Theocast
Thou Shalt Not Misquote
June 25, 2025
Summary
Today, Justin and Jon want to cover two passages that often confuse or even hurt people. One is Jeremiah 29:11—about your future. You might be wondering how that verse applies to you, especially if everything is going horribly—or even if everything is going great and you're attributing it to that promise. We’re going to talk about that verse, and also Matthew 7:1: “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” Our goal is to help you read these passages properly—and more importantly, to see Christ in them and trust in His sufficiency.
Topics
- Jeremiah 29:11 read in context—for hard seasons and easy ones
- Matthew 7:1 (“judge not”) without losing Christ in the text
- Seeing Jesus clearly in commonly misused verses
Links
- More Than Forgiven — Justin Perdue
- Theocast Community
- Rest — free ebook on faith vs. faithfulness
- Partner with Theocast
Transcript
Edited machine transcript — may contain errors
[00:00:00]Today, Justin and I want to cover two passages that either hurt you or confuse you.
[00:00:05]One of them is Jeremiah 29:11 about your future.
[00:00:09]And you might be wondering, yeah, I'm not quite sure how that verse applies to me because everything is going horribly, or everything might be going great, and you might be attributing to that.
[00:00:17]We're going to talk about that verse, and then also Matthew 7:1 about judge not lest you be judged.
[00:00:23]Our goal is to actually help you learn how to read these properly, but more importantly, how to see Christ and trust in Him and His sufficiency.
[00:00:30]Stay tuned.
[00:00:31]Hey guys, this is Justin.
[00:00:33]Maybe you know that you are forgiven because of Jesus Christ, but you're wondering: what does Jesus have to do with my Christian life?
[00:00:42]How is he involved in my sanctification, even?
[00:00:46]Or is he concerned at all with the ways that I struggle and the way that my life goes up and down?
[00:00:51]Is there any comfort for me in Jesus when it comes to all of that?
[00:00:55]Well, I've written a book called More Than Forgiven: How Being in Christ Changes Everything, that deals with this topic from Romans chapter 6.
[00:01:04]You can find this book at theocast.org.
[00:01:16]Welcome to Theocast, where we encourage weary pilgrims to rest in Jesus Christ.
[00:01:22]He is enough for all of salvation, and we have joy and peace with God forever in Him.
[00:01:28]We have conversations here at Theocast about the Christian life, and we do that from a confessional and reformed perspective that we hope is also pastoral.
[00:01:35]We're a couple of pastors.
[00:01:36]Your hosts today, as always, are John Moffitt, who is the pastor of Grace Reformed Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
[00:01:42]And I am Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.
[00:01:46]We're going to try to do what we always do today, John, and pull the clutter off of the gospel so that Jesus is really clear.
