Salt and Light: Becoming a Beacon of Hope

But if we miss the point, we miss the whole thing. Jesus isn't saying anything else other than what's the heart behind it. What's the heart behind his teachings? So draw you close to him, to allow you to tran be transformed from the inside out, and to lead other people back to him. That great commission, go make disciples. Go make disciples. Teach them what I taught you. Baptize them. Tell them the good news. [00:47:50] (42 seconds)  #InsideOutDiscipleship

What kind of love am I showing when I act like that? What kind of love are people hearing when I act like that? That's the thing. You know that saying people don't care about what you know until they know that you care? I can sit here and I can spout off amazing theology and teaching to go over the moon and back or whatever. Right? But if I don't care, if I don't have any love in me, well, guess what? I'm that salt. What is it good for? Getting thrown out onto the street for pavement. That's what good it is. [00:41:16] (40 seconds)  #CareBeforeDoctrine

And this piece of scripture is really important as we read through the rest of it. Because if you've ever read the Sermon on the Mount, you see all these pieces of scripture where Jesus is just it seems like he's upping the bar. He's like, hey. So you've heard it's it's not a good thing to murder. Right? Well, guess what? If you hate someone, it's the same deal. It's like, what? [00:45:33] (19 seconds)  #HeartStandard

How impossible is this now? Yeah. Because you need me. Because it's all about me. It's all about Jesus. It's all about his grace. There's no way we can live up to the law that the Israelites were given. There's no way we can live up to the Sermon on the Mount unless we follow Jesus and allow him to transform our life. [00:46:18] (22 seconds)  #GraceNotLaw

But as Jesus is using this example, he's telling his disciples, listen. When you follow me, when you allow me to transform your life, when you're saying yes to me and you allow me to work on both inside and the outside? Oh, wait a minute. No. I'm just gonna work on the inside because that's gonna change what's on the outside, which is very different than what the religious leaders and the teachers of that day, which is why Jesus often held them accountable and got after them, is because they were focusing solely what was on the outside. And Jesus is saying, no. No. We gotta work on the inside. [00:35:08] (33 seconds)  #ChangeFromWithin

But what Jesus is saying is that there are those that are saying they're following me. There are those that are looking like they're following me on the outside, but they haven't let me transform what's on the inside. Saying, listen, guys. Let me transform what's on the outs inside. That's gonna eventually work on what's going on on the outside. [00:36:37] (27 seconds)  #AuthenticFaith

Hey. How he then ends this part where he says, unless your righteousness surpasses the pharisees, the teachers of the law. And you're like, if you were listening to Jesus at that point, you'd be like, woah. Woah. Woah. Those guys got it figured out. Those guys got it figured out. What do you mean my righteousness has to surpass them? [00:46:56] (24 seconds)  #GoDeeperRighteousness

I am glad that a journey together with Jesus is not like that, and I am glad that our journey in this series is not gonna be like that. We get to wrap things up at Easter, which is really a beginning when you think about it. So I'm excited as we go together with this series about Jesus calling us into new ways of living, about him forming our character, our community, about a savior that has sent us into this world as a people of purpose and a people of hope. [00:26:11] (37 seconds)  #JourneyWithJesus