("Best-of" Edition from 9/9/22) We must be re-introduced to God’s glory.

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1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
2. 0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
4. 0:10It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
5. 0:15Delivering people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
6. 0:18And the philosophies of this world.
7. 0:20God has called you and me to be His ambassador.
8. 0:24Even in this dark moment.
9. 0:26Let's not miss our moment.
10. 0:28And now the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:32Good evening, everyone.
12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton.
13. 0:37The third here, you've made it to your on your way to the
14. 0:41weekend edition of the Hamilton Corner.
15. 0:44It's been a full week, but I'm very excited about today's program.
16. 0:49I have some things in my heart.
17. 0:50I just want to share with you from my heart primarily from the
18. 0:55Word of God.
19. 0:56And at this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making that transition from your part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
20. 1:11As you are doing so, let me remind you that what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
21. 1:18The world works feverishly, works overtime to get us to divert our attention in a place
22. 1:24import and the significance on everything else around us.
23. 1:29And really in a lot of ways to just wear us out to where when it comes to serving the Lord
24. 1:34through what transpires in our homes, many of us, one of the first obstacles to overcome
25. 1:38is literal physical fatigue.
26. 1:40You know, mental fatigue, physical fatigue.
27. 1:43But what I want to encourage you to do is to understand that as you're doing your part
28. 1:47time jobs to make sure you have your full time jobs in view.
29. 1:52You know, when you wake up in the morning and you go to your part time place of employment,
30. 1:56if you are an employee or an employer or whatever the situation may be, keep in mind
31. 2:01that ministry is required of you once you go home.
32. 2:04You know, and I know there's some who do this in a reverse that you go to your part time
33. 2:07jobs in the evening, but the most, the majority of the audience, you're on your way to your
34. 2:14full time jobs now.
35. 2:16I want to remind you that what you do in your home is your full time jobs.
36. 2:21I've never once and all the time I've spent with some of the more seasoned
37. 2:25saints as they're transitioning from this life into the eternal state.
38. 2:28I've never once seen anybody say, man, I sure wish I could have worked another
39. 2:32overtime shift. I sure wish I could have had more time in the office.
40. 2:36I mean, I really, I so love being in the office, you know,
41. 2:39most of the time in my experience and in,
42. 2:43and in my experience in terms of what I've experienced
43. 2:45firsthand and as well as a lot of what I've read
44. 2:49and what I've learned or what I've studied,
45. 2:51people usually find themselves at the latter part
46. 2:55to their lives lamenting what they had not done
47. 2:58within their families.
48. 2:59And I'm saying if you have breath in your lungs,
49. 3:01you're listening to this show right now,
50. 3:03you have an opportunity to make that correction
51. 3:05on the front end that you make sure you understand
52. 3:08that what transpires in your house is more important
53. 3:11goes on in the White House and it is your full-time job. This is what we need to be able to understand.
54. 3:19This is what we must embrace. And as I've said numerous times, the basis for this understanding
55. 3:25comes right from the Word of God. The first institution that God created as he unfolded
56. 3:30human history was the family. The first command that God gave to mankind was issued within the
57. 3:36context of family before you get to an order of priests, before you get to prophets, before
58. 3:41you get to monarchs, the first institution that you have is family. Family is important to God.
59. 3:48As a result, it should be important to us. All right, to the word of God, we go Romans chapter
60. 3:55one is where I want to go to start the show. And this is a very familiar passage of scripture,
61. 4:02but I just want to slow down a bit and focus on it with a bit more specificity,
62. 4:07because there are things in the text that we can miss if we are not careful in navigating
63. 4:15what the Lord has provided for us there. So Romans chapter 1 verses 18 through 25 is what I'm
64. 4:21going to read. The Word of God says this, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
65. 4:26all godliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
66. 4:32because that which is known about God is evident within them. For God made it
67. 4:38evident to them. For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes, His
68. 4:44eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen being understood through
69. 4:51what has been made so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew
70. 4:57God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their thinking,
71. 5:04and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise they became fools,
72. 5:11and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man,
73. 5:18and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the
74. 5:25the lust of their hearts to impurity so that their bodies would be
75. 5:30dishonored among them, but they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and
76. 5:35worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who was blessed forever.
77. 5:41Amen. Now I've said numerous times that the Apostle
78. 5:46Paul's Epistles of the Romans was written to Christians. It is to Christians in Rome
79. 5:51that the Apostle Paul said do not be conformed to this world but to be
80. 5:56transformed by the renewing of your mind, which presents the reality that you could have people
81. 6:01who make genuinely have had a born again experience, but because of a failure of discipleship and a
82. 6:06lack of discipleship, they remain conformed in their mind to the thinking of the old nature.
83. 6:14Here, the script reveals a truth, verse 18, in that it is the wrath of God that is revealed
84. 6:21from heaven against all ungodliness. Men don't like to think about the fact that God,
85. 6:27Who is a just God? Yes.
86. 6:29Who is a loving God? Yes.
87. 6:31But do you realize that his justice requires his wrath upon sin?
88. 6:36I know again, I know that makes people uncomfortable.
89. 6:38You have people that like to present a gospel to present something as if it is a gospel, which the Apostle Paul would say is no gospel at all.
