A Biblical View of the Anointing
Luke 4:18The 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 brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
The anointing and the person of the Holy Spirit cannot be separated. The charismatic teachers have made the anointing a separate power that God bestows on people. There is a direct connection between the Holy Spirit and the anointing. He is the One who enables all Christians to fulfill their ministries.
Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
God the Father anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and with power. Again, note the correlation between the anointing and the presence of the Spirit.
Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
It is very simple and plain. The Holy Spirit and the anointing are inseparable. You cannot have one without the other. With this obvious understanding it becomes very clear why what the charismatic teachers are presenting is false doctrine.
It is impossible for me as a believe to impart God to someone else. If one is a believer they have all of the person of the Holy Spirit they will ever have. He is God. If one has any of Him, then, they have all of Him.
It is impossible to increase the amount of the Spirit an individual possesses. Which means it is equally impossible to increase the "anointing" of another person by laying hands on them!
Since the Holy Spirit and His anointing are inseparable, it becomes obvious that one cannot impart anointing to inanimate objects. We do not command or direct the Holy Spirit. He does not flow out of me and into little bags of corn meal, thread, plastic coins, or vials of oil. He is not a commodity to be given away, nor is His divine power!
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
How can the "anointing" teach a person anything? The only way this is possible is if the anointing is in fact the Person of the Holy Spirit. Personalities teach, inpersonal powers do not.
Charismatic Christians, by in large, are driven by a thirst for spiritual power. They are constantly seeking methods by which they can either obtain the anointing or increase whatever anointing they think they possess. This fact is obvious in the titles of the books they publish. Here are a few examples:
How To Understand Your Anointing - M. Hickey
God's Anointing For You - B. Hinn
Understanding the Anointing - B. Hinn
The Anointing Without Measure - B. Hinn
The Anointing - R.H. Browne
Fresh Oil from Heaven - R.H. Browne
God's Glory manifested Through Special Anointings - R.H. Browne
Special Anointings- R.H. Browne
The Healing Anointing - Kenneth E. Hagin
The Anointing of El Shaddai - C. Dollar
All of these books deal with the anointing as a commodity. It is something to be earned. It is something (in the minds of some of the above authors) that not all Christians have. It is something all of the above ministers feel empowered to bestow upon those willing to submit themselves to their doctrines.
All of these books offer a false hope of gaining supernatural power with God via the authors own brand of works, laws, steps, and principles.
Concluding Remarks
There is widespread confusion within the charismatic movement regarding the "anointing." There is no one commonly accepted definition. There is no uniformity in understanding how one may obtain whatever the "anointing" is. There is even a wide chasm of disagreement about who is really anointed.
The reason for this massive confusion among the leaders is simply because they have departed from the simple teaching of the Bible on this miniscule issue. They have been building their concepts around what they have heard other ministers say and not looked to the Bible as their source of material. They have based their widely varying beliefs on personal subjective experiences and not the solid foundation of the Bible.
The manner in which they transmit their mytic power and the resulting manifestations in the bodies of those receiving these powers leads me to believe that whatever is transpiring is more akin to the world of the occult versus orthodox Christianity.
In conclusion I do not believe any Christian today has God's power to bestow on another Christian, certainly not the people mentioned in this short booklet.
The anointing and the person of the Holy Spirit cannot be separated. The charismatic teachers have made the anointing a separate power that God bestows on people. There is a direct connection between the Holy Spirit and the anointing. He is the One who enables all Christians to fulfill their ministries.
Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
God the Father anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and with power. Again, note the correlation between the anointing and the presence of the Spirit.
Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
It is very simple and plain. The Holy Spirit and the anointing are inseparable. You cannot have one without the other. With this obvious understanding it becomes very clear why what the charismatic teachers are presenting is false doctrine.
It is impossible for me as a believe to impart God to someone else. If one is a believer they have all of the person of the Holy Spirit they will ever have. He is God. If one has any of Him, then, they have all of Him.
It is impossible to increase the amount of the Spirit an individual possesses. Which means it is equally impossible to increase the "anointing" of another person by laying hands on them!
Since the Holy Spirit and His anointing are inseparable, it becomes obvious that one cannot impart anointing to inanimate objects. We do not command or direct the Holy Spirit. He does not flow out of me and into little bags of corn meal, thread, plastic coins, or vials of oil. He is not a commodity to be given away, nor is His divine power!
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
How can the "anointing" teach a person anything? The only way this is possible is if the anointing is in fact the Person of the Holy Spirit. Personalities teach, inpersonal powers do not.
Charismatic Christians, by in large, are driven by a thirst for spiritual power. They are constantly seeking methods by which they can either obtain the anointing or increase whatever anointing they think they possess. This fact is obvious in the titles of the books they publish. Here are a few examples:
How To Understand Your Anointing - M. Hickey
God's Anointing For You - B. Hinn
Understanding the Anointing - B. Hinn
The Anointing Without Measure - B. Hinn
The Anointing - R.H. Browne
Fresh Oil from Heaven - R.H. Browne
God's Glory manifested Through Special Anointings - R.H. Browne
Special Anointings- R.H. Browne
The Healing Anointing - Kenneth E. Hagin
The Anointing of El Shaddai - C. Dollar
All of these books deal with the anointing as a commodity. It is something to be earned. It is something (in the minds of some of the above authors) that not all Christians have. It is something all of the above ministers feel empowered to bestow upon those willing to submit themselves to their doctrines.
All of these books offer a false hope of gaining supernatural power with God via the authors own brand of works, laws, steps, and principles.
Concluding Remarks
There is widespread confusion within the charismatic movement regarding the "anointing." There is no one commonly accepted definition. There is no uniformity in understanding how one may obtain whatever the "anointing" is. There is even a wide chasm of disagreement about who is really anointed.
The reason for this massive confusion among the leaders is simply because they have departed from the simple teaching of the Bible on this miniscule issue. They have been building their concepts around what they have heard other ministers say and not looked to the Bible as their source of material. They have based their widely varying beliefs on personal subjective experiences and not the solid foundation of the Bible.
The manner in which they transmit their mytic power and the resulting manifestations in the bodies of those receiving these powers leads me to believe that whatever is transpiring is more akin to the world of the occult versus orthodox Christianity.
In conclusion I do not believe any Christian today has God's power to bestow on another Christian, certainly not the people mentioned in this short booklet.
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