The Lord Acts with Steadfast Love

Saturday, September 27, 2014
Jeremiah 9:17-24 

17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come: 
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out. 
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. 
21 For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets. 
22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather [them]. 
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches: 
24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) Who did the Lord say to call for? (v.17)
2) Why did He call for them? (v.18)
3) What was heard out of Zion? (v.19)
4) Who was to be taught and why? (v.20-21)
5) What would happen to the carcases of dead men and why? (v.22-23)
6) What does the Lord glory in and why? (v.24)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
7) Have you ever lamented before the Lord concerning a difficulty in your life? If so, what happened.
8) Who, or what, do you place your hope in during times of trouble? Why?
9) Who, or what, do you trust in to help you succeed in life? Why?

PRINCIPLES
10) The Lord delights in those who delight in Him.
11) Our glory is in knowing and understanding the Lord.
12) The Lord delights in lovingkindness, judgment and righteousness.