Salting Our Community

Matthew 5:13
Jesus looked upon the heart-sickening effect of sin upon the Ancient World and realized that true Christianity would be like Salt.

I: Salt keeps fron rotting, A taste all its own.
1. The Sea of Galilee is 680 ft. below the Mediterranean Sea. Temperature usually above 90 degrees.
2. Sweet things soon turn sour and fresh things soon become rancid.
3. These people couldn’t live without salt.
4. Christians are salt to keep moral health, the natural enemies of moral disease.
5. Where sin threatens decay, the Christian salt should be there to stop it.
6. Preserves, flavors, and heals.

II: What attitude must we take?
1. Rotteness in our own lives.
2. In Literature.
3. Rotteness in attitudes of slothfulness.
4. Rotteness of grudge and hate.
5. Rotteness in Politics and Business.

III: Salt must be in contact.
1. It must be applied.
2. We are in the World but not of the World.
3. “I pray not that thou shouldn’t take them out of the World, but that thou shouldn’t keep them from evil.”

IV: Salt brings out flavor. Christianity is Trachivine, “I just died.”
1. Many things remain tastless until salt is applied, (Hard-boiled egg).
2. Stale things need to be freshened.
3. Life isn’t stale when Jesus rules.
4. Homes become sweeter and happier when Christianity is applied.
5. Staleness of daily living changed.
6. “I am come that they might have life…”
7. Christian salt is, Christ-like living and a Christ-like spirit.

The Hebrew Nations quality of life was to turn Man to God.
Our Christian feeling ought to turn Men to Christ and the Church.