Because of the Anointing

Isaiah 10:27

“And it shall come to pass in that day, That his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.”

Introduction

"If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Januany 1, 1863

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.

Over two thousand years ago, and an act defined solelsy by love - there was a greater decree.

Although Juneteenth represents freedom, it also represents how emancipation was remarkably delayed for people who were enslaved in the deepest reaches of the Confederate South– But the Bible says in John 8:36 “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed”.

SOME HISTORY: - Let me clear up first a misunderstanding, Juneteenth does not mark the end of slavery as many people believe - Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned that they were free from slavery. This literally was almost two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which put an end to slavery effective January 1, 1863.

The Emancipation Proclamation, (or Proclamation 95), was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War. The Proclamation reads That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three (1863), all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

On January 1, 1863, the Proclamation changed the legal status under federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the Confederate states from enslaved to free. As soon as a slave escaped the control of the Confederate government, either by running away across Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, the person was permanently free. Ultimately, the Union victory brought the proclamation into effect in all of the former Confederacy.

Although Juneteenth represents freedom, it also represents how emancipation was remarkably delayed for people who were enslaved in the deepest reaches of the Confederate South. While the proclamation legally liberated millions of enslaved people in the Confederacy, it exempted those in the Union-loyal border states of Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky. These states held Confederate sympathies and could have seceded – which means to withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. Therefore, Lincoln exempted them from the proclamation to prevent this. A year later, in April 1864, the Senate attempted to close this loophole by passing the 13th Amendment, prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude in all states, Union and Confederate. But the amendment wouldn’t be enacted by ratification until December 1865. In other words, it took two years for the emancipation of enslaved people to materialize legally.

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger of the Union army arrived in Galveston and issued General Order No. 3 that secured the Union army’s authority over Texas. The order stated the following: (Although freed they have stipulations place on them.) The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive office the United States, ‘all slaves are free.’ This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes, and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts, and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.

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Still, even under Order No. 3, as historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. noted, freedom wasn’t automatic for Texas’s 250,000 enslaved people. “On plantations, masters had to decide when and how to announce the news — or wait for a government agent to arrive — and it was not uncommon for them to delay until after the harvest”.

Emancipation came gradually for many enslaved people, the culmination of a century of American abolition efforts. And even still, the formerly enslaved were viewed as chattel that merely existed to work and produce.

While the past year has shown that some in America are willing to fight against the systemic racism that continues to plague the country, others are introducing legislation to ban anti-racist education, lessons that would help students understand the significance of a holiday like Juneteenth. Unfortunately, Critical race theory is now made to seem like the demise to our very democracy. Critical Race Theory is an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine the law as it intersects with issues of race and to challenge mainstream liberal approaches to racial justice. Critical race theory examines social, cultural and legal issues as they relate to race and racism.

As the American public continues to struggle with how to talk about slavery and its enduring consequences. Perceptions of Juneteenth have also changed. During World War I, white people and some Black people even considered it un-American, unpatriotic, and shameful “because it focused attention on a dark period in U.S. history”.

Although Juneteenth represents freedom, it also represents how emancipation was tragically delayed for people who were enslaved – But the Bible says in John 8:36 “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed”.

TEXT: - In John 8:36 says, “So if the Son sets you free you will be free indeed.”

The Greek meaning of free can mean to liberate or to exempt from liability. Not only do it liberate or exempt from liability, but it liberates to. We are free from sin and death and free to worship God in the beauty of Holiness.

According to Strong’s Concordance NT 1211 - The word indeed is never placed at the beginning of a sentence, but is joined to some preceding word, and indicates that what it introduces can be taken as something settled, laid down in deed and in truth. It is final, it is established, it is so. It signifies that the thing enjoined must be done forthwith and at once, surely, certainly. There is no delay the Son has set you free you don’t have to wait 2 ½ years, you don’t have to wait until sin gets one more thing out of you, you don’t have to wait for the army to come and read a executive because it is already established whom the son has set free is free indeed.

Now that we are free indeed let’s look at what Christ has freed us from!

