CHRISTIANITY: THE LIFE OF INFLUENCE – Part 3

 WEDNESDAY, 3RD MAY, 2023.

Topic: CHRISTIANITY: THE LIFE OF INFLUENCE – Part 3

THE DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF BEING NOT SALTY

MEMORIZE: "Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another." Mark 9:50.

SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 5:13

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”

EXPOSITION:

Recalling the word of our Lord Jesus Christ, "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” Matthew 5:13, Jesus at this point told his disciples the implication of not being salt which they were created to be. If they be not salt, they are as salt that has lost its savour. If you, who should season others, are yourselves unsavoury, void of spiritual life, and vigour; if a Christian be so, especially if a minister be so, his condition is very sad; for he is… 

 (1.) HE IS IRRECOVERABLE: Wherewith shall it be salted? Salt is a remedy for unsavoury meat, but there is no remedy for unsavoury salt. Christianity will give a man a relish; but if a man can take up and continue the profession of it, and yet remain flat and foolish, and graceless and insipid, no other doctrine, no other means, can be applied, to make him savoury. If Christianity do not do it, nothing will. 

 (2.) HE IS UNPROFITABLE: It is thenceforth good for nothing; what use can it be put to, in which it will not do more hurt than good? As a man without reason, so is a Christian without grace. A wicked man is the worst of creatures; a wicked Christian is the worst of men; and a wicked minister is the worst of Christians. 

(3.) HE IS DOOMED TO RUIN AND REJECTION: He shall be cast out--expelled the church and the communion of the faithful, to which he is a blot and a burden; and he shall be trodden under foot of men. Let God be glorified in the shame and rejection of those by whom he has been reproached, and who have made themselves fit for nothing but to be trampled upon. 

 

PRAYER POINT: Lord, Where my life has become unsavoury salt as a result of my sins and careless living, let your resurrection power restore my savoury to the glory of your name and the blessedness of my life & of humanity around me in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  1 Chronicles 33-36.