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The Anointing

Exodus 30
Paul Mahan September, 12 1999 Audio
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This is how these places advertise
their places. That's what they're doing, they're
advertising. Anointed, come here anointed preaching, anointed
services, anointed, anointed, anointed. What they generally mean by anointed
is wild fire enthusiasm, great show of emotion, frenzied hysteria
and babble, lots of babble from the pulpit. That's what they
mean by that, anointing. 2 Corinthians chapter 1, Paul talked
about being anointed. Verse 19, He said, The Son of
God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, yes, by me,
and Silas and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him was yes. For all the promises of God in
him are yes, and in him, yes, in him. Amen. That's right. Unto
the glory of God by us. The Son of God, now, he said.
It was preached by us. Yes, me, Timothy, Silas, Peter,
James, John, Matthew, Bartholomew, Charles. It's all under the glory
of God and it's Christ. Verse 21, Now he which establisheth
us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God. God hath anointed us. Paul said, God hath anointed
us. This is anointed preaching. Anointed preaching. Are you with
me? I don't know why I've got such a blank look today. Is it my lip? My blank lip has caused a blank
stare? Get with me, all right? Ask God
to bless you right now. You're going to get a blessing
out of this message, all right? All right? Stay with me now.
You're going to have to pay attention to get anything out of this message.
Blow your nose. Blow your spiritual noses so
that you can smell this this morning. All right? I remember one time my pastor
stood up and started quoting. He stood up, the very first thing
out of his mouth, Generally, you know, right at the start,
everybody's just kind of, you know, I don't know what's going
on, but everybody's just... And he got up, and the very first
words out of his mouth were, Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled... Everybody... He said, Now that
I have your attention, here's my introduction. So you with me? All right. Paul said, We preach Christ,
and we're anointed. God hath anointed us. What is
anointed preaching? What is anointed services? What
is the anointing of the Holy Spirit? This is who we're talking
about—the Holy Spirit. Anointed preaching, anointed
services, anointed people is that which has the saber of Jesus
Christ through it all. That's what Paul said. Well, chapter 2, look at chapter
2, verse 14. We're unto God a sweet savor
of Christ, and them that are saved, and them that perish,
to one we're a savor of death unto death." Don't like that.
I'd rather have something else. To the other, a savor of life.
Life. A savor of Christ. Anointed preaching
is that which is the fullest of Jesus Christ. The Lord one
time was sitting in a place, and a woman came in with an alabaster
box of An alabaster box of ointment. An old sinner. A woman. And she says, the scripture says,
she took this box and broke it open. She'd been saving this.
Costly, precious ointment. Full of spices. Perfumes, what
it was. A rich, pungent perfume. Mixed spices. It says she broke
it open and poured it over the head. And it ran down his head,
just even unto his beard, to his carpet. And it says, the house was filled
with the odor of that ointment. You see, that ointment was only
for Christ, and it was never used before that time. It was
sealed up in a box. And it will never be used again
on anyone else. And I guarantee you, those disciples,
if they ever got a whiff of that, Where have I smelled that? That's my Lord. It smells like
Him. Turn to 1 John, chapter 2 with
me. The word, the anointing, this
very word, anointing, comes from this word, the Greek word. That sounds familiar. He's a
charismatic fellow. Not if he doesn't do this. Not if his anointing is not in
this manner. Prisma. Listen, I'm not just
showing off. Prisma is the word here, and
it comes from this word here in 1 John 2, verse 20. He talked
about some people leaving in verse 19. They left, but they
were not all of us. Verse 20, he said, You have an
unction. This is the word here. You have
an anointing. See that? You're anointed. There's
anointed preaching here, and you've been anointed. I saw on one sign here in town,
they advertise children's anointing service. And I thought, oh, my,
I shuddered when I saw that. I thought, can you imagine sending
your child there to have some despicable fellow lay his grimy
hands on your child and say some hopeless, hopeless, phew! Will our children have been anointed?
