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Crowned With Oil - REIGNING IN LIFE

"Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for
the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: l am the LORD" (Lev. 21:12).
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of
darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Pet. 2:9).

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Reigning In Life
Chapter 2 - The Character Of The Kingdom
Chapter 3 - Exhaustless Oil... But None To Spare
Chapter 4 - The Consecration Of The Priest
Chapter 5 - Ingredients Of The Holy Oil
Chapter 6 - Urim And Thummim
Chapter 7 - The More Excellent Ministry In The Heavens

INTRODUCTION

Many times we may pick up a book nod read it, admit that what we have
read is good and scriptural, and then begin to wonder: "What did this book
do for me? Has it produced in me a greater measure of the life of Christ? Or
imparted to me a greater desire to walk in obedience, and to draw closer to
His bract?"
Perhaps we are not always able to answer questions like that in a precise
manner, But if what we are reading causes our hearts to burn within us, as
with the disciples who walked with the Stranger along the road to Emmaus,
I think we can be assured that God is working in our lives, even though
there may remain a lot of perplexity as to His ways. For this is a day of
doubt and perplexity for many of God's people who truly desire to please
Him, but who have not been able to understand the tangled threads and the
dead-end pathways which they fully expected would have brought them into
a life of fruitfulness in the Kingdom of God.

And so here is another writing. Like my other writings it is not intended to


set forth doctrinal positions as such, but to give increased hope and
courage to those who see the "more excellent Way", but try as they may are
finding it difficult to get away from the trail of fallen trees and ruts and rocks,
and onto the Freeway of Life. We know the highway is there, and it is easy
enough to see it. But only by an operation of the Spirit in our lives are we
going to he enabled to break through the high fence of religious works and
man's systems (out there in the world, or deep within our own natures), to
walk with Him in the Way.
God wants us to know that our High Priest is enthroned in a "more excellent
ministry" in the heavens, and the Spirit of God is here in the earth to fully
invade our lives, and to lead at into this "more excellent Way".
CHAPTER 1 - REIGNING IN LIFE

The Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus came to establish in the earth is a spiritual,
heavenly Kingdom. People lose interest when we mention things like that, because if
it is spiritual it is not considered to be real. Let me assure you that the spirit of man is
the most important part of man--that the spirit is the real man. And the Kingdom of
Heaven is that realm in God where man is lifted and elevated, made alive, and
brought into reality.
This Kingdom was heralded by John the Baptist, and brought into being by the
ministry of the Lord Jesus Himself. It is not a kingdom that He saw fit to postpone
because He was rejected. It was not delayed for some future era. It came right on
time.
If God's people could only recognize this! Like Israel of old we have continued to
expect a kingdom that would come "with observation", and with outward show. It is
taught that one of these days Jesus will return to earth to set up the Kingdom,
whereas the Bible clearly teaches us that He set it up and ordained its constitution
and its progress in the earth when He came the first time.
If there is one thing that Jesus emphasized above others regarding this truth, it was
that the Kingdom of Heaven was to grow out of the earth because of a seed that was
planted--and that He Himself became that Seed.
"So is the Kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should
sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth
not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself: first the blade, then the ear, after
that the full corn in the ear" (Mark 4:26-28). Notice this clear truth: It is planted in the

earth. It grows and matures in the earth, And the "full corn" comes to maturity and full
growth "in the ear"--in the earth, and not in Heaven.
Then we have the parable of the four different kinds of soil in which the seed of the
Kingdom is cast, and how the seed that fell into good soil came forth in abundant
fruitfulness, "some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty" (Matt. 13:23). Our Lord
tells us also that the Enemy will sow tares among the good seed, and that God would
allow the tares and the wheat to grow together until the day of harvest. And lie tells
us that the harvest is "the end of the world" (age) (Matt. 13:38, 39). It is the end of the
Kingdom age that Jesus brought into being, not the beginning of it. But all this was so
contrary to the thinking of the people of His time that they could not receive it. Jesus
tells us why: "This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed" (Matt. 13:15). Surely it would not have been difficult
for Him to explain that He was there to become their King in the earth, and to reign
from Jerusalem. That was exactly what they were looking for. But the Kingdom He
came to establish was so very, very different that they could not see what He was
seeking to reveal. So he turned to His disciples and said, "Blessed are your eyes, for
they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets
and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not
seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear and have not heard them" (Matt.
13:16, 17). Notice this: "Many prophets" desired to see what these disciples were
now seeing, and could not. Why do we get the notion that the prophets were longing
for and prophesying about something different? Peter tells us that "All the prophets
from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise
foretold of these days" (Acts 3:24). They did not understand fully the times of which
they wrote, but God showed them that "not unto themselves, but unto us they did
minister the things" which they wrote about, and that these things "are now reported
unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent
down from heaven" (1 Pet. 1:12).
God wants to Spiritualize the Natural
The principle is: "That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and
afterward that which is spiritual" (1 Cor. 15:46). It is not less real when it becomes
spiritual--it is more real.
When the natural Israelite comes into Christ, he is not less an Israelite. Rather, for
the first time he becomes a true Israelite. "For they are not all Israel, which are of
Israel: neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children: but, in
Isaac shall thy seed be called" (Rom. 9:6, 7). And Paul tells us what God means by
this: "That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of
God: but the children of the promise are counted for The seed" (vs. 8). Surely the
"heavenly Jerusalem" is much more real, much more glorious, much more enduring
than the earthly one which "is in bondage with her children" (Gal. 4:25). Surely Mount

