Chapter 7 The
Visible Community
Mat 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt
have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for
nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Mat 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is
set on an hill cannot be hid.
Mat 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it
under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in
the house.
Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they
may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Bonhoeffer - 'Up to now we must have had the impression
that the blessed ones were too good for this world, and only fit to live in
heaven. But now Jesus calls them the salt of the earth -- salt, the most
indispensable necessity of life. The disciples, that is to say, are the highest
good, the supreme value which the earth possesses, for without them it cannot
live. They are the salt that sustains the earth, for their sake the world
exists, yes, for the sake of these, the poor, ignoble and weak whom the world
rejects. In casting out the disciples the earth is destroying its very life. '
My thoughts-
'Salt the most
indispensable necessity of life.'
Bonhoeffer is
speaking truth, because it's true that without salt we can't live. You hear about people diluting their bodies
so much with water it throws off all the balance of the salt in their body and
they end up dying because there isn't any salt left to keep the bodies organs
working.
'Marathon runners
are susceptible to water intoxication if they drink too much while running.
This is caused when sodium levels drop below 135 mmol/L when athletes
consume large amounts of fluid.'
Calling the
disciples the SALT of the earth does tell us so much. When Bonhoeffer said 'The disciples, that is
to say, are the highest good, the supreme value which the earth possesses.' The most important thing in the earth. This salt the disciple possess comes from
CHRIST, He alone gives them their worth! There is NO worth without CHRIST!
Absolutely none.
Is this why we
cannot really comprehend what God can comprehend? That LIFE is not worth
anything, not a single thing, without Christ or the possibility of having
Christ, without having HIM. We fight
this! Satan fought this and LOST life!
He is the epitome of the WALKING DEAD.
No, angels can't die
like us human's die, but they can and they will be DESTROYED permanently in the
second death after the thousand years is up.
Satan was the FIRST
to become the walking dead, the living dead and all who choose to live for him
, rather than for CHRIST, are a part of the walking dead as well. They are mere
living shells. We can't fathom that though, because we've been perverted by
Satan to believe the lies that tell us we have worth all of our own, life, all
on our own.
We mourn when we
read of the hundreds of thousands of people killed during Old Testament - men,
women, children. We look upon them as innocents caught up in the cruelty of a
wrathful God. They aren't innocent. (Side note- children who are so young they
aren't accountable for their sins, will not be guilty and their deaths will be
vindicated with eternal life- the ultimate gift.) Those who were killed were NOT truly alive.
They had NO life in Christ Jesus their Lord and Savior to come, their CREATOR.
They looked to OTHER gods and they chose death over life.
SATAN LIES and
people listen to HIS LIES!
God would have ALL
to be His, and none to be lost, but men are given FREE reign to choose their
own path and if they decide they have no need of their CREATOR, their REDEEMER,
then He will NOT force them to have LIFE in HIM.
When we do NOT
choose LIFE through CHRIST JESUS we are choosing death, and people do NOT want
to believe this People call God CRUEL
and unjust, unworthy of them. They try
to convince those who believe in God
that they are believing in a fictitious being, or a real being who is not
worthy of worship. They call us crazy,
demented, stupid, and all manner of vile names when we stand up for our God,
when we say HE is a JUST GOD! They do NOT comprehend the JUSTICE of our GOD,
they cannot because they'd rather believe in themselves!
Is it cruel to say
our world is truly filled with the living dead, or is it merely the truth, and
factual?
Our Savior alone
gives us true life it is found only in HIM, without HIM we are dead!
Only our LORD knows
who has life in HIM, we can never presume on another's eternal life, never!
Please LORD, please
help us to be the salt of the earth, alive IN YOU always!
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