The anointing you received from Christ lives in you. (1 John 2:27 GW)
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.