Tuesday

Related Verses
1 John 2:27
27 And as for you, the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you; but as His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.

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

Rom. 8:4-6
4 That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.
5 For those who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

2 Cor. 2:12-13
12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door was open to me in the Lord,
13 I had no rest in my spirit, for I did not find Titus my brother; but taking leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.

Related Reading
[The] all-inclusive life-giving Spirit from the Holy One entered into us at the time of our regeneration and abides in us forever (1 John 2:27); by Him the young children know the Father (v. 13) and know the truth (v. 21). As we abide in Christ, we enjoy the divine anointing, which is a wonderful person, the Spirit, moving and working in us. As this anointing abides in us and teaches us, we abide in Him.

The anointing is the moving and working of the indwelling compound Spirit to apply all the ingredients of the processed Triune God and His activities into our inner being so that we may be fully mingled with Him for His corporate expression (vv. 20, 27; cf. Eph. 4:4-6). Moreover, the anointing, as the moving and working of the compound Spirit within us, anoints God into us so that we may be saturated with God, possess God, and understand the mind of God. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3991)

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The Greek word for Christ is Christos, which means the “anointed One,” and the Greek word for anointing is chrisma. Both words are derived from the same root…Christ as the anointed One becomes the anointing. Because He is the anointed One, He has an abundance of ointment with which to anoint us. Eventually, the anointed One becomes the anointing One. In fact, He even becomes the anointing.

Christ has been anointed with the divine ointment, and the ointment that is upon Him now flows to us. This is pictured in Psalm 133, which says that the anointing oil runs down, or flows, from the head of Aaron to his beard and even to the hem of his priestly garments…Christ has received the ointment, and eventually He, the anointed One, became the anointing One…Actually, the anointing that dwells in us is the anointed One becoming the anointing One and also the anointing.

God’s intention is to work Himself into us as our life and our everything to make us His counterpart for the expression of Himself. In order to accomplish this, it was necessary for God in Christ to pass through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection…As soon as we believed in Him, He as the Spirit entered our spirit. Now He is within our spirit to anoint us with the element of the Triune God. The more we are anointed with the Triune God, the more the element of the Triune God is transfused into our being. Through this anointing, the fibers of our being will be saturated with all that the processed Triune God is.

The teaching of the anointing is not an outward teaching by words but an inward teaching by the anointing through our inner spiritual consciousness. This teaching by the anointing adds the divine elements of the Trinity, which are the elements of the anointing compound Spirit, into our inner being…It is in this way that the Triune God is transfused, infused, and added into all the inward parts of our being that our inner man may grow in the divine life with the divine elements.

This anointing is constantly moving and working within us. The purpose of this moving is to add the element of God into us. We understand God’s will and God’s leading not by an explicit word in letters but through the inward anointing. Today the inward moving and anointing of the Holy Spirit causes us to have more of the element of God. When God’s element increases, we understand more of what God wants, and we are clearer about God’s leading. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3991-3993)

Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 394