Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayerful attention to Mark chapter 10, and reading
for our text, verse 1. Specifically, the latter part
of this verse. We'll read the whole verse first.
And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coast of Judea
by the further side of Jordan. And the people resort unto Him
again, and as He was wont, He taught them again. So specifically the last part,
the people resort unto Him again, and as He was wont, He taught
them again. Mark chapter 10 verse 1. We find our Lord traveling from
Galilee, or Capernaum specifically, and coming down into the coast
of Judea, coming to Jerusalem for the last time. This is the
year of opposition. This is the last days or weeks
coming up to his crucifixion. It had a year inauguration, a
year of popularity, and then we have a year of opposition. And here is our Lord coming to
a people that He had taught before, and they're coming to Him again,
they're resorting to Him again. And in spite of all what is beforehand,
He is still teaching them again. I want to look this evening at
these words in the order, the way that it is actually broken
up. So our first point is resorting
unto Jesus and the people resort unto Him again. And then secondly, what the Lord
was accustomed to do, what he was known to do, as he was wont,
the Lord was known to teach the people. That was his hallmark,
something that they really expected because he was always doing it. And then lastly, that which he
has done and we need again to be taught and as is wont he taught
them again. So firstly we have the people resorting
unto the Lord again. It is a great blessing where we
have already been brought to the Lord and already have been
taught by Him. But He's also a great blessing
where there have been those things that have come in between, and
in this case, literally, it would have been because the Lord was
not there, He was away, and He'd come back here again. But you
want to apply this to ourselves and our own situation, where
there are those departing from Him and yet resorting to Him
again. You find the children of Israel,
which are a typical people, a very clear indication of what the
natural heart of man does. The Lord began with them. He
brought them up out of Egypt And He brought them into the
wilderness for this very same thing, to be taught and instructed
and to be their God. And yet how quickly they departed
from Him. We find it especially when they
come into the Promised Land, where even before, after those
two years, when they send the spies in, and they see those
of the land, and their hearts melt, and the ten spies bring
an evil report, and instead of trusting the Lord, instead of
resorting unto Him, they rebel against Him, they reply against
Him, they talk of stoning Moses and Joshua and Caleb. Anything
but resorting unto the Lord now, they they are kicking against
the Lord, they are saying that they cannot, wish they had never
been brought out of Egypt, they would rather go back rather than
face those in Canaan. And so you find when they went
into Canaan, even very early on we find those, the Gebionites
came and they came with old shoes, moldy bread and wine bottles
rent, And the children of Israel looked at them and thought, this
is a simple matter. We don't need to resort to the
Lord. We don't need to go to Him for
advice and ask counsel. We'll just take their victuals.
We'll just take... It's so simple, we can deal with
this. And they were deceived. They
made an agreement with them. covenant with them to not destroy
them. Three days later they found out
they dwelt among them. The scripture is very clear.
They asked not counsel to the Lord. They did not resort unto
the Lord. It's a real lesson to us. when
something seems so simple in providence, in grace, whatever
it is, it seems we can manage it. We do not need to resort
unto the Lord, we don't need to ask counsel at all, we can
manage it. Or maybe you remember the giving
nights in that way. And right through the history
of children of Israel, they went to idols, they asked counsel
at idols, We think of even the most solemn case of King Saul,
when the Lord would not answer him again. The Lord had already
told him that rebellion was as the sin of witchcraft, and that
it is better to obey than to sacrifice, when they hadn't destroyed
the Amalekites but brought the best of the sheep and the oxen
to sacrifice to the Lord. And yet at the end of Saul's
life, when the Lord does not answer him, when the Philistines
are threatening them again, he does not resort again to the
Lord. The Lord doesn't answer him,
so he resorts unto a witch. He goes unto those that he had
been destroying in the land to go and ask counsel as her. And so when we read here, the
people resort unto him. Again, we're to think with ourselves
those times that we may leap off praying, leap off asking
counsel of the Lord, and then be made aware of our foolishness,
of our falls, of our need, and to resort unto Him again, to
come before Him in prayer. to ask His counsel, to search
His Word, to seek that help from the Almighty. Call upon Me in
the day of trouble, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify
Me." And we have this beautiful then example of a people that
have been going away and then they resort again unto the Lord."
