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Greg Elmquist

The Great Shepherd

Hebrews 13:20-21
Greg Elmquist October, 12 2014 Audio
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with me to Jeremiah chapter 21. Jeremiah chapter 21. You know,
Joe and Gabe, I am confident that they are going to preach
Christ. They are faithful gospel preachers and very good friends
and I'm very very thankful for them. And they will preach Christ
as every faithful gospel preacher would in season and out of season. They'll preach Christ to those
who hate the gospel and they'll preach Christ to those who love
the gospel. So the response to their preaching
will not change their message. That having been said, they are
men who will be encouraged to know if the messages are blessed
of God to your heart. And they won't know that if you
don't tell them. So I want to encourage you, if
God blesses your heart with their preaching, make their preaching
in season. It's like saying, sick them to
a dog, when God's people rejoice in
what they hear. So share that with them. Jeremiah chapter 21 verse 8. Unto this people thou shalt say,
thus saith the Lord. And that's what preaching is.
Preaching is just thus saith the Lord. This is what God says.
It's not my opinion. It's not the popular idea, it's
not the denominational's, the denomination's position. This
is what God says, thus saith the Lord, I set before you the
way of life and the way of death. Sometimes we say, that's a life
and death matter. Sometimes we use that kind of
language when we ought not to. This gospel is life and death,
and not just physical life and death, but eternal life and death. I set before you a way of life
and a way of death. There's no in-between. Tom's going to come lead us in
number 186 in the hardback teminal, 186. Let's read the next two verses
in that passage in Jeremiah chapter 21. Scripture tells us to come out
from among them and be separate. Our Lord was crucified outside
the camp, outside the city of Jerusalem. And in order for us
to be saved, we must, ourselves, come outside the camp. Now Jerusalem
is a picture of the church, but it's also a picture of false
religion. and dependent on the context. Sometimes it's seen
as works religion, and sometimes in the spiritual sense it's seen
as the city of peace. And so here in this text, it's
spoken of as religion, man-made religion. Look what our Lord
says in verse nine. He that abideth in this city,
shall die by the sword and by the famine, by the pestilence. But he that goeth out and falleth
to the Chaldeans that besiege you, have you been besieged by
God? Have you been shut up to Christ? Have you got no place else to
go? Stay in false religion and you'll die. But come out and
fall prostrate before the one who has besieged you and you
shall live you shall live and his life shall be unto him for
prey always is isn't it always under attack and There's always
reason for us to congregate together for protection and to flee to
Christ for keeping us. For our life that he gives us
is for a prey. For I have set my face against
this city for evil and not for good, saith the Lord. It shall
be given into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall
burn it with fire. Jerusalem is spoken of as that
city Babylon. It's just man-made religion that'll be destroyed by God.
Let's pray together, ask the Lord to bless the gospel to our
hearts. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we ask that you would cause us to come out, outside the city, outside the
camp, to identify with the Lord Jesus
Christ, that we might see His death on
Calvary's cross as our death. We might see his life as our
life and his resurrection as our resurrection, that we might
see him to be our all and to see him in all. We pray that
Christ will be lifted up, that we'd be drawn to him. We know
that if that happens, we'll be made to be strangers and sojourners
in this world, but that's okay. Lord, we've set our affections
on things above. We have a city whose builder
and whose foundations are God. We ask, Lord, that you would
give us that grace this morning. We pray it in Christ's name.
Amen. Will you open your Bibles with
me to 2 Corinthians chapter 2. 2 Corinthians chapter 2. And we'll begin reading at verse
14. Entitled this message, Life or
Death. Life or Death. This passage of
scripture God tells us that the gospel of God's free grace in
the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ is a savor or smell
or aroma of life to some and a stench of death to others. There's no in-between. A dog will go out into the yard
and roll itself in its own feces and then walk around with its
head held high as if it had perfume on it. You would never do that. Your
child wouldn't even do that. Why? Why? Because that dog's of a different
nature. It's a different nature. What smells good to it is a stench
to your nostrils. And that's what our Lord says
here about the gospel. The only difference is that difference
that God makes when he changes our nature from dogs to children. And we're either one or the other.
