We are taking a systematic theology class at our church, and this past week the topic was the Holy Spirit. We watched an excerpt of David Platt's Secret Church, and it covered 4 significant issues related to the Holy Spirit:
1. Blasphemy against the Spirit
2. Baptized in the Spirit
3. Filled with the Spirit
4. Gifted by the Spirit (what about prophecy, tongues, healing?)
Platt did an amazing job digging a little deeper into these topics. I am not going to go into any detail of what we talked about and learned, but I will share a quote that Platt shared with us.
By E.M. Bounds
First let me share a definition of unction: anointing of the Holy Spirit
"Unction is the sweetest exhalation of the Holy Spirit. It carries the Word like dynamite, like salt, like sugar; makes the Word a soother, an accuser, a revealer, a searcher; makes the hearer a culprit or a saint, makes him weep like a child and live like a giant; opens his heart and his purse as gently, yet as strongly as the spring opens the leaves. This unction is not the gift of genius. It is not found in the hall of learning. No eloquence can woo it. No industry can win it. It is the gift of God- the signet sent to his own messengers. It is heaven's knighthood given to the chosen true and brave ones who have sought this anointed honor through many an hour of tearful, wrestling prayer. Earnestness is good and impressive; genus is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, a more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and depraved hearts to god, to repair the breaches and restore the church to her old ways of purity and power. Nothing but holy unction can do this."
What a beautiful and expressive way to explain the anointing of the Spirit!
I like!!!
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