ARE YOU THE ANOINTED
John 10:24-25
24 Then the Jews surrounded
Him and said to Him, "How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the
Christ, tell us plainly."
25 Jesus answered them,
"I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's
name, they bear witness of Me.
Notice the people asking the question were the Jews.
The very ones that Jesus had been sent to.
They were asking are you the Anointed One, tell us?
That same question could be ask of us today.
Are we the Anointed Ones?
2 Corinthians 1:21-22
21 Now He who establishes us
with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,
22 who also has sealed us and
given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
You see, God has anointed us, we are the Anointed Ones on this earth
today. The world, the people we have
been sent to, are asking the same question of us as the Jews were asking Jesus.
We could say the same thing Jesus said, “I told you.”
Jesus said, “I told you who I am and you do not believe me.”
We have been telling a lost world for years who we are, but they do not
believe.
But, Jesus did not stop there. He
had a witness to prove who He was. Jesus
said, “The works I do in My Father’s name they bare witness of Me.”
He said, “You don’t have to believe me just because of what I say,
look at what I do.”
We, as Christians, have run all over the earth telling people who we are.
We have shouted it from the roof-tops, on every radio and television
station in the world and still the world does not believe.
Maybe it is because we don’t have a witness.
We haven’t done the works in the Father’s name.
WHAT WERE THE WORKS? The Bible tells us in Matthew chapter 9 verse 35, “Then
Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues,
preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every
disease among the people.” He
preached, He taught, He healed, He cast out demons, He set people free.
These were the works Jesus did. These
were the things Jesus said, “bare witness of Me.”
These were the things that gave evidence that He was anointed of God.
WHERE IS OUR EVIDENCE TODAY?
We have been doing a lot of talking, a lot of telling people what they
should do, but very little doing. We
have made a pretense of reaching the lost. We
hear a lot about submitting to the leadership of the church and loving one
another, but very little about submitting to Jesus Christ and winning the world.
We talk a lot about having a revival, but will not dedicate our time and
prayers to having one. We make a big
deal about laying hands on the sick and then make excuses for God when it
doesn’t look like it worked.
We spend most of our time in church trying to figure out how to build a
bigger building so we can be more impressive to the world.
Trying to come up with a better program to get people to come to our
church so we can be the biggest.
We spend our few minutes of prayer time saying bless me, bless me, give
me, give me, without a thought for the lost world that Jesus died for.
We don’t have time for revival, after all we’re building a church.
Oswald J. Smith once said, “Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never
dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of
darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears,
know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!"
Our churches no longer preach repentance, after all that puts people
under conviction, and we can’t have that.
We can’t preach holiness, because then we would have to live it.
We can’t preach brokenness and humility, that interferes with the pride
we have over our accomplishments.
If we would just be honest with ourselves we will realize why the world
is looking at and asking, “Hey, are you really the Anointed Ones?”
Do we have the works, done in the Father’s name to bare witness of who
we are?
If Jesus is manifested in us, He will still be doing the things He did
two thousand years ago. He never
changes. John 14 verses 21 thru 23
says, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.
And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest
Myself to him." Judas (not
Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest
Yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered and said to him,
"If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and
We will come to him and make Our home with him.
