That great hymn was written by
a man the Lord used for a brief little while in Dundee, Scotland,
by the name of Robert Murray McShane. He died, if I remember
correctly, when he was 29 years old. Pastored Christ Church in
Dundee. Several years ago, I got a letter
from a man. His son had been passing our
tapes on to him. an old man who was pastor of
Christ Church in Dundee, Scotland. And he started listening to the
gospel of God's grace and started preaching it like McShane used
to. He got to send a note and send
a check for $200 for a Scotchman, that's something. He said, send
me all the tapes, that'll pay for it. And he got to listening
to them. And by the time we got the next
order, he'd been preaching it and they decided to retire him
and get somebody else. But that's just an interesting
side bit to that. The Lord's continuing to cause
the gospel to be preached around the world. I'm thankful and thank
you for singing that song. Turn with me to the book of Exodus,
chapter 30. In this day of religious nonsense,
especially the confusion and tomfoolery of the charismatics.
There is so much talk about the Holy Spirit and the gifts of
the Spirit and the anointing of the Spirit. You listen to
them talk to one another on the television shows about the anointing. And their faces just almost sparkle
and glow like an angel. Have you ever had somebody ask
you, do you have the anointing? When you're around such talk,
do you feel a little dirty? A little unclean, a little unworthy.
Somehow, they're talking about something that you ought to have
that's supposed to make you different, supposed to make you acceptable,
supposed to make you worthy. Well, the fact is, if that question,
do you have the anointing, makes you a little uncomfortable, there's
good reason for it. It's intended to make you uncomfortable
and make you uncomfortable so much so that you'll begin to
seek the anointing. Yet as you and I know, the Bible
does speak about an anointing. It does speak about an unction.
An unction from the Holy One. An anointing that God's people
must have. An anointing that all God's people
in this world do have. Do you have the anointing? That's
my subject this evening. Do you have the anointing? Exodus
chapter 30. Let me show you what that blessed,
holy anointing is, that which you and I must have, that anointing
without which none shall ever see the Lord, that anointing
which alone will make your conscience clean, that anointing which alone
will give you peace as you walk before God in this world. Actually,
Exodus 30, the last section, the last two sections, verses
22 through 38, describe two things. Two things that are equally essential. Two things that are equally vital. Two things that represent that
which is absolutely necessary if we would know and worship
the living God. First, he speaks of holy oil.
And then the prophet Moses is given to give us instruction
concerning holy perfume. And these two things were necessary
for the worship of God. Everybody who did business as
priest in the house of God, every man who served God in the tabernacle
was required to have this special holy oil anointing and this special
holy perfume with which he would come near to the Lord. The fact
is the holy oil speaks of the work of God the Holy Spirit in
us. And the holy perfume speaks of
the work of God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, for us as
our substitute. And you must have both. You must
have both. Both are vital. Both are necessary. Both bring us before God. Both
give us acceptance with God. And without both, there is no
acceptance before God. I stress this because there are
many today, many today, who make little of the work of the Lord
Jesus and much of the work of the Holy Spirit. And others who
make much of the work of the Lord Jesus and little or nothing
of the work of the Holy Spirit. Someone sent me an article just
last week written by a fellow who used to claim to believe
the gospel. He accuses as heresy anyone who
declares the necessity of having Christ formed in you. But this
passage here shows us that both the work of God the Spirit in
you and the work of God the Son for you are necessary for our
salvation. Let's read the passage together.
