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Speaker 6: Heard about this pastor.
Speaker 5: He was asked to inform a member of his congregation
Speaker 5: who had a heart condition that he had just inherited
Speaker 5: ten million dollars. They were concerned because of the shock
Speaker 5: that he might have a heart attack. The pastor said, sir,
Speaker 5: what would you do if you inherited ten million dollars? Men,
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Speaker 6: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.
Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 5: what it says.
Speaker 6: I can do.
Speaker 5: Today I will be taught the word of God. I
Speaker 5: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God
Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about
Speaker 5: an expected end. I was with a well known actor
Speaker 5: a few years ago, and he not only stars in
Speaker 5: major movies, he writes them. We walked into this room
Speaker 5: that had a large glass wall overlooking his property. There
Speaker 5: were all these five y seven index cards stuck up
Speaker 5: on the wall, probably one hundred.
Speaker 6: And fifty of them.
Speaker 5: He explained how he was writing a movie, and those
Speaker 5: were all the different scenes. He studies them, moves things around,
Speaker 5: adds a scene here, takes away a scene there. He told,
Speaker 5: to have a good movie, you need ups and downs,
Speaker 5: conflicts and victories, good characters and bad, twists and turns.
Speaker 5: And while it was very fascinating, it was very confusing.
Speaker 5: It looks so complicated. I said to him, how do
Speaker 5: you even know where to start. He said, ah, that's
Speaker 5: the easy part. You always start with your final scene.
Speaker 5: You have to decide how you want the movie to end.
Speaker 5: Once you establish the ending, then you work backwards and
Speaker 5: fill in all the details, he said.
Speaker 6: In fact, in a lot.
Speaker 5: Of movies, you don't shoot insequential orders. Sometimes you shoot
Speaker 5: the final scene first and then you shoot the rest
Speaker 5: of the movie. This is what God has done for
Speaker 5: each one of us. The scripture says, God.
Speaker 6: Declares the end from the beginning.
Speaker 5: When God planned out your life, he started with your
Speaker 5: final scene.
Speaker 6: He started with where he wants you to end up.
Speaker 6: Then he worked backwards.
Speaker 5: Jeremiah said, God's plans for you are for good and
Speaker 5: not harm, to give you an expected end. Your end
Speaker 5: has already been established. Your final scene has already been
Speaker 5: shot the good news. You don't end in defeat, end
Speaker 5: in failure, end in disappointment. You end in victory. You
Speaker 5: end is more than a conquer You end fulfilling your purpose.
Speaker 6: When you understand your end has been established.
Speaker 5: You won't go through life discourage because of a disappointment,
Speaker 5: bitter because of a loss, frustrated because a.
Speaker 6: Dream hasn't come to pass.
Speaker 5: You'll stay in peace knowing that in the end it's
Speaker 5: all going to work out to your advantage.
Speaker 6: But here's the key.
Speaker 5: Like any good movie, there will be twist in turns.
Speaker 5: You think, I know I'm supposed to be going this way.
Speaker 5: Why am I going the opposite direction?
Speaker 6: My goal is over here?
Speaker 5: Why am I headed the wrong way? There will be
Speaker 5: scenes that on their own don't make sense. If you
Speaker 5: stop right there, the divorce, the sickness, the loss would
Speaker 5: look like didn't work for your good looks like it
Speaker 5: got the best of you.
Speaker 6: What you don't realize is that is not your final scene.
Speaker 5: As long as you're breathing, your movie is still going.
Speaker 5: You may be in a difficult scene right now, something
Speaker 5: you don't understand. Negative medical report, set back in your finances.
Speaker 6: You have to remind yourself. That is not how your
Speaker 6: story ends. You have an expected end.
Speaker 5: The creator of the universe, the most High God, has
Speaker 5: planned your days for good, not harm. If you'll keep
Speaker 5: moving forward, at some point you'll come into another twist,
Speaker 5: but this time a good break, a promotion, a healing.
Speaker 5: God knows how to weave it all together. Your end
Speaker 5: has already been established. We see this principle in the
Speaker 5: life of Joseph. God destined him to become a great leader,
Speaker 5: to rule a nation, to help the Israelites during a
Speaker 5: time of famine.
