The Fragrance of Faithful Service | Pastor Paul McGee

Hallelujah has called us out of darkness into this marvelous

light. The apostle said, set our feet

on that street, which is called straight.

He's established our goings, Amen.

And I'm glad that he has. Haven't, don't you, Amen.

So good. It's good to see Dennis tonight,

Amen. With us in church a long time

ago when teenagers and I remember those days.

And so we're glad to have you with us tonight, Dennis.

He says that he watches online here and there and quite

regularly. And so nothing like being in

person, Amen, To have him here, Amen.

To be able to enjoy his company, Amen, tonight.

And so we're appreciative of that.

And I also, it is good to see Sister Margaret here, Amen.

Being able to be here. God's touching her right now.

Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

Oh, his spirit is real, real, real.

She knows that. He made a way for her.

Hallelujah, Jesus. Oh yes, she did.

Hallelujah, Jesus. Amen.

Hallelujah. Tell you what, when you can't

make it all the time and you show up, you going to squeeze

the sponge out while you're here?

You going to take advantage of every song?

Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah, Amen.

He's a God that meets us in the middle of our our darkness, our

fear, our frustration. I'm going to turn to First

Chronicles, not Corinthians Chronicles, all right?

I know. So why can't we just have a

pastor who preaches always in the New Testament, Honestly, and

it is just what? I'm probably more of a Old

Testament preacher than I am even New Testament.

I don't know. I'd have to look at it and see

how plot it all to see how it comes, but I don't know.

There's more books in the Old Testament than there is the new.

And I'm still doing a lot of my Bible reading in the Old

Testament right now. So First Chronicles Chapter 9.

1 Chronicles 9 · chapter mention

However, it's not part of the genealogies for like the first

fight. The 1st 9 chapters of First

Chronicles is like genealogies, but we're already out of it.

For my setting verse #26 my daughter was talking to the

other day. She was saying, I tell you what,

I was having a hard time with Bible reading their days, all

these genealogies, and I knew it was too early in the year or too

late in the year for her to still be in Genesis.

I said, let me guess. I said, you're probably

somewhere in First Chronicles for chapters one through 9.

So I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

She looked it up. That's where she was.

That's where she was. Amen.

Verse #26 The Bible states these words for these Levites.

The four chief porters were in their set office and we're over

the chambers and treasuries of the House of God.

And they lodged around about the House of God because the charge

was upon them and the opening thereof every morning pertained

to them. And certain of them had the

charge of the ministering vessels that they should bring

them in and out by tail. They would count them.

They'd count and make sure the, the the inventory was right.

Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels and all

the instruments of the sanctuary and the fine flour and the wine

and the oil and the frankincense and the spices.

Everybody say the spices, and some of the sons of the priests

made the ointment of the spices. Everybody say the spices for a

little while tonight, I want to simply minister this.

The fragrance of faithful service.

The fragrance of faithful service.

Amen. Let's ask God to help us here

for the next little while. Lord, I thank you today, God,

that these doors are open that allow us to walk into this place

and sing song heavenward, hear the word of the Lord, and God

once again center our lives around it.

God, I pray, Lord, touch each and every individual in this

place tonight. The body of Christ, Lord, the

members in particular, I pray, O Lord, that make up this thing

called the church. God will thank you and praise

you, Lord, for what you're capable, Lord, of doing in this

house this evening. God will not fail to thank you

for it. In the name of Jesus Christ that

I pray Hallelujah in the church, say Amen, Amen.

You may be seated tonight in Jesus.

Thank the fragrance of faithful service.

There is something called today and it occurs quite often in

nature. And nature is probably where we

find some of the greatest examples of this.

And that is it's what's called a mutual symbiotic relationship.

And I'm not trying to get all technical upon you, but in a

mutual symbiotic relationship, it it happens whenever there are

two species that rely on each other in such a way that it

allows both of them to flourish. They both benefit from the

relationship. There's a interdependence that

happens one upon the other in this sort of relationship.

As a matter of fact, it is in my estimation exactly how God

designed His church in a mutual symbiotic relationship.

We often times see these type of relationships in nature.

Again, the relationships that bees have with flowers, the

relationships that even clown fish have with sea and enemies.

