Anointing – BT3:  Can a thing like a song be “anointed?”

 

 

 

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Like the Old Testament is but a “shadow of the things to come, the substance/reality belonging to Christ” (a) and “these serve as a copy and shadow of the heavenly things” (b), and “since the Torah Law of conditional-favor has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities” (c), it’s very possible that it is simply a misnomer to call a thing like a song “anointed” under the completely-different-in-kind New Covenant.  Maybe this is just another “tradition of men” (d) or “wind of doctrine” (e) blowing through the Church.  There certainly has been an obsession by the modern church to “borrow” practices from the old covenant that quenches the Holy Spirit (f), even though the New Covenant by definition and context says you shouldn’t be doing that borrowing! <Notes> a) Colossians 2:17, b) Hebrews 8:5, c) Hebrews 10:1, d) Mark 7:8, e) Ephesians 4:14, f) see The Great Wall.

 

More likely under the completely-different-in-kind New Covenant, only people like composers and musicians can be “anointed” and only when God takes over control, but it sure seems like whatever is produced in the presence of God “by-the-means-of My Spirit” per Zechariah 4:6 would then be considered “consecrated, dedicated, sanctified or made holy unto the Lord,” giving Him ownership by His anointing.

 

And that’s what 1 Timothy 4:4-5 says:  “For everything created by God is ongoingly good (a), and absolutely-in-fact-NOT one is to be rejected if it is lambano ‘grabbed hold of to receive for yourself’ with thanksgiving, for it is consecrated/sanctified/made-holy by the means of the [Jesus Christ and/or His gospel about Himself] logos message and/coupled enteuxis childlike-confident prayer” – it’s our childlike, confident, even bold, approach to Father God that only comes through trusting-relying-faith in Jesus Christ’s “Great News” gospel logos message of The Truth that consecrates or makes it holy, thus making it God’s possession for His special use.  No special anointing ceremony is needed as in the Old Testament.  <Notes> a) kalos:  beautiful, lovely, praiseworthy, inwardly good or noble or honorable to inspire/motivate others, thus winsomely appealing.

 

However, I think we can still say a “song is anointed” when it has been created “by-the-means-of God’s Spirit,” simply because we as the children of God have boldly come before His throne into His presence by trusting-relying-faith in Jesus, not by own “might and power” FOR God.   We didn’t put trusting-relying-faith in our own work to produce the song, but put our trusting-relying-faith in the Lord’s Spirit to produce it, so it’s a Spirit-kind-of song.  We have put our trusting-relying-faith in the logos message of The Truth, who is Jesus, that gives us this childlike, trusting, bold, confident approach to Father God.  And we trust that God creates the song as kalos ‘good’ and we ‘actively grab hold of it for ourselves’ with thanksgiving because we know the Lord created it, even though He used us to do it!  NOW what is made is thus consecrated, dedicated, sanctified, and made holy unto the Lord, and that defines it as “anointed.”  What you think?

 

But if we are still under the Torah Law of conditional-favor and thus not in The Trusting-Relying-Faith, we simply “cannot please God” (a) because “whatever does not proceed from trusting-relying-faith is sin” – a missing of God’s target (b).  Then we are still in our own “might and power” flesh, and are having trusting-relying-faith in ourselves instead of God.  Then the product will just be our possession, and thus NOT consecrated, dedicated, sanctified, or made holy unto the Lord, and thus NOT God’s property and thus NOT “anointed.” <Notes> a) Hebrews 11:6, b) Romans 14:23.

 

Again, I believe Jesus when He said “a tree is genuinely, experientially, relationally epiginosko known by its fruit (a)” (b).  If the fruit isn’t “sweet” from the presence of God, no matter how good it looks (or sounds) on the outside, it’s just NOT originally anointed, or maybe its worldly performers are not faithfully conveying the anointing because they are NOT anointed themselves.  Some songs may look beautiful on the outside but are rotten on the inside.  This is the work of deceitful spirits common to many of the world’s songs and sadly too many Christian songs! <Notes> a) karpos: outcome, b) Matthew 7:16, 12:33; Luke 6:44.

