Discovering the Holy Spirit’s Role For Your Life | Tony Evans Sermon

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God has programming up in Heavenly

places that he wants to bring into our

Earthly existence but if you are a

fleshly mind minded Christian you won’t

get the picture for the guidance and

governance of your life God has

programming for your life programming

for your thoughts programming for our

church but if you not Sy upright you

won’t get the program

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we’ve been studying the names of the

holy

spirit because those names indicate His

function indicate his

work remember now this third member of

the Trinity is the one given to do work

on Earth on behalf of the godhead in

heaven God the father was

the the point person in the Old

Testament Jesus the son was the point

person on Earth during the

gospels God the holy spirit is the point

person during this which we call the

church age he is that member of the

Trinity who has been assigned to act on

their behalf in

history the father functions from the

third heaven the the son sits on his

right hand to rule spiritually in Heaven

to Earth and he does that through the

third member of the Trinity the Holy

Spirit I want to look at this name given

to him this identification this symbol

in first John

2 he’s called the

anointing now if you’ve been in church

for any length of time

you’ve heard the word anointing

anointed the anointed

one this word is a word that speaks to a

specific work of the holy spirit that

you don’t want to leave home

without for many people the concept of

the anointing balls down to an emotional

experience

they feel something and so they think

they are feeling the

anointed when someone preaches a great

sermon or sings a great song and you

were ministered to it or by it you might

say that was an anointed sermon or that

was an anointed song what you’re

speaking about is the fact that there

seemed to have been an emotive spiritual

impact of what was said or what was

heard on you and most certainly the

anointing by the anointed one can

produce an emotive

response but I want to suggest to you

that the concept of the anointing goes

much deeper than how you feel at a given

moment and if you come to understand

this aspect of the third member of the

Trinity’s work you will find it life

transforming the Bible says in Acts

chapter

10:38 that Jesus was anointed by the

Holy Spirit Jesus said in Luke 4: 18 and

19 the spirit of the Lord has come upon

me and he has anointed me so the

anointing and the anointed one is

speaking of the work of the holy spirit

in a person’s life including in the life

of Jesus

Christ now the first thing we want to

establish is this every Christian has

the

anointing if you are saved if you have

accepted Jesus

Christ you have whatever this anointing

is we’re going to explain in moment you

have it you possess it you own it it is

there this

anointing speaks of the indwelling

presence and work of the holy spirit in

your life let me say that again the

anointing is the

indwelling presence of the Holy

Spirit designed to do his work in your

life 1 Corinthians 6: 19 says that you

have the Holy Spirit who indwells you in

the Old Testament the Holy Spirit came

and left came and left came and left

You’ see the Holy Spirit coming on

somebody then you’d see him leaving

somebody well in the New Testament when

Jesus said I’m going to give you the

Holy Spirit I’m going to give him to you

as a permanent resident in your life and

he’s going to anoint you so every

Christian has the anointing which is why

he says in verse 20 you have an

anointing and you all know so you can’t

be a Christian and not be anointed if

you are a Christian you have the

anointing you may not know what it is

you may not know how to use it but you

have it so the key is knowing what it is

and how to use it so you can benefit

from it because he says you all possess

it and you all have the anointing the

job of the anointing coming from the

holy anointed one the holy spirit is to

illuminate bring to light

elucidate in your

life God’s

messaging his job is to take from up

there and show it to you down here the

job of the

anointing is to give you the data from

Heaven to your operation and my

operation in

history if you don’t know you have it

and you don’t know how to use it you

won’t benefit from it even though you

possess it the job of this anointing

is to extract from Heaven messaging so

that you can have it available to you on

Earth so that you can use it now the way

the anointing works the Holy Spirit when

you become a Christian enters your human

Spirit the Holy Spirit enters the human

Spirit your spirit was given to you to

give you the capacity to communicate

with God when you accept Christ the Holy

Spirit whom Jesus sent infiltrates your

human spirit that is the anointing the

indwelling of the holy spirit in your

human Spirit your human Spirit that’s

now been anointed by the holy spirit is

inside your soul your soul is your self

identity it’s your personhood the reason

you know you exist is because you have a

soul you lose the soul the body doesn’t

function because the body is dependent

upon the soul to express life the Holy

Spirit enters the human Spirit making

the human Spirit Alive to God the human

Spirit exists in the soul so that the

soul can get data from the human Spirit

that’s been anointed by the Holy Spirit

which feeds the human Spirit information

to distribute to the soul when the soul

gets the information from the human

spirit that has been ill illuminated by

the Holy Spirit the soul feeds that data

to the body when the body gets the data

from the soul that is received from the

human spirit that has been anointed by

the Holy Spirit the body now functions

differently because it has new data that

has been in it the reason why we have

problems with our bodies is we have

infection in our soul but the reason we

have infection in our soul is because we

have a human Spirit that’s been

contaminated by sin but when the

anointing enters the human spirit

because the anointing is perfect the

human spirit is now perfect because it

has been anointed so you’ve got a

perfect resident in your human spirit

that now wants to give information to

your infected soul and when the Holy

Spirit that now invades your human

Spirit sends out data that is received

adopted in your soul your soul begins to

get healed when the soul is getting

disinfected because of the

infected due to the expression of the

human Spirit that’s been invaded by the

anointing of the Holy Spirit it then

tells the body what to do it tells the

mind what to think it tells the eyes

what to see it tells the ears what to

hear it tells the leg where to move

because it’s gotten new information

about how to function so if you want to

fix your body you’ve got to clean up

your soul but if you want to clean up

your soul it’s got to get information

from your spirit but to get information

correctly from your spirit it’s got to

be inhabited by the anointing

anointing so that is how the anointing

flows the anointing is more than your

emotions although it may include that

the anointing is divine messaging that

you have now been qualified to receive

because the Holy Spirit has now entered

into your human spirit so that is the

concept it authorizes you to receive

information from heaven for living your

life on earth now that I have introduced

the concept of the anointing the role of

the Holy Spirit to indwell the life of

the believer in order to infect the soul

with the messaging of God for the

transformation of the life we want to

take you now into a little deeper

understanding of how it works Dr Evans

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God do not be caught off guard the

