Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with assault of the Earth as we pick up in Matthew chapter 5 verse 13 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. We are the salt-serving employees.

But if the salt has lost its savor,

it is if it's no longer doing its job, then it's good for nothing.

If the church is not being a purifying influence within the

community, then it's good for nothing. Those churches that seek to exist as

social centers are good for nothing. The church needs to be a dynamic

spiritual influence within the community and seeking to bring a spiritual godly

influence within the community. The salt has lost its savored is good for nothing but to be

cast out and trodden under the foot of man. When the salt became unusable, old, unusable, They would throw it out on the pathways so that the

rain would dissolve it and the sodium chloride would kill the vegetation and so they

used it to kill the vegetation to keep the pathways clear from weeds and grass

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