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Fresh Life with Levi Lusko

December 27, 2020

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Pastor Levi Lusko from Fresh Life Church teaches the Bible and brings a message of hope.

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Amazing.
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Well, we want togreet those of you
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who are at all of our differentlocations, every single campus.
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If you're in Kalispell, orWhitefish, Missoula, Billings,
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Bozeman, Helena,Polson, Salt Lake City,
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if you are at one of our networksites, our internet broadcast,
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radio, TV, we're gladto have you with us--
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so good, so good, so good.
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We're wrapping up aseries of messages
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called Feature Creep this week.
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In a series ofmessages, it's actually
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one message that we'vebroke up into three pieces.
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But the goal of the whole thingis to do some fall pruning.
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We're not going to wait to NewYear to make our resolutions.
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We're not going to wait tillspring to do some cleaning.
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We're going to do some pruning.
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We're doing somepruning in our hearts
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and our lives going in towinter, so we're ready for all
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that God has for us.
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We stated that our agendais to come to a place
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where we're living livesthat we look out, and we go,
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our lives are simple.
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They're beautiful.
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It's clear what's happening,what we're wanting to happen,
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less confusion,less unruly growth,
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and just things thatcause our lives to feel
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like the schedulingequivalent of eating
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at Cheesecake Factory.
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I don't know ifyou've been recently,
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but I brought with meto church this weekend
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a copy of the CheesecakeFactory menu, which is
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good to sit down and eat there.
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It's a great restaurant.
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But what stresses me outabout the Cheesecake Factory
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is almost everything.
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When I sit down, andthey hand this down,
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I always notice the table shakeswhen they set the menu down.
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And that's a problem.
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You got a story here.
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The story is thiswoman in the late 40s
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had found a newspaper clipping.
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And she found out aboutsome new epic cheesecake.
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And so she wanted to make it.
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And she perfected herown original cheesecake.
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Well, by the 70s,her son decided--
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I'm going to opena restaurant up
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with the explicitpurpose of selling
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Mama's cheesecake to the world.
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Which is awesome,everyone needs cheesecake.
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And so we thank the Lord fordelicious things like that.
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But what's interesting tome about this restaurant
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is that's page onewith the story.
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And first page of drinks,and second and third page
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of drinks, and then we'reonto the small plates.
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I'm already on chapter three.
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At page five, I'm just on tothe small plates and snacks.
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And then I start toget to the flatbreads.
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And not to be confusedwith small plates,
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there's two wholepages of appetizers.
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Two pages of appetizers asdistinct from the small plates,
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and then we get intothe appetizer salads,
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an entire different category.
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Salads of an appetizernature before we
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jump into pizzas, becausehe opened a restaurant up
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so he could sellcheesecake to the world.
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And of course, atcheesecake restaurants,
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you got to have fivepages of everything
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before you get tothe cheesecake.
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But we're not even intoit yet, because now we're
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at specialties.
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The specialty, whichis not cheesecake,
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which is why they opened up therestaurant to sell cheesecake.
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But now they have aspecialty section.
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And there's no cheesecake on it.
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It's very strange to me.
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And you find differentthings on this menu,
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like deep fried macaroni balls.
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I don't know what that is,but it sounds delicious.
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But it's not cheesecake.
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And then we get to an entirepage dedicated to something
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called glam burgers,which I assume
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is like a glamorous hamburger.
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I can't be positiveas I've never had one.
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But you have awhole page of them,
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and there are all sorts ofdifferent kinds of these glam
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burgers.
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And then we getinto another page
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of specialties, which isn'tthe same as the other one
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apparently.
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That was a different kindof category of specialties,
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maybe it wasappetizer specialties.
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Don't know.
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But this page is special, justsomehow different special,
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from the other page's special.
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And guess what, guys?
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Still no cheesecake.
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Haven't found apiece of cheesecake
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yet on the Cheesecake Factorymenu labeled specialties.
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Another page labeledspecialties, still
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no cheesecake.
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But there is teriyaki chicken.
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That sounds good.
