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Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A lot of us live in this compulsive religious trap where we keep performing for God rather than listening to God. He says Solomon warned us that we need to stop playing with God. Greene: If you're giving because you hope that giving will somehow get God on your side, you're just wasting your money. Sometimes we just perform for God, but I think other times we're actually pretending with God. Solomon tells us not to be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. There's nothing more destructive to the human spirit than pretending withGod. It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it. Much dreaming and many words are meaningless, therefore fear God. God holds us accountable for our dreams. I think it's better to make fewer promises and live on the promises.

A husband and a wife made a vow to God, and didn't keep it. With his wife's full knowledge, he kept back part of the money for himself. When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. Great fear seized the whole church. If you're going to lie about God and pretend you're doing things for God, you have just provoked God.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Erwin McManus, this is the Mosaic Podcast. I want to thank you so much for joining us today and if you're one of our regular
0:14.3	listeners we love the fact that you join you with us and we pray that every
0:18.7	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.
0:32.0	The reason we can do that is that we have incredible people
0:34.4	who give generously and sacrificed to make this possible and I want to invite you
0:38.2	to 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.
0:45.5	Go to Mosaic.org slash gift and give a one-time gift or even beyond that, become a recurring giver here at Mosaic. And if you're one of those individuals who God has blood that What's really beautiful about Mosaic is that our biggest givers, our families who do not live here in Los Angeles,
1:05.8	but they are so committed to the message of Jesus going to the world that they support the work here
1:10.3	from Los Angeles to the ends of the earth.
1:12.6	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,
1:21.5	allow Jesus to speak to you in a way that will change your life. So we continue in our journey through Ecclesiasties and we've been traveling with Solomon to almost every nick and cranny of human experience to search for meaning to bring to life a ruthless reality check in this desperate search for the real and
1:56.0	and first he began in a very philosophical mode and almost seemed to stand at a distance from all of his analysis and he could just lay out all the different things he had tried in life and said,
2:10.0	and this was empty and meaningless and worthless and like a vapor.
2:15.0	From wealth to power to fame, the pleasure.
2:18.0	And then last week, Solomon took us to a much more intimate place.
2:23.0	He talked about the tragedy, the emptiness,
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