadership says you go up front,
I'll bring up the rear and I 

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will take you out of here. 
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miserably as a as a husband. 
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miserably at home because 
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home. 
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emphasis of your ministry. 
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about missionaries and people 
have travelled the country and 

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and shared the gossip with 
people and one many souls to the

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Lord. 
But their hand their their 

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families are going to hell in a 
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the ministry, the main ministry 
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You live in a world that's 
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Discipleship begins at home. 
Does it begin in church doesn't 

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begin with your neighbor. 
It begins at home with your 

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family, with your wife as a 
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That's where it begins. 
So the world is, is decaying. 

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The world's dark dark. 
That's the condition of society.

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Spiritual darkness dominates the
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But you know what? 
The world lives it that way. 

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First, John, I'm sorry, John 3 
verse #19 and this is the 

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judgment that light has come 
into the world and men love the 

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darkness rather than the light 
for their deeds are evil. 

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Romans one verse #21 when they 
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as God. 
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because or, but excuse me, but 
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imaginations, and their foolish 
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Christ would later say in 
Matthew chapter 6, which we will

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cover down the road. 
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light that is in you be 
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darkness? 
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As long as I am in the world, I 
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And he warned them in John 12 
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the light with you. 
Walk while you have the light, 

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lest darkness come upon you. 
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knows not where he he goes. 
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Prince of Darkness rules the 
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The world is decaying because 
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He wants everything to be 
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But God has a solution. 
God has a very simple, simple 

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solution, and that is His 
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His children are the answer to 
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You, he says, are the salt of 
the earth. 

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You are the light of the world. 
The word you is emphatic. 

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You and you only. 
Nobody else. 

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Just you. 
Not you and this organization or

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you and that organization. 
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king. 
You are the salt of the world, 

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and the you is plural. 
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children, are the solution. 
What? 

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1 grain of salt does not help 
your burger much or your French 

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fries much. 
You got to douse it with salt, 

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right? 
My my father loves salt. 

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He used the salt pretzels. 
He would salt salt and vinegar 

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potato chips. 
He put salt on Chinese food. 

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He put salt on everything 
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But never did he put one little 
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He would douse it with salt. 
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you, plural, are the salt of the
earth. 1 grain does not do much,

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but collectively you will make a
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Because you see, everything is 
about influence. 

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Everything is about impact. 
It was William Shakespeare who 

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said these words. 
All the world's stage and all 

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the men and women are merely 
players and each man at his time

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makes his entrance and has many 
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It was Eli who Burritt who said 
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He said no human being can come 
into this world without 

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increasing or diminishing the 
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not only of the present age, but
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humanity. 
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who says in Acts 1336 that 
David, after he served God in 

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his generation, fell asleep 
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David after he served God in his
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He can only impact his 
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can only impact this generation.
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collectively to be salt and to 
be light in the world that's 

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decaying, in the world that is 
is dark. 

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Salt retards corruption and 
light is that which reveals 

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truth. 
Salt acts silently where light 

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acts verbally. 
Salt is how we live that retards

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corruption and light is how we 
speak. 

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When we manifest light, the 
influence or to influence 

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something in another direction 
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opposite going the other 
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That's why the Lord says, what 
fellowship have light with 

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darkness, What fellowship have 
the Lord with Belial come out 

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from among them and be separate,
be unique, be distinct. 

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As Christians, we we are 
completely different than the 

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world, but yet we're in the 
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And Christ would pray, Lord, 
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but protect them while they're 
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salt and light. 
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you're not to be of the world, 
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you act as salt to retard the 
corruption. 

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You act as light to reveal the 
gospel, to reveal the truth and 

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the Lord establish it. 
That you and I would be the 

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solution to all the Humpty 
Dumpties that have fallen in the

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world, which is everybody and 
nobody can help them except us 

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children of the King, people who
know the Lord. 

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We are the solution. 
We are the ones that help people

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come to grips with the reality 
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the earth. 
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solution from scripture #1 it's 
a fact that you are light. 

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You are salt #2 the function of 
of salt and the function of 

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light. 
We, we are to shake the salt and

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we are to shine the light. 
Salt does no good by staying on 

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the counter or in the cupboard. 
Ever notice that you might, You 

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might want a salty burger, but 
as long as Morton salt sits in 

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your cupboard, it's nothing's 
going to happen. 

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You got to take it out and shake
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flavor. 
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Sure it is. 
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sit on the shelf. 
You got to be actively involved.

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And so you must understand that 
that salt was a very valuable 

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commodity in the days of Jesus. 
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There was no refrigeration, 
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So salt was that which preserved
that which is important, meats 

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for say. 
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that outside of the sun, salt is
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planet. 
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they used to pay their soldiers 
with salt. 