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And we jump into morespecialties with pastas now.
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Everything's special.
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But if everything'sspecial, nothing's special.
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And we're now onspecialties again,
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but it's fish and seafood.
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Another specialties sectionis steaks and chops.
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We've come now to apage of side dishes.
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They have somethingcalled succotash on there.
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Don't know what that is,but I remember Looney
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Tunes and suckering succotash.
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And ratatouille is on here.
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Hey, ratatouille,which is a specialty
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if you're watching a Pixarmovie, but not cheesecake.
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And then we're intothe salads again.
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But not the appetizer salads,these are just regular salads.
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These are going tobe enormous salads.
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And then we're backinto sandwiches.
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I'm on page 16 now, guys.
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Haven't found thecheesecake yet,
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which is the purpose forthis restaurant being opened,
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because Mom found it in the 40s.
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But it was opened in the 70s,and they buried it at the back,
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where it's obviously-- now I'mat the eggs and omelets, served
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all day.
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And I found them-- cheesecakes,all the way page 19 and page
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20.
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I'm not knockingCheesecake Factory.
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I think it's delicious.
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And they're doinglike $2 billion.
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So they're doing all right.
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Don't pray forCheesecake Factory.
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I think they'regoing to survive.
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But I bring thisup because I think
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it's an interestingcontrast to other restaurant
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experiences, whereyou don't have
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to read an entire novel tofigure out what you want.
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And so I thought, as the bestexample as I could come up
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with that would be theother, polar opposite of this
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would be to go toanother restaurant that
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began in the 40s.
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And I would be orderingone of these right here.
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The interesting thingabout In-N-Out Burger
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is that since 1948,when they opened,
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there have been fourfood items on the menu.
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Hamburger, cheeseburger--dropped my menu.
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Double hamburger, or asthey call it, double double,
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and French fries.
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And there's a fifthitem, which is
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one of their beverages, shake,a cup of coffee, lemonade, Coke,
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or water, or milk.
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So you have fourfood items and then
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one drink choiceof these few here.
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All I'm trying to sayis, in this series,
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we're trying to make sure ourlives are like In-N-Out Burger
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more than they're likeCheesecake Factory
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when it comes tosimplicity over complexity.
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We don't want to live lives thatare just pages to even figure
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out what's the point, andwhat the stated idea is not
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even something that's evidentfrom looking through what's
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being done.
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And what's happening isnot what we want to happen.
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So that by the timeour lives are over,
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it hasn't just been abig, confusing ordeal.
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We laid out the problemof Feature Creep
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in the first installment.
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In the second installment,we gave a plan.
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What's the plan?
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The plan is cuttingso we can run.
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Cutting so we canrun-- that message
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was all aboutsubtraction, how we
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need to learn the things that weneed to subtract from our lives
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in order to deal with thisremedy of this featuritis,
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of just the way we add,and add, and add, and add.
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Now, listen, this isgoing to be difficult.
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That message Igave you, all of us
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probably need to putit on our schedule
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to listen to it, probablyyearly, maybe quarterly,
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because of the way thatfeaturitis creeps back in when
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we're least expecting it.
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And we live in a world fullof super-sized mentality,
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and increasingly so.
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What do you mean by that?
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I mean this.
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When McDonald'sfirst opened, did you
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know, that the largestsize drink you could buy
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was five ounces?
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The largest drink you couldpurchase at McDonald's, when
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they opened up, that Americanswould go in, and say,
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I want a hamburger fromMcDonald's, the largest size
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drink you could get withyour order was five ounces.
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At this moment, I had one ofmy assistants call a local
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McDonald's.
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The largest size youcan buy is 30 ounces.
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How interesting is that?
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Just the largeness of ourfood, and that same thing
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goes with thelargeness of our homes.
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In 1950, the average sizehome being built in America
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was only 983 square feet,and sold for an average price
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of $11.000.
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Flash forward to the latestmetrics I could find,
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2015, when the average sizedhome being built in America
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is 2.520 square feet.
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So 2 and 1/2 times larger,and the price, on average,
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$296.400.
