The Cost of Anointing Verses Gifting!

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Justin Carpenter.

This past Monday.

I didn't I didn't mention this first service, I guess,

But this past Monday I sat burdened most of the

day and could not shake it in a way that

I've I don't know that I've been burdened before.

And uh, there are.

There is and it won't be the only one, obviously,

but there there is a there's a global shakening that.

Is really close.

And I've been asking the Lord to give me insight

because I want to be able to prepare the body

as I can. But I just could not shake the

weight of what's coming this past Monday. And you know,

my primary job, and I've said this before, is to

feed and lead. That's my primary job. I will give

an account to the Lord Jesus for how I fed

you and how I led you. That's what I will

give an account. As a shepherd. I will have to

give an account to him if I spoke truth or

if I watered it down. I will have to give

an account whether I chose the fear of the Lord

or the fear of man, and in this hour of

watching so much shake and shake and bake, and with

all this stuff happening, it's like, you know, I want

to encourage y'all to take the time examine your lives,

Examine where you're at with the Lord, Examine where you

want to be with him the I think it's pretty

clear the closer we get to twenty thirty, there's going

to be significant changes. Many people believe as far as

the prophetic timeline. You know, Israel became a nation in

nineteen sixty seven, and seventy years is twenty thirty seven.

Back off seven years is twenty thirty and now again

that that's getting into eschatology, and many of you are

going to have different perspectives on that. But I can

tell you that twenty twenty was a change, not just

a season. You know, we use all these fancy oh

it's a season, and oh it's the time. No, this

was a global shift on the prophetic timeline of history,

and I think the closer we get to the end

of this decade, we can expect to see more of

those global shifts. I think the escalations in Israel right now.

Are going to.

Continue to escalate and ultimately with the culmination of the

war of Gog and Magog.

Think about this.

No time in history have we been able to have

the entire world look upon the two witnesses, because Biblically

it says that they will lay in the streets dead

for three days, the two prophets, and then the world

will exchange gifts. Here's another one, mystery, the Mystery of Babylon.

Mystery Babylon is not the United States. Mystery Babylon is

not Mystery Babylon with literal borders. And one thing it

says about Mystery Babylon in Revelation is that it talks

about the nations partook of her sorcery. The Greek word

for sorcery is pharmakaya. When did we see the nations

partake all the nations partake of Pharmachael. Now that I

have your attention and you're wondering, where is he going?

Or am I against doctors? No, But you have to

have eyes to see and ears to hear in this hour.

What if God's intentionally offending you and it's not the

enemy right now? What if God's offending you to expose

you strongholds.

And it's actually not the enemy.

What if half the crushing you're going through right now

in your life and the shakings actually has nothing to

do with the enemy, And it's the hand of the Lord. Perspective, perspective,

right pen take his shoes off Luke nine twenty three.

And he said to all, if anyone would come after me,

let him deny himself and take up his cross sometimes,

and every once in a while follow me.

That was the Nearly Inspired version, not the NIV.

Now it says, deny himself, take up his cross daily

and follow me.

So what is the way into the kingdom? The cross.

Is What is the key today?

The intimacy with Jesus? What do you what do you

start with every morning?

Daily?

Take up your cross?

It's it's not supposed to be optional. We don't wake

up on Tuesday morning be like Jesus, Oh what a

good morning. Wednesday, I'm hanging the cross up, changing shirts.

That's not how it's supposed to be. There's a scripture

it says that if you faint running with men, how

are you gonna run with the horses? And I want

to let you know, in this hour of your fainting

running with men, you're not gonna run with the horses

and the season to come. Somebody's clapping, some one person's excited.

All right, I actually am gonna talk to you not

about the end times, but the cost.

Of the anointing versus gifts.

I didn't get very far this morning first service, but

I plan on getting further this time.

He all seems so excited about that.

Over the next three and a half hours, we're gonna

unpack this teaching, and you'all are going to be so excited.

If you're visiting. That is a joke. Just relax.

What was what was? I?

I love your shirt, David. Won't you stand up show

by your shirt?

Huh? I mean I just when I look at that shirt,

I just want to have a vision non chemically induced,

you know what I mean. Let me put that in quotations. J'ell,

that shirt's groovy, okay. Luke nine sixty two, I start

this stuff and then you all start going, I'm like, oh,

I shouldn't have done that, Luke nine sixty two. Jesus

said to him, no one who puts his hand to

the plow and looks back is fit for the Kingdom

of God'll.

You do realize.

Jesus said, some might drop hard truths. So the way

into the Kingdom is the cross. The only way to

walk with him is to deny yourself. And if you

put your hand to the plow and say, let's go, Lord,

and then you look back, you might be suffering from

the spirit of Egypt, where somehow you've fallen under deception,

believing that the fruit in slavery was better than the

fruit and freedom. The enemy wants to convince you that

going backwards is going to give you what you want.

