The Hamilton Corner

July 18, 2024 · 48:55

("Best-of" Edition from 3/5/24) Jesus commanded disciple-making for a reason.

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0:00 - 15:00. 1 Corinthians 1:1-9. The Corinthians were Believers who required discipleship. 15:00 - 31:00. Jesus commanded disciple-making for a reason. 31:00 - 48:00. Kyrsten Sinema announces her departure from the U.S. Senate.

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  1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
  2. 0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
  3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
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  5. 0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
  6. 0:18And the philosophies of this world.
  7. 0:20God has called you and me to be His ambassador.
  8. 0:24Even in this dark moment.
  9. 0:26Let's not miss our moment.
  10. 0:28And now the Hamilton Corner.
  11. 0:31Good evening, everyone.
  12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton, the third here with you joined by the corner
  13. 0:40contingent right across from me today.
  14. 0:43He's ventured out of the, the lurches of the screening room into the studio, some might
  15. 0:48say into the full light of day.
  16. 0:50You're perpetually recovering friendly neighborhood with a holic Mr. Marty Sparks, ladies and
  17. 0:56gentlemen, is manning the controls this evening.
  18. 0:59So there's any problems blame Marty.
  19. 1:02Now I'm just waiting.
  20. 1:05We also have with us produce extraordinary
  21. 1:07in the screening room often imitating
  22. 1:08ever duplicated the Rio J. Mac.
  23. 1:10And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition
  24. 1:12of the program on this Super Tuesday.
  25. 1:17It's where many are participating in primary elections
  26. 1:20all across the country.
  27. 1:22Today's program, I think it's a very important program
  28. 1:28because we're going to take a look into some history to show the significance of things that
  29. 1:34go awry in the past, how they end up having contemporary consequences.
  30. 1:41But we'll get to that in a moment.
  31. 1:43At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are transitioning from your part time
  32. 1:48jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs, your full time jobs where you
  33. 1:53cultivate an outcome.
  34. 1:54And as you make that transition, it is vitally important, vitally important, that you understand
  35. 2:01the primacy that God places on family.
  36. 2:04The first institution that God created, first human institution was the family with the marriage
  37. 2:09at the center.
  38. 2:10The first command given to mankind was issued within the familial context before there was
  39. 2:18an order of priests, before there was an order of prophets, before there was monarchies, before
  40. 2:22where there was a modern iteration of civil government,
  41. 2:25the family is what God has ordained.
  42. 2:29It would be right to say that the first instance
  43. 2:33of governing structure was a family,
  44. 2:37and it is vitally important for us to understand that.
  45. 2:39All too often, many people sacrifice the family
  46. 2:43in an effort to win the world or appeal to the world
  47. 2:45or to ingratiate themselves to the world,
  48. 2:47not realizing that you have the real capacity
  49. 2:51to contribute to eternal destiny being shaped,
  50. 2:54as well as to guide temporal destiny right in your home.
  51. 3:00So as you are making your transition
  52. 3:02to your full-time jobs, brothers and sisters,
  53. 3:04I wanna remind you, what goes on in your house
  54. 3:06is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
  55. 3:10What goes on in your house is what God
  56. 3:12will hold you accountable for.
  57. 3:15You may not be able to control how many cones of ice cream
  58. 3:18that Mr. Robinette gets the partake of.
  59. 3:22you know, you, you, you, you, you cannot control how many talking heads were crying yesterday
  60. 3:28after the Supreme Court rendered a nine to nothing decision over something that is so basic.
  61. 3:32So honestly, in many ways, I felt like it was silly. It was silly to me the way the people
  62. 3:36were sick of fan take over. Oh, the state of Colorado will determine who is and who is
  63. 3:41not, you know, to quote the three dissenters, not not dissenters, but the three, Justice
  64. 3:47this is Katanjibon Jackson, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor.
  65. 3:52They referred to him as an oath-breaking insurrectionist over and over and over.
  66. 4:00Well newsflash, ladies and germs, an individual state does not get to determine the constitution
  67. 4:06criteria for candidates for the presidency.
  68. 4:12Nevertheless, we are here.
  69. 4:15So as you are making your transition, remember what goes on in your house is far more important
  70. 4:20and what goes on in the White House.
  71. 4:21All right, to begin the program,
  72. 4:23we're going to go to 1 Corinthians, chapter 1.
  73. 4:25And we're going to read verses one through nine.
  74. 4:27And I specifically want to direct your attention
  75. 4:31to how many times, how consistently, how emphatically,
  76. 4:36the Apostle Paul goes to great lengths to affirm
  77. 4:42the body in Christ and Corinth that they are in fact,
  78. 4:45believers.
  79. 4:46I want you to take note of this, all right?
  80. 4:491 Corinthians 1-9, 1 Corinthians 1-9,
  81. 4:57here we go.
  82. 4:58Paul, as an apostle of Jesus Christ,
  83. 5:02by the will of God and sausenese.
  84. 5:04Our brother, don't forget old sausenese now.
  85. 5:06He's also mentioned in the book of Acts.
  86. 5:08Look, that's a little homework for you, all right?