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So we live in a world, in acountry, in a culture, that's
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all about this feature creep.
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You've got to havea bigger house.
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You ought to drink more soda.
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You've got to have more things.
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You've got to do more things.
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And that's the world we live in.
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So we live in aworld where more is
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equated with better,where more features is
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supposedly better value.
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And so we have to liveprotecting our souls,
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knowing whatenvironment we live in.
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And so to give us nowthe final aspect of this,
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and that's the pictureof what our lives could
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be when we use our planto attack the problem,
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when we cut away fromthe feature creep,
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when we hack away at it, whenwe throw away the weights that
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easily hinder, and the sinthat so easily entangles itself
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around our feet whatare we left with.
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Well, here's a pictureof what it looks like.
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And if you have a Bible,make your way with me
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to Acts, Chapter 20.
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If you don't have aBible, no worries at all.
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We're going to put theverse on screen for you.
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I assure you of that.
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I'm calling thismessage Negative Space.
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Negative space-- as you'remaking your way there, maybe
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for those of you who are notsuper familiar with the Bible,
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let me help you.
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Just give you a bird's eye view.
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The Bible has twopieces, the Old Testament
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and the New Testament.
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And the Old Testament isreally an old covenant,
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a covenant which is acontract or a promise,
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and primarily, thispromise, this covenant,
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that God made between himselfand the nation of Israel.
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And what we findin the new covenant
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is God's promiseto the whole world
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through his son, Jesus Christ.
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And the New is in the Old.
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You can see it there.
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It's just concealed.
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And the Old is in the New.
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It's just now revealed,so we can understand it.
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And so when we look atthe New Testament, which
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is where the book of Acts isat, we have these gospels.
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And these are thestories of what Jesus
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did while he was on the Earth.
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And then we havethe epistles, which
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are letters-- thatis just an old school
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way of saying letters-- thatwere written by individuals
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in the New Testament afterJesus left the Earth.
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And the book ofActs is a document
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that tells thestory of what Jesus
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did through His HolySpirit in his church,
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after His presence physicallywas no longer being
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felt on the Earth.
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So all the letters, which areall the different epistles,
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Peter's writings, John'swritings, Paul's writings,
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the book of Hebrews, theseare all the correspondence
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that correlate tothe period that's
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documented in the book of Acts.
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So like the Gospels, Actsis biographical in nature.
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And you have all themiscellaneous attachments
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to this period, whichare the letters.
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We don't have all of them,But these are the ones
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that God wanted us to have.
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And so that's whatwe're reading.
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This is after a guycalled Jesus was
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on the Earth for3 and 1/2 years,
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died, and thenwasn't dead anymore--
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which makes us all noteworthy.
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If that didn't happen,then I submit to you
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we are wasting ourtime tremendously.
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So that's just a littlebit of a context.
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Because Jesus was deadand predicted his death,
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and predicted thatif you checked
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with him a couple ofdays after he died,
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he wouldn't be thereanymore in the grave,
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that makes all of thissignificant and noteworthy
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and life changing for us.
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Otherwise, what the heck dowe care about 2.000 year old
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correspondence?
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It matters becauseof this guy Jesus
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who died and then wasn't deadanymore, so kind of a big deal.
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One of the people whowrote a lot of these books
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in the New Testamentis a guy named Paul.
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And Paul was one of the biggestenemies in the world of Jesus.
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Until, all of a sudden,he encountered Jesus,
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and Jesus changed his life.
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And then he gave his entirelife to making sure everyone
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could encounterJesus like he had.
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And we find a uniquestory from Paul's life,
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that's nearing the end of hislife, in Acts, Chapter 20.
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There's only 28 chapters in thebook of Acts, so, of course,
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we're getting close to the endas Paul is here in Chapter 20.
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He has just spent three yearspreaching in the same city,
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a city called Ephesus.
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And later on, he wrote a lettercalled the Ephesian Letter.
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And that's the letterto this church.
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But three years in this citymakes it the longest time
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Paul will get itchy feetto reach out to new places.
