What Do You Smell Like?

Hebrews 10:24-25, “And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the

manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

People can run all over the place and sit on those hard metal or wood bleachers for hours, to watch some sporting event, but give them a comfortable padded pew and if the service goes over their comfort level, then Heaven forbid.

Why wouldn’t someone who says they love the Lord, not want to spent time in His house? If you can remember when you was dating that someone special, you would take advantage of every opportunity to spend time with them. If you love Him then you want to stir up those good works His word was talking about.

When we had our Revival last week, we had a wonderful time. It is hard for me and others to understand, the lack of attendance. Why wouldn’t everyone want to be here and be a part of it? Could it be lack of commitment?

Have you met your quota of your one service that week?

If so then that stinks!

The worst lack of commitment I can think of is the lack of commitment for reaching the lost. People, friends, relatives are dying everyday without accepting Christ and spending an eternity in Hell because of our lack of commitment to reach them.

If you came upon a bridge that had went out, what would you do? Would you sit in your car and give a friendly wave as others would drive off to their doom. No you would jump up and down waving your arms, warning of the danger ahead. So why do you set around and allow others to die and spend an eternity in Hell?

We need to commit our money, or His money I should say, to reach the lost. We need to commit our time to reach the lost. We need to commit our talents to reach the lost. You know where I don’t see that out of our church. We have fundraisers and work parties for the gym and just a few show up. The building can be a tool to draw the lost to come to this church and hear the gospel, but we all need to have the commitment to see it completed.

We need to be committed to Jesus. It’s all about Him!

So now that I’ve told you what smells bad, let’s talk about what smells good to God.

We could spend the rest of the day talking about that, but let’s start out with the most important. One of the scribes asked Jesus the most important commandment. His reply can be found in Mark 12:30-31.

“And you shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Let’s talk about the first one, Love the Lord with all you heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. Sounds like total commitment to me. I surrender all, as the song says. You put Him where He needs to be, first in your life. No other priorities. Him first. No, I will later, no mater the cost, no mater what it takes, I will serve the Lord.