Power in the name's of the Holy Ghost #4

THE ANOINTING #4

You may still be wondering how much benefit there is to studying the Holy Spirit’s names and the attribute’s of his descriptions. The benefits come about as you get to know His various roles and functions. His names and how He is described in Scripture indicate His work.

Keep in mind that God, the Father, was the prominent person in Old Testament times.

Jesus, the Son, became the prominent person on earth during the period of the Gospels.

And the Holy Spirit is now the prominent person, during this time we call “the church age.”

The Holy Ghost the third member of the Trinity, assigned to act on our behalf while we are on earth and to help us do the work God desires to be done here.

The Father functions from the third heaven, and the Son sits at His right hand and rule spiritually from heaven’s to earth.

And It’s all carried out By the Holy Spirit!

His role is the most prominent from all members of the Trinity in the church age today.

And yet He’s often misunderstood, marginalized, misused, underappreciated—and even forgotten.

That’s why I’m hoping our time together will encourage all of us to focus more fully on the Holy ghost and what He’s doing in and through us.

The more we engage with Him, the more power, peace, and purpose we have in our lives.

This next name for the Holy Spirit we will explore is the Anointing—it’s found in

1 John 2:18- 29

18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

20 But ye have an unction( anointing) from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming

29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him

Notice: John says’

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth,

but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth…

These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.

If you’ve been in church for any length of time, you’ve heard the words the anointing or the phrase the anointed one,

One of the Holy Spirit’s name’s is the Anointing. This term speaks of a specific work of the Holy Ghost. I don’t want to leave home without him. the anointing is a key feature of the Spirit’s work in our lives.

For many, the concept of the anointing boils down to an emotional experience—

when they feel something tied to a spiritual thought or situation in church, in prayer, or at any time at all, they believe it’s the anointing.

This can take place when a preacher delivers a message or a worship leader performs a great song.

It could come during the reading of Scripture or during personal prayer time.

Sometimes when people talk to me after church, I’ll hear comments like, “That was an anointed, Pastor,” or “You really had the anointing today, Pastor.”

What most those individuals are referring to is that they experienced an emotional reaction or an emotional impact based on what they heard.

While the Spirit does create anointed moments in ministry,

I want to caution you not to relate every emotional reaction with the belief in the anointing.

Many people—whether preachers, singers, or podcast Promoters— promote an emotional response simply with their talents.

Paul calls it enticing words of men’s wisdom

And sometimes your emotional response could be tied to something you’re going through at that moment.

While the Spirit does show up in these experiences, I also think people often limit the anointing to emotional reaction,

rather than coming to understand that the anointing goes much deeper.

The anointing involves more than emotion.

It involves a deep work of the Spirit in someone’s life.

In Acts 10:38 we read how Jesus’s anointing empowered His work:

38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him

In Luke 4:14-21, we also read of the anointing of Christ and his physical work:

Luke 4:14–21 (KJV 1900)

14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

16 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias.

17 And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

20 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.

21 And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

The anointing involves much more than the emotion in these passages.

It’s the inner-working of the Spirit that enables and empowers the outer-working of good works, which glorify God.

And if Jesus functioned according to the anointing within, how much more should we?

What you need to remember, is that you already have it.

remember!

Every Christian has the anointing.

If you’re saved and trust in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you’ve been baptized in the holy ghost, you possess the anointing within you. It is the gift of God.

The anointing speaks of the indwelling presence and work of the Holy Spirit in your life.

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 (KJV 1900)

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would come and go.

He would visit a person or situation, do His work, and then leave.

But in the New Testament and ultimately in the church age,

Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit as a permanent resident in our lives.

His anointing is nothing that sits outside of us. It is within us!

Now, you may not know how to use the anointing you have, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have it. You do. The key is knowing that you do and intentionally to using the anointing in such a way that the kingdom of God benefit’s from it.

GETTING THE MESSAGE

One of the benefits the anointing produce’s in you is to illuminate or highlight God’s messaging to you, both from His Word and from His heart.

The Holy Spirit’s role is to take the thoughts of God and show them to you while you walk here on the earth.

The job of the anointing is to give you the data from heaven so you know how to best operate based on it in history.

If you don’t know you have it, you can’t use it. And You won’t benefit from it. Today many Christians don’t know they have the anointing.

Thus, they don’t know how to use it, and as a result, they fail to maximize the benefits from it.

The reason we have so many problems with our bodies and the outer workings of our lives is that we have an infection in our souls, and the reason we have infections in our souls is that our human spirits have been contaminated by sin.

Only when the Holy Ghost enters in and takes over within the human spirit the human spirit become perfected and pure.

The Holy Spirit’s anointing feeds the human spirit the information and data it needs to distribute to the soul, which then sends it to the body. Then the body functions differently, and our lives become more in alignment with Gods Word.

