So far in Matthew 5 , we have seen Jesus give a description of the people who belong to Him, with The Beatitudes. He then moves into explaining the type of effect that those same people have on the World around them; preserving and illuminating the good, true, and beautiful. The actions we take and the words we speak, brothers and sisters; the totality of the lives we now live; are nothing short of the streams which flow from the waters of life we have drunk. We, like the wo

In our final message on the “Salt & Light” verses this morning, we will be taking what we have discussed so far (even from The Beatitudes) and then applying it to a larger scale. In Part I we discussed that our faith can not be “only belief” or “only action”; but that our “good works are the unavoidable and automatic outworkings of (y)our redeemed heart.” In Part II we talked about the children of God being the “means” that He uses to bring His other children that have not y

Moving into Part II of our mini-series last week, we focused our time together on the final verse in Christ’s sayings on being salt & light. That is, we are to live in such a way, that when we go about exercising the contents of our redeemed hearts, with word and action, the people in our life see it, and God is glorified by them. The driving force behind every aspect of our entire life, be it word or deed, is to be for nothing but the glory of God. Every hobby, behavior, vot