The Anointing of the Holy Spirit
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In “The Anointing of the Holy Spirit,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about holiness, the anointing, the Holy Spirit. Drawing especially from John 14:12, Luke 4, Colossians 2:9, 1 Timothy 3, the teaching emphasizes that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that spiritual anointing is given for service and must remain joined to character and obedience.
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Odle focuses on the anointing while working through John 14:12. The message argues that spiritual anointing is given for service and must remain joined to character and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Luke 4, Colossians 2:9, 1 Timothy 3. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on the anointing. The message argues that spiritual anointing is given for service and must remain joined to character and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on faith while working through 1 Corinthians 4, Exodus 33. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that spiritual anointing is given for service and must remain joined to character and obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to build up the church and serve God’s purposes. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through Acts 5:3. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on holiness while working through 1 Corinthians 13, 1 Corinthians 14, Acts 19. The message argues that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on the anointing. The message argues that spiritual anointing is given for service and must remain joined to character and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that the biblical narrative is used to show God’s power to recover what has been lost and restore usefulness. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on the anointing while working through Hebrews 9, 1 Samuel 16:13, Ephesians 5. The message argues that spiritual anointing is given for service and must remain joined to character and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that the Holy Spirit leads, equips, corrects, and strengthens believers who yield to God. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on David’s example while working through Psalm 51. The message argues that David’s choices are used to examine leadership, testing, repentance, and renewed dependence on God. It connects this with the conviction that God calls believers to reject compromise and pursue practical holiness. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
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We Worship You almighty God Yahweh Elohim El Shi the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth who died and rose from the dead Emmanuel God With Us we worship you God there is none other the god of the Bible the god of scripture the god of creation there is no other Creator there are no other gods Lord you are the king of kings and and the Lord of lords and the god of gods and we are grateful that we can know you that we can feel your presence that we can hear your voice that we can see your power that we can experience your glory and see your Miracles we thank you Lord that the name of Jesus and the anointing and power of Jesus we can see demons and devils and Satan flee we can see body is healed we can see the dead raised the deaf hear the blind see Lord nothing has changed you are the same yesterday today and forever and we worship you today Jesus name we pray amen and amen you may be seated this morning we welcome everyone to Fire and Grace Church I'm hoping I have everything I need today um hopefully they can follow along in the scriptures this morning with me we'll see um hopefully I won't go too fast for you um but we're going to talk about the anointing of the holy spirit this morning um very important aspect very important uh topic um first of all just take your Bibles out and let's uh let's turn to a few verses here I want to just kind of lay the groundwork um well let's see there's just so much why don't we go to Luke chapter 4 first and then I'm just going to give you some verses to look at this morning but I want to talk about the anointing of the Holy Spirit now I can tell you this that if um I remember old Leonard Raven Hill used to say this and Leonard Raven hill was a great prophet a great evangelist revivalist was a great writer he was a man of prayer um powerful anointed he said I'll tell you something sometimes I can't hard for me to explain or Define what the anointing is he said but I know what it isn't and what he was saying is I can tell you there's preaching and then there's anointed preaching there's teaching and then there's anointed
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teaching there's praying and then there's anointed praying and I want to tell you it's it's completely different even though the same words you may teach the same Doctrine you may preach a similar message two different two different pastors could preach a similar message and one could be anointed of the Holy Ghost and it touch and penetrate hearts and lives and the other one could see no results whatsoever with the exact same words this is what I want to get across to you today that the anointing of the holy spirit is so important in our lives as Christians and really if you want a simple definition before we read these scriptures a simple definition of the anointing of the holy spirit is when God touches you and gives you his power when his power flows through what you're doing what you're saying whether it be you're praying whether it be your preaching or teaching whether it be your witnessing to somebody you need the power the touch of God the anointing of the Holy Spirit on you working through you there is nothing more important than that I remember you know there's there's different phrases in scripture for it they uh the the writers that God moved upon to write the scripture sometimes they called it unction sometimes they called it utterance sometimes they just called it power or the power of the Lord was present um but a lot of times they called it the anointing and this is what Jesus said we'll look at this in just a second but when he stood up in Nazareth