This sermon emphasizes the importance of the anointing of the Holy Spirit, symbolized by oil, and the price that needs to be paid to walk in that anointing. It draws parallels from the lives of biblical figures like Job, David, Moses, and the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus, highlighting the need for a blameless life, a heart aligned with God's will, and a deep relationship with the Lord to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit's anointing.

If you'll turn in your Bibles, please, to the book of Devarim, words, Deuteronomy, last chapter of the Torah. Moses is prophesying to the children of Israel. I want to read Deuteronomy chapter 33, verse 24. Deuteronomy 33-24. I want to pray for this word. Lord, I thank you for your word. You have dealt with me about this. Thank you that your word is deep and gives life and cuts between soul and spirit. We thank you, Lord, that we have your word. You love us so much, you gave us your word. And your word will stand. We bless this word. We ask you, Lord, for fresh oil on Eliel and myself and the other translators. We pray that everyone will hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregation. Thank you, Lord, for fresh anointing. In Yeshua's name. Amen. I want to talk to you about the price of oil. The price of oil. You're probably aware that the price of oil keeps going up and up and up and up. When I was in high school, before most of you were born, gasoline in the United States cost 33 cents a gallon. Today in Israel, gasoline will cost you eight dollars a gallon. And I remember one time, many years ago, when there was a all of a sudden the oil price doubled in America. Yeah, gasoline and oil. There were long lines of cars lined up at the gas stations trying to get a little bit of gasoline. I was in Indonesia a couple of years ago, and overnight, the government doubled the price of oil in Indonesia. No, excuse me, they raised it 25%. There were riots in the street. Oil is very expensive. And I want to talk to you about the price of oil, and you're probably wondering, what is he talking about? Well, hopefully the Lord will clarify it. In Deuteronomy chapter 33, verse 24, Moses prophesies over the tribe of Asher. Asher means straight. It comes from the root yashar. It also means blessed, asheray. Asher was called to be straight and blessed. And if you are straight with the Lord, you will be blessed. So Asher, here's the prophecy for Asher. Asher is most blessed with sons. Let him be favored by his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil. This prophecy, the Lord gave this to me when we first moved to Mount Carmel 22 years ago. This is the area here on Mount Carmel and up to Akko in that area where the tribe of Asher was supposed to come in when the children of Israel came into the land. And this is a very personal word to me, but it's a prophetic word for our community. Those that walk straight before the Lord will be blessed and have sons. Here's one of them, and they're all over this place. Spiritual sons. And this is what the body of Messiah is supposed to do is raise up the next generation. It says he will be favored by his brothers. We have worked very hard in our congregation to bless other congregations, Arab congregations, all across the north. Last night we had worship in Hebrew. Then we had worship in Arabic. Then we had worship in Spanish. I went home by then, but then we had worship in English, I hear. But we are trying to bless the other believers in the north, especially Arabs. And it's a prophecy for our congregation. And he says he will dip his foot in oil. Now many Bible believers have taken that to believe that oil is going to be discovered here. And people have come out in this area and have dug for oil. So what do they find? Natural gas out in the Mediterranean. Now I don't know if they're going to find oil here, but this is a picture of a man or a woman walking in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It means he will soak, he will plunge his foot into oil, and he will walk in the anointing of the Lord. Hallelujah. I hope they do find oil. Our gas prices would go down. But what I want is the fullness of the Holy Spirit with a community walking in the oil of the Holy Spirit. And it gets better than that if you're as old as I am. Because it says in verse 25, your sandals will be iron and bronze, and as your days, so will your strength be. This is a prophecy over the children of Asher. And for us as new covenant believers, it's for anyone who's walking straight and blessed with the Lord. Walking in the footprints of the Holy Spirit, walking with the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. And our sandals will, I didn't wear mine today, but my sandals will be iron and bronze. Hallelujah. Not only that, I will never get feeble, weak. I'll keep getting older and older, but I'll never get weak. That's what it says, as your days, so will your strength be. So, anyone here over 40 like me, that's for you. Hallelujah. But it means being straight and blessed with the Lord. God is going to send a great move of the Holy Spirit here, and it's prophesied right here, in this area where we live. It's already begun. We prayed for years. We still do. For this whole area where Asher was supposed to come into Canaan. We prayed for the