Posted by: Bill Hornbeck | July 20, 2010

As Reformed Christians, are we losing our salt?

Today’s devotion is Luke 14:34-35.
 
“Therefore, salt is good;  but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?  “It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile;  it is thrown out.  He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”  Luke 14:34-35. 
 

I think this Scripture applies to “Reformed Christians” who profess to be Reformed, but they are more concerned about appearing to be evangelical than they are concerned about maintaining pure true doctrine.  They have lost the salt of Reformed Doctrine.  They care more about not offending anyone and blending into the evangelical crowd who believe that God loves everyone and that Jesus died for everyone.  They also want to show off their evangelical works which are often well-suited to photographs and videos to be praised by all.

They caved into the most popular evangelical doctrine (“Universal Atonement” – The Third Point of Arminianism in sharp contrast to “Limited Atonement” – The  Third Point of Calvinism (“TULIP”).  They may love to sing about the power in Christ’s blood.  But, Christ’s blood according to their doctrine (as they claim, shed for everyone) by itself did not save, “purchase”, or “redeem” anyone, because they admit that most people are not saved.  It is up to man to generate his own faith through his own free will in order to make Christ’s blood effective to save. They claim that the only difference between the saved and the unsaved is not Christ’s blood, because everyone gets the blood, but rather the only difference is whether or not a certain individual will generate his own faith through his own free will to make the blood effective. Man’s faith, not Christ’s blood, is the determining factor as to whether or not one will be saved. 

Because they talk about the blood all the time, it is true that in a sense they are trampling it, not in the sense of being hateful to it but in the sense of treating it as ineffective by itself, like the description in Matthew 5: 13: “…if the salt has become tasteless, how will it be made salty again? It is good for nothing anymore, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.”

 

There is the warning of Hebrews 10:29.  “How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?  

 

This Scripture does not apply to the person who steadfastly rejects Christ. That person did not receive the knowledge of truth as stated in Hebrews 10:26.  That person is not sanctified, so to speak, as is stated in Hebrews 10:29. That person does not talk about the blood of Christ. Rather, this Hebrews 10:26-31 Scripture speaks about those received or were exposed to knowledge of the truth and were sanctified so to speak but nevertheless denied the power of the blood and insulted the Spirit of grace.  Rather, this Scripture applies to “Reformed Christians” who have lost their salt.

The salt is good.  Keep the salt.  Read the Canons of Dort – Click here: The Canons of Dordt

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