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Speaker 6: Joel on Wednesdays, we bring you the best of I
Speaker 6: hope you enjoy the podcast. Well, God bless you, and
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Speaker 6: We love you guys, and if you're ever in our area,
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Speaker 6: our services. I promise you we'll make you feel right
Speaker 6: at home. But thanks so much for tuning in, and
Speaker 6: thank you again for coming out. And I like to
Speaker 6: start with something funny and I heard about this pastor.
Speaker 6: He was raising money for a new auditorium. He said
Speaker 6: to the congregation, anyone who will give one thousand dollars
Speaker 6: can pick out the next three hymns. Little old lady
Speaker 6: in the back raised her hand, said, Pastor, I'll do it.
Speaker 6: He was so excited. He said, thank you so much. Now,
Speaker 6: which three hymns would you like? She looked over the
Speaker 6: congregation said I'll.
Speaker 4: Take him, and him and him.
Speaker 6: Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 6: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 6: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 6: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 6: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 6: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 6: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 6: to talk to you today about activating the right genes.
Speaker 4: We receive our DNA from our parents.
Speaker 6: These genes that are passed down tell us what we're
Speaker 6: going to look like, how tall we're going to be,
Speaker 6: what color our hair is. People tell us often that
Speaker 6: our son Jonathan has his mother's eyes.
Speaker 4: He looks just like Victoria.
Speaker 6: I say, thank God, not only our physical traits passed
Speaker 6: down through genes, but even personality traits, our demeanor, our attitude,
Speaker 6: our sense of humor. Our daughter Alexandra is very neat
Speaker 6: and organized. From the time she was a little girl,
Speaker 6: she kept her room perfectly clean, everything in place, spotless.
Speaker 6: We never asked her to do that. That trait came
Speaker 6: from my grandfather.
Speaker 4: He was the same way. My mother is like that,
Speaker 4: and now our daughter.
Speaker 6: It's been passed down for four generations. Somewhere there's a
Speaker 6: gene that says, be neat, be organized, keep everything perfectly
Speaker 6: in place.
Speaker 4: But just as good.
Speaker 6: Characteristics can be passed down, so can negative characteristics. If
Speaker 6: one of your parents was an alcoholic, there's a ten
Speaker 6: times greater chance of you becoming an alcoholic. And for
Speaker 6: years we thought, well, too bad, it's in my genes. Depression, addictions,
Speaker 6: low self esteem, nothing I can do about it. But
Speaker 6: recently researchers have discovered something they call epigenetics.
Speaker 4: That word means on top of the genes.
Speaker 6: What they found is, just because a gene has been
Speaker 6: passed down.
Speaker 4: Does it mean that it has to be activated.
Speaker 6: It can be affected by your decisions, by your environment,
Speaker 6: and by your experiences. Now, while we cannot deactivate what
Speaker 6: color of hair will be or the shape of our eyes,
Speaker 6: there are certain genes that we can in effect turn
Speaker 6: on or turn off, governing what the scripture says that
Speaker 6: just because you inherit something doesn't mean you have to
Speaker 6: pass it down. You can deactivate the negative genes that
Speaker 6: have been passed down to you. In other words, just
Speaker 6: because your mother was depressed doesn't mean you're supposed to
Speaker 6: be depressed. You may have a natural tendency toward that.
Speaker 6: What you have to do is turn off that gene deactivated,
Speaker 6: don't pass it down to your children.
Speaker 4: It's easy to use it as an excuse.
Speaker 6: Well, mama was depressed, grandmother was negative. Great grandmother was
Speaker 6: a complainer. Joel, that's just who I am. Now, that
Speaker 6: is not who you are. You are a child of
Speaker 6: the Most High God. And just as you got your
Speaker 6: physical DNA from your earthly parents, you got your spiritual
Speaker 6: DNA from your heavenly Father. He put in you genes
Speaker 6: of joy, genes of strength, genes of peace, genes of victory.
Speaker 6: Now you get to choose which genes come alive. You
Speaker 6: may have had a lot of negative baggage pass down
Speaker 6: to you in your family line or addictions, divorce, depression,
Speaker 6: low self esteem. Don't be passive and just accept it.