90. 6:46That would focus exclusively on God's compassion, his loving kindness, his tender mercies.
91. 6:52but they would sidestep his wrath.
92. 6:55It is because God is just that he must judge sin.
93. 7:01Believers, when we declare ourselves to be Christ followers,
94. 7:04followers of the way of the Messiah,
95. 7:06followers Yeshua, Hamashiyok,
96. 7:09we are not saying anything good or noble about ourselves.
97. 7:13Contrary to cultural expectations and even practices,
98. 7:17in our country here in America largely,
99. 7:19when you declare you're a Christian,
100. 7:21when I declare I'm a Christian,
101. 7:22I'm not saying anything good about myself.
102. 7:24What I am saying, I am declaring that I am woefully lost
103. 7:30and bound for hell but for the grace of God.
104. 7:35It is the grace of God that is the mechanism that salvages
105. 7:41my soul from eternal damnation.
106. 7:44I am declaring that my confidence in my eternal state
107. 7:47is not of anything that I have manufactured of my own.
108. 7:50It's not of anything that I have done to earn.
109. 7:53It is solely the free gift of God
110. 7:56that I have accepted by faith, by grace through faith.
111. 8:03It is an acknowledgement that I recognized, man,
112. 8:08I am irreparably broken, but because of God's grace,
113. 8:13I made hope.
114. 8:15Says nothing good about me, but says everything good about God.
115. 8:20But the scripture says men suppress this truth, the truth of human depravity, the truth of man's
116. 8:30lostness by our unrighteous conduct, by the frequency and the repetition of wicked conduct,
117. 8:37the truth of that lostness is suppressed. And what wicked men do is that we begin to normalize
118. 8:44lostness and we conduct soulless affairs based on a critical mass of what is human
119. 8:52experience. But if we understand the scripture, the commonality of the human
120. 8:57experience should once again drive us even more to the grace of God, which led
121. 9:03the Apostle Paul to say in verse 21, for even though they knew God, not in terms of
122. 9:07special revelation, but in a general revelatory sense, they did not honor him
123. 9:13as God, all made. With the Apostle Paul pinned by the Spirit of God in these passages, really,
124. 9:19in my opinion, diagnosis or diagnosis, diagnosis the crux of the human condition and the attended
125. 9:28difficulties we endure as a result. For even though they knew God, they did not honor him
126. 9:33as God or give thanks to him, but became futile in their thinking or speculation or reasoning.
127. 9:40How do we get to the place, A, where you have men thinking they're women, women thinking
128. 9:44they're men?
129. 9:46How do we get to the place where you have a woman like Candace Parker, married to another
130. 9:51basketball player, had some baby with the basketball player, but then says no, but I'm
131. 9:55a lesbian now and I'm my true self.
132. 9:59How do we get to that place?
133. 10:02Verse 21, the consequences of refusing to honor God as God is that men devolve continually
134. 10:11and unimpededly into futility in our thinking.
135. 10:16That's all we got here.
136. 10:18The only place you can get to,
137. 10:20the only way you can get to the place
138. 10:21where you have people saying we need to be able
139. 10:23to sexualize children, to teach them about sex,
140. 10:25and kindergarten to third grade,
141. 10:27is because men have refused to honor God.
142. 10:32Verse 22, professing to be wise, they became fools.
143. 10:35Verse 23, and exchanged, here's the key,
144. 10:40exchanged the glory, the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man.
145. 10:52Before you get to any other forms of imagery, any other iconography, it is the exchange of the glory
146. 11:01of God, his deity and his ascetic, and you exchange that for the corruptibility of men.
147. 11:12The author's name escapes me at the moment, but he diagnosed the condition as a empty
148. 11:17D, moralistic therapeutic deism.
149. 11:22We have lots of people who are adherence to moralistic therapeutic deism, but they're
150. 11:27passing that off as Christianity. Because the core of moralistic therapeutic
151. 11:33deism is that you are God. Man is God. In a lot of ways, this moralistic therapeutic
152. 11:44deism has even been embraced in the church. Think about some of the modern
153. 11:51songs that are purported to be worship songs, but really they focus on what God does for you,
154. 11:55for me as if he's some form of cosmic nature, you know, I worship you because this is what you've done
155. 12:01for me. Oh God, you have this. Oh, your reckless love, like listen, man, there's nothing reckless about
156. 12:06the love of God. God's love is intentional. God's love is specified. It is grand. It is massive,
157. 12:15but it's not reckless. But we have all of these songs and they, they appeal to and swoon on the
158. 12:24human emotions. I tell my wife and I tell my children, we seek to employ vertical songs,
159. 12:32songs that celebrate the glory of God, the largess of God, that he doesn't become a footnote
160. 12:38in our experience. But that is evidence of the embracing of this moralistic therapeutic
161. 12:47deism. But the core of all of the difficulty that we endure here as human beings, it comes
162. 12:54down. You can actually literally boil every issue down to this. God's word or man's word.
163. 13:03You name the issue. Marriage, God's word or man's word. Rearing children, God's word or man's word.
164. 13:11Financial stewardship, God's word or man's word. Social interactions, God's word or man's word.
