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1 petertan.net ANOINTING SEMINAR SERIES HEALING ANOINTING PART FOUR We will endeavor through the Holy Spirit to show you how to get that healing anointing. We want to show you where the healing virtue of God lies. It is very vital as I preach the word and when the Holy Spirit begins moving afterward, I want complete reverence and no distraction whatsoever. And if there is any noise by children please excuse us if we request that they be taken out to the mother s room section. But if they are able to sit quietly then we permit them to sit some place where they won t be a distraction. When the Holy Spirit begins moving, please give reverence, please give worship to God so that He can do what He wants to do when we enter His holy presence this morning. Turn with me to Exodus 25 We will look at a type in the Old Testament, which happens to be the tabernacle of Moses. And through it we will see how to tap on that healing virtue that belongs only to the Lord Jesus Christ. So I want you to travel with me back in time. As we read those verses, let us visualize every part of the old covenant furniture in that tabernacle of Moses because each of them has something to say about our Christian life and about the new things that the Spirit of God is doing. It has been said that the Old Testament is the new hidden and the New Testament is the old unfolded, the old renewed. The Old Testament is hidden inside the New Testament. And the New Testament is the old covenant revealed in a greater measure and they tie up with each other. So travel back with me in time to Exodus 25 when God spoke to Moses in verse 8

2 And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it. So Moses made the tabernacle based on what he saw in his forty days and forty nights on the Mount of Sinai. He saw it in the spirit realm. In fact the book of Hebrews tells us that what Moses made was only a type of figure of what actually is in heaven. In the heaven of heavens above the third heaven there is a place called the holy of holies. There is a holy place and there is the outer court. And what Moses made on his planet earth was only a type of figure or a shadow of the spiritual realm that God is showing. First of all, God told Moses in verse 10 to make the ark of testimony. We are given the dimension in verse 10 and its basic structure. But pay attention to verse 17. And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width. And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work, (that means it must be of one piece of gold,) you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. I want you to visualize that Ark of the Covenant. It looks basically like a square box with the poles going through the top hooks. Then over the sides of it are two angels called cherubim with their wings outstretched and overshadowing an empty place between them called the mercy seat. Then God told Moses to put in that place the testimony, which is the two tablets of stone, the Ten Commandments. That is the mercy seat. If you read very carefully it says that every thing must be made of gold. Gold symbolizes purity. And secondly God says that it must be of hammered gold. You cannot make a mould in the shape of cherubim and pour molten gold into it and then have the cherubim extracted out. But it is to be hammered from one whole lump of gold. Then the artisans will have to hammer it very carefully until it is shaped like an angel. That hammering symbolizes a work of Jesus Christ in our life. Isa. 53 tells us that He was smitten of God. It points forward to the time that the mercy of God is going to come to us through Jesus Christ taking the judgment blow for us. So here the first furniture is called the ark of testimony or the Ark of the Covenant. The first piece was laid in the holy of holies.

3 The next piece of furniture that God speaks about is in verse 23 to 30 called the table of showbread. Basically it looks like an ordinary table except that it is overlaid completely with gold. You don t find silver and bronze only gold. That table will have bread that only the priests can eat. And everyday the priests will have to change the bread. That bread belongs to the priests. The third piece of furniture in verse 31 to 40 is called the golden lamp stand. And the only verse we need to read is verse 31 You shall also make a lamp stand of pure gold; the lamp stand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece. And six branches shall come out of its side; three branches of the lamp stand out of one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of the other side.

4 The positions of the six pieces of furniture in the tabernacle of Moses, that is the Ark of the Covenant, the altar of incense, the table of showbread, the golden candlestick, the altar of burnt offering and the bronze laver are depicted in the diagram above. The diagram below shows how these pieces of furniture look like, based on their description in the book of Exodus. The golden lamp stand consists of one long stem with three branches on either side of the main stem. The seven lamps tie up with the seven-fold Spirit, as described in Revelations chapter one and Isa. 11 verse 1. The golden lamp stand represents the Holy Spirit.

