("Best-of" Edition from 6/24/20) Abe revisits “Dee Dee from Texas’” call from June 23, 2020.

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13. 0:38I'm your host Abraham Hamilton, the third and I am joined
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18. 0:51He's here, buddy.
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20. 0:56too disrespectful for today's program.
21. 0:58So I am prepared for that to be the case.
22. 1:04And I hope you are likewise prepared to get rolling with today's program.
23. 1:13We have a lot to get to today.
24. 1:15I'm trying to get things situated, having some challenges in some places.
25. 1:20But I want to thank you for tuning into the program as is my custom to do because I know for a fact,
26. 1:27You could listen to anything else you wanted to listen to you could be anywhere else that you wanted to be
27. 1:32But you made the decision to be here with us and I am grateful for you making that decision
28. 1:39I also am keenly keenly keenly aware that there are all sorts of things that are happening in the world around us
29. 1:49however
30. 1:50Let us be intentional
31. 1:52Let us be diligent
32. 1:54Let us not just participate, but let's give ourselves to the work that God has called us to.
33. 2:01And that work first and foremost, first and foremost requires us to understand that there's a distinction between our part-time jobs and our full-time jobs.
34. 2:11You've heard me on many occasions, if you listen to the program for a while, and if you're new to the program, I want to make sure you understand what I'm saying when I say that.
35. 2:20Our part-time jobs is what we do outside of our homes generally.
36. 2:24Many of us are doing it from home now more than normal.
37. 2:27Many of us.
38. 2:27But what we do to generate an income is our part-time job.
39. 2:31I know in our comorbidacular, we describe our work as our full-time work.
40. 2:35But I want to encourage you to recalibrate how you think about these things
41. 2:40and to consider what you do to generate an income as your part-time job.
42. 2:44Your full-time job, your full-time job, is discharging faithfulness
43. 2:49to the King of glory, to the one who ransomed your soul.
44. 2:55And in response to what he has done for us,
45. 2:59purchasing for us and providing for us
46. 3:02the free gift of salvation,
47. 3:04that we respond by attending to the first,
48. 3:09or should I say a primary context
49. 3:11within which the discharge faithfulness,
50. 3:13which is our families,
51. 3:14let us honor our Lord in how we serve Him in our families.
52. 3:19all too often we see additional components.
53. 3:24For example, were you trying to get my attention?
54. 3:26Oh, okay.
55. 3:27You see from the scripture, you read Psalm 127,
56. 3:30read Malachi chapter two verse 15,
57. 3:32read Ephesians chapter six,
58. 3:34how the Bible literally explains that the responsibility
59. 3:38for cultivating disciples in the hearts of offspring
60. 3:41that are born into Christian families,
61. 3:43it's not the job of the youth pastor.
62. 3:45I know we have a lot of them, no shade of youth pastors,
63. 3:47unless you win a skinny gene.
64. 3:49That's a whole other problem.
65. 3:50Much shade to you of skinny pants is your portion.
66. 3:53I digress.
67. 3:54The scripture explains that the responsibility,
68. 3:57the weight, the bulk, the heft of the responsibility
69. 4:01for discipling the offspring born into Christian families,
70. 4:05it falls to the parents.
71. 4:06Primarily to the father, not the mother, to the father.
72. 4:11But this isn't an amazing how in most of our understanding
73. 4:14and experiences that spiritual enterprise
74. 4:16has been the province and domain of our women largely.
75. 4:23I would submit for your consideration
76. 4:26that that's not just a product of happenstance,
77. 4:28but there's a snake in the garden.
78. 4:33The Lord explains, the Lord blessed the marital union
79. 4:37with the wonderful gift of the One Flesh Union.
80. 4:39This is another thing.
81. 4:40It is an affront to God that conversations concerning
82. 4:45the beauty of the One Flesh Union are normally dominated
83. 4:49unbelievers. We should be describing discussing that within the family of God.
84. 4:55But often it doesn't happen because we're too busy playing defense instead of playing
85. 4:59offense. Malachi 215 explains that the Lord blessed us with the privilege of the
86. 5:07One Flesh Union. Why? Because the One God was looking pursuing the
87. 5:11establishment of holy seed. Obviously, you know, the Lord knows children are born
88. 5:17saved. So when he says holy seed, he's not talking about that they are, you know,
89. 5:22immaculately conceived, he's talking about the investment of the family pouring into that offspring
90. 5:29to maintain for his glory a multi-generational legacy of witnessing that is faithful to the Lord.
91. 5:39The bulk of the multi-generational development of the church should transpire in the family,
92. 5:45but as we more and more outsource the family's responsibility, the father and mother specifically
93. 5:51outsourced at the external sources, we realize the deficiency in this model because the most
94. 5:56fundamental component of disciple making is time. Is time. Jesus taught us in his teachings
95. 6:05as well as it by his example that the most effective way to make a disciple is by life on life.
96. 6:13That's why we have accounts of Jesus not only providing sermons on the mount,
97. 6:16taking Peter out to the deep to fish, but you also see him going to weddings together.
98. 6:20You also see them going to banquers together.
99. 6:23You also see them hanging out of people's houses together
100. 6:25because disciples must be made from intimate proximity.
101. 6:29You can't make disciples from a distance.
102. 6:31It is hard to make thorough disciples in large groups.
103. 6:37Okay, so amen, just say out.
104. 6:39I'm just, I'm just, listen, I'm just laying it
105. 6:41because we have operated in such a manner,
106. 6:45not realizing that we are investing in models and structures
107. 6:50and systems within the Lord's family,
108. 6:52that very well may be counterproductive to our objective.
109. 6:56And then we wonder, hey, why is it that it seems
110. 6:58with each passing generation that even within the church,
111. 7:01they become more and more secularized.
112. 7:05I'll tell you just like the book of Genesis tells you,
113. 7:07everything reproduces after its own time.
114. 7:10You wanna know why our children look the way they do?
115. 7:13I wanna ask you, where did they spend
116. 7:14the majority of their time?
117. 7:17It ain't rocket science folks.
