August 9, 2024 · 48:51

David Magee, Jr., Executive Director of H.Y.P.E., returns to “The Corner.”

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0:00 - 15:00. 2 Timothy 3:13-17. The surrounding darkness has no bearing on The Remnant’s obedience. 15:00 - 31:00. David Magee, Jr., Executive Director of H.Y.P.E., returns to “The Corner.” 31:00 - 48:00. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. or call 504-641-4973 To donate call : 877-616-2396

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:02It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:10It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
0:23Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now the Hamilton Corner.
1:01Phil Louisiana, the address for the church is 1148 Stirlington Highway, Farmer of
1:07Louisiana 71241. If you're in the area, you are welcome to come out. Seating is limited,
1:14however. I'm going to be ministering there tonight, tomorrow evening, as well as two services on
1:23Sunday. So if you're in the area, you are welcome to come. Again, seating is limited. So if you
1:28want to be apart, you need to come early. The service tonight will begin at 7 p.m. Tomorrow
1:34night the service will begin at 7 p.m. And then there will be an 11 a.m. service and a
1:381 p.m. service on Sunday. So if you're in the place or in near the place and you want
1:43to be apart, come on over. All right. At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you
1:49are making your transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your
1:54full-time jobs. Your full-time jobs are where you cultivate an outcome and as you
2:00make your transition I want to remind you to do so with intentionality.
2:05Understand in the primacy that God places on the family. I understand things are
2:11absurd to say the least right now in and all over the world in many different
2:16places but the absurdity of the environment has no bearing must have
2:23should have no bearing on how you and I respond. That's just a simple fact. That is a simple
2:30reality. We must never forget that God has placed us in this time for His glory. God has
2:36placed us in this moment for His glory. And we have the opportunity to be His hands and
2:42feet now. We must, we must, we must take full advantage of it. In fact, we're going to talk
2:47about that in the word of God now because with the things swirling, it's understandable
2:55for you to have questions. It's understandable for you to have thoughts and concerns. But
3:03we have to embrace the fact. We have the opportunity to embrace the fact and we must embrace the
3:10fact that God has placed us here now for his glory. One of the most immediate externalized
3:16places where we must not only be present but functional is within our families. In many ways,
3:23and you can describe what has happened in our country as the byproduct of the deficiencies
3:29that have abounded in our families. If you look at the expansion of the Leviathan State,
3:35they correspond with retrenchments within the family because we'll never be able to out-politik
3:42or out church deficiencies in the home.
3:46That's just a simple reality.
3:49And when I say out politic or out church,
3:51I'm talking about the things that are available to us
3:53through the political sphere and even the things
3:56that are available to us through the ecclesiastical fear,
3:59they will not be able to overwhelm or overcome
4:04the persisting deficiencies that are in the home.
4:07Many, many, many, many, many, many people
4:10who are adults right now, 40, 50, 60, 70 years old,
4:15many people are dealing with overcoming
4:18much of the scarring they endured as children, even now.
4:23And I'm not just talking about unbelievers,
4:24I'm talking about believers as well,
4:27still reacting to, still responding to,
4:30still being, still attempting to maneuver out of the formation
4:36and the shaping that occurred when they were children.
4:41It shouldn't be surprising to us that this is the fact
4:43because God has ordained the family
4:46to be a maximal impacting force
4:50upon our development and our formation.
4:54And there are lots of people
4:55that are still trying to recover from childhood.
4:57I'm just telling you what it is.
4:59Just telling you what it is.
5:02So if you are like I am,
5:04I have young children still in my home,
5:05my youngest is gonna be three at the end of the year.
5:10My oldest is 13, good gracious.
5:12So I'll be 14 by the end of the year.
5:15If you are in the station of life as I am,
5:19we have to make these years count, man.
5:22And then no do-overs.
5:24There are no mulligans.
5:25There are no life mulligans to repeat.
5:29The grace of God is sufficient.
5:31On the other end, sure.
5:34But sometimes we have people that are dealing with war wounds
5:37that God never intended for them to have to endure.
5:42And so I know right now a lot of people are considering
5:45back to school and all that kind of stuff.
5:47And you really have you sought the Lord
5:49how you're going to train and to disciple your children.
5:53Have you concluded that your discipleship must be bifurcated
5:56from their academic development?
6:02Have you considered it?
6:03Have you sought the Lord?
6:04Not just thought within yourself.
6:05Have you sought the Lord?
6:06Have you and your spouse sought the Lord as to what you would do
6:09with the Lord's heritage, as he describes him as on 127?
6:15I know I don't believe any parent intentionally wants to put
6:18their child in a situation where they accumulate unneeded war wounds
6:23that they're going to have to recover from in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.
6:27I don't believe any parent does that intentionally, except for the demonically
6:32possessed, I would say, you know, those who are just patently sociopathic.
6:44But parents, parents love their children.
6:47Parents often do the best that they can, but I'm asking, have we sought the Lord?
6:52Are we often the best that we can and in and of ourselves and in the flesh?
6:55Or have we welcome the Lord to bring the wisdom of God to bear upon our choices?
