LIVING WATER
John 4: 1-30; 7: 37-39; 20: 19-23
AM It was felt that in the first reading that we should be occupied with our Lord Jesus as the living One; just to have Him before us. It was stated that He is able to give life and to sustain life. Where we have read we see the Lord Jesus speaking of Himself as the One who gives living water, referring to the Holy Spirit.
Now we know that in chapters 14 to 16 of this book the gift of the Holy Spirit is mentioned several times. The Father would give the Holy Spirit for the comfort of the saints. The Lord would give the Holy Spirit for the testimony. When He is spoken of as coming Himself, it is for the glorification of Christ. That is the way His coming is presented.
We can see in these scriptures how this woman is first brought to Christ. Every one of us began by being brought to Christ; that was the Father’s working. We did not know that at the time, but we knew that the Lord Jesus was before us. And there is a second great milestone in our lives that we must reach, and that is to be conscious of receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit; another is that we own Jesus as Lord. These are three great milestones at the beginning of the life of a believer. You cannot own Jesus as Lord without the Holy Spirit; so the gift of the Holy Spirit is essential.
So the Lord spoke to this poor woman. He told her that if she asked Him, she would receive a gift that would give her satisfaction forever. Now this poor woman had sought satisfaction at least five times in her life and five times her hopes had been dashed. We do not know the circumstances. We do not know if any of the husbands were alive or dead, but five times her hopes had been dashed. And the Lord Jesus invited her to come to Him; and in the gift of the Holy Spirit she would find permanent satisfaction. Is that not a wonderful thing? This must have been music to her ears. She spoke about the service of God. What she understood we do not know, but what it led to was that she went out in testimony to the men of the city.
Now in John 7, the Lord says, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”. That is, in the gift of the Holy Spirit there is something flowing out. Someone said that the believer who has the gift of the Holy Spirit has something that is greater than he can contain; it flows out in testimony. The believer is seen as someone who has a resource in the Holy Spirit. That is in testimony, and you gain that by coming to the living One.
In John 20, the Lord Jesus in resurrection comes to His own. He speaks peace to them and then He breathes into them and says, “Receive the Holy Spirit”. If they were going to be found in the scene of testimony, they would need the power of the Holy Spirit to go through; so He says, “Receive the Holy Spirit” and He breathed into them. And then He speaks about the administration that was to operate on earth: “whose soever sins ye remit” and so on, all consequent on the fact that the Holy Spirit has come. He has come from the ascended Christ, from the living One, and He sustains His people in life, in the scene of testimony here.
WSC I was just thinking that the scriptures where we read largely refer to drinking. I am wondering if the crux of this is not that you have to study certain things, but you just have to be available to the Spirit.
AM Yes, that is right. Drinking is such a simple thing. You do not have to study to know that you are thirsty or to know that water satisfies you; you just drink. You just absorb what is available in the gift of the Holy Spirit.
GMC I am wondering what the difference between food and this water is.
AM Food builds you up and water satisfies. If you are thirsty you need water, and that has an immediate effect; it satisfies. Man naturally is a cyclical being. He takes a drink and later he is thirsty again and needs another one. The water in the believer becomes a fountain of water, springing up; it is living water.
DMW Does it spring up into something?
AM It springs up to eternal life. Is that what you are thinking?
DMW Another order of things is contemplated, is it not? It is not a natural order of things.
AM No, that is right. This poor woman at first wondered what the Lord was speaking about. She says, “Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well … ?” The well was not going to give lasting satisfaction. She had to fill her waterpot each day. There is a new spring in the believer that gives lasting satisfaction. I think that is a wonderful thing.
WSC In the midst of presenting all of the works of David’s mighty men, we are told that he longed for a drink, 2 Sam 23: 15.
AM What was there for him? And there were those who secured what would answer to his affections. Think of the Lord having desires like that. Here we have Him sitting at the well. He had His own desires. He saw the woman with her needs, but as He tells the disciples later, His needs would be satisfied. Those three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines. We had a beautiful touch on that incident a little while ago. A brother said that, in breaking through the camp of the Philistines, it does not say anything about them engaging in battle or anything like that. He said he thought they broke through by keeping out of sight - they had David before them.
TWL This becomes “in him” what springs up to eternal life. Can you help us as to what eternal life is?