The relationship. I never even heard of this till

I looked it up but ox pecker bird have with large mammals

like like rhinos and Buffalo they they all demonstrate a

mutual symbiotic relationship. What I mean by that is this when

we consider bees and flowers, it's the bees that go to the

flowers and they get nectar then for food.

But also as a result of them doing that flowers get

pollinated enabling them to reproduce.

And so they are both interdependent on each other and

they have a benefit that's derived from this relationship

that one has with another. Not only that, when if we look

at that, when they have these rows, if either one of them were

stop, were to stop in the row, then the life would stop for the

the bee and for the flower. In essence, the clown fish in

the relationship between a clown fish and a sea anemone.

Clown fish get protection from their predators by living among

the sea and enemies and their tentacles and such and sea and

enemies. They get cleaned and many times

receive food scraps from the clown fish as a result of them

living there. And so one's been given a safe

place, but the other then has a service to perform while they're

in that place of cleansing. So both of these again receive a

benefit by being a part of this relationship.

All pecker birds, I don't even know what they look like.

I should have looked that up. But all pecker birds, they eat

ticks isn't that scrumptious. And insects from the mammals

skin that they are usually hovering around or upon.

And so it's read all of this. The mammals get pest control

right in their life. And so there's this careful

harmony of a provision for one and then protection for the

other. And both are benefited in

Scripture. No doubt nature shows us this

truth, but we also see it in Scripture.

And there's another example that I read some time ago that maybe

it didn't say it was this, but I believe that fits concerning

this. Charles Spurgeon, years ago, he,

he told a, a story about some machinery.

He wasn't talking about biology, but a personal experience.

He said that he had, he had been going to from Perth, it was a

city to Edinburgh. And suddenly dead, the

locomotive that they were on the train that they were on came to

a dead stop because there was a very small screw in one of the

engines that had broke off. It had been broken.

And whenever they started to try to go again as a result of this

broken screw, they went along at a very slow pace.

He almost described it as a crawl because all along all they

had was 1 piston rod that was working because the other screw

was broken for the other rod that should have had two and it

was only just a very small screw that was holding that together.

But since it was gone, they were at a crawl.

He says had it been right, the train would have just rushed

along the tracks just as normal. And this was his phrase.

He said the absence of that insignificant piece of iron

disarranged the hole, which I believe gives a lot of telling

to what Spurgeon was really saying here.

He was saying it's just that insignificant screw, just a

small little screw. But the impact shows that it

wasn't really insignificant. It was significant because they

had to travel at a much, much lower pace.

And so he's emphasizing them the value of the screw because

without it, they couldn't go at regular speed.

Just just follow me here, just for a moment.

A small all screw could not serve its purpose, but if it was

missing, broken here, or even just lying on the tracks, it

showed us that its existence didn't matter because it was a

part of a functioning locomotive.

Without the locomotive, though, the screw would never move,

would never be involved in transporting passengers, and so

on. And so the screw had to stay

attached to its purpose, being a part of a operational

locomotive, and that allowed it then to contribute to something

that was greater than what it was by itself, it's value.

In essence, the screws value increased because it was

supporting a system that amplified it's impact of

contribution and service when it was made to be a part of this

locomotive. You remove the screw and the

locomotive slows to a crawl, but you remove the locomotive and

the screw loses its mission symbiotic relationship, one

benefiting both benefiting from being a part of this God in

Scripture has set up the body of Christ.

He has set up the church as a body ministry.

Amen. We all of us, no matter how

significant or how insignificant we feel and I underline that how

we feel we have something to contribute to the body of

Christ. It's all in God's design Amen.

And there is no body or no part of the body that is optional.

The Bible says in the book of Corinthians 4, the body is not

everybody say 1 is not one member, but many.

He says in First Corinthians 12 and verse #20 But now are they

many members yet but one body and the I cannot say into the

hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet I

have no need of you. Nay, much more, those members of

the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary.

In other words, the body cannot do without them.

