Isaiah 28:11-13 – God’s People Are Foolish
Isaiah speaks of talking to these people by stammering lip and another tongue. What’s that about? There are a couple of things it could be. It could be that God here is speaking of coming judgment through other nations with foreign tongues, that He would teach them through all the problems that they would have to go through with foreign countries. But even more, it would seem as though what God is saying here is that the people were so spiritually ignorant that even basic teaching seemed to be beyond them. And so the teaching that they were getting seemed to them almost like it was in a foreign language. Isaiah spoke to them of extremely basic and necessary things. And what was the content? Isaiah was to point these people to life and to rest and to salvation in Jesus Christ. (Matthew 11:28) These were basic words, but they cannot be understood unless and until the Spirit of God comes upon a dead heart and makes it to live. It is only then that the sinner can hear. It is only then that the blind sinner can see. Unless that happens they do not want to listen to what God tells them. They do not want to hear it. It is something hateful to them, just as the holy, living and true God is hateful to them. But I assure you, God’s Word will have its way — just as later, Jesus’ parables were designed by Him both to edify His elect through His teaching, and to confound and judge the reprobate. So it is with the rest of God’s Word. They rejected God’s Word of revelation, so His Word of providence through Assyria and Babylon brought about their destruction.
Much of what we see here characterizes the people of God. We are so very easily, even as a remnant, seduced to other things, so very lazy. And we easily stop where we are and we stop growing. Friends, let us heed the Word of God, and the faithful teaching and preaching of the Word of God. Pray and continue to pray for your preachers. May it be that God in His grace will give us wisdom and a deeper spirituality until, by God’s grace in Jesus Christ, we are built up together into a beautiful temple in which He is pleased to dwell.
Questions
- Can an unbeliever understand spiritual things?
- How can we grow spiritually?
Prayer Points
- Pray that you would continue to grow more and more like Christ.
- Use prayer points from your congregation.
- Pray for family matters.