  87. 5:11Verse two, to the church of God,
  88. 5:13to the church of God, the Greek term there is echlesia,
  89. 5:16to the Church of God, which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus,
  90. 5:27saints, haggios, by calling with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  91. 5:38their Lord in ours. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  92. 5:45I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus.
  93. 5:50for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, that in everything you were enriched in
  94. 5:57Him in all speech and all knowledge, even as the testimony concerned in Christ was confirmed
  95. 6:06in you so that you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus
  96. 6:14Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  97. 6:21God is faithful through whom you were called into fellowship with his son Jesus Christ our Lord.
  98. 6:29Now what I just read to you is a part of what's commonly described as in theological circles as the
  99. 6:36prologue to Paul's first canonical epistle to the Corinthians. You note over and over and over again
  100. 6:44the Apostle Paul affirms that the recipients of this epistle were in fact members of the Lord's
  101. 6:54echlesia to the church of God, which is at Corinth in verse two, it says, to those who have been
  102. 7:00sanctified in Christ, this is a reference to our positional sanctification. Remember these foundational
  103. 7:05theological truths, justification. We're justified by the grace of God alone. We are justified. We
  104. 7:16are saved by grace through faith alone. It is the finished work of Christ alone that justifies us.
  105. 7:24us. Sanctification, you have the two components, positional sanctification, being in Christ
  106. 7:29to where we are the beneficiaries of this dual imputation. Remember, our sin is imputed to
  107. 7:35Jesus Christ, which is why the sinless spotless lamb is bearing the sin guilt of the world.
  108. 7:42All right. His righteousness is imputed to us. So when we stand, the Lord views us as
  109. 7:51pure as a freshly driven snow being the benefactors and the imputees of Jesus Christ's righteousness.
  110. 8:00Praise be to God, not to be confused with the condition of our sanctification, as we are,
  111. 8:07which is progressive and continuing. So when Paul refers and pass tints to those who have been
  112. 8:12sanctified in Christ Jesus, he's talking solely about those in Corinth, and he says later on,
  113. 8:17and to those in all the world, along with himself, who have received by faith the positional
  114. 8:28sanctification as a result of placing our confidence in Jesus Christ alone for eternal salvation.
  115. 8:33All right, Paul continues in the same verse two.
  116. 8:38And I'll read it again to the church of God, which is at Corinth, to those who have been
  117. 8:41sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling.
  118. 8:45Guys, that is not an assessment of conduct.
  119. 8:47is a categorical description as a result of faith, not a result of works in which any
  120. 8:53man would boast.
  121. 8:55Saints by calling with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  122. 9:01their Lord and ours.
  123. 9:03Here the Apostle Paul places his and Sosthenes' faith on the same par with the Corinthian believers,
  124. 9:12affirming repeatedly that these are in fact believers.
  125. 9:17Verse four, Paul says, I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was
  126. 9:21given you in Christ Jesus.
  127. 9:26Verse five that in everything you were enriched in him over and over and over you see Paul
  128. 9:32affirming the Corinthians as believers.
  129. 9:36Then he ultimately in getting to the conclusion of the prologue, refers to Christ who will also
  130. 9:41confirm you.
  131. 9:42Verse eight, confirm you to the end.
  132. 9:45It's blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  133. 9:49Verse nine, God is faithful to whom you were called into fellowship with his son.
  134. 9:54This is the effective gospel call over and over and over again.
  135. 9:58I hope you're getting the point.
  136. 10:00The Apostle Paul affirms the fact that these Corinthians were believers.
  137. 10:09Now, the Apostle Paul then spends the remainder of this epistle and even the second canonical
  138. 10:18epistle to the Corinthians confronting all manner of sinful issues.
  139. 10:23I will remind you that the Apostle Paul wasn't the only one who labored in Corinth, Apollos
  140. 10:28labored in Corinth as well.
  141. 10:35This is the word of God to where the Apostle Paul, as I said, affirms the fact that these
  142. 10:47Corinthians our believers.
  143. 10:49Then he goes through great lights
  144. 10:51confronting all manner of sinful issues.
  145. 10:54Stop and think for a moment.
  146. 10:59Think for a moment what the Corinthians would look like
  147. 11:05if they did not get the benefit of the discipleship ministry
  148. 11:10following their regeneration, following their conversion
  149. 11:14of the Apostle Paul and others whom the Lord dispatched
  150. 11:17to the Corinthians.
  151. 11:18Can you imagine?
  152. 11:20Think about the things that were confronted
  153. 11:22amongst the Corinthians.
  154. 11:24Can you imagine what they would have been
  155. 11:26without discipleship?
  156. 11:32My point here is that Jesus knew what he was talking about
  157. 11:43when he commanded his disciples to make disciples,
  158. 11:49not merely converts.
  159. 11:52Of course, it's vitally important that people
  160. 11:57are regenerated by the grace of God, by the Spirit of God.
  161. 12:00but the Great Commission is not merely,
  162. 12:02or I won't say merely,
  163. 12:04is not exclusively to evangelize.
  164. 12:08The Great Commission is to make disciples.
  165. 12:12Discipleship is the mandate from Jesus Christ.
