Hey guys, I want to welcome you to the Mosaic podcast.

I'm Pastor Erwin, I'm Phil McManus, and just wanted to thank you for listening.

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

The Man Who Changed Everything, and you can order it today at TheGeniusOfJesus.com.

So I want to talk to you about the power of words.

Language has always been something that's been incredibly fascinating to me, and communication

is something that for me has been a very peculiar interest.

I think some of it is that I'm an immigrant in Spanish, was my first language, and I learned

English here in the States, and when you step into a second language, you begin realizing

that words are these unique ingredients that either separate us or connect us together

as human beings, and even when you watch a small child, our daughter Mariah now has

a daughter named Junot, and one of the cool things is realizing she cannot speak, and

she has to try to communicate through sounds and grunts, and in fact one thing she has

or what she learned how to do is fake cry, and so she pretends that she's crying, and

the moment she gets what she wants, she stops crying, which is how you know it's a fake

cry, and they realize how did she pick up that nuanced communication skill that will

serve her the rest of her life, and it's her thing about the abrupt and dramatic psychological

shift of living inside of another human being for almost a year.

You see, all of you wore squatters inside of someone else's body for almost a year, and

during that year you never had to use words to communicate to your mother. There is a symbiotic

relationship between two human beings where language was unnecessary, and I've always wondered

what is it that has made language necessary, and certainly when you study human language

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