The Commanded Blessing | Pastor Dwain Wolfe | June 7th 2026

Glad to be in the house of the Lord. Amen. Father,

we thank you for your word today. Thank you for

your ministry of truth. We welcome you to open the

eyes of our understanding. We welcome you to lead us

into that which is good. Holy Spirit, keep releasing heaven

in our midst. We thank you for it in Jesus' name.

And everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen. You may be seated.

I'm going to read to you out of Psalm 133

this morning. And I'm focusing on the commanded blessing. The

commanded blessing. There's this portion in Scripture where it says

God commands the blessing. And that's an amazing thing. It's

an amazing thing that something would get God's attention in

such a way that He would command a blessing wherever

that thing does exist. And Psalm 133 describes this atmosphere.

Verse 1, Behold. And even the word behold, right? The

word behold means take note of this. Draw your attention

to this. The word behold is an exclamation that draws

our attention to something of super importance. How good and

pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity, and sisters too. Amen?

How many think sisters ought to dwell in unity? How

many think it's harder for sisters sometimes than brothers? Come on,

you know I'm speaking truth right there. It is like

the precious oil on the head running down on the beard,

on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar.

Some translations say, you know, to the edges of his robe, right?

This is the ESV. I don't know why I picked

the ESV, but, okay, this is the ESV today that

we're reading from. And so this is a picture of Aaron.

I think this is Leviticus 26 is what I remember,

but this is a picture of Aaron. Aaron is the

high priest. So you remember that as... Moses was called

to bring the people out of Egypt and they went

into the wilderness and they were on their way to

the promised land. Then they were given instruction for the

tabernacle and Moses was given instruction for the tabernacle. Aaron

had become his assistant because when God approached Moses out

in the desert and said, I want you to go

set my people free. Remember, he said, I can't talk

very good. Remember that? So he said, I'm of slow speech.

I can't talk. God said, who made your mouth? And

they had a little argument there. And then he's like, well,

can I appoint Aaron to represent me? If you follow

the story a little while, it wasn't long. Moses was

talking just fine. But so Aaron is his assistant. But

then as we come into the tabernacle and the revelation

of the tabernacle, then Aaron is made the high priest.

And so when Aaron is made the high priest, he

is anointed with oil. And this oil is the presence

of the Holy Spirit coming upon him. So the presence

of the Lord was distributed upon Aaron. As the oil

was poured out upon him, he was anointed, he was enabled,

he was empowered. And this oil, like it wasn't just a...

We have little vitals up here. So if you want anointed,

we will anoint you with a drop of oil. Because

we know you are very, very conscious of your hairdo.

And we know that there's not a lot of shampoo

available out there. And so because there's a shampoo shortage,

we don't want to get carried away. We've got to

be careful about how much oil we put on your head.

So we just give you a little drop of this oil,

and it's shipped in from Israel. Now I'm lying. But

that's what we should tell you. This is special oil

from Israel, from olives that are squeezed at Mount Zion.

And we can make more of this available to you

after the service. For $ 1, 000 per vial. And we take

credit and debit. No, we just have little bottles of

anointing oil. But back in the day, when this was

the Holy Spirit being distributed upon somebody, they poured a

bucket of oil on them. They poured this flask of

oil upon Aaron. And it came down over his hair.

And he had long hair. And it came down over

his beard. And he had a big beard. And it

came down over his robe all the way to the

edge of the robe. And now this is the song

of David, by the way. This is one of the

few songs that David actually wrote. And this is a

song of ascent. So he actually wrote this going up

to Zion. And they would sing it going into worship.

Because one of the most valuable things at the house

of Zion and one of the most valuable things in

worship was unity. And this song is all about unity.

And it says that unity is like that oil that

was poured out upon Aaron. That unity will flow over

the head and that unity will cause peace. the blessing

and the presence and the ministry of the Spirit to

flow not only over the head, and how many of

you know back in those days David was the head?