Speaker 6: That was his end.
Speaker 5: It had already been established. And Joseph started off well.
Speaker 5: It's a young man. He was his father's favorite child,
Speaker 5: went around wearing that coat of many colors, the coat
Speaker 5: that represented favor. But at seventeen years of age, Joseph's
Speaker 5: life had an unusual twist.
Speaker 6: His brothers were jealous.
Speaker 5: They sold him into slavery. He could have become discouraged
Speaker 5: and thought, must not have heard God write he showed
Speaker 5: me a dream that I'd rule a nation, But it
Speaker 5: sure didn't happen. Now Joseph understood this principle. He knew
Speaker 5: that was just one sin. He knew his end had
Speaker 5: already been established, so he kept being his best. He
Speaker 5: was lied about, falsely accused. They put him in prison,
Speaker 5: another unusual twist. It looked like he.
Speaker 6: Was moving away from his destiny. This is the real
Speaker 6: test of life.
Speaker 5: Will you stay in faith when you're doing the right
Speaker 5: thing but the wrong thing is happening. Will you continue
Speaker 5: being your best even when you're not getting the credit.
Speaker 5: Will you stay passionate even though the door closed, you
Speaker 5: didn't get the promotion, you think you're moving the wrong way.
Speaker 5: This is where Joseph excelled in prison. He didn't fall apart.
Speaker 5: He kept doing the right thing. Thirteen years after he
Speaker 5: was sold into slavery, he interpreted a dream for the pharaoh.
Speaker 5: Pharaoh was so impressed that he brought him out of
Speaker 5: prison and put him in charge of the whole nation.
Speaker 5: He saw his dream come to pass, He saw the
Speaker 5: expected end. If Joseph were standing here today, he would
Speaker 5: tell you, don't get discouraged by the detours, by the
Speaker 5: twist of life, by the things you don't understand. They
Speaker 5: are all necessary scenes in your movie. By themselves, they
Speaker 5: may not make sense, but when God brings it all together,
Speaker 5: you two will come out fulfilling.
Speaker 6: Your purpose seeing what God has promised.
Speaker 5: But this is where many people get frustrated lose their passion, Joel.
Speaker 5: If God was good, why did I have the bad break?
Speaker 5: Why did I go through the loss? Why didn't my
Speaker 5: relationship make it? We may never understand why, but I
Speaker 5: can tell you this. God wouldn't have allowed it if
Speaker 5: it wasn't going to somehow work for your good. Nothing
Speaker 5: that's happened to you can keep you from your destiny.
Speaker 6: The only thing that can stop you is you.
Speaker 5: If you get negative, bitter, lose your passion, that can
Speaker 5: keep you from God's best. And you may have had
Speaker 5: unfair things happen, but I've learned the depth of your
Speaker 5: pain is an indication of the height of your future.
Speaker 5: When construction workers are going to build a tall building,
Speaker 5: they have to dig down many stories first for the foundation.
Speaker 5: Taller the building, the deeper the foundation. When you go
Speaker 5: through things that you don't understand, difficult situations, you may
Speaker 5: not like it, it may be uncomfortable, but God is
Speaker 5: getting you prepared to take you higher than you ever imagine.
Speaker 5: You may think it's there to defeat you, but God's
Speaker 5: going to use it.
Speaker 6: To promote you. No bad break can stop you.
Speaker 5: All the forces of darkness cannot hold you back.
Speaker 6: God has an.
Speaker 5: Expected end for you. He's already established it. But again
Speaker 5: along the way, everything is not going to make sense.
Speaker 6: This is what faith is all about.
Speaker 5: You have to trust that even in the twist of life,
Speaker 5: in the things you don't understand, that God still knows
Speaker 5: what he's doing. That even when, like Joseph, you know
Speaker 5: God promised you one thing, but you're.
Speaker 6: Seeing just the opposite, defeat, betrayal.
Speaker 5: That's when you have to dig your heels in and say, God,
Speaker 5: I don't understand it, but I trust you. I believe
Speaker 5: your plans for me are for good, that you've already
Speaker 5: shot my final sein You've already established my end.
Speaker 6: So Lord, I want to thank you.