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My mom used to always say, son, 
make sure you're worth your 

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salt. 
I'm like, what does that mean, 

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worth my salt? 
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That means that soldiers were 
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valuable that they could use 
that over and over again. 

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So salt was a very valuable 
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So valuable that when 2 enemies 
sat down and shared salt 

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together, they had to be kind to
one another and show friendship 

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in spite of the fact that they 
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That's how valuable salt was in 
ancient days. 

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Salt also represents purity. 
The color, it's white and 

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although it's talking about 
being tasteful or taste less, 

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not specifically speaking about 
the color, there is something 

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about salt and it's color that 
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So it also creates A thirst. 
The more salt you take in, the 

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the thirstier you are. 
And there's something about you 

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and me being the salt of the 
earth that creates a a thirst in

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those all around us. 
And even though we are the ones 

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that are reviled and slandered 
and persecuted the most based on

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verses 10/11/12 there there's 
something about the life that 

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causes and creates thirst and 
those around you. 

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Because there's something about 
your life that is so appetizing 

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that people want to be a part 
of. 

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Salt is also that which causes 
great pain. 

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For if you put salt in a wound, 
it stings. 

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It stings loud, right? 
But that's what Christians do. 

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They have a stinging influence, 
a stinging impact in society, 

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because society is nothing but 
an open wound anyway. 

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And when you shake salt in that 
open wound, there is all kinds 

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of pain and turmoil in those who
receive that which you have 

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shaken. 
But most importantly, salt is 

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that what curbs corruption. 
Salt did that. 

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It preserved those things which 
are valuable and we as 

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Christians represent God's 
presence on earth and light. 

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Salt is to be shaken, but light 
is to be shown. 

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We're to shine forth the light. 
The Bible says the Philippians 

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215 that we are to appear as 
lights in the world. 

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The Bible says in in second 
Peter 14 we are partakers of the

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divine nature. 
Now think about that. 

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We are we are partakers of 
Christ divine nature, and God 

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himself is light. 
Remember, in the beginning God 

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created the heavens and the 
earth. 

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The very first thing God created
was light. 

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That's not the sun, the moon and
the stars. 

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They were created on David 
number 4. 

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But God creates light first. 
Why? 

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Because God is light and the 
world needs to see God first and

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so he creates light first. 
Because everything about 

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creation screams God. 
Everything about it, the order 

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of creation, the way He created,
screams nothing but God. 

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So at the very outset, you need 
to know that God created the 

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heavens and the earth, and the 
very first thing He created was 

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light. 
He also, by the way, created 

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darkness. 
You know, that's why they have 

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45 verse #7 you say what? 
What was there before? 

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Before the earth was created? 
Nothing. 

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Well, what does nothing look 
like? 

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I don't know, nothing. 
There's just nothing there. 

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But dark is a creation by God. 
Isaiah 45 verse #7 I the Lord 

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and the one who creates 
darkness, but he is the one who 

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creates light, because he is the
light of the world. 

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The Bible says in Ephesians 5 
verse #8 For you were once in 

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darkness, but now are you light 
in the Lord? 

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Walk as children of light. 
We walk as children of the 

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light. 
We're to walk like Christ, we're

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to walk very brightly, not dimly
but very brightly, so people can

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see the way to the living God. 
But notice failure, the failure 

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of the tastelessness of salt and
the lightlessness of light. 

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He says very clearly. 
You are the salty earth. 

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But if the salt has become 
tasteless, how can it be made 

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salty again? 
It is no longer good for 

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anything except to be thrown out
and trampled under foot. 

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He's not talking about losing 
your salvation. 

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He's talking about losing your 
influence and losing your 

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impact. 
If you become contaminated by 

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00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:46,320
the things of the world, if your
purity is compromised, if your 

456
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:54,520
holiness is is corrupted, your 
ability to make impact is 

457
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,600
minimized. 
Think about that. 

458
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:04,960
Think about how it is you to 
train your children to live pure

459
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:09,760
and holy lives. 
If you live in impurity, how do 

460
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,960
you train your children to live 
impurity? 

461
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,400
It's hard, isn't it? 
Think of the life of King David,

462
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,320
right? 
How? 

463
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,120
How could he train his children 
to follow the Lord and not 

464
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,520
commit adultery and not commit 
immorality because he was 

465
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:34,360
immoral himself or Solomon his 
son, or Rayobum his son? 

