RTW 2023

Each time Jehudi finished reading three or four columns, the king took a knife and cut off that section of the scroll. He then threw it into the fire, section by section, until the whole scroll was burned up.

Jeremiah 36:23

“We are all tempted to use the penknife to God’s Book. There are passages in it which we do not like; those that cross our favourite notions, our cherished sins. Practically, we eliminate them. We never read them, or we explain them away, or profess to doubt their inspiration.” – E.B. Myer

Don’t we still cut God’s Word today?

We:

• ignore the Word.
• Disobey the Word.
• Compromise the Word.
• Mishandle the Word.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.
Isaiah 40:8 (NKJV)

• “The first recorded attempt to obliterate the word of God is something of a foretaste of the attacks on it in days to come: by sceptics, by persecutors, and with whatever good intent, by the rash use of the scholar’s knife. On this occasion, as on others to come, God saw to its preservation and completion.” –  Jeremiah Kidner
• “The king and his servants, those court parasites, were not stirred at all at such a Bible bonfire, but jeered when they should have feared.” –  John Trapp

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So, Jeremiah sent for Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated all the prophecies that the LORD had given him, Baruch wrote them on a scroll.
Jeremiah 36:4

Just like Paul, Jeremiah was in prison and wrote letters to God’s people. I love to see the Old Testament and the New Testament line up.

“At a time when Jeremiah was shut up, and unable to go into the house of the Lord, he was commanded to write. This was what Paul did with his prison letters.” – G. Campbell Morgan

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Never create a Bible bonfire, Wendy. Oh, the honor of it.

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