Session 2 | Jeremiah 2:1-13

FORGOTTEN? (JER. 2:4-8)

the question God presented to the people in verse 5.

4 Hear the word of the LORD, house of Jacob and all families of the house of Israel.
5 This is what the LORD says:
What fault did your ancestors find in me that they went so far from me,
followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?

6 They stopped asking,
“Where is the LORD who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one traveled through and where no one lived?”

7 I brought you to a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled my land;
you made my inheritance detestable.

8 The priests quit asking,
“Where is the LORD?” The experts in the law no longer knew me,
and the rulers rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

DISCUSS:

• What kinds of worthless idols do people substitute for God today? (p. 23)

IDENTIFY:

name the phrases God used
to describe the things the people
had done to disobey Him.

DISCUSS:

verse 8 describes how the priests, the legal authorities,
the rulers, and the prophets had all turned away from God.

• How does the appeal of an idol cause a person to stop seeking the true God? (p. 23)

TRANSITION:

Despite God’s faithfulness to His people,
they had stopped seeking the true God and turned to idols.