Who Are You Taking With You?

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s insightful new message from Ecclesiastes, Lead Pastor Erwin McManus teaches us the power of choosing others instead of simply living for ourselves.

The passage focuses on the life of Solomon, who found that at the end of his time on Earth, the one thing more precious than wisdom or gold was relationship. Pastor Erwin shares that those who fail are not those who fall down, but those who fall down without having anyone there to pick them up because they never took the time to invest into building those relationships beforehand.

We move forward by moving together as a community. Solomon is a reminder in the scriptures that we can have everything and still have nothing when we live a life of isolation.

Pastor Erwin encourages us to be a people who choose to stick with the people God has placed in our lives. He reminds us as the church, that we were meant to walk through the battles of life together.

If you are someone who is waiting for community to come to you, this message will encourage you to instead seek out community!

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0:00.0	Hey guys, I want to walk you me to the Mosaic podcast. I'm Pastor Erwin and I
0:12.6	feel like man is and just wanted to thank you for listening. In case you didn't
0:16.1	know, I just released a new book. It's called The Genius of Jesus, the man who
0:20.1	changed everything. And you can order it today at the GeniusOfJesus.com.
0:25.3	I just want to take a few minutes and open up the scriptures and share a
0:30.0	passage with you. This question just kept running through my mind. Once you have
0:38.0	everything, because this isn't at your goal, to have it all, once you have it all,
0:43.4	what are you going to wish you still had? Because once you have it all, what's
0:48.6	still going to be missing? There are someone in the scriptures who had it all.
0:52.5	He had everything. Everything that we're told matters, everything that we're
0:56.8	told we should work for, fight for, hustle for, everything that we should aspire
1:01.7	to. See because Solomon had everything yet at all. He was fortunately born the
1:09.3	son of a king and so it became a king. He became the most powerful person in the
1:13.9	world in his world. He became perhaps the richest man who's ever walked the
1:19.1	earth. He had wealth and power. He had fame. He had respect. He had everything that a
1:27.2	human being could measure, ask success. And yet Solomon leaves us a few books.
1:32.5	He writes the song of Solomon's when he's young and in love. He writes the book
1:40.1	of Proverbs when he's a father who's sharing his wisdom and then he writes the
1:45.3	book of Ecclesiastes when he's coming to the end of his life and he has
1:49.9	overwhelming regrets. And he writes these words which are strangely only
1:56.4	usually read at weddings. So I'm going to read these just in case you're still
2:03.6	single. And Ecclesiastes chapter four beginning in verse nine, Solomon writes
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