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Questions for Day 104 – Saturday – 09/12/2020 Jeremiah 12-16

Jeremiah – Week 3 – Day 104 – Chapters 12 – 16
Under Ch 4 of text: “Be Decisive” #1 through 11 of 12 total. If you do just one, focus on #12 looking at all chapters to date. Blessings!

1. Even though Jeremiah took a bold stand for God, he still had questions about why God
   operated the way he did. Read Jeremiah 12: 1-4 What were Jeremiah’s specific
   concerns?
2. Do you think Jeremiah was disagreeing with God or trying to understand God’s plan?
   Why?
3. Why is it easy to be people who have God “always on their lips but far from their hearts”.
   (12:2)
4. God’s answer to Jeremiah appears in 12: 5-17. What was God’s plan?
5. Read Jeremiah 13. What object lessons did God use to help Jeremiah understand His
   way of thinking? What spiritual truth did each teach?
6. If God were to create an object lesson to remind you to stand boldly for Him, what would
   it be? Why?
7. Read Jeremiah 14:1 – 15-9. What was the main point of Jeremiah’s sermon to the
   people?
8. How did the people and the prophet respond?
9. How did God in turn respond to their prayers?
10. Read Jeremiah 15: 10-21. How did Jeremiah feel about what God was going to do.
11. Did he have a right to feel the way he did? Why or why not?
12. Ch 16 – verses 9-13 – God’s declaration to Joshua of the sin and decadence on the
    ground. Compare and contrast the times with America today.