AM I think eternal life is best enjoyed. Eternal life involves the enjoyment of relationships together. There is a sphere in which we can enjoy relationships and these relationships are eternal.
TWL This woman was very young in the faith; so sometimes we might, when we are younger, think that this is beyond us; it will take time. We do not need time to enjoy Christ where He is. That is eternal life, is it not?
AM It is, yes. When the children of Israel had come out of Egypt, they soon came to Elim, Exod 15: 27. Twelve springs of water were there and seventy palm trees, and they encamped by the waters. That was in the wilderness. The wilderness is a tough place, but there was something springing up. In an occasion like this, one may have a sense that there is something that is springing up among the saints in their relations together, as they speak over the truth together. That is like a taste of eternal life in the wilderness. Do you think?
TWL Exactly. So when we are younger, we might not understand all the things the brethren say, but we can definitely see that they are enjoying something they love. They enjoy Someone they love; that is eternal life. So it has nothing to do with capacity; it has everything to do with affection.
AM And so I would say to anyone who is in that situation to stay in that circle and pray that you might enter into the enjoyment of it like others do.
DMW She says, “the well is deep”. The Lord spoke of a fountain. There is no pooling of water; would that be right?
AM I think that poor woman felt every day that the well was getting deeper. It was more and more of a trial to get that little bit of water that she needed. The Lord offered her something that she would not have to reach down for; it will spring up into eternal life. And that is like the end of the wilderness, is it not? “Rise up, well! sing unto it”, Num 21: 17. They were about to leave the wilderness and go into the land, another sphere.
SWS I wondered if you could help us a little as to the Lord saying that the water shall become in him a fountain of water. You might open that up a little bit, especially thinking of the thought of it becoming in him a fountain of water.
AM Do you think that is what we prove as we drink of it? You take of the living water from Christ. As we partake of that we find that is what it becomes in us. It is one thing to know that the Holy Spirit has been given and that He is the source of satisfaction, but we have to drink of that, and it then becomes in us a fountain of water. What would you say?
SWS I think that is very helpful. It seems to allude to a formative work that takes place as a result. It is not just the emphasis on drinking, but it is really taking that in and allowing the formative work of the Holy Spirit to bring something about that results in this understanding and appreciation and enjoyment of eternal life.
AM Yes. We have to do the drinking. Such is the gift that the Lord Jesus would give that our apprehension of it changes as we enjoy it. It springs up into eternal life. And then you find that you have a resource. The brethren have to earn their living. If you go out into the world and keep apart from the things of the world you need a resource. It comes from having to do with the Lord as the Giver of living water.
KNP He says to the woman “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is”. Do you think it brings us back to the Lord Himself as that Person?
AM I think so. In chapter 3 we have the gift of God: “God so loved the world, that he gave”, v 16. His love was so great that He gave the most precious thing that He could give. And it was in view of another gift. “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is”. There was Jesus, the living One, who could give the living water.
KAK I was thinking that she left two things. She left Jacob’s well and she left the waterpot. It is very interesting to contemplate that because those were things that related to former times. The living water now is something that comes from the ascended Christ, and from the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. It comes from heaven and it is available to each one of us. Perhaps the young people do not understand the possibility of what is available to them without having to depend on something from former times.
AM Well, that is very good: what we receive comes from heaven. In the days in which the Lord Jesus was here they had to know what had gone before - Moses, the law and the prophets. These were read in the synagogues every sabbath. What the believer has he receives from Christ in heaven. If you have a living link with a Man in heaven you will have a source of supply that will keep you satisfied.
CJB I would like to enquire about the verse that was quoted, “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him”. Can you say a little bit about asking of him?
AM When we first receive the Lord Jesus, we need to be sure that we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. And if anyone has any doubt about whether they have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, ask! The Lord speaks in Luke about the Father giving the Holy Spirit. He says, “If therefore ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”, Luke 11: 13. Divine Persons have come so accessible because Jesus has been here.
CJB I was really struck by what was being spoken of, that there is not a need to know all the past histories of everything, but if we know the Lord Jesus, we can simply ask for the power of the Holy Spirit, and I feel my own need in walking in that power, which is a wonderful gift.