And the Lord says, if you put your hand to

the plow and you're following me and you look back,

you're not fit for the kingdom. Because remember the word

for repentance, the pictograph meaning of that word repentance actually

means to burn the house down, burn down what you

were abiding in that nothing is left but ashes. So

if we start in the kingdom with denying self daily.

And we're not.

Supposed to look back, can you I seem like I'm

in a Does it sound okay?

Out there? Sounds weird up here? It sounds like.

I'm like in a room, Like obviously I'm in a room.

I was fixing that before y'all did never mind? Okay?

For this is starting really good. For first, John two

twenty six to twenty seven. I write these things to

you about those who are trying to deceive you. You

know what I love Just a little side note for

those that are trying to deceive you. You all been

watching those videos on social media lately where it takes

all of the main networks Fox and CNN and NBC

and ms B, and it's and and it literally shows

you that they're all saying the exact same sound bites.

That is called mind control. If you're wondering what that is,

and that and that that that is conditioning the masses. Remember,

the enemy is the principality of the what of the air,

of the airwaves. So I have great news.

You don't have to be deceived. Number one of you're

like me If.

I start watching the news, especially like the debates, I

something happens to pastor Justin and it's like I lose

the I start to find myself yelling at my cell

phone and I'm like, this is not profitable. It's disturbing

my dinner when I'm eating a steak or something. But

he says, I write these things to you about those

who are trying to deceive you. But the anointing that

you receive from Him abides in you, and you have

no need that anyone should teach you, but as His

anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is

no lie, just as it is taught you, abiden him.

I shared this this morning. I think I may have

said the wrong date on my hand, but some years ago,

twenty ten, twenty eleven time frame, I had this dream,

and this was when Micah was not six foot two.

Back then, Micah was you were actually taking like two

and a half hour naps daily.

It was glorious. I was.

I was.

I was a stay at home dad.

So come on, moms and any of you stay at home,

Like if you side note, men, if you come home

and ask your stay at home wife who's taking care

of all their kids, what'd you do today, don't be

surprised if she wants to give you the left foot

of fellowship. I would rather be doing what I do

than to be at home with all my kids. It's well,

I don't mean that in a bad way, but I'm saying, man,

I can't get away with nothing this morning. What I'm

saying is I stay at home mom is a full

time job. And if you're a stay at home mom,

you don't need to have shame or like, well, I'm

just a stay at home No, we need y'all, like

we need you raising your kids in the fear of

the Lord and the ways of God. All Right, I

can't read it true anyways, so you get the picture.

I'm a stay at home dad.

During this time, I'm having these glorious quiet times with

the Lord for two to three hours undisturbed.

Sorry, I was going back and oh, keep them on

the plow.

And during this time I was really pressing into the Lord.

I was having a lot of spiritual encounters. It was

just a season of encounters. And I was very conscious

about not getting deceived, to the point where I was

worried about it, Like I was having anxiety about not

wanting to be deceived. And I went to bed one

night and the Lord give me a dream. I found

myself in Gold's Gym. Used to work at a Golden

gym growing up, and the owner was John. So John's

there behind the desk, and the whole room is white,

white countertops, white shelves, protein metrics, protein powder, on the back,

and I remember all this, and I was getting a

day pass in the dream. And when I went to

put my hand out, I had two twenty five stamped

on my hand. And I was like, oh, no, they're

going to know I didn't shower because I knew in

the dream it was two twenty six. And I look

around and the dream ends. And if you don't know

what that means, you're dull.

Moving on.

No.

Bob Jones used to say that a lot.

He'd give all these cryptic, parabolic words and they'd be like,

if you don't know what that means, you're dull. I'm like,

I guess we're all dull.

But John represented the Book of jo.

And I knew the date stamped on my hand, and

the date that I knew it was in my dream

was scripture. So I go to the Book of John.

I'm going to chapter two, and I don't see anything.

Is it that bad?

I don't see like it, you know, the witness of

the Holy Spirit not happening. So I go to first

John and I start reading, and I write these things

to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you,

and all that fear melted away. The Lord's like, I've

got you. The anointed One is in you, and that's

the way the Lord chose to deal with that situation

with me. And you know, we hear a lot about gifting.

We hear lots about the Fivefold ministry, lots about the Kingdom.

I don't know how much we hear about the anointing

and how the anointing is actually separate from your gift,

although it works with your gift, yet it's separate.

And we find ourselves in a season where.

You're recognizing there was a whole bunch of leaders around

you in the Body of Christ that have been operating

in a gift without the anointing for some time. Why

do we know this because they were in sin. And

the quickest way to quench the anointing on your life

is to go into sin.

One of the.

Dangerous things is that your gift is always going to

work no matter who you are. The gifts and callings

are irrevocable, and your gifts will work even if you're

in sin. Paul Cain was one of the most anointed

at one point, one of the most anointed prophets and

could prophisy crazy details. I mean he'd just start calling

people out and I mean just crazy detailed personal words.

