Now let’s continue right here in Ezekiel 33:32: "And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them" (Ezek. 33:11, 30-33, KJV). We don’t know exactly how this is going to fulfill in the end-time, but we do know that we see these principles involved right now. There are many people who are turning their back on God because of the things that they see and perceive. They don’t have the love, they don’t have the zeal that Jesus Christ did. They don’t love righteousness and hate iniquity, which we need to do. Oh no, they would rather have it their own way.

Let’s go to the book of Amos now, please. Let’s pick it up here in Chapter 3. This is so profound for us. We need to understand some very basic things here which then will help give us the understanding on how we need to come back to God, but also how that Israel refused the love of God time and time and time again, and turned her love toward all of the harlots. So God says, here beginning in Chapter 3, He’s pleading with them again: "Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities." So this is part of the love of God, part of the chastisement that comes. "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (Amos 1:1-3, KJV). And this is what it really gets down to. When we realize and understand that God has created us, God has made us, God has brought forth everything that there is, we have to agree with God. Now with human beings you can work out different compromises because no human being is perfect. But God is perfect so our agreement must be with Him. If we are to walk in the way of the Lord, if we’re to walk with God then we must agree with Him in everything.

Now because of their sins, let’s come to Chapter 4, verse 11: "I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto Me…" So God is saying, "Look, I gave some punishment to some of you, and I plucked some of you out of the fire as you pluck a firebrand out of the fire and yet you still didn’t return. I gave you an opportunity but you didn’t take it."

"…Yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel." Now brethren, we need to be prepared to meet our God. There are many things coming down right now which are coming right to the end of the age. And some of these things are going to come so fast that if we’re not prepared to meet God with the love of God, then we’re going to be in great difficulty with Him.

"For, lo, He that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is His thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is His name. Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up" (Amos 4:11-13; 5:1-2, KJV). Now this is going to come upon this land. We can see the seeds of this destruction already sown.

Now then God also gives this in the way of returning. Chapter 5, verse 10: "They hate him that rebuketh [they won’t listen] in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly." It’s going to be turned upside down and backward. "Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time." What are we to do when the times are evil? How are we to come to God?

"Seek good, and not evil [but today most people are seeking evil], that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph" (Amos 5:10-15, KJV). And so that’s what it needs to be with the remnant of the church.

Let’s go to the book of Micah (right after Jonah we have Micah), Chapter 6, and here God pleads with Israel. Here God pleads with His people. After all the correction and after all the things are done God says, "Let’s make it right. Let’s make things good." He says in verse 3: "O My people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against Me [God says bring your cause to Me]. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt… O My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab…," and so forth.

Now verse 6: "Wherewith shall I come before the LORD…" Now how is a person going to come before the Lord? That’s what He’s saying here. "…And bow myself before the high God? shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?" No, God said that to love God (Who is more than all sacrifice), to obey was greater than all burnt offerings. Yes, indeed. "…Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" (Micah 6:3-8, KJV). This has been the plea of God all the way through.

Let’s look at it again in the book of Jeremiah. You see, God has always wanted to love Israel and Judah, but they did not want to respond to love God. Now let’s think of that today in our own circumstances. We want the love of God, we want the blessings of God, but we are also to respond and love God in the way that He wants us to with all our heart, and all our mind, and all our soul, and all our being.

Let’s pick it up here in Jeremiah 2:1: "Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after Me in the wilderness [and said, "Yes Lord, all that You say we will do"], in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they are gone far from Me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits…," and brought us to this land. (I will just summarize just a little bit of it here.) Verse 8: "The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew Me not: the pastors also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit" (Jer. 2:1-6, 8, KJV). Then you go through all the book of Jeremiah and it is just one plea with the people – "Turn from your ways, turn from your sins, turn back to Me."

Chapter 4:1: "If thou wilt return, O Israel [Is this not the same thing we read in Ezekiel?], saith the LORD, return unto Me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of My sight, then shalt thou not remove ["I’ll repent of the evil I thought of to do to you," said God. "You won’t be removed."]. And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him shall they glory" (Jer. 4:1-2, KJV). But no, they didn’t want to do it.

It got so bad that God told Jeremiah, "Look, I want you to do this…" Let’s turn to Chapter 5:1: "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man [just one man in sincerity and in truth – just one man], if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it." So for the sake of one man God was going to say, and He did, "I will forgive all the sins of Jerusalem." Now that’s a tremendous amount of love to be able to even say that. "And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely" (Jer. 5:1-2, KJV). So he couldn’t even find one. He said, "Yea, even the prophets and priests and all the people are profane. Every one runs after his own thing."