118. 7:19If the majority of the time is spent being made excellent
119. 7:23in a rebellious worldview, guess what's gonna be lived
120. 7:26out in the character and in the condo.
121. 7:31So I am endeavoring, even if I'm one man crying
122. 7:35in the wilderness, that's cool,
123. 7:37John the Baptist was there before me,
124. 7:40to encourage us to turn our attentions to our homes,
125. 7:45not to neglect of other areas,
126. 7:48but certainly we cannot afford to sacrifice our homes
127. 7:52to address other areas.
128. 7:56I'll say one last thing in this and I'll get to the scripture,
129. 7:58which today it won't be the only scripture.
130. 8:00some of you wonder,
131. 8:01hey, when you're gonna get to the word,
132. 8:02oh, it's gonna be full of word today.
133. 8:05There were a lot of people who panicked
134. 8:07when former President Obama issued his edict
135. 8:10concerning transgender bathroom.
136. 8:14I know if you listen to this program,
137. 8:15you heard me talk about this Boston opinion.
138. 8:17And I told you even after President Trump became
139. 8:20the 45th president of the United States
140. 8:22that these folks weren't going anywhere,
141. 8:25I told you that.
142. 8:27That issue folks is once again put front and center.
143. 8:32What are you going to do?
144. 8:34If you send your child to be discipled in the place where the place tells you,
145. 8:38there's nothing to think about me on this in female.
146. 8:42Now I've explained that this is not only a statement concerning identity and,
147. 8:46and, and, and sexuality is actually the anthropological history that underpins
148. 8:50the gospel because if the culture can cause your child to question whether
149. 8:54not Genesis one and two are authoritative, why wouldn't that same child begin to
150. 8:58question? Well, why should Genesis three be authoritative? You see, a full on
151. 9:08assault is lost on the gospel when your child is invited to question the authority of Genesis
152. 9:13chapters 1, 2, and 3. All the way up to 11, quite frankly. Romans chapter 12, this is what
153. 9:20we're going to go today. And this is something that, and the Lord has just emblazoned upon
154. 9:27my heart. We're endeavoring to live this out fully within our local assembly, within my
155. 9:34immediate biological family and my extended family. Let me read the text and I'll explain
156. 9:40what I mean. Romans 12 verses 4 and 5 are where I'm going to go today. But this is the
157. 9:50exact same chapter where the Spirit of God communicated through the Apostle Paul that we
158. 9:55as Christ followers must not be squeezed into the mold of something that we are not. And
159. 10:00we must not be conformed to this world, but we must continuously be transformed, the metamorpho
160. 10:08process, metamorphosis process. The Greek word for transformed is metamorpho. That's
161. 10:11we get our word in English, in English, metamorphosis, that we will continue in the
162. 10:16metamorphol process until the Lord comes back or He calls us home. And it's in the
163. 10:22same passage that the Lord begins to say that He says this, verse 4, whereas in one
164. 10:27body we have many members and the members do not all have the same function. So we,
165. 10:36We, though many, are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.
166. 10:46I believe one of the great deficiencies of modern Christianity is that we have a deficient
167. 10:51theological comprehension of what it means to be members of the body of Christ.
168. 10:57I've explained here before that this ecclesiastical membership does not merely connect us to one
169. 11:03another.
170. 11:04One of the great travesties of our time is that the high and holy gathering of the Lord
171. 11:09syncs together for worship.
172. 11:12Worshipping together has been reduced to worshiping beside one another.
173. 11:16To where though many of us would never put a time limit on an NFL football game, we'll
174. 11:20plop in front of the TV for three hours for one game.
175. 11:23And if you're like me, they have an amenity instance, is what I've watched more than one.
176. 11:29But when you gather with the sites, we're checking the clock.
177. 11:31And I'm looking, I'm not checking any about how I like sports.
178. 11:34but what I'm saying is why is it that when there are matters that are carnal and a minimum,
179. 11:40we can grant it full attention, but when it comes to the things of God and the worshiping
180. 11:45together, which I would argue that for many of us it's been reduced to worshiping beside
181. 11:49one another, and we put the Lord on the clock.
182. 11:55We put him on the clock.
183. 11:58One of the great travesties of this deficiency of the body of Christ is that we view fellowship
184. 12:02and coin an ear as something ancillary to the gathering of the saints.
185. 12:07When if you search the scriptures, you'll find that coin an ear was a part of the worship
186. 12:12gathering.
187. 12:14How can you obey different portions of scripture that when you have been reduced to worshiping
188. 12:18beside one another?
189. 12:20For example, know those who labor among you.
190. 12:23How can you conduct and develop this intimate knowledge of one another if you reduce to a
191. 12:2945 minute seating in silence beside one another.
192. 12:34Quick to rush off the crack of barrel
193. 12:35and then on to watch the football game.
194. 12:37Listen, I know, I'm just telling ya,
195. 12:39I'm just keeping 100 with ya'll.
196. 12:42How can we obey those scriptures?
197. 12:43How can we bear with one another in love
198. 12:46if we don't even know one another?
199. 12:50We have people who are quote unquote,
200. 12:53members of our church,
201. 12:54you don't even know if they have a spouse.
202. 12:58You don't know their children.
203. 13:00You've never been to their house,
204. 13:01know have they ever been to your house? Some of us are in places. I won't say that.
205. 13:06Thank you, Lord. And what I'm talking about is not a rebuke of any particular
206. 13:14local assembly. What I am talking about is how we, the loss we suffer when we
207. 13:19neglect these portions of what God has given us. And so the Apostle Paul says that
208. 13:27we are members of the one body of Christ and individually, members of one
209. 13:35another. Do you know what that means, man? When your members of one another, when you
210. 13:43stub your big toe, you feel it all the way to the tippy top of your head. If you if
211. 13:48you crush your fingertip with the with the hammer, you're gonna feel that all
212. 13:52the way down to your pinky toe. You're gonna feel that through and through. It's far
213. 13:57easier for us to have no reaction to what the members of our body feel when we are
214. 14:03not members of one another. Something that happens to Jeff and his family, man, I feel
215. 14:11that. Something happens to Rob and his family, I feel that. I don't have to work
216. 14:17myself into a morning with those who mourn because I'm connected. His morning
217. 14:21is my morning. That's not something I have to work myself into. And we know this on
218. 14:27a natural level because when you hear your own children crying, how do you
219. 14:30respond? But when you're disconnected and you hear a child crying, that's just
220. 14:36another child crying. What I am saying is that a part of what's needed in our
221. 14:42Our time is a robust, revisit and re-establishment of a theological understanding of what it
222. 14:49means to be members of the body of Christ.
