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ANOINTING SEMINAR SERIES

HEALING ANOINTING

PART FOUR

We will endeavor through the Holy Spirit to show you how to get that healinganointing. We want to show you where the healing virtue of God lies. It is veryvital as I preach the word and when the Holy Spirit begins moving afterward, Iwant complete reverence and no distraction whatsoever. And if there is any noiseby children please excuse us if we request that they be taken out to the mother’sroom section. But if they are able to sit quietly then we permit them to sit someplace where they won’t be a distraction. When the Holy Spirit begins moving,please give reverence, please give worship to God so that He can do what Hewants to do when we enter His holy presence this morning.

Turn with me to Exodus 25 We will look at a type in the Old Testament, whichhappens to be the tabernacle of Moses. And through it we will see how to tap onthat healing virtue that belongs only to the Lord Jesus Christ. So I want you totravel with me back in time. As we read those verses, let us visualize every part ofthe old covenant furniture in that tabernacle of Moses because each of them hassomething to say about our Christian life and about the new things that the Spiritof God is doing. It has been said that the Old Testament is the new hidden andthe New Testament is the old unfolded, the old renewed. The Old Testament ishidden inside the New Testament. And the New Testament is the old covenantrevealed in a greater measure and they tie up with each other.

So travel back with me in time to Exodus 25 when God spoke to Moses in verse 8

And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to allthat I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all itsfurnishings, just so you shall make it. So Moses made the tabernacle based onwhat he saw in his forty days and forty nights on the Mount of Sinai. He saw it inthe spirit realm. In fact the book of Hebrews tells us that what Moses made wasonly a type of figure of what actually is in heaven. In the heaven of heavensabove the third heaven there is a place called the holy of holies. There is a holyplace and there is the outer court. And what Moses made on his planet earth wasonly a type of figure or a shadow of the spiritual realm that God is showing.

First of all, God told Moses in verse 10 to make the ark of testimony. We aregiven the dimension in verse 10 and its basic structure. But pay attention to verse17. And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and half cubits shall be itslength and a cubit and a half its width. And you shall make two cherubim of gold;of hammered work, (that means it must be of one piece of gold,) you shall makethem at the two ends of the mercy seat. I want you to visualize that Ark of theCovenant. It looks basically like a square box with the poles going through thetop hooks. Then over the sides of it are two angels called cherubim with theirwings outstretched and overshadowing an empty place between them called themercy seat. Then God told Moses to put in that place the testimony, which is thetwo tablets of stone, the Ten Commandments. That is the mercy seat.

If you read very carefully it says that every thing must be made of gold. Goldsymbolizes purity. And secondly God says that it must be of hammered gold. Youcannot make a mould in the shape of cherubim and pour molten gold into it andthen have the cherubim extracted out. But it is to be hammered from one wholelump of gold. Then the artisans will have to hammer it very carefully until it isshaped like an angel. That hammering symbolizes a work of Jesus Christ in ourlife. Isa. 53 tells us that He was smitten of God. It points forward to the time thatthe mercy of God is going to come to us through Jesus Christ taking thejudgment blow for us.

So here the first furniture is called the ark of testimony or the Ark of theCovenant. The first piece was laid in the holy of holies.

The next piece of furniture that God speaks about is in verse 23 to 30 called thetable of showbread. Basically it looks like an ordinary table except that it isoverlaid completely with gold. You don’t find silver and bronze only gold. Thattable will have bread that only the priests can eat. And everyday the priests willhave to change the bread. That bread belongs to the priests.

The third piece of furniture in verse 31 to 40 is called the golden lamp stand. Andthe only verse we need to read is verse 31 You shall also make a lamp stand ofpure gold; the lamp stand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, itsbowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece. And six branchesshall come out of its side; three branches of the lamp stand out of one side, andthree branches of the lamp stand out of the other side.

The positions of the six pieces of furniture in the tabernacle of Moses, that is theArk of the Covenant, the altar of incense, the table of showbread, the goldencandlestick, the altar of burnt offering and the bronze laver are depicted in thediagram above. The diagram below shows how these pieces of furniture looklike, based on their description in the book of Exodus.

The golden lamp stand consists of one long stem with three branches on eitherside of the main stem. The seven lamps tie up with the seven-fold Spirit, asdescribed in Revelations chapter one and Isa. 11 verse 1. The golden lamp standrepresents the Holy Spirit.

