Hello hackers, biohackers, everybody, thank you so much for coming. My name is Michael Laufer, I'm Chief Spokesman for the Fourth East Vinegar Collective and I'm here to recruit you. Because we've done a lot of fun things, we've made a lot of great progress and a lot of different projects, but we still have things that need doing and we need more people. Oh, there I am. Alright. Everybody hear me okay now? Alright, I'll stop projecting them. Okay. So, to my mind, hacking as an ethos is an ethical issue. What it does is it takes what's possible and it uses that to leverage and do more than what's allowed for the greater good. So many things are possible when we move outside the boundaries of what's allowed and I think that's sort of the vibe here at DEF CON. So I want to thank the biohack village and DEF CON for having us, we're really honored to be here. And we want to talk specifically about health. This is what we work in. We're a global health organization, we're an anarchist collective. And the important thing to think about in terms of health is that it happens no matter what else is going on.   If you don't have your health, you don't really have anything else. And not only does it deprive you of the capacity to live life, it really deprives you of engaging with life in a meaningful way. So, I hope some of you were at hope. Anybody go to hope and see us there? Thank you for coming across the country to see us again. We're not going to have a lot of overlap, hopefully. I'm hoping to talk about all the things I couldn't talk about at hope. That talk is online if you want to see it. If you have heard of us before, two years ago we were at hope. And I made kind of a stink because Martin Chacrelli was kind of in the news. Martin Chacrelli is CEO, or was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. And if you're not familiar, Daraprim is this anti-toxoplasmosis drug.  It's not a big deal for most of us. I think I have it. A lot of people have it. If you hang out with cats, you probably have it. If you have an impulsive nature, you probably have it. But if you have a compromised immune system in advanced stages of cancer, HIV, or if you're pregnant, it's very, very dangerous. And there's only one drug that's currently approved to treat it. The molecule in question is called pyromethamine and the brand name is Daraprim. Turing Pharmaceuticals has exclusive license on it and you take it for about a week and a half and you're done. And it was $13.50 a pill and then he changed the price to $750 a pill, to which a lot of people, myself included, took quite some exception. So it's not that hard to manufacture. I did it on stage and this photograph of me on the left is me throwing 200 milligram pills to the audience. So it's $750 for 50 grams and four times that's a $3,000 pill that I'm manufacturing for 25 cents. I'm throwing it to everybody. So then to continue the publicity stunt, I called him at this number. Unfortunately, this number no longer works because he's in Fort Dix because he just got seven years for insider trading or, you know, trade fraud. But if you do want to get in touch, whoops, I apologize, if you do want to get in touch, you can still write to him. Here, I did. He didn't, however, write back. I was really hoping that we'd be able to have an ongoing conversation. It didn't happen. But you know, his loss, I'm actually hoping to go to Fort Dix and see if he wants to chat some more. The big publicity splash that the collective had was when the EpiPen thing happened. We developed the EpiPencil, which was sort of a combination of off-the-shelf parts. You can build your own auto-injector for about $30. You can reload it for about $3. And we were feeling pretty good about ourselves because it seemed like a lot of people were getting a lot of good from this and we blew up on YouTube and then YouTube said, you're endangering the public. And I said, okay, if that's really what you think. So don't worry, this is still hosted. We have all the files on our website. It's now on the Internet Archive and the Alexandria Project. The ironic thing was is that after YouTube gave us the shaft, it turned out that Myland wasn't doing so good. So the FDA came down and said, don't build your own EpiPen. It's not safe. But then real EpiPens started to fail and they recalled something like 80,000 of them. And any time you walked into a pharmacy, it said, do you have EpiPens? Bring them back. They might fail. And they did a recall. And the dangerous thing is that because it's single use, you can't test it until it either works or it doesn't. The EpiPencil R version, you can test as many times as you want because it's reloadable and you can audit the entire process. And then on top of that, Myland dropped the ball. They were told to investigate and they didn't. And then on top of that, after that blew over and somehow it stopped being a problem, there was the shortage. You couldn't get them. Even if you were willing to pay $600 for a pair. And after all of that, and mind you, that was a year and a half ago. It was almost two years ago. The price still hasn't changed. And interestingly enough, the price of Deriprim also hasn't changed. You know, everybody got their sacrificial lamb. You know, Chacrally's rotting in Fort Dix. But Turing Pharmaceuticals is still raping people for their money. So in terms of the EpiPen thing, here's Heather Breusch, lying to Congress. Oh, do I have my phone? I do have my phone. Why is this important? Because I have this information. Now, this is a, should I call her? I'll just take a show of hands. Okay. Let's do it. So I called her a few weeks ago from Hope and I got her VoIP voicemail. You can't leave a message on her voicemail unless you have a passcode. But let's see. So four, one, two, seven, four, one. But little note, she was at home last night. Don't ask me how I know. Alright. So let's see. You guys here? It's important. We could chat about so many things. I have thoughts about you. So if anybody's really good at VoIP hacking, I think I'm gonna get this password thing again. Yeah, so I don't know. Yeah, I try that two weeks ago. It didn't work, but yeah. 5555 didn't work either. Anyway, anybody wants to crack that? Let me know and I'll try again. Anyway, that was fun. Sorry I didn't get to chat with her. So I have a secret and even my fellow collective members who are present don't know about this. But an old hacker tradition is spot the fed. Is there a fed in the audience? My friends would say probably. But there's somebody else in the audience from a different three letter organization. I was informed that there are two gentlemen from Glaxo Smith Klein who are present. Now why they're here is like such a mystery. But I have some theories that I'd like to share. A few years ago I wrote this expose about how Glaxo Smith Klein actually has the technology to more or less end the AIDS epidemic but probably won't. And from an, you know, an uncharitable perspective it's possible that they're here to sort of shake me down. But I'm hoping, I'm hoping that wherever those gentlemen are that the reason they're here instead is to say, you know, we kind of dig what you're doing kid. Let's have a drink. So wherever you are guys, let's hang out, right? Let's help each other. That said, this is the biggest deal that I talk about in general. The amount of technology and I think everybody here knows this is in general about technology. The amount of things that have been developed but aren't on the shelf is incredible. And this extends to health in an incredible, incredible way. All of the things that we could do but don't add up in these just frightening ways. And the Glaxo Smith Klein thing specifically, they have a new antiretroviral that they are trying to push through clinical trials. But it's something that with one injection can act as both a pre-exposure prophylaxis and also as an antiretroviral for people who are infected with HIV and is effective for four months at a time. This means that if you went into a community that had a high viral load you could dispense with the stigma of testing and say, we know some people have this and we don't care who. Everybody's going to line up, you're going to take your medicine. If you have HIV, this will keep you healthy. If you do not have it, you will not get it. And we'll be back next season to do this again. And within a generation you could essentially wipe it out. That said, and I don't want to make assumptions GSK people, but I have this feeling they're not going to be giving it away like that. But we could be. So how do you do this? How do you deal with the pharmaceutical crisis? The magic of pharmaceutical is that it's a molecule. It's chemistry. But there's this terrible cultural stigma against chemistry like oh you shouldn't do it at home, isn't it difficult? People should only be doing chemistry if they have letters after their name and have qualifications. Well I think we hackers have a different idea about things. That said, on top of that hackers work so well to try to destigmatize the frighteningness of technology so that people can have access. I mean in the 80s right, the culture was computers are scary. Oh god they're going to end the world and cause World War three and weirdness and now everybody's got one in their pocket and another on their lap and another back at home. Same thing about rapid prototyping. That was a niche thing until about eight years ago and now 3D printing is something we just throw around loosely. And in the cases of these things where technology has shifted and becomes something that was accepted, seems that there's a common thread. Two things. First, a touch of automation to take the things that are repetitive and easy to screw up. And then a good user interface so it seems friendly. You know, smiles at you. There are little pictures of folders instead of typing out a directory name. And so the question is can you do this with chemistry?  This is an automated chemical reactor. These are two. And these are commercial. And you can buy them. Sorry no, you can't buy them. Why? Well they're prohibitively expensive, they're full of proprietary technology so if they break you can't fix them.  Not that there aren't work arounds for that. But if you look at these, they're not terribly sophisticated. What you're looking at is a jacketed reactor. The inner glass chamber is where the reaction happens. You can see there's a stir bar that comes down and keeps stirring. The outer jacket carries a fluid. The fluid is regulated temperature wise externally and keeps the reaction happening at a stable temperature. Very easy to do. Essentially a PID module. And then you have things that are injecting reagents at particular times. In the old days you just had a graduate student do it. Where you're like here, store this for 12 hours at 30 C and then when you're done with your book, you know, put this in and then do it again. But you know, some chemists came up with the idea that they could have better uses for their grad students. So they, you know, started having these produced. Now again, the difficult part is that you can't get them. But regulating temperature, stirring, injecting things at a particular time, how hard could it be? Not very. So how do we know? Well, you know, we have all of these technologies where we're hijacking all of that other stuff and saying, well, we can build this at home. And, you know, we did. So this was the very first alpha unit. This was super hacked together. I was, right, yeah. It's a Mason jar, okay, with tubing. That's a bicycle nipple to try and regulate pressure. And that's a T warmer on the side. Now, you can't do a whole lot with this. But this was a proof of concept that I built when I was living out of my VW bus. No breaking bad jokes, please. And, you know, I made aspirin with it. It was very, very simple. But as more and more people came on, it became more sophisticated. So again, this is the PID module. And these were like some lights that I set up to blink. It's user feedback, right? They blink. It means something's happening. So then we had a later alpha unit that was very hack and slash. We used an Arduino UNO, I think this was. Again, with blinking lights. But how do you put the other pieces together? Well, you have to inject reagents somehow. So there are these open source syringe pumps that were designed by a woman named Nieve Cuomo who lives in Spain. And so as you can see, these are 3D printed parts. These are the ones that she made.  