Season With Salt

I. EXORDIUM:

Enumerate advantages of salt

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers with Ministry

III. OBJECTIVES:

To convince them to put themselves into their offerings

IV. TEXT:

Leviticus 2:13

Season all your grain offerings with salt to remind you of God’s eternal covenant. Never forget to add salt to your grain offerings.

Pray that we always give ourselves to GOD first as our living sacrifice, then our money.

V. THESIS:

Give ourselves to GOD along with our offerings.

VI. TITLE:

Season with salt

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Moses

B. Keywords: Access and Holiness

C. Name: derived from tribe of Levi

D. Central Person: high priest

E. Subject Matter: Digest of Divine Laws

F. Central Theme: Holy (mentioned 80 times (NIV)

G. Companion Book: Hebrews

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. Highlights:

1. Add salt to your offerings:

= We are a convenant of salt (Colossians 4:6)

Colossians 4:6

Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.

B. All our offering, need to have salt (Leviticus 2:13)

Leviticus 2:13

Season all your grain offerings with salt to remind you of God’s eternal covenant. Never forget to add salt to your grain offerings.

1. We are the salt (Matthew 5:13, Numbers 18:19)

Matthew 5:13

You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.

Numbers 18:19

Yes, I am giving you all these holy offerings that the people of Israel bring to the Lord. They are for you and your sons and daughters, to be eaten as your permanent share. This is an eternal and unbreakable covenant between the Lord and you, and it also applies to your descendants.”

2. To remind Lot, his wife turned into salt.

= When he longed for Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:26)

Genesis 19:26

But Lot’s wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.

C. Significance:

1. Put our whole selves into our offerings. (Romans 12:1)

Romans 12:1

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.

2. Our offering is a worship = spiritual act of worship.

3. Consider every ministry and worship services as pure worship.

= We are ministers of new covenant (covenant of salt) (2 Corinthians 3:6)

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.

IX. CONCLUSION:

Offer ourselves as living sacrifice our bodies or selves as salt and out offerings (our activities for GOD)