Speaker 5: That I will fulfill my purpose, that I will become
Speaker 5: everything You've created me to be. I've heard it said
Speaker 5: God always ends in all is well, So if all
Speaker 5: is not well, that simply means it's not the end. Well,
Speaker 5: Joel is not well in my finances. I lost a
Speaker 5: big client last week.
Speaker 6: I'm discouraged. No, stay in peace. It's not the end.
Speaker 5: That's just one scene. Favor is coming, promotion. Good breaks
Speaker 5: are headed your way. If it's not well in your health,
Speaker 5: don't settle there, think well, this is the way it's always.
Speaker 6: Going to be. No another scene is coming.
Speaker 5: God promises the number of your days he will fulfill.
Speaker 6: If it's not your time to go, you're not going
Speaker 6: to go.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's not well in a relationship, you went through
Speaker 5: a breakup, You lonely, you don't think you'll ever meet
Speaker 5: the right person. That's not the end, that one disappointment,
Speaker 5: that one person that left. They can't change your ending.
Speaker 5: They can't rewrite your movie. God has already established it.
Speaker 5: They don't have that much power. God is already lined
Speaker 5: up the person of your dreams, somebody better than you
Speaker 5: can imagine. They're just a couple of scenes away, just
Speaker 5: a matter of time before they show up. Isaiah said,
Speaker 5: what God has purposed?
Speaker 6: Who can annall? This means God has a purpose for
Speaker 6: your life. He's planned out.
Speaker 5: Your days, lined up your scenes, and established your ending.
Speaker 5: Then it asked, who can sty God is saying, I
Speaker 5: flung stars into space, I spoke worlds into existence. I'm
Speaker 5: the all powerful creator of the universe. Now, who can
Speaker 5: stop my plan for your life? Who can change your ending?
Speaker 5: People can't unfair situations can't.
Speaker 6: Tragedy can't. God has the final say.
Speaker 5: When you're on one of those detours, something that doesn't
Speaker 5: make sense, you don't understand it, don't get upset.
Speaker 6: It's just one scene when it all comes together. Like Joseph,
Speaker 6: it's going to work for your good. See.
Speaker 5: If Joseph hadn't have been betrayed by his brothers, he
Speaker 5: hadn't been sold into slavery, if he hadn't have been
Speaker 5: put into prison, he would have never made it to
Speaker 5: his throne. Those were all necessary scenes on the way
Speaker 5: to his established end. What am I saying, what you
Speaker 5: may think is a setback, is really a set up
Speaker 5: for God to get you to the fullness of your destiny.
Speaker 6: Now, we could either go through.
Speaker 5: Life fighting everything we don't like, upset, bitter, offended, or
Speaker 5: we can stay in peace, knowing that God is directing
Speaker 5: our steps, and even the twist, the things we don't understand,
Speaker 5: in the end, they will work to our advantage. Sometimes
Speaker 5: when I'm traveling and not able to watch a ballgame
Speaker 5: at home, I'll record it. A few weeks back, there
Speaker 5: was an important basketball game on that I missed, and
Speaker 5: I sat down the next week to watch it.
Speaker 6: And I already knew the outcome.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'd seen all the highlights, read the news reports.
Speaker 6: The team I was pulling for had won. But during the.
Speaker 5: First quarter we played really badly, could hardly make a shot,
Speaker 5: fell behind. I didn't get the least bit worried. I
Speaker 5: sat there, calmly, enjoying the game. The next quarter, the
Speaker 5: star player got in foul trouble, had to sit the bench.
Speaker 5: We fell further behind. I didn't get up tight, came out.
Speaker 5: The second half started off just as badly, couldn't do
Speaker 5: anything right. Normally I would have been on edge, uptight, anxious,
Speaker 5: wondering what's gonna happen. But since I knew the outcome,
Speaker 5: it totally changed my perspective. In fact, the further behind
Speaker 5: we fell, the more I thought, Wow, this is gonna
Speaker 5: be some kind of comeback. I can't wait to see
Speaker 5: what's gonna happen. All the worry, the anxiety was taken
Speaker 5: away because of the expected end.
Speaker 6: I knew we had won.
Speaker 5: There are times in life when it looks like our opponents,
Speaker 5: the depression, the sickness, the legal situation is getting the
Speaker 5: best of us.