Yes, they have. Prisma! I'm not charismatic by
any, by that term or by what men think of charismatic. I don't
have the hair for it, one thing. But chrisma comes, means unction
or endowment. Chrisma comes from the word chrism,
which is anointing oil. We're going to see that in a
minute. And there's another word that really comes from it all. the anointed one. Christ, the anointed one, with
chrism, which is chrisma, the anointing. I've already said it all. What
anointing is, what the anointing is. First John 2, he said, you
have an unction, you have this anointing. Look at verse Verse
27, he said, The anointing which you have received of him abideth
in you. You need not that any man teach
you, but as the same anointing teaches you of all things and
is what? What is this anointing? It is
truth. And it is no lie, even as it
hath taught you." What has? The anointing, the truth that
taught you. And you shall abide in it or him, the truth, the
anointing. You have the anointing. This whole message this morning
is anointed. Yes, it is. It's full of Christ. It's our
Christ. over in John, you don't have
to turn, but in John 14, our Lord was leaving, and he promised
his disciples to send the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is called the
Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Christ. Amen, hath not the Spirit of
Christ, Romans 8 says. spirit of truth, spirit of Christ. And Christ said this to his disciples,
all who love me, that is my word, my gospel, the gospel of Christ. He said, I'll send my Holy Spirit.
He'll teach you all things. He'll bring to remembrance all
things that I've said. You know, they say that the probably
the strongest of all of our senses? Smell. You know that? You know, a dog, take a dog,
for instance, or a horse, most animals, their sense of smell
is much greater than their eyesight. They say that horses, yet even
dogs, are quite nearsighted. And I proved that. I stood at
a distance from Abner. I mean, he clearly He should
have clearly seen it was me. Stood at a distance, and it's
obvious he didn't recognize me. I may have been, was a downwind
from him. I could see him, you know, sitting
there with his ears perked up like, stranger, stranger or foe? Which are you, stranger or foe?
And then all of a sudden, ah, it's the Master! To bring to remember us. What
is it, you know, you can go in a room and, this morning, these
ladies just doused themselves, you know, and you smell them
a lot before you see them. That's facts. The nose is very
keen, unless it's stocked up. And that's what I said this morning,
unless our spiritual noses are stocked up. We're going to smell Christ here
this morning. We're going to savor. That's what, you remember
old Isaac when Jacob, Jacob came to him and was in the stead of,
in the place of his brother. Remember that? And Isaac, who
was blind at the time, said, a smell, there's a smell of my
son. You're a sweet savor to me, my
son. Have you got that meat that I
love? Oh, yes. Yes, I do. Come here and kiss me." He didn't
smell like it. That's another story. We're here. But our Lord said He'll bring
to remembrance the things that I've said to you. You'll be a
savor of Christ. The Holy Spirit brings up to
the—when the gospel is preached, you get a whiff, a savor of Christ. Holy Spirit—what I'm trying to
say—Holy Spirit preaching smells of Christ. Now, this is the last thing I'm
going to say about modern religion, okay? I've been accused of saying
too much about religion. This is the last thing I'm going
to say. You know what I smell when I smell religion? I smell formaldehyde. You know what formaldehyde is?
It's a man-made chemical that replaces the blood in dead men. And if you've ever got a whiff
of it, everybody here has been in a funeral home, and doesn't
it always smell sickeningly sweet? What is it? I've asked an undetector this
one time. He said, that never leaves you, never leaves you. Formaldehyde, that's what I smell
in religion today, the man-made ointment that replaces the blood
for dead men. It's sickeningly sweet. It's
no savor of the gospel. And our Lord said, He shall glorify
me. The Holy Spirit anointing glorifies
Christ. Spirit-filled anointed services
are filled with the glory of Christ. He is the anointed one.
If a man has prisma, he preaches Christ. All right, let's go back to Exodus
30 now. Exodus chapter 30 is where this
is first mentioned, this anointing or this anointed or this anointing
oil. All right? There's a law now
in Scripture, the law of first mention. Our pastor taught me
this, and we need to learn this way. Whatever God starts out
saying, he ends up saying it the same
way. Whatever something stands for
in the beginning, it stands for it in the end. God doesn't change. Whatever God institutes and whatever
God does in the very beginning now, that's the way He does it
in the end. Law first mentioned. When you hear about the atonement,
study it. Now, who's it for? Who made it,
and who's it for, and what did it do? It carries that all right
on through. OK? The calling, the choosing,
who did that? This anointing, this is the first
mention here in Exodus chapter 30. And let's open up this alabaster
box, and let's soak the Holy Spirit up. Come, O north wind,
blow upon thy garden, and let the spices flow out. And let
him come, my beloved, come and eat the fruits to his praise
and his glory. They belong to him. It's his
garden. He planted it. Come on, North
Korea. Let it feel this right. All right? The savor of Christ's person
in the world. Get your nose on it. Exodus 30. All right? Look at
it with me. Verses 22 through 25. Moreover,
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take thou also unto thee principal
spices, chief spices, chief spices. You remember reading that in
the canticle? Chief spices of pure myrrh, 500
shekels. And of sweet cinnamon, half so
much, 250 shekels. Sweet calamus, 250 shekels. Of cashew, 500 shekels. After
the shekel of the sanctuary, the weight of the sanctuary,
the balances. And thou shalt make it an oil
of holy ointment, an ointment compound, after the art of the
apothecary, or the perfumer. It shall be an holy anointing
oil." Anointing oil. All right? Read on with me. Verse 26. Thou shalt anoint the tabernacle
of the congregation, that is, the place where they dwell. and
the ark, wherein is the ark of the testimony, and the table."
