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“The Tongue of Disciples” When Isaiah states: “The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of disciples,” he is prophetically stating that God has given the Christ “words of wisdom” ( Living Bible ) or “an instructed tongue ( New International Version ), or as the Good News Bible words it: “The Sovereign LORD has taught me what to say….” Edward J. Young helpfully explains this expression:

The phrase designates a tongue such as learned or skilled men have, and hence a ready, expert tongue. The learned are instructed by the Lord; the tongue belongs to one taught of God, and so it is the tongue, of a person instructed and illumined by His Spirit. 2

Jesus certainly used this wise skill in bringing hope to dis- couraged people. In His hometown of Nazareth, “all were speaking well of Him, and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His Lips.” 3 When He con- cluded His sermon on the Mount, “the multitudes were amazed at His teaching.” 4 On one occasion the temple guards, who had been sent to arrest Jesus, returned awestruck and empty-handed. When the chief priests and Pharisees demanded, “Why did you not bring Him?” They could only answer, “Never did a man speak the way this man speaks.” 5 Jesus made no secret of His divine help; freely He admit- ted, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.” 6 I like the beautiful passage in Psalms 45:2, which describes the effect accomplished in Jesus because He awakened each morning to learn of the Father. Thou art fairer than the sons of men;

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