You Might Be a Baby If..........

Scripture: Ephesians 4: 14-15             

Christ is truth and the Holy Spirit who guides the church is the Spirit of Truth.  This means both our words will be honest and that our actions will reflect the integrity of Christ.  Before we correct we must see error therefore today we are going to take a deep look within and allow the Holy Spirit to expose some immature behaviors that we may have.  Now when you see yourself in the mirror of His Word, you don’t need to be the great pretender.  Many of us wear so many masks.  We never really see ourselves for who we really are.  The Word of God is restorer and today I want to expose some behaviors and attitudes that are not like Christ so we can be restored to be like Him.  As saints living in the last days we have to come on with the come on and quit playing.  God wants to get in our stuff  to make us more like His son.  So if your feet start to feel a little uncomfortable it’s probably not that  that your feet are swelling  or that your water pill isn’t working.  It’s just the Word of God is stepping on your toes.  If it gets to tough to bear just say ouch and keep on reading.   The first step of maturity is to recognize your own faults and to turn towards truth.  

Are you a spiritual child? Are you spiritually still running around the church, in your neighborhood in diapers or pull ups?  Have you even progressed to pull-ups stage?   Just because you’ve been a Christian for many years, does not mean that you are “mature.”  You may be like the boy who had been in the same grade for two years.  When he got to the end of his second year in third grade he thought to himself I know I’m gonna pass this time because I did it better than my friends I did it two times.  When he got his report card he went to his teacher with a very sad look on his face and said, “Why didn’t I pass this time?”  The teacher replied, “I’m sorry, but you haven’t obtained 2 years of knowledge; you’ve had only one year 2 times and you still haven’t retained what you need to be promoted.  During those two years the boy had not improved!  So it may be with many Christians; they have not grown spiritually, but simply keep repeating their first year of spiritual life many times!   Have you been a repeater or have you been promoted in you spiritual growth. 

 No doubt, the Corinthians would have denied being immature babies, yet Paul stated that they were.  This is what he said to them in 1^st  Corinthians 3:1-3, “And I, brethren, could  not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal (worldly), even as unto babes in Christ.  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat (solid food), for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.  For ye are yet carnal (wordly); for whereas there is among you envying (discontented or resentful longing aroused by another’s possessions, qualities, or favor), and strife (angry or bitter disagreement, conflict), and divisions (not unified), are ye not (carnal) and walk as men?”  Paul called the Corinthians, babies in their Christian life because they were not yet spiritually healthy and mature.  The proof was that they quarreled like children.  Spiritual babies are controlled by their own desires(“flesh”); mature believers are controlled by God’s desires for their life.  How much influence do your own desires have on your life?  The goal for a mature child of God is that his or her desires become united with the desires God has for his or her life.  Repeat after me, “Being controlled by my  own desires will stunt my growth.” If Paul were here today, would he have to share the same thought with us? We often find it easy to call someone else out.  But today let us examine ourselves, because you might find out that spiritually you are stunted in your growth.  

You Might Be a babe if you are not capable of feeding or caring for yourself.

Children are totally dependent upon someone else to prepare their meals, cool and blow their food, feed them their meals, and then wait for all that food to process in their tiny little tummies.  Then the messy job begins to see if first they have a stinky, (sniff diaper) then to get all the right changing tools, check for stools that are too hard or too soft, check for diaper rash,(hold up ointment)  wash their little hiney’s with a wet one,(hold up wet one)  lightly powder their diapers, (hold up the powders) and be sure to properly velcro the diaper so there is no leaks.  So it is with a Christian.  Even though many Christians are adults and capable of physically feeding themselves, spiritually they are just not incapable.  They are totally dependent upon those who are mature in Christ to help them along.  For some there is no mature saint to help them along.  Many times a baby Christian will eat some bad spiritual food and it makes them sick.  This is what false doctrine does for a baby Chrisitan.  A babe in Christ often had difficulty discerning the difference between good teaching (bible based truth) and bad teaching (lies of man).  Good conduct (righteousness) and bad conduct (wickedness).  Babes in Christ have to be spoon fed proper nourishment to grow healthy.  They must be held by the hand and told what is truth, wrong, righteousness, and wickedness.  Children are known for putting everything they come in contact with in their mouths.  They don’t know that’s unhealthy for them.  Yet many saint ingest everything from everybody that seems to sound good and churchy. 

