So why don't we pray, we'll ask God to bless our time together tonight, if you would, please

join with me.

Father in heaven, thank you so much. Lord, we're just so grateful.

That sounds so hollow and, but you know our hearts, Lord, and you know our hearts for you and for your

word and Lord that's why we're here tonight we're we're a needy people we're hungry

we're thirsty we're a desperate people and we need to hear you speak into our lives in and through your word.

And Lord, thank you for this time that we have in this place, this your church, in which

we can come and assemble ourselves together and just have this time.

In your word, putting aside all of the stress and busyness of our lives.

And Lord, it's that tuning fork of the Holy Spirit that tunes our

heart so that we're in tune and can hear that still, small, refining voice of the Holy Spirit

as you speak, as only you can.

Lord, please speak.

We need desperately to hear you speak that word, your word, into our heart.

So Lord, thank you. We want to commit this Bible study to you.

In Jesus' name, amen and amen. All right. So here in chapter 6, God continuing through

the prophet Jeremiah is, for lack of a better way of saying it, arguing

his case, if that sounds very courtroom, then so be it, but he's bringing a case against

his people because he's going to bring judgment on his people.

And this, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that as we're going to see,

everyone was dealing falsely with each other, specifically saying,

peace, peace, when there's no peace. And again, it's so, I guess again, for lack of a better word, intense, because God has

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