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When He Is Come - Media Sabda Org

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and the Father and the Son have sent the Holy Spirit into the world as the Executive of the Godhead<br />

in this age, all who reject the Spirit and His operations will be rejected by the Son and the Father.<br />

God does not recognize those who reject the Spirit and His operations; however, on the other hand,<br />

those who receive the divine unction of the Spirit, also receive the divine recognition of the Father<br />

and the Son upon their lives and ministry. Saul was anointed with oil, which symbolized an unction,<br />

and an unction gave him the zeal of God and also the divine recognition as God's anointed king.<br />

<strong>When</strong> the Spirit departed from Saul he lost the divine recognition. <strong>When</strong> David was anointed to<br />

become king over <strong>Is</strong>rael, he also received the divine recognition as God's anointed and appointed<br />

king. <strong>When</strong> we have the divine recognition on our lives, it gives us the right to come to the Lord to<br />

seek His divine favor, wisdom, and power in the accomplishment of His will for our lives. An<br />

unction not only gives us a divine recognition, but it also gives us a human recognition. <strong>When</strong> a<br />

person undertakes to do a thing for the Lord without the divine unction upon him, he does not<br />

receive the recognition of men as one possessing power with God and men. After Saul was anointed<br />

king, some people in <strong>Is</strong>rael said: "How shall this man save us? And they despised him." Then God<br />

wrought a great victory through him, and all men had to recognize that he was God's choice. The<br />

same was true concerning David, who was despised by his brothers and disdained by Goliath;<br />

nevertheless, the occasion came when there was a public manifestation of the divine anointing on<br />

him, in which all people of <strong>Is</strong>rael, the Philistines, and even his brothers had to recognize that the<br />

anointing rested on him. Satan also recognizes the divine anointing upon the individual. Paul, who<br />

had the unction of the Spirit upon his life, commanded demons in the name of Christ to come out<br />

of those whom they possessed, and they obeyed. There were seven sons of Sceva that did not possess<br />

the unction from the Holy One. They commanded an evil spirit to come out of one that was<br />

possessed; however, the demon did not recognize these seven sons who lacked the unction;<br />

consequently the possessed man leaped upon them, tore their clothes off, and beat them so severely<br />

that they fled.<br />

III. An Unction Gives Liberty in the Lord<br />

The apostle Paul wrote that where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. The Spirit in one person<br />

does not oppose or contradict the Spirit in another person. Self sometimes may get in the way and<br />

hinder spiritual liberty when there is a failure to recognize the operations of the Spirit in other<br />

people. Liberty is not the privilege to do as one pleases, but it gives a calmness and a peaceful feeling<br />

in doing that which is right. Liberty is the freedom to do right, in the right place, at the right time in<br />

the right manner. It is safe to move when the Spirit gives us the signal to go, and dangerous not to<br />

do so, even as it is dangerous to go when <strong>He</strong> has flashed the red signal across our pathway. The<br />

Spirit will give us courage and liberty to do that which the Lord wants us to do.<br />

IV. An Unction Gives Spiritual Power<br />

It is essential in the Christian life and the Christian ministry to possess both a human fervor and<br />

a spiritual fervor. A natural fervor apart from the fervor of the Spirit is merely self, and will rise no<br />

higher than self. It comes short of accomplishing spiritual good. <strong>When</strong> the Spirit brings a fervor to<br />

us and we do not cooperate with His operations, or move as <strong>He</strong> moves us, the fervor will soon cool<br />

off. <strong>When</strong> the Spirit brings a spiritual fervor, we need to bestir ourselves and fall in line. Obedience<br />

will increase the fervor because the divine element enters into the human and the human into the

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