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AuthorClay Curtis
TitleThe LORD Smelled a Sweet Savour
Bible TextGenesis 8:21-22
Date16-Sep-2017
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THE LORD SMELLED A SWEET SAVOUR

“And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” (Genesis 8: 21-22)

 

Christ loved his people and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God and in Christ our Righteousness the LORD smelled a sweet savour.  And according to his eternal council, the LORD said in his heart that he would not cause the heavens to pass away, nor cause the elements to melt with a fervent heat, nor cause the earth also and the works that are therein to be burned up and all things be dissolved until every last child which God purchased with his own blood is called to repentance. (2 Pet 3: 8-10)  The word of Christ’s power by which he upholds all things is “It is finished!”  For this one reason alone, if every man on this earth united together all at the same time in an attempt to destroy the climate they would be altogether unsuccessful!  For the sake of Christ’s sweet savour, and Christ’s sweet savour alone, God promises “while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”