See, all of this is in this tabernacle, which was to be anointed. Oh,
his vessels. Yes, his, this tabernacle's vessels. And the candlestick and his vessels,
and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt offering with
all his vessels. It's all to be anointed. And
the labor and his foot. Anoint his foot. The labor, that
is, where the water is. The one who has water anointeth
good, and thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy,
and whatsoever touches them shall be holy." Get this on on you. Read on. Verse 29, verse 30,
And thou shalt anoint Aaron the high priest, and his sons the
common consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in
the priest's offer." Now, remember that. Anoint Aaron first. He's the first anointed. And then he says, I want you
to anoint all his sons. I want all my sons to smell just
like Aaron. Anoint Aaron first, and then
I'll anoint all his sons because I want them all to smell just
like Aaron. And so what? Verses 32 through
33, "'Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured? No, pour it
on man's flesh.'" Now, that's just any old common man. No,
sir. "'Neither shall you make any
of it.'" Don't make any of it. Don't you come up with any recipe. Don't you do it now, he said.
Read on. After the composition of it, don't you try to make
anything similar to it. Right here's the recipe, and
you better follow it to the degree. Don't add anything, don't take
anything away from it, don't put it on anybody else, but Aaron. Read on. It's holy, and it'll
be holy to you. You'll be anointed. You anoint
him, you'll be anointed. Whosoever compounded any like
it, whosoever makes up anything, I don't care how good it smells, whosoever puts it upon a stranger,
whosoever puts it upon everybody without exception, you're going
to be cut off. Oh, this is serious, isn't it? This is serious. What is this? What's this all
about? Well, Jesus Christ is not only
our tabernacle, the tabernacle that spoke of, that was anointed
by this holy anointing oil, you know, the tabernacle wherein
contained the table of showbread. I know one person in here who's
going to enjoy this. Christ is that tabernacle. where
God dwells, where the people of God come and worship, wherein
is the shekinah glory of God, wherein is all the vessels of
mercy and grace and salvation contained in this one tabernacle,
one tabernacle of God's design, anointed with this oil. And it says in the candlestick,
the lights, there's only light inside this tabernacle, and the
altar of incense, where this This incense, the smoke of the
incense went up, and it's the only incense God will receive.
Christ is this altar of incense. And the burnt offerings, only
sacrifice God will accept. And the labor of water wherein
the priest is washed, Christ the living water. So Christ is
not only this tabernacle that dwelleth among men, the tabernacle
of God among men. Christ is Aaron, our great high
priest. Christ is the one high priest. The one. There are no more priests,
people. There are no more. That Pope
said it wasn't going to say anymore. You see, I don't want him to
spoil, I don't want them to spoil all of this. It's a little, a
smell comes in when I even say that name. It doesn't smell good
to me. Christ is the one and only. I
won't say anything about that P-O-P-E. Christ is the only high
priest, the only mediator between God and men. The man, not a woman,
but the man, Christ Jesus, the only high priest, offer up one
sacrifice forever of himself. And he sat down. There are no
more high priests. There are no more high priests.
