Bible Questions Answered:
“...so though he was a good friend, I didn't join the club, because Id heard there had been some crime there and stuff. But now have lost him as a friend. Maybe Id should have been a better friend and gone along...”
Sheila/ New York, New York U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Ecclesiastes 7:1 KJV
“A good name is better than precious ointment..."
II Corinthians 6:14-18 KJV
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
What is the most valuable thing you own?
In Eastern countries, especially in our Lord's day, perfumes and ointments, were of utmost value!
Kept in only the most expensive bottles, vases, or jars of alabaster.
One never entered a feast, without his perfume, it set him apart from all others.
Now if a “precious ointment” was so costly and aromatically wonderful, and yet Solomon says, even greater than this, “ a good name is better.”
Now just in case you thought, some lady, started this expensive habit of costly perfume, you'd be terribly wrong. No, it was God, and He had a formula of special fragrant anointing oils for His priests...and incense for His tabernacle.
Exodus 30:22-38 KJV
22 Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.
26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office.
31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto Me throughout your generations.
32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
35 And thou shalt make it a perfume*, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.
38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
*Perfume-Hebrew-Qetoreth (Ket-o-reth): Sweet, incense, perfume.
(Abingdon/Strong)
What fragrance surrounds you?
Acts 4:13 KJV
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
The members of the Council of the Jews, knew something special about Peter and John, “they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.”
Why did they think that way? They did because Peter and John had a certain air about them, they were “filled with the Holy Ghost”-Acts 4:8 KJV). And they spoke like, acted like, exorcised authority like, the Lord Jesus.
What is the aroma that surrounds you and me?
People in our Lord's day, could tell who lived about the temple, due to the sweet fragrance around them!
Psalm 104:34 KJV
My meditation of Him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
II Corinthians 2:15 NLT
Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God..."
Salvation Prayer
