Our scriptural text today comes from the fifth chapter of the gospel according to St. Matthew.

This is, as we affectionately call it, the Sermon on the Mount.

Sermon on the Mount.

And this is an excerpt from that where Jesus declares to the people that are gathered,

you are the salt of the earth.

But what good is sought if it has lost its flavor?

Can you make it salty again?

It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.

You are the light of the world, like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden.

No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket.

Instead a lamp is placed on a stand where it gives light to everyone in the house.

In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see so that everyone will praise your Heavenly Father.

We're speaking today from the subject, seasoned saints.

Seasoned saints.

We have some seasoned saints who are here at Word of Faith as those who have some maturity to them and have lived through the years and have some seasoning in God's grace and some of them have beautiful gray hair, whether it is under some color or weave weave or wig or something but it's it's there it's

there and we celebrate and we love and we honor our seasoned saints in the house as

an as an as an honor we we let it do we celebrate well but here Jesus is talking to all of his

father all of his followers and saying to them you are the salt of the earth you are

the salt of the earth and it's interesting that Gandhi said that he had no problem with Christ,

but he had a problem with Christianity. And it was one of his other statements. He said,

if the world were introduced to the Christ of Christianity, would receive him but instead the world is

introduced to the Christians of Christ and it rejects him and and I want you to

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