And when it talks about us being made kings and priests under
our God, that doesn't mean we go around in a... It means that we serve our God
in and around the tabernacle, the sanctuary, around Christ,
the things of Christ. We serve one another. But we don't... Well, let's go
on. Christ is this great high priest,
our great high priest, Christ whom God said hath anointed with
oil, the oil of gladness, above his fellows. He's anointed with
the oil of gladness above his fellow. Christ is the firstborn
among many births. Holy is what this anointing oil
is. Did you read that? anointing oil, isn't it? Holy
anointing oil. Holy, holy, holy anointing oil
is what this is. He's anointed first. Christ is
even called the what? The Loving One? The Holy One
of Israel. The Holy One of Israel. Holiness. You see, Christ is holiness unto
the Lord, and Christ is holiness unto me. That which God accepts
in Christ, anointed Christ with His holiness, He anoints me with
it. He imputes it to my town. You
see, this is in Psalm 133, this is that oil that flows down the
head, yes, of the high priest, even to the beard and to the
skirts of his garment. That's wherein God has commanded
the blessing, even life. What? Holiness unto the Lord,
without which no man shall see the Lord. This is the perfume of the high
priest. This is the cologne of Christ. Holy, holiness, the sweet
savor of God, Christ. That fellow, that time that argued
with me, he said, everybody knows about the moral purity of God. He was arguing with me when I
was talking about holiness, holiness, holiness, holiness, God's holiness,
not man's. David said, I'll make mention
of thy righteousness and thine only. Oh, I was stinking. Stinking. You see, that holiness didn't
smell good to him. I loved the sound of it. I loved the savor of it. I loved
the sound of it. Don't you? Holy, holy, holy. And it stunk to him. Everybody knows that. Well, this is the cologne of
Christ, and we'll not get in heaven now unless we're perfumed
with the righteousness of Christ. We're not going to be in God's
presence or else we sink. All right, there's four principal
ingredients in there. Nancy, you'll like this. All
you herbalists, you'll like this. Four principal ingredients, it
says. Chief ingredients, Psalm of Solomon
says. Look at the first one here. Look
back at verse twenty-three. All right? It gives us these
four principal ingredients. All right? The first one is,
it says, myrrh. I'm sorry, five ingredients.
Five. He said, take also unto thee
principal spices. That means chief ingredients.
These are the chief ingredients, by which means there are other
spices, but these are the principal ones. All right? First one, he says, thou shalt
take pure myrrh, five hundred shekels. Now, a shekel, people,
is not a piece of money. It's a weight. It's a weight. It's an instrument, or it's a—I
wish I'd have bought one of those. It's a measurement. Have you
ever seen a balance? Have you ever seen scales, and
they have these little weights? that they put on them. That's
what a shekel back then, they had various weights and measures,
OK, that weighed in the balances. And the first one he drops on
this scale is, or the first one ingredient in this holy anointing
oil is myrrh, five hundred shekel weights. Five hundred weights. What could this be? Myrrh, I'll
give you a little clue. Myrrh was a gummy substance derived
from an evergreen tree, an evergreen tree. It means it stayed green
forever because of this substance in it. All right? It's in a great
abundance. It's seen in great abundance
all throughout that land. everywhere to be seen. This first
chief principle spice in so large amount to be seen everywhere
represents, what would you think it represents? The first chief
principle character or attribute of the Lord Jesus Christ would
be what? Holiness. Five hundred shekel
weight. Holiness. Do you know? Do you know that holiness, holy
or holiness in the concordance, is mentioned more than, want
to guess how many times? Five hundred times. Righteousness is three times. Five hundred times. It's God's chief attribute, it's
Christ's chief attribute, it's that which anoints him, it's
which distinguishes him above his fellows, you see, his holiness. And you know, he anoints us with
that. He imputes this holiness to us, this righteousness. This
is the precious ointment upon the head, like I said, that ran
down the garments. the righteousness of God came
down. Christ, the holiness of God, the Holy One, came down
from heaven. This is what he's called, the
Holy One, the Holy One. This is his chief, his principal
attribute. What was it that the Beloved
left on the doorknob when he left the Pulemon? And this is what she got on her
when she grabbed the door. Got myrrh on her. Smells like myrrh on her. And
people, if I don't smell this in preaching, you see, I smell, I smell it, I hear
it, I smell it, all this preaching going on over there. If I don't,
I don't hear it. If I don't smell this myrrh,
it's no safer sight." Righteousness, imputed righteousness, holiness. Christ's holiness, it's his chief
attribute. The point of doctrine, it's his principal attribute.
If no one knows this, They don't know Christ, right?
