EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/4/2024 10:05 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-2
“Christians Accept the Faith”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1 John 2:20-21,27
Message of the verses: “20 But you have an
anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. 21 I have not written to you
because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no
lie is of the truth…. 27 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.”
I really thought that I would finish this section in
my last SD, but didn’t get it all done and so I want to complete it this
evening, and then we will have one more sub-section to finish this
chapter.
What
I did not get to write about yesterday evening was verse 27 as it is almost as
long as verses 20-21 together. What we
have in verse 27 is that it reiterates the truth that the anointing, (which
speaks of the Spirit-given knowledge of the truth) which John’s readers received
from Him abides in them. His readers
possessed the truth; it resided in them permanently as it does in all true
believers. Here is a list of verses that
shows this truth too (John 14:16-17; Rom. 8:9; Eph. 1:13). So they (John’s readers) had no need for
anyone to teach them. And because God’s
truth is all-sufficient (Ps. 19:7-14; 2 Tim. 3:16-17) and incompatible with
error, His anointing teaches…about all things, and is true and is not a lie.
John MacArthur concludes this section by writing “When
the apostle asserted that believers do not need other teacher, he was not
advocating a mystical anti-intellectualism that spurns all human teachers. On the contrary, the Lord given the church godly
pastors, elders, and teachers ‘for the equipping of the saints for the work of
service, to the building up of the body of Christ’ (Eph. 4:12; cf. v. 11; 1
Cor. 12:28). John’s point is that
believers must not rely on human wisdom or man-centered philosophy (cf. 1 Cor.
1:18-2:9; Col. 2:8) but on the teaching of God’s Word by Spirit-gifted human
teachers and the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit.”
I
am very glad for the last paragraph that MacArthur added so that nobody gets
the wrong idea of what we are leaning from those verses. John is writing to a church which was to
function like a New Testament church and that is still what we are under and so
it is best to continue to learn about how the Church is to operate and follow
that.
12/4/2024 10:07 PM
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