Being Effective for the Kingdom


It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Luke 14:35)


Jesus said we are salt of the earth (Matt 5:13), no requirements of standard of holiness, spiritual maturity nor any form of achievement. It is not a potential that we have to live up to, but as ones saved by grace the 'being salt' has become ours intrinsically. It is God’s gift to His beloved children, but it requires that we are warned that we can lose this state of our being and the consequences is devastating (Matt 5:13).


Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain…..(John 15:16)


Salt and fruitfulness; Jesus was using salt not from the domestic kitchen sense but from agricultural benefit. Israel is a big producer of potash, the form of salt widely used as fertilizers. We have been chosen to call forth those who are in darkness into the Kingdom of Light (1 Pet 2:9) in alignment with the Father’s heart that none perish (2 Pet 3:9). Not many, not a few, but none perish. We sow, but He gives the increase (1 Cor 3:7) of thirty, sixty and some a hundred fold (Mark 4:20). Fruitfulness in souls is the aim of the Kingdom.


Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (1Cor 5:6)


Secondly, sin leads to contagious corruption and finally destruction. Jesus beckons us to be antiseptic in dung heap of the world to eliminate the spread of evil (1 Cor 15:33). There are many in darkness who desires to come into the light, the Lord of the Harvest will reveal to us that the harvest is truly great (Luke 10:2). What would be our response to that revelation? Pray and be those who would be willing in the day of His power (Psa 110:3) and we have been duly endued (Luke 24:49).


The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. (Pro 11:30)


There is great wisdom in our ministry to reconcile man to God (2 Cor 5:18), lasting fruits of righteousness that bring God the glory (Phil 1:11) through the furtherance of the Gospel (Phil 1:12), this is the heart beat that is the pumping life force that drives the early church to see the coming Kingdom established on earth as it is in heaven (Matt 24:14). God’s plan cannot fail; it is whether I fail to fall in line or out of line with His divine will.