How sure a teacher is the Spirit of Truth! He "searcheth all
things: yea, the deep things of God" (1 Cor. 2:10). He comprehends
the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, and all the windings
of the heart of man. He is the Paraclete within us, pleading
for Christ with our heart, printing the name of Jesus on its
fleshly tables, and causing us to increase in the knowledge of
God. We never give up what by His anointing we have once embraced;
it is graven on the heart as with the point of a diamond.
The Spirit of God, who is of one mind with Christ, the Son of
God, dwells in believers by virtue of their oneness with Christ;
and, although so often grieved, will never give up to destruction
any one, even the weakest, of Christ's members.
God always dwells by His Holy Spirit in His people. Let us be
careful not to grieve this glorious Paraclete. Let us be looking
continually at the blood of Christ, and watch against little
trespasses, little breaches of love, suspicions, rash censures,
and coldness of heart.
By the mere natural understanding men may learn much of the truth
of God, but afterwards renounce and deny it. If by the Spirit's
unction we learn anything, we hold it fast. His true teaching
carries with it assurance to the soul that it is God's truth
we are learning. Of this assurance Satan has his counterfeit,
and only by walking humbly with God shall we detect the fraud.