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Stop doing business with people who hate you. Thanks for being here. No Christian should be surprised

at the state of our society today. The only surprise should be that things are not much,

much worse. It's been much worse in different societies before,

and I believe it will get much worse. There has to be some sort of revival or restoration to get us

back on track. But we should not be surprised that there's a drag queen's story hour that's just getting more

offensive and erotic or that terrible crimes are committed or that the government is weaponizing

its power against you.

This is par for the course of humanity because humanity is like rotten meat and it needs

salt to purify it. You are the salt. That's not me telling you.

That's Jesus. And that's the theme of this week. You are the salt of the earth. What does that

mean? Jesus says you're the salt of the earth. And so many Christians are like, well,

without even knowing truly, deeply, profoundly what that means.

So that's the theme of the week is try to figure that out.

Salt is different from what you put it on.

When you have a delicious rib eye, you put a lot of salt on it.

The salt is different from the meat.

And you should be different from the world, especially a rotting world.

If you are not unlike the world, if you like the same TV shows and the same movies and music and podcasts, and if you have the same worldview as the world, and if you use the same words and think the same things, like the other day

we talked about how this belief that everyone's born good. For instance, if you're no different

than the world, then you're not salt. You're supposed to be different. Salt is different than ribby.

I'd be like pouring ribe on a rib eye or whatever. Like you can't. It doesn't make any sense.

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