I want to direct you for our
text tonight to the book of the Prophet Isaiah in chapter 54
Isaiah chapter 54 and the 13th verse and all thy children shall
be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy children. Surely what we have here is God's
promise, and is the promise of the New Covenant, and the promise
in which God declares quite plainly that He will be the Teacher of
all His children. And all thy children shall be
taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children. and it is this particular verse
that the Lord Jesus Christ refers to in that portion that we were
reading in John chapter 6 at verse 45 he says it is written
in the prophets that all thy children shall be taught of God
that he that hath heard and learnt of the Father shall come on tumour. The Lord Jesus then is the one
who interprets this particular text for us and sets it there
in the context of the New Covenant, the Gospel of His Christ. It is clear, is it not, from
what we read in the opening verses of this chapter, that it is a
prophetic work that concerns the Gospel and the calling of
the Gentiles. It's the Gentiles who are really
being addressed, the barren, the childless. Sing, O barren,
thou that is not there. Break forth into singing and
cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child. For more
are the children of the desolate, than the children of the married
wife, saith the Lord. The married wife, of course,
is Israel, Jehovah's wife, under the old covenant, and the desolate
are the Gentile nations. But here is the exhortation in
verse 2, enlarge the place of thy tent, God says, to the barren
and the desolate, Let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation,
spare not lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes, for
they shall break forth on the right hand and on the left, and
thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities
to be inhabited." Clearly this chapter then is speaking of the
coming of Christ and the Gospel going out to the four corners
of the earth. In fact, the opening verse is
taken up by Paul when he writes to the Galatians. There in Galatians
chapter 4 at verse 27 we see how Paul quotes the very first
verse of this chapter. There in that particular chapter,
Galatians chapter 4, he is clearly speaking of the Gospel, he is
speaking of the New Covenant. The New Covenant as something
quite distinct from the Old Covenant. And what does he say at verse
27? It is written, Rejoice thou barren
that bearest not break forth and cry thou that defiled us
not for the desolate hath many more children than she which
hath a husband and if you read the chapter the whole of that
chapter you'll see quite clearly he is speaking of the gospel
he's speaking of that new covenant we are to we're to understand
then this 54th chapter in Isaiah in terms of the gospel What we
read in the previous verses, the verses previous to these
words of our text in verse 13, they all have a gospel application. Now, just look at the immediate
context of verses previous to the text. There in verses 11
and 12, we have a description of the gospel church. and the
Prophet speaks of the glories that belong to that Gospel Church. O thou afflicted, tossed with
tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair
colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires, and I will make
thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles and all thy
borders of peasant stones. It's the New Jerusalem. It's the Jerusalem which is above.
That Jerusalem that Paul speaks of there in Galatians chapter
4. That Jerusalem which is the mother
of us all. It's the Gospel Church. The New
Jerusalem. We associate, of course, the
Old Jerusalem. with the Old Covenant, as it
were, the Jerusalem that now is. The Paul says he's in bondage
with the children, the Jews. But here is a description, you
see, of the Gentile Church, of the Gospel Church. And the language,
of course, is very rich, the figures. He speaks of these precious
stones that form the very foundation of that new Jerusalem. And that sort of language is
again taken up at the end of the New Testament, right at the
end of the book of the Revelation there in chapter 21 and verses
10 and 11. John says, he carried me away
in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that
great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from
God, having the glory of God, and her light was like unto a
stone most precious, even a jasper stone, clear as crystal. And then there's a description
of this new Jerusalem. Verse 18, he says, the building
of the wall of it was of jasper, and the city It was pure gold
like unto clear glass, and the foundations of the wall of the
city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The
first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third
the chalcedony, the fourth an emerald, the fifth sardonyx,
the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth barium,
the ninth a topaz, the tenth a chrysoprisus, the eleventh
a jacinth, the twelfth and amethysts, precious stones. And see how
the language is so much like what we have back here in Isaiah
54. I will make thy windows of agates,
thy gates of carbuncles, all thy borders of precious stones,
thy foundations laid with sapphires. It is the same Jerusalem that
is being described. I say then that what we have
here in this 54th chapter of Isaiah is descriptive of the
Gospel Church. And what do we have in the words
that we read as our text in the 13th verse? We have surely set
before us something of the marks of those who are the children
of Zion, the children of Jerusalem. And what are the marks? Well,
