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Speaker 4: Life is too short to live frustrated upset over things
Speaker 4: we have no control. People have a right to have
Speaker 4: their opinion. You have the right to ignore it. People
Speaker 4: have the right to be rude. You have the right
Speaker 4: to stay happy. Quit letting their negative comments upset you.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't be talking about you if you weren't making
Speaker 4: a difference. Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for
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Speaker 4: to have you come out. I like to start with
Speaker 4: something funny, and I heard about this man. He was
Speaker 4: taking a walk through the woods with his friend when
Speaker 4: they suddenly encountered a huge grizzly bear about twenty yards
Speaker 4: in front of them. They both froze in their tracks
Speaker 4: as the bear intently stared them down. They contemplated what
Speaker 4: they should do. Finally, the man said to his friend,
Speaker 4: I think we should run. His friends said, are you crazy?
Speaker 4: Can't outrun a grizzly bear. Man said, I know that.
Speaker 4: I don't have to outrun him. I just have to run.
Speaker 4: You say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 4: I am what it says. I am. I have what
Speaker 4: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 4: I can do. Today, I will be taught the word
Speaker 4: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my
Speaker 4: heart is recepted. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 4: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 4: about keeping your joy. We all have opportunities to get
Speaker 4: upset and go around frustrated. Somebody was rude to us,
Speaker 4: Traffic was backed up, we can't find our car keys.
Speaker 4: Life is full of inconveniences, delays, and people that don't
Speaker 4: do right. We're never going to stop these things from happening.
Speaker 4: The key is how we handle them. The scripture says
Speaker 4: no man can take your joy. That means you control
Speaker 4: your joy. Nothing can take it from you. You have
Speaker 4: to give it away. Next time someone cuts you off
Speaker 4: in traffic, ask yourself, is this worth giving them my joy?
Speaker 4: That person that's rude to you on the phone, that
Speaker 4: you've never met, are you going to give them your joy?
Speaker 4: That delay, that plan that didn't work out, that negative comment,
Speaker 4: You're going to let that sour your day. The reason
Speaker 4: some people are not happy is they're constantly giving away
Speaker 4: their joy. I was in a crowded parking lot one
Speaker 4: time waiting for a parking spot. The man was putting
Speaker 4: his groceries in his car and took him a couple
Speaker 4: of minutes. I had my blinker on patiently waiting. When
Speaker 4: he finally backed out, a car came from the wrong
Speaker 4: direction and pulled in right in front of me. They
Speaker 4: could clearly see that I was waiting. My first response
Speaker 4: was to haunt my horn and tell them what I thought.
Speaker 4: Then I noticed he was bigger than me. I thought
Speaker 4: to myself, I'll give you my parking spot, but I'm
Speaker 4: not going to give you my joy. I didn't like it.
Speaker 4: It wasn't fair, but I've learned to not let things
Speaker 4: I can't control sour my day. I've made up my mind.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be happy today. I'm gonna enjoy my life.
Speaker 4: You can't control what people do, you can't control what
Speaker 4: they say, but you can control how you respond. My
Speaker 4: message is very simple. Quit giving away your joy. Quit
Speaker 4: letting the same people upset you. Quit letting the traffic,
Speaker 4: the delays, the things that don't work out frustrate you.
Speaker 4: You can't pray these things away. That person at the
Speaker 4: office that gets on your nerves. I don't mean to
Speaker 4: be negative but they may not change. They may be
Speaker 4: that way for the next twenty years. My challenge is,
Speaker 4: don't go twenty years giving them your joy. They may
Speaker 4: not change, but you can change. Life is too short
Speaker 4: to live frustrated upset over things we have no control.
Speaker 4: People have a right to have their opinion. You have
Speaker 4: the right to ignore it. You'll have the right to
Speaker 4: be rude. You have the right to stay happy. Quit
Speaker 4: letting their negative comments upset you. They wouldn't be talking
Speaker 4: about you if you weren't making a difference. Nobody talks
Speaker 4: about people that are not doing anything. They're talking about
Speaker 4: you because you're going places. They can see. There's something
Speaker 4: special about you. You have the favor of God, you're blessed,
Speaker 4: you're talented, you're anointed. Sometimes small minded people will try
Speaker 4: to push you down and discredit you. Don't pay any
Speaker 4: attention to it. That doesn't carry anyway. What they say
Speaker 4: cannot keep you from your destiny. That is simply a distraction.