            Children are also known for improper attire when they try to do it themselves.  It may be on the wrong foot, wrong side, or something that simply does not match but they are children and we expect that from them.  But something is going wrong when you never grow.  You should not at the age of 10, 20, and 30 years after salvation still need to be fed, burped, and changed.  If this is you gotta grow up. 

Rick Warren state in his book Purpose Driven Life “God wants you to grow up.  Your heavenly Father’s goal is for you to mature and develop the characteristics of Jesus Christ.  Sadly, millions of Christians grow older but never grow up.  They are stuck in a perpetual infancy remaining in diapers and booties.  The reason is that they never intended to grow.”

It often times seems that we think we are supposed to grow and develop in every area of our lives except our spiritual lives.  What do you think Paul meant when he said, “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

It's Time to Grow Up

Scripture: Ephesians 4: 14-15    

          If you look at the church today, a general picture of the way it looks can sometimes be puzzling.   It generally is filled with a bunch of grown-ups walking around with bottles and pacifiers hanging out of their mouths and instead of big boy and big girl panties they are still wearing diapers and pull ups.   Does this look normal to you?  Well this is what God often sees when He looks down from heaven.  Often times He sees immature saints trying to handle his business and don’t have the ability to handle their own.   

Just like new parents are excited about their newborn babe, it’s the same way in the church. People come to the Lord & we rejoice. But then comes the responsibility of bringing these baby Christians up in the Lord. Who is going to nurture them? Who is going to teach them & pray with them? Who is going to counsel them? Who is going to encourage them?  Are you prepared to be a mother or father in Christ or are you still in need of being parented yourself? 

Ephesians 4:14-15 reads as follows:

(14) That we henceforth (henceforward: from this or that time on) be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; (15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

 In this book of Ephesians Paul tells us to  be no more children.  Children are young beings between birth and puberty. They are those who are under a legally specified age who is considered not to be legally responsible for his or her own actions. 

Let’s take a look at the characteristics of a child.

·                      Children are not capable of completely caring for themselves. 

·                      Children aren’t intelligible enough to make decisions.

·                      Children are dependent upon others.  

·                      Children are often unable to communicate their feelings. 

·                      Children fight about anything and everything.

·                      Children enjoy being the center of attention.

·                      Children are very sensitive and their feelings easily hurt. 

·                      Children have very little knowledge and understanding.

·                      Children are never satisfied.

·                      Children have trouble staying clean.

Young children Need a Lot of Care and Accessories.

·                      Sippy cups or pacifiers - to keep them satisfied

·                      Bibs - to catch slobber

·                      Pull ups & diapers - to catch their mess

·                      Wipes - to clean them up

·                      Teethers - to soothe their discomfort

·                      Keys - to satisfy their playful side

·                      Teddy Bears - to make them feel safe and secure

·                      Bag - and a bag to carry around all this stuff they need in. 

Unfortunately, God has some saints walking around with the same needs as young children.  God is in need of some saints to grow up.  Evaluate yourself and see if this is what you look like.  If it is, I encourage you to take steps today to grow up in Christ. 

Eye-Opener #4 ~ Isaiah Saw the World

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8

Focus: Isaiah 6:8

 In the presence of God Isaiah heard God’s heartbeat for a lost and dying people. He heard God’s summons for a messenger to reach out to give them truth. God said: Whom shall I send, who will go for us? And immediately without doubt, fear, or pausing, Isaiah says, HERE Am I, SEND ME!  Had Isaiah not gotten a true glimpse of who God was he might not have been so willing to go for Him.  When you truly get an understanding of who God is, you’ll have a true understanding of what your purpose is on the Earth.  People who have been in the presence of God are active in their gifts.  They take authority over demonic forces that try to oppress their territory.  They are not complacent but they stand boldly for God.

