Today we begin a new series on some of the great risk takers in the scriptures. Those who stepped out in faith not knowing what the futures holds, but were willing to trust God for all the answers. God never called us to a life of comfort but did promise us a full overflowing life when we remain in Him. So we begin today with what I think was a giant leap of faith for a group of people and what happens when we step in faith and how we as a church need to continue to take the unknown path.
How salty are you today?
Matthew 5:13
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
- Some Purposes of salt.
- Salt was Valuable
- Salt made things taste better.
- Salt, in the ancient world, was used as a preservative. People understood that if you rubbed salt into a piece of meat, you could keep it longer, and you could keep it more safely.
- Salt was also used as a medicine—in fact, salt can be used to kill certain kinds of bacteria. Interestingly, by looking at old Hebrew documents describing daily life, scholars have learned that when babies were born in ancient Judea, they were often rubbed with salt, because people thought it would help purify them and keep them healthy.
- Salt was used as money
- Salt was also useless
- Throw out to kill and make a path.
- Salty people are risk takers
- People who helped preserve
- Abraham at about 75 years young was enjoying retirement in his own home sipping starbucks and the received a command: ‘Leave your country, your people. And go to the land I will show you’ So Abram left, as the Lord had told him, and journeyed south-west towards the land of Canaan.
- Life itself is inherently risky
- Meridian Woods
- People who helped preserve
You can download the PowerPoint presentation: Risk Taker pt1