165. 13:18war, God's word or man's, you can, every issue, you can boil it down to that. And I truly believe,
166. 13:25which by God's grace we're going to talk about at length during today's show, is that one of the
167. 13:31major features that has contributed to this degradation of society in our country, in American
168. 13:37particularly, is that we have lost our understanding, our view and our embrace of the transcendent
169. 13:46surpassing glory of God.
170. 13:50I really believe at the core of what's happening,
171. 13:53that that is truly what it is.
172. 13:55There was once a time in our nation's history
173. 13:58where people generally speaking, by and large,
174. 14:01had a reverence for God.
175. 14:03That's been lost so much.
176. 14:05So when people today now are celebrated
177. 14:07for just how irreverent they can be.
178. 14:10And they'll say things like,
179. 14:12well, we're just bucking against traditional social moorings.
180. 14:15No, you're not.
181. 14:16That's why I refuse to describe marriage as traditional marriage.
182. 14:19Because if it's nothing more than human tradition,
183. 14:21what would prevent us from changing human tradition?
184. 14:24But if it's God's design for the institution,
185. 14:28if it's God's word on the issue,
186. 14:30man's efforts to derogate from that
187. 14:33is not merely an amendment to human tradition,
188. 14:36it's actually an exercise in defiant rebellion.
189. 14:40God's word or man's word.
190. 14:43The beginning of the exchange, I won't say the beginning,
191. 14:47the core of the exchange is that we've exchanged
192. 14:48the glory of God for that a corruptible man.
193. 14:51Instead of pursuing him, we've made our own image
194. 14:54and put that on the throne of our hearts.
195. 15:07Shiting lightning to the darkness,
196. 15:09this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
197. 15:13Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton,
198. 15:16the third here, a reminder, September 24th and 25th.
199. 15:21and 25th. Wait, do I have those days right? September 24th and 25th.
200. 15:26Clovis, New Mexico. I'm coming your way. Central Baptist Church is the place.
201. 15:32Clovis, New, is the church. Clovis, New Mexico is the city. The senior pastor
202. 15:38there is Pastor Michael Kirby and it will be, man, I am, I am so looking forward to it.
203. 15:44Saturday evening, I will be ministering to the men of the Central Baptist Church as
204. 15:51as well as those who will join Central Baptist Church.
205. 15:54I'll also be preaching both Sunday morning services
206. 15:59at Central Baptist Church on that Sunday morning.
207. 16:03So I definitely would love to meet you,
208. 16:05to see you there is going to be an amazing time.
209. 16:10It seems that God is giving me more and more opportunities
210. 16:13to minister men.
211. 16:14And I really believe that the course for the church
212. 16:17going forward will be charted by the Spirit of God
213. 16:21and men's responsiveness to his ministry,
214. 16:24to his leading, and to the shepherding
215. 16:27of the Lord by his spirit.
216. 16:30For so long, the third way feminism
217. 16:33that is really infiltrated our society,
218. 16:38it's also infiltrated the church.
219. 16:40We're asking questions, navigating issues in the church
220. 16:44that throughout the history of the church
221. 16:46weren't even issues.
222. 16:47You know, well, you know,
223. 16:48even had a brother asking me the other day,
224. 16:50I mean, how do you interpret first Timothy two in terms of the teaching responsibilities and the headship and shepherding and eldership responsibilities into the church?
225. 16:59I say the scripture is evident.
226. 17:01You know, you don't have to have high level deep dive hermeneutics is very, very evident that as the apostle Paul is delineating this to Timothy that headship in the church is reserved to men.
227. 17:15That's what the scripture says.
228. 17:17This is not something that was debated, but the reason why this is becoming debate is because of
229. 17:24Third Wave Feminisms, Third Wave Feminisms, Infiltration into the Church. To where, now we're
230. 17:30seeking to reinterpret the scripture in light of what's happening in culture, instead of allowing
231. 17:36scripture in the exegetical instruction of scripture to dictate our engagement with culture,
232. 17:41we're doing it in the reverse. There are things that God has reserved for men just as there are
233. 17:48things that God has reserved for women. We know that on a natural plane, the same is true in the
234. 17:56church and then the Lord even goes as far as to say in terms of one of the qualifications for
235. 18:00heads of his church. If a man can't navigate his own household well, how then can he dare
236. 18:05have shepherd the flock of God. That is the Lord applying an argument concerning his instruction
237. 18:14for the conduct of the family and have an individual's home and extrapolating that instruction
238. 18:21and applying it in a similar application in the Lord's church. It's not rocket science,
239. 18:26but it's because we have people who, well, and I'm going to say it, who are willing to suppress
240. 18:33the truth by waking conduct.
241. 18:36I'm just, I mean, it's not difficult to comprehend
242. 18:41if you want to comprehend.
243. 18:44It don't wanna become as difficult
244. 18:46when we don't want to comprehend.
245. 18:49Now that doesn't mean that there aren't a bevy of areas
246. 18:54where God is ordained for men to minister outside
247. 18:56of the eldership and shepherding responsibilities,
248. 19:00just like there are bevy of areas and places
249. 19:03where the Lord has ordained for our sisters to minister.
250. 19:07One of the major problems that we have though,
251. 19:09and I know I'm a starter pot,
252. 19:10but I guess that's what I do.
253. 19:12I'm a potster, not intentionally be a popster,
254. 19:14but I just endeavor to cleave tightly to the word of God,
255. 19:17is that we have idolized the shepherding function.
