Now, if you might have noticed
in the past, I don't know, couple of months, we've sung a lot of
songs about the Holy Spirit. It's because just about every
week I've told Brother Art, I'm going to try to preach from this
passage, and I end up preaching for something else. And so that's
why we've been singing those songs. But Lord willing, this
morning I think I finally have the message. We saw here, first
of all, God commanded a holy anointing oil be made from the
very best, most costly spices and olive oil. When you read
here, verse 22, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take thou
also unto thee principal spices, pure myrrh, 500 shekels, of sweet
cinnamon, half so much, even 250 shekels, no sweet calamus,
250 shekels, of cassia, 500 shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary,
and of olive oil, a hen, that's a measurement, and thou shalt
make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the
art of the apothecary. It shall be a holy anointing
oil. And then God chose and commanded what was to be anointed with
this oil. God chose and declared what was
to be anointed with this oil. And look what he chose. Thou
shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and
the ark of the testimony, and the table and all his vessels,
the candlestick and its 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's what applying
this oil, anointing, rubbing everything with this oil, anointing
it, giving it this unction, it sanctified it, set it apart for
God's use. Ceremonially, in type of picture,
it purified it, perfected it, consecrated it. He says, thou
shalt sanctify them that they may be most holy. Whatsoever
toucheth them shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint Aaron and
his sons and consecrate them. That's what this anointing did,
it consecrated them ceremonially. That they may minister unto me
in the priest's office. And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, this shall be a holy anointing oil
unto me throughout your generation. And then God gave some prohibitions
concerning this oil. He said, verse 32, upon man's
flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you make any other
like it after the composition of it. It is holy and it shall
be holy unto you. Whosoever compoundeth any like
it or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger shall even
be cut off from his people. Now do we need to make some oil
and have some holy anointing oil? No. This was under the old
covenant, under the covenant of works, and we know from the
scriptures that everything under this old covenant pictured and
typified God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit,
and His salvation in Christ. That's what was pictured in these
things. Now here, particularly, this oil typifies the Holy Spirit
and his work of making his people holy. It pictures the Holy Spirit
and his work of making his people holy, of sanctifying his people,
purifying his people, setting his people apart, consecrating
his people, purifying his people. That's what we mean by made holy.
That's what the Spirit of God does. Now, why the need for this? God is holy. Please hear this. Please understand this. God is
not like who we naturally think God is like. God is holy. That's his essence. That's who
he is. That's his nature. God is holy. That means he's perfect. He's
pure. He's separate. He's higher than
all. He's unlike any sinner. He's
unlike any idol. that we imagine, any God we create
in our minds, the true God's nothing like that. He's nothing
like anything you and I can imagine. He says in Hosea 11, nine, I
am God and not man. The Holy One in the midst of
thee. The Holy One. He said in Isaiah
40, 25, to whom then will you liken me or shall I be equal? We can't make any objects, any
idolatrous objects to try to liken it to God because God says,
who you gonna liken me to? Or of whom shall I be equal,
saith the Holy One. God's glorious in holiness. That
means all his perfections and all his works are glorious. His
holiness makes everything he does to be glorious. He's holy. He is the rock. His work is perfect. You and I can't even really enter
into what that is because nothing we do has ever been anywhere
close to perfect. His work is perfect. All his
ways are judgment. A God of truth and without iniquity. Just and right is he. Now everything
God is in holiness, you and I are just the opposite by nature.
We're unholy. Every sinner fell in Adam and
became guilty before God and with his nature, Adam's fallen
nature is how we were born. It was passed from father to
father to father to father to child, father to child, father
to child, down to you. You come into this world with
a nature that is unholy, spiritually dead, unable to comprehend God
and who God is. God has to make you holy. He
has to purify you. He has to set you apart from
all others. He has to draw you to himself
and give you an understanding and make you know him or you
can't know God. Well preacher, that takes it
out of my will. Salvation's not by your will, it's by God's will.