Speaker 6: God has raised you up to put an end to it.
Speaker 6: You got to draw the line in the sand and
Speaker 6: say that's it. I'm turning off the depressed gene. I
Speaker 6: am not going to live my life discourage. This is
Speaker 6: the day the Lord has made. I am going to
Speaker 6: choose to be happy. What are you doing deactivating the
Speaker 6: depressed gene.
Speaker 4: You're turning it off.
Speaker 6: Why don't you turn off the negative gene, turn off
Speaker 6: the alcoholic gene, turn off the self pity gene.
Speaker 4: This is a new day.
Speaker 6: Don't blame the past, blame mama, blame granddaddy. Take responsibility
Speaker 6: and start activating the right genes. If you'll start making
Speaker 6: right choices, you can and override the negative things you inherited.
Speaker 6: You can break a generational curse. You have the power
Speaker 6: not only to put an end to it, but you
Speaker 6: can start a generational blessing. You can pass down things
Speaker 6: that will make it easier on your loved ones. After all,
Speaker 6: our children have enough to overcome without carrying around all of.
Speaker 4: Our negative baggage. Even if you don't.
Speaker 6: Do it, for yourself, do it for your children, Do
Speaker 6: it to make it easier on those that come after you.
Speaker 6: The scripture calls this negative baggage and iniquity, and it
Speaker 6: talks about how it can be passed down for four generations.
Speaker 6: The things you struggle with, they didn't just happen to
Speaker 6: show up. Somebody in your family line opened the door.
Speaker 6: I talked to a young lady that deals with anorexia.
Speaker 4: She's skin and bones. She told how.
Speaker 6: Her mother has the same problem. Her grandmother struggled with
Speaker 6: it as well. That's not a coincidence. That is an
Speaker 6: iniquity being passed from generation to generation. It will continue
Speaker 6: until somebody rises up and puts a stop to it.
Speaker 6: Somebody has to deactivate that gene. And God said in
Speaker 6: Deuteronomy chapter thirty, I set before you life and death,
Speaker 6: blessing and curses. Choose life so that you and your
Speaker 6: descendants will live. Notice your decisions don't just affect you,
Speaker 6: they affect future generations.
Speaker 4: No man lives and dies unto himself.
Speaker 6: We've heard a lot about the generational curse, but what's
Speaker 6: more important is our generational choice. Every right choice you make,
Speaker 6: you start to override the wrong choices.
Speaker 4: Of those that have gone before you.
Speaker 6: When you choose life, you choose blessing, you choose the victory,
Speaker 6: You and your descendants will see God's favor. I was
Speaker 6: reading about the famous author Ernest Hemingway. While he was
Speaker 6: one of the greatest writers of his day, his family
Speaker 6: had a long line of depression.
Speaker 4: Alcoholism, and suicide.
Speaker 6: Hemingway took his own life in nineteen sixty one. His
Speaker 6: sister committed suicide five years later. His brother committed suicide
Speaker 6: sixteen years after that. His granddaughter did the same thing
Speaker 6: in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4: What's interesting is.
Speaker 6: Hemingway's father took his life in nineteen twenty eight. I
Speaker 6: was wondering what would have happened way back there in
Speaker 6: the twenties if the father would have deactivated the suicide gene.
Speaker 6: What if he would have risen up and said, no,
Speaker 6: I've been made in the image of Almighty God.
Speaker 4: I have a purpose and a destiny.
Speaker 6: I am shaking off these negative, defeated thoughts. I know
Speaker 6: the power in me is greater than any force coming
Speaker 6: against me. If he would have taken authority over that
Speaker 6: negative spirit and instead activated the faith gene, the victory gene,
Speaker 6: the more than a conquered gene. He could have changed
Speaker 6: his family line. He could have broken the generational curse
Speaker 6: and started a generational blessing. You may be at that
Speaker 6: same place today. You could easily settle where you are,
Speaker 6: let the negative genes get passed down, make it harder
Speaker 6: on those that come after you. Or you could make
Speaker 6: a much better choice and say no, enough is enough.
Speaker 6: I am not going to live my life addicted, angry, defeated, depressed.
Speaker 6: I am not passing down that negative baggage. I'm choosing life.
