There is so much religious tomfoolery
practiced in the name of God in our day that it's hard to
keep up with all the stuff going on in the religious world around
us. But that which has been the dominant
influence in conservative religion in this country and other English-speaking
countries, I can't speak of others, for the last 30 or 40 years,
has been the modern charismatic Pentecostal movement. Folks everywhere
these days talk about the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost, the Holy
Ghost, the anointing of the Holy Ghost, and such as that. Back
in January, on the way back from California, I stopped to get
my shoes shined, the shoes shined stand, and talking to the fellow
who was about my age, shot in my shoes, and asking if he knew
God. He said, oh, yes, I got the Holy
Ghost when I was five years old. I got the anointing. It didn't
have any effect on his life, but he got it, got the Holy Ghost,
got the anointing. And these days, if somebody speaks
to you about your religious experience, they're not likely to ask you,
do you know God, or do you know the gospel? But rather, they're
likely to ask you, do you have the anointing? and sound very
sweet and nice and kind in doing so. And when they ask you, do
you have the anointing, you feel a little dirty, a little lacking,
a little uncomfortable. And the reason for asking the
question was to make you feel a little dirty, a little lacking. little uncomfortable because
everybody these days emphasizes their experience of the anointing
of the Holy Ghost above everything else concerning God and Christ
and worship. They emphasize their experience,
the anointing experience, the giving of the Holy Ghost to them
above everything in the Word of God, above everything with
regard to doctrine, above everything with regard to divine revelation
in the written Word of God. In fact, these days there's even
a whole Sovereign Grace group of churches that are Pentecostal,
charismatic, tongue-speaking, all that nonsense. But as you
read the Word of God, clearly the Scriptures do speak about
the anointing and the unction of God the Holy Ghost. The anointing,
the unction from the Holy One. The anointing, the unction given
to us of God. Turn back again tonight to 1
John chapter 2. I'm spending a little more time
on this text and this subject than I have most things here
in the book of 1st John, because this needs much time spent upon
it and clear understanding by you. And I trust God will give
you that understanding. And yet I don't want simply to
give you better instruction and better knowledge of some doctrine. I want you to know the joy and
the blessedness and the peace of that which is here revealed
in 1st John chapter 2. And so I'll be looking at this
text tonight as we did last week and then the Lord willing again
next Tuesday night. 1st John chapter 2 verse 20. But ye have an unction from the
Holy One, and ye know all things. You who are born of God, you
who walk with Christ, you who are steadfast in the faith, who
haven't been turned aside from the gospel, you who believe on
the Lord Jesus, you have an unction from the Holy One and you know
all things. I have not written unto you because
you know not the truth, but because you know it and that no lie is
of the truth. Who is a liar, but he that denieth
that Jesus is the Christ, he is antichrist, that denieth the
Father and the Son? Whosoever denieth the Son, the
same hath not the Father. But he that acknowledgeth the
Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you
which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you
have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also
shall continue in the Son and in the Father. Let that word
and that anointing and that unction abide in you, which you've had
from the beginning. And if this remains in you, you
shall continue in the Son and in the Father. And this is the
promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto
you concerning them that seduce you. Now he's talking about religious
seducers. He's talking about that great
whore described in Proverbs chapter 7 and Revelation chapter 18.
Religious seducers. Those who seduce you are those
Antichrist who would turn you away from Christ to something
else. Turn you away from the simplicity
of Christ. Turn you away from simply believing
on the son of God. Turn you away from faith in Christ
to something else. Turn you away from just trusting
Christ. You've got to have more than Christ. You've got to have
more than faith in Christ. You've got to have something
extra, something different, something more than that. They were, there's
those who would seduce you, but look at verse 27. But the anointing
which you have received of him abideth in you. And you need
not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth
you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it
hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Now let me remind you
of the words, I told you this last week, the words unction
and anointing, both in verse 20 and 27, are precisely the
same word in the Greek text. They're translated differently.