Would God call a sinful man to preach His message? Would God call a man or woman of unclean lips?   Who else is there?   He has not committed His glorious gospel to sinless angels, but to fallen men. But God sends us ONLY after we’ve been cleansed of our sins by His grace. The message of God must be spoken through purged lips. The work of God must be poured from clean vessels.

Isaiah did NOT say, “Where do you want me to go?” “What’s in it for me?” “What is the salary?” “What are the retirement benefits?” Isaiah signed a blank check on his whole life. He didn’t try to strike a bargain with God; he didn’t attempt to negotiate a compromise. God called - Isaiah answered. God commanded - Isaiah obeyed. Such an unconditional response comes only from the heart of one who has SEEN THE VISION: the one who’s MET WITH GOD.

Right there where you are, ask the Holy Spirit to shine His light upon your life and reveal every hidden sin. Ask God to illuminate every sin of pride, malice, un-forgiveness, hatred, witchcraft, fornication, adultery, complacency, unfaithfulness, anything that is not like Him ask him to illuminate it and purge it from your life in the name of Jesus. You’ve got to give it to him.  Quit trying to hold on to things that are hindering your worship, things that are hindering you from being the person God birthed you into the earth to be.   Sin is a sign of rebellion. Ask God to purge and purify you in the name of Jesus.  Uzziah must die! Realize you’ve got to let Uzziah die.  Let him, her, it go!  Let Uzziah die!  If you really want Uzziah to die you have to first see the Lord.   Then you have to open your life before the Lord. Tell Him who you are; tell Him what you are thinking about, be sincere with yourself and with God, so that God can touch you today. He already knows your every action and thought.  What can you hide from God?  He created all things.  Where can you go that He can’t find you? 
          Don’t take this message lightly and not allow God to touch your life. There is anointing to break every yoke of sin.  There is an anointing that destroys the bondage of bad habits.  There is an anointing that will remove every cataract from your spiritual eyes so that you can see yourself as God sees you, so that you too can say that you have seen the Lord.

Eye-Opener #3 ~ Isaiah Sees Himself

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8 

Focus Isaiah 6: 5-7

True worship helps us see ourselves and our shortcomings and to seek God’s forgiveness. In Isaiah, the heavenly beings sing, "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory." And immediately, the prophet cries out, “Woe is me!” He speaks of his own sinfulness.

We cannot come into the presence of God without becoming aware of God’s holiness, and without becoming aware of our own un-holiness. Paul, in his letter to the Romans, said in Romans 3:23, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” As people who have fallen short of the glory of God, it is impossible to approach God's presence without being aware of our own shortcomings and sins.  However, pride will make you feel like you are all right and in good shape but that’s a lie from the pit of hell.  If you are not shaken by seeing your shortcomings in the presence of God you have been tricked by the Satan.  In 1st John 1:8-9, we are told, “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our faults, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from unrighteousness.”

          Isaiah SAW HIMSELF as he had never quite seen himself before. He did not see himself in a way that one might see him or herself as they admire their own image in a mirror.  No, no! He did not see himself as a good person, worthy of God’s commendation, and the praise of people. He didn’t think to himself, “WOW! I must be the best person here, because God has honored ONLY ME with a vision of Himself.” That was NOT his attitude at all.  Instead Isaiah cried out: Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips!  The closer we get to God, the more clearly we see our sins. The contrast between His holiness and our un-holiness gives us a vivid awareness of just how very far short of God’s glory we truly fall.

