Pt. 1 - THE CHRIST - THE ANOINTED

We are considering the reality that The Truth, into which all things must be brought for their comprehension, for their substance IS CHRIST. And that The Truth which Christ is, is made manifest by The Cross. And Truth must be made manifest: the very term "Truth" has connected with it the action of manifestation. The Truth makes manifest, The Truth reveals. So when you deal with the term "Truth" in the scriptures, then you are saying where is it that all things come to have substance, come to have purpose? Well it’s IN CHRIST! Yes, but Christ in what way? CHRIST CRUCIFIED: Christ in His death, His burial and His resurrection. The Truth is the substance of things. And why is this even important? Just reading New Testament scripture with regard to The Truth will tell you that. "You shall know The Truth, and The Truth shall make you free." And The Truth is not among several things that will do that: it’s the ONLY thing that will do that."That we may speak The Truth one to another in love..." "...grow up into Him , Who is The Truth, in all things... not being blown about by every wind of doctrine."

It is tremendously important that we come to The Truth in our hearts, because until we do, we just do not apprehend, we do not lay hold upon the substance of all things. We may have those in their individual form. We are notorious in Spirit-filled circles, Pentecostal circles for trying to find substance in the promises; but we look into the promises themselves, or into a promise itself for its substance. And we never come to the SUBSTANCE of the promise. And I must tell you that the promises of God - and I’m talking about every single one of them that was ever made, ever written, ever recorded, ever given: the promises of God were given to Israel. Now the substance of Israel is Christ, but the promises were given to Israel. Israel had the promises. What good did the promises do Israel without the substance? I hear Christians singing "Every promise in the book is mine," and they are just so thrilled and happy about that! But until you come to the SUBSTANCE - what good is the promise? Promises were given in view of substance. Where are the promises - all of them - yea and Amen? That doesn’t mean just confirmed; that means fulfilled. IN CHRIST!! In Christ in what way? In Christ through His death, through His burial, through His resurrection, through The Work of The Cross. This is just a fact, and that fact will stand in The Truth.

It is a fact that every promise comes to its substance in Christ crucified - His death, burial, resurrection. That’s where substance was made manifest. That’s where The Mystery of God that was hidden is seen. Where was it hidden? In the Old Covenant, in the promises themselves; it was hidden in the prophets, hidden in the types and the shadows. It was made manifest in Christ Crucified. "The mystery of His will... HATH made known unto us..." "....HATH made manifest unto His saints..." This that was a mystery is a mystery no longer, in that it was REVEALED IN CHRIST, and made manifest in CHRIST CRUCIFIED. So it is there that The Truth is seen, is made known - in The Cross.

Now I want to deal with a particular aspect in the light of The Truth. We will look at Matthew 16, and the story begins in verse 13. In my study on "The Truth" The Lord has presented many things to me; things that have come to find their substance in The Truth. And The Lord has dealt with me concerning the term "Christ". How many of us have any understanding of that term at all? I can tell you that there are multitudes that do not! Of all the terms that seem to be misused, misapplied, of all the Spiritual terms, the term "Christ" and most particularly "THE Christ" - the use of the article before the noun; is one of the most misunderstood, misappropriated spiritual terms in The Bible. The Lord began to challenge my heart on understanding "Christ" in The Truth that He is. See, we must bring all things to be understood in The Truth: The Truth being Christ, but CHRIST CRUCIFIED.

So The Cross is not two sticks of wood, or an historical event, but it is indicative of an Eternal Work completed by The Father in His Son, through His death, His burial, His resurrection - that is The Cross, that is Christ Crucified. It is there that The Truth - into which all things must come for their substance is made manifest. When God reveals His Son in you, that’s the way He reveals Him in you. How do I know that? I know that by experience, and I know that by Divine Order. And when you want to look for Divine Order you look to The Old Covenant. When you look for Divine Fulfillment you go to The New Covenant in Christ Jesus. Divine Order. A Study of The Tabernacle will tell you that, and then Paul tells you that. In Galatians Paul bases his whole letter upon one thing: God revealed His Son in me. That is the statement upon which he bases all of his letter. "God revealed His Son in me, that I might preach Him..."

So, having said that, where did Paul go with that? " I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Yes, The Son that The Father reveals in you is Christ crucified. He reveals Him in the fulness of His death, burial and His resurrection. The Son that The Father revealed to John in Revelation was the same Son who stands and says, "I am He that liveth..." meaning no one, nothing lives but by Me! "I am He that liveth." He didn’t say I am one among many who are alive, nor does the text read that way, or can you make it say that. No, when these things are said they are exclusive, they are exclusively said of Him. "I AM HE that liveth..." That means I AM LIFE! There’s no life other than Me. There is no one living other than Me! Are you living? You are living by Me! Are you not living by Me? You are dead! "I am He that liveth, I WAS DEAD. Now I am alive forever more."

I’m telling you, wherever He’s revealed, He’s revealed in The Cross, in association with The Cross, with His death, burial and resurrection. He’ll be revealed that way in you because that is The Truth in substance. We must get a hold on that, because that’s important. That’s The Truth that Paul knew. Peter, James, John - the others that walked with Jesus in the flesh (and He came in the flesh for a particular reason); they envisioned Him that way still. They had a very hard time with The Truth. They had a hard time realizing, accepting The Spirit of Truth in the realization of The Indwelling Christ. They had a hard time with that, and they had a hard time with Paul because of that in the early stages. Because Paul did not walk with Him that way, he never, ever saw Him in that form. Paul knew Him ONLY by The Spirit, he knew Him only in Truth and as The Truth. He understood Him to be that same Jesus; he knew Him only by The Spirit, and had never known Him in the flesh at all. And I have to understand that was at least one of the reasons he did not have some of the stumbling blocks that even Peter did have, though the words and teachings of Jesus to His disciples were consistently getting them ready for His departure and return. But dispensationalists today have gotten hold of that and want to make some future thing out of it. And that is insanity, because The Lord was preparing His own for His own indwelling. That’s the only reason He made statements with regard to "I’m going away and coming again."

He wasn’t talking about some thing that lasted over the span of 2,000 years! What kind of a completed Salvation is that? What kind of a completed reality is that? Where are you during that time? Where have saints of God for 2,000 years been during that time? They’ve been WITHOUT SUBSTANCE if that is true; they’ve had no more hope than Old Covenant Israel, no more fulfillment to promises than Old Covenant Israel - IF that is indeed true. Sure - looked at in the light of Truth, those kind of things don’t even make sense! Paul saw Him as He is, and he began to present Him that way, and preach Him that way. To the point that it wasn’t just rejected as heresy by the Apostles and disciples who walked with Him, but it was a very difficult transition for them to make. And yet by The Spirit, you’ll notice in their epistles they made that transition. You’ll notice that in Peter, in James, in John - they made that transition. John said, "That which was from the beginning, which we have handled, which we did see... but now, that Eternal Word of Life IS IN US!" He came to that, he understood that.

So now in Matthew 16:13, and Jesus here is asking, "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some Elias; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets." Now they were willing to accept so many things that would have had to have been absolutely miraculous, but were not willing to accept HIM IN THE TRUTH. They were rather willing to accept that John, whose head was cut off - they knew that! - had come back again. Jeremiah - whose end was sure and certain and horrible - was back again! Jesus told them that. He said if I come in anybody’s name but mine, you’d receive Me. But I come and tell you that My Father and I are One, and you call Me a devil. If He had walked around and said ‘I am Jeremiah’, they would have built a tabernacle for Him!

Verse 15, "He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee... what does that mean? It means Me, here in my form, dwelling in the flesh and blood, looking at Me has not convinced you of that or taught you that. He means you didn’t know that by looking at Me through your natural senses and in My natural form. My Father has revealed it to you. But then He really says something: He says upon this very understanding of ME - the understanding of Me that can only be given of The Father... Now think a minute: if this is the understanding given of His Father, and that only The Father can give this understanding of Him; then when The Father reveals His Son in you, what Son is it that He reveals in you? In what way? In what understanding? In THIS understanding - He doesn’t reveal another Son. Jesus says THIS is the understanding. "And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." THIS is the foundation upon which I will bring My Church, which is My Body, to its absolute fulness, to its absolute completion. That is what the word "build" means there in verse 18. It has nothing to do with "construct".

I began to look at that and I began to realize what was being said. The Lord was saying, this statement, this understanding - upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. What will keep the gates of hell from prevailing against it? Because of this understanding; because of the foundation upon which it is built. And The Lord began to challenge me with regard to the term "The Christ", because this is the whole thing: God revealing His Son - He, THE CHRIST. And there is much more contained in that term "The Christ" than most of us understand to be contained there. Now, He is not telling Peter this is ONE OF the things upon which He will build His Church; He is not telling Peter this is ONE OF the understandings given of God concerning Him. He is telling Peter that in that statement is contained THE understanding of Him that God gives; that it’s contained in that statement. And that the understanding of Him, given of God that is contained in that statement is the very rock, the very foundation, the very understanding upon which He will bring His Church to its completion in such a way that even the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So there’s more there obviously than just the term ‘Oh, He’s The Christ". But what does that mean? And The Lord said, you must see "Christ" - the term "The Christ" in light of The Truth. You must comprehend that term, "The Christ". He is The Son of God, He is The Son of God from the beginning. He is The Word with God from the beginning - Eternal from the beginning.

