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Mosaic - Erwin McManus

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Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt like God is hiding from you?


In this special Christmas message, Pastor Erwin McManus brings a fresh lens to a familiar Christmas story.


Drawing from Matthew 2, Pastor Erwin unpacks the unique narrative of the Magi being the ones to meet Jesus. 


Even though the Jews were the people who long held the story of God, it was ultimately the Magi who encountered Jesus upon his birth.


Pastor Erwin illustrates how this story reveals the character of God. God always sends signs to people who are desperate to find him.


No matter your background, your past, how far away you are - God will show up when you seek him out.


If you never need God, you won’t see the signs. But if you know that you need God, you’ll be amazed at how much God reveals himself in your life.


If you’ve been seeking God out, this message is your sign that he is speaking to you!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I want to walk you me to the Mosaic podcast.

0:11.8

I'm Pastor Erwin and I feel like I just wanted to thank you for listening.

0:15.5

In case you didn't know, I just released a new book, it's called The Genius of Jesus,

0:19.7

the Man Who Changed Everything.

0:21.3

And you can order it today at thegeniusofJesus.com.

0:25.2

Have you ever lost something that you had just a minute before?

0:31.2

In fact, I live in the perpetual finding state, not just because of me, but because of my

0:37.0

amazing wife Kim, because every day she loses her phone.

0:42.5

Every day she comes to me and she says, would you call me?

0:46.1

And she doesn't mean, hi honey, how are you, she means you call me and so I'm calling

0:50.4

your phone all the time and sometimes I'm just astonished because you had it just a

0:54.0

minute before.

0:56.5

And really Kim only covers a small territory of land when you think of the full scale of

1:03.1

this planet.

1:06.1

Imagine if you actually traveled the full spectrum of this planet and you lost something, you

1:12.7

couldn't remember, you put it, how in the world did you ever find it?

1:18.1

That's the kind of scale that we are looking at when we're talking about Jesus stepping

1:26.5

into human history.

1:28.0

But some obscure place in a town called Bethlehem in some anonymous barn somewhere, God decides

1:41.0

to intervene in human history.

1:43.2

And so not only is that space so minimal in comparison to the entire scale of this planet,

1:52.9

but then you also had to know the right moment in history.

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