Are You Worth Your Salt?
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· 24 viewsGrace Fellowship in Rusk, Texas Sunday, April 24, at 10:30 AM
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Are You Worth Your Salt?
Are You Worth Your Salt?
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Background
Background
This verse is found within Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). Matthew 5:13-16 is normally referred to as the “Similitudes”. They are more accurately “metaphors” (“You are the salt and the light”) rather than similitudes (“You are like the salt and the light”).
The Significance of Salt
The Significance of Salt
Flavor Enhancer: Salt is a flavor enhancer or seasoning (Matthew 5:13).
Thirst Stimulator: Salt generates thirst. Food vendors understand that selling salty food generates more drink purchases.
Preservative: Salt is a preservative. It is used to cure meat and other food items.
Covenant: Salt was used to symbolize lasting covenant (Leviticus 2:13).
And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Sterilizer: Salt was used to sterilize the farmland of an enemy. (Judges 9:45). Salt also helps sterilize a wound.
De-Icer: Salt is used to melt ice and prevent ice formation.
Commodity: Salt was a precious commodity in trade. People were often paid in salt. (Idiom: “He is not worth his salt.”)
We are the Salt of the Earth
We are the Salt of the Earth
The influence of God’s people enhances people’s hunger for Jesus, the Bread of Life.
The influence of God’s people stimulates a thirst for Jesus, the Water of Life.
The influence of God’s people preserves society from complete depravity.
This is seen the intercession of Abraham for Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18:16-33). The LORD promised Abraham that He would not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if he found ten righteous people there.
Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
The influence of God’s people ensures the covenant promises and provisions of God.
The influence of God’s people sterilizes wounds caused by sin.
The influence of God’s people thaws out cold religion.
The influence of God’s people is worth more than money can buy.
When Salt Loses Its Saltiness
When Salt Loses Its Saltiness
A Church or Christian who loses their saltiness is no longer distinct from the world around them. Their usefulness as a godly influence is forfeited.
Salt that lost its saltiness was often spread on pathways to sterilize it from growing grass and vegetation. Such “salt” was good for nothing except to be trampled upon.
Are You Worth Your Salt?
Are You Worth Your Salt?
Are you a “salty” Christian?
Are people convinced you are a Christian by the way you talk, walk, and live?
Do the people at home, at work, at school know that you have a relationship with Jesus Christ?
Is there enough evidence to convict you of being a Christian in a court of law?