466
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:43,680
You see, it's very easily passed
down corruption because our 

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00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:50,160
light has been dimmed, our salt 
has become tasteless, has become

468
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,600
contaminated. 
Now it's it's hard for sodium 

469
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,200
chloride to to be contaminated, 
but it can be mixed with foreign

470
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:03,600
substances, substances to make 
it tasteless or not as tasteful.

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00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,040
And whenever you begin to mix a 
foreign substance, something of 

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00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:13,800
the world, into your 
Christianity, your saltiness is 

473
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:19,640
compromised and you're not 
nearly as stingy as you should 

474
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:24,000
be in the wound. 
You're not nearly as as white 

475
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,080
and pure as you should be. 
And you can't preserve 

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00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,200
corruption if you yourself 
engage in corrupt behavior. 

477
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:40,240
So the Lord gives a warning 
about the failure of of not 

478
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:43,920
becoming the salt or being the 
salt you need to be. 

479
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,920
You see, we don't, we don't 
become salt, we are salt. 

480
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,440
We don't become light. 
We are light. 

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00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:56,320
But our salt can lose its 
flavor, its tastefulness. 

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00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:03,880
Our light can become dim simply 
because of sin, simply because 

483
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:10,160
of compromise, simply because we
refuse to do what God has called

484
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:19,640
us to do. 
And so very simply, we need to 

485
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:26,160
let our light shine before men. 
He says you're the light of the 

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00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,400
world. 
A city set on a hill cannot be 

487
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,520
hidden. 
Nor does anyone light a lamp and

488
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,960
put it under a basket, but on 
the lampstand and it gives light

489
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:42,440
to all who are in the house. 
It's a good illustration because

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00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,720
your light should shine the 
brightest Ware at home. 

491
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,120
He uses the lamp stand. 
He uses the house as an example 

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00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,360
that that's not by accident. 
Our light should shine so 

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00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,800
brightly at home. 
Now think about it. 

494
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,560
When you put a lamp on the lamp 
stand, you don't hide it under a

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00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,720
bushel, you don't hide it under 
a basket. 

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00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,480
Yes, some rays of light might 
seep through the holes that are 

497
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:13,600
there, but you would take off 
that lid so the whole room is is

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00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:18,000
lit up with brightness so you 
can see. 

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00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:26,400
Christ makes it very clear that 
He wants those in your home to 

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00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:31,240
see the brightness of your life.
And then he says this, he says 

501
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,920
let your light shine before men 
in such a way that they may see 

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00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:38,640
your good works and glorify your
Father who is in heaven. 

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00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:43,400
This is the fulfillment aspect. 
It's all about beauty and glory,

504
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,320
The good works. 
Kalos deals with beauty, 

505
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,080
attractiveness. 
It's not Agathas which is with 

506
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,680
quality. 
It's Kalos that deals with the 

507
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,320
beauty and attractiveness of the
light. 

508
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:01,880
Remember a city set on a hill 
in, in, in, in those days, if 

509
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,320
even today, if you were to go to
Israel, it, it is so dark around

510
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:11,000
the Sea of Galilee, but you can 
see cities on hills all around 

511
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,040
the Sea of Galilee that are all 
lit up. 

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00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,480
It's not one light on a hill. 
It's a myriad of lights on a 

513
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,200
hill that light up the city. 
Why? 

514
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,320
Because they all function 
together as one. 

515
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:28,880
And Christ says the world needs 
to see your beauty and to see 

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00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:33,040
see me. 
It's about glorifying me. 

517
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:38,120
You don't shine for yourself. 
You don't shake the salt for 

518
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,960
yourself. 
It's all about the Lord. 

519
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:45,520
It's all about glorifying your 
Father who is in heaven that 

520
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,080
they might come to know the 
saving grace of God. 

521
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:57,080
In Second Kings chapter 4, 
there's a story of Elijah and he

522
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:02,120
went to the little village of 
Shinham, never said anything, 

523
00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:09,520
never performed a miracle, never
preached the truth. 

524
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,880
But there was a lady in the city
who saw him and invited him to 

525
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:21,520
come to dinner at her house with
her husband. 

526
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,440
And Elijah would go, and every 
time he entered the city he was 

527
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:33,200
invited to come for dinner. 
But the Bible records no record 

528
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,520
that he ever said anything to 
the woman and to her husband. 

529
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:47,120
And the woman says to her 
husband, I perceive that this 

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00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:58,640
man is a man of God. 
He never said a word, never 

531
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,400
preach A sermon, never performed
a miracle. 

532
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:11,400
The only thing he did was eat. 
In other words, it adds whole 

533
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,920
new meaning to 1st Corinthians 
1031, that whatever you do, 

534
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,400
whether you eat or whether you 
drink, do all to the glory of 

535
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:22,280
God. 
Just by the way you eat and 

536
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:29,160
drink puts God on display. 
Elisha did. 