And yet Paul found himself in a homosexual lifestyle and

an alcoholic and never repented even in the end. It

was so bad that he had a security guard at

his door at morning Star where he passed away, because

if young men got by him, he would try to

put the moves on them. And yet Paul Kine could

still prophesy. Now did his did his effects on what

he was doing diminish some? Yeah, it wasn't, It wasn't

at the peak, but he still had a gift.

Think about think about.

The things that are happening right now. How many of

us were absolutely blown away, shot like when we found

out what happened with Robbie Zachariah. See what's happening is

these men are being exposed and they've become yesterday's man.

The anointing is lifted, and they continued to operate in

a gift, and very few of us knew the difference.

That should not be.

The Greek word for anointing is chrisma, not charisma.

The latter's a different word. Although the two words look

and sound alike.

Charisma comes from the root word creo or cryo, from

which we get Christ, the anointed One. The word cryo

contains the idea of smearing, as with annointment. So the

anoint One is in you. He's smeared in you, because

that's it has to do with the smearing with the anointing.

There's another word charismata, which means grace or gift. This

is the word used for the gifts of the Holy

Spirit and First Grinthians twelve, for example, Believe it or not,

you can also have the chrismata without the anointing.

In RT.

Kendall's book Pigeon Religion, which is a great book if

you haven't read it, Holy Spirit is that you and

Chapter four uses the word anointing in three ways. First,

the anointing is enjoying God's manifest approval, that unconditional affection

of the Father that you really only fully experience when

you stop living as an orphan and actually live as

a son or daughter. This is what King Saul lost,

even though he remained king. This sense of the anointing

is when you please God. It is when you're conscious

of his presence, his pleasure and communication with you. It

is what provides insight, presence of mind, wisdom, and clear thinking. Secondly,

the anointing is that which flows with.

Ease in a person. You don't have to work it up.

It comes easily. If I go outside of my anoining,

I struggle.

When you start struggling, it's because you're pushing out of

your metron. And when you come out of your place

of God given influence and step into somebody else's influence,

you just violated the issue of authority and honor.

It's like bumper cars. Oh sorry about that, buddy.

Sh boom, because that's what we see half the time

the church.

That's my lane.

You get out of there, boom boom, and we got

all this wreckage and carnage. Because there is no value

in Christ the anointed One in others.

Only Christ, the anointed One in me. And that's all

that matters.

When I stay within my anointing, my gift functions with ease. Therefore,

when the anointing flourishes, one exercises his or her gift

without stress or effort. But let that anointing diminish, and

one will struggle and have to work hard or hear

whatever it took to get you into that place, it's

going to take to keep you in that place. So

if you force yourself into somebody else's lane because you

know you're absalom. Oh, if only I were king, Only,

if I were king, I would bring you justice. Oh

only if I were king, only if I were the

senior leader, all of these things wouldn't be happening. I

would fix all of them for you, because I am

God's gift. No, no one has said that in here.

Just so if you're wondering illustration, but let that anointing

diminish in the one will struggle and have to work hard. Third,

the word anointing can sometimes be used interchangeably with one's

ability or gift.

To return to his.

Point, there's a sense in which you can have charisma,

a striking personality, and the chrismata a grace gift without

the chrisma the anointing. Why do you think God is

judging the celebrity minister in America right now? He's dealing

with the big personality and people finding their identity in

a gift. You know, it's dangerous if you actually judge

your closeness to the Father based on how you're operating

in your gift.

It's deception.

Because you will go down a road thinking God loves

you and approves of everything you're doing, because he's moving

through you.

He moves in spite of us.

King Saul lost God's approval, but strange as it may seem,

he retained his chrismata.

He was turned into a different person.

The Bible says God gave him another heart, and he

was given the gift of prophecy.

In first Samuel ten nine and ten people were in all.

They said, is Saul among the prophets? And one Samuel

ten eleven. Some time later, after young David had become

such a threat to Saul, Saul sought to kill David.

On his way to kill David, Saul began to prophesy

again for Samuel nineteen twenty three to twenty four.

Are y'all with me? Saul?

For how many times in a row? Breaks his word

with David. He's going to kill David, And he comes

up the mountain he gets by the sons of the prophets.

The spirit of prophecy is there. He starts prophesying with

murder in his heart, and everyone around him could have

been like, oh wow, look Saul's prophesying again. And Saul's

intention to go up that mountain had nothing to do

with encouraging the church. He looks at Jonathan, you son

of a perverse.

Mother. You gotta be careful with that scripture.

So I almost got tongue tied, and that would go viral.

I don't need that, and he says that he goes,

do you not know, as long as David is alive,

you'll never have the kingdom. He's literally headed to kill David,

and he prophesies, Now, you can get mad with the Lord,

But a man with murder in his heart, his gift

was still working. But Jim Rohan had a great statement,

when you get your own universe, you can do what

you want, until.

