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YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH (Matthew 5: 13)

- “You are the salt of the earth.

- But if the salt loses it saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
- It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot”
(Matthew 5: 13).
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- USE OF THE SALT

- Its gives taste to the food (Job 6:6)

- It’s preserved the food from decay (Gen19)

- “Salt was used as a cleanser, a purifier”. (Lessons on Matthew Pp.)

- The salt was used as a fertilizer (Dr. Constable's Notes on Matthew.)

- Used for Treatment -- Salt + sugar can solve the problem of the lost of the water in the

body.

- CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SALT

- It is Simple. None had never said, I love you like salt. People always say, I love you like

honey or Sugar. Illustration ( the story of King and his Son )

- It is Available.

- Always different from its Medium.

- SALT THAT HAD LOST ITS SALTINESS

- “Christ’s hearers must have been conscious of the role they should have been playing in

making attractive and preserving the values of the kingdom of God in society” (SSL

1980, Pp. 90.

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 - Ellen White tells us what salt that has lost its savor represents in the Christian life: "It

represents the life of every soul from whom the power of the grace of God has departed

and who has become cold and Christ less. Whatever may be his profession, such a one is

looked upon by men and angels as insipid and disagreeable. . . . . . If there is no actual

service, no genuine love, no reality of experience, there is no power to help, no

connection with heaven, no savor of Christ in the life. Unless the Holy Spirit can use us

as agents through whom to communicate to the world the truth as it is in Jesus, we are as

salt that has lost its savor and is entirely worthless."—Thoughts from the Mount of

Blessing, p. 37.

“Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversion
be always full of grace, season with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone” (Colossians 4:
5, 6).
(1Cor 9: 19 – 23) “I have become all things in all people so that by all possible means I may save some”.

"If Christians are such in name only, they are like the salt that has lost its savor. They have no

influence for good in the world. Through their misrepresentation of God they are worse than

unbelievers."—The Desire of Ages, p. 306.

John 17:21, 23

"Christians who are purified through the truth will possess saving qualities that preserve the

world from utter moral corruption."—Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, p. 36.