Let’s come to the book of Isaiah now and let’s see how God continually pleaded with Israel out of His deep love for them. God says, "I loved you." And when we finish this we will see how much God really has loved Israel. Isaiah 43:1: "But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine." Think of that for us today. Think of the promise that Jesus said, "To the one that overcomes will I grant to sit with Me in My throne as I overcame and am sat down in My Father’s throne. To him that overcomes will be a pillar in the temple of My God, and I will write upon him My new name and the name of new Jerusalem, and the name of My Father and My new name, and he shall go out no more" (Rev. 3:12, paraphrased). Think of that – we are called by His name.

"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: [God says] I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee." Verse 4: "Since thou wast precious in My sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee…" God says to Israel, "I have loved you." My, how many times have the people of Israel turned back the love of God? Oh yes, they want the pleasant words. God says: "[I’ve loved you] therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not: for I am with thee…" (Isa. 43:1-4, KJV). God would be with them anytime they wanted. That’s all God wanted them to do, was to love Him back. That’s all. Just to come to God and say, "God, I love You. God, thank You for what You have given. God, help me to love You. Let me walk in Your ways." But oh no, they wouldn’t do that. The whole thing is just, you know, one after the other, just turning back from God continually.

Let’s come to Isaiah 55. We’re going to see many of these things now project forward to the church. God knew in the book of Isaiah, surely as can be, He knew that they would not return. In Chapter 55 He’s talking about the things which relate to us then. Here’s what God said to them, verse 6: "Seek ye the LORD while He may be found…" and I tell you that is so profound for us today. There are many people, they need to seek the Lord while He can be found because this is telling us there’s going to be a time when He won’t be found. And so we need to do that in the church today. All of the brethren – seek God. Stop the stupidity of playing religion. Stop the stupidity of idolizing a man and an organization. Seek God: "…while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near…" He is near. Jesus said, "Ask and you will receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened."

"Let the wicked forsake his way [that’s what we need to do], and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD…" Again, through the love of God return to the Lord. Return to the Lord. That’s why all of the correction goes out. "…Let him return unto the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." Now here’s one thing that is true and we need to know and understand and realize: "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD." God has called us to a way that is so great, and so mighty, and so good, and so profound. He says: "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts." God wants Israel to return. He wants us to return. God is pleading out of His love for Israel and out of His love for us.

"For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater [and we are the seed and we are eating the bread of life, which is Christ]: so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it" (Isa. 55:6-11, KJV). Can we let that be with us today with God that God’s Word can go out and do what He wants it to do in our lives. Listen, God is scattering the church for very, very good reasons and we will learn more as to why God is scattering the church. But while He is scattering, that’s part of the correction that God is giving the church, just like He gave Israel to exile them and send them off into captivity. While we are scattered will we learn? While we are scattered will we seek God? While we are alone in the quiet moments of our own time and our own lives will we seek to love God with all our heart, and all our mind, and all our soul, and all our being? Will we hear the pleadings of God’s love through the prophets for us?

Chapter 56, verse 1: "Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be revealed." And we’re sitting right at the verge at the end of the age. "Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it [not throwing away the Sabbath and saying any day is good enough], and keepeth his hand from doing any evil." So you have to live the way of God by keeping your hand from doing evil, and you have to keep the Sabbath. Then He says, verse 6: "Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of My covenant…" (Isa. 56:1-2, 6-, KJV). Brethren, this is a prophecy of the New Covenant.

Let’s go to Chapter 57. God gives this promise in His love. He says, verse 15: "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity…" And what is it going to be like, brethren, to live with God in eternity? A whole different level of existence. It’s going to be magnificent indeed. "…Whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place [where God’s throne is], with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit…" God wants to dwell in us and with us and with His Spirit, and to really truly have that relationship that He wants us to have to love Him. "…To revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones" (Isa. 57:15, KJV). Isn’t that something? That’s what God wants.

Let’s come to Isaiah 63. Here’s a tremendous part of the things that we need to know, part of God’s Word. Let’s pick it up here in verse 7: "I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD…" Now that’s what we need to talk about. Brethren, if the love of God is absolutely the greatest then we need to mention it time and time again. "…And the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which He hath bestowed on them according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses." Now that then leads us to the deep and profound love of God.

"For He said, Surely they are My people, children that will not lie: so He was their Saviour" (Isa. 63:7-8, KJV). Now that’s talking about us. That’s why we need to come to this same point here.

