A Sweet Smelling Savour:(Part II)

Yesterday, we started looking into how we get to become a sweet-smelling savour that the Lord can perceive and be satisfied. We began looking into how God’s people in the Old Testament had to offer a blood-based sacrifice to please God using Cain and Abel as a major reference.

Abel did well not because he was more of a righteous man than Cain but because it was a sacrifice that God perceived from him that gave him that status of doing well; he satisfied the heart of God. It took a sacrifice for Abel to do well, and God was satisfied. Cain did not do well because he offered that which was not the requirement.

You see, whenever God perceives a sweet-smelling savour, something is satisfied in Him and as seen in our opening scripture, God had to make a promise never to destroy the ground for man’s sake by reason of what He perceived and remember in the case of Noah, it was a sacrifice of blood. In Romans 12:1, it says I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

God wants to perceive us and the only way He can perceive us is if our lives are presented to Him as a living sacrifice. There must be a sacrifice on the table. After Jesus came, he took away every sacrifice of blood. So the sacrifice we offer to God today doesn’t involve blood. Jesus became the once and for all ultimate sacrifice (Hebrews 10:12). So how then do we offer sacrifices in this present day? It says we should present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God because we are unto God, a sweet savour of Christ.