In verse 20, translated unction, and in verse 27, translated anointing,
with good reason. In verse 20, the word unction
refers to that with which we are anointed. In verse 27, the
word refers to the experience of the anointing. Unction refers
to the anointing oil of the Old Testament, that which was prescribed
by the law of God back in the 30th chapter of Exodus. And you
can be turning there. We're going to spend the bulk
of our time here in Exodus chapter 30 tonight. The word unction
refers to that anointing oil with which the tabernacle and
the ark and the altar, the mercy seat, the priesthood, all the
furnishings in the temple, all of those things. Every man and
everything used in the worship of God in the Old Testament had
to have this anointing with this holy anointing oil. The anointing
refers to the actual experience of being anointed. The unction
we have from the Holy One is God the Holy Spirit, given to
us by Christ our Redeemer, the Holy One. The forming of Christ
in us by the Spirit of God in the new birth, that's the anointing
spoken of in verse 27. That's the experience of God's
grace. Now back here in Exodus chapter 30. Inspired by God the
Holy Spirit John here refers us to the significance of this
law Given concerning the anointing and the holy anointing oil And
we don't have time tonight to read Exodus chapters 25 through
30 But actually the law begins back in chapter 25 the first
time the word anointing is used are the word anoint is used in
Exodus 20 is in Exodus 25 verse 6 I think it is But the subject
continues all the way through to the end of the book of Exodus.
Now, let's look tonight just at chapter 30 as God here speaks
to Moses about the anointing oil, this holy oil and this holy
perfume in verse 22 through verse 38. Here are two things that
were essential to the worship of God in the tabernacle, holy
oil and holy perfume. These two things were as essential
to the worship of God as the blood of the Passover lamb and
the Ark of the Covenant. These things represented in the
holy oil and the holy perfume are just as necessary to the
saving of our souls as the death of our Lord Jesus Christ and
his obedience to God as our substitute unto death. The sanctifying work
of God the Holy Ghost in the new birth that by which we are
made new creatures in Christ, making us partakers of the divine
nature. Forming Christ in us is just
as necessary, just as necessary, as Christ's obedience upon the
earth as our substitute and his death upon the cursed tree as
our surety. The righteousness of God imparted
to us in the new birth is just as necessary as the righteousness
of God imputed to us in free justification. Look at Exodus
20 or 30 rather verse 22. Moreover, the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying, Take thou also unto thee principal spices of
pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so
much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus
two hundred and fifty shekels. and of catcher five hundred shekels
after the shekel of the sanctuary and of oil of olive and hen. And thou shalt make it an oil
of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the
apothecary. And it shall be an holy anointing
oil, and thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation
therewith. and the ark of the testimony, and the table, and
all his vessels, and the candlestick, and his vessels, and the altar
of incense, and the altar of burnt offering, with all his
vessels, and the laver, and his foot, and thou shalt sanctify
them, make them holy, that they may be most holy. Whatsoever
toucheth them shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint Aaron and
his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me
in the priest's office. And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil
unto me throughout your generations. Upon a man's flesh it shall not
be poured, neither shall you make any other like it after
the composition of it. it is holy, and it shall be holy
unto you. Whosoever compoundeth any like
it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall
even be cut off from his people. Verse 34, And the Lord said unto
Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, and and galbanum, these sweet
spices with pure frankincense. Of each shall there be a like
weight, and thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection, a sweet
perfume. After the art of the apothecary,
temper together pure and holy, and thou shalt beat some of it
very small. And put of it before the testimony
of the tabernacle of the congregation where I will meet with thee It
shall be unto you most totally you take this sweet spice this
sweet fragrance and put it right before the mercy seat right before
the ark of the covenant where I'll meet with you And as for
the perfume which thou shalt make you shall not make to yourselves
according to the composition thereof It shall be unto thee
holy for the lord Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell
thereto, shall even be cut off from his people. Now hear what
this is all about. The tabernacle, the sanctuary
of the Lord, would have been utterly unacceptable. The tabernacle, the sanctuary
of the Lord, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat. Everything represented
there would have been totally unacceptable to the Lord without
the holy anointing oil and the sweet holy incense described
in this passage. Without the holy oil and the
holy incense, the blood of the Paschal Lamb would have been
meaningless. Without the holy oil and the
holy incense, the blood of the Paschal Lamb on the mercy seat
would have been utterly meaningless to all of Israel. Now let's see
if I can make good on that. That is some statement. That
is some statement. First, in verses 22 through 33,
God commands Moses to make a special holy oil, an oil of holy ointment
by which everything connected with the worship of God. including
Aaron and his sons, including the high priest and those who
functioned as priests under him. All things had to be anointed.
