HE SHALL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS.

 

He shall teach you all things.
John 14;26

 
THE Holy Spirit is the teacher of the church.
 
To him the promise refers,
  “All thy children shall be taught of the Lord,
  and great shall be the peace of thy children.”
 
He taught the apostles all things necessary
    for their office and work;
  he teaches the true ministers of Christ,
    leading them into the truth as it is in Jesus; and
  he teaches every believer all that is really
    necessary for him to know.
 
The Bible is the lesson-book,
  the believer is the scholar,
  the blessing Spirit is the teacher, and
  experimental religion is the education.
 
No one teaches like him.
 
He teaches us gradually, silently, and always efficiently;
  for what the Spirit teaches us we know.
 
He teaches us what God requires in the law, and
  what he has provided in the gospel;
  what Christ is to his people, and
    what his people are to him.
 
His teaching makes practical Christians,
  for he always teaches us to deny ungodliness and
  worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and
    godly in the present world.
 
O to be taught of God!
 

O that we might the Spirit find

By Jesus’ grace be stowed,

Which leads us into all the mind,

And all the things of God.

Come, Holy Ghost, thy power display,

And teach us all in one,

Teach us in Christ, the living way,

To God's eternal throne.

 
James Smith 1849