in the synagogue of Nazareth and he read Isaiah he said this he read the part where it said the spirit of the Lord has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor to preach Deliverance to the captives and not just to preach but he said to set at Liberty those that are bred to give sight to the Blind and so what he's talking about is the holy spirit anointed him now we we tend to forget to say well that's Jesus but remember something that Jesus said and this is you can just remember this Mark this down we may turn to it in a minute but John 14:12 Jesus said this he said truly truly or verily verily I say unto you he said he that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also and Greater Works than these and when Jesus was talking about you know uh I go to prepare a place for you everybody gets in there Minds that Jesus is talking about he's going up to heaven to to prepare a place to build you a a mansion where does it say that he said in my father's house are many mansions meaning they're already built I we get these cliches and these traditional teachings no what he was talking about is uh Bethany come here for a minute I'm going to show you let's just say you're Jesus and this is the spot you're standing in right and you are in this place you're in that place so when Jesus
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says I go when he's talking to the church when he says I go to prepare a place for you what he's saying is when I go to heaven you can go back and sit down then you step in to my place you do the works that I did you continue it on that doesn't mean we're not little Gods we're not Jesus that's not what I'm saying but Jesus is saying I go to prepare a place for you and he told his disciples and it comes to in his for all of us he says I will send my Holy Spirit and he will speak to you he will show you things to come and you will do if you will believe you have to walk in faith he said but if you believe what you will do the works that I did and even greater why why did he say even greater because Jesus was only doing his ministry for about three little over three years maybe three and a half years at the most and some people now could be in the ministry for 10 years 20 years 30 years I was listening to a man yesterday who's been in the ministry for 61 years he's been preaching and teaching think about that listen to me the power of God has not ceased you know I and I I was mentioning Leonard Raven Hill a minute ago and if those of you if you've never heard of him he wrote a book one of the best Christian books probably ever written in 1959 called why revival terries every Christian ought to read it it is a true Christian Classic but one of the things that he said and he used to say it often he said if you are living without the anointing power of the holy spirit in your life if you're living without Revival in your life and in your own it's because you are content to live without it basically it's not God's fault we have as much of God much of his presence as much of his anointing and Glory as we desire and hunger and search for and pursue so I want to read Luke 4 because remember Jesus was our examp example and granted we won't live sinless and we won't do it exactly perfect like he did but we should learn from this Luke chapter 4 let's see where we want to start reading here all right this is uh yeah we'll start at verse one you think you guys can put up verse one and we'll just go on through
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but Jesus had just come from the baptism of John he went and was baptized in water but when Jesus obeyed the father and went and submitted to the ministry of John the Baptist and was baptized in water when he came up out of the water he was also baptized in the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit came upon him and John said I saw the Holy Spirit Come and fill him and abide upon him and of course the Gospel of John says that Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure and of course Colossians 2:9 says that Jesus is the fullness of the godhead bodily so meaning Jesus is fully the father he's fully the son and he's fully has the the fullness of the Holy Spirit the three are one he and Jesus is the fullness of the godhead B he is Emmanuel he is god with us so Jesus comes from the baptism of John and this is where we start Luke 4 ver1 and Jesus being full of the Holy ghost returned from Jordan and was led by the spirit Into the Wilderness being 40 days tempted of the devil and in those days he did eat nothing meaning he was fasting and when they were ended he afterward hungered now I'm not going to read about the temptation all the Temptation because that's not my point after after the devil had tempted him for 40 days and Jesus was in the wilderness and so he was in a season of prayer he was in a season of fasting he had already been baptized or filled with the Holy Spirit we're going to talk about that today too he goes and he goes through this T this this trial this temptation this these attacks and once he resists those attacks of the devil those Temptations of the devil it says this in verse 14 well let's just read 13 there it says and when the devil had ended all the Temptation he departed from him for a season and Jesus returned in the power of the spirit into Galilee and there went out of Fame of him through all the region uh round about and he taught in their synagogues being glorified of all um so Jesus comes out of this he comes out of the baptism in water the baptism of the spirit he goes into a season of trial and testing and Temptation Into the Wilderness it's interesting though isn't it interesting the Holy Spirit led him into the Wilderness sometimes the holy spirit will lead you into a situation that's going to be a trial and a test not that he's doing it the devil was doing the testing and the tempting but God will lead you into it to see What You're Made Of to see if you will come out of it and why did Jesus come out remember even though Jesus was God In the Flesh he did not operate here as such he chose to operate as a man anointed by the spirit so that he could live and a a sinless life as a man and then die for us on the cross the perfect sacrifice
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