But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.
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… betrayal, or perhaps you're carrying the fragrance of your own shame, your own mistakes, your own regrets, but I am thankful that scripture tells us in 2 Corinthians 2, verse 14, thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. Hear me. Through us, God spreads the irresistible aroma of the gospel. You may have carried shame. You may have carried fear. You may have carried the words that others spoke over you since you were young. But when you surrender your life to Christ, all things have passed away. All old fragrances have passed away. Behold, all things are new. And now you've got a new fragrance. You're carrying the fragrance of faith. You're carrying the fragrance of goodness and gentleness and faithfulness and kindness and patience. And people encounter you and it's not your accolades and it's not your goals and it's not all the things that you've accomplished. You may not even be on the mountaintop. It might just be the valley where others look at you and say, there's something about them. I don't know what it is. …
… They see foolishness. 2 Corinthians 2.14, The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him. and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. But that's not you if you're in Christ. If you're in Christ, you can see things in this book that they can't see. You can understand things that they can't understand. Where they see foolishness and irrelevance, you see unspeakable beauty. You see a stunning window into ultimate reality. That's what you see because the Spirit of God lives in you. And he's in your eyes. and it's not because you're smarter or more educated or merely a better reader than they are that's not what second Corinthians 2 says no it's because you're not a natural person anymore you're a supernatural person with supernatural abilities supernatural mind and heart and eyes God has shown in your heart to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Corinthians 4, 6 that's who you are when you open the Bible and because you're someone new, you can understand more of the Bible than you might think. …
… do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. Look, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt. Now let's jump over to 2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 14. It says, but thanks be unto God, who always leads us in Christ's triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place. Thanks be unto God who always leads us in Christ's triumphal procession and through us spread the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place. And I'll stop right there. I want to talk to you from these two texts this morning. And if you're taking notes and if you want to give it a title, it's not a real fancy title. It's simple. I want to call it Triumph in Christ. Triumphant in Christ. Triumphant in Christ. And I want to kind of give you a subheading about points of Palm Sunday that reminds us that we are triumphant in Christ Jesus. In John chapter 12, we read where it is called the triumphal entry. …