January 16th, 2015. THE INNER MOVEMENT But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. 1 John 2:27 It is marvellous that when we are regenerated, the Lord Jesus comes into our spirit in such a way that there is a union where He can be the Saviour. We are not the saviour. We do not save ourselves. Jesus is the One saving us. This is not just initial salvation, but constant salvation. He wants to be the Saviour in everything. Because we are in union with Him, we can open to Him, we can turn to Him, we can draw from Him, we can say Amen to the inner registrations of His life in us. It is by those inner registrations, called the anointing, that we can know Christ. The Greek word for anointing is chrisma, the verbal form of the noun Christos, which means Christ. Chrisma refers to the movement of the person of the Lord within our spirit. The word anointing tells us the nature of the way Christ is in us-- how He is in us. After you have received the Lord, it is simply a matter of discovering what is happening inside of you. The anointing is not something external from us. Knowing the anointing is not a matter of trying to understand with your mind something that is apart from you. First John 2:27 is a description of what is in me and what is in you. It is not describing something new that we are going to receive, but what we have already received. It is describing how Christ is living inside of us. This verse says, the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you. This means the anointing remains in you. It does not leave you. The anointing as the inner movement of Christ is always operating in our being. It is the inner surveillance of the Lord Himself within us. When we speak a word with impatience in our tone, immediately the anointing is surveying our inner being. So the anointing is not merely a positive leading of the Lord. It is an inner registration of what is compatible with the divine nature. What we feel or sense is that something is not compatible with the life within us. Of course, we are not condemned, though these kinds of registrations could be a factor to spiral a person downward. When your nature rises up in some form or another, if you identify with that and live expecting those risings to change, or think that something better should come out of you, then you are on the road to condemnation. But thank God, when there is a registration within us that is the anointing that abides in us. So whenever we say something that is incompatible with the anointing, there is a registration. There is a leakage of life and peace. You can sense it. That leakage of life and peace is Gods way of saying no to what we just said or did. It is a registration that says, That is not My nature. Obeying the registrations of the anointing is the practical way for us to abide in Christ.
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