I will be merciful to whom I will be merciful, God said. Salvation
is by God's will. God has to be willing. It's not
of him that will, nor of him that runneth. It's of God that
showeth mercy. And because we're unholy, because
we're so obnoxious to God, this is what scripture says about
God. God is of purer eyes than to behold evil. He cannot look
on iniquity. Imagine if you were that holy
that you couldn't even look at evil. So in order for a sinner to be
holy, God has to make us holy. Get this. I just said a profound,
mysterious statement that this world of religion knows nothing
about. This world is telling sinners
they have to make themselves holy. God starts it, but it's
up to you and a co-effort to take it further and progress
it along. God makes his people holy, and
God gets all the glory. When God says, be ye holy, for
I am holy, He is the one who must make you holy. You know,
God also says, believe on me. But God says, you'll never do
it till I give you faith to do it. And then you can't not do
it. And when he makes you holy, you
can't not walk in holiness because he's made you holy. And he keeps
you holy. This holy anointing oil typifies
the Holy Spirit and his work of making his people holy. All right, now let's look at
it in three parts. We're gonna look at the ingredients
of this oil, we're gonna look at the anointing, and then the
prohibition. Now first of all, this oil was
made of four principal spices. They were compounded together
and they were put in about four quarts of olive oil. And that's
how it was used to rub down everything in the tabernacle, all the furniture,
all the vessels, everything. Look at it here now, when God
says something, he gives you the ingredients to something.
He doesn't just do that for no reason. These things mean something. When you look up how they grow,
you look up what their names mean, you look up what they produce,
these are ways he's showing you types and shadows of the Holy
Spirit and of his work. Now he begins here and he says,
the Lord spake to Moses saying, take thou also unto the principal
spices. That word principal means head. It means the most excellent spices,
the very best spices. And they were measured in exact
amounts by cost according to the exact shekel of the sanctuary. Now, in God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Today I'm talking mainly about
God the Holy Spirit. But when we talk about God the
Holy Spirit, we're talking about God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit. And in particular, we're gonna
talk mainly about Christ. You see, we don't worship four
gods or three gods, we worship one God, just one God. So when
we talk about any one of the persons of God, we're talking
about our God. Our God is holy. And in God the
Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit manifest in Christ
in a body, there is the measure of perfect holiness. perfect holiness. And that is
the most costly, valuable thing a sinner has in his possession,
is the Holy Spirit of God. The most valuable thing. It's
having the life of God in you. Without it, you don't. You don't
have spiritual life. You have life and he gave you
that life and he sustains that life, but you don't have spiritual
life. You're not in union with God. You're not in communion with
God. And you can't know what that is unless he gives you of
his spirit. It's the most costly, valuable,
priceless thing a sinner has. The very most. Now, since the
Holy Spirit was poured out on Christ without measure. Scripture
says, thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness, speaking
of Christ. God the Father said, thou lovest righteousness and
hatest wickedness, therefore God thy God hath anointed thee
with oil of gladness above thy fellows. The Holy Spirit was
poured out on Christ without measure. He became a servant,
he became a man, and as a man, he is God, but as a man, he put
himself totally in the place of his people. So everything
his people needed, he needed. And so God anointed him with
the Holy Spirit. He anointed him. He didn't need
it because he was sinful, he's not. But the Holy Spirit entered
that body, formed for him, and that spirit, the Holy Spirit
is, when we look at these things that describe the Holy Spirit,
we see the Spirit of Christ. We see his spirit in these things.
And that's what we're going to focus on mainly. He said, the
spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit
of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord, and shall make him
of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. He shall not
judge after the sight of the eyes. That's how we judge mostly. He won't judge, he won't reprove
after the hearing of his ears. but with righteousness shall
he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the
earth, and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked, and righteousness
shall be the girdle of his loins. His very being shall be righteousness,
faithfulness the girdle of his reins. The bride said of Christ,
all thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the
ivory palaces where they whereby they've made thee glad. So all
these spices here, they describe the Holy Spirit and they describe
Christ because he had the Holy Spirit poured on him without
measure. So we're gonna focus mainly on Christ here. He said
when the spirits come, he's gonna bear witness of me. So if we're
gonna talk about the spirit, we're gonna talk about Christ.
All right, so first of all, we see here that it was pure myrrh,
pure myrrh. That word pure means it came
from the tree freely of itself. It distilled from the tree freely
of itself. It didn't have to cut it, didn't
have to make any incision, didn't have to force it to come out.
