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Unsavory Salt

Modern expressions often come from Bible Twinkling of eye Drop in a bucket Old wives’ fables Salt of earth Christians are salt: purifying, preserving effect on world

Mt.5: : salt can mix w. impurities Christians can lose influence: mix w. world When salt tastes like sand...

Jebel Usdum Southwest short of Dead Sea. Cliff, 7 miles long feet high. Composed almost entirely of salt. 1. Flavor 2. Preserve

Mt.5: : salt loses flavor; mixed w. impurities 14: light dispels darkness (ignorance, sin) 15: purpose of light: uncover, shine 16: who gets the praise? “Brethren, we are drifting!”

I. Attitude Toward Scripture

Bible has been replaced by... Modernism: God gave thoughts…2 T.3 Naturalism: know God w/o Bible…Ps.19 Universalism: no one lost…Mt.7 Denominationalism…Jn.17:21 Digressivism: what individual does… church can too… Col.3:17; 1 T.5:16 Secularism: ignorance, apathy, Hos.4:6

I. Attitude Toward Scripture II. Attitude Toward Sin

Principles (Ga.5:21) 1. Movies. Ps.101:3  TV: 40+ hours / week  By age 14: 11,000 murders  It does affect us Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life – Pr.4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life – Pr.4:23

Principles (Ga.5:21; Hb.5:14) 1. Movies. Ps.101:3 2. Profane literature. Mt.5:28 – LOOK LUST SIN += Pr.6:25-26, life 1 Co.10:6, Israel Ep.2:3, wrath Ep.4:22, corrupt 1 Pt.2:11, war 2 Pt.1:4, escape

Principles (Ga.5:21; Hb.5:14) 1. Movies. Ps.101:3 2. Profane literature. Mt.5:28 – LOOK LUST SIN += “I have made a covenant with my eyes; Why then should I look upon a young woman?” – Job 31:1

Principles (Ga.5:21; Hb.5:14) 1. Movies. Ps.101:3 2. Profane literature. Mt.5:28 – 3. Mixed swimming.  Women at beach admit it  Fathers know

Principles (Ga.5:21; Hb.5:14) 1. Movies. Ps.101:3 2. Profane literature. Mt.5:28 – 3. Mixed swimming. 4. Immodest apparel. 1 Tim.2:9-10 Christians are different

1 Tim. 2:9-10 Clothes must match character (10) She professes godliness  Clothes reveal the heart, 1 Pt.3:3-4 godlinessclaimsclothes==

Principles (Ga.5:21; Hb.5:14) 1. Movies. Ps.101:3 2. Profane literature. Mt.5:28 – 3. Mixed swimming. 4. Immodest apparel. 1 Tim.2: Dancing. Gal.5:19, 21

Galatians 5:19  Lewdness, lasciviousness: indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling of males and females  Revelries: carousing; wild parties involv- ing drinking and dancing… 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries...

Principles (Ga.5:21; Hb.5:14) 1. Movies. Ps.101:3 2. Profane literature. Mt.5:28 – 3. Mixed swimming. 4. Immodest apparel. 1 Tim.2: Dancing. Gal.5:19, Alcohol. 1 Pt.4:3

1 Pt.4:3  Drunkenness: free-flowing wine  Revelries: carousing; wild parties involv- ing drinking and dancing…  Drinking parties: social gathering at which wine was served… Est.1:8; 6:14 For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles — when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

Principles (Ga.5:21; Hb.5:14) 1. Movies. Ps.101:3 2. Profane literature. Mt.5:28 – 3. Mixed swimming. 4. Immodest apparel. 1 Tim.2: Dancing. Gal.5:19, Alcohol. 1 Pt.4:3 7. Frivolous divorce. Mt.19:3-9 No fault divorce. 1 Co.6:18

Challenge  “A Christian is a keyhole through which other folk see God”  We cannot convert the world with corrupt character  It would do no good if we did