Kingdom Culture | Week 4 | Pastor Hess Hester
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Episode Notes
Kingdom Culture- Week 4
November 23, 2025
Introduction: Pastor Dave Brown
Teacher: Pastor Hess Hester
Kingdom Culture: Shake and Shine!
Matthew 5: 13-17 (NIV)
“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 underfoot.
14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.Salt only has an impact when it is in contact with the object of need.
Who in the circles of influence of your life needs Jesus Christ?
Live and speak in such a way as to create spiritual thirst in the hearts and souls of others.
1 Peter 3:15, Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.
Matthew 5: 13b, c (NIV) “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 underfoot.”
Matthew 5:14, “You are the light of the world.”
Even the smallest of lights can make a huge impact. There is no darkness so thick that the light of Christ cannot penetrate it.
Matthew 5:14b-15, A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
Don’t hide your light!
Matthew 5:16, “In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”
John 17: 20-23 (NLT); “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. 22 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. 23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.
One of the greatest ways we shine the light of Christ is by the unity we display.