AM If a soul has received the gift of the Holy Spirit that remains. “The gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance”, Rom 11: 29. That remains, but if I have grieved the Spirit, or quenched Him, His power, His resource may not be available to me. I have to get back to the Holy Spirit. How are our links with the Holy Spirit? I have to be constantly depending on Him.
NJP Achsah got the upper springs and the lower springs (Josh 15: 19), did she not? Sometimes you have to dig for them. Sometimes the world blocks it, but water is there, is it not?
AM It is. Achsah knew that she had an inheritance but it would need to be maintained in life. And you need water, otherwise the land becomes a desert. So she needed water. She needed water in relation to the heavenly things, the service of God. You need the Spirit’s power in that. You also need the Spirit’s power in testimony. She needs both. And Caleb knew that; he was probably waiting for her to ask for it.
AML Would it be right to say that this inheritance stems back to Jacob? I was wondering about what it refers to - Jacob says to Joseph, “I have given to thee one tract of land above thy brethren” (Gen 48: 22), and that is really developed in the blessings in the following chapter, bringing in the thought of the well. Giving Joseph the right place is like making way for Christ, is it not? Jacob and Joseph are not mentioned here just by coincidence; there must be a moral reason.
AM Well, that is right. This is Joseph’s section of John. You remember Joseph in Egypt was given a name, Sustainer of life, Saviour of the world, Revealer of secrets, Gen 41: 45. Here is the true Joseph: “whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst for ever” - Sustainer of life; “God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth” - Revealer of secrets. And the Samaritans said, “we believe … and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world”. Here is Joseph in all his glory.
WSC I was thinking of the Egyptian they found exhausted in the field, 1 Sam 30: 11-16. All Egyptians are exhausted, are they not? They gave him water and raisin-cakes and part of a fig-cake, and his spirit came again. We were speaking about water springing up; that is an example, is it not?
AM Yes, his spirit again revived. And he asked for two things, that he would not go back to his master, and also he would not be put to death. So what did he want? He wanted to be with David. That was the place for him.
DMW So the woman has a new object. Five husbands and the man that she was with were no longer really her object. Springing up into another order of things brings a new object to her in view of testimony but she had to get rid of her waterpot to be really in it.
AM Yes, and having a new object she went out in triumph. This woman went into the city and went to the men of the city, and she said, “Come, see a man”. This is a Man of another order; this is the Christ.
DMW She gets the object in her heart that she always required. I said that she had to get rid of her waterpot. That is not exactly accurate; she had to leave her waterpot. Would she ever go back to it?
AM Well, I do not know. She was the vessel and the water was springing up, but what do you think?
DMW Well, as I was speaking, I believe Mr Jim Renton made a comment one time that she would have gone back to her waterpot, even though she became a vessel of living water. Our brother said she would have gone back to her waterpot, likening it to the circumstances of life here. But she had her life elsewhere; so she was not occupied with that any longer.
AM That is good. So the Lord does not take us out of our circumstances. He gives us what will sustain us in them. That is grace, is it not? Grace sustains us in our circumstances. Mercy takes us out of them, but grace sustains us in them. So it is like the men whom the Lord heals and He says, 'Go back to your house’. Not that that will be the centre of your life: Christ was going to be the centre of their lives, but they go back as a testimony.
GMC How do we drink this water? He does not just give it to her; she has to drink it. How do we do that practically?
AM What we are talking about is coming to the Lord Jesus and receiving from Him, through the Holy Spirit, that which satisfies us. So we must set time aside. You get a sense of the Lord Jesus, and ask the Spirit to help you to be absorbed with Him and His glory, and you find there is satisfaction in that. One good piece of advice is, when you read the Scriptures, especially by yourself, first turn to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to show you something that you have not seen before. You will not read very far before you get an impression. It is true; you can prove it; you are drinking of the living water.
AML The woman says, “Sir, I see that thou art a prophet”. Would that be practical drinking of this living water?
AM She begins to appreciate Christ, does she not? She begins to appreciate something of the One who was there. You see how her view of the Lord Jesus changes. She begins, “thou, being a Jew”; that was a dismissive thing to say. Then she says, “I see that thou art a prophet”; that is respectful. She sees that there is something different there. He has something that she does not have. Eventually she says this One is “the Christ”.
AML Would it be right to say she became a kingdom person? I just wondered because she says in verse 15, “Sir, give me this water”; that that develops later on, “Sir, I see that thou art a prophet”. She is really maturing very quickly and becoming a worshipper.