223. 14:52And as a result, we have been made by his shed blood members of one another.
224. 15:03And now your two-minute health and prayers update from the Presidential Prayer Team,
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226. 15:12together, we will keep Texas wide open for business.
227. 15:18Now I will turn it over to Dr. Heller-Stit.
228. 15:20Thank you Governor.
229. 15:21Please Texas, let's see the wise guidance
230. 15:25that the Governor has laid out.
231. 15:26You've heard it many times before.
232. 15:28We are at a very crucial point in time.
233. 15:30As you can see that the data,
234. 15:31the trends are going up in a way
235. 15:34that we really need to get control of.
236. 15:36We can get control of those by using the kind of guidance
237. 15:39that we have laid out before.
238. 15:40So the governor gave a great summary of them.
239. 15:44It's all about hygiene, if you can, in an area
240. 15:48where face covering, that's a really great idea.
241. 15:51It helps to stop the spread of COVID-19.
242. 15:54Hello, this is Jim Voldhouse,
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246. 16:03about the COVID-19 virus,
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250. 16:11John 1633 reminds us to keep our faith in God's great plan.
251. 16:17I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace.
252. 16:21In this world you will have trouble, but take heart.
253. 16:24I have overcome the world.
254. 16:27We'd like to invite you right now to join us in prayer.
255. 16:30Heavenly Father, give us the encouragement we need
256. 16:33and help us to remember this.
257. 16:35Although we may not understand everything in the present,
258. 16:38We must remain faithful and confident
259. 16:40as your mysteries unfold in our daily lives.
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266. 17:01Brian Fisher here with today's Life and Liberty Minute.
267. 17:03In the darkest days of England's lonely stand
268. 17:06against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill
269. 17:08inspired his nation to keep the faith and refuse to surrender to the forces of evil.
270. 17:13We are in a moment like that today in America.
271. 17:16The satanic forces of evil are throwing everything they have at any man who dares to speak the truth,
272. 17:22who dares to confront the malicious destroyers sent against everything noble right and true
273. 17:28by the enemy of our souls.
274. 17:30It's time to screw our courage to the sticking point and heed Churchill's call on these dark
275. 17:35and dangerous times. Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never, never.
276. 17:42In nothing, great or small, large or petty. Never yield a force. Never yield to the apparently
277. 17:49overwhelming might of the enemy. Carry on.
278. 17:52Catch Brian Fisher on Focal Point.
279. 17:54Week day afternoons at 105 Central on American Family Radio.
280. 18:06Shiting light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
281. 18:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio.
282. 18:15Abraham Hamilton the third here.
283. 18:18Today's show is going to be a little bit different.
284. 18:21If you were listening yesterday, you remember toward the end of the show, we received a call
285. 18:27from Didi in Texas.
286. 18:29Some of you remember that.
287. 18:30I remember even people commenting on the various social media posts saying that, man,
288. 18:36yeah, I agree with Didi.
289. 18:37I feel just like Didi.
290. 18:39I have to tell you, sometimes this happens to me
291. 18:43when a call or something will stick with me.
292. 18:46And in addition to hearing the words that Dee Dee shared
293. 18:51with us, all of us really, here on the live on the air
294. 18:54yesterday, her heart, her heart penetrated my soul.
295. 19:01Penetrated my soul.
296. 19:02It reminded me of the journey that the Lord has taken me
297. 19:10that the Lord has taken me through even before coming to AFA.
298. 19:14Because if you talk to my wife, she'll tell you,
299. 19:16I'm really not doing anything any different now
300. 19:18than I've been doing.
301. 19:20I just, the Lord has just saw fit to bless me
302. 19:23with a platform to allow me to make your acquaintances.
303. 19:27But I have been doing this, and I remember,
304. 19:31I remember when I was a younger man after,
305. 19:34and I was telling some people at my house
306. 19:36this story recently after former president Barack Obama who was then state senator Barack Obama
307. 19:45spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Some of y'all may remember that. And I remember
308. 19:49watching and listening, I said, who is this guy? And so I began to research him. Then I had no idea
309. 19:58he run for the president, the Lord just led me in that direction. And I found all kind of stuff
310. 20:02I don't know if this guy, you know, I remember I found this one questionnaire, you know,
311. 20:07in some local state races, different organizations sent out questionnaires to allow candidates
312. 20:13to fill them out.
313. 20:14And this was in the late 90s, I believe, if I remember correctly, I'm doing all this for
314. 20:20memory.
315. 20:21A questionnaire was sent to all of the candidates for the state senate in Illinois, in this particular
316. 20:25district where former president Obama was running.
317. 20:28And they asked him whether or not they believed
318. 20:31same-sex marriage should be constitutionally protected right.
319. 20:35And right then the questionnaire,
320. 20:37big and bright bold letters.
321. 20:39Barack Hussein Obama, then a candidate for the Illinois State Senate,
322. 20:44in writing provided his support for same-sex marriage, in writing.
323. 20:50And so I had physical copies of these things in my own possession.