This oil is specifically called holy anointing oil because its
chief purpose was to sanctify the tabernacle, the furnishings,
Aaron and his sons, to set them apart for the service of God
and to make them holy. That's what the word sanctify
means. to make holy. So those who had this holy anointing
oil upon them were chosen priests who came in to do service to
God, who were made holy by this anointing oil. Made holy in the
experience of having this oil put upon them. Ceremonially made
holy. Yes, that oil didn't really make
anybody holy. It was a ceremonial holiness
But it typified it portrayed for us. It gives us instruction
into that which is real holiness The holy anointing oil is chiefly
designed for that purpose this typified God the Holy Ghost God
the Spirit is constantly spoken of as holy. He is the Comforter. He is called the Holy Ghost.
He's called the Holy One. He's called that holy thing.
The Spirit of God is not more holy than the Father or the Son,
but his mission is to make chosen, redeemed sinners holy in making
us new creatures in Christ. The Lord God who commands, be
ye holy for I am holy, himself makes us holy. That which God
requires, God gives. That which God demands, God performs. He says, be ye holy, and he makes
his people holy. Now, two things are involved.
Two things are involved, and the two things are vital. Please
understand this. We are made righteous by our
Lord Jesus Christ in his obedience unto death in free justification. And God, the Holy Spirit makes
us holy in sanctification, forming Christ in us, making us partakers
of the divine nature, making us new creatures in Jesus Christ. He forms in us that holiness
without which no man shall see the Lord. Now, Here in Exodus
chapter 30, four spices had to be added to a hen of olive oil
to make this holy ointment. Myrrh, cinnamon, sweet calamus,
and catcha. Olive oil is repeatedly used
in the scripture as a type of God the Holy Ghost. And we're
told that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost. He anointed him with the Holy
Ghost? Yeah, when the Spirit fell on him and abode on him,
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth as that one who is the Messiah,
the Lamb of God, anointed him with the Holy Ghost, and he abode
on him. Hold your hands in exodus and
turn to Isaiah chapter 11. I want you to see this. The spices
mixed with this holy oil gave fragrance to the oil. And the
oil was the element that carried the aroma along. So the sweet
graces manifested by Christ when he was upon this earth were all
according to the Holy Spirit. They were all things wrought
in him, wrought in him, in his holy humanity by the Spirit of
God with which he is anointed. Look in Isaiah chapter 11, verse
1. There shall come forth a rod
out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his
roots and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the spirit
of wisdom and understanding This is the spirit of the Lord resting
upon Christ the branch Spirit of wisdom and understanding the
spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and of the
fear of the Lord now look at verse 3 And shall make him a
quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. Now I've been looking
at that for a long, long, long time. And I'm going to be honest
with you Lindsay, I don't have a clue what it means. I don't
have a clue what it means. Is this saying, however, that
our Redeemer as our mediator the man the captain of our salvation
who was made perfect through the things he suffered the captain
of our salvation who learned obedience by the things he suffered
the captain of our salvation who was heard as he cried to
God in that he feared. All those things are true of
our Redeemer as the God-man, our mediator. And I can't begin
to explain them, but they are certainly stated in scripture.
And here is something else I cannot understand. The perfect man Christ
Jesus is that one who is given an understanding in the fear
of the Lord by the Spirit of God with which he's anointed.
so that he, coming forth from his mother's womb in perfection,
having the Spirit of God upon him and manifestly put upon him
at his baptism, has the spirit of understanding. And he, having
the Spirit, the anointing upon him, shall not judge after the
sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears.
