2 Corinthians 2:1-17
Paul said he wrote them out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.
You ought to forgive and comfort who has caused grief- not to put it too severely. To reaffirm your love for him. If you forgive anyone,I also forgive him. In order that Satan might not outwit us.
Spread everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, we are the fragrance of life. Who is equal to such a task?
Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God.
Why?
Paul wrote letter to Corinth with depth of his love for them.
Forgive is the action of love, it is the weapon of Christian, but Paul has pointed out what make him grief.
The trouble seems to have been personal antagonism to Paul on the part of one man. Now that the church has dealt with him, Paul urges his forgiveness.
Paul sees himself as Christ's slave being led around the empire in his triumphal march. For the captives, the smell of incense had the scent of death about it, as the aroma of Christ does for Paul.
The aroma of Christ we spread is not from the world but from the knowledge of God. Someone like it, someone don't like it.
Who is equal to such a task? A real Christian is impossible let all people like us, good to whom is the power of the Spirit of God.
How?
When I am getting older, I should bearing more fragrance in Christ instead of old man's stink, let people come to Christ because of my behavior and my aroma of Christ.
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