This gospel is either when the when Christ is preached it's
a it's an aroma of life to you or it's a stench of death now
if you can't smell it at all then you're sick you got a problem
or you're dead there's no life in you it did but It's going
to, if it's heard, if the gospel's preached and it's heard, it's
going to be received one way or the other. The light that
God shines from heaven in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ
will either have the effect that the sunlight has on wax or it'll
have the effect that sunlight has on clay. It'll either soften
your heart or it'll harden your heart. but it will do one or
the other. There's no in between. God's
word will always accomplish that for which it has been sent. It
will never return unto him void. The gospel is not designed for
anything other than to harden the hearts of some and to break
the hearts of others. Who maketh thee to differ? The
Lord does. The Lord does. Oh, Lord, change
my nature. Give me the ability to enjoy
Christ, to love Christ, to want to hear more about Christ. Cause Him to be my life. Because if I've heard the gospel,
and I have no love for Christ, then that gospel becomes my sentence
of death. There's no purgatory. There's
no purgatory. There's no in-between. There's
no place to go after you die to work out what you couldn't
work out here. There's no period of time between the rapture of
the church and the second coming of Christ for you to be able
to suffer for Jesus in order to earn your salvation. No, there's
people that teach that. Well, if I don't stand for Christ
now, at least after the rapture I'll have a chance, I'll die
for him and that would get me into heaven. No, it won't. No,
it won't. No, this is life or death. I set before thee, as we just
read in Jeremiah, a way of life and a way of death. Look what
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 2, Now, verse 14, now, thanks be
to God. Oh, I'm so very thankful. Thankful
for the gospel, thankful for Christ, thankful for eyes to
see, thankful for ears to hear, thankful for a new heart to believe. Lord, I don't know what else
to do but just be thankful. If you hadn't given me those
things, this message would be death to me. But thanks be unto God, who,
God himself, always causes us to triumph. The Lord Jesus Christ
got the victory over death. He got the victory over sin.
He got the victory over Satan. He got the victory over hell.
And in Christ, we enjoy that which he accomplished. And so
we look to Christ as our victor. And our victory is won by him. It's illustrated in that story
of David and Goliath, isn't it? When Saul and the army of Israel
were being intimidated by the Philistines, the Philistines
kept standing up this giant as their representative. Here's
our representative. You send one man out of your
camp to go to battle against our representative. And whoever
wins, we won't worry about shedding the blood of the whole army.
We'll just let one man fight against another man. And whoever
wins will get the victory for the whole nation. And Saul and
the children of Israel and the brothers of David shook in their
boots when they looked at Goliath, didn't they? What are we going
to do? And finally, The Lord raised up a man after his own
heart, gave to David the faith to believe God. And David, little
David, who is a picture of the Lord Jesus. David and Goliath
is not a picture of teaching our young men how to be brave
and strong. David and Goliath is a picture
of salvation. It's a picture of Christ. And
David, knowing that God would give him the victory over this
blasphemer, He went forward and slew the giant, didn't he? And
got the victory for the whole nation of Israel. And the Philistines
were routed. And Israel was the victor. David, the sweet psalmist of
Israel, David, the one whom the Lord Jesus Christ himself is
called the son of. David, the king of Israel. Picturing Christ, isn't it? Oh,
thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph in Christ. Our victory is accomplished by
our victor. When the Lord Jesus Christ bowed
his head on Calvary's cross and said, it is finished. Everything necessary for the
salvation of God's people, everything, not just part of it, all of it. The Lord Jesus Christ accomplished
it. He fulfilled all righteousness. He obeyed the law. He satisfied
divine justice. He suffered the wrath of God
for the sins of his people. And he got the victory. And we
were shaking in our boots. What are we going to do against
Goliath? He did it, didn't he? Look what he says. Now thanks
be to God which always causes us to triumph in Christ. In Christ. You're not going to
triumph outside of Christ. The only triumph over death you're
going to have. The only triumph that you can
have over sin and over hell and over the grave will be found
in Christ. Paul said not having my own righteousness
which is of the law all but to be found in Him, not having my
own righteousness which is of the law, but that righteousness
which is by the faith of Jesus Christ. Our triumph over death is only
to be found in Christ. In Christ. In Christ. In Christ. Maybe the two most important
words put together in all of the Word of God. In Christ. Lord, let me be found in Christ.