7:02Let's go to the Word of God.
7:032 Timothy chapter 3, verses 13 through 17.
7:08I'm sharing this with you all because I draw great strength and encouragement from this text.
7:15And I want to share this same source of strength and encouragement with you.
7:22This is toward the latter part of the Apostle Paul's life.
7:25as we've discussed this many, many, many times.
7:29Paul diagnoses the metastasizing wickedness
7:34that would come in the latter days.
7:37And he gets to this point in his letter where he says,
7:39verse 13, but evil men and imposters or seducers
7:45will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving
7:51and being deceived.
7:53You, however, continue in the things you have learned
7:58and become convinced of knowing from whom you have learned it,
8:02and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings
8:06which are able to give you wisdom
8:09that leads to salvation through faith,
8:11which is in Christ Jesus.
8:14All scripture is inspired by God,
8:19and profitable for teaching,
8:23for reproof, for correction,
8:27for training in righteousness so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every
8:38good work. I get great encouragement from this passage because just as the Apostle Paul rightly
8:49diagnosed the fact that as time progresses in the latter days, wickedness would abound,
9:01But then he offers his contrast in verse 14, but you, Timothy, but you, believer. This is what the
9:11Lord is saying to his body, but you, believer, the ascending evil surrounding you, does not provide
9:23an occasion for you to step out of who you are in your newness of life in Christ Jesus,
9:29to dumb down your position as a part of the Lord's remnant, to become co-opted by the
9:36the wickedness that surrounds you, you believe or have a contrasting, standing out or outstanding
9:44position.
9:46You continue in what you know to be true.
9:52Our society works over time to condemn people who would dare assert that truth, first and
9:58foremost, is objective.
9:59It doesn't change.
10:02And those such thing as your truth and my truth, there is truth and there is lie.
10:07Point blank.
10:08Now you might have an experience, but your experience doesn't rise to the level of objective truth.
10:18You may have an opinion, but opinion doesn't rise to the level of objective truth because
10:25objective truth, in addition to being objective, it is transcendent. It exists outside of humankind
10:34and persists without consent from mankind and foundationally, ultimately, truth is a person.
10:45You continue in what you have learned.
10:50You continue in the truth that has been revealed to you.
10:56Verse 16, all scripture is inspired by God.
11:04The Greek term there is theonusitos.
11:07It is God breathed.
11:09It is God breathed.
11:12Because it is God breathed, it is authoritative.
11:17It is authoritative.
11:21And because it is authoritative, it is profitable.
11:27And I love this.
11:29It is profitable for teaching.
11:32What?
11:34You mean to tell me in the midst of this cascading
11:37and ascending wickedness that the Lord's people are still,
11:40should still be about the business of teaching?
11:43Yes, yes.
11:47Because ideas have consequences, bad ideas create casualties.
11:50And the most impactful casualty is eternal damnation.
11:59It is because we love God and His love works in us
12:04to love our neighbor as ourselves.
12:07That one of the most loving things you can do
12:09is to warn one that is bound for eternal suffering
12:16to warn them, hey, there's a cliff that you're heading toward.
12:19You're careening toward a cliff.
12:22And this cliff is not temporary.
12:25This cliff is eternal.
12:29The word of God is profitable to do this work.
12:31The word of God is profitable for reproof and correction.
12:37Wait a minute, wait a minute.
12:38In the context of increasing wickedness,
12:42the Lord's people are still supposed to be
12:46about reproof and correction.
12:50And I want you to see from this text
12:52is that these qualities,
12:53these features of the word of God
12:54are not merely to be applied externally.
12:58Cause when it says word of God is profitable for teaching,
13:02it's profitable for, to instruct us.
13:06Because we are instructed, we're able to instruct.
13:12It's profitable for reproof and correction.
13:17Reproof, rebuke, the Greek terminology there,
13:21two different components.
13:24At one point, if one is going down an interstate
13:28headed east, and he's supposed to be traveling west,
13:30it is reproof that I say,
13:31you need a U-turn my man.
13:36Correction would be you heading east on an interstate,
13:41but you get off the interstate and get on the service road
13:43or the feeder, you're deviating a bit.
13:46And the correction comes and say, no, no, come,
13:49get back on course, get back on course.
13:53You haven't completely gone in the opposite direction
13:55where you're supposed to go,
13:56but you've gotten off course in the direction you're supposed
13:58to go.
13:59The word of God is profitable for this.
14:02It's profitable for training, training oneself,
14:07and a vehicle for training others.
14:10In the midst of cascading and ascending wickedness, yes, yes.
14:15It's wacky in these streets, no doubt about it.
14:18What does that have to do with you?
14:19What does that have to do with me?
14:21What are we to do?
14:24Our marching orders have been delivered to us.
14:27The environment surrounding us should not dictate to us the quality with which we obey
14:34and respond to the orders of our King.
14:39Take heart brothers and sisters.
14:42Buckle your seat belts, tighten right.
14:45Put the work boots on, the steel toes.
14:48Because God has ordained us for this moment.
