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Show ANOINTED BY GOD Isaiah 61: 1 This a might well be one of the most important passages in all of Scripture. F or it signaled not only the installation of the prophets, priest and kings but the commissioning of the Lord Jesus Christ. W hen Jesus came and started His ministry, The Bible says He took the book in the synagogue on the Sabbath day for His first sermon and read, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he sent brokenhearted, the the me to heal the preach deliverance to captives, and recovering of sight to blind, to set at liberty them that are to 1 preach the acceptable year of the Lord." (Luke 4: 18-19) The Master claimed the seal upon his earthly ministry bruised, to and mission. of His office This as His was God's ratification divinely channel of revelation to His ordained people. He specifically chosen by God for the special purpose of divine revelation and was became known as the "anointed one" which is the ultimate fulfillment of the old covenant messianic prototype. Throughout the Old Testament, the anointing carne with a warning "touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm." (I Chronicles 16: 22) Those that have been anointed for the task are to playa central role in the plan of salvation. They have been consecrated 2 by the Spirit of God, an indispensable prerequisite for His ministry. It is a supernatural investiture .setting one aside for the call and work of ministry. The Hebrew writer reminds us that "the oil of gladness" equips one for ministry. (1: 9) In John 6:9 and Revelation 3: 18 anointing has to do with medicinal ointment applied to the eyes for healing. However both the verse of commissioned or our text in Isaiah 61 : 1 and that of Luke 4: announcing the blessing, the hallowing, the sanctifying, the sealing for the work of God's kingdom to His people through the Holy Spirit. Notice, first that the anointing is for the preaching of the good tidings. Anybody can pick up the morning paper 18-19 are . 3 likely we will get hurt and when we get hurt hearts will be broken. We will our pain night and day with A broken heart will sleep, dip broken heart. you to lose to shattered by cause despair, of what good life to wonder a in is. But God has sent His messenger to pull you together with grace and peace and mercy, strengthen you for the coming disappointment, to get you ready for the raging storm. Third, the anointing is for the proclaiming of liberty to the captives. Too many of us are captive to this world and its material goods. We are hungering after the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. (I John 2: 16) to When satan offers us 5 bread of stone, we gas lines exploding San Francisco and destroying and find bad in near over a can't news ... homes, an economy that turn around, political hundred seem to corruption, shootings and killings, joblessness, foreclosures, wickedness in high places all kinds of bad news. The ... setting apart of text says that the call and the "anointed one" is to preach good news. Tell the world that with faith all things are we have possible. as an Tell them that anchor of the sure and steadfast forever 19) Tell them that love "hope soul, both (Hebrews 6: " ... covers a multitude of faults. Second, the anointing is for the binding up the brokenhearted. The closer we get to another person the more 4 ready to eat; a pinnacle to climb, we are ready to jump; or a mountain of glory, we are ready to take it. Weare captives but God sent His messenger to proc laim liberty. are Fourth, the anointing is for the opening of prisons to then that are bound. Paul and Silas just wouldn't stop preaching. So they locked them up in the Philippian jail. When midnight came, they held a prayer meeting and God heard their cries. He shook the earth and the jail doors flew open. I come to tell you that God is able to open doors that no man can shut and to shut doors that open. Finally, the man can anointing is 6 for the no year of will be no proclaiming of the acceptable the Lord. . Time that is soon coming and we need to get ready for His coming. The old hymn declared: "You be ready when He comes, He's coming again so soon." Can more. The Lord is I remind you that "the time is short." "Now is the time." Either you accept the Lord while you have time or you will lift up you eyes in hell. F or every eye will see Him and every tongue will confess Him. 7 |
