Being the Salt: Impacting Lives for Christ

"Jesus said you can go into all nations, the only way you can do that is by having this what infinite value that's the love of Jesus Christ. That's so cool so that's where we get the word Soler so yes you are worth their salt you've heard that com you've heard that it's like hey how that guy working oh man he's worth he's worth this salt he's worth this salt that's where we get that expression man he's worth his salt that means he's valuable." [00:50:59]

"I challenge our church and our challenge our leaders and all of our mission and everything that we do I always say I always go back to this I said if we this is not speaking into this this is a if of saying it is not going to happen but if we was to close our doors here at North Point Church would the city know it would they know it the answer should be yes it should be yes we should be in this city making a difference because we bring value and there's a dependency that this city knows that the doors of North Point Church is open." [00:52:09]

"The story of my dad I've this scripture I've had these notes on salt for years my dad has heard me preach salt almost every year that I've been ministering that's how important salt is to me because that's what Jesus said I am so I never never want to lose what God Said I am that is a legacy a Heritage that Jesus gave us a Heritage of salt every time you see a salt I want you to think of hey Jesus said I'm that what is he say I've come so you can have a life and life more abundantly." [00:55:02]

"It was a late night in the mid 70s deep in the Heart of bville Texas I found myself sitting at a bar a place I never thought I would be especially after growing up in the church and knowing god from a young age and I had felt the call to preach when I was 13 years old but I was lost and running from the calling living in a prodical period much like this parable of the prodical son as I sat there I suddenly heard the unmistakable voice of God cut through the haze of my surroundings this is sin in that moment it was as if my eyes ears and even even my nostrils were open to the reality of my situation I could see hear and smell the sin that surrounded me though I may stray far from God I still recognized his voice and it pierced my heart." [00:58:45]

"Salt is there to arrest to hinder to stop the process of Decay you are here to stop the process of the of Decay sometimes we look around it's like what's happening to our society it feel like it's all falling apart it's decaying it is going to hell in a when you put it get in that world it stops decaying and here's the other thing that salt does on stopping decaying the Bible says it this way Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will no means by no means it says by no means perish or pass away his words and his words to me is I have come so Brent can have a life better than ever his words ain't passing away his word is I'm never going to leave you or forsake you you're the head and not the tail you're above and not beneath you can do all things through Christ who truth is me that is his word and it's not going to pass away it has the same value the same strength as it was when he said it." [01:04:32]

"Christians have in fact had a profound positive effect on the world the most dramatic impact of Christians on the world is that what they have attach new value to the human life prior to Christianity the abandonment of children was a common practice it was thrown on the doorsteps thrown to the Wayside it's kind of important I think about his love where Satan thinks hey it ain't going to happen it's all going to turn to good I always enjoyed hearing my stories of my my ancestors and my brother's really good at it he has that whatever site online that you can go ancestry.com or whatever and my brother traced all of our heritage back and but you go down one part of thise tree and it just stops and it was my great grandmother um was my dad's grandmother uh Grandma Knight he had two grandmothers and Grandma Stone and Grandma Knight and on his mom mom's side and uh and Grandma Stone she was 100% Indian you know and her name was Daisy Stone that's that's just cool right she was called Daisy Stone and Daisy Stone was the one that man like y'all wonder how my dad was a good fisherman Grandma Stone taught my daddy how to fish and she could fish I mean so that that was the Heritage that was in there and then there was Grandma Knight Grandma Knight was man she was such a sweet lady a cool lady but you know why her last name was Knight because she was found on the doorsteps of an orphanage at night and so they gave her the last name night isn't that neat but Grandma Knight had a purpose and a plan God had a plan for her and through her through means of relationships and marriages I'm here God has a plan it's a good plan." [01:06:32]

"Being salt it promotes thirst and it makes life taste better it makes the things around you taste better we got to stay salt I learned this at a young young age if I'm eating a fruit like watermelon and it's not that sweet what do you put on it and it makes it he said but that just doesn't make sense it doesn't have to make sense but it happens and it works salt promotes thirst see it's it's like the lady at the woman at the well right she goes I'm here to get water and Jesus says hey I got a well that you can drink from that will never run dry see people think oh I just I got to have my drink I got to have my bread man said God said man does not live by bread alone but by the word of God salt promotes thirst and it makes taste better I like to say it as John 10:10 it makes life better than ever." [01:11:42]

"Christians are to make Christ attractive we are supposed to attract them not distract them and repel them we're supposed to bring people in make it attractive and and desirable desirable there's a statement that I've he people say you can lead a horse of water but you can't that is a Lie from the pit of Hell you say huh it's a lie it's a cop out you're just saying that God has no effect and no no Zeal has no power but you're the salt of the earth talked to an old farmer and he said we having discussion talking about just life so yeah but you know how it is man just thought of show my my knowledge right you know how it is you can lead a horse of water but you can't make him drink he goes yeah shows you don't know nothing son that's a lie I go what I said yeah I can lead a horse to the water and make him drink all day long I said how so I put a salt block by the water." [01:13:09]

"Conduct yourself with wisdom in your interactions conduct yourself with wisdom in your interactions see as salt to be effective you have to interact get out of the cupboard get out of the salt shaker and interact with what Outsiders non-believers we're supposed to do that make the most of each opportunity treating it as something precious let your speech at all times be gracious and what Pleasant let your speech be pleasant and gracious I like this seasoned with what salt so that you will know how to answer each one's questions let it be seasoned with what salt you are the salt of the earth your words are seasoned with salt they are going to be effective they're going to heal the brokenhearted they're going to bring back lives to Jesus they're going to bring back families together God is a god of restoration man you're going to be able to do that and doing that that you will know how to answer them on each question." [01:19:02]

"Christians like salt we can lose our usefulness we don't want to be the second part of the scripture what salt what good is a salt is it loses its flavor means it's ineffective its usefulness it can lose its ability to what have an influence its value or it's able to purify but how does it lose that ability to preserve how can that happen Jesus says that if the salt loses its flavor it is then good for nothing but been thrown out and Trampled Under the feet of men technically speaking salt cannot lose its saltiness really it can't sodium chloride is a stable compound but in the part of the world where Jesus lived salt was collected from around the Dead Sea and where the crystals were often contaminated with other minerals the salt wasn't pure it wasn't 100% salt it was other impurities but to get the purest salt to have the all the flavor of everything that is intended to be to be exactly what God created it to be do you know where you found the best the 100% salt was attached to the Rock they knew that when he said you're the salt of the earth for us to be 100% of what God called us to be we have to stay connected to the Rock." [01:23:17]