Isaiah 10:27

THE YOKE-DESTROYING ANOINTING

‘The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.’

Isaiah 10:27

I. The Assyrian yoke of old was not so real, so tangible, so continually felt a yoke, as that under which many a child of God is writhing; yet they are ‘called unto liberty,’ even ‘the glorious liberty of the children of God.’ And if the yoke of sin is felt to be real, the promised destruction of it surely will not be less so. If it is, as we know by sorrowful experience, no imaginary bondage, neither shall the deliverance be imaginary.

II. You feel the yoke, but how shall it be destroyed?—(1) Because of the grand anointing of our Lord Jesus Christ by God Himself ‘with the Holy Ghost and with power,’ to proclaim liberty to the captives; the grace and might of the Triune Jehovah thus combining in the proclamation of the liberty which Jesus purchased by taking upon Him the form of a slave and becoming obedient to death.

(2) ‘Because of the anointing’ which we ‘have received of Him,’ because the precious ointment upon our High Priest’s head goes down to the skirts of His garments, shared by His least and lowest members.

Perhaps we stop here and say, ‘But I cannot realise that I have received it, because my yoke is heavy upon me.’ Then see how you shall receive it; there is only one way—not by fresh revelation or special voice from heaven, but simply by faith—‘that ye might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.’ Give glory to God, and be fully persuaded that what He has promised He is able also to perform; and His ‘free Spirit’ will be faithful to His promise, and the yoke, even your yoke, ‘shall be destroyed because of the anointing.’

(1) The yoke of spiritual death is destroyed by faith in the atoning sacrifice.

(2) The yoke of spiritual weakness is destroyed by the anointing of the Spirit’s power.