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Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this week's episode form the archives Pastor Erwin explores the idea that Jesus actually makes sense—not because He answers every question, but because He brings clarity to life's complexities. We often believe we already understand life, measuring it by success, wealth, or relationships. Yet, Jesus challenges that perspective, offering a life we don’t even realize we’re missing—one filled with meaning beyond temporary highs. His teachings remind us that life isn't just about existence but about discovering the depth and purpose we were created for.

Beyond life, Jesus also makes sense when it comes to love—something we all long for but often struggle to sustain. We chase moments of deep connection, only to find that human love can be unpredictable and fleeting. Jesus reveals a love that isn’t dependent on circumstances, one that is constant and transformative. The same applies to meaning—we assign significance to things like power, money, and fame, only to realize they don’t truly satisfy. Jesus presents a different equation: “What does it profit to gain the whole world but lose yourself?” His words expose our tendency to seek fulfillment in what ultimately leaves us empty.

In the end, everything—our ambitions, relationships, and pursuits—only finds its true purpose when Jesus helps us bring the pieces together. He doesn’t call us to abandon our passions but to see them through a different lens, one where we live fully, love deeply, and find meaning beyond ourselves. The search for truth and purpose isn’t over—it’s an ongoing journey of asking, seeking, and discovering that Jesus truly makes sense.

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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
1:08.3	to the world that they support the work here from Los Angeles to the ends of the earth. And so I want to invite you
1:13.2	again go to mosaic.org slash give become a part of our support system become one of
1:17.7	our partners and more than anything else I want you to listen to the message
1:21.1	and allow Jesus to speak to you in a way that will change your life.
1:47.5	So we've been looking together for the past few weeks at this proposition that Jesus actually makes sense.
1:56.5	It doesn't mean that he answers every question we have or that all the pieces in our perception and perspective of everything gets filled in, but that as we begin thinking about how complex
2:03.1	and complicated and challenging life is, that in some strange and beautiful way, Jesus actually
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