Thank you for listening to this message from
Lifehouse Church. just by getting all of us to
stand. And I want to go to prayer one more time.
If I could just get you to stand one more time.
I'd feel very remiss if we didn't pray for those
who are in Texas. You've been watching the news.
You've seen the news. I checked the report this
morning. And as of this morning, there are 51
that have passed away, 28 adults, 15 children
in the flash floods that have taken place in
Texas. And there are dozens that are still missing.
And Dixie and I have been watching reports throughout
the week, and our hearts break every time we
watch it. We can't imagine what the families
are going through there. So we need to pray for
those families. Amen. We need to do that this
morning. So if you'd bow and just pray. Father,
we come before you grateful, thankful that we
can call on you. And, Lord, we bring brothers
and sisters and families. God, we bring them
before you. God, they're suffering right now.
They've had tremendous loss in Texas from these
flash floods. hearts are broken. God, lives are
shattered. And Lord, hundreds and thousands of
people are grieving this morning. So Lord, we
ask that you would be with them. And Lord, if
there's those there who don't know you, let them
look to you, God, as the only hope, because you
are, Lord, in their lives. And Lord, as they're
in this time, in this moment of deep grief, deep
sadness, surround them, Lord. God, move upon
them with your spirit that they might know that
you're there and walk through these hours, these
days, and these weeks. And Lord, we'll just give
you praise and glory in Jesus' name. And amen.
Amen. Thank you. Pray for them each week. If
you may be seated this morning. Throughout the
week, just continue to pray for those folks that
are stepping through in the state of Texas. Well,
I am starting a new message series this morning
called Salty. Say salty. Salty. Salty, yes. And
I'm going to do something a little bit risky.
I'm going to start off giving you a statistic.
And how many know half of you go to sleep as
soon as you hear the word statistic, right? So
you're like, that's why I'm only going to give
you one. But I want you to hear what I'm about
to say because this should matter. This should
get a hold of us. This should grab us. This should
move us. And it's this. 90 % of Christians have
never told someone else about Jesus. 90%. Nine
out of 10 people who say they follow Jesus as
Lord and Savior have never whispered his name
to someone else. Nine out of 10 have never told
another human being on the face of the planet
about the one who saved their lives, about the
one who raised them from the dead, who gave them
a future, rescued them from hell, have never
said the name of Jesus to someone else. 90 %
of us who claim that Jesus is our Lord and Savior
have never told another person about him. 90
% of us. As soon as I heard, that statistic,
Scripture began to run through my mind. As I
began to look in God's Word, and I hate to start
this message series off super heavy, but this
is a heavy thing. And what God says in Mark 8,
34, when Jesus speaks, and Zach, he quoted some
of the Scripture I'm going to use today, this
morning, and him and I haven't talked, but you
got to hear this. portion of scripture and listen
to what's being said in light of 90 % of us never
telling anyone else about Jesus. Mark 8 34 says
this, when he had called the people to himself
with his disciples also, he said to them, whoever
desires to come after me, let him deny himself
and take up his cross and follow me. Whoever
desires to save his life will lose it. but whoever
loses his life for my sake and the gospel will
save it. For what will it profit a man if he
gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Now listen to this next verse. This one should
grab us. For whoever is ashamed of me, in my
words, in this adulterous and sinful generation
of him, the son of man also will be ashamed when
he comes in the glory, comes in the glory of
his father. with the holy angels. If I'm ashamed
to speak Jesus' name now, Jesus will be ashamed
of my name one day when he comes in his glory
and returns to this earth as he's in the halls
of heaven. If I'm ashamed of Jesus' name now,
he'll be ashamed of my name in the future, right?
This is a place in scripture where we need to
stop and gulp. We need to gasp. We need to get
just a little bit nervous, right? We need to
take serious pause at this portion of Scripture.
And we've got to stop and ask ourselves, what
in the world are we doing, right? What are we
doing? What are we not doing in the kingdom?
And I pondered this thought, and I had to remind
myself of this thing, you know, that's in Scripture.
And I reminded myself also as I was looking at
this, and I want to remind you, We need to see
the big picture in God's kingdom. Take a look
around you right now. Take a quick look around
360. Just go ahead. Go ahead and turn your head
and stare at the person behind you. Just do it
awkwardly, all right? Just go ahead and take
a peek at them, all right? But here's the thing.
