Hello everyone, welcome to another Follow Him Favorites.

My name is Hank Smith.

I'm here with the amazing and incredible and perfect John, by the way.

If you've been following Follow Him Favorites this year, you know that we take a single

question from each week's lesson and try to talk about it for Follow Him Favorites.

Well, John, the question for this week is from Jeremiah chapter 36.

This is out of the Come Follow Me manual.

It says, the scriptures have power to turn me away from evil.

And it talks about how Jeremiah was recording his prophecies in a role of a book on a

scroll.

And it says, so it may be that they, the people may return every man from his evil way

that I may forgive their iniquity.

So tell me, how did the scriptures turn someone away from evil?

I want to read my scriptures and I also want to turn away from evil.

How do they have to do with each other?

I think sometimes it's not even exactly the words that we read.

Some of these chapters in the Old Testament is where all learning are, you really have to

slow down their heart to understand.

Have you ever heard that old saying, if you want to talk to God, pray, if you want God

to talk to you, read your scriptures?

Just the fact that you're opening your heart to God by reading the scriptures, that right

there is going to bless you.

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