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And so he would go.
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And of course, theleaders of that church
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and the people in that church,they were like his babies.
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They came to know Jesusthrough his preaching.
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So they loved him like crazy.
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And so he asked them to comespend some time with him,
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a little bit oftime, before he left.
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Why was he leaving right here?
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Well, he felt like God wantedhim to go to Jerusalem.
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Now, that's the mostdangerous place Paul could go,
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because there were so manyenemies to preachers who
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believed in Jesus in Jerusalem.
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But Paul felt acalling on his heart.
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And you just can't doanything about that.
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When God calls you to dosomething, try as you might,
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you're going to resist it andbe miserable or just go along
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with it.
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People ask us all the time.
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Why did we move to theNorthwest from where
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we were at in OrangeCounty, California?
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Do you love hunting?
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And we're like,no, we don't love
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being in the belly of a whale.
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Jonah reference--you're like, what?
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Whatever, forget it.
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My point is it doesn'tmatter really where you are.
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If you're in God'swill, if you're
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doing what God calls you todo, I'll live in Siberia.
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It doesn't really matter.
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It's less about location,location, location, than it
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it is about being withJesus, being with Jesus,
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being with Jesus.
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And doing what hewants you to do.
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So Paul's like, I'mgoing to Jerusalem then.
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And all of his friendsare like, Paul, don't go.
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Paul, don't go.
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It won't work.
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In fact, you'll get killed.
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Paul, you'll get beat up.
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Paul, it's going to go bad.
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Paul, we just have abad feeling about this.
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And then some people actuallystarted to come to him
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and say stuff like this.
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We feel like God wantsus to tell you not to go.
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Someone told me that when wewere going to start Fresh Life.
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God doesn't want you to go.
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I'm like, did he call you?
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Because he didn't tell me that.
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That's weird that he gave yousuch information about my life.
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But one guy said the Holy Spiritwants you want you to know,
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if you go, you'regoing to get beat up.
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You're going to getput into chains.
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You're going to get arrested.
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By the way, all thesethings would happen to Paul
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when he went.
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But check out Paul's response.
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We're going to read threeverses in Acts Chapter 20.
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They're starting in verse 22.
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Paul says, "and see now.
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I go bound in theSpirit to Jerusalem,
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not knowing the things thatwill happen to me there
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except that the HolySpirit testifies
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in every city saying that chainsand tribulations await me."
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Now, notice this.
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Don't miss this.
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This is one of themost important verses.
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"But none of thesethings move me.
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Nor do I count mylife dear to myself,
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so that I may finishmy race with joy.
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And the ministry which Ireceive from the Lord Jesus
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to testify to the gospelof the grace of God."
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How great is Paul'sresolve here?
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My whole messagein one sentence,
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this whole third installment ofthis message, in one sentence--
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it's not stupidto keep it simple.
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Come on, how good is that?
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You've probably heard"keep it simple, stupid."
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"Keep it simple,stupid," is probably
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not the worst thing youcould have on a Post-It note.
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But I just want tosell this to you.
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It's not stupid at all.
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About the least stupid thing youcould do is to keep it simple.
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And Paul's life is livingproof because he, at one point,
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suffered from featuritis.
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Man, if anybody ever hadfeature bloat, it was Paul.
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There was a point in Paul'slife where he cared what
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everybody thought about him.
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So the cares of thisworld were pressing down.
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There was a point inhis life with anxiety.
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There was a point in his lifewhere he was a people-pleaser.
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He said that.
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There was a point wherehaving power and being
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looked at by people,it meant a lot to him.
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And religion, man.
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And by the way, religion is oneof the biggest feature creeps
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you could have in your life.
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Because God wants to beabout your relationship
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with Jesus, not some religiousthing you could do for God.
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Religion is aboutwhat we do for God.
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Having a relationshipwith Jesus is awesome
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because it's about what he didfor us, how he died for us.
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And it's all about grace.
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And that's the powerthat we stand in.
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So Paul, he had so manythings that mattered to him.
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There were so manythings that had crept up.