I think particularly about that woman taken in adultery. He doesn't judge after what he
sees, neither reprove after what he hears, but with righteousness
shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek
of the earth. He shall smite the earth with
the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall
he slay the wicked. Verse 5. And righteousness shall
be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his
reins. Now, turn over to the end of
the book of Isaiah chapter 61. Our Savior quotes from this passage
in Luke chapter 4 and says, the spirit of the Lord
God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good
tidings unto the meek. He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening
of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable
year of the Lord and the day of the vengeance of our God,
to comfort all that mourn. to appoint unto them that mourn
in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, and the garment of praise for the Spirit of heaviness,
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting
of the Lord, that he might be glorified. All right, back in
Exodus 30 again. The Spirit of God, pictured by
this holy anointing oil, Always brings all the excellent virtues
of Christ into focus The Spirit of God is pictured by this anointing
oil brings the excellent virtues of Christ into focus brings them
before our eyes Sets them in our hearts and causes our minds
to meditate upon them This is what John refers to in first
John 2. I The Holy Ghost is the unction
we have from Christ, and receiving Him in the experience of grace
and salvation, the gift of life, that's the anointing. The work
of God the Holy Ghost in us is the sweet experience of salvation,
the sweet experience of knowing Christ. That's the anointing
which we've received of Him, by which we learn the things
of Christ. He shall take the things of Christ
and show them to you. He shall teach you. You who are
taught of God come to the Father. You who are taught of God have
the anointing of God upon you. That which does not glorify Christ,
that which does not glorify Christ, be it a sermon, a prayer, a song,
a deed, a gift, whatever it is, is not of the Holy Ghost. no matter how good it looks to
you, no matter how pretty it is in the eyes of men, no matter
how impressive. If it doesn't glorify Christ,
the Holy Ghost has no hand in it. The aroma of the anointing
oil, the smell of it, spices, diffused wherever the oil flows. You remember that woman who brought
the alabaster box in and broke it open, the aroma, Spikener
filled the room where they sat. So wherever God the Holy Spirit
comes, he brings the sweet aroma of Jesus Christ crucified. When
God the Holy Spirit comes in you, in the power of his grace,
he sheds abroad in your heart the sweet smelling savor of Jesus
Christ crucified. Now let's look at the spices
involved in this holy anointing oil. First, as pure myrrh. Myrrh was sweet to the smell,
but bitter to the taste. In fact, the word comes from
a word that means bitterness. And this speaks beautifully of
our Lord Jesus. Hold your hands here in exodus
and turn to the book of the Song of Solomon. Song of Solomon. This is used repeatedly in the
Song of Solomon, picturing him. Myrrh is sweet to the smell,
but bitter to the taste. In the Song of Solomon, chapter
1, verse 13. A bundle of myrrh is my beloved,
my well-beloved unto me. He shall lie all night betwixt
my breast. So speaks the church of God.
A bundle of myrrh sweet-smelling myrrh. The bundle of fragrant
perfume is my beloved to me. He alone is that which is the
sweet savor of my own being. He shall lie all night betwixt
my breast. All thy garments, we're told
in Psalm 45, 8, concerning God's church, smell of myrrh and aloes
and catcha. All thy garments smell of Jesus
Christ crucified. Look at chapter 3 in the Song
of Solomon, verse 6. Who is this that cometh out of
the wilderness like pillars of smoke? Perfumed with myrrh and
frankincense with all the powders of the merchant. Who is this?
Coming up out of this wilderness. Who is this going through this
dark, dark night coming out of the wilderness? This is the church
of our God. The church of our God smelling
of myrrh. Smelling of the sweet savor of
Jesus Christ crucified. Look at chapter five, Song of
Solomon. Verse 2, I sleep, but my heart waketh. It is the voice
of my beloved that knocketh, saying, open to me, my sister,
my love, my dove, my undefiled, for my head is filled with the
dew and my locks with the drops of the night. How often he says such, and we
shut our hearts against him. Oh, my Savior, forgive me. But as Rex read to us in 1 Samuel
12, the Lord will not forsake his own. Though we shut the door
and bolted against him, we say, I put off my coat. How shall
I put it on? I've washed my feet. How shall
I defile them? Go away. Don't bother me now.
My beloved put his hand by the hole of the door. My beloved
stuck his hand right in my heart, and my bowels were moved for
him. My bowels were moved for him,
my inmost being moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved,
and when I reached for the handle he had had his hand on, my hands
dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh upon
the handles of the lock. Christ Jesus is referred to continually
as represented by myrrh. Sweet to the smell, but bitter
to the taste. Look at verse 13, chapter 5.
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers, his lips like
lilies dropping with sweet smelling myrrh. The sweet smell of myrrh
speaks of our Savior's eternal, everlasting, immense, infinite
love poured out in a bitter but fragrant death for us. When he
was made sin for us, he took the cup of God's wrath and drink
all the bitter dregs of divine justice in our stead. And thus he is to us a bundle
of myrrh. Back here in Exodus 30. Another
of those spices is sweet cinnamon. That's probably the very same
thing you ladies use today to make cinnamon toast or cinnamon
bread, cinnamon rolls today. It's used four times in scripture.