Verses 22 through 33. The Lord God gives commandment
concerning the holy anointing oil. 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 cassia, five hundred shekels
after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil, a hen, and
I'm sorry, of oil olive and hen. And thou shalt make it an oil
of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the
apothecary, after the art of one who makes perfume. 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, that they may be most holy. By this holy
anointing oil, sanctify them 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 office. These priests, for whom the holy
garments of the priesthood were made, these priests who wear
the breastplate, these priests who wear the white miter and
the white linen britches and the white garments, these priests
who wear the effort of holiness to the Lord in the forefront,
They cannot minister unto me in the holy place until they're
anointed with this holy oil. Anoint them that they may be
consecrated and minister to me in the priest office. Verse 31.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This
shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations. Upon man's flesh shall it not
be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it after the composition
of it. It is holy. It shall be unto
you. 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. Here he speaks
of the holy perfume. And the Lord said unto Moses,
take unto thee sweet spices, stag tea, and anika, 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-smelling perfume, after the art of the apothecary, tempered
together, pure and holy. And thou shalt beat some of it
very small, and put it before the testimony of the tabernacle
of the congregation, where I will meet with thee. It shall be unto
you most holy. As for the perfume which thou
shalt make, ye shall not make it to yourselves according to
the composition thereof, or ye 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 something similar, but not quite the same, something to
imitate it, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his
people. The sanctuary, the tabernacle,
that place where God was worshipped, all the furnishings of the tabernacle,
the altar, the brazen altar, the mercy seat, the showbread,
the candlestick, the priest, nothing would be accepted of
God apart from this anointing and this perfume. That automatically
ought to get your attention. First, in verses 22 through 33,
we read about the Lord commanding Moses to make special holy oils. An oil of holy ointment or holy
anointing or holy unction. This holy unction by which everything
connected with the worship of God was to be anointed. That
is everything including Aaron the high priest and Aaron's sons. Including the high priest himself
and those who were accepted as priest of God because of their
relationship to Aaron the high priest. This anointing was to
be required of all of them, all the furnishings and all the people.
God, the Holy Spirit, as you well know, throughout the scriptures
is compared to oil. He is the Holy Comforter, the
Holy Ghost. He is called throughout the scriptures
the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit. not because he is more holy than
the father or the son, he's not, but because he is that one whose
particular work it is, whose particular office capacity it
is to come to chosen and redeemed sinners, to sanctify and consecrate
us to God, to form Christ in us, giving us that life, that
holiness, making in us that new man created in true righteousness
and in true holiness. And so he is called the Holy
Spirit because that reflects on the work he's sent here to
do. The Holy Spirit. is typified by this holy anointing
oil. God says, Be ye holy, for I am
holy. Have you ever noticed how many
commands God gives that it's impossible for you to fulfill?
Impossible. God says, Be perfect, I'm perfect. He said, Be holy, for I'm holy.
He said, Except you repent, you shall likewise perish. God commandeth
all men everywhere to repent. God says, Awake from the dead,
arise, and I'll give you life. Well, who can do that? Who can
do that? Nobody can. But that which God
requires of us, God does for us. And here he declares that
that one who says, Be ye holy, for I am holy. He's showing us
how it is that God makes us to possess that holiness without
which no one shall see the oil. Olive oil, I repeat, is used
throughout the scriptures to speak of our blessed spirit. The spices that are here spoken
of gave fragrance to the oil, and the oil is the element that
carried the sweet aroma of those spices in the anointing. So these
spices representing the graces of Christ manifested to us, manifested
in us, given to us, and bestowed upon us are those things that
are brought to us by the Spirit and they are put in us by the
Spirit even as they were put upon our Redeemer as the God-man,
our mediator, by God the Spirit. Turn to Isaiah chapter 11. Let
me show you. Hold your hands here in Exodus and let's look
at a couple of passages. Isaiah chapter 11. As our Lord Jesus was always
full of the Spirit, He was always led by the Spirit, so His people
are filled with His Spirit and led by His Spirit. As the Holy
Spirit was uniquely given to Him without measure, He's given
to each of his own according to the measure of the gift of
Christ. 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,
the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of
the fear of the Lord. Look at chapter 61, Isaiah 61. Our Lord refers to this in Luke
chapter 4 verse 1 and says this, let's talk about here. Isaiah
61, 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. The spirit
of the Lord, he says, is upon me. God poured out His Spirit
without measure upon Christ our Mediator. And this Spirit of
God poured out on Him is pictured in this olive oil. It always
brings the excellent virtues of Christ into focus. That's
what the Spirit of God does when He's given to you. He brings
the excellences and the virtues of Christ Jesus into focus in
your own mind. Our Lord said, when he, the Spirit
of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall
not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he
speak. And he will show you things to come. He will glorify me,
for he shall take of mine, or receive of mine, and shall show
it unto you. This is the work of the Spirit
of God. He takes the things of Christ and reveals them to you. He reveals them in you and He
reveals them to you. He does it by the new birth.
