Understanding the Anointing"Sometimes I'm sitting here in the living room at night,
talking to my wife, and when I get up to go to bed and step into
the bedroom, it's as if I've stepped into a room full of glory. It's
just all over me. I can hardly stand it. It's the anointing—the
healing anointing. I have to say, 'Lord, turn it off. I can't take any
more.'"
I know exactly what he's talking about. Physically, you just
can't take it. Jesus had the Holy Spirit without measure. If I get a
little too much measure of it, I can't stand it.
The Spirit Without Measure
The reason Jesus could have the Spirit without measure is
because His body was not mortal.
Yes, He could be tempted in all points like we are, because
He was human, all right, but He was like Adam was before he
sinned. Adam could be tempted—but before Adam sinned, his
body was neither mortal nor immortal. (On the other hand,
Adam did need to sustain that human body by eating.)
If Adam's body had been mortal, it would have been subject
to death—but Adam originally wasn't subject to death. The
Word of God says that death affects you when you sin:
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned" (Rom. 5:12). Death didn't pass on mankind until after
Adam had sinned.
This is the reason Jesus couldn't be killed until He was made
sin for us. Jesus said, "No man taketh it [His life] from me, but I
lay it down of myself" (John 10:18).
Once an angry mob was going to throw Him off the brow of
a hill at Nazareth to kill Him, but He slipped through their midst
and disappeared (Luke 4:29,30).
Then, in the Garden of Gethsemane, when He took upon His
spirit nature our sins and our diseases, His body became mortal,
and they could kill Him.
But in all His earthly ministry, Jesus had the Holy Spirit