It came out of the tree by itself. It was pure myrrh. And it was
bitter and it was fragrant. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ did
all his work willingly, freely. He didn't have to be coerced,
he did it all willingly. Just like this pure myrrh, willingly,
freely distilled out of the tree of itself, Christ willingly did
everything he did when he walked this earth. He willingly came
down from glory and took flesh like unto his brethren. Our Lord
Jesus willingly put himself under the law, made himself of no reputation,
willingly became a servant to serve God as his people. He willingly was obedient to
God and went to the cross and laid down his life. He said,
no man takes my life from me. No man's murdering me. No man's
coercing me to die. I'm laying down my life of myself. I have the power to lay it down.
I have the power to take it up again. He had the power, when
he was pleased, when the work was finished, Christ is the only
man that ever walked this earth who could say, now spirit, depart
from me, and I trust it into the hands of the Father. No other
man can do that. You can't just will your spirit
to leave you. Christ could. He willingly laid down his life. He willingly did everything he
did. It had to be willing. He had
to be doing it. It wouldn't have been obedience
if he was made to do it. He had to be willing to do it. And he was. And by his blood,
he justified his people. He took away our sins. And the
way he did that is this pure myrrh was bitter. And the way
Christ did that, he willingly drank the bitter cup of God's
wrath instead of his people. That bitter cup of being made
sin for us, him who knew no sin, being made sin for us that we
might be made the righteousness of God, he drank that bitter
cup. The bitter cup of God's wrath
upon him, he drank that bitter cup. And he comes to us, this
pure myrrh was fragrant, and he perfumes us in his righteousness,
his fragrance, which is a sweet-smelling savor to God. And then we see
here there was sweet cinnamon. This comes from a word meaning
to erect. If you look this up in your Strong's
Concordance, sweet cinnamon means to erect. Christ Jesus, through
the Spirit of God, is the builder of God's house. He's the builder
of God's house. Sweet cinnamon is really hot
to the taste. It's hot to the taste. Our Lord
was neither cold Nor was he lukewarm. In everything he did, he was
zealous. In everything he did, he pleased
God. And he's the one who brings his
people out, he sends the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God
quickens and he draws his people and makes you a living stone. And he builds you up and erects
his house, and he is the chief cornerstone. He's the builder. He's the one that does it. He
did it by satisfying God by his obedience. In Song of Solomon,
we're described as a garden. The church is described as a
garden. A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring
shut up, a fountain sealed. This is what we're described
at. And in it, there's plants. There's an orchard of pomegranates.
There's pleasant fruits. There's camphor with spikenard.
There's spikenard and saffron. and there's calamus and cinnamon
with all the trees of frankincense, myrrhs, and aloes, and all the
chief principle best spices because you have the spirit of God in
you. You have the spirit of Christ in you. That's the description
there of an orchard with all these beautiful trees and these
best spices within it because of Christ and the spirit of God. Now, the third thing we see here
is calamus. And when I looked up on this,
it grows from a fragile reed, a very fragile reed that's just
easily broken, and it's full of fragrance. Now, God's people
in the scriptures are described as bruised reeds. You know when you, we're never
not a bruised reed really, but especially when you're a babe
in Christ and you're learning the Christ, you're just like
a little weak, bruised reed. A bruised reed is a weak little
reed that you just snap it and it breaks. All our days on this
earth, we're nothing more than just bruised reeds, fragile reeds. But Christ came to where we are
and took flesh and he's experienced what it's like. He knows the
spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. He knows what it is
to be a fragile reed. And the other thing scripture
describes us as is smoking flax. Smoking flax is like the wick
of the candle, the oil comes up in and when you snuff it out
and it just smokes, you know how it smokes and it's stinky?
That's what we're described as. A stinking smoking thing. Not
burning it on fire and zealous, but just a little smoke that
stinks. But the scripture says Christ
will never break the bruised reed and he won't put out the
smoking flax. Because he's been here. He knows
where we walk. He knows what we experience.
He knows we're dust. And instead of breaking the bruised
reed, he gives strength to the bruised reed. Instead of quenching
the smoking flax, he perfumes us with his fragrance, making
us smell good to God instead of obnoxious like an abomination.
