The Anointing Oil Part 1

New English Translation – 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.

Now, first of all, before I read any further, the anointing has got something to do with our being established, right? He who establishes us with you; this is establishment, it’s you, and it’s me, the three all this together. You and me together being built up. And the best translation is being built up. The next word is into. Now then, brethren, here is some real heresy. We are going to really be heretics; let us be heretics today.

Now, he who is building us up with you in the anointed one, and has anointed us, is God.

He who is building us up with you into the anointing, or into the anointed one, and has anointed us, is God.

God builds me up with you and puts us under the anointed one, and we are anointed. Now you say, ‘Just one minute, where do you get ‘we’re being built into the anointed one?” Alright, where did I get that? Does anybody know? The word Christ means ‘the anointed one.’ And if you read it in the Greek, there is a deliberate play on words. And here is the place where we should not transliterate, but we should translate. You do not say, you know, the word baptism means immerse, and sometimes it’s translated immerse, but it’s usually just transliterated. You just take the Greek and rewrite it into English. Here is a place where the verse really has its clarity only in the translation. ‘He who is building you up with me, into the anointed one, and the anointing is God. Now, the anointing is not mentioned much in the New Testament, but it is mentioned always as a building up process. Lord, take us home. Lord, let us see this.

Do you know what the church is? Do you know what the building is? It is the head plus the body. And the Father has the one anointed, Jesus Christ. The oil is poured out upon him, and that oil is poured out upon the head, never poured onto the body, but it’s always poured onto the head and pours down onto the body. The one who does this is the Father. He has anointed the Holy One, and the Holy One pours down upon us, and we are anointed. And we, by being anointed, are the priests to minister Christ, and brother, we are also everything else. We are made holy as the Holy One is poured down upon us. Brother, the anointing oil is poured upon the tabernacle, it is poured upon the altar, it is poured upon the bread, the bread’s utensils; it anoints everything. I can say to you the tabernacle is Christ, and I have to turn right around and say the tabernacle’s the church. How’s that possible? He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. And the church is Christ. That which is in you, and in you, and in you, and in you, and in you, and you, and you, and you, and you. That is the church, it’s the Christ that is in you. Built up together to become the female, the body. And over that body is the head. And the head is the Anointed One, and the anointing from the Anointed One pours down upon the body. As the body is built together and becomes the body, the anointing comes down.

My brothers, I had to remind you that the passage you know we’ve got to get to is 1st John, you have to play down your background. That verse of scripture was not written for you. It was not written for you. It was written for the brothers and sisters. When it says the anointing teaches, brother, don’t you ever think that the anointing teaches you everything, it does not. You say brother, that’s what it says. Yes, but it’s plural. It’s speaking to the brothers and sisters after they have been what? Built up. After they are built up, into the body. The anointing that comes from the Father is onto the head, the Anointed One. He is literally the oil. Pours down upon us, and he anoints us as we are built together.

Do you remember what Paul said in Corinthians? He said, “We build you up, we edify you up.” Listen very, very carefully. Paul said, “I build you up. I edify you.” I edify you; I build you up. Then he said this is what the brothers do when they help the church, they edify the spirit, they help the spirit. What was Paul doing? What was Paul’s edification? Brother, I know. I tell you, I know, Paul’s edification was to teach the brothers and sisters how to live in the Spirit. You have to go back and read Paul. Paul’s building, Paul’s edifying, was building the brothers and sisters up so that they might learn how to live by a higher life. And Paul said there are some who build, but I am the… I’m sorry, I build; the Lord is the master builder. The Lord even takes the building of Paul and sticks it together, completely. Then he said, “I edify her, I build up the saints. I edify them. I teach them to experience the Lord. But then the church builds itself up. Together. The arm and the leg are built together. And they are built up; the church then edifies itself.

There is something in Paul’s saying that is teaching us that there comes a point after the builder has built that the church builds itself up.

I have to stop right here. And I say, brother, this is for Goleta. But brother, ten years from now, don’t forget this. Twenty years from now, don’t forget this; thirty years from now, don’t forget this. The builder builds to a certain point, and then the body being built up together is really after that building itself up. Every joint supplies. Brothers, if we are not faithful to this, we’ll end up being some sort of denomination or sect. There has to be the help. There has to be the builder who builds and edifies and helps the load. But then there comes a time when the church builds itself up. When every joint supplies.

This is what we must have. We must have some men who are faithful to this in the building. And we must have a group of people who are faithful to it, in touching the Lord and then being built up together. And I just say to you, we need a recovery of men who will stop building, who will build and then stop. We need a recovery of the Lord Jesus’ example, when He said, “I must leave you,” that you might have what? The Paraclete, and He will do what? He will do what? He will teach you all things. The Lord Jesus Christ built, and He built, and built, and He stopped building, and He said, “I must leave, that you might have the Holy Spirit, who will teach you all things. “

This is what the Lord wants. This is what He wants from the work, and this is what He wants from the church. He wants a group of people who are willing to be built up. Who will consecrate themselves as the priests did. Who will be built up together. And then He needs some brothers and sisters, in this land and across the earth, who are so ruled by Christ, who will share Christ and point people to Christ, and minister to Christ, and present nothing but Christ. And do what Christ did. Leave, that the Holy Spirit might come and teach all things. The Lord needs some willing vessels. And then the finger will get supply from the hand, and the hand will be supplied by the lower arm, the lower arm will be supplied by the higher arm, the arm will be supplied by the shoulder, and the shoulder will receive its supply from the neck. And brother, it’ll all come from the head. Every joint will supply to some other part of the body. And the toe shall not say ‘finger, I do not need you’. Because each will supply something. But all of the supply will come down from the head. The Lord Jesus Christ wants brothers and sisters who will so touch the Lord and so share Christ that the Church will be built up by the Holy Spirit within, by the anointing oil. By the anointing.