{"id":9554,"date":"2025-12-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2015-12-09T22:27:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:27:04","slug":"we-salt-earth-light-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/we-salt-earth-light-world\/","title":{"rendered":"We are the salt of the earth and light of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"Grace and peace to you from our Lord Jesus Christ!\r\nWelcome to \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d!\r\n\r\nWe continue talking about our role and function as God\u2019s ambassadors on the earth. We\u2019ve talked about the Bible calling us Christ\u2019s ambassadors; God has sent us to encourage people to be reconciled with God. The Bible also calls us the salt of the earth and the light to the world. But if we as Christ\u2019s ambassadors on earth do not actively practise our faith, then our society will deteriorate. Today, if we look at successful and prosperous countries, we can see the reason of their success and prosperity is because the people there embrace and practice Christian values. Only righteousness exalts a nation \u2013 Thai is a law, &#8211; God\u2019s law. Only righteousness makes a nation prosperous! Injustice and sin destroy a nation.The bible says:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00a0\u00abSalt is good, but if the salt loses its flavour, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another\u00bb (Mark, 9:50).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAs we see in this verse, salt is a good thing, and Christina faith is profitable and necessary for every society. The society that has Christians living in it is a place blessed by God. But the society will only be blessed when the believers will confidently function as Christ\u2019s messengers, as the salt of the earth and the light to the world. As believers we must be blessing to the people around us. We must fill the air around us with the light of the truth. We must reveal to the world our Lord Jesus Christ as being the Author of life. The nature of God that we bear in ourselves is what makes us the salt in our society. But if we do not accept God\u2019s nature and lead a selfish lifestyle, if we do not reflect God\u2019s light and live like the world, then we become useless and lose our ability to change society.\r\nThe Gospel of Mathew recites particular character traits that we need to develop in ourselves in order to truly become the salt that does not lose its strength and to be a blessing for the earth. When believers will begin to \u2018salt\u2019 the society with God\u2019s truth and the values of God\u2019s Kingdom, then God will change our society \u2013 through His children.\r\nWe will talk more on this tomorrow.\r\nMay God abundantly bless every one of you!\r\nTill tomorrow!\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We continue talking about our role and function as God\u2019s ambassadors on the earth. We\u2019ve talked about the Bible calling us Christ\u2019s ambassadors; God has sent us to encourage people to be reconciled with God. The Bible also calls us the salt of the earth and the light to the world. But if we as Christ\u2019s ambassadors on earth do not actively practise our faith, then our society will deteriorate. Today, if we look at successful and prosperous countries, we can see the reason of their success and prosperity is because the people there embrace and practice Christian values. Only righteousness exalts a nation \u2013 Thai is a law, &#8211; God\u2019s law. Only righteousness makes a nation prosperous! Injustice and sin destroy a nation. 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