Fresh Oil - Part 5 — Jack Hyles

Seeking Qualification Through Fresh Anointing

God to let me go back to Texas or do something to me that would make me qualified to stay in Hammond. About six o 'clock or six thirty the next morning as the Sun came up across those mountains of the Bill Rice Ranch.

All of a sudden I couldn't tell you I don't understand it all. But I knew that God had prepared my heart to pastor the First Baptist Church of Hammond. I think I could sum it up by saying with David I Shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Recovering the Power of Prayer

How long has it been Since the breath of God was upon your life. How long has it been since you knew the power of God upon your ministry? How long has it been? Here you left your room this morning. Did you think to pray?

In the name of Christ our Savior. Did you sue for loving favor as a shield? Today. And now for these Twenty one and a half years. I've been pastoring in the great Chicagoland area. Oh the blessings of God.

Fresh Oil in the Midst of Personal Inadequacy

How good God has been. Not because I'm a great preacher. Not because I'm a smart person. Because I'm not. I'm just the same little old Jackie boy that used to live down in Dallas, Texas. The same little powerless country preacher used to preach in East Texas without any converts except for one thing.

Fresh oil. That's it fresh oil. All this vein unless the spirit of the Holy One comes down. Lord send the old-time power the Pentecostal power thy floodgates of blessing on us for open wide. Lord send the old-time power the Pentecostal power.

Let sinners be converted in thy name. Glorified that's the need you have preacher. That's the need you have church. That's the need you have Sunday school teacher. That's your need mother. That's your need dad.

That's your need bus worker fresh oil at daddy's grave. New Year's Eve 1954 at the Bill Rice Ranch. But now I'm 54 years of age. I'm no young East Texas preacher again, but I find myself needing that same anointing.

I've known through these years. Over 50 ,000 people call me pastor the Hiles Anderson College to operate 10 million dollar budget every year to high schools junior high school a grade school. I recall a few years ago We dedicated a new 5 ,000 seat auditorium.

I walked in the room behind the auditorium to follow the choir in. I Looked out and saw 9 ,000 adults packing that building standing back in the back sitting in the aisles. And I was scared. I Ran back to my office and I said, oh god.

I'm a country preacher. I'm not a city preacher. I can't do it. I can't do it. They came to get me and asked me to come on to the service fresh oil. Fresh oil. Now what is the purpose of this power this fresh oil?

Fresh Oil Enables the Gospel to Be Believed

You see ladies and gentlemen, Jesus came lived died rose Ascended and is seated at the right hand of the father that we may have a gospel to preach. Are you listening we may have a gospel to preach. He placed in the hands of just a few common men fishermen and common men the Commission of Carrying this message around the world, but who's gonna believe it?

Who's gonna believe a man was born of a virgin? Who in Africa and Asia and America and Europe is gonna believe a few? Men from the Middle East to come and say Jesus was virgin born. He had no earthly father.

Preposterous unbelievable. Who's gonna believe it? Who's gonna believe he lived a life without sin? Lips never spoke that which was evil. Ears never heard what God did not want them to hear. Hands never performed a deed.

They should not have performed feet never did walk a path. They should not have walked. Who's gonna believe that Jesus never sinned. How can we make folks believe that. How he'll make them believe that he died and rose from the dead.

How can we make folks believe it? God Drew a plan and that plan was this. He said I'll give you somebody. To go with you while you tell that story and that somebody will be the Holy Spirit of God. And while you talk to them and tell the story from without.

The Holy Spirit will talk to them from within. And that's why right now while I'm preaching to you and you hear my voice and see my face. There's somebody talking on the inside, isn't there? That's the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit Speaking Through Believers

Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing to have him talk from within while you preach from without? Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing to have him talk from within while you teach your Sunday school class from without.

Wouldn't it be an amazing thing to have him talk from within? While you sing your solo in church from without. Wouldn't it be an amazing thing to have him talk from within? While You witness to an unconverted person from without.

That power ladies and gentlemen is available to you. Fresh oil it may not come to you as an experience. In fact, I would advise you don't even seek an experience. My advice is this. Seven times a day yield yourself to the Holy Spirit.

When you wake up in the morning after breakfast at mid-morning after lunch mid-afternoon. After dinner and before bedtime. Get on your knees and say Holy Spirit. I yield myself to you. Then place all around.

Your house in your office in your car in your business little reminders pray for power pray for power and you pray hundreds of times a day for God's power to be upon your life and then don't expect an experience.

Expect that silent one to speak from within while you speak from without. Look at me. You can't account for me. I Know great preachers you can account for. They're giant men of talent ability men of personality men with high IQs.

Men that could head the Eastern Airlines or the Hilton Hotel chain because of their dynamic. You can't account for me that way. I'm just a Texas poor introvert reared in a drunkards home 92 pounds on the 17th birthday.

God's Spirit, Not Human Ability

The church didn't believe it and God called me. One day I found the secret. It's not by night. It's not by power, but by my spirit. Saith the Lord for the sake of your church the sake of your children.

The sake of your life the sake of your Sunday school class the sake of our nation. Be annoyed with fresh Oil, I'm a little old-fashioned. I know when it comes to religion and God. Many think I'm painfully slow since I walk or my father's have trod.

Old-Fashioned Faith and the Hope of Salvation

But I believe in repentance from sin and that Jesus within us must dwell. I believe that if heaven would win we must flee from the terrors of hell. I'm a little old-fashioned. I know but God's peace has a home in my soul and I'm telling wherever I go that Jesus is saving and keeping me whole.

The Psalmist's Prayer for Fresh Oil

Save with the psalmist who said. But my horn shall thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn. I Shall be anointed with Fresh Oil. Let us pray Heavenly Father. May there be a supernatural work of God and our hearts today.

And may we know what David knew as we're anointed fresh in Jesus name.