Speaker 6: We're falling behind. It's easy to get discouraged.
Speaker 5: Joel, I can't accomplish my dreams. The odds are against me.
Speaker 5: I'll never get well. The medical reports too bad. Just
Speaker 5: like this ballgame that was recorded. You have to remind
Speaker 5: yourself that the end has already been set.
Speaker 6: And when you feel like you're falling by, you're outclassed, outsized, outnumbered.
Speaker 5: Instead of being discouraged, had this new perspective that means
Speaker 5: you're about to see a major comeback. Any moment, things
Speaker 5: are gonna shift in your favor. A good break, a promotion,
Speaker 5: a healing. God says he always causes you to triumph.
Speaker 6: Not part of the time, not most of the time.
Speaker 6: God's already lined up your victory parade.
Speaker 5: He's already established your ending. Back in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 5: a teenage girl in Iowa became pregnant with the son.
Speaker 5: She was white, the father was black. Her parents told her,
Speaker 5: you can't have this baby.
Speaker 6: It's a mistake. It's never going to amount to anything.
Speaker 6: You're not only gonna ruin your life, you're gonna ruin
Speaker 6: the child's life.
Speaker 5: They gave her an ultimatum either abort the baby or
Speaker 5: move out of the house.
Speaker 6: She wanted to have her child.
Speaker 5: So she left home alone, headed for California, no money,
Speaker 5: no future.
Speaker 6: To speak of.
Speaker 5: She ended up on drugs, struggling to survive. One day,
Speaker 5: at seventeen years old, standing on a street corner, a
Speaker 5: lady came up and handed her a bible, talked to
Speaker 5: her about having peace with God. Right there, she gave
Speaker 5: her life to Christ. She opened her Bible. The first
Speaker 5: word she saw was Israel. She said, that's what I'm
Speaker 5: going to name my baby, Israel. This little boy was
Speaker 5: born with all the odds against him.
Speaker 6: He couldn't do anything great. He didn't have any kind
Speaker 6: of future.
Speaker 5: But when God breathed his life into you, he established
Speaker 5: your end. First, he gave you a purpose, He set
Speaker 5: your assignment. Then he put in you everything you need
Speaker 5: to fulfill your destiny.
Speaker 6: He's given you the gifts, the talents, the confidence.
Speaker 5: How you start is not important. Don't let what you
Speaker 5: think is a limit a disadvantage. If I was a
Speaker 5: different nationality, Joel, I come from the wrong side of
Speaker 5: the neighborhood.
Speaker 6: There's dysfunction in my family.
Speaker 5: That's how you started, That's not how you're going to finish.
Speaker 5: The beginning does not determine your destiny.
Speaker 6: That's just one scene. What matters is the expected end.
Speaker 5: The creator of the universe has already destined you.
Speaker 6: To leave your mark on this generation.
Speaker 5: He's already put seeds of greatness in you. God loves
Speaker 5: to take people who start off with all the odds
Speaker 5: against them and shine down his favor, promote them, give
Speaker 5: them good breaks to where they rise up and do
Speaker 5: extraordinary things. This is what happened with my father. He
Speaker 5: was raised in a very poor family. They had no money,
Speaker 5: He had no education, no future. That's where he started,
Speaker 5: but that's not where he feinnled his expected end.
Speaker 6: His final scene.
Speaker 5: Was pastoring a great church, having a ministry that touched
Speaker 5: the world. Don't let how you were raised, what you
Speaker 5: didn't get, what you think is a disadvantage cause you
Speaker 5: to settle where you are. The established end is not
Speaker 5: dependent on the beginning.
Speaker 6: This young boy Israel could have grown up with.
Speaker 5: A defeated mindset, inferior chip on his shoulder, thinking why
Speaker 5: was I born into this family? Why don't I have
Speaker 5: a dad? Why my half white half black? What can
Speaker 5: I become today? You can become the president of the
Speaker 5: United States. It's not how you shark, it's how you finish.
Speaker 5: If you will keep honoring God being your best, you
Speaker 5: are moving toward the destiny He has designed for you.