AM That is right. I believe she had an impression of the emptiness of traditional forms of worship. Would that many got a greater impression of the emptiness of traditional forms of worship! If someone goes to a church and reads out of a book, the book may have been compiled by Cranmer five hundred years ago, but God is looking for what is springing up from our hearts now. I think this woman saw what was traditional, but she needed something that was living. She comes in contact with the Lord Jesus who is able to provide living water.
LJG I was thinking of what you said as to the receiving. In Peter’s preaching in Acts 2: 33 he says, “having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear”. And he goes on to say, “Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ”, v 36. You referred to that earlier in owning Him as Lord and Christ after having the Spirit that had come in that way, from the ascended Man.
AM That scripture is very confirming. Peter had insight into what was taking place in heaven. He spoke about the Lord Jesus receiving the gifts. Think of the Lord Jesus having accomplished the work of redemption. He has gone on high and received gifts from the Father. Psalm 68 refers to it: “Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts in Man”, v 18. The Lord Jesus went on high and He received gifts; He received the Holy Spirit as a gift. And Peter says, “Having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit”; what they heard was a living testimony there. They called what was spoken “the great things of God”, Acts 2: 11.
TWL You referred to chapters 14, 15 and 16 of John. In chapter 14, it is what the Father does, but in chapter 15 the Lord says, “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, he shall bear witness concerning me”, v 26. Is that what it is practically speaking to drink of this water?
AM Well, I think so because when it is a question of the Lord sending the Comforter, what He had in mind is testimony. There are two references are there not? He shall “bear witness concerning me”, and in chapter 16, He says, “if I go I will send him to you. And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world”, v 7, 8. There is testimony. The believer has received the Holy Spirit, and there is testimony going out. That is John 7, is it not? Out of his belly is flowing rivers of living water. It is in the scene of testimony here.
TWL I was thinking that, and the last part of chapter 15 is, “and ye too bear witness”, v 27. We bear witness according to what we have drunk. We bear witness according to what we have imbibed. I remember Mr. Bert Taylor giving an address in relation to this and he said, in the light of this, ‘I am learning at the latter part of my life to pray to the Spirit more’.
AM Well, that is a very real matter. In the history of the testimony matters have been developed and we might find it very strange to think that there was a time when the Holy Spirit was not addressed. What a thing that must have been. Mr Lyon once said, ‘Imagine living with somebody all your life and never speaking to them?’. Well, how the Spirit would feel it. He is here and He is available to us, the One whom we can call on. Samson referred to the caller’s spring, Judg 15: 19; that suggests the Holy Spirit is life in the believer.
WSC Do you think that if we enter into this, we do not have to figure out a way to be spontaneous? We should be spontaneous like the man in Acts, “walking, and leaping, and praising God”, chap 3: 8. Nobody told him he needed to do that: it just came out. I think it should be just a spontaneous reaction if we get to this. And not just in term; you know we can talk about things, but it is to enter into our spirits.
AM We see that in one and another particularly in the service of God. I have often thought the service of God is an extraordinary meeting. Imagine a stranger coming in, not knowing anything, and seeing grown men standing up and speaking about their love. And not a word addressed to each other; all addressed to God or divine Persons. There is not a meeting like it. It seems to me that the degree of spontaneity is really an indication of my measure.
WSC We have a sister, local with us, whose family came to visit us and we asked if she wanted to bring them out to the gospel. She said, ‘I want to bring them out to the Lord’s supper’.
AM If somebody is interested in the truth, I say to bring them to the Supper. They will get a touch of another world that will draw them in. Bring them to the gospel, yes, let everyone hear the gospel, but if there is someone feeling for the truth let them be present at the Supper and see what is working.
PHM Peter speaks of tasting that the Lord is good. I was just thinking of what you were speaking of bringing someone to the Supper. That is what this woman here experienced, did she not? She tasted that the Lord was good, 1 Pet 2: 3. How do we know this? It is an experience, is it not? Taste that the Lord is good. We see it in our own lives and we see it in one another do we not?
AM Yes. And one thing I am sure you have found, there may be times when you come to the Supper and the pressures are so great that you wonder how you can carry on. The Lord comes in and you get a sense of His presence and you feel a great release. You can speak to divine Persons and express your appreciation of them. At the end of the occasion you feel different from when you came.
