Erwin McManus I The Last Arrow: Save Nothing For The Next Life

hey guys going today and so good to see everyone let's remain standing we're gonna have a moment of Prayer together if you're a guest we're so glad you're here with us today it's kind of curious anybody here for the first time Wow oh good have you guys here some of the front row that's so good man we're glad okay how many are Taurus alright one or two hi we're glad to have you and we love to her in LA because we love going behind you at 5 miles an hour while you try to figure out if this is your turn and thank you so much and sorry and that's not what I'm going to talk about today but it is a good subject well I don't know what kind of week you've had and this is the wonderful thing about coming together it doesn't matter what kind of week you've had as no matter what you've been through one thing I feel quite certain of is that God wants to meet you here in this moment what so speaking to your life wants to get into the mess of you and whether it's been the best week of your life for one of the most challenging ones God can meet you there and and it's it's a wonderful thing to know you don't have to do life alone so take a moment let's pray together and just the great space inside of your soul for God to speak to you Thank You father so much for life God both for the successes and the failures and the victories into defeats mountains and the valleys without them God how would we ever experience any contrast we're so grateful that that you see us and that you know us by name and that we matter to you that you would step into human history on our behalf that you would take on a name so that we would know what to call you thank you Jesus for who you are and what you've done in our behalf in my prayer today for those who are still trying to make sense of life and a few that somehow you would just just weave your way through all their fears and doubts and make yourself known to them for those of us who have placed our trust in you and then the volatility and uncertainty and instability of life causes us to let go I pray guys we would just sense you grabbing ahold of us we thank you Father so much today is full of opportunity tomorrow a promise of hope we pray in Jesus name Amen you can have seat so this is week two as we work our way through the last arrow and for those of you who have not yet stepped into a book club or into a crew let me just encourage you to take time during the week to process the material to let it get inside of you I took extra care to make sure the chapters were small and that you could consume them they're more like appetizers than buffet meals and you know they keep telling us we have a society that's reading less and less but I I actually don't see that happening all the time I think that we're more selective in what we're reading and so I want you to take some time and invest in your own life in your own development not not for a selfish reason but because I'm I know that the more life there is in you the more life you have to give to others so just take some time and do this with people do this with others last night at home we had an unusual you ever wonder where to make manis Saturday night is like and last night was an unusual mcmanus Saturday night Aaron was over and Mariah was over and we're sitting in the living room and we have a three hour two hour conversation about the book of Revelation and yeah that's just you not just like you know a light word conversation that's just you know what we do we just talk about you know the the beasts and you know the dragons and the multiple heads and and and and I was just tapping out going I don't know ask your mom [Laughter] you know yeah but that was harder than any conversation you ever have with your kids about sex and ask your mom I don't know you're not old enough to have this conversation yeah I'm not old enough to have it either and it was so so good so much fun and and it's just a great reminder to me that that may be so one reason that book ends the Bible is to remind us how much we do not know how much remains in the mystery and the uncertainty in the wonder of life sometimes I think we overestimate our own genius and our own intelligence and our own Oh wing and every once in while it's just good to step back and go wow there's so many things that are out of my control so many things I do not know so many questions yet unanswered but that doesn't mean you shouldn't actually dive into the questions that there are answers to because there are things in life that we can grab ahold things that we can actually know things we can step into in our lives so when we dive into this chapter save nothing for the next life this chapter is the the breakdown of the subtitle of the book which by the way was incredibly controversial in my own home I have so many great conversations with my wife and I don't know if you're married but it's so great to be married to someone who sees the world completely differently than you know and if you arrange someone who sees that just like you I don't know what you talk about you're just like uh-huh not in our house they're not in our house we were if we had logistical names she would be east than I would be West she would be south I'd be north we just come from such a different vantage points and and when I told her the subtitle saved nothing for the next life she said it sounds Buddhist and then she goes why I think you're Buddhist anyway I don't