Lord, put me in Christ. the saver of his knowledge, I'm
sorry, and maketh manifest. God makes manifest, God makes
known to his people the saver of the knowledge of Christ by
us. Paul said, I've come to preach
Christ. I profess to know nothing among
you save Christ and him crucified. We're not We're not engaged in
some moralistic teaching. We're not interested in just
giving a denominational dogma or theological theory. We're
preaching the person of Christ. He's the one you need. I'm always
concerned when somebody speaks of the preaching of Christ as
just all they ever talk about is the grace gospel, or all they
ever talk about is a gospel. This is Christ being preached.
This is the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the second person
of the triune Godhead, the Son of God, the matchless one. Oh, it's a relationship with Christ. And he says, he says, he maketh
manifest, he makes known, he makes it our experience, the
savor of his knowledge, the knowledge of Christ by us in every place. Also, wherever we go and preach,
we preach Christ and the savor of Christ is made manifest or
made known through the preaching of the gospel. How can they call
upon Him in whom they've not believed? How can they believe
on Him in whom they've not heard? How can they hear without a preacher?
God uses the foolishness of preaching, doesn't He? He shuts us up to
Christ when thus saith the Lord is declared in preaching. And let me say this about preaching. Preaching has nothing to do with
the style of deliverance. God uses a lot of different personalities
to preach. Apollos preached one way, Paul
preached another way, Peter preached another way, John preached another
way, but they all preached the same thing. The word preaching actually in
the original language has nothing to do with deliverance. It has
everything to do with the content of the message. The content of
the message. That's what preaching is. And
Christ himself is the sum and substance of the message of the
gospel. So we're just preaching Christ. And that's what you need, and
that's what I need, isn't it? We need to be shut up to Christ.
And Christ needs to become everything to us. Christ is not the main
thing in our life. He is our life. Do you see the
difference? Oh, I hope you do. I hope you
do. I hope Christ himself is your
life. And outside of Christ you have
no life. I hope that the preaching of the message of Christ has
become a sweet aroma of life to you. Look what he says. for
we are verse 15 unto God a sweet-smelling savor a sweet savor and that's
what the word savor means it means an aroma a smell a sweet
smell of Christ in them that are saved
and in them that perish When the gospel is preached,
it's a sweet smell to some and an offensive smell to others. To the one, we are the savor
of death unto death, and to the other, the savor of life unto
life and who is sufficient for these things for we are not as
many which corrupt the word of God but as of sincerity but as
of God in the sight of God in the sight of God God's my judge we speak now you see that little
preposition in Perhaps you have it notated in your Bible, I have
it in my Bible. We do speak in Christ, but the
preposition there is of. And it's very similar in the
original language, so it's, we speak of Christ. We speak of
Christ. That's who we speak of. We're
not like some who twist the Word of God and pervert the Word of
God and as Peter said, rest the Word of God. Make it to say things
it doesn't say. No, we just preach the simplicity
of Christ because the person of Christ is who sinners need. I want you to turn with me in
your Bibles to Genesis chapter 8. Genesis chapter 8. There is, in understanding the
Bible, a rule of first mention. When something is mentioned the
first time, the context of that word or concept is carried out
throughout the scriptures. And in Genesis chapter 8 we have
the first mention of a sweet savor to God. And it happens
right after the flood. The waters have receded. Noah
and his wife and his three sons and their wives, out of all the
inhabitants of the world, have been saved by God. And now they
come out of the ark and they worship God. They make an altar. They take the wood from the ark
and they build a fire and they sacrifice on that fire clean
animals in worship to God. And look at Genesis chapter 8
at verse 20. And Noah built an altar unto
the Lord, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl,
and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled
a sweet savor, and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again
curse the ground anymore for man's sake, for the imagination
of man's heart is evil from his youth. Now that hasn't changed.
