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The oil represents the Holy Spirit.

Below is one verse in which anointing with oil is mentioned in The Bible.

James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.3

For those interested, Exodus gives us the ingredients in the oil that was used for anointment.

In Exodus 30:22-37 we have as ingredients:

- liquid myrrh

- sweet-smelling cinnamon ( a kind of cinnamon of the laurel family)

- aromatic cane (sweet cane or sugar cane)

- cassia (inner bark of cinnamon, one of the perfumes used at Roman funerals)

- olive oil

We anoint you with oil as a sing that you are a honored Child of God, touched by the Holy Spirit.

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