 

Some songs may look plain or even ugly on the outside, especially from the viewpoint of many ‘professional musicians,’ but be incredibly “sweet because they are from God” on the inside, so we need to be careful NOT to judge by outward appearances (a).  Some songs certainly stand the test of time, consistently bringing the “sweet” presence of God, EVEN if performed by worldly musicians.  But many Christian songs won’t stand the test of time even when performed in church by godly musicians.  This certainly takes discernment by Christ’s Holy Spirit to determine good vs evil,” which is trained by constant practice to distinguish between good from bad (b) – see New Covenant Ways – BT16.  <Notes> a) 1 Samuel 16:7, b) 1 Corinthians 2:14; Hebrews 4:12, 5:14; Romans 12:2; Ephesians 5:10; Philippians 1:9.

 

The Church and its worship musicians desperately need to be anointed with the “living water” or “gold oil” of the Holy Spirit.  They can’t experience the fresh, breath of God to zoa genuinely-live if they are trying to worship God with songs either written by uninspired men, ‘breathed on’ only by their own creative “might and power” flesh, or even if they were once songs ‘breathed on’ by God so many winters ago so that it is no longer “fresh, living/running water!”  Not many people will survive on such ‘old, stagnant waters!’ or blocks of ice!  Trying harder by singing more of these “old” songs louder and louder with bigger and bigger bands with more and more lights and smoke machines is just more of man’s “might and power” flesh and will lead Churches no closer to zoe genuine-life, that only comes from “fresh, living/running water” of the Spirit.  They are “broken cisterns” (Jeremiah 2:13), because not only are they NOT filled with “living, running water,” they aren’t even holding “dead water” for long!

 

We must repent by returning to “Living Water” music!  We either need the older anointed songs to be ‘breathed on’ freshly by God through a childlike bold, confident approach to God through the gospel’s trusting-relying-faith and played by anointed musicians, or we can really GO FOR THE GOLD and play completely-different-in-kind “New Songs” (a) or “Spirit-kind-of odes” (b), which are anointed, prophetic, and spontaneous!  For too long Christian musicians have viewed such music to be strange, weird, super-spiritual, and the exception to the rule.  We need to repent/turn and make it the rule, the norm, the naturally-spiritual, and our common experience.  Let’s GO FOR THE GOLD!  See also Benefits of this Ministry.  <Notes> a) Psalms 33:3, 40:3, 96:1, 98:1, 144:9, 149:1; Isaiah 42:10; Revelation 5:9, 14:3, b) Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16.

 

 

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Because of the anointing of Christians under the completely-different-in-kind New Covenant, instead of graphe scripture as a collection by rabbis over 1500 years of “sacred/holy gramma writings/letters” (a) of God for the Old Testament, Christians are NOW considered the “personal epistle or handwritten-letter from Christ, written absolutely-in-fact-NOT by-the-means-of ink but-instead by-the-means-of [singular] Spirit of [singular] living God, absolutely-in-fact-NOT on tablets of stone but-instead on tablets of human hearts” (b) – see Logos Word of God – BT20.  <Notes> a) 2 Timothy 3:15, b) 2 Corinthians 3:3.

 

This was prophesied by Ezekiel about the Everlasting Covenant:  “A completely-different-in-kind New (a) Spirit I will put WITHIN them” (b), and “I will give you . . . a completely-different-in-kind New (a) Spirit WITHIN you . . . and I will put My Spirit WITHIN you” (c), and speaking more of the completely-different-in-kind New Covenant:  “I will put My Torah instruction/Law WITHIN them and/coupled I will write it ON their hearts” (d).  We saw this same difference between WITHIN versus UPON in Anointing-BT1. <Notes> a) chadash, kainos: fresh, completely different-in-kind, unprecedented, sharing nothing with its predecessors, unique, and superior, b) Ezekiel 11:19, c) Ezekiel 36:26-27, d) Jeremiah 31:33.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, the indwelling Holy Spirit (a) that writes God’s Torah instruction WITHIN us instead of on stone or paper wasn’t just for a limited period of ministry from one Old Testament prophet succeeded by another.  In the New Testament it’s from the time of a Christian’s “born again regeneration” (b) or “completely-different-in-kind New creation” (c) until their death (d).  It’s for their lifetime! <Notes> a) Romans 8:9, 11; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Ephesians 2:22; 2 Timothy 1:14; James 4:5, b) John 3:3, 7; 1 Peter 1:3, 23; Titus 3:5, c) 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 6:15, d) 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; John 12:26.

