As we walk in Holiness, we will be the salt of the earth, the only salt!
One purpose of salt is to give flavor to that which would otherwise lack flavor.
It is written by THE SPIRIT in Job chapter 6:
6 Can flavorless food be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
We are here to give the earth flavor in the sight of GOD. Without our presence in this world, there would no longer be a reason for GOD to deal with it in grace and mercy. Effectively, our presence restrains judgment from the world. We are the only thing that keeps the final judgment and loss of GOD on a Christ-rejecting world. As long as we are on the earth, our responsibility is to live in such a way that we commend this earth to GOD.
Moses recorded by THE SPIRIT in Genesis chapter 18:
16 Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.
17 And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
19 For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
20 And the LORD said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave,
21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”
22 Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD.
23 And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
GOD would not destroy those two cities if ten righteous people were found in them. However, once Lot and his family were removed:
Chapter 19:
13 For we (the angels sent by GOD) will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the Face of the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”
24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens.
25 So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
28 Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.
Ten righteous men could not be found in Sodom and Gomorrah. Though Lot was a believer, it is evident that he did nothing to turn men from their wicked ways.
Only four souls escaped Sodom and Gomorrah, ultimately becoming three as Lot’s wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. She had become unrighteous and longed to be in Sodom.
Lot failed to minister righteousness to his wife. Lot was not living in the light of the revelation that he gained from walking with Abraham. He did nothing on behalf of the Kingdom. Not even his servants or his herdsmen were spared. His silence cost them their lives.
Our presence should make a difference.
As Jesus said in Matthew chapter 5:
13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Have you lost your flavor?