{"id":1842,"date":"2013-12-20T13:36:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:44","slug":"salting-our-community-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Salting Our Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew 5:13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesus looked upon the heart-sickening effect of sin upon the ancient world and realized that true Christianity would be like salt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Salt Keeps from Rotting. A Taste All It&#8217;s Own.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The sea of Galilee is 680 feet below the Mediterranean Sea. Temperature usually above 90 degrees.<br \/>\n2. Sweet things soon turn sour and fresh things soon become rancid.<br \/>\n3. These people could not live without salt.<br \/>\n4. Christians are salt to keep moral health, the natural enemies of moral disease.<br \/>\n5. There sin threatens decay the Christian salt should be there to stop it. <strong>Preserves, Flavors, and Heals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>II: What Attitude Must We Take?<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Rottenness in our own lives.<br \/>\n2. In literature.<br \/>\n3. Rottenness in attitudes of slothfulness.<br \/>\n4. Rottenness of grudge and hate.<br \/>\n5. Rottenness in politics and business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Salt Must Be in Contact.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. It must be applied.<br \/>\n2. We are in the world but not of the world.<br \/>\n3. &#8220;I pray not that thou shouldn&#8217;t take them out of the world, but that thou shouldn&#8217;t keep them from evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: Salt Brings out Flavor. Christianity is Truchivine.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Many things remain tasteless until salt is applied (<strong>Hard-boiled egg<\/strong>).<br \/>\n2. Stale things need to be freshened.<br \/>\n3. Life is not stale when Jesus rules.<br \/>\n4. Homes become sweeter and happier when Christianity is applied.<br \/>\n5. Staleness of daily living changed.<br \/>\n6. &#8220;I am come that they might have life&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n7. Christian salt is, Christ like living and a Christ like spirit.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hebrew nations quality of life was to turn men to God.<br \/>\nOur Christian living ought to turn men to Christ and the Church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perris Valley Baptist &#8211; 04\/29\/1962.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 from Rotting. A Taste All It&#8217;s Own. 1. The sea of Galilee is 680 feet below the Mediterranean Sea. Temperature usually above 90 degrees. 2. Sweet things soon turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}