("Best-of" Edition from 6/10/24) Jesus over everything!

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28. 1:21It's good to be back in studio after being in Virginia.
29. 1:26It was a great time there.
30. 1:27J. Mack was there.
31. 1:28He got to introduce himself in certain shirts he wore to the people who were attending the
32. 1:38Home Educators Association of Virginia's Convention.
33. 1:43But I'm glad to be back home.
34. 1:46At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your
35. 1:50part-time job where you generate an income to your full-time jobs, your full-time jobs
36. 1:57where we cultivate an outcome.
37. 1:58And as you do so, I want to remind you to make your transition with intentionality, understanding
38. 2:05the primacy that God places on family.
39. 2:09I say this daily because it's true.
40. 2:12What goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
41. 2:19A lot of important things happen in the White House, but they are not more important to you
42. 2:25or to me, then what happens in our home before there were modern iterations of civil government,
43. 2:34before there were orders of priests and prophets before monarchies.
44. 2:38The first institution that God established was the family.
45. 2:42It's very easy to allow things of the world to crowd out our vision, to crowd our focus,
46. 2:50to divert our attention.
47. 2:54But if you are blessed as I am to have children still in your home, under your roof, under
48. 2:59your authority, the time is fleeting.
49. 3:04The time is fleeting.
50. 3:05You won't get to repeat 15 years old.
51. 3:07You won't get to repeat.
52. 3:09You know ages 10 through 16, you won't get to repeat.
53. 3:12Ages five through seven.
54. 3:14What we must do, we must do now.
55. 3:16We must do now.
56. 3:17So as you are making your transition to your full-time jobs,
57. 3:21I want to encourage you to do so with intentionality.
58. 3:25With intentionality, refuse to allow yourself
59. 3:29be poured out everywhere else except in your home, except in serving your family.
60. 3:36But exalt the King of glory starting right in your home.
61. 3:41Praise God.
62. 3:42We will go to the Word of God today.
63. 3:46Jeremiah chapter 12 verses 1 through 5.
64. 3:48Jeremiah chapter 12 verses 1 through 5.
65. 3:52There's so much happening in the world.
66. 3:56We must, we must, we must be anchored in the Lord's holy word by way of reminder, the Prophet
67. 4:02Jeremiah, minister to Jews in the Southern Kingdom of Judah from 627 BC there about to
68. 4:12586 BC, right?
69. 4:13All the way up to and through to Nebuchadnezzar's conquest and ultimate exile of the Southern
70. 4:19Kingdom of Judah.
71. 4:21That was the time period of Jeremiah's ministry.
72. 4:26the very, very simple purpose of the book was to urge the people of God to turn from their sins
73. 4:32and return to him. Very, very simply. In chapter 12 of this book, the Lord has provided, I believe,
74. 4:41sage wisdom for us, not sage wisdom, but wisdom for us, divine wisdom for us, excuse me.
75. 4:49That is appropriate for our times here and now. And I encourage you to welcome the Spirit of
76. 4:55God to minister his word to you beyond what I have to say because it's so vitally important,
77. 5:03so vitally important. Here we go. Jeremiah chapter 12 verses 1 and 2 and 5. I should say this,
78. 5:09the first four verses in this chapter that I'm going to read are a part of Jeremiah's prayer.
79. 5:17He is crying out to God and very similar to the way the book of a back starts is what's happening
80. 5:23here because when I get to verse five, that is the beginning of God responding to Jeremiah.
81. 5:29Jeremiah documents how God responds to his earnest plea in light of what he's witnessing
82. 5:35and what he's experiencing.
83. 5:36I will remind you that Jeremiah is a prophet of God faithfully and diligently proclaimed what
84. 5:42God told him to share, to put told him to say and told him to write, but the people by
85. 5:46and large did not listen to him.
86. 5:50They did not heed what he warned.
87. 5:54So this colors, if you will, what we're going to read in the word of God.
88. 6:00Jeremiah chapter 12 verse one.
89. 6:03This is Jeremiah crying out to the Lord.
90. 6:05Righteous are you, O Lord, that I would plead my case with you.
91. 6:11Indeed, I would discuss matters of justice with you.
92. 6:16Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
93. 6:21Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?
94. 6:26You have planted them.
95. 6:29They have also taken root.
96. 6:31They grow.
97. 6:32They have even produced fruit.
98. 6:35You are near to their lips,
99. 6:38but far from their hearts,
100. 6:40or far from their reigns.
101. 6:42Some passages, some translations
102. 6:45render this phrase.
103. 6:47You are near to their lips,
104. 6:49but far from their hearts.
105. 6:51But you know me, O Lord.
106. 6:53You see me, and you examine my heart's attitude
107. 6:59toward you, drag them off like sheep for the slaughter and set them apart for a day of carnage.
108. 7:05How long is the land to mourn and the vegetation of the countryside to wither? For the wickedness
109. 7:11of those who dwell in it, animals and birds have been snatched away because men have said
110. 7:18he will not see our ending, he will not see our latter ending. And God responds to Jeremiah,
111. 7:28If you have run with the footmen and they have weirried you,
112. 7:33then how can you contend with horses?
