Tuesday:10^th Week of the year – C

I Reading: 2Corinthians 1:18-22: Jesus was never Yes and No: with him it was always Yes.

Gospel: Mathew 5:13-16: You are the light of the world.

The True Disciple: The Salt of the Earth-Serving God, Mt 5:13-16

The main thrust is distinctiveness in the parable. Salt is distinctively different from the other things. By nature and by purpose it is different. So are believers. They are distinctively different by nature and by purpose. By nature believers are a new creation, born of God (2Cor 5:17; 1Pet 1:23); by purpose believers are to penetrate and change the very taste of the earth. They are like salt.

1. The disciples’ character: Salt (v.13)

2. The disciples’ place to salt: The earth (v.13)

3. The disciples’ mission: To salt the earth (v.13)

4. The disciples’ danger: becoming useless and destructive (v.13)

The True Disciple: The Light of the World-Shining for God, 5:14-16

“God is light” (1Jn 1:5). Jesus said, “I am the light of the world” (Jn 8:12; 9:5).  Here Jesus says, “you are the light of the world.” God is light. Jesus Christ is light and the believer is said to be “the light of the world.” The believer is what God and Christ are: light.  Whatever light is and does, the believer is to be and do. Four things are said about the believer as the light of the world (12:35-36; Jn 8:12).

1. The disciples’ character: Light (v.14)

2. The disciples’ place to shine: The world (v.14)

3. The disciples’ unavoidable witness (v.15)

a. Like a city on a hill

b. Like a candle set on a lamp stand

4. The disciples’ purpose (v.16)

a. To show forth good works

b. To stir men to glorify God

Thought: A person’s light is only a reflective light. He reflects “the light of the Lord.” (5:8)

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