And then you have Cassia here. When Cassia grows, it gets so
tall and it has a big crown on it and it bends over and it grows
low to the ground because the crown bends it over and so it
grows low to the ground. kingly crown, the kingly crown
of his glory, what shows him as being the great king like
no other king, the golden, beautiful, diamond-covered crown of our
Lord is this. He made himself the very least
to save you and me from our sins. to please the Father. That's
the crown of glory. Remember he said, whoever's least
in the kingdom of heaven is the greatest. That's his crown. That's his crown. He came low,
he came the lowest, and he served God in place of his people. There
was no pride in him, there was no arrogance in him, there was
no haughtiness in him. He did what he did from a pure
motive of humility before God, and he wears the crown. Nobody
ever stooped as low as Christ did. And then that olive oil,
as you know, is made from, you have to bruise the olive, and
squeeze out the oil. That's how the oil comes forth. The Holy Spirit's called the
oil of gladness, because He makes you glad. And the Holy Spirit
is sent and we're anointed, God's people are anointed and drawn
to Christ in faith through Christ's cross. That means through Christ's
coming and being bruised in place of His people. the oil of gladness
comes out from Christ and goes to his people. Remember he said,
he said, if I don't go away, the comforter won't come to you.
He said, but if I go away, I'm going to send him. Where was
he going? He was going to the cross. He
was going to be bruised in place of his people. He was bruised
for our iniquities, Isaiah said. And just like an olive is bruised
and the oil comes out of that bruised olive, Christ went to
the cross and was bruised in the room instead of his people
under the justice of God so that through him, from him, the oil
of gladness flows out to his people. Remember, I pointed this
out to you. When we were looking at Titus
3, we're washed in regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost,
the Holy Spirit, the oil of gladness. We're washed and regenerated
and renewed. How? It shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ. Through Him being bruised, that
Spirit is sent to His people. And it must be. It says that
being justified by His grace, having been justified by Christ,
we should be born and made heirs of God. We shall be. Everybody
that He was bruised for must and shall be sanctified by the
Holy Spirit of God in the washing of regeneration and renewing
of the Holy Ghost. It's a must. It's a must. So you see, when you read something
like these ingredients here, you don't just skip over them
because God didn't just give them for no reason. They picture
something. And you just kind of have to
look at what the name means and how they grew and what they produced. And from that, you see little
glimpses of the Holy Spirit and glimpses of Christ. And you also,
because we're born of the Spirit of God and have the Spirit of
Christ in us, these things we see here that show us the virtues
of Christ, they also show you some of the virtue of the Lord's
people in measure. He makes us willing, He makes
us zealous, He makes us humble, He makes us gentle, He makes
us kind, He makes us comforters. This is what He does through
the Spirit, through the new man created in you. That new man
When you are born of the Spirit, that new man is created after
God. That means it is recreated in
the image of God. We are renewed, scripture says,
in the knowledge of God. in knowledge after the image
of Him that created the new man. So this new man is Christ in
you, and that can't be anything but holy, real true holiness,
because Christ is holy. And you know, when he came into
the tabernacle, when his presence entered the holiest of holies,
we're gonna see this a little later, that whole place was sanctified. That whole place was made special,
it was set apart, it was purified, it was consecrated for him only
because his presence was there. And when he enters into a center,
that becomes the case. The holiness of our new man is
just not something we have of ourself. It is Christ in you. He's that holiness in his people,
the Spirit of God. Now secondly, let's look here,
God's commandment that all that he chose be anointed by the oil. Now I'm not gonna read all this,
but you see it was the tabernacle itself, the Ark of the Testimony,
all the furniture, and the priests, everything had to be covered
with this oil, everything. And it was God who declared what
would be anointed. God the Father sanctifies his
people in divine election. Just like he chose what would
be anointed and set apart, God the Father set apart his people,
consecrated us for his holy use, and made us holy by choosing
us in Christ before the foundation of the world. That we should
be holy and without blame before him in love, according as he
chose us in Christ. And then the fullness of time,
Christ came forth. He's pictured in the tabernacle,
the ark, all those altars and all the labor, all of that pictured
Christ. He came forth and he was anointed
with the all above measure. And he walked in our room instead
and did the works that his people could not do. And scripture says,
by him doing the will of God, we're sanctified by one offering.