324. 20:55And I remember when he finally started running for the president in 2008,
325. 20:58People all over saying that oh he opposed the same sex marriage. I'll say what this is a lot now look
326. 21:04I'm a journalist if I can find this stuff. I know the news media could find these things
327. 21:10Then you start seeing now all our kind of other things and the the Lord moved me
328. 21:16Well, I was going around to churches in my area
329. 21:20Many of them populated primarily by melanating people saying warning this guy is a snake
330. 21:26This guy is a snake and I remember and I won't go into more of the details
331. 21:33But I was people said all kind of things about me and I remember thinking Lord
332. 21:38You know me. I don't I remember something one person told me that
333. 21:45Yeah, I'm just a hater. They are hater. What I say man. Y'all people are partial if this person that I'm saying the same information
334. 21:53With you if this person had a different quantity of melanin in the skin
335. 21:56You would not be responding to me in this way
336. 21:58But putting that aside for a moment,
337. 22:03Dee Dee's call reminded me of that.
338. 22:06I remember having a conversation with my pastor
339. 22:08in the one with the saying,
340. 22:09why do they respond to me this way?
341. 22:12These are people supposedly are Christian.
342. 22:14My pastor said,
343. 22:17Abe is the God of this world who has blinded their eyes.
344. 22:21But your call is to be faithful.
345. 22:24That's what he's doing.
346. 22:26All right, so he kept going.
347. 22:27So anyway, I don't want to stay there,
348. 22:30but Dee Dee's call reminded me of that.
349. 22:33And I want to play the call again,
350. 22:39because maybe like me, this call resonated with you,
351. 22:42and I know after listening to it,
352. 22:44and I even said it on the air yesterday,
353. 22:47I know DD represented scores of people
354. 22:50all over the country.
355. 22:52And there were people, as I said,
356. 22:53they said, yeah, I feel the same way.
357. 22:55So I want you to listen to DD's calls,
358. 22:56just 26 seconds from yesterday.
359. 22:59And what I'm going to do in this show,
360. 23:01I want to offer some encouragement
361. 23:02in a more detailed response to Dee Dee's call
362. 23:08from the Word of God.
363. 23:08And I hope you're listening, Dee Dee.
364. 23:11This may be one you may wanna take notes,
365. 23:12you may wanna save this podcast and revisit it.
366. 23:15We're just gonna go over some basic things
367. 23:17from the Word of God to enable us to respond appropriately.
368. 23:19But Rob, would you please play Dee Dee's call?
369. 23:21I feel like a small grain of fans on the ocean.
370. 23:27And I have no idea how to share this information
371. 23:30Did you give us daily with my friends and my family?
372. 23:35I feel like a lot of them are lost
373. 23:38and they believe everything to hear
374. 23:42on mainstream media and I feel very moved
375. 23:46but I need to do something.
376. 23:51I wanna begin today responding to Deedee
377. 23:56and the more thorough man and I answered her
378. 23:58but the call was at the end of the program
379. 24:00so I wasn't able to go in as in depth as I would like to.
380. 24:05But I want to take her call piece by piece and go through just some biblical encouragement concerning her call.
381. 24:14First, what I want to say is when you heard Didi say at the very end of that call that she felt very moved that she needed to do something,
382. 24:25very moved that she needed to do something.
383. 24:29I want you all listening to me to understand very well that if you are a Christ follower,
384. 24:35you have been called to minister.
385. 24:41You have been called to ministry every single Christ follower, every single one of us, there
386. 24:49are Christ following is not a spectator sport because there is this importation, if you will,
387. 25:00of an often secular mindset that's most obviously demonstrated
388. 25:04in this celebrity idolatry that happens in our culture.
389. 25:09Sometimes in the body of Christ, we develop this mindset
390. 25:12where we have champions and we're like,
391. 25:14go champion, go, go Jeff, go, go Abe, go.
392. 25:18When it's nothing wrong with saying go Jeff, go, go,
393. 25:20go Rob, go, go Abe, go.
394. 25:22Unless it is only you cheering Jeff, Rob and Abel.
395. 25:29See, we encourage one another.
396. 25:30Yes, go, Jeff, go.
397. 25:32And as Jeff goes, Lord, give me the grace and strength
398. 25:35to go to.
399. 25:36See, every single one of us are called to respond.
400. 25:41You know, Matthew chapter five, verses 13 through 16,
401. 25:45Jesus goes through great lengths in the sermon and amount
402. 25:47to talk about, you are the salt of the earth.
403. 25:50You are the light of the world.
404. 25:52I've explained before, those you's there are plural.
405. 25:55They were directed to the Jesus as immediate audience
406. 25:58for the sermon and amount as well as all who would come
407. 26:02faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus would all to say, what good is the light if you hide it under a
408. 26:08bushel? No, the light has to be put on a lampstand because once it is elevated appropriately,
409. 26:14it gives light to all that is in the house. So that movement you felt, Dee Dee, and those who are
410. 26:21listening, that you feel the exact same way, I want to tell you that it is the Spirit of God
411. 26:26compelling you to engage in your ministerial mandate at a different
412. 26:34clip than you have been engaged before. That's what that is. Now having said that,
413. 26:41there are specific, there are additional things that are involved here.
414. 26:46All right? Like we have the Great Commission. We know and I want to say this
415. 26:53from the beginning. I'm gonna go into more detail later, but I want to make sure
416. 26:56where everybody understands that that calling to engage
417. 27:00is not limited to a calling of political participation.
418. 27:05See, as Christ followers, we are well aware
419. 27:09of our rights as American citizens,
420. 27:11not solely to maintain our American citizenship,
421. 27:13but so that the gospel be not hindered.
422. 27:16The Apostle Paul called upon his Roman citizenship,
423. 27:19not merely to procure for himself benefits as a Roman,
424. 27:25but he uses Roman citizenship
425. 27:27to advance the gospel.
426. 27:29And I am saying this to encourage us to resist
427. 27:33the temptation to lean to the right or to the left.
428. 27:39Because anything that is good has the capacity
429. 27:42to become an idol for us.
430. 27:44Food can become an idol.
431. 27:46Sports can become an exercise.
432. 27:49Can become an idol.
433. 27:49Family can become an idol.
434. 27:53We want to make sure that our engagement is Christ-anchored,
435. 27:56gospel-centered, biblically guided.
436. 28:00All right.
437. 28:02So the great commission, which we commonly refer to,
438. 28:05I wanna make sure we all understand exactly what that is.
