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.”

Believe that God is a God of order and in that order, we will discover the answer to questions we did not even think to ask.

1Corinthians 13:4 begins with love is patient. How love acts begins with patience. We are reminded by Isaiah that there is a buildup of knowledge and that it does not come all at once. When we read and receive understanding there is a tendency to believe that is all there is to believe. That is like saying one plus one is two and I understand math. First precepts are built upon, precept upon precept.

It is in our best interest to revisit the scriptures for the best of reasons. Our minds are flesh and subject to decay. We do not always remember correctly in our own strength. A wise old doctor of theology has a favorite phrase he used in every sermon. “Repetition is the price of knowledge.”

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.

Consistent practice, repetition, to gain wisdom in the knowledge that we do not know everything, but we do know the One who does.

2 Corinthians 3:18 English Standard Version (ESV) And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Building off what was said yesterday let it be known that we do not change but rather are changed.

Key in discovering these changes is the issue of seeing Jesus for Who He is in truth. We must not see in the scriptures what we think Christ looks like and then do a personal makeover. Human effort does not provide change. This is not a twelve step program.

Obedience of faith does not produce change. Obedience of faith is an opportunity to answer God’s will in how we can change the circumstances of others. God does not need our obedience to change our inner being, His presence does that.

Life tells us to take charge, to set goals, to achieve goals, to be successful or fall behind. That creates a class of weak and beggarly people devoid of any spiritual substance. This is the class of people who need the Lord the most.

1 Corinthians 1:26-27 English Standard Version

²⁶ For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. ²⁷ But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

We may have started out this way, but because of His indwelling presence, we do not stay that way.

At what point in our lives did God call us? Was it a low point in our life when we knew we had failed and needed divine help? Had we heard of the Lord from others who had already received the help they needed? Someone must have at least whispered the name of Jesus. That is all it takes but someone was a witness to us along the way.