8『素祭的每一样供物,你都要用盐调和;在你的素祭上,不可让神立约的盐缺少;一切的供物都要同著盐献上。『(利二13。)这里的盐不是普通的盐,乃是神立约的盐,这约是不可废坏、不可改变的。这盐调味、杀菌并防腐。素祭里的盐有甚么属灵意义?到目前为止,我们在素祭里看见了那灵(油)、基督的复活(乳香)、以及基督的人性(细面),但我们还没有看见基督的死。基督的死,就是十字架,乃是由盐所表征的。所以,素祭里的盐是指基督的死,就是十字架。召会中所以有这么多野心和天然的偏好,乃是因为盐太少了。我们不彀有基督的十字架,不彀有对基督之死的应用。召会中若有彀多的盐,就会把野心和天然的偏好除去。只要十字架在这里,盐就在这里;只要盐在这里,细菌就要死去。只要十字架在这里,野心和天然的偏好都要被除去。我盼望这会成为我们众人的经历。我们不该有野心,也不该有天然的偏好。我们只该有主的死废除的功效。这样,我们就会有纯净的人性和纯净的爱。我们会纯净,会活出主耶稣在地上所过的生活,就是一种没有酵、没有蜜、却满了盐的生活。
8Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; you shall not let the salt of the covenant of your God be lacking from your meal offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt” (v. 13). The salt here is not common; it is the salt of the covenant of God, the covenant which is incorruptible and unchangeable. This salt seasons, kills germs, and preserves. What is the spiritual significance of the salt in the meal offering? Thus far, in the meal offering we have seen the Spirit (the oil), Christ’s resurrection (the frankincense), and Christ’s humanity (the fine flour), but we have not yet seen the death of Christ. The death of Christ, the cross, is signified by the salt. The salt in the meal offering therefore refers to the death of Christ, to the cross. The reason there is so much ambition and natural affection in the church is that there is too little salt. We are short of the cross of Christ, short of the application of Christ’s death. If we have adequate salt in the church, ambition and natural affection will be crossed out. As long as the cross is here, salt is here; and as long as salt is here, the germs will die. As long as the cross is here, ambition and natural affection will be crossed out. I hope that this will be the experience of us all. We should not have ambition, and we should not have natural affection. We should have only the crossing out of the Lord’s death. Then we will have pure humility and pure love. We will be pure, and we will live a life like that of the Lord Jesus when He was on earth, a life without leaven and honey but full of salt