Hey all!!
Just thought id email from work. Im by my computer eating cocoa pops and muesli and drinking straight milky hot chocolate! =)
Hey in 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 it says among many things "For we are to God the aroma of Christ, among those who are saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death and the other the fragrance of life. (v15)"
Something really interesting i read a while ago, was that in acient Hebrew culture when a someone was pronounced king he would be annointed with perfume and good smells, yeah boi. And Solomon even had it poured over his clothes i think it mentions somewhere in the Bible or hints at it in proverbs??. so even days after the procession a king would still have his fragrance drifting about him. A few days before Jesus was crucified this lady came and poured perfume on him if you remember, so when he went up to Jerusalem on his donkey not only would he be pronounced the Son of King David by the people but he smelt the part too!!! =D and then he got brutally beaten and carried a cross up to golgotha! So he truly wouldve smelt of death and of some sweet perfume. A strange mix.
If you read vs 14 you see that it says something like "Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place." So though that proccesion to the cross was a gruesome thing in one sense it was a massive victory and triumph beacuse it made a way to a new life, both here and now and in the future into eternity. And to those who accept Him, He really is a wonderful fragrance of life and we too can spread that fragrance every where. Read the rest to 17. Its cool =)
Ok actually ive finished my eating now, took like 2 hrs to write this lol
Peace!
Love
Jono
Just thought id email from work. Im by my computer eating cocoa pops and muesli and drinking straight milky hot chocolate! =)
Hey in 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 it says among many things "For we are to God the aroma of Christ, among those who are saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death and the other the fragrance of life. (v15)"
Something really interesting i read a while ago, was that in acient Hebrew culture when a someone was pronounced king he would be annointed with perfume and good smells, yeah boi. And Solomon even had it poured over his clothes i think it mentions somewhere in the Bible or hints at it in proverbs??. so even days after the procession a king would still have his fragrance drifting about him. A few days before Jesus was crucified this lady came and poured perfume on him if you remember, so when he went up to Jerusalem on his donkey not only would he be pronounced the Son of King David by the people but he smelt the part too!!! =D and then he got brutally beaten and carried a cross up to golgotha! So he truly wouldve smelt of death and of some sweet perfume. A strange mix.
If you read vs 14 you see that it says something like "Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place." So though that proccesion to the cross was a gruesome thing in one sense it was a massive victory and triumph beacuse it made a way to a new life, both here and now and in the future into eternity. And to those who accept Him, He really is a wonderful fragrance of life and we too can spread that fragrance every where. Read the rest to 17. Its cool =)
Ok actually ive finished my eating now, took like 2 hrs to write this lol
Peace!
Love
Jono
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