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• 2 Billion people or 1 out of every 3 people on Planet Earth call themselves a Christian.

Matthew 5:13-16 – "You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. 14 "You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden.

15 No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father. (NLT)

Joseph Mattera, Pastor in New York City: When the early church was the minority culture in the ancient Roman Empire they changed the laws and turned the culture in just several hundred years. They didn’t do this because of political power or votes, but by taking care of the sick and dying, nursing abandoned infants back to health, giving dead bodies proper burials, giving new meaning to marriage by honoring women and wives as equal heirs of salvation with men . . .

. . . by starting hospices that led to hospitals, by loving and praying for the Caesar instead of burning incense to him, and by never denying their faith even to the point of death! While serving their communities they refused to worship or burn incense to the image of Caesar and spoke out against slavery, abortion, infanticide and the violence of the gladiatorial games.

When believers love more, serve more and do more than anyone else in their communities, it gives them the moral authority to speak truth to political power and change nations. This is the kind of church we need to be in America if we are going to win back our culture.

Matthew 5:13 – You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.

3 Uses of Salt1. Flavor EnhancerJob 6:6 – Don't people complain about unsalted food? Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg?Colossians 4:5-6 – Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. 6 Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person. (NASB)

2. Salt is a PreservativeDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The church is to be the conscience of a nation.2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 – For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding it back steps out of the way. 8 Then the man of lawlessness [antichrist] will be revealed, but the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of His mouth and destroy him by the splendor of His coming.

3. Salt Can Lose its SaltinessMatthew 5:13 – You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.

CONCLUSION• Salt = Sodium Chloride (NaCl)• Na + H20 = Sodium Hydroxide• Cl = Chlorine = a gas• Summit Salt Co. – When it rains, it pours!

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