Devotionals on Anointing

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• And from the moment he received the Spirit illumined pledge to see the Anointed – Simeon knew.

• Satanic Kingdom God is allowing this satanic control of the heavens over the earth for the present time, until that time when He will set His Own Anointed upon His holy hill of Zion.
• But Adam failed and Israel failed so God sent His anointed Son into the world.

• They knew that the apostles would sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel, – and Christ’s resurrection categorically confirmed His credentials as God’s anointed.

• Today we are anointed, yes we need continual anointing.

• A Future Church He fulfilled biblical prophecy – identifying Himself as the anointed One from God, yet we see an occasional glimpse of God’s future plans for His future church. He was fully God, and He was fully Man but He lived His life as an example to us all. He adhered to the Law of Moses for Jesus lived all of His life before Calvary’s cross.
• King of Israel He came to Israel as the promised Seed of Abraham – God’s anointed King of Israel. He came only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel for He was their great Shepherd.

• Anointing, not human selection, is the Divine law of succession.

• You can discern the difference, but the Anointing will tell you!
• The Anointing which you have received, when you come into touch with something false, will tell you if the Anointing is really governing, saying, e careful,not in words, but inside.

• He made Himself inferior to the one anointed cherub who aspired to be as God, and who in pride aspired to ascend above the heavens, and who screamed I will be as God.

• This was the anointed One, the Christ, of whom Zachariah prophesied, saying: this is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘BEHOLD THE MAN whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD'.

• It is the Father Who anointed us with grace upon grace and blessings upon blessing.

• Anointed Comforter In little Nazareth, He made His first announcement of this blessed role He bore:- The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.

• Even if ambitions are rooted in acts of God [such as David’s anointing by Samuel.
• Chosen Both were called and chosen by God to be king. Both were appointed and anointed of God to be the ruler of His people. Both had the spirit of God on their lives and both did some mighty acts of valour.

• Cool Detachment As I look back on the birth of the Saviour… that too was a time of disinterest – a disinterest and impartiality towards the Anointed One of Israel: Emmanuel.

• except the discovery of the true Anointed.

• God’s Anointed The Lord Jesus is the Messiah of God – God’s anointed; His appointed; His chosen. He was ordained of God and all things in heaven and earth are placed under His feet.
• He reaches into throne-room of heaven, yet bends down to touch all things on earth. He delves into the deepest; most intimate and secret areas of our very beings. The Lord Jesus is indeed God’s chosen – His anointed; His appointed; His Son.
• The Lord Jesus is the Messiah of God – His anointed; His appointed; His chosen. He was ordained of God and all things in heaven and in earth are placed under His feet.

• All in glorious union, without exception, directs attention to the Anointed One.

• He breaks our hearts to anoint us with His love.

• The sweet Psalmist of Israel reminds us that God is our strength, and in Psalm 28:8 we read: The LORD is their strength, and He is the saving refuge of His anointed, while Nehemiah rejoices to remind us that..

• Baptism of Repentance John indeed did need to be washed by the Lord – not only a baptism of repentance but a washing in the fountain of precious blood that flowed from Emmanuel’s severed veins – which alone can cleanse a filthy sinner from his sins and his old sin nature. But this prophet of God was of the house and linage of Levi and it was God’s purpose that His Beloved Son should be anointed High Priest, after the order of Melchizedek.
• – the baptism of the sinless Christ in the Jordan was not for His own sins, for He had none of which to repent – but He was to be the Saviour of the sinner, the Redeemer of the lost, and in this act of anointing, our Saviour deliberately identified Himself with your sin and mine.

• Unique Attributes Every aspect of the Person of Christ and the work of Christ is unique for He was not only God, but the anointed of God Who was spoken of by the prophets of old and Who Himself became fully man so that He could be our Prophet, Priest and King – bringing God to man and uniting humanity back to the Father. He is not only Creator of all, Lord of heaven and earth and God our righteousness, but He is the Prince of Peace, the Everlasting Father and our Wonderful Councillor.

• We shall be wasting our time if we expect, try, or even pray for anything really effective apart from this essentially heavenly and therefore anointed ground.

• Jesus: His given name: you shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins (Saviour) and Christ the anointed Messiah of God: His occupational name and title that announces His vocation (Messiah).

• Christ’s Forerunner John had been called, before his conception, to be the forerunner of God’s Messiah. John was called as a voice in the wilderness – to proclaim forth the kingdom of God. John was anointed to call the people of Israel to repent – to return to their Lord God. John was to proclaim: Behold the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world.  John 1:29.

• He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts... as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

• God’s Spirit In past days God’s Spirit was sent to certain individuals... to anoint and to empower, but He also withdrew when His work was completed – or due to sin. Bezaleel was divinely empowered to do artistic work in the tabernacle of God.

• He continues:- 'that we may present every person mature' (that is full-grown, fully initiated, complete, and perfect) – perfect, complete, whole in Christ (the Anointed One).
• Intimately Acquainted What are they to know more intimately and thoroughly: 'the mystic secret of God, which is Christ, the anointed One'.

• Living Example Mary sat at His feet while His disciples squabbled about their petty position, Mary worshiped while the rest evaluated the price of her anointing ointment.

• False Perceptions And sheltering in their legalistic and incorrect perceptions of God’s anointed, they cried:- we be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage.

• By the anointing of the Holy Spirit we may have capabilities that the best men and women of this world without the Holy Spirit have not got.

• The new heavenly order was not to be imposed on all humanity but given as a free and everlasting gift of grace to all who received God’s chosen, anointed federal-Head - for as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become… children of God – even to those who believe in His name.

• There is all the difference between being saved and then going into Christian service with the resultant studying of the Bible, the preparation of sermons, addresses, lessons; collecting material, mastering themes and subjects; etc., etc., and giving this out as required or as opportunity affords there is all the difference between this and an open heaven, an anointing, a revelation by the Holy Spirit.

• I counsel you to buy from Me... salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. (Revelation 3:18 ESV)

• He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

• David experienced rejection and hatred before he received his anointed crown.

• Heavenly Scene Picture the heavenly scene as God’s anointed High Priest stands before the golden alter..
• In His grace and wisdom, God anointed us as participating partners in His purpose.

• Coming Messiah Threading through the Old Testament are prophecies and promises of the coming Messiah Who was chosen of God to be His special representative and anointed king. Many references and titles, names and offices describe this long-awaited Saviour …  He was Seed of the Woman; Lion of Judah – Immanuel; Messiah; Mediator and Man. He was the chief Shepherd and faithful Witness and the root and the stem of David.

• David was promised that one of his descendants – a Man Who would be born through the seed of David, would be anointed of God to sit on David’s kingly throne – throughout all eternity. The humanity of Christ is indisputably linked with the great king David.
• Christ’s genealogy listed in Luke links the Lord Jesus through Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer of Ruth, who was to become the grandmother of king David – while in Acts we read that Christ, Who was raised from the dead was anointed to receive the faithful covenant blessing made to David. Luke tells us that Christ is to one day sit on the throne of David, while in Acts we read that He was promised the sure mercies of David.

• It is to prevent the Lord Christ Jesus, the anointed of God, to return as King of kings.
• Satan’s Goal His final downfall is prerecorded but his present activity is viciously cruel. The god of this world system has one main objective, one goal, one aim – it is to prevent the Lord Christ Jesus, the anointed of God return as King of kings. His main focus is to rob the spiritual believer of his or her true fighting power.