It's what reminds me of the Beloved. This myrrh, 500 shekel weights. I see it everywhere, don't you?
Doesn't it come up, pop up? There it is. It's like lingering
perfume, isn't it? I smell it everywhere. The savor
of His righteousness. Look at the next thing. Here's
the next ingredient. A sweet cinnamon, half so much,
250 shekels, half so much. Cinnamon is cinnamon. You know
what it is? Cinnamon is a very strong smelling
herb. It has a sweet aroma, but you
know cinnamon has a bitter taste. Doesn't it, Nancy? You can't
eat cinnamon by itself. We mix sugar with it. It's half as much as holiness,
half as much as murder, all right? God said, I'm a, look unto me
and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I'm a what? Say it. You got it. Just God and the Savior. Not just a Savior, not only a
Savior. Apart from justice, not love
that is. All love apart from, but justice. Justice. This is his justice. And you know it is a sweet thing.
God's justice is a sweet thing. By justice we mean absolute punishment
of sin. You will by no means clear the
guilty. You say, how can that be sweet? I see the justice of God on Christ. I smell the justice of God on
Christ. And if he's wearing it to its
fullest, I won't receive justice. He received the justice of God
against my sin, punishment against my transgression. See, it's sweet,
but yet it's bitter. It's going to be bitter for some,
but sweet for others. of Christ. He's a just God and
a Savior. He said, I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. I'm a just
God and a Savior. Two hundred and fifty shekels,
half of it. He's just and justifier of them that believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Bitter justice to all those outside
of Christ, to all those who do not know the savor of Christ.
Sweet justification in all them that know Christ. That smells
good, doesn't it? Some of you like the smell of
some things that others don't like. Gasoline. Some of you like the smell of
gasoline? That's the way it is with the
justice of God. All God's people love the smell
of his justice. Sweet and yet bitter. Third thing,
look at verse 23. It says, Pure myrrh, cinnamon,
And of sweet Calamus, 250 seconds. Calamus, 250 seconds. Turn to
Exodus 2 and get ready to hope. Let out a little shout. Women,
it'll be perfectly all right. Somebody's got to do it. If you
won't, I will. All right? Exodus chapter 2. Calamus was and is still A sweet
cane, a sweet cane, a reed-like plant that grows out of the water, a hollow reed that grows out
of the water, that inside it has a sweet substance. But once
the cane is cut down, you still utilize the plant itself as a
conduit through which the water might flow, or as an instrument
by which to write." This cane, this reed, all right,
sweet substance within, and the vessel itself was a conduit through
which liquid or water may even flow, and it can even use it
as a writing instrument. But look at this, Exodus chapter
2, verse 2, conceived and bear a son. When
she saw him, she saw that he was a goodly child. She hid him
three months. Who is it talking about here?
You say, well, this must be Noah. Verse three, when she could no
longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrush. Here's
an ark, and she dobbed it with slime and with pitch. Here's
an ark covered with pitch. with slime and pitch, and she
put the child therein, and she laid it in the flags." Flag being
the word read by the river bank. And look down at verse 5. It
says, "...the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at
the river, and her maidens walked along by the riverside, when
she saw the ark among the flags." She saw the ark hidden in the
flags. This word flag here is The ark hidden in the breeze. Whoop! There, I did it. This ark of pitch that's to be
the leader, the Savior of Israel, lead them to the promised land,
was hidden, was found among the calamus. Calamus. What is this? What's calamus?
This is the love of God that's found in Christ, the conduit
through which the love of God flows, the conduit, the instrument
by which God writes his love on the pages of this book. To
write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry. And though
the skull could not contain the whole, though it were stretched
from sky to If every stalk or calamus on earth were a quill,
and every man a scribe by trade, he couldn't do it. Greater love
hath no man than this. When I smell love, when I think
of love, when I see love in Scripture, I don't smell man's love. I smell
Christ. A bruised reed, a bruised reed,
a spice representing his principal attribute. Look at the fourth
one, back in Exodus 30. All right? He says, "...the soul
makes up the holy anointing oil on the head of Aaron." Isn't
this wonderful? Isn't this the greatest thing
you've ever heard, Nathan? All right, look at the next thing.
It says, Calamus, verse 24, "...and of cashew five hundred shekels."