May this be an encouragement because there are many things
that will stop up our communion, fellowship with the Lord, our
asking counsel, or in this case here, to come before the Lord
and be taught and be instructed. Sin separates. May we always
remember that. The Lord knows we are sinners.
His name is Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins. But how many times the devil
will, on one hand, he'll attempt to sin, and will fall, and will
go his way, and then he'll turn accuser, and he says, now, you've
sinned, you've departed from the Lord, you didn't ask Him
to keep you, you didn't ask Him to preserve you from going into
this sin. You just went into it. You can't
go before Him anymore. You can't ask Him again. He'll
never receive you again. May we remember this, the people
resorted unto Him again. And right through the history
of the children of Israel, whenever the people turned back, and the
Lord did turn them back, Himself, we think of Mount Carmel and
the trial on Mount Carmel with Baal and the true and living
God, and Elijah's prayer, that they might know that Thou hast
turned their hearts back again. Back again what to do? Not to
seek to Baal, but to seek to the Lord. What Elijah, do you
think the Lord will have them back after all of their going
after idols, all of their spiritual adultery? Do you think he'll
have them back? Yes, that's why the famine was
brought. That's why their hearts were
prepared, to bring them back. And that's what the Lord will
have his people do. Those of you that have those
things that are stumbling blocks, that keep you from praying, you
think the Lord won't receive me, he won't teach me, he won't
help me anymore, then may you know that does not come from
the Lord, that comes from Satan, that comes from the adversary,
the driver, a wedge between the people of God and the Lord. people of God are a people in
themselves like silly sheep, wandering sheep, foolish sheep,
those that have no understanding, those that need teaching, not
once, but again and again and again, those who have a teacher
in the Lord Jesus Christ, those who will, in their experience,
be brought to feel their need of a teacher. I always remember
when I was in my first years of apprenticeship as a maintenance
fitter in the hospital, and I had a very good fitter instructor,
and he only gave me one thing to do at a time. He said, you
do that. I said, you know, you give me
two or three things. I'll soon do this. I want to
know next. Sometimes he tried me out. He gave me two or three,
and I'd forget what he said. I forget his instruction. I mess
it up. I have to go back to him and
ask again. He knew just how much to give
me at a time. But other times I had to prove
that I needed to ask. I didn't know. How many times
I used to say to him, I know, I know, I know. You don't need
to tell me. Head strong. Here's the man full
of conceit. More hope of a fool than of him. But many of us have walked that
path when we've been young, as it were, know all and know everything.
And then we've been permitted to fall. And then we've got to
humbly come back again and say, you know, I didn't know. Can
you please teach me now? And sometimes we need that, in
fact, many times, to come before the Lord like that. Say, Lord,
I was a fool. I've sinned again. I've done
the same thing again. I need instructing, I need teaching
again. Take me in again. May we have
those stumbling blocks, those hindrances to the throne of grace
that stop us from resorting unto the Lord, to have those removed
out of the way. The Lord came back into these
coasts and the people resort unto Him again. May it be whatever
it has been that has prevented us and where we haven't been
coming to the Lord and haven't been seeking that instruction
and advice from Him, that we resort to Him again. May there
be those that go from our gathering this evening, they come before
the Lord in prayer, and the effect of the word this evening is to
bring you back, and bring you back to the Lord, and crying
unto Him again, Lord, I resort to Thee again. But the second thing here is
what our Lord is accustomed to do, and that is to teach. And as he was wont. The Word
of God is very clear on this regarding the people of God,
and they shall all be taught of God. They shall not teach
every man his neighbor, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall
all know me from the least unto the greatest. The Lord uses means,
one of the qualifications in the ministry is apt to teach. But the Lord is the one that
attends that word with power. The word is preached and it is
the Lord's word. And it is the Lord that opens
the understanding and uses that means to teach and instruct. We need to look past the means
and to see the Lord's hand in that way. You think, well, what's
an example of that? Well, you think of dear Samuel,
who did not yet know the Lord. And the Lord began to speak to
him. And Samuel didn't know. He thought it was Eli. He went
to Eli. Eli perceived it was the Lord. and instructed him what to do.
When he comes again, say, speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.