Now let’s go to Psalm 63 to see the attitude that God has always wanted; that God has desired from Israel; that God through the Psalms and the Law, and now the Prophets; to understand what God wants – this needs to be the model that we need to have in seeking the love of God, because there can’t be any greater. Paul said that love is the greatest of all. And love is the gift of God, but we have to respond just like David did here. We have to come to this point in our attitude, in our hearts, and in our minds in serving God.

Psalm 63:1: "O God, Thou art my God; early will I seek Thee [we need to put God first in everything]: my soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is…," that you can drink in of the Spirit of God, that you can drink in of the Word of God, that you can drink in of the love of God. He says, "I will seek You early." Jesus gave the promise that if we seek, we will find; if we ask, we will receive; if we knock, it’s going to be opened.

Verse 2: "…To see Thy power and Thy glory, so as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary. Because Thy lovingkindness is better than life…" The whole love of God is better than life. It is better than anything we could have in this entire world. Think about that – it’s better than life. What is the most important and profound thing that you can do? To love God with all your heart, and mind, and soul, and being. That’s the whole lesson of the whole Bible, brethren. And can we not grow in that love? Can we not grow in that grace? Can we not take these lessons, which are examples for us, and apply them to our lives and see what God will do for us? Yes. That’s all that God ever wanted of Israel. And that’s what God wants of us.

Now verse 4: "Thus will I bless Thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in Thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness…" Now go back and remember Proverbs 3, that it shall be health to your navel and to your morrow. "…And my mouth shall praise Thee with joyful lips…" Verse 8: "My soul followeth hard after Thee: Thy right hand upholdeth me" (Psa. 63:1-4, 8, KJV). Now Jesus is at the right hand of God, and He’s got His right hand to uphold you if you follow hard after Him. That is tremendous.

Now let’s see how this carries through also to the prophets, showing the love of God and this desire that God wants us to have. Let’s go back to the book of Jeremiah, and in this case Chapter 32, and let’s pick it up here in verse 39. Here’s what God says. Here’s what God wants to do. Can God do this for us? Now I know this is talking about Israel, but are we not spiritual Israel? Can we not, as the church of God, come to this point? It’s got to come from God. Now there are many politicians out there trying to get the people of God together in their own political little organizations. I tell you on the Word of God, it’s going to fail. It is not going to work.

Here’s what needs to be, verse 39: "And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear [love] Me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them…" And are we not plants before God (Matthew 13, the parable of the sower)? "…I will plant them in this land assuredly with My whole heart and with My whole soul" (Jer. 32:39-41, KJV). Now if you’re whole hearted to God, will He be whole hearted back to you? Absolutely, yes. Without a doubt.

Chapter 33 now and verse 14, here’s a promise. This also has to do with the church; it also has to do with David because David sought God: "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David [that’s Christ]; and He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel…"(Jer. 33:14-17, KJV). And the chief one to do that is Jesus Christ. Think of that, brethren. That’s what God wants to do for us.

Now let’s come to Isaiah 51. Here again the love of God is shown. Here again the love of God is given. All through what we call the Old Testament, everything that God did was based upon His love. He just wanted them to respond to Him. Now we know that God didn’t give them the heart to do it the way that we can, but can we respond to God? Yes. Can we love God in that way? Yes.

Here, Isaiah 51:1: "Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD [that’s what we need to be doing]: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. For the LORD shall comfort Zion: He will comfort all her waste places…" Look brethren, the church of God is in trouble now, but the church of God can be comforted by God. If they return, just like He says, He will comfort them. "…And He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Hearken unto Me, My people; and give ear unto Me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from Me, and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of the people."

"My righteousness is near; My salvation is gone forth, and Mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon Me, and on Mine arm shall they trust. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but My salvation shall be for ever, and My righteousness shall not be abolished. Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but My righteousness shall be for ever, and My salvation from generation to generation." Then He says: "Awake, awake, put on strength…" (Isa. 51:1-9, KJV). That’s what He’s telling His church to do today – "Awake, awake, put on the strength."

Yes, let’s go to the book of Zephaniah please. Zephaniah – little old book of prophecy back here. We have Habakkuk, and then Zephaniah, and then Haggai, and then Zechariah, and then Malachi. Now that ought to help you to be able to find it. Let’s begin here in Chapter 3, verse 17: "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy…" You know, there is one thing that is surely true: Since God loves us the way He does, and remember what Jesus did to bring us to the Father, what joy there is when there is that reciprocal of love going back to God and from God to us? And just remember how lonely God has been because people don’t love Him. Have you ever had it where you have desired someone to love you but they haven’t? And all you want to hear them do is to say, "I love you." That’s what God wants to hear from us. That’s all God wants to hear from Israel. All of Israel, all the twelve tribes, all God wants to hear from them is, "I love You. I will fear You. I will keep Your commandments." That’s something. That’s the whole story of the Bible. "…He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing." That’s what God wants. He’s going to do that.