14:51And we cannot, and we must not miss our moment.
14:56We must not miss our moment.
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16:08Shiting life into the darkness.
16:10This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:14Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
16:16Abraham, Hamilton the third here.
16:18I'm excited to have on the program with me.
16:20Man, this is my man.
16:21We literally go way back like a wavecap.
16:24I'm telling you the truth.
16:26I mean, he could tell you some stories of us
16:27playing basketball in the gym,
16:28and I got my do-rag flagging.
16:33My guess is none other than Mr. David McGee Jr.,
16:36executive director for Hype, a nonprofit ministry
16:40harnessing use potential and energy
16:44in the greater New Orleans area.
16:45Mr. McGee is a member of the chair of numerous boards.
16:50For example, the Youth Advisory Council and Jefferson Parish,
16:53the Jefferson Parish Children's and Youth Planning Board,
16:56chair of the property committee on Girl Scouts,
16:58Southeast Louisiana.
17:00He is the recent chair of the J.C.F.A.
17:02charter school board.
17:04He's a youth pastor at his church.
17:06My friend, my brother, David McGee, was happening, man.
17:08Thank you for joining me here on the program.
17:10Thanks for having me, brother.
17:11Man, it is truly, truly my pleasure.
17:14I'm like, you know, I'm not kidding when I say, you know, you know, the stories with the flag and do rag on the planet.
17:18That's true.
17:19That's true.
17:20But now I wanted to have you on the program for several reasons.
17:24First, I wanted to share with our audience here the work that God is doing through you through hype.
17:31Would you just share with the audience here what hype is and what it is that you guys,
17:36what you are doing to light up the darkness in our hometown?
17:40Sure. So the name of the organization is hype and like you said the
17:45acronym is Harnessing its Potential Identity. It is based on the scripture in Psalms 127.
17:52It says children are as arrows in the hand of a mighty man and blesses the man who has a
17:56quiver full of them. And what I like about the scripture is children are a blessing.
18:02And but they are also he like he calls them arrows meaning that they are things that can
18:09and definitely advance the kingdom
18:11or do some damage in the hands of the wrong person.
18:15And so right now what Hype is doing
18:18is trying to fill the gaps in the places
18:20where the Bible admonishes us to be there for the widow
18:24and for the fatherless and a lot of the people
18:27that we work with are single parent homes.
18:30They come from the juvenile justice system
18:32or the foster care system or just in the community
18:34where parents are lacking in need.
18:36And so we try to take their potential and move them from being possibly powerful to being powerful.
18:44And so we get a lot of our referrals from the juvenile court system and their programs there,
18:49the human service authorities and things like that.
18:51We have contracts with them.
18:52So they send them to us and we meet with them weekly and talk to them about who they are,
18:56who God created them to be and hold them accountable until they get their pointing people towards
19:01purpose and then hold on them accountable and give them the skills and resources until they
19:04get there.
19:05Man, that's so necessary.
19:07It's so profound because the reality is this,
19:12and I don't mean this in a condemning manner at all.
19:15God knows that we live in a fallen and in a broken world.
19:19But the prevalence of fallenness doesn't change God's standards.
19:24God's standards are what they are, yet we often
19:26have to deal with the fallout from the brokenness
19:30and from that prevalence.
19:31And I was saying early in the first segment
19:33that it'll be tremendously difficult to out politic and even out church deficiencies that are in the home.
19:42But the reality is what do we do when we have those deficiencies and how can we respond?
19:46And so you did mention that you have lots of young people who refer to you from the juvenile
19:54justice system. Would you just explain a little bit as to how those referrals take place?
19:58Sure. So most of them, there are a couple of different programs in the juvenile court.
20:04And so one of them is called Fins. It's an acronym for Families in Need of Service.
20:09And so these aren't necessarily young people who may have committed a crime.
20:12Most of the time it's either through truancy and parents who are reaching out to the course as a last ditch effort to say,
20:18hey, I don't know what to do. I need some help and they are coming to the courts,
20:23even though this may possibly jeopardize their child's freedom or get them involved in this
20:27core system that they may not have otherwise been involved in but the parents feel like
20:32they're in danger of getting in further trouble so they go to the course or they're
20:36truant parents haven't been involved in kids or missing school there's something going on in the
20:40home and then there's of course like probation intensive probation where they have committed some
20:46offense and are being monitored and they look at hype as a way to help stop gap some of the
20:53behavior, the risky behaviors that they're participating in.
20:56And these are what we will call sometimes front-end kids
20:59where these young people are right at a crossroads,
21:02where they see potential,
21:03they're participating in a diversion program,
21:05where they're trying to divert.
21:06And that's not sure,
21:08that's what the juvenile justice system is supposed to be.
21:10At least here, that's the goal,
21:11is to divert them from getting further involved in the,
21:15as adults.
21:16And so, hype stands in the gap,
21:18trying to offer a different option
21:20and give them the resources
21:21so they don't go further involved.
21:23into the justice system.
21:27What are some of the, well, let me ask this question,
21:30this is something I think some listeners
21:31will be interested in learning.