Then you're a guest Luke eight ten.

Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle

and all that was in it, and consecrated them. And

then in Luke, I'm sorry. Leviticus twenty one ten to twelve.

The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose

head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been

consecrated to wear the garment, shall not let the hair

of his head hang loose, nor tear his clothes. He

shall not go into it like Kulkogan.

You know what I mean.

He shall not go into any dead bodies, nor make

himself unclean, even for his father or mother. He shall

not go outside of the sanctuary, lest he profane the

sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing

oil of his God is on him.

The consecration.

You want to carry a heavy anointing, then you better

make sure that your life is consecrated. Isaiah ten twenty seven.

It shall come to pass that day that his burden

will be taken away from his shoulder, and his yoke

from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed by

your gift. No, it says in the yoke will be

destroyed because of the anointing oil. So it's the anointing

that breaks the yoke, not your gift. That's why we

can sit in a meeting and people get healed and

stay demonized, and the demons don't care that those people

are getting healed. They care whether or not they're going

to have to leave that person. And it's the anointing

that breaks the yoke. It's the authority of the Lord

that deals.

With the demonic.

They were very clear they didn't care. They weren't concerned

about power. Over and over and over through the gospels.

They were afraid of.

Jesus because of the authority that he walked in.

That's not a demon These lights are on at least

I don't think it is.

From everybody.

We got a wild bunch around here, Judge Is fourteen six.

Then the spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and

although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the

lion in peace, as one tears a young goat.

But he did not.

Tell his father or his mother what he had done. See,

the anointing is coincides with the Holy Spirit, over and

over and over. When it says in the spirit of

the Lord rushed upon him, the spirit of the Lord

came upon him, The hand of the Lord came upon him.

The anointing is the Holy Spirit. It comes from him.

It's not apart from him. You have internal anointing and

you have corporate anointing. And you need to understand the

difference between the anointing. How to get fresh oil versus

just simply the operation of your gift and not fall

prey to the fact that because you just prophesied over

someone or you just prayed for someone and they got healed,

to think that sometime that somehow God has stamped his

approval on your character. Y'all, we have not gotten it

in the charismatic movement very well on that we have

like we still have a tendency to make excuses for

the lack of character.

When we see someone with a gift.

We've had decades of leaders taking restoration processes and accelerating

them simply because they think this man's gift must be

restored back into the body of Christ. And then that leader,

because repentance doesn't have time to work thoroughly through their

life and the crushing does not happen to their life,

then they end up repeating their sins. Remember God, he's

not impressed with your gift. He gave it to you,

And there's not a single person in this room, including me,

that God can't move without. People are getting saved all

over the East right now, without you, without the body

of Christ. Because Jesus himself is showing up to Muslims

all over the place, and dreams and visions and visitations

and over and over there is a theme in the

East where they when they come and they actually try

to talk them out of giving their lives to Jesus

because they're like, do you understand what this is going

to mean.

You're probably gonna.

Die if your household gets saved, They're probably going to

be martyred. Do you understand that? And over and over

and over, testimony after testimony, these Muslims Ishmael's sons.

Say, but have you seen his eyes?

All it took was have you seen his eyes? Because

they had a literal visitation from the Lord, and that's

all it took for them to say, I'm taking up

my cross daily, I'm putting my hands to the plow.

I'm not looking back. I'm looking into your eyes.

Today.

There are many who have lost God's anointing on their

life and are operating out of their gifting and own

ability given by God at birth. But to many of

us in the Church, we've not been able to discern

the difference. As exposures are happening today. Yesterday's man is

being exposed Romans eleven, twenty nine. The gifts and calling

of God are irrevocable. The anointing is very costly, and

very few pay the price for a high level of

anointing because they refuse to go through the crushing of

the Holy Spirit which produces the flow of the oil

in their life. Not only that, when I when I

might add that when it says that the anointing is costly.

There there is a line somewhere where when people around you.

Begin to perceive what you say in.

How you live to be the very words and actions

of the Lord. When you cross that line, ask Moses,

what can happen? See Moses and the old Covenant.

You were driving me crazy. Stop it. I wasn't yelling

at you, Carrie. I'm talking to the light bulb. Moses.

The Lord said, speak to the rock. He hit the rock.

No Romisland.

Why there's two principles people don't realize number one and

numbers twelve six. It says, if there is a prophet

among you, I will speak to him through dreams. I

will make myself known to him through visions. And it

goes on to say, but not my servant Moses to him,

I speak face to face, mouth to mouth. The level

of intimacy that Moses was granted, or I should say,

the level of access to the Creator that he was granted,

meant that there was a much higher price to pay.

Not many of you should perceive or desire to be teachers.

Why because you go from this long of a chain

to a choker chain. Ask my wife, I'll get away

with nothing. I can think about being stupid, and something happens.

I'm like, ah, I was just thinking about that. Have

I ever I can't. I can't get away with anything.

