The Escape Room

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We’re kicking off a new series—not on success, purpose, or relationships—but on the person at the center of it all: Jesus. In this message, we wrestle with one of the most fundamental questions of faith: Why Jesus? Not just why believe in God—but why choose to trust in Jesus specifically?

Pastor Erwin Raphael McManus takes us through a profound journey, from agnosticism and atheism to a life-altering realization about the nature of reality, love, and what it means to be human. Are we just digits in a mathematical universe, or is there something deeper at work—a divine presence calling us out of despair, into freedom?

This talk confronts the illusion of religion, the myth of moral neutrality, and the seduction of shortcuts—showing us how Jesus didn’t wait for us to find our way to him. He entered the escape room of our brokenness to become the door out. If you’ve ever felt trapped by your past, lost in your questions, or unsure where to find meaning, this message is for you. Jesus doesn’t just offer answers—he is the way out.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Erwin McManus, and this is the Mosaic podcast.
0:10.0	I want to thank you so much for joining us today.
0:13.0	And if you're one of our regular listeners, we love the fact that you journey with us, and we pray
0:18.0	that every single message inspires you and helps you become the person that God
0:21.8	created you to be. Every single week, we send a new message across the world. And everything we do
0:26.9	here at Mosaic is made available to everyone in the world for absolutely free. The reason we can do
0:32.3	that is that we have incredible people who give generously and sacrificially to make this possible.
0:37.4	And I want to invite you to join us.
0:39.0	If you're already a giver, thank you so much.
0:41.8	If this is something you've not yet done, I want to invite you to start doing that now.
0:45.6	Go to mosaic.org slash give and give a one-time gift or even beyond that, become a recurring giver here at Mosaic.
0:52.5	And if you're one of those individuals who God
0:54.5	has blessed in an amazing way financially, I want to invite you to become one of our partners
0:59.0	here at Mosaic. What's really beautiful about Mosaic is that our biggest givers, our families,
1:04.2	who do not live here in Los Angeles, but they are so committed to the message of Jesus going to
1:08.5	the world that they support the work here from Los Angeles to the ends of the earth. And so I want to invite you again, go to mosaic.org
1:14.5	slash give, become a part of our support system, become one of our partners. And more than anything else,
1:19.5	I want you to listen to the message and allow Jesus to speak to you in a way that will change your
1:23.9	life.
1:43.0	So back by popular demand is the whiteboard. We'll see how it goes. We're going to begin a new series this morning.
1:49.8	And sometimes the series focused on a specific arena of life or challenge you might face
1:55.6	or an obstacle you may have to overcome or a dream you're pursuing.
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