10.1 He Has Anointed Me
© 2015 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
Session 9: Releasing God focused on two primary things. First, the purpose of God in Rivers of living water flowing out of us and second, the source of those rivers, our intimate union and communion with Jesus in our hearts.
Yet the River of Life is known by many in power flowing through the gathering of the church and in the life and experience of individual Christians. The River flows in spite of the fact that the knowledge of God’s purpose and heart is limited, that our fellow believers do not know union with Christ, but relate with God only as obligation, and that power is seen as an end or thing in itself. We bless all who belong to Jesus, but we live only in Father.
On All Flesh
And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh (Joel 2:28b). The Father is always excessively extravagant, and when He gives, He pours Himself out with all exuberant abundance.
We rejoice utterly in all that Jesus IS DOING in the lives of all who belong to Him. Jesus does all things well. But our hearts are consumed with that which Jesus is doing with us, and that is knowing and being and revealing Father’s heart. Thus, as we see and speak power, we NEVER EVER turn from being Father’s heart to place ourselves back under the Hades of obligation and separation.
In Earthen Vessels
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us (2 Corinthians 4:7).
As you speak and as you see POWER in outward manifestation flowing through you, ground yourself utterly in the glory of your own weakness and in Jesus living as you in all that you are as you find yourself to be. In no way, at no time, are you ever separate from Jesus. It is always He. Yet Jesus is not the one who does the power stuff. Moses only waved a stick; Jesus only spoke a few words. Power belongs only to the gentle, gentle Holy Spirit, subduing all things by love.
Companion Verses
The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18-19).
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (John 14:12-13).
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me (Acts 1:8b).
The Purpose of Power
Power flowing out is just normal, almost incidental. But Heart is everything, the human heart shaped by the Hand of God to contain and to reveal God Almighty. Power flowing out of such a heart is for one purpose only. To lift people up, to meet their needs. To show the goodness and kindness of God in blessing people, men, women, children, old folks, with goodness, with joy, with abundance, with Jesus. This power is simply the normal everyday behind-the-scenes working of God’s very Personal and intimate Holy Spirit.
Because Heart is so important, I focus very little on power. Power just IS through Hearts filled full with God.
The Application of Power
· The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me.
· He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor.
· He has sent Me to heal the broken in heart.
· He has sent Me to proclaim deliverance to the captives.
· He has sent Me to proclaim recovery of sight to the blind.
· He has sent Me to send forth the oppressed in deliverance.
· He has sent Me to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.
I want to know what these words mean. Jesus’ words in John 14:12-13 and Acts 1:8 place this same anointing, this same sending, this same ministry upon us.
To Anoint
As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit (John 20:21b-22).
First the anointing and the sending (all adapted from biblehub.com).
· Chrió: to anoint. I anoint, I consecrate by anointing.
· xríō – to anoint by rubbing or pouring olive oil on someone to represent the flow (empowering) of the Holy Spirit. Anointing (literally) involved rubbing olive oil on the head, etc., especially to present someone as divinely-authorized (appointed by God) to serve.
· Chrio/xrio is a form of “Christ,” the anointed One, speaking of Spirit and Word always together, always Personal.
To Send
· Apostelló: to send. I send forth, I send (as a messenger, commission, etc.).
· Apostéllō (from apó, "away from" and stéllō, "send") – properly, send away, i.e. commission; "sent on a defined mission by a superior."
· As an intensification of stéllō ("send"), (apostéllō) focuses back to the source (the one sending), strongly connecting the sender to the one sent (His mission). This verb is used of closely connecting the Lord (the sender) to the believers He personally commissions.
(Of course, everyone wants to limit this sending to a few people way back when: the denial that Christ IS COME in our flesh.)
I Am Sent
I am personally commissioned, SENT, by Jesus, to reveal His life in my mortal flesh, to reveal Father to all creation.
One part of this definition of sending, however, does not apply to us, and that is, the “away” part. The Sender fills our hearts with His glory, living now as us. Jesus is the Sent One; the Spirit is the Sender. Christ Jesus reveals Himself through us. At no point does any weight of obligation lie upon our shoulders. Jesus carries the yoke; Jesus carries us. As the Father sent Jesus, One with Him every step of the way, in exactly the same way, Jesus sends us, the anointing of His same Spirit resting now on us.
I Am Anointed
First, I am anointed to preach good news to the poor.
· Euaggelizó: to announce good news. I bring good news; I preach good tidings, expressing either the persons who receive the good news or the good news itself (the good news being sometimes expressed as a person).