537
00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:33,400
Because we are to shine so 
brightly. 

538
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:39,080
We're to shake so fervently the 
salt and light the others will 

539
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:45,040
never mistake that we truly are 
children of the king. 

540
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:52,760
Last point, applying some 
directions for the Saints as 

541
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:58,000
salt you should be rubbing into 
society, rubbing into society. 

542
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,440
Think about where you work and 
why you work there. 

543
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,120
Think about where you go to 
school and why you go to that 

544
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,160
school. 
Think about where you live and 

545
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:13,480
what neighborhood you live in. 
Just to let you know that you're

546
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:18,120
there by divine appointment. 
Yes, you bought your house. 

547
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,360
Yes, you chose the school you go
to. 

548
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,800
Yes, you accepted the job at 
your place of employment. 

549
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,560
All that's true. 
But it was all under the 

550
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,640
direction of the sovereignty of 
the living God. 

551
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,000
God directed you. 
God moved you. 

552
00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:39,120
God took you where you were. 
God did this, right? 

553
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,080
Why? 
Because he's called you to live 

554
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,920
out your spiritual existence in 
a specific sphere of influence, 

555
00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:50,120
right? 
He has you there and no one else

556
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,600
there. 
He puts you in that school, in 

557
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,640
that classroom with that 
professor. 

558
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:00,560
He puts you in that workplace 
under that boss with those 

559
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,920
people. 
Why? 

560
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:06,400
Because you are the salt of the 
earth. 

561
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:14,000
You are the light of the world. 
And God says, I want you to 

562
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:18,440
shine right there. 
I, I, I want you to rub into 

563
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,920
that place right there. 
That's where I want you to shake

564
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,840
your salt and shine your light. 
That's where I want you to be a 

565
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,240
stinging influence. 
That's where I want you to be a 

566
00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:30,800
purifying influence. 
That's why I want you to be a 

567
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,960
preservative. 
That's where I want you to 

568
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,760
prevent corruption. 
That's why I want you to speak 

569
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,720
forth the lights so people will 
know the truth of the gospel. 

570
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,560
That that's why, that's why the 
word of God is called light. 

571
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,360
That's why the word Incarnate is
called light. 

572
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:54,640
So you have the the infinite 
word is light because God is 

573
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,880
light. 
Yeah, the inspired word, which 

574
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,960
is light, that was a light into 
my path and a lamp into my feet.

575
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,120
And you have the Incarnate Word,
which is light for Christ as I 

576
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,240
am the light of the world. 
So the infinite word, the 

577
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:13,040
inspired word, the Incarnate 
Word are all light. 

578
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,720
And so you use that word to to 
speak forth the truth. 

579
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:22,120
So you shed light into a place 
that God's called you to live 

580
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:26,160
out your spiritual existence. 
See, that's just a great thing 

581
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:30,160
about being you. 
The great thing about being you 

582
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,720
is that God puts you when he put
nobody else. 

583
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,440
That that's why God gave you the
kids he gave you. 

584
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,800
He didn't give you my kids. 
He gave you your kids. 

585
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,360
He didn't give me your kids. 
He gave you your kids because 

586
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,960
God wants you to be that light 
at home. 

587
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,760
He wants you to be that salt at 
home. 

588
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,560
He wants you to be that 
purifying influence all 

589
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,000
throughout your house, all 
throughout your workplace. 

590
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:57,640
This is where God has placed 
you. 

591
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:05,400
And so He wants you as salt to 
rub into society. 

592
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:15,320
So often have you noticed that 
the world has seemed to rub more

593
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:20,560
into the church than the church 
has rubbed into the world. 

594
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,120
The church is becoming more and 
more like the world. 

595
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,320
We want to accept the people of 
the world, the things of the 

596
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,400
world. 
When the Bible is very clear 

597
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,560
love not the world, neither the 
things that are in the world. 

598
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,000
Why the world's passing away? 
The lesser of but he doesn't 

599
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,280
will. 
God abides forever. 

600
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,840
We gathered together as Saints 
that we might learn to grow. 

601
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:48,960
And I walk with the Lord so that
when we dispersed from this 

602
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:54,240
place, we can act as salt and 
light in a World of Darkness and

603
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:59,640
decay. 
So as salt we are to rub into 

604
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:05,760
society, as light we are to 
reflect our Savior. 

605
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:13,360
Donald Gray Barnhouse was a 
master of illustration, and this

606
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:19,080
is what he says about this text.
When Christ was in the world, he

607
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:24,000
was like the shining sun, which 
is here in the day and gone at 

608
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,760
night. 
When the sunsets, the moon comes

609
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:35,000
up, and the moon is a picture of
the believers or the church. 