WKC This woman asks a question, “is not he the Christ? They went out of the city”. The question that she asks caused a response in others. Is that not something that we can enjoy together as we communicate with each other?
AM That is good. She is not teaching them, which might not have been seemly, but she just asked this question, “is not he the Christ?”. ‘Is this not the One that you say you are waiting for? The Messiah who is to come. Is this not Him?’ Well, they came to see Him for themselves.
LPC I was thinking about the way that the Lord approached this woman. He did not go straight to speak to the woman about the fountain of water springing into eternal life. He asked to drink the water, and the woman talks about how He could draw water when He does not have anything to draw with. But He brings her something that is better than what she is thinking. And about the worship: she was talking about worshipping, “Our fathers worshipped at this mountain …”. He brings out what we know naturally, in a natural sense. The woman was thinking about the natural water but He brings out something that was better. And He has a heavenly way to approach persons, to bring them to know what is heavenly.
AM Yes, it is a beautiful picture here. There was a woman with a need and she comes to the well; and the Lord says, ‘I have a need’. Outwardly, there were two persons at the well and they both had a need. One had a waterpot, but the Other was able to dispense living water that would satisfy. Here we see the skill of the Lord; He is the evangelist here in John 4. He is drawing near to a person, and He shows that He has something that she really needs.
KRO Is there something in the thought at the end of Revelation, as we read of the Spirit and the bride saying, “Come”, that the appeal is to him that is athirst to come and take of the water of life freely, Rev. 22: 17? I was just thinking of the importance of your subject; it is really the last appeal of the Lord Himself, is it not, in Scripture?
AM Well, it is. And it goes out so wide, does it not? Eventually it goes out to “he that will”. No qualification is needed: “he that will”. That is the gospel going out. Well, we can preach that today, can we not? “He that will”: the water of life is available.
DJK You get the idea of the well that it is refreshment, is it not, but it really ends in energy and vitality?
AM Yes, that is right.
DJK Energy and vitality is there. She was energetic in vitality when she goes and tells them, “Come, see a man”.
AM That is an effect of the living water. She had something now which was not going to stagnate; it was living. It would drive her for the rest of her days. She had something within her that was springing up.
DJK Can you say something about the belly? The living waters flowing out of the belly.
AM What is in view is testimony to the living One: “out of his belly shall flow”. That is from the inward parts, is it not? It is what you have absorbed, and it is really your inwards. It is part of yourself; it is not just something that you carry. There is something which is inwardly in the believer. What would say?
DJK I appreciate what you have said. I suppose the side of appropriating the Spirit is important, but it is, “shall never thirst forever.” Not only is there no more thirst but something comes out of the believer. I was thinking of the scripture in Timothy: “Be not negligent of the gift that is in thee”, 1 Tim 4: 14. I know it may be in a different context there but I was thinking of that in relation to the Spirit, what is inward, what has been given and taken in is expressed.
AM Yes, indeed. There is that which is in a person that really becomes their life. Here it is just pouring out. I did appreciate the comment already referred to, that the believer with the gift of the Holy Spirit has something that is greater than he can contain; it is flowing out.
GMC I was thinking of the experience of Psalm 23. You have the valley of the shadow of death and so on and his head anointed with oil, but “my cup runneth over”, v 5. So that is really how it comes out. It is not waste, but it can be shared at that point.
AM Well, that is right. It is fullness of blessing, is it not? So the person in John 7 who comes to the Lord, has these rivers of living water flowing out. He is a blessing to others.
DMW This is a greater day than the last great day of the feast.
AM Ah yes. “The last, the great day of the feast”: it was supposed to be a feast of rejoicing, anticipating the millennium, but one thing that characterised it was decline – every day the offerings were less than before, Num 29. But here was One who says, “come to me”; “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink”. There is the satisfaction; there is no decline in Him. The supply will not reduce every day; it is available all the time.
DMW So we are in the greatest day there ever will be.
