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Your Anointing & Union with Christ • Jun 01st 1969

The Anointing Oil Part 1: The Holy Spirit, Priesthood & God’s House

Gene's Messages to the Church in Isla Vista, CA New Testament Old Testament The Epistles

In this powerful teaching, Gene Edwards unfolds the deep spiritual meaning behind the anointing oil in Exodus and reveals how it points directly to the Holy Spirit and the building up of the Church.

Beginning with Jacob at Bethel, where oil was poured upon the stone, we see the first biblical picture of oil representing the Spirit. When oil is poured upon the stone, it becomes the house of God. This sets the pattern: the Spirit and the building always go together.

Moving into Exodus 25–30, we discover the holy anointing oil used in the tabernacle. This oil was poured upon:

  • The tabernacle
  • The altar
  • The utensils
  • The priests

But most importantly, it was poured upon the head, and flowed down to the body. This reveals a profound New Testament truth: the Father anoints Christ, the Head, and that anointing flows down upon His Body — the Church.

The anointing oil was not merely olive oil. It was compounded with myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, and cassia. These elements symbolize:

  • Myrrh – death
  • Cinnamon and calamus – resurrection life rising out of death
  • Cassia – ascension and enthronement

This means the Holy Spirit dwelling in believers is not merely divine presence — He carries within Him the death of Christ, the resurrection of Christ, and the enthronement of Christ. The anointing in us is the Spirit plus the finished work of Jesus.

The teaching then turns to the priesthood. A priest’s primary calling is not activity, evangelism, or outward work — but ministering to the Lord. In Acts 13, the church at Antioch was fasting and ministering to the Lord when the Holy Spirit said, “Separate unto Me Barnabas and Saul.” Out of ministering to God came world-changing mission.

Gene emphasizes that the Church is built up together under the anointed Head. The anointing teaches corporately as believers are built together into one Body. The oil is never poured directly onto “the flesh” — it flows from the Head downward.

Finally, 1 John 2 declares: “You have an anointing from the Holy One.” The anointing abides. It teaches. It is reality. This anointing is not independent spirituality — it is the corporate life of Christ flowing through a built-up Body.

This message calls believers away from religious activity in the “outer court” and into the Holy Place — where the lamp is lit, the bread is eaten, incense is offered, and Christ is ministered to under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

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But brothers, do you know what came out of Acts 13? What came out of Acts 13? Out of Acts came the line of Antioch. What did Jerusalem do for the great advancement of the kingdom? Very, very little. They got distracted by legal things, being legal, brother, and pushing things, but Antioch just ministered to the Father. That is all they did. Then one day, God got off His throne and said, “I’ll go to work.” And Acts 13 said, “And the Holy Spirit said”.

I have a burden to save the world. I have a burden to have churches all over the earth. And the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Paul and Barnabas.” Now, brothers, they didn’t sit around saying, “Oh boy, praise God, we’re going to save the world, Hallelujah, praise the Lord.” No, they did what God wanted them to do. They ministered to the Lord. Brothers, forget the rest; if you don’t forget the rest, you’ll be distracted. Believe me, if you want to satisfy the Father, you will minister to the Lord. That’s all you will do and let the Lord do the rest.

The hour will come, brothers, if a group of brothers and sisters in this city will minister Jesus Christ and just keep on ministering Jesus, and just burn the incense and eat the bread and light the lamp and go into the Holiest of Holies, then brothers, God will do something. But if you stay in the outer court, where all the work is going on, and where all the noise is, and where all the buying and selling and the effort is, if you stay in the outer court, it will be you doing something for the Lord. And brothers, we will just be what we’ve had for the last 1800 years. God wants a group of people who will just minister Christ. And if there is a group of people in Goleta that do that, it just might be that after much oil and much ministering, the Lord might have a group of people who minister to Him, that He might trust. And He might step down and say…what, I don’t know.  But I’ll tell you this, in this nation, there is no Antioch. In this nation right now, we have no Antioch. Right now, there’s no Antioch. We need some brothers and sisters who just offer praises to the Lord and not be distracted by Jerusalem or anything else. And will just purely minister to the Lord under the anointing. Let the Lord worry about the rest.

Well, anyway, someday we have to look at the priests. What verse did I end with? Verse 30, alright.  …that they may minister unto me as a priest to Me. And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generation’.

Whatever the Lord began here has never ended. Whatever he began with the holy anointing oil, it never ended.  Verse 32 – Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make anything like it after the composition of it; it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.

Okay. Oh, now, I want to stop here and remind you of something that was made out of. It is made out of myrrh, it is made out of cinnamon, calamus, and cassia. Now then, you notice the composition of it isn’t equal. At the beginning, you have 500, and at the end, you have 500, and in the middle, you add it together that makes 500. But it is the cinnamon and the calamus that make up the middle part. And that makes 1500, three 500’s. Well, this is not important now, but there are four elements that are added to the oil. We’re going to come back and see what they are in a little while.

Now let’s go to the New Testament and see the oil. Yes sister?  (I get really confused with the terms. What does it mean that it’s not going to be on the flesh and that it’s going to be on the…) Well, here it is said that it will only be something for the priests. And sister, it is poured on to the head, and from the head it just comes down to the body. You never pour it onto the body. If you do that, then that’s man pouring something onto it. If it comes from the head, it comes down here onto…. If word flesh bothers you, we should just take it for what is said, onto the physical body you will not pour it. You will pour it only on the head. It shall never be poured in any place except on the head.

II Corinthians 1:21 and 22. Two verses here. I would like to hear the RSV, the King James. I would like to hear anything else we’ve got on this verse. I’d like to see who gets, who has the most nerve. RSV, let’s hear it.

But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us; he has put his seal upon us and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

Okay. All right. All right. What else? Who wanted to? What have you got there?

New American Standard – Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

King James – Now he who stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

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