• Sin of Pride The first sin committed by the exulted heart of the anointed cherub was one of pride. The arrogant, “I wills” of a falling angel who sought to elevate him to the status of God.

• Christian Service Our bodies are to be washed, cleansed, consecrated, and anointed for service.
• We are to be anointed with the Spirit of God.

• Every one was carried out to the letter – in and through the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The eternal Son of God took upon Himself human flesh and became the perfect Son of Man – but had the Man Christ Jesus been anything but fully human, He could never have fulfilled this plethora of prophecies that authenticate – to the letter, His descendancy from His father Abraham and His legitimate right to the throne of David:– His anointed position as Israel’s coming Messiah and their rightful King.

• The anointing you received from Christ lives in you. (1 John 2:27 GW)
• The anointing which ye received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you, but... His anointing teacheth you concerning all things (1 John 2:27).
• The final authority and arbiter in all matters is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the anointing.

• the One of Whom ALL scripture speaks and points to. Christ is the Great High Priest – the One and Only Perfect Sacrifice for sin. Christ, it the Majestic King, the Eternal King, the Righteous King, the Anointed King.

• the Anointed One – Israel’s Messiah.

• And yet He knew that He – the Giver of life and love, would be so despised and rejected. He knew that the precious Son of His love would be oppressed, and afflicted by men. He knew His chosen, anointed One, would be led as a lamb to the slaughter by those He came to save.

• for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, Who is the Anointed of God – the Lord Jesus Christ.” Luke 2:10.

• Commander in Chief Christ Jesus is Commander-in-chief of both the visible and invisible universe. Christ has been awarded authority over all heavenly and earthly power and rule. All things have been placed under His feet and He has been anointed as Head.

• He was anointed of God and He was humble - He, Who had not where to lay His head throughout His earthly life.

• And in the coming of the Lord Jesus, Who is the anointed One – the Christ of God, we have a species represented, (in Christ) – we have that type manifested, (in Christ) – we have God’s nature displayed in human flesh, (in Christ).

• Consecrated of God He was taught God’s plan and shown the very pattern of God’s holy Temple. He was consecrated of God – anointing others with God’s Holy anointing oil. He was given manna to feed the hungry and water to drink from the rock. He drank bitter waters, which God sweetened and he rested at many oases.

• If it is true that you and I have been anointed of the Holy Spirit, as we ought to be, our presence in this world ought to register something positive for God.
• Let us be sure to ask the Lord that the anointing shallhave a free way in our lives.
• The effect of the Holy Spirit maybe to condemn some people, and it may be to redeem others, but Hecannot be neutral, and if the anointing is upon you and upon me,the devil will take account of it.

• He is the anointed Christ, the Messiah of Israel and the Saviour of the world.

• The Spirit of the Anointing comes upon us because the crucified One is risen.
• He comes to us out of an open heaven which the Son of God has opened for us.... The Lord Jesus said: i>When He, the Spirit... is come, He shall guide you into all the truth.And John confirms this in saying: i>The anointing which ye received... teaches you concerning all things.That is represented by the angels ascending and descending.

• God anointed Jesus of Nazareth.”Acts 10:38
• JESUS – the Name that is above every name and sweet music to the sinner’s ear. CHRIST – the anointed of God entrusted with the world’s greatest Mission. Christ is not a title of His essential divinity – though He is very God of very God.
• anointed of God before the world began. Many ‘antichrists’ have come John warned – counterfeits seeing to usurp His role.
• Lucifer, the anointed cherub, being the first to seek to substitute his divine Creator.

• Wonderful is His name – the anointed of God, our precious Saviour.

• Jesus, the anointed One - God incarnate.

• The anointing means that, and if that is not the nature of your spiritual life, there is something wrong in your case in relation to the anointing.
• That open heaven for the Lord Jesus was the anointing.
• It was the anointing, and it is the same for us.
• The open heaven is the anointing of the Spirit from the day of Pentecost onward upon Christ within us.

• Christ’s Mission to Israel Jesus came to present Himself to Israel as their anointed Messiah and promised King.

• Easter Reflections - STUDY    The Resurrection Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

• The anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you.
• But as His anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit just as it has taught you, remain in Him. (1 John 2:27 NIV)
• What is the meaning of the anointing of the Holy Spirit?
• The anointing carries with it the absolute Lordship of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit as Lord.
• The lordship of every interest and every influence is regarded as having given place to the undivided and unreserved lordship of the Holy Spirit, and the anointing can never be known or enjoyed, unless that has taken place....
• Do you ask for the anointing of the Holy Spirit?
• Why do you ask for the anointing of the Holy Spirit?
• Is the anointing something that you crave?
• The first and preeminent thing the anointing means is that we can do nothing but what the anointing teaches and leads to do.
• The anointing takes everything out of our hands.
• The anointing takes charge of the reputation.
• The anointing takes charge of the very purpose of God.
• The anointing takes complete control of everything and all is from that moment in the hands of the Holy Spirit, and we must remember that if we are going to learn Christ, that learning Christ is by the Holy Spirit's dealing with us, and that means that we have to go exactly the same way as Christ went in principle and in law... The Son can do nothing out from Himself.
• You see, there is the negative side of the anointing; while the positive side can be summed up in one word the Father only.
• Perhaps that is a little different idea of the anointing from what we have had, Oh, to be anointed of the Holy Spirit!
• The first and the abiding thing about the anointing is that we are imprisoned into the Lordship of the Spirit of God, so that there can be nothing if He does not do it.

• Mary …… anointed the feet of Jesus. John 12:3
• A Life Process What an act of devotion and total consecration to sit and to worship and to anoint His feet, as did Mary of Bethany.

• He had a broader perspective than the numerous religious folk of his day – he recognised the infant Messiah, the Anointed of Israel was also Saviour of the world.

• And from the moment he received the Spirit illumined pledge to see the Anointed-One, Simeon knew!  Simeon had hope in his heart that his promised pledge would come to pass.

• This was the birth of the Anointed One – for Whom the Jews had long-awaited.

• Is it possible that Jesus stood up at this point because He was prepared to return to earth to make His enemies His footstool; to bring in everlasting righteousness; to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.
• Could it be that this was the appointed time to seal up the vision and prophecy, to place all enemies under His feet, to be anointed as King, and set up His Millennial Kingdom?

• He is the anointed Messiah of Israel Who came into the world to save His people from their sins.

• Prophets of old had foretold the unrighteous choices Israel would make and how they would reject the Lord's Anointed.

• It was because of Israel's failure to trust in God, keep His covenant, and obey His commands, that the Lord has allowed fallen man to assume authority over the whole earth, and so it will remain until Israel is ready to repent of her sin and accept God's anointed Son as their Messiah.
• The trigger point for the Times of the Gentiles that coincides with Nebuchadnezzar's dream, continues to tick towards the Second Soming of God's Anointed: when Jesus Christ the Righteous is crowned King of kings and Lord of lords.
• He knew that His anointed Messiah would be born into the human race as a babe in Bethlehem and be despised and rejected at His first advent.

• Christ defeated Satan at the Cross, and although He is the rightful Ruler of the world and God's anointed King of the whole earth, Christ is currently absent from His people during this present age, waiting for that day when He will fully and finally put down all enemies under His feet, destroying every principality and power, and terminating Satan's destructive rule of terror.