This was an automated cassette retrieval system that I'd gotten out of an industrial dumpster. And we're fine. It's not great. But then, after we were at Hope the last time, we got a bunch of people who were much more sophisticated in software design, hardware design, putting these things together. So we got, sorry. So we shifted things a little bit. Here's me on the left. And you can see I'm holding one of the more recent generations of jacketed reactor. This is a Mason jar, within a Mason jar. And there's a 3D printed core that links them together. There are places where the fluid comes in and where the fluid is pumped out. And then there's a spot for the stir bar that comes to the center. And then separately in another Mason jar, there's the temperature regulation that happens. Then the next version we decided to move to the Raspberry Pi Zero, which is on the upper right. And you can see me holding the prototype breadboarded out there. And now, we're very pleased that we've managed to make the jump to actual circuitry. Here's the schematic. And here are the printed boards, which I think looks so cool. And I can say that because I didn't design this, right? I very much appreciate the members of the collective who did this work. And here's the other side. Here's the cutaway. And then we have a picture of it actually populated. So here you can see the switches, the power jack is on the left. There's a bank of relays on the right that control the things that require some power. On the flip side you can see the chips that drive the stepper motors and the little rail where the Raspberry Pi Zero drops in. And if you want to see it, it looks like this. So, who wants this one? All right. So I have a few. And to be on brand, I have them in these wonderful ziplock bags that look like mason jars. So, all right. So here, I'll first be a few out. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, sir. Okay. Who's, all right. Oh, sorry. Okay. I have a few more. I don't want to hurt anybody. But I have two more. Come up and chat with me after. We also have a workshop happening after that we'll all chat about. And I can give the last two out. All right. So, whoops. I just knocked the video out. I'm so sorry. There you go. Okay. Okay. Well, I can still talk about things. I'm not quite sure what I just hit. Somebody give me a hand? Okay. Cool. So I think I jumped ahead. No, that's all right. All right. So this is Von Hipple. Eric Von Hipple is sort of a godfather of user innovation and open sourcing. He invited me to MIT to come speak. And it seemed really friendly until he dragged me into a back room and said that he thought I was going to ruin the last 40 years of his work because people were going to recklessly utilize this and things were going to go wrong. And he likened it to the 3D printing world. If we had started by 3D printing guns then it would have been criminalized. And I was like, you know, if really the last 40 years of your work is threatened by me putting an idea forward. Go ahead. Yeah, it's fine. I'll just keep going.  I'm not that much of a threat. But in honor of that, we have a new reactor core that we are dubbing the Von Hipple. So this is our beta unit here. And you can see this, instead of being printed in three pieces and needing caps, it's all built together. You can actually screw the smaller jar on the top or on the bottom, drop this into the larger jar, screw it down, and it's ready to go. And look at how great this is. Again, I could admire it because it's not my work. The hardware team did a great job. So while this is coming back, who wants this one? So here's one. Whose favorite color is blue? And then I have a couple that are sort of semi prints so you can sort of see the interior and the base. So if people want to look at these later, I have them as well. So again, as this continues to boot. All right. So here, again, this is a new version of the syringe pump that can be printed entirely. You need almost zero parts for it. And so we continue to try to scale in two directions. One being for how can this go into sort of small scale production so somebody can grab our GitHub repo and maybe set up a shop and sell things because we don't sell things. But if somebody wanted to make kits, hi, anybody want to chat about that later? You can totally do it. And then on the flip side, if you're manufacturing everything yourself, it should be easy enough. So we have a file format that will drive things. And it's very simple. You can sort of watch it run here. And you can see it's fairly self-explanatory. You're basically timing. You're looking at when you're dumping the various syringe pumps and where you're keeping the temperature. There's a piece of user feedback. I'm not sure if I'm going to have time unfortunately to show you guys the user interface, but it's cool. It's really cute. And again, anybody who wants to come to the workshop after I can show you guys that. But the question always comes. Isn't the chemistry complicated? Aren't people going to make mistakes? Aren't there these scary stories of people who were manufacturing meth and gave people Parkinson's overnight? And the answer is, well, yeah. And that's where the hard part comes in. How do you design a reaction so it's robust? How do you make it so the errors are the margin for errors greater? And the answer is you do this with computational chemistry. So this is a screen shot from some proprietary technology to which you don't have access and I no longer have access. But this was a small startup called Comatica. And they had some very sophisticated machine learning stuff that was digging through the last five to seven hundred years of chemical literature to look at anything related to your reaction and build something within the parameters you wanted.  This is how we made DeraPrem, you know, two years ago. And we said, okay, we'd like to do it in one step. And we, you know, we want to be able to do it with a huge margin of error. So if the temperature fluctuates or measurements are off, it doesn't matter. And this is actually a one step synthesis of DeraPrem that you can do. We didn't end up going with this one because one of the precursors is expensive. But we had them do it again. We got it down to two steps and with stuff that is commercially available and very, very cheap. So we tried to keep a relationship with Comatica, but there was this problem, which is they got acquired and Merck doesn't really like us. And I know this because they told me so. I did call them. And apparently my call has been escalated to the proper authorities, but it didn't come back. So again, another group I was hoping to have a live call with, which didn't fly. The big idea, though, here is that any of this, yeah? Okay. Hmm. All right, I'm going to have to accelerate a little bit here. The idea here, though, is that science is a human right. What is a human right? A human right? You have to explore that question. You ask what's human? There are two things that make us human. Human body and the human mind. Biohacking incarnate. If you can't explore intellectually and adjust your body as you see fit, and you're not free. So that said, we have a data science team and they set about trying to build a new version of comatica. So this is their data on the left, and this is our set of data so that the captions are switched. So this is, you can see the structure is the same, but we need access to their big database if we want to run this properly. Of course, it's very expensive and it's protected, but hackers to the rescue. These are QR codes for three dark net sites. Please take pictures like right now. These three places have this data. The data is password protected. Apparently a little bird told me that the password is very robust. If you are good at hacking tar ball password files, please crack this. If you are not good at cracking tar ball files, please save this data so it stays in the ecosystem. Everybody got the pictures? Yeah. Okay. And again, we have this ethical issue with which we deal. And the problem is that you have the medical industry disenfranchising you from access to things that you could do yourself, but you're not allowed because of the legality. This happened a couple weeks ago. A woman fell into the gap between a train and the platform and her femur was sticking out and she didn't ask for help. She begged people not to call an ambulance because she couldn't afford it. Something is very wrong. And there are a gazillion examples of this. You know, getting one stitch, the prices of any number of drugs skyrocketing, not being able to and in fact, I'm not even the hundredth person that come up with this idea. Hospitals are making their own drugs because they can't afford to buy them. Something's really amiss. So I want to talk quickly about orphan drugs. Orphan drugs fall into a particular category. I can tell anybody details who wants to know, but they get very, very expensive. This cures a bunch of cancers, but things don't work very well. Thank you. Oh, cool. I have more time than we thought. So this is Ketrude. It cures a particular type of cancer. The problem is it's extraordinarily expensive. However, like most drugs that are orphan drugs, they're biological derivatives. This is a Chinese hamster. I mean, not nationally, that's the species. But Chinese hamsters have ovaries that are really easy to grow things on. And this is how you, that's how Ketrude is made. Now, I want to stress this. The step for between making the biological material and creating the medicine is extraordinarily non-trivial. But something cool about when a drug is based on biological material. So here are the five most expensive drugs in the world. They're all orphan drugs. This means that fewer than, I think, 10,000 people in the world have them. And they fall under a whole host of laws that make it so that your patent can last for longer and, you know, you have zero price restrictions and on and on and on. Now, this is interesting. Glybera, it's a virus and it's harvested through army warm cells. Celeris is an antibody that is harvested through NS0 cells. Elipraise is an enzyme replacement as is naglizime. One's built using recombinant DNA methods and another one is just an engineered version of E. coli.  Now, I mention this specifically because we are in the biohacking village. And typically, when I come and give talks to biohackers, I have to sort of apologize and say, you know, I'm not really a biohacker. We don't really do biohacking in the collective until today. So what we're working to create is a way that people can have access to this. Now, if you recognize this fellow, this is George Church. I met him at MIT about a year ago and he was really, really cool. About six months later, he was quoted in New York Times saying this, which was really creepy and really disheartening. Now, to be fair, it seems like he was either misquoted, quoted out of context at the very least. It doesn't seem like the kind of thing he would say, but there are people who hold this opinion, even if it's not his. And to them, we have four words. So how do we get around this? How do we make it so that access is guaranteed? Well, we have an idea. The magic of biological material is that if you are set up to replicate and store it, if you get a small amount of it, then what you can do is make copies. You can store it. You can send it to people and they can make copies. And does this sound familiar? And given that these are the precursors for any number of medicines, why not do it? So we can have a distributed library of precursors for medicines and once biohackers get good enough at filtering things out, we eventually will have access to medicines for all.   