Top Ten
Things to do with a packet of salt.
- See
how many packets you can eat without taking a drink of water.
- See
how many packets you can put into your friends drink without getting
caught.
- Use
the salt packets as bookmarkers.
- Get
a bunch of them and use them to make a fake snowman.
- Start
a salt packet collection from each state in the union.
- Get
famous people to sign them and then they will be worth a lot of money.
- Get
as many as you can since they are free.
- Lick
the opened pack and stick it to a letter to see if it will pass for a
stamp.
- See
how many packets it takes to fill up your glove box.
- Put
it on some food.
Scripture
Text:
The Beatitudes. Matt 5:11
(NIV) "Blessed are you when people insult you,
persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
12
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same
way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
13
"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how
can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be
thrown out and trampled by men.
Open up your
salt packet and pour some into your hand.
Take a light lick. Taste the difference between licking the hand without salt
and licking the hand with salt. How
do you feel? Are you becoming
thirsty? Salt makes the
difference. It makes people
thirsty for what. Water.
Jesus is the living water. We
are the salt that makes people thirsty for the living water.
Keep your salt packet. Put
it into your pocket. Use it.
Open it. Put it on your
food. Take it in.
It is good. It is pure.
It is white.
Get
Out and do some good.
Open
up to those who need you.
Let
yourself be used for the benefit of others.
Make
others thirsty for the Lord. Prepare
the way of the Lord.
Be
pure, be good, be clean for the Lord and for all those who need the salt in
their life.
What
good is some salt? God
likes salt on his food.
Salt in action.
NaCl Salt
cleanses and purifies.
Salt is white and pure.
Salt
seasons and gives taste and joy to the world.
Salt purifies and burns out sin and
corruption. Salt preserves
those who've been covered. Salt
satisfies the cravings and emptiness
Few
things can make a difference in making life more complete like salt.
Try food without salt. Imagine
your life without salt. Imagine
the world without salt. Imagine a
world without Christians. God
makes a difference in the world and church.
You can go M. make A. a
D. difference
Christians were born to M.A.D. -
A.
Living the Sermon on the Mount (M.A.D.)
B.
Salt of the Earth and light of the world.
C.
Is the job too big? Is God
too small?
Get some salt.
Open it up. Sprinkle
some lightly. Put it on and
let it do some good.
Go make a
difference. Don’t let it
get wet. Does your
packet have some salt in it?
Is your salt
salty? Has your salt damp?
Have you opened up? Have
you been torn open?
Ezek
43:23 When you have finished
purifying it, you are to offer a young bull and a ram from the flock, both
without defect.24 (NIV) You are to offer them before the LORD, and the priests
are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the
LORD.
2Kin
2:20 (NIV) "Bring me a new bowl," he said, "and put salt in
it." So they brought it to him. 21 Then he went out to the spring and
threw the salt into it, saying, "This is what the LORD says: `I have
healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land
unproductive.'"
Levi
2:13 (NIV) Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of
the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your
offerings.
Gene
19:26 (NIV) But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Col.
4:6 (NIV) Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt,
so that you may know how to answer everyone.
A strange sign
greets visitors to Vienna, Austria. Translated from the German, it says,
"Welcome to Vienna, where the salt is in the saltshaker." Of course,
the salt is in the saltshaker. Where else should it be? They mean that they
don't put salt on the streets in the winter! The church, however, must never
make the same boast. We are the salt of the earth, but we do no good if we
stay in the saltshaker.
n
Robert C. Shannon, 1000 Windows, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Standard Publishing
Company, 1997).
Christ chose an
image that was familiar when he said to his disciples: "You are the salt
of the earth." This was his conception of their mission-their influence.
They were to cleanse and sweeten the world in which they lived, to keep it
from decay, and to give a new and
more wholesome flavor to human existence. Their characters were not to be
passive, but active. There is no use in saving salt for heaven. It will not be
needed there. Its mission is to permeate, season, and purify things on earth.
Henry Van Dyke
(1852-1933)
You know what your own country is like. I'm a visitor, and I wouldn't
presume to speak about America. But I know what Great Britain is like. I know
something about the growing dishonesty, corruption, immorality, violence,
pornography, the diminishing respect for human life, and the increase in
abortion.
Whose fault is it? Let
me put it like this: if the house is dark at night, there is no sense in
blaming the house. That's what happens when the sun goes down. The question to
ask is, "Where is the light?"
If meat goes bad, there
is no sense in blaming the meat. That is what happens when the bacteria are
allowed to breed unchecked. The question to ask is, "Where is the
salt?"
If society becomes
corrupt like a dark night or stinking fish, there's no sense in blaming
society. That's what happens when fallen human society is left to itself and
human evil is unrestrained and unchecked. The question to ask is "Where
is the church?"
-- John Stott, "Christians: Salt and Light," Preaching Today,
Tape No. 109.