John 1:16-17 (Amplified) tells us, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
Religion has taught us that, "Some are special and endowed with more than others." We've been taught that the Father has "favorites" among the Body of Christ and that's why some have it, while others don't. The above scripture declares that, "We have all been Blessed and we have all been supplied with, all these things in Jesus.
When we were made new creation sons and daughter in Christ Jesus, 2Corinthians 5:17 says that, "We inherited all of these potentials from our Heavenly Father." We now have the Spiritual DNA of God, in our new spirits. Most haven't understood what happened when we were born-again. We were born-again into the Life of God again. Adam's transgression in the Garden of Eden, caused mankind to become detached or dead in spirit and separated from the Holy Spirit of God. The only ones would could function by God's Spirit, were those who were anointed by God (like Elijah).
Certain men were anointed as prophets, kings, priests and judges. Only those were were "called," could be used by God. In the new creation family of God, we are ALL anointed by the new birth of and into God's Spirit. 1John 2:20,27 (Amplified) say, "But you have been anointed by, you hold a sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from the Holy One and you know ALL the Truth, or you know all things." Verse 27 says, "But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction), which you have received from Him abides PERMANENTLY in you; so then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is True and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in) never depart from Him, being rooted in Him knit to Him, Just as His anointing has taught you to do."
There are many more scriptures that teach us that we've not only been anointed, but that Anointing lives in us, by the Holy Spirit. This isn't referring to the Gifts of the Spirit, found in 1Corinthians 12, but is in reference to the Very Spirit Who gives these Gifts. The Holy Spirit now lives in and has anointed you, by His indwelling Presence.
Many haven't discerned or understood how to hear the Holy Spirit in their lives, most likely because we're still much more carnal than Spiritual, in our Christian walk. The anointing or unction from and by the Holy Spirit, is the same anointing and unction that came upon the men of the old covenant, in order to perform what God needed said and done. The anointing doesn't come upon the new creation men and women, but it has come inside and has been infused into our new spirit. We've actually been made one with and in Him.
It's difficult for the Holy Spirit to move within men, who are still mostly carnal in their minds and thinking. Paul commented on this in 1Corinthians 1:6 (Amplified), saying, "Yet when we are among the full-grown, spiritually mature Christians who are ripe in understanding, we do impart a higher Wisdom, the knowledge of the Divine Plan previously hidden; but it is indeed not a wisdom of this present age or of this world nor of the leaders and rulers of this age who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away."
Paul also writes in 1Corinthians 3:1-2 (Amplified), "However, Brethren, I could not talk to you as to spiritual men, but as to non-spiritual men of the flesh in whom the carnal nature predominates, as to mere infants in the new Life in Christ unable to talk yet. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet strong enough to be ready for it, but even yet you are not strong enough to be ready for it."
Galatians 6:7-8 (Amplified) says, "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked) by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside; He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God; For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality), will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap Eternal Life."
Even the new creatures in Christ Jesus will only reap from whatever the lower nature is able to provide, which is decay and ruin, if we continue walking only in the carnal realm. God is not mocked. He can only do or produce from "good seed," and not from what the world provides. God's Word tells us that, "Whatever we sow, is what we will reap."
Don't be deluded or deceived, by what is produced in the lives of some Christians you might know. God isn't mocked and He can only do what His Word (Seed) says. If you're receiving a crop of decay, ruin or destruction, then don't be deceived. You're sowing to the lower nature (the flesh), by carnal understanding and you're reaping decay from the lower nature.
God will not be mocked! When ruin comes into your life, don't say, "God is doing it." Whatever we sow, that and only that, is what we reap. This comes from not knowing who and what we are in Christ and what we've received from Him. We've become new creation beings, but we continue walking in the old carnal, lower nature and are reaping destruction in our lives. We have deceived ourselves through religious reasoning, which can only bring forth ruin and heartache.
Everyone in the Body of Christ is anointed by and through His anointing. No one has been left out, according to 1Corinthians 6:17 (Amplified) which says, "But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one Spirit with Him." We cannot become one with Him in Spirit and not become one also with His Anointing. This Anointing is His Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Anointing and you are one in Him and with Him, in Christ Jesus.
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