256. 19:23The Lord never intended for his shepherds
257. 19:26to be viewed as hierarchical superiors in the body of Christ.
258. 19:32And we have a diminished understanding of the theology of the body.
259. 19:36You know how the Lord says, you know, the discrete members, the ones that are less
260. 19:39visible, they were the double honor.
261. 19:42You know, every joint is in the body is supposed to supply, not just a hand or an
262. 19:47eye or a mouth or a more visible component.
263. 19:50Every joint is to supply, but we have this notion that we've reduced, we reduced the
264. 19:54Lord's house into kind of a celebrities, a spectator sport to where the person on
265. 20:00stage is the one that does the ministry and we just cheer them on and we celebrate them and
266. 20:04the rest of everybody else you know we just come kind of like a concert. That's not the way the
267. 20:08church is supposed to be. The church is supposed to be the body of Christ, the house of the household
268. 20:15of faith where every joint supplies and as he's reaching for lays out we need every joint in the
269. 20:20body to supply so that the entire body is grows into full maturity but we become so
270. 20:27unbiblical and ecclesiology that is made evident in an idolatous pension for the pulpit,
271. 20:33as if that alone is ministry. When it's not the case at all I could spend and I may need to do it.
272. 20:40Just go through the scriptures for it. I probably will do that because when the apostle Paul makes
273. 20:45his argument at Timothy, it's rooted first and foremost in creation. So people would say, well,
274. 20:52you know, the pulpit's limitation to the teaching responsibility and the corporate
275. 20:59gathered body to men who are shepherds, that's a contemporary contextual thing.
276. 21:07No, it's not because Paul roots his argument in creation. Then Paul comes around in 1 Timothy
277. 21:13chapter 6 and says, this is the Word of God that she'll be kept until the end of the age.
278. 21:18So he roots the argument in creation and says that this is scripture, that is to be embraced and
279. 21:22and obeyed until the end of the age.
280. 21:24There is no time limitation or cultural context,
281. 21:29cultural contextual limitation on that instruction.
282. 21:32That applies to the Lord's body in every time, in every place,
283. 21:36in every context until Jesus returns.
284. 21:40That's in the scripture.
285. 21:42We'll have to delve into that.
286. 21:45But this is connected to what I'm saying
287. 21:47of one of the major problems in our day and our time,
288. 21:50which is a, I can't even call it a loss.
289. 21:57It is a forfeiture is what it is
290. 22:00of our proper view and embracing of the glory of God.
291. 22:05So I'm gonna share something with you guys,
292. 22:07some of you know some of this before,
293. 22:09but if it connects to with what I'm saying here now.
294. 22:13So if you know anything about me and my history,
295. 22:16you might know I've written some songs,
296. 22:18you might still write some songs every now and again.
297. 22:21Sometimes I know we'll play some of the songs I've written and recorded all the years on
298. 22:27Aaron Addison's.
299. 22:28I don't play music as much on my show.
300. 22:30So people like, Hey, what are you?
301. 22:34And then I put something on one of my social media feeds earlier.
302. 22:37A friend of mine asked me to write a verse for a song so I did.
303. 22:41And I'm going to share something with you from a song I wrote years ago called The Ultimate.
304. 22:47And really, the whole thrust of the song was to convey the reality that God is the ultimate.
305. 22:56And I started it this way.
306. 22:57I said, the most difficult task in all the world is to portray divinity within limited
307. 23:02words, accurately conveying the Creator with verbs, limiting infinity to organized blurbs,
308. 23:10reducing the ultimate to little bite-sized pieces when mountains tremble at the thought
309. 23:15of His speeches.
310. 23:16reached its spans from Iceland to Fiji.
311. 23:19Creation's his album and I'm glad to feature.
312. 23:21Grand Canyon simply carved with the art of his fingers
313. 23:25compared to him, complex ballads to sound like jingles.
314. 23:28At the mention of his name, all creation tingles,
315. 23:31a single choir singing from eternity's hymnal.
316. 23:34We marvel at pyramids, but who invented the Nile?
317. 23:37Instead of him, some of his men would rather worship a cow,
318. 23:40having the form of godliness yet still denying his power
319. 23:43when it's well represented in a newborn smile.
320. 23:46the ultimate. I'm I'm when I wrote that song, I wrote it. And that's one verse. I have two
321. 23:56other verses on it, but I wrote that song because I was gripped by the very thing I'm sharing
322. 24:01with you now. I happened to be listening to some worship music and my wife will tell you
323. 24:05my one of my favorite genres, if you will, I won't even say genres. It's a favorite, I
324. 24:10guess, types of music I like to regardless of the instrumental genre is worship music. In
325. 24:16In fact, my favorite type of music is where it should be.
326. 24:21My favorite genre are hymns.
327. 24:23And the reason why I enjoyed the hymn so much was because of the theological accuracy, but
328. 24:29the theological accuracy was under the umbrella of the grandeur of God, of the largesse of
329. 24:36God.
330. 24:37When we sing, the hymn greatest I faithfulness was taken straight out of the book of lamentations.
331. 24:43And the context of the scripture is with gripped me as Jeremiah is beholding the ravaging of
332. 24:50Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar in the midst of what can only be described as a negative moment,
333. 24:56a dark day, a chaotic place.
