You hear a lot of people talk about how "you've got the anointing." The name "Christ" or "messiah" means "the anointed one." It means He's '"the chosen one."
"When Samuel came to David and said, 'God has sent me to anoint you king over Israel,' he meant he was the chosen one to be the king," explains Jordan. "When God put you into Jesus Christ He said, 'I'm putting you in the position of being my chosen. I'm anointing you. I'm appointing you.'
"Ephesians 1:3-4 says, [3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
[4] According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
"Notice it didn't say He chose us to be in Him. That's what religion says. Religion says, 'Before the foundation of the world God chose so-and-so to be in Christ and you not to be.' Calvinism says 'election' means God chose some people to go to heaven and some to go to hell; some people to be saved and some to be reprobated.
"That isn't what the verse said. When you run into these kind of theological conundrums people throw at you, and there are theologians who write books this thick, one good verse can throw out a lot of bad theology.
"If you're in Him, you're one of the people God before the foundation of the world chose. You see, choosing, election, has to do with the fact God put you in Jesus Christ and you share His identity and He is the chosen one, the elect.
"The chosen, the elect, is a title God gives to people who are in Christ. I Corinthians 1:21:[21] For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
[22] For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
[23] But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
[24] But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
"The sovereign free will of Almighty God back here in the so-called 'eternal decrees,' when He decreed what He was going to do, was to save them that believe.
"When you trust Jesus Christ to be your Savior, believing He died for you and was buried and rose again in order to be your Savior, the Holy Spirit of God put you into Christ, and when you get into Christ you are in what God has chosen to do today.
"You're the chosen, you're the anointed! That's super to know. You're somebody special in the program of God. We live in a world that cries out for identity. The problems of mankind are EVERYWHERE.
"We live in a turbulent, troubled, dangerous world. The times we live in demonstrate that. As Believers we need to understand who we are in that world. We get our identity from who God has established us to be in Jesus Christ and as a member of the Body of Christ. You're the chosen vehicle through whom He's working in the world today.
"II Corinthians 1:22 says, [22] Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
"God takes you and puts you into Christ, making you a part of what He's chosen to do before the foundation of the world, and then He makes sure you can't get out and He puts a seal around you.
"Ephesians 1: [13] In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
[14] Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
"You see it says He sealed you WITH the Holy Spirit of promise? It's by one spirit you're taken out of Adam and put into Christ. He does that.
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"When you're canning vegetables you have a water bath and boil the vegetables, putting that lid on them. The minute you hear them 'pop' that lid seals. They were sealed WITH that gasket. You live literally live in the encapsulized environment of the person of God the Holy Spirit.
"God the Holy Spirit Himself is the present guarantor of your salvation. A seal is designed to provide security, but the seal is not any better than the person who does the sealing. In Revelation 20:1, it says, [1] And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
[2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
[3] And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
"Jesus Christ takes Satan, puts him in the bottomless pit and sets a seal on that and you know what? Don't you think Satan would beat on the door a little bit and try to get out? Sure, he's not a passive submissive, but he couldn't get out. Why? Because when God puts in a seal you can't break it.
"You'll remember in Matthew 27 when they put Jesus, after He died, in that tomb, the Jews went to Pilate and said, 'You know, He says He's going to rise again. We better do something,' and Rome put a seal on the tomb.
"But you know what happened two days later? The Lord Jesus Christ came out of that tomb and some angels came along and slipped that stone away and broke the seal. No, a human seal won't do.
When God seals it, it ain't going to let go.
"Your security is guaranteed by God Himself. God the Holy Spirit puts the down payment of His own presence in your life as the guarantee forever."
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Song of Solomon 8 says, [6] Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
[7] Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Bible expositor Cora MacIlravy (circa 1916) writes, "This passage is one of the most intense and passionate expressions of the love of the bride that is found in the whole book. It is evident that her words in the sixth verse look forward to a prolonged absence; and she is clinging to Him as love ever clings to the adored object when it is faced with an indefinite separation.
"All her strength has gradually disappeared, and she is leaning upon His breast; her arm, or strength, finds support only in His arm, or strength. She would have the pressure of her head upon His bosom, remain ever before His eyes as the impress of a seal upon His heart and affections.
"She would have the pressure of her dependence upon Him remain as a seal upon His arm, or strength. As she looks forward to His departure to His Father's house, whither He goes to prepare a place for her, she implores Him to uphold her by His arm and to hold her in His heart, so that upon His breast and upon His arm shall she ever appear, as He stands before God on her behalf."
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