But He becomes THE CHRIST, and forever more then is called "Christ, The Son of God", "Jesus Christ The Lord." And you and I are said to be IN CHRIST. What is the meaning of "Christ"? What is the substance? What is being said when we call Him "Christ"? I don’t think most believers know. Well, let’s look at it. Let’s look at it in the light of The Truth, in the light of The Person Who fulfills that term. How is it that He fulfills that term? How is it that The Son of God is The Christ? How is that? That’s what we want to see. Now, the only way to understand Christ is to understand Him in relation to The Cross - hence, the term, "CHRIST CRUCIFIED."

See, I never could understand that. I never could understand the term , "Christ crucified". It seemed like the two terms were incompatible one with the other: crucified and Christ. That was because I didn’t understand the term "Christ". I understand now you can not separate the two: one from the other, because the one defines the other. In your Bible it’s that way: CHRIST CRUCIFIED. "I preach nothing among you save Jesus Christ crucified." Not even that He was crucified. No - Christ crucified. The only way to understand Christ is to understand Him in relation to The Cross. His Cross, that is His death, His burial, His resurrection: to understand HIM IN His death, to understand HIM IN His burial, understand HIM IN His resurrection. It is here we shall see THE CHRIST. We shall see Him in His office - THE CHRIST, The Son of God in His Person, in His Work, and in His Anointing. And so it is The Anointing that we shall be considering, because "The Christ" in the Greek means "THE ANOINTED". With the article "the", the title specifies The Person of The Lord Jesus - THE Christ specifically is The Person Himself. HE is THE Anointed, THE Christ. The term without the article "the" stresses His character and His relationship with believers; such as "not I, but Christ liveth in me." The article is not there: it’s not "the" Christ, because THE Christ relates to His Person, His Work and His Anointing.

"Thou art THE CHRIST, the Son of The living God!" In this term, "The Christ" we will see literally and virtually the whole of The Old Covenant comes to substance. We will see this by the word "the anointing." We’re going to actually look at three words : anointing, anointed and anoint. Those are the three words used in The Old Covenant that are fulfilled in the term "The Christ", and they are not fulfilled anywhere else. It is impossible that they are because HE is The Christ, The Anointed; and that implies HIS PERSON. It implies His Person, His Work and His Anointing. Bible scholars say that the article "the" specifies The Person of The Lord Jesus; but it’s The Person in His Work and in His Anointing, because otherwise if it was just talking about a Person - "The Son of God" gets it said. But it is The Son of God - The Person, as to His Work and as to His Anointing - The Christ.

Now again, without the article it is inclusive of you and I, and we’re included in Him under the term, and reality of the title "Christ". In Christ - In Christ - In Christ. How many hundreds of times is that written? In Christ. Stressing what? The Person? No, no; stressing the relationship of The Person with believers. The article "the" is not there. So now it’s a RELATIONSHIP: you and I are IN CHRIST. Christ is IN YOU. I’m not telling you these are two different words; they are used, the one emphasizing The Person, His Work and Anointing, and the other emphasizing the resulting relationship with a believer. And that’s exactly the way it is in the scriptures, and it’s never any other way.

Now when we think "The Christ" we are thinking "The Anointed". And we’re going to follow this anointing to its end and we’re going to see why, we’re going to see The Anointing, The Christ, The Anointing in The Truth. Let me just say this now: how many things have we called "anointing" and "anointed"? How many? Oh God, we want to go out and pour oil on everything down the road! We do, we want to anoint the shout, we want to anoint the dance, we want to anoint the sermon. I used to believe that! I’ve been preaching a long time, and I remember when I used to believe the anointing was that feeling I got that changed the pitch of my voice. And instead of standing behind a pulpit I was very likely to stand on top of it! One of my favorite "tricks" was to walk down the back of the pews! And I’d say that I could do that because of the anointing. Well, when you get all excited you can do a lot of things. I thought that was the anointing. Now with me it wasn’t all skullduggery; I’ve never been out to dupe anybody. I was duped and ignorant, but I was just as sincere as sincerity can be. I would stay in the prayer room on the side of the altar, and if you didn’t have a prayer room I would stay in a car.... until "the anointing" got there!

And you could sing...sing if you had to sing for three hours, but I wasn’t coming out UNTIL the anointing was there. I believed that, because I believed I could do nothing without the anointing. I had NO IDEA what the anointing was, however. I associated it with a feeling that I got. I associated it with things that I have realized were soulish - not devilish; I said they were soulish. Do you understand the difference between something being the devil and the soul? It was soulish; it was very, very real and very, very soulish and very, very NOT spirit. But I associated that with it. And I hear preachers now do that. There are preachers today of facts, and that’s why you can hear them and say - that sounds good! Well, it sounds factual, but is it ever brought to substance? Maybe not - and most times, unfortunately not. There are "Word" ministries... Oh Lord! People would rather hear you preach things AS the substance rather than bring all things TO the substance. They want to find the substance in things. They want to find the substance in healing. It’s a true thing! They want to find the substance in prosperity - whether the prosperity is money, or health or whatever. And prosperity is a good thing, it’s a true thing. But if you don’t bring it to its substance then you’re going to end up serving that thing. That thing is going to end up controlling you and it will cease then to be a good thing, and it would become with you a god and an idol - even prosperity.

That happens if you don’t bring it to substance. You and I need to see the tremendous tragedy of not bringing all things to The Truth. It means that if we do not, we are not walking in The Truth. We are trying to assemble and associate true things with the other, and you can’t do it, because they’ve tried this. People say, ‘God is a good God, and wants you to be healthy, wealthy and wise’. Those are things, and then on the other side someone says, ‘Yes, but God is a God of judgment, God corrects.’ And immediately you have these two camps because they can not justify or associate God being a good God with God bringing about judgment and correction. And this is because none of them have brought their things about God into The Truth, and understood prosperity as to its substance, healing as to its substance, and even judgment as to its substance, righteousness as to its substance. The substance of all of those things is one - CHRIST! Those things find an agreement in Him. They find an agreement in the reality of Him. But if you don’t bring them there, you’ll never make one of them agree with the other. You’ll find your group of things that agree, and you’ll base your whole doctrine on those things that agree in themselves.

And somebody else will have another group, and someone has another... and another. And it will never come together in the reality of Him. We miss The Truth! And then we form "Christian concepts". Then you are really in quicksand! Because you are not going to get anybody to forsake their concepts. They base their whole life on their concepts! Israel did that with their concepts. When it gets into being a "concept"... it’s too late! Lord, how we hate to give up our concepts. We’d rather give up heaven than our concept of it; because it’s the concept of it that we’ve got anyway. Truth challenges our concepts - it always will. And it takes a real honest heart with God to lay concepts down for The Truth, because you know when you do, you are starting all over again. You are Paul in Philippians 3 - reckoning it all dung - THAT I MAY WIN CHRIST!

That He is THE CHRIST. We must understand this. Christ - THE ANOINTED. Three times this title was accepted by The Lord Himself. Matthew 16:17, "And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." Mark 14:61-62, "But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." And John 4:26, "Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he." Those are the three times listed in the gospel that He accepted, yes, I am The Christ; He accepted that title. In John 17:3-5 Jesus so speaks of Himself, He calls Himself, Christ. "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."

Then the apostles speak of Him in innumerable places. Acts 9:34, " And Peter said unto him Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately." See most of us run in on the "maketh thee whole" and we miss the most important part - JESUS CHRIST maketh thee whole. 1 Corinthians 3:11, "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." And 1 John 5:6, "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood." But then staying with 1 John 1: Who is a liar, even antichrist? Verse 20, "But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." We’ve been talking about "all things"; all things coming to be seen in Truth. Just hold on to that, because we’re going to see what that unction is all about and how it relates. "...ye know all things. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son." I told you this term "The Christ" is the title by which He gathers all things into Himself. And the term "The Christ" and "Christ" is always associated with The Cross - Always is! COMPREHENDING HIM AS THE TRUTH IS COMPREHENDING CHRIST CRUCIFIED.

We have to bring all things into The Truth, but how can we bring all things into The Truth until we see The Truth? How can we realize all things in Christ until we realize Christ - in Truth, as Truth? How can we do that? No, we realize, comprehend all things in the measure of understanding that we have. It may or may not have anything to do with The Truth! That’s why The Lord said, ‘This is the foundation. I will bring My Church to this foundation, built upon this foundation, this understanding of Me. It is here ye shall know The Truth, and The Truth shall make you free; in this understanding of Me - THOU ART THE CHRIST.’ Oh, what a tremendous realization is bound up in that title: The Christ, as to His Person, as to our relationship with Him - In Christ. It is tremendous!

1 John 4:1, " Beloved, believe not every spirit; but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." This was so 2,000 years ago. Unfortunately I don’t find as in the Old Covenant that they were all rounded up and killed. In the New Covenant I think they just went right on propagating. "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world." See, we look at that as a statement of fact rather than a statement of Truth. We don’t comprehend it. We say, I believe Jesus is The Christ, but how can we truly believe that Jesus is The Christ unless we comprehend "The Christ"? See, we believe in a fact, we believe in a true thing, we accept a fact: He is The Christ. But has that come to be comprehended in The Truth? Do we know what that means in Truth? And how can we believe except we know In Truth? I’m telling you, most of the beliefs of most Christians are based upon scriptural facts or spiritual facts, and not The Truth. And the problem with that is you can go anywhere with those facts, and change them whenever you want to change them. And that is very easy to do! But The Truth changes not, because The Truth is actually the substance of the whole issue; the substance of the whole matter. And the substance will not change. It will not change.

