Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act of mercy?

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Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• There were some that could rightly be called
  children of wrath. They like Pharaoh, hardened
  their hearts and had only expectation of wrath.
  (Jer 152)

2
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• Jeremiah 152 - "And it shall be, if they say
  to you, 'Where should we go?' then you shall tell
  them, 'Thus says the LORD "Such as are for
  death, to death And such as are for the sword,
  to the sword And such as are for the famine, to
  the famine And such as are for the captivity, to
  the captivity."

3
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• God had a long term plan for Israel and all men.

4
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• The nation of Israel had yet to fulfill its
  purpose of the promised Messiah coming from
  the descendants of Abraham. (Gen 121-3)

5
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• Genesis 121-3 Now the LORD had said to Abram
  "Get out of your country, From your family And
  from your father's house, To a land that I will
  show you. 2 I will make you a great nation I
  will bless you And make your name great And you
  shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who
  bless you, And I will curse him who curses you
  And in you all the families of the earth shall be
  blessed.

6
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• God was mercifully fulfilling a plan to purify
  Israel and thus extend its existence as a nation
  until the coming of Christ. (Ezk 1422-23)

7
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• Ezekiel 1422-23 - "Yet behold, there shall be
  left in it a remnant who will be brought out,
  both sons and daughters surely they will come
  out to you, and you will see their ways and their
  doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the
  disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all
  that I have brought upon it.

8
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• 23 "And they will comfort you, when you see their
  ways and their doings and you shall know that I
  have done nothing without cause that I have done
  in it," says the LORD GOD.

9
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• Israels apostasy and the wrath of God serve to
  remind Christians today of how to have a
  relationship with God. (1 Cor 1011)

10
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• 1 Corinthians 1011 Now all these things
  happened to them as examples, and they were
  written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of
  the ages have come.

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Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• Whatever doctrinal system men come up with that
  provides security and peace that does not
  produce a teachable, reverent people that obey
  God, is in vain. (Jer 613-14)

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Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• Jeremiah 613-14 - "Because from the least of
  them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is
  given to covetousness And from the prophet even
  to the priest, Everyone deals falsely. 14 They
  have also healed the hurt of My people slightly,
  Saying, 'Peace, peace!' When there is no peace.

13
Was the wrath of God poured out on Israel an act
of mercy?

• Gods people will always have certain
  characteristics. Do you know them?

14
God wants a people for Him

• God wants a relationship with a people that He
  likens to a marriage relationship.

15
God wants a people for Him

• God wants a relationship with a people that He
  likens to a marriage relationship.
• God will not share! In that He is a jealous God.

16
God wants a people for Him

• God wants a relationship with a people that He
  likens to a marriage relationship.
• God will not share! In that He is a jealous God.
• The coming wrath was designed to teach Israel
  that very point. (Ezk 3925-26)

17
God wants a people for Him

• Ezekiel 3925-26 - " Therefore thus says the Lord
  GOD 'Now I will bring back the captives of
  Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of
  Israel and I will be jealous for My holy name --
  26 'after they have borne their shame, and all
  their unfaithfulness in which they were
  unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their
  own land and no one made them afraid.

18
God wants a people for Him

• Gods purpose with His people is a tender and
  beautiful one. (Ezk 161-14)

19
God wants a people for Him

• Ezekiel 161-14 - Again the word of the LORD
  came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, cause
  Jerusalem to know her abominations, 3 "and say,
  'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem "Your birth
  and your nativity are from the land of Canaan
  your father was an Amorite and your mother a
  Hittite.

20
God wants a people for Him

• 4 "As for your nativity, on the day you were born
  your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed
  in water to cleanse you you were not rubbed with
  salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 "No eye
  pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to
  have compassion on you but you were thrown out
  into the open field, when you yourself were
  loathed on the day you were born.

