Daily Bread - JAN/07/08
1 John 2:27 - And the anointing that you have received from Him abides in you and you do not need that anyone teach you but just as the anointing teaches you about.
We have received an amazing anointing (chrisma not to be confused with charisma) from God. We have been anointed to be sons of God (John 1:12; 1 John 3:1; Romans 8:14; Galatians 4:6-7; Philippians 2:15). When God gave an anointing He imparted the divine ability to accomplish the task and meet the demands of the office to which one had been anointed whether it was priest, prophet, or king (Exodus 28:41; 29:7; Leviticus 8:12; Psalms 133:2; 1 Samuel 10:1;16:13; 2 Samuel 2:4; 5:3; 1 Samuel 26:11; Psalms 2:2; 1 Kings 19:16). Fundamental to the New Testament is the essential need for us to believe that when we were born of God the very Spirit and nature of Christ was born in us (Colossians 1:27; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:4,15; Ephesians 4:24; 1 Peter 1:23; John 3:5). In that we know that it is the Holy Spirit who has come to teach us and that His Spirit is on the inside of us to give us the divine ability to live the life of Christ then we must also recognize that the anointing also refers to the Holy Spirit as well.
The word Christ (Christos) comes from the word anoint (chiro) from whence anointing (chrisma) is derived. Thus, when we use the word Christ we are talking about the Anointed One. In the book of Daniel (Daniel 9:26) it is this word that is used in the Septuagint to translate Messiah (meshiyach), "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah (chrisma) be cut off, but not for himself" (Cambridge Paragraph Bible). Today those who have been transformed by the power of God through the faith that is in Christ Jesus have received the anointing of the Anointed One. We have not received the anointing of a priest or king or prophet but the anointing of the Son. When the anointing was imparted to Saul by the Holy Spirit his heart was changed and he became another man with new skills and abilities. When we received the anointing of sonship the Spirit of God came upon us and made us a new creation giving us a new heart and a new spirit of God's own divine nature (Ezekiel 36:26-27; 2 Peter 1:4). He gave us a heart and a spirit that is joined unto the Lord and made one heart and one spirit with Him (1 Corinthians 6:17; John 17:21- 22; 1 Corinthians 12:13). The anointing that we have received from Him has empowered us to be conformed to the image of the Son (Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18). It has empowered us to walk even as He walks and to represent Christ Jesus in every way.
Be blessed,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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