matthew 5:14 sermon

CHRISTIAN CONSISTENCY. There must be nothing to mar the brilliancy of the light. So in us there should be nothing of evil to draw away men's eyes from the light and fix them upon our imperfections. Your good works may be seen, and ought to be seen, but to God's glory, and not your own. All the glass in the optical instruments, whether they are intended for scientific purposes, or for ordinary use, should be free from dross.(S. The scandal is, not to see religion opposed by unbelievers, but that Christians dare not maintain their religion with zeal and proclaim it as their greatest honour and glory.4. On the contrary, many advantages may arise to the cause of religion from the exhibition of piety. Taylor. Goshen only has light: Christians once dark; hut have received light.1. II. As a servant he will be obedient.9. 1. “You are the light of the world. What!" Parker.It is thus that his own sun works daily in the heavens: who dares look at the sun when he so shines as to fill the earth with all the beauty of summer? A. Moberley, D. C. L.What are the limits of lawful showing of our deeds, so that we may not break the law which bids us be secret?1. In the sixth chapter our Lord gives cautions. Cooper.I. Dewstoe. 2. In other words, all who surround the light see it. REMOVE A DIFFICULTY which may have arises from an apparent inconsistency between our text and the words of our Lord in a subsequent part of His discourse. "Glorify your Father which is in heaven."(W. Being the light of the world, … Our outward, observable, public works make who we are and whose we are manifestly clear. That they may glorify your Father which is in heaven.(D. God has left each of us here, to shine for Him, to … Not to let our works be seen when they ought to be seen would be to desert our Lord. THE DUTY OF CHRISTIANS TO EXHIBIT THEIR LIGHT IN A GODLY CONVERSATION. The best style in writing is that which gives the thought with such transparency that the reader sees nothing else; and that is the noblest Christian character which shows the most of Christ. The WORLD'S MORAL DARKNESS IMPLIED. A reproducer of this light.3. Negative.2. CHRISTIAN PROFESSING. Unity.5. Salt provides taste. They didn’t have light bulbs back then. D. Fraser.Persons who are not averse to make all the show they can in social life are wonderfully sensitive about any disclosure of spiritual conviction or feeling.(Dr. The word light implies a saving knowledge of the truth.2. Fraser. Taylor. As a member of the Church of Christ he must show good will. Hence it appears that we ought frequently to contemplate the examples of good men, out of which there are so many and so great advantages to be drawn. The silver reflectors are burnished to the brightest purity, and every funnel and glass are absolutely without a spot. There has been great difficulty in the way of securing the division of the electric light. Both statements are true. Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. Habitual holiness is required. (Name only). That they may glorify your Father which is in heaven.(D. Maclaren, D. D.I. Hughes, M. Fraser, D. D.)Wanted, much wanted, bright ChristiansD. The human mind was constructed so that every faculty in its organization tends to produce good qualities. It is the most successful method of illustrating truth and imparting instruction.II. Maclaren, D. D.The lighthouse-keeper takes no pains that the ships tossing away out at sea may behold the beam that shines from his lamp, but all that he does is to feed and tend it. You and I live in a world that, yes is beautiful and has some wonderful places and beautiful sights to see. Daniel With regard to almsgiving, the Psalmist, speaks of it as properly exciting the esteem of men. And so the text seems to offer the antidote to its own difficulty. Goode, M. Not only the honour but the progress of religion depend upon your examples. 4. The true disciple's POSITION and calling. "Ye are the light of the world." There must be nothing to mar the brilliancy of the light. , D. D.)Christian example leads to the discovery of Christian sympathyWhen the English minstrel went to seek for his master of the Lion Heart, he played everywhere the monarch's favourite tune, and was at length rewarded by hearing its notes sent feebly back to him from the prison wherein Richard was confined. The lowest requirement of Christian consistency is the absence of every evil work — the least immorality vitiates the entire profession. A. You may have a window all covered with dust, and spun over with the cobwebs of spiders, that have not been disturbed for years, and the passer-by, in the darkness, will take no note of its impurity. The Church's responsibility. Look at the primitive Schwartz, at the devoted Brainerd, at the zealous Corrie, and many others; Oh! As a neighbour he must be accommodating.5. Sermon # 4 “Let Your Light Shine” Matthew 5:14-16 We are now in our fourth in our series based on Christ’s Commands. We should get rid of that undue reserve which keeps the real character from being as powerful an influence for good as otherwise it might be. Christians are made what they are to attract the world. Look at the goal and the application of verse 16. Children’s Sermon Matthew 5:14-16 Light of the World. Hughes, M. A. It is upon this state of facts that Christ ordained that men should carry their moral faculties up to the highest degree of excellence.IV. Irreligion is artificial.II. W. But the principle guide in cases like these is not to be found so much in an external rule as in a spiritually enlightened discrimination, which feels instinctively when is the time for secrecy and when for publicity.How dangerous to our Christian modesty everything must be which takes off from the delicacy of our natural modesty.1. THE FACT THAT THERE IS A LIGHT POSSESSED BY CHRISTIANS WHICH PECULIARLY BELONGS TO THEM. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE. It is with borrowed rays that the Christian at any time illuminates others.II. )Glorifying GodH. Ye are the light of the world. The silver reflectors are burnished to the brightest purity, and every funnel and glass are absolutely without a spot. The success of the gospel was made to depend not on preaching, but upon living men.V. The hatred of men, the esteem and love of men, the unspeakable blessedness of seeing others led by our influence to worship God (ver. We should get rid of that undue reserve which keeps the real character from being as powerful an influence for good as otherwise it might be.2. We should get rid of that undue reserve which keeps the real character from being as powerful an influence for good as otherwise it might be.2. Beecher.)I. Be modest in other things. Cut the current and the electric light dies, slacken the engine and the electric are becomes dim, quicken it and it burns bright.(A. It preserves morality. That there is light in us at all makes it all the more important that we should keep ourselves pure. A separating work.3. )A good life the great means of glorifying GodW. Taylor. "He hath dispersed abroad," etc. Maclaren, D. D.)A good example a rebuke of evilA. A reflector of spiritual light.2. 14 “You are the light of the world. His calling is from the elevated position he occupies, to shed light upon the whole world.II. Candles are not lit to be looked at, but that something else may be seen by them. The traveller said, thoughtlessly it may be, "What if one of these burners should go out to-night? Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Matthew 5:14 ← Back to Chuck Smith's Bio & Resources "YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD" I. That is all you and I have to do — tend the light, and do not like cowards cover it up. Slocombe. In looking at a painted window, we think more of the artist and his picture than of the light. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians provoke men to a curious observation and examination of them, and also of the grounds and principles from which they proceed.III. It is possible for good men to smother and shroud their light. The Church's responsibility. 3. "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them." Considering Matthew 5:14-15, are you hiding the light Jesus has given you or living as a city on the hill so all can see? Let it not be so with us. "And glorify your Father which is in Heaven." WHY SHINE. CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE. Men may see God through our works.(A. Matthew 5:14 is the fourteenth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. W. That there is light in us at all makes it all the more important that we should keep ourselves pure. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians will naturally attract the eyes of unbelievers. "God is the eternal fountain of all honour and glory, therefore, strictly speaking, cannot be dishonoured; He cannot but be glorified, because to be Himself is to be-infinitely glorious. The moral qualities enjoined in Christianity are in the highest degree natural — not artificial or secondary. 6. Rees.I. Hence it appears that we ought frequently to contemplate the examples of good men, out of which there are so many and so great advantages to be drawn. "See your good works."III. Goode, M. Oh, sir," said he, "look at that dark and stormy sea. In looking at a painted window, we think more of the artist and his picture than of the light. This little light of mine,I'm gonna let it shine Fear; Birth; Darkness; Twins; Enlightenment; There … 5. "And glorify your Father which is in Heaven." )Th,e light to reveal the work, not the workerDr. Hence it appears that we ought frequently to contemplate the examples of good men, out of which there are so many and so great advantages to be drawn. The withholding of a good example may be more fatal to religion than positive irregularities, because the turpitude of the latter destroys their power of seduction.3. This implies that the true light has been kindled in us. The reproof of ostentation does not apply when the motive is already good. The world talks of enlightenment. Do not fear that you incur any danger of ostentation in performing visibly such religious observances as your parents or teachers direct. Wythe.)I. )Christian example an argument of weightAnecdotes., W. S. Dewstoe.A young minister, when about to be ordained, stated that at one period of his life he was nearly an infidel. "Glorify your Father which is in heaven."