  166. 12:17A disciple is a disciplined learner of the Lord Jesus Christ.
  167. 12:23Unfortunately, when things transpire,
  168. 12:28if you have a person, and sometimes the situation exists
  169. 12:31where you genuinely have people
  170. 12:34who have made authentic professions of faith,
  171. 12:40but then they have not been discipled.
  172. 12:42And in those circumstances, the situation can exist
  173. 12:46to where the non-disciples look just like the world.
  174. 12:53But then you also have an additional phenomenon
  175. 12:56where you have people who have been exposed
  176. 12:59to the Spirit of God, and this is where you have people
  177. 13:01who unfortunately yield themselves to mysticism
  178. 13:05and you have this kind of hodgepodge of all kind of things,
  179. 13:09pantheism and all these kind of things that seep in,
  180. 13:12because there's a failure of grounding and rooting in the word.
  181. 13:20The commission that Jesus gave us was to make disciples.
  182. 13:25Teaching the disciple to obey everything
  183. 13:28Jesus Christ commanded us.
  184. 13:30You've heard me say numerous times,
  185. 13:31one of the fundamental foundational necessities
  186. 13:36of disciple making is for you and me to be disciples ourselves.
  187. 13:41The Lord doesn't want us out here trying to sell something
  188. 13:44We haven't purchased teaching him to obey everything that he has commanded us.
  189. 13:50What is presumed there is that we are walking in obedience.
  190. 13:54This affirms what I say to you very often that the call to follow Christ is a call to
  191. 13:58live the lifestyle of worship.
  192. 14:01And the lifestyle of worship is typified at its pinnacle by obedience.
  193. 14:08Paul's visit to the Corinthians is an example of what can transpire when you have people
  194. 14:13who may genuinely be converted, but they may not be discipled because you look at all the
  195. 14:17issues the Apostle Paul confronted in their lives subsequent to a firm in the fact that
  196. 14:21they were fellow believers.
  197. 14:25The commission to make disciples is vitally important because the refusal to obey that command has
  198. 14:33dire, dire consequences.
  199. 14:35When we come back from the break, we're going to look at a little bit of history that shows
  200. 14:42how this really has played out in our own country.
  201. 14:45and see some of the current issues we're confronting as a result of a failure of discipleship historically in our country.
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  221. 16:18Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third.
  222. 16:22Reminder this weekend,
  223. 16:25I'll be joining the North Dallas Community Bible Fellowship
  224. 16:28for the men's breakfast on Saturday and Sunday by God's grace.
  225. 16:32I will deliver the sermon at the church.
  226. 16:37I am looking forward to that.
  227. 16:38I've said before, North Dallas has become a part of my family.
  228. 16:41And so I'm looking forward to visiting them again
  229. 16:44and spending time with them
  230. 16:46And in July, July 18th through the 20th,
  231. 16:50the Culture Proof Conference is here.
  232. 16:53Go to cultureproof.net where you can get all the information
  233. 16:56where you can register as we're talking about
  234. 16:58making the necessity of making disciples.
  235. 17:02This conference exists to help equip you to do that.
  236. 17:06There is a use of apologetics track.
  237. 17:07My wife will be directing that.
  238. 17:09And my soul looks forward to that conference.
  239. 17:12Go to cultureproof.net.
  240. 17:14That is Cultureproof.net to register.
  241. 17:17I've mentioned before, I'm eager to hear Dr. Jason Lyle,
  242. 17:21astrophysicist and apologist, frankly,
  243. 17:26who does an amazing, amazing job.
  244. 17:27The host pastor, Pastor Lee Brand,
  245. 17:30oh man, what a brother.
  246. 17:32This brother is Israel Wayne,
  247. 17:34who's been a blessing to my family.
  248. 17:37If you have not, I encourage everybody
  249. 17:39to get a copy of Israel Wayne's book,
  250. 17:42Education Does God Have an Opinion.
  251. 17:44Oh man, you need to check it out.
  252. 17:45Regardless what you stand on, the issue,
  253. 17:47you certainly need to be informed.
  254. 17:53Dr. Renton Rathbun will be there
  255. 17:55who is also an apologist director of World View Studies
  256. 17:58at Bob Jones University.
  257. 18:00Will and Mickey Addison will also be there.
  258. 18:03It's gonna be an amazing, amazing time.
  259. 18:05Go to cultureproof.net to register.
  260. 18:09Now I'm gonna go, as I mentioned to you previously,
  261. 18:13to talk a little bit about history.
  262. 18:14And these are things some of you may be aware of these facts.
  263. 18:18Some of you may not be aware of this information.
  264. 18:23But this comes by way of Jay Warner Wallace,
  265. 18:29Jim Warner Wallace who is a brother in the faith
  266. 18:32who is an apologist himself.
  267. 18:37If you're not familiar with Jay Warner Wallace,
  268. 18:39he actually has spoken at one of our early
  269. 18:41American Family Association's
  270. 18:43Marish and the Life Conferences.
  271. 18:44She spoke at one of those conferences.
  272. 18:48He is a former detective in Los Angeles.
  273. 18:53He is a homicide detective and he investigated cold cases.