334. 24:59The Lord allowed Jeremiah to focus in on his greatness, his grandeur.
335. 25:03And he, it caused him to say, greatest thought, faithfulness as we are living in our day.
336. 25:09And as it's, it's, it's plain as the noses are on our faces as persecution is intensifying,
337. 25:14on our own country, which the Spirit of God through the Apostle Paul said would happen.
338. 25:19All who desire, 1 Timothy, chapter 2, verse 3, all who desire to live godly will face persecution.
339. 25:25Guys, that is a given to many of us because we have forfeited the glory of God.
340. 25:33We have developed this kind of moralistic, therapeutic deism to where we want a persecutionless face,
341. 25:39faith to where our passions and our investment is to try to side step persecution. When Jesus
342. 25:46said in this world, you will have trouble. The spirit of God through the apostle Paul said,
343. 25:49all who desire to live God will face persecution. The only variable is the type of persecution we'll
344. 25:55face and the intensity. You know, in our country, many of us right now, that the persecution is
345. 26:03being shadow banned on social media or being called a bigot. You know, we have others, you know,
346. 26:07You know, there was just a huge win just this week in New York of all places where there was
347. 26:12a Christian adoption agency that is a ministry that is an adoption agency, a social services
348. 26:19organization and a crisis pregnancy resource center that doesn't take a dime from government.
349. 26:25But because of their biblical commitments, they refused to place children with same sex
350. 26:30couples or unmarried, cohabitating heterosexual couples.
351. 26:37And New York came against them.
352. 26:39They say, y'all can't do business here, whether the courts just vindicated them in their first
353. 26:44amendment rights.
354. 26:45And that is a type of persecution because their ministry is being attacked and being
355. 26:51forced to shut down their work solely because of their commitment to Christ's following.
356. 26:57That is a given.
357. 26:59So the question then for the believer, and this is something the Lord has been impressing
358. 27:02upon me, prepare my body to remain faithful to me in the face of persecution.
359. 27:09In order for us to be faithful to God in the face of this overt hostility, we must be
360. 27:14fastened to an expansive view of the glory of God to give you a picture.
361. 27:21The only way that Stephen was able to sustain being stoned, why was it being stoned, for
362. 27:27nothing more than preaching?
363. 27:30truth of God's word. And at the height of him being stoned, he says something very similar
364. 27:38to Jesus. Father, forgive them for they don't know what they are doing. Do not hold this
365. 27:46into their account while he's suffering being stoned, which is an excruciating way to die.
366. 27:53But the Bible records that that Heaven's part in his Stephen saw the Messiah as he's
367. 28:00in during this to encapsulate what I'm trying to say is that his ability to remain fast into
368. 28:08the glory of God even in the face of that stoning is what allowed him to exemplify God's character
369. 28:13in that moment. And what I am saying that in order for us to stand in this day, the same
370. 28:19thing is going to be needed. There are many people individually, many pastors and many
371. 28:24churches even that are abandoning orthodoxy in their reimagining scripture.
372. 28:32You know, you have the whole revoice movement and so-called gay Christianity and all of these
373. 28:37things and the reason why these things are taking root many times because people either
374. 28:43themselves are bound in sinful conduct or they have friends, loved ones and family members
375. 28:47who are bound.
376. 28:48It is because of their commitments to their friends, family members and loved ones that
377. 28:53they're willing to reimagine the scripture.
378. 28:56But if you hold fast to the glory of God and refuse to reduce him to the image of Garruptible
379. 29:02man, you will recognize that what I am adhering to is not my opinion.
380. 29:08Hey, would you come to my same sex wedding?
381. 29:11No, I will not come to your same sex wedding.
382. 29:14And it is because I love you that I won't do that.
383. 29:19It is because I love you that I won't come to your wedding, your same sex wedding.
384. 29:22It is because my presence is saying something false about God and his institution.
385. 29:30affirming you in a lie instead of loving you in the truth.
386. 29:35Now that doesn't mean I'm going to be insulting to you,
387. 29:40demeaning to you, but it's because the glory of God
388. 29:43that I'm able to adhere to the truth of what he requires
389. 29:48of me and you.
390. 29:50For me to show up at that wedding is for me
391. 29:52to say something that's false.
392. 29:54To say that if you persist in this way without repentance,
393. 29:58that your end will be something other
394. 29:59an eternal damnation. And my brother or my sister, I love you too much to do that. But my ability
395. 30:06to do that because I'm a human being, I have loved ones, I have feelings, I have emotions
396. 30:09too. I don't want to like to have somebody, you know, tearfully appealing to you to cosign
397. 30:15something that's wrong. And it is because of the love of God. It's because he is the ultimate.
398. 30:23I have to love you in the truth. First Corinthians 13 says it plainly.
399. 30:31that love does not rejoice in unrighteousness.
400. 30:38But in order to live that,
401. 30:39it's one thing to understand it intellectually.
402. 30:41It's another thing to live it.
403. 30:43And I'm saying that the most foundational
404. 30:46and fundamental requisite to living it
405. 30:49is embracing this expansive notion,
406. 30:51the not notion, the expansive reality of God's glory.
407. 30:57We obey him because he's worthy.
408. 31:00We obey him because of his glory.