By Him giving Himself an offering, He perfected His people forever,
those that God had sanctified. Our sanctification is God the
Father. Our sanctification is the Son, Christ Jesus, who did
the work in time. And then, Scripture says of Him that He
loved the church and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify
and cleanse it. with the washing of water by
the word that he might present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should
be holy and without blemish. He gets the glory for this, Christ
does. As a prophet, the word he declares
is holy and it gives us most holy faith. As the priest, he's
holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners in his intercession,
is for us and makes us holy and accepted in his righteousness
and holiness. And as a king, he's gonna rule
this world in a holy way. He's not gonna judge after the
sight or after the hearing of the ear. He's gonna judge in
righteous judgment. Everything he does is holy. And
then everybody that's sanctified by the Father and the Son will
be sanctified by the Holy Spirit of God. Now this is how we come
into the experience of our sanctification and begin to understand something
about it. The Holy Spirit enters in, when all of those things
were rubbed down with that oil, to rub means, to anoint means
to rub. That was, anoint is the same
word used for the unction. So when all of that oil was put
on those things, God said, it's most holy. God said it, it's
most holy. Now that was all in ceremony,
but when the Spirit of God does this, it is a real thing. God
says, that one's pure. He's holy. He's separated from
me. He's consecrated to me. He's
set apart for my use. And He's pure. And God can receive
you. Because you've got to be holy
to be accepted of God. You've got to be perfect to be
accepted of God. Now God can receive us as we come in Christ
our holiness. The holy God our Father can receive
us. It's all of God. We can't take
any credit for this. No credit. He sends the Spirit
through Christ's blood to whom God the Father chose, and we're
sanctified, and we're made most holy to Him, and we're consecrated
to Him, and there's only one that gets the glory. That's our
God. We can't take glory for any of this. God alone gets the
glory for it. We can't make ourselves holy,
we can't make ourselves holy priests, and we can't minister
before God and be accepted of God except God make us holy. He said, you sanctify Aaron and
his sons so they can minister before me. Otherwise, God wouldn't
receive them. And he said, if anybody comes
in this place, anybody that touches these things, they better be
holy. Cause you gotta be holy. You see, God's showing us to
come into his presence, you gotta be perfect. To offer him anything,
it has to be perfect. To worship him, it has to be
perfect. When we come in here, we call
this a worship service, we can't worship unless God sanctifies
it. It's gotta be holy for God to receive it. It's got to come
up in the spirit, in Christ, before it's pleasing to God.
We can't even sing to God without God sanctifying it, to make it
so he can receive it. It's just that, it's that important,
brethren. That's why we say having the
Spirit, this thing is, it's essential. It's essential. You can't even
worship God without it. Now lastly, I want you to see
this. God also gave a prohibition concerning this oil. He prohibited
something. He said in verse 32, upon man's
flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you make any other
like it after the composition of it. It is holy, it shall be
holy unto you. God said it's holy to me and
it should be holy to you. He said, whosoever compoundeth
any like it or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger shall
even be cut off from his people. That's serious business. This
oil was not to be used commonly. That's what it means. You know,
at feasts, when you come in, your guest of honor or just a
guest, they would wash your feet and they would anoint you with
oil. God said, don't use this oil for that. That's what he's
saying. Don't put this on just any flesh. Don't use this oil
for that. It's not for that. This oil is
holy. It should be holy to you. It's set apart. It has a special
use, and it's only for coming into my tabernacle, making these
things holy, and making you holy so you can minister before me. And so nothing about grace and
nothing about this work of the Holy Spirit is common. Nothing
about it's common. God didn't choose to save all
men, Christ didn't die for all men, and the Holy Spirit is not
poured out on all men. God's grace is particular. God's
grace is saving. God's Spirit is anointing. When
He sets to make somebody holy, He makes a particular people
holy, and He gets the job done. And he does, the anointing, the
unction of the Holy Spirit is for God's elect alone. It's not for strangers. It's
not for all flesh. In fact, the scripture says that
our flesh, that which is born of flesh, that which is born
of sin is sin. That which is born of a sinful
nature is a sinful nature. That which is born of flesh is
flesh. And the flesh profits nothing. Sanctification, for
one, it's not growing better and more and more and more holy.
