Salt:
Salted with fire:
49 “For everyone will be salted with fire.
We’ve probably all heard messages on
salt (adding flavor; being a preservative; etc.) and on fire, and they all say
it better than I could. What I want to look at is the statement that we will be
salted with fire. It is the fire that brings about the flavor and preservative
characteristics of this salting. The fire burns away the dross from our old
life and leaves the “flavor” of the new. Fire hurts, but this fire is
beneficial. It leaves us much stronger than before. Many Christians resist the
inward fire. It is necessary for us to experience this in our lives. We need to
determine, though, if this is God’s cleansing fire or the devil’s tempting one.
He sends his fire to destroy us. We must resist that one.
If you could hear God speak, I believe this is what He would
say:
"There
is a fire coming upon the world. It is a fire that will burn up the chaff of
mankind. It is a fire that will destroy the works of the devil. It is a fire
that will purify My people. You are My special one, and I desire that you come
to know Me in My cleansing fire. You will either be cleansed by My fire or
destroyed by it. It is a cleansing and redeeming fire. It is a fire of purity
and grace. All who go through the fire and are not scorched by it shall come
into My blessings on the earth as well as in Heaven.”
64. I shall be salted
with fire and shall come through unscathed like the three Hebrew children.
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