Christ in Culture: Loving Like Jesus
In this STR Live session, Jon will discuss how we as Christ’s ambassadors can move into the cultural conversation by living out the radical love of Jesus.
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You cannot love like Jesus loved unless you walk by the Holy Spirit in which he walked. That is the only way you can know God's love.
By whose authority do these people
preach, they cannot trace back their
authority to Pentecost. Christ left this earth 2000 years ago ,their authority does not go back to them
if so ask them to prove that fact. These are self proclaimed apostles,
I go by what Christ said, Many will come in my name, do not believe them or follow them.
"We should be 'salty'" (2:17). "Salt of the earth" is the most misunderstood metaphor amongst Christians in the whole of Scripture. Note that it is the salt of the EARTH that is mentioned, not (as in the adjacent metaphor) WORLD (i.e. "light of the world"). WORLD (Gk kosmos) refers to the populated world (as in cosmopolitan), EARTH (Gk ge) refers to the physical thing upon which we walk (as in geology, geology).
In a similar passage (Luke 14) Jesus says ""Salt is good [an excellent thing], but if salt has lost its strength <and> has become saltless (insipid, flat), how shall its saltiness be restored? It is fit neither for the land nor for the manure heap; men throw it away" (Amplified Bible). Translations that refer to "tasteless" etc are playing fast and loose with the Greek.
Note that the salt, having "become foolish",is NO LONGER FIT FOR THE LAND. Now table salt is never "fit for the land". In fact, we read in Judges 9 "And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt". Abimelech sowed the ruins with salt to sterilize them so that nothing would grow there.
When Jesus is talking about "salt of the earth" He's being very literal. He's not referring to table salt, which no-one puts on the soil but to some other stuff which IS fit for the soil. The word used is "halas" and a Greek lexicon defines this as "those kinds of saline matter used to fertilise arable land". And that puts a whole new light on the saying.