439. 28:08Matthew chapter 28, verses 16 through 20,
440. 28:11this show was going by too fast.
441. 28:13I got a good two hours more worth of content.
442. 28:16Let me get on.
443. 28:17Matthew 28 verse 16, it says this,
444. 28:18Now 11 disciples went to Galilee
445. 28:20to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
446. 28:23And when they saw him, they worshiped him,
447. 28:25but some doubted.
448. 28:27And Jesus came and said to them,
449. 28:28from all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.
450. 28:33Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
451. 28:39of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded
452. 28:45you and behold, I am with you always to the end of the age."
453. 28:51You see, brothers and sisters, the Great Commission is not a call that is confined to the proclamation
454. 28:57of the gospel. The Greek word is
455. 28:59Yuan Gellian. That's what we're
456. 29:00getting this word evangelical,
457. 29:02Evangelism from. Making disciples
458. 29:05requires us to proclaim the gospel.
459. 29:08But the Lord's commission and
460. 29:09totality is that we go into all
461. 29:12the world. That is geographically
462. 29:16and into demographically
463. 29:17redemptive spaces to make
464. 29:20disciples of all ethnos. A
465. 29:23disciple is a discipline learner.
466. 29:26A discipline learner is one who
467. 29:27thinks God starts after him. The call to make disciples is to cultivate in a
468. 29:34populace the capacity to as it says in verse 20 here obey all that Jesus Christ
469. 29:39has commanded us. The commands for Christ are not limited to how you speak to one
470. 29:47another. It includes how we engage with friends and family. It includes how we
471. 29:52conduct ourselves as citizens. It includes the full scope of life,
472. 29:56Man is in finances, leaving in the heiertis for your children's children.
473. 30:04And in case you don't know, all things that Jesus has commanded us is not limited to verses in the red.
474. 30:10You guys have heard me say this before. This is why I kind of don't rock with the Bibles that have red lettering
475. 30:15because when you have red lettering, it's making distinction between the red letters and the black.
476. 30:19And it gives the indication that with the Spirit of God pinned through the Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 3,
477. 30:24that all scriptures God breathed is kind of the question, well maybe not.
478. 30:28because some are red, some are black.
479. 30:30No, from Genesis to Revelation includes what Jesus has commanded us.
480. 30:36Then on top of that, we have a specific context.
481. 30:40This is something that I think needs to be conveyed more consistently
482. 30:46as we discuss the Great Commission because the Lord has given us a specific context
483. 30:51in which we are to obey Him in executing His commission in this Acts chapter 17,
484. 30:572, verses 26 through 28. As the apostle Paul even quoted the
485. 31:04Crete and poet Epimenedes, that's another story I gotta keep going because I
486. 31:07got a lot to get to and I got a little bit of time.
487. 31:10He says this in verse 26 and Acts 17, and he, God, made from one man or one blood
488. 31:15every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined
489. 31:20allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place that they should seek
490. 31:27God and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him, yet He is actually not far from
491. 31:31each one of us brothers and sisters.
492. 31:33The mandate to execute the Lord's commission, He has also given us a particular context.
493. 31:38So when you stop and consider, man, the 21st century things are going crazy.
494. 31:42The Supreme Court issued the Bostock opinion almost five years to the date after the Bergenfeld
495. 31:48decision.
496. 31:49We got people in office and playing a parent who is still getting half a billion dollars
497. 31:53and you have people burning down buildings,
498. 31:57you have people using pain of inner city communities
499. 31:59to say they want to defund the police,
500. 32:00when the people in those communities saying,
501. 32:01we don't want to defund the police,
502. 32:03we support the police, we know we need the police.
503. 32:06It's craziness going on, guess what, congratulations.
504. 32:08That is the context that God has ordained for you
505. 32:11and for me to execute his commission,
506. 32:14to sit in a different way.
507. 32:18The Lord is not surprised by this.
508. 32:20He so prepared himself for it that he ordained you and me
509. 32:24to stand in this moment.
510. 32:26You mean in this moment we have hard-headed children
511. 32:28and knuckle-headed family members?
512. 32:30Yes, indeed.
513. 32:32But, Abe, you don't know how hard it is.
514. 32:33Listen, yes I do.
515. 32:36And this is the moment because what God desires for us to do
516. 32:41is to view people the way that he does.
517. 32:45See, the Bible tells us that he does not rejoice
518. 32:49in the death of the wicked.
519. 32:52Just as our Lord, when he was incarnate,
520. 32:55the Bible says he saw the crowds harassed and helpless.
521. 32:59So I would say he was moved with compassion.
522. 33:02He was moved internally.
523. 33:05His innermost man drove him with compassion.
524. 33:12That's why we can't afford to see people as if they are our enemies personally.
525. 33:17Because they're not.
526. 33:20They're not.
527. 33:21Don't you know that our wrestling is not with flesh and blood?
528. 33:25There are people who have been taken captive by darkness.
529. 33:28And then what did Jesus say his work was to do?
530. 33:30To liberate the Catholic.
531. 33:34The next thing you heard D.D. say, and I just want to remind you about this, I'll try to
532. 33:39do this quickly.
533. 33:41She said that I feel like a small grain of sand, a small grain of sand on the ocean.
534. 33:52Haven't we all felt like that before?
535. 33:54I can tell you for a fact that I have.
536. 33:57Some of y'all may laugh at me when you hear me say this, but every day before I come on
537. 33:59this show, I'm nervous.
538. 34:02Every day, every day, I say, Lord, you know how many people listen to this show?
539. 34:10I cry out to the Lord for His grace and His strength to serve Him by serving His people well.
540. 34:17Every day, y'all, if you had the chance to touch one of my church when I get done, that
541. 34:20joy is soaking wet.
542. 34:23Because I take this seriously, man.
543. 34:25And to consider the way that I know the Lord loves His people, it's a high responsibility.
544. 34:32But here's the thing, when God calls us to stand in the midst of this dark and evil day,
545. 34:37He doesn't send us out alone.
546. 34:39He doesn't send us out alone.
547. 34:42He gives us of himself to enable us to obey him.