Hey man, I've come to tell you the day that we need you, the

church needs you, the body of Christ needs you, and regardless

of how you feel or what your contribution would be or

wouldn't be in the church, Amen, You matter as a member to this

body called the body of Christ. You are important and there are

benefits on both side of this equation in what you get from

being a part of the body and what the body gets from you

being a part of it, Amen. God organized and He designed

the human body with different members, these human bodies,

Amen. I'm glad that not every member

of my body is a pinky all right on the hand, right?

I'm glad that's not. But He has all these designs and

various functions of the members of our natural bodies who are in

many regards interdependent upon each other, and we receive

benefit, Amen. Each piece does from the

different parts of this body and God has fashioned this body

called his church just similarly, the Bible said that

God set the members, every one of them in the body as it hath

pleaseth, it pleaseth him. God has us where he would desire

us, he pleased to. It's pleased him to put us in

certain circumstances, ministries and service

opportunities within the body of Christ.

The Bible tells us in Romans, I believe it is, or maybe it was

Corinthians, that God hath tempered the body together.

God has done that. He has a purpose and a reason

for what he has done. He's tempered it, or He has

commingled it. He has mixed it.

He has united one thing to another thing.

The Bible says that his body is fitly joined together and

compacted. Hey, man, that which every joint

supply of what that means is then when we come together,

there's something that you supply and I supply and Brother

Fred supply each one of us, each one are supplying something that

another member in the body needs that helps it grow, that helps

it flourish. Every joint, everybody say every

every joint someone say that's me.

Every joint supplieth and the Bible says in return maketh

increase of the body. Someone say man it doesn't

matter how you feel. Hey man, every member depends on

and didn't depends on and benefits from the whole.

But the whole the whole suffers if any part of it is missing.

The Bible says in first Peter 4 and verse 10.

This is the English standard version, but it says as each has

received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of

God's varied grace. In other words, being a good

steward of the unique gift that God has given you.

God has given you a unique gift, talent, ability, whatever it may

be. God's given you a particular

unique gift, but being a good steward of that gift is then

using that gift to serve one another in the body.

To not to not steward it, to not use it, to not utilize it would

be poor stewardship of us, of the gift that God has given us.

There is a parable, You'll remember it well in Matthew 25.

The parable is of the man who distributed his goods to three

people and he gave it essentially of of five talents

and two talents and one talent. And the Bible says that each one

received here a different portion of the masters goods.

But the Bible says but the master gave in in Matthew 25 to

every man according to his several ability.

In other words, the master handed out the talents because

he already knew their ability. He handed out the talents

according to knowing their ability.

Can I tell you tonight that God knows what you personally are

capable of? God knows the certain giftings

and abilities and how He has ordered you and steered you and

your demeanor and your personality.

He understands all of that. But God has given you even a

gift and a talent, Amen. I know that was money, but I'm

talking about real talent and skill, Amen.

According, if you will, to your gifting, because He recognizes

your potential and what you could do with what He has given

you. I think I think that's important

to understand tonight. God knows what we can do, Amen,

with what he has given us. And each person tonight is

designed for service. Each person tonight, Amen, has

an ability. And if we steward that gift

wisely, if we serve one another wisely as a member of the body

of Christ, then your involvement, my involvement,

will help it grow and help. The Bible says the body to be

edified or built up when everybody is a part of this

thing called the body. I said all that to look at this

picture then in verse. Chronicles chapter #9 of this

temple service but just allow me a little bit of time in first

Chronicles 9, this is an important chapter because this

is a chapter of restoration. This is a chapter of

organization. The children of Israel, Judy and

such have been taken away in Babylon.

They've been there for 70 years, but they are now allowed because

of the decree of the Persian king Cyrus, they are allowed to

come back home to Jerusalem. And so they are returning.

And as some of the people are returning, Chapter 9 begins to

list for us their resettlement, the resettlement of the

Israelites, if I can, the resettlement of the lay people

of the nation of Israel back into Jerusalem.

Not just the lay people, but the Bible says the Levites are

twinkling back in and home and that there are priests and

families that are twinkling back home.

But not only are they returning to the land, but they are also

returning to the temple. And even more importantly, they

are returning to rows and functions, giftings, involvement

and abilities that they served him before they ever left and

were just pushed out of Jerusalem.

The Bible says there in Chapter 9 that some of the Levites that

were there were porters or they were gatekeepers.

