God Will Give you More than you Can Handle
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
"Don't judge" is a verse we often hear quoted. But does it really mean that Christians should avoid making moral judgments about others? Pastor Adriel debunks this common misunderstanding and explains how Christians are called to judge rightly.
Is God the author of sin and evil? Do we actually have free will? Did Jesus die for everyone or just some? In For Calvinism, Michael Horton provides a deep and thoughtful response to some of the common misconceptions of Calvinism.
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| 0:00.0 | Is God the author of sin and evil? Do we actually have free will? Did Jesus die for everyone, |
| 0:08.0 | or just some? In For Calvinism, Michael Horton provides a deep and thoughtful response to some of the |
| 0:14.9 | most common misconceptions of Calvinism. He explores the historical roots of reformed thought, unpacks doctrines like election |
| 0:23.1 | and perseverance, and encourages faith and practice in today's world. This month, when you support |
| 0:29.2 | our work with the gift of any amount, we'll send you a copy of this book for Calvinism. Get your |
| 0:35.8 | copy today with the gift of any amount at Solimedia.org |
| 0:39.3 | slash offers. Have you ever heard someone say, God won't give you more than you can handle? |
| 0:45.1 | It's one of a handful of sayings that people throw around in Christian circles that I think is |
| 0:48.8 | really unhelpful and even harmful. That saying is actually a misunderstanding of 1st Corinthians |
| 0:53.8 | chapter 10, verse 13. |
| 0:56.0 | And in this video, I want to explain what Paul is getting at in 1 Corinthians 10 and highlight |
| 0:59.9 | for you what the Bible says God is doing in those instances where he does in fact give us |
| 1:04.8 | more than we can handle. |
| 1:06.4 | Let's jump into it. So first, I mentioned that I think this saying, God will never give you more than you |
| 1:18.7 | can handle, is actually harmful to suffering Christians. |
| 1:21.9 | I'll give you one story. |
| 1:24.4 | I remember years ago, before I was actually ordained as a minister, I was talking to a woman who had |
| 1:28.4 | been diagnosed with cancer and her husband had just recently left her. She was going through an |
| 1:34.2 | immense amount of personal suffering and she was explaining everything that was going on in her |
| 1:38.0 | life. And as she did, through tears in her eyes, she said at one point, I know that God won't ever |
| 1:42.7 | give me more than I can handle, but I feel so helpless. In reality, what she was going through was more than she could bear, but she was trying to pull herself up by the bootstraps to grit her way through it because she had come to believe that God would not have allowed this suffering in her life had he not believed that she had the strength to handle it. And this is where the danger lies. When you say God won't give you more than you can handle, |
| 2:04.6 | when you really believe this for yourself, what you're doing is you're pointing the person |
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