Thursday

Related Verses
Exo. 30:26-30 (26, 30)
26 And with it you shall anoint the Tent of Meeting and the Ark of the Testimony,
27 And the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
28 And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.
29 Thus you shall sanctify them that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.
30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them that they may serve Me as priests.

Rom. 15:16
16 That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

2 Cor. 1:21
21 But the One who firmly attaches us with you unto Christ and has anointed us is God,

1 Cor. 6:17
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Col. 2:19
19 And not holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

1 Pet. 2:5
5 You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Related Reading
The compound ointment in Exodus 30 was used to anoint the tabernacle, all the utensils of the tabernacle, and the serving priests to make all these things holy, separated, sanctified, unto God for God’s divine purpose (vv. 26-30)…The compound Spirit typified by the compound ointment is for the anointing of the things related to the worship and service of God and His serving ones (1 John 2:20, 27). When we are under the anointing of the Spirit, we can fulfill our duty to bear responsibility for the Lord’s interest.

We have to walk, act, work, and have our being according to this anointing. This anointing is the working and the moving of the Spirit. Thus, Romans 8:4 says that we should walk according to the spirit. Then in Galatians 5 we are told to live and walk by the Spirit (vv. 16, 25). (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” p. 430)

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The New Testament reveals clearly and emphasizes very strongly that such a consummated Spirit is right in our spirit. Romans 8:16 says that the Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God. Second Timothy 4:22 reveals that the Lord as the Spirit is with our spirit. If we are going to live the Christian life, we must return to our spirit and remain there. It is by this compound Spirit that the death of Christ is applied to us.

It is…by this Spirit that the resurrection of Christ is applied to us. The more we walk, live, move, act, and speak according to the spirit, the more we are in the Christian life.

Day after day and moment after moment this ointment is working, moving, acting, and speaking within us. This moving of the ointment, this anointing, teaches us concerning all things. The anointing is the working, moving, acting, and speaking of the ointment, and the ointment is the consummation of our Triune God. We can see now that this type of the compound ointment in Exodus 30 is marvelous.

The Christian life is the acting, moving, working, and speaking of the consummated God who is typified by the compound ointment. In this life both God and man are applied to us. We are a poor man, a low man, but we have an uplifted man, a man of the divine standard, in this anointing. In this anointing we also have Christ’s death and His death’s effectiveness, which is so sweet. We have been forgiven, justified, and reconciled to God through His death so that we could be regenerated to be sons of God. How sweet is the effectiveness of His death as typified by the cinnamon!

Then in this anointing we have Christ’s resurrection applied to us. Christ’s resurrection is so powerful, especially in the sense of resisting and repelling the enemy and all the negative things. This is typified by cassia, which was used in ancient times to repel insects and snakes. Christ’s resurrection resists all the opposition and attacks from the enemy, and it repels all the evil “insects” and “snakes.” Christ’s resurrection is repelling all the demons, evil spirits, and especially their leading one, the snake, the old serpent, the devil.

The Christian life is not the living out of our natural human virtues. These good things, along with the evil things, belong to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Only the Christian life that is revealed in the Scriptures as the moving and working of the indwelling compound Spirit belongs to the tree of life. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” pp. 430-432)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” ch. 8