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 Now imagine that you're one of Jesus' disciples. You've heard Jesus say, repent for the kingdom

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! of heaven is near. You've seen Jesus heal the sick. You've seen him cast out demons. And now these great

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! crowds are following about wherever he goes. And you're probably thinking, what's this kingdom of

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 heaven that Jesus keeps talking about? And just as you think that, Jesus brings you up onto the

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 mountain and he sits down and he begins to teach you. He begins to reveal the principles by which

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 his kingdom is governed. And in today's passage, what Jesus is telling us is the sort of people who

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 are a part of his kingdom and the impact those people will have on those around them. And this

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 is very important because we can have a temptation to think that what Jesus is doing here is he's

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 simply telling us what we should be, what we should do. Or even worse, we can think what Jesus is saying

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 is here's a list of qualifications you need to get into my kingdom. Like this is the kingdom entrance exam.

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 But Jesus isn't saying you need to become the salt of the earth. He's not saying, you know, you need to

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 become the light of the world. And if you you're salty enough, if you shine enough, then I'll let you in.

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 But rather he's saying, you are the salt of the earth already. You are the light of the world.

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 And this goes back to a very important principle about the kingdom of heaven, an important principle

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 about the Christian life. Because often we think that it's what we do that determines who we are.

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 What Jesus is saying is actually, it's who we are that determines what we do.

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 Now, that prompts us to think, okay, if it's not us who qualifies ourselves to get into the kingdom,

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 if it's not us who change ourselves, then what causes this change?

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 And in Paul's letter to the church in Colossae, it's in the first chapter of Colossians,

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 Paul is explaining that he's praying for the Colossians. He's praying that they'd live

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 to be worthy of the Lord. They should live the life that God's called them to.

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 But he bases this in who they are. And this is what he says,

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 And giving joyful thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share the inheritance

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 of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness

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 and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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 So, what Jesus is saying is, we are brought in to the kingdom by God wrestling us out of darkness.

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 We're taken from rebellion from God into God's family. God is the one who transforms us first.

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 And because we've been transformed, therefore we will live differently.

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 And this is exactly how God's always worked. If we remember in the book of Exodus,

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 the children of Israel are in bondage, they're in slavery. And God doesn't come to them. He doesn't

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 come to them and say, look, here's the Ten Commandments. And if you follow the Ten Commandments,

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 you'll qualify to become my people. And then I'll rescue you out of Egypt. What God does is he comes

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 to the people and he sends Moses to them. And through many signs and wonders, he brings them out of

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 slavery, out of bondage, and he takes them to the promised land. And he says to them, you know,

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 now that I've rescued you, now you're my people. And remember Moses, then it's Moses, after they've been

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 rescued, goes up the mountain into the presence of God and receives the Ten Commandments, the way that

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 God's people are supposed to live. And that's, we can see this at the start of the Ten Commandments.

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 They start saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

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 out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. And so on. And what Jesus is doing

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 is, he's doing the same thing as Moses is doing. Like Moses, he's announced that there's been a rescue

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 of God's people, out of slavery to sin and into a new kingdom. And like Moses, Jesus goes up the mountain

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 and he gives us a new way to live. But unlike Moses, you see, Jesus is different.

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 Moses goes up the mountain into God's presence alone, and he receives the law from God.

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 But Jesus brings us up the mountain into his own presence, and he himself teaches us.

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 And I say us for an important reason, because Jesus' words here aren't just to his disciples

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 at that time, but to everybody here who's a Christian. Jesus is saying, look, I've taken you and rescued you.

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 I have changed you and transformed you. I've given you a new identity. And because you have a new identity,

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 you're going to live differently. And when you live differently, that's an impact on those around you.

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 And Jesus uses two images to explain this impact. He uses salt and he uses light.

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 Firstly, if we look at salt. Now, I like making bread, right? And there's lots of different things you can put in bread.

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 You can put olives in, you can put cheese in, tomatoes in. You can make sweet bread, you can make savory bread.

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 So if you take olives, you know, I like olives. I could put olives in bread. I think it would taste nice.

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 But someone else might see olives and be like, well, I don't like olives. You know, it's personal preference.

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 You can put olives in, you can take them out. But salt isn't optional. It's a fundamental ingredient.

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 If you make real bread, you only need four things. You need flour, you need water, you need yeast, and you need salt.

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 You can't take any of these away. But there's a difference between these. If you leave out flour,

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 instantly you'll notice you've just got a bowl of water with some stuff floating in it. It's not very useful.

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 If you leave out water, it's just a dry pile. You can't mix it together. If you leave out yeast, you can mix it,

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 but it won't rise, it won't go anywhere. But salt's a bit different. See, salt's very small. It's not always

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 noticed at first. So if you leave out salt, you can mix your bread, you can knead your bread,

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 your bread will rise, you can bake it. But it's only when you take it out of the oven,

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 you cut the first slice, and you taste it, you realize just how disgusting it is without any salt

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 in it, and you'll spit it out. And the other thing about salt is, although it's a very valuable thing,

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 it's not a particularly fancy, it's not expensive ingredient, it's an ordinary ingredient. It's very

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 abundant around us. So when Jesus compares this to salt, he's saying these same things. He's saying,

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 you know, we're fundamental, and our effect on the world around us, it's necessary,

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 but sometimes it's subtle, and it's often ordinary. So when we look at why is the effect that we have

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 on those around us fundamental? You see, when God made the world, when he made humanity, he made us

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 to be in a relationship with him. There was a love between us and God, and there's a love between us

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 and one another. But when we turned away from God, see, we began to hate God, we broke that relationship,

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 and that broke the relationship we had with one another. We began to hate one another.

