The anointing'

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"But the anointing which you have received from
Him abides in you." 1 John 2:27

All the powers of earth and hell are combined against 
this holy anointing, with which the children of God are 
so highly favored. But if God has locked up in the bosom 
of a saint one drop of this divine unction, that one drop 
is armor against . . .
all the assaults of sin,
all the attacks of Satan,
all the enmity of self, and
all the charms, pleasures, and amusements of the world. 

Waves and billows of affliction may roll over the soul—
but they cannot wash away this holy drop of anointing oil. 

Satan may shoot a thousand fiery darts to inflame all 
the combustible material of our carnal mind—but all his 
fiery darts cannot burn up that one drop of oil which 
God has laid up in the depths of a broken spirit. 

The world, with all its charms and pleasures, and its 
deadly opposition to the truth of God, may stir up waves 
of ungodliness against this holy anointing—but all the 
powers of earth combined can never extinguish that 
one drop which God has Himself lodged in the depths 
of a believer's heart. 

And so it has been with all the dear saints of God. 
Not all their . . .
sorrows, 
backsliding,
slips,
falls,
miseries, and
wretchedness, 
have ever—all combined, drunk up the anointing that 
God has bestowed upon them. If sin could have done
it—we would have sinned ourselves into hell long ago; 
and if the world or Satan could have destroyed it or 
us—they would long ago have destroyed both. If our 
carnal mind could have done it—it would have swept 
us away into floods of destruction. 

But the anointing abides sure, and cannot be destroyed; 
and where once lodged in the soul, it is secure against 
all the assaults of earth, sin, and hell. 

"But the anointing which you have received from
Him abides in you." 1 John 2:27

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