All of these things that we see around us, this
beautiful sanctuary, the drums, all the things
around us, the sound system, if we're in our
homes, our homes, all those things are temporary,
right? All those things are fleeting. All those
things have to do with this life, which at best
might run you 80, 90, if you're very fortunate,
100 years, which is so small in comparison to
all of eternity, to all the time that we're going
to spend, which will be endless in the next life,
right? And everything I do now has to do with
that time. And speaking the name of Jesus translates
to what Jesus is going to, how he's going to
speak my name in the future. And if we're ashamed
of him now, he'll be ashamed of us in that kingdom.
If we're ashamed in this temporary place, right,
this temporary time, with all these temporary
things around us, he'll be ashamed of us in eternity.
That should shake us. That should get us nervous.
That should haunt me, right? It really should.
It should haunt us. And Jesus was so clear when
he said it, right? He said, for whoever is ashamed
of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation, of him the son of man will also be
ashamed when he comes in his glory of his father
with the holy angels. The whole idea behind this
message series called Salty is that we are going
to unashamedly speak the name of Jesus in our
generation. Amen? Are you with me? We're gonna
change the statistic in this church. We're gonna
shift things, right? We're gonna unashamedly
speak the name of Jesus in the house of God,
and we're gonna speak the name of Jesus outside
the house of God. We're gonna unashamedly proclaim
the name of Jesus in every place that we go.
And if I can be completely honest this morning,
I personally need to improve in this area of
my life. Okay, is it okay to be honest? Amen.
How many of you should be honest in the house
of God, right? This week, I blew it completely.
I was at a coffee shop. I go to a coffee shop,
the Crackpot, you should visit. A little plug
there. I was at the Crackpot this week and I
left the Crackpot and I go there sometimes to
study or read and just to get away in that setting.
And I walked out of this place and simultaneously,
I don't know if you've ever gone out into the
street, but simultaneously you kind of run into
a person that's walking the same direction as
you. And this young man was walking the exact
same direction I was heading back to my vehicle.
And he's walking right beside me. And it was
kind of awkward because we didn't know each other,
right? So I just, of course, said something.
I was like, hey, what's your name? You know,
and he said, Jared. And I said, well, my name's
Kip. It's nice to meet you. I'm just heading
towards my car. You know, I said, you know, I
just started some small talk going back and forth
with him. And we're walking the whole way down
this street. And we get to the end of the street
where we got to split off and go different directions.
And I said, it's nice to see you, Jared. It was
nice to meet you. And I walked this way and cut
across the street, and he headed straight on
down the street. And I didn't get more than across
the street, and I realized I didn't say one thing
about the Lord Jesus Christ to this young man.
I had a golden opportunity. The conversation
was such that I could have interjected just the
smallest of things. I could have just said, man,
didn't the Lord give us a great, beautiful day
today? Wasn't it awesome? Look what Jesus did.
I didn't say one thing. And as soon as I got
across the street, I felt it in my spirit. How
many of you just know when you blow it? You know,
when God gives you a golden opportunity and you
just completely blow it. And I knew it, you know,
and I held my head low and shamelessly walked
the rest of the way to my vehicle. I didn't,
I should have ran back maybe. I don't know, jog
back. I mean, that would have been awkward, right?
But I had zero impact, zero eternal impact on
Jared's life in that moment. Anybody could have
come up and said, hey, how's the weather, right?
How's it going? I didn't pray for Jared. I didn't
offer to pray for Jared. I didn't do any of those
things. Why didn't I say something? Why didn't
I do something? You know, and as I thought about
this. Oh, failed this week on my part. I thought
about something else that took place in my life
way back in the eighth grade. How many of you
remember the eighth grade? Yeah, about six of
you, okay? I remember the eighth grade, and I
remember being in a cafeteria at my high school,
and I was sitting beside a good friend of mine
who was named Darren, and Darren and I were just
eating lunch. We were just chatting it up like
we always do, and Darren was kind of like me.
I was a quiet kid, believe it or not, and so
was he, and we were just hanging out there, and
our eighth grade in the public school system
where I was at has just about what every eighth
grade public school system has, and that's a
bully, amen? There was this one kid. How many
know there's always the one kid? And there was
this one guy and his name, our bully's name was
Harry. And Harry liked to bully people. And I
remember in that particular lunch, one, you know,
as we were sitting there just eating, minding
our own business, Harry decided to pick up a
tray of food, bring it over. And he did this
kind of stuff just to get attention. He came
over and he dumped the entire tray of food on
my friend's lap. Just dumped it on him. Of course,
you know, the whole cafeteria erupts and something
like that takes place. And I remember how I felt.
