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    [ Created: 2021-12-06 09:35:59  Updated: 2021-12-08 08:51:51   Owner: rl ]
Title: Something that obscures the natural flavor with sweetness    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
You 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. - Mat 5:13

Why is it that Christians are called the Salt of the Earth rather than the Sugar of the Earth?

Actually, many Christians do try to interact with others in Sweetness rather than Saltiness.

But what does God expect us to be and how does He expect us talk and act?

His Word always has something to say about everything that is really important in life. Let's look at what the Word says about how we Talk, how we Live and how we interact with others.

Go you therefore, and Teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the World. Amen. - Mat 28:19,20

Jesus told His Disciples to teach everyone in the World to do the things that Jesus had told the Disciples to do.

What did Jesus tell His Disciples to do?

From that Time Jesus began to Preach, and to Say, Repent: for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. - Mat 4:17

The Command to Repent is not a Sweet command. It is telling a person they are Wrong and must Change. It is like Salt in a Wound.

But I Say unto you, That whoever looks on a woman to Lust after her has Committed Adultery with her already in his Heart. - Mat 5:28

Condemning people is not Sweet. Jesus constantly raised the Morality bar so that everyone was Condemned.

Jesus says unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me. - Joh 14:6

Telling people that their Religion is a dead end is not Sweet.

Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the Way, that leads to Destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: - Mat 7:13

Telling people that most of them will be Destroyed is not Sweet.

And the third Angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man Worship the Beast and his Image, and Receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the Wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his Indignation; and he shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone in the Presence of the Holy angels, and in the Presence of the Lamb: And the Smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: and they have no Rest day nor night, who Worship the Beast and his Image, and whoever receives the mark of his Name. - Rev 14:9-11

Threatening Judgment for Idolatry is not Sweet.

I could go on but hopefully the point has been made that much of the Truth is not Sweet.

Salt is necessary for Physical life. Sugar isn't.

In order for the Gospel (which means Good News and is amazingly Sweet) to be Received, the Heart must be Salted with Salt so that it appreciates the Gift of God by GraceThroughFaith.

So, don't just pass out the Sugar without first spreading the Salt.

Repentance does not make sense without awareness of being Wrong.
Forgiveness is not appreciated without awareness of Eternal Damnation.
The benefits of Grace are not appreciated without awareness of the destructiveness of Evil.

Let your Speech be alway with Grace, seasoned with Salt, that you may Know how you ought to answer every man. - Col 4:6