113. 7:37If you fall down in the land of peace,
114. 7:40how will you do in the thicket of Jordan?
115. 7:46I'm gonna kind of unpack this a little bit.
116. 7:48These first four verses I believe reflect the heart's cry
117. 7:55of many people in our country,
118. 7:56many believers in our nation in particular,
119. 7:58a lot of the people who are a part of the Hamilton Corner
120. 8:02audience.
121. 8:03I believe that right at the beginning Jeremiah begins
122. 8:06this plea by affirming the fact that God is righteous.
123. 8:09So he's establishing that he's not attempting
124. 8:11to challenge or question God.
125. 8:13He's not in arrogance attempting to assert or impose upon God
126. 8:18his morality.
127. 8:20He's not questioning God.
128. 8:21He's just asking God questions.
129. 8:22As you've heard me say before, God welcomes our questions
130. 8:28where the Lord draws his line is when we transducer
131. 8:31or move over to endeavor,
132. 8:33endeavoring to challenge him, to question him.
133. 8:38Asking questions is different than offering a challenge to him.
134. 8:44When I say challenge, I'm not saying,
135. 8:46when he says, test me in these things,
136. 8:47no, I'm talking about challenging the authority that he has,
137. 8:51his divinity, his character, his nature.
138. 8:56He just asks flat out in verse one,
139. 8:58why has the way of the wicked prospect?
140. 9:03Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?
141. 9:07You see, Jeremiah feels as if the Lord is allowing
142. 9:14the wicked to thrive.
143. 9:15Then in verse two, he goes even further
144. 9:17in acknowledging God's sovereignty,
145. 9:19because though he's saying, yeah, these wicked is thriving,
146. 9:21he's saying, but you have planted them,
147. 9:23he's a firm and in fact that God is sovereign.
148. 9:26You have planted them and they have taken root.
149. 9:28They grow and they've even produced fruit.
150. 9:30You are near to their lips, but far from their hearts.
151. 9:35There Jeremiah reveals the core of his concern,
152. 9:38Lord, these people are hypocrites.
153. 9:40They claim to know you, they claim to love you,
154. 9:43but they don't.
155. 9:45It's evident the fruit that they bore,
156. 9:48the fruit that they produce is evident that it's rotten.
157. 9:51So the core of Jeremiah's umbrage
158. 9:57is that he's concerned that the Lord is allowing hypocrites
159. 10:01who have feigned belief in Him to thrive.
160. 10:06Then the Lord responds to Jeremiah,
161. 10:07if you have run with the footmen,
162. 10:09if they have tired you, and they have wearied you,
163. 10:12then how can you contend with horses?
164. 10:15But the Lord is saying to Jeremiah,
165. 10:16and that simple phrasing is that,
166. 10:18oh, if you think this is bad,
167. 10:19this is not the end of it,
168. 10:21but I haven't planted you to be wearied
169. 10:24by the context that I have planted you to minister to me.
170. 10:27And if you cannot navigate this earlier stage,
171. 10:30early stage of the context I planted you to serve me in, then how will you be able to
172. 10:35contend going further?
173. 10:38How will you be able to be my vessel, be my witness, be my ambassador when things continue?
174. 10:44Now, why am I saying that?
175. 10:49And what is the Lord driving at when he says, if this has we read you?
176. 10:53Brothers and sisters, you have heard me say time and time again that the times we are living
177. 10:57in God is not surprised by them.
178. 11:00He's planted you in me for this moment.
179. 11:02He's deposited you in me for this moment.
180. 11:04ordained us for this moment and this moment has been ordained for us.
181. 11:08But what often occurs, and I understand it because I'm a human being just like me.
182. 11:13Everybody was listening to this show.
183. 11:15What often occurs, we become weirried by the context we've been planted in.
184. 11:20So what is the Lord pointing toward when he talks about Jeremiah being weirried?
185. 11:30Of course you have the feelings, the emotions, the physicality, even of weirriedness,
186. 11:35but I think there is something additional there.
187. 11:38What I believe the Lord would want us to be warned of is that the weariness we need to be
188. 11:46fortified against is a weariness that would cause us to
189. 11:51Abandon our Christian distinction
190. 11:53It is a weariness that would cause us to begin to well the world does it this way it's time to fight fire with fire
191. 12:01It's a weirdness that also that could cause us to
192. 12:05Change what our objectives are to where you know I've heard people say that you know
193. 12:15But we just want to, you know, suck it to the libs or, you know, drink liberal tears.
194. 12:20That's not the position of the believer.
195. 12:23That's not.
196. 12:24I understand we live in the Constitution or the Republic of Democratic features.
197. 12:27I understand that as a result of God's sovereign grace, allowing us to be in a nation of the
198. 12:31people, by the people, before the people that we participate in our body politic, but make
199. 12:36no mistake about it.
200. 12:37God has planted us in this context with the freedoms that we enjoy, not so that the freedoms
201. 12:43become our God, but that the God who has granted us the freedoms remains our God.