• But it is also a book of hope that proclaims restoration for a faithful remnant, prophesies of the coming Messiah, and implores God's people to be obedient to His Word and to look for the coming of Elijah, who was to be the forerunner of God's anointed King.
• Daniel had given a very specific timeline: Seventy 'weeks' have been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
• Jesus was the Anointed of Israel Who suddenly came to His Temple and overturned the money tables and Who fiercely accused them of desecrating the Temple: My Father's House is a House of prayer for all people and you have made it a den of thieves.

• It was at that time that the Lord Jesus began in earnest to prepare His little band of faithful followers for His shocking betrayal, false accusations, unjust trial, cruel death, and glorious Resurrection.Over and again, His disciples failed to comprehend the serious nature of Christ's repeated prediction of His fast-approaching betrayal and death, and it became necessary for Jesus to speak plainly about the severe self-discipline His followers would require if they were to stand fast in the evil day and not be sifted as wheat by the enemy, nor emotionally tossed about by the terrible things they were soon to face.A simple, immovable, childlike faith in Christ Who had come as God's anointed King, His promised Messiah, and Kinsman-Redeemer, was essential as the days grew darker: Whoever receives Me, Jesus said, receives Him Who sent Me.Petty differences of colour or creed were to be laid aside, and a unity in the faith was to be established by those who acknowledged Jesus as Lord.

• He was a type of the Lord Jesus Chris:  God's promised KING from the house of David, and the Lord's anointed HIGH PRIEST after the order of Melchizedek.

• When the young prince Solomon was to be crowned king of Israel as David's anointed son and heir, the Lord appeared to him and said to him: Ask for whatever you want Me to give you.

• As Isaiah had prophesised, the Lord God had anointed and qualified Christ Jesus to preach the gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, the helpless and the afflicted.

• And He will bind up their wounds with His soothing ointment and He will anoint their nation with the oil of gladness, when they call on the name of the Lord and recognise their God and Saviour – for then they look upon Him Whom they have pierced.

• He was anointed of God before the foundation of the world, and Israel were to welcome Him and enthrone Him as their King on Zion's holy hill.
• His blood be on us and on our children!Precision timing on the arrival of their anointed King had been given to Israel, through Daniel.
• The nation of Israel rejected their anointed King, which caused God's whole redemptive programme for Israel to be postponed until His Second Coming, when they will finally repent of their sin, recognise their Saviour, and crown Him as their rightful King on Zion's holy hill.

• He has anointed our head with oil and our cup of blessing overflows with His goodness and love.
• The anointing oil that is poured over our heads is the soothing ointment of His never-ending love.

• He would be anointed of God, and He would be the One Who would set up an everlasting kingdom as promised to their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Israel and David.

• The requirements and service of the temporary Levitical priesthood and the role of Israel's high priest, stands in stark contrast with Christ's infinitely superior qualifications as God's anointed High Priest and His eternal priesthood, which supersedes every aspect of its earthly counterpart.

• He gave advanced warning of different signs to watch for, which would announce a time when the dry bones of the scattered nation of Israel would be resurrected back to life by the regenerating breath of the Spirit of God; a time when the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah would once again be reunited as one nation under God and reunified under the sovereign rule of the Almighty, through the Lord Jesus,  His anointed King and promised Messiah.

• We are to praise and glorify the One Who so generously pours out such unimaginable and eternal blessings on all who trust in the anointed Son of His love.

• He sent them to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God and to proclaim the good news that God's anointed King was here.

• But a time of Great Tribulation, beyond this Church age is coming, when a final and terrible thief will come and try to steal, kill, and destroy both the people of God and His Anointed King.

• The love and respect Mary had for Jesus caused her to anoint His feet with an extravagantly costly perfume, which she reverently wiped with her hair so that: The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

• Though David had been anointed as king of Israel, he was on the run from Saul who had become jealous of God’s anointed one, and in his attempt to escape from one bitter enemy, David fled into the arms of another deadly adversary, the king of the Philistines!

• From the beginning, the enemy of our soul has sought to hide God from us, to distort His character, to disrupt His plan of salvation, to deceive the nations, to destroy His Anointed and to shipwreck the faith of those that put their trust in Him.

• Both were anointed of God, and came in fulfilment of prophecy.

• Her brother, Lazarus, whom Jesus had raised from the dead was there, and Mary - their sister who had anointed the feet of Jesus with some very expensive oil of spikenard, was also present.
• But it was revealed to all who were present, that because of Mary's humble action, the body of Christ had been anointed for His burial - for the hour had come for the world to be judged.

• 2)They reject authority like the disobedient Israelites who murmured against God, resisted His authority, and rebelled against His anointed servant, Moses.

• We see a plan to glorify His Name and exult His Person among the nations of the world who rage against the God of heaven and His anointed King.

• He broke into the timeline of the earth's history as the perfect Man, in order to secure redemption for all who would believe on His name.He was the anointed One Who would redeem His people, as foretold by the prophets of old.
• He would rise from the dead and, in so doing, break the power of sin and Satan, death and hell, for all who would trust in Him.And early in His ministry, He stood up in His hometown synagogue to declare, The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor.

• The grief-stricken women who loved their Lord so deeply and had witnessed Christ's excruciating punishment and death, had been prevented from anointing His body due to religious restrictions.
• But their hurting hearts and the hungry love they had for their Saviour, caused certain women to rise early in the morning, while it was still dark, and hurry to the tomb to anoint His body with sweet perfume; but how their love was rewarded when they heard those earth-shattering words: He is not here, but He has risen.

• Rulers are lifted up by the Lord and replaced as He wills, but God has purposed in His heart to set up His anointed King, Who will smash all worldly rule.

• On that day, they will all acknowledge Him as God's anointed Messiah and enthrone Him, on David's throne, as their long-awaited King.The Church age is that period of time before the Lord returns to set up that promised Kingdom and be crowed King of all kings.

• It appears that Mary Magdalene was one of the women who prepared spices to anoint Christ's body that first Resurrection morn.

• Like David, Christ is the anointed king of Israel, having to wait many years for his coronation.
• The conflicts, hostility, and rejection that peppered David's path, exemplify the conflicts Christ endured during His earthly walk, but just as David was finally enthroned by all the 12 tribes of Israel, so the nation that rejected their anointed Messiah will welcome Him at His Second Coming, to rule and reign as King of kings and Lord of lords.

• They had already rejected His claim to be the fulfilment of Scripture, when, during a Sabbath day meeting He boldly announced: The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.

• In bygone days, the head or the feet of honoured visitors and important guests were often anointed by their host with a beautiful ointment or a sweet-smelling fragrance. This was not only done as a mark of respect to their guests, but it served to refresh their soul and gladden their heart.
• Solomon no doubt recalled the intimate friendship and trusted counsel that existed between his father, David, and Jonathan, and in the New Testament, perhaps there is no great example of the veracity of this verse than Mary of Bethany who so lovingly anointed the feet of her most trusted friend and Saviour.
• The oil with which Mary anointed the head and feet of the Lord Jesus, not only filled the house with the lingering fragrance of sweet perfume but it flooded His heart with joy, for she had become a beloved friend that sat at His feet and bathed in His wonderful words of wisdom.
• In the Scriptures, the oil of gladness and incense of joy, are so often seen as the adornment of the man or woman that loves righteousness and hates wickedness, while the perfumer's ointment and sacred anointing incense is frequently seen in Scripture, ascending up to the Lord as a good and acceptable freewill offering, a love offering, a burnt sacrifice and sweet-smelling savour that is so pleasing in the sight of the Lord. 