When Peter was CLOSEST to Jesus he said: Depart from me; for I am a sinful man. When John received the Revelation of Christ on the Island of Patmos, he wrote, I fell at His feet as though dead! A lost sense of God brings a lost sense of sin. But a renewed sense of God brings a renewed awareness of our own sinfulness. Isaiah saw himself in a whole new light.

Isaiah’s eye-opening experiences made him to realize he wasn’t there yet and he confessed his shortcomings.  It was not until Isaiah confessed his shortcomings that God purified him.  For vs. 9 & 10 tells us that the seraphim took a hot coal and laid it upon Isaiah’s mouth and his iniquity was removed and his sins purged. 

          A live coal - a burning coal – this coal speaks of purification and cleansing. It was brought by the seraphim from off the altar of sacrifice and touched to his lips. This coal was not to hurt Isaiah’s lips but to heal them. God was getting ready to use Isaiah mightily and he needed his mouth to be purified to speak that which God speaks. 

That altar that the live coal was taken from was the Altar of Burnt Offerings - it was the altar where the blood was shed. It was the place where the priests would kill those animals to pay for the sins of the people, because without the shedding of blood there is no remission (no cleansing) from sin - Hebrews 9:22

So you have a coal that has been touched by two things: BLOOD and FIRE. The blood speaks of cleansing from sin (only blood can wash away our sin), and the fire speaks of refining, purifying power. The blood washes away sin, the fire brings the refining of holiness. God’s desire is that today we will see ourselves in the light of His holiness and we will cry out like Isaiah did and say Woe is me!  For I am undone! 

Eye-Opener #2 ~ Isaiah sees the Holiness of God

Scripture: Isaiah 6:2-4

God is holy.  All holiness originates from God.  If we want to be holy we must be in a right relationship with God who is holy.  Leviticus 12:44 says, “For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy.”  In Isaiah 6:2-4 three of Isaiah’s senses are encapsulated in the holiness of God. Just as God did for Isaiah he wants to consume our thoughts, our senses, and our emotions with Himself.   Isaiah sees something, he hears something, and he feels something. 

Isaiah sees:

Seraphims – The term seraphims means fiery burning ones.  Seraphims are heavenly angelic beings.  Isaiah 6 is the only place in the Bible that mentions these creatures.  Each seraph had 6 wings.  They had two wings that covered their feet.  The feet of the angels are covered because their feet are less honorable.  Two wings covered their faces.  They could not bear to see the holiness of God. According to Matthew Henry’s complete commentary, the angels cannot bear the dazzling luster of His divine glory.  They are ashamed to show their faces before the holy God, who charges even his angels with folly (foolishness) if they should offer to compete for superiority with Him,( Job 4:18). The final two wings of the Seraphim are used to fly.  These beings are very humble before the Lord.    What was their purpose or assignment?  These angels called special attention to the majesty and glory of God. 

Isaiah Hears:

          The angels cry out one to another holy, holy, holy is the Lord of host.  The whole earth is full of His glory.  God is the central object of all the seraphim’s praise. They sing with fervency and zeal for they cried aloud.  When the angels cry holy they speak of His holiness, His authority, and His power.  There is none that is greater than God.  What a vision! Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we awoke every morning full of adoration and worship on one accord crying aloud with fervency and zeal about the awesomeness of our God?   I believe we too would have such an encounter with God that we would experience great change in our lives, our attitudes, and our worship forever. 

It seems that it was ONLY ISAIAH who saw this glorious vision.  If others were seated around him it does not appear that they had such a revelation. He doesn’t write “WE saw the Lord”, he says, “I saw the Lord”.  Isn’t it amazing how we can be in the same place at the same time and see, hear, and feel something totally different? It’s amazing that during worship one person can be lifting his or her hands; another can be weeping tears of joy, and another sit with a blank stare, unmoved. 

 There is a sound that God is speaking in the Earth realm that only His chosen servants can hear.  Everybody wasn’t hearing what God was allowing Isaiah to hear and everybody is not hearing what God is allowing us to hear.  That is why we must remain holy so that we may hear the voice of God and speak that which God is speaking.  Those around Isaiah might have been hearing the voices of demonic spirits but Isaiah heard God. 

