The Anointing Oil Part 1

Now, brothers and sisters, whoever the people were, according to the Lord Jesus, in Matthew 22, they were alive.

Genesis 28:13-16 The land on which you lie, I will give to you and your descendants; and your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the east, the west, the north, the south, and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “The Lord is certainly in this place, and I did not know it!”

The Lord is in this place, and I did not know it. The Lord is in the place, and I did not know it! And that’s us; the Lord is in us, and we did not know it.

Genesis 28:17-18 And he was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place. This is none other than the house of God, and the gate of heaven!” (A house of God, and a gate of heaven – two places). And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it, and he called the name of that place ‘Bethel’, which means the House of God.

Now then, he saw God, both in heaven and on the earth, and he said, “He is on the earth as the house of God, yet it is a gate of heaven. And there was a stone that he had used for a pillow that night, and he built it there into a pillar, and he poured oil on it. Now then, this is the first time there is the use of oil. Now the New Testament makes it very clear that oil is what? The Holy Spirit. The Spirit. Here is the Spirit as oil. He is the Spirit; He is oil. But when the Spirit is moved upon the stones, when it is poured into and worked into the stone, what does it become? It becomes the house of God. When you take the oil and pour it on the stone, it becomes Bethel. Now then, this begins the line of two things: one of them is the building of God, and the other one is the oil. All right, let’s turn to Exodus 25:6.

In Exodus 25, God is giving Moses what? Does somebody know what it’s doing? He is giving what to Moses? He is giving to Moses instructions for the building. Alright, the tabernacle. And he comes to a part of it, and he says in verse 6, ‘oil for the light and spices for anointing oil and for sweet incense.” Now, oil for the light, we will not touch, we don’t have a week. And oil for the sweet incense, we will not touch, for we do not have a week. But oil, spices for the anointing oil, we will have to touch a little bit.

Now, brothers and sisters, there were three oils used in the tabernacle. There was an oil to light the place deep in the tabernacle. Did you know where there was an artificial light, not the light of the sun, but the light of the oil, where it was? It was in the holy place, where the priest ate the bread, and they had to light the lamp, which was the oil, in order to eat the bread. They could not see without it. Now, brothers and sisters, for you to eat the word, and the, according to Hebrews, the loaves – here is the word – in order to eat the word, you have to have the light of the spirit. And that’s why it is so easy to take the word of God in spirit, and just pray it. The prayer, brothers and sisters, and the holy spirit, the prayers, and the bread are all one. They are all one. Well, that’s not our subject. Then there is a spice for the incense, and there is the anointing oil. There is an oil separate from the oil that lights the lamp. Now, then, in a moment, we’re going to find out that the anointing oil does not just have oil. It has something else.

After they had lit the lamp, they ate the bread. The Holy Place is for the priests. The outer court is for everyone. Everybody gets saved, but brothers, only the priests go into the holy place, and there they light the lamp, eat the bread, offer incense, all at the same time, then they can enter the Holy Place. Amen, brother. You come into the soul, you light the lamp, you offer the incense, you eat the bread, and brother, you go in.

Now then, in Exodus 29:7: And then you shall take the anointing oil and pour it upon his head and anoint him. And you shall bring his sons and put coats on them. And you shall gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put on the bonnet, and the priesthood shall be theirs for a perpetual sacrifice, and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Alright, Aaron is to have the anointing oil poured upon his head.

Okay, now then, verse 9 of the same chapter. Oh, wait a minute, let’s read verse 21. And you shall take of the blood that is upon the altar and of the anointing oil and sprinkle it upon Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed and his garments and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.