The anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need
anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things and as
that anointing is real, not counterfeit – just as it has taught you, remain in
Him. (1 John 2:27 NIV)
The School of Christ; that is, the School where Christ is the great Lesson
and the Spirit the great Teacher; in the School where the teaching is not
objective, but subjective; where the teaching is not of things, but an inward
making of Christ a part of us by experience – that is the nature of this School.
"Ye shall see the heaven opened." "He saw the heavens opened and the Spirit of
God descending upon Him." What is the meaning of the anointing of the Holy
Spirit? It is nothing less and nothing other than the Holy Spirit taking His
place as absolute Lord. The anointing carries with it the absolute Lordship of
the Holy Spirit, the Spirit as Lord. That means that all other lordships have
been deposed and set aside; the lordship of our own lives; the lordship of our
own minds, our own wills, our own desires; the lordship of others. The lordship
of every interest and every influence is regarded as having given place to the
undivided and unreserved lordship of the Holy Spirit, and the anointing can
never be known or enjoyed, unless that has taken place....
Do you ask for the anointing of the Holy Spirit? Why do you
ask for the anointing of the Holy Spirit? Is the anointing something that you
crave? To what end? That you may be used, may have power, may have influence,
may be able to do a lot of wonderful things? The first and preeminent thing the
anointing means is that we can do nothing but what the anointing teaches and
leads to do. The anointing takes everything out of our hands. The anointing
takes charge of the reputation. The anointing takes charge of the very purpose
of God. The anointing takes complete control of everything and all is from that
moment in the hands of the Holy Spirit, and we must remember that if we are
going to learn Christ, that learning Christ is by the Holy Spirit's dealing with
us, and that means that we have to go exactly the same way as Christ went in
principle and in law... "The Son can do nothing out from Himself." You see,
there is the negative side of the anointing; while the positive side can be
summed up in one word – the Father only. Perhaps that is a little different idea
of the anointing from what we have had, "Oh, to be anointed of the Holy Spirit!
What wonders will follow; how wonderful that life will be!" The first and the
abiding thing about the anointing is that we are imprisoned into the Lordship of
the Spirit of God, so that there can be nothing if He does not do it. Nothing!