5 Now it is also of hammered gold. You cannot mould it. You have to hammer it out of one big piece of gold. That s exhausting physical work. The reason that God wants it to be so is so that we would know that the Holy Spirit was given to us through Jesus Christ taking the sins and curse of our lives. So Jesus said I send you the Promise of My Father. Jesus in Isa. 53 was smitten of God so that we can receive the Holy Spirit. Notice that in the holy of holies and in the holy place it is all gold. Then there is a veil between the holy of holies and the holy place. Then you leave the holy place, you have to pass another veil to enter the outer court. In the outer court are the bronze laver and the altar of burnt offering. We will not go to the details but the most important thing for you to know is that these outer court furniture are made of bronze. See when the Holy Spirit does something there is a systematic way He does it. You don t have it mixed up all over. They would have enough gold to make everything out of gold. But God chose bronze for the outer court furniture, that is the brazen altar and the bronze laver. That brazen altar was for the purpose of offering the animals continually. There is a morning sacrifice; there is an evening sacrifice. Then there were all the other special sacrifices during their feast days. All the sacrifices are done there. Bronze symbolizes sin. There is where sin must die. Next to that in Exodus 27 from verse 9 to 19 is called the court of the tabernacle. The court of the tabernacle is all related to the outer court where the bronze altar is. And on the outer court you notice that this time silver is also used together with bronze. Silver represents redemption or being bought. Jesus was our Redemption. So here we have all the various pieces of the furniture. There is one more piece that we will not mention that you can read later is called the altar of incense also made of gold. That is also in the holy place.

6 So I want you to repeat after me to make sure you get all the furniture correct. In the holy of holies what do we have here? The Ark of the Covenant. Then I pass the first veil, which separates the holy of holies from the holy place. This is the same veil that was torn from top to bottom when Jesus died. Then when you go out of that immediately you will see three pieces of furniture. In front of you is the altar of incense. On one side is the table of showbread. On the opposite is the golden candlestick. Then there is another veil here, separating the holy place from the outer court. When you go out of this veil, everything is different. It is no more gold. Inside the holy place and the holy of holies, the furniture is made of gold. Now when you come outside to the outer court, everything is bronze and silver. On one side you will have the brazen altar. Then you have all the various utensils. So there you have the tabernacle that Moses made. So when the book of Psalms says I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart, I will enter His court with praise, where is the court? It is not the holy place. Only the priest can enter the holy place. As for the most holy place or the holy of holies only the high priest can go in once a year. That is very awesome. Imagine you cannot see the place for the whole year. The outer court is where the common people can come. Why did God arrange such a complicated protocol for His tabernacle? Remember the first verse in Exodus 25 verses 8 God said I will dwell among them. These complicated things are only understood in the light of the New Testament. Through all these small details of the tabernacle and its furniture, God said, I will dwell among them. The presence of God is not to be taken lightly. Even when the high priest enters the most holy place once a year he had to sacrifice love. All along the hem of the priest s garment are little bells. When the high priest enters the holy of holies, it s the most awesome time. It is called the Day of Atonement. And it was a day the Jews must not eat anything. It s a day of

