“The anointing which you have received from Him
abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you.”
-1 JOHN 2:27
It
was God who gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers
to His Ekklesia, to encourage, edify, and establish all of us deeper
into Christ. Can the Holy Spirit in John contradict the Holy Spirit in
Paul? By no means.
What
then? John was the sole survivor of the first twelve apostles, and now
he is
very old. Naturally he is concerned with the welfare of the Ekklesia
after his death. So God comforts John, and then John comforts us, with
this truth: even if we do not have access to the apostle, or prophet, or
evangelist, or pastor and teacher, we are still instructed inwardly.
The Ekklesia that Jesus is building is not dependent upon the great men
or women of God. We are grateful to the ministry gifts when we have
them, but we are not dependent upon them for our Life. The Life is
greater
than the ministers through which it may be ministered.
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