202. 12:48You see, the temptations are not merely limited to what is commonly described as a Hollywood
203. 12:54sins.
204. 12:55The temptations also include those things that will compel you or me to abandon fidelity to
205. 13:00the King of Glory and begin to look just like the very world that we are complaining
206. 13:04about.
207. 13:07Because we must remember that even if it appears that evil persists at best is persisting is
208. 13:17temporal.
209. 13:20We must be very careful that we don't allow the context that we're in
210. 13:23to cause the love of God to wax cold in us.
211. 13:27To where we become a part of those loveless people,
212. 13:32that the Lord warned us to love a God who wax cold among many.
213. 13:35And when we see people, we no longer see people made in the image of God,
214. 13:39who kept eternal souls, who Jesus loved so much that He died for them to.
215. 13:44All we see is political enemies.
216. 13:49All I'm saying, brothers and sisters, is what God said.
217. 13:53If you've run with the footmen of they have we,
218. 13:55and they have weirried you,
219. 13:56how will you contend with horses?
220. 14:00The Lord has not planted us brothers and sisters
221. 14:03in this environment so that we become the environment.
222. 14:06He said we're in the world, but not of the world.
223. 14:08He said, I know that the people will hate my disciples,
224. 14:12but I'm not praying that they be removed from it.
225. 14:16I'm not praying that they be kept in it.
226. 14:18So I want to specifically speak to those who are weary.
227. 14:23Brothers and sisters, I want to encourage you
228. 14:28not to faint.
229. 14:30And if you recognize that the ugliness of our time
230. 14:33is beginning to encroach upon your heart
231. 14:35and to cause ugliness to set in your heart,
232. 14:38very simply I would encourage you
233. 14:40to bring it before the Lord and repent.
234. 14:42Lay it beforehand and allow the King of glory
235. 14:45to renew your strength as the Eagles,
236. 14:47so that we, the Lord's remnant,
237. 14:50may be about be found faithful
238. 14:52in the context that he's planted us in,
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254. 15:57Shiting light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
255. 16:08Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
256. 16:12Yes, my brothers and sisters do not become weary and well doing.
257. 16:17We'll reap if we don't faint.
258. 16:20We don't faint.
259. 16:22Hours is the privilege and opportunity to remain faithful to our Lord.
260. 16:26And it's something I say repeatedly because it is moving to me to consider that Daniel
261. 16:32one of his friends, the scripture records their lifetime in Babylon far longer than they ever
262. 16:44were in Judah.
263. 16:45But though they lived in Babylon, a part of that 70 years as the Prophet Jeremiah prophesied,
264. 16:51Babylon never lived in them, never lived in them.
265. 16:58And that is my desire for myself as well as the body of Christ, that though we were deposited
266. 17:07in the earth in this time that this time doesn't seep into our hearts and shape what we are and
267. 17:14who we are that we are shaped by the Spirit of God and that we increase in the fruit of the Spirit.
268. 17:19We increase in the love of God being the engine that drives our engagement. We increase in godliness.
269. 17:27We increase in righteousness. We increase in obeying the Lord and we increase in eternity-based
270. 17:33compassion. Notice I didn't say compassion the way the world conveys it. And as a result of that
271. 17:40continuous sanctification that the Lord reveals Himself to those that we engage for His glory.
272. 17:57May it be so. May it be so. Glory to God. Well, we, as I mentioned, we were in Virginia last week,
273. 18:06what a time we had there an amazing and amazing event that was my first time
274. 18:10participating in that event and H.J.V. President Ann Miller and her staff and all
275. 18:18of the people all of the volunteers thank you for helping us and
276. 18:22cheating us kindly serving my family helping J. Mac making on time to the
277. 18:28breakout sessions J.Mac was always early I'm not gonna do that I can't do it to you
278. 18:36like that. He's always always
279. 18:38early. I was just joking. I was
280. 18:40just joking. I praise God next
281. 18:42week. What a whirlwind will be
282. 18:45in Denver at the Rocky Mountain
283. 18:47homeschool conference in Denver
284. 18:49Colorado. The conferences June
285. 18:5113th through the 15th Thursday
286. 18:53through Saturday. Glory to God
287. 18:57that I'll have the privilege of
288. 18:58participating there. If you're
289. 19:00in the in Denver, please come and
290. 19:02say hi. It was a pleasure meeting
291. 19:03all of you were in Virginia.
292. 19:05There was such a significant amount of people who attended the breakout sessions where I
293. 19:11presented that listened to this program.
294. 19:15So thank you to all of you.
295. 19:17It was a pleasure meeting you in person, getting to greet you and to spend that time with you.
296. 19:22And I pray that you were encouraged as I was encouraged by you that we continue to press
297. 19:28forward in the Lord.
298. 19:30All right.
299. 19:32Issues of the day.
300. 19:33Some foolishness and not so much, some things that are not so much foolishness.
301. 19:37First, I want to say, I thank God for the Israeli Special Forces who were able to conduct
302. 19:48that special operation.
303. 19:50It was Operation Arnan.
304. 19:52It had another name initially, but the operation resulted in the rescue of four Israeli hostages,
305. 20:02Noah Argamani, 26 years old Almagmaier.