 

The anointing is still for our sanctification/holiness as in the old covenant but NOW for ALL Christians as “priests to our God and Father” (a) and as “God’s servants that shall indeed prophesy” (b), just as Moses had wished:  “Would that ALL Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put His Spirit ON them” (c)!  Peter’s Pentecost sermon is for the entire Church Age:  “You will receive the free-gift of the Holy Spirit, for this promise is for you and for you children and for ALL who are far off, EVERYONE whom the Lord our God calls to Himself” (d).  Paul says, “You can all prophesy one by one” (e), and that all Christians should “earnestly desire the Spirit-kind-of grace-gifts, especially that you may prophesy” (f) and later “My brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy” (g).  NOW the Holy Spirit gives us the enabling-power for a lifetime of ministry (h)!  However, this anointing is also applicable for every aspect of Christian life (i)!  <Notes> a) Revelation 1:6, 5:10, b) Acts 2:17-18 citing Joel 2:28-29, c) Numbers 11:29, d) Acts 2:38-39, e) 1 Corinthians 14:31, f) 1 Corinthians 14:1, g) 1 Corinthians 14:39, h) Ephesians 1:19, 3:7, 20, i) John 6:63, 14:26, 15:26; Romans 8:2, 6, 36.

 

 

 

 

 

However, this ministry is also completely-different-in-kind, being that it is “of a completely-different-in-kind New Covenant, absolutely-in-fact-NOT of the gramma letter/writing but-instead of [singular] Spirit, for the gramma letter/writing kills, but the Spirit gives zoe genuine-life” (a).  It’s clear Paul is pitting the Old Covenant based on gramma writings that have to be read, understood, taught, then understood and taught, and so on over and over from “the greatest to the least” that end up just “killing you” because it’s a “ministry of death” and a “ministry of condemnation” (b).  The completely-different-in-kind New Covenant is “absolutely-in-fact-NOT kata ‘down-from, in the same manner as’ the [old] Covenant that I ordained with their forefathers” (c), which is NOW absolutely-in-fact-NOT of gramma writings but instead is “the ministry of the Spirit,” and this alone turns out to be “the ministry of righteousness” (d)! <Notes> a) 2 Corinthians 3:6, b) 2 Corinthians 3:7, 9, c) Jeremiah 31:32, d) 2 Corinthians 3:8-9.

 

Jesus tells us that His anointing for us is NOW as unlimited in enabling-power as His own ministry was:  “Whoever routinely is having trusting-relying-faith in Me shall actually also do the works that I do, and greater works than these he shall actually do, because I am going to the Father. [So] whatever you ask in My name/authority, this I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (a).  Wow!  What’s holding us back?  It looks like just our doubt! <Notes> a) John 14:12-13.

 

 

 

 

Finally, the anointing of the Spirit now opens up a completely different-in-kind possibility for ALL of God’s children:  Christ counsels us “to buy from Him . . . salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see (a)” (b).  This is a reference to direct revelation by the Holy Spirit!  In fact, the apostle John actually warns Christians about listening to human teachers (c) because they are susceptible to “the spirit of error, impurity, and deception” (d), full of “loud boasts of folly, enticing others by sensual passions of the flesh” (e), and are in ministry for financial gain as Balaam errored (f) – see Ministry Finances page. <Notes> a) blepo: to physically observe/watch something to perceive/understand the non-physical realm behind/within it, b) Revelation 3:18, c) 1 John 2:26, d) 1 John 4:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:3, e) 2 Peter 2:18, f) Jude 1:11

 