409. 31:04We adhere to what he requires of us,
410. 31:09because of the expansive, transcendent reality.
411. 31:14What I am conveying to you is not my word.
412. 31:17This is not my opinion.
413. 31:19This is the heart of the designer, of the author
414. 31:25and the one with whom both you and I have to do.
415. 31:29The glory of God compels me to live in light of the reality.
416. 31:34It's appointed unto man once to die.
417. 31:36And then there's a judgment.
418. 31:38It's the glory of God that compels me to live based in the reality that every single
419. 31:42one of us will stand before the Lord and give an account.
420. 31:45The unbelievers will stand before him at the great white throne, where the sin
421. 31:49will be judged for the first time.
422. 31:51The believers will have the quality of our lives evaluated as we stand before him
423. 31:55at the judgment seat of Christ, the Be My Sea.
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426. 32:19Welcome back. We have the final segment already, Abraham Hamilton the third here and this is the Hamilton Corner.
427. 32:25It is the wrong view of God that leads really to the great difficulty that we see in our world.
428. 32:36even like when you get to things like environmentalism, right?
429. 32:40You have people who refuse to understand
430. 32:44that God created the world.
431. 32:46The Lord literally created the earth and infused in man,
432. 32:51well, let me say the first part first.
433. 32:52The Lord literally created the earth for man's flourishing.
434. 32:57But the mechanism for man's flourishing
435. 33:00or the capacity for man to thrive in that flourishing
436. 33:03was put within man to make the earth fruitful for that flourishing.
437. 33:09But an incorrect view of God reveals man's or leads to man having an
438. 33:16inappropriate understanding of the earth that says, Oh, man lives to serve the
439. 33:20environment as opposed to understanding. No, the environment exists to serve man.
440. 33:25Now, it is the Christ follower that should be the foremost proponent of proper
441. 33:31stewardship of the earth, but it is just that stewardship of it, not worship of it.
442. 33:36When you have, and this continues to boggle my mind, when you have, you know, over the last
443. 33:41170 degrees that the temperature has increased a grand total of one degree Celsius and 170
444. 33:48degrees, 170 years, and you have people running around saying, oh, we got five years left,
445. 33:52we have 10 years left.
446. 33:54It stems from an inaccurate view of God, which leads to an inaccurate view of His creation,
447. 33:59which leads to an inversion of the roles,
448. 34:02instead of man exercising dominion
449. 34:06and subduing kavashin, the earth's making flukeful
450. 34:09for human flourishing, it leads to man worshiping the earth.
451. 34:14At least a man saying, oh, we can't produce energy sources
452. 34:19that will aid mankind in this particular place
453. 34:22and nations all around the world to flourish,
454. 34:23we need to preserve the environment,
455. 34:28just for the sake of the environment.
456. 34:29And it comes down to an inappropriate view of God.
457. 34:33The things I said earlier about sexuality.
458. 34:38The scripture that says women shall be saved in childbearing, the purpose there is not to
459. 34:42say women will be that is a salvific having children a salvific.
460. 34:47When you read that in context, Paul is doing a whole delineation in confronting things that
461. 34:52are struggles for men and things that are struggle for some women.
462. 34:55And the whole purpose of the communication is to say that by embracing the femininity
463. 35:00God has made you with, that you have to, as you embrace what God has created you to be,
464. 35:06it enables you to thrive as he created you. Instead of having scores of women that despise
465. 35:12the fact that they're women. Is that not happening right now? You have scores of men
466. 35:17that despise the fact that they're men. Is that not happening right now? You have this
467. 35:24phenomenon that mental health professionals have begun to diagnose,
468. 35:29rapid onset gender dysphoria, teenage girls, all of a sudden deciding, oh, you know what?
469. 35:36I'm not a girl anymore. Rapid onset. No incidences of this prior to that, but then all of a sudden,
470. 35:47because it becomes groupthink. You have a society that demeans genuine authentic masculinity,
471. 35:57calling it toxic. You have a society that demeans authentic femininity, you know? The only women,
472. 36:04And I've said this, I forgot where I said this recently.
473. 36:06The only women that are celebrating our culture today
474. 36:08are women who decide they want to sacrifice their families
475. 36:10to be corporate moguls or to do this,
476. 36:14to do all of these millions of other things.
477. 36:17The only men that are celebrated is the, they say,
478. 36:20they're men that are in touch with their feminine side.
479. 36:21I got a feminine side, her name is Maria.
480. 36:25That's my wife.
481. 36:27Ain't nothing feminine about me
482. 36:29because God made me to be masculine.
483. 36:31That's not a provocative boasting.
484. 36:34That's glory in God's created design.
485. 36:37And I'll let you in on something.
486. 36:41Even regressive women.
487. 36:43Women all of the work, look, it sounds good
488. 36:45on Hollywood shows and on television
489. 36:48and commercials and all of that.
490. 36:49Talk about we need men with man-buns and skinny pants
491. 36:52and so I can see your veins popping out of your thighs.
492. 36:55Your pants are so tight.
493. 36:56But let me tell you something.
494. 36:58The overwhelming majority of women in our society
495. 37:00they want real men.
496. 37:01Keep it a buck.
497. 37:03Even regressive women.
498. 37:05I'm telling you because I talked to them.
