Isaiah 28:9a Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine?
I will answer these question at the end of this devotional.
The third gift of service is identified as teachers according to 1 Corinthians 12:28. The issue of teaching within the church is so important that leadership has the responsibility to examine a teacher’s doctrine before they are allowed to teach. The last thing that any church needs is the spreading of false doctrine. It is so important that certain administrations of church doctrines finance their own divinity schools. Each of these administrations are protective of their doctrinal heritage. Not all administrations hold the same doctrinal values. Arguably there are contentions about what is true doctrine and false within divergent administrations.
All of that is irrelevant to this devotional. The answers to the questions in my opening are not dependent upon administrations or their doctrinal heritage. The he in Isaiah 27:9a is God. Whom shall He teach, whom shall He make to understand? The duty of the teacher with that gift of service is to serve the Lord and the body of Christ. That service is to assist in opening the lines of communication between those he serves, us and God.
Psalms 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
This is the heart of every good and righteous teacher. We have no desire to be THE source of understanding. We have no desire to be THE source of doctrine. The Word itself is your testimony and that should be the basis of your meditations.
Hebrews 6:1-3 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit.
And now the answer to the questions.
Isaiah 28:9b them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.