Now it is also of hammered gold. You cannot mould it. You have to hammer itout of one big piece of gold. That’s exhausting physical work. The reason thatGod wants it to be so is so that we would know that the Holy Spirit was given tous through Jesus Christ taking the sins and curse of our lives. So Jesus said I sendyou the Promise of My Father. Jesus in Isa. 53 was smitten of God so that we canreceive the Holy Spirit.

Notice that in the holy of holies and in the holy place it is all gold. Then there is aveil between the holy of holies and the holy place. Then you leave the holy place,you have to pass another veil to enter the outer court.

In the outer court are the bronze laver and the altar of burnt offering. We will notgo to the details but the most important thing for you to know is that these outercourt furniture are made of bronze. See when the Holy Spirit does somethingthere is a systematic way He does it. You don’t have it mixed up all over. Theywould have enough gold to make everything out of gold. But God chose bronzefor the outer court furniture, that is the brazen altar and the bronze laver. Thatbrazen altar was for the purpose of offering the animals continually. There is amorning sacrifice; there is an evening sacrifice. Then there were all the otherspecial sacrifices during their feast days. All the sacrifices are done there. Bronzesymbolizes sin. There is where sin must die.

Next to that in Exodus 27 from verse 9 to 19 is called the court of the tabernacle.The court of the tabernacle is all related to the outer court where the bronze altaris. And on the outer court you notice that this time silver is also used togetherwith bronze. Silver represents redemption or being bought. Jesus was ourRedemption.

So here we have all the various pieces of the furniture. There is one more piecethat we will not mention that you can read later is called the altar of incense alsomade of gold. That is also in the holy place.

So I want you to repeat after me to make sure you get all the furniture correct. Inthe holy of holies what do we have here? The Ark of the Covenant. Then I passthe first veil, which separates the holy of holies from the holy place. This is thesame veil that was torn from top to bottom when Jesus died. Then when you goout of that immediately you will see three pieces of furniture. In front of you isthe altar of incense. On one side is the table of showbread. On the opposite is thegolden candlestick.

Then there is another veil here, separating the holy place from the outer court.When you go out of this veil, everything is different. It is no more gold. Insidethe holy place and the holy of holies, the furniture is made of gold. Now whenyou come outside to the outer court, everything is bronze and silver. On one sideyou will have the brazen altar. Then you have all the various utensils.

So there you have the tabernacle that Moses made. So when the book of Psalmssays I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart, I will enter His courtwith praise, where is the court? It is not the holy place. Only the priest can enterthe holy place. As for the most holy place or the holy of holies only the highpriest can go in once a year. That is very awesome. Imagine you cannot see theplace for the whole year. The outer court is where the common people can come.

Why did God arrange such a complicated protocol for His tabernacle? Rememberthe first verse in Exodus 25 verses 8 God said I will dwell among them. Thesecomplicated things are only understood in the light of the New Testament.Through all these small details of the tabernacle and its furniture, God said, “Iwill dwell among them.” The presence of God is not to be taken lightly.

Even when the high priest enters the most holy place once a year he had tosacrifice love. All along the hem of the priest’s garment are little bells. When thehigh priest enters the holy of holies, it’s the most awesome time. It is called theDay of Atonement. And it was a day the Jews must not eat anything. It’s a day of

fasting. When the high priest enters the most holy place, it is a very awesome day.If the high priest dies inside the holy of holies, Israel is rejected. But if the highpriest comes out alive, Israel is protected. It’s a very solemn day. And so theyhave bells all around the high priest’s garment. And you know what bells are for.When you move, the bells make a sound. On the Day of Atonement, before thehigh priest enters the most holy place, the other priests have to tie a rope aroundhis leg to pull his dead body out in case he is struck dead in the holy of holies. Inthe event that he drops dead and there is no string tied to his leg, nobody else canenter the holy of holies to take him out. The next guy who tries to take him outwill die. You would then have a pile of dead bodies there.