Instead John says:  “The anointing of the Holy One (Christ) gives you-all, all knowledge (a) . . . . and this anointing that you have already received from Him presently/ongoingly meno ‘abides, remain-connected-to, dwells’ IN you, and thus you have absolutely-in-fact-NO need that anyone should presently/ongoingly teach you, but just as His anointing presently/ongoingly teaches you about ALL things, and is trustworthy without any falsehood, even as it has already taught you:  presently/ongoingly be meno ‘abiding, remaining-connected-to, dwelling’ IN Him (Christ)” (b). This aligns with Christ’s warning:  “But you are in-possibility-NOT to be called ‘rabbi’ (c), for One is actually, presently/ongoingly your [singular] Teacher, but-instead you are ALL brethren” (d).  It didn’t take long for churches to become religious by violating this and setting up the same failed hierarchy of the Old Testament – see Leaders, Teachers, and Great Wall quenching the Holy Spirit. <Notes> a) eido: visionary/mental perception/understanding to know.  This is prophetic ‘seeing,’ b) 1 John 2:20, 27, c) which means ‘teacher’, d) Matthew 23:8 – see Teach One Another – BT10.

 

 

 

 

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The anointing of the Holy Spirit is completely-different-in-kind (a) in the New (a) Covenant from the old covenant by definition and context of everywhere the term is used.  In the Old Testament, priests and kings as well as things were anointed to separate/consecrate/dedicate/sanctify them to God for His sacred/holy use (b).  In the New Testament only Jesus as Priest & King and Christians as a kingdom of priests are anointed.  In the NT only people are consecrated, dedicated, or made sanctified/holy to God.  Why aren’t things?  Paul explains:  “In later times (c) some will depart from The Trusting-Relying-Faith by devoting themselves to . . . teachings . . . that forbid marriage (d) and require abstinence from food (e) that God created to be received with thanksgiving by pistois ‘the faithful, those have trusting-relying-faith’ and/coupled are already [with ongoing effects] genuinely, experientially, relationally epignosko knowing The Truth (f).  For everything created by God is ongoingly good, and absolutely-in-fact-NOT one is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is consecrated (g) by the [gospel] logos message and/coupled confidently-approaching prayer (h)” (i).  There are no special anointing ceremonies of things in the NT because these OT rituals found themselves completed in Christ.  All of the OT laws about the priesthood, ceremonial washing, diets, and fasting are thus no longer applicable.  It’s really too bad that more churches don’t really know the New Testament in the original language before coming up with doctrines – see Bible Info.

 

<Notes> a) chadash, kainos: fresh, completely different-in-kind, unprecedented, sharing nothing with its predecessors, unique, and superior, b) Genesis 31:13; Exodus 29:2, 21, 36, 30:26; 40:9-10, 11; Leviticus 2:4, 8:10-11; Numbers 6:15, 7:1, 84, 88, 18:8; Isaiah 21:5; Daniel 9:24, c) “the last days” we are in, d) many churches forbid their clergy from marrying, e) the Jews did as many churches do today, f) Jesus: John 14:6, g) dedicated, made holy, h) enteuxis: childlike confident, bold approach to God, i) 1 Timothy 4:1-5.

 

 

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The word “anointing” come from the Hebrew noun mishchah or verb mashach and Greek noun chrio or verb chrisma is the “living water” or “oil,” even the “gold oil” from Zechariah 4:12, and refers to the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament (OT), which came UPON the high priests after they met with God (a). See a 1-25-2021 Vision of Gold Rain purging evil from even evil people! and a 12-20-2020 vision of The Rain of Fire that is Gold Oil.   The anointing consecrates, dedicates, separates, or sanctifies the priests as clean, sacred, holy vessels of honor for God’s special purposes.  Not only is it the covering presence of God, it is His seal of ownership.  The Father “anointed You (Jesus) with the oil of GLADNESS beyond His companions (b), and thus with God’s presence comes His nature.  Don’t we need this the New Covenant?  <Notes> a) Leviticus 10:7, 21:12, b) Psalms 45:7, cf. Hebrews 1:9.