(W. W. M. "Glorify your Father which is in heaven.". So we may feast our eyes upon a paradise of flowers, and get much of heaven out of it, but the moment we venture to say, "Who did this — where is he? Candles are not lit to be looked at, but that something else may be seen by them. A work which needs sustaining.5. M. Taylor.Do you ever pause to think out how it is that our streets are nightly lighted up? The gospel light makes so impressive heathen darkness. The eye was not made any more for beauty in the outward world than a man's moral nature was made for beauty in the moral world. )LinksMatthew 5:14 NIVMatthew 5:14 NLTMatthew 5:14 ESVMatthew 5:14 NASBMatthew 5:14 KJVMatthew 5:14 Bible AppsMatthew 5:14 ParallelMatthew 5:14 Biblia ParalelaMatthew 5:14 Chinese BibleMatthew 5:14 French BibleMatthew 5:14 German BibleMatthew 5:14 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)As in their life and labour they exhibit Christ.II. Curling, M. As a son he will show the excellence of his principles.7. This obligation of giving light is still further enforced by the thought that THAT WAS CHRIST'S VERY PURPOSE IN ALL THAT HE HAS DONE WITH US AND FOR US. Partridge, M. MEN THE LIGHT-BEARERS. Easterns did not use tables and chairs. "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men." And since its dawn, even those bright things that were proposed as substitutes for it, this light has seized and made handmaids to it. Modestly but yet bravely carry out your Christianity, and men will see it. Maclaren, D. D. A good man or woman reveals the ugliness of evil by showing the beauty of holiness.(A. And its job is Make things in a sinful world better through through its message of hope in the Gospel. We should learn in them to see our own faults, and to mend them. Along with darkness, light is often used to contrast knowledge and ignorance. Goode, M. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. As a master his Christian character must shine.8. The human mind was constructed so that every faculty in its organization tends to produce good qualities. Irreligion is artificial.II. By so doing will engage them in some serious reflections upon the Christian religion.II. Browse Sermons on Matthew 5:14-16. Men oppose light and yet light is pleasant to them.III. There is a right way of shedding light.3. It is not enough to be Christians only to ourselves, we must be so before God and men. And yet He is pleased to say that our sins dishonour Him, and that our obedience glorifies Him. Maclaren, D. D.)No light apart from ChristA. Beecher., Sir William Dawes, Bart. Modestly but yet bravely carry out your Christianity, and men will see it. Thats Jesus. Fraser. how Godlike was their employ. II. The prohibition is of religious acts from a wrong motive, "that they may be seen of men." , D. D.)Christian example leads to the discovery of Christian sympathyWhen the English minstrel went to seek for his master of the Lion Heart, he played everywhere the monarch's favourite tune, and was at length rewarded by hearing its notes sent feebly back to him from the prison wherein Richard was confined. J. Wilmot Buxton.)I. Bible > Matthew > Matthew 5 > Matthew 5:14 Clarke's Matthew 5:14 Bible Commentary Ye are the light of the world - That is, the instruments which God chooses to make use of to illuminate the minds of men; as he uses the sun (to which probably he pointed) to enlighten the world. His position is like that of a city set on a hill, eminently conspicuous; he "cannot be hid," and he ought not to try to be hid. Let our song be like that of the skylark, as he rises with dewy breast from his lowly earth-couch, singing as he soars, until, unseen in the deep blue above, he rains a shower of melody on the listening earth. The nature and property of light is to radiate. So lets ask a few questions here of application? EXPLAIN THE SYMBOL.1. J. Wilmot Buxton., Dr. A. Barnes.1. Hughes, M. Hence it appears that we ought frequently to contemplate the examples of good men, out of which there are so many and so great advantages to be drawn. It is a demonstration of the practicability of religious life, as well as the truthfulness of Christianity, and the most successful method of removing objections to it.III. 3. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians will so powerfully represent to unbelievers the reasonableness and excellency of the Christian religion, as well as the usefulness and advantage of it, towards the present and future happiness and well-being of mankind, that they will be led to examine into the grounds of it. (2)From love to God(3)with a view to His glory.2. 14 Ye are the light of the world. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians provoke men to a curious observation and examination of them, and also of the grounds and principles from which they proceed.III. Both of these substances are valuable and both are useful. So God would have us be his atmosphere to carry his sunbeam; his candlestick, his lamp-stand, to lift up his light, so that all men might be brought unto him. THE MEANS BY WHICH THIS WITNESS-BEARING MAY BE THE MOST EFFECTUALLY DONE.1. )A good life the great means of glorifying GodW. Let it not be so with us. In the same way the evil deeds of open and avowed unbelievers are taken no notice of by the world, for there is no light behind them. So in us there should be nothing of evil to draw away men's eyes from the light and fix them upon our imperfections. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. The light that is in him will wax dim and incur great risk of going out, because it is shut up, and not set to burn on the lamp-stand,where the fresh air may reach and feed the flame.