April 11, 2005.
40. AN UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE. Please note that the source of the anointing is the living Holy one. He is Holiness personified and is of perfect Holiness. Peter aptly identified the Holy One as being none other than the Lord Jesus. In great boldness, facing the very perpetrators of the disapproval of the Lord Jesus, he identified them as being those who rejected the Holy One. Acts 3:13 The demonic spirits did better at recognizing and acknowledging the Lord Jesus as the Holy One of God. Mark 1:24 It is His good pleasure to lavish upon His church the precious anointing oil of the Holy Spirit. The glorious anointing of the Spirit did not make them a group of smart alecks or a bunch who know-it-all. The knowledge which had been imparted to them was given by the Holy Spirit and pertained to an understanding of the Word of the Lord, the truth. With the teacher there is imparted enlightenment. John wrote his Epistle to a church that had been attack by teachers of false doctrines. He emphasized the fact that they had been taught by the Spirit and that they knew all things, or the truth. He was very emphatic in stating that the Holy Spirit, the source of divine illumination would make the Word understandable to them. Therefore, as they held fast in the Spirit of truth, they would also continue in the Father and the Son. 1 John 2:24 Here again, the unity of the Godhead is brought into view. As the Son and the Spirit are in the Father, so the Father and the Spirit are in the Son and the Father and the Son are in the Spirit. An undivided Triunity.
CONFESSING CHRIST AS SAVIOR AND GOD. God, [that would involve the Father and the Spirit] were in Christ. Through Christ, God was to reconcile a sinful world unto a Holy God, by forgiving, and as far as He is concerned, completely obliterating any memory of their sin. The Lord cannot remember the sin that has been confessed to Him. All the sin which has been placed under the blood of Christ. His loss of memory is an act of His grace. 2 Cor. 5:18-19 The assurance of the abiding presence of the Lord in the spirit nature of man is according to our confession of Him. If we are willing to acknowledged that Jesus is indeed, the Son of God, then the Lord will dwell in us and we in Him. Indeed, a most precious promise. It assures us of His abiding presence which we so desperately need in this world of unrighteousness. 1 John 4:15 What confidence and blessed assurance that He dwells IN US. Rest assured in this that greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. Strength and power accompany His presence. How sincerely we should seek after that full and complete infilling of the Spirit and most graciously welcome that mighty presence into our lives. 1 John 4:4 In the fullness of the Spirit which is Christ in you, the Lord equips and completely arms His people to do battle in the spirit world as well as in every day situations. The same glory that has been granted unto the Son by the Father has been given to His church. A beautiful part of that glory is the unity that exists in the Godhead. Jesus prayed that His church would become one, a unit, as closely bound together as the Godhead. John 17:22 It was the prayer of the Lord Jesus and it shall come to pass.