Isaiah feels:

Verse 4 says the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and he house was filled with smoke.  The angels worship was so pure and the voice of the Lord is so mighty that it caused the post of the door to tremble.  True worship shakes some stuff and moves some stuff in our lives.  I don’t know about you but I have some stuff in my life that needs to be moved.  So if my worship through this blog and in my life bothers you, I don't apologize because you don’t know the cost of the oil in my alabaster box.  You don’t know what God has brought me through and you don’t understand that God is moving in my situation right now.  I don’t know if you’ve figured it out by now but life happens.  But I declare today that I have the prescription for everything that life sends.  Do you want to know the prescription?  I’m not selfish, I’ll tell you.  The prescription is WORSHIP GOD!

An Eye Opening Experience

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8

        There are some experiences that we go through that are considered eye-opening experiences.  There are just some things that when seen with our eyes, it changes our lives forever.  Had we not had those experiences we possibly might have remained the same, however seeing what we saw we were never ever the same.  Today God wants to share with us 4 eye-openers that Isaiah had. 

          Uzziah was a powerful and wise king.  Uzziah was crowned king at the age of 16 and reigned 52 years. He became very strong and was feared by neighboring countries. His strength got into his head and he became filled with pride. He became so filled with pride that he tried to perform the duties that were only assigned to the priest.  Because of his boastful and proud spirit, he was stricken with leprosy and was a leper until the day of his death. Uzziah forgot his place and brought pain and destruction upon himself. We must understand that God has given each of us various gifts and assignments.  No matter how anointed we think that we are we should always stay in our appointed places.  Although he was king, he was cut off from the house of the Lord and had to live in an isolated house. (2^nd Chronicles 26:16-23)

        He was really a better king than many; his reign was great but money and splendor corrupted the hearts of the people. God’s people forgot their calling as a holy nation. They were no longer living in conformity with the statutes of the Lord. They no longer trusted in God to protect them and provide for them. They conformed to the unholy ways of the nations around them. Their bellies and ears became heavy; they were unable to speak the Word of God. They could not even hear from God.

          About 700 years before Christ was born in Bethlehem, the sad announcement was made, “THE KING IS DEAD”.  King Uzziah, the tenth King of Judah, had died. Despite his failings he was known as the greatest king since David.

Read vs. 6:1

Eye-Opener #1 ~ Isaiah Saw God

The prophet Isaiah hears the news that King Uzziah has died.  His heart was broken. Isaiah had seen little success in his ministry and had contemplated giving it up, until he saw the Lord and his life was forever changed. In Isaiah 6: 1-8 the prophet Isaiah whose name means the Lord has saved, has an eye-opening experience.

Isaiah finds that although the king is dead, God is yet alive and seated high upon His holy throne.    Isaiah sees the greatest vision anyone can have.  Isaiah sees the Lord!  Isaiah saw God’s nature and God’s character.  Isaiah sees the Lord sitting high upon His throne and the train (or the skirt ) of His robe fills the temple.  Isaiah saw something that he had never seen before.  When we come to worship God, we should be come with a spirit of expectancy. We should come into the Lord’s house desiring to see His manifest presence.   It is He who should be the center of all of our attention. He is God!  God is the eternal one who is without beginning and without end.  There is enough of Him to totally consume the entire width and depth of our minds and this room.

 Look at Isaiah’s vision.  His train fills the temple.  God wants to fill this place today.  But like Isaiah we have to make room for God.  He is too big and we can’t just squeeze him in betwixt all our other stuff.  He has to have space and time to do what He wants to do in our lives.  The song says He’s so high you can’t get over him. He’s so low you can’t get under Him.  He’s so wide you can’t get around Him you must come in at the door.  God is infinite and Isaiah notices that every location is consumed by Him. 

