letting your light shine in 2008
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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 . . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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?