One Sunday morning, we're headed to church. I've been telling

my wife, you can drive five miles an hour over

the speed limit all the time, plug your ears, pres

and uh. And I was like, they won't pull you

over going five over. This was years ago, sir, years ago,

And we're literally headed to Impact church where we were

going to church. I'm doing sixty and a fifty five

and it was not the fourth of July.

I look back and there's all these lights behind me.

I pull over.

He goes, where are you headed church? And I said,

I'm on the worship team. I was on the prayer

team or something. Was like, I'm running late, I gotta

go pray. And my beautiful bride says, officer, would you

please tell my husband that you cannot go five miles

an hour over the speed limit and that all will

let you go, and you know you won't give.

Him a ticket. I'm like, you are not helping us

right now. I don't.

I don't know if Micah was old enough to remember that. Yes, sir,

so now listen, that was one state trooper. Mm hmm,

he get he he he gave me a warning. That's

called mercy because my wife was on his side.

Mhmm.

We're one, my little helper.

Too many times we blame the hand of the enemy

for the Holy spirits crushing in our life because we

can't discern the difference.

Artist says, that's when you got pigeon religion.

Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with

him but had departed from Saul. How do we know

this for Samuel twenty six to six. I'm sorry for

Samuel twenty eight six. And when Saul inquired of the Lord,

the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or

by urim or by prophets.

Anybody wondering what a urim is?

The uram are the epod is the theumum in the

I gotta get out of the spot the uram, And

so they would inquire of the Lord and the stones.

The two stones.

Would light up almost like yes or no. The Lord

would light these stones up, and that was the epod.

So remember when David he's in Ziglag, everything gets taken,

and it says in David's strengthened himself and the Lord

and then.

Inquired of the Lord.

He grabbed the epod and said, Lord, do we go after?

Will we overcome? Will we get everything back? And the

Lord says yes. Now I don't have all the details

of you know, like Simon says, if it was red, no,

and you know, but what's interesting if you look at

those two stones, and then you look at the two

stones in Revelation in the Throne room, and then you

understand that Lucifer walked in the midst of the fiery stones,

you actually begin to understand that the two stones actually

represent the Holy Spirit in the sun, and so Lucifer

was actually communing in the midst of the Godhead in

the throne.

Y'all with me.

It's just like if you study the twelve Stones of Israel.

You look at those twelve stones, you look at the

characteristics of each sun, and you actually begin to get

definition of that color God is light, and him is

no darkness. He is literally light radiates light. You radiate light.

And he says, but if that light that's in you

is dark, how great is that darkness? Because now instead

of your spirit radiating white light, your soul is ruling

and you're producing dark light. Twenty four hues of colors,

twenty four elders around a throne, are.

Y' all with me? Isaiah eleven?

The seven spirits of God, the rainbow which with all

seven colors produces white light.

The LGBT rainbow is six colors.

Did you know that it's not the full spectrum of

the full rainbow. Remember the enemy is King Xerox. He's

never had an original thought in his life.

He's a copy.

He wants to try to take the seven spirits of God.

Because if you actually take the full rainbow in those

seven colors and align them with Isaiah eleven, you begin

to get definition to the seven spirits through color. And

that's why we know. Wisdom is red, Purple is authority,

the fear of the Lord. Okay an they're teaching. Sorry,

I was getting all excited. Judges sixteen twenty to twenty two,

and he said, the Philistines are upon or she said,

the Philistines are upon you, Samson, And he awoke from

his sleep and said, I'll go out as other times

and shake myself free. But he did not know that

the Lord had left him. He did not know the

Lord had left him. It's kind of like, oh, you

woke up last night, and you wake up the next

day and you sinned yesterday. But yet you run into

somebody at the gas station today and you get a

word of knowledge for them, and you pray for them,

and you see God move and you go, huh, okay,

I must be okay, and then you commit that sin again.

But yet you're judging your closeness to the Lord based

on your gifts still working. And you did not know

the anointing left you. Now the Holy Spirit, you're sealed

with the Holy Spirit till the day of redemption, so

he doesn't leave. But that anointing that can lift. But

you've hardened over time to such a degree you've allowed

your gift to fool you.

This is how this happens, y'all.

It's a slow burn. Compromise is a slow burn. I

don't think any of these leaders set out to mess

their lives up and hurt a bunch of people. I

don't think that. I think they all started out good, hopefully,

but somewhere along the lines deception came in. So finding

your anointing. It's the hardest thing when discovering your anointing

and coming to terms with your limits. Back to the

bumper car thing. Every one of you have a limit

to your anointing. Every one of you have a place

of influence that the Lord's given you. You can't make

him give you more influence. You can go into self

promotion to try to try to get more influence, and

whatever little more influence you appear to have. The moment

you stopped doing what you did, you will absolutely lose it.