He does it by the Word. He does it by the instruction
of the Word, but He does it by the effectual operation of His
power. He shows you who Christ is, what
Christ has done for you, and He brings the things of Christ
to you. Now, mark this down. Anything that doesn't glorify
Christ, not of God's Spirit. Any prayer, any sermon, any song,
anything involved in what men call worship, if it does not
magnify the Son of God, it doesn't matter how sweet it sounds, it
doesn't matter how much you want to tap your toe to the beat of
the music, it doesn't matter how good the music is, it's not
of God. It's not of God. That which is
inspired and directed by the Spirit of God always points to
Christ. always exalts Christ, always
magnifies Christ. And I'll tell you what that does.
That just sweeps religion right out the door of most churches.
What goes on in churches today? God and the Spirit's nowhere around
it. Nowhere around it. I know because Christ is not
honored. Christ is not magnified. His character is not held forth.
His accomplishments are not declared. Every time God the Spirit speaks
by a man, He speaks of Christ. Every time God the Spirit directs
your heart, He directs it to Christ. You can mark it down.
Now, let's look at the spices that are involved in the making
of this holy oil. The aroma of the anointing oil
was the spices that were diffused by the olive oil. The first one
mentioned is pure myrrh. Pure myrrh. You turn to the Song
of Solomon. Myrrh is the sap that comes from
the tree. It comes from the tree by cutting
into the tree, and the sap runs out. Myrrh, I don't know from
personal experience, I don't know anything about this kind
of stuff, but myrrh I'm told is, oh, wonderfully sweet to
the smell. but bitter to the taste. Bitter
to the taste. You ladies put on wonderful smelling
perfume. It's wonderful smelling perfume,
but don't get it on my coffee cup. It doesn't taste very good. It's just bitter to the taste.
That's a pretty good picture. The myrrh smells beautiful, but
it tastes bitter. Myrrh then clearly speaks of
our Lord Jesus. He's spoken of in that way in
scripture. Listen to this. All thy garments smell of myrrh
and aloes and cassia. Out of the ivory palaces where
they have made me glad, or where they have made thee glad. Now
look here in the Song of Solomon, chapter 1, verse 13. A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved
unto me. He shall lie all night betwixt
my breast. What a great picture of our Savior. He who is our only sweet smell. He who alone gives us acceptance
with God. A bundle of myrrh he shall lie
all night betwixt my breast. Now that's not stretching anything
at all. The ladies in these days would
take myrrh and tie it into a small bundle and that was the perfume
they would wear hanging between their breasts, making them smell
sweet, smell pretty. And it is Christ our Redeemer
who makes us smell sweet and pretty to our God. Look in chapter
5, or chapter 3 rather, Psalm Solomon 3. Who is this that cometh out of
the wilderness, like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh
and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? Chapter 5, verse
2. I sleep, we cry, but my heart
wakes. You know the rest. Just before he left, put his
hand in by the hole of the door, caused her bowels to move for
him. Verse five, she says, I rose up and opened to my beloved and
my hands dropped with my fingers with the sweet smelling myrrh
upon the handles of the lock. Verse 13, his cheeks are as a
bed of spices as sweet flowers, his lips like lilies dropping
with sweet smelling myrrh. The sweet myrrh speaks of love,
immense, eternal, everlasting, infinite love poured out for
our souls in bitterness incomparable. The bitterness of the myrrh tells
of the reality of our Lord's sufferings, not bitterness in
dying, not bitterness of pain, not bitterness of suffering,
the bitterness of being made sin for us who knew no sin. He takes the bitter dregs of
the bitter cup of God's bitter wrath and drinks it dry, making
himself all that we are and suffering death for us that we might be
made all that he is because of his great love for us. The next
spice listed back here is cinnamon, sweet cinnamon. It was probably
the same spice you ladies use today to make cinnamon toast
in the mornings or cinnamon rolls. Oh, how I love them. Wonderful
stuff, wonderful stuff. Probably the very same thing.