And The Lord has really challenged me on this - coming to the substance, and when The Spirit of God says I’m going to bring all things and present them in Truth, He means ALL THINGS. And we usually don’t have the slightest idea what He’s talking about until He begins to do that. But He can not present all things or anything in Truth until The Truth is revealed in us - seeing Him as He is.

Now, is The Anointed, for whom all Israel waited - come? 1 John 5:9-10, " If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself; he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son." What is a liar? What is the witness? "Thou art The Christ, Thou art The Christ. My Father told you this. Who says that? The Father says Thou art The Christ! Thou art The Anointed!" Who anointed Him? The Father anointed Him. What we’re doing now is just coming by the scripture to an agreement that He is The Anointed. That term applies exclusively to Him - in His Person, in His Work, and in His relationship to us. Is The Anointed, for whom all Israel waited, come? And literally Israel was waiting for The Anointed One. Everything they did was in type and shadow of that. Is He come? Verse 11, " And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." Verse 20, "And we know that the Son of God IS COME. And hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life."

We will look at the testimony of the Old Covenant, and we’ll look at these three words: anointing, anoint and anointed. If Christ is the end, that is, the fulfillment, then every Old Covenant reference to the anointing or anointed must find its substance fulfilled in relation to Him. If Christ is the end, the fulfillment, then every Old Covenant reference to the anointing or anointed must find its substance, its fulfillment and its purpose in relation to Him. We will look at the scripture references of this, and we’ll bring this into Christ and find its purpose and its substance. What is The True Anointing? That’s where it relates to us. We know He is The Christ, but what is Christ in relation to us? It’s not all these things we’ve thought and called it, and come and go; because The Anointing does NOT come and go. It comes and REMAINS. So, may The Lord give us understanding. We’ve just now declared the end: we’ve declared Him in the scripture to be " The Christ". Now we’ll go back to the beginning and look at the testimony of "The Christ" and see how it is fulfilled in Him, and what it means for us - right NOW, so that we may walk in Truth concerning The Anointing, and allow the Work of The Anointing IN US to bring something to completion, something to its fulfillment, something to its accomplishment.

Pt. 2 - The Testimony

Continuing now, we are dealing with the understanding of Christ in The Truth: bringing the very title, the very term, the very reality of Christ and seeing Christ in The Truth. Now we are dealing with the title "Christ". We looked at that in Matthew 16:16, and we looked at the significance of the term "The Christ" from a New Covenant standpoint. Jesus is The Christ, and that term is translated "The Anointed". And the only way to understand Christ is to understand Him in relation to The Cross - His Cross: that is, in relation to His death, His burial and His resurrection. And when we are dealing with Christ and coming to realize the meaning of the very term, how was it that Jesus was ‘The Christ"? How was it that The Son of God was The Christ? What is our understanding of The Christ; what is our understanding of The Anointed and The Anointing? And many things we have called The Anointing in fact, is not The Anointing. Many people preach on The Anointing, but very rarely has that Anointing been exclusively related to The Anointed. In Pentecostal, Spirit-filled circles we are prone to anoint everything - including the church pews we sit on! We call The Anointing down on everything that doesn’t move - particularly those things that don’t move, because we want them to get anointed and move! So we’ve heard a lot about The Anointing, but has it been exclusively related to The Anointed?

And now we’re going to deal with the Old Covenant Testimony to show you the pattern and order. YOU CAN NOT SEPARATE THE ANOINTING FROM THE ANOINTED. You can not do it! If there is just One called The Anointed, then The Anointing exclusively belongs to Him: you can’t separate the two. You can’t say He’s "one of the things" The Anointing comes upon. No, because He is called THE Anointed; and the article "The" means an exclusiveness with regard to His Person. He and HE ONLY is The Christ. He and HE ONLY is The Anointed. If He and He alone is The Anointed, then The Anointing is His exclusively. It has to be that way; it cannot be any other way and Him be The Anointed.

The second section of our study now is The Testimony, which is the Old Covenant. We said if Christ is the end, the fulfillment, the summing up of all of the Old Covenant, then every Old Covenant reference to The Anointing and The Anointed must find its substance, fulfillment and purpose in direct relation to Him. So let’s look at some of these references. We are still in a very elementary area here. But what we will eventually deal with is to what end is The Anointing? But we need to first understand what The Anointing is, and Who is Anointed? To what end is The Anointing, because this has to do with you and I.

In the Old Covenant the word "anoint" is a Hebrew word that means ‘to smear, to rub, to spread, to paint.’ So we have the idea of putting whatever you are anointing with and smearing it all over, and rubbing it, painting it on. But it also means ‘to consecrate’. You consecrate by doing these things. Now the meaning of "consecrate", the Hebrew term is ‘to be full of, accomplish, to be at an end, to fulfil, to be accomplished, to satisfy, a fulness, to be set aside unto fulness, to an end, to a full accomplishment, to be ended.’ Consequently, by the Old Testament pattern, to anoint is rub, cover with the thing, but it also has built into it to consecrate - to be at an end, to be accomplished, to be set aside unto an end, unto a full accomplishment, to bring something to its designated end, bringing something to its appointed accomplishment. Consecrate means it is set aside with purpose to purpose - TO THE FINISHING OF PURPOSE. It’s not merely set aside. We hear sermons all the time like that. We talk about being "separated unto the Lord", and the Pentecostal counterfeit of that is seeing how many things we can get rid of! Well, you can get rid of everything and still NOT be separated unto The Lord! You can quit doing everything and still not be separated unto The Lord. You just become a hermit - not separated unto The Lord. You can give away all your money and your clothes and wear a fig leaf, but you’re still NOT separated unto The Lord. It’s not the same thing; that’s the Pentecostal counterfeit!

Now as a secondary effect, there may be things that are done away with. There may be things that simply die for lack of attention, but to be consecrated, separated unto The Lord is different. And remember, the Anointing is towards that. To be consecrated unto The Lord is with divine purpose; it has an end in view. It’s not just mere separation from things: it’s separation unto The Lord, consecrated unto Him with an end in view, a purpose in view, with an accomplishment in view. So everything anointed in the Old Covenant was set aside with an end in view. When God said, "anoint this, anoint this, anoint this..." He had an end in view, He had a purpose in view. And we know that all of this in the Old Testament was merely a type, a shadow, a pattern; but it is all according to a purpose and an end because God is demonstrating in these things His appointed end. That’s what the Old Testament is - a book of demonstration; it is demonstrating literally, visibly, tangibly with people, things, places and objects. God is demonstrating an appointed end, an appointed purpose. He is looking at something, and He is demonstrating that. The Anointing comes in this category.

Everything that was anointed was a demonstration of an appointed end. It was set aside with an end in view. That means it was God demonstrating an appointed end. Now - the end is CHRIST; The Anointing is finally realized in The Anointed. We’ll see to what end, but the fact is that The Anointing that was demonstrated, finally comes to its appointed end IN CHRIST. And so, if He is the end, then every Old Covenant reference to The Anointing must find its substance, fulfillment and purpose in direct relation to HIM. In other words - it is speaking of Him. So The Anointing finally comes to find its end in The Anointed: HE IS THE ONLY ANOINTED! So everything anointed was anointed, set aside, consecrated with an end in view, or as a view of God’s end, as a literal type and shadow of God’s end. He demonstrated His end before His end actually came. So He anointed with an end in view, and if He did that in type and shadow, He certainly did that in its fulfillment.

Now let’s look at the words "anoint", "anointed" and "anointing". Turn to Exodus 28:41, " And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt ANOINT them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office." Notice they could not minister in the priest’s office until they were anointed. I really wish that this understanding was translated over in The Church today, particularly in regard to the ministry, because our idea is somebody gets saved, spirit-filled, and we give them a Bible and tell them to go preach. But this more generally applies to all of us who have been made a kingdom and a priesthood. It is impossible to fulfil the role of the priest until they are anointed. Yes, the Lord fulfilled that most perfectly, but we need to see some things here! It didn’t matter who they were: The Anointing was necessary for them to minister in the office of the priesthood. They could not do so without it! They had to be rubbed down with oil. There’s a great type there: it is a type of a very necessary work of The Spirit. When we get finished with this, I trust that you and I will be able to recognize in ourselves, and in others The Work of The Anointing.

Exodus 29:7, " Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and ANOINT him." Notice here the anointing oil is UPON HIS HEAD. That’s where the anointing oil was poured in its beginning. Now it was rubbed over him, but it was poured upon his head, and that is extremely important to you and I WHOSE HEAD IS CHRIST, Whose Body we are.