21
God wants a people for Him

• 6 " And when I passed by you and saw you
  struggling in your own blood, I said to you in
  your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you in your
  blood, 'Live!' 7 "I made you thrive like a plant
  in the field and you grew, matured, and became
  very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your
  hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

22
God wants a people for Him

• 8 "When I passed by you again and looked upon
  you, indeed your time was the time of love so I
  spread My wing over you and covered your
  nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and
  entered into a covenant with you, and you became
  Mine," says the Lord GOD. 9 "Then I washed you
  in water yes, I thoroughly washed off your
  blood, and I anointed you with oil.

23
God wants a people for Him

• 10 "I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave
  you sandals of badger skin I clothed you with
  fine linen and covered you with silk. 11 "I
  adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your
  wrists, and a chain on your neck. 12 "And I put
  a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and
  a beautiful crown on your head.

24
God wants a people for Him

• 13 "Thus you were adorned with gold and silver,
  and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and
  embroidered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour,
  honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful,
  and succeeded to royalty. 14 "Your fame went out
  among the nations because of your beauty, for it
  was perfect through My splendor which I had
  bestowed on you," says the Lord GOD.

25
God wants a people for Him

• Because of the blessings of God, Israel became
  proud and committed adultery with other gods.
  (Ezk 1615-24)

26
God wants a people for Him

• Ezekiel 1615-24 - " But you trusted in your own
  beauty, played the harlot because of your fame,
  and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing
  by who would have it. 16 "You took some of your
  garments and adorned multicolored high places for
  yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such
  things should not happen, nor be.

27
God wants a people for Him

• 17 "You have also taken your beautiful jewelry
  from My gold and My silver, which I had given
  you, and made for yourself male images and played
  the harlot with them. 18 "You took your
  embroidered garments and covered them, and you
  set My oil and My incense before them.

28
God wants a people for Him

• 19 "Also My food which I gave you -- the pastry
  of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you --
  you set it before them as sweet incense and so
  it was," says the Lord GOD. 20 "Moreover you
  took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore
  to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be
  devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small
  matter,

29
God wants a people for Him

• 21 "that you have slain My children and offered
  them up to them by causing them to pass through
  the fire? 22 "And in all your abominations and
  acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of
  your youth, when you were naked and bare,
  struggling in your blood. 23 " Then it was so,
  after all your wickedness -- 'Woe, woe to you!'
  says the Lord GOD --

30
God wants a people for Him

• 24 "that you also built for yourself a shrine,
  and made a high place for yourself in every
  street.

31
God wants a people for Him

• How many of you would be willing to occasionally
  share your mate with another?

32
God wants a people for Him

• God has always wanted all of our hearts! (Jer
  310 414)

33
God wants a people for Him

• Jeremiah 310 - "And yet for all this her
  treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me
  with her whole heart, but in pretense," says the
  LORD.

34
God wants a people for Him

• Jeremiah 414 - O Jerusalem, wash your heart
  from wickedness, That you may be saved. How long
  shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

35
God wants a people for Him

• What did the non-traditional service to idols
  involve? How might the Israelites have
  framed this new enlighten approach to God?

36
God wants a people for Him

• God called it adultery. (Jer 38-9 57 79-10)

37
God wants a people for Him

• Jeremiah 38-9 - "Then I saw that for all the
  causes for which backsliding Israel had committed
  adultery, I had put her away and given her a
  certificate of divorce yet her treacherous
  sister Judah did not fear, but went and played
  the harlot also. 9 "So it came to pass, through
  her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land
  and committed adultery with stones and trees.

38
God wants a people for Him

• Jeremiah 57 - " How shall I pardon you for
  this? Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by
  those that are not gods. When I had fed them to
  the full, Then they committed adultery And
  assembled themselves by troops in the harlots'
  houses.

39
God wants a people for Him

• Jeremiah 79-10 - "Will you steal, murder,
  commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to
  Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not
  know, 10 "and then come and stand before Me in
  this house which is called by My name, and say,
  'We are delivered to do all these abominations'?

40
God wants a people for Him

• We serve a God that wants a personal relationship
  with us! Think about this.

41
God wants a people for Him

• This relationship (fellowship) with God is
  personal.

