Now I'm telling you something. If we're going to retard the corruption of the world like salt, we can't live the way the world lives.

We just can't do it. We've got to be in the world rubbed into the society like salt dissolves into the meat and yet different, separate. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

There's an item on your dinner table that is used to save lives and to give food flavor.

In the past, armies fought to capture it and soldiers were paid with it.

What is this substance? Well, it's salt. With salt serving so many crucial functions in the

ancient world, what specifically did Jesus mean when he called his disciples the

salt of the earth.

Today on Grace to you, John MacArthur will explain

what Jesus wanted his disciples,

including his followers today,

to understand about our role in the world. including his

role in the world as John continues his series how to live in a dying world.

And so with the lesson now here's John.

What does it mean for us to be salt?

How does salt manifest itself?

Okay?

Let me give you some thoughts about salt.

I don't know if you know this, but salt is very valuable.

It always has been valuable in human society.

Today it's not like it used to be, but the

salt was very important. The Romans said nothing was more valuable than sun and salt, because

in a day without refrigeration, the only way they could preserve meat

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