A Aervant Worth His/Her Salt

This is the Message I am preaching this morning:
A Servant Worth His/Her Salt

Why serve God with only half of our abilities? If we are not going to do it all the way, why do it at all? God deserves our best. God demands our best. God commands our best.

I. Salt.

A. Salt became emblematic of fidelity and friendship among eastern nations. It was thought of this way because of its purifying and antiseptic qualities.
B. It is symbolic of that spiritual health and vigor essential to Christian virtue and counteractive of the corruption that is in the world.
C. In other words, if we are the salt of the earth, then we need to be an example to the world. They need to be able to see our servitude to God.
D. If the salt has lost its savour, or become foolish enough to not let the world see Christ in us, then we might as well be cast away, or trodden under foot.
E. Let this be a warning to any child of God. Do not lose your savour, when your savor is lost, God has no use for us.
F. If you cut up a big red juicy tomato, and get the salt out, and pour salt on the tomato, then take a bite and the salt has no flavor what are you going to do? Throw the salt out and get some more.
G. If we are not serving God with all of our salt, God will use someone that is.

II. You are the light of the world.

A. This world lives in the darkness of Satan.
B. John 3:19, “ And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
C. Jesus is calling us light, and this means that he is calling us witnesses for God in the world.
D. But, men love darkness rather than light. The light they see should be Jesus in us.
E. It is easy to hide in the dark.
F. When we are away from God and doing our own thing, we like to be with people whi are doing those things also.
G. We are hiding among them hoping no one will notice.
H.. Jesus lights us up with his glory, so instead of hiding among the darkness so no one can see, we are to show that light to the sin darkened world.
I. Are you a servant today who can show the light of Christ to the world?

III. Don’t hide your light.

A. What good would it do to hide the light of Christ?
B. What kind of servant would that make us?
C. Christ says here what good would it do to light a candle and hide it under a bush?
D. This is a basic Pre-K Sunday School song.
E. This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine.
F. Jesus says in verse 16 to “let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.”
G. The light is to shine for the glory of God, when others see our good works.You see, it is not about us, but about him.


Matthew 5:13-