Exodus 30:26-30, " And thou shalt ANOINT the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, And the altar of burnt-offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever touchest them shall be holy. And thou shalt ANOINT Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office." Everything of the tabernacle was anointed - we must remember that. The whole tabernacle, and all of its furniture, and all of the implements that went with that furniture were anointed. If there was a turning hook to turn meat on the altar - it was anointed. If there was a candle snuffer to put out the candle in the candelabra when they began to take it down to travel - it was anointed. EVERYTHING - Every single thing of that tabernacle was anointed. And this is so important to our understanding because the tabernacle was brought to its very end in The Person of The Lord Jesus. Every part of that tabernacle was anointed, and none of it was left out. It was all anointed, and then the priests that did service there were anointed.

Exodus 40:9-13, " And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and ANOINT the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof; and it shall be holy. And thou shalt ANOINT the altar of the burnt-offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar; and it shall be an altar most holy. And thou shalt ANOINT the laver and his foot, and sanctify it. And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and ANOINT him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office." Again and again - this has to be important. The instructions are repeated time and time and time again. People think that I repeat...no, The Lord repeats, and He does so with great emphasis. So over and over they are warned. Why? Because God has an end in view, and this must be a perfect type. The type is not perfect, but it must be a perfect type, because He has a perfect end in view. He has something in view and He’s demonstrating it here. Here is the testimony of it. It can’t be done haphazardly.

As in The Testimony, so is The Finished Work. The order is there, so The Lord is extremely explicit. I used to tell people: why do you think The Lord was so meticulous about how the tabernacle was made? "See that you do it according to the pattern that was shown thee in the mount." And then He gave special abilities to people to see that they got it right. Why? Well, because He wanted a good tent? No, it’s not that He wanted a good tent. They built the tents that they lived in, but it was because of THE END HE HAD IN VIEW. His instructions were not after all, fulfilled in a tent; but fulfilled in a Finished Work of His Son. So it is with The Anointing. And everything that The Anointing Oil came upon became, in effect, The Anointed. So these things were not a bunch of things; by The Anointing these things were made ONE THING. They are in type of CHRIST, but He, in His Anointing is so vast, that it took all of these things and people to demonstrate the vastness of His Anointing! The Anointing which He would sum up at one time in Himself, and would bear that Anointing unto its finish, unto its completion.

None of these things could do that, because the obviousness of this is that they had to be anointed over and over and over. But not Him! With Him it was once and for all! And He brought it to its finish. So no matter how many times oil was rubbed or poured or sprinkled or splashed on these things - every time they were set up again, they had to do it all over again. Over and over and over, because they demonstrate the VASTNESS of HIS ANOINTING; they demonstrate the vastness of what is gathered up in Him: the gathering up in Him of ALL THINGS by The Anointing. By The Anointing. Think of the King; because the people that were anointed were priests and kings. Every priest that was ever anointed, every king that was ever anointed, and the significance of them is gathered up in Him. None of them could carry The Anointed to its appointed end. Remember that! He alone! In all of these things an end was demonstrated, but an end was never achieved. But in Him, the end is achieved.

1 Samuel 16:3. This is the story of David; Samuel’s anointing of David in the house of his father, Jesse. " And call Jesse to the sacrifice..." Now it’s so important that a sacrifice was going on here. "... and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt ANOINT unto me him whom I name unto thee." Verse 12, "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, ANOINT him: for this is he." This is in my opinion one of the strongest types of the true anointing. And Samuel took his horn of oil: God had told him to FILL his horn with oil. There isn’t going to be any finger sprinkling here! God said, you fill it up, and then you go pour the whole thing on the one whose name I tell you. Verse 13, " Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and ANOINTED him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. Oh, how evangelistically I’d love to just stay on this point, because everything is really summed up here. In this setting, with the rejection of the brethren, with the father’s house, with what was going on, with the instructions here, with the full horn - the whole thing is summed up in this story in 1 Samuel 16.

Now also, we go to Daniel. We are looking at the word "ANOINT". Daniel 9:24, "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people..." Now if there is any doubt in anybody’s mind as to when the seventieth week of Daniel ended, understanding of The Anointing shall correct that. I’ve read many people who write on the seventieth week of Daniel. I’ve read stacks of books of theologians that I agree with their conclusions. They prove it in so many different ways, but I’ve never yet seen one mention of it in connection with The Anointing. But to me, it’s The Anointing that proves it, because it takes it out of the calendar, even out of historical events, and brings it into The Person of Christ where that seventieth week is truly fulfilled and finished, and it makes it part of His Anointing. "...and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to made an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness..." This is where David is a type of the King of everlasting righteousness, but he couldn’t bear The Anointing, could he? Did he bring in everlasting righteousness? No he didn’t. Did his son bring in everlasting righteousness - Solomon? No, he didn’t. Another One had to sit upon the throne of David to do that! But here’s where He comes in - in The Anointing. Look - "...to seal up the vision..." And that word "seal up" doesn’t mean to hide it again, but it means to fulfil it, to bring it to its completion. "...and prophecy, and to ANOINT the most Holy." And everything in your Old Covenant writing is a type of that Anointing that is mentioned right here.

Why would it be in this book? Because this book of Daniel is the book of the summing up, the book of the end. This is the book of the finish of God’s dealings, this is the book of His completing of these things in His Son. This is what Daniel’s book is all about, what his whole prophecy is all about. It’s not about some mysterious calendar, going on with missing parts and missing weeks, and missing links. No, no, it’s about a Work finished with The Anointing of The Most Holy. So I ask again - to what end then is The Anointing? To what end was everything in the Old Covenant Anointed? CHRIST ACCOMPLISHED THAT END! To what end in Him is The Anointing? We are going to come to that. See, we think it’s to make us jump and holler. We think it’s for this or that, or 9 million other silly things that have been put out under the guise and name of "Anointing". That’s because people have only gotten a word, but they’ve never brought it to The Truth; they’ve never seen The Christ, The Anointed, and they’ve never seen all of these references summed up. The Anointing has to be summed up in The Anointed, and they’ve never taken that Anointing to its end in Him, and seen it in The Truth. Because once you do, then all of this makes absolute and perfect sense, and you see the perfect order of it, and particularly here in Daniel. Right here in Daniel is the answer to it. "Seventy weeks is determined, and to Anoint The Most Holy." You understand by The Anointing. The seventy weeks is fulfilled in The Anointing of The Most Holy. And that concurs with all true Biblical time lines, but you can throw away Biblical time lines and just see it’s accomplished in The Anointing - to ANOINT The Most Holy.

Now then, go to Mark 14:6-8, "And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to ANOINT my body to the burying." Now the cat ought to be out of the bag for you right now! You ought to know the end of The Anointing right now! You ought to see what The Anointing signifies, and to what end The Anointing is taken, and why only One could take it, could bear it to its end. "... TO ANOINT MY BODY TO THE BURYING. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her." Well, if you have any understanding, that’s true.

Mark 16:1, "And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and ANOINT him" They were a little late! He had already fulfilled His Anointing by the time they got there! Luke 7:44-46, " And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didn’t not ANOINT: but this woman hath ANOINTED my feet with ointment." All right, that’s the term "anoint".

Now, ANOINTING. In the Hebrew the term "anointing" is ALWAYS connected with the Anointing Oil. The Anointing Oil is an ointment used to consecrate by anointing. But it is the portion of that oil, what is called The Most Holy, The Holy Anointing Oil, The Holy Oil in the Old Covenant. It is the portion set aside for this purpose. In other words, it was oil consecrated, set aside for consecrating. You see, I believe that The Spirit of Truth is consecrated, set aside unto revealing The Truth. You can’t get around this if you search it in the scriptures. Once this oil was made - out of its spices and all that it was made from, then that portion that was to be used for The Anointing was SEPARATED. You would have died, you would have been banished...you were under the strictest law; the Priests were, as to what to do with that oil. You couldn’t do what YOU wanted to do with it. ‘Well, the hinges creak. Put some of that oil on it!’ You’d better NOT use any of that oil! ‘Well, my skin is dry and chapped. Well, here, take some of this oil and rub it on it’. NO!

I’m trying to tell you THAT OIL is consecrated for the purpose of consecrating. It’s Holy Oil; it had one appointed end. Do we not understand The Anointing Oil to be The Work and Ministry of The Holy Spirit? You can’t just assign The Work and Ministry of The Holy Spirit to everything that comes along. ‘Well, I don’t know but The Spirit just jumped on me, and I just had to do it!’ Not This Spirit! Not This Spirit - this didn’t "jump" on you! That’s not what the pattern in the Bible shows us. And if it is a pattern then it is a pattern that is fulfilled and accomplished. You can’t just run around pouring Anointing Oil on everything and anything. Everything this Holy Oil was put on was in type of a view of Christ. If it wasn’t in type of a view of Christ, this oil was not put on it. "When He, The Spirit of Truth is come, He will testify of Me." But oh, all the things that we attribute to Him!

Now, I got this definition out of a theological definition, and I noticed what a beautiful way that is to say it. It is the portion set aside for this purpose. In other words, it’s the oil that was set aside, the oil that was consecrated for purpose of consecration. It wasn’t used for anything else; it didn’t exist for anything else, it couldn’t be used for anything else. Surely you’ll have to agree that God is trying to tell us something here about this Oil!

