The Early Parables Of Jesus 3

INTRO: We are in the early parables of the Lord Jesus. I see three groups of parables and I see this first group as Jesus’ preparing His disciples for the change that is coming. They do not know what is coming. They think He will set His kingdom up shortly. But in the parable of the salt, the implication is that believers will be scattered, and later we will learn that they will be scattered worldwide, and they will be the influence that preserves the world.

In the first part of this sermon, the Lord, in the beatitudes gives us the character of the true Christian. And these two parables of salt and then light give us the function of the Christian in the world. First, the true Christian will be the salt of the earth. He will preserve it so the Lord can take a people for His name out of the whole world. Then, in this parable He will show how the Christian will do this in an active sense. The Christian will be the light of the world.