passage I would love for you to read

this week is 1 Corinthians chapter 2

verse 9 through chapter 3 verse three

okay so go all the way to chapter 3

verse three read that once a day every

day but I want to go over it with you

now here it is verse 9 but it is written

things which eyes have not seen and ear

ha not heard and which have not entered

into the heart of man all that God has

prepared for those who love him for to

us God revealed them through his Spirit

he’s not talking about heaven he’s

talking about Earth because he says God

has already revealed it when the

anointing is turned on and turned

up you get to see things eyes cannot

see that’s what verse n says when when

the anointing is turned on and turned up

you get to hear things ears have not

heard when the anointing is turned on

and turned up you get to think things

that you would not normally think in

other words the anointing is taking you

beyond the physical it is showing you

what your eyes can’t see it is letting

you hear what your ears don’t audibly

pick up

it is letting you perceive what you

didn’t normally think on your own it is

taking you out of your physical into a

spiritual reality so that the physical

is now perceiving experiencing seeing

and hearing things that is outside of

its normal Physical Realm look at what

he goes on to say in 1 Corinthians 2 he

says we receive them from from the

spirit for the spirit searches all

things even the depths of God remember

the anointing is the spirit the spirit

has a search

engine

Google the spirit Googles God it knows

the Deep things of God in the next verse

he says no one knows the thoughts of a

man except the spirit of a man no one

knows the thoughts of God except the

spirit the anoint pointing the spirit of

God so the spirit of God has a search

engine it says he searches the Deep

things of God so he can go deep like a

deep sea diver into the thinking of God

and his job is to transfer God’s

thoughts to your life just like when you

Google something on Google and you pull

up stuff you didn’t know to transfer it

to your understanding so have exposed to

us the worldwide web but Believers have

exposed to them the knowledge of God and

he says and it’s the job of the spirit

so so let me let me clarify something

before we go any deeper the job of the

spirit is to reach into the mind of God

and transfer to the thoughts sights and

ears of the

believer his job is to take truth and

make it your experience

to bring it to make it your reality not

just for information but for

transformation now notice what he goes

on and says in 1 Corinthians chapter 2

verse 12 now we have received not the

spirit of the world but the spirit who

is from God so that we may know the

things freely given to us by God here’s

what I like about the anointing it

doesn’t cost you anything once you

accept Jesus Christ is freely given to

you so it’s available to every believer

and it’s available for free you don’t

have to buy the anointing okay now which

things we speak not in words taught by

human wisdom keep that in your mind

because that’s going to be key in a

moment you don’t get this by secular

understanding you don’t get this by

popular Viewpoint once you introduce

human wisdom you’ve turned down the

dimmer switch and the light will not

shine because you’ve compromised the

data you put a virus in the programming

and so he says not taught by human

wisdom but in those taught by the spirit

combining spiritual thoughts with

spiritual words so the spirit of

God dips into the mind of God since he

is the third member of the godhead and

he brings to the mind of man or into the

spirit of a man that which he cannot see

physically cannot hear audibly it would

never think naturally but he has

revealed them unto us that’s what the

anointing does now here’s the

issue verse 14 the natural

man receives not the spirit of God let

me put it another way the

non-Christian does not have the

anointing the natural man the

non-Christian they do not have the

anointing so that’s the natural man

that’s the non-Christian I hope we don’t

have any natural people here today

because that means you don’t have a

receiver so you will hear my sermon but

you won’t be able to use it because you

won’t be able to receive from the spirit

in your human Spirit the truth that’s

coming based on the word of God now he

goes to another person he says in verse

15 but he who is

spiritual appraises all things yet he

himself is appraised by no one for who

has known the mind of the Lord that he

will instruct him but we have the mind

of Christ the natural man doesn’t have a

receiver the spiritual man not only has

a receiver he keeps his receiver on the

spiritual man can oppress

or evaluate all things because a

spiritual person send everything through

a spiritual grid and guess what he says

you have in verse 16 you have the mind

of Christ then there’s a third group

chapter 3 veres 1 to 3 he says and I

Brethren Brethren you’re Christians

could not speak to you as a spiritual

man but as men of Flesh as infants in

Christ

I gave you milk to drink and not solid

food for you were not able to receive it

indeed even now you are not able for you

are still

fleshly and he concludes the verse by

saying you walk like Mere Men you walk

like a natural man your life is not any

different than the non-Christian even

though you have a receiver the natural

man has no receiver the spiritual man

keeps his receiver on and up all the

time but the fleshly Christian is the

Christian who has a receiver but doesn’t

use it who has a receiver but it’s off