The word cinnamon comes from a word which means to erect or
to build. Christ is he who builds his church. He is our mighty's irreparable.
He'll finish the work. That is sweet cinnamon indeed
to all who know him. But the cinnamon is attributed
in the Song of Solomon, chapter four, to the church of God. Christ
is the one who builds his church, but the cinnamon is attributed
to the church. The reason is this, our Savior
attributes to us all that he is and all that he's done. He attributes to his own all
that he is and all that he's done so that his work is our
work. His being is our being. His life is our life. But if you read the scriptures,
In Proverbs chapter 7, that whorish woman, Babylon, and Revelation
chapter 18, representing free will works religion, pretends
she has the sentiment that sinners seek and need. And thus, with
hypocritical love for their souls, fools are enticed to her bed. And then the third spice is calamus,
sweet calamus. It comes from sweet cane. Usually
this grows up in swampy, miry soil. The fragrance is obtained
by crushing the plant. Our Lord Jesus came into the
mire of this world and he grew erect and fragrant for God. He came to the mire of the earth
on a special errand, wicked men took him, banned him, and bruised
him. But what fragrance has filled
heaven and earth through the bruising of our Savior? Our Lord
Jesus Christ bear our sin in his own body on the tree. He
took our iniquities, our transgressions, our sins, and made them his own.
With his stripes, we are healed. And wherever he finds a bruised
reed, he lifts it from the mire. Again, that woman taken in adultery,
they brought her in before the Savior, who judges not by what
his eyes see and his ears hear. but by what he knows is right
and just, because she is one for whom he died. She is one
justified by his grace. She is one redeemed by his blood. And it looks at her and says,
neither do I condemn thee, and lifts her up out of the mire.
And then fourth, this sweet-smelling myrrh. It's made up of cacha. The word cacha comes from a root
word that means to stoop down to bow down as one who worships,
to stoop down and bow down as a servant before his master.
And so our Lord Jesus Christ stooped before the triune Jehovah
And came here to do the will of God in our room instead in
the accomplishment of our redemption And while he walked on this earth
from the beginning of his days to the end of his days on this
earth Did nothing but his father's will always about his father's
business Always doing his father's work always going about doing
that for which he was anointed preaching the gospel to the poor
Binding up the brokenhearted setting up liberty the captives
What an example he set for us. The only other time you find
mention of this word catcha is in Ezekiel 27. There we learn
that this is one of the articles in which Tyre, the great merchant
nation of the world, traded. Like Tyre, like Egypt rather,
Tyre represents the world. This tells us that the world
The world doesn't hesitate to traffic in the excellencies of
Christ to further its own ends. The world never hesitates to
traffic in the excellencies of Christ in the things revealed
in this book, never hesitates to speak about God, Christ, the
Holy Spirit, grace, salvation, righteousness, whenever it serves
the world's purpose. But if you read the 28th chapter
of Ezekiel, you'll find out that Satan is represented as the king
of Tyre. So the archenemy of God's people,
the archenemy of our souls, seeks ever to rob Christ, our Redeemer,
of that adoration and worship that belongs only to Him and
turn us away from the Lord Jesus. When God the Holy Ghost comes
in the saving operations of His grace, He reveals Christ in the
glory of his person, in the glory of his work, spoken of here as
myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, and cacha, as a sweet-smelling savor,
a sacrifice accepted and well-pleasing to God. And he causes the believer
to know that in Christ, we are a sweet-smelling savor to God. Oh, my soul, what a blessed,
blessed word of instruction. This is the anointing you have
from Him. This is the unction you have
from the Holy One, God in His Son. has given us His Spirit,
forming Christ in us, giving us faith in Christ so that we
stand before God in all the consciousness of our
own depravity and our own corruption with the sweet assurance that
as Christ himself is a sweet savor to God, so we are a sweet
savor to God. First Corinthians chapter 2 and
verse 15. The anointing oil was Jehovah's
claim. Look at verse 31 of Exodus 30.