So how do you do this? So there are two pieces to this. One is actually distributing things. And another way is doing it in a way so that you can bypass a certain amount of anonymity and plausible deniability. Now this is being worked on. If you are a crypto person and you work on things like Tor and other anonymizers, there is a collective of hackers who's starting to build a structure that's going to allow us to be able to share things, a database of places that have what sort of biological material you might be looking for, and you will be able to set up a system of envelopes within envelopes. Again, sound familiar? And you will be able to be a node in the network where you either open it up and it's for you, or you open it up and it's another envelope and you just put it back in the mail and it goes somewhere else and you say, I don't know where it came from. And there are systems for making it so that you don't actually know exactly where it's going. Again, if you want to come up and hear details about this, there was a really great talk at Hope like four years ago about a way that you can put in a postal code and the machines will read it, but a human being won't know where it's going. And these priority mail envelopes, they slide inside each other really well. You know, they're made of Tyvek, so it's cool. So there are basically four types of biological material. There are million cells, there's bacteria, you have plants and you have fungus. And again, you can copy these. Now, for those of you who have ever worked with mushrooms or fungus of any type, Mycelium really likes paper and in the U.S. Postal Service, we have a special rate for shipping books called book rate. It's wicked cheap. And you can, if you want to share biological information as fungus base, you can merely inoculate a book and then just ship it book rate. Now, interesting thing, about 20 years ago, book rate became media mail. You could all show ship CDs. And I was thinking, CDs kind of look like Petru dishes, don't they? So we're working on ways to utilize this as a way to ship things. All right. So now I want to be a tad graver. I want to talk about the most common infectious disease in human beings. And this is dental caries, cavities. Now, how do you get a cavity? Well, you get a cavity because the enamel layer in your tooth is broken down and it sets up shop so that other bacteria can come in and hang out. Where does lactic acid come from? Comes from this guy. This is streptococcus mutans. And it has evolved so that it can actually grip the surface of your tooth. Very uncommon for most bacteria. It eats sugar and it excretes lactic acid. This is the culprit. And this leads to so many deleterious health effects that come after. Heart problems, vascular problems, type 2 diabetes, low birth weight and pregnancy, any number of things. And it disproportionately affects minorities and people in lower socioeconomic classes. Now, this is a gross picture I'm about to show you guys. So brace yourselves. This guy's 17. He drinks a lot of Mountain Dew. And his teeth were so rotted that when he went to have them extracted, local anesthetic did not work. Let's not have this happen ever again. So how do we do this? Well, the first idea is your mouth has your immune system working in it. So maybe we could inoculate against this. And some people thought some thoughts about this. And yes, you could theoretically inoculate against it. But the only way that that works is if you inoculate before it's in your system.  Maybe if you have a newborn you could pull this off. It was tested and some, you know, one or two months old managed to get it to work. But I can tell that nobody in this room is of that age. So how do we do this instead? Well, if we could just do something about that one bacteria, so there was an idea. A guy said, what if we repopulate the mouth with a genetically engineered version of this? And how do you do this? Well, you edit it. And there are two edits that were done. This is the first one. And what he did was he said, let's make a new version of strep mutans that's immune to a particular antibiotic and also excretes that antibiotic. So as soon as you put it in there, it wipes the rest out and builds the same colony because it's the exact same species, more or less. And so the population stays stable and its life cycle stays stable. Let's make a second edit, the guy said. And let's make it so that instead of cranking out lactic acid, it cranks out alcohol. Trace them out. Trace them out, right? Like, don't get too excited. But he did this and it worked.  How do we know? The guy who invented it did it. And 12 other people who are in one of the studies that he was actually able to do before he ran out of money in the FDA said you need to do a bunch more and all these extra things. But I don't have access to this. We did manage to get our hands on the one with the first edit. So this is strep mutans Clark, J.H. 1140. So this is the one that has the edit in it so that it will out compete regular strep mutans. It does not have the edit so it doesn't produce lactic acid but instead has alcohol. That's an edit that still needs to be done. Now, show of hands, how many people have done recombinant DNA stuff. Cool. Who wants this one? All right. So in addition, I have a bunch more of these and right after I'm done we're going back to the workshop and we have stab cultures because we can make copies of this. Now, one thing I have to warn you we're not entirely sure if these stab cultures took so if it's dead I'm really sorry but we have them and even if all these stab cultures are dead we have the starting material. We have a culture that is alive and we are going to be able to perpetuate it and we are going to be able to distribute it. Now, how do you do the edit? There are lots of different ways to do this. Okay. And if you've done any of these or want to try some of these go ahead because we have an endless supply now that we have one sample. Now, again, I'm not a biologist. I don't know a whole lot about this but the one that's sort of appealing from the hacker perspective is horizontal gene transfer and was explained to me by a dear biologist friend if you just get the bacteria that you really like to party really hard together they share traits. Now, what was done was the open reading frame for the production of alcohol dihogenase or sorry the production of lactic acid was deleted and then from a different species detailed in that paper which I will share with anybody who's interested it was pulled in the production of alcohol dihogenase was just stuck in there it was apparently a very simple procedure and again the bacteria falls from a truck and anybody who wants some of this can just come next door and we've got a bunch now critical important this will out compete your endogenous bacteria you do not want that to happen because it still produces lactic acid and it will still break down your teeth don't brush your teeth with this I'm not kidding once you edit it and you know that it's not producing lactic acid anymore then then call me and then we can all share it through the torrent system now sometimes people get scared now our dear Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park did say that life finds a way the thing that he neglected to create in his reality picture life does find a way but we're all life and we are finding a way and we're finding more ways now I'm closing in on the end of the hour but I want to speak just a little bit ideologically we're really happy about all the medical technology that we're managing to get into people's hands but this is a footnote oftentimes journalists will say what's your end goal what would you like to have happened and say I would like the collective to dissolve and not exist anymore because we're not necessary our hope is that the open-source movement does its natural ecosystem thing all the tools reproduce become common and people come up with better versions and better uses and the big thing that's holding everything up and continues to hold things up as you are all aware is intellectual property law there have been a few key points in history where economics and morality have come to an impasse classic examples are the Cold War the Reformation slavery in the United States and the dialogue went like this what's happening is a moral and the response from the establishment was well yeah we know and that's really unfortunate but this is sort of how our economy works and some of us said that's not good enough and that's happening right now because people right now are dying because of intellectual property law every three minutes somebody dies of hepatitis C three times a minute somebody dies of HIV every minute over a dozen abortions happen and roughly 11 drug overdoses happen all things which could easily be avoided with pharmaceuticals if they were accessible but they're not oppression comes from resource control resource control comes from information control information can only be controlled when it's commodified and this only happens when understanding is shrouded and the hacker community has done a great job of unfucking this particular problem in the tech world how do we do it you just are nice to the newbies it's great this is the greatest good you can do somebody knows some somebody wants to know something that you know you help them and this has been part of the hacker ethos for decades and something that the rest of the scientific community can learn a lot from and the biohackers are doing wonders for this so I'm about done I think I might have time for a few questions but I'll show a couple of things that I enjoy this is a cute little slide that I like to show again if the conceptual understanding is there then people can build their own knowledge and they don't have to keep going back to an arbiter of truth to ask for more this is a picture of a blank wall we'd like it to look like this again we don't create things at the collective that we're then trying to disseminate saying like we're so cool we're saying look we're all creating this together you're all part of the collective so here's my last slide and you'll forgive me because every time I show this I get a little choked up but this is a Carl Saganism is a picture of earth from space nobody's gonna help us accept us thank you so much am I done but I have time I tend all right so this is great so it hope I didn't have time for questions so one thing that I will say before I take questions is that right after this I'm gonna go two doors over and we're gonna see if we can make some stabs again we don't know which of them might or might not be viable but at least if you're interested in the idea stab culture so that once we do have ones that we know are working you can make your own if you want to come learn about that or see it or you just want to hang out and like you know have a cocktail or whatever like we'll be two doors over and we'll be working from four to five or four to four thirty four to five so we'll be working for another hour and it'll be nice and informal we can all just hang out and and I think it'll be pretty dope so I do have a few minutes to take questions if people have some and and if the GSK people want to identify themselves I'd like to let you guys go first no they're shy if you have any questions please step up to the mic so that we can get it in the recording I mean or we can just you know we can call it a day and go next door yeah go ahead and again I'm easy to spot I'll be here tomorrow I'm the guy who looks like he lost his wig and forgot what he was looking for yes go ahead hello there so so the device that you developed to make chemical reaction is anybody currently using that to like solve a problem they have themselves or are you aware of any case like that yeah so we don't know we hope so but things are being sort of we're releasing things in stages things are not at a solid beta stage at this juncture if you were building one like you're a pretty adept hobbyist because you kind of have to hack it together we're hoping that by the end of the year we essentially have a set of instructions and things that you can order and you can put together a kit for yourself now that said the reason I say we don't know is that we work very hard distance ourselves from end users because we don't want to be seen as pushing the technology like we've developed this and we think it's