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
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Letting Your Light Shine
In 2008
Matthew 5:13-16
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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?
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Letting Your Light Shine In 2008
Our Morality? Our Language? Our Clothing? Our Habits? Our Entertainment? Our Attitude? Our Spirituality?
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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
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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 -
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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 -
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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!
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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?
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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.
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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?
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Letting Your Light Shine In 2008
Our Morality? Our Language? Our Clothing? Our Habits? Our Entertainment? Our Attitude? Our Spirituality?
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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.
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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!
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Will You Let Your Light Shine Before Men in 2008?
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