II Corinthians 2:12 “For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?”
God is not up in Heaven weeping and mourning over “them that perish”. The wicked “perish” as an instrument of God’s Divine Justice and He is perfectly satisfied with His Justice. Them who were “chosen in” Christ Jesus “before the foundation of the world” are “them that are saved”. They were “saved” by the instrument of God’s Justice when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ shed His precious Blood to save His people from their sins; thus, eternally justifying them before God (Romans 5:9). But, John saw in his prophetic vision, that “whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:15), the place of “everlasting [perpetual] destruction from the presence of the Lord” (II Thessalonians 1:9); thus, securing Divine Justice upon the wicked. Therefore, “we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ”; for, “God” is glorified in the execution of His Divine Justice, whether it be Eternal Life for His Children or Eternal suffering for the wicked. It is called “a sweet savour of Christ” because Jesus Christ was God’s instrument of Justice to “save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21) and that same instrument of Justice simply left the wicked in their sins; thus, reserving the “unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished” (I Peter 2:9). It is a “sweet savour” because God the Father is “well pleased” with His “Son” (Matthew 3:17; 12:18; 17:5).