DAY 20: SALT IN A WORLD WITHOUT SEASON.
WELCOME TO OUR DAILY DEVOTIONAL BIBLE STUDY SERIES: STARS ONLY SHINES IN THE DARK.
TOPIC: THE MEANING, IMPLICATIONS, AND COST OF PRACTICAL CHRIST-
LIKENESS
MAIN TEXT: “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?” Matthew 5:13
INTRODUCTION
We live in a "World without godly Seasoning life of purpose and meaning." This means the world has lost the "flavour" of God’s holiness. Holiness simply means, God good intentions of how you should live life of purpose and meaning to the fullest that will translate to eternal life in heaven.
Abandoning godly standard lifestyle and adopting mere empty religious sensational fleshly Lifestyle which is rampant today is not only delusional in quest for meaningful and purposeful life but spiritually unproductive.
Everything is about the "Self" of the flesh. In this dark hour of moral and spiritual godlessness, God did not called us to be "Sugar" to make people feel sweet and comfortable in their sins. But rather, He has called us to be Salt to the world.
Salt does two things: it stops rottenness, as preservative substance, and it creates thirst. If your Christianity does not make your children, your spouse, your colleagues, and people around you "thirsty" for God, or stop the corrosive moral and spiritual corruption around you, then it implies, you have lost your seasoning flavour of godly moral and spiritual standard lifestyle of Christ-Likeness.
MAIN MESSAGE.
Practical Christianity is like the work or effect of "Salt". In the Daylight of your quiet study life, you are expected to draw into your Soul person the "saltish qualities" of moral and spiritual power of faith from the truth of God's word to enable you live a positive impact Christ-like life in the world.
In the "Dark Hour" of tasteless daily life of moral and spiritual godlessness, you are expected to create a practical positive seasoning godly effect in the lives of a world with life without meaning, purpose and fulfillment.
WHAT IS THE COST OF BEING A SALT?
It involves Contact: You cannot be salt from a distance. You must touch hearts and change lives. You must be involved in the "Great Commission."
It involves Agape: This is not just a feeling; it is a "Practical Daily Lifestyle." It means choosing to love the unlovely, choosing to be honest when everyone is cheating, and choosing to win souls instead of just winning arguments.
It involves Purity: If salt is mixed with dirt, it loses its power. This is the danger of "Lukewarmness." When we mix our Christian life with "End-time Deceitful Sensationalism," we become spiritually "unproductive"
The "Dark Hour" is full of "Empty Religious Noise." People are shouting "Hallelujah" but their lives are rotting with bitterness, greed, unforgiveness, impurities, and worldliness. But a "Salt-like" Christian brings the "seasoning" of heaven back into the room. When you walk in, the atmosphere should change. Corruption should feel uncomfortable in your presence. That is the power of a "Life-Transforming Message" lived out in shoe leather.
REFLECTION.
If I were "rubbed" into my workplace or my community today, would I stop the rot of gossip and lies, or would I just blend in with the decay? Have I lost my "savour" by trying to be too much like the world?
FURTHER STUDY REFERENCES.
Colossians 4:6: "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt..."
Mark 9:50: "Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another."
CONCLUSION.
Salt is only useful when it leaves the jar. Christianity is only useful when it leaves the church building and enters the "Daily Lifestyle" of the world with positive tasteful godly standard lifestyle.
LET US PRAY..
Father, I don't want to be "tasted" and found to be flavourless. Forgive me for where I have compromised and lost my "Saltiness." Rub me into the lives of those around me. Use my words, my actions, and my Agape love to stop the decay and make people thirsty for You. In Jesus Christ Mighty name. Amen.
GET IN TOUCH:
Ago King Paul Evang.
+234 90 63 84 57 48, 070 540 111 99.
Life Changers Ministry aka Living Ready Gospel Church, Grace Assembly, Ilorin, Kwara state Nigeria.
WELCOME TO OUR DAILY DEVOTIONAL BIBLE STUDY SERIES: STARS ONLY SHINES IN THE DARK.
TOPIC: THE MEANING, IMPLICATIONS, AND COST OF PRACTICAL CHRIST-
LIKENESS
MAIN TEXT: “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?” Matthew 5:13
INTRODUCTION
We live in a "World without godly Seasoning life of purpose and meaning." This means the world has lost the "flavour" of God’s holiness. Holiness simply means, God good intentions of how you should live life of purpose and meaning to the fullest that will translate to eternal life in heaven.
Abandoning godly standard lifestyle and adopting mere empty religious sensational fleshly Lifestyle which is rampant today is not only delusional in quest for meaningful and purposeful life but spiritually unproductive.
Everything is about the "Self" of the flesh. In this dark hour of moral and spiritual godlessness, God did not called us to be "Sugar" to make people feel sweet and comfortable in their sins. But rather, He has called us to be Salt to the world.
Salt does two things: it stops rottenness, as preservative substance, and it creates thirst. If your Christianity does not make your children, your spouse, your colleagues, and people around you "thirsty" for God, or stop the corrosive moral and spiritual corruption around you, then it implies, you have lost your seasoning flavour of godly moral and spiritual standard lifestyle of Christ-Likeness.
MAIN MESSAGE.
Practical Christianity is like the work or effect of "Salt". In the Daylight of your quiet study life, you are expected to draw into your Soul person the "saltish qualities" of moral and spiritual power of faith from the truth of God's word to enable you live a positive impact Christ-like life in the world.
In the "Dark Hour" of tasteless daily life of moral and spiritual godlessness, you are expected to create a practical positive seasoning godly effect in the lives of a world with life without meaning, purpose and fulfillment.
WHAT IS THE COST OF BEING A SALT?
It involves Contact: You cannot be salt from a distance. You must touch hearts and change lives. You must be involved in the "Great Commission."