And that led to Samuel hearing the Lord's voice, recognizing
it, knowing it, and for the rest of his life he knew the voice
of the Lord. The Lord used him, spoke through
him, but there was a time he did not know the Lord, and he
needed Eli. to instruct him what to do. And the Lord uses then his people. You think of Priscilla and Aquila
who took Apollos aside and explained unto him the way of God more
perfectly. He was preaching, but he was
preaching only the baptism of John. And we have this couple
that were able to be used of God to instruct and teach him. the Lord uses means, but may
we trace it to the Lord's hand. I will instruct thee and teach
thee in the way which thou shalt go. I will guide thee with mine
eye, be not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come
nigh to me. is the instructor, not forcing,
not pulling like a bit and a bridle, but thou shalt hear a word behind
thee, saying, this is the way, walking in it when you turn to
the right hand and when you turn to the left. My sheep, they shall
hear my voice, and they shall follow me." The Lord's great
hallmark in dealing with his people is to teach them and to
instruct them. Think of how, whether it was
Paul, we don't know, we don't know the author of Hebrews, I
personally think it has much the style of Paul, but we do
not know, and Hebrews chapter 5, and we find the writer then
speaking to the people, and saying of her, and he speaks about Melchizedek,
been teaching them of Melchizedek in verse 10, chapter 5, and then
he says, of whom we have many things to say and hard to be
uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing. For when for a time
ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again,
which be the first principles of the oracles of God. Now become
such as need of milk, and not of strong drink. For everyone
that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness,
for he is of vain. But strong meat belongeth to
them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have
their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. I wonder if when we think of
the children of school in a literal situation, they know nothing
until they're taught. They don't know how to read and
write and maths or anything like that, and they're taught line
upon line. We accept very readily in a natural
way that a child will be taught, and they'll grow in that knowledge,
building on what they've had before. And each time they start
school, as soon again they will, for the next year, then they're
taught again. And we accept that, we know that. And the Word says regarding the
things of God, but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord
and Saviour, Jesus Christ. And the Lord deepens that knowledge. But there is a beginning. I wonder
how many of us have thought, what if we did not have the Word
of God at all? We would not know anything about
ourselves. We know from the Word that man
will be without excuse because of the creation and because of
ourselves, but we could not know salvation. We could not know
the Lord. We could not know the doctrines
of grace except by the Word of God, and it is the inspired Word
of God by the Spirit, that then He shall receive of mine and
shall show it unto you. He shall bring to your remembrance
all things whatsoever I have said unto you. And all of that
teaching of the Lord is through the Word of God. Heaven shall
pass away. Heaven and earth shall pass away,
says our Lord, but my Word shall not pass away. Jeremiah says,
Thy words were found, and I did eat there. They were to the joy
and rejoicing of mine heart. By thy words thou shalt be justified. By thy words thou shalt be condemned. Words are a very powerful thing.
Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of the Lord. And all of the teaching that
the Lord teaches his children is bring them to the Word of
God. You know, when Paul was teaching
those at Berea, preaching and teaching to them, he only did
that once a week. But they daily searched the Scriptures
whether these things were so. That's the Old Testament. Testing
Paul's preaching, was it according to the Word or not? And our Lord then, He was wont. This was His One blessing the
Lord gave me years ago, thy teachers shall not be removed into a corner
anymore, but thy eyes shall see thy teachers, and it goes on,
thy ears shall hear a word behind them. But it was that thy teachers
shall not be removed into a corner anymore. And it is the Lord that
is the governor of all those teachers. Remember in the Old
Testament the Lord saying to the prophet saying to Jeremiah
you go down to the potter's house. There he goes down and watches
the potter and the Lord then takes that parable that which
he sees And he brings a spiritual lesson from it. You see the potter's
sovereignty over that clay. Rises, he doesn't like it, he
squashes it up, he makes another vessel. So can I do with you. Sovereignly molding, shaping
the people of God. In the various ways that the
people were taught by those things they went through. You think
of John 6. One day they have the miracle
of the loaves and the fishes. The next day, over the sea, they
have a long discourse on the manna and Christ as the bread
of life from heaven. Except ye eat the flesh and drink
the blood of the Son of Man, ye have no life in you. And the
