"What Is A Salty Christian? - Part III"
Pastor Paul Frey

It preserves, it purifies, it -provides flavor, it produces thirst. Apply this spiritually and one can understand Iverson's comment. In other words the church is not making much of an impact upon society. Let us take Jesus' use of this figure os speech, "ye are the salt of the earth" and make the spiritual application to ourselves. Personal fidelity to the Lord - In Numbers 18:19 we read, "And every oblation of thy meal offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou allow the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal offering; with all thy meal offering, you shall offer salt." And in Levit. 2:13 we read, "All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord unto thee and thy seed with thee." Among Oriental people and Arabs today, salt is often used to ratify agreements so that salt became a symbol of fidelity and friendship. So the covenant of salt as offered in the meal offering, speaks of the holiness and purity of Christ and God's eternal pledge of fidelity to His people through Christ's atoning death on the Cross which was still future.

So that in Hebrews 13:20 we read, "Now the God of Peace, that brought down again from the dead, that Great Shepherd of the sheep - through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will - working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight." In the time of Abijah, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the king of the ten northern tribes (Israel) came against Abijah with 800,00 men, twice the number Abijah had. And standing atop one of the mountains in Ephraim, Abijah cried out; "Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel, Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?" (II Chr. 13:1-5). The covenant of salt became the covenant of blood - typifying redemption and fidelity to His people. In Romans 8:39, the apostle Paul could say, "Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus" and again in Heb. 13:5; "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." "..all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." -II Cor. 1:20.