Salt of the earth

Mat 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.


Lev 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.


Mar 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.


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ἅλας
halas
Thayer Definition:
1) salt with which food is seasoned and sacrifices are sprinkled
2) those kinds of saline matter used to fertilise arable land
3) salt is a symbol of lasting concord, because it protects food from putrefaction and preserves it unchanged. Accordingly, in the solemn ratification of compacts, the orientals were, and are to this day, accustomed to partake of salt together
4) wisdom and grace exhibited in speech


Those who are Christ's will speak of Christ, they will live Christ. When we are Christ's we are well salted- we are the SALT of the EARTH. It is Christ in us that makes us the salt of the earth. Without Christ we have NO salt, no savor, we are good for NOTHING but to be cast out and trodden under foot. We must be filled with Christ! Filled with all He has to teach us!


Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:


Christ in us!
Christ our hope of glory!
Christ our all in all!
Christ in our words!


Col 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.


Our speech is to be always with grace- whose grace? Our Savior's! Seasoned with salt- seasoned by our Savior! That which makes us worthy is Christ and we cannot forget this.


Too often we do forget that we are Christ's. Seriously, we do. When we are in the midst of the world and worldly ways we find ourselves conforming to the world, to those around us that rather than stand out we blend in. People will justify it by saying that's just human nature. I wouldn't dispute that at all whatsoever. It is human nature but it's not Christ's nature. If we are living for Christ, if Christ is in us- our hope of glory- would that we would not care a whit about fitting in with the world.


Our Teacher would have us understand--


Mat 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.


We are salt and salt CAN lose its savor.

If I had a quarter teaspoon of salt to a huge pot of soup and then taste the soup will I taste salt? Probably not. Did the salt I put in that soup lose its savor? It did, didn't it? The dilution of that little bit of salt was too much for me to even get a miniscule taste of salt. So what would I have to do? Add more salt until I tasted the flavor as desire- the salt bringing that flavor out. So that little bit of salt didn't disappear completely but by itself it had lost all flavor. That little bit of salt contributed to the additional salt to eventually give me the flavor I wanted for my soup. That doesn't negate that salt can lose its savor, it really can.

If we who are close to Christ - living and breathing Him in our lives- are the salt of the earth than it stands to reason that those who do NOT have Christ in them are salt-free. The flesh nature can control a person and when that happens they are salt-free. When we who are salty with the spiritual nature allow our flesh nature to dilute us we begin to lose our saltiness. Our saltiness can be diluted by the world if we let it.

It needs to be pointed out that without salt in our body we would die. People have died when they've mistakenly diluted their bodies with too much water- they diluted all the salt, potassium, and natural electrolytes in their bodies to the point the heart muscle could no longer contract properly and yes, they died. Salt inside our bodies is necessary. The talk of salt being bad for you is true- TOO MUCH salt in your body isn't good- but having read up on it a bit it's the kind of salt we have today that has been altered drastically from what it was intended. Salt today isn't the salt of Jesus' day. We've chemically stripped natural salt of a lot of it's good minerals and such and turned it into pure sodium. Have you noticed on your grocery store shelves- Sea Salt? Have you noticed on potato chip bags- 'Made with sea salt.' ? The whole point being they are trying to use a HEALTHIER salt rather than the pure sodium they've given us for years.

Salt.

Jesus is vital to our eternal salvation, just as salt is vital to our physical bodies. We need Jesus vitally if we are to live. Satan will attempt to dilute the spiritual salt in us every chance He gets. We retain our salt with all its savor by keeping Christ in our lives first and foremost! We have to be careful of losing our salty savor through the dilutions of Satan. He'll throw more and more worldly, fleshy ways at us - bombarding us day after day with anything and everything He can to distract us from our Savior. We can't let him dilute us! By the grace of God we will not let Him steal us away- take our savor from us- in in the same vein - take our Savior from us.


In the love of our Lord!


Amen!