who has the right to programming who

never gets

programming God has programming up in

Heavenly places that he wants to bring

into our Earthly existence you have the

receiver but if you are a fleshly minded

Christian you’re not plugged into the

receiver and you won’t get the picture

to show up for the guidance and

governance of your life just cuz you

possess the anointing don’t mean you’re

experiencing the anointing God has

programming for your life but if you’re

not synced

upright you won’t get the programming so

the anointing is the role of the holy

spirit in the life of the believer to

illuminate Divine insight into your

sight your ears and your

thoughts but he says you can’t do

that if you are operating on human

wisdom now back to First John chapter 2

he says to them here’s what I want you

to do if you want the anointing to be

turned on and turned up here’s what I

want you to do he says in verse

uh

24 as for you let that abide in you

which you’ve heard from the beginning

verse 27 as for you the anointing which

you have received from him abides in you

and you have no need for anyone to teach

you but as his anointing teaches you all

things and is true and not a lie just as

you abide in him you see that word abide

it means you have to hang out in the

anointing you can’t visit it on

Sunday you must hang out abide means to

hang out you must hang out in the

anointing that is you must hang out in a

divinely oriented perspective let me put

it another way your first question must

be what does God say or think about the

matter when you begin to ask the

question what does God say and what does

God think Holy Spirit reveal it to me

you have turned on the receiver for it

to bring down the programming to

illuminate the mind and the thoughts

notice what he says he says you have the

anointing and you do not have need for

anyone to teach you now that’s

interesting it’s interesting number one

cuz he teaching them right now he

writing to them teaching them about the

anointing it’s interesting because the

Bible says God gives teachers to the

church the B is interesting because

Bible tells you to come and and to to

study the word of God in the collective

worship which includes teaching it’s

interesting because Paul says to Timothy

to teach the word and to preach the word

in season and out of season so why would

he say if you have the anointing you

don’t need anyone to teach you for the

anointing teaches you ah okay well

remember who he’s dealing with he’s

dealing with the Antichrist

who are lying to them so let me tell you

what he’s teach saying when he says you

don’t have a need for anyone to teach

you he is saying you no longer need to

be led by secular thinking secular

information and secular instructors you

no longer need to to use the world for

your data for your spiritual data you

don’t first go to the world you don’t

need them to teach you how to live how

to work how to have a family how to be

single how to how you don’t need do St

with me because then the anointing will

teach you I will teach you don’t corrupt

what I have to say don’t bring to me

that secular way of thinking that

non-Christian worldview which the Bible

calls human wisdom he says that’s not

how you roll anymore not if you want the

anointing to kick in not if you want the

anointing to manifest itself not if you

want the Divine to express itself I love

the story in U in uh 2 Kings chapter

chapter 6 verse1 14-1 17 cuz here’s what

the anointing does here’s what the

anointing

does Elisha the

prophet is getting ready to be attacked

by a foreign army and they’re going to

kill

him Elijah’s servant looks out the

window and sees this Army getting ready

to attack him and the prophet so he’s

scared he goes to Elijah the prophet

said we got to get out of here they get

ready to descend on us they go look look

look the Army getting ready to come

Elijah then bows his head and praise and

says Lord open up his

eyes open up his eyes and then the Bible

says when the scales fell off the

servant’s eyes he not only saw the enemy

but he saw an army of angels with swords

of fire protecting the house House of

Elijah now if you’re not spiritual all

you see is the Army but Elijah because

he was spiritual saw what God was up to

in the midst of the physical thing he

was going through many of us are being

attacked physically and we don’t know

what to do cuz we don’t see anything

spiritually all we see is what we see

and if all you see is what you see

you’ll never see all that God is doing

because you don’t have the eyes to do it

but here’s how the Holy Spirit Works see

I said when I preach I give you national

news I’m giving you cable news cuz what

I’m giving you is something general

applies to everybody but when you have

the anointing the holy spirit gives you

local news he gives you news for your

life for your situation for your problem

for your pain for your needs because you

need one kind of program you need

another kind of program you need another

kind of program you need another kind of

program you have a different job you got

a different family your kids are

different your finances are different so

you need local programming for the

general problem I’m giving you cable

news but you have the anointing and I

can’t answer all of your specific

answers but you have somebody inside who

give you thoughts you didn’t think let

you see what you couldn’t see bring

ideas you didn’t have and you already

have them because you all have them he

says you already have the anointing

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