know how my wife would say that to me but she did and and and she knows I'm all about Jesus but everyone small she's just has to throw that in there and and when she gave me her response to the subtitle I knew that had to be the subtitle of the book because whether we are Christian or Buddhist or Muslim or Hindu or atheist or agnostic I think most of us actually act as if we have a next life in this world to make up for the things we left undone I grew up in Miami when I came over from El Salvador and my stepdad was a golfer and so he always take us to play but now is known as putt-putt but when I was a kid was called goony golf and every Sunday night we never went to church but every Sunday we went and played putt-putt that was our church Golf was our religion and we would go every Sunday night and play and we would compete whoever lost had to buy everybody else banana splits and it was just me my brother and my dad and I was the youngest and and so I look back in my eyes I was probably the worst and in it that's because I never won but but sometimes I would win my numbers would come out lower than my brothers and it would frustrate him because you see my dad my stepdad would give me do-overs you ever get that one you know I'm the kid that would hit the ball and it would bounce over the wall and go to the next course and I have to chase it down and and I was just giving a look of can I try that again and I knew it was against the rules but that was give me a do-over but whenever my brother wanted to do or he goes no I love that I love an unjust world where I have the advantage how about you and I learned that the the the mindset of the do-over that you get to try something over again when you've messed up the first time and you might carry that on in life but very quickly you realize that there are a few places the world where the do-over actually works it doesn't really work into a ting you mess up you don't usually get a do-over you know we have a do-over she goes no you don't usually get do-over at work don't show up you know you can't go to your bicycle hey can I get a do-over yeah yeah no you can get you can do over somewhere else over there today the reality is and the things that matter the most we we don't really get to overs doing now we can learn from our failures we can learn from our mistakes we can learn from those moments we wish more than anything in the world we can get a do-over and I I talked to so many parents who've said to me mostly fathers oh if I could just do it all over again I would be different I'd be present I would be there with my kids so I I meet so many people who are on the other side of the vore said oh if I could do it over again I would do it differently I've had so many people whose lives have fallen apart whose lives are a shipwreck of bad decisions who have said to me oh if I could just do it over again I would do it differently but here's the problem you don't get to do it over young and I said this in my own heart even at a and at a young age because maybe I had the good fortune of meeting a lot of people who wish they had done a differently I didn't meet a lot of people who are really excited but the way they did I almost never met anyone who said got it right wouldn't it be amazing got it right I got this marriage thing right I got this parenting thing right I got this this career thing or right I got this purpose thing right I got this life thing or right I got these this relationship right I got this thing right would it be amazing to build that just have conversations with people who can look back on their lives and say you know I got it right I didn't do it perfectly how about a lot of mistakes a lot of things that would change but but I got it right yeah I think we've just accepted the fact that the course of the human experience is I wish I wish I could do it again if I could just get a do-over I could get it right I just kept thinking to myself in if they only saw it afterwards would they actually do it differently if they could do it again see because well whatever mindset whatever value system well whatever was inside of you the material from which your life is created if it created a life you wish you could do over again then how in the world would you ever do it differently if you went back as the same person even with new experiences and insights unless there was something that changed inside of you so here's the tragedy if you got to do it over and over and over and over and over again and you long for a do-over you would get it wrong every time unless something changes and it's not usually make devastating decisions and that's the subtlety of losing your life isn't it the subtlety of regret it said it rarely is born in a catastrophic moment regret is born in those incremental moments where you just made a decision that no one noticed was just a degree off from the person you should have been it from the life you wanted to live so here's the tricky part a life of regret does not come because you blew up your life it comes because you never made the choices necessary to awaken your soul how do you save nothing for the next life how do you make sure that that wherever your life takes you wherever you are right now well whatever has happened in the past that you you take every moment from this moment forward ensuring that you leave nothing undone I want to go back to a passage where Paul is writing in Philippians chapter 3 beginning in verse 70 and I hope