Hi, I'm Erwin McManus and I want to welcome you to the Mosaic Podcast.

I want to also bring into some exciting things that are happening here.

If you go to the Mosaic app, you will learn about our conference coming up this year,

about MSC's new album and their tour across the

country and you can learn how to connect and be more involved in mosaic in so many

different ways and by the way we now have the mosaic YouTube channel

and you can go access not only these talks but

other fresh and new materials are being created specifically for that

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You ever have one of those days you just feel so alive. Every breath you take just seems to bring you a little bit more inspiration.

To me it's one of those days.

It's just an incredible thing when you realize that you're free to live the life that you're created to live.

And it reminds me of the words of Jesus when he says,

you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. It's interesting that Jesus wasn't trying to get us to a truth so that we'd have the right answers for a test.

He was trying to get us to the truth so that we could be free and live in that freedom. In fact he said, he who the sun sets free is free indeed.

I'm not even sure what the indeed part means.

But if indeed adds something to freedom, I want that indeed part of freedom.

But he who the sun sets free is fully free, completely free, wonderfully free.

And then the question comes in my mind, how is it possible that Jesus came to bring

us so much freedom and yet so oftentimes we feel as if we're living our lives in bondage and in captivity?

I think so many times we want God to give us something he's already given us and blame him when we don't experience something without realizing we actually surrendered it, we actually gave it a why.

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