When
will the Lord's people, who have the Scriptures and who know the Scriptures so
well in the letter, when will they come to realize and to recognize that if
truly they have been crucified with Christ, if they have died in His death and
have been raised together with Him and have received the Spirit, they have
Light in their dwelling? "The anointing which ye received of Him abideth
in you, and ye need not that any one teach you, but... His anointing teacheth
you concerning all things" (1 John 2:27). When will believers, when will
Christians, come to realize that? Why must Christians who have the knowledge of
the Scriptures in the letter, run about here and there to seek advice from
others on matters which vitally affect their own spiritual knowledge? I do not
mean that it is wrong to get counsel, wrong to know what other children of God
of experience think or feel about matters. But if we are going to build our
position upon their conclusions, we are in great danger. The final authority
and arbiter in all matters is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the anointing.
We
may get help from one another, but I do hope that you are not going to build
your position upon what I say now because I say it. Do not do that. I do not
want you to do it. I do not ask you to do it. What I say is: listen, take note;
and then go to your final authority Who is in you if you are a child of God,
and ask Him to corroborate the truth or to show otherwise. That is your right,
your birthright, the birthright of every child of God: to be in the light of
the indwelling Spirit of Light, the Spirit of God.
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