  274. 18:56And when he was a detective, he was not a believer.
  275. 19:01He in fact was an atheist for a significant portion of his life.
  276. 19:05And he was challenged with the gospel
  277. 19:08and he sought to apply to the testimony of Jesus
  278. 19:12and to the gospels, the investigatory methods that he employed in order to investigate cold
  279. 19:19case homicides.
  280. 19:21And you can imagine what happened.
  281. 19:26Detective J. Warner Wallace put Jesus to the test and the detective ended up submitting his
  282. 19:31life to Jesus as a result of his investigation.
  283. 19:35Well in addition to him becoming a Christian himself, one of the things that was prevalent
  284. 19:41in his life that he had family members who were Mormons.
  285. 19:46And so he and I agree with this wholeheartedly often says the faith that we have can withstand
  286. 19:56scrutiny.
  287. 19:57And so he sought out to examine the history and information of Mormonism and actually did a
  288. 20:03deeper dive into other things.
  289. 20:05And so what you're going to hear is a portion of his presentation on Mormonism articulating
  290. 20:11why Mormonism is in fact, occult and is not Christianity. But he also hit some other points
  291. 20:19during this presentation concerning the history of several other heterodox spiritual traditions
  292. 20:28that began about the same time as Mormonism. I found that fascinating and I believe you
  293. 20:36will as well, and it'll help you to see how some other things have developed and it actually
  294. 20:43relates to the conversation we were just having about the necessity of the body of Christ
  295. 20:49being committed to disciple making.
  296. 20:54That proclamation of the gospel must be accompanied by disciple making.
  297. 21:01All right.
  298. 21:03Have a couple clips that I want you to hear.
  299. 21:05These will be audio clips.
  300. 21:06The first one is about two minutes long to where J. Warner Wallace explains a bit of
  301. 21:12the background and context in which Joseph Smith grew up.
  302. 21:16This is clip number one.
  303. 21:18Go.
  304. 21:19So let's look at the evidence related to the location from which Joseph Smith and the book
  305. 21:22of Mormon emerged.
  306. 21:23Now, remember, as we begin this, there are several points I want you to keep in mind.
  307. 21:28Four really, I think, in this first area of investigating the time in which Mormonism
  308. 21:33emerges.
  309. 21:34The first point is this.
  310. 21:36The second Great Awakening had already swept through New York.
  311. 21:40The famous second Great Awakening occurred in America from about 1790 to approximately
  312. 21:461845.
  313. 21:47The first Great Awakening, the plain old Great Awakening, occurred about 50 years prior to
  314. 21:52that.
  315. 21:53The second Great Awakening was really facilitated by a number of well-known now charismatic
  316. 21:59teachers and preachers, maybe the most famous of these is Charles Finney.
  317. 22:04It resulted in a tremendous religious excitement throughout New England.
  318. 22:10These folks were able to come in and stir up a crowd and use a particular method that
  319. 22:16was intentional with the hopes of bringing people to faith.
  320. 22:19Now a lot could be said about fitting in his methods, but I'm not going to get into that
  321. 22:22today.
  322. 22:24All we need to know is that this sweeping of the Grissek and Great Awakening through the
  323. 22:28northeast, it just resulted in all this excitement in New England.
  324. 22:33resulted in all kinds of activity in the Palmyra, New York area. We know that a church attendance
  325. 22:39and conversion records in the area of Palmyra, New York reflect a really strong growth starting
  326. 22:45in about 1824. Smith was born in this area in December 23rd, 1805, and he grew up in
  327. 22:51the midst of this religious revival. So you have to understand the setting. It's not as
  328. 22:56though this one boy, and even the early history as provided by the Mormon Church, would
  329. 23:01affirm that Joseph grew up in this state in his place where there was an incredible religious
  330. 23:07fervor and revival occurring as a result of the activity of those pastors and miniatures and preachers
  331. 23:13who were part of the second great awakening. All right, everybody with me so far. So he explains
  332. 23:22that Joseph Smith grew up in the Palmyra, New York area during basically the second great awakening.
  333. 23:30So he was alive and around with when lots of, you know, robust evangelism,
  334. 23:38further responses to what were happening to where there was an elevation of spirituality in our nation.
  335. 23:48This contributed to what shapes and what forms Joseph Smith.
  336. 23:54All right, keep that in mind.
  337. 23:57Keep that in mind.
  338. 23:58I'm going to go a little further.
  339. 23:59Clip number two, go.
  340. 24:03Is that these guys who led the second grade awakening,
  341. 24:07while they were great preachers,
  342. 24:08they sure as heck did not leave a lot in their wake
  343. 24:11in terms of guidance.
  344. 24:13Those preachers of the second grade awakening,
  345. 24:15they were certainly excellent communicators.
  346. 24:18I think their camp style revivals were designed
  347. 24:21specifically to get response from the people
  348. 24:24they were trying to reach.
  349. 24:26But the same preachers who were so good at bringing people
  350. 24:29to their knees and bring them into altar calls, they were much less than effective in establishing
  351. 24:34discipleship issues, discipleship processes after they converted all these people to Christianity.
