The Scent Of Success

May 4, 2025  ||  2 Corinthians 2:14-17

3 Truths About Success. 

1. When God Breathes, We Become.

7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:7 [NIV]

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.

2 Corinthians 2:14 [NIV]

8 It is the spirit in a person, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.

Job 32:8 [NIV]

2. Your Fragrance Isn’t For Everyone.

15 For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? 

  2 Corinthians 2:15-16 [NKJV]

7 Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. 

1 Samuel 18:7 [NIV]

9 And Saul eyed David from that day forward.

1 Samuel 18:9 [NIV]

10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Galatians 1:10 [NIV]

13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.

Acts 4:13 [NIV]

3. Grace Is The Scent Of Our Success.

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? 

2 Corinthians 2:14-16 [NIV]

7 “For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease. 8 Though its root may grow old in the earth, and its stump may die in the ground, 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

Job 14:7-9 [NKJV]

3 And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head. 

Mark 14:3 [NKJV]