499. 37:07I talked to people who agree with me
500. 37:08and I talked to people who disagree with me
501. 37:09and you have many regressives.
502. 37:11They'll talk, they'll rattle off every talking point
503. 37:13from the donkey party and then at the end of it
504. 37:16they'll say, you know what?
505. 37:17Is this so challenging to find a real man?
506. 37:19And I'm like, duh,
507. 37:22cause you hang out with people and you espouse a worldview
508. 37:24that says y'all despise masculinity.
509. 37:28But deep down, even those women desire masculine men.
510. 37:32Why? Because God designed it that way.
511. 37:36I was telling a young brother the other day and a young,
512. 37:39separate conversations, separate, separate people and different conversations,
513. 37:43but the same topic because they were feeling guilty about their desire to be
514. 37:47married, particularly the sister. You know, the sister was like, well,
515. 37:51you know, I understand, you know, I don't, you know,
516. 37:54I shouldn't be seeking fulfillment in marriage and having a child.
517. 37:58And I asked the various, I was like, why do you think that? Well,
518. 38:01you know, times have changed today. And you know, I know that's how it was in
519. 38:0450s and 60s but today that's not what it is. I said, does time change the word of God?
520. 38:12I'm not saying it's true that every woman has to be married. The Bible talks about
521. 38:16singleness being a vocation from the Lord but it is just that. A vocation from the Lord. It is a
522. 38:21special calling from God but because of the overarching command, the first command is to
523. 38:26demand con fruitfulness and multiplication. In order for mankind to be fruit and multiply,
524. 38:31a man must marry a woman and a man must become a husband and a woman must become a wife married
525. 38:35to one another and they bear children. Because that is God's desire that I know that the majority
526. 38:41of people will be married and bear children. That's not bad to desire that. That is good
527. 38:50to desire that. In the reason why it's good, it has nothing to do with societal norms,
528. 38:56it has everything to do with the fact that God who is good designed marriage and he designed you
529. 39:02and designed me to desire it in the minority circumstances, in the special circumstances where
530. 39:10God has given a specific vocation to singleness, that is the reality. But for the majority of people,
531. 39:18that is not the reality. So your desire, young sister, to be married is a good desire.
532. 39:25Your desire, young brother, your young man was telling me, he's like, man, you know, yeah, I don't
533. 39:29really fit in. He's telling me, you know, he ain't gonna really fit in, bro. You know, you know,
534. 39:34You know, cause in the street they telling you, you know,
535. 39:37you need to be doing this.
536. 39:38You need to be doing this.
537. 39:38And we're talking, you need to be knocking this one down.
538. 39:41Knocking that one down.
539. 39:41We got children listening.
540. 39:42Y'all ask your parents what that mean.
541. 39:43I'm not gonna tell you.
542. 39:45He said, man, but I just really, I mean,
543. 39:46I just really want to be with one.
544. 39:47I said, brother, that is a God of desire.
545. 39:50That is a God of desire.
546. 39:53You know, we had Dr. Jameson Taylor on the show
547. 39:55not too long ago.
548. 39:56He was talking about with Roe vs. Wade being overturned.
549. 39:59And you have all of these people saying,
550. 40:01oh, we need to do this.
551. 40:03these massive welfare states to aid the women who no longer would be able to kill their children.
552. 40:09And Dr. Taylor said this and I wholeheartedly agree. I said, what about encouraging men to
553. 40:15marry the mothers of their children? What about that? So you only get to this notion to when you
554. 40:20have to find a substitute for God's design because of an improper view of the glory of God.
555. 40:27God designed it for a man, let me say it the way the scripture says it, for this cause shall
556. 40:34a man leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall be one flesh.
557. 40:44That one flesh union is the foundational unit that produces offspring.
558. 40:49Husbands loving and shepherding their wives and providing for their families are the means to
559. 40:56provide for children. But if you create a system that celebrates men procreating with women but
560. 41:04not marrying them and then requiring those women to keep them in out of the home in order to
561. 41:08get benefits, you replace the husband in the home and you replace the father in the home
562. 41:12with government. That is how you get to the place to where you look to government to be
563. 41:16the source of provision continuously. At its core, at its foundation, it stems from an improper
564. 41:24view of God and his glory. But if we go back to the root, we get to see the fruit with more
565. 41:33clarity, the ultimate, the ultimate.
566. 41:40Churches don't need to shy away from encouraging marriage
567. 41:44as a societal norm.
568. 41:47We should up the ante and elevate it beyond a societal norm
569. 41:50and describe it as a biblical reality.
570. 41:56And you can walk and chew gum at the same time.
571. 41:58We can celebrate God's design for marriage and family
572. 42:01without denigrating those who God has given
573. 42:05a special vocation, but guess what we're not gonna do?
574. 42:07I gotta put on my ninth wall for this one.
575. 42:09Because this is what society is trying to get our churches to do.
576. 42:12What society is endeavoring to do is to get our churches
577. 42:16to normalize rebellion.
578. 42:18What am I talking about?
579. 42:21To normalize sexual conduct outside of marriage.
580. 42:26Let's just keep it a stack.
581. 42:27What's one of the major reasons why we're seeing people
582. 42:32much older in age today, yet still remaining on Mary?
583. 42:36One of the major reasons,
584. 42:38because we got a bunch of people that's having sex.
