THE HOLY SPIRIT DESCRIBED AS
OIL
HEBREW = SHEMEN
GREEK = ELAION
THREE GRADES
OF OIL
• EVOO = EXTRA VIRGIN OIL,
THE FIRST GROUND AND
COLLECTED – TEMPLE
• ORDINARY OLIVE OIL = USED
FOR COOKING
• POMACE OIL (OPO) = LEFT
OVER OIL USED FOR GREASE,
ETC.
OLD
TESTAMENT
USE:
• EXODUS 30: 29 = CONNECTED TO AN
“ANOINTING”, REPRESENTS THE POWER
AND PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, TO
SET APART AND TO CONSECRATE
• LEV. 2:1-2 = GRAIN OFFERINGS – OIL
AND INCENSE POURED ON THE GRAIN,
BURNT AS A MEMORIAL OF GOD’S
POWER AND PRESENCE
THE MENORAH
• ALWAYS HAD TO FILLED WITH
OIL AS A A REPRESENTATION OF
THE “LIGHT” – JESUS SAID, “I AM
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD”
• IT IS THE OIL (HOLY SPIRIT) WHO
EMPOWERS THE LIGHT…
• OLD TESTAMENT USE OF “YITSHAR” = FRESH OIL SAME CONCEPT AS
“NEW WINE”
• ANOINTING THE PERSON WITH OIL = DAVID – A GOOD EXAMPLE,
I SAMUEL 16 AND PSALMS 23: 5
• NOT FOR SIN OFFERINGS
• MEDICINAL PURPOSES = ISAIAH 1:6
• OIL OF GLADNESS = ISAIAH 61: 3 – THE OIL OF JOY INSTEAD OF
SORROW
• OIL TO BRING UNITY = PSALMS 133 – OIL POURED FROM MT HERMON
DOWN TO MT ZION
IN LUKE 4:18, JESUS READ
ISAIAH 61: 1 & 2
“THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS ON ME,
BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO
PROCLAIM GOOD NEWS TO THE
POOR, HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM
FREEDOM FOR THE PRISONERS, AND
RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO
SET THE OPPRESSED FREE, AND TO
PROCLAIM THE YEAR OF THE LORD’S
FAVOR.”
NEW
TESTAMENT
USE:
• MATTHEW 25: 1 – 13 5 WISE VIRGINS AND
THE 5 FOOLISH VIRGINS:
• THE OIL MUST BE GIVEN INDIVIDUALLY
• THE OIL CANNOT BE GIVEN FROM ONE
ANOTHER
• THE OIL CANNOT BE BORROWED
• THIS IS A PARABLE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE BRIDEGROOM
• FOR THE 5 FOOLISH – THE SACRED BECAME
PROFANE (UNHOLY)
• MT OF OLIVES = NAMED
FOR THE MANY OLIVE
TREES AND PRESSES ON
THE MOUNTAIN
• ROOTS SEEM ETERNAL
• GARDEN OF
GETHSEMANE = HEBREW
MEANING OIL PRESS
THE MESSIAH
ACTS 10: 36 & 38
“YOU KNOW THE MESSAGE GOD SENT TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL,
ANNOUNCING THE GOOD NEWS OF PEACE THROUGH JESUS
CHRIST, WHO IS LORD OF ALL…HOW GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF
NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND POWER, AND HEALING ALL
WHO WERE UNDER THE POWER OF THE DEVIL BECAUSE GOD WAS
WITH HIM.”
JAMES 5: 14 & 15
“IS ANYONE AMONG YOU SICK? LET THEM
CALL THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH TO PRAY
OVER THEM AND ANOINT THEM WITH OIL
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. AND THE
PRAYER OFFERED IN FAITH WILL MAKE
THEM WELL; THE LORD WILL RAISE THEM
UP…”
• WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS UPON US:
• LIKE JESUS – WE WILL PROCLAIM THE GOOD
NEWS
• WE WILL HAVE POWER TO BE WITNESSES AND
OVERCOME SIN AND TEMPTATION
• WE BECOME INSTRUMENTS OF HEALING
SUMMARY