Krayot, which is north of here. We sent out 10 families. They planted a congregation. They sent out some people from Ta'ako. They planted a congregation. We planted a Lebanese congregation in Nahariya. This whole area where Asher came, there are now congregations all up and down that area. And the Jews and Arabs, people from the former Soviet Union. So the price of oil, I have a friend that's digging for oil. He comes to meetings here sometimes. I have another friend who runs an oil rig off of Australia. Sorry? Australia, an oil rig off of Australia. It's very hard to dig in the ocean and find oil. It costs a lot. Okay, so what am I talking about? The price of oil. Well, let's go on here. Let's go to Job chapter 29. Job chapter 29. Anybody in here who the book of Job is their favorite book in the Bible? I don't see many hands going up. There's one. Okay. Hallelujah. Don't avoid it. Okay, Job chapter 29. Do you want to dip your foot? Do you want to plunge your foot in oil? We should have brought a big tub of oil. You need to walk in the oil of the Holy Spirit. It'll heal your feet too. Okay, chapter 29, book of Job, verse 6. When my steps were bathed with cream and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me. Job is remembering the days when he walked in the abundance of the Lord. And he says, the rock. He knew God as the rock. Moses knew God as the rock. The patriarchs knew God as the rock. That's why my wife is just saying, Atah Tzuri. You are my rock. Job knew God as the rock. And the rock poured out rivers of oil on Job. The word in Hebrew means channels of oil. Oil, the anointing of the Holy Spirit being channeled onto this man, Job. What does the rock represent? The rock represents permanence. This building is literally built on a huge rock. When the storms come, you need to be on the rock. When the wars come to Israel, we need to be on the rock of the Lord. Hallelujah. Job knew God as the rock who kept pouring out oil and blessings upon him. It means stability. It means shelter. It means power. It means safety. If you're on the rock, we had an air raid siren three days ago in Haifa. When those things go off, you run to the bomb shelter. Now, we weren't ready to run to the bomb shelter, and all of a sudden this air raid siren went off, and I screamed to my wife, Run to the office. We run, and we sit on the floor, and we have four chairs outside. Then I called Gideon or somebody, or I called Danny, and Danny said, Oh, they're just trying out the siren. We didn't hear it. We didn't know, but we were not prepared. So, you need to get on the rock. Where we live, you better get on the rock. What I've heard about what's happening in Colorado, more dangerous in Colorado than it is in Israel. Some guy walked into a movie theater where they're showing the new Batman movie, and just started shooting all kinds of people and killing people. Listen, we're in the end times. Things are accelerating. You need to know the Lord as your rock. Atah Tzuri, you are my rock. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, even there thou art with me. Hallelujah. All these great patriarchs knew God as their rock. Why? I asked the Lord, why did Job know you as the rock, and you poured out rivers of oil on him? Let me show you what the Lord showed me. Go to Job chapter one, verse one. Job one, one. There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. The man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and he shunned evil. Okay. Why did God pour out rivers of oil on Job? He was out blamed before the holy one of his name. He was innocent before God. He was without blame before the holy one. The creator. God could look at him and say, I find no blame in him. He was without blame. He was upright. He was in right standing with God. There was no shadow between them. Many years ago, when Hudson Taylor left England and went to China, he began a move of God among the Chinese people. His wife was dying in China, and he said to her, Darling, is there anything between you and God? You know what Hudson Taylor's wife said? For these 15 years, there hasn't been a cloud between me and my Yeshua. This is a woman who was blameless before the throne of God. Job was blameless. He shunned evil. He wouldn't have anything to do with evil. He had a reverent fear of God. He was upright, and he was blameless. If you want rivers of oil, if you want to be spiritually part of the tribe of Asher, and plunge your feet in oil and walk in the holy spirit, hallelujah, you need Asher. Asher means upright, without blame. The Lord looks for people like this, and these are the ones where he pours out rivers of anointing upon them. Now, the price of oil is expensive. You have to dig in the ground or dig in the ocean. It costs a lot. What was Job's cost? What was the price? He walked a blameless life. If you want to pay the price for the oil, you need to walk a holy life. It's as simple as that. You need to walk that your conscience is clear between God and man. And if you walk a blameless life, you turn away, you shun evil. You have a healthy fear of God. You will know him as your rock, and he will pour out rivers of oil upon your life. The oil represents the holy spirit. The holy spirit is the comforter. If you will walk a blameless life, you will know him as your comforter. Hallelujah. Let's