• The Sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing His plan to His servants, the prophets, and Ezekiel was one such servant through whom the Lord spoke to His people, Israel, and disclosed many wonderful and many terrible things.Although this man of God warned of the judgement to come, there is much in this book that emphases the sovereign authority of the Lord, which gives encouragement and comfort to his people, Israel.Although the book of Ezekiel trumpets the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Sanctuary, it also proclaims the great and awesome glory of the Lord and describes, in detail, the future Millennial Temple under the administration of God's anointed King.One aspect of Ezekiel's ministry was that some of his prophetic announcements were to be articulated through drama or mime.

• Perhaps Cush was a relative of Saul who relentlessly sought to slay David because of his evil jealousy of God's anointed.

• At His first coming Jesus came to His own people, but they rejected Him, and yet He was the royal Son of David - the Anointed of God.

• Instead of the Church proclaiming the gospel of the grace of God to a lost world, 144 thousand Jewish evangelists will start to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom – and then Christ will return as their anointed King.Although this is a time of Great Tribulation, it is not God's will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance through faith in Christ for the forgiveness of sin.

• The day is fast approaching when those that take counsel against God and against His anointed Son, will be broken to fragments with a rod of iron and smashed into little pieces like a potter's vessel.

• Paul explains this more in 1 Corinthians: Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, Who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

• He honours me by anointing my head with oil and my cup overflows with multiplied blessings.

• He was born as Scripture foretold, and was anointed by the Holy Spirit at His baptism.

• And he was further instructed to give this anointed Son of God the name of Jesus, which is the name above all names.

• Luke explains that even the women who had come with Him out of Galilee, followed and saw the tomb, and how His body was placed.But strict Sabbath Day regulations prevented these heart-broken, Jewish women from visiting the tomb the following day, which was a Sabbath and so from Friday, through Saturday, and into Sunday, the stone-cold body of the Lord Jesus Christ lay in silence – and alone - in the borrowed tomb of a wealthy man.No doubt copious tears were shed and many hearts bitterly grieved, as these loyal ladies fulfilled the requirements of the Sabbath Day – for we read that they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.No doubt, they started preparing spices and perfumes to anoint His body, throughout that evening and into the night-time once the Sabbath was over.
• The sacred tribute, mingled with their tears, would be to anoint the body of Christ with myrrh and other spices as early as possible the following morning.They knew exactly where to go, and we read that many women set out to visit the tomb early on that first day of the week.

• He was called out of Egypt, anointed by the Holy Spirit, and Daniel even proclaimed the exact time of His appearance.

• This was strictly against the Law of Moses - for only God's anointed priests were permitted to sacrifice to the Lord - on behalf of the people and their king.

• They were divinely guided and followed a star that rose in the east – which would lead them to Jesus.Some suggest that they were descendants of wise men who had been taught, by Daniel the prophet, that 490 years would pass from the issuing of the decree to rebuild the city of Jerusalem and the House of God, until the coming of Messiah, the Prince, the anointed King of Israel.
• He was the One Who was anointed by God to be the King of kings and the Lord of lords, Who alone is worthy of worship and praise.Then, opening their treasures, these great sages from the east presented Him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

• He alone could proclaim: The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those that are bruised and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.

• Although God formerly spoke through these great men of faith, Jesus Christ was the Word made flesh. He was God's anointed Ruler and consecrated Spokesperson.

• Unlike earthly rulers, who rise to power but are set low by God's sovereign authority, the King of glory, Who is strong and mighty to save, is God's Anointed King and prophesied Messiah.

• John identified Jesus as the anointed Messiah, equal with the Father.
• The Man on Whom he saw the Spirit of God descending and remaining, would be the Lord's anointed, and when the Spirit of God descended and rested on Christ at His baptism, John began to boldly testify that JESUS is the Son of the living God.

• He also pronounced seven shocking 'woes' against these pious, hypocritical, religious leaders, who had spurned God's anointed Messiah and rejected His offer of salvation.
• Early in His ministry, the Lord Jesus had presented Himself to Israel as God's Anointed Messiah Who had come to redeem His people from their sin.
• He had been anointed by God to tell the good news to the poor, to announce freedom to the prisoners, to give sight to the blind, and set oppressed people free.

• He was heaven's Prince of Peace Whom God anointed to be their King of kings.
• But Israel failed in their mission which would eventually result in the rejection of God's anointed King and the crucifixion of their Messiah.

• Jesus is God’s anointed and has been appointed to bring all things in heaven and earth, back under God’s sovereign control, during the 'Day of the Lord'.

• He had been anointed by God and was to be installed as His appointed King on Zion... on the holy mountain of the Lord.He was to set up the heavenly kingdom that had been promised for ages and generations, and He was to rule the whole earth in justice and peace.
• God’s Anointed-One was to be crowned as King of all kings and take up His position as Judge of the whole earth.
• They were being called to remove everything in their lives that hindered their walk with the Lord, and accept the King Whom God had anointed to rule over them – they were to repent of their sins.
• But the day is coming when all Israel will be saved – just before the Millenium begins, at the end of the coming Great Tribulation, they will repent as a nation.The day IS coming when Israel will finally recognise Christ as God's anointed King and will rejoice to see the rescheduled day of their second visitation.

• God has selected you and me out of all the people groups of the world for a very special reason, and we have been anointed with the oil of gladness to serve as His representatives on earth.

• When Samuel had anointed Saul as king, it was his tall stature and good looks that caught the prophet's attention, and yet Saul turned out to be a real disappointment to Samuel, for his heart was not pure before the Lord.
• Later, when this messenger of God came to anoint one of the sons of Jesse as God's chosen king, we discover that once again Samuel was judging the quality of the Israel's future king by his outward appearance, and not by the inner attitude and motive of his heart.

• He will give strength to His King and will exalt the horn of His Anointed.

• When the women came early in the morning to anoint the body of Christ, they found that the stone was rolled away.

• This psalm details some of the trials David faced as God's anointed.

• Today this sovereign God is high and lifted up and sits upon His throne in glory while the nations rage and plot their evil plans against the LORD and against His anointed Son.

• However, despite a seditious military coup instigated by his older brother which was designed to secure the crown for himself, Solomon was anointed as his father's successor and king of Israel by Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet.
• Solomon was proclaimed to be God's anointed ruler.

• He came as God's anointed King Who is greater than David.

• You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of joy more than Your companions.
• And because of His goodness and grace which delighted in righteousness and eschewed evil, God anointed Him with the oil of gladness beyond His companions.
• He is the Father's beloved Son, in Whom God is well pleased Who loves righteousness and hates wickedness, and Who is anointed with the oil of gladness as heir of all things.

• Israel, as God's firstborn, adopted son, had to turn back to the God of their forefathers and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ - God's only begotten Son and anointed King Who would become the 'firstborn' from the dead and Saviour of the world.

• Jesus is the Son of David after the flesh and God's anointed King in the power of the Spirit, and His kingdom and kingship will never end.

• In the first few chapters of his Gospel, Matthew introduces the reader to Jesus as God's anointed King.
• By His action, Jesus demonstrated a fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy: The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.

• His baptism was not unto repentance, but in fulfilment of a Levitical law to anoint God's High Priest.

• It is during this wonderful future time when Christ rules and reigns as Israel's anointed King, that swords will be beaten into plowshares, and a time of global peace and prosperity will descend upon this war-torn world.