Speaker 6: I'm choosing blessings. I'm gonna make choices that help my
Speaker 6: family and not hinder them. One time in the scripture,
Speaker 6: God told Saul to go and destroy the Amalekites, to
Speaker 6: totally wipe them out. Saul and his army went out
Speaker 6: and they defeated the Amalekites, but they spared the king.
Speaker 4: They captured him. He was King Agag.
Speaker 6: Fast forward hundreds of years, Esther is in the palace.
Speaker 6: A man by the name of Hayman is trying to
Speaker 6: get rid of.
Speaker 4: Her and all of her people.
Speaker 6: It says that Hayman was an Agite, and Agite is
Speaker 6: a descendant of King a Gag if Saul would have
Speaker 6: taken care of his enemy when God gave him the
Speaker 6: power to do it, Esther wouldn't be having this problem
Speaker 6: five hundred years later. Could it be that if you
Speaker 6: don't put an end to what you're dealing with, your
Speaker 6: family will still be struggling with it hundreds of years
Speaker 6: from now. God is saying, this is your time, This
Speaker 6: is your moment. Your destiny is calling out to you.
Speaker 6: The can either put up with it and let it
Speaker 6: conquer you, or you can say no. The same power
Speaker 6: that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside
Speaker 6: of me.
Speaker 4: I will conquer this addiction.
Speaker 6: I will conquer this depression, this low self esteem.
Speaker 4: I will not allow.
Speaker 6: It to linger for future generations to have to deal
Speaker 6: with friends. You were never created to live addicted and angry,
Speaker 6: constantly having to struggle. Those genes may have been passed down,
Speaker 6: but you have the power to break negative cycles. They
Speaker 6: may have been in your family for hundreds of years,
Speaker 6: But when you gave your life to Christ, you became
Speaker 6: a new creation. He put new genes in you. You
Speaker 6: have the DNA of Almighty God. There is strength in
Speaker 6: your genes, There is power in your genes. There is
Speaker 6: freedom in your genes.
Speaker 4: Now, don't settle where you are. God join.
Speaker 6: Everybody in my family gets divorced. Looks like I'm headed
Speaker 6: that way. Everybody struggles with these addictions. Everybody has financial problems. No,
Speaker 6: here's the catch. You're not everybody. God has called you
Speaker 6: to put an end to it. You are equipped, empowered,
Speaker 6: and well able.
Speaker 4: This is what the prophet is.
Speaker 6: Ezekiel said an interesting scripture, the fathers ate the sour grapes.
Speaker 6: Now the children's teeth are set on edge. As long
Speaker 6: as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, you will no
Speaker 6: longer quote this.
Speaker 4: This was a proverb they were living by.
Speaker 6: Their attitude was since the father had problems, the children
Speaker 6: will as well. Nothing we can do about it. Since
Speaker 6: the father ate the sour grapes, since the parents had addictions,
Speaker 6: Since the grandparents were depressed, then the children will struggle
Speaker 6: in those same areas.
Speaker 4: That was their philosophy.
Speaker 6: Then God showed up and said through his zee, stop
Speaker 6: saying that. Why do you keep using your relatives as
Speaker 6: an excuse? Why do you keep using what your parents
Speaker 6: did and the way you were raised as the reason
Speaker 6: to stay where you are? As long as the sovereign
Speaker 6: Lord lives. You don't have to be held bondage by
Speaker 6: the negative things in your past. In other words, your
Speaker 6: parents may have eaten the sour grapes. Your relatives may
Speaker 6: have made decisions that put you at a disadvantage, but
Speaker 6: God is saying it doesn't have to affect you. It
Speaker 6: may have held you back temporarily, but this is a
Speaker 6: new day. If you will start deactivating those genes pressing forward,
Speaker 6: then all the forces of darkness cannot hold you back.
Speaker 6: You don't have to eat the sour grapes. You've been redeemed.
Speaker 6: You're not under the curse. You're under the blessing. You
Speaker 6: have stepped into a new bloodline. And the good news
Speaker 6: is there's no defeat in this bloodline. There's no lack,
Speaker 6: no addictions, no mediocrity. You are a child of the
Speaker 6: most High God. Now I am here to announce that
Speaker 6: the Sovereign Lord is still alive.