This is a song he sung about himself. The anointing

was on David and God was showing David that as

the anointing would flow upon David, and the anointing was

on David in worship, by the way, which goes all

the way back to the harp that he had in

the pasture, and the harp and the music that he

would bring to deliver Saul from evil spirits. So this

anointing is on David. It's David who appointed the worshipers, 401.

47 worshippers, something like that, who worship 24-7 for 40 years, right?

And God is showing David that that same anointing that

is on you, that same anointing will be distributed to

the entire Jerusalem, the entirety of the flock of Zion,

the entirety of Israel. This anointing will be distributed where

there's unity. Where there's unity. where there's unity, this is

what they learned, by the way, they learned where there's unity,

there will be victory in warfare. There will be victory

over the enemy. There will be prosperity that cannot be eclipsed.

There will be prosperity poured out upon Israel, poured out

upon Zion, poured out upon the people of Zion that

cannot be eclipsed. Even described, it is so amazing. The

blessing of the Lord will be commanded. It will be commanded.

Commanded means to be spoken with a shout. The voice

of the Lord will shake the atmosphere. This is what

he's saying to David. The voice of the Lord will

shake the atmosphere over Jerusalem, over Zion, over the people

of Israel where there's unity. where there's unity. Isn't that amazing?

Isn't that good? It will be like this precious oil

running down over the beard, over the beard of Aaron,

running down over the collar of his robes, to the

edge of his robes. It is like the dew of Hermon. Now,

we love our mountain, and we love our Cascades, right?

And I don't know why we don't have a lot

of dew here. Do we ever have dew here? So

I grew up in Bend, Oregon. And I remember we

had a lot of dew in Bend. So I don't

know why. We were right there at the Cascades, Mount

Bachelors there, and Jefferson and all the mountains. But I

remember waking up to a bunch of dew on the grass. And,

you know, we'd sleep out, we'd go camping, we'd goof around. And...

And if you didn't cover yourself at night with something,

you'd wake up soaking wet. Your sleeping bag would be

soaking wet. Well, we look at the mountains like the Cascades.

Their mountain was Mount Hermon. And Mount Hermon was adjacent

to Jerusalem and to Mount Zion. And Mount Zion was

literally just the hill in Jerusalem. We would consider it

a hill. I've been there. It's not really much of

a mountain. But to them, it was a mountain to Jerusalem.

But Mount Hermon was the mountain nearby. And Mount Hermon

is what drew the dew near to Jerusalem. So it's

another picture. He's trying to tell us that unity will

be like the dew of Hermon. This dew that falls

on the mountains of Zion. So the picture is that

where there's unity, there's going to be a watering. There's

going to be a gentle watering that will sustain you.

It's not a flood. It's not overwhelming. It's not disturbing.

It's not frustrating. It's not a mess. It's going to

be the gentle watering that sustains you will be upon

you as the dew of Hermon is upon Zion. For there,

there where there's unity, the Lord commanded the blessing. The

Lord commands the blessing. And then Zoe goes with it. Life.

And in most translations, there's a comma there, and it says,

even life evermore. He commands the blessing, and he commands life.

He commands life. It's like a picture of Ezekiel 37.

Can these bones live? I don't know, Lord, only you know.

Command life. Command life. Command life to the bones. Well,

this is God. This is God over you. This is

God over us. This is God over our families. This

is God over our church. This is God over our marriages,

over our relationships, where there's unity. Where there's unity. Unity is,

it's the absence of division. It's the absence of discord.

Division is divisions. Division is more than one vision. Division

is two visions. Where there's two visions, there's no unity.

Where there's division, there's no unity. Division is one of

the tactics of the enemy to steal unity. Why is

the enemy after... What is the enemy... Oh, yeah. Okay,

thank you so much. Give Hugo a thank you. He's

having trouble EQing the microphone. But we have a new

microphone coming, by the way. They're shipping a new microphone

to us. Remember, this one broke. So somebody's bought us

a new microphone. Unity is hard because our flesh feeds

on this unity. Unity is hard because our flesh feeds

on opinions. Our flesh feeds on gossip. Our flesh feeds

on slander. Our flesh feeds on pride. And pride is

to assert my opinion. Pride is... The showing forth that

I'm right and you're wrong. And so unity has to

be fought for. And the enemy contends against the unity

of the spirit and the unity of the brethren and

the unity of the kingdom and the unity of the

word that we can unify around. He contends against it.

