Can you get spiritual benefits from physical elements?

Ted asks about the possibility of deriving spiritual help from the things we touch, smell and taste. Rod talks about the idea that Christians are betting their salvation on the death of a particular Man at a particular place and time and the actual blood that flowed from His body, and the assurance and consolation we can receive from that Object of our faith, outside of ourselves. SHOW NOTES: Support the show - https://www.1517.org/donate