42
God wants a people for Him

• This relationship (fellowship) with God is
  personal.
• Israel thought that their nationality or the
  location of the temple would save them.

43
God wants a people for Him

• God pointed out to them that each individual
  would stand by faith. (Ezk 1414-16, 20)

44
God wants a people for Him

• Ezekiel 1414-16 - "Even if these three men,
  Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would
  deliver only themselves by their righteousness,"
  says the Lord GOD. 15 " If I cause wild beasts
  to pass through the land, and they empty it, and
  make it so desolate that no man may pass through
  because of the beasts,

45
God wants a people for Him

• 16 "even though these three men were in it, as I
  live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver
  neither sons nor daughters only they would be
  delivered, and the land would be desolate.

46
God wants a people for Him

• Ezekiel 1420 - "even though Noah, Daniel, and
  Job were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD,
  "they would deliver neither son nor daughter
  they would deliver only themselves by their
  righteousness.

47
God wants a people for Him

• This is the very point of the book of Habakkuk.
  (Hab 23-4)

48
God wants a people for Him

• Habakkuk 23-4 - For the vision is yet for an
  appointed time But at the end it will speak, and
  it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it
  Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
  4 " Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in
  him But the just shall live by his faith.

49
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• God will have a people!

50
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• God will have a people!
• He was about to purge most of Israel but in the
  end there was a remnant. (Jer 311-9)

51
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Jeremiah 311-9 - "At the same time," says the
  LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of
  Israel, and they shall be My people." 2 Thus
  says the LORD "The people who survived the sword
  Found grace in the wilderness -- Israel, when I
  went to give him rest." 3 The LORD has appeared
  of old to me, saying "Yes, I have loved you with
  an everlasting love Therefore with
  lovingkindness I have drawn you.

52
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 4 Again I will build you, and you shall be
  rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again be
  adorned with your tambourines, And shall go forth
  in the dances of those who rejoice. 5 You shall
  yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria The
  planters shall plant and eat them as ordinary
  food. 6 For there shall be a day When the
  watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim, 'Arise, and
  let us go up to Zion, To the LORD our God.' "

53
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 7 For thus says the LORD "Sing with gladness
  for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the
  nations Proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD,
  save Your people, The remnant of Israel!' 8
  Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
  And gather them from the ends of the earth, Among
  them the blind and the lame, The woman with child
  And the one who labors with child, together A
  great throng shall return there.

54
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 9 They shall come with weeping, And with
  supplications I will lead them. I will cause them
  to walk by the rivers of waters, In a straight
  way in which they shall not stumble For I am a
  Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.

55
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• They would be drawn by the lovingkindness of
  God. (V3)

56
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• They would be drawn by the lovingkindness of
  God. (V3)
• This remnant would take the issue of sin
  seriously. (Ezk 65-10)

57
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Ezekiel 65-10 - "And I will lay the corpses of
  the children of Israel before their idols, and I
  will scatter your bones all around your altars.
  6 "In all your dwelling places the cities shall
  be laid waste, and the high places shall be
  desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste
  and made desolate, your idols may be broken and
  made to cease, your incense altars may be cut
  down, and your works may be abolished.

58
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 7 "The slain shall fall in your midst, and you
  shall know that I am the LORD. 8 " Yet I will
  leave a remnant, so that you may have some who
  escape the sword among the nations, when you are
  scattered through the countries.

59
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 9 "Then those of you who escape will remember Me
  among the nations where they are carried captive,
  because I was crushed by their adulterous heart
  which has departed from Me, and by their eyes
  which play the harlot after their idols they
  will loathe themselves for the evils which they
  committed in all their abominations.

60
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 10 "And they shall know that I am the LORD I
  have not said in vain that I would bring this
  calamity upon them.

61
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• If one could only see the wrath of God then the
  true grace of God would be seen! (Rom 1122)

62
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Romans 1122 - Therefore consider the goodness
  and severity of God on those who fell, severity
  but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His
  goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

63
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Those who laugh at you as a legalist when you
  simply question a practice are not the people of
  God.