21:34In terms of the children who referred to hype,
21:36are we talking predominantly young males, young men,
21:40or young ladies, or is it a mixture?
21:43What is the makeup there?
21:45Sure, so normally our target group
21:48are high school to middle school age, young people.
21:51We take them anywhere from between six and 22,
21:53but high school and middle school,
21:55I've done, but the majority of the referrals
21:57and the majority of them are young men
22:01from single parent homes or where it's a grandmother
22:05taken care of or a grandfather possibly,
22:07taking care of these young people.
22:09And the large majority of them here in our area
22:13are minorities, not all, but listen,
22:18but we also have people with the more public we've become,
22:21There are middle class folks, these,
22:24and we're in a load of moderate income,
22:25that's a very target, but there are people
22:28from all aspects of life now who are coming to participate
22:31because they see what we're doing
22:32and they want their child to be part of something good,
22:34which is awesome because now we have different perspectives
22:37and the kids who had never been exposed to young people
22:40who have this tenacity to wanna do great things
22:42and be godly, they see that there.
22:44And so, you know, raise the bar a little bit.
22:46Man, that's wonderful.
22:48Would you be able to share maybe some of the experiences
22:51you've had maybe a testimony or two with a young person or some young people that you've
22:56been to walk alongside with for some time working through the hype programs and to see
23:01them really experience a transformation in the process.
23:05Absolutely.
23:06There's two that come to mind immediately.
23:08One of them, it's when I first came home, I was doing this work and a young man who had
23:16He was the typical New Orleans teenager.
23:19And drinking, having a good time in New Orleans
23:21with people who don't know,
23:22there aren't a lot of recreational activities for teenagers.
23:26By the time you age out of the parks,
23:29which we play football or basketball
23:31and you aren't old enough to work,
23:33they kind of go to Berkman Street
23:34and they start doing these adult activities anyway.
23:36He was drinking and hanging out with his friends
23:38and he wrecked his mom's car
23:40and was working the dead end job
23:43as a construction site and I told me that he wanted to work with animals.
23:48And he kind of said it as if it wasn't something to be proud of.
23:51Little did he know that my dad loves animals and my brother is a veterinarian technician in the military.
23:56So anyway, we wound up talking to him, sitting down with him, creating a budget and creating a plan
24:03and helped him to clean up his record.
24:05And he is now a veterinarian technician in the military, just finished some school and got an award on side note.
24:12I note, and Mary and my sister had no idea he was gonna do that.
24:17So I'm glad that we were teaching him to be
24:18a good responsible young man.
24:20So he makes a good husband for my sister.
24:22And there's another young man who, right after COVID,
24:26he, his grandmother passed and went into like a state
24:30of depression and stayed in his room, dropped out of school,
24:33stopped going to school, stayed in his room for about two years.
24:35And his grandfather reached out to someone
24:38through my wife's organization, Casa, and said,
24:40Hey, I need help.
24:42And long story short, we talked to him.
24:44He was reluctant.
24:46And I kind of set some parameters with his grandfather.
24:52And the man comes to me this day every time he sees me,
24:54says, thank you.
24:55We saved his life.
24:56He ended up being one of the highest performing young people
24:59at his school, finished school, and two years
25:02passed up some of his peers and graduated just recently.
25:07And so he thinks to me now, but it's not me.
25:10It's the work that God has put in me
25:12and all the people we put around.
25:13But that's just two of them.
25:14And there's a whole lot more like that.
25:16Man, praise God for that.
25:18One of the major things I want to talk about,
25:21let me just ask this now,
25:22because people are listening.
25:23I know there are lots of people who would love to support
25:25the work that you're doing there in the New Orleans area.
25:28And there may be even people listening
25:30who might want to volunteer some of their time.
25:32How can people support hype
25:34and then how can people get in touch with you
25:36and the organization?
25:38Sure, so we're on the internet. Our website is hypenola.org. If you click on if you go to the website, you'll see the two icons to then you can find us on Facebook and Instagram. You can go there through the website or you can just go on Instagram and type in hypenola.
25:55and you can see the little logo there for Instagram
26:00or for Facebook.
26:03And you can just Google us.
26:06If you type in hype, no lamentoring in New Orleans,
26:09there'll be this school article that'll pop up
26:11and tell you all about who we are in Links Tower website.
26:13And if you wanna contact us, the phone number is 504-641-Hype,
26:18or 504-64-149-73.
26:22Mmm, that's good.
26:23Jeff, would you put that information in the show notes
26:26just to make sure people can find that information?
26:30That's wonderful.
26:31Now, you were mentioning,
26:34and we were talking a bit before we came on the air,
26:38but you mentioned here on the air a few moments ago
26:40about gap standards, because I see what you and what hype
26:44is doing as an application of the biblical,
26:49I would say, exhortation to have people
26:52of willing to stand in the gap. Do you see it that way?