It's used four times in scripture, just four times. It comes from
a root word which means to erect or build. And it is Christ, our
great Zerubbabel, who builds his church and builds his temple.
He who laid the foundation stone will lay the topmost stone to
the corner, crying grace, grace unto it. Sinnamon is then attributed
by Christ to his church as the gift of his grace in the Song
of Solomon, chapter 4. How can this be? He who alone builds his church. He said, I
will build my church. I'll build it on this stone,
but I'll build my church myself, and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it. He's spoken of here this sweet
cinnamon. How can he speak of us as being
sweet cinnamon? And he does, in Song of Solomon,
where in chapter 4 where he speaks of his garden and speaks of the
cinnamon there. It is because Our Lord Jesus
makes us to be everything He is. Everything He is. He doesn't just credit us with
everything He's done. We did it in Him. So that all
that He is, we are, and all that He's done, we've done because
of our union with Him who is our mediator and our head. But
this word sentiment is used not just in our text in Exodus 30
and in Song of Solomon chapter 4. You read it last week if you
were reading or week before last your schedule reading in the
description of that whore church in Proverbs chapter 7. That harlot
that entices with her flattering words and her flattering eyes. the foolish. And she forces them
gently with her enticements into her bed with her sweet sentiment. How do you know that's what I'm
talking about? Revelation chapter 18 speaks
of the very same thing, of the very same woman and her name's
called Babylon, the great whore. In other words, false religion. Free will works religion. pretends
that she has the cinnamon that is the sinner's need, the sweet
spice of Christ the Lord, the sweet acceptance of God Almighty,
the sweet approval of God, and thus with hypocritical love for
their souls. Fools are enticed to her bed
and destroyed by her. Back here in Exodus 30. Sweet
Calamus. with another of these spices.
It comes from sweet cane. I'm told it generally grows in
miry soil. The fragrance is obtained by
crushing the plant. Our Lord Jesus came into all
the mire that we are. He grew erect and fragrant for
God. He came into the mire of the
earth for a special work. Wicked men took him and bound
him and crucified him. But what fragrance filled the
air when he was crushed by the hand of God, when the Lord smote
him himself, when the Lord cried, Awake, O sir, against one that
is my fellow, smite and slay the shepherd. The fragrance arose
from him when he was bruised for us. And now he comes to those
like that harlot described in John chapter 8 and finds her
in the mire and that bruised reed he lifts from the mire by
his own grace. The fourth thing mentioned here
is Cassia. This Cassia comes from a word
the meaning of which is to stoop, to bow down, to stoop like you
would stoop to worship, to bow down as one bows down to pray,
to bend at the waist before one who's superior. It's a picture
of our Lord Jesus Christ who by the mighty stoop of infinite
mercy came in this world in our flesh and stooped to become obedient. Not just obedient, but obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross. And thus, our Lord
Jesus, in his obedience to the Lord God as our substitute, has
fulfilled all that's necessary for us. And this is the sweet,
sweet fragrance of the anointing oil. When God, the Holy Spirit
comes. When God, the Holy Spirit comes
in the mighty operations of his grace. David Bridge, I'll tell
you exactly what he did for you. I'll tell you exactly what He
did for you. He made you to see, as you couldn't see before, who
Christ is and what He's done for you. Made you to see this
sinful wretch not only can be, but is accepted of God. Because
Christ lived and died for me. Alright, here's the second thing. In verse 31, we're told, this
shall be an holy anointing oil unto me. This anointing oil,
this holy unction is God's claim. It's God's claim. Anoint the
tabernacle. I claim it. It's mine. Anoint
the altar. I claim it. It's mine. the brazen
altar, anoint the laver, anoint the table of showbreader, anoint
the golden candlestick, anoint the mercy seat. I take it as
mine. When I say it's God's claim,
I mean by that God with the anointing oil owns everything. Anoint Aaron. He's mine. Anoint his sons. They're everyone
mine. That's exactly what God the Holy
Spirit does in regeneration and grace when he comes by his omnipotent
mercy and gives dead sinners life and faith in Christ Jesus.
