We are the lights holding forth the word of life.

Jesus illustrates this thought right here in Matthew 5.

He says we've got to be visible folks.

We can't just be secret influence. We've got to be visible and the light has to shine openly. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. It seems that every week

there's a new story about a horrific crime, followed by a national and often fruitless conversation about what caused the violence and what to do about it.

The world has problems that politicians,

academics, and popular media simply cannot solve, they can't even explain it.

Thankfully there is hope and if you're a believer, you not only have this hope, but your life

can point others to the same hope.

And of course, that hope is in Jesus Christ. And today John MacArthur shows how you as the light of the

world can shine in a way that helps draw others to Christ. It's part of John's

current study how to live in a dying world.

And so with a lesson now here's John MacArthur.

Let's look at Matthew chapter 5 verses 13 through 16. Here our Lord in his sermon on the Mount directs his attention away from the multitudes to the group of disciples

gathered closest to him and he says to them,

Yeer the salt of the earth, but if the salt have lost its savor,

with what shall it be salted?

It is thereafter good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men.

Ye are the light of the world.

A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a lamp stand and it giveth light

unto all that are in the house.

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