Matt 5:13

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.

Jesus said that we are to be salt to the earth, he said that if the salt has no flavor it\’s useless and is to be thrown out and stomped on. Does being thrown out and stomped on sound like you are going to inherit salvation? Being thrown out and stomped on sounds more like your not bearing fruit and that your going to be cut off from the vine, it also sounds like that you haven\’t invested your talents, and that you\’re an unprofitable servant who will be cast into outer darkness.

Eating fruit from a branch of the tree or tasting salt always leaves a particular taste in your mouth; it has an effect on the environment within your mouth as the flavor is absorbed by your tongue. When you place a bit of salt in your mouth, it changes the mood and feelings of your tongue and mouth, and it also has an overall effect on the environment around your tongue and mouth.

When we are in Christ we should have an effect on the environment and world around us, if we are not having an overall effect on the environment around us and changing the mood and feelings of society, then we are useless for nothing and are to be thrown away and stomped on. As salt of the earth we should deliver a sour and angry flavor to those who want to wage war and kill innocent people, we should be a sweet and compassionate flavor to those who are suffering, we should be the flavor of justice to those who are being oppressed, and we should be the flavor of rage to those politicians and leaders who plot against the innocent and hatch wickedness.

Amos 5:21, 23-24

21 “I hate, I despise your feast days, and I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs, for I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
24 But let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

God is sick and tired of these Sunday morning Christians who go to church on Sunday morning to praise God and sing, but become idle and dead during the week. As soon as they walk out of the church doors they lose their flavor, and some never even have any flavor when they\’re at church. Flavor is a passion to see justice done and make a difference to the world you live in. Having flavor is rejecting the unprofitable pointless conversation that so many people engage in, forsaking all these materialistic pursuits the world says will make you happy, and risking your reputation and comfortable life by attacking the money changers, corrupt politicians, criminal elements and passionately driving them from your community. Being salt to the world means sabotaging the corrupt political infrastructure and corporate bodies who oppress the people, by whipping them with the sword of your tongue, rebuking them with fire and zeal and overturning their money tables.

The earth is apart of God\’s house, because it says the earth is our Lord\’s footstool. The Zeal for our Fathers house should eat us up; just as the Zeal of Jesus ate him up so much that he violently drove the money changers from the temple. We should be so full of zeal that the pressure of the zeal within us squeezes out salt from us wherever our feet trample, we should leave a flavor of: passion, justice, love and the truth wherever we go. If we do not have not have the flavor of the fruit of the spirit within us we are useless for nothing, God desires us not to lack flavor, as he wants us to change things wherever we go. Sometimes a meal you eat can be dry and flavorless, but if you put a large amount of salt on that meal it changes the flavor of the whole meal completely. If we are following God and abiding in the presence of Jesus Christ, then wherever we go we should be changing things completely as we become salt to the earth.

James preaches on various occasions at churches and other events, he has also had many religious and spiritual articles published in various publications. James was saved by the grace of God from a life of: drugs, crime and occultism. James believes his greatest testimony is that he was brought into God\’s Kingdom and his life was saved through the grace of Jesus Christ. You can contact James by emailing him at: James_m183@hotmail.com