THE ANOINTING 
                                  by J W  Luman 
 
 
I want to lay a foundation in where the Lord presently has me; not where 
I am presently perfected, not where I am in full comprehension presently, 
but where the Lord has me presently. And I am trusting that a greater 
comprehension of Him will be the result of that. And as a result of that 
greater comprehending of Him, a greater expression and manifestation of 
Him, a greater increase of Him in the earth. The Lord has been dealing 
with me about a three-fold view of Christ. The terms that designate that 
three-fold view are certainly not alien to us at all, but familiar to us. 
I began to see, and the Spirit of God began to bring each of these three 
terms into the very reality of THE PERSON; and began to define these 
terms by THE INDWELLING PERSON, THE INDWELLING SON, the Son Himself. Not 
the Son off somewhere, the Son who is in you, the Son Himself. As these 
terms by the Spirit began to be brought into the Person of the Son, the 
Spirit began to give dimension in the Person of that Son, because He 
gives all things its full dimension. You may have righteousness as a 
thing, you may have righteousness as a term. But when the Spirit of God 
brings righteousness into the Person of Christ, and the Person of Christ 
gives righteousness its definition, the Person of Christ will also give 
righteousness its full dimension. And you begin to know righteousness 
isn't a thing, but righteousness as a Person. Righteousness will not be 
the doing or the not doing of things, but the expressing of the nature 
and the character and the increase of the Person. In everything - even in 
your most inner things.  
 
You may have all of these Christian experiences as things - and many do. 
I would say most do, because most have a struggle. You have a struggle 
with spiritual things when you know them as things - you have a struggle 
being righteous when righteousness is a thing with you. This is even a 
spiritual reality, but something outside of Christ. Something He does, 
something He gives, something He commands, but it's still in a 
disconnected way from Him. It's still knowing righteousness, it's not you 
knowing Christ who is my righteousness. Knowing peace, knowing love, 
knowing joy - you can go on and on. Then you get into the area of gifts 
and into the area of graces and ministries. All of those things have got 
to come to be identified with Him! Because those things have no true 
definition outside of Him, and they have no dimension in and of 
themselves. They are expressions of, manifestations of, characteristics 
of the nature of Him! And if you cut Him off those things, you might as 
well take the sun off of its rays and you can just walk with a bunch of 
flashlights. Those things can not be attained, can not be known except in 
the knowing of Him! And in the knowing of Him those things begin to 
operate in you. And you may then come to identify them in the scripture, 
but what it is - IS CHRIST! 
 
It's either Christ, or it's you and I trying to love and trying to be 
righteous, and trying to be wise - and you can do that for a while, and 
you can do it under certain conditions. Finally all things must by the 
Spirit come into identity with Him, and be expanded in you in the expanse 
of Him, manifested through you and I as Him. If it's of the Spirit of God 
it is resident in the Person of the Son. And if it is resident in the 
Person of the Son, how can it truly be known or experienced except by the 
revelation of the Son? As it is resident in Him, as is the fulness of the 
Godhead bodily, then it can not be known separate from Him, as other than 
Him. That expands our Bibles, because now it is speaking of Him - not 
speaking of nine million things, it's speaking of Him, who gives nine 
million things their full expression, and their proper expression. It's 
HIM! 
 
These three terms are KING, and THRONE and KINGDOM. Just think about 
these. The true identity, the true dimension, the true measure of the 
King can only be found in the Person. It can't be with us a title, and to 
many it is. Many will say I'm subject to the Lord - I want to do the will 
of the Lord. All of those things are speaking of "kingly" kind of things. 
But the Lord in most of our hearts as King... King is a title. And now 
we're trying to figure out how to be submissive, to "let Him be King.' 
See - He is King! He is King, period! But until that which He is becomes 
absolute in you and I by the Spirit of God, with He Himself - then it's 
in a separate way. How many of us say, "He is Lord"? We probably know Him 
as Savior, and we are saying He is Lord, but there's no real Lordship 
operating anywhere. We're just glad we're born again, and that's 
wonderful. But we're saying "He is Lord". We are saying a true thing, but 
to most of us it's a title, it's a recognition of a title which has not 
yet become to be recognized as a Person. It's got to be that way. To how 
many Christians today is Salvation recognized as a title, as a thing, as 
a work of God? How far are you going to go along the road of Salvation 
until Salvation really becomes a Person to you? Not a religious belief; 
not a religious teaching, not a religious saying, but literally an 
Indwelling Person? And you say, 'SALVATION IS CHRIST'! Salvation becomes 
a Person! And HE is not just Savior, OUR SAVIOR IS OUR SALVATION! Who 
is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and 
redemption, and everything else in the Godhead. 
 
You won't go very far along the road of Salvation, not real true 
Salvation until it becomes a walk with a Person. And more than that - a 
walk in a Person! And more than that - a Person living and walking in 
you! That's where it begins. But there is an ever increasing revealing of 
Him. You are familiar in Ephesians 1:10, "That in the administration of 
the fulness of time, he might gather together in one all things, even in 
Him." It speaks of an administration of the fulness of time. The word 
"administration" is going to be important to us because it comes back to 
the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is very important - the administrator of 
heaven and the administrator of all administrations of the Lord, is just 
Him - the Spirit of God. So there is an administration of the Spirit that 
is called the administration of the fulness of time. You know what 
happens when a mother who is pregnant comes to a fulness of time? There 
is a delivery - something comes forth; something is birthed. There is an 
administration of the fulness of time that births, that brings forth, 
that gives evidence of what God is fully after in His Son, and by His 
Son. Whether any of us have embarked with the Spirit of God into the 
realm of the fulness of that time or not, there is such a fulness of 
time.  
 
When you deal with the King, the Throne and Kingdom, not as things, but 
as dominions and sovereignties and rules of The Son, then you are dealing 
with an administration of that Son that truly can be said is fulness. The 
full administration. What is it when God brought Israel over into Canaan? 
Now you know He brought them out of Egypt. He brought them out with a 
mighty hand. He brought them out with a mighty deliverance. 
Unfortunately, all those that were delivered all died in the wilderness, 
because they wouldn't go into the fulness of what God had set before 
them; that fulness of which we come to find and associate in Christ 
Jesus. But the whole point is they did not die because they didn't come 
out, they died because they didn't go in! They were glad to get out of 
all of the misery of Egypt, they just weren't too glad to leave the 
luxury of the wilderness. That was where nobody beat them, and they just 
had to go around in circles and God fed them every day. When it came time 
to pressing into a land that had to be taken by just those measures - 
pressing in, laying hold of... well now. We don't want to go back to 
Egypt, but we don't want to go in - let's just go around in circles. The 
point is they did not face true administrations of Christ as a Person 
until they entered Canaan!  
 
"When they passed over this Jordan..." Oh my God, the significance of 
that. They might have been ignorant of it, but there was a great 
significance that was set down for our admonition. There is a great 
significance for you and I who would walk in the richness of what they 
had in type and shadow. There is a significance to passing over this 
Jordan, not just any Jordan; not just any time, not just any place. This 
Jordan - an opening of an administration that they have never known, 
because up until this time they were coming out, they weren't going into 
anything up until this time. Most believers that I know today, are still 
in some kind of a 'coming out' process. Very few have begun to go into 
anything. We are still trying to get out - get out of sin, get out of 
habits. But oh, there is a going in! Where everything comes to be viewed 
and revealed in a Man, an Indwelling One, The Man, The Only Man, The One 
of Whom we are all part, The One to Whom we must give full expression in 
the earth, else God's plan is not full, fully realized. The significance 
of the crossing of the Jordan is picked up by the Lord Jesus, brought 
right over by Him at His baptism in the Jordan. And the heavens opened to 
recognize this administration. And there's an administration of Christ 
that will never be effected in you until the heavens are opened. And the 
heavens must be opened in you - God giving you an open heaven; not a 
cluttered view of temporal things, but an open heaven where Christ is 
revealed in one administration after another after another, until the 
administration of the fulness of time begins to take place in you and 
through you and in the midst and unto the ends of the earth! But it goes 
no where until it takes place in you. 
 
