FOR FURTHER STUDY AND APPLICATION

1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. What, according to Isaiah, was missing from God’s people? (Isaiah 59:14-15)
3. In what sort of person does the Lord delight? (Proverbs 12:22)
4. Of what did Jesus say the devil was the father? (John 8:44)
5. How was a person to act on the witness stand? (Exodus 23:1-3)
6. What is the penalty for lying on the witness stand in our society?
7. Why does God put such a premium on honesty?
8. What damage does a flatterer do? (Proverbs 29:5)
9. What was being said about Jeremiah by the people who resisted his message? (Jeremiah 18:18)
10. We can “bear false witness” in  a number of ways. The sermon discussed the perjurer, the talebearer, the flatterer, the insinuator, and the slanderer/gossiper. Have you ever been quilty of any of the above? Give examples and what was the outcome?