  352. 24:42In the wake of the revival meeting, the new converts were for the most part on their own,
  353. 24:46as the local church systems were just not there yet.
  354. 24:49They weren't established, they weren't planted, they weren't developed well enough to help
  355. 24:53teach and mentor those who were interested in learning more about that thing they committed
  356. 24:57to last night at the revival meeting.
  357. 24:59Now, much ink has been spilled.
  358. 25:05Much many dialogues have been pursued.
  359. 25:09Many conversations have been engaged in concerning the second great awakening.
  360. 25:15But how often has the body of Christ, frankly, had conversations about the discipleship efforts
  361. 25:24that accompanied or followed the second great awakening?
  362. 25:28Now, you heard Jim Warner Wallace, and that clip say, really, that really weren't too
  363. 25:33discipleship efforts employed. There weren't, there, there wasn't much done by a way of establishing
  364. 25:49efforts to disciple people who were responding to what was presented in many of the camp meetings
  365. 25:57and the revival presentations. Similar to what I said in the first segment, what would the Corinthians,
  366. 26:09the Corinthian believers look like if they had not been presented with discipleship instruction by way of Paul and the
  367. 26:17Apollos and others after their regeneration. What does America look like following a second-grade awakening with not much discipleship
  368. 26:29established? And before we get into simply surmising the shared opinions, let's again consider what Jesus commanded us to
  369. 26:42do see in many ways an objective and I don't mean a subjective and and and I
  370. 26:53love the body of Christ I don't want anybody to think I'm trying to slam on
  371. 26:56the church or anything like that but what else do you describe how else do you
  372. 27:01describe a phenomenon where you have a second grade awakening void of discipleship
  373. 27:05accompanying it at a minimum you see a spiritual vacuum what did Jesus explain
  374. 27:14when he said a house being swept clean to where the demons are excised demons go
  375. 27:22about walking in arid places, having no place to go returns.
  376. 27:30And the return is what?
  377. 27:36And I'm sharing this because I know lots of people who are,
  378. 27:41and I mean, I love these brothers and sisters, man.
  379. 27:45They're crying out to the Lord for revival
  380. 27:47and in our country and things of that nature.
  381. 27:49And I appreciate these brothers and sisters,
  382. 27:52but I often challenge them.
  383. 27:56It cannot simply be an emotional phenomenon that we seek
  384. 28:00The commission of the Lord's bride is to make disciples.
  385. 28:07It's not to diminish the significance of evangelism,
  386. 28:09not at all, but to understand the parable of the soils.
  387. 28:15What happened to the seed that fell among the thorns,
  388. 28:23easily choked by the plants.
  389. 28:24What about the seed that when the sun hit it, what happened?
  390. 28:30This is what I'm saying.
  391. 28:32This is what I'm saying.
  392. 28:36The second great awakening, regardless of, you know,
  393. 28:40I'm not gonna take time now to talk about Charles Finney
  394. 28:42the methods and all that kind of stuff. What happened following accompanying it? There's
  395. 28:50a void there. There was a void there. Now go a little further. One more clip from J one
  396. 28:54a while is it's clip number three. Go. So as a result of this, a number of unorthodox
  397. 29:01variant and deviant forms of Christianity emerged in this same area in which Mormonism
  398. 29:06emerges. Mormonism is only one movement that came along as a result of this. At the
  399. 29:12Because at the very same time, in addition to Mormonism, you have the evangelical Christian
  400. 29:15church in Canada, the Christian church, the disciples of Christ, the Seventh-day Adventist
  401. 29:20church, you know, that's from which you get Jehovah's Witnesses and the Cumberland Presbyterian
  402. 29:24church, all these different movements, church movements and religious movements, variations
  403. 29:29of Christianity, many of which are unorthodox, they all emerge at the very same time in
  404. 29:34the very same region as a result of and in response to the Second-Great Awakening.
  405. 29:41Oh boy, did you know that?
  406. 29:45Some of you, I know have known that,
  407. 29:47but I know some of you listening to me right now.
  408. 29:50You didn't know that.
  409. 29:51You didn't know that Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses
  410. 29:54all came from the same portion of the country
  411. 29:56at about the same time, following the second grade awakening.
  412. 30:03These are examples of what happens when you have
  413. 30:08an awakening with no discipleship, brothers and sisters,
  414. 30:15what you have.
  415. 30:16And again, I'm not talking about the world,
  416. 30:18the world is gonna world.
  417. 30:19Y'all know I say this all the time,
  418. 30:20the world is gonna world.
  419. 30:22But I'm saying, what about the body of Christ?
  420. 30:24With the indwelling of the Spirit of God,
  421. 30:26with his word, armed with his word?
  422. 30:31Why weren't there brothers and sisters crying out?
  423. 30:33That this has to be anchored in discipleship.
  424. 30:36We need to ground these babes
  425. 30:38and who may have genuinely given their lives to Christ.
  426. 30:40They need to be grounded and rooted in the Lord's word.
  427. 30:45What's the most effective deception?
  428. 30:49A little bit of truth.
  429. 30:51swirled in the bunch of lies.
