Notes + Questions: Salt & Light

Responses to Jesus’ followers:
• Reviling
• Persecution
• Slander
• Praise

Results of the message of the Gospel:
• Persecution
• Preservation
• Light
• Praise

The tension between grace and the moral responsibility of the law is found in our IDENTITY in Christ.

The Gospel Transforms

Followers of Jesus are his Disciples
• “fully devoted”
• “Teach them to obey”
• “I love and submit to Jesus too!”

Our previous state > Kingdom promises through Jesus > New IDENTITY > Requirements of that new identity

Two examples: Salt & Light

v. 13a – “You are the salt of the earth…”
• Salt as a commodity
• Salt as a preservative
• Salt as flavoring

v. 13b – “…but, if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?”

v. 13c – “It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.”

Luke 14:34-35

Colossians 4:5-6

Jesus: Light of the World
• John 8:12
• 1 John 1:5-7
• Isaiah 42:5-8 (esp. 6)
• Acts 26:17-18
• Colossians 1:11-14
• 1 Peter 2:9
• John 1:4-5

v. 14. “You are the light of the world.”

City on a Hill

v. 16 “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”

“A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him”
-Bonhoeffer

Application:
1. Living in the tension
2. Living in the Light
3. Living in the Word
4. Living in the World

CG Questions

1. Where do you tend to feel more comfortable, under grace or rule-keeping? Why?
2. How have you been changed by Jesus? Name one or two significant impacts He has made on your life.
3. Take time to discuss the examples of ‘Salt & Light.’ How are these helpful metaphors for Christian living?
4. How do you plan to be ‘Salt & Light’ this week?