The Anointing

Greetings, I happened to of stopped in and seen your discussion regarding the "The Anointing." I first read the discussions which were already said, and some was right on the money, so to speak. Then I went to my Bible on both passages, the sending out of the disciples and chapter 10 in Acts, pretty much did a quick detail research. I will comment on the passage you had started with first. In more than one place in the books of the gospel, when Jesus sent out the disciples, He gave them "POWER and AUTHORITY overall demons and to cure diseases. He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and heal the sick." This passage is found in Luke 9:1-2, of course, it goes on how Jesus instructed His disciples to enter the houses. Then one of the two words is mentioned again in Matthew 10:1, He gave them "POWER over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of diseases." So I thought I would look up these 3 words, anointed, authority and power, in my Word Wealth to see how they are used in these passages, although in your discussion the term anointing is being used instead of anointed, but I hope to show they are equally important. I'm sure we are aware that Jesus Christ, according to Isaiah 61:1, that He was indeed the promised anointed one. And indeed the Holy Spirit came down in a form of a dove on Jesus Christ and recieved the power of the Holy Spirit to empower Him for His ministry. So when it came time for Jesus to send out His disciples He delegated the SAME power and authority to them that He had, not from a second Holy Spirit. There is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit one and the same. I also want to mentioned that Jesus only instructed His disciples to go into the jewish community not to any gentile homes. Now I would like to go to the book of Acts chapter 10. Now about Acts chapter 1o, let me explain the reasons behind these two mens vision. I took upon myself to read the whole chapter along with my foot notes. In the beginning of chapter 10 it mentions cornelius vision first. There was an angel of God who visit him to inform him of the result of his prayers and alms to God. So the angel of God told Cornelius who he should seek to bring more of the word of God to him and his household and where to find him. So after the angel of God left, Cornelius brought two of his household servants to go find Peter in Joppa and bring him to his home. Now, surely, we are aware that Cornelius was a gentile not a jew but he practice some of the jewish ways to serve the Lord. So here we have Cornelius who had a vision from God on this one day. Then the next day Peter had a vision from God, but not on the same day as Cornelius did. I'm also sure that we are aware that Peter is a jew, not a gentile. So in Peter's vision God was trying to inform him on what was about to happened, the vision came to Peter 3 times and each time to tell him that "what God cleansed you must not call common." What God was trying to get across to Peter is that God shows no partiality. While Peter was still pondering the vision, the two men that Cornelius sent to find him were waiting for him down at the gate, and so it took the Holy Spirit to inform Peter to go down and meet the two men whom have come to seek him. So Peter went down to find out why they came to seek him. Of course, we know he was obedience to the request because it came from God. So Peter's vision was about preaching the gospel to Cornelius and his household whom they were all gentiles. So this means that it doesn't matter who you are the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to be preached to everyone who will hear. This points out very clear that there is indeed only one Holy Spirit who empowers us believers to perform God's work even as of today and forever. Indeed without the Holy Spirit we cannot accomplish the Lord's work. I have also heard that some churches don't believe that the Holy Spirit existed today but He still does whether they think so or not. True anointing only comes from the Holy Spirit, this is why we so need to be spirit filled men and women in this society and government today. I hope I have shown some light concerning the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Have a blessed day.

what can i say? you have said a lot already, all i know is that i fully and whole heartedly support every discussions about the Lord. congrats!