"Salt couldn't prevent decay; it could only give meat a longer shelf life.
"When Jesus encourages believers to be salt in the world, He is reminding us that while we will never be able to reverse the decay in our culture caused by the curse of sin, we can slow down the process."
Robert Jeffress
Twilight's Last Gleaming p. 27
Worthy Publishing 2016
Jeffress reminds us of Nineveh. According to Jonah 3:10, "God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared."
Jeffress believes that if Christians are the salt (followers, influencers) we are suppose to be, we may not be able to delay God's judgment, but we can stall it long enough to allow more people to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus.
There are days I would BEG for Jesus to rapture us, to take us home. And then . . . I look around me and ask God to shrink hell and expand Heaven.
God, I'm willing to stay,
Lonnie
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