This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me. The oil upon the
tabernacle and its furnishings upon Aaron and his sons was God's
claim of these things as his own. It was the Lord's seal. Everything it touched, it sanctified. Sprinkle some oil on that table
there. That's holy. Sprinkle some oil
on that lamp there. That's holy. Sprinkle some oil
on that Spoon there, that's holy. It's holy. Now, nothing changed
about it. Nothing changed about it. But
the oil put on the thing made it ceremonially holy. And when God comes in grace to
a sinner and pours out the Holy Spirit upon us in saving mercy,
forming Christ in us, the sinner is made holy. Now listen carefully. I've chosen
my words deliberately. And Bobbie Esther, she hadn't
changed a bit. Hadn't changed a bit. Well, wait
a minute. There's a great change that comes
when a sinner says, oh yeah, there's a great change that comes.
But that old man hadn't changed any. He's still exactly what
he was before. God has come in you and formed
Christ in you, giving you holiness. holiness without which no man
shall see the Lord. Not only does the anointing oil
make us holy, the anointing oil claims us as gods. The anointing oil says you're
mine, you're mine. By God putting oil on Aaron's
head, he said, this is my priest. by God putting oil on the hands
of his sons. He said, these are my priests.
These are my priests. These shall serve me and nobody
else can come into the holy place. And when God comes in grace and
pours out his spirit upon his chosen, the Lord God almighty
brings us to himself upon the mercy seat to meet him in Christ
Jesus, the Lord, where we worship and serve our God. Look at verse
30. Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his
sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in
the priest office. The oil could not be poured upon
any, except those who wore the pure white matter of the blood-bought
righteous priest. And yet every chosen redeemed
priest is given the anointing oil. Did you hear that? Every
chosen, redeemed priest is given the anointing oil. And it is
by the anointing that we are made to know that we are gods. Imitations were deadly. God said, this is my oil. Don't
you make anything like this. Don't you make any, don't you
make any imitation of this. This is my oil. Any who dared,
look at verse 33. Any who dared to make a compound
like it shall be cut off. Any who dared to imitate God's
holy anointing were to be put to death. What multitudes there
are today who would imitate God's holy anointing. Pushing aside
the spirit's work. Pretending that a decision for
Jesus is the new birth. Pretending that religious ritualism
is the new birth. Pretending that an emotional
experience is the new birth. Pretending that legal obedience
is the new birth. Pretending that an intellectual
understanding of things is the new birth. Oh, no, no, no. No,
there's no common oil. And no oil to substitute this
oil or to imitate this oil. All the churches and religious
movements of the world are endeavoring to put the anointing oil upon
proud man. But man's nature is barren soil
and can never bear the fruit of the Spirit. It will never
spring from that desert land. Rather, a miracle has got to
take place. The sweet spices of Christ's
person must be brought by the olive oil. the blessed omnipotent
spirit of God giving life to dead sinners. And then in verses
34 through 38, I just, all I can do is read it to you. The Lord
God commanded Moses to make a holy perfume with which the anointed
priest were to enter the Holy of Holies with the blood of the
Paschal lamb. This perfume was used in their
censer, as they carried it with fire from the altar to the Lord. It was a perfume made by mixing
equal parts of these three sweet spices, astacte, and onycca,
and galbanum. Now, some guesses have been made
as to what those were, and the guesses, I guess, are all right,
but nobody really knows what any of those spices were. But
they would bring these spices, Aaron was to bring these spices
with the blood of the Paschal Lamb before the mercy seat when
he came in to worship God and lead Israel in the worship of
God. Now, I don't know what the spices were, but I'll tell you
exactly what they mean. I know exactly what they mean.
These three spices represented three things found in Christ
tempered together. God, man, and merit. God, man, and merit. Atonement, righteousness. These
three things mixed with the whiteness of God's holiness, justice, and
truth form the incense of our Savior's intercession for us. The sweet perfume by which we
draw near to God. It's a composition to which nothing
can be added. And any attempt to add anything
to it is deadly. Do you have the anointing? The
anointing is Christ in you. The perfume is Christ for you.
The perfume is Christ's satisfaction on our behalf. The anointing
is Christ formed in you by the grace of God. Do you have the
anointing? I wouldn't go to bed without
it. Knowing what I knew, if I were
you, I wouldn't give rest in my eyes until God gave me this
unction, this anointing from the Holy One. Unction of life
to make me whole. Holy anointing heal my soul. For grace, my God, for grace
I cry, give me Christ or else I die. Amen.