306. 20:08Elma my year John 21 years old Andrei Coslov 27 years old and slow me Zeev 41 years old
307. 20:16there were
308. 20:17special Israeli special forces who actually
309. 20:22died in this one
310. 20:25Chief inspector Arnhan Zamora
311. 20:29Was critically wounded during the rescue effort and later died from his wounds
312. 20:35But I'm gonna say something now that I don't think many people are aware of
313. 20:39So the rescue occurred in central Gaza from Hamas.
314. 20:47Captors, you wanna know who was holding these four hostages?
315. 20:53You wanna know?
316. 20:55It was civilians, people who identified themselves
317. 20:59as Palestinian civilians being held
318. 21:03in civilian residential homes.
319. 21:08You got what I just said?
320. 21:12We're being held telling you.
321. 21:19They were being held, I'm sorry.
322. 21:20not residential homes, they were being held in two buildings by Palestinian
323. 21:27families, non combatant so as they've been described.
324. 21:31And this highlights one of the things that I've said before, when you hear people
325. 21:35saying things like, Oh, there's so many innocent people.
326. 21:39And I agree, there are some innocent people who are caught in a crossfire.
327. 21:42But you also have some who are not soldiers, so to speak, but they are
328. 21:47doing the work of a mouse because one of the strategies that a mouse seeks to
329. 21:52employee is to mingle what's commonly understood as civilian portions of their population with
330. 22:00those that are common described as soldiers. And so on the outside prior to the discovery
331. 22:06of the hostages, if much of Western media would have gotten a hold of Operation R-NON
332. 22:12and said they are going to raid a building that's presently occupied by civilians, the
333. 22:19by civilians, the world would have been an uproar.
334. 22:25Until they kicked the final door open
335. 22:26and got the people held hostage to where these,
336. 22:31no, so-called civilians, this is why, this is why,
337. 22:37we should not rush the judgment.
338. 22:38Now, I'm keenly aware that there are some
339. 22:42who are non-combatants in Gaza,
340. 22:46who Hamas is forcing to do their bidding.
341. 22:50I'm aware of that,
342. 22:52but not all of them are being forced.
343. 22:55Not all of them are being forced.
344. 23:04So that's something that's just kind of breaking news
345. 23:08that is happening that I wanted to bring to your attention.
346. 23:11Additionally, many of you know,
347. 23:13the NBA Finals are underway and like a lot of you,
348. 23:16I kind of, you know, I love basketball,
349. 23:18but the NBA honestly has been fading on me
350. 23:20for quite some time.
351. 23:23I still enjoy basketball.
352. 23:24I don't get to play as,
353. 23:25I don't call to get to play at all now.
354. 23:27I used to play all the time.
355. 23:29I'm looking, I want to start playing again.
356. 23:33But one of the things that caught my attention
357. 23:35prior to, I believe they play,
358. 23:39I didn't get to watch the game,
359. 23:40but they played last night, I guess.
360. 23:44But there was a press conference on Saturday
361. 23:47where the Boston Celtics, the two teams that are in the finals
362. 23:51are the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks
363. 23:54and Boston's coaches, Joe Missoula.
364. 23:57Now Joe Missoula, anybody who's unfamiliar with him,
365. 24:01He's pretty outspoken about his Christian faith.
366. 24:05You know, in a world where you can be anything you wanna be,
367. 24:07you can come out every closet, go back in,
368. 24:09come back around, turn around, touch the ground,
369. 24:11and shout out, you know, I'm Barney, I'm Barney today,
370. 24:15that's right, I'm Barney.
371. 24:15Baby Bob is on the way, I'm Barney.
372. 24:17I identify as Barney.
373. 24:19And the world would go,
374. 24:20yeah, so bold, courageous.
375. 24:22All Barney's matter, Barney's lies matter.
376. 24:25You know, but you come out saying you're a Christian.
377. 24:28Oh, I'm big at it.
378. 24:29Well, Joe Missoula was asked a question and the question was clearly prompted within the
379. 24:40context of the current socio-political divisive milieu.
380. 24:49And let me go back.
381. 24:50I don't know the reporter's intention, but I know what the question was.
382. 24:56So I know how the question will be.
383. 24:58would have been received had Joe
384. 25:01Missoula answered it in an
385. 25:03expected fashion how it would
386. 25:06have been utilized in the
387. 25:06divisive movie. Maybe the reporter
388. 25:08had another motive. I don't want
389. 25:10to impune his motivations if I'm
390. 25:14not aware of it. All right. So
391. 25:16let me let me just say that
392. 25:17however, and I'm going to play it
393. 25:18so you can not hear not only the
394. 25:20his Joe Joe Missoula's
395. 25:21Missoula's answer, but I want
396. 25:23you to hear the question as well
397. 25:25because this is something that
398. 25:27has become a consistent feature
399. 25:28of our societal and parlops.
400. 25:34Joe Missoula was asked because he's a head coach
401. 25:36of the Boston Celtics and Jason Kidd,
402. 25:38former basketball player himself, NBA Hall of Famer,
403. 25:41Jason Kidd, that they're both more melanating,
404. 25:44except I don't know how much melanin Jason Kidd had.
