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Good morning. Good morning. Try it one more time

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for the mic. Good morning. Good morning. Love

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it. Good morning. My name is Scott. I've been

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here at the house for about five years. And from

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time to time, I get to share. And so I'm doing

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that this morning. And we're in a series on Matthew.

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So this morning I'm going to share from Matthew

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6. First, I would like to hear a little bit about

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storage. Some places that folks have run out

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of storage. Anybody got a hand for me? Yes, okay.

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Your closet. What's your closet full of? Dirty

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clothes, she says. I love that honesty, yeah.

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Your closet also, now is it dirty clothes? Okay,

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so we got clothes, we got drums, we got Legos,

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and a new dresser. Mrs. McConnell, did I see

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you in the back? Okay, inflatables. And do they

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get used regularly? Oh, that's fantastic. That's

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fantastic. We'll have to drive by sometime. Yeah.

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Okay, okay and actually I'm gonna pause there

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because I was hoping that would come up. Storage,

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especially electronic storage. And I'll mention

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I'm doing a couple things different today. I've

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got a tray on my lap which is different. I'm

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using a laptop which is different from my notes

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and I've got my water here and I'm using a different

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mic. So if I may have some technical difficulties

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too, we'll see. Just some disclaimers. So let

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me grab my drink first, and then I'll tell you

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about my iPad storage. That's so great that you

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brought up phone storage. I love it. So this

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is an iPad Mini. I really like the iPad mini

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because it's mini, it's lighter, it's easier

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for me to pick up and move around. But I recently

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had to get a new one. Not because the camera's

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better, it's not. Not because the screen was

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damaged on my other one, it wasn't. But I have

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this habit of, I hate spending more money for

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a device that's the same device just because

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it has more storage. So I tend to buy the lower

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price one. But then what happens? I run out of

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storage. And this last time I ran out of storage

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so far, I couldn't get the update. And since

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I couldn't get the update, I was starting to

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have trouble using other things on my iPad. So

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I was doing this stuff that we often do, trying

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to delete pictures, trying to delete messages,

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taking apps off. then putting apps back on, these

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different things until finally I had to give

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in and I got a different iPad. Again, not because

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it's newer, not because it's nicer, I just was

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out of storage. Now, that's not the only place

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that we're not out of storage. In the physical

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spaces, We also have limited storage in our hearts

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and in our minds. Have you ever had something

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on your mind so much that there's just not much

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room for other stuff? It fills up. Sometimes

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our mind fills up with different types of challenges,

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different types of issues, different situations

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that we're in. And it can fill up to that place

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and get stuck in that place to where there's

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not room for much else. I would like to look

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at the passage for today and share a little bit

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more about that. In chapter six, verses 19 through

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21 of the Gospel of Matthew, I'm gonna read that

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here in a moment. You can open it on your device.

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If you have enough storage to have the Bible

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app, you can look at it on your physical Bible.

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Do you ever feel, I've done this where I'm looking

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for space and I see like a devotional app or

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a Bible app and I feel bad deleting it, so I

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have space for something else so it stays. All

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right, let's see if we can pull the verses up.

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And hey, we got them. All right, it says, this

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is Jesus speaking to a group of people who'd

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gathered. Do not store up for yourselves treasures

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on earth where moths and vermin destroy and where

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thieves break in and steal. But store up for

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yourself treasures in heaven where moths and

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vermin do not destroy and where thieves do not

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break in and steal for where your treasure is.

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There your heart will be also. Now Jesus was

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speaking here first about physical things. His

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examples are about physical things. Moths had

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to do with clothes. And clothes, we might think

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of them today, you know, as just our t -shirts

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and our jeans. But some clothes then had a lot

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of additional value. To have something, I mean

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think about having something with dye in it.

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Having something that was a dye or special color

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was a very special thing. It had a lot of additional

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cost. So you didn't have as many clothing options

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and so having clothing was a high status thing

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and it held a lot of physical value. I'm going

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to tilt back some here because my blood pressure

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is giving me a hassle. Go into lazy boy mode.

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Now the vermin was about food. Storing up so

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much food, but rats, vermin can come in and eat

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that food. So if you put your security in your

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food, that's something else that could be taken.

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And then finally there were thieves and I thought

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this was a fun fact because their houses were

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made of clay and things similar to that a Thief

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would literally dig through the wall of your

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home to take your stuff So again this stuff can

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be taken if you put your value in that if you

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focus on that it can be lost Now Jesus talks

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about treasures in heaven What's he talking about?

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Is he talking about a bigger mansion? Is he talking

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about some kind of stuff that we can have in

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heaven? No, he's not. And we see that in different

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places, but I'll put it this way. Treasure and

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heaven are actions that match the values that

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Jesus taught. It's advancing his kingdom, expanding

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on what he taught. I'll go on a little bit further.

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What are the things that Jesus taught? I picked

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a few things. There's lots of them. Generosity,

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humility, justice, prayer, trust in God. These

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are the types of treasures that he directed people

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to pursue. Generosity, the way that that blesses

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others. Honesty, the way that that blesses others.

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last more than food, last more than clothes,

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last more than other valuable things that we

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have. But I want to go again back to our hearts

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and the things that we store there as well. Are

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the things that we're storing in our hearts that

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are taking up space, our emotions, those different

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places and things, are they full of worry? Are

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they full of fear? Are they full of concern about

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a situation? that doesn't need to be taking up

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that much space in our life. And I'll go further.