listen to the words of the prophet, the word of God. All thy children
shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace
of thy children. First of all then, as we turn
to the text tonight, we see that this divine teaching that is
promised is spoken of in the context of the Covenant. Isn't this the great promise
of the New Covenant? That God is the one who will
teach his children. God is the one who will teach
his children, not only Isaiah, but we have it again, remember,
in Jeremiah, there in Jeremiah chapter 31, At verse 31 following, Behold,
the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in
the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the
land of Egypt, which my covenant may break, although I was a husband
unto them, saith the Lord, but This shall be the covenant that
I will make with the house of Israel. After those days, saith
the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write
it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall
be my people. Then Mark, what he goes on to
say, And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, For they shall
all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them,
saith the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will remember their sin no more." They're not taught
their religion secondhand, they're not taught by others. They're
not taught by men. It's the teaching of God, I will
put my law in their inward party sense. I will write it in their
heart. This is the great promise, I
say, of the New Covenant. And if you turn to Hebrews chapter
8 and there at verse 8 following you'll see that the Apostle Paul
takes up those verses that we've just read in Jeremiah 31 and
makes it plain that they have their accomplishment in the Lord
Jesus Christ. We know from the New Testament,
from Hebrews chapter 8 that what is being spoken of there by the
Prophet Jeremiah is not just a reference to ethnic Israel,
the Israel of the Old Testament. It is really speaking of the
spiritual Israel of God. And the spiritual Israel is made
up of all those who are taught of God. This is the promise of
the New Covenant. And what we have here you see
in verse 13. And all thy children shall be
taught of the Lord's, and great shall be the peace of thy children. Remember the words that we read
in that sixth chapter of John. No man can come to me except
the Father which hath sent me draw him, says Christ. It is
written in the prophets. And they shall be all taught
of God, Every man that has heard and learned of the Father cometh
unto me. It is the great promise I say,
the great promise of God, the great promise that God sets before
us in the New Covenant. And all the promise of God centers
ultimately in the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ,
all the promises of God. In Him are ye and in Him are
men. Those that God teaches, they
come to the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the point, that is the
purpose of God's teaching as we see it here. And so when we
come to the New Testament we have the performance of that
promise. What God has said is what God
does. They shall be all taught of God. Were not the Lord's disciples
taught of God? When Peter made his great confession
concerning Christ at Caesarea Philippi, they want the Christ,
the Son of the Living God. What does the Lord say to him? Simon by Jonah, flesh and blood
hath not revealed it unto them, but my Father which is in heaven. It wasn't something that he was
able to come to by use of his own reasoning powers, by deduction
as it were. It was a revelation. And it was
a revelation from God. The Father revealed it to him.
And this is true, I say friends, not only with Peter, with all,
it's true with all. That man who was such a persecutor
of the church, who thought he was doing God's service. What
does he say in Galatians chapter 1, when he pleased God? Who separated
me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace to reveal
His Son in me. And he goes on, I consulted not
with flesh and blood. No, he pleased God. It was the
work of God. It was God that came and wrote
that law in the very heart of that man. He once thought he
was a law keeper when he was a self-righteous man, a Pharisee
of the Pharisees. He boasted of touching the righteousness
of the Lord. He was blameless. And yet he
knew nothing of the law. But God took him in fact. And
God taught him. And God revealed the Lord Jesus
Christ not only to him, but revealed the Lord Jesus Christ in him.
Oh friends, is it not true? Christ in us, the hope of glory. It must be this way. This is
what God has said. This is the way of the New Covenant.
All thy children shall be taught of the Lord. It is the special
work of God the Holy Spirit to apply that salvation. It is the peculiar office of
the Holy Ghost in the outworking of the eternal covenant, that
Trinitarian covenant, that covenant in which God the Father makes
choice of a people from before the foundation of the world And
as He chooses them so He makes choice of them in Christ who
is His first elect. The Father makes choice of the
people, commits them to the Son and in the fullness of the time
God sends forth His Son made of a woman made under the law
to come and stand as He were in their law place to be their
representative and ultimately to die as their substitute. It is God the Son, then, who
comes as the gracious Saviour of sinners. But He is sent by
the Father. And then, having accomplished
all that work that the Father gave Him to do, He is raised
from the dead, He ascends on high, and what does He do on
the day of Pentecost? He sheds abroad the Holy Ghost.