Zion in the heavens is more glorious, more beautiful, more enduring than that little hill
in old Jerusalem! (See Heb. 12:22).
It was God's desire from the very beginning to bring forth a spiritual people out of the
natural. True, He ordained sacrifices, and offerings, and circumcision, and altars and
temples--for a season. But He always desired "the sacrifices of a broken and a
contrite heart" (Ps. 51:17). He always desired "him that is poor and of a contrite spirit"
as His dwelling place, and not a 'house' that men would build of wood and stone (Isa.
66:1, 2). God's purpose from the beginning was that He might "circumcise thine
heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart" (Deut.
30:6).
Shall we Spiritualize or Carnalize the Word?
Be assured of this, if God by His Holy Spirit does not breathe His own breath and life
into the Word, we are carnalizing it. We are making it to be the "letter that killeth"
rather than the "Spirit that giveth life" (2 Cor. 3:6).
Now we have many good translations that are useful to us in breaking down the
barriers that exist between the original scriptures and our modem day languages.
And we are thankful for those translators, ancient and modem, who are honestly
trying to express the thought of scripture according to the original intention of the
writers.
But let us never forget that there remains an insurmountable language barrier
between the Creator and the creature; and that only the Holy Spirit can bridge that
vast gulf. Saul of Tarsus knew Hebrew and Greek to perfection--but through it all he
never discovered the living truth. God revealed the truth to him "by the revelation of
Jesus Christ" (Gal. 1:12). And of course he discovered, in the reading of the
scriptures, that what God had revealed to Him was in accord with that which was
written.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the
LORD" (Isa. 55:8). How great is the barrier between our thoughts and God's? "For as
the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and
my thoughts than your thoughts" (vs. 9).
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned" (1 Cor. 2:14).
We are totally helpless, brethren, to come to a knowledge of the truth and of the
scriptures except as God reveals it to us by His Spirit.
He speaks from the realm of the Spirit, into the realm of the earthly and the carnal.

He speaks from the realm of eternity, into the realm of the finite.
There is no linguist on earth today, nor has there been in any other day, that can
bridge that gulf.
But Lord, we want to know You! We want to hear from You! We want to see You!
Illuminate us by Your Spirit, that we might see! We desire "truth in the inward parts"
(Ps. 51:6). We want the living bread. We want "manna" that has been spiritualized
with the atmosphere of Heaven. We want pure "water" that has been spiritualized
with the smiting rod, and flows forth from the living Christ. We want Your word, that is
"forever settled in Heaven"--but we must have it fresh and new every morning. From
the days of our youth, and even to the days when our head is hoary and our strength
is weakened--we must hear and see new things, fresh things, from the throne of God.
I must hear a word that is constantly "spiritualized" with the breath of Heaven. We are
persuaded concerning the great foundational truths of scripture; but in all that we
know we simply recognize that we only "know in part" (1 Cor. 13:12). This awareness
does not give us a sense of uncertainty, but it does leave us with a greater sense of
our insufficiency. What You give, what You reveal, is sufficient for today. But tomorrow
I must have a fresh supply. I will find that supply in the same well, in the same river, in
the same manna, in the same holy place. But if I have truly been taught of the Lord,
and have walked in obedience, in faith, in hope, in charity--tomorrow's portion will be
of a higher order to lead me into higher heights of spiritual appreciation, into broader
streams of love and mercy, into lower depths of humility and meekness. Amen.
We must learn to put our trust and confidence in God, and in His Holy Spirit, to lead
us into "all truth". He is a Guide that can be trusted. If we fall into deception, it is
because of the perverseness of our own hearts. No man who walks with Jesus and
stays close to Him can be seduced by the Enemy. For in the Lord Jesus there is
Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
We are not denying that there is a Kingdom yet to come. But the essence of that
same Kingdom is here in the earth now. And if we do not find ourselves reigning in
life now, how vain and senseless to think we are going to reign with Him later on. For
whatever may be involved in future aspects of the Kingdom of God, it is nothing more
than the outgrowth of the Kingdom that is now planted in the hearts of men by His
Spirit. There are "tares" mingled with the "wheat"--that is true; and for this reason
many of God's people refuse to believe that the real Kingdom of God is in the earth
today. Jesus said it would be this way until "the end"--until the day of harvest. The
tares will appear wherever the wheat is growing, because the Enemy wants to spoil
God's garden. Antichrist will appear wherever there is an anointed people, because
he is 'anti' Christ--He is opposed to the Anointed One. He has no interest in coming to
a temple built with the hands of man. He wants to take charge in God's Temple where
God's glory should rule and reign. He wants to crowd Christ out of His Temple. The
meaning of "antichrist" is not only one who is "opposed to Christ"--it can also mean

one who stands "instead of Christ". Anything he can do to replace Christ in your life
or in your church assembly, he will do it. If he can succeed in replacing the anointing
with something else--anything else, it matters not--he has won a great victory. And
how well he has succeeded in doing this, especially in these last few decades!
We know that "Antichrist" will come to fulness of manifestation in the last time. But
John tells us that there were many antichrists at work, even in his day (1 Jn. 2:18).
He has been the constant Enemy of God's people. And God has always brought forth
a conquering people, many of whom overcame through blood and martyrdom. But
today it seems the Church has forgotten that she is engaged in battle with a world
that hates God, and Antichrist has taken up strong positions in our midst. We have
pretty well made a covenant with the world that we will co-operate with her the best
we know--help fight her wars, and get very much involved in all her programs and her
political systems--rather than becoming a separated people unto the Lord. It is
thought we are to be "kings" of this world system, rather than her enemies. And we
seem to know how to co-exist quite nicely. The reason is we have taken the
kingdoms of this world into our possession under the terms of Satan, and therefore
he gets the honor and glory from our submission. He tried to entangle Jesus this way
and failed. And he has continued to use the same tactics with the followers of Jesus-and very often is successful

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