Such an administration is what we are pointing at. They went over, and 
what is it that characterized the whole land? It wasn't Jericho. There 
was one thing that took place that gave dimension, gave definition and 
boundaries to the whole land of Canaan. THE MAN! The Man who appeared 
with a sword in His hand. The Man who said, "I am the Captain!" Joshua up 
until that time was sure that he was. "I am the Captain of the Lord's 
Host." Israel, the host of the Lord. Look at that in the original text 
and you'll see it takes it all into the heavenlies. The Lord's host is a 
heavenly thing! The Captain of the Lord's host is a heavenly one! What 
happened was Joshua and Israel were swallowed right up - they were 
transported - in type. But you and I who have been delivered from 
darkness have been translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son. And 
that's not type, that's not shadow - that's reality whether we know it or 
not. They were caught up in that, and all of a sudden we see the whole of 
that land, not just that spot. (This Man spake of the whole of the land. 
He typified the boundaries and the dimensions of the land.) "I will 
receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also." This Man 
spake of such mysteries when he said, "Take off your shoes. This journey 
is not yours any more, but it is my journey in a people. Remove your 
shoes. This is holy ground." There is one holy city, one holy place, one 
holy land - and that's in Christ Jesus, and it's signified by the Person 
of Him! And if you're in Him today then you're there, and you ought to 
take your shoes off; that is, you ought to learn that it is not you and I 
who walk, but He walks! It's not you and I who live, but He lives! It 
might have been your footprints up to that place, but when it gets to 
that place, it ceases to be you and I - not even you and I walking with 
Jesus - IT IS JUST HIM! 
 
This is what the significance of This Man is. There is a significance 
there that gathers everything into it. And it lets us to know then, that 
everything that is going to transpire here is of Him, pointing to Him. 
And that's why they are dealt with in such harshness for disobeying. And 
there are three distinct administrations then - all administrations of 
This Man that appeared: all coming right out of heaven to affect 
something in the earth. What is it affecting in the earth? It is 
affecting a people in the earth - a people who are to be the expression 
of a Man, a people who are to be the expression of a land, the expression 
of a company, of a city; the expression of a tabernacle, a temple, a 
mountain. All of these things finding their answer in Him. So there's 
something coming right out of the heavens by the Spirit of God - 
Administrations of Christ, administrations of The Man! And they faced 
three of them, and the significance of that is that it's a full work, a 
full administration. The first administration they faced was judges or 
deliverers. A great administration of deliverance, but there wasn't any 
King connected with that. I'm not speaking now against anything, but 
pointing you toward a fulness of time. There's nothing against coming 
across the Red Sea, but if you come across the Red Sea, and then refuse 
to cross this Jordan at your appointed time, you are going to die in the 
wilderness, that is you will not experience His fulness.  
 
The point is that it is ever ongoing and the significance really rises 
when you come into what Canaan talks about because then everything is not 
connected with Moses, not connected even with the Tabernacle - it's all 
connected with A Man - everything now has been brought into Him! And it's 
Him living in the land! And it's Him the fulness of the land! It's Him 
making out the boundaries of the land! The administrations that come up 
are His administrations. And the first one they experienced were of 
judges and deliverers. There is a lot to make out of that and it's a 
tremendous administration. You read about Samson and Gideon and all of 
that. There are seven. There is a fulness to an administration of 
deliverance that most who claim to be deliverers today have no idea 
about. There is a great significance to the administration of deliverance 
- Christ our deliverer. And there's a lot of judgment there coming upon 
things as well. Of course the true judgment is yet to come. And at the 
end of that administration - there's still nothing. At the end of that 
every man is doing what is right in his own sight. They are delivered and 
all of that, but they are still doing what's right in their own sight! 
You'd be surprised how many Christians want to stay right there. That's 
fine, but the Lord has another administration.  
 
The Prophetic Priesthood came about, and it had its problems - Eli and 
his sons, but finally God bringing it forth in its fulness in Samuel. 
Samuel having tremendous importance here. Samuel - that prophetic 
priesthood - and there are many involved in that today. And there's 
nothing wrong in that except when you make an end in that. If you do 
that, I have one word to say - and I don't know another word - Eli; not 
Samuel - Eli. Samuel, how he was marked out of God - the whole thing. He 
was brought up to the point of the administration of the fulness of time. 
Samuel here is speaking of that tremendous work and even personage of the 
Holy Spirit and all of that operation, which is the operation of Christ. 
But what administration does Samuel introduce? And not only introduce it, 
actually bring it into existence. The last administration, the one that 
marks the fulness of time - the Administration of Kings! And there were 
really only spiritually significant three Kings - Saul, David and 
Solomon. And Saul represents a view of Christ, a humanistic view of 
Christ, a carnal, a natural view of Christ, a temporal view of Christ, 
but he represents a view of Christ as King, from our standpoint. But then 
David represents a fuller view of Christ. And with David there are three 
anointings, and we'll look at that because I want to deal with the word - 
THE ANOINTING. 
 
Then Solomon, Solomon ending it up. Solomon the grandest picture of all. 
Solomon representing that which associates itself with the Son of Man 
coming upon the white horse in glory and the armies. And what is it? The 
WORD OF GOD! Yes, very much that. Blood - yes, all of that. But LORD OF 
LORDS, KING OF KINGS! That's the administration of the fulness of time. 
It was in type and shadow, and it is in the revelation of Jesus Christ, 
and it is in the working of the Holy Spirit in you individually and 
corporately. The administration comes to that of the administration of 
the KING! But you see our King is also a Priest. And He's after the order 
of an endless life! But nonetheless, that is the end of the order, and 
that order produces the city, the city that gives Him full expression in 
all the earth. So we've got the administration of the fulness of time and 
that's connected to the administration of the King.  
 
Now with all of these revealings of Christ - revealing of Him in you as a 
Person, bringing so many things into Him, awakening so many realities of 
Him in you - that's the work of the Holy Spirit. That is an ever ongoing 
work from one administration to another. You see there are ministries of 
deliverance today and ministries of prophesy today that have nothing to 
do with Christ at all, period. Maybe you've never faced any, but it's 
true. Yet, there are true administrations of Christ that operate and are 
a result of a true revealing of the Indwelling Person. What I am telling 
you is that there must first be a revealing in you of the Indwelling Son. 
He must first be Person - P-E-R-S-O-N. And everything begins to be 
gathered up in Him. Paul said, "It pleased God to reveal His Son in me." 
There, that is the beginning, that's The Man appearing with the sword in 
his hand and gathering up everything into a Person. What a transforming 
thing that is! You may go years with that, because it will eventually 
reach out and transform and bring things into that. But I'm telling you 
that connected with that Person are ever ongoing administrations, many of 
which have been operated in the flesh, having no real significance at 
all; many of which have been simply substitutes for Him by men and women 
who are willing to do that. But there are real administrations of Him 
that begin to be revealed.  
 
You really begin to know Him as deliverer. These deliverers were not 
working in the wilderness, these deliverers were working in Canaan! But 
that's as a result of the Indwelling Christ. You'll come to that, but it 
still leaves you without King, without Throne, and then without Kingdom, 
which is a manifestation of all of that. We all know Kingdom isn't 
something you go out and set up. KINGDOM IS THE EXPRESS DOMINION OF THE 
KING IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU! We all should know that the Throne is not 
something like a beautiful chair, but the Throne is the seat of His 
authority. And we should know that none of that is operative until 
there's a King. And that King is not a title, but a reality of a Person, 
an administration of the Son. What I'm telling you is that there's only 
one of these administrations with which the word "anointing" is 
connected. And that is the administration of this King - this 
King/Priest. But you see, you and I in Spirit-filled circles have called 
everything that happens the "anointing". We anoint chairs, we anoint one 
another, we anoint carpets, we anoint ceilings, we anoint trees. I've 
laid hands on lots of things, and there's a significance to that, but 
it's just not the anointing. We've called it the anointing and it isn't. 
 
The Anointing is not connected with deliverance. The Anointing is not 
connected with the prophetic priesthood. You and I do not experience the 
Anointing until The Son is revealed in you in the administration of the 
King! We may not any of us have really experienced that yet, but you have 
in the other things. I've had about as many feelings that any of you have 
ever had and I've called it the Anointing. I've said, "God, anoint this 
one, that one." We need to get some other word, because it's a true work 
of the Holy Spirit, but every work of the Holy Spirit can not be called 
the Anointing. It is the Anointing when it comes upon the King, the 
King/Priest, otherwise it isn't. In your Bible there are 25 references to 
the Holy Oil. There are 28 references to the anointing and there are 98 
references to the Anointed and 555 references to Christ - which sums up 
all of this - HIM, CHRIST! But Christ in what dimension? KING! Just 
King! 
 