548. 34:48We'll pick up right there on the other side of the break here on the Hamilton Corner.
549. 34:52Stay with us.
550. 35:01When they got chilly this winter, they issued an alert because the Aquinas are so cold, a frozen
551. 35:07iguana might fall on your head.
552. 35:09Focal Point with Brian Fisher.
553. 35:10I want my listeners to be able to defend the truth and the authority of the Word of God as
554. 35:15as it speaks to every area of life, family, culture, and even politics.
555. 35:20We days at 1 p.m. Central on American Family Radio.
556. 35:23And we hope to have a little bit of fun along the way.
557. 35:26Okay, Brian. Now make me believe it.
558. 35:28Ha!
559. 35:32We all know George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis,
560. 35:35and afterwards, its streets were flooded with riots.
561. 35:38What you may not know is the area is turning into a place of peace.
562. 35:41CDN reports that hundreds of people are gathering on the same street
563. 35:44where George was killed to pray and worship together.
564. 35:47People are becoming followers of Jesus and getting baptized.
565. 35:50That's because Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace
566. 35:53and He can break down the walls that divide us if we let Him.
567. 35:56I'm Pastor John Miller, visit me at church on the rock nut at ORG.
568. 36:01Targeting the family.
569. 36:03This is David Wheaton, host of the Christian worldview.
570. 36:06According to their website, Black Lives Matter
571. 36:09is not just an organization that advocates for black people,
572. 36:12but one that aims to disrupt the nuclear family,
573. 36:15and promote homosexuality, transgenderism, and feminism.
574. 36:20Notice how the God-ordained family
575. 36:22is the target for destruction.
576. 36:24What they call social justice is really Marxism,
577. 36:28an ungodly totalitarian society that raises a clenched fist
578. 36:32to God in rebellion and rejection of Him and His will.
579. 36:36God's response in Psalm 2,
580. 36:38do homage to the Son that He not become angry
581. 36:41and you perish in the way.
582. 36:43Here in interview about this with my parents
583. 36:46who are in their late 80s at TheChristianWorldView.org
584. 36:50and then tuning this weekend for another topic
585. 36:52that will sharpen your world view.
586. 36:54Listen to The Christian World View with David Wheaton,
587. 36:56Saturday mornings at 8th Central on American Family Radio.
588. 37:01Hello Americans, I'm Todd Starnes with Muse
589. 37:04and commentary next.
590. 37:06My goal as a teacher is to impart knowledge
591. 37:10and then be able then for them to take it
592. 37:13and turning into wisdom.
593. 37:15As we teach, I think, okay, five years down the road,
594. 37:19how will the material that I am teaching them
595. 37:22really affect their lives and their careers?
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599. 37:35Democrats in the mainstream media
600. 37:37are pushing back after President Trump promised
601. 37:40to defend religious liberty and reopen churches.
602. 37:43The president said he would override any governor who refuses to let people get back
603. 37:47to the church house.
604. 37:48Whether or not the president has the constitutional right to do that is up for debate.
605. 37:53Many pastors are wondering why liquor stores at abortion clinics are considered essential,
606. 37:58but churches are not.
607. 38:00California, for example, released new guidelines limiting the number of people who can congregate
608. 38:05inside a church house, a maximum of 100 worshipers.
609. 38:09start towing the party line publishing story after story of how shutting down churches
610. 38:14could save lives.
611. 38:16If blue state governors are going to temporarily suspend or curtail freedom of religion, they
612. 38:21should do the same for freedom of the press.
613. 38:24If they're going to shut down the churches, they should also shut down the newsrooms.
614. 38:27Let's see what Anderson Cooper says about that.
615. 38:30I'm Todd Stardes.
616. 39:01But he did not.
617. 39:02Acts chapter one.
618. 39:05Verse six through eight.
619. 39:07So when they had come together, they asked him,
620. 39:09Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?
621. 39:12He said to them,
622. 39:12it is not for you to know times or seasons
623. 39:14that the Father has fixed by his own authority,
624. 39:16but you will receive power
625. 39:20when the Holy Spirit has come upon you
626. 39:23and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem
627. 39:28and in all Judea and Samaria
628. 39:30end to the end of the earth.
629. 39:36Before the Lord explained anything concerning his disciples being his
630. 39:45witnesses, he said you will be filled with power.
631. 39:50Greek word there's doing this.
632. 39:51We explained that before, but not filled for merely personal consumption.
633. 39:58Explain this before you are filled for what purpose to be my witnesses.
634. 40:03Explain me for the Greek word for witness there is Martis where we get our
635. 40:07things where it martyred them from. That's why from this passage, I have
636. 40:11repeatedly conveyed that the call to be a witness is not a call to a specific
637. 40:16action, but a call to a state of being. You see, when you are a witness, you are
638. 40:21one when you're on stage and when you're not. You're a witness when you're sitting
639. 40:25at home in the dark by yourself and nobody can see what you're doing, except
640. 40:30the one who sees and knows all. And you're a witness when you're in front of
641. 40:33the masses of people, because being a witness is a state of being. Now, witnesses, evangelize,
642. 40:43witnesses make disciples, but witnessing is a state of being. To say it in another way,
643. 40:51the Lord has filled his witnesses to execute the Great Commission. He is indwelling you by
644. 41:02his spirit, not for consumption, but for function, which is why I have a great deal of concern
645. 41:11and caution for those who advocate for a minimized view and understanding of the Holy Spirit,
646. 41:20because the fuel for the engine is the Spirit of God, it's not on us anyway.
647. 41:29In addition to, and further responding to Dee Dee's statement that she felt like a small
648. 41:33grain of sand in the ocean, I want you to remember that I called to effective engagement
649. 41:39It is not based on our perception of our own size or impact.
650. 41:46I intended to walk through all of these scriptures,
651. 41:48but I'll just mention them so you can go and study them yourself.
652. 41:51Do you remember I've talked about this on this program before?
653. 41:54First Sammy, chapter 17.
654. 41:57When the shepherd boy, he didn't come to fight,
655. 41:59he just came to deliver lunch.
