Corporate Anointing by Kelley Varner

Author:Kelley Varner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Anointing of the Holy Spirit, Anointing, Spirituality, Christian Life, General, Religion, Christian Theology, Soteriology
ISBN: 9780768420111
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 1998-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Four Deadly Sins That Threaten the Corporate Anointing

"But with many of them God was not well pleased...."

1 Corinthians 10:5

Over three million people came out of Egypt under Moses, but only three entered the Promised Land, and one of them was dead (Joshua, Caleb, and the bones of Joseph).1 What happened to the rest of the people?

The answer is vitally important to the Church, the Body of Christ. As God's corporate anointing manifested in the earth, we need to discover why nearly three million people in a "called out nation" died in the wilderness after coming to the very edge of their destiny. I can tell you this much: The problem was that they never made it through the sifting that was meant to separate them from their deadly sins.

1 Cor. 10:5-10, KJV

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them;

as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

The Church in the Wilderness Was Sifted in Four Specific Areas

1. Murmuring (Num. 11:1-3).

2. Carnality (Num. 11:4-6).

3. Rebellion (Num. 12; 16-17).

4. Unbelief (Num. 13-14).

The Deadly Sin of Murmuring

Num. 11:1-3, KJV

And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and His anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.

The first thing Jehovah began to sift was murmuring and complaining. The Greek word for "murmur" in First

Corinthians 10:10 is gogguzo and means "to grumble." It also means "to mutter, to say anything in a low tone."2

The Hebrew word for "complained" in Numbers 11:1 means "to mourn."3 The primary Hebrew word for "murmur" is luwn, and it means "to stop (usually over night); to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain)."4 (It is translated as "murmur(-ed)" in the King James Version in exactly 13 different verses throughout the Pentateuch—13 is the Bible number denoting rebellion).5 When we murmur, the Lord always hears it, and His only recourse is to burn it with fire.6

Men murmur because they live on the "uttermost parts"—the edges, borders, or extremities of the camp—far from the presence of God. Get off the back pew and move closer into the courts of the Lord. The tribe of Judah, which means "praise," camped on the east side right by the door.

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