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

What this means to us is, that while all around us, people are corrupting themselves with the goddess of pleasure, sex, and entertainment, our loyalty is to Christ and not to the gods of this world. In the last verse of the Apostle John's first epistle, he wrote; "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."

Preserver. When Jesus said that "ye are the salt of the earth", He inferred that all else is in a state of corruption. As someone has said; "The grace of God preserves the saints- the saints are to preserve the earth." Throughout Scripture, God over and over again refers to the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah. Why does He do that? I believe that it is to show the corrupting influence of evil. In Noah's day, all was corrupted but his own family. Ten righteous men could have stayed judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, but so great had evil spread that fire and brimstone came down. As the salt of the earth, the true believer's function is to preserve. In the natural, a piece of meat has germs on its surface and unless treated with salt, it will putrefy.

A custom of ancient Israel was to rub salt on newborn babies -Ezek. 16:4. Evil is in each one of us... babies come into the world with the propensity to do evil - see psalms 51:4 and Psalms 58:2. Left to themselves, the evil within can only spread. That is why the study of the Word of God is so important, and applying it to one's life. "How shall a young man cleans his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy Word." Psalms 119:9.