God claims the sinner for himself. He comes to the sinner and says
to the sinner, you're mine, you're mine. Now preachers can pretend
to say it. Religious folks can pretend to
say it. Only God the Holy Spirit can make you know you're his.
Over the years, some of you have come to me or called and want
some helpful assurance. And I'm, uh, I just can't give you any. I can weep with you and I can
hurt with you. But I won't make any effort to
give you any assurance. I won't do it. And you ought
not help other folks. Well, honey, don't you worry.
You know you're the Lord's. Don't you tell anybody that.
Don't you tell anybody that. Well, I love them. If you love
them, tell them the truth. Tell them the truth. I can't
give you any assurance. But I can tell you who can. God
can. By his spirit. Listen to this.
The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit. The Spirit itself
bears witness with our spirit that we're the children of God.
How do you know you're one of God's? Because the Holy Spirit
says so. The Holy Spirit, He's given me
faith in Christ. And with the gift of faith, seals
to my heart every blessing of the covenant and tells me I'm
God's. But see, that's not so. Galatians chapter 4. Galatians
chapter 4. Verse 4, when the fullness of time was
come, God sent forth his son made of a woman, made under the
law to redeem them that were under the law for this purpose,
that we might receive the adoption of sons. That's exactly the same
thing he tells us in Galatians 3, 13 and 14. Christ redeemed
us from the curse of the law that we might receive the blessing
of Abraham, the promise of the Spirit. Christ was sent to redeem
us from under the curse of the law that we might receive the
adoption of sons. Not that we might be adopted
as sons. No. No. That we might receive
the adoption of sons. The Spirit of God comes and we
are made to receive the adoption of sons. Christ accomplished
our justification when he died in our stead, but we receive
the atonement, we receive justification, we receive reconciliation when
God the Holy Spirit comes. It is not Christ dying for you
that is the hope of glory. That's not what the book says,
is it, Larry? Where does it say that? Where does it say that?
Well, my hope is Christ died for me. That's the basis of my
hope, but that don't give anybody any hope. That don't give anybody
hope. The hope of glory is Christ in
you. Colossians 1, 27. When Christ is formed in you,
then you understand that Christ died for you. When Christ is
formed in you, then you believe on the Son of God. That's God's
seal to you. God comes and says, you're mine.
You're mine. How's that? Because you're sons,
God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying. Abba Father, so that you can,
Merle Hart, with all the awareness of your corruption and depravity
and sin, lift your heart to God and call Him your Father. How can you do that? Because
Christ is mine. Christ died for me, and I cannot
confidently trust Him except I have this holy anointing. Look
at this text again, Exodus 30, verse 30. This holy anointing
oil was put on no one except the tabernacle and Aaron and
Aaron's sons, God's chosen priest. Now remember, these priests were
priests already. They were Aaron's sons already.
