Sorry, folks I have been out of the picture for the past week or so. Our family has been sick but here I am and I hope we can jump into it and I pray your personal study time is blessed..
Matthew 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.”
Question: Does this verse imply that “the salt” (Christians) can become non salt (Non Christians) and/or just “carnal”? If not, how do you explain the text?
Matthew 6:14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you
Is Gods forgiviness in this verse earned? Is forgivness based on simply forgiving others?
Matthew 7:14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Is the path to heaven given to sinners by the grace of God or do they “find” it, as the verse states?
Different theological backgrounds means different views on scripture. We can differ on secondary issues and still have fellowship. So keep theological debates centered on the text in our reading plan (unless needed to cross reference of course) so as not to veer off to far & be a one issue blog. But Truth is important to dialog about, so communicate effectively.
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Let’s look at the concept of salt. Our Lord said that the danger is that salt can lose its saltiness. Moraino in the Greek, it means ‘flat and tasteless,’ if you become flat and tasteless.
There have been many explanations of this. Some say that the salt we have today doesn’t lose its saltiness, and that, for the most part, is true. But in that day, it wasn’t nearly as refined.
The Dead Sea was and still is a tremendous warehouse for salt. You can go to the Dead Sea and lay flat on your back and just bob – it’s incrediblet. The salt from the marshes, lagoons, and the rocks around the Dead Sea is in abundance. But it easily acquired, in that time, and still, because of its impurity, a stale or alkaline taste, because it was mixed with gypsum, which was also there. So that kind of salt would lose its capability to salt and would become very alkaline and stale, and the only thing it was good for was to throw out on the road where people walked. They didn’t want to throw it in the field, because it would kill everything growing there. So they threw it on the road, where all that would happen is that it would be trampled.
By the way, natural salt is impure in many cases, and mixed with other chemicals, can become unsalty. William Thompson, in his classic book The Land and the Book, which deals with the nation of Israel, tells about a merchant who rented several homes in which he stored salt. The merchant, however, forgot to cover the dirt floor before he put the salt down, and simply unloaded the salt on the dirt. When he returned later, he discovered that his salt had lost its flavor from being next to the earth. The whole supply he threw into the street, where men walked on it.
So we know that the kind of salt that they had at that time had the capacity to lose its saltiness, and that is to what our Lord issaying. Something that they would no doubt understand, that salt could lose its saltiness. I just want you to understand that. In Luke 14:34, it says, “Salt is good. But if the salt has lost its savor, with what shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor for the dung hill, but men throw it out.” So it is the same statement there in Luke.
If sin enters a Christian’s life, he will lose his influence. If sin is in your life, you have no influence; you can’t slow down the corruption of the world because you’re in it You’re not going to create in someone a thirst for God, because there is nothing there to make them thirsty for what you have.
The point here is not that you lose your salvation, but like I Corinthians 9:27, you become a castaway; you forfeit your influence and lose your impact. When a Christian loses his saltiness, it’s a sad situation. You can lose it; just be sinful at work and you’ll lose your reputation. If you’re sinful at school, listen to the things that people say that aren’t right, go along with the dirty talk, be involved with the things they do that you know aren’t right. You’ll lose your saltiness, and make no contribution to retard their corruption. You’ll make no pure statement against an impure background. You’ll create no thirst in anyone for God.
The point is, God needs your influence and you are to be salt. But to be salt, you have to stay away from that which corrupts you. They say that perfectly pure salt never loses its flavor. I like that. You want to know something? None of us is perfectly pure salt; we won’t be until we get to glory. As long as we’re in this life, we will have impurities and the potential for losing our saltiness is always there. God help us to so live the kind of life that will influence the world!