2. Salt of the Earth Matthew 5:13 Salt is needful for life.
Without Christians in the world, the world has no chance of surviving.

3. Salt of the Earth Matthew 5:13 Salt is needful for life.
Salt has a powerful influence.
Preserve from corruption.
Christians should have the influence of preserving the world from corruption.

4. Salt of the Earth Matthew 5:13 Salt is needful for life.
Salt has a powerful influence.
Works to purify, and speed healing.
Christians should have a purifying, antiseptic influence.

5. Salt of the Earth Matthew 5:13 Salt is needful for life.
Salt has a powerful influence.
Works to cause thirst.
Christians should live so as to make people thirsty for Jesus.

6. Salt of the Earth Matthew 5:13 Salt is needful for life.
Salt has a powerful influence.
Works to add flavor.
Christians should live so as to “add flavor” to life by the way we live.

7. Salt of the Earth Matthew 5:13 Salt is needful for life.
Immorality
Worldliness
Salt has a powerful influence.
Salt can be contaminated, offsetting its powerful influence.
Compromising
Truth
Lukewarmness
It is possible to become spiritually and morally contaminated so as to lose ones good influence.