against hope that can convince you to save nothing for the next life verse 7 but whatever we're gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ what is more I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whose sake I had lost all things I consider them garbage that I may gain Christ and be found in him not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but that which is through faith in Christ the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith I want to know Christ yes to know the power of his resurrection and participation and his sufferings becoming like him in his death and so somehow attaining to the resurrection from the dead not that I have already obtained all this or have already arrived at my goal but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of Fame brothers and sisters I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it but one thing I do forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus all of us then who are mature should take such a view of thanks and if on some point you think drift differently that to God will make clear to you only let us live up to what we have already attained here in this particular place Paul begins just before we were reading describing his own life before he came into this life-changing encounter with Jesus he actually begins by sort of giving his resume he says you know I was the Hebrew Hebrew I studied under Gamaliel I am the guy as if anyone could have found meaning and purpose and significance in life without Jesus Paul saying it was me he actually if you've ever read Paul does not struggle with ego Paul is not a guy going I mean I just didn't have any talent you know I I you know I just you know I didn't I wasn't really endowed with a lot of abilities I just don't have a lot of until I only tell you Paul says something like that is pure sarcasm Paul has a pretty good sense of self but Paul has a pretty good sense that that he was created with some significant abilities capacities in his life and he is a guy with intense convictions and so he lays out this resume and he says look if anyone could have found a reason to live in this life without Jesus in their life Paul says it was me but it wasn't me it's almost as if Paul was living his life with such intention but it was completely the wrong intention and so then Paul has this radicalizing moment where his life has turned upside down and he's no longer driven by hate but now he is driven by love and so that here's a summary he says but whatever verse 7 were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ now here's the challenging thing see our is to save nothing for the next life but here to me is almost the paradox the one thing that will steal your life from you is this life Paul says I had everything that this life had to offer I had everything a person could ever want I had gained everything a human being could possibly gain and I found myself empty but whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ I wonder how many of us have already stepped into that that dilemma of the soul where the more you seem to get in this life the more you seem to be empty in your soul me it's a hard thing to learn from someone else's experience right no one wants to hear a rich person say how wealth is not fulfilling no one wants to hear from a person who's already succeeded don't pursue success it's empty you're like yeah right I see how it slowed you down and hey what's going on here's Paul's actually the guy saying I had all of that I had everything that was supposed to be the source of life and I found myself dead and so he wasn't saving anything for the next life he was taking everything in this life but there was a shift in my mindset there was a shift in my view of reality whatever we're gains to me I now consider a loss for the sake of Christ he goes what is more I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whose sake I have lost all things I consider them garbage that making Christ and here's the interesting thing Paul is describing losing everything and we're talking about gaining everything see how do you make sure you don't save anything for the next life you don't let the things in the like to steal your life from you I mean that's the dilemma is that the things in this life are beautiful and wonderful and they're gifts from God to us there there's a nothing that was created that isn't good but the crisis is when we actually turn our affections to everything that is good and replace the God who created everything that is good and we leave no room for him in our lives Paul says you know I've discovered I've considered everything a loss and in fact it's it's it's it's a contrast for the all surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus said I know this is gonna be hard for you because because when you don't know God when you haven't stepped into the wonder of Jesus is then what you've got is the best you know and it's kind of hard to believe the best you know isn't the best there is but there is better than we know and here's a llama Paul is saying look I thought I had everything this world had to offer it that I had the best of the best but I tried to ignore that little voice inside of my soul but I discovered the only way to save nothing for the next life is to want him most of all and here's where it starts and that's why it's so difficult it's so challenging because we want God to help us get the things in this life that we believe