The Anointing Teaches
As we continue our study on the subject of the anointing we cover the idea that the anointing teaches us. Let us read:
John 2:27:
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
The first point I want to make is this: the anointing abides in you. To abide means to live or dwell in, which does not mean to visit temporarily. Yes the anointing abides in you, if in fact you have received it from Him. The anointing takes up residence inside you and is waiting to be released at any given moment. It does not come and then manifest itself but rather is already inside you, living and dwelling and waiting to manifest from inside you.
The second point I want to make is this, you don’t need man to teach you what the anointing can teach you. Look at the passage again, doesn’t it say that you have no need for anyone to teach you.
…you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things…
Is it good to have a spiritual father or mother or pastor? Yes, it is good. But no one can fulfill even half of what the Holy Spirit will fulfill for you in your life. The other point is that there is a great shortage of willing and able spiritual fathers and mothers, those are willing to love and take time for their spiritual sons and daughters and not merely try to rule them and govern them with virtually no relationship whatsoever. There has been enough of that and I believe that God himself is grieved of the never ending effort for men to control and rule but not love and equip.
And so the anointing will teach you when nobody else will. How much will it teach you? The scripture says all things. There is nothing that is being taught in a bible college that can not be learned directly from the Holy Spirit Himself – NOTHING.
The last thing I want to mention is the last part of this verse, notice what it says:
…just as it has taught you, you abide in Him
If you want to learn directly from the anointing then you must abide in Him. You must live and dwell in Him and He must live and dwell in you. There is no other way that will you have the kind of relationship where the anointing is teaching you, leading you and guiding you.
Lastly, as you read the passage below spoken by Jesus in the gospel of John, consider that one of the things that fruit can be referring to (not only but including) is knowledge, understanding and revelation.
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
– John 15:4, 5
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