The Bible says that they managed the treasuries that were in

rooms around about the House of God or the temple of God.

The Bible describes that they slept there.

Hey man, because it was their responsibility, brother Fred,

that in the morning they got up and they unlocked the temple for

people could have their ends and their outs among the temple.

And so they they slept there. Hey, man, and they opened open

that up for the general public and the Bible also says there

were others that were there other Levites that they kept

track of the inventory that were in the chambers.

They kept track of the the utensils even that were used for

worship. Again, it was almost like, you

know, dad, the old the old tool place there at PSI.

You have to go through get a tool.

You checked it out, you checked it in type thing.

They're they're they're accounting how many, you know

how many harps are being taken and and so on and so forth.

When they brought back, they want to make sure they had the.

Same tally and so they're keeping track of all the

utensils and worship they would count them in count them out

there were others that were there that were custodians, if

you will, of the materials that were brought to the House of God

all the flower and all the wine and all of the spices and all

the frankincense they they're going to keep track of all these

things. Verse 29 says, and some of them

Speaking of the Levites also were appointed to oversee and I

had you say emphatically the spices.

But then in verse 30, the Bible says, and some of the sons of

the priest made the ointment of the spices.

There's some versions that says it was the sons of the priest.

There's some that say it was the priest.

The word for word translation says and from the priest mix the

incense. So nonetheless, if they were

sons of priests, of the priest themselves, a son of a priest is

eventually going to be a priest, all right.

And so nonetheless, he says that they mix the ointment now.

Now the word here for ointment, it's quite broad.

It means anything that's compounded, anything that is

blended, Amen, compounded by a perfumer.

So what that means is this could refer to both the holy anointing

oil or the sweet incense that was used in the temple because

both of them required a perfumer in order to do it and they both

required spices. So am I doing OK?

As a matter of fact, there's Jewish commentaries that lean

toward that the the ointment was the anointing oil, but they also

acknowledge that those spices, Brother Mason, were for incense.

Other commentaries of Jews say that the spices were for both

purposes, holy anointing oil and for the incense.

When we understand this, the holy anointing oil was used for

consecrating the priest. They were used for consecrating

all of the furnishings of the temple, the the the table of

shoe bread and then and the lavers where they wash every

utensil and instrumentation of the Tabernacle.

It was all had to be anointed with the holy anointing oil.

It was for consecration, but the incense was used.

It was a mixture that they burn daily in the temple on the altar

of incense. And so the Levites that were

some that kept the chambers where the spices were stored,

they were over the storage, they were managers of the storage,

and they would transport the spices within the House of God

proper from place to place. But the priests, on the other

hand, dealt with the mixing or the compounding of the spices.

Only certain priests could perform this duty.

Not all priests could, but certain ones could.

And so we know who mixed, we know who mixed the spices, and

we know who had oversight of the storage.

But where did all the spices come from?

We read in the Tabernacle of Moses.

Whenever Moses served in the Tabernacle in the wilderness.

The Bible tells us that the spices came as a voluntary gift

from all of the people, all of the land of Israel, the nation

Israel, the lay people brought the spices.

So matter of fact, if you read the book of Nehemiah, it

overlaps this same scripture context.

And in that time frame, it says similar things as flour and oil,

and all these similar things were still being brought to the

chambers of the treasury of God's house.

So the ultimate flow, Amen, happened like this.

All of Israel brought the spices to the House of God.

A select Levi crew would manage and steward everything in the

chambers and in the treasuries. These spices in the House of

God. Amen.

But then it required the priest a selection of them to mix and

compound the spices for the holy oil and the holy incense.

What are you saying then, Brother McGee?

I'm saying it required all three of these to take something that

was common and turn it into something sacred.

It took all three of these relationships.

There could not be a priest mixing any spice if there wasn't

a layperson that brought spice to the House of God.

No, Levi could look over the storage and manage the

transportation within the House of God if a layperson didn't

bring spice for them to have any storage up.

Amen. Nobody's going to benefit from

the sweet smell of the holy anointing oil.

Can I tell you there is no priest head that's going to be

consecrated if someone didn't bring spice store spice and

mixed spice. There is no sweet fragrance

that's arising from the temple of God unless someone bring

spice, store spice and mixed spice.