pretty cool but that doesn't mean that you'll think it's cool right the idea is that it should be an individualized choice if if you decide that making your own medication is the wise way to go we're trying to empower that but not saying this is a better option or a an option that you should take that said the difficult thing is that if you have a life-threatening illness under the current regulatory infrastructure if the system fails you you just have to shrug and wait to die and we think that people should have a little more choice than that but yeah again we have many details and if you're interested you know hit me up and and their files to be shared and we have GitHub repos and the whole the whole business yeah thank you couple questions for you what's the legal situation right now for someone doing that not for themselves or for others oh yeah the legal situation the legal situation is very convoluted the first lawyer ever spoke to I described what we were doing and the words out of his mouth were they're going to kill you and I was kind of shocked and I said it's your legal opinion and he said you know the FDA the DEA big pharma the Catholic Church I mean they're going to come after you I'm surprised you're still alive and I was like that's unfortunate so to be fair we have not received any sort of prosecution or injunctions to date we think that it's likely that will happen eventually we do have lawyers who have been very generous with their time and they're helping us to prepare for that likely eventuality the closest thing was the statement that the FDA release saying you don't make your own EpiPen and we said well it's not an EpiPen it's an EpiPencil but you know yeah the legal situation is is hairy so how do you think I'll work practically let's say a patient makes their own but then they have to work with a physician say hey I made this myself you know they have to be monitored by the physician have you thought about how the practical aspect of it yeah what's it's really it's it's touchy right again the main thing is if if somebody has a life-threatening illness and their choice is to either die or break the law like where are you gonna fall on that and to our mind given the intellectual property thing if if you really subscribe to the logic that violating intellectual property is theft if you're perpetrating an act of theft to prevent an act of murder which is what we would call it if you're withholding medications from somebody who needs it that's that's morally pretty in an unambiguous so yes sir yeah hey nice to see you yeah to create talk my questions about validation of the stuff that you're proposing or working with now yes like does it work how do you know that it works and I mean if you want to measure a chemical you got to use mass spec or NMR and stuff like that where do you see that going great so things are hairy and we have tried to do a fairly thorough risk analysis there are a lot of concerns when you when you do any repopulation right you're the biodiversity of the mouth changes and goes down is there concern about it migrating to the throat or the gut or the antibiotic migrating to the throat of the gut there also people are typically concerned about the things that Shreve Mutans usually does all those health problems is this one create those as well and there are detailed answers to most of those and the jury is still out on some of them but such as it is the examples where it has been tested in humans there have been no deleterious effects and specifically for the heart infection one which is like the really scary one there's a particular genetic marker of a sub substrain of Mutans Clark or Mutans that has that tag that creates that and the particular substrain that we have doesn't have that marker so theoretically that should not be producing that but these are these are all things and again we're not saying you should brush your teeth with this once you manage to make the edit we're saying we hope you make the edit and then you have the option so again all those things are there and well in terms of our documentation we're going through to try and make that risk analysis very transparent see like your concerns that are valid concerns here's what we think and we encourage you to read more here the original papers etc etc but yeah but very important thing when you start messing with biological material things get complicated yeah I guess to be a bit more pointed with the question is like where do you have your own data or like are you collecting your own data with your own plan for well as soon as I edit that thing it's going right in here right like yeah like as soon as as soon as we get the edit like I'm I'm I'm vector zero oh that's the other thing you can't spread it between people unfortunately because I thought we were gonna have like a make-up party to save the world and it was gonna be so great and then all the biologists were like no and it doesn't work like that and I was like are you sure and they were like no it doesn't I asked them like finally one of them was like well I don't know like maybe for like a really sloppy make-out like maybe one in three thousand times and I'm like I feel like I know some people would be willing to put in the work for that but I mean I think they were just humoring me I think it's very very unlikely that you can actually pass it between people but again if you're good with editing organisms if you can figure a way that it could be passed you want to edit it like well let's try it right because better we can save the world and have it spread so thank you so in addition procedures for making these drugs you've been working on do you have procedures for end users to verify what they thought they were making is what it is and if the concentrations are what they expected them to be right so this is probably the most common question I get it's like if you manufacture a medication how do you know that it actually is that medication so this is where the front-end work comes in right we we did chemistry for hundreds of years before we had GCMS and NMR and those old-school wet chemistry methods that were used during that time essentially just built a robust reaction on the front end and so the work that we do with the computational chemistry makes it so that the pathways are such that if you do screw up the reaction you just will have unreacted product and there are there are some methods of anal analysis at the end they're low-tech things often have sharp melting points you can do thin film and there's this guy from Fisher scientific next door who suggests he's got an analysis method that uses lasers somehow I just heard about this and I'm like super excited to talk to him because GCMS NMR is not something you're gonna be able to build in your basement but like lasers are so again I don't know how that works but again trying to build things on the front end doing good wet chemistry and so that analysis isn't necessary and then maybe if we can build an analysis unit that would like put in an extra layer that's where we are thank you and I think I'm out of time yeah so thank you all so much for coming I appreciate it and I'll be two doors down in just a little bit if you want to hang out one


Good morning, everyone. Welcome to PC 110, a course on identity as you all are logging in. Okay, let's good morning. Good morning, Jechen. Let's start the class with a word of the day. Can I request Jechen, can you please? Father God, thank you, Lord. Thank you for this wonderful time, Lord God. Father, even as we have been learning from your word, Lord God, the true identity we have in you, Father God. Father, we commit this time into your hands, Lord. Father, teach us, Lord, wherever we have to be freed in your word, Lord God. That truth, Lord, that will set us free, Lord. Each of us who have come here, Lord, help us to learn from your word and live by the word, Lord. I declare your praises, Lord. In Jesus' mighty, matchless name be praised. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you so much. Well, as the students are logging in. Thank you so much for bringing Jechen and as the students are logging in, we can begin with our session on identity. Today, we're going to cover on section 10. We're going to start on section 10, being blessed in Christ. How are we being blessed? What does Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3 say? Can anyone turn to Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3 and read it loud? Anyone from the class can read. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Thank you. Thank you, Sister Nina. Yeah. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3 says how blessed we are in Christ Jesus and our inheritance in Christ that we have, we have been blessed already with every spiritual blessing that is needed for us in Christ Jesus. So here it says, bless be the God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So our blessing is in Christ. When we are in Christ, we are blessed. So what does it say? Our inheritance is in Christ. So today we're going to look into the blessings that we inherit in Christ. When we are in Christ, there are certain blessings come as an inheritance to us. So while we have already mentioned many promises and the blessings that we have in Christ earlier, we're going to study in detail. There are other additional blessings that we could look at in Christ Jesus. So when we talk about our blessing, we talk about the inheritance that we have in Christ. What is inheritance? Can anyone share? What is inheritance? Inheritance is something to give another as a possession, which is an heritage. So we turn to Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 and 12. Can I request one of us to read Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 and 12? We will also choose having this predestinated according to the plan of faith, who works on everything in conformity with the purpose of his faith in order that we who were the first to put our hope in Christ might be for the praise of his glory. Thank you. Thank you. So we see that Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 and 12 that in him also we have obtained an inheritance. So in who, who does it talk about? Here it denotes Jesus. So in Jesus we have obtained our inheritance being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will. That we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of his glory. So we see that God has given us this inheritance so that we may praise him because of who he is. So when we are saved we were also brought into an inheritance. So what is this inheritance that we have in Christ that we talk about? Anyone from the class? What is that inheritance that we have in Christ? What is the position that we have in Christ? Till now we have this good so many. One of them is that we are the heirs of Christ.  We have been given that highest position in Christ. These are our inheritance. Salvation is our inheritance, isn't it? Eternal life is our inheritance. So the inheritance is promised when someone is alive but granted to each of us when they die. So generally inheritance passes from the parent to a child and then to their children to their generation. So we see that in New Testament believers in Christ Jesus are referred as God's children. So there are many passages about what Jesus followers inherited. So this is what we started even in the previous chapter. We are the child of God. We are the children of God. We are the heirs of Christ Jesus, the most high God. Our relationship has been restored back to God through Jesus Christ as what we study. So there are many other passages about what Jesus followers inherited when we die, when he died. And what we will inherit through Christ Jesus. So the special thing about our inheritance in Christ is that when Jesus died, when he rose again, he was seated at the right hand of the Father, the highest position. The highest position that has been given to Jesus, the beloved Son of God. And you and I, when we are in Christ, we have been given that highest position in Christ. We have the inheritance of Christ because he lives. He lives in us and we live at home. We also experience the portion of that inheritance during our earthly life. Can I request one of us to turn to Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 to 14? Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 to 14. In him, we were also chosen having been predestined according to the plan of him, who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will. This 11th verse, right? Yes. 11, 12, 13. Oh 12 words. In order that we, who are the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. Can you also read 14? 14 also? Yes, please. Who is a deposit? That is, we were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. Who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession to the praise of his glory. Thank you. So what we see here is in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 to 14. It talks about having obtained an inheritance in Christ Jesus and also been sealed with the promise of Holy Spirit. Who has become a guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire a possession of it with the praise of his glory. So here we see Jesus promises followers that when he will return, the Holy Spirit will be guaranteed as a helper. The way we see that, we see that in the Gospel of John chapter 14 verse 50 to 90. We see that Jesus promising his followers that he will send a comfort, a helper who will be with us, who will abide with us forever. And those who have been born again currently have the Holy Spirit as we await Jesus' return and the living fraternity with him and him. So we have this promise that the Holy Spirit is with us, who will lead us is our inheritance as well. So the inheritance that we are talking here is something that we receive from God. When we receive and we are in Christ, we receive this inheritance as a possession, as an inheritance that God gives us. So God gave us this inheritance so that we may praise him to be with him. So when we are saved, we were also brought into an inheritance that opens our eyes in order for us to turn from darkness to light. From the power of Satan to God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are certified by faith. This is what we see in Acts chapter 26 verse 18. We also see, I mean in the previous class we studied about the hares of being in Christ. We see in Romans chapter 8 verse 17 we saw that we are the hares of God and a joint hares with Christ. So as a hares of God we have an inheritance that has been given to us from God Himself. And as a joint hares we share in all that the Father gave to the Son Jesus Christ. So when he walked as a son of God and if children then hares that we are the hares of God and joint hares with Christ. So in Romans 8.17 it says like, if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him. So we have, as the hares we have the inheritance of Christ, we have the inheritance from God. With that we move on to Colossians chapter 1 verse 12. Can I request one of us to read Colossians chapter 1 verse 12? Yes, sure. Colossians chapter 1 verse 12. May you be may be strong with all the strength which comes from his glorious power so that you may be able to endure everything with patience. Okay. Amen. Okay. Amen. And with joy give thanks to the Father who has made you fit to have your share of what God has reserved for His people in the kingdom of light. Thank you. Thank you. So this is what we see that given thanks to Father who has qualified each of us, you and me, to be the partaker of this inheritance which is in Christ Jesus. God has qualified each of us where we can partake and enjoy the inheritance that he has given to each of us so that we do not need to do anything. Or we don't have to toil or work hard to be qualified to take or inherit this inheritance. It has just been given to us so that we can enjoy the blessing. It is already ours. And we are qualified. When we receive it, we are in Christ. When we are in Christ, we are qualified to enjoy this blessing of inheritance. So that is what we also read in Acts chapter 20 verse 32. Acts chapter 20 verse 32. I request you to please turn as we study because it's a scripture which will enlighten us. It's a scripture that will teach us and talk to us. So I would request you all to turn through your Bible and read out loud the scriptures as we all are online today so we all can hear each other. I request you all to please turn. So can we turn to Acts chapter 20 verse 32 please. Yes, go ahead. Acts chapter 20 verse 32. And now I commend you to the care of God and to the message of His grace which is able to build you up and give you the blessings God has for all His people. Thank you. Amen. So we see that we need a revelation of God's Word. For us to understand like for us to be built up and to see that inheritance that we can be satisfied. So we need a revelation of God's Word where we can learn how to walk in this inheritance that is given to us. It belongs to us. It is ours. We need to get that revelation so that we can inherit it, make it ours, make it out more. So that's what we try to do week after week to know our inheritance, to know our identity and make it our own so that this is what we become. So as Apostle Paul prayed for the church in Ephesians, he says like the eyes of our understanding being enlightened. That you may know what is the hope of His calling. We read that in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 18. Let me read that thing. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 18. Yeah. So he says the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of His calling. What are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints? So we need to receive a revelation of that glorious inheritance that each of us have in Christ. So how do we do it? We need to study. We need to learn. We need to understand. When we learn, study and understand, we believe. So when we believe, we start to walk in that glorious inheritance. Everything is possible to the one who believes. We need to believe the word, the word of God tells about our inheritance, about our relationship, about our possession with Christ so that we may walk in that inheritance. We may walk in that identity. We may walk in that knowledge of blessing that we have in Christ Jesus. Can I also request you to please turn to Colossians chapter 3 verse 22 to 24. Colossians chapter 3 verse 22 to 24. Bond servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh. Not with eye service as men's pleasers but in sincere due hearts, fearing God. And whatever you do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men. Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance for you as a Lord Christ. Thank you, Brett. So we see that in the scripture, it's asking us to obey with all things as your master according to the flesh. What is our understanding from this whole passage? As Christians, as believers, as a child of God, we need to put on the new identity. We are the new man, we are the new creation. We have this newness in us. So when we receive Jesus as a Lord and Savior, when we are in Christ, we have become a new creation. And the old things have passed. So sometimes they will show up. But then there is a demand over us, the newness in life. The new creation asks us to be submissive. Asking us, depending on attitude of submissive. We need to have the submissive attitude towards the master under whom we serve, under whom we report. So in our modern day context, we refer to our pastors, our ministry leaders. If we are working in a workplace, to our employers, to our supervisors, we need to be submissive. We need to carry this attitude of submission. Now this attitude of submission should just not be like an eye service, or should not be something that we please men. But then Paul is asking us to do habit with a sincere heart, fearing God that he is watching over us. So if we are always tempted to work just as hard as we have to do, and we think we only have to please God, that is right.   So God wants each of us, this children, to be ultimately submissive to the head of authority unto himself. So here Paul is instructing the believers in the church and collosions. He is saying it is not only to them, it is for all of us that he is asking us whatever you do. You do what as though you are doing it and do the Lord and not unto any man. Why? With the knowledge, with the knowing that God is watching over us. Can we hide anything from God? Can we hide our thoughts, our attitude? Now everything is make a threat of God. God knows everything. From our thoughts, our actions, to our words, our attitude, everything God knows. So pure Paul, Apostle Paul is encouraging the believers to be submissive and to do as though we serve God. So God promises, he also says, there is a promise. So God promises to reward those who work with that kind of art. God promises to reward those who work with that kind of art. So as a human, we may be doing everything sincerely, working very hard. But at the same time, we may say, Lord, no one are watching. I am not being appreciated for the work that I am doing. My boss is not looking at me. But then night and day you are doing what you are supposed to do. Sincerely unto the Lord. Friends, I will tell you the scripture says the promotion comes from the Lord. The Lord our God is one who is watching over you. Also in Corinthians, we see that it says the labor in the Lord is not in vain. So whatever you do unto the Lord, do it unto the Lord. Whatever you do, do it sincerely with sincere heart, obedient front of God, do it unto the Lord. Even if somebody is watching, no one are watching at you. But let your work be done in perfect innocence here, that as though you are doing it unto the Lord, and the Lord is one who is watching over you. So the Lord who watches you secretly will definitely reward you in public. The scripture says the blessing comes from God. Promotion comes from God. The Lord who watches you will reward you. And it also talks about do everything as for the Lord. So when we do it, we receive our inheritance from God and say, Can we turn to Hebrews chapter 9 verse 15 please? Hebrews chapter 9 verse 15. And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. Thank you. Here we see that talks about Jesus being the mediator of the new covenant in which the death redeems us from our transgression of God's love. So it is in this new covenant, we can receive the eternal promise of the eternal inheritance from God. That is the eternal life. And also we turn to 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 3 to 4. Can I request you all to read 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 3 to 4. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In his great mercy, he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you. Thank you. Yes. So we see that blessed be the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again. Born again into this living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, unfading, kept in heaven for you. Peter is making a point that our inheritance will not get wrought or rusted, fade away or be corrupted or been robbed. Nothing. We also see the similar passage in Matthew chapter 6, 90 to 20. And also we see that in the book of Revelation chapter 21 verse 27 where it says, Nothing like an earthly inheritance. Our inheritance in Christ can never be diminished or destroyed. It cannot be taken away for Christians or for us. It is a promise. The hope of sharing in the community of God is forever. So that's the one that sustains us throughout every trial, every circumstances, every phase that we go in our life or every difficult challenges that we face during our night time. So you see that? That's the promise that we have in Christ. Can we also turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 4? 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 16 to 18. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 16 to 18. I read this for you. Okay, Sean, go ahead. Yes, Sean, you can go ahead. We suffer will bring us tremendous and internal and eternal glory, which is much greater than the trouble. Before we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a lie early for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever. Thank you. So we see in this passage that we do not use heart through our outer self in wasting away our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison. So as we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. So what we see here is this inheritance is promised by God, but not to everyone. The inheritance of eternal life with God is actually reserved for those who believe in Jesus Christ, who hear the truth and receive him as a Lord and Saviour. So in short, the benefits of inheritance in Christ Jesus is to the person or is to the one who have accepted Jesus as a Lord and Saviour, who has accepted Jesus as God's only begotten Son and who believe that he died on the cross for you and me. And he rose again and he is seated at the right hand of the Father. So those who believe in this truth can only inherit this promise that we have with Christ Jesus. So the Holy Spirit is granted to that person as a deposit of promise of coming of the eternal life that we have of the inherited Christ Jesus. So Christ is our inheritance. So when we have Jesus within us, we have this real joy, real peace, real freedom in them. Knowing as stated in the first book of Genesis chapter 1 verse 26, we see that man was created by God to be a vessel to contain God. We are the vessel of honour, isn't it? We are the vessel of honour, we have been sanctified, we have been set apart for his work. So we are God's vessel. Man has been created so that God can be with him. And in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26, we also see that we have been created in his own image and likeness. In whose image? In God's image and in God's likeness. And God presented himself to man to be man's possession and content and his own inheritance. So we can be filled with all kinds of things that is of this world that what the world could offer each of us. We may be very rich, we may have million dollars in our bank account. But if we do not have Christ in us, we are poor in our spirit. We are empty. So man is a vessel. We need to have our being in Christ. Our inheritance is in Christ. So we need to be filled more of him. That's what it talks about, the earthly riches and the heavenly riches. We need to seek more for the heavenly riches that we may be rich in our spirit and our being. Man is a vessel to contain God and God is our everlasting portion. God is our inheritance. He is our portion and is a cup of enjoyment. We need to believe that. We need to remember that God is our portion, our inheritance and a cup of enjoyment. He is our everything. He is our everlasting portion. What else do we need when he is our everlasting portion? This is what we see in the Gospel of John 635. He says, when Christ came, he said, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall by no mean hunger and he who believes in me shall by no mean thirst with him is the fountain of life. And in his light, we see light. So we see that Christ came to be the reality of the true life where he will be our living water.  And we could inherit, be part of this portion of joy, portion of this inheritance, portion of this enjoyment. So that we can claim that in John 15, we read through it and we see we have this understanding of the wine and the branch and you know, abiding in each other. So what happens? We are trying to become one with Christ. The scripture says, as I abide in him and he abide in us and we have become one in him. So when we become one in him, we have the access. So what is in Christ Jesus is now available to you and me. There was a divine exchange that took place on the cross. So whatever is in Christ, he has given it to us and whatever us in nature as he has taken it on him and instead he has given us his righteousness. So we have this possession, the eternal possession in Christ Jesus. So God is our possession and he is the portion of our cup. God is a portion of our enjoyment and he is our real enjoyment and we need to get this understanding so that we can reign in life. That's what in Romans chapter 5 verse 17 says, For if by one man's offense death reigned through one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through one Jesus Christ. So we see that in the briefly we discussed about this in the earlier sessions at Adam through his disobedience which brought all of us into subjection of sin, Satan and death. And then everything that comes because of that includes the sickness, disease, death, pain. However, the Lord Jesus through what he did, through the act of sacrificing his own life on the cross, he brought us out from the dominion of the sin, sickness, death and Satan. Now these do not have power over us. Now we can rule and reign in Christ Jesus where we have this as our inheritance, freedom, reigning with freedom is in Christ. We have an authority in Christ. Why? Because Christ has got the victory. He died on the cross and he once sinned, sinned and death. So when we are in Christ, we have this inheritance of freedom where we can reign in Christ with freedom, with authority. And also in Ephesians 1 3 as we read earlier in this class, through Christ we have the access of every spiritual blessing. We have the inheritance of every blessing that comes from God himself. And he gives us because why? Because we are his inheritance. We are his portion. And we have the access to every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus. And also in James chapter 1 verse 17 he says that every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, comes down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation of shadow or turning. Where we have the access, because we have this inheritance in Christ where we have been blessed, we have, if God has blessed us with every gift and every good gift that we receive is perfect gift is from above, from God himself. He is the blesser of good gifts. And because of that we have been enriched in everything, in everything because we have Christ himself our portion. Christ himself is our portion so that we can triumph in Christ Jesus. This is what we read in 2 Corinthians chapter 214. Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ. And through us diffuses the fragrance of his knowledge in every place. So what is happening here? Because we are the inheritance of God. God is allowing us to have this triumph in Christ. So in every situation we can be confident that God is on our side and we will bring this out no matter what situation I am in. We have the victory because we don't fight our battle from the place of war but we fight our battle from the place of victory. So God will always cause us to triumph because victory is ours if we refuse to quit. We don't have this attitude. This is not there in our DNA giving up attitude. We should not give up knowing that God is with us that he will never leave us or forsake us. This battle does not belong to me but it belongs to God himself. So just like how Apostle Paul went through different season of trials. But one thing that we see is in this journey in his life we see that he didn't carry this attitude of giving up.  And as he trusted as he believed not only for Apostle Paul we also see with the other Apostles like Peter, James, John. With the other Apostles we see that God himself backing up. He kept his word. They all had the sense of God himself being with them and strengthening them during the time of weakness. They found that the riches is in Christ Jesus. They found the inheritance is in Christ. With that knowledge, with that understanding they all moved in their daily life. And this is what Apostle Paul is encouraging each of us today that can we identify our inheritance is in Christ so that we can be encouraged. We can hold on to this knowledge. We can hold on to this understanding that our inheritance is in Christ so that we can triumph in every area of life. And even when we finish our purpose just like how Apostle Paul says that I fought a good fight of faith. Lay hold on to that eternal life to which you were called and I've confessed a good confession in the presence of many witnesses. This is what he said in 1st Timothy 6 chapter 6 verse 12 during his last season. He's encouraging Timothy's spiritual son that he may not carry the attitude of giving up but then hold on to that victory that we have inherited in Christ. So we need to know that we have an overcomer and we are more than overcomer. When we are in Christ we are more than overcomer and we have this promise of life. We have this promise of life because Christ himself is life. Jesus himself is life. He is the bread of life. He is the living water. He is the way the truth and the light. So here in 2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse 1 we see Apostle Paul says as the Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God. According to the promise of life which is Jesus Christ he is our life and we need to know that he is an eternal life. And because we have Christ in us we have been sealed by his Holy Spirit. You have been guaranteed that the Holy Spirit is within us. That's what we read in John chapter 14 verse 16 says when I go back I'll send you a comfort, a guide who will be with you, who will abide with you forever. So there is a guarantee that the Holy Spirit is within us and he will abide with us forever. He won't be like how we used to visit and move at the Old Testament but in the New Testament he is abiding with us. We are the new creation and Christ so when we have received Jesus as a Lord and Savior we have the Holy Spirit who is abiding with us. So with that we will end this session knowing that God is our portion. Knowing that God is our possession. Knowing that God is our inheritance. He is the portion of our cup. God is a portion of our enjoyment. He is our real enjoyment. We need to know that. We need to believe in this. When we believe we see that the bread of life, the Jesus who is the life, who is the living water, he will come into us. When we believe in him and when we take part in him we are God's possession. So God is not only our inheritance but also the portion of our cup as we also read in Psalms chapter 16 verse 5 that he is our portion of our cup. And in this verse we also see that the inheritance is just a general expression whereas the cup is more personal expression. So God is not only our inheritance but also the portion of our cup for our enjoyment. So God is not only our portion but also our real enjoyment and God maintains that allotted portion for each of us. So with this understanding knowing that God is our inheritance. God is our everlasting possession. God is our portion and he is the cup of our enjoyment. Can we pray? Lord Jesus, we return to you with this knowledge, with this understanding that you are our inheritance. You are the cup of our portion.  In you we have a being. Thank you Lord that you have chosen each one of us. Thank you that you have called us. You have given us a purpose. You have set us apart. You have sanctified us and you have blessed us with an inheritance. Where we can have a portion. Where we can have a being. Where we can enjoy the portion in you Lord. Thank you Father. Thank you for this blessing that you have blessed each of us with. Thank you that you will open our understanding. Holy Spirit I pray that you will open our mind. You will open our eyes that we may understand the inheritance that we have in Christ Jesus. The portion that we have in God. It's not like the earthly portion but it is the heavenly portion which is eternal. Which is eternal. Thank you Lord. Thank you for your hand of blessing over us. Thank you that you satisfy us with your living water, with the bread of life. Thank you that you are the way, the truth and the life. Lord as your word says when you know the truth, the truth will set you free. Thank you Father for helping us to understand this truth where we have our identity in Christ. Where we come to the acknowledgement of understanding that our identity is in Christ and in Christ alone. So that we may have a being in Christ. We know who we are in Christ is in you. Thank you Lord for this understanding. Thank you Father. In Jesus name we pray amen. Amen. Thank you so much for joining in today's session. I hope it was a blessing to each one. Thank you and God bless. Thank you.