Why did God destroy the earth to start with? Because he saw
that every imagination of the heart was only evil, and that
continually. Genesis chapter 6, and now he says, yeah, their
hearts haven't changed. They're the same. But I'm not
going to destroy the earth this way anymore. Neither will I again
smite anymore anything living as I have done. And this is kind
of a sideline, but look at verse 22. While the earth remaineth,
This is God speaking. I'm not a scientist. I know very
little about the details of global warming. But I know God's Word. And whatever the scientists say,
if it stands in contrast to the Word of God, I'm going to stand
with God's Word. And I hope you will too. What
an encouragement this last verse is. There is no such thing as
global warming that is going to destroy this world until the
fire of God rains down from heaven and this earth is burned up.
And here it is right here. Look what he says. This is God
speaking. While the earth remaineth, seedtime
and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease. Now that's enough for me. I'm not worried about another
ice age. I'm not worried about some sort of man-made global
warming or some sort of, you know, destruction of the earth
that's going to be caused, that's going to, you know, God says
it's not going to happen. Seed time and harvest, summer
and winter, hot and cold, day and night, will not cease until
I bring it into the earth. Period. Why does the Lord make such a
promise? Why does he make such a promise?
Because of the offering that was made. Because of the sacrifice
of the clean animals that Noah burned on the altar. And God
says, a sweet savor came into my nostrils. And as a result
of that, I made this promise. Who is that sacrifice made upon
the altar? Who is it that bore the punishment
of God's wrath for the sins of God's people that atoned for
the wrath of God's judgment for our sin? Who is it that appeased
God so that the wrath of God was no more necessary to destroy
this earth until he was finished in saving the last one for whom
Christ died? Who is it? It's Christ himself. He's the one that hung there
on Calvary's cross. That sacrifice, that sweet-smelling
savor is Christ. And it came into the nostrils
of God. And God says, when I smelt the
sacrifice of that clean animal, I was satisfied. And I withheld
my judgment. and brought forth the salvation
of my people. Turn with me to Exodus chapter
29. Look at verse 18. And thou shalt burn the whole
ram upon the altar. It is a burnt offering unto the
Lord. It is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto the
Lord. God says, when you make that
sacrifice, it comes into my nostrils as a sweet savor, and I'm satisfied. Turn with me to Exodus chapter
30. Look at verse 7. And Aaron shall burn thereon
sweet incense Every morning, when he dresses
the lamb, he shall burn incense upon it. And when Aaron lighted
the lamps at evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual
incense before the Lord throughout your generations. You shall offer
no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offerings,
neither shall you pour drink offerings thereon. Aaron shall
make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the
blood of the sin offering of an atonement once in a year shall
you make atonement throughout your generation. It is most holy
unto the Lord. Now God had given to Aaron and
Moses a very specific formula that was to be followed in making
the incense and he said don't deviate from this formula. And
there are at least two incidences where Nadab and Abihu offered
up what God calls a strange fire. In other words, the incense that
came up into God's nostrils as a sweet smelling savior was changed
from the formula that God had made. Another incidence in Numbers
chapter 16. Turn with me there. What happened
to Nadab and Abihu, by the way, when they offered up a strange
fire unto God? The scripture says fire came
from heaven and consumed them. God killed them right there on
the spot. Why? Because the incense they offered
was not according to the law. It was not according to what
God had designed and what God had purposed. It was not Christ. The sacrifice was to be made
very specifically because it pictured what the Lord Jesus
Christ himself would do. So here's the point of this whole
thing. Any offering that's made to God
for the forgiveness of sin outside of the Lord Jesus Christ is a
stench in God's nostrils. And that which is offensive to
God is what the natural man loves. Just like the dog wallowing in
its own dung. That which is offensive to God
is pleasing to the natural man. And that which is pleasing to
God is offensive to the natural man. Look at Numbers chapter 16. Look at verse 3. Now this is
Korah. The children of Israel are in
the wilderness. God has appointed Moses, who
himself is a type of Christ, and Aaron, who himself is a type
of Christ. I will raise up another prophet
like unto thee, God said of Moses, speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Aaron clearly is the picture of Christ in his priestly role. From all of his robe, to his
sacrifices, to everything that he does, to the aroma of incense
that he offers up, everything about Moses and Aaron, picture
Christ. And God wasn't going to share
that with anybody. I'll not share my glory with another. Christ
is going to get all the glory for our salvation, or we won't
be saved. This gospel message shuts us
up to Christ. It's a saver of life to them
who believe. and a saver of death to the sons
of Korah. Look what Korah says in verse
3. And they gathered themselves
together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Listen,
if the sacrifice that you make to God for your sin is not Christ
and Christ alone, it's against him. It's against him. You're either for me or you're
against me. People want to make a sacrifice to God in hopes that
somehow it's going to add to what Christ did. You try to add
to Christ, you're against Him. You say, I don't have anything
against God. If Christ isn't everything to you, then you are
at enmity with God. The gospel is a stench to you
because the gospel is exclusively Christ. Noah made an offering
on an altar and it came up to God as a sweet aroma and God
said I withhold my judgment against the world even though their hearts
are the same now as they were before the flood but the aroma
of the offering has appeased me the perpetual incense that Aaron
was to offer on the altar has appeased me I'll withhold my
judgment because I'm satisfied with this aroma. It's all about
Christ. Look what he... So here, now
they're against Moses, verse 3 of Numbers chapter 16. And
what did they say? What did Korah... Look at what
Korah said about Moses and Aaron. You take too much upon yourself. Isn't that exactly what the enemies
of Christ say? That's exactly what they say.