405. 25:47Jason Kidd, you know.
406. 25:50But he was asked, Coach Missoula was asked
407. 25:53whether or not this was something he took note of
408. 25:56or it's just something he was proud of.
409. 25:58And I want you here, not only the question,
410. 25:59The three points of this clip is a very short clip.
411. 26:01The clip is going to last a total of what?
412. 26:0320, 27 seconds.
413. 26:05All right, I want you to know the question that's asked.
414. 26:08All right, note Coach Mizzoula's answer,
415. 26:12but then notice the response to Coach Mizzoula's answer.
416. 26:15All right, those are the three components of this clip.
417. 26:17It's clip number one, go.
418. 26:19Hey, Joe, Vince Guelloy, Yahoo Sports.
419. 26:22For the first time since 1975,
420. 26:23this is the NBA Finals where you have two black-haired coaches.
421. 26:27Given the plight, sometimes with black-haired coaches
422. 26:29in the NBA, do you think this is a significant moment?
423. 26:32Do you take pride in this?
424. 26:33How do you view this or do you not see it at all?
425. 26:36I wonder how many of those are being Christian coaches.
426. 26:45David Aldridge?
427. 26:51Did you hear that?
428. 26:52Oh my goodness.
429. 26:54Oh my goodness, you heard the question.
430. 26:56Is this something you take pride in?
431. 26:58Is this something you're celebrating?
432. 26:59Is this a wonderful strive?
433. 27:01What are you thinking about it?
434. 27:02Because of clearly,
435. 27:08you can see what the question was promulgated to.
436. 27:10You listen, right?
437. 27:13Either you're going to affirm, and it is, you know, in,
438. 27:21oftentimes, in trial alternatives we'll resonate with this,
439. 27:25if you're in a court of law,
440. 27:27when you suggest the answer that you're looking for
441. 27:29in the question, that's called a leading question.
442. 27:31Now you have some very intelligent, very smart attorneys,
443. 27:33they find all kinds of ways to ask leading questions,
444. 27:36but what a leading question is,
445. 27:38is one, to where the answer to the question
446. 27:40is suggested in the question.
447. 27:42For example, here's the leading question for Jay Mac.
448. 27:45Jeff, you think I'm the greatest talk show host, don't you?
449. 27:49Heh heh heh heh heh.
450. 27:50What had I just do?
451. 27:51I suggested in the question what I want Jeff's answer to be.
452. 27:56So I put him in a position.
453. 27:57Heh heh heh.
454. 28:00Well, he already knows what I want him to say.
455. 28:02All right, I'm just describing that.
456. 28:04However, Joe Missoula doesn't take the bait
457. 28:07in one direction or the other.
458. 28:08You see, cause he's either put in the position
459. 28:10where he has to affirm a notion and listen.
460. 28:16The answer to this question doesn't mean he's unaware
461. 28:19of his own ethnicity or the ethnicity of Jason Gitt
462. 28:23or his significance or lack thereof in NBA history,
463. 28:27but his answer revealed,
464. 28:29and you saw how Quickly Coach Missoula answered,
465. 28:31his answer revealed what was chief in his mind and heart,
466. 28:35which is why I love this clip so much.
467. 28:41Because if you have been purchased
468. 28:43the shared blood of Jesus Christ.
469. 28:46And you are a member of his eternal family
470. 28:49that you are doing life at whatever stage you're in,
471. 28:51whether you're an MBA basketball coach,
472. 28:53whether you're a sanitation engineer,
473. 28:55whether you're a high school teacher,
474. 28:56whether you are a home builder,
475. 28:59whether you're an attorney, you're a doctor,
476. 29:01you're a law enforcement officer,
477. 29:02no matter what you may be,
478. 29:03if you are a member of the Lord's eternal family,
479. 29:07guess what ranks foremost in your mind and heart.
480. 29:13So Coach Mizzoula in turn,
481. 29:17answers the question with a question,
482. 29:18revealing what is chief in his heart by saying,
483. 29:22I wonder how many of those coaches were Christian,
484. 29:27elevating the entire conversation,
485. 29:33putting the kabosh on efforts to use the question
486. 29:37or the answer, more importantly, Coach Mizzoula's answer
487. 29:41as a mechanism for divisiveness,
488. 29:45but he elevates the conversation
489. 29:47to an eternal consideration.
490. 29:52Coach Missoula, thank you for that.
491. 29:54I appreciate what you did in that answer.
492. 29:57And then did you note the response?
493. 30:03Question didn't have any follow-ups.
494. 30:06You heard that silence,
495. 30:07and have you ever been in the NBA press conference?
496. 30:09You know that's not how it normally rolls.
497. 30:14You could have heard a pin job in that.
498. 30:17That's moving on next question.
499. 30:22The reason why I wanted to bring that to your attention,
500. 30:24because I believe it is a one answer,
501. 30:29brief demonstration of how we as believers should engage
502. 30:33in our current time period.
