Perfect Forgiveness 1 John 1:9/ Christian Liberty: Gal 5:1,13

Are you a shaker or a pillar?

Introduction:

How to act now that you’re saved:

Eph 2:10/Titus 1:16/2 Tim 2:19/Rom 12:1-2/Eph 4:17-32/Col 3:5-25/Titus 2:12,3:1/Gal 5:17-21/Phil 2:12-16/1 Thess 4:1-7/2 Cor 6:11-18

Witches: Deut 18:10/Exod 22:18/Gal 5:20/Eph 5:11

Cigarettes: 1 Cor 6:19-20/Rom 4:13/Are you saved?/Can I get a light?

Bible versions: Prov 30:5-6/2 Cor 2:17/2 Tim 2:16/Ps 119:104,128

Movies/television/music/magazines: 1 John 2:15-17/Matt 5:28/Phil 4:8-9

Lying: Matt 5:37/Rom 14:9/(church excuses)

Swearing: Eph 4:29/1 Cor 15:33/Eph 4:26/Prov 4:24

Stealing: Rom 14:9/Rom13:6-7/Bankruptcy

Adultery: Rom 14:9/John 4:18/Eph 5/Common-Law

Strife: Gal 5:20/Prov 28:25

Idolatry: Matt 6:21/Col 3:5

Wasting time/mis-ordered priorities: Eph 5:16/2 Tim 3:4

Matthew 5:13

13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Luke17:31-32

Gen 19:17,26

Mark 9:49-50

Salt speaks of God’s testimony to a lost world through his people; it’s a picture of grace;

Preservative, keeping meat for instance from spoiling
Purges and cleanses of impurities
Gives flavor to that that is unsavory
Causes thirst
Causes water to boil more quickly
It helps to melt ice and snow

Salt speaks of grace

Universally necessary commodity
A necessity to the human body

Lot’s wife had an opportunity to be the salt of the world. She’d had the grace of God’s deliverance poured upon her for her relationship to righteous Abraham and his nephew, her husband. She had an opportunity to glorify God for his great act of salvation in bringing her family out of the land of Sodom before the fire fell from heaven. She is before God, as any of us that have been saved from the judgment of fire and brimstone, she’s as a brand plucked from the burning, with the knowledge of God’s goodness. But she can not let go of the world she is supposed to let go of.

Salt speaks of judgment and desolation and bareness

It can be utilized to destroy what has been cultivated (Judg 9:45)
It can make a place uninhabitable (Jer 17:6)

Hebrews 10:29 AND Matt 5:23/Mark 9:50