God Rejects Zedekiah’s Request - Jeremiah 21:1-14

Topics: Anger, Complacency, Death, Enemies, Evil, Justice, Life, Mercy, Miracles, Opposition, Oppressed, People, Prophecy, Questions, Security, Submission, War Open It 1. What would you do if forced to choose between immediate death and life without any possessions or freedom? 2. What do you think is the worst thing for a human being to lose? * 3. What, for you, represents security? Explore It 4. Why did King Zedekiah send messengers to Jeremiah? (21:1-2) * 5. What did the king hope God would do for Judah, as He had done in the past? (21:2) 6. What was God’s answer concerning the outward enemy facing Jerusalem? (21:3-4) 7. Rather than intervening to save Judah, what did God promise to do? (21:5-7) 8. What, specifically, did Jeremiah say would become of the king who ruled in Jerusalem? (21:7) 9. What choice was God offering to the people of Jerusalem? (21:8) * 10. Why did God say that surrender would be a preferable option to staying in the city of Jerusalem? (21:9-10) 11. What did God require from the descendants of David? Why? (21:11-12) * 12. Where were the people of Jerusalem placing their confidence for the city’s security? (21:13) 13. To what did God compare the wrath deserved by the people of Judah? (21:14) Get It 14. Why was Jeremiah a logical go-between when the people sought God’s help against an enemy? 15. If the choice were yours, would you choose God’s anger or that of a human enemy? Why? * 16. Why don’t more people choose life when they realize the spiritual choice before them? * 17. In what are the people around you trusting for their security? 18. What does it mean to find our security in God? Apply It 19. The next time you are faced with only undesirable choices, how will you remember that one of them might actually be God’s provision for you? * 20. In what area of your life do you need to let God be your primary source of security?