My People Have Forgotten Me

Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Jeremiah 18:11-17 NIV 

11 "Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, 'This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.' 12 But they will reply, 'It's no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.' " 13 Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard anything like this? A most horrible thing has been done by Virgin Israel. 14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Do its cool waters from distant sources ever stop flowing? 15 Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths. They made them walk in byways, on roads not built up. 16 Their land will be an object of horror and of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads. 17 Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
After the Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, the Lord God told the prophet to go to the potter's house. The Lord told the prophet that He would relent from causing calamity to befall those who forsook evil, but would relent from blessing the disobedient (rebellious).

1) What was the word of the Lord to His people through His people, at this time? (v.11)
2) How did the Lord declare that His people would respond? (v.12)
3) What else did the Lord tell His servant Jeremiah to do? (v. 13a)
4) What questions did the Lord have for the nations and why? (v.13b-14)
5) What did the Lord declare about His people? (v.15-16)
6) What did the Lord declare that He would do to His people (v.17)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
7) Do you know of any individual(s), church, and/or nation that has forsaken the Lord? If so, how have they rebelled against Him?

LIFE LESSONS
8) All those who rebel against the commands of the Lord will be forsaken by Him, until and unless they relent from doing that which is evil in His sight.