Speaker 4: God is still on the throne. That means you don't
Speaker 4: have to eat to sour grapes. Now our part, shake
Speaker 4: off the self.
Speaker 6: Pity, don't make excuses, don't blame the past, don't blame
Speaker 6: your parents, don't blame your circumstances.
Speaker 4: That may be the reason.
Speaker 6: You are where you are, but that doesn't give you
Speaker 6: the right to stay there. Start dealing with the issues
Speaker 6: that are holding you back. Start activating the right Jesus.
Speaker 6: That's what a good friend of mine did. He was
Speaker 6: raised in a very dysfunctional home. His father was an
Speaker 6: alcoholic and he would get very violent.
Speaker 4: He saw him mistreat his mother.
Speaker 6: Be disrespectful, and go off into these fits of rage.
Speaker 6: He ended up just like his father. He was a
Speaker 6: drug addict and living a very violent, angry life. In
Speaker 6: his late twenties, he gave his life to Christ had
Speaker 6: this major turnaround.
Speaker 4: Long story short.
Speaker 6: He became the pastor of a church, very well respected man,
Speaker 6: a large church. He'd go around the world sharing his story.
Speaker 6: But what people didn't know is he still had an
Speaker 6: anger problem. God set him free from the addictions, the drugs,
Speaker 6: the alcohol, but the anger never left.
Speaker 4: He didn't show it out in public, but at home,
Speaker 4: nobody was around.
Speaker 6: The smallest things would set him off, just like his father,
Speaker 6: he would go into these fits of rage. He too,
Speaker 6: was very abusive to his wife. He didn't like it,
Speaker 6: he knew it was wrong, but he couldn't control himself.
Speaker 6: He wanted to get help, but he was too embarrassed. Thought,
Speaker 6: I can't tell anybody, the pastor of a church, what
Speaker 6: would they think about me. I'm supposed to be an example,
Speaker 6: but this is where we miss it. Just because you're
Speaker 6: dealing with a tough issue doesn't make you a bad person.
Speaker 6: Most likely somebody in your family line opened the door.
Speaker 6: Somebody allowed that iniquity, and they refuse to deal with it.
Speaker 6: Don't be like then, don't sweep it under the rug,
Speaker 6: ignore it, hope that it'll go away.
Speaker 4: That'll keep you in bondage.
Speaker 6: James five point sixteen says, confess your faults one to another,
Speaker 6: and you will be healed. Do you know there are
Speaker 6: some issues you cannot overcome on your own. You have
Speaker 6: to swallow your pride and find somebody you can trust,
Speaker 6: pastor a counselor a friend. Tell them what you're dealing with,
Speaker 6: Let them pray with you, stand with you, and bring
Speaker 6: accountability into your life. When you get it out in
Speaker 6: the open and say God, I.
Speaker 4: Need help with this anger.
Speaker 6: When you take steps to overcome you intend to celebrate
Speaker 6: recovery classes. That's when the scripture says you will be healed.
Speaker 6: You don't have to keep eating the sour grapes. That's
Speaker 6: what my friend did today. He is one of the
Speaker 6: most kind, most gentle people you'll ever meet.
Speaker 4: What did he do.
Speaker 6: He broke the generational curse. He chose life so his
Speaker 6: children won't have to deal with it.
Speaker 4: He deactivated that gene.
Speaker 6: It's still in him. It was passed down, but it's
Speaker 6: not affecting him. There is no addiction that is too
Speaker 6: much for you to overcome, no iniquity, nothing that has
Speaker 6: been passed down has to keep you from your God
Speaker 6: given destiny. The power in you is greater than any
Speaker 6: power that's coming against you. Now, don't do like he
Speaker 6: did at first, and learn to function in your dysfunction.
Speaker 6: God didn't create you to have issues and things you
Speaker 6: have to hide and feel bad about yourself. He created
Speaker 6: you to be totally free. But some of you, like
Speaker 6: my friend, what you saw growing up wasn't healthy. It's
Speaker 6: easy to think that that's normal. Maybe your parents didn't
Speaker 6: show much affection to you, and now you're not showing
Speaker 6: much affection to your children, or maybe there was violence, anger,
Speaker 6: disrespect in the home. Don't pass that down, deactivate that gene.
