The Anointing: Prophets, Kings & Soldiers

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   Jesus. Praise you, Lord. We praise you this morning. God, that's our prayer this morning, God, that we would live and dwell and abide in the shadow of your wings, God. In your presence, Lord. In your favor. The Lord you said in the in the Gospel of John that we would have to abide in the vine. We'd have to remain there and dwell there and live there. Something we choose to do, God. You promised, God, that if we would obey you, God, that we would dwell that we would dwell in that secret place. Lord, we just praise you, Lord, for your presence, for your manifest presence. God, for everything that you have in your word that you want us to know and to experience. We praise you this morning. We thank you, Jesus, that you went to that cross and shed your blood to make it possible for us to enter into the Holy of Holies, to be in the presence of almighty God, to be washed and cleansed, to be made holy so that we could enter into that place. God, we want to stay in that place. We want to remain in that relationship with you. Father, we praise you this day. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen and amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. It's good, amen? I want everybody to take your Bibles. We're going to be in quite a few places, but I want you to take your Bibles this morning and turn into 1 Samuel chapter 24 to start with. I don't normally do things this way. I'm going to start with a verse and then we'll we'll work our way back to it. This is going to be part three of the series on rebellion and spiritual authority and understanding spiritual authority. If you're taking notes this morning, this is this is the title of the message this morning's called the Lord's anointed prophets, kings, and soldiers. The Lord's anointed. Now, the reason I I've called it that this morning is because this is straight from the scripture and uh this was actually King David before he was king speaking about King Saul while King Saul was chasing him in the wilderness and trying to kill him. And anyway, of course, King Saul um he ended up in the wilderness chasing David and David uh

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   could have killed him uh but he didn't and I'm just going to read verse six. We're going to come back to this in a minute, but this is what David said to his men. And remember, David had a a bunch of mighty men that were with him, many that had come to him that believed that Saul had lost the anointing and Saul was off and that David would one day be the the rightful king. And so there were many men and great men. We're going to look at some of them this morning, David's mighty men. Unbelievable men that were. But we're going to look this morning over the last couple of weeks I've talked about the some of the negative sides of how people resist or revile or deal with with spiritual authority, but you're going to see some this morning of the positive aspects of that. And really I'm going to show you something that the anointing of the Holy Spirit always flows in how you relate to the spiritual authorities and and the people that God has anointed and placed in in offices. How you how you relate to them is how what you're going to get from them. And the anointing always flows. I I I'll put it this way and I'll prove what I'm saying this morning. God calls. God calls, God ordains, but he always transfers his anointing through a man or a woman, through somebody to somebody else. He always confirms what he is doing on the earth through other people. Even in the life of Jesus, you guys have heard me talk about this that Jesus, you know, goes and he goes out into the wilderness. He's 40 days tempted of the devil. He's fasting and praying. It says he comes out of the wilderness in the power of the spirit, but where does he go? I'm sorry, even before that. Where does he go before he goes there? That's Matthew 4, Matthew 3. Where does Jesus go? First place he goes. I'm sorry, I need to back up. First place he goes is to John the Baptist. And the spirit of God was on John the Baptist. And John the Baptist represented that prophet who was to be the forerunner of Jesus. But it wasn't just that. Jesus comes to him and immediately John in the spirit recognizes that the Messiah, the lamb of God is standing in front of him. And Jesus has come there to be baptized of John, to submit to the anointing and ministry of John the Baptist. And John the Baptist goes, "Lord, you know, I have need to be baptized of you. You're greater than I am. Why are you coming to me?" And what did Jesus say? He said, "Suffer it to be so. Allow this to happen for this must be to fulfill all righteousness. What was Jesus telling him? This is God's order. I am first submitted to God and secondly I am submitted to God's authority where God is moving and whom God has called in

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   the earth and I am going to submit to that even before I begin my ministry. And later even when the Pharisees were arguing with Jesus, he asked them a question. He said, "I'll tell you what, I'm not even saying anything else till you answer me a question. The baptism of John, was it of men or was it from heaven?" The Pharisees were trapped. They were trapped. They said, "Well, if we say it's of men, everybody knew and recognized the power of God on John the Baptist and everybody knew he was a prophet. Even Herod knew he was a prophet." So, he said, "If we say he's of the devil and he's not a prophet, then the people will think we're crazy." He said, "But if we say he's from heaven, then he will say then Jesus will say, 'Why don't you believe me?' because John said who he was." You see? And even the Pharisees could not bump up against that spiritual order of the way God ordains his kingdom. So, Jesus submitted to it. Now, I'm going to read this verse here. Remember, King Saul was anointed to be king. And King Saul was anointed to be king, but then he began to rebel against the authority God put him under, which was Samuel. And so, we may we're going to back up and read that in a second, but I just want you to see this one verse. This was when David had been anointed to be the next king. There was trouble. David had to flee for his life and Saul became the schizophrenic believer that he was. Okay? Well, I'll tell you what, the story There are so many spiritual principles in this story about David and Saul that goes for many chapters of the Bible, it would do us well to learn them. Because this is a picture of two different Christians here. This is the picture of the Christian who persecutes the other Christian. This is the the the picture of a Christian who submits to spiritual authority and one that fights it. This is this the picture of a Christian who has had this the anointing of the Holy Spirit and is losing it because he is constantly disobedient. And the reason we're going to find out the reason that David was called a man after God's own heart was not because he was a perfect man, but because he understood this principle of authority in what I'm about to read to you right here. He knew he could not serve the Lord in a spirit of rebellion. So until God dealt with Saul, he wasn't going to deal with Saul. And here's what it says. Matter of fact, let's just read this whole thing. Verse one. And it came to pass when Saul was returned from following the Philistines that it was told him saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi." Then Saul took 3,000 chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. And he came to the sheep the sheep goats and by the way, where

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   was a cave and Saul went in to cover his feet. And David's said that And David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. And the men of David said unto him, "Behold, the day of which the Lord said unto you, behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand that you may do to him as it shall seem good unto you." Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily or secretly. And it came to pass that David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt. And he said unto the men, "The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the Lord's anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord." So, David stayed his servants with these words and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave and went on his way, and David also rose afterward and went out of the cave and cried after Saul, saying, "My lord the king." And when Saul looked on him, David stooped with his face to the earth and bowed himself. And David said to Saul, "Wherefore hearest thou the men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeketh thy hurt.' Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how the Lord has delivered thee today into my hand in the cave, and some bade me to kill you, but my eyes spared you, and I said, 'I will not put forth my hand against the Lord, for he is the Lord's anointed. Moreover, my father, see ye the skirt of thy robe in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand. I have not sinned against you, yet you hunt my soul to take it. The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee, but my hand shall not be upon you.' This is why David was a man after God's own heart. Remember this whole time been talking to you about the principle of rebellion. There are many people, remember the taco? There are many people, all right, who hide their rebellious nature, who hide their contempt for spiritual authority, who hide their disobedience and their rebellion in wrapped in religious facades, but it's there. Watchman in his book, Spiritual Authority, talks about it this way. He talks about He talks about standing with Christ in doctrine while at the same time standing with Satan in principle. And it's it's that way. You can be right in your doctrine. You can be right. You can even have word for your situation, but if you are in rebellion to spiritual authority or in disobedience to God, then it's that taco full of dog poop.

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