Do you believe that John 14:26 applies to you and every Christian?? That EVERY Christian would be taught by the Spirit? If you believe that 14:26 is directed at ALL Christians then all of us can say that the Spirit brought us to the Truth. What would be our evidence of this? What is your evidence that the Spirit guides you into the Truth?
I do believe that it is directed to every one who is seeking His face. I brought it up as I was hoping you would explain why anyone would not believe that? David wrote of being told to seek His face and then proceeded to do so:
"When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek." Psalm 27:8
Apostle Paul wrote that "we" would
then see "face to face":
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." I Cor 13:12
Are we, you and I and anyone seeking the Way of God be included in that "we"?
The Apostle John wrote this:
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." I John 3:2
Are not all seeker who endure to the end with Him include in the "we", the sons of God who would see him as he is. Are we not already seeing, even if it may be along with Paul "through a glass, darkly" for now... but approaching that "face to face" vision about which John wrote?
"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14:26
What have we heard from Jesus or what have we seen about which the Holy Ghost in us would bring to our remembrance? What are included in the "all things" to be taught to us? How is this done since we were not there in old Israel in the flesh hearing his spoken words with our carnal ears?
How about we have consumed the word of the scriptures themselves, dead things while they remained in the Book unread and then the Holy Ghost in us quickened within us the words consumed? That is He brought them to Life making those quickened words, now the Word of God in us, a part of that new man who would never die.
"And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" John 11:26
Jesus said those words to us when we read the scriptures as we were moved by the Holy Ghost and the meaning of those words came to Life. Do you believe that God only speaks to people with a mouth of flesh as Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his closest disciples?
What did Jesus pray?
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." John 17:20-21
How do you get around the last verse of that passage?: and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
"Get around it? Why should we want to that if we are seeking truth and we believe what is written in the gospels was written by men anointed by God to do so?
Do you not believe that Jesus speaks to anyone today, you or me or anyone else? What did He say about His sheep? Are we not his sheep or should we not be His sheep?
"To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice." John 10:3-4
In CONTEXT Jesus was CLEARLY speaking directly to and only to the Apostles and that THEY would remember.
Certainly He was speaking to them, but He was also speaking those today with "ears to hear"!
"And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Luke 8:8
And He was showing the Truth to those who had "eyes to see".
A person sees and hears the things of God only by the Holy Ghost. The original apostles saw and heard by the power of the Holy Ghost promised and given to whom?
"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call" Acts 2:38-39
To twist that passage any other way would change 2,000 years of Church teaching.
2,000 years of teaching? And how long did the anointed patriarchs, judges, prophets and priests in the OT teaching people when Jesus arrived on the scene? It about 2,000 years prior to that that Abram/Abraham was hearing from God. Yet after 2000 years of men of God being sent to people, where was the leadership when Jesus came? Where were most of the people who supposedly followed those leaders? When the leaders claimed Abraham as their father do recall Jesus' response?
"They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham." John 8:39
All of that time, 2000 years and who had twisted the teaching of the prophets so that Jesus rebuked them for making such claims. How far had mankind, including the natural children of Jacob, traveled away from the perfection of the Garden of Eden? How far away has mankind today, including the people in churches, traveled away from the perfection of Jesus when he was crucified?