You mean it's just about Christ? You put too much on Him. We want
something more. We want you to give us something
to do. We want you to give us a prayer
to pray. We want you to give our will some power. We want you to... We want to
make a contribution. You put too much on Him. What happens? Seeing all the
congregation are holy, every one of them. Now this is Korah
speaking. Korah's saying, we're holy. We're just holy as you
are. We can come before God. We don't
need you. Here's what the enemies of the
gospel say. Here's what the gospel, which
is an offensive odor to some, because they say with Korah,
You're putting too much on Christ. We've got some good things about
us. You know Aaron had to wear holiness of the Lord across his
head in order to atone for the holy things? In other words,
Aaron had to make sacrifice for the sacrifice. He had to make,
there was nothing that they had put their hand to that was acceptable. Every one of them? The Lord's
among them. Wherefore then lift you up yourselves
above the congregation of the Lord? Why are you lifting yourself
above the congregation of the Lord? What, do you think your
God is special? You think you're the only one saved? You think
your gospel is the only gospel there is? Yeah. This is the only gospel. We're
not the only one saved. But the only ones saved believe
this same gospel. There's no salvation outside
this gospel. I'm sorry if that offends you. Well, that's an
offense to me. I know it is. It's a savor of death unto those
who are dying. There's no question about it.
I'm not surprised that some would be offended at the gospel. God
already said it's a savor of death to you. It's a stench in
your nostrils. Admit that you can't stand the
smell of it. But to us, it's a savor of life. Why? Because it's a savor of
life to God. What Christ did on Calvary's
cross raised an aroma into the nostrils of God that were according
to the law of God. And God's pleased with Christ,
I'm pleased with Christ. Are you satisfied with what God's
satisfied with? Because God ain't satisfied with
you. He's not satisfied with you. He's satisfied with Christ and
Christ alone. And faith, trust the one whom
God is satisfied with. And the sons of Korah say, you
put too much on him. What do you think you're special?
So what did God do? We won't take the time to read
the whole chapter. Moses, God said to Moses, I'm
going to kill these people. I'm going to wipe out everyone.
I'm going to start over with you. And Moses said, oh, Lord, don't do
that. And Moses interceded on behalf of the people. And God
said, OK, I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll let each one
of these men offer up their own incense. And the one that I accept, I'll
show by my presence. And ended up, well, let's look
at, skip over to verse 31. All right, you gotta see verse
10, I'm sorry. And he hath brought thee near
to him, and all thy brethren, the sons of Levi with thee, and
seek ye the priesthood also. What was Korah doing? Korah wanted
to make sacrifice to God. He said, we don't need Aaron.
We don't need Moses. We can make our own sacrifices. We've got
our own free will. We've got our own good works. And God says to Korah, listen,
the Lord's given you an opportunity to serve in the tabernacle. Do
you want to take the priesthood also? Yeah, that's what we want. That's what we want. So look
at verse 31. And it came to pass, as he had
made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave
asunder that was under them, and the earth opened her mouth,
and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that
appertained to Korah, and all their goods, they and all that
appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth
closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.