7 fasting. When the high priest enters the most holy place, it is a very awesome day. If the high priest dies inside the holy of holies, Israel is rejected. But if the high priest comes out alive, Israel is protected. It s a very solemn day. And so they have bells all around the high priest s garment. And you know what bells are for. When you move, the bells make a sound. On the Day of Atonement, before the high priest enters the most holy place, the other priests have to tie a rope around his leg to pull his dead body out in case he is struck dead in the holy of holies. In the event that he drops dead and there is no string tied to his leg, nobody else can enter the holy of holies to take him out. The next guy who tries to take him out will die. You would then have a pile of dead bodies there. Can you imagine how solemn it is when the high priest goes into the holy of holies while all the other priests are waiting for him to come out? The book of Psalms tells us I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart, I will enter His courts with praise. David composed that Psalm. The outer court is where the common people or the whole of Israel gathered together. And the Holy Spirit said to me that many Christians live their life in the outer court. The outer court is where the offerings are being made everyday. And that outer court is where a lot of Christians are living their lives. At least they are in the court. Do you know some are not even in the court or at the gates? King David says a day in Your temple is better than a thousand days elsewhere. One day in God s presence is better than over three year elsewhere in the world. I put that way so that you realize how valuable is one day in the presence of God. One day in God s presence is more valuable than a thousand days of your life. Some Christians are not even in the outer court but they are thoroughly immersed in the world. But then there are some Christians who only live in the outer court. All they know about God is the outer court. Yes they learnt to worship God. They learnt to thank God. At least they are in Praise Avenue and Thanksgiving Street. At least they are living there rather than living some far out worldly place. Here they are they have learnt to worship God s presence and there is where the people of Israel dance and sing and make a joyful noise. When king David said to make a joyful noise, that singing and dancing is taking place in the outer court. They have not yet passed the veil into the holy place or the most holy place. It is all on the outside. Rejoicing and having a good time is still very much an outer court activity. Thanksgiving is necessary because the bible

8 exhorts, instructs and commands us that we must enter His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. The Holy Spirit said that Christians who sin, repent and go back to sin and come back again and asked for forgiveness are living in the outer court. There s where the forgiveness of sin is. God will forgive you as long as your heart repents. But God wants more. God wants the transformation of your nature. Then through time in our Christian life, we learn that there are deeper things of God that we have not ventured into. We learn about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, about the Holy Spirit presence and the nine gifts of the Spirit. We know for sure we are now in the holy place. We are now where the lamp stand is. We are not only among the Christians who say rejoice, rejoice, but who doesn t know the Holy Spirit wants to work a gift. See there are different depths of Christian life. But I want to show you the different degrees Christians are living today as the Holy Spirit showed me. Christians are living in different parts of the tabernacle. But some have ventured beyond the veil. And when they passed the veil and into the holy place, the only light you see is the light given by the candlestick. And that candlestick is supposed to burn continually. The candlestick is lit from the fire taken from the brazen altar. It symbolizes your passage from the redemption of sin moving you to the experience of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God shall come on you and you shall receive power to do the works of God. Some of you have experienced that realm. When the Spirit comes on such Christians who entered the holy place, the gifts of God begin to operate. It is here that these holy place Christians will enjoy the depth of the showbread, which means delighting in the meditation on the word of God. The word is alive today. Many Christians don t even bother to read the bible. They know about the forgiveness of sin. They know how Jesus died for their sins. They know about praising God and dancing together as a group. But in their own private life they don t spend time on their knees before God or hovering over the living word. They are only living their life in the outer court. O God, teach them Your word. The deeper holy place Christians have learnt the preciousness of the word. Everyday they apply the word into their lives. Everyday they read the word.

9 Everyday they confess and meditate on the word. Where are you living your life? If you don t, have a private time when you read the word. Meditate on God and let the word speak to you. Christians you have to come in from the outer court to the holy place. Don t live only in the outer court. Come in; come in to the inner court called the holy place. That is where the word of God is. You see there is where I believe that the only thing that changes a person s life thoroughly in the inside is the Spirit and the word in your personal life. No amount of confession can change your life like the word of God. So when you come into the holy place the word of God is real to you. Remember you have to be changed everyday. Everyday you have to take the word. It is not once a lifetime. The priests have to change the showbread everyday. And the lamp stand has to be kept burning all the time. Oil has to be poured. You have to receive fresh Holy Spirit flowing through you. The book of Ephesians says be filled with the Holy Spirit. There was a time in Israel in Samuel when he was just a little boy. The bible tells us in I Sam. 1 that the light in the holy place was going to go out. The reason is that old Eli did not take care of the holy place. The oil was running out and when the light was going out, God called, Samuel, Samuel. There is a need today for the Holy Spirit and its gifts. Some places you don t even have the fullness of the Spirit. And God is crying out, SAMUEL, SAMUEL, or what ever your name is He is calling, My child, my child, come. My light is going out in the church. Replenish the oil, please, somebody. That s the Holy Spirit crying out unto the church of God. And that is the work of the priest every day. I am not filled with the Spirit once in my lifetime. Everyday I have to come to God and say, Lord I need you. Holy Spirit, enfold Yourself around me. There is nothing more precious than the Holy Spirit on you. Everyday I come to the word and say, Lord, teach me Your precious word. Sometimes I read one verse and it burns my heart so much I could not read further. I bow down and worship Him. And so reading one chapter of the bible can make you worship Him for many hours. Then there is one more piece of furniture in the holy place. Some Christians have discovered the gifts of the Spirit wonderfully. Some Christians have discovered the word in their lives. So the charismatic movement has to mix together with the word movement in order to bring the Christians from the outer court into the holy place. For many centuries, Christianity was in the dark ages. Christians didn t know how to worship and praise God. Do you notice something about

