The title of our lesson is, “Why We Don’t Repent.” Why don’t we repent? Why don’t we have radical repentance? But this is not a question that merely I am asking each of us. It is a question that God is asking. Listen to how God presents his case to his people in Jeremiah 8.

You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return? Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return. (Jeremiah 8:4-5 ESV)

The Lord is asking a great rhetorical question. When people fall down, don’t they get back up again? Don’t people turn around when they go the wrong way? The obvious answer is yes. You get up when you fall down. You turn around when you are going the wrong way. So now God asks, not the world, but his people. Why won’t these people turn around? Why won’t these people get up? Why do they continue to go the wrong way? Why are they perpetually backsliding? Why do they refuse to return? What God is going to do is explain the problem to help them see why they are not getting up and why they are not turning around. As God tells his people about why they are not repenting, we will learn about ourselves and what holds us back from coming to God the way God desires…

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