{"id":1694,"date":"2015-03-15T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2015-03-15T16:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T20:39:41","slug":"whats-that-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s That Smell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Message by Chris Pearce<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rec0315-113531.mp3\">rec0315-113531<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/>\nEphesians 5:1-2 (NKJV<\/b><b>) <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1 \u00a0Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 \u00a0And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Ephesians 5:8 (NKJV)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">8 \u00a0For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Ephesians 5:15-16 (NKJV)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">15 \u00a0See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\nExodus 29:1-18 (NKJV)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1 \u00a0&#8220;And this is what you shall do to them to hallow them for ministering to Me as priests: Take one young bull and two rams without blemish, 2 \u00a0and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil (you shall make them of wheat flour). 3 \u00a0You shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. 4 \u00a0And Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall wash them with water. 5 \u00a0Then you shall take the garments, put the tunic on Aaron, and the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the intricately woven band of the ephod.\u00a06 \u00a0You shall put the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban. 7 \u00a0And you shall take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint him. 8 \u00a0Then you shall bring his sons and put tunics on them. 9 \u00a0And you shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and put the hats on them. The priesthood shall be theirs for a perpetual statute. So you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.\u00a010 \u00a0&#8220;You shall also have the bull brought before the tabernacle of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the bull. 11 \u00a0Then you shall kill the bull before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 12 \u00a0You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the altar. 13 \u00a0And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. 14 \u00a0But the flesh of the bull, with its skin and its offal, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering. 15 \u00a0&#8220;You shall also take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram; 16 \u00a0and you shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it all around on the altar. 17 \u00a0Then you shall cut the ram in pieces, wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head. 18 \u00a0And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\n2 Corinthians 2:14-17 (NKJV)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">14 \u00a0Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. 15 \u00a0For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.\u00a016 \u00a0To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? 17 \u00a0For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message by Chris Pearce rec0315-113531 Ephesians 5:1-2 (NKJV) 1 \u00a0Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 \u00a0And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=1694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}