What Does “Touch Not My Anointed” Really Mean?
“Touch not my anointed (Psalm 105:15)” is used by many men and women of God to threaten people into submission or any time they are questioned for false doctrine or spiritual abuses. These words were spoken by God to foreign kings regarding all the children of Israel, his chosen. Under the new covenant, all of us are ANOINTED (1 John 2:27). Jesus did not die to anoint some specific people and place them above others and above correction. All of us who are believers are chosen by the Lord. One’s position in church does not make them superior to others.
A position is about function and not superiority. Jesus said to his Apostles that they must not lord it over others but be servants.
Questioning or pointing out truth is not “touching the anointed.” Submission to any authority is applicable only if that authority is obeying God. We are not to submit to sin and false doctrine because then we are sinning against the Lord. Our ultimate authority is God’s word and the Lord himself, who is our HEAD. When God’s word is violated, we are not to submit to this. We must honor all authority but only IN THE LORD.
And in the gospel, we are all the redeemed; none is superior to the other. Again, one’s position is a function, not superiority. Submission must be in God’s ordained order, always in love, in the Lord, and all of us are to submit to one another in love, with Jesus as our head and master.
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