Anointing (was Re: Across town apostolic ... (was: Beards))

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This may be being picky but...

Brother Randy wrote:
> is part of being in the "five-fold" ministry.  I don't know how to
explain it
> in a few words.  You just gotta have the annointing.

I may be incorrect but I am assuming that the above statement is 
implying that the anointing is a quality reserved for or defining 
being 'part of the ministry'.  It is erroneous to teach that only
'ministers' 
(as in licensed preachers) have 'the anointing'.

Consider the following:

(2 Corinthians 1:21-22 KJV)  "Now he which stablisheth us with 
you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 

{22} Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the 
Spirit in our hearts."

It is probably save to say that everyone takes verse 22 to mean that 
we are all sealed with the Holy Spirit.  Why then are we all not 
anointed? 

How about this one:

(1 John 2:27 KJV)  "But the anointing which ye have received 
of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach 
you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and 
is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall 
abide in him."

Here John is not only saying that we all have received the anointing, 
but also that it abides (remains, is ever present) within us.  

I know it is popular to talk about how anointed a preacher is or how 
powerful the anointing was upon a minister during a particular sermon 
but an in depth study of the anointing will show that the anointing is for 
every believer and that it is not a transient thing (it doesn't come and 
go -- it remains).  The difference is whether one allows the anointing to 
be effective or not.  One can quench the Holy Ghost (there by negating 
the anointing).  Consider also the anointing as it relates to Christ.  
Would anyone say that His anointing came and went?  What was the 
purpose of the anointing?  How does it relate to the Old Testament 
anointing?  Briefly, the anointing set someone apart for the work of 
God, or designated him as special in some way (i.e. the priests were 
anointed to signify their official capacity and the king was anointed 
to signify his office).  When a person receives the Holy Ghost, he to 
is anointed (set apart) and it signifies his/her designation as a part 
of the royal priesthood.  If we are to have the Spirit of Christ (the 
Anointed One) then we become anointed with His same anointing 
to follow His work.

A 'minister' has no special anointing.  He may tap more into the power 
of the anointing to teach him because ministers in general may 
concentrate more on their walk with God than the average Christian.
But no one has more or less of the Spirit of God and hence, no more or 
less of the anointing (if the Spirit dwells in that one).

Kathy Dimick
Falkville, Alabama
kdimick@colsa.com
kedimick@hotmail.com
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"For to me to live is Christ"