And the scariest thing is you might promote yourself right

into a place of warfare that you can't handle. The

Lord gave my son Cole a dream. I've shared this

a couple of times. This is a couple of years back.

Cole goes to bed one night and the next morning

he wakes up tells me, hey, Dad, I had a

dream with you in it. I said, oh yeah, I said,

what was happening? He goes, you were in a boxing ring.

I said, this is getting good, and he goes, and

you were fighting these demons. I was like, oh yeah,

keep talking so and this is fun. And he's like

and you literally were knocking these demons out with one

punch boom boom boom, Like I like this street.

And he goes, but he goes.

I said, Lord, how is he doing that? And the

Lord spoke to my son and the dream and he

told them because he only goes after the ones, I

tell him to see spiritual warfare rules of engagement. I've

had tons of tons.

Of over the decades.

People growl and everything else at me in public, and

I didn't engage it if the Lord didn't tell me to.

I mean crazy stuff, crazy stuff. Becky and I have

got stories for years of stories of just wild man

of state. I'm minding my own business, trying to make

a salad in the old Achiv. Anybody missed that old

salad bar at the old Agiv?

Oh that was glorious anyways. But the thing is.

God has never made a defensive move in his life.

The moment you find yourself in offense and trying to

move forward an offense, you need to check it because

you're probably allowing the enemy to set the lines of

battle the rules of engagement. Israel taunted for forty days

and forty nights by Goliath. Then David shows up. David

was actually doing what God told.

Him to do.

He's like, who's this uncircumcised philistine? Didn't face them five

smooth stones? You know he had four other brothers, and

we see they were killed in the scriptures. So David said,

I'll take you.

And your brothers.

I got one for each of you. Say hello to

my little friends.

Some of you may not be old enough for that film.

But God has set apart each individual to function under

the anointing in a unique way. And when we are

under an identity crisis, we tend to try and clone

other people's anointing. Do you understand the anointing is attracted

to authenticity, So you be you. There's only one of you,

there's only one of me, And y'all said, amen. Each

are given a measure of faith Romans twelve three ben.

When finding the limits of your anointing, you might say

you're discovering the measure of faith.

In which you abide.

There are two parts of our gifting or anointing, that

which you were born with and brought up with and

that which comes as a result of conversion. See there

there's Abra, Abraham, sorry Jeremiah. For instance, it says that

I called you to be a prophet while you're in

your mother's womb. John the Baptist, forerunner of Jesus, literally

had the Holy Spirit inside of him in the womb

before Pentecost. He was a forerunner of what a believer

was going to look like. In the New Covenant, the

Hebrew word for anointing is mishkah and it means to.

Rub or smear with oil.

The Greek word for anointing is cryo and it means

to anoint. The word anointing appears twenty three times in

the Old Covenant and four times in the New Covenant.

We see in Exodus thirty a natural representation of a

spiritual principle when it comes to the anointing. There were

five ingredients that made up the sacred anointing oil in

the Old Covenant. Myrr which is a sticky gummy substance

that is still used today as a painkiller. This is

symbolic of love and suffering, compassion, and passion. There was cinnamon,

and it's a highly flammable spice. This is symbolic of

spiritual fire revival. The calamus is also called sweet flag,

a cane type plant that grows among water lilies, and

it is known for the aromatic properties when it is

bruised or crushed. This is symbolic of forgiveness from betrayals

and woundings. Cassia is a bark scraped from a tree.

This is symbolic of sacrifice, worship, and brokenness. It is

the pure purity element of the anointing oil. Since this

must be scraped off the tree, it also represents the

purging element of the Holy Spirit. And then number five,

Come on, are you young living women in here just

getting fired up about the oils? WHOA Olive oil is

the last ingredient added by which the aroma of the

anointing oil is enhanced, made pungent to the nose. This

is symbolic of the power of the Holy Spirit and

the manifestation of his presence to mankind. It is also

what holds the mixture together. This was the annoyingingol in

Exodus thirty and back then have you reproduced it? It

came with some consequences, can't be counterfeited can't be reproduced

by man, the true anointing because it doesn't come from us.

What actually brought this along was I think I've taught

on the anointing twice and we were having lunch Friday

with a couple and he's a retired minister who from

Louisiana originally, and he, over thirty years of ministry, ended

up building out an eighty acre campus, debt free, with

a sanctuary of three thousand people. And so he has

talked to us, counseled us, encouraged us, given us wisdom.

But he said something he goes, you know, justin He said,

this generation of leaders have a revelation of God's goodness

and their gifts.

But they don't have the anointing.

They don't understand what it means to lay your hands

on two thousand people and impart something to them. And

I want to tell you, especially younger people, that there

is something the previous generation of leadership is carrying. But

if you get so offended with their weaknesses from pioneering

and you lose honor for them, you're not going to

get the inheritance of the previous generation.

And you need it.

We need it.