go to Deuteronomy 32. Deuteronomy chapter 32. We're looking at Moses here, another man that knew the rock. In Deuteronomy 32, verse 4. He is the rock, and his work is perfect. Moses knew God as the rock. Listen to me, brothers and sisters. You need to know him as the rock in these days. I have run to the rock of my salvation. Hallelujah. He's the rock of ages. He's permanent. He always was. He always will be. So he says in verse 13, He made him ride on the heights of the earth that he might eat the produce of the fields. He made him draw honey from the rock and oil from the flinty rock. God wants us to run to the rock and get the oil of the holy spirit. What did it cost Moses? Forty years in the desert. Forty years as a shepherd. People complaining all the time about his leadership. His sister and brother trying to take it from him. It cost him everything, but he knew the rock, and he got the oil out of the rock. Hallelujah. Let's look at David for a moment. Go to Psalm 18. All the great men and women of God have always known the Lord as the rock. That's where the oil is. The price of oil is expensive. They all paid the price, and they walked in the oil. Hallelujah. They had rivers of oil being poured out on them. Psalm 18. David says, I will love you, O Lord, my strength. Verse 1. He says, I will love you, O Lord, my strength. Can you say that again in Hebrew? This is the only place in the whole Bible where this word for love comes from the root rechem, which also is the root for womb, something being birthed. He knows something about that. His wife is sitting back there, and she's going to have a baby soon. David says, I love my Lord, my strength, and he uses this word for love that no one else in the Bible uses in a word for love for God. This was love that came out of his innermost being, his love affair with the rock. David fell. David sinned. So did Job. So did Moses. But they ran to the rock. And when he repented, the Lord blessed him, and he had this love affair with God. He's writing psalms in caves while people are trying to kill him. And look what he says. Verse 2. The Lord is my rock. Tzuri? Okay. The Lord is my rock. Is he your rock? David didn't just say, the Lord is the rock. David said, he's my rock. This is personal between me and him. And I have this great love for him. It comes right out of the innermost part of my heart. So he says, the Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer. My God, my strength in whom I will trust, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my stronghold. Listen, brothers and sisters. We need to know the Lord is the rock and get oil out of the rock. It costs. It cost David everything. It cost Job everything. It cost Paul everything. And he said, it was worth it. I count it all loss. It's all dung. It doesn't mean anything. So that I might know him as my rock. Look at verse 46. The Lord lives. Blessed be. Now it's Tzuri. Blessed be my rock. And verse 46. The Lord lives. Blessed be my rock. Let the God of my salvation be exalted. The Lord lives. Do you know the living God? Do you know the reality of having a relationship with him? Are you just talking about Yeshua and you're reading the Bible? Or do you have an experiential love affair with the Lord? David says, my God lives. He is my rock. He knew something about rocks. He was hiding in rocks, in caves. We were down at the Dead Sea not too long ago. We were at Ein Gedi where David was running from Saul. And we were standing there and my wife said, wow. Look at that rock. Look at that cliff. She said, David was running around there hiding from all his soldiers. You need to know the Lord is your permanent salvation and savior in time of need. Now, let's go to Psalm 89. 89. Psalm 89. We talked about the rock. Let's talk about the oil. Verse 20. Psalm 89 20. I have found my servant David with my holy oil. I have anointed him. When I first met the Lord many years ago, I said, I found God. I found the Messiah. I found Yeshua. And then the Holy Spirit corrected me one day and said, I found you. He found you in all my darkness, in all my sin, all my confusion. He found me. And David realized that. He says, I have found my servant David. Are you his servant? Do you serve him? Do you serve others? Are you his servant? I have found my servant David means beloved of God. I love my name. Hallelujah. I thank my mother and father for it. I have found my servant David. And with my holy oil, I have anointed him. The oil that came out of the rock. The oil that comes from the rock Yeshua. In those days, the oil was spilled all over the tabernacle. Every piece of furniture in the tabernacle, they poured oil on them. The Aaron and his sons, they poured oil on them. They smeared oil on them. The oil was even worked into them. To be anointed by the Holy Spirit means to be covered with the oil of the Holy Spirit. And no flesh will be glorified in his presence. It will all be Holy Spirit. Listen to me. The anointing is everything. And it costs Yeshua everything, then we can have it. Without the anointing, nothing happens. Because it's not by might, not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies. It needs to be birthed in the Holy Spirit. We've been in touch with somebody in America that wants us to come there and minister. We don't know this person, but we