will fulfill us and God keeps trying to change our thinking no I had I created all those things for you but they were not to be a replacement for me and if you take all these things I've created for you and turn them into a replacement for me you will find yourself empty and they will not even enrich your life and fulfill what they're supposed to fulfill in you see marriage was God's idea God set up and going well he loves her too much you're kidding between me and you know one thing she loves him too much I need to be your primary man got into that jealous of human relationships but I can tell you that your husband will never be enough your wife will never be enough if you keep trying to expect them to be what God alone can be for you I think a lot of us are putting unfair expectations on our spouses because we keep trying to get that we trying to keep trying to force and we keep expecting them to fill the emptiness and our souls are only God can fill some you have a gating dilemma you're dating dilemma as you keep expecting him to be what only Jesus can be to you you can't expecting her to be but only Jesus can be - you see some you have a career dilemma you keep thinking your career is gonna fulfill the space that only Jesus can fill and so you can think I'm in the wrong career you're not in the wrong career you're in the wrong pursuit you have to want him most and even as I was processing this thing ways that fear to say to everyone else you see now that's where I come to it my own life every time I do not want him most let me just be straight there times I do not want him most how about you but every time I do not want him most I begin to lose everything they love then I lose my love for everything it leaves me empty I cannot explain it when I'm in love with Jesus food just tastes better I think a lot of us have this monastic view of a relationship with God oh if I follow up with Jesus I never need food but that'd be sweet now it wouldn't see I think when you're in love with Jesus you learn to appreciate all the beauty and Wonder and pleasure of life because that pleasure is no longer what you're looking for to meet the deepest longing of your soul so now you can enjoy it for what it is not what it is not Paul Paul uses here two words for knowing he says I consider everything in a loss for the altar passing value of knowing Jesus so I consider everything garbage consider everything dung it's all sewage in comparison to knowing Jesus and you hear that word just means just to know him intellectually in verse eight but in verse 10 he says I want to know him that word is dealing with intimacy the deepest contact of the soul the imagery of becoming one Paul says just to know who Jesus was was enough but to know him intimately changes everything if you want to live a life where you save nothing for the next life and don't let the things in this life steal your life from you the only way you can live your life for your saving nothing for the next life is to get your love in order to want him most of all and until your life is aligned properly it doesn't matter if you're a dentist or a doctor a teacher and architect an actor a director a writer it doesn't matter what your occupation is it is what occupies your heart that matters you have to want him most to live a life where you save nothing for the next life because I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the Fellowship of the sufferings becoming like him in his death isn't it odd to once become like him in his death and so somehow attain to the resurrection of the Dead then he goes on he says not that I have already obtained all this or have already arrived at my goal but I press on to take hold of that which Christ Jesus took hold of me now this is a little confusing because he's saying we need to take hold of that which Jesus took hold of us for and he's actually telling us look if we want to live our lives where we live without regret where we don't save anything for the next life we need to make sure that that that we want him more than anything you have to want him most but you have to want his life for you saying look you need to get a hold of the life that he took hold of for you now I know this sounds crazy it may not connect yet but when Jesus died on the cross when he rose from the dead his death actually took ahold of the life you're supposed to live he took hold of you and he's holding that life for you you ever put something on hold I have a really awesome jacket that Aaron bought for me a few years ago designed by a an amazing human being named Jerry Lorenzo brand called fear of God product placement and the errand bought me this jacket but he told me the story he said he went to the store and it was on hold for someone else was it Christmas it was on hold for someone else I don't know who that is you might be here but it was on hold for someone else and Aaron decided that he was going to take hold of it for me so he went to the manager whatever had a conversation and convinced the manager that that jacket was meant for me and the man who said you know that guy's probably not coming back anyway there's somebody out there right now who lost this fear of God because somebody wanted him more and it wasn't even me I am the recipient of it because someone else went took hold of it see Jesus took hold of the life you were created to live and he's holding it before you it is on hold and he's not gonna give it to you when you don't want it