It's one thing to watch somebody operate in a gift

or give a good teaching or prophesy. And it's a

whole other thing. When the anointing comes, when all of

a sudden, everyone being touched is transformed. In that moment,

impartation is happening. See the anointing, it says, lay your

hands on no one suddenly. The anointing in parts holiness

and the Old Covenant it said, do not leave lest

you in part holiness. Number five. Personal anointing. What ascends

up from our spirit man and out to the people.

This is what we're anointed to be. It's an appointment.

This is our relationship with Christ that is brought about

by the Holy Spirit. The Greek word for this is chrisma,

and the example again is first John twenty seven. This

is not charisma. Strong's for fifty four six. There's minister

I'm gonna finish the sermon in tongues.

You all get the interpretation.

There's ministerial anointing, and this is what we are anointed

to do. It's a proclamation, a special touch for a

special task. This type of anointing is provisional and you

will feel it come upon you for the task at hand,

and it lifts off after the ministry is complete. Anybody

ever come under this heavy, heavy presence of the Lord

and then you're ministering and then all of a sudden

it lifts and you're like, what I do wrong?

Why do it lifts?

That is your ministerial anointing. It's like the hand of

the Lord comes upon you to tear that lion apart.

Once the line's torn apart, then that intensity subsides. See,

it's important that you all understand this because if you're

gonna partner with the Lord in the midst of advancing

the kingdom, you actually need to know what you're doing.

To some degree. It helps at times.

Sometimes God bypasses us and we're praying for someone and

the Lord heals them of something they didn't even ask about,

and what they were asking.

About they don't get healed. Anybody been there.

I've prayed for people like, yeah, you pray for me

last Sunday and I was like, she goes, yeah, what

you prayed for didn't get healed, but I got healed

of this. I was like, Okay, I do my best work.

By mistake, the anointing breaks the yoke of bondage. The

weights off of people Isaiah ten twenty seven. Your gift

doesn't break the anointing. The anoint I mean, doesn't break

the yoke the anointing does. Fresh oil is needed at

different times to break through the strongholds and resistance that

we face in our daily walk. Fresh oil is usually

comes after a difficult battle or to usher in a

new season of our life. It brings well needed refreshing

to our souls just at the right time Psalms ninety

two ten. Remember the angels came and ministered to Jesus

and the wilderness after it was over.

That's fresh oil.

And you, when you're fatigued and worn down from the battle,

you can say, Lord, would you refresh me?

Would you give me fresh oil?

On the Probably one of the strangest encounters of being

refreshed in my life was and I don't share this

much because it's really weird, and people already think I'm weird,

and this might make you think I'm weirder, But I was.

I was in my office.

I was in my office praying one morning. This was

long before the church plant. I was on Water Street,

my little two hundred s griffoot office. Becky was in

the little office next there, and I was only doing

prayer ministry full time at the time, and one morning

I was super tired. I don't know how many sessions

I'd done that week, and I was like, Lord, would

you just release your angels to refresh me? And all

of a sudden, I felt this presence of a nose

of a horse nuzzling my arm. I had my eyes

closed and my hands are out, and with each nuzzle

my strength increased. And I thought, Lord, if I out

my eyes, is there gonna be a horse in my office?

Like only what's going on here? And I out my

eyes and I'm a seer and I didn't see anything,

but in the spirit there was.

A horse there. Well what a horses represent in scripture?

Power and authority. I was being refreshed with power and authority.

You may think that strange. Read your Bible. It gets weirder.

So most kings, priests, and prophets were only anointed with

the sacred oil once in a lifetime. David and Jesus

were anointed three times. David was anointed as a teenager

for Samuel sixteen thirteen. David was anointed as King of

Judah and second Samuel two four, and David was anointed

as king of Israel and second Samuel five to three.

Jesus was anointed at his baptism John one thirty two,

He was anointed by Mary John twelve three, and he

was anointed by Nicodemus John nine to forty one. Remember

in Ecclesiastes ten to one, it says, just like dead

flies spoil the ointment, so does.

A little sin to a believer.

It says it's the In Ecclesiastes, it says it's the

dead flies that spoil the ointment. Now, if you know

anything about shepherding, I've never been a literal shepherd. I

mean you are my sheep, but metaphorically speaking. But they

would put fresh oil on the sheep's heads and their

noses to keep the flies off. Why because those flies

would lay eggs and then cause those sheep problems. Beelzebub,

Lord of the thing about your mind? Fresh oil?

Are you with me? Oil on your head?

Protection from the thoughts the flies.

I'm almost done. Hang in there, listen quickly.