It took them all. Yet when it was all said and

done, the product of it would benefit the one who brought it,

benefit the one who managed it, and benefit the the one who

mixed it. Someone say Amen.

The people brought the Levites guarded it, but the priest mixed

it. And it doesn't matter how

skilled the priests are in mixing.

If the Levites weren't keeping track of the amount that's left

in the chambers, it was the priest responsibility to turn

mere spices and to a sacred concoction because you read a

scripture. No one else were to make the

holy anointing oil like they made it, and it was to be used

for no purpose except for what God described, for it to be used

for consecration of the House of God and the people and utensils

that work there in the incense. Likewise, no one was to make it

like they made it. Hey man, it's these things that

they would mix and then it was it was proper and usable for

worship. It was proper and usable for the

House of God. Again, without them, those

spices are still going to have some type of a perfume or smell

from them, but they won't have the consecrated value unless

there's a priest to mix it. What you saying then, Pastor

Mickey? I'm saying this one persons work

is unfinished without the other persons work.

One persons work is unfinished without the other persons work.

The other persons work would be empty, Amen and impossible

without the other Amen. Spices would just remain spices

and unbeneficial to everyone. The fragrance of worship would

never rise and would never meet the need of the people if each

one of them did not play their part.

What are you saying tonight, Pastor?

I'm saying everybody has a part to play and everybody needs to

play the part that they have because everybody benefits from

you being a part of the body of Christ.

Everybody it doesn't it is not it's not big I and little you or

anything like that. Honey, if we have any portion

that is missing any portion, mixer, bringer, Garter, it

doesn't matter any portion missing and we don't have the

final product of what sacred used as worship.

So would say man, 1 is just as do you understand 1 is just as

necessary as the other. None of them could say we don't

need the bringers. No, they couldn't say well, we

don't need the mixers. No, we need them all because the

overall benefit of the spices was the finished product of the

holy anointing oil and the sweet incense that matter.

The whole benefit of the spices was magnified when it came to

full completion of what it was intended to be.

The impact of those spices, and we'll look at here in a little

bit, but the impact of those spices wouldn't just benefit

what's inside the temple, it would benefit what was outside

the temple. Sometimes I think we live our

lot in life and sometimes even our lot in the body of Christ.

We may think that our reach and our influence are limited to the

four walls of the assembly, and I suppose they are to a certain

degree. But whenever I combine my

efforts with the efforts of somebody else that's aligned for

the purpose of God, when I align my my mixing ability with

brother, Brother Reese's bringing ability and we couple

that with, with Sister Abby's storing and guarding the spice

inventory ability, it it amplifies, if you will, it's

reach and it amplifies its impact and it amplifies its

influence. The implications of it are wider

when we're all involved. So you have spices that are

brought, managed, mixed, they become holy anointing oil.

That's going to be oil up on the brow of every consecrated priest

that serves among the Tabernacle.

The furnishings likewise that are used there, it's going to be

anointing. All the utensils, it's going to

be anointed. Do you understand, particularly

Old Testament, that without the priests, without the

furnishings, without the utensils, it didn't matter The

sacrifices of sin offerings, trespass offerings, peace

offerings, ho burnt offerings, whatever they were, surrender

offerings, you might call them ho burnt offerings that they

brought If there wasn't a sanctified priest or a

sanctified altar or sanctified tongs for the altar, bring all

the sacrifice you want. But it was basically useless

because they required sanctified utensils and a sanctified priest

in order for anything to happen. And not only did they need that,

all those things to be sanctified, we got to back the

truck up. We then understand the

sanctification then comes from a mixer, a Garter and a bringer,

the people, the Levites, and the priest.

The entire worship system in the Old Testament of the nation of

Israel would come to a halt if anyone part was not involved.

Amen. Come to a screeching halt.

So what happened in around the temple, it directly correlated

to each one's involvement in bringing, managing, so and so

forth. And they would all reap a

similar benefit. The Bible says in Psalms 141 and

verse 2. And there's also another

relation of that scripture of Revelation chapter 5 and eight.