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Free from the Bondage of Sin. To be free or liberated you must first understand what it means to be bound or imprisoned. The definition of a captive means confined. You and I were prisoners held under the bondage of sin. We were held captive by the impulses of sin. Whatever and whenever sin wanted us to go or do, we did. We were slaves to the instincts of sin. Sin was our salve master the ruler that held us captive. What sins control us, enslave us? Two types according to Galatians 5:19-21 gives a list of sin actions and sin attitudes. Actions all of these enslave us before we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Adultery, Fornication, Uncleanness – filthy talk, filthy thoughts, filthy action, Lasciviousness which is lust and acting out ungodly desires, Idolatry and Witchcraft which are forms of religion. Heresies – the teaching of things that are blasphemous, Murders, Drunkenness, Revellings – rioting. Then there are Attitudes. Hatred you know what this is, Varience – always being at odds with others, Emulations – desiring to be like others, Wrath, Strife, Envy, Sedition – rebellion. You say, “those things are not in my life!” well it is all summed up in “such like.”

Not only are we free from sin but we are free from the penalty of sin. When a person has been found guilty of a crime they will serve their time then often they are put on probation. Probation says you’re free but there are consequences you still have to pay. The Penalty of Sin as to do with Eternity. Romans 6:23 says “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Before we accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior we all had an eternal death sentence. Sadly, many people don’t understand that there is a price that must be paid. Jesus paid that price on Calvary, but unless a person accepts Jesus Christ into their lives and is born again both of water and spirit John 3:3 says, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”, that penalty of Hell’s damnation and eternal separation from God is real. Because of our sin, you and I were on a path to be eternally separated from the very presence of God. This was the eternal penalty or liability of our sin. Paul states here the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. When Jesus set you free, he took away your death sentence. The penalty you and I ultimately deserved has been removed and we now have eternal life. There has been literally a shift in our eternal destination. You ought to Thank God for the shift.

We are free from the Guilt and Shame of Sin. Have you ever experienced the feeling of guilt? Have you ever felt shame for things you have done in your past? Have you ever repented but felt like you need to repent again because you feel so bad that you want to make sure God “really forgave you?” We have all done things that we are ashamed of. Things that we wish we could take back and never do again. However, when you do this all you are doing is creating guilt and shame. This can devour you taking away the ability to live and develop properly spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. This is one of the biggest weapons the Devil will use on a person encouraging you to look back at the shameful moments of your past. When you do you can be overwhelmed by guilt, shame, and condemnation. This will ultimately strip your joy, rob your peace, and can even cause you to give up believing the lie that God hasn’t forgiven you. I want you to know INDEED that God forgave you. He removed that sin from you as far as the east is from the west and he doesn’t remember it anymore. He will never bring it up again and neither should you. However, forgiveness is not just about dealing with sin it also deals with your shame. Christ does not just forgive the sins of the past. He also liberates you from the shame and guilt of your past. He takes away the thing that has limited your ability to live and develop which is your guilt and shame. 1 John 3:20 says, “For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things”. Since we are forgiven, we are forgiven completely and totally. Sin, shame, guilt all of it is dealt with when Jesus sets you free. You don’t have to carry that burden of guilt and shame anymore. You are forgiven and free indeed.

Freedom is not just something that happens on the outside, it is something that must be experienced on the inside in our minds. Proverbs 23:7 says “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he..”. Our minds have been set free indeed. You no doubt have heard the story of the elephant chained to post. The elephant trainers will take an elephant tie its leg to a post with a chain, after a while of trying to pull the chain it causes the elephant pain so he give up trying to pull to avoid the pain, then they take the chain off and the elephant refuses to pull because in his mind he is still tied to the post. When Christ set us free, He freed our minds we are no longer conformed to this world or this way of thinking anymore we are transformed by the renewing of our minds Romans 12:2.

When you understand what Christ has freed you from, we can live in what Christ has freed you to.

What Has Christ Freed Us To?

The Freedom to Live Life more abundantly. John 10:10 says “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”. One of the reasons it’s so important to understand that you are free from the bondage, penalty and guilt of sin is because it now increases your life for abundant living. Jesus has free us to have love, to have joy, to experience peace, and to enjoy life.

You cannot have an abundant and vibrant life with a living, loving relationship with God or with anyone else for that matter, if you are holding on to the guilt and shame of your past.

When Adam and Eve sinned, they hid from God and their with God was hindered. When Jesus comes and sets you free you don’t have to hide anymore. You can now enjoy a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. James 4:8 says, “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.” This is the essence of what Christ has freed you to. God wants close, intimate fellowship with you and the only way that happens is by Jesus freeing you. You can enter God’s presence with confidence because you know he wants you there and the hindrances have all been removed. This truly is living free.

The Freedom to Serve Ephesians 2:10 says “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” One of the other reasons Christ has freed you is because he has work for you to do.