10 twentieth Christianity? We have learnt to enter His gates with thanksgiving and into His court with praise. One of the hallmarks of the charismatic movement is praise and worship. We have learnt how to enter His gates. And in these last days God started moving by the faith movement with its emphasis on the faith message. The showbread has been given. Then the the gifts of the Spirit, represented by the lamp stand, started pouring. Ministries came, gifts of the Holy Spirit, manifestations, but yet it has to mix together with one more movement, represented by the altar of incense, prayer. Prayer is the breath of God in your life. The bible says in the book of Revelation that there is a bowl in heaven up there called the prayers of the saints. That is like incense to God. Prayer before God, prayer unto God. Some Christians don t know what it is like to pray. They know what the gifts of God meant but they never learned to pray. Do you know you have not been taken to the fullness in the holy place? God may use you because somebody prayed for you. But if you want to continue on, you have to be a man of prayer. Jesus didn t depend on others prayer. Although other people s prayers are good He prayed Himself. Paul didn t depend on others prayers. There are a lot of ministries that ask people to pray for them but they themselves never pray. Paul himself is a man of prayer. Peter the apostle did not just ask the church, Pray for me for I am too busy in the ministry. The bible records him praying. When Cornelius sent the three men to him he was praying. In Acts 3 he was on the way to prayer. Thank God for people who pray for you. But you have to be a man or woman of prayer. Some people know the word but they don t know the depths of prayer. They don t know the agonizing cry of the Holy Spirit to give birth to a movement of God, to give birth to the things of God on this planet earth. They do not know that. They have only the showbread and the candlestick but they don t have the altar of incense. Examine your life this morning. Some of you may be tasting only one part of the holy place. Some of you may be strong in prayer but you don t have the showbread. Some of you may be strong in the gifts of the Spirit but you don t have the word and prayer. You have to have all three - the gifts of the Spirit, the word of God and a life of prayer. Then you have tasted the fullness of the holy place. And the altar of incense is right next to the veil to the most holy place. And the altar of incense has to be filled with incense everyday. Everything that takes

11 place in the holy place is a daily process. Christians, where are you living your life? If you are in the outer court, then come in to the holy place. The Holy Spirit is calling you to spend time in your life in prayer. And to learn how the Holy Spirit can flow and use you. I don t care how old or how young you are, how educated or how uneducated you are. The bible says God has a work and ministry in every one of our lives. At least you have a few manifestations of the Spirit. Every one of you may not enter the full time ministry but you have a ministry for God. Where are you living Christians? Pray alone at home, come and pray corporately too. We have a corporate prayer here. Come and pray too, come, come into the holy place. But I want you to know that the healing anointing which is the person of Jesus is not in the outer court. I know you come here sometimes for healing. You come here for God to touch you. You hear people on your left and on your right praising and worshiping God. But you are saying, Lord God, I want to be healed. The presence of God is not in the outer court. Perhaps you have entered the veil. You have studied the word confessed the word and you are not healed yet. You have prayed and you have fasted but you are not healed yet. You have seen the gifts of the Spirit operating but you are not touched yet. Because behind the gifts is the Giver of the gifts. And I want you to know the healing anointing is not in the holy place. Where is the holy place? Where is the healing anointing? As I conclude the teaching on the healing anointing, I want to show you how to get that healing. You must enter the outer court; you must enter the holy place. But it is not enough. You prayed, you fasted, you read the word, you believe in the gifts of God, but the presence of God has not touched you yet. The healing anointing is not here. Remember what we said in our last message last week. If you have a presence you must have a person there. The presence of God came from the person of God. There was a time in Israel when they had everything except the Shekinah glory. That is in Jesus time they have the temple but they don t have the same glory inside. But in Moses time and in Solomon s time before they lost the Ark of the Covenant some time in Jeremiah during the captivity, they had the Shekinah glory. Where does God dwells? Where is God? See I want to show you how to

