Matthew 5:13

 

Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. The way salt is used today is not how salt was used during Bible times. Today, we think that this verse means that Christians should be sprinkled around the world. But that is not how salt was used during Bible times. When Jesus spoke these parables two thousand years ago, salt was used as a preservative. Bible people had no refrigerators and meat would spoil quickly. So they salted the meat, keeping the bacteria from spoiling the meat. When Jesus said Christians should be salt, He meant that we should be a preserving agent for the rest of the world. We need to let people that they are on the wrong road and are separated from God, their loving Creator. They need to know that if they obey Jesus and let Him make them into a new creature, they can live forever with God in heaven. We need to change our world; we need to be a preserving agent for our world; we need to be salt – Biblical salt.