Lord joins those things together, what happens in their lives,
and then brings a spiritual teaching. Sometimes it will be you'll have
the word before you on the Lord's day in the sanctuary here, And
then you'll go through something in Providence and the two will
join together. We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them that are called
according to His purpose. And His purpose is to teach. And this is His hallmark. We are to expect it. We are to
ask for it. That which we see not, teach
thou me. We are to want this from the
Lord, and the Lord is pleased with that when we come in that
way. The Lord do teach me and instruct
me to have this clear view of the Lord. You know, Nicodemus,
when he came to the Lord in John 3, he said, we know that thou
art a teacher come from God. And that's how he begins, for
the Lord immediately began and taught him the need of the new
birth. We may ask ourselves here, has
the Lord taught us the need of the new birth? Have we been partakers
of the new birth? Are we born again of His Spirit? Are all things passed away, all
things become new? Has He which hath begun a good
work in you, is He performing Him, onward, not only teaching
at the first, not only teaching our sinnership, our need of the
Saviour, our need of mercy, our need of grace, but giving us
mercy, giving us grace, and that we keep going to Him for more
grace. He giveth more grace, and grace
for grace. Have we proved this, that this
is the mark of the Lord? When His sheep know His voice
and follow Him, one of the hallmarks of His voice will be that He
is all the time teaching. If you can come in and out of
the house of God and in our lives and you say, I have learned this
lesson here, I've learned bitter lessons, I've learned hard lessons,
but I've discerned I have been taught these things, things I
did not know before. There's none that teacheth like
Him. If you want a token, a real evidence
that you're in the hand of the Lord and the Lord is dealing
with you, to know that this hallmark of Him, this what He is accustomed
to do, this what He is wont to do, is to teach. It's a blessed
token to say, the Lord is teaching me. He has taught me. And I look
for His teaching. I look for His instruction. And
there's a great comfort when we sing. And we might come into
things, I remember the first time that that happened with
me, I could see God's providence in my life. Things that were
brought about and I thanked Him for it because I could see how
it had gone before, provided me a job, provided me with a
house, provided me with the means of earning my daily living. I
could see these things. But then there came a trial that
He brought me into and brought me out of it and there was nothing
in providence that I could say was any better or good that He
brought me into those things for. but I could see the teaching
and it so humbled me. I was so amazed and blessed God
that he'd taken those pains, that he so loved my soul and
cared for my soul more than my body, that he'd do all these
things, moving all these things in providence to instruct and
teach me about him and about myself. But how much do we know
of the Lord as our Teacher? And you look back and say, He
used this here, and He used that there. He opened my eyes to this. He taught me this. And you know
it will be. He will be teaching our sinnership,
our suitability, the value of His
precious blood, those things that He has wrought at Calvary,
those things that He has done for His people, those will be
taught His people. They won't remain ignorant of
what He's done for them and what He's appeared for them in. The
Lord will reveal that and this will be a real mark of Him. You know, Satan will only pull
down. Man will only want to teach Earthly
things. that the Holy Spirit and our
Lord God will teach His people to profit, to teach thee to profit,
profit spiritually. And we look upon those times,
we say, that trial, that was made for my profit,
for my good. The Lord Jesus Christ then, he
is accustomed to teach, he is one of his hallmarks, one of
the things by which he is known, that none teacheth like him. And you know one of the things
you recognize it from him, is when in the one teaching you
think he has used providence, he's moved that person to do
something, he's perhaps moved the weather, Isbrach brought
sickness and changed a minister for that day to come and preach.
He has control of all of these things which no other teacher
could have, and directed the Lord's servant what text to preach
from and what word to bring. You think when you feel to have learnt
a lesson in the school of Christ, What things needed to have been
done for that lesson to be learned. What needed to have been changed
and brought about. And you see more than man's hand
in it. You see the Lord's hand. And
when you see it again and again, you notice the Lord's hand in
work. You know sometimes you can go
past perhaps a building site and you never see the builder.
But you know that particular builder has a way of doing his
building and certain quality of tradesman work and you go
past it. So I can't see the builder but
I see what he's done, I know who's done it. I know who is
working on that building. God is known by the judgment
that He executes. He's known by His handiwork.