have you ever been given a gift you didn't really like a gift you didn't want do you have that gift that you've rejected probably gave it to me you know what I've discovered whenever you give someone something they don't want its value is irrelevant Jesus is holding on to your life but until you want until you value it so you want it more than anything in this life there's no point in giving it to you because you'll just give it away you just relisted you won't want that life you'll think that it's an imposition of your life see the problem is until you understand that what you have to want more than anything in the world is the life that Jesus has taken ahold of for you you're just gonna we gift you guys give it or what you're gonna devalue it you're gonna do mean it you know I don't want that life you're gonna see the life that Jesus created you to have as an imposition on your life God can you get that out of my way so I can live the life I want Paul says not that I have already obtained all this or have already arrived at my goal but I press on to take hold of that for which Jesus Christ took a hold of me so he grabbed on to you so that you might grab on to life as you got a grab you have to want what he wants for you you have to want the life he died for you to have there's some of you you've you've crossed that line of faith you have trusted your life to Jesus but you've not trusted that he is his life for you as a life you actually want right now see I think a lot of us feel like Jesus is an expert on the afterlife he's just the novice under before life we get it there's no one better than Jesus in afterlife living hey that's the upgrade that's the timeshare you want to buy into Jesus after death because after all who else is building houses there nobody's building over there except for Jesus that are building a mansion he's the only one doing it so you got to buy in but I think a lot of us think that Jesus is real estate is in the afterlife but Jesus doesn't have a real estate license in the before death so we're trying to build our own lives before death and then trust in Jesus to build a life after death and this that can you just see the insanity of that if Jesus is not trustworthy and worthy of building your life in this life he is certainly not trustworthy of your life after death don't give Jesus the change of time because if you don't trust him with the change of time you are not trusting him with the wealth of eternity if you don't trust Jesus with the 70 80 90 years you get on this planet like no world makes you think you're actually trusting him for an eternity you can know who's building your afterlife who's building your life yeah just let that sink right in because I didn't know I was gonna say that and it caught me by surprise too so just let that go deep from that he goes on to say in verse 13 brothers and sisters I do not consider myself yet to take a hold of it but one thing I do this is how you saved nothing for the next life but one thing I do forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead to feel that intensity and straining toward what is ahead some of us have never pulled a spiritual muscle in our life it was I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus all of us then who are mature should take such a view of things and if on some point you think differently that to God will make clear to you but here it is for 16 only let us live up to what we have already attained let us live up to what we have already attained see not if you're gonna save nothing for the next life either I understand how this life plays out you have to fight for what is yours now I know if you like a conviction but listen what he's saying only let us live up to what we have already a team already attained it why don't have to press on for it why do I have to strain for it why why do I have to fight for it why do I have to work for it it's already years but you're not gonna realize what has already been given you until you want it with every fiber of your being it's almost as if God has placed it as a deep deposit inside of your soul see a lot of us think that that the life God has raised is out there somewhere I feel like I should be singing you a Disney song now but it's not out there somewhere it's in here somewhere and when you've opened up your life to the creator of the universe when you've trusted your life to Jesus he is deposited life at the depth of your soul but then he says so let us live up to what we have already obtained I press on toward the goal to win the prize for God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus fight for this there's something really powerful about the human dynamic it's like one of the things that was highlighted last night Moriah said he said I can't imagine she was there has to be purpose in eternity it has to be purpose in heaven there has to be intention there has to be a reason to live she's really I could tell she was anxious she was eternity can't have less meaning than I longed for in this life she said I I guess every day and I I'm determined I have to get things done I have to do something meaningful let me tell you very few people as driven as Mariah McManus Goss nice forget that the addendum that marriage thing husband loved them in the Latin world we put the family name after it's like it should be Mario Casas McManus I just saying yeah I can feel her anxiety she said there has to be more intention more meaning more purpose more