Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness,
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed Thee
with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.ps45v7
We know that the anointing recieved by our Lord Jesus Christ was the resting of The Holy Spirit upon Him without measure. We are not left to any guesswork about this, for in Isaiah 61 we are told, "The Spirit of The Lord God is upon Me, because The Lord hath anointed Me." Our Lord appropriated these very words to Himself when He went into the synagogue at Nazereth and opened the book at the place wherein these words are written, and said ," this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." The apostle Peter also, in act.10:38. speaks of " how God anointed Jesus of Nazereth withThe Holy Ghost and with power," so we know both on old testament and new testament authority that the anointing that rested upon The Lord Jesus Christ was the unction of The Holy Spirit. Therefore, by the "oil of gladness " which we have before us in the text is intended The Holy Spirit Himself, or one of the gracious results of His sacred presence. The divine Spirit has many attributes, and His benign influences operates in divers ways bestowing upon us benefits of various kinds, too numerous for us to attempt to catalogue them. Amongst these is His comforting and cheering influence, " the fruit of The Spirit is joy." In acts13:52 we read, " the disciples were filled with joy and with The Holy Ghost." Wherever He comes as an anointing, whether upon The Lord or upon His people, upon The Christ or the christians, upon the anointed or upon those whom He anoints, in every case the ultimate result is joy and peace. On the head of our great High Priest He is joy, and this oil of gladness flows down to the skirts of His garments. To the Comforter therefore, we ascribe " the oil of gladness."
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