Why does he contend against it? Because that's where God

commends the blessing. The commanded blessing. The blessing that cannot

be overthrown. The blessing that causes us to triumph. The

blessing that puts the enemy under our feet. The blessing

that causes victory. The blessing that causes everything to grow.

The blessing that brings life evermore. The blessing is where

there's unity. Unity. Where there's unity. Now I'm convinced, I'm convinced,

I hope I can't be unconvinced. I'm convinced that you

don't have to have perfect agreement to have unity. Now

that sounds like a contradiction. Because unity sounds like perfect agreement.

But unity is preserved by peace. And unity means that

we can choose to unify over what we do agree

upon while we patiently allow Holy Spirit to lead us

into that which is excellent and true and noble and upright.

The enemy wants us rushing to division And God wants

us rushing to wisdom and counsel and truth and understanding.

And what if, what if, what if so many times

because of our flesh or whatever it is, and I

could give you some good reasons, but I really think

that in the midst of the kingdom, in the midst

of Christianity, in the midst of the church, I believe

that that unclean spirits are pushing forward disunity and division

all of the time. And they're baiting us. They're baiting

us to see if we will bite on those things

that bring another vision. Remember, this is how Satan got

Adam and Eve to fall from the greatest blessing, the

commanded blessing. They were dwelling in the commanded blessing. Think

about that. They're dwelling in the commanded blessing. But he

came with another vision. Another vision paid attention to is

the open door for division. And division brought disunity and

And disunity removed them from the commanded blessing. Satan came

in Genesis 3, it's recorded. Satan came and said, has

God said not to eat of this tree? Remember? Has

God said not to eat of this tree? What is

it that the enemy is pulling us, pulling our perspective,

pulling our pulling our heart, pulling our mind, pulling our attention,

pulling our imagination with what is it that, what hook

or what bait on that hook is he using to

draw us into something that really has nothing to do

with the thing itself, but it has everything to do

with the enemy wanting to steal your commanded blessings. How

many churches have failed, are faltering, have fallen? How many churches,

how many kingdom expressions have suffered desperately because we as

the body fell for the bait of the enemy that

brought division? We fell for the bait that made us questioned.

We fell for the bait. And it could be anything.

So with Eve, it was, but doesn't this look attractive?

Doesn't this look good to eat? How could something good

to eat be something you shouldn't have? Doesn't it look

good to eat? And so Eve looked at it and

she saw that it did look attractive to eat. And

so the vision introduced, right? The vision introduced caused her

to ponder and to be drawn away. Isn't that interesting?

Moses is mightily used of God. Moses is the called

out of God. Pastor Joel just mentioned him a moment ago.

He's the called out of God. He was called out

by a burning bush. But at one point, Miriam doesn't

like his instruction. And so Miriam says, I don't think

we ought to listen to Moses anymore because he married

a woman of dark skin. Now Jewish folks have olive

skin anyway, but. This must have been a woman of

darker skin, Zipporah, right? And so she brings this accusation

against Moses, which was to result in him losing credibility

with his people so that the words of wisdom coming

out of him and his leadership would fall into disrepute.

I'm just saying, what won't the enemy try? What won't

he try? He'll try anything. He'll try anything. And in

the church environment, he'll try everything to get you into

disagreement with the house and with the people. He'll try

anything and everything. A couple of years ago, I started

talking about buying a Tesla. Remember that? Started talking about

buying a Tesla. Like I was being tempted to buy

a Tesla. And I kind of mentioned from the platform,

we were going to go try out a Tesla. You know,

like two or three people talk to me with this

weird stuff about, you know, and people start talking about,

can he afford a Tesla? And how much money do

we pay him? And should we even pay attention to

somebody who might have enough money to buy a Tesla?

I mean, like weird stuff started happening around the congregation, right?