I remember the anger that welled up inside of
me. I remember thinking, I need to do something.
I need to say something. And you know what I
did? I sat there. I didn't do anything. Darren
didn't do anything. We just kind of froze in
place. And I remember walking out of there thinking,
I don't ever want to do that again. I don't ever
want to be the one who sits and just doesn't
say anything. I don't want to be the one that
never does anything. When an injustice takes
place, when somebody needs to hear about God,
I don't want to be that guy. Jesus is the greatest
name that will ever fall out of these lips. Amen?
It's true. Jesus is the name that moves heaven
and earth. Jesus is the only name whereby men
and women can be saved. Jesus is the only name
that will rescue anybody from death, hell, and
the grave. Jesus is the only name that holds
power. And Jesus is the only name that everyone
you bump into needs to hear. They don't need
to know my name. Amen. They don't need to know
your name. They don't need to hang their hopes
on some politician's name. They don't need to
hang their hopes and dreams on a sports figure's
name. They need his name. They need to hear Jesus.
So this message series is all about being salty.
We're going to be salt for Jesus. We're going
to bring people to Jesus by becoming salty. Turn
to somebody and tell them, I'm going to be salty.
I know you don't even know what it means. Say
it anyway. I'm going to be salty. I'm going to
be salty, right? You're saying it in faith. You're
like, well, I don't even know what that means
yet, right? Jesus said this in Matthew 5, verse
13. He said, you are the salt of the earth. You
are the salt of the earth. But if the salt has
lost its taste, how shall the saltiness be restored?
It is no longer good for anything except to be
thrown out. and trampled under people's feet.
Jesus was talking to his disciples. He was talking
to those who futuristically would follow him,
right? Anybody who professes the name of Christ
and says that Jesus is my Lord and said, and
he said, you're gonna be the salt of the earth.
He didn't say you're gonna act a little bit like
salt. He didn't say you're gonna have some attributes
of salt. He didn't say you're gonna have, you
know, it wasn't just this cute analogy that he
was bringing just to drive a little point home.
He said, you're gonna be the salt. And Jesus'
analogy that he used for salt, he did it for
good reasons. Because salt is a substance that
is used virtually around the globe and every
place around the globe and almost every single
day. Actually, daily. Right? It really is. Salt
is used daily in almost every household. Right?
My guess is, my guess is this. If I came to visit
your house today unexpectedly, How many know
that would be fun? People love when the pastor
shows up unexpectedly, right? But if I showed
up at your house unexpectedly, you got home,
we dismissed from church, you went home, you
got in your house, you put on your favorite pair
of shorts, your favorite pair of sweatpants,
whatever it is, right? Pajamas, because you aren't
going anywhere for the rest of the day, right?
And you're in your PJs and you're making pancakes
and sausage, right, for lunch. And all of a sudden...
on the door, right? And there I am. Surprise,
right? Now, if you let me in the door, if you
happen to let me in the door and you would allow
me to wander around your kitchen, your pantry,
your dining room somewhere, do you know one of
the things that I would probably find? Salt.
I'd find salt. If I looked around, let me ask
a question. Let's do a survey just so I'm not...
Telling untruths up here. How many of you have
salt in your house? Raise your hand. Look at
that, right? You got salt somewhere in your house.
I'm coming for lunch, all right? Just be ready,
right? You have salt. What am I saying? Jesus
said you're the salt of the earth. Jesus said
you're going to be everywhere, right? It's going
to be a daily thing. You're going to show up
daily in different places and in different spaces
and in different corners of the globe. And God's
got uses for salt. He's going to use you in some
way in those places and spaces. Do you know how
many different uses there are for salt? Can I
give you just a couple of them? Flavoring, for
one. Food preservation. Brining. Baking, pickling,
cleaning, de -icing, water softening, countless
industrial processes use salt. Personal care,
medicinal reasons, right? Insect repellent. You
can extinguish a fire with salt. Next time there's
a fire in your house, get the salt shaker out,
right? Stain removal. It goes on and on. You
can go to any restaurant in Carlisle, walk in,
and what's going to be sitting on the table?
Salt, right? Salt and pepper shaker. Well, unless
you go to one of those really expensive restaurants
that give you a little tiny food. I don't know
why they don't put salt and pepper on the tables,
right? But if you go anywhere else, you're going
to find salt and pepper. Jesus said, you're going
to show up. My point is this, that salt is everywhere.
