God’s Anointing
God anoints His people with His Holy Spirit (1 John 2:20). This anointing—which is God’s Spirit—teaches you about all things so you have no need for man to teach you (1 John 2:27). However, you must abide in Him in order for the Spirit of truth to teach you (1 John 2:28; John 14:16-17). Notice, Jesus was referring to Himself in John 14:18 and 2 Timothy 2:7.
Abiding in Jesus means obeying Him and living the Way He has instructed us to live. Jesus received these instructions from the Father and they are the directions to eternal life (John 6:63; 12:49-50).
Not only does the anointing teach us, it also causes our spiritual growth and our change of character from that of our old nature to His new nature formed in us (1 Cor. 3:7; Col. 2:19). It is God who teaches us how to love one another (1 Thess. 4:9). All these things occur when we are obedient to God and we don’t grieve the Spirit of God in us by doing what is wrong.
God commands us to love one another (John 15:12, 17; 1 John 3:10, 14, 23; 4:7-8, 11, 16, 20-21). He wants us to practice loving one another so the Spirit that dwells in us can teach us how to love as God loves (1 Thess. 4:9).
Over many years, God has given us an opportunity to learn and practice His principles in different ways, with the various people that come in and out of our lives. Sometimes He can bring people in your life for the sole purpose of teaching you His principles, as well as to test you and your loyalty to Him, His Spirit and His truth.
Some people struggle and many cannot receive the strong things of God because they remain spiritually immature and half committed or lukewarm. God gives people time to repent. God is patient toward us, that none whom He has called should perish (1 Peter 3:9; Acts 2:47; 13:48). However, there is an end to His patience (Luke 13:8-9).
The reason people cannot receive meat is that they are still fleshly (1 Cor. 3:2-3). They are still living to the flesh, still living in the world and still holding on to their old ways. These are people who are not fully committed. They are lukewarm, inconsistent and still living to please self and not God in some areas of their lives. They are “hold outs” for God because they are holding back from being totally committed and totally of one mind with Christ. They find fault, in whatever way they can, so they can hold back. They are suspicious, and remain so because then they do not have to give their hearts totally to God, and thus, to those whom God has called.
It is an awesome responsibility to make a people prepared to meet the Lord (Luke 1:17). We strive to do that every day here at Whole Wheat, to provoke and stimulate you to more love and good deeds continually (Heb. 10:24). If that does not happen and there is no one ready, God will destroy the earth with a curse (Mal. 4:6). The word “curse” is defined in Strong’s Concordance, 2764a and 2763a in the Hebrew is translated and defined as: a doomed object, exterminated, utterly destroyed, appointed to destruction.
So, let’s get behind and support God’s message! Let’s help promote God’s message and get behind those who tirelessly push ahead for the meeting of the great day of God Almighty.
We must discard these bodies of flesh for spiritual bodies. We must perfect the spiritual life of Christ Jesus in them by living to the Spirit, which is doing good only for God. It is no longer living to the flesh because living to the flesh is doing evil, which is Satan’s will (Rom. 8:13; 2 Tim. 2:26).
God teaches you and causes you to grow when you obey His word and with the anointing of His Spirit, He will give you strength to endure all things as you honor Him and the example of His Son by living righteously each day, overcoming evil by doing good (1 Cor. 3:7; 1 Pet. 4:11; John 3:36; Rom. 12:21).