I just read the thread before I said this to see if anyone else besides me thought that!
Though I wonder (from my pre-church days)
If that is anything like smelling what the rock is cooking?
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"Resolved: That all men should live to the glory of God. Resolved, secondly: That whether or not anyone else does, I will." ~Jonathan Edwards
"The only man who has the right to say he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ." ~Dietrich Bonheoffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Preachers who should be fishing for men are now too often fishing for compliments from men." ~Leonard Ravenhill
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.
LOL!
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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When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
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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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Obviously the preacher never meant a literal smell, but atmosphere.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
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.
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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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
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