Speaker 4: Every person has negative chatter. All your family members, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: are not going to be for you. George Byrne said,
Speaker 4: happiness is having a loving, caring, close knit family. Living
Speaker 4: in another city. Some of your relatives you have to
Speaker 4: love them from a distance. If they're sitting by you today,
Speaker 4: don't say amen. Now. All of your coworkers are not
Speaker 4: going to celebrate you. All of your friends are not
Speaker 4: going to be loyal. Some people can't handle your success.
Speaker 4: They'll make remarks trying to bait you into conflict, trying
Speaker 4: to get you upset. Here's the key. Don't get involved
Speaker 4: in battles that are not between you and your destiny.
Speaker 4: Most of the conflict we engage in is a distraction.
Speaker 4: The enemy would love to get you off course, offended,
Speaker 4: trying to straighten people out, trying to convince them that
Speaker 4: you're okay. Your job is not to change people's mind
Speaker 4: about you. Your job is not to try to make
Speaker 4: people like you. Your job is to run your race
Speaker 4: to be who God called you to be, and not
Speaker 4: worry about the critics and the naysayers. God will cause
Speaker 4: the right people to like you. One of the best
Speaker 4: things I've learned is everybody is not supposed to like you.
Speaker 4: Everybody is not supposed to approve you. Some people are
Speaker 4: ordained by God, not by the enemy, but by God
Speaker 4: to not before you. You have to accept that everyone
Speaker 4: is not going to accept you. We see it in
Speaker 4: the scripture. Joseph's brothers weren't supposed to be for Joseph.
Speaker 4: They were ordained to betray him. Without their betrayal, Joseph
Speaker 4: would have never made it to the palace to help
Speaker 4: the Israelites during the famine. Quit being soured because somebody
Speaker 4: betrayed you. How do you know that's not leading you
Speaker 4: to your palace? How do you know that disappointment is
Speaker 4: not a part of God's plan to take you to
Speaker 4: the next level of your destiny. King Saul was ordained
Speaker 4: to not like David. If he would have celebrated David
Speaker 4: been happy for his success, David would have never taken
Speaker 4: the throne. Are you upset because someone is not for you?
Speaker 4: When the truth is God has ordained them to not
Speaker 4: be for you. When Namiyah was rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem,
Speaker 4: there were two men Sandballop and Tobias that didn't like
Speaker 4: what he was doing. They stood at the bottom of
Speaker 4: the mountain and constantly shouted insults at Niemiah. They were
Speaker 4: trying to bait him into conflict, get him upset. Frustrated,
Speaker 4: Neamiyah understood this principle. He said, no thanks, I'm not
Speaker 4: giving you my joy. You may not like me, but
Speaker 4: you not liking me has nothing to do with me
Speaker 4: fulfilling my destiny. I'm gonna stay focused on what God's
Speaker 4: called me to do. If Namiah would have come off
Speaker 4: the mountain, God upset went down there to straighten them out.
