BANNED!

Jeremiah 36: 1 – 8, 21 – 26
The Bible is the all-time bestselling book, but in some parts of the world it is banned because it’s considered dangerous. The Bible is dangerous, however, only to those who fear finding out that they are wrong. It’s dangerous to those who exploit the weak and the innocent, who use force to keep others enslaved in poverty and ignorance, who don’t want to give up their favorite sin, who believe that salvation can be found apart from Christ.
I read that in ODB this morning and thought it to be a powerful truth. Nobody wants to be reminded that what they do is sinful, especially if it feels so right to them, so the finger pointer must be removed whether it is a book or a person.
Think of what is going on in this world today. There is a country directly to the north of us that consider parts of the Bible to be “Hate speech”. There are areas of this planet where the Bible is thought to be false in it's teaching be cause it doesn't mention the prophet Mohamed. We have on our world, dictatorships that ban the Bible because the truth in its pages would bring their regimes to their knees and remove the power they hold over the populace, and will arrest and torture those who dare to possess a Bible not to mention the penalties suffered by the brave souls that try to smuggle Bible's to the people.
2 "Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to you in the reign of Josiah till now.
3 Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, each of them will turn from his wicked way; then I will forgive their wickedness and their sin."
5 Then Jeremiah told Baruch, "I am restricted; I cannot go to the LORD’s temple.
6 So you go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the LORD that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.
23 Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe’s knife and threw them into the brazier, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.
24 The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor did they tear their clothes.
25 Even though Elnathan, Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
26 Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
People hate to look into mirrors that reflect our true images, we don't always want to hear the truth.
Read the all-time bestselling banned book, and let it reveal to you the truth about God—and about yourself.