26:56I do. I saw I'll just give you a little bit of context of history about who I am and my
27:01family. You can relate to this just because you're from the area. I watched on both sides
27:06of my family. My dad is from the place called a Magnolia Housing Project and my mother is
27:10from a place they call Gertown and they are hood certifiable as you did. I didn't grow
27:15up in the hood but my family's hood certified and because of it we have a lot of things that
27:21my family's experience from death, jail, drugs, you name it, we've seen pretty much everything,
27:27AIDS, anything that the world has to offer, my family's dabbled in it and I've seen the
27:33consequences of it. And my experience with going to Oral Roberts University on top of being
27:38raised in a home that was God-faring, I saw what a young person could do when they introduced
27:45a crisis and put it or put in an environment that is conducive for growth in their faith.
27:49And so I wanted to bring that back to my city.
27:52You talk about this all the time, lighting up the darkness.
27:55And this was my attempt to come home.
27:58I saw a gap.
27:59I'm a business management major.
28:01And I was a business management major in school.
28:03And one of the things that they taught us
28:04was all businesses is fine to need and fill it.
28:07And so I saw a need.
28:08Even as growing up in church, I saw,
28:10I didn't see young people who are on fire for God
28:13and living that way, in particular, young men.
28:17And so I wanted to show that you can bring.
28:22He wanted to, God wants to make his name known
28:23amongst the heathens.
28:24And I wanted to bring and make his name known in my city
28:27in a place that was known for Mardi Gras and Burmistry
28:30and a lot of other things.
28:31And so that's what we're trying to do here.
28:35What would you say to somebody who's listening now?
28:37Cause we looking at, we started out in the scripture
28:41in 2 Timothy 3, things are so bad in the world,
28:45things are this, things are that.
28:47What would you say to someone who may be wrestling with whether or not God would want to have them to respond
28:53to pick up his cause in their particular area in a particular
28:58Endeavor that God may have identified for them to respond to
29:02Here's what I would say the safest place in the whole world is in the in the will of God
29:09This is gonna sound interesting when in my ordination when that was going to get ordained as a minister someone asked me
29:14what was my name and I said, David McGee Jr.
29:18And they asked me, was Junior on my birth certificate?
29:20And for a moment I pause, I said, I'm not sure.
29:23So I never looked at my birth certificate to see
29:26if Junior was on my birth certificate.
29:28But I realized at that moment, my name and who I am
29:31and who I knew to be at that time
29:34was who my parents had told me.
29:36When I got called from God and what he told me to do
29:40and to come home and to do what I'm doing,
29:42I knew it and I was more confident in it
29:44And I was my own name.
29:46I knew my parents had said, but I said,
29:48you know, they could be lying to me.
29:49I could get down the road if I had something later.
29:51But what God was telling me to do was coming.
29:54Here's what I'm saying.
29:55If God tells you to do something,
29:57no matter where he's telling you to do it,
29:59do it to be a voice crying out in the wilderness,
30:01a lot of people don't wanna be in the wilderness.
30:03But, and I heard a pastor say this, conviction means
30:06being so thoroughly convinced that something is absolutely true,
30:10that you take a stand for it,
30:11regardless of the consequences.
30:13I had conviction from the Holy Spirit to do what I was called to do.
30:17And I knew that they may put me in some situations that are, um, may seem not safe
30:21or may seem, uh, may not make sense, but I'm married.
30:25My wife and told that this is what God called me to do.
30:27And she came alongside of me and I would tell anyone if you get that level of
30:31conviction to move on it because then all of heavens, resources are backing me.
30:37Now that is, uh, something that some people may say, well, yeah, you know,
30:42I hear what you're saying and something that often occurs is that people will look at somebody
30:47like you and say, well, yeah, that's great.
30:49I mean, sure he can do that, but they'll disqualify themselves from that.
30:53And I've been endeavoring to communicate to people that God isn't requiring you to become
30:57a clone of someone else.
30:59He simply wants you to respond to him and what he's requiring of you because in his body,
31:03he has, it's comprised of many different members, you know, just because you may be a thumb in
31:08his body and somebody else may be an index finger.
31:11It doesn't mean that you both don't have value.
31:15When in light of that kind of conversation,
31:18what would you say to someone who may have
31:20an improper estimation of what it would look like
31:23for them to respond to God's calling their lives
31:25because they're trying to compare themselves
31:27to someone else who they may respect
31:29or deem to be a great asset to the kingdom of God.
31:32Okay, so you give me really excited
31:34but I was just, stay calm here.
31:36Well, you can get excited but we only got about a minute
31:38until we get to the break right now.
31:39And then we can continue to excite
31:40What another side of the break.
31:41Go.
31:42Start up the gift that is in you is what the scripture says.
31:46And my wife wrote this book and there's this acronym we ran across says life, LIF, look
31:50inside for exceptional.
31:52Don't look at the exception that I led to you and other people and think that they have
31:54something that you don't because there's something that God is placed on the inside of you like
31:58you say all the time for this time at this moment to accomplish the thing that he's called
32:02you.
32:03And you mentioned this pride is not just saying that I can do anything.
32:06Pride is also saying that I can't do what God called me to do.
32:09The tree told Jesus, I can't, I can't produce figs.
32:13How can the creature tell the creator?
