How Salty are You?

Dec 20th, 2010 | By Santosh | Category: Weekly Sermon

December 19, 2010

Santosh Poonen

Summary: God wants us to live our lives as salt that flavors the tastelessness of the world around us.

Quote: The two sides of the coin of the Christian life are… love, and… love (Matthew 22:39-40).
Quote: Your life is tasteless if it lacks the “salt” of love (Mark 9:50, Matthew 5:13). And it is in the midst of conflict — persecution, insult, false accusation — that your “saltiness” as a bearer of God’s peace is tested (Matthew 5:9-16).
Quote: There are 3 responses to evil: do evil in return (bad); passively ignore it (neutral); actively return it with love (good) – Romans 12:21.
Quote: True love overcomes evil. Everything else is just a feeling and will pass away.
Quote: Will you be salt:
- When Someone Else Harms You (Matthew 5:39-42)
  - We’re probably civilized enough to not hit back when someone hits us. But if we gossip about it or slander them to others, we have still returned evil for evil!
- When You’ve Harmed Someone Else (Matthew 5:23-24)
  - Often the way to get right with God is to first repair your relationship with your brother or sister.
  - When you take the initiative toward peace, God looks down and says, “That’s my boy!” or “That’s my girl!” (Matthew 5:9).
Quote: The amazing thing about salt is that when added, it disappears from sight, but adds flavor to the food. This is how we ought to love.

Quote: Jesus didn’t sit on a “pity pot” and pout over His rejection; He overcame it by rejoicing in it (Psalm 118:22-24). What will you do?
Quote: Grace doesn’t wish the thorn away. Rather, it boasts about the power of God manifest through it (II Corinthians 12:8-9).
Quote: God brought restoration into the church at Corinth because one man, Paul, was willing to be poured out as a drink offering (II Corinthians 2:3-4, II Timothy 4:6).
Quote: If the operating principle of your life is, “I don’t do anything I shouldn’t do” then you are a Pharisee. If the operating principle of your life is, “I leave nothing undone that I ought to do” then you are a follower of Jesus (II Timothy 4:5 TLB).
Quote: If you feel like a failure, remember Paul, and how the man who killed other Christians, could say at the end of his life, “I have finished the course.” (II Timothy 4:7) Keep the faith that God’s perfect plan for your life will still be fulfilled.
Quote: This is the gospel: the sinner who never did a single thing right gets to walk hand-in-hand into Paradise with the Savior who never did a single thing wrong. Heaven is made for honest people with faith.
Quote: “It isn’t the thing you do, it’s the thing you leave undone, that gives you a bit of a heartache at setting of the sun.” -Margaret E. Sangster