Praise the Lord, we have the anointing which teaches us all things – and it is true and not a lie, and even it has taught us, let us abide in Him! God became a man, and this God-man became a life-giving Spirit, which Spirit is a compound Spirit, the reality of the holy anointing oil in Exo. 30 to be the anointing in us which teaches us all things (1 John 2:27). This Spirit is a wonderful Spirit in us.
Some believers don’t even want to touch the matter of the Spirit, while others even think it’s a “Holy Ghost” (they don’t know anything about the Spirit, so it’s like a ghost to them). But praise the Lord, today we can know, enjoy, and experience the all-inclusive, compound, life-giving Spirit with our spirit as the anointing dwelling in us and anointing us to subjectively teach us concerning the Triune God and add the elements of the Triune God to our being!
God doesn’t want to teach us concerning Himself by giving us doctrines, rules, and regulations; rather, He became a subjective anointing which is in us and constantly anoints us to give us a subjective knowledge and experience of the Triune God and all that He has, is, has passed through, has attained, and has obtained.
The God who dwells in unapproachable light has become a man; He could be touched, seen, and heard, and as a Man He passed through death and resurrection to become a life-giving compound Spirit and come into us. By passing through this process, God has become approachable, tangible, and experiential; now we can subjectively touch God and enjoy God!
The anointing is the moving and working of the indwelling Spirit to apply all the ingredients of the processed Triune God and His activities into our inner being so that we may be fully mingled with Him for His corporate expression. How wonderful!
Our Christian life is altogether a life of being anointed by the compound Spirit, and daily we need to be under the anointing and allow the Spirit to anoint us and paint us with the elements of the Triune God so that we may subjectively abide in the Lord.
By the Anointing of the Compound Spirit we Know and Enjoy the Triune God as our Life
What does the anointing teach us? If we read 1 John 2:18-27 carefully, we will see that the teaching of the anointing is mainly a matter of teaching us concerning the Divine Trinity. If we read this portion of the word, the context is that the apostle John wanted to inoculate the believers against the Antichrist, against those who spoke heresies.
These antichrists refer to those who spread heresies, not the Antichrist as the man of lawlessness. How can we deal with the antichrists that are with us today? We have an anointing from the Holy One, and we all know the Triune God.
The liar is him who denies the oneness between Jesus and Christ; for example, the Cerinthians said that Jesus was only a man, while the Docetists said that He is only Christ, only God; they had a short view, an inadequate view of Christ, and they spread heresies. But, praise the Lord, we all know: we have the truth, the reality, not just doctrine; we know that Jesus is Christ, the Father and the Son are one, and we have the eternal life!
When we confess the Son, we confess the Father. The anointing teaches us to abide in the Son and in the Father; there’s no need for anyone to teach us, for the anointing teaches us concerning all things, and the purpose is to abide in Him!
If we take the Son as the way to reach the Father (John 14:6; 1 John 2:24), eventually we will reach both the Son and the Father; our destination is not only the Father but the Father and the Son, who are one.
Through regeneration we have received the Holy Spirit, the anointing from the Holy One, and by this anointing we know and enjoy the Father, the Son, and the Spirit as our life and life supply. In our spirit today we have the anointing of the all-inclusive compound Spirit, who is the composition of the Divine Trinity, and by this anointing we can partake of and enjoy of the Triune God as our life and life supply.
The way we know the Triune God and enjoy Him as our life and life supply is not by outward teaching but by the inward anointing; even though the Divine Trinity is a big and complicated subject, the anointing within causes us to know the Triune God subjectively and thus be taught by Him concerning Him.
How wonderful it is to subjectively inwardly know the Triune God in an experiential way, being taught by Him concerning what He is, what He has, what He has done, and what He has accomplished, and to realize that all these are for our enjoyment!
Lord, thank You that we have the anointing – we have the Triune God as the compound Spirit anointing us all the time! Hallelujah, we have no need for anyone to teach us concerning the Triune God, for we have the inward subjective anointing which teaches us concerning all things related to the Triune God. Lord, keep us under the anointing, and keep anointing us today so that we may know and enjoy the Father, the Son, and the Spirit as our life and life supply!
