Luke 4:17-18
Preached by Dr. Greg Sloop at Kannapolis Church of God on Sunday, January 12, 2025
Today I pray that this word will permeate the hearts and minds of the hearers.
I pray that all present and watching online will understand the word for their own individual life.
I pray that we will all seek for the anointing provided through Jesus Christ, the Savior Messiah.
Let us leave filled to overflowing and may the oil of anointing be running down our heads, hearts, and hands and out to a fallen world in need of salvation.
He was handed the book of Isaiah. This was not even His choosing. However, did He not know that on this day that this scroll would be chosen?
The Anointing
61:1 anointed, mashach (mah-shahch); Strong’s #4886: To anoint, to rub with oil, especially in order to consecrate someone or something. Appearing almost 70 times, mashach refers to the custom of rubbing or smearing with sacred oil to consecrate holy persons or holy things. Priests (Lev. 8:12; 16:32) and kings (2 Sam. 2:4; 5:3; 1 Kin. 1:39) in particular were installed in their offices by anointing. In Ex. 40:9–14, the tabernacle was to be anointed, as well as the altar, the laver, and the high priest’s sons. The most important derivative of mashach is ma-shiyach (Messiah), “anointed one.” As Jesus was and is the promised Anointed One, His title came to be “Jesus the Messiah.” Messiah was translated into Greek as Christos, thus His designation, “Jesus Christ.”
Jesus = Savior
Christ = Messiah (Anointed One)
Jesus Christ is the Savior Messiah
Devoted To You 