  430. 30:56And so a lot of the cults that have gripped people
  431. 31:00started within the wake of the second great awakening.
  432. 31:08What we are confronting today,
  433. 31:09and lots of our young people,
  434. 31:11because that's just be clear about something
  435. 31:13God has hardwired mankind to worship.
  436. 31:16And so there are lots of younger people in America
  437. 31:19that they have a religious zeal for rebellious ideations.
  438. 31:24You know, you have climate zealots,
  439. 31:26and you have those who worship the trees
  440. 31:28and young people over and they wanna be a part of something
  441. 31:32real, a part of something that is worth something,
  442. 31:34that's because we are hardwired to live for something
  443. 31:37beyond ourselves.
  444. 31:38But what has happened is that there's been a counterfeit
  445. 31:41spirituality that has set foot.
  446. 31:43There is a prevalence of humanism and self worship really.
  447. 31:49An author coined the phrase moralistic therapeutic deism
  448. 31:52to where people are not worshiping the God of the Bible,
  449. 31:54The chair picking things that they prefer,
  450. 31:57the stuff that they don't like, leave it aside,
  451. 31:58and really creating their own religions
  452. 32:00and when the ultimate reality is themselves,
  453. 32:02that they are God.
  454. 32:05I see this as a modern iteration of the things
  455. 32:10that have happened in our past to where cults formed
  456. 32:15in the wake formed in America, cults formed in America
  457. 32:22in the wake of the second great awakening.
  458. 32:27When you stop and think that Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormonism and these cults,
  459. 32:34and I'm gonna say it like it is, a spiritual vacuum was created and the old deluder infiltrated
  460. 32:44and it corrupted the formation of the church, which had downstream consequences in our nation
  461. 32:53in the same thing in many ways as happening now, there must be a commitment to disciple-making
  462. 32:59because the embracing of CRT and things like that is religious
  463. 33:03zealotry. Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute
  464. 33:14common terrors are available at aFR.net back to the Hamilton
  465. 33:18Quarter on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton
  466. 33:22Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here. I just wanted to share
  467. 33:28that with you just because it really gripped me when when putting
  468. 33:32on being able to plot on like a timeline when you see the
  469. 33:35the sit and see of these things.
  470. 33:38And really how they were forged in the wake of the second
  471. 33:44great awakening, man.
  472. 33:49It really sheds light on what's happening now.
  473. 33:51And as I said, like this, this pension to embrace critical
  474. 33:57theory, this, you know, I've explained before that critical
  475. 34:02theories are overarching ideology, that critical race
  476. 34:05theories are subset, critical queer theory is a subset of
  477. 34:10critical theory, all of these things were ideologies that were promulgated for the express
  478. 34:15purposes of, as Gramsci said, severing the root of the geodeo-Christian ethos to allow a nation
  479. 34:21to be overthrown. That was the objective. And as I said yesterday, when Georgie Lukox
  480. 34:27advocated for the use of sex education for children, really was to pervert children,
  481. 34:32to pervert their minds and have them engage and pervert the conduct. He called it cultural
  482. 34:36That's what he called it.
  483. 34:37Cultural terrorism.
  484. 34:38He recognized that by unleashing the lust of the flesh on children prior to their mental
  485. 34:47spiritual and even in many instances physical maturity to navigate it, that it would terrorize
  486. 34:52existing society.
  487. 34:53And that is exactly what he sought to accomplish.
  488. 34:57So having, you know, experimented in a small scale on one small European nation, they realized,
  489. 35:03oh, this works.
  490. 35:05spread queer critical theory or critical queer theory all over the world. That led to the lobbying
  491. 35:15efforts of the American Psychological and American Psychiatric Association to try to sever the concept
  492. 35:22of sex from gender all of this is a part of a plan. Then once they effectively had people begin to
  493. 35:28use the term gender to refer to people because historically we didn't use the term gender to refer
  494. 35:33to people. At best we refer to inanimate objects. This is why in the United States of America all
  495. 35:38of our laws, prohibit the discrimination on the basis of sex, because sex was understood to be a
  496. 35:43man and a woman. I'm just telling you the history. And so then all of that happened to where they
  497. 35:51bifurcated sex and gender, referring to sex being biological and gender being mental. And then there
  498. 35:57you go, gender ideology. Anyway, all of that was an effort that's intentionally promulgated
  499. 36:05to cause cultural chaos, but the cultural chaos exists for the express purposes of overthrown
  500. 36:10in a society is what I'm saying.
  501. 36:12So many of our young people find themselves
  502. 36:14clinging to causes because God has hardwired us
  503. 36:18for worship, hardwired us to invest ourselves
  504. 36:21in things that are bigger than us.
  505. 36:25So, and of course, the bivocation of gender and sex
  506. 36:30is complete buffoonery.
  507. 36:33They have not, that is not the product
  508. 36:35of a scientific experiment.
  509. 36:37That's not the, that is a product of a lobbying campaign
  510. 36:40and a PR campaign,
  511. 36:44which is why you heard me say, and I will continue to say,
  512. 36:47you know, and you have a right to your delusions,
  513. 36:50but you cannot compel me to live by that.
