Hallelujah for such a wonderful all-inclusive life-giving compound Spirit! In this Spirit – who “was not yet” at the time of the Lord Jesus was on the earth but who after His resurrection has been compounded and consummated – we have God, we have man, and we have the death and resurrection of Christ!
Yesterday we saw that in the compound ointment in Exo. 30 there are myrrh and cinnamon, and today we enjoyed that in this ointment there are the fragrant calamus, the cassia, and the olive oil!
We don’t have only the death of Christ included in this all-inclusive compound Spirit – we also have the resurrection of Christ with its preciousness and its power!
The experience of Christ’s death – in the Spirit – brings us and ushers us into the experience of His resurrection! We don’t just “stay in His death” and “are conformed to His death”, but we also “know the power of His resurrection”!
Exodus 30:23 speaks of the fragrant calamus – this calamus signifies the precious resurrection of Christ (1 Pet. 1:3; Eph. 2:6; Col. 3:1). Calamus is a reed that shoots up from muddy places – it grows in a marsh or a muddy place, but it does not “stay in the mud”; rather, the calamus shoots up into the air!
Calamus thus signifies the precious resurrection of Christ – shooting up and rising up from the death mud: Christ rose up from the place of death! The Lord was put into death situation, even into death, but in resurrection, He rose up, He stood up, and He overcame death through His resurrection!
After we experience the sweetness and preciousness of Christ’s death being applied to us by the Spirit – in our practical daily living – we spontaneously are ushered into resurrection to experience the “shooting up power” of Christ’s resurrection.
Again, it is all in the Spirit – the preciousness of Christ’s resurrection is in the Spirit, the compound Spirit, which is mingled to our spirit!
The fourth spice is cassia – which belongs to the same family as cinnamon; cinnamon is from the inner part of the bark, while cassia is from the outer part of the same bark. Both are fragrant and sweet, and the tree they are taken from can grow in places where other plants can’t. In the old times, cassia was used as a “repellant” – to drive away snakes, insects, etc. This shows us that cassia signifies the power and the effectiveness of Christ’s resurrection.
In His resurrection Christ didn’t just “rise from the dead”; He repelled all the evil insects – especially the old serpent, the devil! Only Christ’s resurrection can withstand and spread the aroma of Christ, a sweet fragrance, in any kind of situation and in any environment!
We need to experience the effectiveness and the power of Christ’s resurrection in the Spirit!
There are many “insects” and “snakes” coming to make our life and our living unpleasant and uncomfortable – when we exercise our spirit, we enjoy the repelling power of the Spirit, and all the insects are repelled and sent away!
Even more, there’s a fragrance, a sweet and fragrant atmosphere – an atmosphere of Christ – that is coming out of us and spreading in the environment!
All these four spices are blended into the one hin of olive oil – the Spirit of God – as the base. This olive oil signifies the Spirit of God who was produced through the pressure of Christ’s death, flowing out and being mixed with the four spices.
Today the Spirit of God contains NOT ONLY God as Spirit, but also the perfect humanity of Christ (the four spices signify man, the creature), the sweetness of the death of Christ, the effectiveness of Christ’s death, and the precious resurrection of Christ with its repelling power!
What we enjoy today when we call on the name of the Lord is a COMPOUND SPIRIT, an all-inclusive Spirit, that adds all these things to us and anoints us! This Spirit was compounded after Christ’s resurrection and now we can enjoy Him in a simple way – by turning to our spirit, exercising our spirit, and living in our spirit!
[portion inspired from, the life-study of Exodus msg. 158 as quoted in, the HWMR on The Central Line of the Bible]
Thank You Lord for such a Spirit! In this Spirit we have the death and the resurrection of Christ! Praise You for Your precious resurrection, shooting up from any muddy place or any marsh! In all our situations, Lord, keep us enjoying Your precious resurrection! We cannot make it and we cannot “stand up” or “rise up” from our situation – but You can, as the calamus! Spring up in us! Keep us enjoying You as the compound Spirit so that all Your accomplishments would be applied to our being!
