* Did you know that you can “provoke” God? (Psalms 106:29)

* Provoking involves emotion.

* Emotion presupposes power - that other people have the power to make us feel something we can’t feel on our own.

* God has emotion - this means we can make Him feel things that He wouldn’t have felt if we didn’t do something.

* He gave us this power because we are made in His image!

* We can change God’s emotional state by our actions.

* EX: A person from Russia who hates me and spews venom at me because of my stand for truth does not affect me at all.

* But if my wife did that to me it would rip my heart out. Why?

* Because I’ve given myself to her.

* God has given His Son for us, paid the ultimate price, so how we treat Him can truly hurt Him.

* BACKSTORY - God was provoked to anger by the Israelites, so He delivered a tough message through Jeremiah.

* Vs 7-8 - Jeremiah provoked the people!

* Vs 12-13 - Jeremiah reminded them that they can change God’s mind by their actions!

* When they repented, God would repent.

* Repent means “to change your mind” which causes a change of direction.

* Exodus 32:14 - “God ‘repented’ from the disaster that He had spoken of bringing on His people.”

* How good is God that He gives us the ability to change His mind??