Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

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and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, guys, so this week we are doing a series of episodes called, yeah, that's not what

that means. So I was originally going to be going over the top five most common misapplied and

misunderstood scriptures and all the biblical canon, but I'm doubling up today, so it'll end up

being six by the time we get to the end of the week. So yesterday I talked about Philippians

413 and how we are to rely on Christ in us as opposed to our own strength.

Okay.

So today we're actually going to hit two separate passages because they have been misapplied and misunderstood in much the same ways.

So we're going to be doing Romans 828, an incredibly popular verse, and then Jeremiah 29-11.

So I'll read them both now. So I'm going to read Romans 828 in the CSB.

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.

Now we've got Jeremiah 29-11. I'm going to read that in the NASB.

For I know the plans that I have for you, declare so Lord, plans for

prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. And so these two verses, regardless

of whatever translation you read them out of, these have been used by prosperity gospel preachers

and word of faith preachers and fake faith healers and people and churches all over the map. They use these

things and they're supposed to be telling you like, oh, this is, this is for you and it doesn't

really matter the context because I'm telling it to you. Also write me a huge check. But in a nutshell,

the fundamental misunderstanding of these verses is that we as Christians are somehow owed

success and prosperity and that our lives will just

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