Can you imagine how solemn it is when the high priest goes into the holy ofholies while all the other priests are waiting for him to come out? The book ofPsalms tells us I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart, I will enterHis courts with praise. David composed that Psalm. The outer court is where thecommon people or the whole of Israel gathered together. And the Holy Spirit saidto me that many Christians live their life in the outer court. The outer court iswhere the offerings are being made everyday. And that outer court is where a lotof Christians are living their lives. At least they are in the court. Do you knowsome are not even in the court or at the gates? King David says a day in Yourtemple is better than a thousand days elsewhere. One day in God’s presence isbetter than over three year elsewhere in the world. I put that way so that yourealize how valuable is one day in the presence of God. One day in God’spresence is more valuable than a thousand days of your life.

Some Christians are not even in the outer court but they are thoroughlyimmersed in the world. But then there are some Christians who only live in theouter court. All they know about God is the outer court. Yes they learnt toworship God. They learnt to thank God. At least they are in Praise Avenue andThanksgiving Street. At least they are living there rather than living some far outworldly place. Here they are they have learnt to worship God’s presence andthere is where the people of Israel dance and sing and make a joyful noise. Whenking David said to make a joyful noise, that singing and dancing is taking placein the outer court. They have not yet passed the veil into the holy place or themost holy place. It is all on the outside. Rejoicing and having a good time is stillvery much an outer court activity. Thanksgiving is necessary because the bible

exhorts, instructs and commands us that we must enter His gates withthanksgiving and into His courts with praise.

The Holy Spirit said that Christians who sin, repent and go back to sin and comeback again and asked for forgiveness are living in the outer court. There’s wherethe forgiveness of sin is. God will forgive you as long as your heart repents. ButGod wants more. God wants the transformation of your nature. Then throughtime in our Christian life, we learn that there are deeper things of God that wehave not ventured into. We learn about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, about theHoly Spirit presence and the nine gifts of the Spirit. We know for sure we arenow in the holy place. We are now where the lamp stand is. We are not onlyamong the Christians who say rejoice, rejoice, but who doesn’t know the HolySpirit wants to work a gift.

See there are different depths of Christian life. But I want to show you thedifferent degrees Christians are living today as the Holy Spirit showed me.Christians are living in different parts of the tabernacle. But some have venturedbeyond the veil. And when they passed the veil and into the holy place, the onlylight you see is the light given by the candlestick. And that candlestick issupposed to burn continually. The candlestick is lit from the fire taken from thebrazen altar. It symbolizes your passage from the redemption of sin moving youto the experience of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God shall come on you andyou shall receive power to do the works of God. Some of you have experiencedthat realm. When the Spirit comes on such Christians who entered the holy place,the gifts of God begin to operate. It is here that these holy place Christians willenjoy the depth of the showbread, which means delighting in the meditation onthe word of God. The word is alive today. Many Christians don’t even bother toread the bible. They know about the forgiveness of sin. They know how Jesusdied for their sins. They know about praising God and dancing together as agroup. But in their own private life they don’t spend time on their knees beforeGod or hovering over the living word. They are only living their life in the outercourt. O God, teach them Your word.

The deeper holy place Christians have learnt the preciousness of the word.Everyday they apply the word into their lives. Everyday they read the word.

Everyday they confess and meditate on the word. Where are you living your life?If you don’t, have a private time when you read the word. Meditate on God andlet the word speak to you. Christians you have to come in from the outer court tothe holy place. Don’t live only in the outer court. Come in; come in to the innercourt called the holy place. That is where the word of God is. You see there iswhere I believe that the only thing that changes a person’s life thoroughly in theinside is the Spirit and the word in your personal life. No amount of confessioncan change your life like the word of God. So when you come into the holy placethe word of God is real to you. Remember you have to be changed everyday.Everyday you have to take the word. It is not once a lifetime. The priests have tochange the showbread everyday. And the lamp stand has to be kept burning allthe time. Oil has to be poured. You have to receive fresh Holy Spirit flowingthrough you. The book of Ephesians says be filled with the Holy Spirit.