Him being delivered by The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, says Peter, ye have taken and with wicked hands have crucified
and slain. All that was part of God's purpose
that he should die for sinners. But it was also God's purpose
that he should rise again and ascend on high. And now what
does he do? Being by the right hand of God
exalted. Peter says he has shared abroad
this which he now see and hear. He grants the Holy Spirit and
it is the Holy Spirit's work to reveal to the sinner Christ,
to make that salvation that Christ wrought a reality in the soul
of a sinner, all that precious work of the Holy Ghost. Remember how John speaks of Him
in his first general epistle, there in chapter 2 and verse
20 of that first epistle we read, He hath an unction from the Holy
One and He knoweth all things. What is the unction? That is
the Blessed Spirit, the anointing of the Spirit. And where the
Spirit comes He knows. Again at verse 27 in that chapter
He says, but the anointing, it's the same word, but the unction
we might render it. the unction, the anointing which
ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that
any man teach you. But as the same anointing teacheth
you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it
hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." Oh, it is the Spirit's work,
you see, to make known the Lord Jesus Christ, and Christ Himself
speaks, so blindly of that ministry does he not in those chapters,
those familiar chapters of John 14 and 15 and 16, those valedictory
discourses, those precious teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ speaks
of how the Spirit comes to reprove and to convince and to convict,
that's his office John 16, verse 8, concerning Him, He says, when
He has come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness,
and of judgment, of sin, because they believe not on Me, of righteousness,
because I go to My Father, and ye see Me no more, of judgment,
because the Prince of this world is judged. The ministry of the
Blessed Spirit, He comes and He makes the sinner to understand
what sin is. He applies that Holy Lord of
God. He shuts the sinner's mouth.
The sinner has to come and acknowledge what he is. He is made to feel
it, all the awful guilt of his sin, the deadness that is in
his soul as a result of his sins. But he is not only a reprover,
and the convincer but see how Christ goes on to speak of him
as the comforter yes he convicts but he also comforts yes he reproves the sinner but
he also reveals Christ to the sinner how be it when he the
spirit of truth is calm says Christ he will guide you into
all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he
shall hear that shall he speak and he will show you things to
come he shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine and
shall show it unto you oh this is his ministry you see in the
covenant look at the end of chapter 15 and verse 26 But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of
truth which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. There's the Spirit's ministry.
He's God. He's equal with the Father, He's
equal with the Son, He's God. He's God the Holy Ghost. and yet how strange, you see,
in the outworking of the covenant what a ministry, how self-effacing
he shall not speak of himself or the Spirit is pleased to take
of those sins of Christ and to reveal those sins of Christ unto
sinners that's his office to make known salvation to make
the Saviour so real in the hearts of those that the Father gave
to Him in that eternal covenant. And so what does Paul say to
the Corinthians? Now we have received not the
Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak not
in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost
teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,
for their foolishness unto him neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned." Oh, it's not of men, you see.
They're not taught of men. It's not in man's power to make
a Christian. to persuade a sinner and to win
a sinner. It is the work of God the Holy
Ghost and only He can do it and He must do it. The natural man
will never receive these things. No man can say that Jesus Christ
is Lord but by the Holy Ghost. There is that promise there.
That promise in the eternal covenant and we have it here in the text
and it's before It's fulfilled in the New Testament. And all
thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall
be the peace of thy children. Oh friends, now we have to examine
ourselves. Are we those who have known anything
of that? Have we known anything of the ministry of the Holy Spirit,
revealing to us the things of Christ? Well, Let us seek to
examine ourselves in the light of the consequences of that teaching
of God. What does it say in the text
concerning those who are taught of God? Great shall be the peace
of thy children. Here is the consequence. Great
shall be the peace of thy children. Now before peace, is truly known
in the soul, surely there must be an experience of conflict. How can peace be known, real
peace, unless it is that which brings something very sweet into
the soul, after such an awful sense of A few weeks ago now we considered
those words of Elihu in the book of Job. Behold God exalteth by
his power. Who teacheth like him? asked
Elihu. Who teacheth like God? And he is speaking of course
there to Job. God exalteth by his power Job.
Who teacheth like him? Now what was Job taught by all
that he experienced? What was Job taught? Well, we
come to the end of the book of Job, and what does he say? I
have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye
seeth thee, and I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.
He is taught something, that man Job, by his experience. Oh
yes, he'd heard of God, but now he has the revelation, you see.
