Wednesday

Related Verses
1 John 2:20, 27
20 And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know.
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.

Matt. 25:2
2 And five of them were foolish and five were prudent.

Gen. 6:15 (note 2)
15 And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

1 Pet. 1:2
2 Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

1 Cor. 6:11
11 And these things were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

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.

John 20:22
22 And when He had said this, He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

Related Reading
As God’s anointed One, Christ passed through birth, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension…We have seen that the spirit of a substance is the extract of that substance. Applying this principle to the Spirit of Christ, we may say that the extracts of Christ’s birth, living, death, resurrection, and ascension are now all elements of the Spirit of Christ. Therefore, in this one Spirit we have the effectiveness of Christ’s birth, living, death, resurrection, and ascension.

When we walk according to spirit, we have Christ’s incarnation and His human living. We do not have merely an imitation of the way Christ lived. Furthermore, we also have His death, resurrection, and ascension. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 1705-1706)

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To receive the anointing is to receive the divine painting…In our experience of the Spirit, we need to be “painted” again and again. Eventually, we may receive hundreds of layers.

Today God mainly teaches us silently by the anointing. For example, you may ask the Lord about something, and He will teach you concerning it by anointing you.

According to 1 John 2, the anointing within us teaches us in everything. Many times we know that we are wrong. No one needs to tell us this. But the moving of the anointing within us teaches us that we are wrong. I believe that we all have had some amount of experience of this teaching of the anointing.

The five hundred shekels of myrrh signify one unit of full responsibility. The number five in the Bible symbolizes responsibility. We may use the human hand as an illustration. On our hand we have four fingers and a thumb. Because of this, the hand can do many things and bear responsibility.

The number four signifies the creature, and the number one signifies God. Therefore, the number five signifies God added to man to give us the ability to bear responsibility.

In the Bible there are clear illustrations of the fact that five is the number of responsibility. The Ten Commandments were written on two tablets, five on each tablet. Also, the ten virgins in Matthew 25 are divided into two groups, five in each. In the cases both of the commandments and of the virgins, the number five signifies responsibility. The five hundred shekels of myrrh is composed of one hundred times five, signifying one unit of full responsibility.

According to Exodus 30:23, the measurement of the cinnamon was “half as much, two hundred fifty shekels, and of fragrant calamus two hundred fifty shekels.” Two hundred fifty shekels signify a half unit of full responsibility. The two hundred fifty shekels of cinnamon and the two hundred fifty shekels of calamus together form one unit and signify that the second of the Divine Trinity was split through death. It is no accident that with the spices there are three complete units and that the middle unit is divided in half. This was written by God with the view of signifying how the Son of God would be cut on the cross.

Verse 24 says, “And of cassia five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.” The five hundred shekels of cassia also signify one unit of full responsibility.

The three units of five hundred shekels each, in four spices, signify the Triune God in resurrection mingled with humanity to bear the full responsibility. I can testify that in the ministry of the Word the Triune God in resurrection mingles Himself with the speaker to bear the responsibility to minister the Word to His people. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 1692-1693)

Further Reading: Life-study of Exodus, msg. 159