32:15It can't do what God created.
32:16It's not so.
32:19It's not so.
32:20Well, that's just the intro.
32:21Cause I want to pick up right from that
32:23on the other side of the break.
32:25Because one of the things we were talking about
32:26before we came on the air is that really
32:29wallowing and self condemnation,
32:31it may seem like it's a humble disposition,
32:34just because someone may feel negatively.
32:36But if someone is wallowing in condemnation
32:38And God has said he set them free.
32:41Who are we to not forgive ourselves
32:44if God has already forgiven us?
32:46And one of the major touchdowns of faith
32:48is not as much as what we say,
32:50but can we truly live as if we believe
32:52what God has revealed to us in his holy word.
32:55More with David McGee Jr. on the other side of the brain.
33:07The Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Bitted Common Terrets
33:11are available at eafr.net.
33:13Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
33:17Welcome back to the Hamilton corner we're already in the last segment before we
33:22went to the break I asked my guest Dave Amigee Jr. Executive Director of
33:26hype harnessing use potential and energy you can go to his website hype nola.org
33:33that is HYPE NOLA.org to support the work that he's doing in the New Orleans area
33:43to learn about the ministry and also if you're there and you would want to help out in some
33:49capacity, you can get all of the information right there at hypenola.org.
33:54But what we were talking before the break, Dave, we were alluded to an eye, alluded to in
33:58a question that I asked what the Apostle Paul articulates in 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 14
34:03it says, for the body is not one member but many.
34:06If the foot says, because I'm not a hand, I am not a part of the body, it is not for this
34:11reason any less part of the body and if the ear says because I'm not an eye, I'm not
34:15a part of the body. It's not for this reason any less part of the body, for if the
34:19whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body
34:22were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But now God has placed the members,
34:27each one of them in the body just as he desired. This is one of the major sources
34:36of scripture that indicates that the Lord doesn't want us to be clones of one
34:40another, but he does require each of us to respond to him uniquely and specifically as he's called
34:46us.
34:47And there are some who would disqualify themselves from responding because they've adopted kind
34:54of a perception of themselves or they responded to some of the life shaping issues they've encountered
34:59in life, many sometimes negative experiences or even positive experiences, but experiences
35:04that would move them away from relying upon the Lord.
35:07And I know you started responding in this, but I wanted to give an opportunity to just
35:10expound on what you said to encourage those who may find themselves in that position,
35:15hesitating at God's calling them to follow Him in a particular manner.
35:18Yeah, you just said something that kind of triggered something, Emi, when you said hesitating.
35:22I will say this to anyone who's listening.
35:25And this is me being totally transparent.
35:28I was one of those people and I still go through some of those situations where I'm in the room
35:33or I'm doing something, I'm pursuing something.
35:35And I think, man, how can I do this?
35:37How can I do that?
35:39How am I going?
35:40How do I get in this room?
35:41Do I belong here at the tagline?
35:42If anybody ever sends me an email at the end of my email, it says, believe you belong because
35:48I'm constantly speaking to that who's telling me.
35:51I'm not good enough for I don't deserve to be here.
35:54So I would say to anyone, one, I heard a pastor say faith is the actions of those who are fully
36:01persuaded.
36:02If you lack faith, then you need to get in God's Word and see what he says about you.
36:08And then take the step.
36:11There's a lot of stuff out there about doing it afraid.
36:14And in regards to what you said about everybody playing their part, I may have had this conversation
36:18with you one time we were together.
36:20And I remember reading and it was talking about it.
36:22It was Elijah and he was saying, telling God his resume, I did this, this, this, this,
36:27and all these things.
36:28And God comes to him and says, I got thousands who have not bowed a knee to bail.
36:32the Lord, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, you don't know their names. The only mention of them in the Bible is him saying thousands. And the Lord asked me, he said, are you willing to be one of the people who are doing the work of the Lord?
36:46But you may never get the recognition in your name in the Bible, but I see you. And so at the end of the day, I recognized if God called me to do it, then he's positioned me and given me everything I need to do it.
36:59And like we said earlier, to doubt that is to doubt the power of God.
37:05And so if you're lacking in faith and the way to build our faith is getting the premise of
37:09God, getting the word, find out who He is and what He says about us.
37:12Well said, very well said.
37:18So wild and weird that we're living in a time to where spirituality is encouraged but Christ
37:24following is rejected.
37:26and it's amazing that it is Christ
37:32that gives us unfettered liberty.
37:36And people often misconstrue liberty with autonomy.
37:41Adam and even a garden were free,
37:43but they were free to function
37:44according to what God had designed and ordained.
37:47Whereas the one who would seek autonomy
37:51is one that would want to determine
37:54what is true for themselves.
37:55That is the suggestion of the talking snake.
37:57did God surely say, you know, you won't die die,
38:00you won't surely die.
38:01And what we find, the Lord has told us very plainly
38:06that the wages of sin that often flows
38:09from this autonomy is death.
38:11But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
38:14And so what I'm driving toward is that there are many
38:18who are being deceived in thinking that being rogues,
38:23being rogues, straying from God's ordinance,
38:27rebelling against him is actually the way
38:29to true freedom and true liberty.