503. 30:34We should look for opportunities to elevate the conversations
504. 30:39and to centralize eternal matters at every opportunity.
505. 30:44That mean we are unaware of temporal matters.
506. 30:47That mean we don't engage in temporal matters at all.
507. 30:50But it was massively done.
508. 30:51And the thing I love most about it
509. 30:53is that it clearly came out of Coach Missoula's heart.
510. 30:56This was what his immediate thought was.
511. 30:59Oh, I wonder if maybe it was coaches or Christian.
512. 31:07I thought it was masterfully done.
513. 31:09I thought it was masterfully done.
514. 31:10And I thought it highlights why the Lord has deposited Christ's followers in this moment.
515. 31:20Brothers and sisters, if we would rely on the Lord, we can be vessels of honor to respond
516. 31:26to our moments in the exact same way, in the exact same way.
517. 31:32We don't have to be compelled to joust in carnality and allow carnality in all of the
518. 31:38the attendant features of it, ugliness, ungodliness.
519. 31:42We have the wherewithal to be Christ ambassadors
520. 31:44in the time that he's planted us in.
521. 31:50It was massively done and they didn't really know
522. 31:51what to do with it.
523. 31:52Now I thought it was interesting
524. 31:54because after this the reporter went on to begin to write,
525. 31:59oh for whatever coach Missoula was unwilling to engage
526. 32:02in conversations about, he said race, y'all know,
527. 32:05it's ethnicity, not race.
528. 32:06But I'm like, that's a lie.
529. 32:08His answer didn't reveal that he was unwilling to engage
530. 32:11in the conversation and you reported and asked any follow ups.
531. 32:17So because either you didn't have the the wit to respond or because you was
532. 32:22stunned for whatever reason you're asking to follow up. So now you're gonna lie
533. 32:25about the coach and say he was unwilling to engage in the conversation about
534. 32:28ethnicity, which is simply untrue, which is simply untrue.
535. 32:32But because you didn't know how to respond in the moment, it's kind of like you
536. 32:37were confounded, simple, concise, retort, confounded the reporter who then left the exchange to
537. 32:47go and lie about what was said.
538. 32:50Coach Missoula, good work my man.
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541. 33:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton,
542. 33:14the third here, man, this show is proven.
543. 33:17We're already in the third segment.
544. 33:21The simple encapsulation I'm gonna put on Coach Mizzoule's
545. 33:26description is, man, is Jesus over everything.
546. 33:29Jesus over everything.
547. 33:32So I'm grateful for that display in that moment.
548. 33:35I pray to a little, we're strengthening them
549. 33:36for future moments.
550. 33:39It is interesting that the Celtics are putting a whooping
551. 33:42on the mabs from as I understand it.
552. 33:44thing is to it or nothing. But you know, that's a side I'm talking about. The man's bold and
553. 33:50courageous declaration of Christ following Trump being socio-political discussion. I truly, truly
554. 33:59appreciated that. Now, I brought this next story to your attention when Dr. Ethan Heim was notified
555. 34:08that he was a person of interest in an investigation in Houston, Texas. He's a position, a really
556. 34:17little known surgeon who worked at the Texas Children's Hospital, which is a pretty good hospital,
557. 34:26because he learned that the hospital and that physicians in the hospital were continuing
558. 34:32to do transgender surgeries and treatments on minors, even though first Texas Governor's
559. 34:39Greg Abbott issued an executive order for bidding it and then the Texas legislature passed
560. 34:48a law outlawing those procedures and treatments, but people in his own hospital were continuing
561. 34:56to do so.
562. 34:58So he anonymously provided redacted anonymous records documenting the treatment, although
563. 35:05he did not identify any individuals because there's a law.
564. 35:09The acronym for it is HIPAA, H-I-P-P-A-A.
565. 35:13I have utilized it numerous times with dealing with cases,
566. 35:18with medical records that had us get undisciplined
567. 35:20in the full name of the law as the Health Insurance
568. 35:24Portability and Accountability Act, HIPAA, H-I-P-A-A.
569. 35:30Well, after being notified that he was a person
570. 35:35and
571. 35:37Person of interest in investigation. He could not identify for what wouldn't for what have I been?
572. 35:44Highlighted as a person of interest for this investigation
573. 35:47well
574. 35:48because of the legal matters dr
575. 35:51Hind began to speak publicly as a pre-emptive defense against what happened to say I am the one who was a whistleblower
576. 35:58who anonymously revealed that my hospital was doing these things
577. 36:02the
578. 36:04illegal treatments in the state of Texas and
579. 36:06were ceased after Dr. Heim went public.
580. 36:11Well, first leaked his findings
581. 36:15to journalists, to a journalist here in America.
582. 36:19And ultimately those things were stopped.
583. 36:20So it's any number of children were spared
584. 36:24in the state of Texas from undergoing these procedures
585. 36:26there because of what Dr. Heim courageously did
586. 36:30in serving as a whistleblower.
587. 36:32Well, now he has been formally indicted
588. 36:34by the Department of Justice,
589. 36:38Merrick Garland's outfit.