As you read all that, there are great consequences that come upon you if 
you put the Holy Oil on something other than the Anointed. You don't go 
around throwing Holy Oil on everything. The only thing Holy Oil went on 
was something that was itself in direct type of Christ. Whether it was 
the furniture, the tabernacle; it was never just an object - it was in 
direct reference to and fulfilled in the Person of Christ! That was in 
the wilderness, but then when you cross over into Canaan, it becomes more 
explicitly that which is upon the head of Him - Him - Him - Him - Him. 
Him who? THE KING! THE PRIEST! The King/Priest! Then as you progress, 
it finally comes down only to the King and has its greatest significance 
in all the Bible with David. David was the only King that was anointed 
with a full horn of oil, and anointed three times. I'm telling you, the 
Anointing is for the Anointed! There is a time when the Anointing 
operates in you and I and that is the time that we by the Spirit of God 
have been brought to the administration of the King. And there's a bunch 
of administrations through which we must come to get there. It isn't 
really you and I achieving anything, but you and I allowing Him to be 
revealed in us in this measure. And willing to suffer and glory in the 
results, the consequences. What are the consequences of full deliverance? 
Well, they are drastic. What are the consequences of the true work of the 
prophetic priesthood, the Spirit of prophesy in you? Well, that Word is 
absolutely overwhelming in you. That brings you to the administration of 
the King.  
 
This is the view in which the Lord has me. I trust that all have at least 
crossed this Jordan because now the Lord can really begin to gather 
things up in a Person and begin to function in you in that way. Then you 
are facing administrations of Him, right up until He has an instrument in 
the earth for the manifestation of His fulness. What is that? Well, His 
glory! What did Solomon do? Well, he brought that thing together. With 
what was it filled? Expression - dynamic expression - GLORY! That's what 
glory is. It is the ongoing, sovereign expression of the divine nature 
and character of God. It's not stagnant - it's ongoing, it's working, but 
it's just that - God having His expression in a people.  
 
We've experienced a lot of things that are glorious, but I'm talking 
about glory. Salvation is glorious in and of itself in any way but then 
there is that which is called GLORY, and His Glory shall fill the earth. 
We suffer these things; we count them not worthy. Why? Because of the 
glory that shall be revealed. See, there is such a thing as that glory - 
God having that expression in a people. That's what the Kingdom of God is 
- God having His expression. Oh yes, it has a lot of results, but that's 
what it is. Sometimes we look at the results it has and try to say that's 
the Kingdom. No - the Kingdom is God having His expression in a people - 
that's the Glory. As a result of that, then you've got all of these 
consequences that are true. But they will not be realized without the 
Glory. And the Glory will not be realized until the King has an 
administration in Mt. Zion - in a people. That's what we are talking 
about. I'm talking about the Anointing. 
 
When you study this you will find three terms. You will find Holy Oil - 
and Holy Oil is significant of the very Person of the Holy Spirit. Not 
just oil - Holy Oil. It is significant of the Holy Spirit because of the 
way it had to be done; how it was gathered and kept, and how it was used. 
There's so much in this, because there's going to have to be a time in 
our lives where we are brought into a very particular, singular and very 
peculiar relationship with the Holy Spirit. I'm not trying to dampen 
anything, but there has got to come a deep work of the Spirit - not just 
a superficial - a true work of the Spirit. It's got to get deep. And when 
you begin to look at the scripture about the Holy Oil, you really see 
something is being said here, and I ought to come to comprehend this kind 
of a relationship with the Holy Spirit. There is a reverence to which we 
have to come or maintain with regard to the Person of the Holy Spirit. I 
mean there's a significance. He's not come just to make me happy and do 
this and that. There is a HOLINESS ABOUT HIM that finally must grip our 
hearts. That doesn't make you old and prune faced and hateful, but it 
does capture your heart and bring it into the realm of the Holy of Holies 
where the King is revealed. And we've got to come to that with the Holy 
Spirit. And you don't have to wear a suit to do that, but we've got to do 
that. We can all sit on the floor cross legged - but there is a place to 
which we must come. So, Holy Oil is important. 
The other term is Anointed, and as it gets on toward the fulness of the 
thing it is "anointed him", anointed him. The verses of this are just 
beautiful. Leviticus 8:12, "And he poured the anointing oil on Aaron's 
head and anointed him." The Holy Oil poured out upon the anointed 
(anointed him) produces the anointing. What do you call it when the Holy 
Oil is upon the Anointed? You call that the Anointing! But there's 
nothing that can be called the Anointing outside of that procedure. You 
can have the Holy Oil with you, but that's not the Anointing. You can 
have the Anointed with you - it isn't the Anointing. It is when the Holy 
Oil comes upon the Anointed that you have the term Anointing; an 
Anointing takes place, and the Anointed now walks in the Anointing. Those 
two work together to produce the one. It is the Holy Spirit coming in a 
divine agreement with the One in you. It is the two becoming one, and the 
one thing they become is called the Anointing. It is the Holy Oil, it is 
that very Spirit of God coming upon Him, the head of Him - who is the 
Anointed of God; called the Anointed, spoken of as the Anointed. What is 
it that fills the house with its fragrance then? What is it that hovers 
over us like a cloud? It is the Anointing! Then you walk in the 
Anointing, then you sing in the Anointing, then you minister in the 
Anointing. But until that time you do not. You do nothing in the 
Anointing until the Oil has come upon the Anointed, and the Anointing is 
exclusive to Christ; it is exclusive to Christ as King! As great as 
deliverance is, it's not the Anointing.  
 
This is really something. How many times have I called the wrong thing 
the Anointing? What is wrong with calling the wrong thing the Anointing? 
The Anointing is when Christ is revealed in you as King, and when that 
takes place whatever you do you will do under the Anointing. Because the 
Anointing is peculiar to that revealing of Him, and you walk in that 
comprehension - you are led by it, guided by it. But what is wrong with 
calling every work of the Spirit the Anointing? We do that and we expect 
the results of the Anointing and we don't see it. Then all of a sudden, 
the Anointing loses any real significance for us and it becomes a feeling 
and it becomes something that hits me about fifteen minutes into my 
sermon and changes the tone of my voice. Yes, you feel something, and I'm 
sure you feel a sensation of the Holy Spirit, but it just isn't the 
Anointing. You feel something stirring in your soul and you should, but 
that isn't necessarily the Anointing. It doesn't have to not be a work of 
the Spirit, but there's a peculiar work of the Spirit called the 
Anointing, and it only happens in one circumstance. 
 
Here's the problem. Isaiah 10:27, "And it shall come to pass in that 
day..." That's the day of the Anointing. We can go through the scripture 
and see that - the day of the Anointing. "...in that day that his burden 
shall be taken away from off thy shoulders, his yoke off thy neck, and 
the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing." That's the problem 
with calling something the Anointing that isn't - it won't destroy the 
yoke! And the way that we do - you can lay hands on them until you wear 
it out at the elbow and the yoke is still there. You can call the wrath 
of God down on it; you can do whatever you want to on it. The Anointing 
destroys the yoke. And I want to tell you that word "yoke" goes all the 
way through the Bible and finally we come to Galatians 5:1 and we see 
what it is. The Anointing will destroy that yoke - not just break it, not 
just make it easy to bear; because there is a yoke that Christ is that is 
easy to bear. But there is a yoke that the Anointing will destroy. I'm 
not trying to be picky, but if our words betray our understanding, maybe 
we ought to consider some things. "It will break the yoke." See, breaking 
the yoke and destroying the yoke is not really the same thing.  
 
Many of us in our dealings with God have been broken, but He wants to 
bring us to an association with Christ in the cross that unites us with 
the Throne; and there is a destroying, not just a brokenness. Oh friends, 
it's wonderful to be broken before God, but I tell you, there's a 
devastation with destruction. But then you see, you can know Him in the 
beauty of His Allness. My God, where He's not putting broken pieces back 
together. No - He's bringing Himself forth in the midst and it's just 
HIM! It's not me mending, it's just Him coming forth. There is a 
difference there. The yoke is destroyed! And not only that, the second 
thing - in 1 John 2:27, "The anointing which you have received of him 
abideth in you, and you need not that any man teach you..." Now that 
doesn't have anything to do with exercising the ministries one to 
another. "need not that any man teach you; but as the same anointing 
teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie, even as it hath 
taught you, ye shall abide in him." And if you look at it in the original 
form it brings the Anointing in direct reference to the term "HIM". Him, 
Him - taught by Him. How? Him in the Anointing, Him as He is revealed in 
you. Paul says that, "If you have heard Him and if you have seen Him, as 
the Truth is in Jesus." He was talking to people who had never seen Him 
in the flesh in their life.  
 