656. 42:02And when he came to deliver lunch, he heard some, like my dad,
657. 42:04you say some somebody selling wolf tickets, talking smack.
658. 42:09Davis, I would say, say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
659. 42:11Say, what now?
660. 42:13And then they start telling them, have you heard what the king would do for the person
661. 42:16who deals with?
662. 42:18David said, wait, what?
663. 42:20What's going to happen to the person who slays this Philistine?
664. 42:24I made this point and I want to reiterate it here and now throughout the entirety of that
665. 42:29account, David never once refers to Goliath as a giant.
666. 42:35He never once.
667. 42:37Why is that?
668. 42:38Because David's mechanism for evaluating that moment of engagement was completely steeped
669. 42:44in his view of his God, that God was so big to David
670. 42:49that he couldn't even already recognize the life.
671. 42:52You understand what I'm saying?
672. 42:54And just in case you don't know this,
673. 42:56because we as human beings, we have a tendency
674. 42:58to read ourselves into scripture as the heroes.
675. 43:03When you read this text, you and I ain't David.
676. 43:08I know that's news to some of us.
677. 43:10No, you're not David.
678. 43:13We like to think that, but the real truth is
679. 43:15you and I probably would have been among
680. 43:16those other people, man, you wanna fight that dude.
681. 43:21In this passage, David is a representation
682. 43:24of what Christ does for us.
683. 43:29So when we are going, we're not going in our own strength.
684. 43:32Naturally speaking, David had a stick in five smooth stones,
685. 43:35but supernaturally speaking,
686. 43:38David engaged with the power of the creator
687. 43:40of the heaven and the earth.
688. 43:42That's why five smooth songs become things
689. 43:43that sink in skulls, and you gather five,
690. 43:47but he knew you only needed one.
691. 43:49What I'm saying to you is that what we have to do
692. 43:52is resisted temptation to evaluate our commission
693. 43:56and the context for our commission solely based
694. 43:58on natural understanding.
695. 44:00Instead, we live in the place.
696. 44:03I know I do it, I do it every day before coming
697. 44:05before coming on the air.
698. 44:06I say, Lord, I know I'm just a dude
699. 44:08from the ninth world in New Orleans.
700. 44:09I know that, but Father, if you see fit to use me,
701. 44:13if you see fit to minister to your people through me,
702. 44:15Lord, have your way, have your way.
703. 44:21And Dee Dee, I wanna tell you that though in your own eyes,
704. 44:24You may feel like a small grain of sand.
705. 44:26Put your small grain of sand in the hands of the one who makes grains of sand.
706. 44:33Do I need to remind you that every human being that we see are the product of dirt formation?
707. 44:39Do I need to remind you that we serve the God who allows Lazarus' to die though he loves
708. 44:46them tremendously?
709. 44:49But just so he can let those around them know that I'm not just your homeboy, yes you are
710. 44:54son of the carpenter.
711. 44:56I am God in the flesh.
712. 44:59no one was expending faith on Lazarus's behalf. In fact, the morning party had started, the
713. 45:03whaling women had begun. And they even said, yes, you have had you come sooner. We know
714. 45:09you could have healed him from sickness. Yes, you would say, show me where you've laid
715. 45:16it. Oh, brothers and sisters, I'm telling you, this is an example of how in our weakness,
716. 45:21God's strength is perfected because it gives you an opportunity to fully surrender. I can't
717. 45:27do it I don't speak well you're right you don't speak well I stutter you're right
718. 45:32Lord look at my history you're right all of that is true and I bring it to me
719. 45:36that's what God said listen God could use people with perfect backgrounds if you
720. 45:42wanted to but he seems to like to use folks that know they need him isn't that
721. 45:46amazing because it puts you in a position that when you're offering a
722. 45:51gospel center truth you can say listen I am offering to you the very same thing
723. 45:55I'm not taking up.
724. 45:58Let me keep going.
725. 45:59Goodness gracious.
726. 46:00Lastly, on this point about feeling like a small grain
727. 46:02of sand in the notion, if you search the scripture,
728. 46:04you'll find the Lord very consistently uses a remnant.
729. 46:09Gideon, go and deal with these malachites.
730. 46:11Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
731. 46:12your arm is too big, my man.
732. 46:14Slow it down.
733. 46:1530,000, let's make it 20,000.
734. 46:17Oh, now let's make it 10,000.
735. 46:19All right, Lord, 10,000, that's still too many.
736. 46:22Let's make it 300.
737. 46:23Then what?
738. 46:26So there can be no confusion
739. 46:28who is the source of this deliverance?
740. 46:30I'm just reminding you, that's in Judges chapter six.
741. 46:40Let me go on, she also said, Didi said,
742. 46:43quote, I have no idea how to share this information.
743. 46:49I wanna remind you of a portion of a portion of description.
744. 46:52First Timothy chapter three,
745. 46:54I'll buy what you're gonna turn to the R.A.
746. 46:56First Timothy chapter three, I'm gonna buy the cooperative.
747. 47:01Verses 10 through 14.
748. 47:06I want to remind you of what, no, a second Timothy chapter three.
749. 47:11Second Timothy chapter three.
750. 47:13Your Apostle Paul writes this to Timothy.
751. 47:16You, however, have followed my teaching,
752. 47:19my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love,
753. 47:25my steadfastness, my persecution, and sufferings
754. 47:28that happen to be at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lister,
755. 47:32which persecutions I endured, yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
756. 47:37Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
757. 47:42while evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.
758. 47:49But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed,
759. 47:54knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you've been acquainted
760. 47:59with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise
761. 48:01for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
762. 48:03What I want to point out specifically
763. 48:05is that you'll note the Apostle Paul
764. 48:06conveys to Timothy that I not only want you
765. 48:09to listen to my teaching, all right?
766. 48:11He tells Timothy, you have followed my teaching,
767. 48:14but in addition to following my teaching,
768. 48:15you have also followed my conduct.
769. 48:20See, when we engage, we have to make sure
770. 48:22that our engagement is the overflow of the life
771. 48:25that we're living.