reason to live I can't just exist she was terrified at the idea of existing forever without something to do i I don't get it how some people actually think that heaven is a place where you finally don't have a reason to exist that would not be happened that would be how it Paul says I I am driven heavenward I have a calling from eternity your calling that gives you your highest purpose your highest meaning your highest intention is not born inside of time it is born from eternity so meaning and purpose and significance and intention doesn't come out of here and does not exist there it comes out of there and it comes and intrudes on our comfort here pasta for this one thing I live that have made no Christ they may know the Jesus who stepped into human history and I mean know the God who took on flesh and blood and walked among us and lived a sinless beautiful life having no other one who was crucified for me the one who sacrificed himself for me damn you know the one who gave His life who chose to die though death could not defeat him he surrendered himself to it that I may know the one who allowed himself to be buried in a stranger's tomb and to rise from the dead I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship the communion of his sufferings that I may somehow join him in his death that I may obtain the resurrection yesterday Aaron said hey dad there's there's a part of the story of Elijah you did not cover in your book I don't know if you noticed but the last arrow essentially became a study of the life of Elijah I didn't know it was gonna be that that happened as I was writing the book it'll actually kept showing up he kept giving me insights but there was one story that I left out it's the very last for you might be the most intriguing story Elijah died and you think the story to be over right that's where it ends in the book but right after in second Kings 13 verse 21 it says this once while some Israelites were bearing a man suddenly they saw a band of Raiders from Oakland na Las Vegas old school Raiders they saw a band of Raiders so they threw the man's body into Elijah's tomb when the body touched Elijah's poetess the man came to life instead to a see boom that's why I didn't use that how do you explain that except it is a foreshadowing they threw a dead man into a tomb into a grave for Elijah has already passed from death to life but there was more life in his bones they were in all those Raiders and when that dead body touched his bones to life in the bones of Elijah emanated out of their material into the soul of Paul says that any join Jesus in his death if let me tell you if the bones of Elijah could bring a man back to life imagine what will happen to you when you decide to join Jesus in his death because when you step into Jesus's death [Applause] because when you save nothing for the next life your flesh in your bones may return to dust but the power of your life for death has no power over you when you're alive everything you touch still life i wonder right now when you touch something someone are you spreading death are you spreading life are you just existing just making it through the day what are you waiting for you do not get a do-over you get this one life and it's over last night huh I was watching Saturday Night Live yeah and at the very end of the show Sam Smith began to sing a song called pray I just want to read a few of the lyrics he says I'm young and I'm foolish I've made bad decisions I block out the news turn my back on religion don't have no degrees I'm somewhat naive I've made it this far on my own but lately that ain't been getting me higher I lift up my head and the world is on fire there's dread in my heart and fear in my bones and I just don't know what to say maybe I'll pray pray maybe I'll pray I've never believed and you know but I'm gonna pray you won't find me in church no reading the Bible no I'm still here and I'm still your disciple I'm down on my knees I'm begging you please I'm broken alone and afraid I'm not a saint I'm or a sinner I don't want to lose but I fear for the winners when I try to explain the words run away that's why I am stood here today and I'm gonna pray pray maybe I'll pray pray for a glimmer of hope maybe I'll pray pray maybe I'll pray I've never believed and you know that I'm gonna won't you call me can we have a one-on-one please let's talk about freedom everyone prays in the end everyone who prays in the end that won't you call me can we have a one-on-one please let's talk about freedom everyone prays in the end everyone prays in the end oh and I'm gonna pray I'm gonna pray I'm gonna pray pray for a glimmer of hope maybe I'll pray pray maybe I'll pray I've never believed and you know but I'm gonna pray and as I listened through these words I found myself overwhelmed I began to weep because some days I just feel sorry for myself you ever get there some days you just step back and go am I making a difference this is really matter and then I hear someone open up their soul and call it a song and cry out to God and said I don't even believe in you I don't know what to do and in that moment I feel this overwhelming desperation saved nothing for the next life to live this life as if people mattered as if they are God's highest value if there's nothing God loves more then that person who doesn't even know God exists and I want you to know it doesn't matter what your occupation is I know you're calling see we're here to manifest the love