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I'll go back again to that update example that

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I used with my iPad. Those updates that we have

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on those devices give us new abilities. They

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make us aware of new things. They have security

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fixes to make us more secure. God wants to run

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updates on our hearts as well He wants there

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to be room for new things He wants to be able

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to teach us new things if our hearts if our minds

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are so full of other stuff Stuff that doesn't

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have that long value stuff that doesn't line

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up with the values that Jesus teaches We're not

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able to add that in. He's not able to bring that

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new stuff that he has into our lives so that

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we can grow, so that we can continue to advance.

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Following me so far? All right, good. Okay, now

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as we look through that. I'm going to look now

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to what Jesus taught, what he continued to go

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through, to let them know that we're cared for.

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Because how do we overcome those things in our

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hearts and our minds that start to take up so

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much space? A lot of times they're connected

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in one way or another to fear. Anger often is

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driven by a defensive response to something that's

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happened to us It's rooted in fear when we worry

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about having enough of things or What's going

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to happen next? It connects back to that fear

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of whether we're gonna have our needs met if

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something negative is going to repeat again Jesus

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gave some examples in this passage of how we

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are cared for. He told us to look at examples

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that are all around us. One is birds, and the

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other one is flowers. When we, Jesus says, and

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I'm gonna skip down, I'm gonna go down to a place

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in my notes, and this is from the message. So

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it's a little bit more a version of the Bible

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that focuses more on current language. Language

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we can understand and relate to more than literal

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from what's in from the Bible And I'm gonna read

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this now. It says this follows in that same chapter

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chapter 6 verses 25 through 34 in Matthew He

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said if you decide for God living a life of God

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worship It follows that you don't fuss about

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what's on the table at meal times or whether

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the clothes Your closet are in fashion There's

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more to your life than the food you put in your

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stomach More to your outer appearance in the

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clothes you hang on your body And I want you

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to hear this part look at the birds free and

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unfettered not tied down to a job description

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careless in the care of God and You count far

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more to him than birds If we can look around

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at the birds that are flying around us and know

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that they're cared for, that they have what they

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need, God cares about us so much more than that.

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Then Jesus goes on to say a little further down,

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walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers.

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They never print or shop, but have you seen every

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color and design quite like it? We can look around

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at nature again and see the designs that God

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has, how he cares, and know that we're cared

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for as well. I love this next part. This is Jesus

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speaking. What I'm trying to do here is to get

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you to relax. To not be so preoccupied with getting,

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so you can respond to God's giving. People who

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don't know God and the way he works fuss over

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these things, but you know both God and how he

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works. Steep your life in God reality, God initiative,

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God provisions. Don't worry about missing out.

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You'll find all your everyday human concerns

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will be met. Give your entire attention to what

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God is doing, right? now and don't get worked

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up about what may or may not happen tomorrow.

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God will help you deal with whatever hard things

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come up when the time comes. Now, uh, we'll see

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how this goes. I'm going to try. I'll start by

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reading that original passage in Spanish to the

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best of my ability. So we have some friends here

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today that speak Spanish. And I want to honor

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that. I think of that in Spanish somewhat because

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there's a name that I heard a lot this week,

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Felipe. He was Pastor Marissa's father and family

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to many others who are here today. And I think

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of this and I think of him when I think of this

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passage because I think about treasure on earth

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and treasure in heaven. I think of the stories

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that I heard from his family. that went on and

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on in his service this past week. There was a

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lot of room in his heart, in his mind, in his

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time for kingdom stuff, for treasure in heaven,

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for making time for those around him, and for

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showing love. There wasn't much talk. about earthly

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stuff, clothes that were worn, food that was

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eaten, any of those things. What was remembered

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was the love that was shown to family. And when

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I think of that and I think of treasure in heaven,

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it just reminds me that we need to keep space

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in our hearts, in our minds. Let God keep speaking

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to us and continue to show that love to those

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around us Now a lifetime is a big thing to focus

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on But it's important to remember that these

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things happen through moments and so I'm going

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to switch gears to some smaller moments, my neighbors.

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This past week, I had two boxes in my driveway,

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a 140 pound box and a 40 pound box. And I needed

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to get those moved into my garage. And so I called

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a neighbor and before I could even See my texts

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to know that they'd seen it the boxes were already

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in my garage They'd made space in their schedule

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and their time to come and care for a need My

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daughter has difficulty getting into my wife's

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van and She has some physical limitations and

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she also has a strong fear response to things

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that there's not really a good way to understand

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it, but there's just some things that cause a

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fear response. Once she went to get my wife's

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van, she would freeze and start to shake. She

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felt unstable. Someone in our church built a

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platform that goes around the seat and fits into

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our van exactly so that she can climb up and

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have the ability to take that extra step and

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feel safe. It took a lot of time. It took a lot

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of measuring. But that person made room for something

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that matters in the kingdom. So I want to ask

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this morning, what's maybe something that's clogging

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up storage in your heart? What's something that's

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taking up more space than you want it to? That

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might be making it difficult to recognize and

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show love to those in your immediate space. That

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might be stopping You from receiving those updates

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that God has for your heart and for your life

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New things fresh things I'd like you to take

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a moment at your table With those around you

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And we'll take about four minutes if you're willing

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to do that if you're open to it Not everyone

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needs to share at the table, but you can share

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something that's taking up space in your heart

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more than you want it to and something you'd

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like to have more space for in your heart. Keep

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it brief and it's more about just sharing something

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out loud than it is about telling your story,

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but I invite you to share that now and we'll

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give about four minutes. Be able to do that again

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something that might be taking up more space

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in your heart than you want it to And something

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you'd like to have more space for in your heart

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go ahead and share