Believers Are Salt and Light
Matt
Believers Are Salt and Light
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.
14 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill
cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a
basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the
house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your
good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
God Bless
Matt
Sensi
Sensi:
Good morning Matt,
Another one confirming that good works glorify our Father in
heaven.
I believe in good works. That makes me a believer.
Doug
in article <tr1s459pegbuf4op4...@4ax.com>:
The world certainly needs some "light" and the gospel is called a "great
light" in Matthew 4:16, which quotes from Isaiah 9:2. The woman in
Revelation 12:1 (representing the church) is "clothed with the sun,"
which is symbolic of the gospel; Jesus spoke of the saints who "shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father," in Matthew 13:43.
Arno Clement Gaebelein (1861-1945), a prominent dispensationalist, viewed
the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount as "ethical teachings,"
and so in his view, they were not for Christians. He said, following them
leads to apostasy!!! Ha ha!
But really, it is rather sad. He wrote,
<quote>
Surely, if evangelical preachers (in creed at least) continue to progress
in this awful direction by substituting ethical teachings for salvation
by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and declare, as not a few
have done, "the sermon on the mount is a large enough Bible for us," a
general apostasy from the faith will soon be reached. There is a lifting
up of the sinner from his miserable place into sonship and making him the
heir of God, but that is never by the sermon on the mount, by striving to
obtain the heavenly righteousness revealed here.
2. There are others who give the discourse in Matthew 5-7 an exclusively
Christian application.
This is the second false application. We cannot put into the discourse
exclusively church teachings and say that all found here is to be applied
to the church, and that it is the guide for the church, as some have
said. If the Lord had had the church in her heavenly calling and
character in mind, the place given to the discourse would be all wrong.
...
A good deal in the sermon on the mount appears mostly in connection with
the earth. The meek are to inherit the earth. The church, however, is
heavenly.
...
3. The last false interpretation is that one, which makes the sermon on
the mount exclusively Jewish.
There are not a few who refuse to consider the three chapters in Matthew
as having any reference to Christian believers at all and as if there is
no application to be made in this direction and the believer could afford
to pass them by entirely and not be concerned about it. This is the other
extreme and equally wrong.
In our exegesis of the three chapters, (which of necessity we have to
condense considerably) we shall always in every part look upon the sermon
on the mount as the proclamation of the King concerning the Kingdom. That
Kingdom is not the church, nor is the state of the earth in
righteousness, governed and possessed by the meek, brought about by the
agency of the church. It is the millennial earth and the Kingdom to come,
in which Jerusalem will be the city of a great King. We read in the Old
Testament that when the Kingdom comes, for which these Jewish disciples
of our Lord were taught to pray, the law will go forth out of Zion and
the Word of the Lord ¦ from Jerusalem . While we have in the Old
Testament the outward manifestations of the Kingdom of the heavens as it
will be set up in the earth in a future day, we have here the inner
manifestation, the principles of it. Yet this never excludes application
to us who are His heavenly people, members of His body, who will share
the heavenly throne in the heavenly Jerusalem with Him. Israel 's calling
is earthly; theirs is an earthly kingdom, ours is altogether heavenly.
"In the sermon on the mount we have, then, the principles of the Kingdom
of heaven, with very plain references to the millennial earth ***
...
In the nineteenth and twentieth verses the King speaks of the doing and
teaching of the commandments. Here we are, of course, altogether on
Jewish ground. Then there is to be a surpassing righteousness, or better
righteousness for the one who is to enter into the kingdom of the
heavens. Their righteousness was their own and insufficient for the
entering into the kingdom of the heavens. But does our Lord here teach
that a person is by a better righteousness of his own to enter into the
kingdom of the heavens and that he is by his own efforts to produce this
righteousness? Certainly not. Still the false application, the ethical
teachings in Christendom substituting now so universally the preaching of
the glad tidings of our salvation, teaches that man is to lift himself up
into heaven by his own righteousness.
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Gaebelein wrote many of the notes for C. I. Scofield's Reference Bible.
Obviously Gaebelein was one of those who contributed to the deception of
the church although he is viewed as an "angel of light" by some. Another
dispensationalist of that era, Arthur W. Pink, saw the light before he
died, and abandoned dispensationalism. He called it a "wild and wicked
theory."
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Doug
Amazing Grace
"Matt" <trdell1234@ns%gmail.com> wrote in message
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Amen. And this one:
EPH 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:
walk as children of light:
9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and
truth;
10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
God bless,
Grace
I
> Believers Are Salt and Light
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> 13 You are the salt of the earth;
.... but if the salt loses its flavor
I don't like the taste of some "Trew Kristyuns".
They have no flavour but are bland and boring ... and hate-filled.