of Jesus to the world we are here because there are men and women everywhere going God are you out there but I'm gonna hold on to this glimmer of hope I want you to know that's what you are you're a glimmer of hope and maybe you're here today and those words resonate with you god I don't know if you're out there but I need you just so tired of doing this alone I want you to know something Jesus has heard your prayer before you ever prayed and he became the answer of your prayer before you ever asked so I'm gonna ask you just to bow your head to me just for a moment close your eyes if you're here today you know that you need Jesus and you're ready to step across that line of faith and stop holding on to existence you're ready to save nothing for the next life you're ready to let Jesus give you a life right now I want to lead you in a prayer right now just a simple prayer one sense Jesus I give you my life that's it just that simple prayer Jesus I give you my life when you give him your life he gives you his life and just like a dead man being thrown in to living bones you'll come back to life right now just pray him Jesus right now just just ask him Jesus I give you my life if that's your prayer I want to pray for you if that's your prayer right now would you just hold up your hand right now just say yes that's me right now just hold it up high beautiful anyone else wonderful all over the room anyone else wonderful anyone else right now that's your prayer right now Jesus I give you my life anyone else right now just hold it up i I want to pray for you anyone else father pray for these that in this moment have whispered these words to you Jesus I give you my life I pray right now God that you would fill them with your love that you would let them know that they belong to you and that you have taken a hold of them and you will never lose them that you will never leave them that they belong to you God even as they've whispered this prayer of Jesus I give you my life but you whispered to their hearts you belong to me and father I pray for those who are here who've been holding on to safety and security and comfort and God maybe they've just been drowning in apathy and mediocrity and they've just been afraid to live the life you created them to live a guy I just pray right now you just infuse an extra dose of courage and to them I pray that your purpose and your meaning and your intention for their life that this one thing they would do that they would love you with every aspect of their being that they would want you more than anything that they would want the life that you have for that man and they would fight for what you have already placed in them but they might live the life you died for them to have we thank you Father we pray in Jesus name Amen then we just thank God for those who responded to come we're gonna sing another song let's all stand together have a closing song together then one of the pastors is going to come and give you some instructions before you leave [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] like you [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey come on Moe's egg can we can we take a second and can we think pastor Erwin for giving such a phenomenal talk Wow I mean like so many moments right like my mind is blown my heart is like jacked up you know man I was just that was so powerful I was so good a couple of things I just want to leave with you before we go one if you've yet to pick up a copy of one of Pastor Irwin's books the last arrow just want to encourage you to do that we'll be selling some here you can get it on Amazon and get into one of the book clubs get into a crew it's just a great opportunity for us to to take these amazing principles this amazing insight and not just let it get in us but then it's a way for it to get out of us as well so I want to encourage you get in a book club get in the crew buy your copy and then also if you are here and today you raise your hand for the first time you said yes to Jesus we want to we're going to celebrate that decision with you and we have a gift for you we have a Bible here says you belong here because we want you to remember that the moment you say yes to Jesus you also say yes to a family and we want to help you as you begin this journey so going to go out the back doors there just see a sign that says next step and we'll have people on our team that will give you a big hug if you're not a hugger just go with it for like three seconds all right and then and then we want to help you get plugged in won't help you get more involved here at Mosaic and then the next step for you if that was you today is baptism so if that's you and you know that you need to do this we want to encourage you come and talk to us or you can also e-mail baptism at mosaic org and we just keep throwing people in the in the tub we'll just keep dunking people have an amazing week we'll see you at a cruise he had a book club or see you next Sunday god bless [Applause] [Music] you you

Channel: Mosaic

Views: 30,968

Rating: 4.8857141 out of 5

Keywords: Worship, ErwinMcManus, MosaicMSC, Church, LosAngeles, Mosaic, Mosaic Church, hillsong, elevationchurch, hillsongunited, lakewoodchurch, citychurch, judahsmith, bethelchurch, the last arrow, Save nothing, book club, oprahs book club, los angeles church, Erwin Raphael McManus, Erwin McManus

Id: T2ei85GUHlQ

Length: 54min 51sec (3291 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 09 2017