God Won’t Give You More Than You Can Handle
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? After all, to make such a statement seems to help out with the problem of evil that is so prevalent in our fallen world. If there is a God who is good and loving, can’t He throttle back on the pain and suffering, especially in the lives of His children? As we examine this statement today, we need to make four critical adjustments to our thinking.
I. A Misunderstood Verse (1 Corinthians 10:13)
II. A Misguided Statement
III. A Missing Perspective (2 Corinthians 1:9; 4:17)
IV. A Meaningful Example (2 Corinthians 12:7-10)
Talk with God: Meditate on 2 Corinthians 12:9 and thank the Lord that His grace and strength allow us to “boast in [our] infirmities.”
Talk with others: As a family or Connect Group, pray for the families and members of our community who visited our campus for the Thanksgiving Pickup Party.
Talk with kids: How does it make you feel to know God is always in control and He cares for you?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzik. We're so glad you joined us today. We've heard |
| 0:05.7 | and even repeated catchy band-aid phrases that seem comforting and empowering. Phrases like |
| 0:11.3 | God helps those who help themselves. Speak your truth. Follow your heart. But did you know |
| 0:17.5 | the Bible doesn't say any of that? In this study, we'll turn to Scripture to expose commonly repeated misconceptions and find |
| 0:26.0 | freedom and true power in the life-changing truth of God's Word. |
| 0:32.0 | Well, we're looking in the series at conventional wisdom masquerading as biblical truth, sayings that we have heard, |
| 0:42.0 | conventional wisdom, things people say, and they think or suppose that it must come from |
| 0:47.9 | scripture, but we find that it doesn't always do so. In fact, it might even sound similar, as you will find today, |
| 0:57.5 | to a Bible verse, but it is not a Bible verse. Now, let me begin with a little fairy tale. Once |
| 1:03.8 | upon a time, there was a stick, and the stick complained against its owner because its owner took the stick and took out his knife and cut on it, |
| 1:18.2 | took out his drill and drilled holes in it. |
| 1:21.2 | And so the little stick complained and whined and cried because of the pain and the torture that the owner was inflicting upon it. |
| 1:32.1 | The owner, however, was much too wise to listen to the whines and cries and complaints of the little stick |
| 1:41.1 | because the owner was making out of the stick a flute. |
| 1:47.0 | He was transforming it into something. |
| 1:50.4 | And so when the stick complained, the owner said, |
| 1:55.4 | Little Stick, without these holes and without these cuts, |
| 1:59.2 | you would just be a stick forever. |
| 2:03.3 | You think I'm destroying you when in fact I am transforming you into something beautiful |
| 2:11.7 | and your music will charm weary hearts. Your music will help those who are burdened. |
| 2:16.9 | Your music will bless others. |
| 2:20.2 | I'm guessing you don't even have to have a show of hands. You felt a lot like the stick |
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