12 get this healing. Healing is in Jesus but I want to show you how to touch Jesus. How do we get in contact with Jesus? He is passing by but He is in the holy of holies. As we enter the holy of holies, we will see what is there. As we enter the holy of holies I want four musicians to come up. Lets enter the holy of holies since the healing anointing is inside the most holy place - that s where the glory of God is. Inside the holy of holies there is only one piece of furniture. That piece of furniture is called the Ark of the Covenant. In this holy place there is no light that is made by man because God is there. He does not need any daily renewal. He does not need a candlestick to light. In the natural there is no light that enters the most holy place but instead, the light that shines in it is from the presence of the Most High God. When God told Moses and said, I will dwell among them, right there between the wings of the cherubim called the mercy seat He puts His presence. And right there you can find healing. No work of man can enter this place. That is when all your efforts died. That is where everything you tried to do must die. Only God can do it. And that place is called the mercy seat. That is where your healing virtue is. Healing is based on the mercy of God. There is nothing that you can do that can bring healing. All you need to do is to reach beyond the veil. God will not heal you based on who you are. He will heal you based on who He is. He is a merciful God. Come into the most holy place where the healing anointing is. A thousand things may happen all around you. But in your heart you have entered the presence of God. No one can enter that presence and come out the same. From time to time His presence manifests. This was the same presence that came on the burning bush. When Moses was there on the mountain this was the same presence that said, You are standing on holy ground. Sometimes, through the working of the gifts of the Spirit and through teaching of the word of God, you come quite close to the veil that separates you from the presence of God. And I want you to know when you enter that veil. The gifts of the Spirit sometimes work and bring people quite close to that veil. The word of God is preached and there are times of ecstasy where you go very close to that veil. In deep prayer sometimes you go very near to His presence. Then when you

13 enter His presence you are touched. And there you hear the voice of God, I love you. The almighty God is a God of love and mercy. I am the one who gives you the showbread and gives you the candlestick. I am the source come into My presence. Come into My being. From time to time when Jesus Christ walks into a meeting, He releases the healing anointing. Though the human beings may be blind and dull of heart and not know that presence, however, even the demons bow down. It is a place of holiness. No man in heaven and earth had seen the fullness of that presence. Only the Son of God who is in the bosom of the Father has seen the glory. Your healing is found inside the most holy place where the healing anointing is. So come into His holy place. Come into His presence. There is a time in God s presence where no word can express what you feel. I want every one of you here right now to enter the most holy place. There is where the healing virtue is. That s where the healing anointing lies. You have reached beyond the gifts, beyond prayer. You are now face to face with Jesus Christ. Paul said the same thing when he said you are seated in the heavenly place. There are some men and women who had lived their lives in that realm. I want you to know there are those who come so close to God that God said, Come home. Enoch was taken. Then there are others who had lived close to Him They have functioned in the gifts. Elijah knew the gifts; he knew the word and James chapter five says he is a man of prayer. But he is the man who says it every time before God uses him, I stand in the presence of God. He was on this earth but he lived in the most holy place in the presence of God. Then one day God said, Elijah, come home. One day God is going to pour His Spirit in the church of God over every believer who has come to the most holy place. That is where your healing anointing is. I want you to reach out to Jesus of Nazareth right now. Every head bow every eye close - you are seated in the holy place.

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