The bad is something interposed between the original creative design and the execution. 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. 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? Matthew 5:14 is the fourteenth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Maclaren, D. D.)A good example a rebuke of evilA. So follow with me, his followers should go out and carry the light that has been placed inside of us into the world. 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. Positive.III. As a son he will show the excellence of his principles. Christians are made what they are to attract the world. Christ's disciples are light-bearersrather than light. On the contrary, many advantages may arise to the cause of religion from the exhibition of piety. Light signifies knowledge and moral purity.II. 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. "Glorify your Father which is in heaven."(W. We have been united to Jesus and Jesus is the Light of the World. (2)As in their life and labour they exhibit Christ.II. H. Taylor. God alone can light you; teachers may polish.2. In like manner, if wherever you go you would sound out the music of your Christian experience, other hearts would respond to the melody, and your joy would be redoubled.Christian example must be free from inconsistencyThe visitor to a lighthouse is struck with the perfect cleanness of everything about the lantern or the lamps. In analyzing that power there are three or four elements. Light is derived, and therefore humble.2. God forbid that such a thing should ever occur. These were " burning and shining lights " in the darkness; these displayed the glory of the Saviour's love and power to save, in the very midst of Satan's empire.(F. Maclaren, D. D.)The purity of example the primary care of the ChristianA. That religion, if it exists, cannot be concealed.II. There are two ways by which you equalize the temperature of a hotter and a colder body, the one is by the hot one getting cold, and the other is by the cold one getting hot. Fraser, D. D., D. Fraser, D. D.(D. Fraser, D. D.)The figure of the house-lamp suggests domestic Christianity; that of the conspicuous city the more public and collective duty of Christians.(D. D. (Sir William Dawes, Bart. The believers works are good and evident in the world. (Read the entire sermon - Matthew 5:14-16 Christians the Light of the World) You are the light - Not " a " light, but " the " light. W. Wythe.1. So in us there should be nothing of evil to draw away men's eyes from the light and fix them upon our imperfections. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Modestly but yet bravely carry out your Christianity, and men will see it. 1. )Th,e light to reveal the work, not the workerDr. All the glass in the optical instruments, whether they are intended for scientific purposes, or for ordinary use, should be free from dross.(S. And so the text seems to offer the antidote to its own difficulty. There is a moral constitution by reason of which Christian qualities seem admirable to men. It visits poor and rich. 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. His calling is from the elevated position he occupies, to shed light upon the whole world. The success of the gospel was made to depend not on preaching, but upon living men.V. 9. 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. Because Christ has put light into His people, he does not intend it to be hid.II. We can bury the light of the Word under cowardly and indifferent silence. (James Stewart. In looking at a painted window, we think more of the artist and his picture than of the light. Happiness.II. Jesus himself is the “light of all mankind…that shines in the darkness” (Jn 1:4-5). It matters not though we be unseen, if but the light be clear; for then we are fulfilling the command.(W. Goode, M. A.of the world. The impressions which a Church makes on the moral consciousness of the community in which it byes is a fair test of its life and power.(H. , 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. Look at the goal and the application of verse 16. Maclaren, D. D.)A good example a rebuke of evilA. Be real, let all be really addressed to God.3. "Glorify your Father which is in heaven."(W. W. )Christian example not transientBe not a flashing meteor, exciting transitory curiosity with thy blaze of profession.Men more ready to shine socially than morallyDr. The true disciple's POSITION and calling. That is all you and I have to do — tend the light, and do not like cowards cover it up. THE FACT THAT THERE IS A LIGHT POSSESSED BY CHRISTIANS WHICH PECULIARLY BELONGS TO THEM. The reproof of ostentation does not apply when the motive is already good. Wythe. )Spiritual modestyG. Secrecy in good deeds is not absolute, but relative; not positive, and for its own sake, but in order to exhibit the vitiating effect of ostentation.2. If such was his care of lights, the extinction of which could lead only to temporal catastrophes, oh I what should be ours!I. Consider the LIGHTING.1. 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. Hughes, M. Now, similarly, Christ is the hidden source and centre of the world's enlightenment; but Christians, united to Him by the spiritual tubing of faith, draw off from Him that influence by which they are enabled, each in his own place and in his own measure, to dispel some portion of the darkness by which they are surrounded.(W. in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. CHRISTIAN PROFESSING. Cussing. We are naturally inclined to imitation.6. Parker. Be consistent.4. The REWARDS of a right discharge of our duties as true disciples. All earnest Christian conviction will demand expression; and all deep experience of the purifying power of Christ upon character will show itself in conduct. In looking at a painted window, we think more of the artist and his picture than of the light. Fraser. What!" We turn our eyes up to him and he rebukes us with darts of fire; he says, "Look down, not up: look at the works, not the worker." When is the last time we are aware of someone giving glory to God in heaven after seeing or witnessing your good works here in the world. Do not be as a dark lantern, burning with the shades down and illuminating nothing and nobody.(A. Eventually, our sound theology (what we learn here in church and in our personal Bible study) has to make its way into sound application and good works. It is with borrowed rays that the Christian at any time illuminates others.II. J. Maclaren, D. D. A good man or woman reveals the ugliness of evil by showing the beauty of holiness.(A. There are two ways by which you equalize the temperature of a hotter and a colder body, the one is by the hot one getting cold, and the other is by the cold one getting hot. Taylor. It is with borrowed rays that the Christian at any time illuminates others.II. Moberley, D. C. L.)Lustrous ChristiansW. 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. 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. The bad is something interposed between the original creative design and the execution. Moberley, D. C. L.)Lustrous ChristiansW. 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? Hughes, M. A. )These words are descriptive of: —I. Not to be seen of men. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.” Explanation and Commentary on Matt 5:14. Spurgeon. It consecrates a man entirely to the service of light.giving.II. Maclaren, D. D.)If you are not warming the world, the world is chilling yA. )A good life the great means of glorifying GodW. As a member of the Church of Christ he must show good will.4. Then the light is a joyous and happy sort of thing.(W. 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. how Godlike was their employ. Matthew 5:14 “You are the light of the world. 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? If the light which you let shine in your profession be the true light, there will be good works to be seen. Light is a very common metaphor in the Bible. H. W. He must shine: —1. All others are in darkness. The well-pleasing of men.II. These rules will aid spiritual modesty.(G. Jesus is sending the disciples out to be salt in the world. Now, similarly, Christ is the hidden source and centre of the world's enlightenment; but Christians, united to Him by the spiritual tubing of faith, draw off from Him that influence by which they are enabled, each in his own place and in his own measure, to dispel some portion of the darkness by which they are surrounded.(W. They will ascribe to God the power by which we have been made what we are. A light covered up. Beecher., Sir William Dawes, Bart. )Hidden light diesD. It attracts attention.IV. 1. W. D. )A good life the great means of glorifying GodW. 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. This Christian consistency requires nonconformity to the world, and the good works of an active Christian life. The QUALIFICATIONS needed by Christ's disciples for a right discharge of the duties of their position and calling (vers. God is glorified by our repentance — faith — charity. And since its dawn, even those bright things that were proposed as substitutes for it, this light has seized and made handmaids to it. TO let our light shine is, undoubtedly, to make a Christian profession. 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. And so the text seems to offer the antidote to its own difficulty. ", 3. 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