590. 36:41In response to him leaking this information,
591. 36:46getting his hospital to stop violating Texas law,
592. 36:48he has now been granted and greeted with
593. 36:52a federal indictment.
594. 36:54What is a federal indictment for?
595. 36:56Well, violations of HIPAA.
596. 36:58Now the thing about it is that the law does not prohibit
597. 37:02discussing procedures and things in an anonymous manner,
598. 37:05what it prohibits is disclosing personal information.
599. 37:10So just to give a high-put that a good example,
600. 37:12if there are records that are released that says,
601. 37:14you know, Richie Rich, Richie Rich is in the studio,
602. 37:16you know, in the screening room,
603. 37:18they're records that Richie Rich had a certain procedure.
604. 37:21If that was disclosed, that would be a violation of HIPAA.
605. 37:24But if what is disclosed, for example,
606. 37:26for data collection purposes or statistical accumulation,
607. 37:29that in this hospital there's a person
608. 37:31who had a particular procedure,
609. 37:33that would not be a violation of HIPAA
610. 37:35because you're not connecting whatever the procedural information is to the person.
611. 37:39Simply put, HIPAA is for personal protection.
612. 37:43All right.
613. 37:46And Dr. Heim would understand is would know this.
614. 37:47Okay.
615. 37:48He would know that I cannot release personal health information.
616. 37:53All right.
617. 37:54So it will be interesting to see what evidence the department
618. 37:59of justice has that Dr. Heim violated HIPAA because as far as he's aware,
619. 38:05There, whatever this is that he didn't disclose any personal information.
620. 38:10But I want you to hear a little bit about him because it seems that this indictment is
621. 38:15nothing more than retaliation from the Biden Department of Justice because his whistleblowing,
622. 38:25his whistleblowing put a halt on the Biden administration's preference for alphabet regressing.
623. 38:38Listen to and watch clip number two.
624. 38:39Go.
625. 38:41Tell us what you saw or what you understood and knew was happening with these transgender
626. 38:47procedures at Texas Children's, which is a phenomenal hospital, by the way.
627. 38:52Yeah, it really is a phenomenal hospital, but there are a select few individuals who are
628. 38:59not doing the right thing.
629. 39:02So I had found out that they released that statement in March of 2022, that they were
630. 39:09shutting down their program. But soon after I found out that was not the case at all. I
631. 39:15had talked to people who had done those procedures themselves and saw that was being done on children
632. 39:21as young as 11, 12, 13 years old. And I knew what kind of path these kids were being put
633. 39:27down. And as it was my responsibility as an individual, but also my responsibility as a
634. 39:34a surgeon and a doctor because if we can't speak up about something like this, then we
635. 39:39have no professional left.
636. 39:41There has to be some degree of accountability.
637. 39:46Now what you guys are witnessing, and I've been talking about Isaiah 59 a lot.
638. 39:51I've been talking about the process where lawlessness abounds where truth is rejected.
639. 39:59This is perverted beyond recognition, but remember in verses 15, towards 16, it says,
640. 40:09those who refuse evil, those who shun evil make themselves a prey.
641. 40:17Remember that?
642. 40:19This is a perfect example of that.
643. 40:21Here Dr. Heim literally and courageously calls out the hospital where he works.
644. 40:31Exactions very likely have saved who knows how many children from undergoing
645. 40:40Life-altering treatments that were irreversible and he's being prosecute now now HIPAA is a statute
646. 40:52That's pretty clear, you know, it's it's it's gonna be very obvious
647. 40:56Based on the records going to have to produce whatever records dr. Hahn released to the journalist
648. 41:02And they're going to have to show that the records that he released includes personal information
649. 41:09of patients, meaning identifying information.
650. 41:14Dr. Heim insists what he released is simply saying that the law in the state of Texas says
651. 41:20these procedures are illegal.
652. 41:22These people in my hospital are doing this.
653. 41:26I will be interested to know if the Texas State Attorney General is endeavoring to prosecute
654. 41:31those physicians who violated Texas law.
655. 41:34It would be interesting to know, and I'm not interested in retaliation, but I would be
656. 41:42interested to know, and this is yet another indication to where even the law itself is
657. 41:50being twisted.
658. 41:51You read Daniel 7, you know, the scripture shows that this is one of the measures that
659. 41:59will be employed to try to wear out the saints, you know, chain twisting law, do any things
660. 42:04repeatedly.
661. 42:05But I would remind you that we've been ordained for such a time as this.
662. 42:12I am grateful that Dr. Haym Hyam, congratulations on his very own hospital and shared that these
663. 42:23things are happening still because if he had not done so, who knows how long it would have
664. 42:28continued.
665. 42:29And I would remind you guys, it's always easier to go along to get along, always easier.
666. 42:34He could have just ignored it and you know, there's nothing to see here.
667. 42:40But because he had actual compassion, because he believes what he affirmed in the Hippocratic
668. 42:46oath that his profession is to do no harm.
669. 42:51In addition to having the state law outlawing these procedures, he felt duty bound to speak
670. 42:57up.
671. 42:58And I pray that our Lord would defend this man and protect him in this fight.