38:31Have you encountered things like that
38:33in your work with some of the young people as well?
38:35And then what do you think about that in general?
38:37Sure, so, listen, we live and I can say this,
38:40we live in a day and age and I get to talk to these young people
38:42and kind of get this uninformal survey when I asked them.
38:47I asked young people about,
38:49I asked the question not to long ago,
38:50Hey, do you, how many people, uh, plan on getting married?
38:54Almost none of them.
38:55And like I said, this is a room full of mostly males, teenagers.
38:57None of them raise their hands.
38:59And then I asked the question, well, how many of you want to, uh, have children?
39:04Almost all of them raise their hands.
39:06And I've realized at that moment that the institution of marriage and some of the things
39:12and the biblical principles that put, that they have some concept of God, but they don't,
39:16they don't know him.
39:18They don't know his ways.
39:20They don't know his standards.
39:21They don't, they, and listen, this is the sad part in the world.
39:23As I can't speak anywhere else, when someone dies, they put up this big old thing,
39:26a picture of you on the shirt or on the screen and the clouds.
39:30And I had the opportunity to speak in one of my relatives,
39:32you know, and one of that thing, things I said was, you cannot expect to get to heaven
39:37and not know the person who determines whether you get in and not and the rules
39:42that he said for you to get there.
39:43And we're deceiving ourselves and the truth of the matter is a lot of our young
39:47people here, the people in our city, have come to the place that they believe, they'll
39:51be there.
39:52And the people that have lived the way that they've lived will be there too without ever
39:55surrendering their life to Christ.
39:56I will also say this in regards to what you said about the ability, the freedom and the
40:00choice.
40:01One of the qualities we have here is honesty.
40:04And when you're honest and surrender your life to the Lord, you'll be free.
40:08And freedom means you have the ability to choose to do whatever it is that you want to do.
40:12But the real freedom is you choose what you will commit to.
40:17So you move from being free to surrender.
40:20But the freedom is in the ability to what will you surrender to as opposed to being forced
40:24to surrender to something.
40:26And so, hype talks to them about how do we take all of the gifts and the resources and
40:31things that God has placed on the inside of you.
40:33You're free now to choose that.
40:35We put you in an environment hopefully where you're free to choose and show you what you
40:39can choose.
40:40then commit to something where you start to limit those
40:43freedoms because you're voluntarily surrender everything
40:47to the purpose and call that God has for you.
40:52Now I'm often accused of lots of different things,
40:58but I say things like I'm excited to be alive right now.
41:01And when I say that people are like, what?
41:04Don't you know what's going on out here?
41:06I mean, you just see how the market crashed over the weekend
41:09and all this other kind of stuff.
41:11And I said, yeah, I see all of that.
41:15But I also know what the word of God says.
41:18I also know Act 17 when the Lord says
41:20that he determined before time the boundaries of our habitation
41:23and the times in which we would live.
41:25And so it is the Lord's ordained purpose for me
41:29to be alive in 21st century America,
41:31just as it was the Lord's ordained purpose for Moses
41:34to meet him atop Mount Sinai.
41:36This is the opportunity that God has placed me in
41:38and this time and I'm excited to be a part of what God
41:41would have me participate in in my lifetime.
41:44Working in the field that you work in
41:45and seeing what you see on a regular basis,
41:48many people would say you have great occasion
41:51to be discouraged.
41:52Are you discouraged, Dave?
41:55I will say this.
41:57I am not, but there are moments
42:01where I am tempted to entertain discouragement,
42:05but at the same time, I'm reminded of who God is.
42:11He put me here.
42:12And listen, I'll be honest,
42:13you've said this on your show before.
42:15I drive around my city and I go to other places and visit
42:18and I'm upset at the potential that we had.
42:22And matter of fact, one of the reasons,
42:24that the confirmation is that I came,
42:26the reason I came back to the city of New Orleans
42:28after leaving Oral Roberts was one of my good friends say,
42:31that they made, if all the good people leave.
42:34If all the good people leave, people is going to have their way.
42:38Matter of fact, evil only prevail when good men do nothing.
42:41That's kind of the quote he said.
42:43And so that was just the lynch pin for me to come back and come home.
42:47Who said that?
42:48I don't know who said that.
42:50The guy who actually moved away to the table though, but it's okay.
42:55But I remain, I remain encouraged man.
42:57And that's why, you know, Jesus Christ, the son, him crucified, is the light.
43:03He is the joy in my salvation.
43:05And I can be, listen, sitting on the island of Patmos
43:10and have a tour of heaven.
43:11And that's what I have to believe.
43:13And you know, I'm so grateful that you responded
43:16in a way that you responded.
43:19Because what you described and what I'm describing
43:22is not like a humanistic optimism,
43:24that being encouraged is not the feature of just,
43:27you know, self-help, mind of a matter type of phenomenon.
43:30And faith is not something that denies reality.
43:33So acknowledging the fact that we all have moments
43:36of discouragement, what you just shared is that
43:39the momentary discouragement is not the end of the story.
