Jeremiah 1-11

• "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
• God created each and everyone of us and had a plan before he created (1:5)
• We sometimes feel like Jeremiah and say we are young and incapable of serving the Lord (v6) , but he you are called by him, he knows you are capable so just do it (v7-8)
• Why is God letting his people suffer by inducing war in north? (v15) He answers because Jerusalem does not repent and has clung onto evil (v16)

• God remembers when Israel was loyal and faithful to Him (2:2-3)
• God was gracious in providing the promise land after years of wilderness (v5-7)
• God was known to Israel (v8)
• God warns this is wrong to change attitude towards God (v11) God explains which aspects of change is wrong: evil, apostasy, and foresaking God (v19)

• Sadly, God describes the separation of Israel and God, and their choice of connecting with their self-created gods is like man divorcing wife, or playing the whore and returning to a relationship? (3:1)
• They have lacked the heart to fear the Lord (v6-11)
• Askes them to repent (v12-4:4)

• God feels heartached when Judah chooses the wrong path (4:19)
• They are 'wise' - in doing evil! But how to do good they know not (v22)

• Opportunity for repentance for Judah (7:3)
• den of robbers (v11)
• He Judah does not repent, the consequences are "And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim." (v15)
• Sufficient warning is given he they don't repent (v20)
• This is what God is concerned about the most:

But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'

-- Jeremiah 7:23

• My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me (8:18). God is sad he we choose to depart from him

Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

-- Jeremiah 9:5

"Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it, but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them. Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink. I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."

-- Jeremiah 9:13-16

• Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them. (11:11) God draws the line where they choose not to repent