This is why there are those throughout the pages of Scripture that can
say this is the Lord's doing, and is marvellous in their eyes,
or the thing proceeded from the Lord. They discern and know this
is the Lord's hand, because He is acting in the way that He
is wont, a way that is His own. So on to thirdly, that which
He has done, and we need again to be taught. We need again. May we never ever wear out the
thought that well we know it all and we don't need to be taught
again. And when we mention those things
that prevented us from coming to the Lord because of our backsliding,
because of our sin, This latter part of this verse, may this
also be a real comfort to us, a help to us. He taught them
again. He didn't withhold that from
his people. Now I want to look in the time
that we have left at five lessons that the Lord did teach in what
follows in this chapter. I feel very much we're in inspired
word of God is placed in this way, and the Lord is teaching
them again, what has he chosen to put on the sacred word as
to be a teaching again? And so there's five real main
headings that are here. The first, it begins with a question. And we might think, how can the
Lord begin in teaching when it is instigated by Pharisees and
instigated by those that are coming, tempting him? And yet the Lord turns that about
for teaching. What an encouragement that is.
When we may even have temptations, when we may even have the adversary
and the intention is to bring down like they did the Lord,
and the Lord turns it about and makes it a teaching session.
I remember that. When things come like that in
our lives, well, they brought up about the matter of divorce,
and the Lord makes it very clear that if a man put away his wife
and marry another, he committeth adultery against her. If a woman
shall put away her husband and be married to another, she committeth
adultery. He's very clear on that. One
thing very pertinent for today really, the Lord takes it right
back to creation, right back to when marriage was instituted. He says, from the beginning of
the creation, God made them male and female. God, our parliamentarians,
and those who follow the foolish idea that there is more than
just a man and a woman, knew the Word of God, as the Lord
teaches here. There's only two genders, there's
male and female, and then the institution of marriage between
one man and one woman to the exclusion of all other for the
duration of their life. that which God hath joined together,
let not man put asunder." And of course the disciples, they
ask again of that matter. A teaching, a lesson in the face
of what is around the church of God today that the church
needs to really remember. This is the Lord's teaching on
this matter that is the great error and assault, and so many
churches just drifting along, including the National Church,
into such foolishness to forget the Word of God in this way. And so, the Lord's clear teaching
on this, and again as we said, drawing even from that which
came first as a temptation. The second one is receiving the
Kingdom of God as a little child. They brought young children to
Him that He should touch them. His disciples rebuked those. So there's disciples, they're
doing something wrong. What an encouragement to us. Yet what a humbling thought.
That's his disciples, that's his close followers, and they've
done something wrong and the Lord openly reproves them. But in doing so, he's teaching
them. And the teaching is of humility. So displeased, he says, whosoever
shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he
shall not enter there. May the Lord make us to be little
children to receive the word of God. to drink in that pure
Word of God, instead of twisting it, turning it, gainsaying it. The Lord bless those little children
that may be also be prepared to be corrected, reproved, when
we have a wrong spirit. Remember in another instance
when they wouldn't receive him, the Samaritans, because his faith
was to go unto Jerusalem, The disciples said, shall we pull
down fire from heaven and consume them like Elijah did? The Lord
said, the Son of Man has come not to destroy men's lives, but
to save them. Again, they were reproved, but
they were taught. So that's the second one that
the Lord teaches. The third has really four parts
to it. That's from verse 17 to 27. where we have the young man,
one running, kneeling to him, good master, what shall I do
that I may inherit eternal life? Well, inheritance cannot be earned,
but he's speaking here of eternal life. How is the Lord going to
teach on that? Well, he brings him to the basis
that he came. What can I do? You want it by
works, you have it by works. It's interesting the Lord only
brings the second table of the law. And he doesn't bring it
in the order that it is. The first one in the second table
is honor thy father and mother, he puts that last. But he just
spoken about adultery and he puts that one first. not needed
an order with the Lord in that way. But the important thing
was this man was seeking eternal life on works. The Lord brought
him works and he thought he had observed all that. And the Lord
says that he loved him, beholding him loved him. The Lord loves
those that do obey and do serve him. But there's very different
degrees of love. not an eternal love. This man
went away from Him. I know some would disagree with
me on that. But the important thing the Lord
was to teach here, and it goes on later, that those that trust
in riches, how hardly then shall they inherit eternal life. We're
holding on to this life, holding on to our riches, holding on