greetings from the southern part of Africa I mean South Africa to be precise you're smiling a lot this morning I'm just happy I'm happy to be alive I'm happy to be here I'm happy and excited to do the other face of Africa to the one and this is Africa to the world face one face three and we started from the South in Africa that's South Africa so we're moving around the southern part of African country you know like we've been away for so long especially Trudy how long have you been away over a month and you promise us are you back now you gave birth already you know what just go check out the details on her YouTube channel her name is Miss Trudy if you don't know her she is one of African best travel vloggers and all you need to do is to go to a YouTube channel go subscribe go support her we need to hit a hundred K before February ends you know what we do it just stop watching the video go to her YouTube channel and go subscribe to the YouTube channel and the name is just Miss Trudy you know what South Africa is beautiful I mean Johannesburg is really beautiful first impression this place is well organized and yeah I mean good roads what else again I mean like clean and develop it's kind of developed country I think it's why it's very developed I mean to all the countries that I've been to this is one of the most developed ones that I've been and I've seen but anyway something really happened to me yesterday and to be honest I didn't like it to see an immigration officer walk on me like that was not the best what have really happened so we arrived we're so excited to be in Johannesburg then we get to the immigration Maya goes ahead he hands over his passport you're so excited to finish the process and just get into the country and then he stays there for a while and then he stands aside then I'm like what's happening and then I go ahead and they give me a passport and then they stamp and they tell me to go and then my camera guy to Elvis was also there it just they come and then they let it go so I'm like what's wrong what's wrong and then my I was like just just wait I'm gonna tell you just wait so I would that was confused they didn't understand why they let us go and they told him to wait so this guy got my passport and asked me what are you doing here I was like yeah I'm a content creator I'm here to create content and say I mean where are you from because he saw my passport and I'm having like three passport already so all the passport have visas and all that he kept on flipping flipping flipping and he said where are you gonna stay I gave him the place that I'm gonna stay he asked me again where is your return ticket I showed him the return ticket said I don't believe step aside like after 20 to 30 minutes he called me back again and said I want to see a return ticket I showed him the return ticket I don't even have a return ticket I have an onboard ticket and he said I need to have a return ticket going back to Ghana and I was like hey check the visa it stated clearly that you need to have a return ticket or what an onboard ticket so I have an onboard ticket so you have no right to tell me that where is my return ticket this guy said okay you know story short I don't trust West Africans because you guys are doing so many bad things in our country and you know he he he just told me point blank that I don't like you immigration officer wow I was shocked you guys were there you had the conversation me and the immigration officer talking all the time and um I'm not here to make South Africa look bad like for a lot of people told me not to come here like you can check my Instagram messages these are my Instagram posts I've been posted I'm coming to Joe Beck people are like ah don't go they hate us I was like no me I'm a positive guy I travel go see things for myself and talk about it but when I enter the country man and I think they are most friendly people I've never met yeah when you come inside people are amazing but are they immigration first impression so shocking yeah even the food that I ate yesterday was bought by South African like I've not used my own money since I got into the country so I want to do this video to tell immigration officers know that you're representing the entire country you giving you the opportunity to sit down that doesn't mean that the country belongs to you because whatever you say affect the entire country you don't know me now this video is going everywhere now you know the thing is you're not supposed to judge all West African thank you based on the behavior of one or two West Africans because um they don't represent the whole country you know if someone is bad if a Kenyan is bad doesn't mean all Kenyans are the same if an Nigerian or a Kenyan is bad doesn't mean all the whole country is the same you know everywhere you go there some people are not good he was even so happy telling me that if I'm West Africa I can't decide not to let you enter the country okay so my fellow brothers and sisters my fellow West Africans living in West Africa living in South Africa please what are you doing that is punishing the image of your fellow brothers entering this country just let me know because because it's Africa he said are you guys are from East Africa go go I didn't ask him like they are returning tickets are with me where they are going to stay and with me he didn't even check all those things go go you step aside and um I'm just gonna say that if you're watching this video tag your immigration officers from today tell them that if one West African has done something of two West Africans have done something in South Africa don't assume that the entire West African nation or the entire West Africans are like that yeah I'm not here to sleep with people I'm not here to steal from your people I'm here to promote your country but hey this will never stop us from you know promoting South Africa this is why we are here we've actually reached out to so many people the tourism board even trying to um work with us so um what should people expect in South Africa from us people should expect great content um people should expect to know things that they you know do not know about South Africa learn more um about South Africa experience their culture exactly and um you know how we don't wait it's all about South Africa to the world we're gonna tell the unique stories we're gonna show you the beauty of South Africa I've seen a lot of things that is making me look like a village I know they have like um trains they have buses they have like good roads oh my god this place is so beautiful man like people are saying that I'm gonna fall in love in South Africa more than Rwanda are you sure about that me I'm already in love with South Africa so I know it's about you it's about me yeah so stay tuned for the South African videos I'm gonna drop videos every single day you're not here to joke it's your boy Mr Ghana baby don't forget to like this video share and subscribe and go tell your immigration officer not all West Africans are bad


Mitch, Mr. Jack Hume, founder, Citizens for America. You know, I've had the good fortune to know the president and his charming wife, Nancy, for over 20 years. And through that period, my admiration for his mental acuity, his judgment, his physical stamina, and his integrity have grown steadily. And I'm sure you all agree with me in that. This is a wonderful man that we have leading our country, and we're so fortunate that we have someone in this position who has been able to lead the United States in five years to the point where it is again the leader in world economic and political affairs, and also where our country has been brought back to a feeling of self-confidence and pride and optimism about our future. Thank you. Well, thank you very much. We'll run out of time. Thank you all very much. And I think I have to confess something here, although I did kind of almost get away with it a moment ago when I stood up, and then I tried to make it look like I was just coming over to say something to him. When you sit in here for as many state dinners as I have, and it's just automatic that when they shove this thing out and turn on the light, I get up and start talking. And I started to stop right here and then fortunately saw blue and said, wait a minute, there's something else that happens besides my getting up here. But I thank you all for being here, and I appreciate this opportunity to break bread and talk with you. I can't help but remember when in August of 1983, Jack Hume came to me with the idea of a grassroots organization which would champion our ideals. Out of that conversation came Citizens for America. And Jack, no one will ever accuse you of not following up. You did. And under Lou Lairman's dynamic leadership, CFA has been an inspiration to the entire conservative movement. I learned one thing very quickly after becoming governor of California. When it comes to the major issues, elected officials don't have to see the light. I have said this a number of occasions. You just have to make them feel the heat. But with activists working in many congressional districts, CFA is making our opponents particularly feel the heat. CFA is getting the facts out to people in their communities and towns across this land. We've had to counteract the negative tactics and scare campaigns of the opposition. Every time we've acted to remove or reform failed liberal policies, the American people have been barraged by predictions of gloom and doom. How many can remember when oil prices were decontrolled early in our administration? Liberals predicted gas prices at the pump would quickly jump to over $2 a gallon, and that heating bills would go up as much as 33% in the first year. The mental picture of stranded people freezing to death in their homes was injected into the debate about decontrol. Well, contrary to the naysayers' predictions, gasoline is cheaper now than when we decontrolled it, and so is heating oil. Incidentally, when I said that was earlier in our administration, it couldn't have been any earlier. Maybe you don't know this, but it was so much in my mind that after I stood out there on the west steps of the Capitol and was sworn in as President of the United States, we went back into the Capitol building at the end of that ceremony, and virtually the first room we came to, I sat down and signed the executive order that decontrolled oil. Couldn't have done it any sooner. It had such a sense of power. But you know, this same reasoned hysteria I was talking about was heard when we proposed an across-the-board tax rate reduction. Our opponents played on the fear of inflation they called it foolhardy. Well, I don't have to remind you that during our administration, inflation has gone from 12.4% to 3.6%. At the same time, we've reinvigorated our economy and put America back in the path to growth. Over 9 million new jobs have been created since the recovery began, and I think we can all be proud of what has been accomplished. And then there was Radio Marti. Opponents warned if we tried to broadcast the truth to Cuba, Castro would retaliate by jamming American broadcast signals of our commercial stations. Well, the fear mongers were wrong about that one as well. Those who opposed helping our friends in Central America claimed America would be bogged down in a Vietnam like conflict. Well, when we got to Washington, the question was, will El Salvador fall to