The Inward Teaching of the Anointing adds God to our Being for us to Abide in Him
According to 1 John 2:27, the anointing of the all-inclusive compound life-giving Spirit teaches us concerning all things. This is not an outward teaching by words, but an inward teaching by the anointing through our inner spiritual consciousness. This teaching by the anointing adds the divine elements of the Trinity, which are the elements of the anointing compound Spirit, into our inner being. It is like the repeated painting of some article: the paint not only gives color; its elements are also added to the thing painted, coat upon coat. It is in this way that the Triune God is transfused, infused, and added into all the inward parts of our being so that our inner man may grow in the divine life with the divine elements. (Witness Lee, Life-Study of 1 John, p. 200)
How does the anointing teach us concerning the Triune God? It is by applying Himself to us as the paint that the compound Spirit teaches us concerning the Triune God and His activities. This means that the elements of the compound Spirit teach us the various matters concerning the Triune God and His activities, and the result is that we abide in Him.
We may argue with the Lord, but He just paints us and anoints us; as He paints us, He teaches us concerning the Triune God. The anointing doesn’t teach us how to do good and not bad, how to not argue and get upset, but how Christ is in the Father, the Father is in Christ, Christ is in us, and we are in the Triune God.
This is not an outward teaching but an inward teaching by God anointing us; we understand this and enter into this experience through our inner spiritual consciousness, and this teaching of the anointing adds the divine elements of the Divine Trinity into our inner being!
It’s just like painting: when someone paints a certain piece of clothing, the paint doesn’t just indicate the color but as the article is painted with coat after coat, the elements of the paint are added to the thing painted, saturating it and subjectively “teaching it” concerning the paint until it becomes one with the paint.
All the precious elements of Christ’s death, the effectiveness of His death, the power of His resurrection, together with His humanity and divinity, are all painted into us bit by bit and coat by coat as we are under the anointing.
It is in this way that the Triune God is transfused into our being, and His elements are infused into our inward parts so that our inner man may grow in the divine life with the divine elements.
God doesn’t do the work of a mortician to outwardly beautify us while not caring for our inward dead condition, neither is He in the business of plastic surgery to cosmetically and artificially improve our outward condition; God wants to infuse us with Himself so that our complexion and expression would organically change to express Him.
And this takes time; it takes time to have God soaked into us, and we need to place ourselves under His infusion all the time, so that day by day, no matter what happens, we would be anointed by the compound Spirit and have God’s elements added to us.
The result of this is that we are abiding in Him – in the Father and the Son. The anointing teaches us to abide in the Son and in the Father (1 John 2:24); this is to remain and dwell in the Lord (see John 15:4) and to abide in the fellowship of the divine life, walking in the divine light (1 John 1:2-3, 6-7).
What we need to do today is to practice abiding in Him (in the Father and in the Son) according of the teaching of this all-inclusive anointing so that our fellowship with God may be maintained.
The purpose and goal of the anointing is that we abide in the Lord and be organically one with Him so that whatever He speaks, we speak, whatever He does, we do, and wherever He goes, we go.
We should be those practicing to abide in Him according to the teaching of the all-inclusive anointing day by day, so that our sweet fellowship with God may be maintained.
Lord, add more of Yourself into us. Whether we fail or succeed, keep anointing us to add Your elements to our being. Whether we think our environment is just or unfair, add more of Yourself to our being. Keep us under the divine anointing so that we may be infused with the Triune God and we may grow in the divine life with the divine elements. Lord, we want to practice abiding in You according to the teaching of the anointing so that our fellowship with You may be maintained!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, brother Andrew Yu’s sharing in the message for this week, and Life-study of 1 John, msgs. 23, 26 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3), week 11 (week 35), The Anointing of the Compound Spirit.
- All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
- Hymns on this topic to strengthen this burden:
# Yes, in my spirit now He is moving! / Yes, I have the anointing! / God in me is flowing! / Thank God, I see it! / His Word revealed it! / I will apply it ever! / The anointing lives in me! (Hymns #1119)
# With God’s own essence it anoints me, / God to know subjectively, / That I may have His very element / Fully saturating me. / ’Tis by this inner life-anointing / I in fellowship may move; / In God, the light of truth, I’m walking, / And the love of grace I prove. (Hymns #266)
# Hallelujah, the anointing / Unto us God’s essence brings; / It is now abiding in us, / And it teaches us all things. (Hymns #1121)
About aGodMan
John concludes 2:27 with an exhortation to abide in the Triune God. The Greek word translated “abide” is meno, a word that means to stay (in a given place, state, relation, or expectancy); hence, abide, remain, and dwell. To abide in Him is to abide in the Son and in the Father. This is to remain and dwell in the Lord (John 15:4-5). It is also to abide in the fellowship of the divine life and to walk in the divine light (1 John 1:2-3, 6-7), that is, to abide in the divine light (1:10). We should practice this abiding according to the teaching of the all-inclusive anointing so that our fellowship with God (1:3, 6) may be maintained. (Life-study of 1 John, pp. 200-201)