What do you smell like?

  What do you smell like?

The apostle Paul writes,

“We are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?” 2 Corinthians 2:15,16.

Are you the aroma of those who are being saved or the fragrance of death to God?

Many calling themselves Christians would say they are the aroma of those who are being saved. When in fact they are not.

In the gospel of Luke we hear Jesus telling this Parable

“To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable:  

"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.  

The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.  

I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' 

"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' 

"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." Luke 18:9-14.

My point here is you can go to church all your life and not be a Christian. You can say the sinners prayer and not be a Christian. 

Leonard Ravenhill said,

“The sinners prayer has sent more people to hell than all the bars in America” Leonard Ravenhill.

It’s easy to go to church, say the right things, do the right things and not go to heaven.

In order to go to heaven you must sincerely believe in God. Not just give intellectual consent to the existence of God and that Jesus is the Son of God, Saviour of all who would believe in Him.

Please think about it.