the Christian Life -3

Message Title: The Intrinsic Significance and Revelation of the Compound Ointment as the Holy Anointing Oil - a Full Type of the Compound, All-inclusive Spirit of the Processed Triune God

5 major points missed by most Christian theologies: 

1. the Spirit that gives life was not yet before the glorification, the resurrection of Jesus

2. the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit. 

3. the compound Spirit typified by the anointing oil in Exodus 30

4. the Spirit of life, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, Christ Himself, and the indwelling Spirit in Romans 8, all refer to the compound Spirit that gives life

5. the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God, the Seven Spirits

the Christian life is altogether a matter of the Spirit. No Spirit, no Christian life. we cannot live a Christian life without the Spirit. what is the Christian life? the Christian life is the acting and moving of the compound Spirit, the processed Triune God. Everything that God is, God has, and God wants to do within His people, is impossible and will not happen without this Spirit. 

our need today is to live the real Christian life. our living the Christian life has something to do with the Lord's coming. if the Lord cannot gain His bride, He cannot return. if the Body of Christ does not have a certain reality, expressed and manifested on this earth, the Lord cannot come back. what is the reality of that bride, that Body of Christ? it is the corporate Christian life lived out by all of us, His believers. 

I. The holy anointing oil, a compound ointment of olive oil and four spices, "compounded according to the work of a compounder," is a full type of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the compound, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit of the processed Triune God, whom Christ became through His death and resurrection

the significances of the ingredients of this compound anointting oil are:

1. flowing myrrh: signifies the precious death of Christ. every other human being's death is ugly and terrible. but the death of Christ is sweet, precious, and flowing. 

2. fragrant cinnamon: siginifies the sweetness and effetiveness of Christ's death. cinammon was prescribed to stimulate a weak heart. when we apply the Lord's death in the Spirit to our inner being, our heart is stimulated to make us happy and joyful in the Lord. there are many situations in our human life, we are unhappy and full of complainings and murmurings. but these are also the opportunities for us to apply the Lord's death, to allow the Lord to be fragrant cinnamon to us to stimulate our heart. 

3. fragrant calamus: signifies the precious resurrection of Christ

4. cassia: signifies the repelling power of Christ's resurrection

5. olive oil: signifies the Spirit of God

this compound Spirit typified for the compound ointment in Exodus 30, is, of course, for our life and Christian life. but what is our Christian life for ? our Christian life is not just for our own spirituality, or spiritual accomplishment, but for God's building. 

II. the compound ointment, the holy anointing oil, was used to anoint the tabernacle with all its furniture, the altar with all its utensils, the laver and its base, and the priests, to make all these things holy, separated, sanctified, to God for His divine purpose

this ointment signifies the Triune God processed and consummated through Christ's incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection to become the all-inclusive compound Spirit to reach His chosen and redeemed people and to anoint them with Himself, making Himself one with them and making them one with Him. 

the ointment was used to anoint the tabernacle, the furniture, and the priests, which means that the Spirit was applied to the building, to the serving ones. all of these is to make the tabernacle with those who serve it holy like God, sanctified to be as God in His divine nature. all of these is for the fulfillment of the divine purpose. we must have this reality in the church life today. 

such an anointing, being the moving of the compound Spirit within us, applies t us and also adds all the elements of the processed and consummated Triune God into our inner being so that our inner man may grow in the divine life with the divine elements and we may be mingled with God as one. our real growth in life actually is the addition of God into our being. the more God is added into us, the more His divine elements is added into us, the more we grow in the divine life. 

III. the Spirit of God, signified by olive oil, is no longer merely oil, but now it is oil compounded with certain ingredients; regarding this, John 7:39 says, "But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified."

John 7:39 But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

this means that before the Lord's glorification, which was His resurrection, the compound Spirit was not yet;; it was after Christ's resurrection that the compounding, or the blending, of such a Spirit was completed. 

it is not a small thing to enjoy the anointing, the bountiful supply of the Lord. this anointing and supply is for His Body, for His building. so we must be in the Body and be for the buiding.

IV. As believers, we have been anointed with the compound ointment, with the all-inclusive Spirit; Psalm 133:2 describes how the anointing oil flowed down from Aaron's head to his beard and then to the hem of his garments; this signifies that the whole Body is anointed with the Spirit

Psalm 133:2 It is like the fine oil upon the head / That ran down upon the beard, / Upon Aaron’s beard, / That ran down upon the hem of his garments;

no matter how insignificant we are in the Body, even we are just the smallest member, as long as we are members of the Body, this rich compound ointment will flow and reach us. in order to be under the ointment, we must be one with the church; then we will spotaneously enjoy the application of the anointing oil with all its elements; how marvelous is the oneness produced by the application of this ointment.