This week on the First of Team Podcast, we'll spend time stirring up our affections for God through the renewing of our minds.

Your mind is the gateway to your affections. What you think

is worthy of your affections is what will receive them. So as we grow in our

understanding of God's overwhelming goodness, we will naturally give Him our hearts.

May you be stirred by the unconditional love of your Heavenly Father this week as as perfect nature is revealed to you

and greater more transformative ways. Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse of today comes from Ephesians 5 verse to do.

Scripture says, and walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a slain offering and

sacrifice to God, a sweet fragrance.

Think about the a sweet fragrance.

Think about the death of Jesus for just a moment.

Picture how horrific the scene would have been to witness in person.

And now try and imagine witnessing it

from the father's perspective.

Think about how he saw, heard, felt new, and wept over everything that happened to Jesus.

Think about how he felt placing the sin of the world, the sin of you and me on the shoulders of his perfect and

undeserving son. I ask you to imagine all of that for one reason, to gain perspective on the unfathomable love of

God as expressed in Ephesians 5.2.

Scripture says, walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a slain offering and

sacrifice to God, a sweet fragrance.

When I read that verse initially, I skipped over a life-changing phrase,

a sweet fragrance.

fragrance.

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