There was a time in Israel in Samuel when he was just a little boy. The bible tellsus in I Sam. 1 that the light in the holy place was going to go out. The reason isthat old Eli did not take care of the holy place. The oil was running out and whenthe light was going out, God called, “Samuel, Samuel.” There is a need today forthe Holy Spirit and its gifts. Some places you don’t even have the fullness of theSpirit. And God is crying out, “SAMUEL, SAMUEL,” or what ever your name isHe is calling, “My child, my child, come. My light is going out in the church.Replenish the oil, please, somebody.” That’s the Holy Spirit crying out unto thechurch of God. And that is the work of the priest every day. I am not filled withthe Spirit once in my lifetime. Everyday I have to come to God and say, “Lord Ineed you. Holy Spirit, enfold Yourself around me.” There is nothing moreprecious than the Holy Spirit on you. Everyday I come to the word and say,“Lord, teach me Your precious word.” Sometimes I read one verse and it burnsmy heart so much I could not read further. I bow down and worship Him. And soreading one chapter of the bible can make you worship Him for many hours.

Then there is one more piece of furniture in the holy place. Some Christians havediscovered the gifts of the Spirit wonderfully. Some Christians have discoveredthe word in their lives. So the charismatic movement has to mix together with theword movement in order to bring the Christians from the outer court into theholy place. For many centuries, Christianity was in the dark ages. Christiansdidn’t know how to worship and praise God. Do you notice something about

twentieth Christianity? We have learnt to enter His gates with thanksgiving andinto His court with praise. One of the hallmarks of the charismatic movement ispraise and worship. We have learnt how to enter His gates. And in these last daysGod started moving by the faith movement with its emphasis on the faithmessage. The showbread has been given. Then the the gifts of the Spirit,represented by the lamp stand, started pouring. Ministries came, gifts of the HolySpirit, manifestations, but yet it has to mix together with one more movement,represented by the altar of incense, prayer. Prayer is the breath of God in yourlife.

The bible says in the book of Revelation that there is a bowl in heaven up therecalled the prayers of the saints. That is like incense to God. Prayer before God,prayer unto God. Some Christians don’t know what it is like to pray. They knowwhat the gifts of God meant but they never learned to pray. Do you know youhave not been taken to the fullness in the holy place? God may use you becausesomebody prayed for you. But if you want to continue on, you have to be a manof prayer. Jesus didn’t depend on others’ prayer. Although other people’s prayersare good He prayed Himself. Paul didn’t depend on others’ prayers. There are alot of ministries that ask people to pray for them but they themselves never pray.Paul himself is a man of prayer. Peter the apostle did not just ask the church,“Pray for me for I am too busy in the ministry.” The bible records him praying.When Cornelius sent the three men to him he was praying. In Acts 3 he was onthe way to prayer. Thank God for people who pray for you. But you have to be aman or woman of prayer. Some people know the word but they don’t know thedepths of prayer. They don’t know the agonizing cry of the Holy Spirit to givebirth to a movement of God, to give birth to the things of God on this planetearth. They do not know that. They have only the showbread and the candlestickbut they don’t have the altar of incense.

Examine your life this morning. Some of you may be tasting only one part of theholy place. Some of you may be strong in prayer but you don’t have theshowbread. Some of you may be strong in the gifts of the Spirit but you don’thave the word and prayer. You have to have all three - the gifts of the Spirit, theword of God and a life of prayer. Then you have tasted the fullness of the holyplace. And the altar of incense is right next to the veil to the most holy place. Andthe altar of incense has to be filled with incense everyday. Everything that takes

place in the holy place is a daily process.

Christians, where are you living your life? If you are in the outer court, thencome in to the holy place. The Holy Spirit is calling you to spend time in yourlife in prayer. And to learn how the Holy Spirit can flow and use you. I don’t carehow old or how young you are, how educated or how uneducated you are. Thebible says God has a work and ministry in every one of our lives. At least youhave a few manifestations of the Spirit. Every one of you may not enter the fulltime ministry but you have a ministry for God. Where are you living Christians?Pray alone at home, come and pray corporately too. We have a corporate prayerhere. Come and pray too, come, come into the holy place.

But I want you to know that the healing anointing which is the person of Jesus isnot in the outer court. I know you come here sometimes for healing. You comehere for God to touch you. You hear people on your left and on your rightpraising and worshiping God. But you are saying, “Lord God, I want to behealed.” The presence of God is not in the outer court. Perhaps you have enteredthe veil. You have studied the word confessed the word and you are not healedyet. You have prayed and you have fasted but you are not healed yet. You haveseen the gifts of the Spirit operating but you are not touched yet. Because behindthe gifts is the Giver of the gifts. And I want you to know the healing anointingis not in the holy place. Where is the holy place? Where is the healing anointing?As I conclude the teaching on the healing anointing, I want to show you how toget that healing. You must enter the outer court; you must enter the holy place.But it is not enough. You prayed, you fasted, you read the word, you believe inthe gifts of God, but the presence of God has not touched you yet. The healinganointing is not here. Remember what we said in our last message last week. Ifyou have a presence you must have a person there. The presence of God camefrom the person of God.

