It is connected prime corruption so this is everlasting par this inconsolable far why have the property not only of assimilating all things cast into add to its own nature but of Macon them in consumable like itself some take the whole and a good sense as referring to the influence of the Spirit of God in the hearts of believers which shall answer the same and to the soul and preserving it from the cunto age and that is in the world as salt did in the sacrifices offered to God to preserve them from putrefaction at this point Clark refers to commentator John traps note on this verse the spirit as salt must dry up those bad humors in us which breed the never dying mom and as fire must waste our corruptions which else will carry us on to the quench of all fire then Clark continues perhaps the whole is an allusion to the purification of vessels and especially such metallic vessels as were employed in the service of the sanctuary probably the following from Numbers Chapter 31 verse 23 May be considered as a parallel text everything that may have died in the fire you shall make go through the fire and it shall be clean and all that abides not the fire you shall make go through the water here Clark's commentary reads as if Jesus himself were speaking to his man you decide bulls are the Lord's sacrifice you shall go through much tribulation in order to enter into my kingdom but you are salted you are influenced by the Spirit of God and are immortal to your work is done and should you be offered up martyred this shall be a means of establishing more fully the glad tidings of the kingdom and this spirit shall preserve all who believe on me from the corruption of sin and from eternal predation that commentator then takes ha. During turn and explains to morning of our Lord if this passage be taken according to the common meaning it is awful Andy here may be seen the greatness multiplicity any turning of the pains of the damned they suffer without being able to die they are burn without being consumed their sacrifice without being sanctified are salted with the far of hail as they turn all victims of the divine justice we must some necessity be sacrificed to God after one way or other in eternity and we have now the choice either of the unquenchable far of his just as or of the everlasting flame of his love on verse 50 Clark says see that you have at all times the preserving principle of divine grace in your hearts and give that proof of that which will satisfy your own minds and convince or silence the world live in brotherly kindness and peace with each other this shell all men see that you are free from and ition and that you are my disciples indeed it is possible for the Saul to lose it savor and yet retain its appearance in the most perfect manner at this point Adam Clark cites the writing of academic and clergyman Henry Mondrian and his travels through the Middle East mandrill observed that salt found in decked out areas still looked in shined like salt but was no longer salty only salt which came directly from the rock retained it saltiness Furthermore the useless salt would destroy any productive ability of ground upon which it was thrown therefore it was good only to be walked upon then clog makes this analogy a preacher a private Christian who has lost the life of Christ and a witness of his spirit out of his soul may be likened to that salt he may have the sparks and glittering particles of true wisdom but without its own sion or comfort only that which is connected with the rock. The Soul that is in union with Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit can preserve its savor and be instrumental good to others our Lord shows here what the preachers of the Gospel and what all who profess to follow him should be the salt of the earth to preserve the world from putrefaction and destruction it is written in Matthew Mark and Luke had Jesus calling his 1st disciples called man who fished for a living Luke Chapter 5 verses one through 11 tell this story on one occasion while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the Word of God He was standing by the lake of genius or it and he saw 2 boats by the lake but the fisherman had gone out of them were washing their nets getting into one of the boats which was Simon's he asked him to put out a little from the land and he set down and taught the people from the boat and when he had finished speaking he said to Simon put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch and Simon answered Master we toiled all night and took nothing but at your word I will let down the nets and when they had done that as they enclose a large number of fish and their nets were breakin they signaled to their partners and the other boat to come and help them and they came in fill both the boats so that they began to sing but when Simon Peter saw it he fell down at Jesus' his knees sand Depart from me for I am a send for man or Lord for he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch a fish they had taken and so also were James and John sons of Zebedee who were partners with Simon and Jesus said to Simon Do not be afraid from now on you would be catchin men and when they had brought their boats to land they left everything and followed him whence we belong to Jesus Christ we must become disciples of our Lord and Savior as disciples of Jesus it is imperative that we lead salty lives and provoke. The world's thirst for the preserving influence of Jesus they CNS along these lines the Apostle Paul encourages us at kolache in chapter 4 verse 6 to let your speech always be with grace seasoned with salt that you may know how you ought to answer each one if we truly follow Jesus the Messiah and live salty lives many more people in the world with thirst for and be caught by Jesus they CNS a practice of many restaurants and bars is to serve salty snacks to keep patrons Thursday this is designed to encourage continuous drinking and thereby sell more drinks as true followers of Jesus Christ we want to have that same effect on people around us we catch them with their own thirst for Jesus the living water and they will never thirst again we know those who hunger and thirst are out there because the Lord called them at Isaiah Chapter 55 verses wanted to have a come everyone who thirst to the waters come he who has no money buy and eat yes come buy wine and milk without money and without price why do you spend money for that which is not bring it on your labor for that which doesn't satisfy listen diligently to me and eat that which is good and let your soul delight itself in richness Jesus says