Two Eternal Things: =============== God and People 1 Samuel 18:3-4 =============== I Samuel 18:3-4 (NKJV) --------------- Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan took off the robe that was on him and gave it to David, with his armor, even to his sword and his bow and his belt. Matthew 5:13 =============== Matthew 5:13 (NKJV) --------------- “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. Numbers 18:19 =============== Numbers 18:19 (NKJV) --------------- “All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord with you and your descendants with you.” Leviticus 2:13 =============== Leviticus 2:13 (NKJV) --------------- And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. Mark 9:49 =============== Mark 9:49 (NKJV) --------------- “For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt Purifies =============== II Kings 2:19-23 (NKJV) --------------- Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the ground barren.” And he said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him. Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’ ” So the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke. Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” Salt Preserves =============== II Chronicles 13:5 (NKJV) --------------- Should you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave the dominion over Israel to David forever, to him and his sons, by a covenant of salt? Salt Produces =============== Ephesians 4:14-16 (NKJV) --------------- that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. The New Man Colossians 4:6 =============== Colossians 4:6 (NKJV) --------------- Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Final Greetings Romans 15:32 =============== Romans 15:32 (NKJV) --------------- that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed together with you. Matthew 5:24 =============== Matthew 5:24 (NKJV) --------------- leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. I Covenant together with you =============== * To talk to you not about you * To seek understanding and not judge * To confess my errors and cover yours with love * To see and believe the best in you * To refuse to listen to negative or critical words against you.
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