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Reminder…write down prayer requests…and I am going to talk fast today…
God won’t give you more than you can handle.
Is that true?
Now it is true that tells us that God will not let us be tempted with sin beyond what He will empower us to escape…and we know this because of the promise from Jesus that...
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That is a glorious promise.
But does the mean God will not put before us any trial or situation or decision or calling that we can not handle?
But does the mean God will not put before us any trial or situation or decision or calling or risk that we can not personally handle?
Is it true to say that God will not give you more than you can handle?
Or is there a dangerous underlying false theology in that statement?
That God will not give you more than YOU can handle.
Here's the danger.
This statement assumes your greatest asset is...and your faith should be in...your own self and your ability.
It is YOU centered…and not God centered theology.
We as people are wired by our sin nature and by our culture to prize and believe in and trust in our selves.
The gospel tells us a dramatically different story.
The truth of the gospel and the truth of creation and the truth of God's Word is that we cannot do anything of any value apart from God.
Jesus tells us this in ...
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So here’s the dangerous assumption: Our greatest asset is our own ability.
We are prone—we have wired ourselves—to prize what we can accomplish when we believe and trust in ourselves.
But the gospel of Jesus Christ is totally different.
The gospel actually beckons us to die to ourselves, to crucify ourselves, to believe in God.
We are called to trust, not in our own power, but in His power.
In the gospel, God confronts us with our utter inability to accomplish anything of value apart from Him
Therefore everything is more than we can handle.
Everything is more than we can handle.
We were not meant to handle anything on our own…erase this thought from you mind…renew your mind today.
When you truly have given your life to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior…you have been called to die to your self, to crucify your self, to put your self to death.
To put to death your self reliance…self centered self esteem…your selfish desires…and your self wisdom...
We are a people who believe the promise that when we are weak...He is strong.
Or another way to say it...
When we have been given more than we can handle…or asked by God to do something we can not or do not want to do or do not believe we have the power to do…that is exactly where God wants us…because we are called to believe...in God…to trust God…to put our faith in Jesus…to rely on the power of the Holy Spirit.
When God gives you more than you can handle.
OR for His body…the church…that is devoted to us…to do all the one another for one another.
When God gives you more than you can handle.
Church we are not to believe in our own power or abilities or what we can handle, but in His power and what He can handle.
Isn’t that faith?
If we do not think this way...we will not lay down our lives, we will not speak the gospel in difficult or uncomfortable situations.
Or to the people we love…or the people we do not like...
We will shy away from or be surprised by suffering.
We will not take the risks that God is calling us to take…or go to the places God is calling us to go or give up the things God is calling us to give up…or take on the things He is calling us to take on...
Because we will tell our selves…God doesn’t want me to do that or go there or say that or talk to that person or take that risk or give up that thing or take in that person…or give Him my whole life…because that is more than I can handle.
So I ask you again…will God to give us more than we can handle?
So I ask you…will God to give us more than we can handle?
Did He give Noah more than he could handle?
How about Abraham?
Or Sarah?
Or Joseph?
Or David?
Or Daniel?
Or Moses?
Or Esther?
Or Shadrak Meshak and Abendigo?
How about Job?
We read in ...
By faith…in reverent fear Noah constructed an ark.
Which church was more than he alone could handle.
By faith Abraham offered up Isaac…his own son.
By faith Moses left Egypt…by faith the people crossed the Red Sea.
More than they could handle.
By faith Moses left Egypt…by faith the people crossed the Red Sea.
More than they could handle.
Faith in what…that God would provide and God would give them the power and grace and mercy to do…way more than they could handle...
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Faith in what…that God would provide and God would give them the power and grace and mercy to do…more thanthey themselves could handle...
Did Jesus ask of the disciples more than they could handle?
Peter?
Paul?
Did Jesus ask of the disciples more than they could handle?
Bring this gospel to the ends of the earth you group of 12 uneducated, persecuted men with little power or influence.
Did Jesus ask of the disciples more than they could handle?
Bring this gospel to the ends of the earth.
Or how about the example Jesus gives us…before going to the cross for us...He in agony said...
Or Father I need your strength if I am going to handle this thing…but if it is your will for me I will do it…why?
How?
Because I know Father you will strengthen me.
And there is something else we will not do if we believe and tell ourselves that God will not give us or call us to do more than we can handle…
We will not pray...as we should...
Our prayer life will be weak or self-centered or a struggle or inconsistent…because everything in our life is what we can handle…so why would we need to pray…big, desparate, bold prayers?
But what did Jesus do in that moment of agony...
Jesus was praying…and then...
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Everything we see out of the church and in the American church tells us you can do it.
Be your self.
Make much of yourself.
The goal of the Gospel is much different.
The God of the Bible puts men and women in situations where our inability is put on full display so he can demonstrate his power and his glory through us Do nothing without him.
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This is what Jesus meant when He said in , “I am the vine; you are the branches.
Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”
Strengthened Jesus...Jesus needed strength from the Father…from heaven above for this moment…
And what does he do....he prays…and prays some more.
Everything we see out of the church and in the American church tells us you can do it.
Be your self.
Make much of yourself.
The goal of the Gospel is much different.
The God of the Bible puts men and women in situations where our inability is put on full display so he can demonstrate his power and his glory through us Do nothing without him.
Everything we see in our culture and even out of much of the American church tells us...you can do it.
Choose your journey.
Be your self.
Make much of yourself because you can handle this.
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