know about this place there. She's the president of a Bible school. We got an email from her last night, and she said, God is in this. The Holy Spirit is doing this. That's a woman of God. Who won't move or walk until she has the oil on her feet. That's somebody you know you can fellowship with. You need the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Now, every born-again believer has an anointing. But how much more will your Holy Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit for those who ask it? Are you satisfied? Don't you want more? The Holy Spirit, the oil of the Holy Spirit is infinite. And here, Job, all the way back in the days of the patriarchs, knew that the rivers of the Holy Spirit were available. They used to smear the holy oil on people. You know, Samuel came to David. When we anoint people, we have this little bottle. He had a shofar full of oil. He said, here. The anointing was all over him. And it's a picture for us that when the Holy Spirit was poured out on Shavuot, Pentecost, the Holy Spirit covered them. Their whole character was transformed. It's rivers of oil coming out of the rock, Yeshua. It's pure oil. It was used oil for light, so you could see where you're going. Without the Holy Spirit, you don't know where you're going. When those Romans came and found Peter, and he was praying up on the rooftop in Jaffa, and he went up there and preached to that Roman centurion, and the Holy Spirit fell on all those Romans, and then he goes and talks to the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem, and they said, why did you go to those Romans? You know what he said? The Spirit told me to go, doubting nothing. It changed the world. Because one man, in prayer, knew the anointing of the Holy Spirit. And he went and shared it. He knew the rock. And rivers of oil were poured out onto all these Roman soldiers and their friends. The gospel went out to the Gentiles. The price of oil, it costs. Psalm 89, verse 20, I want you to look at it again. He found you. Amen. You should hear his testimony. I heard it. He spoke to our group from 19 nations here. The Lord found him. And then he's a Jew from Uzbekistan. He loves the Lord. He's filled with the Spirit. Not only did he find him, he found this Jew, a German wife, and she's sitting over there. Hallelujah. That's the holy, what did you say? The most beautiful wife. Amen. I didn't say that. I edited it. But it's true. It's my wife. It's true, Lydia. Hallelujah. And your daughter's beautiful, and the baby on the way is, too. Listen, God finds us. He found David, who would be his servant, and anointed him. That's how he changes the world. That's how he'll change your life. But you need the anointing. In those days, prophets only poured oil on a few people's heads. Elisha said, go find this guy Jehu. Jehu. Pour a horn of oil on his head. Tell him he's going to be the king, and then run as fast as you can. He ran in there, he put the oil on him, you're going to be king, and he took off. But they obeyed the Holy Spirit. When we were moving to Israel, we thought we were going to move here in September. We thought we were going to Jaffa, because that's where the most drug addicts were. And there were Jews and Arabs, and we wanted to reach Jews and Arabs. So we get an email from America, probably didn't have email then, we got a letter. And Karen reads it to me over the phone. Somebody was offering us an apartment in Jerusalem. We're thinking, no, no, we're going to Jaffa. But this was a deal we couldn't pass up. The apartment offered to us for a whole year. So I prayed about it, and they wanted us to come in August, and we didn't think we were going until September. I prayed about it. You know what the Lord said? Fill your horn with oil and go. I called her back, I called her back and said, we need to go. He said, fill your horn, let's pack up, let's get out of here. And when we got there, there was a guy trying to find us when I'd been out here spying out the land. I had never met him, but we'd written back and forth. He met me and my wife at the airport. He's sitting right in front of me now. His name is Gidon Shmuel. This was his girlfriend in those days. That was a long time ago. Hallelujah. And he drove us to Jerusalem and carried my suitcases up to the fifth floor of the apartment. The Holy Spirit said, go, nothing doubting. You've got to walk in the anointing and the oil of the Holy Spirit. Now, we read why God poured out the oil from the rock on Job. That was the price Job paid, to walk a blameless life. In those days, a blameless life. What was God's testimony of David? Let's turn to Acts chapter 13. Acts 13, verse 22. This is the price of oil that David paid. Verse 22. He raised up for them David as king, to whom also he gave testimony and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will. I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will. Who is testifying here? When you read the Bible, make sure you know who is speaking. Who gave this testimony of David? This is God's testimony of David. I have found my servant David. God's testimony of David. Was that he was a man whose heart beat with God's. And that he would do all the will of God. This was a man with such a massive anointing. The price of oil. The price of the anointing. Means you say to the Lord, here