Understanding the AnointingRomans 6 tells us Christ was raised up from the dead by the
glory of the Father. Romans 8:11 tells us, "But i f the Spirit of
him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you...." It says
He was raised up by the glory of the Father. The Bible calls the
glory of the Father the Spirit—so that's the Holy Spirit. We call
it the anointing.
Jesus said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he
hath anointed me...." (Luke 4:18).
The Temple of God in the Old Testament was a man-made
building. But God no longer dwells in earth-made or man-made
buildings; He dwells in us.
Hebrews 3:6 tells us the difference between the house of
God in the Old Testament and the house of God in the New
Testament: "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose
house are we, i f we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing
of the hope firm unto the end."
The whole Church collectively is God's temple.
Now notice First Timothy 3:15: "But i f I tarry long, that
thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the
house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar
and ground of truth."
He's not talking about a building; he's talking about the
Church. The Church of the Living God is the house of God.
First Corinthians 3:16 says, "Know ye not that ye are the
temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" In
the Old Testament, Solomon's Temple was called the house of
God three times. But now we are the house of God. The
Amplified Bible says, "Do you not discern and understand that
you [the whole church at Corinth] are God's temple (His
sanctuary), and that God's Spirit has His permanent dwelling in
you—to be at home in you [collectively as a church and also
individually]?" (1 Cor. 3:16).
So you can see there is the individual anointing within us
because that Spirit—that anointing—is in us, but then there's
also that corporate anointing. We're conscious of His presence