Well, hey everybody, welcome to the debrief. Super excited. I'm here today with Nick once again, because he did such a great job, and we love him from San Sandals Church app. A little plug there if you haven't checked that out yet. We're in the Old

Testament right now and I know even in my small group we've had some really hard, awkward questions

as we all try to figure out what this means for us. So we've got some of those on the episode today too,

which I'm excited to get into. Yeah. And we'll also be talking about passion, sexuality, and death, and how all of that fits together. Yeah, it's a nice, light, easy episode.

You ready to jump into the questions?

Yeah, thanks for the tough questions, guys. So on last week's episode, you started talking through Jeremiah 29-11 as a verse that gives us a lot of hope.

And we actually had a couple people writing questions about that verse

and specifically asking, saying, people like to quote things like Jeremiah 29-11 as an encouragement

that God has plans for us. But since that passage was written to the Israelites specifically,

is it okayed for us to take it personally? Amy wrote it and said, I struggled knowing if Old Testament

promises are also made to us now.

And Megan actually wrote in a similar question too, so I'll ask these together.

She asked, are the promises in the Old Testament, like what God says to Abraham in Genesis 12,

1 through 3, are those promises to me as well?

Yeah, so the Genesis 12, 1 through 3, let's set that aside and let's go with the Jeremiah 29-11.

So basically what you have is you probably have some young people that were raised in church

or they're in some kind of Bible class, and there's just, there's too much time on their hands.

So what they're going to do is they're going to find these wonderful promises in the Bible

and find all these reasons why this gives you no hope whatsoever.

And that's just really one of the challenges.

So what I would say is, here's where your professor or perhaps your pastor is right.

Jeremiah 29-11 is a real text to a real people in real time. So the text is from the prophet, the prophet Jeremiah, to the people of Israel who are presently in that moment being carried off into slavery

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