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I remember getting seriously dehydrated a few summers ago. I was out playing soccer in the late afternoon on one of the hottest days of the year. I was drinking loads of water, but I felt like I was going to pass out. The water was not helping. I had to stop. I drank some Gatorade that someone hande
Rev. Kuiper is pastor of Immanuel Protestant Reformed Church in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. Salt. Sodium Chloride. A combination of two elements which separately are explosive and poisonous, but as a compound are taken harmlessly into the body every day. Salt is found in many parts of the world in ma
And thus, finally, the positive declaration of the Lord: "ye are the salt of the earth" is distorted into an admonition, as if the Lord had said: "Be ye the salt of the earth." And thus the whole is given a very "practical" application: Church of Christ, understand your sacred calling to improve the
And pick something very simple to teach the positive side of our Christian duty in life, which we must exercise by faith. Using, beloved, lowly salt. Yes, children, what's on your table when you have breakfast, salt, using that table salt. Jesus taught his disciples, and it teaches us to have sa
And he's talking there about praise and worship and meditation. And then what will that do? Well, that will minister grace to the hearers, and that will be the instrument through which we have peace with one another, because we have salt in ourselves. We need a diet of the Word of God. We need
Hermann Bavink, was absolutely devastated by the outbreak of World War I. If you read Bavink's biography, you will find that the development of World War I almost shattered his faith because it was so contrary to his expectation. Imagine what he would think today if he could see what the world i
And the idea has already been explained. Salt was not pure salt, but it had other minerals and compounds in it. And when those other minerals deteriorated, the salt with those other minerals in it had a distasteful, unpleasant taste, and so it was worthless, and it was to be cast away. And so J
They're not salt at all. Secondly, there are the people who are savory. They are salty salt. And then there are the third category of people, people in the church who have lost their saltiness. Now, what is the warning here when Jesus says, but if salt has lost his saltiness, First of all, let
Evil is overcome by good, by good. We came to the Lord's Supper this morning. We communed with Christ. We feasted upon His good gifts. And by this means of grace, Lord willing, we have been strengthened in our faith. Strengthened now by faith to do our noble duty. To carry out our calling. That
And salt has the ability to keep meat, other things, from spoiling and rotting. And that's usually what's emphasized when this passage is interpreted and applied. But that's wrong. Jesus is not speaking of salt here as a preservative. And in fact, if you think about it, you will see how very, ve