And eventually I bought a Tesla. I bought an old

used one. Beat up. Previously crashed. Paid cash for it.

But it looks brand new so it fooled all the

people who hated me for buying a Tesla so they

all had to go. Because they don't know the history

of the Tesla I bought. They just think it's a

really cool Tesla, and no pastor should have a cool Tesla.

I'm messing with you a little bit, but I want

you to hear, this is how weird it gets. This

is how weird it gets in churches. And the enemy

knows that a little whispering here, a little slander there,

a little gossip over here, a little question there, a

little prayer request there, You know, the enemy brings it

like a prayer request. You know, hey, hey, hey, hey.

I know you're a person of prayer. I just want

us to remember Frank and Angela in prayer. Frank and Angela. Yeah,

they're going through something. I can't say nothing about it, though. Well,

you can trust me. Oh, okay. Well, praise God. All right, well, listen. Listen.

You know what I'm talking about? And well, you know,

that shouldn't have been an issue. I wasn't saying nothing

about our doctrines. No, no, no. To slander or to

gossip or to bring disrepute against any of us is

just as bad as bringing disrepute against doctrines. Because why

would we listen to anyone bringing doctrines who has disrepute?

And what it is, it's creating another vision and the

creation of another vision is to create division. And division,

division is not what the enemy is after. What he's

after is the commanded blessing. He's after the commanded blessing

and the way to tear down, to remove, to destroy

the commanded blessing is to remove the unity. Remove the unity.

The commanded blessing is something that only exists in the

coalescing of brethren and sistren. This commanded blessing, this is

different than like the blessing on you individually. Because the text,

the context is unity together. when we unify together, then

that creates an atmosphere where Father commands a blessing that

is different than any blessing that is ours, respectively, in

our own salvation. This is a commanded blessing that is

loosed upon us when we're unified together. And it's loosed

in a business atmosphere where there's unity. It's loosed in

a marriage atmosphere where there's unity. But the ministry of division,

the ministry of division wants to split and dilute. Wants

to bring in whispering and gossip and doubt and second guessing,

accusation and fault finding, discontentment. cynicism. Just remember this, remember this.

I think that Adam and Eve would like a redo.

Sometimes we don't realize that we're abiding in a commanded blessing.

Sometimes we don't realize, sometimes we don't see the beauty

of what we're enjoying in the midst of unity. And

I think Adam and Eve didn't realize the depth of

the commanded blessing they were enjoying, right? I think they

would want to redo. And I'm just saying, when... When

the enemy comes to you through someone else, if it's

not you, when the enemy comes to you through someone else,

oh my goodness, realize the enemy is after your commanded blessing.

He's after our corporate blessing. He's after our corporate blessing.

Go over to Ephesians chapter 4. Ephesians chapter 4. talks

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about how that unity is preserved with the bond of peace.

I want you to see this because we can have

peace in the midst of disagreement. Again, I'm saying disagreement.

And something really crazy happens. Peace can supersede. In other words,

listen to this. Peace can supersede your understanding. Isn't that

Philippians 4? The peace of God can exceed your understanding.

Because I choose peace and I abide in peace because

I'm still growing in my understanding. That's humility. Humility might say,

I don't see it exactly the way you do right now,

but I don't need to divide from you. I don't

need to be at war with you. I don't need

to see you as my enemy. I don't need to

pit myself against you. I don't need to bring you

down because I'm still growing in understanding. I'm seeking counsel.

I'm seeking wisdom. That make sense? I'm looking at Ephesians

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chapter 4. Ephesians chapter 4 says, As a prisoner of

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the Lord, then I urge you to live a life

worthy of the calling you've received. Be completely humble and gentle.

Be patient. Listen to that. Be completely humble and gentle. Patient. Patient.

Bearing with one another in love. Bearing. Bearing. Bearing, forbearing.

That means you're bugging me right now, but my love

for you is greater than the bug. So even though

I'm feeling bugged, I'm not going to manifest that I'm bugged.