The term, "Anointing". Back to Exodus 25:6, "Oil for the light, spices for ANOINTING oil, and for sweet incense." As you go through you’ll always see The Anointing Oil is something OTHER than all the other oil. Exodus 29:21, " And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the ANOINTING OIL, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him." The interesting thing here is the mixture of the blood and the anointing oil upon the priesthood upon this particular occasion. And then Exodus 30:25, " And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary; it shall be an holy ANOINTING OIL." And going down through verse 31, he anoints a whole list of things, but the point is that it is a particular oil for a particular purpose, and it is used for nothing else. Nor is any other kind of oil used for The Anointing. You are not anointed with water; you washed with water, you anointed with oil. We need to think about some of these things. In Leviticus 8:30, " And Moses took of the ANOINTING OIL, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons’ garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him." And Leviticus 10:7, " And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the ANOINTING OIL of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses." We need to note that the priests were anointed to offer blood. As we get into this pattern it will become increasingly clear where The Anointing brings you, where The Anointing is finished, where The Anointing is fulfilled. It’s not in so many things that we have thought.

We might want to pray about it awhile before we say, "Lord, let thine Anointing work in me. Lord, anoint thy servant." See, we’ve always said that because we’ve needed a louder voice, or whatever, but that’s not it. All I’m doing now is reading you the scripture, and I’m not even elaborating that much on them. The priests were anointed to offer blood. They were anointed to do the service of the priesthood, but in Leviticus it is so obvious - the reason for which they were anointed. Look at Leviticus 8:12-15, "And he poured of the ANOINTING OIL upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the Lord commanded Moses, And he brought the bullock for the sin-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin-offering. And he slew it; and Moses TOOK THE BLOOD, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it." They were anointed for the offering of sacrifices, for the offering of blood; for fulfilling the office of the priest. The Anointing was for that purpose. They could not shed blood without being anointed. If they did, then they were murderers. And it was no longer an offering of sacrifice, it was an act of disobedience. Can you hear Hebrews 10, when The Lord Jesus saw that for Him, The Anointing would even make offering of sacrifices an act of disobedience? He could but offer HIMSELF and be true to The Anointing.

So we have The Anointing set aside for divine purpose. Leviticus 21:10-12, " And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the ANOINTING OIL was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the ANOINTING OIL of his God is upon him: I am the Lord." Then we go with the word "anointing" to 1 John 2:27, "But the ANOINTING which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same ANOINTING teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him" The Anointing that is IN YOU, that we have received of Him. We’ll come back to that later.

Now, "THE ANOINTED", Psalm 89:18-29, " For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I ANOINTED HIM; With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. And I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven." You must understand this reaches a little beyond David. This is The Anointed of The Lord, and His name is Jesus. Thou art THE CHRIST, The Son of The Living God.

We’ll continue to see this Anointing brought to its appointed end. It’s only brought there in One, but that’s The One Who dwells in us, and we can only know Him by THE ANOINTING!

Pt. 3 - Only One Bears The

Anointing to its Designated End

Let’s continue now. Let’s remember Matthew 16 with regard to The Father’s revealing of The Son. And here with Peter it is revealed of The Father according to the words of Jesus, that Jesus, The Son of The Living God is ‘THE CHRIST.’ "Thou art The Christ, The Son of The Living God."

And we have been searching The Truth, and we have come to discover that The Truth finally comes to be personified in Christ; it finally comes to be realized in a Person. To get to The Truth of a matter, you go to the substance of that matter, and CHRIST IS THE SUBSTANCE OF ALL MATTERS. He is the substance of what The Bible calls "all things." The "all things" to which The Bible is referring are either the things of the Old Covenant, in type or in shadow, or the things of the New Covenant, which are the things found in Christ. To bring all things to The Truth is simply to bring all things to Christ. To bring all things to Him means that you and I come to comprehend those things in their relationship to Christ through His death, His burial and His resurrection. It is The Cross, The Cross once again, in our study even of The Truth. And I say "even of The Truth" because I don’t care what study you start out upon, if that study is centered in Christ, it will finally come to be realized IN RELATION TO THE CROSS. It will finally come to be realized with relation to His death, burial and resurrection, because you and I have no other means of relationship with Him. We have no relationship with Him but that which is given to us, made possible to us, presented to us through His death, His burial, His resurrection. If it wasn’t for The Cross we would have no relationship with Him at all - we could not have.

So The Cross becomes the very center of The Eternal Plan of God. And everything of spiritual life, sooner or later will bring you into The Cross if you follow it to its Truth. If you follow it to The Truth, if you follow it to its substance, you will find that substance is Christ. Christ in what way? CHRIST CRUCIFIED: Christ in relation to His death, His burial, His resurrection. And we must understand that when we talk about "Christ crucified" I mean Christ IN His death, IN His burial, IN His resurrection. I am not talking about some historical event of 2,000 years ago, but rather we are talking about the completed Work of God made manifest in His Son 2,000 years ago, and is ever ongoing by His Spirit. And it is as real now as it ever was. The resurrection is as real now as it ever was. His death to sin, that death whereby we are brought into union with Him is as real as it ever was. His burial is not merely symbolic, but a very nature of The Spirit working in us, bringing us from one realm into another, from one body to another. It is as real as it ever was, because the things were never historical in their substance; the substance was always Christ - always Him.

So we are bringing all things into Him, and we’ve been dealing with the term and the title "The Christ". So in Matthew 16 Peter says "Thou art THE CHRIST, The Son of The Living God." We have found that the term "The Christ" means "The Anointed", and we have seen that the article "the" is referring exclusively to His Person, singularly to His Person. And so when it is written this way, and translated this way, the article is there meaning there is no other Christ, nor can there possibly ever be. The term is exclusive to Jesus, exclusive to Him. And unfortunately there are many that will have difficulty with that because there are many spiritually misled individuals who seem to think they are "The Christ". But they are 2,000 years too late to claim that title! "The Christ" - yes, we have relationship with Him through that name; but it is never under THE Christ, it is under the title "Christ". So when Christ is used without the article it is used showing a relationship - His relationship with believers. We are IN Christ: it doesn’t say we are in "The" Christ - we are in Christ, crucified with Christ, not I who liveth, but Christ who liveth in me. Yes, it is He, but it is He in relationship to believers, or in relationship to His Body.

Now that is a tremendous thing because "The Christ" means "The Anointed", but "The Anointed" has a relationship with His Body by The Anointing that is in you. Though you are never THE Christ; you are never The Anointed - and you are never going to be! And if you hadn’t been in 2,000 years, you aren’t going to be in another 2,000 years. But we are brought into relationship with Him, for He dwells in you, you are His Body. And The Anointing which He giveth is in you. But "The Christ" as that title belongs to Him. I would that every human tongue that names the name of "The Christ" to themselves.... I would that their tongue would rot out of their mouth! I say that because I have seen too much of The Lord’s Body perverted by those who would take His title unto themselves. It’s like a cancer, like spiritual death working in a people: it kills, it robs, and stinking flesh literally abounds where that conception is, because you have taken His title. He is The Only One who can bear that title to its end. HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN BEAR THE ANOINTING TO ITS DESIGNATED END.

Now I just want to stress something we saw with regard to the Anointing Oil. We saw that this oil was itself consecrated. It was itself set aside to a definite end and purpose. So, if it was set aside to a definite end and purpose, whatever you put that oil upon was by that oil, set aside to a definite end and purpose that was the same end and purpose of the oil. You can not take an oil that is set aside for a purpose, put it on something, and claim that this thing has a different purpose in that anointing. This is tremendously important for us to understand, because of the misunderstanding and misconception of the ministry and purpose of The Holy Spirit in your life! This Anointing is The Work and Ministry of The Holy Spirit in your life - in you. But we must understand that He is bound by Himself; He is bound by God; He is bound to Anoint ONLY The Anointed. So that all of His Work in you is in direct relationship to The Indwelling Christ, and can not be in relationship to anything but HIM. And yet, how many times do we hear people talk about The Work of The Spirit and it has nothing to do with The Lord whatsoever; it has no relationship to Christ, and certainly no relationship to The Indwelling Christ! And I tell you that is not truly The Work of The Spirit. The Spirit is not come in a willy-nilly, catch-as-catch-can fashion. He is come with purpose! And wherever He dwells, He dwells with purpose. And when He exercises, He does so according to that same purpose.

And I realized this when I saw this definition. I love to see it in the type and shadow, and if it’s there in the type, it is fulfilled in The Lord. If I can’t find it there, then I have a hard time with it. But when we find it in the type, then all those things find their fulfillment in Him. And I saw this oil is set aside. It’s the first thing consecrated; before anything is consecrated with it, it is consecrated itself. Before it imparts purpose to anything, it has purpose. It comes in purpose, it is put upon in the Old Testament in purpose, with a designated purpose. And I present to you today that The Holy Spirit Who is come, The Spirit of Truth Who is come, is come with purpose. And that purpose was fulfilled in THE CHRIST, The Anointed, but that purpose is being worked out in you, who are The Body of Christ. And that it is not one purpose for Him and a different one for you. It is not one Anointing for The Head, and a different one for His Body - it is the same.

