Old-Time Religion - King’s Heralds He Whispers His Love to Me - Del Delker and Bob Seamount I Need Jesus - King’s Heralds Can the World See Jesus In You? - King’s Heralds

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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

The Salt of the Earth

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up you pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

From our Voice of Prophecy Studios in Los Angeles, California.

We welcome you to this half hour of inspiration.

Again today you'll hear the music of the King's Heralds, Del Delker and Brad Braley.

The voice of Prophecy speaker is HMS Richards.

Give me that old time religion, Give me that Old Time religion Give me that Old Time religion And it's good enough for me It was good for the prophet Daniel It was good for the prophet Daniel, it was good for the prophet Daniel, it was good for the prophet Daniel, And it's good enough for me.

Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, And it's good enough for me.

It will take us all to heaven, It will take us all to heaven, It will take us all to heaven, and it's good enough for me.

Give me that old time religion, give me that old time religion, Give me that old time religion, and it's good enough for me.

Our Heavenly Father, Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for Thy blessing upon us.

We come with this broadcast to honor thy name we pray that thou will remember in mercy every listener and may this broadcast of thy word bring help to each 1 who hears in Christ's name.

A place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, sent from the heart of God, hold us who bow before Thee, near to the heart of God.

It is so sweet just to know that along the way Jesus walks by my side all the live long day and he knows when the shadows begin to lower and he whispers his love to me he whispers his love to me Last I should stray from him away, he whispers his love to me.

Oh, his voice is so wondrously sweet to me.

There's no music on earth has such melody.

There's no joy that can come to the human heart like the joy that his love ever doth impart.

He whispers his love to me the King's heralds expressed now in song how inadequate we all feel in our own strength and say, I need Jesus.

I need Jesus, my need I now confess, No friend like Him in times of deep distress.

I need Jesus, the need I gladly own, though some may bear their load alone, yet I need Jesus.

I need Jesus with me, I need Jesus, I need Jesus every day.

Need Him in the sunshine hour, Need him when the storm clouds lull, Every day along my way.

No 1 like him, he is the sinner's friend.

I need Jesus, no other friend will do, so constant, kind, so strong and true.

Need him when the storm clouds lower, every day along my way.

This week HMS Richards and the King's Heralds will continue their tour through the eastern part of the United States.

See them at these Voice of Prophecy rallies.

Tonight in New York City at the Ephesus Seventh Adventist Church at 101 West 123rd Street.

At the New York Evangelistic Center on West 46th right off Times Square Monday evening.

Allentown, Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening August 20.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Thursday evening.

And in Washington DC on Friday evening and Saturday.

Watch your newspapers for the exact location of these meetings.

Del Delker and I will be at the Voice of Prophecy rally at Prescott, Arizona at the Seventh-Evans campgrounds this next weekend.

If you live in any of these areas we invite you to attend.

Now here is HMS Richards, his subject, The Salt of the Earth.

A fountain pen salesman was writing up an order for 500 pens, which he had just received from a well-to-do merchant.

Suddenly the storekeeper exclaimed, Hold on, cancel that order.

Later on, the merchant's bookkeeper asked him, Why did you cancel that fountain pen order?

Because he talked fountain pens to me for half an hour, using a number of strong arguments, and then he booked my order with a lead pencil.

His practice didn't agree with his profession.

And that brings us to the subject of our talk, the very words of Jesus, Ye are the salt of the earth.

Ye are the salt of the earth, But if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

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

It cannot lose its saltiness as long as it's salt.

There must be something wrong with this illustration.

Jesus was speaking to the people of his time and using an illustration that they could understand.

While pure salt cannot lose its savor, The salt used in Palestine was not pure.

It was not the fine chemical substance that we have today.

The savorless salt in this parable refers to the salt in common use at that time, with most of the sodium chloride washed out of it.

In those days, salt was gathered from marshes along the seashore or off inland lakes, and the crude facilities for gathering it resulted in the presence of many impurities.

In contact with the ground or exposed to rain, sun, the highly soluble salt soon disappeared and left only the insipid impurities.

It was then good for nothing, was thrown away.

William Thompson, who traveled all over Palestine about a hundred years ago, says in his Land and the Book, page 381, I saw large quantities of this savorless salt literally thrown into the street to be trodden underfoot of men and beasts.

Long, long ago Pliny, a great Roman writer, said, there's nothing more useful than salt and sunshine.

And these are the 2 things that Jesus mentioned side by side right here in the fifth chapter of Matthew.

For the next verse says, ye are the light of the world.

Now salt gives flavor to food and preserves from corruption.

1 who has to go on a salt-free diet certainly can testify to this fact.

It takes quite a while to become accustomed to eating food without salt.

Jesus is speaking here to his disciples and, of course, to all professing Christians when he says, Ye are the salt, the salt of the earth.

And this brings us to a tremendously important fact.

A Christian is not called by God merely for his own salvation, but he is to become an agent in the saving of others.

God's object in choosing people before all the world is not only that they might be his sons and daughters, but that through them the world might receive the grace that brings salvation.

God did not choose Abraham in order merely to save him, but to make him a medium of blessing to others.

In Jesus' high priestly prayer recorded in the 17th chapter of John, the prayer which he offered just before his crucifixion, he said, for their sakes, that is, for the sake of his disciples, I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

Christians who are purified through the truth will possess saving qualities that preserve the world from absolute corruption.

But we must remember that salt must be mingled with a substance to which it is added, or it will not preserve it.

It must penetrate it, it must be infused into it, in order to preserve it.

So it is through personal contact and association that men are reached by the saving power of the gospel.

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