43:42And I think that's what people need to understand,
43:44that when we confront moments of discouragement,
43:48we shouldn't be content to just lay there, to sit there.
43:53But we should take whatever that indication
43:57of that invitation at that moment and then bring that again,
43:59refresh to the Lordship of Christ,
44:01submit that again to the Lord,
44:02and not to allow our feelings to overwhelm,
44:06because I often say, you heard me say before,
44:07that God has given us emotions,
44:09He's given us feelings,
44:10but not so that we can be led by them and controlled by them.
44:13They're horrible leaders, horrible generals,
44:15but they're tremendous foot soldiers.
44:17We can utilize them and directing them to war
44:19with God is requiring of us.
44:20And by doing so,
44:23enable them to serve the purpose of God,
44:25made them for, to give us the internal where we're thought,
44:28follow through once our hearts and minds are resolved, once our hearts and minds are set,
44:32then our emotions often catch up when we refuse to allow them to lead.
44:37And I'll say, listen, I know you've mentioned this before when I come on the show, but my dad says
44:43this scripture and it's, don't grow weary and well-doing for a due season. You'll reap if you
44:49faint not, and he says, son, it wouldn't have said don't grow weary if there wasn't going to be a point
44:55where you would become weary.
44:56Jesus is a great example and I love it.
44:58He called me the other day, he says,
44:59he's son, I just ran across the scriptures.
45:01Jesus called you, your dad called you.
45:04My dad called me through my dad.
45:07But he called me, he said, son, listen,
45:14you read the scripture where he says,
45:15and Jesus learned or increased in wisdom.
45:18And I've been, we were, he's like, man,
45:19you got to tell me, what do you think about that?
45:22And I'll say this is nothing else.
45:24This is a God who never experiences disappointment or deficiency in any way.
45:29And so if nothing else, experiencing the emotion of possible discouragement or pain
45:36or anything and the Bible talks about right before in the garden against somebody,
45:39how he was just the weight of the world was on him.
45:42And then he looks and he says, nevertheless, not my will, but I will be done.
45:46And so I have to have more faith in the calling of God than all of my emotions
45:51and what everything else is communicating to me.
45:53So I'm in this world, but I'm not of it.
45:55And sometimes this Earth's suit
45:57will try to take the driver's seat,
46:00but it will lie to you and tell you
46:02that you're at the end of your rope.
46:04And then I heard someone say,
46:06the old Christian song,
46:08reach beyond the break.
46:10And so I get to the end of the rope,
46:11they say, tie a knot.
46:12And reaching, I teach the young people
46:14that reaching is the epitome of humility.
46:18If I have everything within me,
46:19then I don't need to reach.
46:20But when we put our hands up a surrender to God
46:22and reach out, it says that I don't have it,
46:24I'm not sufficient.
46:25So that's when an Irish time of weakness,
46:27hysterent is made perfect.
46:28So actually Paul says, I like when I get to this point,
46:31when I get to the end and it looks like I'm at my extremity,
46:35that's God's opportunity.
46:37So what's coming in the future for hype?
46:40What are some of the things you're looking to in the future?
46:43What are some of the objectives you're looking to accomplish
46:45with this upcoming, I guess they would call it,
46:48the academic year?
46:50Yes.
46:51So here's the goal, what we'd like to do.
46:54We just recently expanded, bought the,
46:57running the space next to us,
46:58and we'd like to fill that space to do tutoring,
47:02after school enrichment, some STEM stuff there,
47:05and a little more recreational space.
47:06And ultimately, grow this space,
47:09grow out of this space until it's too small to do
47:11what we wanna do,
47:12but have we have a relationship with the Jefferson Parish
47:14School Board, where these young people are wanting
47:17to be a part of what we're doing.
47:19And so where there are gaps in their education in that home,
47:22when they come straight from school here,
47:24we feed them, tutor them, talk to them about life,
47:27and then we can send them on their way,
47:29because there's a lot of parents who are working.
47:31They don't have the time, the money, other resources,
47:33and we wanna just help them as they progress
47:36through middle school and high school.
47:37So right now we're trying to figure out
47:39how we can one, get them here, the transportation,
47:42two, get all of the computers and everything
47:44that we need to put into that space.
47:46So right now we're filling out a bunch of grants,
47:49shaking a lot of hands and going to a lot of meetings
47:51to put the word out there and see if we can make this happen.
47:55David McGee, Jr. Ladies and gentlemen,
47:57hypenola.org is the website,
48:00H-Y-P-E-N-O-L-A.org is the website.
48:06You have an opportunity to help in any capacity,
48:11even if it's praying, please understand
48:13that that is not a small contribution.
48:16Pray for the work, pray that the Lord
48:18glorify himself through hype, through Dave, through all of the people who are working,
48:25his wonderful family, and may God be glorified.
48:29And as you are listening to this program, I want to encourage you to see what the Lord
48:33would require of you in this time.
48:36Until next time, y'all have a great evening.
48:43The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
48:48Family Association or American Family Radio.

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