Life is Calling

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week in the 33 AD series, Lead Pastor Erwin McManus walks us through a powerful passage in the Gospel of John about a man named Lazarus.

Lazarus was a dear friend of Jesus and fell very ill. Jesus received the news of his sickness but stayed in another town for two days before he went to see Lazarus. In that short time, Lazarus died. When Jesus reached Lazarus’ home town, Lazarus’ sister Mary greeted him with reproach. She told him, "If you had been here, my brother would not have died."

She knew he had the power to heal Lazarus, but believed he delayed his arrival on purpose and it cost her brother his life. She had faith in the power of Jesus, but not his character.

When Jesus found out that Lazarus had died, the Scriptures say that ‘He wept.’ In this moment, we see the heart of Jesus on display as he took the time to embrace the painful loss of someone he loved deeply.

Then the story takes a miraculous turn as Jesus goes to Judea and heals Lazarus, raising him from the dead.

Pastor Erwin shares that we are either running from pain or running to life.

When we run away from our pain, we can miss the life that Jesus wants to bring through our pain.

Tune into this powerful message and be reminded that life is calling you, even in your darkest moments.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Erwin McManus and this is the Mosaic Podcast. I want to thank you so much for joining
0:12.0	us today and if you're one of our regular listeners, we love the fact that you join
0:16.3	you with us and we pray that every single message inspires you and helps you become the
0:21.2	person that God created you to be. Every single week we send a new message across the
0:25.6	world and everything we do here at Mosaic is made available to everyone in the world
0:29.9	for absolutely free. The reason we can do that is that we have incredible people who
0:34.6	give generously and sacrificially to make this possible and I want to invite you to join
0:38.5	us. If you're already a giver, thank you so much. If this is something you've not yet
0:43.3	done, I want to invite you to start doing that now. Go to mosaic.org slash give and give
0:48.6	a one-time gift or even beyond that. Become a recurring giver here at Mosaic and if you're
0:53.0	one of those individuals who God has blessed an amazing way financially, I want to invite
0:57.3	you to become one of our partners here at Mosaic. What's really beautiful about Mosaic
1:01.8	is that our biggest givers, our families, we do not live here in Los Angeles but they
1:06.3	are so committed to the message of Jesus going through the world that they support the
1:09.6	work here from Los Angeles to the ends of the earth. So I want to invite you again, go
1:13.8	to mosaic.org slash give, become a part of our support system, become one of our partners
1:18.6	and more than anything else, I want you to listen to the message, allow Jesus to speak
1:22.4	to you in a way that will change your life.
1:29.4	So I'm going to do things a little bit differently this morning, a lot of times when you're listening
1:40.4	to a message, you're waiting to know at the very end what's the thing you need to take
1:44.4	away with. I'm going to give it to you at the very beginning. I'm going to explain all
1:47.2	of your behavior in just one moment. Everything you've ever done, everything you will ever
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