Lead In: As I’ve mentioned the past few Sundays, we will be staying inside of these few verses, Matt. 5:33-37, for a number of weeks. Before we move into our Sermon today, let's take a look back at the large “Time Out” that was last week’s message. Last Sunday we took a step back in our thoughts to see that the mere act of God communicating, independent of what it is He actually says, is something we must never brush aside. The transcendent King of the Universe communicatin

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

As we bring the Beatitudes to a close this morning; we should start with remembering where we are. Spending months on just a few verses can make us lose sight of the big picture, and everything God is communicating to us through His Word. So far in The Gospel According to Matthew we have seen the God of the Universe take on human flesh as He was born of the Virgin Mary. He was hunted down as an infant by a tyrannical Government, given gifts from foreign dignitaries (The Three