All right. Second Corinthians chapter 2 is where we're going to be. I'm going to take a look with you at the last few verses of this chapter, verses 14 through 17.

So if you have your Bibles open now to 2 Corinthians chapter 2, I'll start reading at verse 14.

Now thanks be to God, Paul writes, who always leads us in triumph in Christ and through us

diffuses the fragrance of his knowledge in every place.

For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 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? For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God.

But as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak

in the sight of God in Christ. I've entitled my teaching today, spreading the fragrance,

spreading the fragrance. Let's have a word of prayer. Father in heaven, it is good to be in your

house. We thank you, Lord, for those who are here and those who are watching online. And together we just lift up our voices and praise through song. And now we want to worship you as we study your word together, that you would speak to our hearts and that we would not be hearers only but doers. And I pray that this passage would be meaningful to many of us as we consider,

what is Paul saying to us here? What are you saying to us through Paul? That we might be

encouraged and strengthened in our own walk with you. And we love you today, Lord. And we just give you

the praise and the glory and the honor. It's in Jesus' name we pray. And everybody said,

amen. Well, interestingly, there have been a lot of studies done on smells and fragrances and how that affects

people physiologically and even psychologically some clinical trials on scent-based therapies have explored the potential of aromatherapy to alleviate

symptoms of things like anxiety, depression, and nausea.

Smell among the senses is considered the most potent sense for triggering memories with people, often vividly

recalling past experiences when exposed to a familiar scent. Now, probably all of us can think about

some scent that brings us to some place in our memories. For me, when I was a little boy, our family vacationed a lot

with my cousins, my uncle, my dad's brother, owned a place in Bedford County, Pennsylvania,

a little tiny town called Rainsburg. You'd miss it if you blinked driving through it. But my uncle

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