Let’s look a little more at "The Anointed". Look at 2 Samuel 5:3, "So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they ANOINTED David king over Israel." Verse 17, "But when the Philistines heard that they had ANOINTED David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold." Now, 1 Chronicles 14. This was written by the scribe Ezra. Perhaps during and certainly at the end of the 70 year Babylonian captivity is when Ezra at least presented the book of Chronicles to Israel, rehearsing them in the Word of the Lord that had been lost during that 70 years of captivity. Verse 8, " And when the Philistines heard that David was ANOINTED king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard of it, and went out against them." Then 1 Chronicles 16:22, "Saying, Touch not mine ANOINTED, and do my prophets no harm." Oh, Lord Jesus! How many sermons I’ve heard preached on that by folks who have no more comprehension what that was saying than a fence post! Every time some preacher gets exposed in his sin he jumps up and starts hollering, "Touch not God’s anointed!" Well, don’t worry about it... you’re not touching God’s Anointed. In the first place this is a narrative here given of David. It’s David psalm of thanksgiving, and The Anointed talked about here is the whole body of Israel itself, because therein is that type of The Lord Jesus, and that’s The Anointed. But we need to read on through verse 27, " Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place." Then we continue on to chapter 17 and pick up with verse 9, " And I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the Lord will build thee an house. And it shall come to pass when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy father, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee; But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore."

This is The Anointed that God is talking about, and in reading this we need to see it switches from its type and shadows, and solidly finds its fulfillment in "Thou art The Christ, The Son of God." It’s just like what we read in Psalm 89. You’ll be reading along and you’ll see the type and the prophetic utterance, and before you’re through with it, you’ll see the fulfillment. And this is most particularly so with David and Solomon, because therein is the tremendous type of "The Christ, The Anointed", and then His relationship with His Body; their relationship with Israel, because Israel was named of them, by them. They bore the name: The City of The King, The City of David. Israel bore the name, was named in King David, was named in Solomon, was summed up in them. There’s a tremendous thing there, and it is where you see The Anointing really brought in type and shadow to its end, but it could not be brought to its end perfectly because neither of these men established an ETERNAL kingdom. Neither of these men established an ETERNAL throne, and yet the promise is: "And my kingdom forever, and His Throne shall be established forever." And Peter asked the question; ‘Who is it that you think David was writing about - himself or another? Yeah, we have the tomb and the sepulchre of David with us today, but he was writing of This One, Whom God hath raised up and deemed in The Resurrection to be My Son: This day have I begotten Thee.’ Yes, but all of that is in connection with a people as well - His Body.

The Anointing that is in type here is brought to its fulness in The Anointed of The Lord; brought to its fulness IN CHRIST. Now, notice this: John 20. This is after the resurrection, after The Lord has come forth both in and as The Resurrection. We know that Mary was there and Mary saw Him. Verse 17, "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and your God." Touch me not. We read in 1 Chronicles 16, "Touch not mine anointed." That touched something with me when I read that - where else was that said? Yes, The Lord Jesus said, "Touch me not". Now remember the setting here. This was before He has gone to The Father, before He has fulfilled in actuality all that The Anointing encumbered upon Him to do. The word in the Hebrew "touch me" means ‘lay hand upon, bring down, draw near, to interfere with in any way’ and can also mean ‘carnal intercourse’. In the Greek it is the same thing. It means ‘adhere to, lay hands upon, as to cling to, to bring down, interfere with or carnal intercourse.’ And The Lord was simply saying you can not know Me as you have known Me in the flesh. Do not try to keep Me, you cannot hold Me, I am not the same. Do not try to hold Me, do not interfere with Me. I am under The Anointing, I am fulfilling and finishing a Work. This is but the third day of it.

See, He is still bound up in The Work of The Cross here. He is not now HER concept of Jesus of Nazareth. Remember I said "HER" concept - He is not now that fleshly concept, no longer is He that. ‘Do not hold Me in this form, do not try to keep Me in this form.’ And yet today Christian after Christian after Christian are trying to keep Him in that form, and have (and I mean this in the purest spiritual sense) intercourse with Him in that form; bear His Seed in that form. That’s the form they see Him in; that’s the form they are looking for Him in. Their whole thought is: what would you do if Jesus came walking in the room? Well, what would you do if He was here? What would you do if you knew He dwelt in you? What would you do if you weren’t trying to touch God’s Anointed, and interfere with God’s Anointed, and hinder the purpose, the end, the accomplishment of The Anointing in Him? What would you do? That’s the question: not what would you do if Jesus came strolling down that hall. That would make null and void The Anointing. You see here with Mary He had not yet FULFILLED The Anointing, the purpose, the end. He had told Mary: you tell them that I go to My Father and their Father, My God and their God. He had told them (John 14) I go away, but I will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also. And in that day you will understand, you will know, The Spirit of Truth will come. Yes, He had not yet fulfilled the end of The Anointing.

But now look back to 1 Chronicles 29:22. This is Solomon’s anointing. "And did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and ANOINTED him unto the Lord to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest." Verse 23, "Then Solomon sat on the THRONE OF THE LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him." Look in the writing how it makes the transition - THE THRONE OF THE LORD. Verse 25, "And the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel." Now from this verse I’ve got to take you to: when did this happen to The Lord Jesus? When did The Father say: This day I have set My King upon My Holy Hill; this day I have said, Thou Art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee. When was it that God hath exalted Him highly, above all, and hath given Him a name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee of heaven and earth shall bow - when was this?

One is in Philippians where it said He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, wherefore God hath highly exalted Him! Because The Cross is the death, burial and resurrection. None of these kings could fulfil The Anointing; none of them could do what was necessary to establish the Eternal Kingdom. They spoke of One to come. And I’m telling you that HE IS COME, and The Anointing is upon Him! He is The Anointed of God, He fulfilled The Anointing, and The Anointing that works in you, by Him is toward that same end in you; that end being made manifest in you - that He has achieved. What is that end? We’re coming to it.

All these Anointed ones, and Anointed things stood for Christ, but none of them could fulfil or bear The Anointing to its purposed end. We read that in places like Hebrews 7:11, Hebrews 9:8-10, Hebrews 10:1-5. We read that these things were figures of the true, types and shadows that could not bring anything to perfection - over and over again the scripture tells us that. Now, to what end was and is The Anointing? To what end was and is He, The Anointed, anointed? "Thou art THE Christ, The Anointed, The Son of The Living God. Upon this understanding I will build My Church. Upon THIS understanding I will establish, build up, bring to fulness My Church." What understanding is that?

Let’s look at Isaiah 53. I want to take time with this because I know a great deal of the misconceptions concerning The Anointing. And I have to ask - why will we not read The Word? Why will we only maintain tradition? "Who hath believed our report? And to who is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." This is The Lord’s Anointed we are talking about! "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." This seems like Isaiah is somewhere giving a narration of the condition of His disciples during those two or three dark days. Where were they? GONE! Yes, and the ones that weren’t gone were in deep, deep denial! Listen - flesh and blood can not walk with Him in His Anointing! You think The Anointing is for flesh and blood, but it’s not! You think The Anointing is something that falls on you out of the sky - it’s not! Or something God throws on you to make you jump and holler - it’s not! Flesh and blood can not walk with Him in the days of His Anointing. They all forsook Him! Just as Isaiah said they would.

‘Well, that’s because they were just sorry so-and-so’s.’ No they weren’t: they were just flesh and blood, and they couldn’t walk with Him in His Anointing. And you can’t walk with Him in His Anointing either. That Anointing must be worked in you through the revealing of Him. The Anointing is that which you have BY HIM. You can’t fulfil it - He fulfilled it, and as He is revealed in you, that Anointing brings you to the same end, to the same accomplishment. The Anointing accomplishes in you that which He is. It’s not something that comes upon you to make YOU something, or make YOU do something. Flesh and blood can not walk with Him in His Anointing. All of these types and shadows could not fulfil The Anointing, and His own disciples couldn’t stay with Him when He came to the bearing of The Anointing. They couldn’t do it!

Isaiah saw it. Verse 5, " But he was wounded for OUR transgressions, he was bruised for OUR iniquities: the chastisement of OUR peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." He carried The Anointing because we couldn’t! He carried The Anointing because not a man on earth could - not a man, not an object, not a group of men would do it! He carried The Anointing, He fulfilled The Anointing so that that Anointing may dwell in us, work in us that which He is. "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. HE was oppressed, and HE was afflicted, yet HE opened not HIS mouth; HE is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so HE openeth not HIS mouth. HE was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare HIS generation? For HE was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was HE stricken. And HE made HIS grave with the wicked, and with the rich in HIS death; because HE had done no violence, neither was any deceit in HIS mouth."

Now one more verse. Isaiah 61:1, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath ANOINTED me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound." Do you understand that Isaiah 53 and 61 are the same? "To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn. To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called the trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that HE might be glorified." THAT HE MIGHT BE GLORIFIED!. "Ye see your calling brethren..." "That HE might be glorified...that no flesh should glory in His presence." We will continue with this, and bring this to its appointment.

Pt. 4 - The End of The Anointing

In our last session we ended with Isaiah 53 and 61 with this question: to what end, to what purpose was He The Anointed of The Lord? Where does The Anointing take you? What is the end that it serves? How did He fulfil every testimony concerning The Anointing? How was, and is He The Christ? So now let’s move into the answer.

