God Anointed Christ With The Holy Spirit

Peter’s preaching, and he says in verse 38, You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him in the form of the Holy Spirit. God was with him in the form of the Holy Spirit. So answer to the question, how did Jesus do the will of God, the work of God, in the way that God did it? How did he render perfect love toward God, perfect obedience toward God? The answer, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The very person who empowered the perfect obedience of Christ is the very person that takes up residence in our lives as believers. So Jesus obeyed the word of God perfectly in the power of the Holy Spirit. Now listen, 1 John 2.6 says this, The one who says he abides in him, in Christ, ought himself to walk in the same manner as he walked. If you say you abide in Christ, you ought to walk as he walked. How did he walk? He walked in the Spirit. He walked in the power of the Spirit. Listen to Colossians 2.6, Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him.

How did he walk? How do we walk? How do we walk in him? In the power of the Holy Spirit. Now someday we’ll do that perfectly, because it says in 1 John 3 that someday we’ll be like him, and so we will have perfect love and perfect obedience. But now we are striving to walk like he walked. We have been given the Holy Spirit, the power is there, we are being led by the Spirit, as he says, and I read it earlier in Galatians 5. So if you’re led by the Spirit, then walk in the Spirit.

There’s no such thing as a Christian who doesn’t have the Spirit. There’s no such thing as a Christian not being led by the Spirit, so follow and walk in the Spirit. Now one other portion of Scripture needs to be brought into consideration, and it’s Romans chapter 8. This is wonderful, encouraging truth. Romans 8.3, For the law could not do. Let me tell you about the law. The law makes demands and pronounces judgment if you violate them. And so we’re all under the law, and we’re all basically guilty of breaking the law. I’m talking about God’s moral law.

We’re all then sentenced to death and punishment. The law has no power. The flesh has no power. The law can’t help us, it can’t empower us, it’s outside of us. The law, what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh. The law can’t help us, and we in our flesh can’t help ourselves. But what the law could not do, because it’s weak to the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. God sent his Son into the world as an offering for sin. By that offering he condemned sin in the flesh.

So, verse 4, that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us. How then is the law fulfilled in us? By walking according to the Spirit, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. You want to fulfill the law of God, walk in the Spirit. This is so very important, because these legalists had come to the Galatian church and said, you need to conform to the external rituals and ceremonies and rights, including circumcision, of Judaism. You can’t be saved without that, and you can’t be sanctified without that. Paul has been saying, no, you’re free from all of that.

You’ve been set free from all of that. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of God anointed Christ with the Holy Spirit. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way. [tr:trw].