Speaker 5: It's bigger than you can imagine. It's more rewarding than
Speaker 5: you've ever dreamed. Child, this boy Israel discovered that he
Speaker 5: had a gift and ability to play instruments, to write songs,
Speaker 5: to write music, to sing. Now, this child that some
Speaker 5: people didn't want born, this little boy that some people
Speaker 5: thought would be a mistake, has become one of the
Speaker 5: great worship leaders of our time, our own Israel Holten
Speaker 5: right here.
Speaker 6: He's won many Grammys.
Speaker 5: All kinds of awards, goes all over the world cheering his.
Speaker 6: Gifts with others.
Speaker 5: Israel, you better be thankful of your mother's first words
Speaker 5: she saw wasn't never kanezar? Instead, Israel? How about never kanezar?
Speaker 5: In New Breed, Here's what I'm saying. Get rid of
Speaker 5: the excuses. You may have had a rough start, but
Speaker 5: you're not gonna have a rough finish. Somebody may have
Speaker 5: put you at a disadvantage, but they did.
Speaker 6: Not change your expected end.
Speaker 5: Paul said in Philippians, God will bring us to a
Speaker 5: flourishing finish, not a defeated finish, a mediocre finish, a
Speaker 5: lonely finish, a bankrupt finish. You'll come into a victorious
Speaker 5: finish and a flourishing finish when thoughts tell you otherwise.
Speaker 6: You'll hear things like.
Speaker 5: You have too many disadvantages, you're too far behind, or
Speaker 5: you've made too many mistakes. Let those lies go in
Speaker 5: one ear and out the other. God is saying, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna take you further than you can imagine. I have
Speaker 5: explosive blessings that can catapult you ahead. I have favor
Speaker 5: that can thrust you into your destiny. I'm gonna bring
Speaker 5: out those seeds of greatness that I put on the inside.
Speaker 5: God has established your end. You can be certain he
Speaker 5: knows how to get you there. Now our part all
Speaker 5: through the day, Lord, thank.
Speaker 6: You that your plans for me are for good.
Speaker 5: You're not limited by where I am Right now, You've
Speaker 5: already shot my final scene. I may not understand everything
Speaker 5: along the way, but God, I trust you. I believe
Speaker 5: I'm coming to a flourishing finish. This is what Job
Speaker 5: had to do. He had some unusual twist and turns
Speaker 5: in life. Some scenes didn't make sense. Everything started off great,
Speaker 5: life was good, but then the bottom fell out. Job
Speaker 5: lost his health, lost his business, lost his family. He
Speaker 5: could have gotten discouraged and given up. His wife told
Speaker 5: him Job, just curse God and die.
Speaker 6: You're done. Nothing like having an encouraging spouse.
Speaker 5: But in the middle of that discouragement, when everything had
Speaker 5: come against him, when a lot of people would have
Speaker 5: been bitter, angry, complaining, Job looked up to the heavens
Speaker 5: and said, I know my redeemer lives. He was saying,
Speaker 5: in effect, I know God's still on the throne. I
Speaker 5: know he's already shot my final scene.
Speaker 6: And if this is my time to go, I'm not
Speaker 6: gonna go bitter, go upset.
Speaker 5: Though he slay me, yet, will I trust him? When
Speaker 5: you can keep a good attitude when the bottom falls out,
Speaker 5: when you can give God praise in the twist of life,
Speaker 5: in the things that don't make sense, that's when God
Speaker 5: will take.
Speaker 6: You to a new level of your destiny.
Speaker 5: We hear a lot about Job's loss, Job's trials, Job's suffering,
Speaker 5: and yes, he went through a difficult season, But here's
Speaker 5: the key. He didn't stay there. That was one scene.
Speaker 5: In the end, he came.
Speaker 6: Out with twice what he had before.
Speaker 5: God paid him back with double He had twice the cattle,
Speaker 5: twice the sheep.
Speaker 6: God his health back, his joy back, his peace back.
Speaker 6: The scripture puts it this way.
Speaker 5: After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and
Speaker 5: saw his grandsons down to four generations. Notice, after the loss,
Speaker 5: after the disappointment, after the bottom fell out, he didn't
Speaker 5: end on a soured, defeated nose.
Speaker 6: His life was not over.