I'm going to manifest love because my love is bigger

than the bug. Right? This is forbearing. Because I recognize

God's working on you and he's working on me. And

maybe I'm the person. with the bug and maybe you're

the problem. But if we keep loving one another, the

bug's going to work out. We're going to work out

the bugs. be completely humble and gentle, be patient, bearing

with one another in love, making every effort, how many efforts?

Every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through

the bond of peace. So we don't keep unity or

the unity of the Spirit because of perfect agreement. We

keep the unity of the Holy Spirit in our church

because of peace, We're choosing peace because we love one another.

And peace is, no matter what happens, I'm not going

to be at war with you. I'm not going to

make you my enemy. I have one enemy, and he

has a cohort of partners. That's the one that's my enemy.

That's the one I'm against. I'm not against my body members.

I'm not going to... This is not... autoimmune disease in

the church. I'm not going to be attacking the body members. Right?

No matter what. I'm going to love the body members.

Going to choose to be unoffendable. Right? You okay? Making

every effort to keep the unity of the spirit through

the bond of peace. This is Ephesians 4. Ephesians 4,

he starts with unity. In the middle, he talks about unity.

Because he says the gifts of Jesus have been distributed

to the five-fold ministry for the equipping of the saints

until we all come into the unity of the faith.

And then he closes this passage saying, Chapter 4, he

closes this passage talking to us about how to walk

in peace. Because if we walk in peace, we will

be preserving unity. If we preserve unity, the commanded blessing

will be in our midst. We will be receiving the

same anointing that was on David and on the house

of Zion. we will be receiving that gushing oil that

came over Aaron and over the beard and over the robe.

Here it is. I'm going to start at verse 25.

End of the chapter. Therefore, each of you must put

off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor for we

are members of one body. Now, by the way, he

says that's actually the That's actually why we're going after

the peace so badly. We're going after the peace so

badly to retain the unity because we are members of

one another. I'm not going to bring injury to Angela

or injury to Craig or injury to Mary or injury...

to Jerry, I'm not going to bring injury. I'm not

going to bring accusation, harm, slander, reproach, judgment, gossip against

them because I wouldn't step on my toe. And even

as I wouldn't step on my own body, they are

a member of my body. Together we are members of

his body. So we're going to make every effort to

be at peace with one another. In your anger, do

not sin. Do not let the sun go down while

you're still angry. I think he just defined the sins.

This is one of the definitions of sin in anger. Now,

anger is a righteous emotion. Anger can be a righteous

emotion when wrong has occurred. But if we don't seek reconciliation...

Before the sun sets, we've given Satan an opportunity. That

would be sin. In your anger, do not sin. Do

not let the sun go down while you're still angry

and do not give the devil a foothold. The word

foothold there is actually topos in the Greek. Do not

give place or ground to the enemy. How do you

do that? By not seeking to reconcile a wrong. If

you're going to process this for the next three years

or process this for the next month or two. Hello, somebody.

How many of us Think that processing is the method

to solve our turmoil, our inner turmoil. Processing is the

modern psychobabble of how to deal with inner turmoil. It's

not biblical. The biblical method is to reconcile before the

sun sets, so that Satan gets no opportunity. But so

many times what's happening is, is we are allowing the

enemy to appeal to us with carnal and fleshly methodologies.

And so we feel like we need to process something.

And so we haven't seen you for a while. And so, well,

you know, that happened to me and I'm still processing it. Well,

you know, I heard this or I heard that and

I'm still processing it. How many people leave the commanded blessing?

They leave the place of commanded blessing because they choose

to process instead of reconcile. They run to division instead

of run to wisdom, counsel, truth, and understanding. This is

the wisdom of God over here. Isaiah chapter 11, the

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seven spirits of God. James chapter 3, 13 through 17,

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the wisdom from above. Are we going to run in

our wisdom? frustration or our irritation, are we going to

run to wisdom, counsel, truth, and understanding, or are we

going to run to division? If we choose to process,

we're giving place to the enemy. And most of the time,

it gets worse. And most of the time, we begin

to seek out others who are under the same spirit

of division and To see if they've processed it the

same way we're processing it. Look, I want to share

this slanderous thing with you. Look, I want to share

this accusatory thing with you. Look, I want to share

this defaming thing with you. Look, I want to share

this unclean thing with you. And just see if you

would process it the same way I would. And so

we seek... Hello, somebody. Don't just shout because I'm preaching good.

