Abide: Week 18

Jun 13, 2011 by desiringvirtue

This Week’s Verses:

1 John 2:20. But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

1 John 2:21. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Thoughts and Musings:

What a glorious truth we find here in verses 20 and 21! John reassures these believers (and us thousands of years later) that their salvation in Christ has secured for them the knowledge necessary to stand fast in their faith.

The Holy Spirit resides in every believer, teaching them, guiding them, convicting them of the truth. He is alive and working within us; our very own instructor in the faith. These believers had the incredible gift of the Holy Spirit to teach them truth in a time of great doctrinal confusion. John assures them here that their God, who saved their souls for eternal glorification, is also daily sanctifying them in the truth and giving them the instruction they need to see false teaching for what it is.

Their Savior, the Holy One of God, did not leave them without the resources necessary for the trials they faced.

What an amazing gift we are given in the Holy Spirit!

Related Passages:

“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 have said to you.” (John 14:26 ESV)