He told me to tell you that
I’m preaching through the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7).
They are “red letters” and I love the red letters. What if Jesus meant what He said? If the red letters are true (and they are) we’re in trouble.
This week Jesus told me I’m salt and I’m light (Matthew 5:13-16).
Salt is a good thing isn’t it? Salt doesn’t really have to do anything but show up in order to be salt.
Salt is low key. We like salt so much that we leave it on the table all the time and we say things like, “Pass the salt.”
If you are old like me you remember those Kool Aid commercials, someone would always say, “Hey, here comes Kool Aid.”
About that time a big pitcher of Kool Aid complete with arms and legs would come crashing through a brick wall.
Salt is like that, we are always glad to see it. My friends Ron, Marcus and Donnie are all salt. When I see them I’m just glad they are where I am.
Salt makes things taste better, helps food be more palatable, it’s a preservative, salt is a positive, it keeps things going the right direction.
Salt can also sting, pour it in an open wound and see if you don’t spit a little bit but at the end of the day salt cleanses and promotes overall health.
Roman soldiers were paid with salt, that’s where we get the saying, “Some people are not worth their salt.”
The Romans said, “Except for the sun nothing is more valuable than the salt.”
Salt is essentially influence. We all have it, the question is what do we do with it, therefore there is a cost to being salt.
Jesus said if salt loses its flavor it’s not good for anything, people throw it out on the ground and it gets trampled on.
In Luke 14 Jesus told us to do the math before we start building a house. He doesn’t want any half built houses in His neighborhood.
Get in or get out, love Him with everything you’ve got (be all in, Luke 10) or don’t love Him at all.
A. W. Tozer said, “There is a generation of Christians that believes it is possible to accept Christ without forsaking the world.”
Jesus mentioned this too in Luke 14:33, “those who do not give up everything they have cannot be my disciples.”
Ouch! Be salt! Pay the cost.
He told me to tell you that.
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