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would appear from this last verse particularly that the believer should have perfect
understanding of the Word of God if he has an infallible Teacher who knows the
deep things of God, and especially so, since John also states: “But ye have an
anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things” (1John 2:20). But from experience we know that
this is not true. While all truly saved people agree on certain fundamental
basic doctrines of the faith, there is wide divergence of understanding upon
less important ones. And it is evident that John does not mean that the believer
is omniscient when he says that he knows all things. He apparently means all
things which God has revealed to him. Neither is John ruling out human teachers
of the Word when he says that ye need not that any man teach you. John himself
wrote this epistle to teach them. We read that the apostles “ceased not to
teach and to preach Jesus” (Acts 5:42).
Paul “taught everywhere and in every church” (1Corinthians 4:17). Teaching pastors are God’s gift to
the Church (Ephesians 4:11).
Here again the Holy Spirit works through human instruments. When the Spirit
fills and controls a human teacher, the teaching is not man’s teaching but that
of the Spirit. But human teachers are not always dominated by the Holy Spirit,
and thus may err.
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