Pouring in Oil

Luke 10:25-34

Introduction: The average Baptist knows less about being filled with the Holy Ghost than a country boy knows about trading securities on the New York Stock Exchange.

• Filled vs. Baptized (doesn’t have anything to do with your flesh)
• Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost (John 16:13)
• Person and Work: The Holy Spirit is not just some sort of force that you get a hold of it’s a person that gets a hold of you. (He comforts, calls, intercedes, leads, guides, enlightens, equips, teaches…First encounter, Conviction)
• For the believer the Holy Ghost will Indwell you, Empower you, and Abide with you

The Commandment: Eph 5:18

• If it’s a sin to be drunk with wine (and it is), then it’s a sin not to be filled with the Spirit. The world expects us to be filled with the Holy Spirit (like the beggar at the gate Beautiful in Acts 4)
• In Acts 2:18 they mocked those men preaching as if they were drunk on juice or something. For as good as some of ya’ll were or are at getting liquored up you sure ought to be better at being full of the Holy Ghost.
• It’s funny how some Christians will give the world all they’ve got, but God just gets it half way. (You can memorize the line-up and batting averages for the Atlanta Braves, but you can’t memorize enough scripture to lead somebody to Christ. You can make it to a ball-game a half-hour early, but you can’t get to church on time to save your life. You can dig deep enough in your pocket to be in a hunting club that you can’t really t afford, but you couldn’t support a missionary if you wanted to. You can push your children to be the best students they can be, but you can’t pray with them about their commitment to God.)
• When you’re full of the Holy Ghost you’ll resemble a drunk man:
• You’ll have boldness.
• You’ll want to share the bottle.
• And it’ll affect the way you walk.
• The Proof: Acts 1:8

Exposition

v.25 “Master,” never “Lord”/ “tempted”/ “inherit”

v.26 Question with a question à What’s the book say.

v.27 Response: Great Commandment (Deut 6:5/Lev 19:18)

v.28 Pre-crucifixion response/ Tall-order

v.29 “willing to justify himself” (He can’t keep it, but won’t admit it)

Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Notice Where this Man Started and Where He was Headed

• Jerusalem: City of Peace (If it was a road he shouldn’t have been traveling on what about the Samaritan)
• Jericho: comes from a word meaning “breath” or a “fragrant wind.” It’s a picture of the fullness of the Spirit. And it takes a concerted trip to make it from the city of Peace to the place of the fullness of the Spirit.
• Joshua and the last stop before entering Canaan Land, a picture of victorious Christian living.
• God’s looking for some people that will come to the place in their personal walk where they’ll say, ‘I’m not just satisfied with the peace of God, I want the Power of God.’

The Direction he has to get there.

• He went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. Geographically Jericho is about 25 miles North East of Jerusalem. When you come to the place where you realize there’s more to being saved than just going to heaven you need to realize there is only one way to get there and that’s going down. (1 Pet 5:5)
• Christian celebrity. Country Club mentality. A place to polish your halo and put on your resume. Many Christians don’t mind wearing a title, but don’t ask them to bear a burden.

The Company on the Trip.

• You know why he’s easy prey on this trip from Jerusalem to Jericho? He’s by himself.
• There’s plenty of company in Jerusalem… everybody wants to go there. But when you step off and want to go to Jericho it gets mighty lonely.
• Bro. Ted / Knock on a door / Tell somebody they’re going to hell!
• Sell out and get lonely!
• Most of you want revival about as much as I want a college education.

How He Got Filled.

• He stumbled. (fell among thieves)
• God’s never rejoiced in iniquity or made a mock of sin, but he can take your most grave failures and turn them into something that will prepare you to be empowered.
• Abraham lied before he was called the friend of God. Samson got his eyes gouged out before he experienced his greatest victory. Peter cussed and denied the Lord three times before he ever preached on Pentecost and 3000 were saved.
• Judges 6: The angel of the Lord commanded Gideon to offer a sacrifice on the wood taken from his Father’s idolatrous grove.
• He was stripped. (Lost everything.)
• Naomi left Bethlehem-Judah full and when she lost everything she returned empty, but at least she went back. She went on to have a grandson named Obed, which means “worship.”
• He was shunned.
• Notice the crowd that was passing by and shunning this man. He could have gone to church with this bunch.

Do you want to be filled? Are you prepared to be hurt?

Only after this man was hurt did he have the oiled poured in. That term means to fill up to overflowing. To pour up till it gushes out.

We’re to be a conduit for the fullness of the Spirit of God, not a reservoir. Don’t expect God to fill you just so you can be full, if he’s going to fill you, he’ll do it so that you can overflow to the glory of God.

You want to know how you can be filled with the Holy Ghost. Ask! You have not because you ask not.

Luke 11:13

13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Acts 4:31

31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Isaiah 44:3

3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

Are you thirsty?

But if you’re going to ask in faith you better be surrendered. You better be broken. You better be thirsty. You better be desperate.

Something’s missing? Fill me or kill me.

What did the Samaritan pour on after the oil? Wine a type of joy.

You can’t know joy unspeakable and full of glory until you know the power of the Holy Ghost in you life.