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I like to get started each week with something kind of funny. So listen to this one. A professor told his college class that he was going to prove that God was not real.

He said, God, if you're real, knock me off this platform and I'll give you 15 minutes to do it.

And with every minute that went by, he kept oning God saying, here I am. God, I'm still waiting. At the last minute, a 300 pound football player walked by and heard what he said.

He came charging into the room, hit the professor with full force, sending him flying off the platform. The professor got up in a day and said, what'd you do that for?

The football player replied, God said he is busy, so he sent me. All right. Hold up your bibles. He said, like you mean it. Ready? This is my Bible.

I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do. Today I'll be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I will never be the same in Jesus' name. God bless you. You sound great as usual.

I want to talk to you today about the legacy that you're leaving and about how important it is that we break free from all the negative things that keep getting passed down from generation to generation.

It's just like when you go to the doctor's office and they ask you for your family's medical history. Do you have anyone that's had heart disease? Do you have any diabetes in your family line? Is there a history of this sickness or of that sickness?

They know that can be passed down from generation to generation. And in the same way, we can pass down a whole lot of other junk unless we rise up and do something about it.

And it's so easy to be passive and we just think, well, this is just the way my father was. He was always hot tempered and that's why I'm so hot tempered.

I had somebody tell me just the other week how she started having these real bad migraine headaches. And she said, Joel, I always knew I was going to have them because my mother had them, my grandmother had them.

It's been in our family line for as far back as we can see. The truth is she had already planned on having those headaches. She just basically accepted it and made up her mind to live with it the rest of her life.

But no, that is not God's best. You can be free. You don't have to live under the curse. You can live under the blessing. And some of you today have all kinds of junk in your family's bloodline.

It's been there for generations, divorce, poverty, alcoholism, addictions, negativity. Listen, you've got to rise up and do something about that because if you stay passive and just learn to accept it, all you're going to do is pass it on down to the next generation.

And what a shame to perpetuate it when you can be the one to put a stop to it. You need to put your foot down and say, no, this junk is not going to follow me around.

May it have been in my family for years, but I refuse to live negative. I refuse to just live with all these addictions. I am coming out in the name of Jesus.

The Bible says, they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. That tells me we need to start talking differently. Quit saying, I just can't get ahead. I've always been negative. Everybody in my family has had these same addictions, Joel.

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