And so we seek out others to justify our disunity

and our division. No, we don't just do this in

the church. We do this with our marriages. We do

this with our families. We do this at work and

with businesses. We do this. The whispering over by the

microwave in the workroom. You've all seen it. Maybe you've

been a part of it. Anyone who's been stealing must

steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with

their hands that they may have something to share with

those in need. And do not let any unwholesome talk

come out of your mouths, but only that which is

helpful wow hear this we're going to preserve the bond

of peace how are we going to do that do

not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth

but only that which is helpful for building others up

according to their needs that it may benefit those who listen.

This is super healthy instruction from Paul to preserve the

bond of peace so that unity will be preserved in

our midst so that the command of blessing will be

present in our midst. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit

with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

The implication is when we are talking with negative speech

or slanderous speech, we're grieving the Holy Spirit. Get rid

of all bitterness, rage, anger, brawling and slander and every

form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another.

forgiving one another just as in Christ God forgave you.

Let's stand this morning. Sometimes we got to talk to

some things. Sometimes we have to talk to things. I'll

give you a confession. She's not in the room, but

there was a... I can remember it pretty good. Oh,

she is in the room. There was a pretty... There

was like a three-month period or something like that. that

I was just growing in frustration against Joel, against my wife.

And as I was allowing this to grow, I was

thinking of all the ways that she did not please me.

And it was getting worse, right? And, you know, you

begin to, I mean, your mind just, Once you give

place to it, your mind just grows, right? And so,

you know, you can just make things up. You know,

her hair, her nose, her toes, the way she cooks.

You know, this, you're making things up, right? And so,

but I'm still the man of power for the hour.

You know, I'm still Mr. Holy. I'm still seeking the Lord, right?

So one morning, I'm here in prayer one morning. Early

morning prayer. I'm here in prayer one morning. And I

don't know if I had a couple of those thoughts

come into my mind. I probably did. In the middle

of prayer. But all at once the Holy Spirit just

spoke to me and he said, it's a spirit of discontentment.

I'm like, what? How could that be? It couldn't be

a spirit of discontentment. I'm very smart. I'm very wise.

I know she has all these deficits. Right? It's a

spirit of discontentment. So I renounced it and went into deliverance.

I just started rebuking it. And pretty soon I had

a little burp and pretty soon I literally I drove

it out. And I'm like, what in the world? Oh

my goodness, she's beautiful. What a nice wife I have.

Her nose is perfect. Her toes are great. She cooks

pretty good. What in the world? Listen, I'm telling you

that story because I believe that these spirits attack us

in our unified place where we've been called in our churches.

And here we are. We're called to a church. We're

called to a house. We're called to a people. But

then all at once, somebody's like... And then somebody else

is like... And then all at once. And we don't

realize that our minds are being seeded by the enemy.

And I'm just encouraging you this morning. Satan is after

the commanded blessing over the house because the commanded blessing...

It doesn't remain on the house. It comes over the beard.

It comes over the robe. It comes to the edge

of the robe, meaning every part of the house, every portion,

every body in that house comes under the commanded blessing

when there's unity. When there's unity. And Satan is after

the commanded blessing on your life. So we agree right now.

We agree right now. We will renounce right now. Division.

We just heighten our discernment. We open the eyes of

our understanding. We come into agreement right now. With the

ministry of discernment. We run to peace and not to division.

We run to counsel and truth and wisdom and understanding

and not to division. We just heighten our understanding right

now to know that the commanded blessing has to be

fought for and protected. The commanded blessing is worth fighting

for and protecting. And we will protect that commanded blessing

by protecting the peace of this house and the peace

on our lives and the peace we have one to another.

We rejoice in this right now. In Jesus' name. And

everybody said, Amen. God bless you, church. We love you.

We love you. We love you. We love you. Let's

worship as we go this morning.