Leviticus 2:12-13 “As an offering of first-fruits, you shall bring them to Jehovah, but they shall not go up on the altar for a soothing fragrance.  And every offering of your food offering you shall season with salt, and you shall not let the salt of the covenant of your God be lacking from your food offering: you shall offer salt with all your offerings.”

“Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.”

“For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.  Salt is good, but if the salt becomes saltless, by what will you season? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.” Mark 9:49-50

We, Christians, are to bring our lives, our first fruits and offer them to Jehovah.  Not to obtain favor or to appease an offended God, for he will not accept it.  He specifically says not to lay them on the Altar.  There is only one Sacrifice that can appease the wrath of an incensed God and that was the death of His Son.  Yet we are to be a living sacrifice, seasoned with Salt.

“Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt?  God would hereby intimate to them that their sacrifices in themselves were unsavoury.  The saints, who are living sacrifices to God, must have salt in themselves, for every sacrifice must be salted with salt.  – The salt for the sacrifice was not brought by the offerers, but was provided at the public charge, as the wood was.  Ezra 7:20-22 So must all our religious performances be seasoned with that salt.  Christianity is the salt of the earth.” Matthew Henry

We are to be in the world but not of it.  Our very life in Christ acts as a preservative in a decaying and rotting world.  If we are in Christ we must be salty, Holy, different.  We have been set apart.  We are to be other-worldly in a sense.  Separated unto God.  Yet, just as we cannot offer ourselves as a propitiation to God, so we cannot Salt ourselves.  This is a work which only our Great High Priest can do on our behalf.  He has appeased God’s wrath toward us and provided AT-ONE-MENT through his sacrifice.  He has changed our Nature, made peace between us and God.  He has also given us new hearts and the earnest of the Holy Spirit in our bodies that we may live Holy unto him.  Light and Saltiness are Characteristics of this New Heart and New Birth.  The Saltiness that he requires, he provides.  He is the Sacrifice and the High Priest that seasons the sacrifice.  He meets all of our needs.

Are you salty?  Are you light?  Is there a difference between you and the world?  Are your activities different?  Do you have different desires, loves and interest?  What about entertainment?  What do you spend your time and money doing?  Are you a new creature?  I can promise that you will not fool God.  He knows intimately all those who are his?  Will you be weighed in the balance and found wanting?

Now, you can run out and stop doing all those sins that come to your mind.  You can change your habits and pray regularly.  You can spend your life in Church helping feed poor people so that you will not die and go to hell.  Yet that is not what it means to be salty.  That is trying to season your own sacrifice. You would be doing all of this from an unchanged heart and with impure motives.  Your good intentions even your first fruits are unacceptable to God lest they be salted by our High Priest Jesus Christ and you be found in him.  Remember, your offering will not be accepted in the place of Christ’s.  Your offering is not to be placed on the Altar.  It is unsavory.  You must turn from your own works.  Repent of your sins!  Who are you to be so bold as to think your sacrifice will appease this Holy God.  Look unto Christ and all that he accomplished.  Look unto his Sacrifice as sufficient and you will be spared.  Look unto Christ!

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“He spoke many things unto them.” (US) “Many more it is likely than are here recorded, but all excellent and necessary things, things that belong to our peace. – They were not trifles, but things of everlasting consequence, that Christ spoke of. It concerns us to give a more earnest heed, when Christ has so many things to say to us, that we miss not any of them. - (Much of) What he spoke was in parables. – and in it condesceded to the capacities of people, and lisped to them in their own language. – We ought to be concerned for the edification of others, as well as for our own, by the word preached; and if ourselves be strong, yet bear the infirmities of the weak. – A parable is a shell that keeps good fruit for the diligent, but keeps it from the slothful. There are mysteries in the kingdom of heaven, and without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness: Christ’s incarnation, satisfaction, intercession, our justification and sanctification by union with Christ, and indeed the whole work of redemption, from first to last, are mysteries, which could never have been discovered but by divine revelation. – Knowledge is the first gift of God, and it is a distinguishing gift (Prov.2:6) it was given to the apostles, because they were Christ’s constant followers and attendants. Note, The nearer we draw to Christ, and the more we converse with him, the better acquainted we shall be with gospel mysteries. – There are those to whom this knowledge is not given, and a man can receive nothing unless it be given him from above (Jn 3:27) and be it remembered that God is debtor to no man: his grace is his own; he gives or withholds it at his pleasure (Rom 11:35) the difference must be resolved into God’s sovereignty. – This reason is further illustrated by the rule God observes in dispensing his gifts; he bestows them on those who improve them, but takes them away from those who bury them. It is a rule among men, that they will rather entrust their money with those who have increased their estates by their industry, than with those who have diminished them by their slothfulness. Here is a promise to him that has, that has true grace pursuant to the election of grace, that has, and uses what he has; he shall have more abundance: God’s favours are earnests of further favours; where he lays the foundation, he will build upon it. Christ’s disciples used the knowledge they now had, and they had more abundance at the pouring out of the Spirit. – Here is a threatening to him that has not, that has no desire of grace, that makes no right use of the gifts and graces he has: has not root, no solid principle; that has, but uses not what he has; from him shall be taken away that which he has or seems to have. His leaves shall wither, his gifts decay; the means of grace he has, and makes no use of , shall be taken from him; God will call in his talents out of their hands that are likely to become bankrupts quickly.” Amen.

- Matthew Henry