Black Oil Anointing - Page 3

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="129a11c3.png"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Welcome to the Heart4God Website!"><U><B><IMG SRC="4b55a500.png" border=0 width="90" height="80" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Writings of Joseph Herrin"><U><B>Writings by Date</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id212.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Writings of Joseph Herrin Organized "><U><B>Writings by Topic</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.heart4god.ws/Audio/index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.heart4god.ws/Audio/index.htm"><U><B>Audio Files</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id690.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Videos"><U><B>Videos</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id323.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writings of Others"><U><B>Other Authors</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id324.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U><B>Links</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id339.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Questions and Answers"><U><B>Q&A</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id328.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Heart4God Email List"><U><B>Heart4God E-mail List</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com"><U><B>Parables Blog</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id306.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File Downloads"><U><B><IMG SRC="2b264140.png" border=0 width="100" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <B>Black Oil Anointing - Page 3</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="c2827160.png" border=0 width="807" height="22" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="be6f0a00.png" border=0 width="240" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Oil Pool</div> <bR> <div> There is a very high cost to attaining the power of God. The world and much of the church are not willing to pay this price for God’s power to be manifest in their lives. So Satan offers a counterfeit anointing. The world, and the majority of the church, do not want to be broken before God. They therefore seek an anointing that does not require the work of the cross in their lives. In Exodus we read that the oil that God required was “clear oil” from the ripe flesh of the olive. The lost world has a substitute. It is the black oil called petroleum that comes from the decaying matter buried within the earth. There is great symbolism in this.</div> <bR> <div> Christ says, “Fall on the Rock”  and He will bring forth an anointing of power in our lives. The world offers power without suffering. It has its own oil from the rock. Petroleum literally means “Rock Oil.”</div> <bR> <div> However, God despises the world’s alternative. The world’s alternative leaves men in the blackness of sin. There is no purity produced in the lives of those who rely upon this black oil for power. This is revealed even in the terms used to describe these two types of oil. Olive oil is graded as “Virgin” and “Extra Virgin.” The word virgin means pure. In sharp contrast petroleum is described as “Crude” oil.</div> <bR> <div> The world accomplishes many things through the power of petroleum. The businesses of the world run on petroleum. The cities of the world are powered by it. Petroleum is the source of much power to fuel the industry of the world, but the world is not accomplishing the will of God. The world uses this power to fulfill her own will and desire. She is building her own kingdoms, pursuing her own pleasure, and failing to accomplish the will of God.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="be7f4410.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="321" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Saudi Oil Facility</div> <bR> <div> God has given us another great parable. There are two types of work going on in this world today. There is the work initiated and performed by the Spirit of God, and this work is greatly pleasing to Yahweh. The other is the work man does by his own strength and often offers to God, hoping that God will accept it. We see these two types of work depicted in the first chapters of the Bible when Cain and Able both brought sacrifices to God.</div> <bR> <div> We are told that Able brought sheep, the best of the flock, and offered them as a sacrifice to God. This was an offering of faith. It was looking forward to that day when God would send His Son as a spotless lamb to be offered up as atonement for the sins of man. Able’s offering, therefore was a spiritual offering. It was looking to God to perform that which only He could do. God therefore had favor on Able’s offering.</div> <bR> <div> Cain, we are told, brought an offering of the produce of the ground. It was an impressive offering that would put anything seen in a farmer’s market today to shame. Yet the offering Cain brought was produced by the sweat of his own brow. He was bringing God an offering that was produced by human effort and asking God to accept it. Yet God did not have regard for Cain’s offering. He despised what Cain brought because it was based upon human effort rather than divine power.</div> <bR> <div> These same two types of work are seen in Abraham’s first two sons. The pattern is ever seen in Scripture, “first the natural, then the spiritual.” Even as Cain was the firstborn son of Adam and he brought a natural offering to God, so Abraham’s first son was a product of human effort. However Abraham’s second son was a child of faith.