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It pictures the incense of that day as the prayers of the Saints

had a unifying effect, unifying effect not only in its final

form of being incense, but also in the process of offering it.

We read in the book of Luke, Luke chapter #1 I believe it is

the Bible speaks of Zacharias and Elizabeth.

Amen. Zacharias, he was doing his lot

of serving in the temple and his lot was to burn incense.

The Bible says, Amen, that Elizabeth has no child, but he

goes in to burn the incense. And the Bible says as he burns

that incense that all the people were offering their prayers as

he was burning the incense. As he's doing that on the

inside, all the people are offering their prayers on the

outside, Amen. At the same time, what are you

saying? It's a body ministry?

Because Zechariah at that moment would have no incense to offer.

Someone didn't bring it, someone hadn't managed it, somebody

hadn't mixed it. But because they did, as he's in

there offering, people are out there praying.

And there's a unification of the body not just in the process,

but also in the final practice of what's taking place.

Now. Listen, this, this is amazing to

me. You want to talk about.

And that's great. Incense oil, oil for, for, for

utensils and, and priests and all that.

That's great. That impacts the Tabernacle.

That impacts what takes place around the Tabernacle, That

impacts what can take place around the Tabernacle.

That's great. But when we talk about those

spices being made into that incense, it had a far reaching

impact. Blows my mind.

But Jewish sources say that the temple incense could be smelled

as far away as Jericho from Jerusalem, about 15 to 18 miles.

The Talmud, Jewish writing says, records that goats that were in

Jericho, they said, would sneeze because of the potency of the

incense in Jericho. They said that women that were

in Jericho did not need to perfume themselves because of

the fragrance that came from the incense at the temple was so

laden with aroma. 15 to 18 miles away.

Women says I don't worry about eating fragrance.

There's enough fragrance coming from the temple that it's got me

covered. They said.

I'm not. I'm not telling you what I came

up. I'm telling you what these

Jewish writers said. They said that a bride that

lived in Jerusalem, a bride it's going to be meeting her groom

that lived in Jerusalem, did not need to adorn herself with

perfumes because the temples aroma was sufficient for her

wedding day. What are you saying, Pastor

McGee? I'm saying when they bring it

and they manage it and they mix it and we get to the final

product because of the involvement of the bringer and

the involvement of the store and the involvement of the mixer, it

doesn't just impact the tempo and what we do around the tempo

or in the tempo, it's impact goes beyond the tempo as far and

wide as the aroma. It's the fragrance of faithful

service. Whatever your portion is,

whatever your light is, whatever your gift is, whatever your

talent is, there's an aroma because you played a part in the

body. You played a part in the divine

purpose of the. I'm telling you, I know as we

get older, in a literal sense, we don't have the same abilities

that to be able to offer like we used to.

But I'm convinced this Dennis, that this woman right here was

crying and doing her clap a little bent over in her back

tonight, she says. I'm going to do my part.

I'm going to do my part. Honey, I want you to know that

was a cog in the machinery for bringing us to a incense to

Aroma. What she was doing right there

was causing waves to go miles from here.

Influence not just what goes on here, but what goes beyond here,

because everybody has a part. My Lord Tracy, I hope your

chicken start sneezing. I hope the horses, Glenna start

sneezing there. Hey, man, there's aroma taking

place. Something's happening.

Hey, man, listen, we need to impact.

We need something that's produced in the church that

doesn't just impact the church. We need something produced

around the church that impacts beyond the church.

We don't need to be satisfied with just oil that touches the

brow of our priests or our Ultra's, our utensils.

It needs to go beyond. It needs to have the impact on

somebody for them to stay. Hey, wait a minute.

What's that smell? What's that smell?

Until they follow it to its source, it's faithful service,

the fragrance of people service. Do it, do it, do it.

If it's cleaning a Pew, if it's cleaning the toilet, if it's

more on the line, if it's showing up for outreach, if it's

playing a song, singing a song, teaching a class, getting water,

scrubbing the wall. Whatever it is, don't let your

part not be a part. You

understand with me, I'm gonna hold you much longer.

Sure. Everybody benefits when you play

your part. I think sometimes we're the

Fred. It might just be getting pigeon

holed in our part. I'm getting I'm getting tired of

packing these spices to the temple.