There is an Anointing that teacheth you all things with this regard. The 
issue in 1 John is not the exercise of spiritual ministries one to 
another, face to face, and bringing the Lord's Body to maturity. The 
issue is deception. The issue is being deceived. There is an Anointing 
that will keep you from being deceived. There is an Anointing that will 
tell you what is Christ and what is not Christ, because this Anointing is 
no lie - it is TRUTH. This Anointing is upon Him! And there is a time, 
the Lord Jesus said, there is a realm, where many have gone out to 
deceive many. Saying what? "There is no creation?" No! Saying evolution 
is true? No - they deceiveth many saying "I am Christ, I am the Anointed, 
This is the Anointing, There's the Anointing." And shall deceive many. 
That's the deception. But you have need that nothing teach you Christ if 
the Anointing abideth, because the Anointing is upon the Anointed. And if 
the Anointing will only come upon the Anointed, and the Anointed, the 
revealed of God is in you and will keep you; that will keep you in the 
day of deception. It will keep you when the issue is not what's the devil 
and what's Christ; it will keep you when the issue is what is Christ and 
what is not Christ! We all know not to sin, get drunk and commit 
adultery. We don't need the Anointing for that. There is a convicting 
power of the Holy Spirit that works in us, but that's not the Anointing 
either. Everyone that is born again has experienced that, else you 
wouldn't have come to be born again. But there is an Anointing friends; 
the Anointing shall teach you.  
 
So those two things make it imperative that we come to experience by Him 
the Anointing. If you do not, then you are liable to deception; if you do 
not you are under the yoke. What is this yoke? Galatians 5:1, "Stand fast 
therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. Be not 
entangled again with the yoke of bondage." This term "bondage", yoke of 
bondage refers to human bondage. But the point of that is that it is not 
bondage upon humanity. In one of Paul's letters he says, "Are there not 
divisions among you, are you not carnal and babes who need to be fed milk 
- and walk as men?" He says all of this is happening to you because you 
walk as men. And the word "men" there is translated "of human origin, 
human being, male or female without reference to sex or nationality, 
after man, after the manner of man, pertaining to mankind with reference 
to humanity." What is he saying? The yoke of bondage, the yoke of human 
bondage. Not a bondage upon humanity - it is the yoke of being human. The 
yoke is humanity. 
 
"Well, the Lord knows my heart, I'm just human." No - we still have a 
body, but we're not just human. There is a comprehension that comes with 
the Anointing. The Anointing does not come upon humanity. The Anointing 
comes upon the Anointed in you, and it destroys in you the concept, the 
yoke of being human, where you cease to walk as a human being, you cease 
to relate as a human being. The yoke is being human, and the Anointing 
destroys the humanity, which is that first humanity that most of us 
thought surely was totally destroyed when we first came to the dealings 
of the cross. Only to find that here in the Great Anointing, in the last 
administration, there is still in us a humanity to be dealt with. This 
humanity is trying to serve God, and do things for God and all of that. 
That is pictured in Saul, but Saul never experienced this Anointing; 
search the scripture, he never experienced this kind of Anointing that 
literally destroys the humanity.  
 
We'll talk about the three-fold Anointing. We'll talk about the three-
fold Anointing of David that brought all of Israel into the fulness of 
Mt. Zion, where finally Solomon builds the temple, and the significance 
of it, because all of this is set forth in significance. All of this 
designates not only a work of the Holy Spirit, a necessary work of the 
Holy Spirit. What is the end of the thing? The end of the thing is a 
temple coming together to give God glory in the earth. And I'm telling 
you, if you want to get to that end, this is the way you've got to come. 
You can run around and preach glory until your tongue fall out - there is 
no glory but by this Anointing. There is no coming together of the temple 
but by this Anointing. You are not going to get it together on the basis 
of doctrine, on the basis of what we believe about heaven or all of the 
other things we try to create fellowships on. You may put something 
together that way, but you are going to have a hard time holding it 
together; and even if you hold it together, if it doesn't manifest 
Christ, there's no glory to it. It is the glory that brings together the 
temple of God, whose stones have been prepared without great fanfare and 
noise. Paul brings that right over and says, "fitly joined together". 
Fitly joined together, growing up into Him, into a habitation of God. 
What takes place in the heavens must be manifested in the earth - it has 
to be.  
 
It's by the Anointing. You can't just jump over there and look at the 
House and say 'isn't this wonderful?' The Anointing brought that forth. 
Anointing does that - the revealing of the King, Him establishing His 
Throne, the exercise of His Kingdom - but all of that is by the 
Anointing. All of that is by a very peculiar movement of the Holy Spirit 
upon Him, and the resulting of it in you is the Anointing - living by it, 
speaking by it, walking in it. It breaks the yoke. The yoke of humanity 
is broken and it teaches you all things pertaining to the Truth. It does 
distinguish in you what is Christ and what is not Christ. That's what the 
Anointing will do, and only the Anointing will do it. And you will - not 
you can - you will. Jesus said, "you will... except the very elect, you 
will be deceived." There will be a point in your life - this is 
individually, this is corporately for the Church; it may have taken place 
in every generation, I don't know. But there will be a point in your life 
that you will, without this Anointing, you will be deceived. You will 
call something Christ that isn't Christ. How far you go along with that I 
don't know - but you will. The Anointing is necessary to what God is 
after - in a people and in the earth. You can't go with Him, into His 
fulness and never experience the Anointing.  
 
No wonder the enemy has taken great delight to call so many things the 
Anointing that are not the Anointing. And we think we have experienced 
the Anointing! We have experienced some wonderful things, but not the 
Anointing, because the yoke is still there - things that can deceive. 
THEY CAN NOT ABIDE WHERE THE ANOINTING IS! And it's not something I can 
put on you. We can speak to one another in the Anointing, having 
experienced it; or we can speak to one another without the Anointing. The 
Anointing is not something I do or you do - The Anointing is wrought in 
you by the working of the Spirit upon the Anointed - knowing Christ in a 
very specific way. And then we do what we do in that Anointing and in the 
acknowledgment of that Anointing. What a joy! What a difference! 
 
So these three elements make up the Anointing: the Holy Oil which 
typifies the Holy Spirit, and the Anointed, Him upon which that oil is 
poured, combining to give us the third element which is the Anointing. We 
bring that over into Christ. The Anointing is when the Holy Spirit 
reveals Christ in you - not that He is in you - reveals Him in you, in a 
dimension referred to as King. This brings us into elements of the 
administration of the fulness of time. And I say elements because that 
administration is so vast. There is such a tremendous working in us of 
this understanding of Christ, understanding of the Son as King. 
 
In those believers in whom Christ has genuinely been revealed, we must 
understand the tremendous consequence of that realization - that He is in 
me. Given enough time with a Christian, I can convince you in the 
scripture, theologically that Christ is in you. And many are so 
convinced, but we're not talking about that. We're talking about those in 
whom there has been a genuine God-given, Holy Ghost revealing, in whom 
The Son is revealed. Paul testified, not in the end, but at the absolute 
beginning, "It pleased God to reveal His Son in me." That must take 
place. And we have equated that with the Man appearing in Canaan. They 
entered into Canaan and there was not a land laid before them to see - 
there was a fulness of a Man set before them to see! That was already 
prefigured before them with Abraham. You are familiar with Genesis 12 - 
that's the calling out of Abraham. Abraham is told to leave his father's 
house, leave this, leave that, and all that leaving is necessary. 
 
But what else? "Go to a land that I will show you." The word there, ra-
ah, in the Hebrew means "that which is revealed of God or shown of God." 
It has nothing to do with natural vision. Go to a land that I will show 
you. Abraham starts and he came to the place inhabited by the Canaanites 
and something wonderful is said there. The promise is - go to a land that 
I will show you. "And the Lord appeared to Abram." And the word 
"appeared" is the same word as "show" - ra-ah. So what is it? How did the 
Lord fulfill His promise really? And the Lord showed Himself to Abram and 
said, here, this is it, this is your possession, to be possessed by your 
seed. And every time the land was referred to after that it was always, 
"Lift up now thine eyes from the place where thou standest." Lift up your 
eyes, which is the spiritual exaltation of the soul into a higher realm 
of recognition.  
 