the communists? Well, after standing firm and doing what was necessary to thwart communists' aversion, El Salvador has had three democratic elections. And now the question in Central America is, will Nicaragua fall and be free? Here again the fear mongers were wrong. Being wrong has inquired of them, however. Some of them remind me of the fellow who was asked which was worse, ignorance or apathy. And he simply said, I don't know and I don't care. The lesson of these last five years is that we Americans must not be deterred by the cynics among us. We must not be afraid to change that which is not working. We must not be afraid to protect our national interests. The future is in our hands and we must have the courage, ingenuity and commitment to make a better tomorrow. I think we have every reason to be optimistic. We have a philosophy that offers economic growth, expanding opportunity and most of all, freedom for each and every individual. And this is why young people are supporting our cause in greater and greater numbers. It's my fondest hope that the CFA and other organizations will mobilize these young people for the cause of human liberty. We need their help and energy and enthusiasm. And you can't imagine what it is a thrill to me. Back when I was governor, if I got close to a campus, I'd start a riot. Today I've been on a number of campuses during the 84 campaign and it is just magnificent to see these young people and how they are patriotic, dedicated to the very things that we've been trying to do. And did you ever stop to think that pretty soon we may not be a minority anymore? As they all come out and join the ranks, we've never had anything like this in our party. But many challenges lie ahead. By meeting our responsibilities, we can make Graham Rudman Hollings an historic turning point. The budget battles we face will require more from all of us than ever before. We can't afford to have our military strength gutted or to see the economy pushed back into recession by raising taxes. And the only thing that will make Graham Rudman Hollings work is if we work. And that's where you all come in. Again, you've got to get the word out to the American people. This is the year of decision in tackling wasteful federal spending. This year, under this new law, it's our great opportunity to cut out the dead wood in the federal budget. And it's there. Finally, after seeking this goal for so long, we have the tools to take on this toughest fight of all. And I need your help now more than ever so as to fend off the predictable cries from special interests and get the job done. There's been some trepidation about keeping control of the Senate, coming to grips with budget realities in the same year. Well, I believe that doing what is right for our country is good politics. And again, we've got to make certain that people are informed. I want to thank each of you for what you've done and will do to keep the country free, prosperous, and at peace. This is the kind of America that we want for these young people who are flocking to our ranks. And let me just, if you haven't thought about it, point something out. I had the pleasure of saying this in one of our private meetings with Mr. Gorbachev in Geneva a few weeks ago. I cited Jefferson's remark. The Jefferson had said, the people will never make a mistake if the people have all the facts. And Mr. Gorbachev, without most sincerity, said, that is very profound. Well, it is. And one of the great problems we have here inside the Beltway. First of all, it's keeping a great many of the people here inside the Beltway reminded about the rest of the country. But the second thing is making them hear from you. And it is true that in America, this nation that is governed by the people, the people tend to go their way. They have their own affairs and their business. They don't have to kowtow and bow to the east of government or anything. And yet this leads them very often to not being quite aware of what's going on here. And you'd be amazed what happens when up on the hill they hear from the people, when the mail comes pouring in. And not the form letters and so forth. There can be 50,000 of those. They don't count as much as one even postcard or letter that says, hey, what are you doing about this or that? Then they listen. So believe me, what you're doing is one of the most important things that we can have done in this country. Now, I've talked too long all by myself. And what I think I should do is take a few minutes before I have to go in the other room and wait for you to come by and see if you have some questions that you'd like to ask. Yes. We've got two related questions. In the 1980 campaign, four points, one of which was to kind of slow study money growth. One was to shrink the size of government. You've had five appointments in Southern Reserve board and not one of those people believe in the concept of slow study money growth. But why wouldn't you appoint somebody who really believes in it? Second question. Shrinking the size of the government, why not appoint something like a grace commission to see which federal laws or agencies or departments could be abolished? Are all out of data? Not a mystic? Out of full axolot? One of the very old water moving mills? Our woman? Et cetera, et cetera.  This is something that, believe me, we do have under study. And we are working on. You have to have a menu when you go up there. And sometimes you have to wait until the plate isn't quite as full as it is to get some things done. Other times I have to tell you, frankly, you're just unable to get it through the Congress. And here again is where every once in a while I have turned to all of you, the people, and have gone to the people with something that we want to get done and try to get the people aroused to do it. For example, two departments that we came here determined to eliminate absolutely found it impossible to get through Congress. And that included even our own people that they just were not going to do it. Now, in both of those departments, I must say, though, we at least, we did some fine work. We eliminated a lot of the things they were doing that we didn't like. And we have them doing some chores that we do like. And so some progress has been made, even though the departments still exist. But you're right. Right now, one of the things that we think has to be done, and we haven't been able to get it done so far, is the elimination of a lot of federal properties. The federal government is the biggest landowner and the landlord, biggest landlord in the nation, has any number of office buildings that aren't needed anymore, properties, and yet each department jealously guards what it holds and has its defenders in Congress. It's the same thing of some of the same congressmen scream the loudest about Cap Weinberg and the Defense Department. And then when Cap suggests eliminating some military bases that are no longer necessary in their congressional districts, they come together like the most unified team you've ever seen and you don't get them eliminated. I've said repeatedly that anytime they try when we think to unnecessarily cut defense spending, let's just say here's the list of our priorities and it'll be those installations that we want to cancel. Incidentally, you haven't asked about it, but let me tell you something. There is one where you can be of great help pretty soon when the Packard Committee comes back with its report. It isn't true the constant horror stories about defense spending. If there's one thing I'm more proud of than anything else in this job, it's those young men and women who are in uniform today in our country. The highest percentage of high school graduates that we have ever had in the military in wartime or in peace, even with the draft, over 90 percent. The highest percentage, we have three intelligence brackets that we grade military in as to future assignments and so forth. Highest percentage in the history of the nation in the top intelligence bracket, but the morale of them. I wish you could see the letters I get sometimes from some GI out there, like a kid in a submarine who writes me a letter to tell me we don't have the biggest Navy in the world, but we got the best. And the things like the $400 hammer, we never bought a $400 hammer. An invoice came in from somebody and in the invoice was a hammer listed for $400, but a bright-eyed fellow in the Navy saw that instantly and that was taken out of there and the invoice was changed and so we never bought the hammer. We'd buy about 20,000 of them for about $6 a piece, but not that. The thing of the great big thing about the coffee pot that was supposed to cost several thousand dollars, it wasn't a coffee pot, that was for our plane that carries 365 people and it was really 3,000 something. And that same instrument when bought with the airlines, they pay about $150 more than the military was going to pay for it because they have to have something too that for hour after hour after hour can provide whatever is needed for several hundred people on board an airplane. But we've got a good military now. As a matter of fact, there wouldn't have been a summit if we didn't. That's why we met in Geneva and that's why they're willing to meet again next year and the year following. So you can be proud of what's been done over there. I shouldn't have made another speech here and I was going to take command. We've got a little time here for another question or two. Yes. Mr. President, we were just having a little chat here at the table about some of the concerns we have with dealing internationally and it has to do with some of these foreign countries that are starting to confiscate our products. Is there anything that your administration is currently doing to try to forward that sort of thing? Because we find that our patents by themselves don't seem to want to hold up. Yes, this is what we meant when we said that we were going to oppose protectionist legislation. We don't want any more smooth hallways in our economy here. In the meantime, we were going to set out to tighten all the things that are unfairly being used against us and things just such as you've named. I saw a quite elaborate watch one day and it even said Rolex on it. It was made in Hong Kong and all kinds of things like that. One of the speakers even got caught with a cap that he was wearing out for golf. It was found out that it was made in China, but this is true. There are great violations of the patent laws and of copyrights and so forth and things in business and we have been striving with our allies for a couple of years and now finally are going to have this year the GATT meeting to go over. That's the tariff organization that we all have among us trading partners and that, but yes, we are working as hard as we can now to eliminate all of these things that have crept in these violations of ethics and unfair trade practices and what we seek is we believe in fair and free and open trade, but it's got to be fair on both sides. It's a two-way street and we're taking action wherever we find violations now. Someone else? Well, I wish the press would do this sometime. Well, all right, I'm going to go into the blue room here and I'm going to have a chance, which I'm looking forward to saying hello to each one of you individually. But again, God bless you all and thank you for what you're doing out there. We just need a good election.