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I just want to share a little bit about my story before I go into my sermon and, you know,

8 a.m. got a good amount of my story. I'm going to shorten it a little bit more for you guys.

But by 12 years old, I started selling drugs and I started doing a lot of things that, you know,

12 year old is not supposed to be doing. The 12 year olds should be focused on school, focus on doing some good things and stuff like that. But my desire at 12 years old was to be like my older brother. My brother's desire was to be like my father. My father was to be, desire was to be like his father. And there was just these generational curses that were just running rampant within my family that led to gangs and led to drugs and led to things like that.

And so by 12 years old, I'm not just doing drugs. I'm selling drugs in middle school for my older brother.

And so I had already experienced sleeping with girls. I had already experienced fighting and being violent.

I started doing graffiti. I became a tagger around that

age. And so I started just going downhill. And I realized, too, a lot of the stuff I was going through,

I had a hole and a rejection within me. And it was a lack of love that I desired for my father.

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