GOD HAS NEVER SHOWN ANYTHING BUT HIMSELF as the possession of His people! 
And as the dwelling place of His People. He has never shown His people a 
place or a thing other than Himself. And you don't dwell in a place or a 
location other than CHRIST!  Your dwelling is in Him. And whatever the 
Lord may expand and make that mean to you, because it means a great deal, 
nonetheless, it is in Him! It's in Him! And the mystery of God in Christ, 
the mystery of that reality of being in Christ is beyond comprehension. 
So they began in Canaan. This is just a fulfillment of what God in a 
minuscule way showed Abraham and now it's being worked out in Israel. It 
just comes right over and is worked in you and I as the Church, which is 
the fulness of it, the reality of it. First in Abraham, secondly in 
Israel, thirdly and finally in the Church, all of that reality comes to 
take place. But my point is - A MAN APPEARED! Canaan has just been 
swallowed up in a Man; Israel has been swallowed up in a Man. Their 
journey now is in Christ, their journey is in a Man - learning Him and 
giving Him manifestation in the earth. This is the purpose of the Church, 
the Lord's Body. Not just busyness in doing things, but expressing Him in 
all things. That will keep you busy! If the Church is not giving Him 
expression then the Church is failing its purpose, regardless of what 
else it's doing.  
 
Israel can do whatever they want to, but it is these administrations of 
Christ that is coming forth in them and developing within them. Don't 
ever forget all of these judges, all of these administrations are all 
developed within Israel. All of this is developed. Why? Because it's a 
developing of Christ. "That Christ be formed in you." There is a forming 
of Him, administration after administration, realm after realm, view 
after view until we finally come to this view of which we are speaking - 
KING - the administration of the fulness of time. And it is with that 
administration that the Anointing is connected. None of the other 
administrations required such an Anointing. They required the Holy Spirit 
coming upon, they required the Holy Spirit energizing - all a work of the 
Holy Spirit. Every revealing of Christ in you is of the Holy Spirit 
because only He can reveal Christ. But in what realm? It's in whatever 
realm you can stand. Because one prepares you simply for another and yet 
another - on in the fulness of Him. We only make mistakes when we stop; 
when we build our lives or our ministries on something less than His 
fulness. So it keep us always being stretched out, always looking beyond, 
always going on, pressing on. That's the way we should be kept. And it is 
His administration working in us.  
 
It is when the Holy Spirit moves upon, comes into agreement with The Son 
in you as King that the Anointing takes place. Not as deliverer and not 
in the vast realm that is involved in the prophetic priesthood, but as 
King. Then we have to deal with the consequences of that King and the 
Throne and the Kingdom. But you see, until there is an Anointing, there 
is none of that. What is knowing Him as King and the establishment in you 
of the Throne, the expression of the Kingdom except one greater 
comprehension of Christ upon and out from another? That's what it is. 
Paul saying, "I would that you would come with all saints to comprehend 
Him in His fulness." That's really what he's saying there. At the end of 
his days Paul uses another word, "apprehend", but it's translated from 
the same word "comprehend". "Oh, that I may comprehend that for which I 
am comprehended of God." Isn't that beautiful? God has comprehended a 
people in Christ, and He wants that people to come to His comprehension 
concerning themselves and Christ. Paul says it another way - "to know as 
we are known." We are very much short of God's comprehension. Folks, if 
we just comprehended Salvation as God comprehends Salvation, the earth 
literally could not contain you! God's comprehension is so consequential 
with you. God's comprehension is so dynamic and transforming - when we 
come to see in His view. And His view is all wrapped up in Christ! He 
brings us to see everything in the seeing of Christ. Finally He brings us 
to see ourselves, ourselves as the Church, ourselves as we are made by 
Christ Jesus! 
 
He brings everything into definition by Christ. Most of us don't. But by 
the Anointing that becomes a reality. No - not a bunch of little Jesuses 
- we are after one expression of Jesus in the earth, one expression of 
Him. We don't need any more gods - we just need a New Creation giving one 
God full expression. That what we're talking about here. But it's all 
through the revealing of The Son. All of those realms, all of those 
dominions, all of that is in Him in you - just waiting to be revealed, to 
give God His full expression. Now that's Salvation, friends.  
 
So coming toward the fulness of that, we are dealt with of the Lord 
concerning this business of King, and that's where we come into the 
Anointing. We mentioned that the Holy Spirit moves upon the Person of 
Christ as King/Priest. I'm dealing with Him as King, but He really is 
King/Priest. You really can't separate the two. As King He established 
His Throne and is exercising His Dominion. As Priest He brings us into 
the very Presence of the Most High. As Priest He brings us into Himself, 
into His abode. "Where I am, you are." Hebrews 8,9,10. It starts out, 
"Now the sum of the matter is this." Sum of what? The sum of everything 
that is said up to Hebrews 8. "Now the sum of the matter is this. We have 
such a High Priest." Minister of a new sanctuary. He makes of you a 
sanctuary, not made with hands. Then on into the ninth chapter and tenth, 
whereby coming by a new, a living way; coming, being brought. Our High 
Priest brings us right there - where you dwell in the Presence... See, 
when we say "presence" we've got this Pentecostal idea of mist filling 
the room. "Oh, didn't you feel the presence of the Lord?" Ok, well yes, 
that's a sensation. But I'm talking about He brings us into the 
presencing... I just want to keep saying "Person." I didn't say He made 
God out of you. He brings you into the bosom of the Father. He brings you 
into an everlasting, eternal acknowledgment and understanding and 
comprehension of union - bosom dwelling. And it is out from there that 
everything that is true - like true praise, true worship, comes. Let me 
say that true praise and true worship is not what you do. True praise and 
true worship is who you are! You become a praise in the earth, you become 
a worship in the earth. It doesn't mean we don't praise and worship, but 
to everything we do there is a greater reality in Christ; there is a 
greater reality in not the doing of it, but actually becoming the 
expression of it in the earth. It doesn't mean you every stop doing it. 
But how many say 'Bless the Lord, Sweet Jesus' and their lives are far 
from a praise? And their conduct is far from a worship; their motivations 
are far from any of that - outside the doing of the praise and worship 
occasionally? 
 
That's what the Priest does. As He expands, He first must be King. King - 
He is King of Righteousness, King of Peace. This is a King and Priest 
after the order of Melchizedek - that's the order of an endless life, and 
that's fulfilled in the Person of Christ; that's not a bunch of people 
not getting gray headed, but that's fulfilled in the Lord Jesus, and has 
its manifestation in a people - who have an endless life. And who become 
motivated by that endless life. Remember we talked about not being under 
the bondage of being human? See - an order of endless life! That human 
body is either going to be transformed or it's going to be buried - one 
way or the other. But that's not the thing - no, there's an order of an 
endless life. That's not some hope off in the sky somewhere, that's a 
reality. And it is to be fully realized in a people. And all of heaven, 
and every saint that has ever gone there by the grave waits breathlessly 
for such a manifestation to come forth in the earth, because that is 
their great release. If you think the saints of God are up there fishing, 
you're wrong. No - all of heaven waits for such a revealing, such a 
manifestation of the Lord of Lords and King of Kings - an administration 
of an endless life. So the Priest brings us right in there.  
 
But the King! And the Holy Spirit moving upon anything or anyone other 
than Christ in this way as King is not the Anointing. It is certainly a 
move of the Holy Spirit, and it is only wrong when we say that's the 
Anointing. And we talked about why that's wrong, because the Anointing 
breaks the yoke and those other movements will not. The Anointing teaches 
all things, the other administrations simply do not. It is an 
administration of the Holy Spirit, but comes short of that. Why would an 
administration of the Holy Spirit come short of anything? Because He's 
working in a people that must come that way - He is working in a people 
who must grow and come that way. So He brings them that way - 
administration to administration; first line upon line, precept upon 
precept, then administration upon administration. You can call it glory 
to glory to glory; the scriptures do that and say, "as by the Spirit of 
the Lord." Beholding Him - as in a glass - changed, transformed, into 
that same image from glory to glory. This is the work of the Spirit. 
That's why some administrations come short of fulness, but it's an 
administration of the Spirit revealing Christ in you. What I want to get 
across is that there is an administration - whether any of us have 
experienced it or not - there is that administration to be known, to know 
Him in that way.  
 
It's set forth in Israel. Israel is going to have a King after God's own 
heart and after God's own thought. The end of that is going to be a 
temple - THE HOUSE OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE GOD OF ALL THE 
EARTH! The glory of God is going to have visible manifestation in the 
earth. All of that is set forth in Israel for our admonition. It is set 
forth in Christ, in Him for manifestation. And not only that, Paul looks 
into the reality of that, the mystery of that and says all creation 
groans, travails and waits for such a glorious thing. Certainly our 
Salvation is measured right to that very end, that very fulness of 
Christ. So the Holy Spirit coming upon anything - you, me, whatever - is 
not the Anointing. The Anointing is peculiar to this one revealing, 
ongoing, never ending revealing of Christ. I say never ending because in 
the scripture, you deal with David - what is said is eternal, everlasting 
in the heavens, ongoing. What is it? The Throne! The Kingdom, the 
Government of the King - this is a never ending revealing of Him, never 
ending, ongoing Anointing! To which there is no end! You're not going to 
get to the end and run out of this administration, because this 
administration has no end! 
 