  514. 36:54You are not going to compel me to tell a lie
  515. 36:56in order to affirm the truth.
  516. 36:59Not gonna happen, not gonna happen.
  517. 37:06But again, I'm pointing this out though,
  518. 37:09because the leaning, the penchant to embrace counterfeit theology,
  519. 37:19it occurs when there's a prominent spiritual vacuum,
  520. 37:25prominent spiritual vacuum.
  521. 37:27is not, it shouldn't be lost on us in Romans one when God leaves out his case against humanity
  522. 37:35through the Apostle Paul. The first iteration of that rebellion is man places himself in
  523. 37:41the position of God. It always comes down to God's word or man's word.
  524. 37:52All right. Today, interestingly enough, Kirsten cinema currently the United States senator
  525. 38:00from Arizona announced that she would be leaving the Senate at the end of this year. Yes,
  526. 38:06you know, she is she she is tired of being in the middle of these partisan
  527. 38:11rankings. You know, that's what that's what she said. So at the end of this year,
  528. 38:20she is going to withdraw from the US Senate in her announcement of her resigning
  529. 38:32from the Senate or not resigning but her announcement that she would not run for
  530. 38:36re-election at the expiration of her current term, which ends this year. She
  531. 38:40said this quote in 2017 I warned we were approaching a crossroad. Our democracy, see
  532. 38:46there we go. Our democracy. I know some of y'all may get tired of me saying this but even if I'm the
  533. 38:53lone voice crying in the wilderness I'm gonna cry it. Guys words have meanings. The consistent
  534. 39:00effort by certain people to refer to our nation as a democracy is intentional. We do not live in
  535. 39:05the democracy. We live in a constitutional republic with democratic features. There are features of
  536. 39:11our nation that are democratic. Our nation is not democratic. Our nation is a republic.
  537. 39:19The distinction between a republic and a democracy is that in a republic, there is an objective
  538. 39:26standard set of law that that transcends and supersedes the will of the people in order
  539. 39:32for that law to be changed. The people would need to change the law. You understand? There
  540. 39:38will republics in the world prior to the United States of America, we are a constitutional
  541. 39:44republic.
  542. 39:45So our central objective transcendent source of law is a US Constitution.
  543. 39:50If we have a problem with the Constitution, there are mechanisms in place to change it,
  544. 39:55but you cannot ignore it.
  545. 39:56You cannot violate it.
  546. 39:58You cannot run afoul of it and still be a law abiding citizen.
  547. 40:04So it really sickens me when people, especially those that should know better.
  548. 40:09This is a sitting US Senator, but she refers to our nation as a democracy.
  549. 40:13That's intentional.
  550. 40:14It's intentional.
  551. 40:17Because they want to express something that is not true about our country.
  552. 40:24That the will of the people is preeminent.
  553. 40:26The will of the people must be subjected to our Constitution.
  554. 40:29If the people do not like something in the Constitution, we're supposed to change it,
  555. 40:35but not subvert it.
  556. 40:37But they want to skip that step.
  557. 40:39Anyway, I'll get back to her announcement.
  558. 40:43to her quote, quote, our democracy was weakened by government dysfunction and the constant
  559. 40:47pull to the extremes by both political parties. I promised I would do my best to fix it to protect
  560. 40:53and defend our Constitution to listen to others without judging to focus on what unites us and
  561. 40:58to make American lives better through listening, understanding and compromise. We delivered tangible
  562. 41:03results that made America safer, stronger and more prosperous, yet despite modernizing
  563. 41:07our infrastructure, ensuring clean water, ensuring clean water, delivering good jobs
  564. 41:11of safer communities, Americans still choose to retreat farther to their partisan corners."
  565. 41:16In quote, she said more things, but I find it funny that in her announcement as to why she's withdrawing,
  566. 41:24it doesn't miss an opportunity to insult the American people. She's basically saying,
  567. 41:29in spite of my best efforts to be a uniting healing force, the American people seem further
  568. 41:35committed to retreat to their partisan corners. You know, I'm just, I'm sick of talking here,
  569. 41:41is, man, it would be very nice if we had people who were statesmen.
  570. 41:51What about truth, Christian cinema?
  571. 41:53What about truth?
  572. 41:55Does truth have any bearing on your functioning government?
  573. 42:00Or is it just a matter of, well, this party wants this,
  574. 42:03this party wants that?
  575. 42:04Because what happens, and we talk about this when we discuss
  576. 42:06Hegel with the Hegelian dialectical process, right?
  577. 42:10Hegel's, Hegel was a committed Marxist, right?
  578. 42:13When he presented, and often another description of what
  579. 42:17was the moving of the Overton window.
  580. 42:19You know, we talked about it before,
  581. 42:20what Hago promulgated is that you as an activist
  582. 42:23or what became the description of a community organizer,
  583. 42:26that you present a thesis, right?
  584. 42:30I want to move left, anticipating the corresponding presentation
  585. 42:35of an antithesis.
  586. 42:37I want to move right.
  587. 42:38Well, and then the community organizer, the champion,
  588. 42:42the white horse, the Kirsten cinema,
  589. 42:44come riding in, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.
