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

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27. 1:19and we are grateful for you making that decision.
28. 1:21It's good to be back in studio after being in Virginia.
29. 1:26It was a great time there.
30. 1:27J. Mack was there.
31. 1:28He got to introduce himself in certain shirts he wore to the people who were attending the
32. 1:38Home Educators Association of Virginia's Convention.
33. 1:43But I'm glad to be back home.
34. 1:46At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your
35. 1:50part-time job where you generate an income to your full-time jobs, your full-time jobs
36. 1:57where we cultivate an outcome.
37. 1:58And as you do so, I want to remind you to make your transition with intentionality, understanding
38. 2:05the primacy that God places on family.
39. 2:09I say this daily because it's true.
40. 2:12What goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
41. 2:19A lot of important things happen in the White House, but they are not more important to you
42. 2:25or to me, then what happens in our home before there were modern iterations of civil government,
43. 2:34before there were orders of priests and prophets before monarchies.
44. 2:38The first institution that God established was the family.
45. 2:42It's very easy to allow things of the world to crowd out our vision, to crowd our focus,
46. 2:50to divert our attention.
47. 2:54But if you are blessed as I am to have children still in your home, under your roof, under
48. 2:59your authority, the time is fleeting.
49. 3:04The time is fleeting.
50. 3:05You won't get to repeat 15 years old.
51. 3:07You won't get to repeat.
52. 3:09You know ages 10 through 16, you won't get to repeat.
53. 3:12Ages five through seven.
54. 3:14What we must do, we must do now.
55. 3:16We must do now.
56. 3:17So as you are making your transition to your full-time jobs,
57. 3:21I want to encourage you to do so with intentionality.
58. 3:25With intentionality, refuse to allow yourself
59. 3:29be poured out everywhere else except in your home, except in serving your family.
60. 3:36But exalt the King of glory starting right in your home.
61. 3:41Praise God.
62. 3:42We will go to the Word of God today.
63. 3:46Jeremiah chapter 12 verses 1 through 5.
64. 3:48Jeremiah chapter 12 verses 1 through 5.
65. 3:52There's so much happening in the world.
66. 3:56We must, we must, we must be anchored in the Lord's holy word by way of reminder, the Prophet
67. 4:02Jeremiah, minister to Jews in the Southern Kingdom of Judah from 627 BC there about to
68. 4:12586 BC, right?
69. 4:13All the way up to and through to Nebuchadnezzar's conquest and ultimate exile of the Southern
70. 4:19Kingdom of Judah.
71. 4:21That was the time period of Jeremiah's ministry.
72. 4:26the very, very simple purpose of the book was to urge the people of God to turn from their sins
73. 4:32and return to him. Very, very simply. In chapter 12 of this book, the Lord has provided, I believe,
74. 4:41sage wisdom for us, not sage wisdom, but wisdom for us, divine wisdom for us, excuse me.
75. 4:49That is appropriate for our times here and now. And I encourage you to welcome the Spirit of
76. 4:55God to minister his word to you beyond what I have to say because it's so vitally important,
77. 5:03so vitally important. Here we go. Jeremiah chapter 12 verses 1 and 2 and 5. I should say this,
78. 5:09the first four verses in this chapter that I'm going to read are a part of Jeremiah's prayer.
79. 5:17He is crying out to God and very similar to the way the book of a back starts is what's happening
80. 5:23here because when I get to verse five, that is the beginning of God responding to Jeremiah.
81. 5:29Jeremiah documents how God responds to his earnest plea in light of what he's witnessing
82. 5:35and what he's experiencing.
83. 5:36I will remind you that Jeremiah is a prophet of God faithfully and diligently proclaimed what
84. 5:42God told him to share, to put told him to say and told him to write, but the people by
85. 5:46and large did not listen to him.
86. 5:50They did not heed what he warned.
87. 5:54So this colors, if you will, what we're going to read in the word of God.
88. 6:00Jeremiah chapter 12 verse one.