• Christ was uniquely qualified to apply this glorious prophecy to Himself, for He had indeed been anointed of God to bring good news to the afflicted, to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to those that were captive to sin, and freedom to those that were enslaved by Satan.
• The Lord Jesus was identified by the Father as: My Beloved Son, and He was anointed by the Holy Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit, and walked in spirit and truth.
• Christ was indeed uniquely qualified to proclaim: The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me, to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.

• He had been identified as 'My beloved Son' by His Father in heaven and anointed by Mary of Bethany for His burial, when she broke open the alabaster box of precious ointment and poured it on His feet.

• David was anointed, by Samuel, to be Israel's king while still a youth.

• Jesus had sent His twelve apostles out with a special commission to preach repentance to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and had given them apostolic authority and divine ability to: Drive out many demons, anoint many sick people with oil, and heal them.

• But Israel had become apostate over the years, and although God always had a remnant who trusted His Word and believed Him to be the anointed Messiah, it was national repentance from the entire nation that the Lord required.
• And although a remnant of Israel confessed Jesus as Lord and acknowledged Him as the Messiah and Son of God, their promised kingdom was postponed and their anointed King returned to heaven – until the entire nation of Israel will cry out to Him for salvation (at the Second Coming of Christ).

• Such a man is not influenced by the mindset of worldly men who live in defiant rebellion against God and hold His anointed Son in contempt.

• He came as the second Adam, the perfect Man, the rightful Heir, and God's Anointed.

• He was God's anointed Son Who was to proclaim His Sovereign authority over heaven and earth and His rightful place on the everlasting throne of David.

• Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
• Others use this verse to introduce the unbiblical 8th century practice of 'extreme unction' which is the unscriptural, Catholic sacrament of anointing the sick when dying, and still others insist that anointing oil is simply a reference to good medical attention.
• The anointing of a sick body was indeed a medical practice during the times of Christ, and God often combines natural medication with supernatural healing, but James clearly is identifying i) illness, and ii) anointing with oil in verse 14 with a) illness and b) the prayer of faith in verse 15.
• It also takes an act of faith for the elders of a church to collectively gather to pray for the healing for a sick member of their congregation, and to anoint that person's body with oil, while praying collectively, in faith, for their healing.

• The purchase price for mankind had been fully and finally met and its effects must have rocked the foundations of hell and caused a heavenly choir of angelic voices to explode into jubilant praise.Jesus came to fulfil both the Law and the prophets, and to announce Himself as God's anointed King and firstborn Son.

• Atonement means 'covering', and animal sacrifices for sin meant sin could be covered until God sent His anointed Messiah Who would come to save His people from their sin and forgive them their iniquity; both the sin nature imputed from Adam, and personal sins.

• Although Jesus is God's anointed King Who will one day rule and reign over all the earth, Christ's kingdom is not of this unrighteous world system, which must first be destroyed before He returns to rule and reign in righteousness, together with those who have trusted Him as Saviour.

• And Paul, the chosen apostle to the Gentiles, was anointed of God to share the good news of the gospel of grace to all who have ears to hear.

• All the trees of the forest set out to anoint a king over them.
• Finally, the trees asked the thorny Bramble bush to reign over them: If you really are anointing me as king over you, the Bramble bush said, come and find refuge in my shade.

• He was called to prepare the way of the Lord and pronounce the arrival of Israel's long-awaited, promised Messiah. John was sent from God as a witness to testify that Jesus was God's anointed King, the Word made flesh, the Light of the world.

• On that day, He will rule the nations with a rod of iron as God has promised, for Christ is the Lord's Anointed; He is the triumphant Messiah of Israel; He is the eternal Son of most high God and the perfect Son of Man.
• The nations of the earth may conspire against the Lord and against His Anointed.

• When He came to earth so many years ago, the Lord Jesus came to finish the transgression to make an end of sin, and to make atonement for iniquity through His sacrificial death so that He could bring in everlasting righteousness, seal up vision and prophecy, and anoint the most holy place.

• In Luke, the Lord Jesus is acknowledged as the Christ of God, while John's Gospel records Peter as saying: We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God. Matthew expands Mark's brief proclamation to read: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God, but this sacred declaration, when Jesus' disciples recognised and confessed Him as God's anointed Saviour, seems to be a pivotal point in each of the four Gospels.
• Jesus was the anointed Messiah-King of Israel Whose coming had been prophesied throughout Old Testament Scripture, but He had not come to set up His Messianic Kingdom at that time. First, He had to subdue all principalities and powers in the heavenly realm, and to offer Himself up as the ransom price for the sin of the whole world, before He could usher in the kingdom of heaven on earth.

• It identified the Man, Christ Jesus as God's anointed King and His appointed Judge.

• He was the One rejected by Israel's leadership, HE is the One anointed of God as the Rock of our Salvation, and HE is The Stone which the builders rejected Who has become the Chief Cornerstone.

• He is God's anointed King and great High Priest Who was sent according to the order of Melchizedek (King of Peace and High Priest of the Lord).

• He identified Jesus as the Anointed of God, about Whom the prophets spoke.

• It happened after Mary had anointed Christ's feet with oil in preparation for His fast approaching sacrificial death, and it happened after Jesus made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey in fulfilment of prophecy as the crowds who followed Him cheered.

• Through Him God promised: To finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

• Daniel was an old man when he prayed and confessed before the Lord, but his beautiful prayer and the prophetic answer that he received from God would impact millions of men and women down through centuries of time who have been brought to an understanding of the 70-weeks of Daniel, which were determined for Israel and Jerusalem: To finish transgression, to make an end of sin, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most High.

• And so, like Aaron before Him, He was to be washed with water before being anointed with oil as was befitting the role of God's Royal High Priest, after the order of Melchisedek.

• Jesus is the anointed of God, and it was to Jesus that the Father directed our attention when His voice thundered on the holy mount, This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased, Hear HIM – listen to HIM - look to Him.

• Israel’s Sabbath was to remind them of a future sanctified day when God's anointed Messiah would right all wrongs and set up His eternal kingdom on earth.

• David was such a man, who had been anointed by Samuel, the prophet, to be Israel's future king.
• He lamented that his enemies arrogantly fought against him - despite being the Lord's anointed.

• The reason that John's Gospel was written was to authenticate the claim that Jesus was that anointed Son of God and Saviour of the world, and that all who believe on His name would not perish but have everlasting life.

• Knowing that Christ, the Messiah and anointed King of Israel was soon to be rejected by His people, had already been labelled as a blasphemer by Israel's leaders, and was soon to be handed over to the Gentiles to be crucified, it appears that God refused to recognise the Passover as 'a feast of the Lord'. God knows the end before the beginning and knew that the people would reject and crucify His dearly beloved Son, and had already rendered the deep significance of the Passover into a required religious ritual.

• Despite being Israel's anointed king, David had many enemies and was often in great danger.
• He also knew he was a child of God and the Lord's anointed king, and so David expressed his need for divine intervention.

• Israel, as God's firstborn, adopted son, had to turn back to the God of their forefathers and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ - His only begotten Son and anointed King, Who would become the 'firstborn' from the dead and Saviour of the world.

• Paul made it clear that there are no superior saints, super-apostles, or a special class of Christians, as his accusers claimed, and reinforced the gospel message he preached by saying: Now He Who establishes us with you in Christ and Who anointed us ALL is God.

• Mary Magdalene had come early in the morning to anoint the dead body of Jesus with spices, and finding that the stone was rolled away, immediately ran to tell the disciples.

