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<div class="SSN_title">"THE SALT OF THE EARTH"</div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: "He's the salt of the earth." Once used as money.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE PROPERTIES OF SALT.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. A preservative.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. No refrigeration.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. When meat butchered salted.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Salt killed bacteria.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Prevented rotting.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus is saying that we are to have a preserving influence on our society.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. So many corrupting forces.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Is your life an influence for good.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Do your friends feel free to tell you a dirty joke?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. A seasoning.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Food is flat and insipid without salt.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Cooked oats.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Cookies.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. How flat and insipid is the world without Christ.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Reason for pleasure mania.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. People seeking to put some zest into life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Christians have often given off grim and morbid vibes.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote, "I went to church today and didn't get depressed."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Creates thirst.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Eat salty foods you get thirsty.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. You should be creating a thirst in people.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. In Rome the government used to be measured by the ability of a woman to walk the street at night.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. 50,000 to 100,000 homosexuals demonstrated in San Francisco.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Equating Anita Bryant with Hitler and Amin.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. The corrupt society testifies to the failure of the church.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. We haven't been salty enough.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. We have lost our sting.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. FATE OF SAVOURLESS SALT.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Good for nothing."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Cast out and trodden under the foot of man.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. When because of impurities salt could not be used for food.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Cast along the paths, killed vegetation.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Trodden under foot of man.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Christ ultimatum to the church.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Paul to Timothy, "Take heed to thyself and thy doctrine..."</div>
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