[B] You are the light of the world (v.14-15). Revelation 1:20 describes the church panther packagin

13 "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It profitable panther packaging for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled by men. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill can not be hid; 15 and a man nor a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth panther packaging light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and your Father who is in heaven, glorified. "(Matthew 5:13-16).
If you hang raw meat in your garage, it will after a few days bad. But if you have enough coarse salt rub, it will be delicious biltong. The salt acts as a perserveermiddel. The same can be said of bokkems panther packaging (fish jerky). And that is exactly what Jesus says about us: [a] You are the salt of the earth (v.13). People in Jesus' day did not have freezers to keep meat. Their salt use their goods purple pen. Salt is also used as medicine (I get cold sores regularly and know that salt is good medicine). The world is a rotten place, but it would have been much worse without Christians. Think of someone who wants to gossip or a dirty joke to tell, and immediately shut when you arrive.
It was the Christian influence of Basil (369 AD) that hospitals came into being. Hindus burn widows with their husbands. But the Christian influence of William Bentinck (1829) it stopped. Orphanages and old homes arose as a result of Christianity. Public schools (Martin Luther). Friedrich Froebel to see children from an early age had to learn the gospel and started kindergartens panther packaging (nursery schools). Epée's desire was that deaf people hear the gospel had developed, and sign language for the deaf (1775). So did Louis Braille for the blind Braille panther packaging writing (1834). The Greeks have many things in nature as gods, and did not research it. Christians know that there is only one God and that the rest were created. They influence scientific research progressed. Slavery and the slave trade by William Wilberforce (and his Christian worldview) stopped. Guido of Arezzo (995 AD) was interested in music could write down on paper, so that generations to come could worship God. He has sheet music. Christians remember that God wants us to redeem the time. On a cloudy day they could sonhorlosies the time indicate. So they designed mechanical watches (yes, it's due to Christianity that our expensive Swiss watches!). Today enjoy the world public holidays such as Christmas and Easter because of Christianity. Circumcised eight days after his birth, Jesus. Therefore we celebrate January 1st as we have new year. Our whole calendar revolves around the birth of Jesus (BC and AD - even though there was a calculation error with Jesus' birth, the focus remains panther packaging on Christ as the center of history).
A little salt makes a big difference for perservering and taste. And we should not let the salt be silly and pointless (v.13). John MacArthur writes: "Pure salt can not lose its flavor In or effectiveness, but the salt that is common in the Dead Sea area is contaminated with Gypsum and other minerals and apr have a flat taste or be ineffective as a Preservative. Zoals mineral panther packaging salts ulcers useful for little morethan keeping footpaths free of vegetation. "(MacArthur Study Bible commentary on Matthew 5:13). So a Christian without influence: useless (v.13). And it's not too hard to lose your influence: unholy, panther packaging complain like the rest, deliver bad job, stop stealing time at work early to go home, and do not bear witness to Jesus and his gospel. "The purpose of salt is to fight deterioration, and therefore it must not itself deteriorate." (DA Carson Sermon on the Mount, Paternoster, CARLISLE, 1978, 1998, 2002, p.34).
It's not just missionaries or pastors who can make a difference in the world. God and the Christian in the bank to make a difference. Fanny Crosby wrote ten thousand hymns. Susannah Wesley was a godly mother who raised John and Charles Wesley. Charles wrote thousands of hymns and John preached, panther packaging crowds were saved. William Wilberforce was a Christian in the parliament (I have already panther packaging referred to). CS Lewis was a lecturer panther packaging in English. His wide ranging effect (though he had some strange ideas). I know a church in Gauteng that makes a big impact in the world - yet another example of 'ordinary' Christians who make a difference.
[B] You are the light of the world (v.14-15). Revelation 1:20 describes the church panther packaging as the seven golden candlesticks. And what else do chandeliers to give light? Of course we are just the moon d