Salt

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“Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (Rom. 12:11I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)). “Christ  ... through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God” (Heb. 9:1414How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14)). His life was salted (tried) by fire and only emitted a fragrant odor to God. No honey — the sweetness of nature—and no leaven — that which is sour and inflated. He was salted with salt — the holy grace which binds the soul to God and enables the heart to refuse all that is presented to it which is not of Him. In short, a sinless man was before God’s eye in Christ, and He was what none else ever was in itself offered to God. In Romans 8:2-32For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: (Romans 8:2‑3), we are consecrated to God and presented to Him, as in Christ. In Romans 12 as priests for whom the mercies of God have opened our temple door, we have come out of all man’s corruption and now present our bodies, hitherto slaves of sin, to God, a “living sacrifice” as in Christ and His life in us, “holy,” to which the salt pointed (compare Mark 9:49-5049For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. 50Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. (Mark 9:49‑50)), and “acceptable,” the grace of Christ seen in us (the frankincense) — all presented to God as an “intelligent priestly service.”
F. G. Patterson (adapted)