It is in everything. If you eat, right, we salt
our natural food, and how many know what's in
the processed food? Amen? Sodium, tons of sodium,
right? It's used. It shows up daily. Say daily.
You almost can't get away from salt. And Jesus
looked at his disciples. And he looked futuristically
to us, right? And he said, you're my salt. You're
salt. You're going to be salt for me. You're
going to show up everywhere. You're going to
represent me. You're going to be ambassadors
for me. You're going to spread the gospel wherever
you go. If you're following Jesus and you call
him Lord and Savior, you're salt. You're salt.
Say it to yourself, I'm salt. I'm salt. Say it
like you mean it, like you believe it. I'm salt.
I take Jesus every place my feet travel, right?
I should be flavoring every environment. These
are salt. Come on, these are good. I'm going
to flavor every environment that I get into,
right? You're salt. And once Jesus drives this
point home to his disciples, he follows it up
with some more in verse 14. He says this. After
he gives the untowardment, they're salt. He says,
you're the light of the world. A city on a hill
cannot be hidden, nor do people light a lamp
and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand.
And it gives light to all the house. In the same
way, let your light shine before others so they
may see your good works and give glory to your
Father who is in heaven. Our mission as followers
of Jesus is to be salt and light to the world
around us. Salt and light to those who are far
from God, to those who are close to God, at our
school, at work, at home, wherever you play,
right? Wherever you go for hobby, wherever your
big feet or little feet take you, right? We're
to be bright and savory for Jesus. Easy to see
and favorable on the palate is a good way to
put it. That's what we're supposed to be. And
what I love about this passage that Jesus gives
when he talks about salt and light, that he gives
us a formula or he gives us an answer or he gives
us a measuring stick in this passage for how
bright we should shine and how much salt we should
give. He doesn't leave it to chance. He doesn't
leave it up for our interpretation, right, of
how brightly I should shine for him or how salty
I should be. As a matter of fact, he says the
combination needs to be just right. And if it's
just right, this is what it's going to look like.
He says, in the same way, let your light shine
before others so that they may see your good
works and give glory to your fathers in heaven.
Jesus said the combination of light and salt.
should be so mixed that someone, when they have
ears to hear it and eyes to see it, right, and
they experience the flavor of God in you, that
it causes them to look right past you and give
glory to God. Amen? That's the right combination
with all this. And if it looks like anything
else, if it appears, if your light and salt that
you're shining for Jesus appears as anything
else, the mixture's not right. It's off, right?
And here's what some of that means. And I don't
know if you've ever experienced this. And if
you did, you should say good hearty amen. How
many of you have ever ran into an obnoxious Christian?
Oh, a couple of you have, right? Go ahead. It's
okay to say amen. Don't look at anybody, but
you can say amen. How many of you have ran into
an obnoxious Christian? All right. All right.
You guys are so nice. You don't want to say anything.
Right? Do you ever meet an obnoxious Christian?
They're just obnoxious with their faith, right?
They got the light and the salt portion all out
of whack, right? And they're just all over you.
Sometimes they don't even see you. They're just
up in your grill. They're up doing whatever they
gotta do, right? And they just like, they kind
of explode. How many know they spiritually barf
all over you and then they just keep on moving?
Anybody know what I'm talking about? You ever
meet someone like that? Yeah, they'll just spiritually
barf on you, and then they'll just keep on trucking,
right? Glory to God. That's what they're doing,
right? Or you can meet the person that kind of,
you know, is burning for Jesus, and they're burning
so hot, they just want to burn you in two, right?
There's that person, right? And then there's
other times that you can meet people that are
salt and light for Jesus, and it's so weak, you're
not even sure they're a Christian. You meet them,
and you're like, you ever have somebody walk
away, and you're like, I think they know Jesus.
I think. I'm not sure, but they kind of talk
like it, right? Years ago. had this really short
stint and season in Amway. I don't know how many
of you know what Amway is, right? And there was
this guy who used to come to my house from Amway
and the guy was always, and he knew I was a Christian.
So he like would try to quote scripture to me
and he'd always messed it up, by the way. You
know, it was never quite right. And he would
only do it at certain points in time. And I'm
like, I don't know if this guy's a Christian
or not, if he's just trying to get me to sell
something. It was that kind of thing. It was
all out of balance. To this day, I'm not sure
if the guy was a believer or not. I couldn't
quite figure it out. Or if the salt and light
highlights me and not Jesus. Me, me, me, me,
right? False humility. Look at me, look at me,
look at me. Oh yeah, here's Jesus too. Right?
