We are the aroma of Christ.

 

For we are the aroma of Christ to God 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

Jesus is spreading the knowledge of His gospel everywhere. He is being diffused through the world's cultural atmosphere like a fragrance. Through the spreading of the gospel, people are being saved, and those in need of salvation are hearing the good news, even if they reject it. Jesus is using believers to waft the fragrant incense near and far so that He is known and made known worldwide. This is the victory march of the gospel.

Jesus has to do it through us because naturally we are totally insufficient for the task. No one Christian could make Jesus known worldwide. Only by bringing believers together in the Church and commissioning them to make disciples of all the ethnic groups of the world can this be done. In the church's work of taking the gospel to the world, the fragrance of Christ's triumphal procession goes everywhere.

The sweet incense of the gospel story must be brought to combat death's stench which infiltrates all that humankind does. Oh how we need the gospel to redeem lives and bring life to dying cultures! The fragrance of life to life in Jesus is what this world needs now, more than ever!