letting your light shine in 2008

Letting Your Light Shine

In 2008

Matthew 5:13-16

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

Matthew 5:13-16 (NKJV)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.

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

Matthew 5:13-16 (NKJV)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.

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

Matthew 5:13-16 (NKJV)16 Let your light so shine

before men, that they may see your good

works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008 Collectively we need to be

busy preaching and teaching the gospel – (from the pulpit - via radio – the internet – supporting preachers around the world)

But the greatest impact on those around us will be accomplished on the individual level!

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008 You Are The Light of The

World – (Mat 5:16) For you were once darkness,

but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light – (Eph 5:8; cf 1 Pet 2:9)

Our light is to be seen by men in the world – (Phili 2:15, 16)

Doesn’t mean to sound a trumpet – (Mat 6:2, 16-18)

What Kind of

Example Are You

For Those Around

You?

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

Our Morality? Our Language? Our Clothing? Our Habits? Our Entertainment? Our Attitude? Our Spirituality?

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

We are to be morally pure – (Eph 5:3; 1 Cor 6:9-11; Gal 5:19-21)

How can we be a positive influence on a morally depraved society while engaging in immoral acts? (MDR? Hatred? Cheating?)

Our Morality

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, . . .– (Eph 5:4)

Sound speech that cannot be condemned, . . . – (Titus 2:8 )

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. -(Col 4:6)

Our LanguageOur

speech should be

Pure – Truthful Loving – Helpful –

Instructive -

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

Modest clothing Professing godliness – (1 Tim 2:9,10)

Not revealing - Not caught up in

worldly fashions – Not false humility -

Our Dress -

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

There should be no fleshly appetite over which our spiritual mind does not rule – (1 Cor. 6:12; 1 Cor 9:27)

Our body is a temple – (1 Cor. 6:19)

Quit bad habits & Establish good habits -

Our Habits?

You cannot influence

someone to do

something that you are not willing to

do!

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

We are to think on things that are good and wholesome - (Phili 4:8)

What about the TV programs and movies we watch? The music we listen to? The places we go? The books we read?

Our mind does NOT filter and purify garbage – it is contaminated by it!

Our Entertainment?

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

The Beatitudes, [humility, hate sin, meekness, hunger for God, merciful, pure, peacemakers, faithful] - (Mat 5:3-12)

A supreme Love for God and a sincere love for our fellowman – (Mark 12:29-31)

Optimistic – (Phili 4:12,13)

Our Attitude?

Complaining? Nagging? Negative? Hating?

Unhappy? . . .etc.

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

Attendance? – (Heb 10:25)

Worship? – (John 4:24) Fruit – (Gal 5:22,23) Caring for one another?

– (1 John 3:17) Our public practice, -

(Rom. 1:16) - (praying in public? Reading the Bible? Talking about spiritual things with others, godly living)

Our Spirituality?

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

Our Morality? Our Language? Our Clothing? Our Habits? Our Entertainment? Our Attitude? Our Spirituality?

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008

Matthew 5:13-16 (NKJV)16 Let your light so shine

before men, that they may see your good

works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Letting Your Light Shine In 2008 Collectively we need to be

busy preaching and teaching the gospel – (from the pulpit - via radio – the internet – supporting preachers around the world)

But the greatest impact on those around us will be accomplished on the individual level!

Will You Let Your Light Shine Before Men in 2008?