It involves Agape: This is not just a feeling; it is a "Practical Daily Lifestyle." It means choosing to love the unlovely, choosing to be honest when everyone is cheating, and choosing to win souls instead of just winning arguments.
It involves Purity: If salt is mixed with dirt, it loses its power. This is the danger of "Lukewarmness." When we mix our Christian life with "End-time Deceitful Sensationalism," we become spiritually "unproductive"
The "Dark Hour" is full of "Empty Religious Noise." People are shouting "Hallelujah" but their lives are rotting with bitterness, greed, unforgiveness, impurities, and worldliness. But a "Salt-like" Christian brings the "seasoning" of heaven back into the room. When you walk in, the atmosphere should change. Corruption should feel uncomfortable in your presence. That is the power of a "Life-Transforming Message" lived out in shoe leather.
REFLECTION.
If I were "rubbed" into my workplace or my community today, would I stop the rot of gossip and lies, or would I just blend in with the decay? Have I lost my "savour" by trying to be too much like the world?
FURTHER STUDY REFERENCES.
Colossians 4:6: "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt..."
Mark 9:50: "Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another."
CONCLUSION.
Salt is only useful when it leaves the jar. Christianity is only useful when it leaves the church building and enters the "Daily Lifestyle" of the world with positive tasteful godly standard lifestyle.
LET US PRAY..
Father, I don't want to be "tasted" and found to be flavourless. Forgive me for where I have compromised and lost my "Saltiness." Rub me into the lives of those around me. Use my words, my actions, and my Agape love to stop the decay and make people thirsty for You. In Jesus Christ Mighty name. Amen.
GET IN TOUCH:
Ago King Paul Evang.
+234 90 63 84 57 48, 070 540 111 99.
Life Changers Ministry aka Living Ready Gospel Church, Grace Assembly, Ilorin, Kwara state Nigeria.
DAY 20: SALT IN A WORLD WITHOUT SEASON.
WELCOME TO OUR DAILY DEVOTIONAL BIBLE STUDY SERIES: STARS ONLY SHINES IN THE DARK.
TOPIC: THE MEANING, IMPLICATIONS, AND COST OF PRACTICAL CHRIST-
LIKENESS
MAIN TEXT: “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?” Matthew 5:13
INTRODUCTION
We live in a "World without godly Seasoning life of purpose and meaning." This means the world has lost the "flavour" of God’s holiness. Holiness simply means, God good intentions of how you should live life of purpose and meaning to the fullest that will translate to eternal life in heaven.
Abandoning godly standard lifestyle and adopting mere empty religious sensational fleshly Lifestyle which is rampant today is not only delusional in quest for meaningful and purposeful life but spiritually unproductive.
Everything is about the "Self" of the flesh. In this dark hour of moral and spiritual godlessness, God did not called us to be "Sugar" to make people feel sweet and comfortable in their sins. But rather, He has called us to be Salt to the world.
Salt does two things: it stops rottenness, as preservative substance, and it creates thirst. If your Christianity does not make your children, your spouse, your colleagues, and people around you "thirsty" for God, or stop the corrosive moral and spiritual corruption around you, then it implies, you have lost your seasoning flavour of godly moral and spiritual standard lifestyle of Christ-Likeness.
MAIN MESSAGE.
Practical Christianity is like the work or effect of "Salt". In the Daylight of your quiet study life, you are expected to draw into your Soul person the "saltish qualities" of moral and spiritual power of faith from the truth of God's word to enable you live a positive impact Christ-like life in the world.
In the "Dark Hour" of tasteless daily life of moral and spiritual godlessness, you are expected to create a practical positive seasoning godly effect in the lives of a world with life without meaning, purpose and fulfillment.
WHAT IS THE COST OF BEING A SALT?
It involves Contact: You cannot be salt from a distance. You must touch hearts and change lives. You must be involved in the "Great Commission."
It involves Agape: This is not just a feeling; it is a "Practical Daily Lifestyle." It means choosing to love the unlovely, choosing to be honest when everyone is cheating, and choosing to win souls instead of just winning arguments.
It involves Purity: If salt is mixed with dirt, it loses its power. This is the danger of "Lukewarmness." When we mix our Christian life with "End-time Deceitful Sensationalism," we become spiritually "unproductive"
The "Dark Hour" is full of "Empty Religious Noise." People are shouting "Hallelujah" but their lives are rotting with bitterness, greed, unforgiveness, impurities, and worldliness. But a "Salt-like" Christian brings the "seasoning" of heaven back into the room. When you walk in, the atmosphere should change. Corruption should feel uncomfortable in your presence. That is the power of a "Life-Transforming Message" lived out in shoe leather.
REFLECTION.
If I were "rubbed" into my workplace or my community today, would I stop the rot of gossip and lies, or would I just blend in with the decay? Have I lost my "savour" by trying to be too much like the world?
FURTHER STUDY REFERENCES.
Colossians 4:6: "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt..."
Mark 9:50: "Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another."
CONCLUSION.
Salt is only useful when it leaves the jar. Christianity is only useful when it leaves the church building and enters the "Daily Lifestyle" of the world with positive tasteful godly standard lifestyle.
LET US PRAY..
Father, I don't want to be "tasted" and found to be flavourless. Forgive me for where I have compromised and lost my "Saltiness." Rub me into the lives of those around me. Use my words, my actions, and my Agape love to stop the decay and make people thirsty for You. In Jesus Christ Mighty name. Amen.
GET IN TOUCH:
Ago King Paul Evang.
+234 90 63 84 57 48, 070 540 111 99.
Life Changers Ministry aka Living Ready Gospel Church, Grace Assembly, Ilorin, Kwara state Nigeria.
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