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 And so in order to fix this problem, God decided to show his love to us by sending Jesus to us. And

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 in fact, what he's doing here is not creating something new exactly, but he's restoring

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 the way things are supposed to be. But when God loves us, when he restores a relationship

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 that we have with him, that also has an impact on the relationship we have with one another.

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 We could see this in 1 John.

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 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God

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 and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed

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 his love among us. He sent his one and only son to the world that we might live through him. This is love,

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 not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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 Dear friends, since God so loved us,

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 we also ought to love one another. And it's the same thing, you notice Jesus is saying here.

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 There's a necessary connection between God's love and our love for one another. In the same way,

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 Jesus is saying, if you've been transformed into salt, you will be salty.

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 So, because he says, if the salt loses its saltiness, how could it be made salty again? It's no longer

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 good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on their foot. So, the connection between

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 us receiving God's love and us showing God's love to other people around us, it's so necessary that

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 Jesus is saying, if you're not showing your God's love to those around you, then maybe, or definitely,

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 you've not been the recipient of God's love either. But now, Jesus isn't saying this to

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 try to make us feel bad or put a burden upon us. But really, he's trying to encourage us. Because

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 remember, salt is subtle and salt is ordinary. Sometimes we can think, okay, well, what God's

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 asking us to do is, if we want to really show God's love, we have to be someone special, someone

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 important. We have to be like a celebrity pastor, or we have to do something amazing. We have to

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 abolish slavery. We have to set up a hospital or something like this. But Jesus is not talking

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 about these big dramatic moments. He's talking about the everyday, the ordinary. He's saying that

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 if you've become part of my kingdom, then I'm working in you to show my love to those around you.

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 Sometimes you won't even notice that's what's happening, but it will happen. And I'll give you

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 an example. Some of my friends from university, in first year, they lived in student halls. And

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 there's about five or six people in the flat. And they got on relatively well with most of their

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 flatmates. But one of their flatmates, for some reason, really despised Christians, hated Christianity.

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 But then later on, so there's just a bit of a rift between them and one of their flatmates. But

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 later on, she became quite sick. And my friends decided, okay, well, she's sick. We should look

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 after her. And they didn't do this thinking, oh, we're doing something amazing here. We're doing

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 something dramatic here. And you just thought, well, it just came naturally. You see, they'd received

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 God's love to them. And just second nature, it was to show that love to someone else. And because

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 they looked after her, this little small thing had a massive impact. And then she changed from being

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 someone who hated Christianity to someone who had a positive view of Christianity and of Christians.

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 Because that's the kind of impact Jesus is saying that his love has on us. We've received God's love.

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 And just naturally, there's going to be this consequence of that love overflowing in small,

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 subtle ways to those around us.

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 The second picture that Jesus uses is of light. Now, notice again, the language Jesus uses. He doesn't say,

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 you need to be the light of the world. He says, you are the light of the world.

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 And he goes further. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Once Jesus has made his people,

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 we can't hide who we are. There's no way of disguising it. There's no way of undoing the transformation

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 that God's worked in us. And then neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead,

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 they put it on a stand and it gives light to everyone in the house. So when Jesus, if you will,

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 lights us like a lamp, he's not even talking that it's possible to put that out. Even when you put

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 a light under a bowl, it's still shining. There's always going to be a necessary consequence of our

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 transformation. So when he's saying light, what exactly is Jesus talking about? Because light is

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 used in a lot of different ways in the Bible. You have darkness versus light, good versus evil.

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 But two ways, I think, are pretty applicable here, if you think about light. Firstly, light brings us

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 knowledge. If you're in a dark room, unless the light's turned on, you have no information about what's

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 around you. You need light to see and to understand. Secondly, light can bring you not just information,

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 but it can make you see the beauty and the wonder of something. If it was the middle of winter right now in

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 Scotland and you were outside, it would probably be light enough that you could see where you were going.

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 But if someone asked you what your environment would be like, you'd probably say, well, it's, you know,

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 it's a bit dreary. It's dreak. It's all doom and gloom. But if you are outside in a day like today, where the sun is shining brightly,

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 you're probably going to be much more positive. You might even say, well, it's a glorious day, isn't it?

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 And it's the same thing here. When we, when it talks, Jesus talks about us as the light of the world, what he's saying is that we both

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 reveal the knowledge of who God is, but also that we reveal and we reflect God's glory to those around us.

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 So firstly, if you think about light is revealing knowledge. So why is it that

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 people need to receive knowledge of God? Well, Paul talks about this in the first chapter of Romans.