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His life was like aCheesecake Factory
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not an In-N-Out Burger somebody.
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But then inPhilippians Chapter 3,
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look what he said he didwith his feature creep.
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He said, "indeed, Icount all things lost
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for the excellence ofthe knowledge of Christ
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Jesus, my Lord forwhom I have suffered
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the loss of all things.
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And I'm running my race,so I count them as rubbish.
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I count them as rubbishthat I may gain Christ."
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You see Paul had donehis prioritizing.
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He figured out whathis finish line was.
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And all that mattered tohim was running his race
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and finishing whatGod called him to do.
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He was in his lane.
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He was inspired by thosewho were around him.
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But his eyes wereset on Jesus' face.
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And all that mattered, wasdoing what God wanted him to do.
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So he could say, noneof these things move me.
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You weeping, youbreaking my heart,
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you telling me thatI shouldn't do it.
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I'm going to dowhat God calls me
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to do, becauseeverything else to me
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compared to thatis like garbage.
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Everything else like that islesser than I've prioritized.
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I've done my yesses first.
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And so the noes, they'retaking care of themselves.
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I tell weight that'sgoing to hinder me
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it's a sin that's goingto easily entangle me.
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All I want to dois keep on running.
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All I want to dois keep on going.
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All I want to dois finish strong.
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I'm going to do whatGod calls me to do.
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And he didn't want to die,but he was ready to die.
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And listen to me very carefully.
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No one is truly ready to livewho is not prepared to die.
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So the wisest thingyou could do in life
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is to be preparedto meet your maker.
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And then, you canjust follow God
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fearlessly and courageously.
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And you can live life tothe full, not always worried
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about the end of it all, notalways concerned about what's
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going to happen.
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Once that is cleared up, youcan really get to living.
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And so we have thatexample here in Paul.
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Let's pray together.
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Then we'll talkabout negative space.
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Father, we're grateful.
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We're grateful for the waythat, as we read these words,
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there's just power in it.
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We believe there'spower in your Word.
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And we thank you thatbecause of Jesus who rose,
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we have the promise that wecan rise if we trust in Christ.
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And I pray, just right now,over every single person
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and every location,every situation
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and unique thing webring to this moment,
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because we're not all goingthrough the same stuff.
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And we haven't all livedthe same experience.
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And we don't allhave the same pain,
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but we do all have thesame God who loves us.
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And so right now, wejust pray for that.
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And we just pray that you dosomething so powerful and so
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special, right now,right here, that it
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would impact us and influenceus in the days to come.
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Because it doesn't reallymatter if we get together
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and have a big ra-ra-ra,great God, great God, and then
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we go out and welive like jerks.
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And we go out, and it doesn'tinfluence our marriages.
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Oh, that was a good talk.
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But then we don't go outand live differently.
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So that's what wepray for today.
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We pray that what wouldhappen in this gathering
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would lead to changelives this week.
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And that we would havea brighter countenance.
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We would have moreof a pep in our step
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as we live our livesamong hurting people
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who need to be encouraged.
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And we have just whatthey're looking for.
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And so we pray that, askingthat above all things,
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if there's someone heretoday who doesn't know you,
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who's without God, withouthope in this world,
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you draw them to yourself.
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And we pray this in Jesus' name.
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And everyone saidtogether, Amen.
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Amen.
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Negative space, that's atopic that, if you've ever
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taken an art classof any kind, you've
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probably heard that phrase.
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Negative space, negativespace, what is it?
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Negative space is thespace that surrounds
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an object in a paintingor in a photograph,
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like in this photohere of this vase.
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Negative space is the whitethat surrounds this golden vase.
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Space is all aboutboundary and border.
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Boundary and border, whenyou have negative space,
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when there's allowed tobe space around an object,
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it causes there to bea defined boundary.
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That's what thenegative space is.
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But it also gives a senseof balance to the piece.
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There's balance, andthere's boundary.
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There's a border and adefinition that comes from it.
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So it's the space thatsurrounds an object.
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It's what's not there thatinforms what is there.