</div> <bR> <div> Abraham was an old man, and his wife Sarah was advanced in age and they had no children. God appeared to Abraham and asked him if there was anything he desired. Abraham said he wanted a son to be heir of his household. God then promised Abraham that he would have a son with Sarah. More years went by and there was no son, and Abraham and Sarah began to waver in their faith in God’s promise. Sarah suggested that Abraham take Sarah’s handmaid named Hagar and go into her and perhaps this would be God’s way of raising up a child.</div> <bR> <div> Yet this act was not an act of faith. It was a natural act, for Hagar was young and appeared <B>fertile</B>, whereas Sarah was old and appeared <B>barren</B>. Hagr did have a son by Abraham and they named him Ishmael. Yet God rejected Ishmael, and said this son would not be Abraham’s heir, for He would give him a son of promise through Sarah.</div> <bR> <div> Another ten years went by and God appeared to Abraham again and told him by that time next year he would have a son by Sarah. Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah 90 when God opened Sarah’s womb and brought forth that which He promised. God then instructed Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael away, though God said He would make Ishmael a great nation because Abraham entreated him. Ishmael became the father of 12 sons, and they have become the Arab nations that exist today.</div> <bR> <div> Abraham’s son of promise was named Isaac, and he in turn was the father of Jacob who became the father of 12 sons who are the 12 tribes of Israel.</div> <bR> <div> A key message in this is that those things man sees as fertile, and able to bring forth fruit that will please God, God despises seeing it as barren of real life. That which man sees as barren, God is able to make fruitful, and it becomes pleasing to Him.</div> <bR> <div> Hagar was seen as fruitful, and a means to accomplish God’s promise, but God rejected Ishmael and his descendants now dwell in lands that are largely barren and covered by vast deserts. Sarah was seen as barren, but God accepted Isaac, for Isaac came forth through His power, not the natural ability of man and woman. Israel’s land is very fertile and even those areas that were formerly deserts are now being cultivated today.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="be9269d0.png" border=0 width="550" height="413" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> It is no coincidence that the black oil that man uses to accomplish all of his purposes is found under barren lands that belong to the descendants of Ishmael. Though the nations are producing many things with this petroleum, and great nations are doing works that they boast in, God has said that He rejects all such works. He will judge the nations because they have no regard for Him, and are focused only on their own will and desires.</div> <bR> <div> God is seeking for the man and woman today who will live to do His will and His pleasure, while dying to their own will and desire. His Son, Yahshua the Messiah was a perfect example of one who lived this way. John recorded six times in his gospel the words of Yahshua where He declared, “I never do anything of My own initiative. I live to do the will of the Father. Because He never sought His own way, but lived for the Father, God was pleased to anoint Him with power as this world had never witnessed before.</div> <bR> <div> Acts 10:38</div> <div> “You know of Yahshua of Nazareth, how God <U>anointed</U> Him with the <U>Holy Spirit </U>and with <U>power</U>...”</div> <bR> <div> Luke 4:18</div> <div> “THE <U>SPIRIT</U> OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE <U>ANOINTED</U> ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR...” </div> <bR> <div> Do you want to know the power of God on your life? Or will you be content with a form of godliness that is without power?</div> <bR> <div> To see a man or woman bearing an anointing from Yahweh is an awesome thing to behold. To see frail and weak vessels being used in power is simply stunning. A lost and wicked world covets such power, and desires to gain this anointing that they too might have power.</div> <bR> <div> The word “Christ” literally means “anointed. Those who are called Christians are literally being called “anointed ones.” What anointing is evident in your life?</div> <bR> <div> Acts 8:18-20</div> <div> Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, saying, “Give this power to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!”</div> <bR> <div> Since the world cannot purchase the true anointing of God’s Spirit, the world is seeking an alternate anointing. The true saints of God will settle for nothing less than the clear oil that comes from flesh that has been crushed, but the world is satisfied with the oil that comes from decaying matter that is brought up from the depths of the earth.</div> <bR> <div> The anointing of the world does not bring forth life. The source of power the world covets is largely found under deserts and oceans and frozen wasteland. When it is burned it puts off noxious vapors that poison the very air that we breathe.</div> <bR> <div> Continue to <A HREF="id600.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Black Oil Anointing Page 4"><U>Next Page</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>