Mathew chapter five……..
This chapter has paramount importance and it defines kingdom of heaven
and discipleship. If we want to know the first twelve verses, then we
have to learn well the rest of the chapter. So we can begin from verse
thirteen onwards. Verse 13 says, “You are the salt of the earth, but if
salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no
longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.”
Salt is many thing; it is the main ingredient of sacrifices (Lev 2:13;
Ezra 6:9; Ezra 7:22; Ezek 43:24) without it God would not accept
sacrifices, it was an antiseptic in olden days, it is the main
ingredient of all foods, it is manure so and so. Everything is because
of the quality that posses, the saltiness. If it loses this quality then
it is nothing. So the quality we posses make us what we are, so it is
very important. Here Jesus try to teach them that what materially we
posses is nothing but what qualitatively posses is matter in the kingdom
of heaven. Means we are measured by our quality not by our quantity.
According to verses 14 to 16 we are the light which has to shine before
others not to glorify us but to glorify the truth they see in the light
and behind the light. Otherwise not the light that shines but what make
the light shines. If I explain in another way, not what I scribble here
but what make me do so. Not our good deeds but who make us do such
deeds. Not the individual but the force motivating him/her. That is
matter in the kingdom. In general we work not to project ourselves but
to project the one and only who is behind everything, to reveal him
before every one.
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