• There are many hidden truths that were revealed to Paul by the Lord Jesus which had been concealed for ages and generations, but which have been revealed to us through the anointed ministry of Christ's appointed apostle.

• He used the phrase: Day of the Lord, seven times in his writings and paints a dark and gloomy picture of a time when God's wrath will be poured out on a God-hating sinful world that has rejected His anointed Messiah, refused His offer of salvation, and defiantly celebrates sin.

• He was chosen by God to succeed his father, king David, as Israel's anointed king, and when faced with the great responsibility of leading the nation, he humbly confessed that he was unable to do so without help from the Lord.

• Christ was anointed of God put sin away forever, and He alone was qualified to do so.

• God sent a message of hope to Israel despite their persistent unbelief and blasphemous idolatry: The Lord Himself would give them a sign, which would authenticate the arrival of His anointed Saviour, the Seed of the woman, the Messiah of Israel, and royal descendent of the great king David.

• God the Father anointed His beloved Son for this prime position in the human race.

• In 1 John chapter 2, we discover a ministry of the Holy Spirit not mentioned elsewhere in Scripture; His 'unction' or His 'anointing': You have an UNCTION from the Holy One, we read in the KJV translation, and ye know all things.
• In other renderings, we read: You have an ANOINTING from the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.
• As this is the only place in the New Testament that refers to the 'unction' or 'anointing' of the Spirit, it is important to know how it relates to the Spirit's work in the rest of Scripture.
• It seems that His 'unction' or 'anointing' corresponds with His 'indwelling' ministry, which takes place at the moment of salvation.
• An unbeliever is barred from all the ministries He performs in the life of a Christian, but because a believer has the 'unction' of the Spirit or the Spirit's 'anointing' (because a believer is indwelt by the Spirit), they have access to His other Church-age ministries.
• It is at this point that John explains that unlike these false teachers and false-hearted 'believers', true believers have an unction from the Holy Spirit, they have the anointing of the Holy Spirit, they have been born-again and have the indwelling Holy Spirit of God: But YOU have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge, he explained.
• And because of this anointing, they were God's children and had access to all-knowledge.

• In a nutshell, the final chapters of Zechariah teach that God's anointed King would be rejected at first, but in the end, will return in power and great glory to save Israel from their enemies, to establish His eternal kingdom on earth, and to rule and reign in righteousness and equity.
• Daniel explains that He came, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. But instead, He was nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men, and put to death.

• And for three of the deepest and darkest hours of history, Jesus the beloved and anointed Son of God, hung on the Cross as our Kinsman-Redeemer, paying the price in full, for our sins.

• JESUS is the Christ, the anointed One.

• Jesus had already been anointed for burial at Bethany and ridden into Jerusalem on a donkey, as Scripture foretold.

• But this continual covering could only last until God's anointed Messiah, the true Lamb of God, would become the final sacrifice for the sin of the world.
• When He returns, He will come back as God's anointed King.

• But this truth must not be divorced from the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the anointed Messiah and promised Saviour Whose sacrificial death paid the price for our sins and Whose glorious Resurrection transferred us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son. 

• Christ is the One Who will fully and finally stop the raging of the nations and silence the tumult of the pagan countries who are plotting in vain against the Lord and against His anointed.

• Together they were going to anoint the body of their beloved - but dead Saviour.... or so they thought!
• Nevertheless, they prepared spices to anoint the dead, as was the custom.

• Elijah was to be the forerunner of God's Anointed King.

• They are also to watch for the coming of Elijah, whom God promised to send as the forerunner of His anointed King.

• Man was charged to take dominion over the entire earth and vast oceans, as God's anointed representative ruler.

• For most of Christ's earthly ministry, He and His disciples taught the gospel of the kingdom, but because Israel rejected God's anointed King, Christ returned to heaven for a season, while God continued His plan of redemption through the Church.

• Samuel was the one who had anointed Saul as king, at God's instruction, yet he was the one that was to deliver the strongest rebuke to this disobedient king, for Saul was to be removed from his high position as God's anointed servant over His people, Israel.

• The world is at enmity with the Father, and the world hates the anointed Son of the Father.

• And so, He looked at the dear woman who had been chosen to bear the Lord's Anointed, with tenderness and love, for she was standing by the Cross with her sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene: And when Jesus saw His mother and the disciple He loved standing there, He said to His mother, 'Woman, here is your son.' Then He said to the disciple, 'Here is your mother.' And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

• Each newly established kingdom would be inferior to the previous ones, until the time of the end when the great God of all gods would send His anointed King of all kings and Saviour of all to smash to pieces every vestige of this succession of kingdoms, which enslaved the world for so long.
• It is the Kingdom of God's anointed Christ Who will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but His Kingdom will itself endure forever and ever.

• Some were designed so that those whose hearts were hardened against the Lord and His anointed Christ, would hear with their ears, but be deaf to its real meaning.
• However, once He had been accused of casting out demons by satanic power, His clear, Messianic proclamations, began to be shrouded in parables - so that those whose hearts were hardened against God and His anointed Christ would hear with their ears, but be deaf to its meaning.

• The Lord Jesus is uniquely the eternal Son of God, the perfect Son of Man, the rightful King of the universe, and God's anointed High Priest.

• It is the point when the rule of Satan, through fallen man, will be replaced with God's righteous rule through His anointed Son.

• However, before this takes place, as Scripture declares, the nation was to repent of their sin, be restored to God, trust in His anointed Son, and be redeemed as God's chosen people.

• Those days arrived when Christ was born, and had Jesus been accepted as Israel's prophesied Messiah, He would have set up His earthly kingdom there and then - a kingdom which had been promised to Abraham and his Seed many years before - for God's anointed King was in their midst and all Israel had to do was to repent, turn back to God, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ Whom He had sent.
• The Church age, which began on the day of Pentecost and ends with the Rapture, is the interim period between Christ's shocking rejection at His First Coming and His glorious acceptance as God's anointed King at His Second Coming... when Israel will finally accept Jesus as their Messiah and will once again cry, Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord.

• The giving of the Law to the nation of Israel was one of the most important events in the history of mankind's redemption, and an important step in the chronicles of the covenant nation of Israel through Whom God's anointed Saviour was to be born.
• The giving of the Law to the nation of Israel was one of the most important events in the history of man's redemption, and an important step in the chronicles of the covenant nation of Israel, through Whom God's anointed Son was born.

• They rejected God's anointed.

• He was the anointed of God because He was given the power to perform many mighty miracles.

• The second aspect of his calling was to help us understand, the administration of the mystery. Paul was anointed of God to open up the gospel to the Gentiles... and to explain the mystery of God which had been hidden from past generations, but which had now been revealed to the world through Paul and the other apostles.
• Just as Moses was called to be God's administrator to Israel, so Paul was anointed to be God's administrator to the Church.

• He is God's anointed King of kings and Lord of lords.

• He was God's Anointed King Who came to His own people, but they would not permit Him to rule over them and cried out: Crucify Him!

• I wonder if David knew that the Psalm he was writing in his deep distress would be a peculiar pointer to great David's greater Son - God's Anointed Saviour, Who would be despised and rejected of men - a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief - so that the fallen race of man could be redeemed by faith.

• These were chosen men of God who were anointed by Him to deliver heavenly information that was to one day be complied into the very Word of God.