You can't get lopsided in this salt and light
thing. You can have so much light and it's warm
and fuzzy and you never get any salt in the mix.
Or you can have so much salt, you never get any
light, right? It's all just kind of frying them
the whole way. Jesus said we're going to be light
and we're going to be salt for him. And the mixture
has to be just right. And when you know it's
right is when you tell someone about Jesus or
you mention the name of Jesus. You know it's
just right when they kind of look right past
you, right? It just deflects right off you and
goes right to him. All the glory doesn't go to
you. It just goes right to him. It bypasses us
and it heads right to the Lord and Savior. And
I wanted to give you a little physical example
of this this morning. So I got a volunteer. Sean,
thanks for coming. Give Sean a hand. Come on.
All right. Yeah, this is Barefoot Sean. And I
asked Sean to come up here today because his
feet are dirty. Okay. He kind of came into church
with cruddy feet. I won't tell you who told me
that. No, actually, nobody told me that. All
right. And so today I want to wash Sean's feet.
All right. So, Sean, if you just put your feet
in there. Now, how many know this is a biblical
thing, right? Jesus washed the disciples' feet.
He went and washed his feet. He was trying to
teach them servanthood. He was trying to teach
them what it is to serve. So I'm going to wash
your feet just a little bit. They are actually
clean. I was just messing with them. All right.
All right. All right. Thank you. All right. Now,
so what if you do this for somebody? What if
you go and wash their feet? Now, I know some
of you are thinking, well, if I go into somebody's
house and wash their feet, they're going to think
I'm weird, right? They're going to think I'm
strange. And that would probably be true, right?
I'm going to actually take your feet out. Got
them good and cleaner than they already were,
right? I'll let you dry them off. I'm going to
dry those for you. Now, what if, what if I said,
Sean, I want to wash your feet today. and I wash
Sean's feet, and I never say one word about Jesus.
I never tell him why I want to wash his feet,
because how many know I personally just won't
go around washing someone's feet? I won't do
it. I probably would never say, hey, can I wash
your feet? Except Jesus did. And Jesus taught
us to wash one another's feet, and we're to serve
one another, and the Word of God tells us that,
right? So if I didn't tell him that and his feet
were actually dirty, he's like, oh, cool. You
know, you washed my feet. Guess who gets the
glory? Me. Right? That's not what salt and light.
If I wash his feet, I need to tell him why. And
it's not because of me. It's because of him.
It's because of what Jesus did for me. It's because
Jesus washed my feet and he served me. Thank
you. Would you give him a hand? Outreach, getting
out into our community, being salt and light.
Outreach equals prayer plus hands and feet plus
gospel, okay? Outreach equals, if you're going
to reach somebody, if you're going to be salt
and light, it is prayer. You need to pray that
the Holy Spirit goes ahead of you, prepares somebody's
heart, gets them ready. Then you go hands and
feet. You go serve. You do whatever you need
to do to reach somebody. Sometimes that's going
to be a conversation. Sometimes that's going
to be going and helping them clean up their backyard.
Sometimes it's going to look a thousand different
ways, right? You go and you meet them hands and
feet, and then you share the gospel. You cannot
leave out the gospel. We cannot leave out the
name. of Christ. We cannot push him off to the
side and take on the glory because that's what
it is, right? If we're just going and serving
him, we never breathe the name of Jesus in all
of it. All the glory goes to us. It should deflect
right off us and go right past to Jesus. They
should know the only reason I'm here is because
the one who saved me, I'm in the same boat. Don't
look at me, right? I got nothing. How many know
I got nothing? I got nothing. It's all It's all
him. It's the worship team would come. Jesus
said this, that the right combination of salt
and light, his salt, his light, will produce
a response that points right back to him. It
reminded me of a story that I read. This story
is actually quite old. It's from over 25 years
ago, but it drives home this idea of salt and
light. In the days leading up to 9 -11, fighting
in Afghanistan between local groups and the Taliban
resulted in thousands of refugees pouring down
into the neighboring Peshawar, Pakistan. There
they were squished into tents and mud hovels,
in refugee camps and in tents and poor sanitation.
