I am grateful that God always makes it possible for Christ to lead us to victory. God also helps us spread the knowledge about Christ everywhere, and this knowledge is like the smell of perfume.
In fact, God thinks of us as a perfume that brings Christ to everyone. For people who are being saved, this perfume has a sweet smell and leads them to a better life. But for people who are lost, it has a bad smell and leads them to a horrible death.
No one really has what it takes to do this work.
2 Corinthians 2:14-16
Body odor, sometimes called simply B.O. is usually offensive to others and has spawned an entire product line of deodorants. If you have enough money to afford a deodorant, in most western countries you would use one.
In these verses in 2 Corinthians Paul talks about Christian Body Odor. For those who are being saved it is a wonderful smell and very deble. But for those who are lost it is a bad smell that leads them to death.
Body odor can be wonderful as well as bad. A baby not only recognizes his mother by sight and sound, but also by smell. When I was a boy I remember burying my face in my father's pillow because it smelled like him.
The world has developed a product line of Christian deodorants. They are designed to keep you from being offensive to the world because of your faith in Jesus.
You are wearing Christian deodorant when you try to keep the world from being offended by your Christianity. When you try to get the world to like you so that they will believe in Jesus you are simply globing on the deodorant.
When you are not wearing Christian deodorant you will smell good to your brothers and sisters, but the world will be offended. When you are wearing Christian deodorant you will smell good to the world, but you will offend the true believers in Jesus.
Get rid of all the Christian deodorant in your life and let the odor that comes from you as a believer do the work for which God created it! Amen.
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