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哥林多后书：2：12-17：12我从前为基督的福音到了特罗亚，主也给我开了门。13那时因为没有遇见兄弟提多，我心里不安，便辞别那里的人往马其顿去了。14感谢神！常率领我们在基督里夸胜，并借着我们在各处显扬那因认识基督而有的香气。15因为我们在神面前，无论在得救的人身上，或灭亡的人身上，都有基督馨香之气。16在这等人，就作了死的香气叫他死；在那等人，就作了活的香气叫他活。这事谁能当得起呢？17我们不像那许多人，为利混乱神的道，乃是由于诚实、由于神，在神面前凭着基督讲道。
保罗这里谈到的“馨香之气”指的是献祭是祭物的香气。想一想在《创世纪》4章中，上帝是如何喜悦亚伯的献祭。从《希伯来书》11章我们了解到，上帝喜欢亚伯的献祭是因为他因着信心献祭，和该隐不同，该隐没有信心。但在新约里，上帝不再要求像旧约的那种献祭。
上帝仍然要求我们献祭，是什么样的献祭呢？保罗在《罗马书》12章中说，因着神的怜悯，我们当将我们的身体献上，“当作活祭，是圣洁的，是上帝所喜悦的。”接下来他谈到上帝赐给我们的属灵的恩赐，按照上帝的旨意，各有不同。出于对上帝救恩的感谢，我们在这个世上过敬虔的生活，无论对于上帝还是对于我们周围的世人，我们就此成了馨香之气。
保罗在这里说上帝率领我们在基督得胜的游行队伍中。当一个罗马将军从战场得胜归来，他还会让那些在战争中被俘虏的士兵和国王，在罗马的街道上游行，作为他胜利的证据。我们就是基督得胜的证据。他打败了撒旦，带领我们进入他的国度。对于世人来说，我们就是基督得胜的证据。
我们不再属于撒旦，也不再属于这个世界。我们属于基督。因此你今天的生命就是基督得胜的证据。
祷告：主耶稣，请让我今天和今后的每一天都能活出自己的生命，藉此让整个世界都能看到我是属于你的；你也是属于我的。让我的生命永远成为赞美你名的馨香之祭。阿们。
2 Corinthians 2: 12 Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, 13 I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia. 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15 For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? 17 Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God. (NIV)
The “pleasing aroma” that Paul is talking about is the aroma of the sacrifice. Think of how God was pleased with the sacrifice that Abel brought in Genesis 4. We know from Hebrews 11 that God was pleased with his sacrifice because he offered it with faith, unlike unbelieving Cain. But in the New Testament, God does not require sacrifices.
Or does he? Paul said in Romans 12 that in view of God’s mercy, we offer our lives as “living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.” He then went on to talk about the spiritual gifts that God has given to us people, and to each one of us as he determined. As we live a godly life in this world out of thankfulness for our salvation, we are a pleasing aroma to God, and to the people in this world around us.
Paul says here that he leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession. When a Roman general returned after war, he would lead the soldiers and kings he fought in a procession through the streets of Rome as evidence of his victory. We are the evidence of Christ’s victory. He has defeated Satan and he has taken us into his kingdom. To the world, we are evidence of Christ’s victory.
We don’t belong to Satan any longer, nor to the world. We belong to Christ. Therefore your life today as evidence of Christ’s victory.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, let me live my life today and every day as a display to the world that I am yours and you are mine. Let my life be a sacrifice of praise to your name always. Amen.