hunger and thirst for the right thing is good and Matthew 5 Verse 6 blessid unfortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness uprightness and right standing with God but they shall be completely satisfied according to if he jps to verse 10 we have been created in Jesus Christ for His purposes not for ours therefore we want his love and desire for us and for the people in the world to be clearly saying it is not right for us to conceal this witness from the world you know the world can tell rather quickly who we belong to even if we never say a word this is. Why so many people are turned off when they are approached by so-called Christians without the goods of the Holy Spirit's fruit the hungry and thirsty ones know when they have encountered the eternal person of Jesus even if they don't know what to believe or can't call his name they have been prepared just for this moment as Romans 8 verses 19 through 21 testify everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when he will show the world who his children are the whole world wants very much for that to happen everything God May was allowed to become like something that cannot fulfill its purpose that was not its choice by God made it happen with this hope in view that the creation would be made free from wrong and that everything God May would have the same freedom and glory that belongs to God's children once a week cept Jesus is Lord and Savior we do not belong to ourselves anymore and the way we live should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that we are he is this is more likely to be the case if we deliberately spend time with him every day and ask for his way in every decision at 1st we yield and tell the submission to his leading but eventually we will learn and be able to accurately choose his ways still allowing him to train in the chair us in his live his godliness and His Holiness this process is shown as 2nd Peter chapter one verse 3 through 8 for his divine power has bestowed upon as all things that are requisite and suited to life and godliness through the full personal knowledge of Him who called us by and to his own glory and excellent virtue by means of these he has bestowed on us his precious and exceedingly great promises so that through them you may escape by flight from the moral decay that is in the world because of come. Isness lust and greed and become sharers partakers of the divine nature for this very reason adding to your diligence to the divine promises employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue and in exercising virtue develop knowledge and in exercising knowledge develop self-control and in exercising self-control develop steadfastness patience in durance and in exercising steadfastness develop godliness and in exercising godliness develop brotherly affection and in exercising brotherly affection develop Christian love for as these qualities are yours and increasingly abounding you they will keep you from being idle or unfruitful unto the full personal knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah the anointed one we can do these things when we put Jesus Christ sawing keep them on all alert sides had Romans 13 versus 11 through 14 you know what a critical hour this is how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your sleep and rouse to reality for salvation final deliverance is near to us now than when we 1st believe trusted in and relied on Jesus Christ the Messiah the night is far gone and a day is almost here let us then drop praying away the works and deeds of darkness and put on the former of light let us live and conduct ourselves honorably and the coming Lee as in the open light of day not in raveling carousing and drunkenness not in immorality and not in Coraline in jealousy but clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah and make no provision for indulging in the flesh and put a stop to thinking about the evil cravings of your physical nature to gratify is desires its lasts once the Lord instructed a young lady to give me a cap with the words salt light on it according to the. Urban Dictionary this phrase the nodes a surfer body border or general beach by whose life centered around the ocean or related beach going activities at the time I was on a low salt diet I asked the Lord why she did that and what I was supposed to understand I now believe there was a door meaning 1st from my physical body Secondly and more importantly for my spiritual life salt consumption quite a bit of conversation in the health industry One camp says high salt intake blades too many illnesses and the other can't insist that too little or the wrong kind of salt is dangerous to overall health the truth however is that the human body needs sodium and some people do receive benefits from adding salt to their diets salt plays a necessary role and water retention and muscle contraction and contains nutrients that are vital to the proper functioning of the digestive and other processes and the health of the body as a whole has designs of Jesus Christ we must watch over our lives to ensure they remain salty they apostle James alerts us as to how easy it is to be polluted by our tongues had James 3 verses 7 through 12 he compares the absurdity of the same mouth expressing blessing and cursing to them possibility of a fountain flowing with both sweet and salt water for every kind of beasts and bird a reptile and c.n.n. Will can be tamed and has been tamed by human genius but the human tongue can be tamed by no man it is a restless and discipline irreconcilable evil full of deadly poison with it we bless the Lord and Father and with it we curse men who are made and God's likeness out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing these things my brother and all not to be. Oh there's a fountain send for Sam a tiny Asli from the same opening freshwater and better or salt water kind of a fig tree my brother in bear all of or a grape vine fix Neither can a salt spring furnish fresh water Paul has something to say about this as a chapter 4 verse 6 let your speech at all times be gracious that is pleasant and when some seasoned as it were with salt so that you may never be at a loss to know how you ought to answer any one who puts a question to you we must be salty people living salty lives commentator Albert Barnes writes lives seasoned with piety and Grace is in a way similar to that which we employ salt in our food making it wholesome and palatable the spirit of piety will make it what it should be useful agreeable and beneficial to mankind earlier we mentioned the need for