It is the administration of the fulness of time by which He shall gather 
all things. So in connection with that, the true Anointing will totally 
devastate all but the Anointed! When I began to realize that and it began 
to be more than just a statement, I thought, O God, all the things I've 
tried to get God to anoint. And it just devastates! When He anoints His 
Son in this way, those things are devastated. Everything you've tried to 
get anointed is devastated. The true Anointing devastates all but the 
Anointed. We'll see that in the three-fold Anointing. And we mentioned 
the breaking of the yoke of human bondage, and the teaching of all 
things. I want to say one thing about breaking the yoke of human bondage. 
We read Isaiah 10:27, "And in that day (the day of the anointing) thy 
burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder..." That's the Adamic 
burden. That's the burden of humanity. The whole of God's plan deals with 
two men; an old one and a new one. One that humanity is, and one that 
Christ is. See, we want to be part of both of them. Well, you're not! Not 
in that way. Yes, we have to do with the New Man, but Christ is the New 
Man! We give Him expression. We're also called a city, a temple, a 
mountain, a Body. What is all of that? To give Him expression! No one 
term could identify that organism that is for His full expression. 
Mountain, city, temple - they all say something, but not all about it. So 
we are identified as all those things, but the point of it is all those 
things are measured by HIM! They are truly defined by Him! What is the 
city without Him as the light? The bigger it is, the darker it is. If it 
has no light, you don't want it to be very big, because the bigger it 
gets the darker it gets.  
 
So we're the City of God. Big deal! Except Christ be revealed in you, you 
are dark as a dungeon, and you are just manifesting the works of the 
flesh. So all of these things are wonderful, but they're all for His 
expression - all for Him. So the plan of God is dealing with two men - an 
old one and a new one. As we have born the image of the old, so shall we, 
so must we bear the image of the second. That second man who is the Lord 
from heaven. So here we have these pronouns. And God is talking about 
nations in Isaiah 10, but this business of taking off of your 
shoulders... his burden...his yoke from off thy neck. The yoke shall be 
destroyed because of the Anointing! Now, I've heard a lot of sermons. 
"The yoke shall be destroyed because of the Anointing - let's have a 
prayer line." That's not the Anointing. If you want to get somebody 
healed, do that. If you want to lay hands on each other for this reason 
or that, go right ahead. Do whatever the need requires. But the Anointing 
is not that. The Anointing is exclusively upon the Anointed; it is a 
comprehension in which you may do those things, but it is a comprehension 
that stands above and beyond all other things. You may sing or preach in 
the Anointing, but the Anointing must come first. Why? Because without 
the Anointing there is no King, without the King there is no Throne, 
without the Throne there is no Kingdom, without that there is no 
expression of God in His fulness in the earth! 
 
I want you to see how important the Anointing is; how important it is 
that this take place in Israel, in God's holy mount; how important it is 
that this take place in the Father's household. The Anointing of the King 
- releasing a Kingly administration, releasing the Lord in that dimension 
of His Allness. That Anointing is all important. I want you to hear that 
and begin to allow the Lord to give you Godly discrimination with regard 
to the Anointing. We say nothing against all the glorious moves and 
movements of the Holy Spirit bringing Israel to this place. But if you 
miss this place, all of those movements and dealings of God with Israel 
still do not amount to the King. It's all to bring us there. So let's be 
careful that we don't substitute. And in that line, Isaiah 58:6. This 
speaks of those who walk in that Anointing, in that revealing of the 
King. "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of 
wickedness, to undo the heavy burden, to let the oppressed (of human 
bondage) go free..." God's people are so oppressed. I don't deal with 
anybody but God's people. I know the Church does, but there are a lot of 
oppressed in God's people, in ministry; oppressed with human bondage. Our 
humanity becomes an oppression, and an obsession. We look at ourselves 
first as humans - humans on our way to heaven. That's oppressive. "...to 
set the oppressed...that you break every yoke." What is the true ministry 
of Christ? What is the true ministry of the King? In His kingdom He 
releases His people! In His Kingdom He rids them of the yoke of human 
bondage. What is the purpose of those that labor in this Anointing? To do 
just that in the Church! 
 
I'll tell you friends, there is no rest in my bosom until every born 
again believer is out from the yoke of bondage and the ignorance of 
humanity. I appreciate what I see in the Lord's Body, but God's people 
are so oppressed. You look outside in your community and you care - 
that's humanity in bondage. But I'm talking about the bondage of humanity 
in you! That's what I'm dealing with. And we'll deal with humanity in 
bondage a whole lot better and more truthfully and more powerfully when 
we come from the bondage of humanity. We'll bring them into a much more 
glorious Salvation - we will present Salvation to them in a much more 
glorious way. Here it is - this is the fast that I have chosen for you. 
Not to go around long faced and looking sad on Salvation. Here's what 
I've chosen for you. Is it not to set the oppressed free? Is it not to 
break every yoke? Until every believer is comprehending. This is what 
Paul said - until we come in unity of the faith, the knowledge of the Son 
of God, to a perfect man, the measure of the fulness of the age of Christ 
Himself! This is it. And the Anointing works that in us.  
 
So we'll talk about the Anointings of David - God's concept of the King. 
Saul was Israel's concept and Israel's view. David was God's concept and 
God's view. And David had three Anointings. Not three Anointings to make 
him King, three Anointings so that Israel would recognize him as King. He 
was King after the first one, but he was only known in a household. He 
was King after the second one, but he was only known in Judah, and by 
those who had come from other places and had joined him. But in his third 
Anointing all of Israel bowed the knee and recognized what had been set 
forth in Jesse's house years before. There is then first the Anointing 
that devastates. That's in 1 Samuel 16. I mentioned that the Anointing 
coming upon anything but Christ devastates all but the Anointed, and it 
will do that. If you think that the Anointing is going to lift you up, it 
isn't; it's going to lift HIM UP! Well, are we not magnified with the 
Lord? Yes, we are magnified by the Lord, but there is a certain lifting 
up of ourselves that the Anointing will not allow. The Lord lifts up His 
people, yes, in the expression of Himself you are lifted up. But so many 
of His people seek to lift themselves up - on behalf of the Lord. The 
Anointing will not permit that. God will allow that for a while. And many 
administrations of the Holy Spirit will "wink" at that, but this one 
won't. This to all but the Anointed is a devastating thing.  
 
The second Anointing takes place in 1 Chronicles 12. they are going out 
to David at a place outside of Israel - Ziklag. It's a place of a cave. 
It is a great gathering unto David and as a result of that he is anointed 
the second time by those very men when he brings them into Hebron, which 
is the place of fellowship, and secures them there for seven years. The 
second Anointing gathers. Friends, all of my ministering life I have 
tried and I have seen others try in small ways to international ways to 
bind God's people together, bind God's ministry together. I'm telling 
you, except it be by this Anointing, what you are using is nothing short 
of cheap glue - it will not work. The best of intentions will not make it 
work. You can't even do that in a local fellowship. Except it be bound up 
in the knowledge of Christ, and then beyond that, gathered up in this 
Anointing, because this is the Anointing that gathers. And it's the only 
one in the whole of the Bible that does. This gathering spoken of in 1 
Chronicles 12 is said to be like the very HOST OF GOD! What does that do? 
It takes it right back to that Man that appeared to them and said, "I'm 
the Captain of the Host." This is a gathering in the heaven that is 
irresistibly manifested in the earth. Read 1 Chronicles 12. It says in 
the first place, "These are they..." That's identity, isn't it? These are 
Baptists? No. These are Pentecostals? No, none of that applies. These are 
Danites? No. These are Benjamites? No, none of their tribes. It goes on 
and said what they came out of, but now we're looking at their identity. 
"These are they who came TO DAVID to Ziklag." They didn't come to Ziklag; 
and Ziklag represents that place of the cave, that place of surrender, 
that place of death, that place of laying down and knee bending and neck 
breaking, and all of that. They didn't come to that - they came TO 
DAVID, and that was the result.  
 
