Jeremiah 2.1-13 “The Broken Marriage Covenant”

“The Broken Marriage Covenant”

The couple looks so happy and hopeful on their wedding day. There is so much joy. Yet later there is contention and unhappiness, disappointment and bitterness. How can that be? How can it end up in divorce?

I. Remembering the Wedding –

A. God had borne His bride on eagles’ wings to Himself –

1. His bride Israel took her covenant vows – “All that the Lord has spoken we will do”

has spoken we will do”

2. The honeymoon was in the wilderness, yet His bride lacked nothing –

3. God wooed Israel as a husband –

B. Israel’s marriage to God gave her splendor and dignity – ,

II. Unfaithfulness –

A. Accusation by the bride that God her husband was unjust –

GOD TAKES REJECTION PERSONALLY!!

1. They have pursued idols

2. Idols do not see or hear and are worthless –

3. Functional idols in our culture – power, acceptance, money (they are in your own imagination, not in reality) –

4. To expect your idols to deliver you is foolishness –

B. The unfaithful bride –

1. Forgot God’s provision for them

2. Ungratefulness –

3. Ungratefulness leads to foolishness which leads to idolatry - –

4. They made my heritage an abomination –

5. Their pastors and leaders led them into vanity –

III. Court –

A. God will press charges against His bride–

1. My people have forgotten what made them glorious – ,

2. Unbelief in the Creator is self-defeating and foolishness –

B. Witnesses –

1. Heaven and earth were witnesses at the wedding –

2. Witnesses must testify to the broken covenant

C. Charge – two evils –

1. They have forsaken Me. This is very personal, not just legal

2. They have attempted to meet their own needs – broken cisterns

Jesus alone is the Living Water – .

The invitation – “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”