672. 43:04And then just as Azariah, Hananiah, Missal were thrown into the fiery furnace and the fourth
673. 43:12man who never can as his folks say, man, kind of looks like the son of God that Dr. Heim
674. 43:22will see the fourth man in his fire.
675. 43:27Additionally, we're coming to the end of this summer's Supreme Court term and there are several
676. 43:33issues that are still before the court, several very, very, very important issues.
677. 43:38And I want to just put them on your radar because we're going to be following these cases.
678. 43:42as this term comes to an end.
679. 43:45First, you know, the presidential immunity case
680. 43:48is before the US Supreme Court.
681. 43:50And the decision here will impact one,
682. 43:54the case that President Trump is involved in concerning
683. 43:58the 2020 election, as well as the classified documents
684. 44:04handling case after he left office.
685. 44:07Based on oral arguments that took place back in April,
686. 44:10it seems at a minimum the Supreme Court has prepared
687. 44:12Grant from a president Trump, at least a partial victory there. But that is a case that that will
688. 44:18its decision will be announced this summer. All right, then you have the first case concerning
689. 44:27abortion since role was overturned. And this case has to deal with the Food and Drug Administration's
690. 44:33decision to increase access to Mafrepasto. All right, many may recall and I reported on this
691. 44:39that the FDA is easing access to it,
692. 44:44even allowing these drugs to be mailed,
693. 44:49changing the standard.
694. 44:52And this is important because dating back really
695. 44:56prior to Dobs 2021 that the majority of the number now
696. 45:01was two thirds of all babies who are killed
697. 45:03in the womb in our country now,
698. 45:06they are killed as a result of the use of a mafepra stone
699. 45:10along with the the chemical abortion cocktail.
700. 45:14It also will address the scope of the FDA's regulatory authority considering that it seems
701. 45:23that the adjustment was simply made once again not a scientific decision but to accommodate
702. 45:28the Biden administration's political, political agenda.
703. 45:31All right.
704. 45:32That's just one of the issues.
705. 45:33Another one that this is a big one.
706. 45:36All right.
707. 45:37All of these that I mentioned were big are big.
708. 45:41The court is considering a case that is going to address the 40-year-old doctrine of Chevron
709. 45:47deference.
710. 45:48Chevron is a case about 40 years old that simply says rulemaking done by federal agencies is
711. 45:55presumed constitutional.
712. 45:56Now, I'm going to take a few steps back.
713. 45:59This is why much of the congressional statutes that have passed, even Congress isn't passing
714. 46:04very many statues.
715. 46:05And the few that they are passing, they're not articulating the full scope of the law.
716. 46:11leaving spaces blank so to speak in allowing executive agencies. This is that Leviathan state
717. 46:15the bureaucracy to fill in those blanks. Many of you may recall when Obamacare was passed, really it was
718. 46:21kind of a bare bones legislation, but the Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services
719. 46:29filled in the blanks. And so this is why HHS was sued over and over and over again. Well,
720. 46:34this case is challenging whether or not Chevron deference should remain president or whether or not
721. 46:38not a CB overturned.
722. 46:39I and I am a passionate advocate for the overturning of Chevron deference because there is nothing
723. 46:46in the Constitution that says because an executive agency interprets rules in a certain
724. 46:49way that they are presumptively constitutional.
725. 46:53The previous law, sorry, not law, the previous ruling stood for the proposition that well,
726. 46:58Congress had the authority to make the law, but they've advocated that position and yielded
727. 47:02that to these executive agencies.
728. 47:03So we are going to presume that these agencies actions are constitutional.
729. 47:07is simply wrong and Chevron needs to be overturned.
730. 47:12There is a case addressing Chevron.
731. 47:15We're waiting for its decision to be announced during this summer term.
732. 47:19So those are just a few of the cases.
733. 47:21There are several more, but those are some of the ones that I'm following in
734. 47:24particular and that I'm going to bring that information to you because I want you
735. 47:28to be worshipful warriors who remain informed, who remain informed and that you're
736. 47:34able to navigate these issues from a position of knowledge.
737. 47:39Now, the last few moments, I just want to pray for our country.
738. 47:43I'm going to be doing this a lot more lately.
739. 47:45Lord, I lift up our nation to you at this moment.
740. 47:48Father, we have millions of believers all over our country.
741. 47:51Father, I ask that you would cause us to have clarity concerning you appointing us for
742. 47:56this time, for this season, Lord, that we would serve you and we would invest ourselves
743. 48:01in our nation at this time for your glory with Jesus over everything.
744. 48:06What I ask that you would strengthen your remnant Father, strengthen us, fortify us against
745. 48:11wearyness Lord and enable us by your grace to be faithful in the time that you have planted us in.
746. 48:16What I pray that you would give us a boldness Lord that we would live according to your word and we
747. 48:21will proclaim your word without flinching and I pray that your love would abound in us and through us
748. 48:29and that we may be servants or found faithful.
749. 48:32In Jesus' name, amen.
750. 48:37The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
751. 48:39may not necessarily reflect those
752. 48:41of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.