WEEK 1 – OUR PURPOSE, PASSION, & PURSUIT LIVING UNDER THE ANOINTING

THE ANOINTING

EXODUS 29:1-7 “This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect. 2 And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil. 3 Put them in a basket

EXODUS 29:1-7 and present them along with the bull and the two rams. 4 Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water. 5 Take the garments and dress Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breastpiece. Fasten the ephod on him by its skillfully woven waistband. 6 Put the

EXODUS 29:1-7 and present them along with the turban on his head and attach the sacred emblem to the turban. 7 Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.

EXODUS 40:9 “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.

IN THE O.T. ONLY 3 POSITIONS WERE ANOINTED The High Priest The King Prophets Ordinary, average people like us would never be anointed

ISAIAH 61:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners

LUKE 4:14-21 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him. 16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath

LUKE 4:14-21 day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good

LUKE 4:14-21 news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” 20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes

LUKE 4:14-21 of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

JOHN 16:7 But I tell you the truth: it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

ACTS 2:39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

2 CORINTHIANS 1:21-22 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

THE ANOINTING Now we are the ones that are anointed!

1 - OUR PURPOSE We have been set aside as Holy We have been called to be His voice We have been called to lead people

2 - OUR PASSION Have a passion to be anointed Continue wanting to be in the anointiny We should be ready and willing to experience all that God has for us

3 - OUR PURSUIT To make sure we are set apart To follow God with zeal To have more of the Holy Spirit in our lives