Isaiah 28:11 English Standard Version (ESV) For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people,

This next verse was not quoted yesterday in the opening with purpose. While it is a continuation of the precept with truth it might sound like something else to the untrained ear. The natural tendency might be to think about evangelism. It does sound that way. The message of precepts is for everyone and not just for those that evangelize or are evangelized. It is for everyone.

John 4:23-24 English Standard Version

²³ But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

Worshipping God in spirit and in truth is foreign to the natural man, it sounds strange coming from the lips of those who are saved and falling upon the ears of the lost. Those who are in the world are hearing for the first time the voice of those living in the Kingdom of God. We are different and should sound different.

Those who have matured beyond the simple principles know Christ with the intimacy required to hear our Lord in the spirit and to know the truth being given to us is to be spoken. The lost need to hear the words of the Lord, not by the recital of memory but rather from a heart that has been changed by His abiding presence. We do not know the innermost needs of the lost but our Lord does. He knows best how to reach the lost to whom He calls.

Romans 15:1 English Standard Version (ESV) We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 10:15 English Standard Version (ESV) I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

Isaiah 28:9-10 English Standard Version

⁹ “To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
¹⁰ For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”

A precept is a command or an ordinance, that which is given to obey. Ref. BLB.ORG

Psalm 119:56 English Standard Version (ESV) This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.

A concept is an abstract idea; a general notion. Source MW Dictionary

A precept that is not understood properly, nor taught properly, loses the attachment of the blessing that comes with obeying the precept in truth. Verse 9 was included with the opening passages for one reason. Knowledge comes to those who have been weaned from the milk of the word, the gospel.

Hebrews 5:12-14 English Standard Version

¹² For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, ¹³ for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. ¹⁴ But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

Hebrews 6:1 English Standard Version (ESV) Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

We are not meant to be babes in Christ forever. We are meant to grow in Christ and over time develop sufficient understanding of the precepts of God not only to obey them, but share the truth of the blessings that come from understanding those precepts.

Why should the lost receive the gospel if they cannot see the blessings that come from believing and obeying?