The Wrath of God and the Call to Total Surrender The tremendousness of it is God's elective purposes in your life, He's got a plan for you, and He'll give the Spirit according to that to which He has made you, formed you and called you, He will do that, I tell you why, because God is not a nitwit, if He wants you to do something, He will over flood you with the ability to do so, that's what I've discovered, I can only talk out of my experience really, that's very small, so you're not left longing to do it, longing, longing, longing, I mean that's a personal experience, you're poured into the image of Christ and He will fit you for that, it's an onerous position, He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, you don't have to worry about that anymore, that's all in the bargain, the emphasis of preachers today, I mean it's the art of preaching, I want to sometimes say it's the deceitfulness of it too, they play on the wants of mankind, I want to be clean, I want to be saved, I want to go to heaven, I want, if only we could raise up a generation of men and women that could so present the uttermost fullness of God that all our wants should be gone, and we have all things, that's what it's about, that was what God wanted, but there's a lot about this, that, the other inscriptions, about walking this year, I don't know, and whilst you're a child, you'll think as a child, you'll speak as a child, if you're not careful you'll preach as one, you've got to put away the childish things, the quicker you mature in Christ, the better for you and everybody else in the world, but you can't put on maturity, maturity and growth go hand in hand, so we see then beloved, he that believeth on the sun, believeth not the sun shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him, now that's associated of course with introductions of things, again I find enough in the verse to take up all day speaking about, you have to see what it's about, you've got to get soaked in God, you'll have to soak in the book as well, no laziness, no computerised method, you understand this, you're a human being, I was learning this morning, you pardon my ignorance, from a young man who knows all about it, that even computers can get diseases, it's fascinating at my age learning from a boy, he knows nothing, but you see all he's shown me is sin again, he's shown me an illustration of sin as easy as anything, he didn't mean to do that, but you see when you've got the spirit, everything is grist for the mill, everything is taken, everything you are is all new, blessed be God, he didn't give us a computer, not even a newspaper, or a printing press, thank God for printing presses, don't misunderstand me, but I want you to draw you back to a simple God who made a simple man and a simple woman, and so far as we know, intended that to go on till sin came on, it may be that every new invention, thank God there's a chair, I mean I'm probably sitting in a chair that's better than the throne that David sat on, I don't know, but thank God for them, but you can't invent love you see, you can't invent purity, you can't invent infallibility, you can't invent both, if you try to invent infallibility you show yourself the biggest liar that's walked in the earth, God's made it like that, God's made it to be like that, I haven't even got to chapter 4, that's where I want to come this morning, let's go on into chapter 4, you won't see life, and if you don't see life then of course it's death, but that's not what he finishes up with, except the worst death, the wrath of God abiding on you, better die, better never have been born, the wrath of God shall abide upon you, what a marvellous thing it is, we preach the love of God, indulge ourselves, I mean that rightly, in the love of God, height, length, breadth, depth, directions, no dimensions, that's where God wants us to be, supposing it was depth, length, breadth and height of raw, supposing it was, well don't, if you suppose it out long enough you'll probably finish up in a mental asylum, give yourselves up to God, utterly, don't worry about anything else, now then, we're taking now on a story, and John only uses stories, signs they're called, I haven't told you about that, I'm not going to, you can get that over a book, you now are being introduced, and I am being introduced, unto the depths, it's the story of the Lord Jesus with the woman at the well, I'd like to say to each one of you this morning, good morning well, personally, you say, well, what did he say, well he called me by my name, that's not your name, that's the fancy thing your mother and father gave to you, you see, hello well, now listen, you are full of something, you are supplying someone with something, somebody is drinking at the spring that's in you, of that spring, you understand that, if you never have, learn it today, somebody is drinking of us, now let's, we'll look at the story, you know the story, I want to take the relevant parts as far as I am concerned anyway, here it is, the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that he'd made more, baptised more disciples than John, though he himself hadn't done it, for