5 ways to know if you are losing your salt flavor

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.


A warning for the year 2010 is that you may lose your salt flavor. Salt preserves food, and flavors food. Salt makes things desirable to eat. Without salt food becomes useless. Christians are compared to salt. We must keep our flavor to used this next year by God otherwise we will become useless. One way to keep our flavor is to stay in the Word of God. Each day must be fresh and new. People we see everyday need to be impacted by the presence of God. People need you to keep your flavor. The flavor for a Christian equals the Word of God.

Five Warning signs that you are losing your flavor:

1. You are losing your salt flavor if there is a severe decline in your appetite for spiritual things. If you do not have a hunger to read the Word of God and to study it you are in danger of losing your flavor. If you are interested in being in fellowship with other believers and sitting under Godly counsel you are in danger of losing your flavor. If you do not pray and spend quiet times with God you are in danger of losing your flavor.

2. You are losing your flavor if there is a serious decline in your sensitivity. If the offensive language on T.V. and movies does not affect you, you are in danger of losing your salt flavor. If you can participate in dirty or off colored jokes you are losing your salt flavor. If you do not see the harm in behaving immoral you are losing your flavor.

3. You are losing your salt flavor when there is a serious decline in you making decisions based on what the Bible says. If you can make a decision knowing full well that you have not asked God what He would have you do, you are losing your flavor. If you can make a decision that totally is in opposition to the Word of God you are losing your flavor.

These next to warnings are for the Church:

4. You are losing your salt if there is a serious decline in your Church. If your church does not draw in the lost and present Jesus to them. Your Church is losing it's flavor.

5. You will begin to see a decline in your ability to endure with one another. What used to be a small thing is now a big thing. If this happens you are in danger of losing your flavor. Salt can cover up a lot of undesirable taste. The same way a Christian with the salt flaver in their life can over love the unloveable.

What can we do if we see this happening to us?
The answer is in the Word

2 Chronicles 7:14 (New King James Version)
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

First we are to humble ourselves. Agree with God you are wrong. Repent of your sin of disobedience and seek His forgiveness. Seek the very face of God. Tell Him you desire to do things His way instead of your way. Turn from the old ways. Don't be complacent about your Bible study and quiet times with Him. Dive in the Word and learn what God is really like. Don't participate in ungodly acts of disobedience. Set High standards of morality for yourself and intend to go by them. Don't compromise your faith or integrity. Ask God what is His goal for you this next year. Then God will hear you and He promises to forgive your and even your land will be healed. That means you will begin to see changes in your home, Church, ministry, and community.

Let's get serious and be the flavoring that the world needs in these difficult times. My heart breaks for the confusing in our world. It becomes more and more evident to me everyday and is in my own back yard. I commit to be a salt in a tasteless world. I refuse to be worthless like salt with no flavor.

You may be saying I never had flavoring. You may have never entered into a personal relationship with Jesus. You can start fresh and new in 2010 and do that now by reading and doing the following:
Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."We all have sin in our hearts. We all were born with sin.
We were born under the power of sin's control.
- Admit that you are a sinner.

Romans 6:23a "...The wages of sin is death..."
Sin has an ending. It results in death. We all face physical death, which is a result of sin. But a worse death is spiritual death that alienates us from God, and will last for all eternity. The Bible teaches that there is a place called the Lake of Fire where lost people will be in torment forever. It is the place where people who are spiritually dead will remain.
- Understand that you deserve death for your sin.

Romans 6:23b "...But the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Salvation is a free gift from God to you! You can't
earn this gift, but you must reach out and receive it.
- Ask God to forgive you and save you.

Romans 5:8, "God demonstrates His own love for us, in
that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us!"
When Jesus died on the cross He paid sin's penalty. He paid the price for all sin, and when He took all the sins of the world on Himself on the cross, He bought us out of slavery to sin and death! The only condition is that we believe in Him and what He has done for us, understanding that we are now joined with Him, and that He is our life. He did all this because He loved us and gave Himself for us!
- Give your life to God... His love poured out in Jesus on the cross is your only hope to have forgiveness and change. His love bought you out of being a slave to sin. His love is what saves you -- not religion, or church membership. God loves you!

Romans 10:13 "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved!"
- Call out to God in the name of Jesus!

Romans 10:9,10 "...If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation."
- If you know that God is knocking on your heart's door,
ask Him to come into your heart.

Jesus said,

Revelation 3:20a "Behold I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him..."
- Is Jesus knocking on your heart's door?
Believe in Him.
Ask Him to come in to your heart by faith,
and ask Him to reveal Himself to you.
Open the Bible to the Gospel of John and read what God says about Jesus,
about you, and about being born again.

God will help you. He loves you.

You need to look for a local church where God's word is preached. The Bible says that we are to desire God's word like a newborn baby desires mother's milk.
Aren't you hungry to know the truth?

Water baptism is one of the ways you first show that you have been joined to Jesus. This is an action, and actions will not save you. However, it is an act of obedience and a symbol of commitment.
The symbolism is this:
When you go down in the water you show that You have been crucified and buried with Him, And when you come up out of the water you show that you have been raised to walk with Him in newness of life. (See Romans chapter 6)

You have been born again. (See John chapter 3) Your body has become God's temple. Your heart is where He lives.Forgiveness is yours in Jesus. And you belong to Him.
You were sin's slave. But now... You are a child of GOD!

John 1:12"As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name!"

This was what I got from the message today at Clearwater Baptist Church, Pastor Wayne Bryant

His Redeemed
Robin Nation