Let your light shine before others
/Preacher: Gordon Hay
Verses: Psalm 112:1-10 and Matthew 5:13-20
Jesus said that we are to be the salt. Reading from the Message[1]:
“Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God- flavours of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You’ve lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage.”
If you were here last Sunday, you would have heard Lincon’s sermon on Micah 6:8. It was a very powerful message.
If you weren’t here please visit the Trinity website[2] and you will find a written summary of the sermon as well as a sound file that you can download.
If you were here I would ask you to find the time to read or listen to that message again.
Verse eight ends with these words: “He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
And this against the background of the prophecy in Jeremiah.[3] , “I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel …” “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.”
In the passage read for us this morning from Matthew, Jesus instructs us how we are to live if we are to reflect the new covenant written on our hearts.
[1] In Matthew 5:13
