Jeremiah 2:8

• Priests: did not seek God’s counsel
• Scribes & Lawyers: did not know God
• Shepherds: rebelled against God
• Prophets: Prophesied by Baal and pursued things not profitable

• They just stopped seeking God (Jeremiah 2:8)
• God does not abandon us, we abandon Him (Jeremiah 2:31)
• The Nation refuses to repent of their sins or even acknowledge that they have sin (Jeremiah 2:35)

• When a nation stops seeking God, that nation automatically reverts to idolatry and harlotry (Jeremiah 3:6-9)
• When a nation reverts to this and refuses to repent, God divorces Himself from that nation and enters into judgment with that nation. (Jeremiah 2:35, 3:6-9)
• As a result that nation is stripped of its authority as a nation (Jeremiah 2:16-17)
• Because God has divorced himself from that nation, they no longer have His protection and that nation comes under God’s judgment. This means that nation will fall to nations mightier then she is. (Jeremiah 5:19)
• Life for the people of such a nation becomes bitter. (Jeremiah 2:19)

As a wife, Israel Treacherously departed from her lover: God. (Jeremiah 3:20-25)

• Forsaking His Moral laws.
• Not obeying His voice.
• Not walking in His ways.
• Walking in the stubbornness of one’s own heart.
• Committing idolatry: Putting self and everything else first before God and His will and worshiping other god’s. (Jeremiah 9:12-16)

• No matter how far a person goes away from God, if that person or nation repents and turns back to God, He will forgive and receive them. (Jeremiah 3:6-12, 7:1-7)

• First, that nation and individual must seek God’s counsel in all things and walk in obedience to Him. (Isaiah 30:1)
• Two, that nation and individual must cleanse itself of all idols, any false god or thing which removes its focus and dependence on God.

• First, the Church must cleanse itself of all idols. (Jeremiah 4:1)
• Second, they must do justice to each other within its ranks. (Jeremiah 4:2)

• The only way to drive out evil and evil forces against a nation and one’s life is to spend daily time seeking Jesus. (Jeremiah 4:6)

1. The less time you spend seeking Jesus, the greater the powers of darkness will be in your life. The more time you spend with Jesus, the less hold the powers of darkness will have in your life.
2. The powers of darkness are constantly and continually encroaching upon us. Only daily time with Jesus will keep these powers at bay.

• When we rebel against God, Satan and evil men are free to do to us whatever they want and we cannot stop them. (Jeremiah 4:10-18, James 4:4-10)
• If God can find any righteous men in a nation who are seeking Him and the truth, He will pardon that nation, He will not judge her. (Jeremiah 5:1)
• God’s eyes are for the truth. (Jeremiah 5:2)

• That nation feels no pain despite God’s reprovements and refuses to repent and correct itself despite God’s reprovements. (Jeremiah 5:3)
• Second, it makes its face like flint and refuses to return to God.