You have an anointing of the Holy Spirit

by | Posted April 26th at 11:58pm

‘But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know’ (1 John 2:20) 

You have received the anointing from the Holy One.

Yahweh is the name of God as revealed to Moses as he was commanded by God to free the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. He also referred to himself as “I am” – “tell them ‘I am’ sent you”(Exodus 6:2 HCSB; 3:14 NLT). Jesus said, “before Abraham was, ‘I am’” (John 8:58). The apostle Paul referred to Jesus as the “rock that followed” or was with the Jews in the wilderness during the miraculous deliverance in the Exodus (1 Corinthians 10:4).  From the Exodus story, it is also evident that Yahweh is the one who gave the anointing though it was symbolically noted as a ritual process. The priests of the old covenant in Moses’ day were anointed when setting them apart for the service in the tabernacle. The oil used then was a metaphor for the anointing of the Holy Spirit, of the Trinitarian God, Yahweh: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Jesus told the parable of the ten virgins, five of whom were wise, having their lamps full of oil, ready and burning, waiting for the groom’s late arrival (Matthew 25:1-13). Only five were prepared to meet the bridegroom, the new covenant’s metaphoric term for Jesus Christ, who will return to earth to receive his bride, his church, sealed individually by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30, 1:13; 2 Corinthians 1:22), symbolic of a mindset born anew of the Spirit, to align entirely sworn allegiant to God. This carries from symbolism of the anointing oil of the ancient tabernacle priesthood to the day of Jesus, to the true antitypical meaning: the anointing of the Holy Spirit given to each brother and sister in Christ.

Holiness does not consist of specific righteous actions, though it may motivate ethical behaviour and good deeds. No, holiness is the unseen, yet the manifest presence of the Holy One resting on His anointed ones. Only gifted from God — issuing directly from Yahweh, the Holy One — is the anointing of the Holy Spirit received. ¹ It is evidence of being born again into an abiding fellowship with Christ, resting unified to Christ, abiding in Him: with Yahweh, the Holy One — the Father and the Son and the conjoining Holy Spirit — as the Three-in-One God — now one with each Christian together in God’s family as One. (1 John 2:23-25; John 10:30; John 17:21)

And who receives it? Only the man or woman who has given himself entirely in mind, body and soul to be holy as God is holy. Only he who is wholly consecrated to the service of the Holy One, to the work of the ministering to sinners seeking their God, sharing the Gospel truth, offering reconciliation with God. Holiness is the energy that only lives as holy among those dedicated to Christ via holy living. (Leviticus 11:44-45, 20:26,1 Peter 1:16)

In the time of Moses, the anointing of the Holy One was for the priest, the servant of God Most High. It was given to conjoin in the intensity of a soul entirely committed, given up to God’s glory, God’s kingdom, God’s work, where that holiness becomes an existential reality. The anointing of the Spirit was given from the Father via Christ who breathed the Spirit on the apostles before His ascension to heaven: “he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit” (John 20:22).

Each member of the church is called to holy living, to work to guide others into God’s kingdom, and as such, are a royal priesthood. Christians are the antitypical reality of the anointing preparation of the old covenant priests referred to in the wilderness tabernacle. These men were the symbolic representatives as a type of today’s ministers of reconciliation to the Lord. Today, abiding in Christ we are the new priesthood, each one.

“You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know” (1 John 2:20) Yes, Oh Lord we know this truth, our calling and election is certain, we are your royal priests, we are set apart as your holy kingdom, your church, your reconciling connection to your redemptive calling others as your children. You are the Holy One, and we are your very own possession, your children. We are grateful to your Son’s redemptive calling to Himself via the Holy Spirit working among your minsiters; and concomitantly to you Father, as we abide in your anointing of the Holy Spirit, to join our souls supernaturally to you as One.

“You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light”. (1 Peter 2:9 NLT)

¹ _{The Greek word for anointing would be rendered in Acts 10:38: ‘Jesus of Nazareth, whom God christed with the Holy Ghost and with power.’ In the Hebrew prophecy of Christ in Psalm 45: ‘God has messiahed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows’. Andrew Murray, Holy in Christ}

Article posted by Glen R. Jackman, founder of GraceProclaimed.org

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