64
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Because God was preparing the whole world to hear
  an invitation to become His people, He
  made this purging if Israel very public. (Jer
  3110-14)

65
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Jeremiah 3110-14 - " Hear the word of the LORD,
  O nations, And declare it in the isles afar off,
  and say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather
  him, And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.'
  11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And ransomed
  him from the hand of one stronger than he.

66
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the
  height of Zion, Streaming to the goodness of the
  LORD -- For wheat and new wine and oil, For the
  young of the flock and the herd Their souls
  shall be like a well-watered garden, And they
  shall sorrow no more at all.

67
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 13 "Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
  And the young men and the old, together For I
  will turn their mourning to joy, Will comfort
  them, And make them rejoice rather than sorrow.
  14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with
  abundance

68
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Note that Israel would be humbled and pure.

69
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Gods act of wrath was a merciful lesson to the
  whole world that there is only one way to
  have a relationship with Him. How often do men
  forget this!

70
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• The leadership of Israel had first compromised on
  fellowship. (Jer 2314-17 79-10)

71
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Jeremiah 2314-17 - Also I have seen a horrible
  thing in the prophets of Jerusalem They commit
  adultery and walk in lies They also strengthen
  the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back
  from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom
  to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

72
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 15 "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts
  concerning the prophets 'Behold, I will feed
  them with wormwood, And make them drink the water
  of gall For from the prophets of Jerusalem
  Profaneness has gone out into all the land.' "

73
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 16 Thus says the LORD of hosts "Do not listen to
  the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
  They make you worthless They speak a vision of
  their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.
  17 They continually say to those who despise Me,
  'The LORD has said, "You shall have peace" ' And
  to everyone who walks according to the dictates
  of his own heart, they say, 'No evil shall come
  upon you.'

74
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Jeremiah 79-10 - "Will you steal, murder,
  commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to
  Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not
  know, 10 "and then come and stand before Me in
  this house which is called by My name, and say,
  'We are delivered to do all these abominations'?

75
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• We must have an integrity that demands an
  accurate teaching of Gods word.

76
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Over and over in history men have arisen who
  ridicule sound doctrine and under the false
  banner of being grace-centered try to comfort
  people in their desires.

77
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Look at how they were able to widen their circle
  of fellowship without any of the traditional
  rebukes. People who despise God can now be
  accepted.

78
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• They continually say to those who despise Me,
  'The LORD has said, "You shall have peace"
  ' And to everyone who walks according to the
  dictates of his own heart, they say, 'No
  evil shall come upon you.' (Jeremiah 2317)

79
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Be honest, do you really want to follow a teacher
  that is interesting but has not accurately
  represented Gods word? (Jer 2318-32 Rev
  2218-19)

80
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Jeremiah 2318-32 - For who has stood in the
  counsel of the LORD, And has perceived and heard
  His word? Who has marked His word and heard it?
  19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth
  in fury -- A violent whirlwind! It will fall
  violently on the head of the wicked.

81
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until
  He has executed and performed the thoughts of His
  heart. In the latter days you will understand it
  perfectly. 21 " I have not sent these prophets,
  yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they
  prophesied. 22 But if they had stood in My
  counsel, And had caused My people to hear My
  words, Then they would have turned them from
  their evil way And from the evil of their doings.
  

82
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 23 " Am I a God near at hand," says the LORD,
  "And not a God afar off? 24 Can anyone hide
  himself in secret places, So I shall not see
  him?" says the LORD "Do I not fill heaven and
  earth?" says the LORD. 25 "I have heard what the
  prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name,
  saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'

83
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 26 "How long will this be in the heart of the
  prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are
  prophets of the deceit of their own heart, 27
  "who try to make My people forget My name by
  their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor,
  as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.

84
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 28 "The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a
  dream And he who has My word, let him speak My
  word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?"
  says the LORD. 29 "Is not My word like a fire?"
  says the LORD, "And like a hammer that breaks the
  rock in pieces? 30 " Therefore behold, I am
  against the prophets," says the LORD, "who steal
  My words every one from his neighbor.

