The
anointing you received from Christ lives in you. 1 John 2:27
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 abides in you, and ye need not that anyone teach you, but...
His anointing teaches 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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