We always get it backward. We try to be broken before coming to David. We 
try to be broken without seeing Christ. All you can do is repent, and you 
should repent. But I'm telling you that you can't come to that brokenness 
by repentance, because that brokenness is thorough. How are these known? 
Who are all these? "These are they..." We say these came from here, and 
these came from there, and it goes on and relates that. Most of us are 
known by our backgrounds and we base our relationships on them. 
Backgrounds meant nothing here. Some of these tribes fought each other 
like cats and dogs. Some of these men came out of Saul's own household 
and most of these others hated them. But there's a blending here, and the 
blending wasn't upon their background. Another thing we do - we all try 
to get together on the basis of what we left; we get together on the 
basis of what we don't like, or somebody we don't like. We do that. But 
these men, what was it? They were coming out as mighty men, they were men 
of battle. They could throw with a bow with either hand, they were 
tremendous men of position. Here they all come - one by one, two by two, 
and like the Host of God they were gathered. What was it? Were they 
running from Saul, mad at Saul, rebelling against Saul? No - they were 
not rebels coming out, weren't mad at anybody. "Let's go blend the 
tribes!" No - that wasn't their intention. They weren't trying to put 
something together. Every single one that came out had one motivation in 
his heart - I AM GOING TO DAVID! I'm going to the Anointed! I'm going 
by the Anointing! These are they that came to David. Their loyalty to one 
another was as unto David, because it was unto David. Laying down their 
lives one to another in service of David. That's quite a group of men, 
quite a ministry, quite a fellowship. 
 
"God is faithful, who has called us into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus 
Christ our Lord." It's that fellowship that David was prefiguring there. 
It is that fellowship that Paul speaks of. So when one is called from 
here and one is called from there; because He does that, He calls them 
from one end of heaven to another end of heaven. You think you're called 
from one end of the earth. No - you go out to the ends of the earth. He's 
rounding up the heavens. And when He joins us together in that spiritual 
way, in that heavenly reality, that in Him we are bound up, in this 
Anointing, in this comprehension of Him - whatever is bound up in the 
heavens will be so manifested in the earth. It is irresistibly so. You 
are going to see some strange things coming together in the earth. 
Backgrounds would have suggested it would never happen; past things would 
have suggested it could never be done. Now you can refuse to be gathered 
in the heavens. But if you are gathered into this Anointing, that 
gathering will be made manifest in the earth. And in that gathering there 
is no schism, because there is ONE CAPTAIN! And all else is 
administrations of Him. What a gathering! What a fellowship! I long to 
see in fulness, not just in little ways that we see it now, that 
fellowship in manifestation in the earth. Because that was the witness to 
all of Israel. When Israel finally came to realize they had no King, it 
was that binding and that gathering unto David in Judah that became the 
witness to all of Israel, and brought about the third Anointing of David. 
 
God saw in that little band His full intention for all of Israel, that 
all of Israel would come to David and be bound up in that way. And when 
they came, they were. What did Israel say in that third Anointing? In 2 
Samuel 5 when they came to recognize him? They fell down before him and 
said, "David thou son of Jesse, we are bone of thy bone, we are flesh of 
thy flesh." Why? Because the witness had been established in the men 
gathered in Judah, and that fellowship in Hebron for seven years had 
established God's thought for all of Israel. God didn't abandon Israel 
for that fellowship of believers. No, it was the other way around. That 
fellowship was to be a witness to all of Israel, that all of Israel may 
come. Not all that call themselves Israel, but all Israel; all that are 
truly Israel, all that are truly His, and the Lord knoweth them that are 
His, and the sheep of His pasture. He sees in that second Anointing and 
in those men His intention for all of Israel and Israel comes to that 
intention. And as a result of it, David takes them to Zion, to the high 
thought of God, established His Throne in their midst, and what at last 
is Israel called? Not just Jerusalem, but all of Israel representatively 
are brought there. CITY OF THE KING! For the first time Israel is 
identified not by tribe, but by One Man - THE KING! City of the King! 
Have they not been Israel? Oh yes, but misidentified, lesser identified, 
which gives room for all of the wars and all of the schisms and all of 
the divisions. Done away in the third Anointing, done away when David 
established His throne in the top of Mt. Zion, answering to Psalms 2 - 
Christ finally fulfilling all of that.  
 
But friends, He fulfills that in a people. He doesn't fulfill that in a 
galaxy or in stars. He fulfills that in a people, in a creation, in a 
Kingdom. The second Anointing gathers. The third Anointing glorifies. 
David brought Israel to glory. He brought back the Ark of the Covenant of 
God, lifted the flaps on the tent that all of Israel might behold it. 
What a glorious thing! Saul didn't do that, Saul didn't even have a mind 
to do that. There is a concept of Christ in the Church today that totally 
disregards anything of glory except in a songbook talking about 'by and 
by', and that bothers me. "Gloryland Road." Oh, my! And we still sing 
that in one concept or another. And there is a view of Christ that just 
denies God's people coming into glory, coming into that union that gives 
God expression. But David brings that about. Later on Solomon brings all 
that together, and that is yet another administration of the King - the 
third one, the final one in Israel. After that you know there weren't any 
more real Kings. They were just marking time until the Lord came. And 
there was one restoration after another restoration - all of that until 
Christ came.  
 
1 Samuel 16, " And the Lord said to Samuel, how long wilt thou mourn for 
Saul..." How long are you going to mess with this concept of Christ? This 
has nothing to do with your burden for sinners or your burden for 
ministry. I have long ago given up on the system. I didn't say people in 
the system, I said the system - trying to make it work, trying to pull it 
together, trying to be a part of it. You see this is man's view - it is a 
view of Christ - it is not a view of the devil. Saul represented a view 
of the King that was just man's view. And it took Israel a long time; 
they like to have never gotten out of that view. They weren't in bondage 
to the Philistines, they were in bondage to the wrong view of the King! 
God anointed David twice, and Israel was still in another view. Now how 
wrong can you be, how in bondage can God's people today be concerning the 
reality of Christ, and still name the name Christ? I'm telling you, very, 
very wrong. And we must minister to these people in an outreach way, but 
here Samuel is laboring with that, trying to make it work, trying to make 
it shape up, trying to make it obey God - and it isn't going to obey God. 
And it isn't going to shape up. It's the wrong view.  
 
And finally the Lord just says, how long are you going to do this? "Quit 
praying for Saul. I have rejected him..." But look. As what? "...as 
King." In this view I've rejected Saul. I've rejected Saul as King over 
my people Israel. That is not the view. Now He says, you give yourself 
totally to this view. I'm going to tell you something friends, if you 
continue with the Lord, you will face this time element. It is the 
beginning of the fulness of time in your heart. God measures that - you 
and I don't, but it's the beginning of that administration. And it will 
require your every waking moment, effort, breath, energy, strength, 
acknowledgment - all. It will require it all. Because not only was He 
told to quit praying for Saul, God had rejected him... that wasn't the 
message. The message is " Fill your horn with oil." There's an Anointing 
to take place. "Fill your horn with oil." Here is the fulness. Here is 
the thing that Samuel was born for. Here is the purpose of the prophetic 
priesthood brought right down to a moment in time. "Fill your horn with 
oil and go..." I'm telling you, this will take place in you when the 
ministry of the Godhead in you comprising that glorious union of Father, 
Son and Holy Spirit; there will be a time in you when that kind of 
conversation and acknowledgment will begin to be realized in you. And it 
will be as though the Father is saying, "It is time. It is time to Anoint 
My King in that household." 
 
He's always Anointed first in His Father's House. What does He say about 
that to you and I? John 14, " In my father's house..." Where has He 
brought us? What has He made of us? Dwelling places! My Father's House. 
Where I am - that's where the Anointing takes place first. IN YOU! It 
doesn't depend upon any other household. Now it will spread, yes - all 
those men. But where did it start? One household, one individual, if you 
please, one believer. I don't wait on you in this respect, you don't wait 
on me in this respect. But if you follow on to know the Lord, you will be 
brought to this kind of dealing, when the Holy Spirit will completely 
bring His dealings and gather up all of His dealings for the Anointing of 
The King! I can't place the emphasis upon it that the Spirit of God 
places upon it, but I do want you to remember that there is such a time. 
You can't just decide I'm going to do this. But if you go on to know Him, 
it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit, but it becomes distinct as to THE 
KING. It was distinct as to the deliverers and it was to the prophetic 
priesthood, it's got to become distinct as to the King. It's got to be 
that way. There's a time that I must, for the sake of Israel, not against 
Israel; for the sake of all the Church, not against the Church, turn my 
face from any other view than that view that is set forth in the 
revealing of Christ. Why? For the sake of the Church! It must be done. 
For the sake of Israel David must be anointed in his father's house, 
whether Israel recognized him or not.  
 