Why is it that Isaiah had not experienced God this way before?  King Uzziah was blocking his view of God. I’m going to say that one more time because we need to understand this.  King Uzziah was blocking his view of God.  Before, Isaiah had only seen King Uzziah sitting upon the throne but today He gets an understanding of who is the King of Kings. There are just some things in our lives that God must kill before we can truly see who He is.

 What’s your Uzziah?  King Uzziah represents pride (arrogance) and overconfidence.  Uzziah are those hindrances in your life that keep you from being all that God has called, appointed, and anointed you to be.  Anything blocking you from seeing the Lord is a ‘King Uzziah’. Uzziah is that thing, which prevents you from seeing what God sees for your life.  Uzziah is that one sin that keeps distracting you over and over again.  Uzziah is the thing that makes you so comfortable, that you do not have time to humble yourself before a mighty God. Uzziah is that thing or person, which occupies your time at the expense of your anointing. If you want to be mighty for God and see nations shaken King Uzziah has to die in your life. 

Can You Smell Him?

The story is told of a doctor who walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. She was still groggy from surgery. Her husband, David, held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news. That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency Cesarean to deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.  At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature. Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs. "I don't think she's going to make it," he said, as kindly as he could. "There's only a 10-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one."  Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described the devastating problems Dana would likely face if she survived. She would never walk, she would never talk, she would probably be blind, and she would certainly be prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on. "No! No!" was all Diana could say. She and David, with their 5-year-old Son Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away. But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for David and Diana.  Because Dana's underdeveloped nervous system was essentially 'raw,' The lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even.  All they could do, as Dana struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close to their precious little girl.  There was never a moment when Dana suddenly grew stronger. But as The weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of strength there.  At last, when Dana turned two months old, her parents were able to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And two months later, though doctors continued to gently but grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went home from the hospital, just as her mother had predicted.   Five years later, when Dana was a petite but feisty young girl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She showed no signs whatsoever of any mental or physical impairment. Simply, she was everything a little girl can be and more. But that happy ending is far from the end of her story. 

 One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving, Texas, Dana was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local ball park where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing. As always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her mother and several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging her arms across her chest, little Dana asked, "Do you smell that?" Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it smells like rain." Dana closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?" Once again, her mother replied, "Yes, I think we're about to get wet. It smells like rain." Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head, patted her thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly announced, " No, it smells like Him.  It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest." Tears Blurred Diana's eyes as Dana happily hopped down to play with the other children. Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least in their hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of her first two months of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to touch her, God was holding Dana on His chest and it is His loving scent that she remembers so well.

The Lord is always poised for worship, and He is always pursuing and initiating the call to worship.  One of the most beautiful verses of worship is Revelations 3:20.  This verse has often been used as an appeal to the unsaved.  However, the Laodicean church was given this appeal by Christ.  He knocked at the door of their hearts, but they were so busy fulfilling their worldly desires that they didn’t notice He was trying to enter.  The pleasures of this world can be dangerous, because their temporary satisfaction make us indifferent to God’s offer of lasting satisfaction.

I desire that even through this message I am sending a sweet smelling fragrance unto God.  When I lift my hands in praise I am adoring God for who He is.  When I sing I want my worship to touch the very heart of God.  It is important to me that I give my best to God because he gave his very best for me.  John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”  Jesus worshiped his father as he prayed in the garden.  Jesus worshiped His father as he took every stripe.  Jesus worshiped his father at He painfully trudged up Golgotha’s hill.  Jesus worshiped His father as He hung on Calvary’s Cross. Jesus worshiped His father as He spoke those last words, “Into thy hands I commend my spirit.”  What a sweet smell Christ sent up to His father.  When Jesus was resurrected He not only freed my soul but He also worshiped.  Right now Jesus ask you to trust Him with your life and you to can worship God in spirit and in truth.  What kind of smell is God receiving from your worship?  Is it a sweet smelling aroma or is it the stench of death?