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SESSION 4

“Now wherever we go, He uses us to tell others about the Lord and to

spread the Good News like a sweet perfume. Our lives are a fragrance
presented by Christ to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently

by those being saved and by those perishing. To those who are
perishing, we are a fearful smell of death and doom. But to those who

are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume.” —2 Corinthians 2:15

(NLT)

To produce the fragrant oil used in the Tabernacle, certain spices were

mixed with the purest olive oil. Every single spice extraction process
was violent in its method—stripped, beaten, pressed, and cut are some

of the adjectives used to describe how the oil was obtained. Similarly,
these words also pertain to the horrific torture Jesus endured to become

the poured-out oil for us, simply because of His love for each and every

one.

Jeanne Guyon wrote these words:

“We possess by first being deprived. Death precedes life; destruction

in the spiritual experience turns to renovation. Out of the sorrows and
silence of inward crucifixion—and from no other source—must grow

the jubilees of everlasting bliss.”

We seem to have lost so much of the awe and wonder of what Jesus

went through for our salvation. But the Shulamite has had a deep
revelation of this and says that it is quite right that the Daughters of

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