the reasons I explained yesterday morning, he left Judea, departed again at Galilee, he must needs go through Samaria, you needn't know any more about that than the path went that way, that's all, they say, oh, well he knew there was a woman there and all that, we think we're great discerners of spiritual reasons, the way he led through Samaria, he just simply took the road ordinarily, and here we go then, he cometh to a city of Samaria called Sychar, nearer to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, now Jacob's well was there, now get this deep into your heart, beloved, if you let your mind now go back with me into the Old Testament, there's a Trinity in the Old Testament, as you know, equating, if you like, only in our thinking, not in its immensity, with the Trinity that was in Heaven, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, alright, Jacob's well was there, have you ever read about the Old Testament Trinity, of course the Trinity of God was there before the Old Testament was written, but to the Jewish Trinity, have you ever thought that the middle one is scarcely spoken of, the Father, just read Genesis, you'll read it there, the Father, yes, Abraham, if you like, and Jacob, but very little about Isaac, very little about Isaac, immediately your mind should be saying yesterday, I'm taking that you're great Bible readers and lovers, if not become one, that's an order from God, you and I must understand, can you remember anything that Isaac said, can you remember anything that Isaac did, can you remember anything that Jacob said, oh yes, you can think about that, bowls of lentils, all this kind of stuff, he had a stone for a pillow, lots about Jacob who became Israel, of course, by transformation, Abraham, you all can remember a lot about Abraham, can't you, very little about Isaac, you know he was circumcised, you will know he lived with his mummy and his daddy, you will know that he asked his father where the lamb was when they were going to Moriah, you will know all that, you will know he said, where's the lamb, God will provide himself a lamb, so we can quote them, we can quote, but nothing much about Isaac, and yet what a wonderful story, but it was Abraham who in a figure received him from the dead, so Hebrews says, Isaac didn't believe he would, not in talk, you just check it out, so then, we come from the great father who forsook all, and whom God said, in thee shall all nations of the earth be blessed, and so the whole lot of it, father, miss over the son, don't do it of course, but come to the Jacob, Jacob who, though at first was so much wrong, equates the spirits, father to the spirit, okay, and you do know of course, that they all dug wells in those days, and after the great event on Moriah, they went back to Beersheba, the well of the earth, where Abraham had planted a grove, and there they lived, listen, are you living by the well, because that's what Jesus was dealing with, in this fourth chapter, I'm taking you back into the cohesion of scripture, back, back, back, well, I don't matter what you feel, it's this very fact, talked about being filled with the spirit, and God giving not the spirit by measure, and here's a woman sitting by the well, in Samaria, and if it hadn't been through bastardy, the Samaritans might have finished up as good Jews, you think this is unusual way to talk, but it's truth, they were a mixture, in the beginning, of not Jews anyway, there weren't any Jews till, appeared on earth, until the Babylonish captivity, that's where the Judahites, or the Jews, came to be recognized, because you know, from the captivity in Babylon, ten of the tribes have been lost, okay, wonderful, wonderful truth, now this woman was coming, to get water, from the well, given to him by his dad, Jacob, who represents the Holy Spirit, in the last of the Trinity, okay, right, now this is a wonderful thing, there's a lot of things down that well, we say it was water, that's right, but what kind of water, well normal water, so on and so on, that's just it, normal, let's read on shall we, it was about the sixth hour, and Jesus sat on the well, verse six, there cometh a woman, verse seven, of Samaria, to draw water, Jesus saith unto her, give me to drink, and we're going to look into the depths, of, the well is deep, the woman said so, the well is deep, you're a well friend, and you're a very deep person indeed, your spirit is very deep, it's in sin, or it's not in sin, it's in purity, or it is not in purity, you have depths in you my friend, which I have never plumbed you, or anybody else, whether you're married, unmarried, living with your family, or not, you think no you, and you know them, you don't, you're a very deep person, and I'll tell you, that you, I'm talking to you spirit, living in your body, which you call by your own name, you go back to Eden, keep that very clear, know that this is what it's all about, the great interference of the devil, with God's work, and the purpose of his work, God intended the earth to be filled with pure Adams, and pure Eve's, that's what he intended, he intended Adam, to be the Lord of the earth, did you know that?