Bible Study I made for the youth

First of all, I blindfolded all of them, and then I made them all smell a lot of different items. They had to guess what each one was. There was VERY good and VERY bad. Then whoever got the most items right one a candybar of their choice :) The Lesson was about how God has to smell the aroma of our lives....... Here it is....

week 2

Aroma

Theme verse: 2 Corinthians 2:14 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.

Which item you sampled smelled the worse? __________________.
Which was the best? ____________________.

Let’s Consider: What if God was blind folded? How do you think the smell of your walk with him would be? Do you think it would make him cringe? Or do you think he would desire to take another whiff of your living? How does it make you feel to know that God can smell the aroma of your life?

Just as perfume has different ingredients, different aspects of your life act like ingredients to the overall fume your life exudes.

One of the main ingrediants are the words we choose:

Words: One of the first things on the forefront of God’s mind was speech. When God gave the Ten Commandments some of them had to do with speech. Look up Exodus 20. How many have to do with the way we use our words? Which commandments are they?

What does Proverbs 22:11 say is an attribute God loves to hear in our speech? __________ How would that look played out in our lives? ______________ And what does that verse say we become when we use that attribute? __________________

Wonderfully, God calls us his friend. And when we hang around our friends, we begin to talk like they talk. Check your life--- do you sound more like your earthly friends? Or do you sound like God?

Isaiah 36:5 says You say you have counsel and might for war—but you speak only empty words…. What do you think it means to have “empty words”? _______________________________________________________________________________

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Words are 1. Expressions 2. Reponses 3. Subject matters 4. Meanings (The “OH” moment) How many different ways can you say the word “Oh”? And it changes the meaning?

Look up Psalm 37:30. Proverbs 16:13. 1 Peter 3:10.

For other people’s Benefit
How is using appropriate language revealing of God in our lives?
Do you think that people can tell a difference in your speech?
What do you think it would tell them if you talk the same way they did?

It’s not just about the words we use in front of people. God knows the words we mumble under our breath.

Hebrews 4:13 says Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Taking a good look at your overall life, what would the fragrance be? After you intermingled all the different aspects of your living, what type of smell do you think God would breathe?
Pretend that you have cologne or perfume that was made up of your life, what do you think it would smell like? What do you think God would name it?

Remember, when someone is spiritually dying their spirits will give off a smell of disintegration. Be a speaker of life this week! Let God have total control of your words. In Isaiah 51:16 God says, “I have put all my words in your mouth…” God has given you the words! It’s your choice to use them!!

Verse to Remember:

Colossians 3:5-10 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Prayer of surrender:

Dear Lord, thank you for the gift of being able to speak. I pray that this week I will give my choice of words to you so that you will be glorified. Help me to maintain a right heart, right response, right expressions, and to talk about things that are edifying to you. "May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer" (Psalm 19:14). In Jesus name, Amen.