When we intentionally pursue the Holy Spirits anointing’s influence.

We have the perfect resident within our human spirit.

As believers, we have the Holy Spirit’s anointing.

But we must learn to allow the Spirit to guide, direct, and infuse our lives with His anointing.

Thus, if you want to fix your body, you first have to clean up your soul. And if you want to clean up your soul, you have to start getting the right information into your spirit.

You have to open up the way for the Holy Spirit to speak into your spirit by intentionally pursuing him and accessing the anointing within.

When your soul gets disinfected and the human spirit has been saturated by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, he tells your body what to do,

your mind what to think,

your ears what to hear,

your eyes what to look at,

and your legs where to go.

Your soul does all of this because it has received the truth from the Holy Spirit on how to function in alignment with God’s will and word.

Many of us have dimmer light switches in our homes, designed to bring the light in a room up or down, brighter or dimmer. When the dimmer switch is turned off, there’s no light at all. When the dimmer switch is low, there is limited amount of light.

But when it’s turned up to full capacity, there is the maximum amount light.

God has given every believer a dimmer switch called the anointing. It’s the role of the Holy Spirit to progressively bring the light of God’s truth into your life.

Now, you can choose to keep this dimmer switch off, which means you won’t have access to any of the light of God’s truth.

Or you can keep it turned down on low with the light of God’s truth coming to you only dimly.

But if you want to experience the full expression of God’s truth—and His love— You must turn the dimmer switch up to its maximum level.

This will enable you to see things from God’s perspective.

The anointing is literally the divine message you’ve been able to receive since the Holy Spirit entered into your human spirit.

But it’s up to you how much you tap into it in order to utilize it.

You’re authorized to receive it all.

But no one will force you to do that.

You have to make that choice.

THE NATURAL MAN, THE SPIRITUAL MAN

read 1 Corinthians 2:9-16

This passage is filled with life-impacting truth, and it stands out to me regarding our study on the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2: 9-16

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he that is spiritual ljudgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

This passage isn’t talking about heaven.

It’s not speaking of what we’ll experience in Glory.

It was written to reminds us of what we have access to while here on earth.

We are to know what God has prepared for those who love Him when we intentionally pursue and access the Spirit’s anointing.

When the anointing is turned on and the dimmer switch is turned up, you’re free to see things normal human eyes can’t see.

You get to hear things normal human ears can’t hear.

You get to think things normal human minds can’t even fathom.

In other words, the anointing takes you beyond the veil of the physical world.

It shows you what your eyes can’t see.

It allows you to hear what your ears can’t pick up.

It lets you perceive that which you wouldn’t normally think of on your own.

It pulls you from the physical realm into the spiritual realm so you can perceive, experience, see, and sense that which is from God Himself.

Never forget!

that if all you see is what you see, you don’t see all there is to be seen. If you live limited to your five senses, then you’ll never access all God has in store for you.

All that means is that your dimmer switch to the anointing is either turned down low or it’s completely off.

You need to access the ability to see beyond the physical realm through your connection with the anointing.

The passage in 1 Corinthians goes into greater detail on how this works. We read a little of this insight in chapter 2, verses 10-13

The anointing of the Holy Ghost is like a God-based search engine, because He searches the very depths of God.

He’s like a deep-sea diver going into the depths of God’s thinking and heart in order to transfer God’s thoughts into your life as His follower.

By this, you tap into the spiritual thoughts that exist beyond your physical senses.

The very job of the Spirit is to reach into the mind of God and transfer His thoughts,his sights, and his desires into believers.

His role is to take truth and turn it into your experience by bringing God’s truth into your reality.

He doesn’t do this for information’s sake;

He does it for transformations sake!

Once more, all of this is free. We’ve received it, as the passage tell us,

“so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.”

It doesn’t cost you anything.

Once you accept Jesus Christ, the thoughts of God are free to you. Wisdom is free to you. Where does wisdom come from?

Wisdom is discerned when the Holy Ghost combines God’s;

spiritual thoughts with his spiritual words.

The Spirit dives into the mind of God and brings it into the mind of humanity these spiritual thoughts and spiritual words, which is the truth of Scripture. That is the anointing &That is wisdom

Issues arise when we rely on our own nature rather than on the anointing within.

verse 14—“But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

The non-Christian lives without the anointing.

This is a “natural man.” And because of this, the truth of God appears as foolishness to him. But once more, as we will see later in this passage, when you or I as a believers in Christ refuse to access the anointing within, we can also be deceived into thinking that the things of God are foolishness.

But a second group with access to the anointing is found in this passage. We see it in verses 15-16:

He who is spiritual Judges all things, yet he himself is Judged by no one. For who has known the mind of the LORD, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

The natural man does not have a receiver to be given the wisdom of God. The spiritual man has the receiver, but he must keep the receiver turned on.

the spiritual man can appraise and evaluate all things through a spiritual information. You are a spiritual Christian if you judge all of the data you receive through the spiritual word of God!.

