Can You "Smell" Like Worship?
 

I just listened to an old UPC recording about worship just because I felt like it. In it, the preacher is saying that if you worship, you will have an "aroma" of worship about you that other people will notice. It sounds good in theory, but I am wondering about actual scripture for this. Does it say anywhere in scripture that if you worship, you will have an "aroma" that other people will notice and want?

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Don't know he could of listened to Nirvana "smells like team spirit" and come up with the sermon...lol

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B.O from running and dancing?

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No, though people may indeed be attracted to any generally happy, satisfied, self confident individual that loves others and appears to have an answer to how others can experience similar emotions and maintain similar attributes more consistently (without drugs). And if a person truly worships God, they should have these attributes, to some degree, consistently in their lives, right? :heart

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That aroma wouldn't be one that others would want!! :heeheehee

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At least it would indicate active worshiping... either that or bad hygiene from the congregation. :gotcha

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It actually seemed to be a way to "win souls"....people would smell the aroma and be drawn to you. Seemed like a stretch.

Although the B.O. does not.:ursofunny

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Could help it out with this (for attracting half the people, anyway):

http://dustinstarr.files.wordpress.c...body_spray.jpg

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At least you guys have AC up there, down here we just open the windows and hope for a breeze!

Nice warm day,....

Been eating good Mexican food....




Then you start singing about "The wind is blowing again, the wind is blowing again...."

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:ursofunny:ursofunnyOh my, the things we feel the need to say. "Aroma". That's funny.

But I've heard there was always an aroma at Grateful Dead concerts.

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Tried it out in the grocery store and have to say that those commercials were 100% accurate!

But then the last woman to jump on me had a tattoo that said 5:59 on her forehead. Guess what I saw a second later?

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I think "smelling" like worship is a bit strange.

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Maybe THIS will work! :ursofunny
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That's so beautiful I have tears in my eyes. :ursofunny

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I use to have a pastor who said when the Spirit begins to move, you could smell what he called "a sweet smelling savor", He based this on Isa. 20:41 or something like that. I would think, though, that this passage was speaking figurativley, rather than literally.

But, it was true. Sometimes we could smell a sweet aroma in the services. When the wind blew just right, and a window was open, we could smell the honeysuckle behind the church. He was convinced, however, and convinced others, that this was the "sweetsmelling savor" of the Holy Ghost.

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Wow, I bet he really believed there was no church as good as his!!

I have to ask, what did he think if a person was allergic to the honeysuckle scent?

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Dude! :ursofunny

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I'm am just guessing the preacher meant to say "aura" of worship. Surely not aroma.

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I just read the thread before I said this to see if anyone else besides me thought that!

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Though I wonder (from my pre-church days)

If that is anything like smelling what the rock is cooking?:hmmm
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rofl

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LOL!:ursofunny

Sweet smelling savor....yeah. I guess that it what this may have been based on. The logic goes like this...the sacrifices of the OT had a sweet smelling savor that went up. We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord and God accepts THAT as a sweet smelling savor now. Okay, so I can buy that God will accept our worhsip as a sweet smelling savor. But, I don't see where scritpturally, this savor, smell or aroma, "drew" anyone to God.

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The TITLE of the message was "The Aroma of Worship".

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Probably the gist of the sermon was having an "aura" of worship, though. :)

Worship is a lifestyle, IMO--everything you do is centered around pleasing God--and that is definitely noticeable to other people.

I can give it "aura", but not "aroma."

I'm sure he meant that other people would notice--not literally "smell" your worship. ;)

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There's a town called Aromas in California. I always chuckle when I drive by the sign for it. :lol

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I think it's obvious he would not literally mean smell. The question is, does that draw other people to God, scripturally?

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Obviously the preacher never meant a literal smell, but atmosphere.

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I think that is exactly what was meant. It's easy to slip words in place of other words actually intended.

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But, how are people going to "smell" or "see" the atmosphere when they are away from church?

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The Preacher may have meant aroma.


Has anyone ever wondered just how bad it would have stunk naturally during the Old Testament times of animal sacrifice?

You know those folks didn't know hygiene like we know it today.


Maybe part of the manifest Presence of God was a scent that overpowered the natural funk of death and blood.


Isn't the word "savor" a direct reference to smell?

Why couldn't a person smell like worship, in the most positive way possible?

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Here you go!

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Exd 40:27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Exd 31:11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy [place]: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.

Mal 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

Luk 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

Rev 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

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Notice the prayers of the saints accompanied their version of Lysol.


One has to wonder how any of this was hygienic, sanitary.

One has to wonder why illness and disease just didn't wipe them all out, given what they were doing.


It was a supernatural intervention by a Supernatural God that enabled them do what they did.

Even the most powerful incense sticks could not have been enough to do what needed to be done to keep all of the blood guts Holy and not deadly.

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There were some pretty basic hygiene practices in place among the ancients.

Deuteronomy 23:13-14, is pretty interesting when you think about... or perhaps it's best not to think about it? I can't help but laugh a little bit at the picture of the Almighty Being walking into the Children of Israel's camp and stopping to lift His foot to see what He had on the bottom of His sandal.

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I never even thought of that! :)

I am still trying to imagine the Divine Intervention that prevented airborne sicknesses and diseases from killing them dead.


This is another example of God honoring sacrifice!

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BUMP!!!

Too many people are answering the wrong question.

Can the worship of God translate into a soul winning "smell" or draw.

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Your alarm clock, at 6:00, of course! Was it playing Sonny and Cher? :toofunny

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Only for the 289th time!

But I sure can play the piano well by now!

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Coming from a group that calls themselves monks, the follow quote was something that was thought provoking.

“When we use incense, and experience its aromatic perfume through our sense of smell, we are helping to involve the entirety of our person in worship. We are to consecrate all of ourselves to God; mind, heart, will, strength, emotions and senses.”

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And again.....scripturally.....does worship cause people to be "won" to the Lord?

The preacher said people ask him "What are you? Are you a preacher or something?" And he tied it in to the fact that he worships God and has the aroma of worship on him. He didn't tie it into the fact he doesn't swear....he didn't tie it into the fact he doesn't wear a watch or a wedding ring etc. etc........he didn't tie it into anything that could be SEEN to be different about himself.....he said it was the aroma of worhsip.