(D. Irreligion is artificial.II. Maclaren, D. D.The lighthouse-keeper takes no pains that the ships tossing away out at sea may behold the beam that shines from his lamp, but all that he does is to feed and tend it. 1. A Divine work.2. Believers are "the light of the world. In the sixth chapter our Lord gives cautions. W. "And glorify your Father which is in Heaven." Wythe. Fraser, D. D.)Wanted, much wanted, bright ChristiansD. Our Heavenly Father shall be glorified by the influence for good we thus exert over the minds of those who see our good works. Just as the glorious orb of day, prying into the recesses of rocks and valleys, receives from the glassy lake and the limpid stream, and from every bright object, beautiful reflections of himself, though nothing could be seen at all without his own light; so God, contemplating the race of man, though he finds among us nothing but what He Himself enables us to exhibit, discovers in every heart that is faithful, in every heart that is pure, in every heart that is holy, merciful, and kind, beautiful representations of His own sublime perfections, and these He is pleased to call glorifications of Himself, though they are made so only by His own gracious acceptation.(H. Matthew 5:14-16 Ye are the light of the world. Taylor. And there are many who put such devices on the window, through which the light of their characters shines, that no beholder is ever moved to think of God. )LinksMatthew 5:14 NIVMatthew 5:14 NLTMatthew 5:14 ESVMatthew 5:14 NASBMatthew 5:14 KJVMatthew 5:14 Bible AppsMatthew 5:14 ParallelMatthew 5:14 Biblia ParalelaMatthew 5:14 Chinese BibleMatthew 5:14 French BibleMatthew 5:14 German BibleMatthew 5:14 CommentariesBible Hub, (3)with a view to His glory.2. )Keep the light bright or you will hear of itThe Preachers' Monthly., James Stewart., Christian Age.I read somewhere of a traveller at Calais going one dark and stormy night to the lighthouse there. The city is lit by lamps, and yet it is the gas that lightens it. )Christ shines into the world through the lives of His peopleW. It attracts attention.IV. When I was a lad, in my native town, I knew a painter there whose favourite works were all portraits of himself, taken in different costumes; and one of England's most famous poets produced a series of writings, in which his moody, misanthropic self was ever the central figure. Do not be as a dark lantern, burning with the shades down and illuminating nothing and nobody.(A. As a son he will show the excellence of his principles. THEIR CHARACTER. "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them." Partridge, M. A personal work to every man who is the subject of it. )The light of Christian exampleH. God, not Self, the End of Christian Example, If You are not Warming the World, the World is Chilling Y, Keep the Light Bright or You Will Hear of It, Men More Ready to Shine Socially than Morally, Th,E Light to Reveal the Work, not the Worker. Jesus brought Light through his word and his works. Fraser, D. D.)Shine by expressed convictionA. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. That where it is not manifest in the life, it does not exist. Maclaren, D. D.)Missionaries the lightF. Maclaren, D. D.)A good example a rebuke of evilA. He calls us both salt and light. Maclaren, D. D.I do say that if the fountain never rises into the sunlight above the dead level of the pool there can be very little pressure at the main; that if a man has not the longing to speak his religious convictions, these convictions must be feeble.(A. Slocombe. Goode, M. A.of the world. Modestly but yet bravely carry out your Christianity, and men will see it. So, as believers, we have the Light of Life. The QUALIFICATIONS needed by Christ's disciples for a right discharge of the duties of their position and calling (vers. It is impartial; it is universal. That is all you and I have to do — tend the light, and do not like cowards cover it up. M. The first command to repent _ tells us how to restore fellowship with God and become qualified to enter his kingdom. The passage read to the end will remove the difficulty suggested. Men oppose light and yet light is pleasant to them. By that discovery, to which we have been so long accustomed that we have ceased to reckon it wonderful. Taylor. The SHINING.(C. Parker. Be modest in other things. There is a moral constitution by reason of which Christian qualities seem admirable to men. Be consistent.4. The greatest praise we cam bestow upon a religion is to practise it. As a father he will have proper regard for the spiritual good of his children. His position is like that of a city set on a hill, eminently conspicuous; he "cannot be hid," and he ought not to try to be hid. 2. Habitual holiness is required. Christians are made what they are to attract the world. Their song, like that of the cuckoo, is a constant repetition of their own name, and the listener is wearied with its iteration. Of course, by that we mean it is a sinful place. The success of the gospel was made to depend not on preaching, but upon living men. By that discovery, to which we have been so long accustomed that we have ceased to reckon it wonderful. Maclaren, D. D. A good man or woman reveals the ugliness of evil by showing the beauty of holiness.(A. Be The Light Shirt Matthew 5 14 Tshirt, Christian Shirt, Bible Scripture, Inspirational Tee, Matthew 5:14 ,faith T-Shirts Gift Men Women MichaelGiftEveryday. D. M. )Spiritual modestyG. W. It is the light of Christianity that solves the deepest questions and answers the most anxious inquiries of mankind. 6. M. Punshon.I. M. Punshon.I. The holy and exemplary lives of Christians provoke men to a curious observation and examination of them, and also of the grounds and principles from which they proceed.III. We should learn in them to see our own faults, and to mend them.

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