Jay Dudley Woodbury and his wife Roberta were
working in the refugee camps at that time. Woodbury
described what happened in the camps. And in
one of the camps in particular where conditions
were very harsh, more so than the others, Roberta
and her class took school supplies to the students.
They also had brought blankets for these children.
And another group of aid workers imported thousands
of sandals for the children who ran around in
their bare feet on the rough, parched ground.
They decided that they would also wash their
feet as Jesus had. Now Dudley goes on to say,
my daughter -in -law joined the group. And for
a solid week, they washed every foot with antibacterial
soap, anointed with oil, and quietly prayed for
the child. And then they gave each of them a
pair of sandals, a quilt, a shawl, plus a small
bag of flour for every family. At first, the
sores and the pus from the infection, the pink
eye, the smell. and the dirt were revolting.
But then our daughter -in -law felt a deep love
as she prayed, Dear Father, this little girl
looks like she does not have anyone to care for
her. Let my touch feel to her as if it was your
touch to her. May she remember how you touched
her this day, and may she see you hereafter.
Thank you for those who seek you because they
will find you. Sometime later, A teacher in one
of the tents used for the refugee school asked
her class where one of these little girls were
at, who are the best Muslims? A girl raised her
hand and replied, the Karafs, or I'm sorry, the
Kafirs. That's a term that Muslims use for unbelievers.
They actually use that to label Christians. And
after the teacher recovered from her shock, she
asked why. And the young girl replied, the Muslims
fighters killed my father. but the kefirs washed
my feet. Deflected to Jesus. This is salt and
light that points people to Jesus. And honestly,
after I read stories like that, sometimes I don't
feel very salty in my own life. Sometimes I remember
back to how I blew it this week, right? Sometimes
my light, how many know I'm about, sometimes
I feel like I'm about a 15 watt bulb and I'm
kind of fading fast, right? That's where we're
at sometimes. But I got to ask myself, how do
I make the right combination of salt and light?
How do I make sure that Jesus is oozing from
me and somebody else is feeling God and it deflects
right past me and the glory goes to God? And
if you're writing something down, and you should
be, right? You should be taking notes during
the message. And by the way, we got notebooks
on sale out in the square, all right? Five bucks
for one. 10 bucks for two, and today's special,
I'll give you four for 20. All right? But you
should be writing this down. How do I get it
right? As I start to move to be salt and light
in the right combination. And I can tell you
that it starts with a decision. It starts with
a decision. You can softly play if you would.
It starts with a decision. Change always starts
with a decision. Now, it takes more than a decision.
How many know you make a decision usually at
the 1st of January that you're gonna go do something
that you haven't done all year long, right? We
call that a New Year's resolution. Do you know
why most New Year's resolutions fall to the ground?
By the end, actually by the 19th of January,
they say that most New Year's resolutions are
just completely by the wayside. Do you know why
that is? It's because somebody made a decision,
but they didn't take the next steps with that
decision. It takes more than just a decision.
One, you got to decide, right? We're going to
decide today. That's what today's all about.
We're going to get on mission. We're going to
win one. Say win one. We're going to win one
for Jesus. We're going to win one for Jesus.
We're going to personally take responsibility
and lead someone. We're going to change that
statistic. It's not going to be 90 % in this
church. It's not going to be 90 % in this house,
right? We're going to get on mission. By the
way, that's in our mission statement. We exist
to connect people to Jesus and to each other.
It's the very first part of our statement. You
got to make a decision to do that. But here's
the second step. You got to rely on the Holy
Spirit. We are people of faith. We are people
of the Spirit. And we need the Holy Spirit to
guide us, to direct us. If you're going to get
in a conversation with somebody and you need
the right words, how many know a lot of times
we don't have the right words? We don't always
know what to say, but the Holy Spirit knows what
to say. He'll guide you. He'll direct you. Man,
if you're going to make a New Year's resolution
to go to the gym, you need to take the Holy Spirit
with you. Convict me, Lord. Get me to the gym,
right? Take care of this body. You need the Holy
Spirit. And then third, you need to implement
a plan. So you need to make a decision. You need
to rely on the Holy Spirit, and then you need
to implement a plan. Salty is the plan. The next
five messages are going to give you a simple,
simplistic, easy plan where you can share your
faith with others. I'm going to walk you through
one week at a time. One week at a time, we're
going to go through. But today is about the decision.
It's about the decision. We pray that you were
impacted powerfully by this message. If you have
been personally affected by our ministry and
you would like to partner with us as we love
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