· euaggelízō (from eú, "good, well" and angellō, "announce, herald") – properly, proclaim "the good message" (good news). In the NT, (euaggelízō) refers to sharing the full Gospel of Christ – literally, "gospelizing" that announces the complete message of "the good news" (the Lord's glad tidings).
· ptóchos: the poor. (One who crouches and cowers), beggarly, poor, bent over, deeply destitute, helpless, completely lacking.
I Heal Broken Hearts
Then there are five sendings. Of these five, three are to speak, along with being anointed to speak good news, that is, to speak Christ. (Isaiah’s Hebrew words mean the same all through.)
· Iaomai: to heal. I heal.
· Suntribó: to break in pieces, crush. To break by crushing, to shatter, to crush, to bruise.
I heal broken and shattered hearts.
Let me tell you something. In all of my years of walking with God, seeking to know Him, even from afar, I saw the shattering of many hearts, but I never saw shattered hearts healed. In just the last few years, I have seen Jesus heal shattered hearts using my writing, just a little bit. Such joy I now know.
I Herald
· Kérussó: to be a herald, to proclaim. I proclaim; I herald; I preach.
To “herald” means to be sent out from God (filling our hearts full) to speak, but specifically, to persuade.
Here we find an additional meaning for “evangelizing” or “good speaking”: to stress the totality of VICTORY. To evangelize is to speak forth the full defeat of death.
The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus (Romans 10:8-9b).
Christ is in my mouth; I herald the good speaking of Christ.
I Pardon All Captives
· Aichmalótos: a captive of war, a prisoner. From aichmé (a spear) and haliskomai (to be taken, conquered).
· Aphesis: dismissal, release, pardon. Deliverance, pardon, a letting go, a release, complete forgiveness.
I am sent to proclaim full release, full pardon, complete forgiveness to all the captives of war, to all held under Satanic attack, to all caught in the emptiness of self separate from God.
I am sent to cast down the accuser. I am sent to silence all voices that speak against the good speaking of Christ. (Sorry, I’m getting ahead of the curriculum. – That’s the fourth most important verse in the Bible, coming up next.)
I Cause You to See God
· Tuphlos: blind, physically, mentally, or spiritually.
· Anablepsis: recovery of sight.
I speak: “Let your eyes be opened.” I cause people to see God. I make Jesus in your heart visible to you.
Look at this. Jesus uses two different words to speak of those who are shattered: suntribó (broken-hearted) and thrauó (oppressed), but they mean the same thing.
· Thrauó: to break in pieces. To crush, to shatter, to break down.
But Jesus uses the same word that we speak into those who are captive as prisoners of war and into those who are crushed and broken down. Aphesis: I pardon, I release, I forgive.
Our hearts – the Mercy Seat of God.
I Proclaim the Year of God’s Favor
He has sent Me to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.
The word here, dektos, describes what is welcomed as pleasing. It comes from the root word, dechomai, to receive personally, with all welcoming. To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor is to proclaim the welcoming of God into us.
God, You are welcome, fill me with all of Your Abundance.
God anointed and sent Jesus to speak goodness and to forgive and to release all who are crushed and broken. This same Jesus says: He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to the Father.
I Am the Proof of Christ
And you shall be witnesses to Me.
I am the witness of Jesus Christ, the proof that God sent Jesus into this world.
This session is on the ministry of Christ and the anointing and the sending out from which that ministry flows. The gospel is clear that the same anointing, the same sending, the same ministry of Jesus flows also out of us, the River of Life.
Let’s go, however, to the root of the sending.
The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10). – The working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself (Philippians 3:21b).
It Shall Prosper
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it (Isaiah 55:10-11).
This is the word, Christ Jesus, in our mouths. God sent Jesus to seek and to save all that is lost. God then placed this same Jesus into our hearts and into our mouths that we also might speak Christ. Our speaking of Christ prospers in all the expectation of God.
The Ministry of Christ
My Word shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
The ministry of Christ is to seek and to save what was lost. The ministry of Christ subdues all things under Himself, and then turns and submits all things back to the Father.
The ministry of Christ does not return to the Father void. The ministry of Christ accomplishes all that the Father pleases. The ministry of Christ prospers in all the purpose of the sending.
This same Christ is in our hearts and in our mouths. Speak forth the River of God’s Spirit – out from your heart.
The Mercy Seat of God – Rivers of Living Water.