Being salt and light

[Heleadethme]

20 minutes ago, Justin Adams said:

Yes it is OJT..

Oh help me Lord ....what does OJT mean?  

[Justin Adams]

Just now, Heleadethme said:

Oh help me Lord ....what does OJT mean?  

On the Job Training...OJT  

[Heleadethme]

27 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

@Alive my brother.

Salt and light are both BEAUTIFUL gifts from our maker, to share with a dark hurting world with no hope, just as we once were.

Now I have true hope, and everlasting happiness and joy that I can pass on to others, as a dear friend did for me many years ago.

I see the struggles of becoming SALT and LIGHT, and yes it continues to be a struggle at times as I'm challenged in new ways, as not only goals and commands, but true privileges, because God has chosen to trust us with His word and trusted us to do our best in His love with those He brings to us to be salt and light for HIM and by Him for them.

My name is Arrabon

There is an aspect of salt that it is cleansing, purifying...and that this part can sting.  I think that is sometimes what draws hostility from some folks...persecution.

Mal 3:1-3

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

 

[Heleadethme]

11 minutes ago, Justin Adams said:

On the Job Training...OJT  

Oh right!  Yes exactly...very true!

[Sower]

2 hours ago, Justin Adams said:

We believers are to be Salt and Light thru Yeshua to the lost. "Go and make disciples..." were His last words before ascending.

Understanding that all believers are to be salt and light should give us a desire to shed our  timidity and pray for a boldness in the spirit to bring the light to those living in darkness. I do not have the ability to confront total strangers with the good news, without the spirit enabling me. And he does, especially when I pray for the courage.
Those who hesitate may be amazed, with the spirit before you, how easily the words flow. "Hey, you want to hear some good news.  Jesus loves you!" Simple..
It's Light.   (God is light)

[Alive]

28 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

In the end, the REMNANT  of Messianic Jews (Not the nation of Israel) and the REMNANT of true believers will be brought together to form one group of true believers in Christ. See verses below.

 

For clarity's sake---this is true now, was true in Paul's day and will be true in the future.

 

The answer to my question as to why the Lord leaves us here should not be human centric, but God centric. The answer is to accomplish His will. What it is that He desires.

What is it that He desires?

[Heleadethme]

34 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

@Heleadethme

In the end, the REMNANT  of Messianic Jews (Not the nation of Israel) and the REMNANT of true believers will be brought together to form one group of true believers in Christ. See verses below.

Ephesians 2:11-22

Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ

11"Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

14 For he himself is our peace, who has made 2 groups one, and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit."

Yes, lovely verses.....we are one in the Saviour...Jew and Gentile believers...pulling down that dividing wall happened when Jesus died and rose again. 

[missmuffet]

1 hour ago, Heleadethme said:

True miss muffet, though I believe there is room for grace as the Lord takes into account our need to grow.  

That is true He knows all of our weaknesses. Although we will be judged for what we did for the Lord while we were on this earth. 

1 Corinthians 3:15

If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

[Sower]

2 hours ago, Alive said:

For clarity's sake---this is true now, was true in Paul's day and will be true in the future.

 

The answer to my question as to why the Lord leaves us here should not be human centric, but God centric. The answer is to accomplish His will. What it is that He desires.

What is it that He desires?

"What is it that He desires?"

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  

teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.     Matthew 28:19

“‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will send you out to fish for people.’ At once they left their nets and followed him.”    Matthew 4:19-20

“‘But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’”
Acts 1:8

“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’”
Romans 10:14–15    (so cool)

[johnthebaptist]

7 hours ago, Heleadethme said:

Thought to start a thread about being salt and light....what does this mean?  How are we to live as Christians in this world and what kind of vision should we have.  Anyone have any thoughts on this..?

It seems to me that if we obey the Lord's commandments, we will accomplish what the Lord wants us to accomplish.