89. 6:03This is Jeremiah crying out to the Lord.
90. 6:05Righteous are you, O Lord, that I would plead my case with you.
91. 6:11Indeed, I would discuss matters of justice with you.
92. 6:16Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
93. 6:21Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?
94. 6:26You have planted them.
95. 6:29They have also taken root.
96. 6:31They grow.
97. 6:32They have even produced fruit.
98. 6:35You are near to their lips,
99. 6:38but far from their hearts,
100. 6:40or far from their reigns.
101. 6:42Some passages, some translations
102. 6:45render this phrase.
103. 6:47You are near to their lips,
104. 6:49but far from their hearts.
105. 6:51But you know me, O Lord.
106. 6:53You see me, and you examine my heart's attitude
107. 6:59toward you, drag them off like sheep for the slaughter and set them apart for a day of carnage.
108. 7:05How long is the land to mourn and the vegetation of the countryside to wither? For the wickedness
109. 7:11of those who dwell in it, animals and birds have been snatched away because men have said
110. 7:18he will not see our ending, he will not see our latter ending. And God responds to Jeremiah,
111. 7:28If you have run with the footmen and they have weirried you,
112. 7:33then how can you contend with horses?
113. 7:37If you fall down in the land of peace,
114. 7:40how will you do in the thicket of Jordan?
115. 7:46I'm gonna kind of unpack this a little bit.
116. 7:48These first four verses I believe reflect the heart's cry
117. 7:55of many people in our country,
118. 7:56many believers in our nation in particular,
119. 7:58a lot of the people who are a part of the Hamilton Corner
120. 8:02audience.
121. 8:03I believe that right at the beginning Jeremiah begins
122. 8:06this plea by affirming the fact that God is righteous.
123. 8:09So he's establishing that he's not attempting
124. 8:11to challenge or question God.
125. 8:13He's not in arrogance attempting to assert or impose upon God
126. 8:18his morality.
127. 8:20He's not questioning God.
128. 8:21He's just asking God questions.
129. 8:22As you've heard me say before, God welcomes our questions
130. 8:28where the Lord draws his line is when we transducer
131. 8:31or move over to endeavor,
132. 8:33endeavoring to challenge him, to question him.
133. 8:38Asking questions is different than offering a challenge to him.
134. 8:44When I say challenge, I'm not saying,
135. 8:46when he says, test me in these things,
136. 8:47no, I'm talking about challenging the authority that he has,
137. 8:51his divinity, his character, his nature.
138. 8:56He just asks flat out in verse one,
139. 8:58why has the way of the wicked prospect?
140. 9:03Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?
141. 9:07You see, Jeremiah feels as if the Lord is allowing
142. 9:14the wicked to thrive.
143. 9:15Then in verse two, he goes even further
144. 9:17in acknowledging God's sovereignty,
145. 9:19because though he's saying, yeah, these wicked is thriving,
146. 9:21he's saying, but you have planted them,
147. 9:23he's a firm and in fact that God is sovereign.
148. 9:26You have planted them and they have taken root.
149. 9:28They grow and they've even produced fruit.
150. 9:30You are near to their lips, but far from their hearts.
151. 9:35There Jeremiah reveals the core of his concern,
152. 9:38Lord, these people are hypocrites.
153. 9:40They claim to know you, they claim to love you,
154. 9:43but they don't.
155. 9:45It's evident the fruit that they bore,
156. 9:48the fruit that they produce is evident that it's rotten.
157. 9:51So the core of Jeremiah's umbrage
158. 9:57is that he's concerned that the Lord is allowing hypocrites
159. 10:01who have feigned belief in Him to thrive.
160. 10:06Then the Lord responds to Jeremiah,
161. 10:07if you have run with the footmen,
162. 10:09if they have tired you, and they have wearied you,
163. 10:12then how can you contend with horses?
164. 10:15But the Lord is saying to Jeremiah,
165. 10:16and that simple phrasing is that,
166. 10:18oh, if you think this is bad,
167. 10:19this is not the end of it,
168. 10:21but I haven't planted you to be wearied
169. 10:24by the context that I have planted you to minister to me.