The Freedom of social, cultural and legal issues. Romans 11:17 says “And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree”. Galatians 3:28-29 says, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise”. The legal issue Jesus freed us from as well Galatians 3:13-15 says “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto”.

Juneteeth - On June 19, 1865 nearly two years after Present Abraham Lincolon emancipated enslaved Africans in America, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas with news of Freed. More than 250,000 Arican American embraced freedom by executive decress in what became know as Juneteen or Freedom Day.

For three years, even after then President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved Black American in Texas remaine in brutal Bondage, immorally and illegally deprived of their freedom and basis dignited.

They were free, but did not know it, because their oppressor refused to let them go. All this time they had the authority and legal right to be free. But they did not know they were so the continues to be used and absued

On June 19th, over two years after President Lincoln declared all enslaved person Freed. Major General Gordon Granged and union Army troops marched to Galveston To enforcer the Emancipation Proclamation and free the last enslaved Black American in Texaz

Thoe who were freed from bondage celebrated their long overdue emancipation on June 19ths.

The Roots still remain -

Junteeth is a day to reflect on both bondage and freedom, it is a day of pain and purpose.

It is a remembrance of boither the long hard night of slavery and subjucation as well as a celebration of the promise of a brignher morning to come.

On Juneteeth, we remember our extraordinatry capacity to heal, to hope and to emerge from our worse moments as a stonger freer and more just National.

It is a day to celebrate the power and resilence of Black American who have endured generation of oppression in the ongoing journey toward equality in this country.

It is sait that we as a nation can grow stronger when

Introduce the subject say what the message is about

Make it personal - explain why heares need to listen

Identiry the FCF

Bond to Scripture

The children of Israel - Their choice to mix and mingle with other gods, opened up a door for God’s punishment, wrath and correction . It was a punhisment for godlessness.

The City of Jerusales has be ruined thourgh incompentent leadership, hypocrisy and injustes and will face God’s anger in the form of the Assyrian army - Under the reight of Sennacherib. . However in the mids of doom - there will be glory after this. -

In the ime of the prophet Isaiah the dominated power was Assiryed.

Isaiah 1–12 features Assyria as a dangerous invading force that comes into Israel and Judah as an expression of God’s judgment. Isaiah 7 especially focuses on Judah’s response to an anti-Assyrian plan hatched by Israel and Syria. In the eighth century BC, small states oscillated between pro- and anti-Assyrian policies. Isaiah 13–23 gives us glimpses of how the Assyrian presence was impacting on small states like Israel and Judah and their neighbours such as Syria in the north, Moab and Edom in the south-east and Philistia in the west. The threat of Assyrian invasion seems to be the background to the message of Isaiah 28–35. In Isaiah 36–37 Sennacherib’s invasion of Judah and assault on Jerusalem is narrated. An important message in all of this is that even Assyrian power is no match for the power of the Lord.[1]

God can bring restoration to a remnant; Believing – obeying remnants -

We must look at our advserities and adversarys as just tools in the hands of God. They are out here playing marbles when God is playing chess - Checkmate!

A Yoke - The you was not just removed, it wasned just lossed to make us comfortablein that situation, but your have said that it was Destroyed. - by the Anointing (FATNESS)

1. The Yoke will be destroyed - will be ruined -

2. How is this possible. – because of the anointing - righness anointing, oinment.

3. The Anointed will EMBARRASS your OPPORRESOR - THEY WERE ONLY A TOOL -

The children of Ilreal were punhising htems sevlef for yoking themselves to paiul worship

2 corinthianst 6:14 Paiul warned believes not to be unequally yoked with unbeleivers - Oaul is warning agains alliences in matters where important Christian principles would be compromised.

Yoke of Bondage - was used as a symbol for slavery of political oppression - - Breaking or removing the yok symbolized liberation from oppression and

What are the main words that leap out to me as I read Yoke; Destroyed; Anointing , Oppression

Yoke was placed and represented enslavement of a people or personons –

When broken Yok - became a symbol of freedom - Ezekiel 34: 27

The Anointing is the secret saucee behind what we do.

[1] Kirk Patston, Isaiah: Surprising Salvation, Reading the Bible Today Series (Sydney, South NSW: Aquila Press, 2010), 14–15.

