{"id":134571,"date":"2021-12-15T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=134571"},"modified":"2021-12-11T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T17:08:04","slug":"30-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/30-y\/","title":{"rendered":"30.y.  \u201cSalt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?\u00a0\u00a0It is of no use\u00a0&#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Matthew 5:13<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cYou are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people&#8217;s feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"verseid:51.4.6\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Colossians 4:6<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"verseid:41.9.49\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Mark 9:49-50<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For everyone will be salted with fire.\u00a0\u00a0Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"verseid:42.14.34\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Luke 14:34-35<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u201cSalt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?\u00a0\u00a0It is of no use<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"verseid:61.2.20\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>2 Peter 2:20-21<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Salt was used to preserve meats and to slow decay.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Christians should have a preserving influence on their culture. Salt must keep its \u201csaltiness\u201d to be of any value. When it is no good as salt, it is\u00a0<b>trampled under foot<\/b>. In the same way, too many Christians lose their \u201cflavor\u201d and become good for nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">To the Church in Ephesus &#8211; But I have this against you: you have abandoned the love you had at first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">To the Church in Pergamum &#8211; You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">To the Church in Thyatira &#8211; You tolerate the woman Jezebel and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">To the Church in Sardis &#8211; I know your works; you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">To the Church in Laodicea &#8211; I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the spirit says to the Churches. Don\u2019t be salt that loses its flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Matthew 5:13\u00a0 \u201cYou are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people&#8217;s feet. \u00a0Colossians 4:6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/30-y\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;30.y.  \u201cSalt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?\u00a0\u00a0It is of no use\u00a0&#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5142,3096,782,171,1540,3945,283,796,15534,15535,103,75,3940,15532,1690,15440,3202,7224,15533,13690,322,4879],"class_list":["post-134571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-defilements","tag-escaped","tag-fire","tag-good","tag-gracious","tag-jesus-christ","tag-knowledge","tag-lord","tag-lost-its-taste","tag-no-use","tag-overcome","tag-peace","tag-restored","tag-salt-of-the-earth","tag-savior","tag-seasoned","tag-speech","tag-taste","tag-thrown-out","tag-trampled","tag-world","tag-worse"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134654,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134571\/revisions\/134654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}