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Well, as a Steve has mentioned, he and I are the short elders and I were working together today, and in the service.
Now is the slide indicates I would like to to talk today about a saying of Jesus, that's given in Mark chapter 9 verse 49.
And their Jesus says, I'm I'm leaving now from new revised standard for everyone will be salted with fire.
It's quite a striking image.
I mean you can think about some a salt shaker being held over you and shaking out and what's coming out as fire.
Wow, what it?
What did Jesus mean?
There's more than one possible explanation.
And I'm going to talk about two explanations.
Both of them have important lessons for us.
And of course, it's a good thing when there's more than one possible explanation because then you get multiple lessons from the same verse.
It's very economical.
So this passage has always raised questions.
And one indication of that is that at some point over the first several centuries of Christianity.
An extra Clause was added.
By someone to verse 49, verse 49 s is for, everyone will be salted with salt and that Clause ads and every sacrifice.
And every sacrifice will be salted with salt.
Everyone will be salted with fire and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.
That second Clause is not in the oldest manuscripts.
And so, modern translations will give it in a footnote.
Now, that doesn't mean that the Clause doesn't belong.
If you got a King James, you don't have to cross it out.
You can put in parentheses if you want, but I don't think you didn't have to do that.
Remember that?
We trust God to have given us the information we need and so this well could well be an inspired addition to the to the text.
Right, so, they can Mark himself, didn't write it, but it could come to us.
Come to us from a long history.
Come to come to us from God. Know that extra Claws and every sacrifice will be salted with salt, making a reference back to Leviticus chapter 2, which is a no readings for today.
So let's go back to Leviticus chapter 2.
Why we read about what's called a grain offering and the chapter starts.
When anyone presents a grain offering to the Lord, the offering should be a choice flower.
The worship worship or oil on it and put frankincense on it and bring it to Aaron's sons the priests.
After taking from it, a handful of the choice, flour and oil with all this frankincense.
The priest shall turn this token portion into Smoke On The Altar.
An offering by fire of pleasing odor to the Lord.
And what is left of the grain offering still be for Aaron and his sons, a Most Holy part of the offerings by fire to the Lord?
So grain offerings involved, find flower meaning either of finely ground and or of the finest quality, probably both.
Along with oil.
And another ingredient that was always.
There was salt and we actually read that later in the chapter.
In verse 13, you shall not emit from your grain offering the salt of the Covenant with your God with all your offerings, you shall offer salt.
And then a part of this offering with if this was not a cooked grain offering frankincense was added and a portion of the offering including all the frankincense, which was an edible was a burned.
So, this offering involved both salt and Fire?
Like this often with salted, and it was also had a portion that was burned.
So, salt and fire were both involved here, right?
So this could well have a connection with with what Jesus was saying.
So a portion was was burned.
The rest was used as for a flower for food, for bread, for the priest.
Now, the Hebrew word for this, kind of offering the grain offering is Minka.
And mean car has a a broader meaning of going Beyond sacrifices.
The word more more broadly refers to a tribute or a gift given to show reverence or submission.
So for example, a gift that you bring to a King.
When Jacob was meeting, Esau after so many years came back from labor and he's going to be the Esau and gives remember he gives you.
So I gift.
And in Genesis, 32, that gift is called, I mean car.
Do you think about it?
He's sort of you know, he wants to appease Esau.
He's saying I'm your servant right?
He's doing that kind of a gift.
So when somebody is giving this kind of an offering, they're showing their dependence on God.
Their submission to God their loyalty to God acknowledging him as a king.
Now, what about the salt?
And remember, I read and verse 13.
It says it's the salt of the Covenant.
And elsewhere in in the Bible.
There's some more discussion of that salt, you know, has different kinds of symbolic meanings that we'll talk about.
In numbers 18, for example.
Is talking about donations portions of offerings, that went to priests and Levites?
And verse 19.
Numbers 18:19.
All the holy offerings that these are lights present to the Lord.
I've given to you the priests and Levites together with your sons and daughters as a Perpetual do It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and your descendants as well.
And we reading Leviticus to about how with the grain offering there was a large portion that went to the, I went to the priests, no notice in this first.
I just read it talks about this is a Perpetual due to Covenant of salt forever.
So numbers 18:19 is emphasizing.
The lasting nature of the Covenant.
God is committed to Israel.
That's not he's not going to change his mind.
He is totally committed to Israel.
And so, when you're making a grain offering with the salt.
You're William.
And again, there's a portion that is.
Burned, right?
That was called the memorial portion Memorial.
Remember it's calling for remembrance.
so, the offer Is remembering the nature of this commitment that I have, as a member of the coven of people to God.
And I'm saying, hey, I'm I'm committed to you.
I'm loyal to the Covenant.
And also with this offering root really, there was a prayer and prayers would have been prayed in conjunction with the offering in the offering itself, should have constituted a prayer.
That was saying, I know you are the merciful god who's committed to us.
Take action on my behalf.
Remember us.
Remember your people remember me in the situation.
I might be in.
So, the park, burned up the memorial for such a call to a call to remember and the stalk was indicating, right?
This lasting nature of the Covenant.
No salt was used in other sacrifices to, it turns out, for example, later on at the temple, with animal sacrifices.
Let's say they were doing a burnt offering of an animal, salt was put into the carcass to soak out the blood.
So they're the salt really had up what you would call a purifying effect.
Another meaning of of salt is salt prominence that has all sorts of purifying effect.
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