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1. Let's look at the text and see what it actually means.

2. The audience to which Jesus was speaking was the gathering of His closest disciples whom He had commissioned to preach the gospel throughout the world. It is to them that He is specifically given this promise of the sending of the Holy Spirit for two reasons, in this context.
- He will teach them "all things"
- He will bring to remembrance all that Jesus had spoken to them while on earth.

The two "alls" are inseparable. There is no justification to separate the two so that on the one hand, a recollection of what was spoken would be given and on the other, everything which Jesus did not speak would be revealed directly by the Spirit sans means. The meaning here is that the words which Jesus spoke in their presence throughout His earthly ministry would not be a) remembered completely, and b) comprehended in their fullness without the Spirit's enlightenment (cf. Jh 2:22; 12:16).

3. What you are faced with with such individuals is a denial of the closing of the Canon and an embracing of extra-biblical revelation which is a lengthy subject. You might want to look through the many articles on The Highway [url=http://the-highway.com/]website[/i] in the following two sections:
- The Charismatic Movement
- Calvinism and the Reformed Faith > Sola Scriptura

4. Lastly, R.C. Sproul, Sr. once said that when he met someone who said, "The Spirit told me ... such and such," and thus you (Sproul) must acknowledge that it is true, he would reply that the Spirit told him (Sproul) that what this person was espousing was horse pucky and to reject and ignore it."