It's growing in grace and knowledge of Him. Holiness is, when God
did this to these furniture and everything, it was done. It was
holy. It was holy. And when God, you're
anointed with the Holy Spirit, you are holy. It's a state He
brings you into. Our holiness is Christ at God's
right hand, and in Him we're perfect. Our holiness that's
within us is Christ in you, who is the holiness of the new man.
Christ is the holiness without which no man will see the Lord.
That's got to be so, or the thief on the cross couldn't have entered
paradise that day, because he didn't do one thing. He did not
do one thing, but he had that holiness without which no man
will see the Lord. When it says without which no man will see
the Lord, it doesn't mean holiness without which other men won't
see the Lord in you. It's saying holiness without
which you won't see the Lord. And that thief saw the Lord.
And Christ is that holiness. Because God's gonna get all the
glory for this. We're not gonna get the glory for this. But now
he does, in that, state of holiness, he does grow you in grace, he
increases you in faith, he increases you in knowledge, he increases
you in humility and in love and in mercy and in kindness, and
he increases you in those things. And this is a fact of the matter.
If you've been in the faith a while, There should be some external
sins that you don't commit anymore. There's nothing wrong with saying
that. If that ain't the case, you ain't growing. You don't
go around wearing diapers now, do you? You grew past that, didn't
you? You do grow, and we do grow,
and there are some external sins you put away. There's plenty
of external sins you still commit. And in your nature, there's nothing
but sin. Those are the ones that bother
you the most. But that don't make you one bit
more holy. That don't make you one bit more
holy. When He's translated you out of the kingdom of darkness
into the kingdom of His dear Son, you're in it. When He's
brought you out from darkness into light, you're not in darkness
anymore. When He says He's made you fit
to be a partaker of the inheritance with the saints in light, you're
meet to be a partaker. You're holy. Now you're going
to grow. All living things grow. Babies
grow up to be teenagers, and teenagers grow up to be adults,
and one acts more like the other sometimes. But you're going to
grow, and believers are going to grow. But God's our only holiness. Christ is our only holiness.
And we're not getting more holy. We're not getting more holy.
What that thing of pointing you to something you've put away,
all that does is gender pride. and makes you look at what you've
done instead of what God's done. That's all it does. It should make your calling and
election sure. If those virtues that Peter named be in you, they
will make you that you won't fall, you won't stumble. But
who gave you those virtues? Who's growing you in that grace?
Who's growing you in the knowledge that Christ is your only acceptance
with God? He's your only holiness. And
the more you see Christ the light, and you behold Him and His perfection
and His holiness, the more you're going to see yourself, apart
from Him, as being worse and worse and worse and worse. And so this growth we're talking
about doesn't make you get prouder and prouder and prouder and prouder
and prouder of what you are, It makes you decrease in yourself
and see Him as everything you need. Everything you need. That's
true holiness. That's true holiness. I pray
God will bless that. I do want you to turn to 1 John
2. I want to end with this. I want
to show you one thing. God said, Who shall not fear thee, O Lord,
and glorify thy name? For thou only art holy. He's
our only holiness. Now here's where we get this
and here's what Here's the promise to us, now read this. 1 John
2, get there, hold on. 1 John 2,
verse 20. He said, he talks about those that went out,
but he says, verse 20, but you have an unction from the Holy
One. That means you have the anointing.
You have the anointing. The oil had been applied to you,
the Holy Spirit. You have the anointing, the unction
from the Holy One, and you know all things. I've not written
unto you because you know not the truth, but because you 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. Whosoever denieth the Son, the
same hath not the Father, but he that acknowledgeeth the Son
hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you,
which you've heard from the beginning. If that which you've heard from
the beginning shall remain in you, you shall continue in the
Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that
he's promised us, even eternal life. These things I've written
to you concerning them that seduce you, that would turn you back
to you. but the anointing which you have received of him abideth
in you, and you need not that any man teach you, but as that
same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and
is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, you shall abide in
him. That's who's gonna make us abide
in him. The anointing is gonna make us abide in him. When he
separates you, you're not gonna be unseparated. He gonna keep
you separated to him, and he's the one that does it. Now little
children, abide in him that when he shall appear, we may have
confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If
you know that he's righteous, you know that everyone that doeth
righteousness, we saw what that was, believing on Christ and
loving one another is doing righteousness. If a person does that, you know
he's been anointed. He's been born of God. Amen.