I have heard of thee, but ne'er mine eye seeth it, and I abhor
myself. He has such a sense of what he
is, such a sense of his sins. And this is the first consequence,
is it not, of the teaching of God, the teaching of the Lord
in the soul, there will be that conviction of sin, there must
be that conviction of sin. There is to be that ministry
of the Lord of Gods. There is a law work. Paul says,
We know that whatsoever the law saith, it saith to them who are
under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world
may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the
law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the law
is the knowledge of sin. By the law is the knowledge of
sin, and what comes with that knowledge of sin? Every mouth
is stopped, and all the world is guiltless. Now, it is true, all the world
is guiltless, but how few, how few have any sense of the guilt
of their sins. What a favour in this day of
grace if we're made to feel that, that we're sinners, that we're
undone. Oh, in that awful day of judgment
that will yet come, all the world will then know that they're guilty,
and every mouth will be stopped, there'll be no excuses, and they'll
be sent to that awful place and there thou suffer the eternal
punishment of their sins. But what a mercy, friends, if
in the day of grace we have any realization, any sense of our
sinnership. Who did the Lord Jesus Christ
come into the world to save? Well, he tells us that the whole
have no need of a physician but they that are sick. I came not
to call the righteous, but sinners. unto repentance. You see, not
all are sinners. Oh yes, all are sinners in the
sight of God. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. But how few have any realisation
of what they are, any sense of their sinnership. And it's to these sinners that
the Lord Jesus Christ comes and comes as a Saviour. Before this
blessed priest can be known, the priest that's spoken of here
in our text, right? Shall be the priest of thy children.
There is that awful sense of what sin is. And what does God do? to these
who have a sense of their sins. Oh, He speaks to them so graciously. Verse 11, He says, O thou afflicted,
tossed with tempest, and not comforted. Oh, these poor souls,
how they feel the awful burden of their sinnership. They cannot
deliver themselves, they cannot save themselves. Do you know,
well you're aware I'm sure that Isaiah is such an evangelical
prophet. His book is full of the gospel
is it not? Many a time he speaks such gracious
gospel words. Back in chapter 10 and verse
27 he speaks of that day. It's the gospel day that day.
it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be
taken away from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck
and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. Oh friends, here is that blessed
ministry of the anointing, the ministry of the Holy Spirit as
he comes to this poor sinner in the gospel day and applies
all the Christ has done. And there is illiberance, the
burden, and they go, take it away, destroy it. Oh, what a
blessed work it is that the Spirit does you, sir. Yes, there is
conviction of sin. And it is a sore conviction of
sin. It is seeing sin not only in terms of God's holy law. We see it there. But so often when we see it in
terms of the Lord of God, we only think of the consequence
for ourselves. What does the law say? The soul
that sinneth it shall die. The wages of sin is death. But
oh, when we see sin in the light of that Gospel revelation, in
the light of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all that he suffered and
endured, and endured to make an end of sins. Again, see how
the covenant is spoken of in another of the prophets in Ezekiel
chapter 16. We read here of that shine that
comes when there is a sense of pacification. At the end of that 16th chapter,
verse 16, Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee
in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an
everlasting covenant. Then shalt thou remember thy
ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine
elder, and thy younger, and I will give them unto thee for daughters,
but not by thy covenant, And I will establish My covenant
with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, that thou
mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any
more because of thy shame. When I am pacified toward thee
for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God. Or see what
the language is saying here right at the end of the chapter. As
God establishes what He calls My covenant. and thou shalt know that I am
the Lord that thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open
thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified. Or when we see sin in the light
of that that was required of the Lord Jesus Christ to make
peace through the blood of his cross. When God is classified
to the sinner, how the sinner then grieves over what he has
done. And what his sins cost the Lord Jesus Christ. There must I say firstly this
realization, this understanding of what sin is, the conviction
of sin. When that sort of God. But then it's not just That sense
of sin, it's not enough is it to know that I'm a sinner. Not
enough tonight if you say to me yes I'm a sinner. All friends
we must be saved sinners. We mustn't come short of that.
We must never come short of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's only salvation in Him.
And that's where we must be in Him. And isn't that what the
Lord says when he takes up the words of our text there in that
sixth chapter of John? It is written in the prophets,
and they shall be all taught of God, every man that hath heard
and learned of the Father cometh unto me. If you're taught of
God, you'll not only be one who realizes you're a sinner, you'll
come to Christ. That's what God's teaching is
about, to bring the sinner to Christ. And that coming, as we've
said so many times, that coming is the same as believing. Remember what Christ said, I
am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger. He that believeth on me shall
never thirst. The coming, the believing. It's
one and the same. It brings satisfaction. Those who come, those who believe,
they never hunger, they never thirst. So are we those who do
truly come to the Lord Jesus Christ and come to Him as that
One who was made for us. For it was by His death there
upon the cross that the Lord Jesus Christ reconciled sinners
to God. Our natural condition, you see,
we're alienated from God. We're enemies of God. We're at
a distance from God. Sin separates between us and
God. And what has the Lord Jesus Christ
done? He's brought the sinner to God. He has made peace through the
blood of His cross. Oh, these things are opened up
for us in the New Testament. Paul, there in Colossians 1,
verse 20, speaks of Him having made peace through the blood
of His cross by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself. By Him,
I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven
and you that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked
works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through
death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in his sight. All great shall be the peace
of thy children. No more at a distance. Reconcile
to God. At peace with God. And Christ
has not only reconciled sinners, of course, by His death upon
the cross. He has done that. But also Christ
justifies sinners by the righteousness of His life. He is obedient in
life as well as in death. He is obedient unto death. His
whole life is one course of obedience. He is doing all the will of the
Father. He is about his Father's business.
