You're listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast of sermons and messages of

Pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. Today's episode is a rerun of one of our most

listened to messages of all time. I love reading through the Bible with you. This Bible reading

plan, we started back in February going through this story of scripture through November, a couple of chapters a day.

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We have the opportunity to hear the same word from God,

and then each Sunday to come together and think about what God is

saying to us, not just individually, but together as a church.

That leads to a chapter in our Bible reading from yesterday,

Jeremiah 29, that includes one of the most well-known, often quoted, most misunderstood, taken out of context, promises in all the Bible.

So I've never preached on this passage before, and when we came to this week, I thought, we need to think about what this means, because what this means is incredible, particularly

when we wonder how suffering we experience in this world relates to the plan of God for our

lives.

This passage is so relevant to every single one of our lives. And at the end of

our time together, I want us to have some concentrated time to pray for people in this gathering

here and other campuses who are walking through challenging days right now. I want to encourage

people like that, particularly with God's Word today.

And for those of you who aren't walking through some sort of suffering right now, I want to

give you truths to lodge away in your mind and your heart for anything that might be coming

around the corner. So let's read these verses.

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