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And here's our firsttake-away truth.
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And we have a couple, so jotthem all down if you can.
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A space you leavelets things breathe.
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Space you leavelets things breathe.
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You see, the cool thingabout negative space
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is that it gives youreye a chance to relax.
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Like in this photograph, forexample, the negative space
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is the sky.
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And the positivespace, of course,
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would be the telephone poles.
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And as you look at thisphotograph, what's interesting
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is that your eye will takein the telephone poles.
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But there's a reliefthat comes over you.
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Isn't there, as you look at it?
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Because all of the sky,and they could have
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shot this in any different way.
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They could have focusedup on the telephone poles
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or looking down on it.
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But the way it'sshot allows there
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to be an emphasis onthe negative space.
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And it's verypleasing to your eye.
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Your eye relaxes as itsees it because there's
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space for your eye to go tothat's not crowded, and full,
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and cluttered with allsorts of different things.
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This picture has plentyof breathing room.
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I'm told the sameis true in music,
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though the names are different.
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But when there's a moment ofsilence, or a moment of rest,
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or a transition wherethings drop out,
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that's effectivelynegative space in a song.
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And interestingly enough, ratherthan taking away intensity
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by allowing thatto happen, there
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to be that rest for a momentbefore things come roaring back
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in, it actually is a tool tocreate even more intensity.
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And like in thetheme song to Jaws
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or many song exampleswe could pick,
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there's the intentionaluse of negative space
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that actually bringspower, but also
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gives your heart and your earsa chance to rest for a moment
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before it ramps up.
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The point is inart editing out is
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an essential step in creatingand getting out a vision.
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Editing is so importantand often overlooked.
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There was a French writer,Antoine de Saint-Exupery,
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who once said,"perfection is reached
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not when there isnothing left to add,
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but when there is nothingleft to take away."
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So oftentimes, what wehave there, we look at,
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and we think, oh,I need to add more.
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If this isn't rightyet, what needs
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to be added in orderfor it to get there?
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But oftentimes,it's what's there
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that needs to be removedthat can cause the telephone
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poles to pop now becauseyou have enough sky.
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But in the song, orin the business plan,
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or in the schedule,there's just so much there
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you can't appreciate what'sthere because there's not
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enough of that border and notenough of the balance that
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comes from having the rightamount of negative space.
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I learned this thehard way in the process
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of writing both of the twobooks that I've written,
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both in Throughthe Eyes of a Lion
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that came out inAugust of 2015 and also
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Swipe Right, the newestbook that I recently wrote.
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That's coming outin February of 2017,
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so excited about it,the life and death
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power of sex and romance.
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Now listen, whenI wrote this book,
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I expected for it to be lessof a painful editing process
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than Eyes of a Lion was.
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Eyes of a Lion wastremendously difficult,
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and agonizing, with the editorsover what should stay in
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and what should go, and whatthey thought should be tweaked,
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and what they thoughtshould not be there,
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and not that itwasn't good things.
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They oftentimes wouldask me to take away
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things that were fine.
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They just weren'tthe best thing.
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And so I went through that.
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And I was like, OK.
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So when I came towrite Swipe Right,
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I felt like I had learned alot from the editing process.
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And I felt like asI was writing it,
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I was writing it more throughthe lens of keep the gold,
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get away the grit.
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I was thinkingthrough that lens.
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And so I was honestlyexpecting, when I got Swipe
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Right back from thefirst round of editing,
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that it was going to belike, hey, really great job.
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Maybe just we turn this onecolon into a semi-colon.
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But other thanthat, you nailed it.
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You nailed it, well done.
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And we're ready toprint it tomorrow.
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Let's move up the shipping date.
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And that was not atall the experience.
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It looked like EdwardScissorhands had edited it.
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It was just red everywhere.
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So that was thefirst round of it.
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I was depressed.
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I was angry.
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I was mad.
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I cried.
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I ate a lot.
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Emotional eating, oh, my God.
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Yeah, it's true.
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And then it went to thesecond round of editing,
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and then it went to thethird round of editing.
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