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*The Way of Salt and Light*
*/Matthew 5:13-16/*
/Theme: Jesus leads us to multifacetedly engage the world./
*Introduction: Engaged (PP1)*
A. *Are you Engaged*?
1.
If you are, please raise your hand
2. Most of you put one meaning to that question and did not raise your hand
3. Two year ago Dordt College started its Freshmen Orientation with the phrase *“Get engaged”*
a.
Of course there was a joke behind this—referring to Dordt as a place to meet a spouse from the colony
b.
My wife’s cousin’s son, *Justin Stuit*, took it one way
1) He met a girl that first weekend
2) About three months ago they married
c.
But what else could it mean?
4. What are other places where you might use the *word “engage”?
(PP2)*
a. Engage means to become connected with, even entangled
b.
It is to make a commitment, a pledge
c.
Our word “wage” is even related to “engage,” it is the payment of the pledge
B. Now I hope you might *answer differently (PP3)*
1.
Are you engaged?
2.
What are you engaged with?
3.
I joked a little of the *“colony”*
a.
A colony was a way one country engaged a new world or new land
b.
The danger is that a colony builds up walls
c.
A danger in our tradition is to isolate ourselves
4.
We need to be challenged to engagement
a. First God’s engagement with us
b. Then ours with the world
C. *Prayer and Scripture*—*Matthew 5:1-16*
\\ I. *The Gospel: Initiation*
A. *Are—How?*
1.
These words of instruction start with Gospel
2. It is contained in two simple words, *“You are” (PP4)*
a.
It is not “You must be”
b.
It is not “You must do”
c.
It is “You are”
3.
This is the Reformation of *Martin Luther*
a.
It is contained in these two words, “You are”
b. Luther struggled with what he had to be and do until he read that we are justified by faith
4. *Bill Hybels*, the pastor of the Chicago megachurch Willowcreek, summarizes the Gospel as the difference between “do” and “done”
a. Bill came out of the same community I did.
He was a classmate of my older brother
i.
We were third generation Dutch immigrants of parents who grew up in the Depression
ii.
We were taught hard work
iii.
We were driven to do
iv.
We translated this over to our religion
v. We became earners of salvation through hard work, obedient service
b.
It takes awhile for such people to finally hear the Gospel
i.
We do not do it
ii.
We cannot do it
iii.
It has already been done
iv.
God has brought salvation in Jesus Christ
5. If I leave you with nothing else, I hope you hear this
a.
God has done it
b.
God has saved us in Jesus Christ
c. Salvation is a gift of God.
It is first and foremost His action
B. *You—Who?
(PP5)*
1. Make sure to hear the first word, *“You”*
2. Jesus was speak primarily to his disciples, but it still addresses you
3. God still *blesses* you
a.
When you are in need
b.
When you are longing for the purposes of God
c.
When you are working as children of God
d.
You are blessed
i. God is with you
ii.
God is empowering you
iii.
God is at work in an through you
4. All you need to do is *believe*
a. Trust the blessing, love, and power of God
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