Speaker 6: Be affectionate to your children well joel, I'm a man.
Speaker 6: I don't hug my son, after all, he's grown. Now,
Speaker 6: let me tell you, a real man still hugs his son.
Speaker 6: A real man treats his wife with respect and honor.
Speaker 4: Men.
Speaker 6: The scripture says that your wife is a reflection.
Speaker 4: Of your glory.
Speaker 6: If she's beaten down, discourage, worn out, then you're not
Speaker 6: shining too brightly. She's reflecting your glory. You need to
Speaker 6: step it up a notch. Do something to put the
Speaker 6: spring back in her step, the smile back in her face.
Speaker 6: Take her to the mall, buy her something new, send
Speaker 6: her some flower, write her a note, Tell her how
Speaker 6: great she is. The brighter she shines, the better you look.
Speaker 4: That's why I keep Victoria looking fine. She makes me
Speaker 4: look good. But don't go to them all today.
Speaker 6: Okay, another thought, fathers, your daughter is going to marry
Speaker 6: somebody just like you. If you treat your wife lousy,
Speaker 6: don't give her the time of day, put her down.
Speaker 6: That's the kind of man your daughter is going to
Speaker 6: be attracted to. Our children follow our example more than
Speaker 6: they follow our advice. They're constantly taking everything in. They're
Speaker 6: like a video camera with legs. They're always in the
Speaker 6: record mode. They're watching how you treat people. When you
Speaker 6: treat your wife like a queen, you give her compliments,
Speaker 6: encourage her when you bring her coffee in bed, you
Speaker 6: open the car door, you bring her gifts. You make
Speaker 6: her feel loved, valued, respected on her.
Speaker 4: Listen, your daughter is going to marry a winner. Your
Speaker 4: daughter will marry somebody.
Speaker 7: Just like that.
Speaker 6: Now, you may not have seen this growing up. You
Speaker 6: may have seen just the opposite. What I'm saying today
Speaker 6: is you can set a new standard. Choose life, choose honor,
Speaker 6: choose respect. Pass that down to future generations. A few
Speaker 6: years back, we were on vacation at this very nice
Speaker 6: hotel with our family, and it was a large place
Speaker 6: and the rooms were spread out all over the property,
Speaker 6: very beautiful. When we first arrived, the bellman took us
Speaker 6: to our room down this long winding sidewalk. He had
Speaker 6: to curve around through these bungalows and over this bridge
Speaker 6: and around this big lake.
Speaker 4: We finally made it to our room.
Speaker 6: It was very complicated how to get there, so I
Speaker 6: paid close attention.
Speaker 4: A few nights later, we were leaving.
Speaker 6: The lobby just eating dinner, and we were walking back
Speaker 6: to our hotel room our son, Jonathan. He was about
Speaker 6: ten at the time. He said, Dad, you know we're
Speaker 6: taking the long way. It's much quicker this way. I said, no, Jonathan,
Speaker 6: I paid close attention. This is the way the bellman
Speaker 6: took us.
Speaker 4: This is the right way.
Speaker 6: He said, no, Dad, I'm telling you this way is quicker.
Speaker 6: I said, Jonathan, I am positive this is the right way.
Speaker 6: For the next couple of days, we always went my way.
Speaker 6: Each time Jonathan said, Dad, we're going the long way again. No,
Speaker 6: we're not, Jonathan, this is the right way. The last
Speaker 6: day Jonathan said, Dad, can we go my way? At
Speaker 6: least once? I said, all right, we'll go your way.
Speaker 6: And Jonathan let us down these stairs through this narrow passageway,
Speaker 6: and our room was right there. I promise you it
Speaker 6: was probably one hundred yards closer than the way we
Speaker 6: had been going. I said, Jonathan, why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 6: Come to find out, the bellman had taken us the
Speaker 6: law long scenic route so we could see the whole property.
Speaker 4: I looked at it on a map.