585. 42:41Did I just say that out loud?
586. 42:42Yes, I did.
587. 42:44Yes, I did.
588. 42:45Well, what happens, when people have sex,
589. 42:47people end up having children's, end up having children.
590. 42:51Guess what happens in that circumstance,
591. 42:53when you have people having sex who are not married,
592. 42:55you have this new fangled phenomenon called
593. 42:58single-parent household,
594. 43:01in ever-increasing quantities,
595. 43:05which is happening at such high rates
596. 43:09that it is occurring in every demographic,
597. 43:12in our society.
598. 43:14Those numbers are increasing.
599. 43:15And so the world would say,
600. 43:17well, because of the prevalence of this phenomenon,
601. 43:19the church you need to change.
602. 43:23It's not the church needs to change.
603. 43:24The church needs to call people back to
604. 43:27the glorious gods standards for holiness.
605. 43:30It doesn't mean we become hardhearted
606. 43:32and dispassioned to the people
607. 43:33of these different circumstances,
608. 43:34but we should never change God's standards.
609. 43:37God's standards don't change it
610. 43:38because of man's inability to meet them,
611. 43:41But what the culture wants us to do,
612. 43:43well, you know, we had nobody really can live,
613. 43:45chased and holy lives anymore.
614. 43:47So what you really need to do is make your churches
615. 43:50a place that's hospitable, hospitable to what, for an occasion?
616. 43:56And listen, I'm not talking reckless.
617. 43:59Like I told you guys before, I got family members
618. 44:03who have single-parent households.
619. 44:05But that doesn't change the standard.
620. 44:06I can still love them, be compassionate, serve them,
621. 44:09walk with them the whole nine without marring
622. 44:13the glorious image of God and misrepresenting him
623. 44:16as if he is all of a sudden okay with this
624. 44:19because it's a frequent phenomenon.
625. 44:20No different than it's not common for people not to lie.
626. 44:24That doesn't mean the Lord doesn't require us believers
627. 44:27to not lie.
628. 44:29You don't see the church, the culture telling the church
629. 44:32and the church is willing to embrace the culture's
630. 44:34instructions.
631. 44:35Well, you need to start worrying about people lying.
632. 44:38Just because there's so many people in the world lying.
633. 44:40No, nor should we do that with sexuality
634. 44:43or in family structure, in relation, social relations.
635. 44:48But it all comes back to having an improper view
636. 44:51of God and his glory.
637. 44:53To say it simply, we've reduced him to that
638. 44:55a corruptible man, to where instead of we as mankind,
639. 45:00who profess to be followers of his,
640. 45:02endeavoring to worship him through our lives,
641. 45:05we say, no, look, we wanna redefine what you are
642. 45:08desirous of to match our conditions.
643. 45:13It is the embodiment of Romans 123,
644. 45:17exchanging the glory of God for that
645. 45:19incorruptible man.
646. 45:21God's word versus man's word.
647. 45:25We have a responsibility to love people
648. 45:27who are broken in all manners and brokenness.
649. 45:29But in order to love them appropriately,
650. 45:30we have to tell them the truth about what God requires.
651. 45:35Jesus said to himself, when the blind needs the blind,
652. 45:36everybody ends up in the ditch.
653. 45:39Nobody avoids the ditch if everybody's walking in blindness.
654. 45:44Well, what about, you know, the whole notion?
655. 45:46What about, well, meet people where they are.
656. 45:48Yeah, meet you where you are, not so you can stay where yet.
657. 45:51We meet you where you are, so we all can grow to where Christ is.
658. 45:55That's the whole point.
659. 45:57That's the whole point.
660. 45:59But all of this revolves around our forfeiture of the glory of God.
661. 46:04In my prayer for the body of Christ and our nation,
662. 46:06is that we would reorient ourselves, rediscover,
663. 46:11or for those who may be discovering for the first time,
664. 46:15the glory of God.
665. 46:16A lot of the things that are, you know,
666. 46:18like the perversions like prosperity gospel.
667. 46:20The reason why it's so attractive
668. 46:21is because it makes man God.
669. 46:25It puts man in a position where God exists
670. 46:28to do nothing but serve us.
671. 46:31The same thing is true on the other end,
672. 46:34because you have lots of people that are willing
673. 46:36to confront the wickedness of things
674. 46:40like the prosperity gospel.
675. 46:42But then you have those,
676. 46:43even though we know the Bible says knowledge puffs up,
677. 46:46because they're so afraid of misrepresentatives
678. 46:51of how the Spirit of God operates with people,
679. 46:54they end up minimizing the role of God, Holy Spirit,
680. 47:01and says he won't do this, and he doesn't do that,
681. 47:03even though it's clear in his word.
682. 47:05But because they can't wrap it around their minds,
683. 47:08they end up committing great violence to the Lord's word
684. 47:12by minimizing the role of God, the Holy Spirit.
685. 47:16Think about that.
686. 47:20In the part of the reason why that is the case is because men like to elevate ourselves to the place
687. 47:25to a God fits in the box that we've designed for Him based on what we are comfortable with.
688. 47:33Just because they are people that are false representatives of the truth of God's word,
689. 47:37that doesn't make God's word false.
690. 47:40That makes sense.
691. 47:44The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.