• Saul was anointed as Israel's first king by Samuel, but he quickly became proud and disobedient.
• God knew that David, the shepherd-boy from Bethlehem, was a man after His own heart, and so Samuel was sent to anoint the youngest son of Jesse, in place of Saul.
• Although he was the rightful heir to the throne, David, had received no instruction from the Lord to destroy his enemy and could not bring himself to harm God's anointed king.

• But this is more than the exaltation of an earthly king for we also read: Your throne O God is forever and ever, righteousness is the sceptre of Your kingdom and God has anointed You with the oil of gladness above all Your companions.
• Oh yes, all Scripture is inspired of God and Psalm 45 is a glorious hymn of praise and celebration of the King of kings, God's own anointed.

• But righteousness is credited to those who have faith in the Anointed of God, not those who boast in their physical genetics.

• From the start of Christ's ministry, the scribes and Pharisees resented His unorthodox teaching and heavenly testimony, which laid claims to His being the incarnate Son of God Who came to earth from heaven as the anointed Messiah of Israel.

• 'CHRIST' reveals His mission, for He is the Anointed of God Who was sent as the promised Messiah of Israel and Saviour of the world.

• The Lord Jesus however, was born both a KING through David's line and anointed by God as a PRIEST forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

• All who were born before the Cross were born under the Law, which was the tool God used to point people to His coming, anointed Son.

• It was also a starting point for a prophecy given to Daniel: Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

• Righteousness is credited by grace through faith in God's anointed Saviour, and by faith we are to continue living lives obeying God's Word.

• Scripture tells us that, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, but that a time was coming when the Lord God would raise up another Prophet, and today we know Him to be Jesus - the Lord's anointed Prophet, Priest, and King of Israel.
• This anointed Prophet of God would be unique in the history of the world.

• Many consider this angel to be 'The Angel of the Lord' - Lord Jesus Himself Who is God's anointed High Priest of heaven, for Hebrews tells us that Christ is the One at the right hand of the Father Who intercedes for the saints day and night.

• Other passages identify it as a wonderful time of peace and prosperity when God's anointed King rules and reigns on the throne of David.

• How could it be that God's Anointed, Who is above all, over-all, and sustains all, could place Himself in a position of such inferiority towards His own people?

• They trusted that God's Word would one day be fulfilled, and Israel was the nation selected by God to be His chosen people through whom would be born God's anointed Saviour of the world.

• Although the nation of Israel was in deep distress, Jesus was God's anointed Sovereign, Who was to rule and reign in righteousness - and He will rule and reign with a rod of iron.
• God's anointed King was Jesus, for He was both the root and the offspring of Israel's great king David, as promised by the Word of the Lord.
• The shocking rejection of their Messiah and King, His illegal trials and cruel crucifixion on a Roman cross, caused the longed-for time of peace and prosperity, under the rulership of God's anointed King, to be postponed for a season.

• He was the One Who would finally seal up the vision and prophecy, and anoint the most holy place.

• It was at the start of Christ's ministry that Jesus walked from His hometown in Galilee to the River Jordan to be baptised by John, to be anointed by the Holy Spirit, and to be confirmed as God's only Begotten Son and Israel's promised Messiah.
• John was a voice crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and was anointed of the Lord to be the forerunner of the promised Messiah.
• But secondly, Christ was also to be God's anointed, heavenly High Priest, and like Aaron (Israel's first high priest), Christ was to be washed with water so that He could represent the people to His Father.
• Jesus also had to be anointed with oil so that He could function as God's heavenly, High Priest, after the order of Melchizedek.
• And so once the Lord was immersed in the water and washed by John (in the manner of all God's priests), and anointed with the Oil of the Holy Spirit Who rested upon Him in the form of a Dove, the very voice of God was heard to proclaim: THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED!

• He was the anointed Son of the Father and was sent to save His people from their sin, but was despised, rejected, mocked, and delivered up to be crucified. 

• Jesus is God's anointed High Priest, through Whom we have been made fit to approach the grand and awesome throne of the most high God.
• He was born for this priestly role and anointed as God's great High Priest by the Holy Spirit, Who rested on Him in the likeness of a Dove at His baptism.

• Solomon was an anointed king of Israel and prophet of God who had been chosen to rule over His people, and who had the privilege of building the Temple of the Lord.
• Even though Solomon was a man chosen by God to be His anointed king, he fell into the trap of seeking his satisfaction in the wrong cisterns.

• Although the lineage of Christ as a descendent of David was certainly evident in both Matthew and Luke's genealogies, only Matthew is able to provide the legal status for Jesus to be anointed as the legitimate King of Israel.

• He prayed that we would increase in understanding and knowledge, and be granted greater illumination and spiritual revelation of our Father in heaven and His anointed Son, Jesus Christ, Who died for our sins and rose again the third day to give us His abundant life, according to the riches of His grace.

• Adam's sin was imputed to all men, but God in His grace determined that by the sacrificial death of one MAN - the man Christ Jesus, ALL mankind, not angel-kind, would be given the opportunity to be saved by grace through faith in God's own anointed Messiah, Jesus Christ, Whom He would send.

• Jesus, the anointed Messiah of God was their rightful King.

• Were they following Him out of idle curiosity or did they understand that He was the anointed Lamb of God, Who had come from His Father in heaven, to take away the sin of the world.

• Christ is the anointed of God - the Messiah - the One chosen by the Father to be pre-eminent among humanity.

• The land will mourn, and every family will weep, when they suddenly realise that they crucified their promised Messiah and anointed King.

• Let us hold fast to the truth and confess Christ crucified as the anointed Messiah of God and Redeemer of the world, for our Saviour Jesus Christ is Prophet, Priest, and King.

• THEREFORE, there is now no condemnation for those who are in union with the Jesus Who is the Anointed of God. 

• Peter and the other disciples had been witness to certain signs and wonders which we discover were designed to authenticate Christ's claims to be the anointed Messiah of Israel, for all that He said and all that He did was foretold by the prophets of old.

• They were given authority to cast out demons, raise the dead, heal the sick and anoint them with oil.

• And yet as Luke records, Jesus wept over Jerusalem and grieved for His people, for despite their fleshly adoration of Him, they neither accepted Him as their Messiah nor acknowledged Him as God's anointed King.
• He will not forsake His people, but they must first acknowledge Him as Messiah of Israel, Saviour of the world, and God's anointed King of kings.

• A little earlier in His ministry while at the synagogue in Nazareth, Jesus had laid claim to the fact that He was Israel's promised Messiah with the words, the Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor.

• The critical thing is to believe that Jesus, the God-Man, was anointed of God the Father to be the Messiah of Israel and Saviour of the world, and that His death satisfied God's righteous justice, broke the power of sin, and paid the full price for the accumulated sin of mankind, while His Resurrection demonstrated that the power of death and hell was forever broken.

• Paul makes it very clear that we are established and anointed by God - not ourselves.
• Now it is God Who establishes us and confirms us in fellowship with one another in Christ - and it is God who has anointed us and empowered us with the gifts of the Spirit.

• The sinless Man Who willingly shed His blood to redeem His fallen creatures, rose from the dead, and ascended back to heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father as His anointed King-Priest according to the priestly order of Melchizedek.

• However, inspired by the Holy Spirit, Stephen gave the most anointed monologue, which covered strategic points in Israel's history - accusing them of rebellion and unbelief.

• Samuel was the last of the nation's Judges and was the prophet who reluctantly anointed Israel's first king, at the insistence of the people.

