Do you believe in and discern these scriptures?
"But the anointing which ye have received from Him abideth in you, and ye have no need that any man teach you. But as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him. 1 John 2:27
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you."
John 14:26
Context Context Context
Take the second one first. As with John 16:13, John 14:26 was addressed to the
apostles not all Christians. They were the leaders of the Church, the successors of those apostles that the Holy Spirit will teach all things guide into all truth. They in their turn will teach us.
1 John 2:27 is a good example of that.
but the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him.
The context is that John is writing to Christians
who he personally has catechised, taught them everything,
taught them the truth. He addresses them as “my children” (vs 1) and “beloved” (vs 7). However they are in danger of being led astray by false teachers. That is the context. And we need to start at vs 20 to get the immediate context.
20.
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all know.
(Footnotes say some manuscripts say “you know everything” instead of
you all know.)
They
know because
John has taught them.
21
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it… [
because John has taught them].
24
Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you[
what they have already been taught].
If what you heard from the beginning [what they have already been taught] abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.
26
I write this to you about those who would deceive you [John is concerned that they are being taught falsely].
Now vs 27 in this context:
27
but the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you [
because they have already been taught by John]
; as his anointing teaches you about everything [
that they have been taught],
and is true, and is no lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him.
This is equivalent to the promise Jesus made to the apostles in John 14:26
....the Holy Spirit.. [will] ...bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
The Holy Spirit would bring to mind all the true teaching they had
already received. That presupposes that they had already received true teaching.
But you have to get that true teaching first. You cannot generate it from your own resources. You cannot reach the truth by starting from scratch, but only by receiving it from those who have already been taught it and can pass it on. Then when you are presented with false teaching, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the truth that
you have already been taught.