And that is going to happen to everyone to whom the gospel is
a stench in their nostrils. The earth one day will open and
they will fall alive into the pit. And all Israel that were round
about them fled at the cry of them and they said lest the earth
swallow us up also and they came out fire from the Lord and consumed
the 250 men that offended that offered incense see what they
did they offered their own incense they didn't offer the incense
that God had prescribed for Aaron they were offering up to God
something other than Christ and God destroyed him. Malachi chapter 2, last book of the Old Testament,
the Lord's last word of prophecy as to what's going to happen
now, 400 years before the coming of Christ, the Lord promises
a Savior. and look what he says in verse
10 of chapter 2. I'm so sorry, I've written the
wrong reference down. Well, the Lord said in Malachi
that there would be one who would offer perpetual incense to the
Lord. And he's speaking of Christ.
And there's no question that that promise was Here, verse 10 of chapter 1,
I'm sorry. Who is there even among you that
would shut the doors for naught, neither do you kindle fire on
my altar for naught? I have no pleasure in you, saith
the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your
hand. That can't be much more clear, can it? For from the rising
of the sun, even to the going down of the same, my name shall
be great among the Gentiles, and in every place shall be offered
unto my name, and a pure offering, for my name shall be great among
the heathens, saith the Lord of hosts. God only accepts a
pure offering, a perfect offering. That's what's pleasing in His
sight, and that's the aroma of grace that He's satisfied with. Now in closing, turn with me
to Revelation chapter 8. I just read this verse Ecclesiastes
chapter 10 says dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary
to send forth a stinking smell you know we get our phrase flying
the ointment that's where it's from Ecclesiastes chapter 10
verse 1 dead flies cause the aroma or the oil of the apothecary
to put forth a stinking smell When we add to what Christ has
done, we turn the sweet savor of Christ into something that
has an offensive odor to God. In Revelation chapter 8 at verse
3, And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a
golden censer. And there was given unto him
much incense, that he offered it with the prayers of all the
saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne,
and the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of
the saints ascended up before God out of the angel's hand." We come before God in prayer
looking to the Lord Jesus Christ alone for all the hope of our salvation.
We're not interested in just giving men something to do. We're
not interested in preaching. Paul said in our text, go back
with me to our text, he said, who is sufficient for these things?
Who is sufficient for these things? How do we preach Christ? How
do we do him justice? How do we exalt his glory high
enough? How do we declare him for who
he is other than just saying, thus saith the Lord, and pray
that God the Holy Spirit would take the feeble efforts of a
preacher and make his word effectual to the hearts of his people.
That's the only hope we have. Who's sufficient? There's no
man sufficient to exalt Christ. That's what we do. And we pray
the Spirit of God will take our prayers and our preaching and
hold them up with a golden censer and make them acceptable to God
in Christ. You're back there to our text,
2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 16. To the one we are a saver
of death, to the other a saver of life. Who is sufficient for
these things? What can we do? How can we preach
Christ? If they speak not according to
the law and to the testimony, it's because there's no light
in them. No light. All we can do is say,
thus saith the Lord. This is God's word. I would say
to those who find the gospel a stench, or those who can't
smell it at all, this is God's Word. Find in God's
Word something that we've perverted, something that we've twisted.
Look what he says in verse 17, for we are not as many. What do they do? They corrupt
the Word of God. They rest it. They twist it.
They make it say things it doesn't say. We are not like that. All we're doing is comparing
the spiritual to the spiritual and preaching Christ. Preaching Christ. What saith
the Scriptures? But as of sincerity, But as of
God, in the sight of God, I would ask you, have we spoke
today of Christ? Have we spoke of Christ? Have
we shut the gospel up to Christ? And if you've heard it, how's
it smell? How's it smell to you? Is it
a sweet aroma? It is to God. It is to God. Let's pray together. Our Heavenly
Father, we ask, Lord, that you would give us your nature, your
spirit, that we could smell things as you smell them, and that the
gospel of your grace would be a sweet savor in our nostrils. even as it is in yours. We ask
it in Christ's name. Amen. Number 22 in the Sopect Temple.
Let's stand together. JESUS CHRIST!
Greg Elmquist
About Greg Elmquist
Greg Elmquist is the pastor of Grace Gospel Church in Orlando, Florida.
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