  590. 42:47Why don't we go in the middle?
  591. 42:49That's called the synthesis only for the Hegelian as soon as the synthesis is embraced the Hegelian once again presents a new thesis
  592. 43:00further left
  593. 43:01the predictable antithesis
  594. 43:06Will say right, but right at this junction now is where the middle used to be
  595. 43:11Then a new synthesis
  596. 43:14Come in the middle from the second presentation and guess what's happening every time we're moving further and further and further left
  597. 43:19You see, this is why the Republican Party used to oppose illegal immigration in total.
  598. 43:31Now you have people like former Senator John McCain and others saying we just need a Republican
  599. 43:36version of, but using Obamacare, you know, Republicans used to oppose.
  600. 43:43Oh, we don't need government healthcare.
  601. 43:45Now you have Republicans saying we just need to have Republican version of government health.
  602. 43:52I used to have Republicans remember this.
  603. 43:54And these, this bygone era, Republicans used to say,
  604. 43:57homosexual marriage would destroy America.
  605. 44:00When's the last time you heard a Republican candidate
  606. 44:02for office say that?
  607. 44:04I'm just telling you.
  608. 44:11If Marty comes up to me and say, hey, hey, I got an idea.
  609. 44:14Why don't I shoot you in the head?
  610. 44:18And I say, Marty, are you tripping?
  611. 44:24And then Marty comes in, all right, let's just be reason.
  612. 44:28That's compromised, all right.
  613. 44:29I want to shoot you in the head.
  614. 44:30You don't want to be shotted all.
  615. 44:30That's compromised.
  616. 44:31shoot you in the knee.
  617. 44:34That would be a compromise, right?
  618. 44:37Is that a reasonable compromise?
  619. 44:41Y'all give the point that I'm making.
  620. 44:43It's insane.
  621. 44:44Listen, compromise is not an objective in and of itself.
  622. 44:47Virtue, truth.
  623. 44:49What about that?
  624. 44:51What about that?
  625. 44:59Another bit of information, which I thought
  626. 45:01this was significant.
  627. 45:02Do you realize that as it stands right now,
  628. 45:04as I am talking to you,
  629. 45:06we have gotten ourselves into such a whole
  630. 45:10with the national debt that we have reached a place
  631. 45:13to where every 100 days the United States of America
  632. 45:16incurs an additional $1 trillion in debt.
  633. 45:19Do you realize that?
  634. 45:22We have a trillion dollars every 100 days
  635. 45:29to where our interest payments on the debt are outpacing GDP.
  636. 45:34Guys, this cannot continue.
  637. 45:37This cannot continue.
  638. 45:39This cannot continue.
  639. 45:41And I brought this up because Jordan Peterson
  640. 45:45scheduled to testify this week at the House of Representatives on the collusion
  641. 45:51between governments and banks and specifically some of you may recall the
  642. 45:57remember the Canadian trucker convoy the Canadian trucker convoy was protesting
  643. 46:06the draconian lockdown measures that Kaiser Trudeau and others were imposing
  644. 46:12and you know Jordan Peterson is Canadian but do you remember how Justin Trudeau
  645. 46:17So he eliminated the trucker convoy.
  646. 46:20You remember?
  647. 46:22Frows their bank accounts.
  648. 46:29Frows their bank accounts.
  649. 46:31Jordan Peterson described that as the government stealing people's money.
  650. 46:39But the theft could only be accomplished with the consent of the banks.
  651. 46:43So he's coming to our Congress to testify against this.
  652. 46:47And I'm presenting this because what do you think happens when a nation gets itself in
  653. 46:53such a pickle to where every hundred days is a hundred there's a trillion dollars more in debt
  654. 47:00guys that house of cards can't continue and that's right i call them Kaiser Trudeau
  655. 47:08yeah that's Kaiser i mean do say it outright the pandemic gives us an opportunity to implement
  656. 47:13our pre pandemic plans what do you think it's beyond our government to desire to freeze american
  657. 47:28citizens accounts do you know that there are people regressives in our country that are literally
  658. 47:32saying that our government needs to impose additional taxes on people's 401Ks
  659. 47:38because that's additional money that hasn't been taxed properly. Now people only got 401Ks because
  660. 47:43the government promised that you could invest your money here for retirement in this way to allow
  661. 47:48it to grow so that you can provide for yourself in retirement. But do you realize that they're
  662. 47:54regressive agitating attempting to appeal to have law changed to where the government says,
  663. 47:59oh my bad, I know I told you that you could grow your money tax free there but I didn't mean that.
  664. 48:03We go ahead and take some of that. Guys, we are not going toward we are in the doldrums
  665. 48:14of America embracing the full tenet of the communist manifesto, but it's being implemented
  666. 48:21in a piecemeal fashion that's causing too many to fail to recognize what's actually happening.
  667. 48:29Thanks be to God, however, that our hope doesn't rest in Washington DC, and we're not waiting
  668. 48:36for an election to profess who is Lord, God, and King.
  669. 48:39Glory to the Most High, Jesus Christ.
  670. 48:46The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
  671. 48:52Family Association or American Family Radio.

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