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Historical backdrop

Hod did we get here The first has to do with the discipline that is brought to bear on the people of Judah and Jerusalem. We meet them in chapter 1 as the Lord’s rebellious children. They are so estranged that they hardly know him any more. They are laden with guilt and have given themselves to corruption. They have spurned the Lord, turned their backs on him, and resisted every attempt he has so far made to bring them to a better mind (1:2b–6). But he will not leave them so. He first takes up Assyria as a rod to chastise them in their land (10:5–6). Then he uses Babylon to take them out of it (39:5–7), and finally, when they are broken by suffering, he summons Cyrus of Persia to set them free and give them the chance to go home and start again (44:24–28). Out of this scourging process there emerges, by the end of the book, a group of people who are truly repentant. They are described as those who ‘mourn’ (61:2–3), the ‘servants’ of God (65:13–15), and the ‘humble and contrite in spirit’ who tremble at the Lord’s word (66:2). They are the nucleus from which a new people of God will grow.

How At the second level a more profound issue is addressed. This, too, is introduced (though more obliquely) in chapter 1, for there for the first time we meet Isaiah’s characteristic description of God as ‘the Holy One of Israel’ (1:4). It is this Holy One who has been spurned by the people of Judah and Jerusalem, and the unspoken question at this point is: how can he forgive them (or any sinner for that matter) without compromising his holiness? Failure to see it as an issue is simply an indication of how small is our appreciation of the holiness of God and the gravity of human sinfulness. The same issue surfaces much more pointedly in the call passage of chapter 6. When Isaiah is summoned into the presence of this holy God he knows himself to be ruined, for he is unclean and lives among an unclean people (6:5). But no sooner is the confession made than a live coal is taken from the altar and applied to his lips, and he is told that his guilt is taken away and his sin atoned for (6:6–7). The implication is clear. Forgiveness is possible only when atonement is made, and atonement is provided by God himself. It is a gift from his altar. This is the key to understanding the ministry of the Servant of the LORD in the second part of the book. He is the final answer to the mystery of how God can forgive and remain just. He does it through a perfect sacrifice which he himself provides. And at last, in 53:5, the forgiven ones see it: ‘The punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.’ There is more to judgment than being exiled from the land, and more to salvation than returning to it. There is separation from God or reconciliation with him. At this level the themes of judgment and salvation are focused on the vicarious suffering and exaltation of the Servant.

But this opens up a wider perspective, which brings us to the third and final level at which the two themes are worked out. The people of Judah and Jerusalem have a history which reaches right back to Abraham (41:8; 51:2), and it was always God’s intention that they should be the channel through which his blessing would flow out to the world at large. This is why heaven and earth are summoned to hear what God has to say about these people at the beginning of the book (1:2). Whatever God does among them will impact on the entire creation. This is really the seed from which the great missionary vision of the book springs. Already in chapter 2 Isaiah sees the nations streaming to Zion to share in the salvation that has been realized there. But again we have to wait until the second part of the book to find out how this will be brought to pass. Again the key is the work of the Servant. He is a covenant for the people, and a light for the Gentiles (42:6). His sacrifice is sufficient for all and provides the rich food of pardon and forgiveness of which all who are hungry and thirsty may partake, if only they will come (55:1–7).

But now we see that the inward flow of the nations to share in the gospel banquet presupposes and requires another movement which is directed outwards—a great missionary movement of gospel proclamation and invitation. And such a movement does indeed unfold in the closing chapters of the book. It begins with the repeated statement, ‘You are my witnesses’, in 43:10, 12 and 44:8. It is given further impetus by the final appearance of the Servant as a Spirit-anointed preacher (61:1–3), and it climaxes in the sending out of messengers far and wide to proclaim God’s glory among the nations (66:19). But as servants of the Servant, their message has the same two-edged nature as his, and divides the world into the saved and the lost. In the end, salvation and judgment become absolutized as eternal life and eternal death (66:22–24), and both alike express the truth of who God really is, the Holy One of Israel.

There is a Promise - It Shall Come to Pass

Emphatic - In the middle

1. There is a remnant that will return

2. Your Season of Oppression is only for a time - It will cease. God’s Love for you far supercedes. No matter how great the oddes are stacked up against you. God’s Love will move over barriers and walls to ensure that you are delivered.

If you enemy has counted you out - his math is not mathing.

His (The Enemy) Burden will be Lifted

The Hebrew work for Lifted - in means load will dpart of f be removed.

