Can You "Smell" Like Worship? - Page 4

Jermyn Davidson · #31 11-24-2009, 04:07 PM

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?

StillStanding · #32 11-24-2009, 04:53 PM

Here you go!

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.

Jermyn Davidson · #33 11-24-2009, 05:02 PM

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.

pelathais · #34 11-24-2009, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

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.

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.

Jermyn Davidson · #35 11-24-2009, 05:53 PM

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!

ILG · #36 11-25-2009, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ILG

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

BUMP!!!

Too many people are answering the wrong question.

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

Timmy · #37 11-25-2009, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

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?

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

RandyWayne · #38 11-25-2009, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Timmy

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

Only for the 289th time!

But I sure can play the piano well by now!

nwlife · #39 11-26-2009, 05:03 AM

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.”

ILG · #40 11-26-2009, 08:26 AM

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.