Matthew 5:13. Ye are the salt of the earth:
Followers of Christ, "ye are the salt of the earth." You help to preserve it, and to subdue the corruption that is in it.
Matthew 5:13. But if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?
A professing Christian with no grace in him, a religious man whose very religion is dead, what is the good of him? And he is himself in a hopeless condition. You can salt meat, but you cannot salt salt.
Matthew 5:13. It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
There are people who believe that you can be children of God today, and children of the devil tomorrow; then again children of God the next day and children of the devil again the day after; but, believe me, it is not so. If the work of grace be really wrought of God in your soul, it will last through your whole life, and if it does not so last, that proves that it is not the work of God. God does not put his hand to this work a second time. There is no regeneration twice over, you can be born again, but you cannot be born again, and again, and again, as some teach there is no note in Scripture of that kind. Hence I do rejoice that regeneration once truly wrought of the Spirit of God, is an incorruptible seed which liveth and abideth for ever. But beware, professor, lest you should be like salt that has lost its savor, and that therefore is good for nothing.
Matthew 5:13. Ye are the salt of the earth:
Followers of Christ, "ye are the salt of the earth." You help to preserve it, and to subdue the corruption that is in it.
Matthew 5:13. But if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?
A professing Christian with no grace in him, a religious man whose very religion is dead, what is the good of him? And he is himself in a hopeless condition. You can salt meat, but you cannot salt salt.
Matthew 5:13. It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
There are people who believe that you can be children of God today, and children of the devil tomorrow; then again children of God the next day and children of the devil again the day after; but, believe me, it is not so. If the work of grace be really wrought of God in your soul, it will last through your whole life, and if it does not so last, that proves that it is not the work of God. God does not put his hand to this work a second time. There is no regeneration twice over, you can be born again, but you cannot be born again, and again, and again, as some teach there is no note in Scripture of that kind. Hence I do rejoice that regeneration once truly wrought of the Spirit of God, is an incorruptible seed which liveth and abideth for ever. But beware, professor, lest you should be like salt that has lost its savor, and that therefore is good for nothing.