170. 10:27And if you cannot navigate this earlier stage,
171. 10:30early stage of the context I planted you to serve me in, then how will you be able to
172. 10:35contend going further?
173. 10:38How will you be able to be my vessel, be my witness, be my ambassador when things continue?
174. 10:44Now, why am I saying that?
175. 10:49And what is the Lord driving at when he says, if this has we read you?
176. 10:53Brothers and sisters, you have heard me say time and time again that the times we are living
177. 10:57in God is not surprised by them.
178. 11:00He's planted you in me for this moment.
179. 11:02He's deposited you in me for this moment.
180. 11:04ordained us for this moment and this moment has been ordained for us.
181. 11:08But what often occurs, and I understand it because I'm a human being just like me.
182. 11:13Everybody was listening to this show.
183. 11:15What often occurs, we become weirried by the context we've been planted in.
184. 11:20So what is the Lord pointing toward when he talks about Jeremiah being weirried?
185. 11:30Of course you have the feelings, the emotions, the physicality, even of weirriedness,
186. 11:35but I think there is something additional there.
187. 11:38What I believe the Lord would want us to be warned of is that the weariness we need to be
188. 11:46fortified against is a weariness that would cause us to
189. 11:51Abandon our Christian distinction
190. 11:53It is a weariness that would cause us to begin to well the world does it this way it's time to fight fire with fire
191. 12:01It's a weirdness that also that could cause us to
192. 12:05Change what our objectives are to where you know I've heard people say that you know
193. 12:15But we just want to, you know, suck it to the libs or, you know, drink liberal tears.
194. 12:20That's not the position of the believer.
195. 12:23That's not.
196. 12:24I understand we live in the Constitution or the Republic of Democratic features.
197. 12:27I understand that as a result of God's sovereign grace, allowing us to be in a nation of the
198. 12:31people, by the people, before the people that we participate in our body politic, but make
199. 12:36no mistake about it.
200. 12:37God has planted us in this context with the freedoms that we enjoy, not so that the freedoms
201. 12:43become our God, but that the God who has granted us the freedoms remains our God.
202. 12:48You see, the temptations are not merely limited to what is commonly described as a Hollywood
203. 12:54sins.
204. 12:55The temptations also include those things that will compel you or me to abandon fidelity to
205. 13:00the King of Glory and begin to look just like the very world that we are complaining
206. 13:04about.
207. 13:07Because we must remember that even if it appears that evil persists at best is persisting is
208. 13:17temporal.
209. 13:20We must be very careful that we don't allow the context that we're in
210. 13:23to cause the love of God to wax cold in us.
211. 13:27To where we become a part of those loveless people,
212. 13:32that the Lord warned us to love a God who wax cold among many.
213. 13:35And when we see people, we no longer see people made in the image of God,
214. 13:39who kept eternal souls, who Jesus loved so much that He died for them to.
215. 13:44All we see is political enemies.
216. 13:49All I'm saying, brothers and sisters, is what God said.
217. 13:53If you've run with the footmen of they have we,
218. 13:55and they have weirried you,
219. 13:56how will you contend with horses?
220. 14:00The Lord has not planted us brothers and sisters
221. 14:03in this environment so that we become the environment.
222. 14:06He said we're in the world, but not of the world.
223. 14:08He said, I know that the people will hate my disciples,
224. 14:12but I'm not praying that they be removed from it.
225. 14:16I'm not praying that they be kept in it.
226. 14:18So I want to specifically speak to those who are weary.
227. 14:23Brothers and sisters, I want to encourage you
228. 14:28not to faint.
229. 14:30And if you recognize that the ugliness of our time
230. 14:33is beginning to encroach upon your heart
231. 14:35and to cause ugliness to set in your heart,
232. 14:38very simply I would encourage you
233. 14:40to bring it before the Lord and repent.