Notice under the Old Testament The Anointing was always unto DEATH. Now, we have to think about that. Go back and look at all the scriptures. What was it that was anointed? What was the ultimate purpose for the thing that was anointed? Take the Tabernacle. We must understand the Tabernacle is in type and shadow The Cross: not the sticks of wood, but The Work of The Cross - death, burial, resurrection; outer court, inner, holy of holies; death, burial, resurrection. The Anointing is always unto that, but it’s unto death because that’s what comes first. It’s unto death, unto blood. The priests had to be anointed in order to offer blood. There were times when their anointing was oil mixed with blood, for special occasions and offerings, or sacrifices. Everything of that Tabernacle, everything of that priesthood is The Cross - death, burial and resurrection. The point is: The Anointing has never been to running and jumping. It has never been to might, to power. Notice when they marched on their enemies - nobody was out there pouring a horn of oil over the army! Because The Anointing was unto death. The Anointing was to set aside, sanctify, consecrate that which was offered to The Lord. So much so that they that offered it were themselves anointed with the same oil.

Not only is the tent and all the furniture fulfilled in The Cross of Christ - all the sacrifices are, and all the priesthood is as well. The Anointing is always unto death. The Tabernacle and all in it; the place of sacrifices and acceptance; the priests; the offering of sacrifices and bringing Israel into the presence; the kings destroying all enemies and bringing in the everlasting kingdom - BUT NONE COULD FULFIL THE ANOINTING. That is, none could bear The Anointing to its completion - none could do it!

Zechariah 4:6 says, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." We read that; people preach that, and then we turn right around and try to visualize the Spirit of the Lord in terms of might and power. But if we were familiar with the story of Zechariah 4, it is to Zerubbabel that this was said. They had been having problems getting that Temple built. They got the foundation laid, and then they started having trouble with enemies coming out, and then the King that had given them permission in Babylon dies - and now it is all stopped. And so they have come to another King and he has reinforced the decree, and it looks like now they are going to get on with the building of it. But in the midst of all that, The Lord in giving His assurance says it is this: it is NOT by might, NOR by power, but by My Spirit, says The Lord. This is the same chapter where we see the two Anointed Ones, the two that stand in the presence of The Lord, and the golden oil going into the golden candlestick. And Zechariah is asking what this is all about, and the answer is just this: not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith The Lord. And it is The Anointing that accomplishes all that is set forth in the candlestick. It is this Anointing working in you and I; Jesus said upon this understanding - The Anointed - upon this understanding I will bring My Church to its fulness; I will bring it to its completion. "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith The Lord."

Now I want you to see that very thing in The Lord Jesus. Turn to John’s gospel chapter 1, and just follow this sequence of thought with me. John 1:29, " The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." Verse 36, "And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!" John’s announcement of Him. Now John 2. He has announced Him as The Lamb of God. "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith The Lord." John 2:19, but this starts at verse 13. "And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem." It talks about Him having a "house cleaning". Verse 19, "Jesus answered and said unto them..."; because they challenged Him on His authority and asked Him for a sign. And every time the Jews asked for a sign, Jesus shows them THE CROSS - every single time! We need to think about that. He always shows them The Cross. They never see it, but He shows them The Cross. "This adulterous and evil generation seeketh a sign, but there will be no sign given to it save the sign of Jonah - three days in the belly of the whale." Here again they say: what shewest thou? " Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." He shows them The Cross! What is the whole thing we’re doing here? I’m following through on Zechariah: "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith The Lord." John 2:19, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body." He spake of The Temple of His Body.

John 3: 12-15, "If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." I wonder why all the people who go running around quoting John 3:16 never begin with the 13^th verse? I wonder why they just get John 3:16 and says that’s The Golden Text of the Bible, and in their complete ignorance totally separate it from anything having to do with The Cross, or the reality of The Cross, because it doesn’t even make sense unless you start reading at verse 13 at least; you have no idea of its setting, no idea of the spirit, of the context. They just grab it: "God so loved..." You have no concept of it. That verse is just a reason for the verses just above it, the statement that has just been made. Why it must be as it was with Moses, and why Moses had to do what he did way back there, so that it could in this day and setting be fulfilled.

We go on - John 5. "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith The Lord." John 5:24-27, " Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man." Then John 6:53-57. This is a summing up from verse 38 on. " Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me."

John 8: here’s where I’m going with all this; here’s where Jesus is going with all this, having said all of that. Verse 28, " Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, THEN..." I circled "then". See, God brings all time to bear, to be fulfilled in The Cross. Now that’s just true; it is absolutely true. The fulness of time - right there in The Cross; end of days - right there; end of season - right there; end of holidays - right there (I’m talking about with spiritual significance) - right there at The Cross. Past The Cross time has NO spiritual significance. It doesn’t have any because it’s already said what it was created to say. Time and space, as far as having spiritual significance comes to an end at The Cross. That’s a fact, because the world that God recognizes and has talked about and put in type and shadow; beyond The Cross that world is the existence that is IN CHRIST; the universe that is in Christ, the creation that is in Christ, where there is no need for time because everything is NOW. Oh yes, just open your eyes and look - that’s what we’re told to do. "You shall know the Truth, and The Truth shall make you free." And we being spiritual beings should be concerned about that.

So, ‘when time shall be no more’ doesn’t mean that there isn’t going to be another Wednesday or Thursday. It means that there’s no spiritual significance. With God it is ended - He used it, and now He’s not using it any more. If He were still using time then you would still have to be observant of The Sabbath week day. Yes you would, because you can’t break one jot or tittle - you have to keep it all. But no, it’s come to an end - the fulness of time! " But when the fulness of time WAS COME, God sent forth His Son..." What to do? "To redeem..." Here’s the fulness of time. So when God deals with time as to having purpose, having intent, concerning you and me, that time is always determined by The Cross; by seeing, realizing The Cross. "When you have lifted up the Son of man, THEN..." Lift Him up - how? ‘Well, we shout with a loud voice!’ No, not here in this instance you don’t! That’s talking about His crucifixion. "When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." THEN - ye shall know.

I ask you: where did The Anointing lead Him? He came out of the Jordan, He stood upon the bank, the heaven was opened, The Anointing came - where did it lead Him? It led him directly, and with tremendous consequence TO THE CROSS. That’s where The Anointing always leads! That’s what The Anointing is for! THE ANOINTING IS UNTO HIS DEATH. Without His death, there can be no burial; without His burial, there can be no act of God in exalting Him in the resurrection proving that He hath completed The Anointing. ‘I have received His offering, I have received His blood.’ What proves that? The Resurrection! The same thing that proved it in the Old Covenant. What proved that God had received the gift offering of the High Priest? The fact that the man could walk out alive! The fact that he could get out of there, the fact that he could appear the second time to all of Israel, who were waiting for him out there, because they would see in him the assurance of their Salvation. The fact that he could get out of there and appear before them: he went away and now he came back. The fact that he came back out and appeared before them with the whole regalia upon him - that fact PROVED that they were accepted for another year.

The scripture says He is proved to be The Son of God, righteousness and holiness BY the resurrection. He and He alone could bear The Anointing to its completion. He and He alone could carry The Anointing to its finish and its fulfillment. Only The Son of God could bear The Anointing until fulfillment, that is, full accomplishment - His death, His burial, His resurrection. He was anointed of His Father unto death, even The Death of The Cross. See, most people think, or have some idea that The Anointing starts with the resurrection or the ascension - somewhere "in glory". NO - it’s not so. If that would have been true then in the type the only thing that could have ever been anointed would be The Ark of The Covenant, and it’s doubtful that even it could have been anointed, because blood is sprinkled there. But you sure wouldn’t be anointing the brazen altar if The Anointing begins in the resurrection. No, The Anointing dear friends...whatever is anointed must DIE. You will see it with the kings. I can show you the principle set forth there even with the anointing of the kings. They accept that anointing, and all of a sudden it is THE LORD’S THRONE, and not theirs. Saul was disposed of because he would not obey The Anointing. There is no doubt about that in the scripture; whether we accept it or not is another matter.

But if you follow through the scripture, The Anointing is going to bring you to DEATH. But it couldn’t bring any person to that death - no person could fulfil that death. And that’s why I get so upset with the usage of the term "The Christ", because now I understand that HE AND HE ALONE BORE THE ANOINTING. See, people who preach The Anointing will talk about David being anointed and the next thing is they have him out slaying Goliath because "the anointing came upon him." But that’s not true. David went out not in might, nor in power, but by My Spirit, saith The Lord, in the absolute weaknesses and frailness of himself. The whole picture there is different from what most present it as. The Anointing does NOT uplift or magnify the flesh at all, but brings it to its absolute nothingness and ONLY THE LORD REMAINS! That’s The Anointing, and this is the thing that Jesus accepted. That’s what makes His leaving His estate, that’s what makes Him not thinking it a thing to be held on to so great, that He presented Himself to be "The Christ, The Anointed." ONLY The Son of God could do that. Had He not done that, it would never be done. But in obedience He does this. And we have so perverted the whole idea of The Anointing in our carnality - but He bore it to its fulfillment.

Hebrews 5:5-10, "So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my son, to day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec." It just reads a little differently when you read it all. He served in the order of the endless life because He laid down His life in obedience to The Anointing. The Anointing is not to the uplifting of flesh, but unto the obedience unto death. So now we have to take this analogy to us: TO WHAT END DOES THAT ANOINTING WORK IN US? The True Anointing does not come to make YOU great; but that He and He alone remains. For this reason He was made a High Priest by His Anointing, through His suffering, which He alone could fulfil. Therefore it is said of Him, "To day have I begotten Thee. Thou art a priest forever." By your offering once, for all, you have sanctified many. (Hebrews 10:10) For this reason I have exalted Thee, in that you exalted not Thyself (verse 5), that you were obedient unto death, even the death of The Cross (Philippians 3:5-11). This is what it’s all about, this is why these things were said of Him.