There was a time in Israel when they had everything except the Shekinah glory. That is in Jesus’ time they have the temple but they don’t have the same gloryinside. But in Moses’ time and in Solomon’s time before they lost the Ark of theCovenant some time in Jeremiah during the captivity, they had the Shekinahglory. Where does God dwells? Where is God? See I want to show you how to

get this healing. Healing is in Jesus but I want to show you how to touch Jesus.How do we get in contact with Jesus? He is passing by but He is in the holy ofholies. As we enter the holy of holies, we will see what is there.

As we enter the holy of holies I want four musicians to come up. Lets enter theholy of holies since the healing anointing is inside the most holy place - that’swhere the glory of God is. Inside the holy of holies there is only one piece offurniture. That piece of furniture is called the Ark of the Covenant. In this holyplace there is no light that is made by man because God is there. He does notneed any daily renewal. He does not need a candlestick to light. In the naturalthere is no light that enters the most holy place but instead, the light that shinesin it is from the presence of the Most High God. When God told Moses and said,“I will dwell among them,” right there between the wings of the cherubim calledthe mercy seat He puts His presence. And right there you can find healing. Nowork of man can enter this place. That is when all your efforts died. That iswhere everything you tried to do must die. Only God can do it. And that place iscalled the mercy seat. That is where your healing virtue is. Healing is based onthe mercy of God. There is nothing that you can do that can bring healing. Allyou need to do is to reach beyond the veil. God will not heal you based on whoyou are. He will heal you based on who He is. He is a merciful God.

Come into the most holy place where the healing anointing is. A thousand thingsmay happen all around you. But in your heart you have entered the presence ofGod. No one can enter that presence and come out the same. From time to timeHis presence manifests. This was the same presence that came on the burningbush. When Moses was there on the mountain this was the same presence thatsaid, “You are standing on holy ground.”

Sometimes, through the working of the gifts of the Spirit and through teaching ofthe word of God, you come quite close to the veil that separates you from thepresence of God. And I want you to know when you enter that veil. The gifts ofthe Spirit sometimes work and bring people quite close to that veil. The word ofGod is preached and there are times of ecstasy where you go very close to thatveil. In deep prayer sometimes you go very near to His presence. Then when you

enter His presence you are touched. And there you hear the voice of God, “I loveyou.” The almighty God is a God of love and mercy. “I am the one who givesyou the showbread and gives you the candlestick. I am the source come into Mypresence. Come into My being.”

From time to time when Jesus Christ walks into a meeting, He releases thehealing anointing. Though the human beings may be blind and dull of heart andnot know that presence, however, even the demons bow down. It is a place ofholiness. No man in heaven and earth had seen the fullness of that presence.Only the Son of God who is in the bosom of the Father has seen the glory. Yourhealing is found inside the most holy place where the healing anointing is.

So come into His holy place. Come into His presence. There is a time in God’spresence where no word can express what you feel. I want every one of you hereright now to enter the most holy place. There is where the healing virtue is. That’swhere the healing anointing lies. You have reached beyond the gifts, beyondprayer. You are now face to face with Jesus Christ. Paul said the same thing whenhe said you are seated in the heavenly place. There are some men and womenwho had lived their lives in that realm. I want you to know there are those whocome so close to God that God said, “Come home.” Enoch was taken. Then thereare others who had lived close to Him They have functioned in the gifts. Elijahknew the gifts; he knew the word and James chapter five says he is a man ofprayer. But he is the man who says it every time before God uses him, “I stand inthe presence of God.” He was on this earth but he lived in the most holy place inthe presence of God. Then one day God said, “Elijah, come home.” One day Godis going to pour His Spirit in the church of God over every believer who hascome to the most holy place. That is where your healing anointing is. I want youto reach out to Jesus of Nazareth right now. Every head bow every eye close - youare seated in the holy place.