Fragrance incense pleasing to God

Fragrance incense pleasing to God

2 Cor 2:14

¹⁴ But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.

Eze 20:41

⁴¹ I will accept you as fragrant incense when I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will be proved holy through you in the sight of the nations.

Eph 5:2

¹ Follow God’s example,  therefore, as dearly loved children² and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Php 4:18

¹⁸ I have received full payment and have more than enough. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    God always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Him everywhere

2)    God will accept us as fragrant incense when He brings us out from the nations and He will be proved holy through us in the sight of the nations.

3)    We are to follow God’s example, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

4)    When we help God’s servants and His people, God will meet all our needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.