salt and our physical bodies salt helps retain water in the body and in life committed to Jesus Christ will possess living water of the Holy Spirit Listen to this portion of the conversation between Jesus and I Samaritan woman from John for a Samaritan woman came to well to get some water and Jesus said to her please give me a drink the woman answered I am surprised that you asked me for a drink you are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans Jesus answered You don't know what God can give you and you don't know who I am the one who asked you for a drink if you knew you would have asked me and I would have given you living water the woman said Sir Where were you get this living water the way I was very deep and you have nothing to get water where are you greater than our ancestor Jacob he is the one who gave us as well he drank from it himself and his sons and all his handles drink from it to Jesus answered every one who drinks. This water will be thirsty again but anyone who drinks to water I gav will never be thirsty again the water I give people will be like a spring flowing inside and them it will bring them eternal life at John Chapter 7 verse 38 she's a says He who believes in me who cleave to and trusts and relies on me as the Scripture has said from his innermost being shell flow continuously springs and rivers of living water speaking of Jesus the Apostle John says at 1st John Chapter 5 verses 6 through 8 this is he who came by water and blood his baptism and his death Jesus Christ the Messiah not by the water only but by the water and the blood and it is the Holy Spirit who bears witness because the Holy Spirit is the truth so there are 3 witnesses in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Spirit and these 3 are one and there are 3 witnesses on the earth the Spirit the water and the blood and these 3 agree in unison their testimony coincides the Apostle John recounts what he was told by the risen Jesus said Revelation $21.00 verse 6 and he further said to me it is done I am the Alpha and the Omega the Beginning and the end to the thirsty I myself will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life and a very special of the Taishan is given at Revelation chapter 22 for 17 and the spirit in the Bride say Come and he who is hearing let him say Come and he who is thirsting let him come and he who is willing let him take the water of life freely God Himself promises thirst make a new freshman and I was there 44 verses 3 thru 5 I would give water to the thirsty land and make streams flow on the dry ground I will pour out my Spirit on your children and my blessing on your descendants they will thrive like well water grass light will. By the streams of running water one by one people will say I am the Lord's they will come to join the people of Israel they each will mark the name of the Lord on their arms and call themselves one of God's people and the reminder can be seen at Titus 3 verses 3 thru 7 indeed we too were once stupid disobedient and misled we were slaves to many kinds of lust and pleasures we were mean and jealous we were hated and we hated each other however when God Now savior made his kindness and love for humanity appear he say dies but not because of anything we had done to gain his approval instead because of his mercy he saide through to Washington and which the Holy Spirit gives rise New Birth Henry nor God poured a generous amount of His Spirit on eyes through Jesus Christ our Savior as a result God in His kindness has given us his approval and we have become a years who have the confidence that we have everlasting life salt stimulates muscle contraction and assault a life committed to Jesus Christ manifests his strength for the inner man to run life's race as Paul shares at Philippi and chapter 4 verse 13 Christ is the one who gives me the strength I need to do whatever I must do this is how Paul could say if the Libyans chapter 3 verses 13 and 14 I do not consider brother and that I have captured and made it my own yet but one thing I do it is my one aspiration for getting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead I press on toward the goal to when the Supreme and heavenly prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward and implore others at Romans Chapter 12 versus one into so I beg you brothers and sisters because of the great mercy God has shown us offer your lives as a. Living Sacrifice to him and offering that is only for God and pleasing to him considering what he has done it is only right that you should worship him in this way don't change yourselves to be like people of this world but let God change you inside with a new way of thinking then you will be able to understand and accept what God wants for you you will be able to know what is good and pleasing to Him and what is perfect the author of Hebrews tells us at Chapter 12 versus one into such a large crowd of witnesses is all around us so we must get rid of everything that slows us down especially the sand that just won't let go and we must be determined to run the race that is ahead of us we must keep our eyes on Jesus who leads us and makes our faith complete he endured the shame of being nailed to a cross because he knew that later on he would be glad he did and now he is seated at the right side of God's throne salt contains nutrients needed to extract nourishment from food as true followers of Jesus Christ our salty lives prove out the eternal nourishment which Jesus provides edge on chapter 6 verse 35 he says I am the bread of life he who comes to me will never be hungry and he who believes in and cleaves to and trusts and relies on me will never thirst any more at any time Jesus said more about this eternal food in Matthew Chapter 4 verse for man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God Do you think you may have been echoing the prophet it Jeremiah Chapter 15 verse 16 Your words were found and I ate them and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart for I am called by your name o. Lord God of hosts in fact Paul told the Corinthians from whom I was following Moses and the desert were really eating and drinking at 1st Corinthians 10. Verses one through 4 I want you to remember my friends what happened to our ancestors who followed Moses they were all under the protection of the cloud and all pass safely through the Red Sea and a cloud an endless sea they were all baptized as followers of Moses all ate the same spiritual bread and drink the same spiritual drink they drank from the spiritual rock that went with them and that rock was Christ hims