In the time of the Jewish Temple, there were four

major pressings from the olive harvest. The first pressing was

used for the temples, manorah, or for the oil of

the anointing. The second pressing was oil used for oil

lamps to give light in the homes. The third pressing

was used for cooking purposes, and the fourth pressing was

for medical purposes. As prophetic ministers, we must be able

to discern between a person's gift and the anointing. A

gift can function and a person regardless of their character,

if a person is living in sin and moving in

their gift. The common mistake is for believers to think

that God's stamp of approval is on their life and

therefore assume that minister is living a godly lifestyle. We

must never fall into the trap of depending on our

gifts instead of having character and intimacy with God. The

anointing flows from the secret place. Last point the Greek

word forfilled, like all through acts, and they were filled,

and they were filled, and they were filled, and noticed

they kept having fillings. They were baptized at the day

of Pentecost, and yet somehow they were filled again, and

then they were filled again, and then they were filled again.

That word ful phil is pletho, and it means furnish, accomplish, fill, supply,

or complete, And this word is found twenty four times

in the New Covenant.

It properly means to fill.

To the maximum extent, to capacity. So wouldn't it make

sense that the disciples, as they're growing in Christ and

their spirits are actually growing that now there's more capacity

for the Holy Spirit. Imagine your spirit like a water hose,

and the water's the Lord, the Holy Spirit. Do you

want a garden hose or do you want a fire hydrant? So,

now understanding that principle, go back and look at the

scriptures where it talks about edifying or strengthening your spirit.

Are y' all with me?

I'm giving you a principle, a teaching in this moment,

how to strengthen your spirit, how to expand your spirit,

how to position yourself for a fresh filling of the

Holy Spirit. Because the disciples, over and over and over,

as they grew in Christ, as their spirit expanded in Him,

they would be filled, and they were filled again, and

many times they were filled and the building shook, there

was an earthquake. When's the last time you were an

intercession in the building shook? Don't I mean this place

may have may look like it's shaken a couple of times.

But so at the end of the day, we've got

to get back into a place where we are way

more impressed with character and intimacy with the Lord. There's

more shakings coming, intense shakings, and we need to get

into a place of maturation with the Lord so that

when things are shaking and people are shaking around us.

They go, what's your problem?

You're at peace? And you're like, yeah, I read the end.

I know who I am. I know that you're shaking.

Isn't the Kingdom? And that's why you're shaking. See when

I hear testimonies of like Heidie Baker standing in front

of a bunch of gunmen with machine guns pointed at

her face, and she has all her little orphans with her,

and she's laughing at them, literally laughing, and their guns

are loaded eight ks and she's laughing at them.

That's cool. I'm impressed with that.

Because the one time I risked my life for the

Gospel when I was in Egypt and the car bomb

went off outside the conference room, I thought I was

a dead man, and I was not laughing. I was

a few shades whiter in that moment. A whole group

of ministers started laughing at me because they could tell

that I was not at peace.

So what did that tell me?

Justin you have a long way to go before you

laugh at machine guns. If you can't run with men,

how are you going to run with horses.

There's a spiritual principle there, and I want to tell y'all.

We're gonna have to run with the horses and the

days ahead, and that day is coming away sooner than

you think. We need to continue to pray for our country,

pray for November, and pray for Israel.

Let's stand prayer team. Please, all right, I want to

do something.

If you need fresh oil, I want you to go

in this aisle here between these two rows, line all the.

Way to the back.

If you have never really experienced the anointing of God,

get in that line and go all the way back.

And if everyone needs fresh oil, we may have to

make two lines. Everyone's going to the right lane. So again,

this line over here that not many people are in

is the line of you've never really experienced that corporate

anointing where the hand of the Lord comes upon you

and then lifts if you will. Okay, the entire church

is fresh oil are a you're Are you the only

one in that line? Well, go ahead, you come up here,

you're you're y'all come up here, come yeah.

Come up here. And then the fresh oil line.

Let's go ahead and split that in half and come

go ahead and sit saying the aisles on two sides,

so like yeah, no, yeah, so yeah, all y'all that

are on the yeah, just come up that way. Okay,

Now y'all are wondering what's next. Maybe, okay, Anthony, would

you play the piano, So everybody put your hands out

like it's Christmas. You're used to me always asking you

to do that.

So now here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna ask the.

Holy Spirit to come tangibly, and you're actually gonna expect

him to show up in a.

Heavier, tangible way. All right. Then, when you feel that shift,

some of you are gonna feel heat. You're gonna get hot,

your hands are gonna get hot.

You're you're gonna start sweating, some of you might start tingling,

some of you your lips may start feeling weird. Because

when the Holy Spirit starts to move, everyone physically responds

a little bit differently to the anointings.

You just feel that? Who felt that? So see now

the Lord's starting to move. There was just a shift

right there, Oh, right there. Who's feeling that? Who's feeling

the Yeah? Somebody who? Yeah, I know. But some who

pulled the oil out.

They're like, it's super natural. This really works now there there,

And it's not abnormal to literally have supernatural fragrances come

into the room.

We've had it here before in the classes and different things.

Okay, I'll just close your eyes for a minute. So

Holy Spirit and the Mighty Name of Jesus, would you

bring fresh oil?

Now?

Lord, would you bring fresh oil? Would you begin to wash?

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