Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, November 8, 2020

Don’t Be Salty.

 

Today Micheal gets back to the series on Elisha and Elijah. Elijah has gone on to be with the Lord and Elisha is in a city, likely Jericho, and dealing with a city with a bad water supply.  Elisha put salt in the water and declared the water healed.  This seems counterintuitive to making the water better but Elisha was doing the Lord’s will.  This salt healed the water and allowed the city to have crops and sustenance again. It also showed the Lord’s healing and lifting of Joshua’s curse.  

Contrast that with today’s meaning of ‘salty’ as someone angry, upset or agitated.  This is in sharp contract to the Bible’s use of ‘salt-of-the-earth’ a biblical sign of Christians who obey God and do his will to serve as a preservative of the human race and the earth by slowing down the moral and spiritual decay of the world around them. The takeaway here is, be like salt of the earth….not salty!  

Today’s bible verses are found in 2 Kings 2: 19-22 and 2 Corinthians 4: 6-7.