That's all I ever do, pack spices to the temple.

The manager is like, I'm tired of waiting this stuff out,

seeing how much we still got in these chamber rooms.

I'm tired of taking them from the storage house to over here

to the priest. And he does a little mixed deal.

You know, there's a priest. Oh, Major, now just enough.

Oh, can't get too much. And he's like, I'm getting tired

of doing this mixing job. Come on.

Yeah, but we got to get outside of just the individual picture

and capture the big panorama. You know, whenever you get the

big picture, then you're not just bringing spices, you're

helping consecrate everything. The temple.

You're not just managing the storehouse, you're causing a way

for the aroma that what takes place at the temple to reach the

far outer places with that type of mentality.

And I start doing that, it's not just what's affecting me, but

what I'm doing is going to affect somebody else.

So they're not just going back to a land here.

Look, they've been gone for 70 years, but they're not just

going back to a land or a church.

They're going back to Rosen functions in the church.

Without the people, there was no spices.

At the Levites, there was no stewardship.

Without the priest there was no transformation of the common

into the sacred. It only became that again.

And you say we kick in a dead horse, So let me kick it.

Sorry for those whom horses. It became consecrated because

every part did it's work. And the impact went beyond the

temple, carried on for miles, touching lives far removed from

the temple. Folks, this is how God has

designed his church. This is how God has defined his

body. We're not just a collection of

isolated parts. It is a living, breathing,

interdependent Organism. Regardless of how we may feel

sometimes, because I understand sometimes we feel like the screw

right we found like we feel like the one that's counting spices.

But whatever your mode of operation is, you are

indispensable to the mission of God.

When we give our part, the body grows.

There's increase quality, quantity.

The world is impacted because the fragrance of what you

regularly experience here now goes beyond here and it goes

beyond. I don't know, Evidently not.

The spices were in the storehouse, but evidently just

there being spices in the storehouse wasn't the same

impact as spices being ground down by a priest and mixed and

concocted. That's where the Reach came in.

We need every part. It would be a tragedy to be able

to boast how much spices we had in the temple.

But there's not a mixer. We just got a tally of what's in

the storehouse. So what you saying, pastor?

I'm saying every joint supply. Bring your spice, steward your

portion, mix what you got to mix because your faithfulness, it's

going to release a fragrance, A fragrance that doesn't just

bless this house, but a fragrance that even goes beyond

the walls of this house. It's the fragrance of faithful

service. I'm opening this altar tonight

for every individual. You said pastor, already serve

in a capacity or part of the body, or you might be someone

else, say pastor. I've never given myself to that

because I don't feel worthy of it and I feel insignificant.

Listen, God's church, God's body needs you.

You have some type of unique gift.

He's made you a steward over something that may be particular

to you, some type of predisposition that you have

that when you use it to serve one another, there is

edification. There's a building up, there's a

growth, there's a making of increase of this thing called

the church. And I'm not just talking about

the local church. Yes, that happens, but I'm

talking about the overall church all across this world.

There's a making of increase and the edifying.

So if you you got spices to bring tonight, bring them.

If you're tallying things, tally them if you're mixing things and

mix them because we want to get this thing.

We want to get this thing moved along the course to holy

anointing oil and holy sweet incense because the impact will

not just benefit us, but anybody that's within distance of us.

You'll have an impact. You are important to the body of

Christ, and your part is important to the body of Christ.

Hallelujah. Can you just talk to the Lord

right now? Oh, God, Oh God, I'm going to do

my best. Lord, in spite of maybe how I

feel about it, I'm going to contribute it.

I'm going to give it. I'm going to offer it because I

know it's all a part of the process, Lord, to a practice,

God, that has impact beyond my mind's imagination.

Hallelujah. Come on, Sir, ma'am, you're

important to the Kingdom. Hallelujah.

You're important to the Kingdom. It's more than God just saving

you and coming to the church and just being a part of the

service. No, you have something to offer.

You have something to give, you have something to contribute,

and it's amplified whenever you mesh it together with everything

else that other people have contributed.

The body is benefited by it. People beyond the church is

benefited by your involvement. Hallelujah, Let's talk to the

Lord right now.