Speaker 4: Even if he won, even if he shut them up,
Speaker 4: he wouldn't have finished the wall when he did. All
Speaker 4: the chatter that comes against you is a distraction. It's
Speaker 4: to get you upset, so you get in involved in
Speaker 4: battles that don't matter. Then you look up and you're
Speaker 4: not accomplishing what you should do yourself a favor, don't
Speaker 4: pay any attention to it. Quit being upset by people
Speaker 4: who are not for you. People that make negative comments,
Speaker 4: trying to marginalize you, push you down. What they say
Speaker 4: doesn't determine your destiny. They are simply a distraction. That's
Speaker 4: just noise. Don't give it the time of day. See
Speaker 4: some people, no matter what you do, they are not
Speaker 4: going to like you. Even if you changed and did
Speaker 4: everything they wanted, they would still find some reason why
Speaker 4: you don't measure up. You have to be at peace
Speaker 4: with people not being at peace with you. You don't
Speaker 4: need their approval to fulfill your purpose. You don't have
Speaker 4: to have them before you to become who God's created
Speaker 4: you to be. But if you get distracted trying to
Speaker 4: wind them over, spending your valuable time trying to convince
Speaker 4: them to before you, then you will miss the fullness
Speaker 4: of your destiny. Don't take the bank, don't let them
Speaker 4: get you riled up. Jesus said, blessed are the meek,
Speaker 4: they will inherit the earth. Meek doesn't mean weak. Meekness
Speaker 4: means strength under control. When you ignore negative comments, you
Speaker 4: don't pay attention to the sand ballants and tobias is
Speaker 4: of life. You're not being weak, You're being meek. You
Speaker 4: have the power to fight, You have the strength to
Speaker 4: straighten them out, to tell them what you feel. But
Speaker 4: your strength is under control. You're not wasting time engaged
Speaker 4: in battles that are not between you and your God
Speaker 4: given destiny. I've learned when you stay on the high road,
Speaker 4: God will take care of your enemies. God can defend
Speaker 4: you better than you can defend yourself. In the scripture,
Speaker 4: Elisha was traveling from Jericho to Bethel. Along the way,
Speaker 4: a group of young men came out and started making
Speaker 4: fun of him because he was bald. The scripture says
Speaker 4: they were mocking him, saying, go, baldygo. You didn't know
Speaker 4: that was in the Bible, did you? You know? Elisha
Speaker 4: was annoyed. He could have gotten upset, thought I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go straighten them out. I'll show you what I thought. Instead,
Speaker 4: he remained calm. He understood this principle. They couldn't take
Speaker 4: his joy. They were baiting him, trying to get him distracted.
Speaker 4: He just stayed focused and continued doing what God called
Speaker 4: him to do. While those young men were making fun
Speaker 4: of him, two bears came out of the woods and
Speaker 4: tore them to pieces. That tells me two things. Number one,
Speaker 4: don't make fun of all people. Number two, you don't
Speaker 4: have to straighten people out. God will be your vindicator.
Speaker 4: God knows how to take care of the opposition. He
Speaker 4: sees what they're doing, He hears the disrespect. If you'll
Speaker 4: stay in peace, God will fight your battles. When God
Speaker 4: does it, I can assure you it will be better
Speaker 4: than anything you could have done. But your feelings will
Speaker 4: want to pay people back. Feelings will tell us go
Speaker 4: in there, get even stand up for yourself. If you
Speaker 4: let feelings rule, you'll get upset. You'll end up giving
Speaker 4: away your joy. Don't get on board with your feelings.
Speaker 4: The Psalmas said God has given us the power to
Speaker 4: remain calm in times of adversity. It doesn't say God
Speaker 4: will keep us from all the adversity, from the opposition,
Speaker 4: the sand balance, the negative chatter. It says they will come.
Speaker 4: We'll have opportunities to get upset. But God has given
Speaker 4: us power to stay calm. Now quit telling yourself I
Speaker 4: can't help it. This person at the office, they just
Speaker 4: get on my nerves. You have the power to stay calm.
Speaker 4: That doesn't have to keep upsetting you. That is a
Speaker 4: learned behavior. They say something negative, I get offended. Traffic
Speaker 4: is bad, I get upset. The clerk is rude. I
Speaker 4: can't help with joel. I just go off. I just
Speaker 4: let them have it. The problem is you have strength,
Speaker 4: but it's not under control. You need to relearn how
Speaker 4: to respond. You need to develop some new habits. Next
Speaker 4: time something happens that you don't like, pause for a
Speaker 4: moment and say, Father, thank you that you've given me
Speaker 4: the power to remain calm. Think you that I have
Speaker 4: a spirit of discipline and self control. You don't have
Speaker 4: to let the same things keep upsetting you year after year.
