How Shall We Repent?

Friday, August 28, 2015
Jeremiah 6:26-30 NIV 

26 Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us. 27 "I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways. 28 They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly. 29 The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out. 30 They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them."

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) After declaring that Israel would be taken captive by an enemy nation because they rejected Him, what did the Lord tell the people to do? (v.26)
2) What does the Lord tell the Prophet Jeremiah about his his role in Israel's coming calamity? (v.27)
3) What is Jeremiah's assessment of Israel? (v.28)
4) Did the "refiner's fire" purge the people of Israel of their rebellion? (v.29)
5) To what is Israel likened? Why? (v.30)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
6) Do you believe that God has rejected the United States? If so, why? If not, why not?

LIFE LESSONS
7) The Lord never judges His people without repeatedly warning us of impending judgment.
8) Those people and/or nations that reject the Lord's warnings will be rejected by Him.