234. 14:42Lay it beforehand and allow the King of glory
235. 14:45to renew your strength as the Eagles,
236. 14:47so that we, the Lord's remnant,
237. 14:50may be about be found faithful
238. 14:52in the context that he's planted us in,
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254. 15:57Shiting light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
255. 16:08Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
256. 16:12Yes, my brothers and sisters do not become weary and well doing.
257. 16:17We'll reap if we don't faint.
258. 16:20We don't faint.
259. 16:22Hours is the privilege and opportunity to remain faithful to our Lord.
260. 16:26And it's something I say repeatedly because it is moving to me to consider that Daniel
261. 16:32one of his friends, the scripture records their lifetime in Babylon far longer than they ever
262. 16:44were in Judah.
263. 16:45But though they lived in Babylon, a part of that 70 years as the Prophet Jeremiah prophesied,
264. 16:51Babylon never lived in them, never lived in them.
265. 16:58And that is my desire for myself as well as the body of Christ, that though we were deposited
266. 17:07in the earth in this time that this time doesn't seep into our hearts and shape what we are and
267. 17:14who we are that we are shaped by the Spirit of God and that we increase in the fruit of the Spirit.
268. 17:19We increase in the love of God being the engine that drives our engagement. We increase in godliness.
269. 17:27We increase in righteousness. We increase in obeying the Lord and we increase in eternity-based
270. 17:33compassion. Notice I didn't say compassion the way the world conveys it. And as a result of that
271. 17:40continuous sanctification that the Lord reveals Himself to those that we engage for His glory.
272. 17:57May it be so. May it be so. Glory to God. Well, we, as I mentioned, we were in Virginia last week,
273. 18:06what a time we had there, an amazing and amazing event.
274. 18:09That was my first time participating in that event,
275. 18:12and H.J.V. President Ann Miller and her staff
276. 18:17and all of the people, all of the volunteers,
277. 18:21thank you for helping us and cheating us kindly,
278. 18:24serving my family, helping J. Mac make it on time
279. 18:28to the breakout sessions.
280. 18:30J.M.A.K. was always early.
281. 18:35I'm not gonna do that.
282. 18:36I ain't gonna do it to you like that, Jeff.
283. 18:37He's always always early.
284. 18:39I was just joking.
285. 18:39I was just joking.
286. 18:41Praise God.
287. 18:42Next week, what a whirlwind.
288. 18:45We'll be in Denver at the Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
289. 18:48in Denver, Colorado.
290. 18:50The conference is June 13th through the 15th, Thursday
291. 18:53through Saturday.
292. 18:56Glory to God that I'll have the privilege
293. 18:58of participating there.
294. 19:00If you're in Denver, please come and say hi.
295. 19:02It was a pleasure meeting all of you who are in Virginia.
296. 19:05There was such a significant amount of people who attended the breakout sessions where I present it
297. 19:13that listened to this program. So
298. 19:16Thank you to all of you. I was a pleasure meeting you in person getting to greet you and spend that time with you
299. 19:21And I pray that you were encouraged as I was encouraged by you
300. 19:25That we continue to press forward in the Lord. All right
301. 19:30issues of the day. Some foolishness and not so much, some things that are not so
302. 19:36much foolishness. First, I want to say, I thank God for the Israeli Special Forces
303. 19:46who were able to conduct that special operation. It was Operation Arnhem. It had
304. 19:54another name initially, but the operation resulted in the rescue of four Israeli
305. 20:02hostages, Noah Argammani, 26 years old, Almag Maier, Almag Maier John, 21 years old, Andre
306. 20:11Kozlov, 27 years old, and Shlomi Ziv, 41 years old.
307. 20:16There were Israeli special forces who actually died in this one cheap inspector, Arnan Zamora,
308. 20:29critically wounded during the rescue effort and later died from his wounds.
309. 20:33But I'm going to say something now that I don't think many people are aware of.
310. 20:40So the rescue occurred in central Gaza from Hamas, captors.
311. 20:49You want to know who was holding these four hostages?