Cashew, just as much as myrrh. Cashew, look, it's this, as much,
as weighty as myrrh, as weighty as myrrh. Well, cashew is similar
to cinnamon. As a matter of fact, you ladies,
when you go to the store and you buy these little rolled-up
pieces of bark, and you put them in spiced tea and all that, it
may be cashew. You think it's cinnamon. It may
be. They're very similar. It's also
sweet smelling, yet a bitter thing. The rolled up bark of
a plant. This represents the mercy of
God that's in Christ. All the mercy of God, Joe, is
in Christ. It's all rolled up in the Lord Jesus Christ, in
the scrolls. Why do little things come up
in scrolls? Why do they roll up, curl up like that? When you
debark it, it curls up like that. Because the spices are hidden
to keep the spices within. And the mercy of God is found
in Christ. It's all rolled up in Christ. Jesus Christ is a
Savior of mercy to the guilty. I don't hear much talk about
that. God's people love to talk about
mercy. Why? Because they're all guilty. They're all guilty. And mercy only smells good to
the guilty. This is the reason I like to
hear the gospel every time. Tell me something. I got to hear
it. I got to hear it. I got to smell
some savor of Christ person and worker in the preaching that
I hear. I got to. God, would you give
me a little whiff, just a little whiff, and it'll suffice me.
I can go for many days in this meat, in this drink, with this
smell on my mind. I've got the smell. I've got
to get away from that mercy. Why? Because I'm guilty. I'm
guilty from the day I'm born to the day I die. I'm guilty
of sin. When I wake up in the morning,
I'm guilty. But praise God, there's something
new. every morning. You smell it? It's mercy. The mercy of God is in Christ. Christ is God's mercy. And you
know, Nancy, how does that smell come out when you, when it really
comes forth? How does it come forth? Those
little, Mark, if you crush it, Christ was crushed, he was sacrificed at
the hands of God's justice and holiness. Yet he came forth,
and I would like mercy to me. Mercy. The last thing, the last
thing, and if everybody in here does not know what this You will, in a minute. All right,
the last thing. We've got holiness under the
Lord. We've got justice under the Lord.
We've got his love. We've got his mercy. We've got
olive oil. We've got lots of it. He's got
lots of it. He said, Joe, he said, put lots
of this in there. Stir it all up with this sweet
substance, this liquid that comes from a crushed fruit from a green
tree. Look at it, verse 25, verse 24,
"...and of oil, olive, and hen, precious oil, which make your
face to shine, six pints of it," three quarts, almost a gallon
of oil, "...crushed from this fruit, from this green tree."
What is this? We're going to be shouting this
in eternity. Somebody's going to lay the top
stone shouting this. What is it? What is it? Grace! Grace! Lots of grace! The God of all grace, he's got
gallons and gallons of it. Huh? He giveth more grace. Everything is mixed with his
grace. The whole substance. filled with
grace. By grace are you saved, huh? By grace. You say it's a liquid.
That's right. It's the blood. The blood and
the grace, same thing. The blood is the grace of God.
It's the blood that maketh atonement for the soul. By grace are you
saved. It's the blood that maketh atonement. By grace are you saved.
Same thing, isn't it? That precious substance that
makes my face to shine. That priceless oil that was crushed
from fruit, from a green tree, is the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the grace of God which is in Christ
Jesus, my Lord, by which I'm saved, by which he anoints everything. It's a principal spice, and it
all is a sweet Holiness, myrrh. Holiness, myrrh. Sentiment, justice,
sweet yet bitter. Calamus, hidden in the ark, pitched
in the reeds. Calamus, God's mercy, or God's
love. and lots of olive oil, filled
with lots of olive oil. It's the grace of God. Come, O north wind, blow on my
garden, let the spices blow out. Let the beloved come into his
garden and eat these fruits. This is all unto him. This is
all for him. If everybody didn't get anything,
let's hope the Lord got some glory out of this. God's pleased with this message.
Can I be so bold as to say that, Brother Sam? That God Almighty,
this smells good to Him. There's no form out of the height
of man in this. It's all a message of God's ingredients,
Christ's character and person. It all smells of salvation to
me, and it's sweet. Sweet savor of life. That's what it is, life. Bring you to life, don't you
think so? It's just a quality of life. Yeah, all right. That's what I'm doing. You got something? Too old now.
Paul Mahan
About Paul Mahan
Paul Mahan has been pastor of Central Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, Virginia since 1989; preaching the Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace.
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