And when David was anointed in Jesse's household, one household, amid 
obscurity, buried off in the middle of nowhere, He revealed His King in 
that household, but in effect, did He not reveal His King in Israel? Now 
that brings us into great consequences, because from that time on God 
dealt with all of Israel and all of the lands and nations around Israel 
according to this Anointing. I'm saying that God could never again deal 
with Israel as though Saul was King. God's dealings were never again 
along that line, and that's why everything came to cross purposes - Saul 
tried to kill David and all of that. Because God simply could not go 
against His own Anointing. The implications of this are mind boggling, 
because when God reveals His Son in one believer, has He not revealed His 
Son in the whole of His Body? Will God not then begin to deal with His 
Body according to that which He has revealed in one believer? It will 
bring a lot of persecution on that one believer, because Israel is not 
going to receive that - they've got their sights set on another version 
of Christ. Christ - but another version, a lesser version. And where 
there's one individual, or one group of individuals, or one minister, God 
has done it in the whole, and He is faithful to that. 
 
Look at Paul. God revealed Christ in him, in an ever ongoing way He 
revealed The Son in him, and immediately God began to deal with the whole 
Church along that line. It brought Paul to cross purposes with the 
brethren at Jerusalem, brought him to cross purposes with Peter, brought 
him to cross purposes with many. Not because he was arrogant and 
contrary, but because of the Anointing. And Paul could not go against the 
Anointing, and God would not go against the Anointing. No - all of Israel 
must come to this Anointing; all of Israel must come to this view of the 
King. Now that will light a fire in you! This is not against Israel, this 
is for Israel's Salvation. This is not against the Church, this is for 
the Salvation of the Church, that the Lord has done this thing. And 
something else that's in this verse. Once the ministry of the Holy 
Spirit, once the ministry of Samuel is set - "Go to Jesse's house, the 
Bethlehemite, for there among his sons, I have provided me a King." Once 
the ministry of the Holy Spirit is so set in your life, you might as well 
get used to it, because He isn't going to back up into other 
administrations. 'Last year I was permitted to do this or that.' Well, 
that's tough - a different administration now, a different view of Christ 
now. The administration of Christ doesn't allow that. That's not sin, 
that's not even wrong, it's just not allowed by this view. You don't 
fight it, many times it will just fight you. David never did fight Saul. 
Saul tried to kill him every time he turned around. Saul tried to kill 
him when he was helping him! All David wanted to do was minister to him, 
and Saul wanted to kill him. He wanted to kill him because his ministry 
to him was successful! 
 
David never did want to kill Saul. Why? Because that's not the mind of 
the Spirit. See, Saul represented a view, though a lesser view. You don't 
fight lesser views. You set your face for a greater view! Not out to 
destroy, my God, to save Israel - the Church. Now that system that has 
replaced the concept of the Church - I have no use for that. But God's 
people - the Church - the captives, the oppressed, the lame, the maim, 
the halt, the blind. 'Til every yoke is broken, 'til every eye sees, 'til 
every ear hears, 'til every heart knows, UNTIL ISRAEL MAKES DAVID KING! 
Not just has a King - they have a King now. Until they make David King. 
Not just have a view of Christ - they've got a view of Christ. Until they 
have a true view of Christ - a view of Him as revealed by His Father, and 
as this view as KING! Not only does the ministry of the Holy Spirit go 
towards this and bring you here; not only does God begin to deal with 
everything around you according to that Anointing, but deals with His 
whole Church according to that Anointing. That's probably the reason so 
many of us in ministry in the Church don't understand the dealings of God 
with us, because He's dealing with us according to his Anointing in 
somebody. Somebody's pressed through to a real revealing of Christ and 
God begins to deal with Israel accordingly, bringing them to that view. 
 
Why? See, I've breezed through this, but there's a lot to what I am 
telling you - of God dealing with Israel on account of what is taking 
place in this household. God is bound up in that Anointing to deal with 
Israel accordingly, and Israel does not know what's going on. And Saul 
doesn't either. And all he can do is just get mad at it and try to kill 
it, discredit it and finally, run him out of Israel. David was out there 
hiding in a cave, because he doesn't want to fight with Saul. And there's 
the real King of Israel. But even there the Anointing gathers; most 
particularly there the Anointing gathers those who will forsake all and 
go to David; those who will go unconditionally to David, with no hope of 
ever regaining the position they left, finding another, a new - in David. 
Going not into "Kingdom Reign" but into FELLOWSHIP! Kingdom reign is only 
as good as the relationship that he comes out from. We want to go out and 
conquer the world; better our hearts be conquered first! So the King 
brought them into fellowship first - seven years fellowship - that's what 
made the Kingdom mighty in his time - it came out of fellowship. It's an 
ongoing view of Him, but it starts right here.  
 
I said this first Anointing devastates. Here's seven sons in this 
household; David is the eighth. David is the eighth, which makes him the 
first. Here are these seven sons representing a household, and they all 
run out, one by one for the Anointing. How many times have I brought out 
my best sons, the best that I can offer, because nobody's going to run 
some old trashy something out there for God! 'Surely the Lord will anoint 
this.' Devastate, yes. There is a word in verse 1, "I have rejected him." 
Verse 7, "I have refused him." It is something like three or four times 
in the Hebrew that this same word has been used, because it means 
"rejected", it's the same word. And I thought, my God, God's attitude 
towards those boys is the same as it is toward Saul. Why would that be? 
So I looked up their names and thought their names probably meant 
jealousy and envy and strife. No, their names meant things like 'Beloved 
of the Father' and 'Obedient to the Father', and I thought there isn't 
anything wrong with this! 
Why? Why would He reject them? Because the word "reject" means "counted 
as though it never existed - just washed out, gone." Why did God count 
Saul that? Because Saul was a view of something other than Christ. He was 
King, but not God's King; a view of Christ but not God's view of Christ. 
What is that? That's Anti-Christ. The word Anti-Christ is used four times 
in your Bible in the writings of John and it means "substitute for 
Christ". It has nothing to do with the devil, it means substitute for 
Christ. Doesn't that make sense? What could be passed off as Christ and 
not be Christ than something substituted for Christ? Anti-Christ. It's a 
deceiver. The Anointing teacheth us all things. The Anointing is your 
guard against the mark of the Anti-Christ! Receiving a substitute. These 
boys were substituted for the Anointed, and God looked at it with hate, 
He looked at it with disgust and He said, I have refused him! Then He 
gives Samuel a little lesson. "Man looks on the outward appearance..." 
Saul - big, tough, all this stuff. "God looks on the heart." "I've 
refused him. I have rejected him." That's devastation. Those things in me 
and you, those good things, those wonderful things I've based a great 
deal on, come to be devastated in this time of the Anointing. This is 
particularly so when you and I seek that recognition from God for those 
things, and it is in our nature to do that, it's in our zeal for God to 
do that.  
 
What did they do wrong? They just ran out there to be Anointed. But look, 
verse 8, the last part, "...neither hath the Lord chosen this." The last 
part of verse 10, "...The Lord hath not chosen these." There's One whom 
the Lord chooses, the chosen of the Lord, the chosen of Israel, the 
chosen of heaven - GOD'S SON - IN WHOM YE ARE CHOSEN! What's wrong with 
this? God hath not chosen, that's all. He didn't say because they're 
sorry reprobates. No - because they weren't; they just weren't David, 
they were not the chosen of the Lord. GOD ANOINTS HIS CHOSEN; whom He 
hath chosen, He Anoints. And we bear the Anointing in our lives, in our 
ministries. It's released like a fragrance in you - it is a fragrance. 
The Anointing is a fragrance. It was released. When does that take place? 
It takes places when The King is Anointed - the Anointing is released. It 
devastates everything else.  
 
Now, the boys come out. 'Is this it? Have you emptied the house yet? 
Well, there's one more - he's in a whole other administration. Okay, send 
for him.' Look, the last part of verse 11, "Send and fetch him, for we 
will not sit down until he come hither." There will be a time in your 
life, individually and corporately when everything of the Spirit will 
stop until He appears, until He comes, until He is revealed and Anointed. 
The Lord will do that, because this is the beginning of the fulness of 
time. He didn't say send somebody after him and let's eat, let's get on 
with the sacrifice and the offering, let's go. No, because the whole 
purpose of his coming is the Anointing, and he adds great significance to 
it with these little words, "You go get him. We will not so much as sit 
down until he comes." 
 
That's the way it's got to be in your heart, that's the way it's got to 
be in your household before the King will appear to be Anointed. All 
activities of the Spirit stop, and you've got a household waiting ON HIM! 
IN GREAT ANTICIPATION! Let it be so in us! AMEN.