Speaker 6: We were going in a complete circle, coming all the
Speaker 6: way back to our room. If I'd just listened to Jonathan,
Speaker 6: we could have gone straight to the room saved us
Speaker 6: a lot of time. Sometimes in life, what we've seen
Speaker 6: model growing up is not the best route. Well, my
Speaker 6: mother was a worrier. Now I'm a warrior. Can I
Speaker 6: tell you that's the long way? Well, my dad always
Speaker 6: lost his temper, you know, Joel, like father, like son.
Speaker 6: I can't control my temper either. That's the long way.
Speaker 6: You need to examine what you do.
Speaker 4: Ask yourself. Am I taking the long way?
Speaker 6: Am I holding on to a grudge, not forgiving, because
Speaker 6: that's what I've seen modeled. Am I living insecure, feeling
Speaker 6: less than because that's the way the people were that
Speaker 6: raised me. Am I making poor choices, giving into temptation, compromising,
Speaker 6: because that's all I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: Friends, that's the long way.
Speaker 6: Don't get stuck in a rut and go that way
Speaker 6: year after year. Recognize what's happening and make the right adjustments.
Speaker 4: I heard about this lady.
Speaker 6: She wrote her autobiography in four very short chapters, go
Speaker 6: something like this. Chapter one, I walked down the street.
Speaker 6: There was a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fell
Speaker 6: into it.
Speaker 4: It wasn't my fault.
Speaker 6: It took me a long time, but I finally got out.
Speaker 6: Chapter two. I walked down the same street. There was
Speaker 6: a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fell into it.
Speaker 4: It was my fault.
Speaker 6: It took me a long time, but I finally got out.
Speaker 6: Chapter three. I walked down the same street. There was
Speaker 6: a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walked around it.
Speaker 6: Chapter four, I walked down a different street. But too
Speaker 6: often we keep repeating the same mistakes, making excuses. It's
Speaker 6: not my fault, blaming the past, blaming our parents.
Speaker 4: No, take responsibility.
Speaker 6: Don't go down that same path again and again, losing
Speaker 6: your cool, compromising, worried, negative. If you'll break those cycles
Speaker 6: of repetitive behavior, you will go to a new level
Speaker 6: of your destiny. In eighteen seventy four, a member of
Speaker 6: the New York Prison Board noticed that there were six
Speaker 6: people from the same family serving in one of the prisons.
Speaker 6: He was intrigued and did a study. He traced the
Speaker 6: family line back to a man by the name.
Speaker 4: Of Max Jukes.
Speaker 6: Jukes was born in seventeen twenty. He was known in
Speaker 6: the town as the Troublemaker, a heavy drinker with no integrity.
Speaker 6: He married a woman just like him. They had six
Speaker 6: daughters and two sons. Twelve hundred of their descendants were studied.
Speaker 6: Of those, three one hundred and ten were homeless, one
Speaker 6: hundred and eighty were alcoholics, one hundred and sixty were
Speaker 6: drug addicts, one hundred and fifty were criminals, while seven
Speaker 6: of them committed murder. Another family that lived around that
Speaker 6: same time was studied. His name was Jonathan Edwards. He
Speaker 6: was a famous theologian and the president of Princeton University.
Speaker 6: He was born in seventeen o three and married his
Speaker 6: wife Sarah.
Speaker 4: He was a devoted.
Speaker 6: Family man that remained married for thirty one years until
Speaker 6: his death. They had eleven children. Fourteen hundred of their
Speaker 6: descendants were studied. Among them, thirteen were college presidents, sixty
Speaker 6: six were professors, one hundred were attorneys, eighty five were
Speaker 6: authors of classic books, thirty two were state judges, sixty
Speaker 6: six were physicians, and eighty were holders of public office,
Speaker 6: including three governors, three US senators, and one Vice President
Speaker 6: of the United States. What am I saying? It makes
Speaker 6: a difference what you're passing down. Your decisions are affecting
Speaker 6: future generations. Like the Jukes, you may have some negative
Speaker 6: things in your family line. They will continue until somebody
Speaker 6: rises up and puts a stop to it. I'm saying
Speaker 6: today you can be that person. God has raised you
Speaker 6: up for such a time as this. You have the
Speaker 6: most powerful force in the universe on the inside of you.
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