Speaker 4: Change your approach. I met a gentleman in another state
Speaker 4: at a restaurant. Was very windy outside, and when he
Speaker 4: walked in the door, the person in front of him
Speaker 4: let the door slam right in his face. This man
Speaker 4: had been hot tempered his whole life. Normally, he would
Speaker 4: have confronted them and told them what he thought. But
Speaker 4: he'd been listening to our programs, and just when he
Speaker 4: was about to lose his cool, he he heard my
Speaker 4: voice saying, stay calm and let God fight your battles.
Speaker 4: He paused for a moment and decided to let it go.
Speaker 4: He walked away like nothing happened. We came in the
Speaker 4: restaurant and sat down. I was sitting a few tables away.
Speaker 4: He came over and said, Joel, if you had not
Speaker 4: been in my head, I would have let them have
Speaker 4: it like this man. You may have been trained to
Speaker 4: respond a certain way. You grew up seeing people lose
Speaker 4: their cool, get upset offended. Why don't you try a
Speaker 4: different approach. When you let people upset you, you are
Speaker 4: giving away your power. You are letting them control you.
Speaker 4: If they push this button, you get offended. That button,
Speaker 4: you get upset. This other button they bait you into conflict.
Speaker 4: Why don't you turn those buttons off? Life is so
Speaker 4: much more freeing when you're not controlled by what people say.
Speaker 4: You're not offended when someone's upset. You're not soured because
Speaker 4: traffic was bad. You have tapped in to the power
Speaker 4: to remain calm. A friend of mine named David Polly
Speaker 4: wrote a book called The Law of the Garbage Truck.
Speaker 4: He was in a taxi cab in New York City
Speaker 4: headed to a meeting. A car pulled out right in
Speaker 4: front of them. The taxi driver had to slam on
Speaker 4: his brakes swerve to the left, missing the car by inches.
Speaker 4: The driver of the other car put his head out
Speaker 4: the window, started screaming and yelling. He was so angry,
Speaker 4: so upset, shaking his fist. The funny thing, it was
Speaker 4: his fall. The taxi driver just smiled, waved real big
Speaker 4: and drove on. Didn't give it the time of day.
Speaker 4: David was in the back seat, and he was so impressed.
Speaker 4: He said, that man almost totaled your car, almost sent
Speaker 4: us both to the hospital. I can't believe you didn't
Speaker 4: yell back at him. How did you keep your cool?
Speaker 4: The taxi driver gave an insightful answer. He said, I
Speaker 4: found many people are like garbage trucks. They go around
Speaker 4: full of anger, full of frustration, full of bitterness. As
Speaker 4: their garbage piles up, they need somewhere to dump it,
Speaker 4: and sometimes they'll dump it on you. But you can't
Speaker 4: take it personally. It has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 4: Just smile, wish them well and move on. Here's the key.
Speaker 4: Successful people don't let garbage trucks overtake their day. If
Speaker 4: someone dumps a load on you, don't get upset. If
Speaker 4: you make that mistake, you'll end up carrying around their
Speaker 4: garbage and eventually you'll dump it on someone else. You
Speaker 4: have to keep your lid on. These days, many people
Speaker 4: are dumping frustration, disrespect, criticism, bitterness. We can't stop them
Speaker 4: from dumping it, but we can keep them from affecting us.
Speaker 4: Years ago, Victoria and I were at the airport. We
Speaker 4: were going through the security checkpoint. We put our bags
Speaker 4: on the exit machine. The security officer sent them both
Speaker 4: back and said, you have liquids in there that you
Speaker 4: have to remove. Victoria said, oh yeah, I forgot to
Speaker 4: take my water out. Well, I thought he was only
Speaker 4: talking to Victoria. So I just stood there and didn't
Speaker 4: do anything. You would have thought I had committed a
Speaker 4: major crime. He was like totally insulted. He practically screamed, sir,
Speaker 4: what are you doing standing there? I told you to
Speaker 4: open the bag and do it. Now, thought man. He's
Speaker 4: got a big garbage truck, and he was full of frustration,
Speaker 4: full of stress, and full of a lot of other stuff.
Speaker 4: But I didn't say it. You just thought it. But
Speaker 4: I took care of it. As I passed by, my
Speaker 4: said sorry about that. I thought you were just talking
Speaker 4: to her. Have a good dame. Didn't mean it, but
Speaker 4: at least I said it. But I thought to myself,
Speaker 4: I'm keeping my lid on. I don't need his garbage.