to that which is temporal, One has not valued what the soul
is. One does not see that everything
here shall be burnt up. One does not see the Lord as
the pearl of great price. But that not only is the instruction
not of works, and that if we love the richest then we shall
not inherit eternal life. But also what he said to the
disciples when they were so astonished And the Lord said to them, with
men it is impossible. As they said, who then can be
saved? But not with God, for with God
all things are possible. What a lesson to be learned. Something impossible with men
might be this evening in your life. You look at it and say
it's impossible. You hear the Lord saying, concerning
that matter, that which is before you, and you saying that, who
then can be saved? How can ever this be right? And the Lord says, with men it
is impossible, but not with God, for with God all things are possible. A blessed lesson to learn, wouldn't
it? But then fourthly, We have in
verse 31 the Lord saying, but many that are first shall be
last and last first. What a verse that is. You know
I thought that of my own mother who died when she was 61 of cancer
and She had brought us children up
in the fear of the Lord, but she herself did not know the
Lord and did not have assurance of faith, not until right at
the end. And the Lord gave her to cry
out, almost ceasingly, night and day. The Lord appeared for
her, and the difference was amazing. The peace, the love that she
felt and that she said, and all those cries They all ceased and
all changed to praise. Amazing difference. And I thought,
yeah, she had seen me baptized some two or so years before. She'd seen her husband baptized
many years before that. She'd never joined the church
herself. We had come before her into the
church here below. We'd been on the church roll,
but she got to heaven first. She was called last, but called
home first. And the Lord changing that order,
I've noticed it many times in life. Where the Lord puts down
one and lifts up another, where one that was first, they are
brought last. And the Lord is the orderer in
that way. Many that are first shall be
last, and the last first. And there may be things in your
life you say, the Lord's taught me that, might be in a different
context, a different way, but it's one of those things, this,
the Lord ordered in this passage, when he's teaching them again,
may it be the spirit of their weakness tonight, yes, that is
one of the things that he's taught me. Then we have lastly, the
Lord preparing them concerning him being crucified. We read
how they went by the way that they were amazed, they were afraid. And he takes the twelve, he begins
to tell them what should happen unto them. He was teaching them,
preparing them for what they were to see. The Lord does each
different than this. I know I've always said that
up to now in my life, the Lord has always prepared me for what
was before. Mind you, my wife has said, but
he doesn't always do that. Because in her case, many things
came as a surprise. They weren't. She didn't feel
to be prepared. You get even Elisha with the
Shunammite woman. He'd given the means to give
her a child, but when the child is smitten by some stroke, and
she goes to him, and Gehazi tries to shoo her away, he says that,
no, she's in bitterness of spirit, the Lord hath withheld her from
me. He didn't know, the Lord didn't
tell him, didn't prepare him at all. Some things we will be
prepared for, and some things not. It's a blessed thing to
say the Lord has prepared us for heaven and that he's prepared
us for glory, a prepared people for a prepared place. But here
he is preparing them to view and to see him crucified and
slain at Calvary. It's a blessed thing. that we
are prepared for that, and see as they did, eye for eye, lifted
up above the earth, would draw all men unto me. How vital it
is that we are to be taught concerning the sufferings, death and resurrection
of our Lord Jesus Christ. If we have, if we have, then
we should be baptized in the Lord's name that shows forth
that death and rising again and meet round his table to show
forth his death till he come and to remember his death. Part of the teaching of the Lord
was to teach that those that have believed that they be baptized,
that they continue in his ordinances and with his people and follow
in the path that he has set before the Church of God, especially
in Acts 2. And so here the disciples were
being prepared for what was before them. And may we know something
of the Lord's preparations and to culminate at Calvary and to
see the Lord there putting away our sin, rising again, ascending
into heaven, and there is all our hope. And really, we might
say, all of the Lord's teaching for His children will bring them
to Calvary. It will bring them all to view
their sins laid on Him. It will bring them all to that
point, to know their Jesus crucified, and that be their whole salvation. May we then know something of
the teaching of the Lord. May it be humbling to know that
we have perhaps had that teaching, gone away from it, and then been
brought back again, and to be humbled to think the Lord hasn't
forsaken us, hasn't said no, go away, but has continued to
teach and instruct us again, and brings us to truly know Him
as our Redeemer, and our Saviour, and to have this blessed token
that we are in that promise, all thy children shall be taught
of the Lord. Great shall be the peace of thy
children. The Lord give peace in the declaration
of His word this evening into your souls. Amen.