Email from Abiding Place Daily Bread – July 3, 2025 (The Fifth Day – Genesis 1:20-23) 1 John 2:20 – And we have an anointing from the Holy One, and we know everything. The Anointing to be Taught Directly by God Every person who has been born of God has received an anointing. The anointing we have received causes us to both know the truth, and know those who are of the truth, specifically because of the fruits of righteousness those born of God produce (Matthew 7:17-20; John 15:4-5; Romans 6:22; 2 Corinthians 1:21; Ephesians 5:9; Philippians 1:11, Hebrews 12:11; James 3:17-18; 1 John 2:27). The Holy Spirit Who came to lead us and guide us also strengthens us to walk in every disposition of God (John 14:26, 16:13; 2 Peter 1:5-10; 1 John 1:7, 2:29, 3:7-8). The truth the Holy Spirit teaches us and leads us into is the will of the Father described to us by the Word of God. Therefore, we are without excuse. The will of God has been perfectly revealed, and because our lives exist in Christ Jesus, the same anointing teaches us and empowers us to do what God demands. Thus, the promises of God are fulfilled as we are all being taught directly by God (Jeremiah 31:34; John 6:45; Hebrews 8:11)! John tells us in verse 24 how we are to let what we have heard from the beginning abide in us. That which both they and we have heard from the beginning is the Gospel – the message of how we have been set free from everything evil and born into the Kingdom of the dear Son as sons and daughters. God, Who in times past spoke to His people by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, Who He has appointed as the heir of all things. And Christ Jesus, the Son, is still speaking the same thing today as He did in the beginning (John 6:63, 17:17; Hebrews 1:1-2). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 7/3/2025