 

The anointing also powerfully-enables ministry, as Christ declared of His own:  “The Spirit of Yahweh has anointed Me to bring the good news (a) to the poor . . . to grant to those who mourn . . . the oil of GLADNESS instead of mourning, the garment of PRAISE instead of a faint spirit” (b).  Jesus is the “Anointed One of God” (c).  Anointing with oil brought about miraculous healing of the sick (d), but Jesus did this even with mud (e), so apparently there is no formula. <Notes> a) this is the meaning of the logos gospel message, b) Psalms 61:1-3 cited by Jesus in Luke 4:18 concerning His ministry, c) Acts 4:26-27, 10:38, d) Mark 6:13; James 5:14, e) John 9:6, 11.

 

The OT anointing was always “upon” or “rested on” a person to consecrate and prepare a person for a limited period of ministry, and there were very few such legitimate prophets.  This same anointing was UPON Jesus who was under the old covenant to “fulfill all righteousness.”  Notice the “UPON” emphasis:  “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven . . . and it remained UPON Him” (a) and “it descended UPON Him” (b) and was “coming to rest UPON Him” (c).   Jesus was the last OT prophet according to Moses:  “The Prophet” that Moses warned the people of is Jesus – “it is to Him you shall indeed listen” (d), but Jesus was unique because He was unlimited in Spirit:  “For He (Jesus) whom God (the Father) has sent utters the very directly-spoken/heard prophetic rhema words of God because He (the Father) gives [to Jesus] the Spirit without measure” (e).  All the OT prophets died and their ministry with them, but Christ’s ministry is everlasting (f)! <Notes> a) John 1:32, b) Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22, c) Matthew 3:16, d) Deuteronomy 18:15; John 1:45; Acts 3:22, 7:37, e) John 3:34, f) Daniel 2:44, 7:14, 27; Luke 1:33; Revelation 11:15.

 

 

 

 

However, the completely-different-in-kind New Covenant’s ‘anointing’ for the Church, which occurred because of Christ’s shed blood, is likewise completely-different-in-kind than the OT’s anointing.  Remember by definition of the Hebrew chadash and Greek kainos for “NEW,” absolutely NOTHING can be borrowed from the Old Covenant and dragged into the New Covenant.  Churches that violate this definition end up building The Great Wall that quenches the Holy Spirit!   Instead of the OT’s anointing coming “UPON/ON” a person, the NT’s anointing is “WITHIN/INTO/IN the INNER being/heart” (a) of a person.  For example, Paul proseuchomai conversationally-prays in Ephesians 3:16-17 for Christians “to be krataioo ‘be strengthened to attain the upper-hand or mastery’ with dunamis enabling-power through the Father’s Spirit IN your INNERmost being (b) so that Christ may dwell IN your HEARTS (c) dia ‘thru the realizing channel of’ trusting-relying-faith,” for “God’s unconditional-love has been poured INTO our HEARTS dia ‘thru the realizing channel of’ the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” (d), “having given us His Spirit IN our HEARTS as a guarantee” (e), for “God has sent the Spirit of His Son INTO our hearts” (f).  Let’s pray that now! <Notes> a) lebeb, kardia, b) eso anthropos, c) kardia, d) Romans 5:5, e) 2 Corinthians 1:22, f) Galatians 4:6.

 

As a Jewish-Christian, Paul says regarding his struggles against sin:  “For I delight in the Torah Law of conditional-favor of God IN my INNER being” (a) (b).  To persecuted Christians, Paul says:  “We do not despair for even if our OUTER being (c) is wearing away, our INNER being (d) is being renewed dad by day” (e).  So, let’s keep our focus on our INNER being! <Notes> a) eso anthropos, b) Romans 7:22.  Note:  Verses 1-20 refer to Mosaic Law in his mind, his true self, but then in vv. 21-23 Paul uses nomos generically as “principle” for “law of sin in his body,” not his true self, that “wars” against “the Mosaic Law of his mind,” c) exo anthropos, d) eso anthropos, e) 2 Corinthians 4:16.

 

 

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