They were ordained to the priesthood already. They had the priestly
garments already. but they could not function as
God's priest. They could not come into the
holy place as God's priest until the holy anointing oil was upon
them. Look at verse 30. Thou shalt
anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may
minister unto me in the priest office. You can't pray, you can't
sacrifice, you can't be accepted, until you have this anointing. Even so, no sinner is allowed
to worship God. No sinner can draw near to God. No sinner can call on God and
pray. Can't do it. Brother Don, I know
folks who pray all the time. I'm talking about praying. I'm
talking about talking with God. I'm talking about speaking to
God and having God speak to you. I'm talking about God hearing
you and you hearing God. No sinner can worship God. No sinner can trust God. No sinner can bow to the Lord
God until the Spirit of God comes on him in overwhelming grace
and sweetly forces him to trust the Savior. But all of God's
priests had this anointing. John said, ye have an unction
from the Holy One, and you know all things. The anointing which
you've received of the Father, it abideth with you. This holy
anointing represented in the anointing oil. And this anointing,
this oil, couldn't be poured on anyone. except the priest. Couldn't be poured on anyone
except Aaron and his sons. It couldn't be poured on anything
except the white effort of the holy priesthood of the blood-bought
priest. Now, here's a warning. Verse
33. Whosoever compoundeth any like
it shall be cut off. No imitations. Any who dared presume to imitate
God's holy anointing was to be put to death. Oh, what multitudes there are
today. Perhaps some of you who've been
trying to imitate the anointing maybe for years. Trying to imitate
what God alone can do. Be warned, you'll be damned for
your imitation. You will be cut off for your
pretense. You will be destroyed for your
hypocrisy. Yet there are multitudes of churches
as well who imitate the work. Preachers are taught in Bible
college and seminaries all over the world to imitate, to fake
the work, to pretend that God's working when God's not working,
to act like God's working when God's not working, to deceive
people into making a profession of faith and acting religious
when they're not. It's another sermon in itself,
but my soul, what a horrible thing it would be for me to try
to convince you that you knew God when you don't. Try to convince
you by giving you this or that or getting you to participate
in this, that, and other things that you know God when you don't.
Horrible, horrible. Now, let's look for a minute
at the holy perfume. Verses 34 through 38. Here the Lord commands Moses
to make a holy perfume with the anointed priest, or with which
the anointed priest were to enter into the Holy of Holies. They
would take the blood of the Lamb, the Paschal Lamb, that Lamb of
God representing Christ, our Lord, our Passover sacrifice
for us. And they take that blood of that
Lamb into the Holy of Holies once a year. But they couldn't
do it without this holy perfume. They had to go get the fire from
off God's altar, put coals in their censer, and take this holy
perfume, a powdery perfume, and sprinkle it in their censer and
wave it before the Lord as they went in to sprinkle blood. That
makes perfume significant, doesn't it? What's that talking about? What's it represent? It pictures
our acceptance with God through Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, by
His blood atonement, His perfect obedience, His complete satisfaction
of justice in our room instead. This perfume was made by a compound
of things that God gave here, by mixing equal parts of these
three sweet spices together, stacte, onyche, and galbonum. But no one has any idea what
those three spices are. And do you know where else they're
mentioned in scripture? Nowhere. No, you won't find a
word about any of them anywhere else, just right here. They're
just mentioned right here. Now some folks have made some
guesses what they might be, but nobody's got a clue what they
are, nobody. You look them up in a dictionary, if you find
what's got their names in it, it'll tell you it's one of the
spices they made the incense with in the Old Testament. Nobody
got any idea what they were. Nobody. But I can tell you exactly
what they represent. I can tell you on the authority
of this book exactly what they're intended to portray and teach
us. These three spices in equal parts. That's important. The
other spices were not mixed in equal parts. These three in equal
parts. are mixed together with frankincense. The word frankincense means whiteness. They're tempered together so
that they're made one. Made one. These three spices put in frankincense
in an apothecary pot and tempered ground and beaten together until
they just become one. They just become one. These three spices speak of the
God-man and merit. God and man and merit. God and man and worth. God and man and efficacy. God and man and atonement. God and man and righteousness. All one before God, in the God-man
our Savior, Jesus Christ the Lord. As God, He cannot save. As man, He cannot save, but the
God-Man, by His obedience unto death, is God our Savior. And we come before God in His
Spirit, by His Spirit, with this sweet perfume. Christ the Lord,
Christ the Mediator, Christ the substitute, Christ the redeemer. And God Almighty receives us
at the mercy seat where he said, there will I meet with thee. Do you have the anointing? Do you have the anointing? If not, I pray that God shows
you now that you don't have it. And if I were you, I wouldn't
give any rest to my eyes until it was mine. The anointed, the anointed, any
pretense will take you to hell. Any pretense. Amen.