Only He could bear The Anointing, therefore He was raised up and given a name above every name. What does that mean? It means all that ever came before Him was a testimony of Him, and all who would ever come by Him, as those who were in Him. It’s not just talking about names like John and Harry and Pete. No - a name above every name: that all of His generation, all of His lineage - David is there, Abraham... Before Abraham was, I am. All of these - greater than Solomon. These are the names that are of significance. Bob, Pete, Harry, Tom - what does that mean? The name that is above every name that is named, not only in this world (speaking of the Israeli world, the Old Covenant world), but that which is to come, speaking of the New Covenant world, where WE BEAR HIS NAME. For this reason: that He was obedient to The Anointing. For that reason He was raised up and given a Name; that they all would bow and confess, yes, YOU ARE THE CHRIST! YOU ALONE COULD BEAR THE ANOINTING! Hear The Redeemed sing that in Revelation 5:9-10. Hear them sing that: "Thou alone art worthy, Thou alone hath redeemed us out of every kindred, nation and tongue - THOU ALONE!" They are singing it to The Lamb because The Lamb bore The Anointing to its end, to its finish. To Him is given the Name King of Peace, King of Righteousness (Hebrews 7) and King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Look at this King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Look at the picture of Him in Revelation 19:11-16. See what the picture of Him there is. " And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse..." And any time the term is used "I saw heaven opened", this means we are about to see a picture of Christ, we are about to see a view of Him. "...and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself." What I’ve been telling you is all summed up here in this picture - NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME. " And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean." And the armies "in heaven" are those that are IN CHRIST. "And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." Where is He ruling? He’s ruling in the heavens; that’s where it’s all seen. He’s ruling in the heaven, His armies are in the heaven, His kingdom is in the heaven. We manifest that in the earth. Now what this is, is the result of The Anointing - He is given a Name, He is exalted, because He alone could bear The Anointing to its appointed end.

Hebrews 8 sums it up quite nicely, and it is written as a summation. "Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: WE HAVE such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." Here’s the sum of it all: we have such a High Priest! That’s been the comparison all the way through, and now the sum is - we have such a High Priest. He goes on in chapter 9:11, " But Christ BEING COME an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building." Now the term "good things to come" are the good things to come under the Old Covenant, which good things are NOW COME IN CHRIST! The comparison here is between the things that are a type and the things of reality. It’s not saying to you and I there are good things "yet to come"; the "good things to come" are fulfilled! "But Christ BEING COME, an high priest of good things to come." If He has come, a High Priest of things to come, then those things are come with Him! And that’s what the whole point is. "...by a greater and more perfect tabernacle..." What do you think that is? It’s His Body! "...not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building." The word there in the Greek is ‘not of this creation’. Verse 24, " For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, NOW to appear in the presence of God for us." NOW! The word "presence" there also means "face". He appears there for us as those who are dead (according to Colossians) and whose life is hid with Christ in God. He there appears not on His own behalf, but on behalf of His Own Body which is in Him.

There’s no indication here of Him being in one place and we being in another - not at all! What would be the need for that? That’s back under the Old Covenant. No - we have such a High Priest. Well, continue in Hebrews 10:19, " Having therefore, brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way..." Oh yes, to enter. He bore The Anointing to the very end. Now this is The Anointing which now worketh in His Body. Let’s look at Psalms 133:1, " Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" We must understand that we have to take this word "unity" right over to Ephesians 4:13. "It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore." Then Zechariah 4:14. We know the story: the golden candlestick, the two fold supply. When the question is asked: what meaneth these things? The Spirit told him it means just this: verse 6, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." It comes to verse 14, "Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth."

This Anointed One. I’ve read a number of Bible scholars and Hebrew language scholars, and according to the language this is true. This Anointed One - it is translated by some as "The Oily One". Totally smeared, totally covered, The Oily One. Now remember The Oily One is pictured over here as being two olive trees and these golden pipes going into this lampstand. This Oily One is the substance. Here’s the point: He is the substance of the light and the life of the lampstand. It is getting its substance from Him: He’s the substance of it. That’s what the story is here. But He is described as The Anointed, The Oily One. Jesus says it is upon this understanding of Me that I will build My Church: The Christ, The Anointed. This Oily One or this Anointed One is in His Anointing TWO FOLD. He is King and He is Priest. He is not a King and a Priest: He is King and Priest: He is The Life and Light of His candlestick, The Church, which is His Body, the fulness of Him who fills all. "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."

1 Corinthians 1:23-31, " But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord," "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Anointing, by My spirit, saith The Lord." Now you see this same One standing in Revelation 1; this same One that was in Zechariah is seen in Revelation, the same One standing in His Church in Revelation 1:12-20. And what does He say? You see His description, but then verse 17 and 18, "...I am he that liveth, and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore." I am He that liveth: that is, none liveth but Me. And as I said, that doesn’t mean I’m one among many who live. No, I am He that liveth.

Folks, because He bore The Anointing to its finish, to its completion "I am He that liveth. I was dead." He was obedient unto The Cross. He bore The Anointing unto its end, consecrated, the scripture says, for evermore! "...and behold, I am alive for evermore. Death hath no power over Me. I have the keys of death and the grave." It’s because He bore The Anointing, because HE bore The Anointing. THE ANOINTING WORKS IN US ONLY TO THE REMAINING OF HIM. Let’s look at 1 John 2:20, "But ye have an unction..." Now if you look this word up in a Bible dictionary, you will find it is exactly the same word as the word "anointing" in verse 27. "But ye have an unction, an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know..." And "know" there means ‘able to see, your eyes have been anointed, your eyes have come under The Anointing; it’s smeared all over you, and you are able to see, able to know. "...all things." See, this is the gathering up of all things in Him. What does it say? "That in the dispensation of the fulness of time He might gather together in One all things." And that’s exactly what He does: He sums everything up in This One. He gathered it up in This One. Verse 21, "I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is The Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son." Verse 26, "These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."

Now, I’ve summed this up in this statement: THE ANOINTING WORKING IN US ONLY TO THE REMAINING OF HIM. And what he is saying here is not that we shouldn’t teach each other or instruct one another in the scripture, or in righteousness or holiness, or edify one another in The Word. No, what he’s saying here is there are those who try to seduce you; and because of The Anointing that is in you, you don’t have to have anybody teach you WHO IS THE CHRIST. That’s what this is all about - Who is The Christ? You don’t need anybody to teach you that. You don’t need anybody to bring you to The Truth - The Anointing that is in you declares Him. The Anointing that is in you declares The Anointed. If you have that Anointing of Him it remaineth and teaches you, and you need no man to tell you Who is, and Who is not The Christ. The Anointing that is in you tells you that!

So these verses then are under the heading that through The Anointing working in us it is only to the remaining of Him, or to the remaining of only Him. You can read Philippians 3:7-14; it is all speaking of a working in you. Here Paul calls it the power of the resurrection. But what is it that the power of the resurrection works in Paul? "Making me conform to His death." "That I may know Him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings... (that’s His Cross)...being made conformable unto His death." So that we may stand in the full realization of The Resurrection: "that I may attain to that resurrection from among the dead." Of course with Paul he’s talking about passing from the bondage of Old Covenant Israel to the freedom of New Covenant Israel in Christ Jesus, and being there without any restrictions at all upon him of the Law. That’s what he’s talking about.

Colossians 1:24-29 says principally the same thing. Verse 29 ends in saying "according to his power, which worketh mightily in me." But look at the result of it, look at what that power is doing, and it all comes down to his saying in verse 29, ‘ I strive to know Him, I want to know Him, I purpose to know Him’ "for which also I strive according to His power, which worketh in me mightily." Then you’ll notice also in Ephesians 3:20, "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." Yes, according to the power that worketh in us. Then 2 Corinthians 4:7-12, " But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you."

Sure, The Anointing! THE ANOINTING IS PURPOSED FOR THE RELEASE OF LIFE! But The Anointing is unto death. Life is the result, resurrection is the result. See, that’s why ONLY HE could bear The Anointing. If The Anointing was just to come upon you to make you some great something or another, everybody that came along would have wanted to bear it! And of course that’s the way it’s taught today and everybody wants it. But The Anointing is unto death, that He and He only remains. He and He only bore The Anointing unto its complete and perfect end. He and He alone is The Christ of God. We are The Body of Christ. He is THE CHRIST.

And 2 Corinthians 5:1-5, " For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit." The Anointing working in you, to that end, which is finished in Christ. Glory to God! I may get excited every now and then, but I’m glad The Anointing is more than excitement. It works deeper than excitement! And in the midst of sorrow it brings joy; in the midst of death it brings life. Hallelujah to God for The Anointing! I trust that we have a different picture than perhaps we have had of The Christ, The Son of The Living God; how He comes to rightfully bear that title because He bore The Anointing. And He bore it unto its end. And you and I are a result of that. Blessed be The Lamb of God! Amen.