Ep 277 | Most Misused: Jeremiah 29:11

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 25.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Context is key when interpreting the meaning behind a verse of the Bible. Many Christians might believe that Jeremiah 29:11 must mean that God will give His people prosperous lives without suffering. However, when we explore the background of the book of Jeremiah leading up to the verse, we discover that it has a much richer message than that. Today's Link: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to your relatable happy Monday. I am super excited about today's episode.
0:15.6	We are doing a most misused about Jeremiah 2911. If you have not heard my previous most
0:23.0	misused episode, what we do is we take a verse that is used a lot and is often misapplied
0:33.2	or misinterpreted to mean something that the context tells us it doesn't actually mean.
0:40.2	And in so doing, it waters it down. And so we go through the context of verses like this
0:46.7	and we ask ourselves, not what do we want this to mean or what does this mean to me and my
0:52.5	specific situation, but what does this actually mean? And what we always find is that the true
0:58.6	meaning according to the context of not just the chapter in book, but the entirety of the biblical
1:04.0	canon is always so much better than the superficial applications of the verse that are so often
1:11.2	decontextualized and watered down. So Jeremiah 2911, for I know the plans I have for you
1:19.8	declares the Lord plans for welfare and not for evil to give you a future and a hope. So
1:26.2	that indeed is a very hopeful and a very positive verse. And it should be read like that.
1:34.1	However, like I said, there are so often superficial applications of this verse that often
1:40.6	manifest itself like this. God is going to spare me from suffering. He's not going to let
1:45.9	anything bad happen to me because of Jeremiah 2911. God is going to ensure that my dreams come true.
1:52.2	He's going to make sure that I get into the college that I want to get into. He's going to make
1:56.6	sure that a lot of people like me or that I will find my soulmate. He'll make sure that I don't
2:01.8	have to go through anything super hard. This is also used in the same way that Psalm 374 is,
2:09.8	delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. If you're interested in
2:14.6	the correct interpretation according to the Bible of that verse, I have a most misused on Psalm 374
2:21.1	that you can listen to. Jeremiah 2911, Psalm 374, these are verses that I call magic eight ball
2:28.5	verses. So a verse that someone flips open to and says, okay, this is God speaking to me about
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