1. Knowing the Relational God
Jeramiah 31:31-34

2. Knowing God
Common Prophetic Message Themes: Sin, Repentance, Judgment, Mercy, and Hope

3. Knowing God
General ways in which God’s people have sinned:
Idolatry—rejection of Yahweh as God
Rejection of God’s Torah
Injustice—perversion of authority and power

4. Knowing God
The God of Covenantal Relationship

5. Knowing God
Jeremiah 31:31-32 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.

6. Knowing God
The God of Covenantal Relationship
The God who Writes the Law on Hearts

7. Knowing God
Jeremiah 31:33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

8. Knowing God
Deuteronomy 6:4–7 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

9. Knowing God
Deuteronomy 6:4–7 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

10. Knowing God
Deuteronomy 32:45–47 And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.

11. Knowing God
Deuteronomy 32:45–47 For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

12. Knowing God
The God of Covenantal Relationship
The God who Writes the Law on Hearts
The God who is known

13. Knowing God
Jeremiah 22:15–17 Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

14. Knowing God
Jeremiah 22:15–17 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.

15. Knowing God
Jeremiah 22:15–17 But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.

16. Knowing God
Jeremiah 31:34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”