Speaker 5: Job went on to live a full, happy, blessed one
Speaker 5: hundred and forty more years, enjoying his grandchildren, accomplishing his dreams,
Speaker 5: fulfilling his purpose.
Speaker 6: What am I saying?
Speaker 5: Just because you have some twist turns things you don't understand,
Speaker 5: that doesn't mean your life is over. God has an
Speaker 5: after this coming when thoughts whisper.
Speaker 6: You've seen your best days. You've been through too much.
Speaker 5: This is as good as it gets. God is saying
Speaker 5: to you what he said to Job after the cancer,
Speaker 5: after the divorce, after the betrayal, There's still a full life.
Speaker 6: Ahead of you.
Speaker 5: You haven't dreamed your best dream, you haven't danced your
Speaker 5: best dance, you.
Speaker 6: Haven't laughed your best laugh.
Speaker 5: Shake off the disappointment, get your passion back.
Speaker 6: God, hasn't after this come in your way.
Speaker 5: He's not only gonna bring you out, but he's gonna
Speaker 5: pay you back for that trouble.
Speaker 6: You're gonna come out stronger, increase.
Speaker 5: Promoted, better than you were before.
Speaker 6: When it was all over, Job said, I'm.
Speaker 5: Convinced nothing and no one can upset God's plans. He
Speaker 5: was saying, nothing can change the expected end. God already
Speaker 5: established it. Friends, the enemy cannot keep you from your destiny.
Speaker 5: Satan had to ask God permission to even test Job.
Speaker 5: That tells me God is not only in control of
Speaker 5: your life, he's in control of your enemies.
Speaker 6: You have nothing to worry about it.
Speaker 5: There is a headge of protection around you that cannot
Speaker 5: be penetrated. When Jesus was about to be crucified, he
Speaker 5: told people, if you destroy this temple in three days,
Speaker 5: God will raise it up. They thought he was talking
Speaker 5: about the building. He was talking about himself. Jesus, of course,
Speaker 5: understood this principle that his end had already been established.
Speaker 5: He knew his final scene had already been shot. It
Speaker 5: wasn't him hanging on the cross in great pain. It
Speaker 5: wasn't him in a tomb buried in grave clothes.
Speaker 6: He knew.
Speaker 5: His final scene was him seated at the right hand
Speaker 5: of the Father with all power, with the keys of
Speaker 5: death and hell. That's why it says he endured the
Speaker 5: pain of the cross looking forward to the joy that
Speaker 5: was set before him. The way you stay encouraged in
Speaker 5: the tough times is you keep looking ahead, knowing that
Speaker 5: your end has been set, knowing that you're coming to
Speaker 5: a flourishing finish, knowing that God always causes you to triumph.
Speaker 5: The scripture talks about how Jesus was buried in a
Speaker 5: borrowed tomb. He had no place to be buried of
Speaker 5: his own. A disciple came and got his body and
Speaker 5: buried him in a tomb that they owned. Now I
Speaker 5: can imagine Jesus before he was rucified, asking that disciple,
Speaker 5: can I borrow your tune? He was saying, I don't
Speaker 5: need to buy it. This is not how my story ends.
Speaker 5: This is only temporary. I'll just be here a few days.
Speaker 5: I have an established end set by my father, and
Speaker 5: no enemy can change it. They can put me in
Speaker 5: the grave, but they can't keep me in the grave.
Speaker 5: Our attitude, like Jesus in difficult times, this is temporary.
Speaker 6: This addiction is not how my story ends.
Speaker 5: This defeat, this sickness, this betrayal is just one scene.
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Speaker 6: Keep moving forward.
Speaker 5: In the end, it's all going to work to your advantage.
Speaker 5: Like the ballgame I recorded, we know the final outcome.
Speaker 5: We don't have to live worried and upset. God has
Speaker 5: established your end if you'll stay in faith and.
Speaker 6: Keep honoring God.
Speaker 5: I believe and declare, like Job, God's going to pay
Speaker 5: you back for the trouble, Like Joseph, God's gonna get
Speaker 5: you to your throne like Israel.
Speaker 6: No matter how you start, you're gonna.
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Speaker 5: If you receive it, can you say it?
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