610
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:41,280
The church shines, but it does 
not shine with its own light. 

611
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:48,680
It shines with reflected light. 
When Jesus was in the world, he 

612
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,000
said I am the light of the 
world. 

613
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,320
But as he contemplated leaving 
the world, he told his 

614
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,840
disciples, You are the light of 
the world. 

615
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,760
At times the church has been a 
full moon, dazzling the world 

616
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:08,960
with an almost daytime light. 
These have been times of great 

617
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:13,080
enlightenment, such as those of 
Paul and Luther and Wesley. 

618
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:19,120
And at other times the church 
has been only a thumbnail moon, 

619
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:21,960
and very little light shines on 
the earth. 

620
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:27,920
But whether the church is a full
moon or a new thumbnail moon, 

621
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:34,880
waxing or waning, it reflects 
the light of the sun. 

622
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:40,000
As lights of the world, we 
reflect the Savior. 

623
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,440
The question comes for you and 
me, how? 

624
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:50,520
How great is that reflection? 
How is it as little moons we 

625
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:55,160
are, we are reflecting the light
of the sun? 

626
00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:00,040
Interesting, the Bible says in 
Malachi 4 verse #2 that the 

627
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,840
Messiah will be called the Sun 
SUN of Righteousness. 

628
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:10,200
The Sun of Righteousness will 
rise with healing in his wings. 

629
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,640
The Messiah was called the Day 
Star because of the brightness 

630
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:21,720
of that star. 
And we, his children, are like 

631
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:28,840
little moons shining because 
we're reflecting not our light, 

632
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:34,520
but his light to all those 
roundabout us. 

633
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,080
So tonight, as we as we close, 
we're going to do something a 

634
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,840
little bit different. 
I want you to all stand up with 

635
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,080
me if you would please go ahead.
Don't be bashful to stand up. 

636
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,200
And I want you to exit outside 
of your your Pew. 

637
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,880
And I want you to gather around 
with me here and all around the 

638
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,960
auditorium. 
We're going to hold hands, and 

639
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:01,680
we're doing this specifically 
because as collective salt and 

640
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:07,560
light, we have the opportunity 
to impact this world. 

641
00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:15,000
And as individuals, as 
individuals, we can make an 

642
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:21,160
impact, right? 
But as a church with all of us 

643
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:26,840
together, the light shines so 
much brighter because all of us 

644
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,960
are the light of the world. 
All of us are the salt of the 

645
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,520
earth. 
And we can, we can like jump up 

646
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,840
and down and act like we're salt
salt shakers and, and act like 

647
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,400
we're pouring salt all over the 
world or, or, But the bottom 

648
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,360
line is that we are all salt and
we are all light. 

649
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:48,360
And we have the opportunity as a
church to make an impact not 

650
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,400
just in West Covina, but 
wherever God calls us to live 

651
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:55,120
out of spiritual existence. 
So I want to close in prayer 

652
00:51:55,120 --> 00:52:00,200
tonight with all of us holding 
hands and thanking God for what 

653
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:05,520
he's done to make us who we are,
that we might be be used by him.

654
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,240
Let's pray together. 
Father, we thank you, Lord, for 

655
00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:10,920
for today. 
I want to thank you for everyone

656
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:14,520
in the room. 
I'm going to thank you as we we 

657
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:18,280
hold hands together, 
symbolically representing the 

658
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,880
fact that all of us are salt. 
All of us are light. 

659
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,960
All of us together make a 
significant impact. 

660
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,280
All of us as as a family of 
Christians, as a as a Church of 

661
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,880
Christians, we had the 
opportunity to touch the lives 

662
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:40,200
of those all around us. 
My prayer, Father, is that as we

663
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:44,040
as we look at this lesson and 
realize what you've called us to

664
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:49,720
be, you've called us to be salt 
and light, that we would be that

665
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:56,200
that you would use us with those
closest to us, with those we go 

666
00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:00,520
to work with tomorrow, the those
we sit in class with tomorrow, 

667
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,480
those who rub shoulders with in 
our neighborhood, that they 

668
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:11,240
would know there's something 
different about our lives simply

669
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:15,440
because we are salt and we are 
light. 

670
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:21,320
So Lord, our prayer is that you 
would use us for your glory as a

671
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:27,120
church, for your purposes, that 
others might know who you are 

672
00:53:28,720 --> 00:53:31,760
and glorify our Father who is in
heaven. 

673
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,680
We pray all this in Jesus name, 
Amen.