• Each one receives the anointing of the Holy Spirit at salvation when He comes to permanently indwell us and abide in us.
• This anointing happens the moment we trust Christ for our salvation - for we were bought with a price, the precious blood of Jesus Christ, and the cost of our redemption was paid in full - at Calvary.
• Having received the anointing of God, the indwelling Spirit, and the abiding life of Christ Jesus our Lord, every believer has an assurance that those who walk in spirit and truth will be guided into all truth.
• What a privilege to realise that when we are born from above and anointed by the Spirit of truth, He will teach us what we need to know, as we abide in Him, rest in His love, and trust His Word, in every area of our lives.

• The Lord promised to bring them back together as ONE nation under the authority of God's anointed King, Whom we know to be - Jesus.

• The man who fears the Lord is the one who will receive wisdom from on high... and this Psalm was written by David, the shepherd boy from Bethlehem whom God anointed to be Israel's great king... for David was a man who reverenced the Lord.

• In His sovereign will, God determined that His anointed Messiah would be born through the nation of Israel and that they would be His witnesses to a lost and dying world.

• Christ: the anointed Messiah of Israel, and Saviour of humanity, Whom the Father anointed to become the Redeemer of the world and sacrificial Lamb of God, and about Whose perfect life, substitutionary death, wonderful Resurrection, and eternal rule the prophets of old wrote about in the Holy Scriptures.

• However, he rejected God's clear choice that Jacob, the younger twin, was God anointed.

• David was reminded of his humble beginning when God sent Samuel to anoint the next king of Israel, and David, the simple shepherd boy who tended his father's sheep and protected them from a lion or a bear, was chosen to become Israel's greatest king.

• Having been anointed of God to be Israel's king... David was being hotly pursued by the jealous king Saul, whose loathing of David had reached boiling point.

• A day is coming when that nation will repent of their sin, turn from unbelief to faith in God's Anointed, and cry out, Hosanna to their Messiah: Hosanna to the Son of David.

• In an outpouring of love, her sister Mary came to Jesus and breaking her costly alabaster oil of spikenard, she anointed His feet and wiped them dry with her hair.
• While Judas and the other disciples criticised this young woman for this foolish extravagance, Jesus defended her act of love and explained that she had anointed His body for the day of His burial.

• Mary of Bethany had anointed Jesus with precious perfume from her alabaster box, in readiness for His fast approaching crucifixion.

• He was the Anointed of God, the King of Israel, and Saviour of the World.
• John was the greatest priest to ever live, for he had been anointed of God to bear witness that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world.
• The end, objective, the climax, and the reason for John's message and ministry, was that Jesus was anointed of God to be the promised Messiah and Saviour of the world.

• The words He spoke, and the signs and wonders He performed, authenticated His Messianic claims, for all of them were prophesied of old. He was anointed by the Father to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, to give sight to the blind, and set at liberty those that are broken.

• This was the anointed One Who announced, The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

• It is the Holy Spirit of the anointed Son of God's love that desires to inhabit this hidden place, deep within the heart of men.

• His office may be that of Christ, for He is the anointed of God.

• He was anointed by God to be a light to the Gentile nations, the good Shepherd of His chosen people, and the glory of God's inheritance - Israel.
• He was the only one who was formed from the womb to be God's anointed Servant.

• They called Him Master, Teacher, Rabbi, Lord, and it had even been revealed to Peter that He was the Christ; the Seed of the woman, the anointed of God, the Messiah of Israel, and Son of the living God, yet still they did not understand.

• He declared Himself to be the legitimate Shepherd Who was anointed by God as foretold by prophets of old.

• Before he fell, Lucifer was God's anointed guardian cherub, but when prideful sin entered his heart and he challenged God's supremacy, he became: That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world.

• He came to take up His rightful position as God's anointed King, but in rejecting Jesus, they rejected the Father in heaven.

• All Scripture had pointed to the time when Christ would set up His promised kingdom on earth, and for three wonderful years God's anointed King of Israel lived among His people and laid out the criteria for entrance into His sovereign realm as His loyal subjects.

• Jesus Christ was, and is, and always will be this Faithful Witness, Who alone is the rightful King over the rulers of the earth, the appointed Prince over all heavenly authorities, the anointed Messiah of Israel, and the perfect Man Who laid down His sinless life so that whosoever believes on Him would not perish but have everlasting life.

• The deep desire of the enemy is to overwhelm every child of God with a deluge of schemes and strategies, errors and temptations, but the armies of hell cannot prevail against the Lord and His Anointed, nor can he overcome the children of God, for the indwelling Holy Spirit is an ever-present Helper in times of trouble and He is far greater in power and wisdom.

• In this verse, God the Father is proclaiming that Christ is His chosen, anointed King.

• The Day-of-the-Lord, therefore, covers a period of about 1007 years, during which time God takes back the reins of authority over the earth from Satan... and establishes Christ as His anointed King on His eternal throne of David.

• Although we live in a sin-sick world that is at enmity with God and at war with His anointed Son... and although we see the most shocking corruption saturating the highest offices of government, God is faithful to fulfil His many precious promises to those that are His.

• He was to come as their anointed King in fulfilment of God's redemptive plan for mankind.

• He is the anointed High Priest Whose authority surpasses Aaron, and He is great David's greater Son, for He is King of kings and Lord of lords.

• They rejected God the Son in the New Testament and crucified their Anointed King and Heavenly Saviour - and through this Church Age, which Paul calls 'the dispensation of grace', Israel will continue to be scattered across the face of the earth - until the Day of the Lord, when God will bring His chosen nation back to Himself during that first seven years of the Day of the Lord.

• But although a faithful few believed that Jesus was the Christ, the anointed Son of God, many failed to repent of their sin and refused to turn back to the God of their forefathers.

• He was the anointed One for Whom they had been waiting since the first Passover, when God called His people out of Egypt to be His adopted son and chosen nation.

• Here, at the end of chapter 6, we read that Peter and Christ's other holy apostles, had come to that point in their lives where they trusted that Jesus was the anointed Son of the Father.

• Jesus was the Lord's anointed Messiah.

• Prayers from Daniel the prophet and petitions from the faithful remnant of Israel, were answered through Cyrus, the pagan king of Persia, centuries before God's anointed Messiah was born.

• The Lord Jesus appeared as foretold by so many of God's anointed prophets at the consummation of the age of Israel.

• He boldly proclaimed that He was anointed by God to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to teach deliverance to the captives, to recover sight to the blind, and set at liberty those that are bruised.
• The previous night, His body had been anointed with precious oil as a symbol of His forthcoming death.

• Just as Moses laid out God's law to Israel on Mount Sinai, so we find Jesus, Israel's anointed King, presenting a comprehensive constitution of His coming kingdom which delivers a synopsis of His character and conduct - His mission and mentality.

• His office may be that of 'Christ' for He is the anointed of God, and His title may be 'Lord' for He is high and lifted up and His train fills the temple; but His name shall be called Jesus, for He shall save His people, Israel, from their sins.

• He would be His anointed King Who would govern His people Israel and become the Head of the mystic Body, which is the Church.
• The content of Psalm 2, together with many prophetic passages about the Second Coming of Christ, gives much insight into God's attitude towards the raging heathens, the kings and rulers of the earth that plot against God, and those that imagine a vain thing against the Lord and His anointed King.

• By grace, He has furnished us with proof that Jesus is indeed His anointed Son, by raising Him from the dead - praise His holy name.

• This verse spoke of the bodily resurrection of God's Anointed, yet David was still in the tomb and his body had decayed.