AM Yes. The greatest day there ever has been and ever will be. I suppose we have all at some time thought it would be wonderful to live in the millennium, to see the earth renewed, because that will be wonderful; to see the wolf dwelling with the lamb, and the child playing on the adder’s hole (Isa 11: 6, 8); of course, that will be wonderful. But even that will all come to an end. That is just for a thousand years. The millennium has to take place in order that God should be vindicated on the earth. That will have to take place, but we have so much more. Our heavenly portion is so much greater. And today, before we even enter into it actually, there is a supply of heavenly refreshment and life coming from our ascended Head, and it is inexhaustible.
CJB Could you say a little bit more about what you mean by testimony?
AM We are in a scene where all around is not according to God. Now in this very scene of darkness, God discloses what He is yet to accomplish. And the effect of that is to be visible. So if I have Christ as my life that is something that will be visible; people will see that. Ultimately, when I am translated, that will be my eternal portion. God always gives witness, testimony, to what He is about to accomplish. And in the scene in which we are today there is to be a witness, in the lives of believers, of what is going to take place. They are united, they are drawing from an exalted Christ, and their life is not connected with this world.
CJB Sometimes if we feel like we might have failed in that way there is still power available to us, is there, to continue in the testimony? We speak about continuance.
AM Possibly one of the biggest failures in testimony was the one who began to curse and to swear and say, “I know not this man”, Mark 14: 71. And what about the power of recovery? Peter was a recovered man. He failed in testimony, but as recovered he comes out with power that he never had before.
RB Do you think the testimony is in view in Galatians where it speaks about how if we live by the Spirit we are to walk also by the Spirit, chap 5: 25. The note there refers to it as characteristic of walk leading in life, the Spirit being the instrument in power. Do you think there is something that can be taken account of in such a life?
AM That is right. So you go to work, and you have no interest in conversations around you, because your life is centred in a Man in heaven.
DMW These enquiries help us to understand that this is the greatest day. It is the greatest day that we are in because it is in the midst of opposition, where God’s power is seen. There will not be any opposition in the millennium, but this is a greater day of God’s power, and we will be there, although manifested publicly.
AM In the millennium, it will be the popular thing to own the Lord Jesus. That would be going with the stream. Today there is a different stream but there is power to go against it. The testimony is here and the power is here in the Holy Spirit, not only refreshment and satisfaction, but power to move against the stream. And in this day there is something being formed which will be for the satisfaction of the heart of Christ, a vessel which can compare with nothing else.
WSC I was thinking of the remark about what is practical. The land, the promised land, was filled with water, all kinds of water, but the gushing water was in the valleys and hills.
AM Yes. You are referring to Deuteronomy 8. Moses had never been to the land but he could describe it, could he not? The valleys and hills; and water brooks that gush forth: there are unseen resources. Where were those water brooks coming from? There were unseen resources there, and that is like the believer who has the Holy Spirit. He can draw on unseen resources and they are gushing forth. That is, out of his belly is flowing rivers of living water.
DHM I was wondering about this thought of being filled. In these two scriptures, this was what was flowing out as was mentioned with the man and the woman. It was springing up. But in Acts we get persons who were filled. So that means that our state has to be right. Is that right?
AM Well, that would be a very challenging thing of course. Paul was one such; Ananias said to him, “be filled with the Holy Spirit” Acts 9: 17. That means that everything else that would have been in his heart had to go. He had to relinquish everything otherwise he would not have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Stephen was full of the Holy Spirit, Acts 6: 5. He did not worry about other things, not even about his own life. That was not his object: his object was Christ.
Wheaton three-day meetings (2nd reading)
25th November 2022
List of Initials:-
C J Brien Aberdeen ID; Darcy Brien Aberdeen ID; R Brown Linlithgow; T R Campbell Glasgow; G M Chellberg Wheaton; W S Chellberg Wheaton; L P Chin Wheaton; W K Clark Kirkcaldy; L J Gray Calgary; R N Hesterman Beachville ONT; R B Hill Toronto; Daryl J Klassen Aberdeen ID; Doug J Klassen Aberdeen ID; M J Klassen Aberdeen ID; P B Klassen Aberdeen ID; J K Knauss Indianapolis; K A Knauss Indianapolis; A M Lidbeck Aberdeen ID; T W Lock Edinburgh; A Martin Buckhurst Hill; D H McFarlane New York; P M MacFarlane New York; P H Morris Sunbury; K R Oliver Denton; L E Oliver Denton; N J Plant Toronto; K N Pye New York; S W Selman Denton; D M Welch Denton