He is fulfilling all righteousness. Look at the context here. And all thy children shall be
taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children,
in righteousness shalt thou be established. All that are established
in righteousness, those who are taught of God, And what is that
righteousness they are established in? Why is that righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ, that precious righteousness, that
has come down from heaven? Drop down ye heavens from above,
let the skies pour down righteousness, let the earth open, let them
bring forth salvation and let righteousness spring up together,
I the Lord have created it. This is that righteousness of
Christ. that righteousness that He came to accomplish for His
people. That He might be the Lord their
righteousness. And this is so necessary, is
it not, to their justification. It's not simply that they are
without sin. That's what Christ has done by
His death upon the cross. He has paid the penalty that was their dessert. He has
blotted out all their transgression. They stand now as those who are
without any sin, but justification is more than that. The justified
sinner is one who is accounted righteous. He is not only sinless,
he is righteous. He has done the will of God.
He has obeyed the commandment of God, and as so, not in himself,
not in his own person, in Christ. Christ is the One, you see. And
this is Paul's desire to be found in Him, not having my own righteousness
which is of the Lord, but that righteousness which is of God
by faith, even that righteousness which is Christ. Those who are taught of God,
they know that they are sinners. They have a real sense of their
need, but more than that, they've come to Christ and they're washed
in that precious blood of Christ and they're clothed with that
glorious robe of Christ's righteousness but another mark of those who
are taught of God they know something of that precious
truth called the communion of saints when Paul writes to the
Thessalonians 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 9 he says
this as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto
you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. Ye yourselves are taught of God. All my children shall be taught
of the Lord. And what does God teach? Ye yourselves
are taught of God to love one another. We know that we have
passed from death unto life, says John, because we love the
brethren. Do you love the brethren? Or
do you love to be in the house of God with those of like mind,
those of like precious heart? You love it. That's what you
want to burn. Hear my friends and kindred well, says the hymn
writer. John has much to say, does he
not, with regards to the importance of that brotherly love. Not only in that 14th verse of chapter 3, we know that
we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother, says John, abides in death. And
then again, this is his commandment. that we should believe on the
name of his son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave
us commandment and yet again at the end of chapter 4 John
writes if a man say I love God and hate his brother he is a
liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how
can he love God whom he hath not seen and this commandment
have we from him that he who loveth God's love is brother
also brotherly love yourself the communion
of saints it's another of the marks of those who have been
taught of the Lord oh friends do we have these marks as we
examine ourselves and prove ourselves, we are to know ourselves. Do
we have these marks of those who have been taught of God?
All thy children shall be taught of the Lord. Do we have a sense
of what it is to be taught our sinnership? We are sinners and
we feel it, the awful sin of our fallen nature. That which
is born of the flesh is flesh. How we feel it. How the flesh
is lusting against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh.
Sometimes we have to cry out, all that I had not of myself.
All this sinful self is all nature. How it fights within us. How it torments us. but not just a sense of our sinnership,
to know what it is to be those who have come to Christ, who
are trusting in Christ, who enjoy that blessing of peace with God.
Great shall be the peace of thy children. Christ our propitiation,
you see. He has borne for us that wrath
of God. He has reconciled us to God.
We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Do we
know that? We can come and we can address God and call upon
Him and speak so freely and tell Him all our hearts. And those who bear this third
mark, we love the brethren. We've been taught of God to love
one another. Oh God grant that we might be
those friends who bear these marks of those who are truly
the children of Zion, the children of that New Jerusalem, really
members of that Gospel Church. Well, the Lord bless to us His
Word, for His name's sake. Amen. Seeing as I am concluding hymn
number 888 in the Tunis Saint Anatolios 555. No wit or will of man or learning
he may boast, no power of reason can draw sinners unto Christ,
so fallen is nature, such a flaw, none come except the Father draw. Hymn number 888. No power or reason