“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.” [Matthew 5:13]

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         You know the wrong people are in charge when sin triumphs.

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         When sinful people have their way and no corrective measures are taken, greater sin happens. This causes lesser sin to remain completely untouched and such lesser sin becomes interwoven into the fabric of the culture.

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         And every time those in cultural control allow greater sin to transpire without the proper corrective, those sins, greater than the lesser sins, also become culturally acceptable.

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         The proof of resident sin and spiritual blindness is that otherwise sane people reject obvious answers.

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         Is not the continual application of failed and unworkable methods to correct growing and expanding problems while also rejecting obviously correct, workable, and time-honored solutions a form of insanity?

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SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL INTO EVER-INCREASING SIN AND LAWLESSNESS

         We now live in the time when sin and lawlessness are going through the roof. Lawlessness has been rising exponentially.

         Every time someone tries to do something about it they get shouted down by the sin-embracing seeming majority.

         But this seeming majority is not at all the actual majority. It is simply a unified, defiant, vocal marginal faction that has taken over and won the culture war.

         How?

         BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SALT OF THE EARTH ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB.

SALT AND LIGHT IN NAME ONLY

         Many American “Christians,” millions and millions of them, are sitting around doing absolutely nothing other than being “good church people.” Their authority figures have long since ran off all the real Christians who possess great salt and light because such leaders prefer collections of spiritually weak people who meekly always do what they’re told but rarely or NEVER what the Lord Jesus tells them to do.

         Such God rejecters—“Christians” in Name Only—are infinitely easier to control, manipulate, and house, and much more likely to support false prophets. By surrendering their God-ordained status as the Salt of the Earth and Shining Lights with Eyes to See, they are no longer worth anything to God.

         “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]

         The ethos of real Christianity has thus been destroyed among the majority.

         Salt and Light now only exists among those real Christians who serve ONLY the Lord Jesus.

         American “Christians” in general should be ashamed, but like Americans in general, they have become spiritually emasculated by their bless-me clubs.

CONNECTION AND CLUE TO THE PAST

         The Lord Jesus clearly stated that the last days of the world would be like the days of Noah:

         “And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

         “It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

         “It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.” [Luke 17:26-30]

LINKING THE FLOOD WITH SODOM

         Have you ever noticed that the Lord Jesus tied these two accounts together? Both accounts relate to great judgment upon thoroughly depraved and morally corrupted people. By the time God’s judgment and final destruction arrived, it was because the people had reached the full limit of sin and were beyond redemption.

          They all refused the corrective of repentance and thus no grace could possibly be granted. They loved sin. They wanted it. They chose it. They were no longer good for anything.

         We know the sin of Sodom. Undoubtedly, it was also the same among the people who refused the ark of Noah.

         According to the Lord Jesus, the following are the activities the people of both historical accounts were involved in just prior to final destruction:

         (1) They were eating

         (2) They were drinking

         (3) They were marrying

         (4) They were being given in marriage

         (5) They were buying

         (6) They were selling

         (7) They were planting

         (8) They were building

         During the great flood, the entire population of the world was destroyed except for the eight people on the ark.

         During the destruction of Sodom, the entire population of those cities was destroyed, except for the rescued Lot and his daughters.

         This proves that most, the vast majority, will reject the ark of the Lord’s salvation in the last days and will refuse to exit their doomed antichrist cultures.

         It means exactly what the scriptures claimed almost 2000 years ago:

         But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. [2Timothy 3:13]

CLEANING UP SINFUL CRISIS DISASTERS

         There are a few people reading this who know what I’m referring to. You have been involved in impossible clean-up projects as the result of the great sins of others. You know what it’s like to be involved on the fixing end of an impossible crisis that happened because of outright sin and rebellion. You know how much effort it takes to become Salt and Light, to be Salt and Light, and to work with Salt and Light to clean up corruption. It’s a great feeling to work so hard and see great results.

         But what does one do when the people causing all the gross corruption are unwilling to fix the mess they created? What happens when they laugh at the corrective of repentance? What happens when such people become the majority? And what happens when so-called leaders bow to the dictates of the sinful majority and refuse to apply the proper corrective?

         You’re seeing it right now.

         Sin is spiraling out of control into ever-increasing lawlessness.

         The proof of resident sin and spiritual blindness is that otherwise sane people reject the obvious answers to correct the problem, and refuse to correct it even if they manage to know the answers.

         This is the point when a culture has lost all sense. There is no salt. There is no light.

         Being the Salt of the Earth is now not only politically incorrect, it is religiously incorrect.

         Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

         You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

         No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

         Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning.

         The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. [1John 3:4-8] [1]

         Each and every entity that allows sin and promotes sin is of the devil.

THE LORD JESUS IS THE ONLY ANSWER

         All real Christians in America must get the big idea if they have not already. It is only the Lord Jesus who has the answers to fix the problem, and He works through His people—those who have surrendered to His authority and become real disciples.

         But He was rejected by His own, as all real Christians are rejected by their own.

         As sin increases, the people who know how to fix things and have the power and ability to fix things are increasingly rejected by the ones who are increasingly destroying things.

         Yet, the love of the Lord is such that He is bringing a Great Awakening to America anyway.

         If you believe yourself to be a real Christian, then walk in complete confidence, strength, and anointing that you may be used of God to bring Salt and Light to a place and culture in desperate need of it, though you must wade through hate, indifference, and rejection to get the job done.

         Don’t just take up your cross.

         TAKE UP ALSO THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT.

         BE THE SALT OF THE EARTH.

         © 2015 by RJ Dawson. All Rights Reserved.

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[1] Unless otherwise noted all Scriptures are taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.