Why the use of ANOINTING OIL for ordination is unbiblical in the NEW TESTAMENT
By Olusegun Ibikunle
Text: 2 Corinthians 3:6A and Acts 13:1-4 KJV
“Who (God) also hath made us able ministers of the new testament”
By His grace, we shall conclude this teaching today.
Anointing Oil in the New Testament
The church started after the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The New Testament or the New Covenant was established to replace the Old Covenant (Old Testament) after the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
To another level after the death, resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ, it happened on the Day of Pentecost that the Holy Spirit came to live (dwell) inside the true Christian believers (the born again) and is staying permanently in this world until when the rapture will take place .
The Promise (the Holy Spirit) came to dwell in humans – the Promise to dwell inside the genuinely born again Christians, the Anointing Himself; the Holy Spirit is fulfilled in the New Testament – Luke 24:49 KJV Acts 1:4 KJV, and Acts 2:33 KJV “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high…And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me…Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.” The word “the Holy Ghost’ in this scripture means the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the anointing in the New Testament. This is the reason why that in the entire New Testament (New Covenant) there is no mention or use of the anointing oil by the Christian Believers.
What was mentioned in the New Testament is just “oil” (not the anointing oil). As mentioned earlier, the anointing oil of the Old Testament under the Law of Moses is the shadow that had been replaced by the substance of third Person in Trinity – the Person Himself who happened to be the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, if the Holy Spirit is dwelling in you as a genuinely born again Christian, and you have received the Holy Ghost Baptism (the infilling power of the Holy Spirit), just have this spiritual understanding that you have been baptized with the Holy Spirit (in anointing) which means that you have been anointed – and you are anointed one.
When you are genuinely born again, it is God Himself Who anointed you: 2 Corinthians 1:21 KJV “Now he (God) which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God.”
In the New Testament, all the true Christian believers (the genuinely born again) are anointed with the Holy Spirit by God Himself. This scripture did not mention that it is your pastor who anoints you with the Holy Spirit and makes or establishes you to stand firm in Christ; it is God as He is the One who anointed the Lord Jesus Christ also – Acts 10:38 KJV “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”
It is the Holy Spirit (Anointing Himself), the Power (the Power of God in action), the anointing upon (the infilling power of the Holy Spirit) makes you become “the anointed” child of God in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit is the Third Person in Trinity, the Personality who works signs, miracles and wonders in the Name of Jesus.
The ministers of the Old Testament were the shadows of the able ministers of the New Testament because God chose man (e.g. Moses) to use the anointing oil to anoint them (the ministers of the Old ministers) whereby the anointing oil was to serve as the symbol of the Holy Spirit while God Himself anointed the able ministers of the New Testament with the Holy Spirit (the substance) as He (God) anointed the Lord Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit – 2 Corinthians 3:6 KJV, 2 Corinthians 1:21 KJV and Acts 10:38 KJV “Who (God) also hath made us able ministers of the new testament… Now he which… in Christ….hath anointed us, is God….How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: “
The Holy Spirit (the substance) by Christ Jesus of the New Testament has permanently replaced the anointing oil (the shadow) of the Old Testamen
The purposes of anointing oil in the Old Testament were not for personal use at all and take note that not every person was allowed to touch it for it was holy as God commanded.
In this dispensation of the Holy Spirit under the New Testament, it is unscriptural, unbiblical, and unchristian to use anointing oil. But it is unfortunate that many Christians are preparing, mixing, selling and buying anointing oils.
This man-made anointing oil under the New Testament, I believe it is not of God but demonic as Satan has taken advantage of their disobedience to the word of God on the purposes and use of the anointing oil recommended and commanded by God for Holy use only in the Old Testament.
Once again, this man-made anointing oil which is spiritually demonic in nature is NOT for personal use but many ignorant Christians are making various forms of anointing oils for themselves, selling and buying them for themselves – and anybody can touch and own them for they are not Holy but demonic.
Remember that according to God’s instruction in the book of Exodus 30:26-33, no other man except Moses was/had been instructed by God to make anointing oil.
The anointing oil in the Old Testament is a shadow while the Holy Spirit is the substance due to the finished works of Christ at the Cross of Calvary.
Therefore, anointing oil was of an Old Testament shadow of the Anointing Himself, the Holy Spirit, revealed in the New Testament under the New Covenant.
Every command and shadow pertaining its purpose, use, preparation/making, etc, reveals the Holy Spirit in the New Testament.
Once you are genuinely born again, the Lord Jesus Christ breathes on you to receive the Holy Spirit – and this spiritual experience had never happened in the Old Testament; it is only for the true Christians in the New Testament: John 20:22 KJV “And when he (Jesus Christ) had said this, he breathed on them (His disciples), and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit).”
The reason for the New Testament is Jesus Christ who is the substance: Colossians 2:17 KJV and Hebrews 10:1 KJV “Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body (substance) is of Christ… For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.”
The anointing oil of the Old Testament is the shadow of the substance of the Holy Spirit of the New Testament.
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