Speaker 4: I don't need that poison. We have enough of our
Speaker 4: own to deal with. You don't need somebody else's bitterness,
Speaker 4: their sour attitude, their pressure. Keep your lid on tight.
Speaker 4: Let those things bounce off of you. Your destiny is
Speaker 4: too great, your time is too important to go around
Speaker 4: way down with other people's garbage. You can't keep it
Speaker 4: from coming, but you can keep it from getting in you.
Speaker 4: The longer I live, the more I realize how valuable
Speaker 4: each day is. We're not always going to be here.
Speaker 4: It's easy to live upset, offended, frustrated. But most of
Speaker 4: the things that are upsetting us, in the big picture,
Speaker 4: they don't really matter. Traffic was backed up, took you
Speaker 4: an hour to get home, should have taken you thirty minutes.
Speaker 4: Is that worth losing your joy over? You're alive, You're healthy.
Speaker 4: God's given your breath to breathe. He's given you a
Speaker 4: family to love. Somebody was rude to you, They made
Speaker 4: you look bad, they said something negative. Is that worth
Speaker 4: going around defended? Discouraged? What if we found out we
Speaker 4: only had a month to live. I wonder how many
Speaker 4: things we're allowing to upset us now. If we found
Speaker 4: out our time was limited, we wouldn't even pay attention
Speaker 4: to it. Can I tell you our time is limited?
Speaker 4: The scripture says our life is like a mist We're
Speaker 4: here for a moment, then we're gone. That little quirk
Speaker 4: your spouse does that gets on your nerves. If we
Speaker 4: knew we weren't going to be here in a month,
Speaker 4: we wouldn't let it bother us. We would focus on
Speaker 4: all the things right, not on the few things wrong.
Speaker 4: We wouldn't complain about driving in traffic. We'd be happy
Speaker 4: to be in the traffic. We're alive. We've got another
Speaker 4: day to enjoy life. Well, I've got to go to work,
Speaker 4: not need. I get to go to work. Some people
Speaker 4: don't have a job. Some people are in the hospital,
Speaker 4: some people aren't able to work. I'm grateful to be employed. Well,
Speaker 4: I gotta go to church again. Not me. I get
Speaker 4: to go to church. God's been good to me. Now
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go back and say thank you. Not only
Speaker 4: that I get to go to Lakewood. I get to
Speaker 4: listen to that good looking minister. But Joe, my boss,
Speaker 4: is not fair. He's hard to get along with. This
Speaker 4: is not the position that I want. The truth is,
Speaker 4: somebody would love to have your job. Somebody would gladly
Speaker 4: trade places with you. It may not be perfect, but
Speaker 4: keep the right perspective. God's blessed you with the job.
Speaker 4: Don't let it sour your life. If you will pass
Speaker 4: the test of being happy where you are, then God
Speaker 4: can open some new doors. But if you don't get
Speaker 4: happy there, you probably won't get to where you want.
Speaker 4: To be and your boss may not be fair. I'm
Speaker 4: not making excuses for him. I'm asking you to quit
Speaker 4: giving him your joy. He doesn't control your happiness. Control
Speaker 4: your happiness. But if you let a grouchy boss, a
Speaker 4: grouchy neighbor, a bitter relative steal your joy keep you
Speaker 4: from being happy, it is not their fault. It is
Speaker 4: your fault. You are as happy as you want to be.
Speaker 4: You have to put your foot down and say, this
Speaker 4: is the day the Lord has made. I am not
Speaker 4: going to live sour, defeated, depressed. I am not going
Speaker 4: to let what people do or don't do, what they
Speaker 4: say or don't say, what I have or not have,
Speaker 4: keep me from being happy. I've made up my mind.
Speaker 4: I'm going to enjoy this day. It dishonors God to
Speaker 4: go through the day upset, frustrated, bitter. God gave you
Speaker 4: breath to be here. He could have chosen anyone, but
Speaker 4: he chose you, and he chose me. One way we
Speaker 4: honor God is by being happy, living grateful, having a
Speaker 4: good attitude, seeing the best in life. A couple of
Speaker 4: months ago, I was driving to the office during the
Speaker 4: week to meet some people, and I was in a hurry.
