His Anointing Teaches You

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“These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.​

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“Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.” (1 John 2:26-29 NASB1995)​

When we believe in Jesus Christ with biblical God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him, we die with Christ to sin and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

But that isn’t all that happens to us. By faith in Jesus Christ we enter into a spiritual marriage relationship with the Lord, with Christ as our husband, and with us as his bride. And we are to love him and to be faithful to him and to show him honor, as a wife would with her husband. And when we believe in Jesus, we are indwelt with the Holy Spirit, who is our teacher, our counselor, our encourager, and our guide who leads us into all truth and who reminds us of the teachings of Christ, and of his New Testament apostles, too.

The anointing which we have received from God, by biblical faith in the Lord Jesus, is the Holy Spirit within us, and it is our salvation from our slavery (addiction) to sin, and it is the empowerment of God to now live holy lives, pleasing to God, in the power of God, by his Spirit, because of God’s grace. But when this says here that “you have no need for anyone to teach you,” I believe this is in reference to the fact that we no longer must receive God’s words to us through a prophet, now that we have the Holy Spirit within us.

But this doesn’t do away with all teaching, for within the body of Christ are those who are gifted with the gift of teaching, and John was obviously teaching (instructing) the Christians in the book of 1 John in how they ought to live and how they ought not to live, as God’s children. And we are taught in the Scriptures that we are to instruct, counsel, encourage, and exhort one another so that we are not led astray by those who are deceiving the people, and so we are not led into captivity to sin by the lies being spread.

And this section of Scripture (quoted above) is in the context concerning those who were trying to deceive the Christians to reject the truth of God and to follow after the lies. So in this context John was letting them know that they did not need to have these deceivers teaching them because they had the anointing of God and the Holy Spirit within them teaching them what they needed to learn. But still John saw the need to give them instructions, as well, to help them walk the right path and to not be led astray by the deceptive ones. And we still have need to exhort one another.

But we must not put our dependence in the teachings of humans, or assume that what they are teaching us is absolute truth, just because of who they are. And here the Scriptures tell us that we are to test the spirits to see which ones are of God, for many liars and deceivers abound these days. And so much is being faked and altered to make it look one way while it is the opposite of what they proclaim it is. So we must be spiritually discerning people who make sure that what we are hearing agrees with the Scriptures, but the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context, not out of context.

If we are abiding in Christ, we are living in him, and him in us, and we are acting in accord with what the Scriptures teach us as to how we are to be living, as followers of Christ. And this means that we are in the practice of obeying our Lord, adhering to and conforming our lives to his commands, and putting sin to death in our lives daily, by the Spirit. And we are walking in holiness and righteousness, continuing in Christ and in his Word and in doing what he says we are to do until the very end, by God’s grace. But if sin is still our practice, and not obedience, we have not life eternal with God.

“If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.” (v. 29)​

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2-3]

Just a Closer Walk with Thee

Hymn lyrics by Anonymous/Unknown
Music by American Melody

“For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you” (2 Co. 13:4 NASB).

I am weak, but Thou art strong;
Jesus, keep me from all wrong;
I’ll be satisfied as long
As I walk, let me walk close to Thee.

Through this world of toil and snares,
If I falter, Lord, who cares?
Who with me my burden shares?
None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee.

When my feeble life is o’er,
Time for me will be no more;
Guide me gently, safely o’er
To Thy kingdom shore, to Thy shore.

Just a closer walk with Thee,
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea,
Daily walking close to Thee,
Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.

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His Anointing Teaches You
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