People who live with the mind of Christ think the way Jesus would think. They process information the way He would processes it and it empowers our obedient response to it.

The Holy Spirit enables this kind of living because He has the ability to bring Jesus’ thoughts to our brains.

But their is a third group referenced in chapter 3 is that of a spiritual man who has not taken advantage of the anointing within him. Unlike the natural man who doesn’t have access to the wisdom of God, this spiritual man has access. But he simply refuses to use it—or uses it sparingly.

We read in 1 Corinthians 3:1-3

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

In this third group, the life of the believer appears not much different from that of the natural man since they both walk like natural men.

Even though the ability to receive God’s wisdom exists, this group of people chooses not to use it.

They’ve moved the dimmer switch all the way down or even to off. As a result, they don’t receive access to the heavenly programming from above and therefore they are limited to living their lives apart from divine assistance.

So WHAT’S PROGRAMMING GOT TO DO WITH IT?

A lot goes into how well we’re able to receive from the anointing.

One of the best ways I know to explain it is our TV programming on earth. I have Roku TV in my home, and to get it, I have a receiver in my Office.

It is designed to receive programming from a satellite in the sky thru the cable.

Now, as you know if you also have Roku TV or some service like it, the receiver allows you immediate access to hundreds and hundreds of stations , based on my viewing taste. Whether it’s drama, history—or much to the annoyance of those who may be visit me, the news—I’ve got access to all of it. I make the choice of what I want to watch.

But recently I ran into a problem getting the programming . I would turn on the receiver, but it would fail to produce a picture on my TV. I checked to see if my receiver was plugged in, and it was. It’s just that for some reason my receiver and my television were no longer talking to each other.

l fixed it simply by reconnecting the TV and my source.

God has programming in heavenly places He wants to bring down into your earthly existence.

As a born-again believer, you have the receiver to access that programming.

But if you’re living your life as a Carnal Christian, your connection to the receiver isn’t calibrated. So You won’t get the picture offering you guidance, and wisdom for your life.

See, just because you possess the anointing doesn’t mean you automatically get to experience the anointing.

You get to experience it only when you align your spirit with the Holy Spirit according to the ways and the values of the Spirit and Gods Word.

God has programming for your life, and thoughts, family, finances, career, mental stability, church, and even for our society. But if and when you’re not in synce with Him, you won’t be able to access any of it.

What’s interesting to note is that when Paul wrote to the Corinthians in the passage we just looked at, there had been a five-year gap from his first visit to this letter. That means the individuals he said were still “fleshly” had already been saved for five years.

Yet even after that length of time, they were still walking like a natural man. Paul admonished them because, after half a decade, they should have been more spiritually mature. In essence, they’d wasted five years of spiritual growth potential.

In fact, in the book of Hebrews, the writer condemns those Jewish Christians who had been saved as far back as the beginning of the church some 30 years earlier yet still didn’t know how to walk according to the anointing within (Hebrews 5:11-12).

This is a stern warning for all of us, because no matter how long a person has been in church, or read the Bible, or participated in spiritual rituals, the anointing role of the Holy Spirit must be intentionally pursued and applied. Without it, spiritual growth will not take place.

At most, you’ll have behavior modification for a time, but the old ways and the old thoughts of the old man will creep back in if you operate on a system rooted in human wisdom.

ABIDING

As we saw in the opening pages of 1 John 2, the anointing is accessed through abiding. Again, abiding is a theme that will keep popping up as we continue to explore the role of the Holy Spirit throughout these messages. That’s because abiding is the key way to tap into all that the Holy Spirit has in store for us.

We must do more than visit the Spirit.

We must do more than attend church on Sundays.

We must abide in His presence, pray without ceasing, and seek to align our hearts and minds with God’s viewpoint in His Word.

If your first question when issues arise is not What does God say about this matter?, then you are not abiding.

And if God’s perspective is the last place you go, you’re contaminating the truth of God word with lies.

Abiding is a lifestyle.

Accessing the anointing is a lifestyle.

God does not desire weekend visitation from you. He wants you to live with you all the time.

When that takes place, you will have turned the dimmer switch to high, enabling the programming from heaven to reach you and

illuminate your mind and your thoughts with heavenly wisdom.

And then you won’t need anyone to teach you from a secular, non-Christian perspective.

You’ll already know the truth. You’ll be able to see things as you ought to see them, through spiritual eyes.

As the psalmist wrote, “Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from Your law” Psalm 119:18.

Like the servant we read about in 2 Kings 6:14-17, God will open your eyes so you can see the spiritual army all around you. When you can see what’s going on in the spiritual realm,

your fears will dissipate.

Your anxiety will fade away!

Your need for control will release itself and surrender to God.

When you live spiritually, you get to see things spiritually.