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Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

God Never Said That, Part 2: God Won’t Give You More Than You Can Handle

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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Life Church, Life.church, Craig Groeschel, Lifechurch, Christianity, Sermons, Lifechurch.tv, Messages, Message, Religion & Spirituality, Sermon, Christian

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We love offering little nuggets of advice, support, or sympathy. They come in handy when we want people to feel better. But what if the guidance you’re giving or receiving just isn’t true? What if God Never Said That?

Transcript

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0:00.0

I just can't do it anymore. I have nothing left.

0:05.0

Between the divorce, the cancer, your mom dying and being laid off, I know it feels like you're going through a lot.

0:13.0

Believe me, I have been there. Just remember, when God closes the door, He opens a window.

0:21.0

And never forget, God never gives you more than you can handle.

0:30.0

God never said that.

0:41.0

It is great to have all of you with us today at all of our life churches and our network churches.

0:46.0

And those of you in countries around the world on the other side of computer screens at church online,

0:52.0

we're actually in part two of a four-part message series called God never said that.

0:58.0

We're looking at four cultural beliefs about God that God actually never said.

1:04.0

For example, if you missed last week, we dove into the controversial belief system that above all else, God wants us happy.

1:12.0

God actually never said that.

1:14.0

Next week, part three is probably my personal favorite of all four of the messages.

1:19.0

We're going to deal with the very popular cultural belief that it doesn't matter what you do as long as you don't hurt anyone.

1:28.0

The reality is God never said that and our actions matter a lot.

1:32.0

We're going to dive into that next week.

1:34.0

And then week number four, maybe the most important of all the four messages as we deal with the belief that it doesn't matter what you believe as long as you are sincere.

1:44.0

God never said that, which you believe matters and makes a big difference.

1:48.0

And we're going to dive into that in week number four.

1:51.0

Today, though, we're going to look at what maybe one of the biggest misbeliefs about God.

1:56.0

And I'm going to walk into it with a little introduction that I'll tell you what it is.

2:00.0

My pastor, Pastor Nick Harris, used to always say something that I really didn't like.

2:05.0

But I think it was really true.

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