Sweet Communion with Jesus
Sweet Communion with Jesus
(The Fragrance of Jesus)
David Wilkerson
I thank God that I know Him as my deliverer from sin and Satan. And we have a deliverer, we can go to and say, “Lord, save me and save my household.”
We’ve got a mighty deliverer whose arm is not short and whose ears are not heavy you cannot hear. And he says, “Call upon me in the day of trouble.”
I thank God He is a deliverer. I thank God He knows what I need before I ask Him.
Yes, He is my king. He is my priest. He is my deliverer. He is all of that. But, He is more.
He is my fragrance. I am afraid I’ve not known Him that way.
I’ve not seen Him as my fragrance. Yet, I’ve discovered now that almost every man of God who’s gone before me who walks the course to live always mentioned the fragrance.
Puritans all that years (and) years ago talked about sweetness and fragrance of Jesus before they died. They all spoke of it.
Keep in mind that Jesus was a fragrance to His Father. He was a sweet-smelling savor, the Scripture says.
You know the Old Testament Tabernacle, don’t you? It was a type of Christ.
And in that tabernacle, in the holy place was the altar of incense. And there was perpetual incense burned.
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
Exodus 30:8
Folks, look at me, please. It was impossible to walk in to the Holy Place without being absolutely overwhelmed with the fragrance. I mean it just covered it all.
You couldn’t walk in or walk out without being covered with the fragrance. You had to inhale it everywhere with the aroma, the fragrance, because perpetual incense was being burnt on that incense altar.
Not only that everything that was holy in that place, everything was sprinkled with a holy sweet oil, a fragrant oil.
Most theologians have different ideas of what each piece of furniture represented. But, one thing I do know and one thing I do understand. You couldn’t go near that tabernacle without being impressed with the fragrance.
I mean the very walls emitted the fragrance. You walked to the altar and that body sacrifice. It was sprayed, it was anointed with oil.
There was a fragrance that came out of that. The very sacrifice was sprinkled with oil.
There is an odor when you came out. The fire emitted a fragrance. You would go then to the laver and it had been sprinkled with fragrance, anointed with fragrance.
The priest, everywhere he went, everything on him are fragrant. You go to the Holy Place. Even the bread, that anointed oil spread over it.
The candlestick had this anointing oil. And the incense was burning constantly perpetually with this fragrance going up.
Fragrance, everywhere.
You know what the Lord is saying? He is making a wonderful statement.
All service, all sacrifice, all communion with me ought to be sweet and delightful and restful.
It should not be boring.
It should not be odorless.
It should not be burdensome.
It should not be wearisome.
It should be like an apple tree with the fragrance.
Prayer should not be boring.
Prayer should not be burdensome.
It should be sitting down with the delight under the apple tree and the fragrance of it, blessing your soul.
You know, God look down at His Son, and He was a sweet-smelling fragrance.
The cross, the sacrifice. There was not a moment Jesus hung on that cross that He wasn’t the sweet odor to His Father.
He was the fragrance. He rested in what His Son did.
I ask you the Holy Spirit to fill me with the sweetness of Jesus, to help me to take more time to sit at His shadow and to be delightful, that you’d be my joy, Jesus, that I can serve you with joy and gladness.
Lord Jesus, I want you to come now and baptize those to stand here at the front with the joy of Jesus.
Oh, Lord in the sweetness of Christ, Lord, you’ve been so good to us.
You’ve been so sweet. You’ve been so gentle to us.
Help us to show forth that gentleness.
Lord, not looking out for self, but looking out for others to be to others what Jesus would be if you’re walking on this earth.
Come, Lord Jesus (and) forgive us for the flesh, forgive us Lord for we’re acting in the flesh, and make us more like You Jesus.
We want to be like Jesus, to be like Jesus.
Lord, we want to be like You.
We want the world to see You in us.
We don’t want them to see flesh.
We don’t want them to see us.
We want them to see Jesus.