A Love Worth Everything

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Pastor Erwin McManus brings us a deeply moving message on the power of love. From the streets of Mexico City, he unpacks a passage in Philippians 3:7-9. Pastor Erwin asks us: Is there something in our lives that we love more than everything else? He states that this is how Paul, the author of Philippians, explains the love he’s found in God.

When we are young, we go from loving things to loving experiences, and then eventually – with maturity – we love relationships. Paralleling the idea that you cannot learn the streets of a city unless you walk them yourself, Pastor Erwin instructs us that we won’t get to know God and his love unless we know take time to know Him personally.

In Philippians, Paul states two different ways he knows God: cognitively and intimately. Pastor Erwin explains that we will never know a love worth everything until we move from having the knowledge of God to having intimacy with God. This kind of love moves toward a life of sacrifice. The beauty of love is that it is willing to love without guarantee of return. Pastor Erwin emphasizes that this is the love God had called us to live in.

If you are searching for God’s love and the pathway to truly living, this message is for you!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, this is Erwin Raphael McManus. I'm the lead pastor of Mosaic. Welcome to our podcast.
0:13.5	Thank you for joining us today. I hope this talk inspires you, encourages you, and transforms you,
0:19.7	and that this is just the beginning of a conversation between you and Jesus. Enjoy the message.
0:26.0	What is the one thing in your life that is worth everything else in your life? That one thing that
0:34.6	has more value than everything else you have, everything else you've ever had combined. Because
0:42.2	that's exactly what Paul is talking about. He describes what he's found in Jesus that love
0:48.1	worth everything, that one thing that is more than everything. In Philippians chapter 3,
0:55.9	he begins to describe this relationship, this experience, this reality he has found in Jesus.
1:02.8	In verse 10, he says, in this declaration that I may know him and the power of his resurrection
1:10.4	and the fellowship of sufferings to somehow obtain to the resurrection of the dead.
1:16.5	He makes this confession as he's describing his experience and coming to know the reality of
1:23.4	who Jesus is. In verse 7, he tells us, I consider everything a loss for the all surpassing value
1:29.2	of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things, I consider them rubbish,
1:35.5	garbage, trash, for the sake of knowing Christ. And what's fascinating to me is that Paul, the
1:42.2	ends of describe the contrast between all the things he thought that mattered and now this one
1:49.2	thing that actually mattered. And I wonder how many of us go through that throughout our lives.
1:54.8	And in fact, I think we spent so much of our lives filtering through what actually matters.
2:00.2	And of course, we go through phases in that process when little life is all about things.
2:07.7	So I want this and I want that. And we understand that when we're children, but it becomes a little
2:14.0	disheartening when a person becomes an adult and they're still all about wanting things.
2:20.0	And then when we get a little bit older, we mature a little bit more realized life isn't just about
2:24.3	things. And then life becomes about experiences. And we want this experience and that experience,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mosaic - Erwin McManus, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mosaic - Erwin McManus and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.