Forsaking the Living Water

Monday, November 10, 2014
Jeremiah 2:5-13 KJV

5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 6 Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. 8 The priests said not, Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit. 9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. 10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. 11 Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit. 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What did the Lord ask His people? (v.5a)
2) What had the people of God done? (v.5b-c)
3) What else did the people neglected to ask of the Lord? (v.6)
4) What had the Lord done for His people and how did they respond? (v.7)
5) What had the nation's leaders done against God? (v.8)
6) What had the nation done against the Lord? (v.9-11)
7) What did the Lord declare to the heavens and why? (v.12-13)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
8) After all that the Lord has done for you, have you ever forgotten about Him? If so, briefly describe one such time.
9) Do you know of a leader that forsook the Lord to pursue his or her own way? If so, what happened?
10) Do you believe that this nation may have forsaken the Lord because of ungodly leaders? Please explain.

PRINCIPLES
11) As people of God, we are hopellessly lost with the Good Shepherd's leading.
12) When our leaders abandon the word and will of God, it is just a matter of time before their followers will do the same.
13) We do not have to be deceived, the Lord has infilled every born again believer with the Spirit of Truth.