Salt & Fire

Mark 9:48-50
For everyone shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltiness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

The context of these 2 verses in the entire passage is punishment in times of sin. Fire in this passage is punishment and everyone here refers to every non-believer. The end of the fire is destruction. People who are unrepentant will be seasoned with salt to be roasted in the lake of fire. Thus the importance of spiritually cutting off our hands (v43); foot (v45) and eye (v47) that have caused us to sin against God. Spiritual surgery is important for our Salvation from the Lord.

Col 3:5 - Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Mortify here is to put to death. The old man that have all these sins have been washed by the blood of Jesus to become the new man.  We need to show the fruits of our salvation in our lives, and be salted with salt as we get cleansed. The sacrifice speaks of the believer, as a sacrifice unto God. Our body is a reasonable sacrifice to God. Thus we are salted with salt to further sanctify ourselves to God. The salt here is a covenant with our God. It will last forever, just as salt preserves us forever.

Romans 12:1-2. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Let's us not conform to the world and salted with fire; but be transformed in Christ to be salted with salt and be preserved forever.