I am. I'll do all your will. You tell me your will, and I'll do it. The greatest price for oil, of course, was paid by the Messiah. He was in Gethsemane. It means Gethsemane, it means the oil press. Which is being pressed out by the powers of darkness. His manhood was wrestling. Can I really go to the cross and die for the sins of the world? As his men slept and as he wept. And his great drops of blood came out of him as he was prostrated in the garden. He chose to pay the ultimate price that you and I might have oil. In the oil press. He was bruised for our iniquities. He was crushed. He was crushed for our sins. The Messiah was crushed so that you and I could have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The Messiah was crushed so that we could have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It cost him his life. It's the ultimate price for oil. It's the most perfect price for us to have the Holy Spirit. He paid his price. The question is, will we pay our price? Will we have a holy life before him? Let's turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. 1 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 4. Who was this rock that Moses knew? 1 Corinthians chapter 4, chapter 10, verse 4. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Messiah. If you want to have rivers of oil flowing into your personality and your life, the rock was following them. Yeshua was following them. But we now know him, and we need to run to him and say, thank you for the price you paid so we could have the oil of the Holy Spirit. And those are the people that will know rivers of oil of the Spirit. Let's look at 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 17. He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. This is the key. Are you joined to the Lord? He's the vine. We're the branches. Are you going deeper into his life so that his life can flow through this branch? And out of that branch will come fruit, love, joy, peace, kindness. We need to be joined to the Lord. Are you really joined to him? This is the key. If you don't know him that way, you won't have the rivers of oil that you have now. Look at verse 19. Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. I was bought. I was in prison. I was in shackles. I was in chains. I was in darkness. And so were all of you. But one day he came. He chose you. He found you. He said, I've come to break your chains. I've come to set you free. I've come to translate you from the power of darkness into the kingdom of the light of my son. The chains fell off. I walked out of the prison house. He had paid the ransom for my life. The ransom was his life. He purchased me with his own blood. He paid the supreme price that I might be anointed of the Holy Spirit. It cost him everything. You are a temple of the Holy Spirit. If you know the Lord, if you know him, and you're walking with him, you are a temple of the Holy Spirit. This young man is a temple of the Holy Spirit. You are a temple of the Holy Spirit. But the Lord wants to pour so much more anointing oil on you. But you need to pay the price. Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and spirit. That's all it is. Love him the way David loved him. He's paid the price. We can all be anointed like David was. Will we pay the price? Will we pay the price for oil? I will. I'm getting old. I want more. I want to walk in that prophecy to Asher. I don't want to get feeble in the spirit. I don't want the anointing to grow and grow and grow and grow. We need to have want to have more and more and more and more of the Holy Spirit. The book of Acts having just been filled, having just been, they were getting filled all the time. So the persecuted church in China reads that and says, we got to do that, and they do it. Hallelujah. You need to be willing to pay the price to have more of the oil of the Holy Spirit. Praise the Lord. This gospel that Yeshua came, he took on flesh. He paid the price of his life. He was raised from the dead. He told them to wait in Jerusalem. And the promise of the Father would come. It was like a mighty rushing wind. The Holy Spirit fell on all of them. They were transformed. They stood up and started preaching the gospel, and 3,000 Jews came to the Lord. Hallelujah. It was all the Holy Spirit. It was the rivers of the Holy Spirit. And it wasn't just on Peter. It was on all of them. The deacons, they were all running everywhere, preaching, people getting saved everywhere, because it was the anointing of the Holy Spirit. This is what Israel needs. This is what Mexico needs. Hallelujah. I love Monterey, by the way. This is what Germany needs, or wherever you're from. Australia, you're from all over the place. This is what the Arabs need. This is what the Jews need. This is what Russia needs. We need a move of the Holy Spirit that willed the body of Messiah. Will you pay the price? It costs everything. You need to lay down everything that's any kind of shadow between you and the rock. Now listen to me. If the Holy Spirit's been speaking to you, you need to respond. You need to get out of your seat and come down here and say, Lord, I will pay the price. I will lay my life down for you, because I know you bought me with a price. And you will come here and thank him and say, Lord, I want rivers of oil. Let's stand. Amen.