85
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• 31 "Behold, I am against the prophets," says the
  LORD, "who use their tongues and say, 'He says.'
  32 "Behold, I am against those who prophesy false
  dreams," says the LORD, "and tell them, and cause
  My people to err by their lies and by their
  recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command
  them therefore they shall not profit this people
  at all," says the LORD.

86
God wants His people to be separate from the world

• Revelation 2218-19 - For I testify to everyone
  who hears the words of the prophecy of this book
  If anyone adds to these things, God will add to
  him the plagues that are written in this book
  19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the
  book of this prophecy, God shall take away his
  part from the Book of Life, from the holy city,
  and from the things which are written in this
  book.

87
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Gods people would have a spiritual birth to
  become His people. (Jer 3131-34)

88
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Jeremiah 3131-34 - " Behold, the days are
  coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new
  covenant with the house of Israel and with the
  house of Judah -- 32 "not according to the
  covenant that I made with their fathers in the
  day that I took them by the hand to lead them out
  of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they
  broke, though I was a husband to them, says the
  LORD.

89
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• 33 "But this is the covenant that I will make
  with the house of Israel after those days, says
  the LORD I will put My law in their minds, and
  write it on their hearts and I will be their
  God, and they shall be My people.

90
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• 34 "No more shall every man teach his neighbor,
  and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the
  LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least
  of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD.
  For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin
  I will remember no more.

91
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Only those who would know God would be His
  people. (Jn 33-5)

92
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• John 33-5 - Jesus answered and said to him,
  "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born
  again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." 4
  Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born
  when he is old? Can he enter a second time into
  his mother's womb and be born?" 5 Jesus
  answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless
  one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot
  enter the kingdom of God.

93
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• One of the greatest mistakes a local church can
  make is to extend fellowship to those who
  are not converted!

94
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• One of the greatest mistakes a local church can
  make is to extend fellowship to those who
  are not converted!
• God has always used the word covenant to
  describe His relationship with His people.

95
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• diatheke - 1) a disposition, arrangement, of any
  sort, which one wishes to be valid, the last
  disposition which one makes of his earthly
  possessions after his death, a testament or will
  2) a compact, a covenant, a testament 2a)
  God's covenant with Noah, etc.

96
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Why was a covenant so significant to Noah? (Gen
  618)

97
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Genesis 618 - "But I will establish My covenant
  with you and you shall go into the ark -- you,
  your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with
  you.

98
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Again, Gods defining our relationship to Him is
  not just a set of rules. What a privilege to
  have such an opportunity. (Jer 231-4)

99
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Jeremiah 231-4 - "Woe to the shepherds who
  destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"
  says the LORD. 2 Therefore thus says the LORD
  God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My
  people "You have scattered My flock, driven them
  away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will
  attend to you for the evil of your doings," says
  the LORD.

100
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• 3 "But I will gather the remnant of My flock out
  of all countries where I have driven them, and
  bring them back to their folds and they shall be
  fruitful and increase. 4 "I will set up
  shepherds over them who will feed them and they
  shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall
  they be lacking," says the LORD.

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The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Questions to Consider

102
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Questions to Consider
• 1. Why was it necessary for such a terrible
  judgment to come upon Israel?

103
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Questions to Consider
• 1. Why was it necessary for such a terrible
  judgment to come upon Israel?
• 2. What lessons can we draw from how God
  describes His relationship with His people?

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The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• Questions to Consider
• 1. Why was it necessary for such a terrible
  judgment to come upon Israel?
• 2. What lessons can we draw from how God
  describes His relationship with His people?
• 3. In what condition was Israel before they
  became the people of God?

105
The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• 4. What are the fruits of extending fellowship
  beyond what God does?

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The people of God under the New Covenant are
clearly identified

• 4. What are the fruits of extending fellowship
  beyond what God does?
• 5. What do we learn about the New Covenant from
  Jeremiah?