Speaker 4: I had left a little bit late, but I knew
Speaker 4: I could still make it on time if I didn't
Speaker 4: have any delays, and I had driven this route a
Speaker 4: thousand times. I was almost here a few blocks away,
Speaker 4: stopped at the intersection. I was in the left turn lane.
Speaker 4: This light is very short. You have to stay right
Speaker 4: behind the car in front of you to trigger it
Speaker 4: to stay green. Well, I was the third car back waiting.
Speaker 4: The problem was the car in front of me left
Speaker 4: about two car links between it and the first car.
Speaker 4: There was this huge gap. The light turned green, just
Speaker 4: like I thought. The first car went through turn red
Speaker 4: before the second car could make it. I could feel
Speaker 4: myself starting to get up tight. I heard that voice saying, Joey,
Speaker 4: keep your calm, keep your joy. I thought, I don't
Speaker 4: want to hear one of my messages right now. I'm
Speaker 4: in a hurry. We sat there waiting for a couple
Speaker 4: of minutes, and seemed like an hour. That time. The
Speaker 4: lady in the car in front of me got out
Speaker 4: and started walking toward the back. I thought, she's going
Speaker 4: to get something out of her trunk real quick. She
Speaker 4: came over to me. I rolled down the window. She said,
Speaker 4: are you joms. I want to say no, I'm fred
Speaker 4: I said, yes, I am. Out of the corner of
Speaker 4: my eye, saw the light go green back to red.
Speaker 4: We missed another one. She said, I love you. I
Speaker 4: watch you on television. I have all your books. Would
Speaker 4: you sign one for me? I said, you mean like now?
Speaker 4: She said yeah. I done it in my car and
Speaker 4: get it real quick. I said, I love to sign
Speaker 4: your book in the middle of an intersection. By now
Speaker 4: people were honking. Wasn't just me? Everybody had lost their job.
Speaker 4: I signed your book. Made it to the office about
Speaker 4: ten minutes late. Problem is, I forgot my key fob
Speaker 4: to get in on the door and knocked. Nobody answered,
Speaker 4: and called a staff member. It went to voicemail. Never
Speaker 4: goes to voicemail. Called another one, another one hot outside.
Speaker 4: Ten minutes later. When I finally got in, I just
Speaker 4: dripping with sweat. Had my meeting. Oh went well. Later
Speaker 4: that night I went up to the hospital to visit
Speaker 4: a friend that's fighting cancer. It's a serious situation. We
Speaker 4: had time to pray together, and on the way out,
Speaker 4: I prayed with several other families where they had loved
Speaker 4: ones didn't look good. They were very concerned. I left
Speaker 4: there with a different perspective. I had been frustrated that
Speaker 4: day by delays, by traffic, by not having keys. I
Speaker 4: realized those were small things that wasn't worth losing my
Speaker 4: joy over. I wasn't believing for a loved one to
Speaker 4: make it in the big picture. What was frustrating me
Speaker 4: really didn't matter. I wonder, if you're doing like me,
Speaker 4: letting insignificant things steal your joy, traffic, negative comments, you
Speaker 4: can't find something, keep it in perspective that's not worth
Speaker 4: losing your joy over. Don't let the small, insignificant things
Speaker 4: keep you from seeing the gift of this day. In
Speaker 4: the scripture, Habaccuk said it this way, though the fig
Speaker 4: tree does not blossom, and there be no fruit on
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Speaker 4: produce no food. Though there are no sheep in the pen,
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Speaker 4: I gonna do? Get depressed? Complain, feel sorry for myself?
Speaker 4: He said, Yet will I rejoice in the Lord. I
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Speaker 4: was saying, everything's come against me, had bad breaks. Business
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Speaker 4: like him, yet, will I rejoice in the Lord. We
Speaker 4: should make this decision every morning. I will be joyful today.
Speaker 4: Decide ahead of time that you're going to enjoy the
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Speaker 4: and if you receive it, well you say it.
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