Greetings.  THE ANOINTING IS SIMPLY THE HOLY GHOST TEACHING GOD WORD THROUGH MEN. Some years ago I was told by my Pastor at that time there was anointing on my art work. Of course, I could not argue with that statement because me and millions of others do not know spiritually what the word anointing means to God. 1 John 2:27 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. What is this anointing that the above verse is speaking of? In next verse it states the condition in which the anointing  might abide in us. John 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide  in darkness. When we believe our own wisdom about the meaning of the scriptures we abide in darkness and have rejected the true light of God. The people of these so-call Churches are all in spiritually darkness and the light they think they have is only darkness. Luke 11:35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. The anointing will teach the things of the Spirit and these things or words are hidden from us because we are carnal. As always, I ask the Spirit of Truth to guide me into this strange land of God’s word. I was watching the news the other day, where a Church I once attended and the members were arguing who would be the new spiritual head over their Church. 1 Corinthians 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? At one point the cops came into the Assembly of the fools and escorted the Pastor out. The Assembly prayed silently in unknown tongues and with steady outstretched cell phones toward heaven in the hopes that this might go viral. Once we have allowed God to judge own our thoughts you can clearly see who is in the faith. Once you have tastes of the revealed word of God; you will never be in bondage to your own wisdom again. Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. What is the true Christ if there is a false Christ spoken about in the above verse? A false Christ is us when we think we can save over when we are not saved ourselves.  Matthew 16:16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.Men worship the image of a dead Christ because that is what they imagined God to be like: an image like unto themselves; a false Christ or beast. We cannot abide in the honor we receive from men or two-legged beast and have the anointing abiding also in us. Psalm 49: 12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. Men do not believe there is a greater witness of a hidden wisdom that only a living Christ can give: again, this is the true anointing that Holy Ghost teaches. Churches hire charismatic and wonderful orators for Pastors: him being spiritually dead to preach spiritual death to the congregation of the dead. Proverbs 21:16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. We have all wandered out of the way of Spiritual understanding for another way or our own way: of seeing the scriptures.   Luke 20:38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him. Unless the Holy Ghost quicken God’s words in the Bible you are reading the letter of the law. Romans 7:6  But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. The Spirit quicken or gives Spiritual meaning to the Bible. Romans 4:17(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. The things in the above verse are God’s word. 2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. That old carnal image of Christ must pass away, then the Bible things or verses takes on the new Spiritual meaning. It is amazing the above Church I once attended some twenty ago, service went like this: service started at 10:00 AM by 12:30 PM you were saved and speaking in tongues. Lying signs and wonders of men vain imagination; do not be deceived by a seducer in gorgeous apparel. 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. That whole Church was deceived that morning thinking the Pastor was anointed; neither were two former Pastors that both died of a heart attack. None of three Pastors never spoke anything from heaven above but only their wisdom or witness about the Bible. John 5:43  I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his name own name,him ye will recieve. All that ever came of these three-spiritual dead [ two now who physically returned to the dust] Pastors mouths or gates was the wisdom of men.  Isaiah 28:6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. I stand at the gate or door to what is coming out of men’s mouth. One of the Spiritual definitions of gate, in the Bible is the mouth. Psalm 141:3Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 1 John 2:27 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. If it is men wisdom that doing the teaching it is not the same anointing in the above verse, they are not called preach. We have seen many charismatic speakers come and go but there is no power to destroy the yoke. Isaiah 10:27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. Doing the second world war some of the best charismatic speakers known to man were produced. Leaders that were dynamic orators on both sides of the conflict, who could motivate men and women to go off and slaughter the other guy. Isaiah 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity. If the carnal mind is not being destroyed by the speaking of God’s wisdom; all you have is a charismatic devil speaking earthly vain thoughts. Saint Paul was a great man and by permission of the Holy Ghost I would say not a charismatic speaker but was he anointed as all that hear what the Spirit is speaking. 1 Corinthians 2:1And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.  1 Corinthians 2:4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. The carnal mind of man cannot understand anything Spiritual. John 8:43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. The anointing is the speech of judgment which will show you, your wisdom is in darkness. Job 37:19Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. What men imagine is the anointing is only a charismatic speaker and imagine they have God’s light or word abiding in them, but it is their own wisdom: it’s darkness. Matthew 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Jeremiah 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way [ His way and not the ways or thoughts of men] of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. The anointing is simply God’s Spirit that abides in a man: that God’s word has corrected him. But men rebel against God’s anointing because then they would have to take correction of their thoughts. Job 24:13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.Words can bring heavy burdens to our mind! We can be just find one minute, received an adverse phone call and the next moment you are burden. But only if you allow yourself to be burden with other people concerns or foolishness. Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. Our own carnal thoughts about God’s word and other people self-inflicted problems can bring us low, only if we allow. I’ve have concluded if you cannot help a person Spiritually then you cannot help them. The anointing and the yoke are tied together. Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? The above is speaking of a Spiritual fast when you are not trying spiritually to partake of a verse you have no spiritual [EAT] understanding of. The bands of wickedness represent man thoughts that would hold God’s words in bondage. Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. The Prophet, Job said he was a burden to himself. Job 7:20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?  We can be set free from the letter of the law or the burden: the word without the quickening power of the Spirit are burdens to our souls. Romans 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. Matthew 11:28-30Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. The faith which many Churches preach today is the philosophy of men. You pray for a new job and by chance you get it. So now your faith is strong in the things of man and not true faith hidden in God's words. Roman 10:17So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. All hear their own[thoughts] wisdom on the Bible when they first read it and this is not God’s faith. Ephesians 4:13Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. When we come to the unity of the faith? We are in unity of what God says about His word and not your own thoughts. At first we are yoked up with an unbeliever and it is not your spouse: it is yourselves and your own carnal mind. 2 Corinthians 6:14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? The unbeliever is your wisdom which is not perfect, it is devilish carnally minded charismatic darkness.  Matthew 5:48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Observed the word: stature, as recorded in the next verse. Ephesians 4:13Til we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the statureof the fullness of Christ. Matthew 6:27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?Never take your own thoughts on God’s words; once you know your earthly wisdom cannot give you perfect understanding in Spiritual matters or increase your ungodly stature. Luke 2:52And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. Samuel saw God’s word that it is perfect, our own thoughts concerning it are perverse. Even Samuel was waiting for that which is perfect to come, Christ. 2 Samuel 22:31As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. God desires to give us a perfect Spiritual understanding of his Holy words. 2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. When our ways become His way we’re in unity. The Prophet Job, saw his way of thinking about God was perverse. We must all spiritually see this even as Job was beginning to see he was not perfect in his thoughts concerning God. Job 9:20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. Our own mouth will utter perverse things about the Bible, because that is our way at looking at spiritual things. Every man is indeed a liar when he first reads the Bible. Read it or not you are still a liar because you still thought wrong concerning God's character. John 8:55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. Jesus, said only what His father in heaven said about the word, thus making him perfect. John 8:38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. Jesus, called their father the devil which is men’s wisdom. Unless I am taught by the anointing or the Spirit of truth to hate perfectly my own earthly wisdom then woe unto me. Psalm 139:22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Your own thoughts are your enemies; they are your familiar friends: they are beasts. Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. King David, spiritually saw this: Psalm 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. The head beasts that day in that Church were a quarreling over who would control the physical assets of the Church. 1 Corinthians 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? Now one could have read the Bible through a thousand times but without the Spiritual interpretation you are still liken unto a beast. You are still on the milk of the word. 2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. We are all self-righteous hypocrites when we first start attending Church. That Church was still on the milk or the carnal understanding of God’s word after twenty years or more of man's wisdom and two Pastors that God fired and left them on the Job. Job 17:4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.                               
 MICHAEL RUDOLPH HODGES 12/15/2017/ amended 3/8/2021/ amended 2/15/2022/ 7/23/2022

 
 

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You grieve God when we put our own interpretation on his word and his words are grievous to our carnal mind. A soft answer would be a prayer that would turn his wrath from us: Psalm 86:11Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. The carnal mind must be told to shut up, when you’re trying to receive something Spiritual from a Spiritual book. HOLD YOUR PEACE! Job 33:33If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom. We're holding his truth in unrighteousness by our private interpretation. In America we have Constitutional Lawyers, who interpret the laws of the land. The Holy Ghost is the interpreter in the Spiritual land of God’s word 

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