772. 48:27You see, we don't want our words to contradict
773. 48:30what we're attempting to convey verbally.
774. 48:34So we wanna make sure that our words
775. 48:38are the overflow of what we live.
776. 48:41So that especially when those who do not agree with us,
777. 48:44they know that what we're saying is consistent
778. 48:48in what we do.
779. 48:50Because if we don't have that consistency
780. 48:52between talk and walk, what'll often happen
781. 48:56is that the response will be that you're living so loud,
782. 48:58I cannot give ear to what you're saying.
783. 49:00Your life is so loud, I cannot hear what you're saying.
784. 49:08Additionally, we wanna make sure we have a clear gospel
785. 49:12centered objective.
786. 49:14We have to make sure that our objective is to execute
787. 49:17the Great Commission and not merely to win a debate
788. 49:20or a political argument.
789. 49:22Because in the process of making disciples,
790. 49:24our goal and our call is to think God's thoughts after him.
791. 49:30So we wanna make sure that our thinking lines up
792. 49:33with God's thinking as he has revealed it to us in scripture in every arena.
793. 49:38So as we line our thinking up with God's thinking,
794. 49:40it will definitely impact the way that we engage our civic duties as citizens
795. 49:45of this wonderful country, but our goal is to gain a brother,
796. 49:49not merely to win an argument.
797. 49:51And it's very easy to misconstrue that objective,
798. 49:56especially when things get hot.
799. 49:57Cause you know,
800. 49:58you got somebody saying something that's,
801. 49:59that's dribble and you know, you have the right answer.
802. 50:01I would encourage you not merely to offer the right answer, but to offer the wise answer
803. 50:08to gain a brother or to gain a sister.
804. 50:12It's instructive that even when the Lord gave us the instructions for how to deal with fractions,
805. 50:20not fractions, with fissures in the body based on sinfulness, that the purpose of confrontation
806. 50:26is to win a brother.
807. 50:27It's to gain a brother.
808. 50:29To gain a sister.
809. 50:31We must keep that first and foremost, because if we're not careful, we can downgrade from
810. 50:36our gospel-centered perch, and now we're just winning the argument, winning debates, just
811. 50:43sharing information that we have for the purposes of sharing them as opposed to executing our
812. 50:50trade as witnesses.
813. 50:52All right?
814. 50:57Acts up to 28, verses 32, 31, I won't read it because we don't have time.
815. 51:00But at the conclusion of the Apostle Paul's life, he discusses living in such a way so
816. 51:04that the gospel continues unhindered.
817. 51:07That is our call.
818. 51:09We want to live in such a way, which means that we must
819. 51:11discuss politics life, what the world says are social issues
820. 51:15in such a way where the gospel be not hindered.
821. 51:18All right?
822. 51:22Did he also mention the challenge, the great challenge
823. 51:24in ministering with family and friends.
824. 51:27We all have that challenge.
825. 51:29It's far easier to be a witness before strangers,
826. 51:33oftentimes, because our family, they know it.
827. 51:36Sometimes I know our history didn't know our other things.
828. 51:38And I want to encourage you to resist intimidation
829. 51:40to try to defend yourself based on your past.
830. 51:43But simply get comfortable with saying,
831. 51:45man, everything that you're saying is under the blood.
832. 51:48That's why I love Jesus so much so.
833. 51:51And regardless of what my history may be,
834. 51:53it doesn't nullify the truth of what I'm saying to you
835. 51:55and the truth that has transformed me.
836. 51:58And we know this that when Jesus,
837. 52:00I'm sorry, when Gideon initially responded to God's call
838. 52:04before you ever get to fighting the Amalekis,
839. 52:05The first thing God called him to do was what?
840. 52:07Tear down the altars in his own home.
841. 52:10He had to go to Daddy's house and tear down his
842. 52:13by all worship station in his ash or a pole.
843. 52:16And the Bible explains that Gideon,
844. 52:17he waited till it was nighttime because he was scared.
845. 52:22He was scared.
846. 52:23Listen, God knows we get scared sometimes,
847. 52:27but nevertheless his grace is sufficient for you.
848. 52:32I have so much more I wanna say,
849. 52:33but let me say this right now.
850. 52:35The other thing I wanna make sure to convey
851. 52:37is that we cling to scripture, cling to scripture.
852. 52:42We're living in a time where people that are attempting
853. 52:44to get us to abandon the scripture
854. 52:45and engage in philosophing and rhetorical debate
855. 52:49and oral gladiator shift void of the scripture.
856. 52:52I would encourage you to resist that
857. 52:54and develop the capacity to cling to the scripture
858. 52:58and to do so whether you're citing chapter inverse or not.
859. 53:01For your consideration, compare Paul's engagement
860. 53:04with Felix Grippen, Acts chapter 26,
861. 53:06with his engagement with the Athenians and the Stoics in Acts 17.
862. 53:10The same Paul, the same gospel,
863. 53:12but two different methods of approach.
864. 53:14With the gripper, he appealed to,
865. 53:16he in a gripper's common knowledge of the Hebrew Bible.
866. 53:19He said to a gripper, I know you know this.
867. 53:21Do you believe the prophets?
868. 53:22I know you know the prophets.
869. 53:23I know you believe the prophets.
870. 53:24But in Athens, in the Mars Hill, Paul didn't quote the scripture.
871. 53:29He still conveyed scripture without citing chapter and verse.
872. 53:33We have to be able to do that.
873. 53:37And finally, in a lot of this circumstance,
874. 53:40we have this tension, what do we do?
875. 53:42What do we do?
876. 53:42Matthew chapter 22, verses 34 through 40.
877. 53:46Love the Lord without our heart, soul, mind, and strength
878. 53:48and the second commandment like it.
879. 53:49Love your neighbor as yourself.
880. 53:54Love your neighbor, because God has told us
881. 53:57how to respond when there's difficulty,
882. 53:59and when there are issues, when there's tension,
883. 54:01and the law of love is what we are to engage with.
884. 54:05The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
885. 54:15Family Association or American Family Radio.