For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. (Isaiah 28:11-12) The consequence of not following God appears right here in these verses: they would not hear; they would not act on what God had already said; the word that came to them became hard to receive and difficult to follow. Like a stammering tongue, they could not

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. (Isaiah 28:10) Isaiah gives us the clearest picture in all of Scripture of how God builds a believer into someone capable of carrying greater revelation. It is not complicated, but it is demanding. The method is precept upon precept and line upon line, which means here a little, there a little. This is how it works. The word precept comes from Hebrew and

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. (Isaiah 28:9) At the heart of Isaiah 28:9 is a question every believer ought to pause and answer honestly. Who is God able to teach? Who can He bring into deeper knowledge and understanding of His ways? Isaiah answered clearly and plainly. It is those who have grown up, moved past the milk stage and pressed into something more substanti