“Spices for anointing oil.” 
              — Exodus 35:8

Much use was made of this anointing oil under the law, and that which
it represents is of primary importance under the gospel. The Holy
Spirit, who anoints us for all holy service, is indispensable to us if
we would serve the Lord acceptably. Without his aid our religious
services are but a vain oblation, and our inward experience is a dead
thing. Whenever our ministry is without unction, what miserable stuff
it becomes! nor are the prayers, praises, meditations, and efforts of
private Christians one jot superior. A holy anointing is the soul and
life of piety, its absence the most grievous of all calamities. To go
before the Lord without anointing is as though some common Levite had
thrust himself into the priest’s office-his ministrations would rather
have been sins than services. May we never venture upon hallowed
exercises without sacred anointings. They drop upon us from our
glorious Head; from his anointing we who are as the skirts of his
garments partake of a plenteous unction. Choice spices were compounded
with rarest art of the apothecary to form the anointing oil, to show
forth to us how rich are all the influences of the Holy Spirit. All
good things are found in the divine Comforter. Matchless consolation,
infallible instruction, immortal quickening, spiritual energy, and
divine sanctification all lie compounded with other excellencies in
that sacred eye-salve, the heavenly anointing oil of the Holy Spirit.
It imparts a delightful fragrance to the character and person of the
man upon whom it is poured. Nothing like it can be found in all the
treasuries of the rich, or the secrets of the wise. It is not to be
imitated. It comes alone from God, and it is freely given, through
Jesus Christ, to every waiting soul. Let us seek it, for we may have
it, may have it this very evening. O Lord, anoint thy servants.

On this day...

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• No One Will Take Your Joy from You - 2011
• You Will Never See Death - 2011
• Why Was This Child Born Blind? - 2011
• My First Love - 2010
• 2 Timothy 1 - 2009
• Titus 3 - 2009
• Our Purpose - 2009
• Titus 2 - 2009
• Titus 1 - 2009