We might believe Jesus came as the Anointed One sent by God, appointed by Him, but that anointing ever increased from the earliest time of Jesus even until today and in the future. He came preaching with an anointing which was the Holy Spirit which God gave him. God proclaimed him His Son. The miracles affirmed it. Psalm 2 had shown how God calls His Anointed “My Son”, and in this way God is his Father. So this affirmed that anointing. The anointing was increased all the more when after dying for our sins on the cross, God raised him from the dead to live forever. This filled him with surpassing joy beyond anything experienced by his disciples. Hebrews and Psalm 45 point to this surpassing joy as an anointing. Peter proclaimed after the resurrection of Jesus that by this resurrection God had made Jesus both Lord and Christ. Christ means Anointed One. It was for this joy that Jesus had endured the cross. Now exalted, Jesus grows in joy and thus anointing more and more as followers are given to him. He will raise so many when he comes in the future so they too live forever, together with those still alive at his return who he will make immortal. This is greater anointing with joy still to come. Then he will reign as the Father adds to him more and more subjects, until all eventually are his subjects centuries from now. This is a fulness of being anointed by God, anointed to rule over all. Then finally the Son will subject himself and everyone and everything under him forever to the Father so that the Father will thus be God all in all. Then the anointing grows even further as the Father gives him to sit with Him on His eternal throne, reigning forever and forever on that throne. He will in all of this remember his true disciples who remained faithful. They will reign with him and the Father forever, having but a foretaste of it now. As Anointed One, he is called by us the Christ. His faithful ones have the rightful name of Christian.
