I. You are to impact the world through your .
Why was salt so valued?
- The and preparation of food.
Colossians 4:5-6 (NIV) – Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
2. The of food.
3. Out of its preservative quality grew the concept of salt preserving .
2 Chronicles 13:5 (ESV) – Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?
Numbers 18:19 (ESV) – All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you.
Leviticus 2:13 (ESV) – You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Acts 1:4 (ESV) – And while staying with them He ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father.
4. To purify as in .
5. Used as a .
Ezekiel 16:4 (ESV) – And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
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7. Necessary for .
II. You are to impact the world as carriers of the .
BIG THOUGHT: As followers of Jesus, our anger against His kingdom coming to earth through us.
III. Anger instead of giving .
Exodus 20:13 (ESV) – “You shall not murder.”
Genesis 1:26a (ESV) – Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”
Genesis 4:5b, 8 (ESV) – So Cain was very angry, and his face fell… Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Ephesians 4:26-27 (ESV) – Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.
IV. Anger instead of up.
Ephesians 4:29 (ESV) – Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Colossians 4:6 (ESV) – Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
V. Anger relationships instead of them.
a. Anger can us from others.
b. Anger can us to reality.
c. Anger can make us .
So, what do we do with our anger?
- We deal with it .
- Answer the question, “Why am I angry?”
Matthew 12:34b (ESV) – For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Proverbs 20:5 (ESV) – The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
3. Pursue the .
4. Think .