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 For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature have

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 been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

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 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him.

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 But their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise,

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 they became fools and exchanged the glory of the mortal God for images made to look like a mortal human

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 being and birds and animals and reptiles. So although people by nature can have some understanding of God,

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 automatically we, we don't want to look up at the one true God. Instead, we turn our eyes down to earth

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 and we worship other things. So how does God solve this problem? Well, we see this earlier in Matthew.

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 So what God does is, we're not looking up at God. So God comes down to us.

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 So God comes down to us in Jesus Christ. And Jesus came down to open up people's eyes, to lift them back up,

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 to worship the one true God. And you could see this a lot in the gospels. Jesus often goes around and

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 heals the blind. But when he heals the blind, he often remarks that though these people are physically

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 blind, they spiritually can see, they understand that Jesus is the Messiah and he's the son of God.

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 On the other hand, you have those around like the Pharisees, although who can physically see,

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 but they lack spiritual sight. And so Jesus is saying, you know, he's not just here to heal people's physical sight,

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 but to heal their spiritual sight as well. And the same way, we could see there's this

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 chain of connection. Jesus comes to give people knowledge of God. And the same way, Jesus says, you know,

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 I'm going to work in you and I'm going to reveal myself to those around you by how you live. If we go back to

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 my friends I mentioned earlier. So you see, at first, they just did something small to help one of their

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 friends. And then she, she, she, sorry.

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 And then she, thanks.

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 See, at first there was a small change. At first, she received the love that they had for her. And then she had a

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 positive view of Christianity. But then she moved from that and she thought, well, what is it that caused that

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 change in the first place? And it was then that she became aware of God working through my friends. And eventually she

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 became a Christian. But Jesus is just saying that we reveal mere knowledge of God. He's also saying that

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 we reflect the glory of God. If we go back to Moses, remember Moses has brought the people of Israel out

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 of Egypt and he's gone at the mountain, he's received the law. But later on, Moses goes, goes up the mountain

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 again and he enters into the presence of the world. And he's gone up the mountain again. And he enters into the

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 presence of God and he sees the glory of God. And he comes down the mountain and his face is shining

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 with God's glory. But because it's so bright and because it's so glorious, the people of Israel can't

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 bear to look at Moses' face. And so he has to cover himself with a veil. And the same, the same pattern

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 happens with Jesus. Jesus has gone on the mountain. He's brought us up the mountain and he's taught us,

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 here's how you're going to live. But later on in Matthew, in chapter 17, he brings his disciples up

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 the mountain again. After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James and John, the brother of James,

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 and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before him, before them.

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 His face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white as the light. Just then there appeared

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 before them Moses and Elijah talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be

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 here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.

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 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them. And a voice from the cloud said,

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 this is my son whom I love. With him I am well pleased. Listen to him. When the disciples heard

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 this, they fell face down to the ground, terrified. But Jesus came and touched them. Get up, he said.

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 Don't be afraid. When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. And again, we see Jesus offers

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 something better than Moses. Jesus brings us up into the presence of God, into his own presence,

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 and shows us his own glory. And this again, isn't just for Peter, James and John. As you see,

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 as we heard in earlier reading, when Paul says, when Paul speaks of us beholding God's glory,

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 beholding the glory of Jesus, he doesn't say, okay, in the future, we're going to see Jesus' glory,

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 and we're going to be transformed. He's saying right now, we can see Jesus' glory. Right now,

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 we're viewing Jesus' glory. And right now, we reflect his glory. And so, in the same way,

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 there's this chain of, that connects all these three things together. Firstly, as Christians,

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 we've received God's love. And that love overflows from us to those around us. Secondly,

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 we receive knowledge of who God is. And through us, God reveals himself to others. And thirdly,

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 we see God's glory. And once we've seen God's glory, God's glory shines through us.

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 And this is important. Because very often, we can think, oh, look, okay, God did a bunch of things

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 2,000 years ago. And then right now, it's all up to us. Right now, Jesus is saying, okay,

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 here's all the things you have to do. Or maybe we think, well, nothing we do really matters. We're

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 just kind of hanging about and waiting for Jesus to get back. What Jesus is saying is here, is actually,

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 if you're a Christian, in your life right now, in all these different ways, I'm working. I'm showing

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 my love through you to those around you. I'm showing who I am to those around you. And I'm using you

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 to show my glory on earth. And if you're not a Christian, this is what Jesus is offering to you.

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 He's saying, look, I can change you. I can transform you. I can give you a new way to live.

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 And the new way to live is modeled after who Jesus is. So when we say we're the salt of the earth,

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 when we say we're the light of the world, all that's saying is really we're like Jesus. Because

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 you see Jesus, as he lives, you see this love he has for those around him. We see this

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 care he has. But as well, we see there's a weight to what he says. There's an authority to what Jesus

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 And that's what Jesus is saying he'll do to us. He will, when we receive Jesus' love,

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 we will love like Jesus. When we come to know Jesus, that's us coming to know God. And when we

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 that's what being in the kingdom of heaven is really about. This is the new identity.

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 That's what Christian means. It means that we are becoming more and more like Jesus Christ.

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