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The Salt of the Earth - God Sitting as a Refiner

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The Salt of the Earth - God Sitting as a Refiner

By: Richard Chenevix Trench
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 “YE ARE THE SALT OP THE EARTH: BUT IF THE SALT HAVE LOST HIS SAVOUR, WHEREWITH SHALL IT BE SALTED? IT IS THENCEFORTH GOOD POR NOTHING, BUT TO BE CAST OUT, AND TO BE TRODDEN UNDER FOOT OP MEN.” The words which we have before us naturally and most conveniently suggest a threefold division of the subject. First, there is a dignity: “Ye are the salt of the earth.” Then, secondly, a danger—that of losing our savour; a thing the more dangerous, as we are appointed not to get a savour from others, but to impart one to them. And then, thirdly, a doom; such savourless salt shall “be cast out, and trodden under foot of men.” Let us consider these three points in their natural order and succession. And first, the dignity—“Ye are the salt of the earth.” I need hardly remind you of the, worth and honour of salt in the estimation of all antiquity. “Salt is good,” was the conviction alike of all; and if of profane antiquity, still more of sacred, as is sufficiently indicated in the single fact that it was an indispensable element in every sacrifice. “Every sacrifice,” in our Lord’s own words, “shall be salted with salt;” referring as He did herein to the express command of Moses, “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.” Now there can be no doubt that what rendered salt this indispensable accompaniment of every sacrifice was this, namely, its power to stay the progress of corruption; to keep that on which it was sprinkled, or with which it was mingled, pure, and wholesome, and sweet. And it was this property of salt, no doubt, that Christ had in His eye, transferring it to spiritual things, when He said to His disciples, “Ye are the salt of the earth.” It is in this sense, and because of this quality of resisting corruption, that I wish to transfer it, and apply the words to you. Christian Living Christianity Devotionals
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