Let’s go to the book of Hosea now. I tell you, the love of God is really something, and I think there’s so much to it that we need to live, that we need to experience, that we would have to say we really just don’t know. It’s going to be so profound brethren, when that really happens. And that’s what we’re attempting to do here.

Hosea 11:1: "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt." But what did they do? They turned their back on Him.

Now here, Hosea 14. This, brethren, is a wonderful verse, and I want you to understand this, and I want you to let this be applied to us as a church. Let it be applied to all the churches of God. Let it be applied to all of Israel as God reaches down to save them. It says, verse 4: "I will heal their backsliding…" Yes, all the sins, all the things that were done God will heal, God will bring them back. All they have to do is repent and say, "God, I love you." That’s all we need to do. And He says: "…I will love them freely…" Freely – the gift of God coming from God. Marvelous indeed. "…For Mine anger is turned away from him." Right there in the Prophets – this is the love of God in the Prophets, pleading with His people. Yes, He had to correct them. Yes, He had to rebuke them. Yes, He had to bring them to nothing.

Let’s go to the book of Jeremiah, chapter 30 and let’s end here seeing what God is going to do. This is wonderful, brethren, what God is going to do. And can we not in understanding the love of God in the Prophets, can we not learn of the things that are there for us in the New Testament? Can we not go to God and say, "God, I know that our forefathers were stiff-necked and rebellious. I know that they turned their backs upon You. We know that they loved Baalim and they went after Ashtaroth, and we know that they loved to rely on themselves. But O God, in our great need, in our very smallness that we are, please love us. Help us to love You with all our heart and mind, and soul, and being."

Let’s pick it up here, Jeremiah 30:24 (KJV): "The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until He have done it [yes, there are things that are going to have to happen], and until He have performed the intents of His heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it." Is it not time for us to consider it? Is it not time for us to realize what God is doing to the churches to correct, to change, to plead, to get them to love Him?

Chapter 31, verse 1: "At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel…" Is that not true of the church? Yes. "…And they shall be My people. Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest." Can we not find grace in this spiritual wilderness and stupidity that we are all going through? Yes, we can. "The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love…" How many times must God plead with His people? How many times must God plead with His church that "I have loved you with an everlasting love"? That’s why John wrote, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever is believing on Him should not perish but have everlasting life." That’s why Christ came. This is the everlasting love. And just think of how much love that Christ had to have to come and suffer the things that He did, to go through this so that He could tell you, "I love you." And all He wants to know from you is – do you love Him? God says if that’s so: "…I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel…" (Jer. 31:1-4, KJV). That is the church, brethren, because He is building that right now.

So the very love of God that we’re able to participate in, in the New Testament; the very love of God in having that fellowship with God the Father and Jesus Christ in loving God with all our hearts, and mind, and soul, and being, can be fulfilled in us brethren. Just remember this: what God wants to know is, "Do you love Me?"

Love Of God # 9

Scriptural References

1. Deuteronomy 6:5-6 21) Jeremiah 5:1-2

2. Deuteronomy 5:7-10 22) Isaiah 43:1-4

3. I John 5:2-3 23) Revelation 3:12

4. Deuteronomy 7:6-10 24) Isaiah 55:6-11

5. John 14:15 25) Isaiah 56:1-2, 6

6. Proverbs 3:1-12 26) Isaiah 57:15

7. Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19 27) Isaiah 63:7-8

8. Psalm 103:1-4, 8-18 28) Psalm 63:1-4, 8

9. Psalm 107:41-43 29) Jeremiah 32:39-41

10. Malachi 1:1-10, 12-14 30) Jeremiah 33:14-17

11. Malachi 2:1 31) Isaiah 51:1-9

12. Ezekiel 3:17-21 32) Zephaniah 3:17

13. Ezekiel 16:8-15, 43-49 33) Hosea 11:1

14. Ezekiel 33:11, 30-33 34) Hosea 14:4

15. Amos 1:1-3 35) Jeremiah 30:24

16. Amos 4:11-13 36) Jeremiah 31:1-4

17. Amos 5:1-2, 10-15

18. Micah 6:3-8

19. Jeremiah 2:1-6, 8

20. Jeremiah 4:1-2