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Mosaic - Erwin McManus

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the "Reality Check: Search for the Real" podcast. In this series, we've explored Solomon’s quest for meaning in the Book of Ecclesiastes. Solomon finds that work, wealth, power, and pleasure all ultimately lead to emptiness.

In Ecclesiastes chapter 3, Solomon offers hope through the passage, “There is a time for everything.” This highlights life's cycles and contrasts—joy and sorrow, birth and death. Solomon notes that while we live in time, God has placed eternity in our hearts, creating a tension between our temporal lives and our eternal longings.

Paul’s New Testament writings echo this, suggesting that our experiences, both good and bad, are designed by God to draw us closer to Him. This divine orchestration aims to awaken our search for the eternal.

Through our struggles and triumphs, we can find purpose and beauty, trusting that God makes everything beautiful in its time. Join us next week as we continue to explore the profound wisdom of Ecclesiastes and our search for life's meaning.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Erwin McManus, and this is the Mosaic Podcast. I want to thank you so much for joining us today and if you're one of our regular
0:14.2	listeners we love the fact that you join you with us and we pray that every
0:18.6	single message inspires you and helps you become the person that God created you to be.
0:23.0	Every single week we send a new message across the world
0:26.0	and everything we do here at Mosaic is made available to everyone in the world
0:30.0	for absolutely free.
0:31.0	The reason we can do that is that we have incredible people who
0:34.5	give generously and sacrificed to make this possible and I want to invite you to
0:38.2	join us. If you're a ready giver, thank you so much. If this is something you've not yet done, I want to invite you to start doing that now.
0:45.4	Go to mosaic.org slash give and give a one-time gift or even beyond that
0:50.2	Become a recurring giver here at mosaic. And if you're one of those individuals who God has black that What's really beautiful about Mosaic is that our biggest givers,
1:03.2	are families who do not live here in Los Angeles, but they are so committed to the
1:07.3	message of Jesus going to the world that they support the work here from Los Angeles
1:11.0	to the ends of the earth. And so I want to invite you again, go to Mosaic.org
1:14.6	slash Give, become a part of our support system,
1:17.1	become one of our partners, and more than anything else,
1:19.9	I want you to listen to the message,
1:21.4	allow Jesus to speak to you in a way that will change your life. So we've been looking together through the book of Ecclesiasties and we've been in this
1:43.8	journey called Reality Check and search for the real and we knew that this Sunday
1:49.9	would be sitting in the middle of this conversation.
1:53.3	And fortunately, if you've been with us for the past few weeks,
1:56.0	you know that Solomon, who wrote the book of a clesiasities
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