We have all at one time or another felt weighed down by something, as if a burden is around our neck or on our shoulders pressing down on us. This is a picture of the yoke of oppression the prophet was referring to in Isaiah 10:27. That yoke may be fear, worry, or depression. It may be something you have been dealing with so long that you think it will never go away. But Isaiah 10:27 gives us hope.

Stress For many people - THis area is the place where we hold our stress.

Your Shoulder symbol of strengh - That which has been illegibmated placed upon you will be eased.

Your shoulder muscles stabilise your shjouldr joing and help yuou move your arm in man directions .

His (The Enemy) Yoke will be Removed

Your neckan and shoulders are interconnected areas. These body parts share bones, tendons and ligaments, connective soft tissues and nerves Making it easy for pain radiaties - For far to long Your neck which is a symbol of direction.

Sandwiched between your head and your shoulders, your neck is the pedestal for your Head. You head house your brain. If you neck wasn’t able to hold up you head, then you would be unable to function normaly. Neck muscles contact to adjust the posture of your head through the course of you day. The strength of your neck can impact the respitory systems m and the quality of breathing.

The National Institued of Health tells us. It’s main function is to suppor the skill while still allowing for movement. It is the most flexipipe part of the spine. This flexibiilkty allows for large movement to scan our suroundings. If you realsie the majority of your sensor inpuits heapped at the head, chich is why proper neck movement is vital to your survial. Your neck refers as a conduint for the brain to communicate with the rest of your bondy. Given the importance if your necks injuries can somties have significatn consequequences and someimes they are even fatal.

Your neck contacts the Jugular vein - and if cut by an attack can cause the victim to beeld to dead very rapidly. - Some reports noted that death can result in 5-15 seconds.

Joshua knew the importance of the neck - Conquers put their feet on the necks of fort their enemies as a sign of their subjection - Joshua 10:24 “And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.”

Eli saw his immediate demise in 1 Samuel 4:18 “And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.”

Seeing the importance of the neck as it pertains to it’s placement - We recognized the schemes of the enemy as this is the place, where he desires to place the Yoke. So it would make sense the the enemy would try to come for your neck.

For Far to long we have allowed our selves to be exited from the weight of the burden being taken off - that we have failed to realized that while it may feel lighter - There is still a yoke on our neck. We have become excited when we no longer feel the weight on our shoulders, that we may have become accustomet to living in this restricted postion.

The Yoke was a wooden bar that allowed animals to be coupled in order that they might effectively work together in an unhealthy way. - Scholars sometime say in scripture that there was an older Ox that knew the way and a younger oxen had the strenght. It was a way that they could be controlled. They Grew into the yoke. Methaphorically, the yoke has been referred in the word many time to work and Bondage - Yoke could also be considered a cose alliance of union -

As the animals would pull forward the weight of the loat would be carried on heir shoulders. the Yoke Kept them from looking up, and not seeing the full picture. Yokes diminised and lmited their vission . It imposed blinders on,

Pastor Shared with us the series “This Think has Got to be Broken” Genesis 27:40 “And by thy sword shalt thou live, And shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, That thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.”

The placed where you whice limits growth movement and breathing. The plan of the enemy is to stifle you and limit your vision. What generational strongholds hase the enemy connected you two from when you were young.

What yokes have we allowed ourselved to put but thos.

The Yoke will be Destroyed

Not only will the yoke be removed - but it will be ruined and anaitesl.

It is the Anointing - The Anointed One

Becasu of - is a two work preposition that means as a result of.

The verse says the yoke is broken because of fatness, or “because of the anointing,” as the King James Version puts it. In other words, the fatness is the anointing, and the anointing breaks the yoke of oppression. Now consider the fact that 1 John 2:20 says you have received an anointing from the Holy One. This is not the anointing on your pastor or on your prayer partner. John is saying you are anointed. That means you have what you need to break free of everything in your life that is keeping you bound.

Jesus wants you to be free. You have to believe that. Jesus said, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (John 8:31–32). Beloved, you were created and saved to stand up and break every yoke that is preventing the Spirit of God from being fully manifest through your life. Don’t stop a quarter of the way up the mountain. Continue on to the top of the mountain.

God wants to break every yoke off our lives by His anointing. The Bible says Jesus has come to make us free (Gal. 5:1), and “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17). I pray that you will believe this and that you will set your mind to overcome in this world. Freedom and liberty are your portion. Don’t settle for anything less. Keep on pressing in and pressing on. It often happens little by little, but you are being changed day by day. Keep your eyes set on Jesus.

The Anointing will embarrass your oppressors -