312. 20:51You want to know?
313. 20:55It was civilians, people who identified themselves as Palestinian civilians being held in civilian
314. 21:04residential homes. You know what I just said? We're being
315. 21:15telling you. Can't can't can't. They were being held. I mean, sorry, not residential homes.
316. 21:21They were being held in two buildings by Palestinian civilians, families, non-combatants,
317. 21:28so as they've been described. And this highlights one of the things that I've said before.
318. 21:35When you hear people saying things like, oh, there's so many innocent people, and I agreed,
319. 21:39there are some innocent people who are caught in a crossfire.
320. 21:42But you also have some who are not soldiers, so to speak,
321. 21:47but they are doing the work of Hamas.
322. 21:49Because one of the strategies that Hamas seeks to employ
323. 21:52is to mingle what's commonly understood as civilian portions of their population
324. 21:59with those that are common described as soldiers.
325. 22:02And so on the outside, prior to the discovery of the hostages,
326. 22:08if much of western media would have gotten a hold of operation R non and said they are going to
327. 22:13raid a building that's presently occupied by civilians. The world would have been an uproar
328. 22:25until they kicked the final door open and got the people held hostage to where these
329. 22:31no so-called civilians. This is why this is why we should not rush the judgment. Now I am
330. 22:39I'm a keenly aware that there are some who are non-convattance
331. 22:45in Gaza who Hamas is forcing to do their bidding.
332. 22:50I'm aware of that, but not all of them are being forced.
333. 22:55Not all of them are being forced.
334. 23:04So that's something that's just kind of breaking news
335. 23:08that is happening that I wanted to bring to your attention.
336. 23:11Additionally, many of you know, the NBA Finals are underway
337. 23:15and like a lot of you, I kind of, you know,
338. 23:17I love basketball, but the NBA honestly has been fading on me for quite some time.
339. 23:21I still enjoy basketball.
340. 23:24I don't get to play as, I don't call to get to play at all now.
341. 23:27I used to play all the time.
342. 23:29But I'm looking, I want to start playing again.
343. 23:33But one of the things that caught my attention prior to, I believe they play, I didn't get
344. 23:39to watch the game, but they played last night I guess.
345. 23:44There was a press conference on Saturday
346. 23:47where the Boston Celtics, the two teams that are in the finals
347. 23:51are the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks
348. 23:54and Boston's coaches, Joe Missoula.
349. 23:57Now Joe Missoula, anybody who's unfamiliar with him,
350. 24:01he's pretty outspoken about his Christian faith.
351. 24:05You know, in a world where you can be anything you wanna be,
352. 24:07you can come out every closet, go back in,
353. 24:09come back around, turn around, touch the ground
354. 24:11and shout out, you know, I'm Barney, I'm Barney today,
355. 24:15that's right, I'm Barney, baby Bob is on the way, I'm Barney, I identify as Barney.
356. 24:19And the world would go, yeah, so bold, courageous, all Barney's matter, Barney's lies matter.
357. 24:25But you come out saying you're a Christian, oh, big it.
358. 24:32Well Joe Missoula was asked the question and the question was clearly prompted within the
359. 24:40context of the current socio-political divisive milieu.
360. 24:48And let me go back.
361. 24:50I don't know the reporter's intention,
362. 24:54but I know what the question was.
363. 24:56So I know how the question will be,
364. 24:58would have been received had Joe Missoula answered it
365. 25:03in an expected fashion,
366. 25:05how it would have been utilized in the divisive million.
367. 25:07Maybe the reporter had another motive.
368. 25:10I don't wanna impune his motivations,
369. 25:14if I'm not aware of it.
370. 25:15All right, so let me just say that however,
371. 25:18And I'm gonna play it so you can not hear,
372. 25:19not only that his coach Joe Maloo's bazula's answer,
373. 25:23but I want you to hear the question as well,
374. 25:25because this is something that has become
375. 25:27a consistent feature of our societal and parlots.
376. 25:34Joe Mazzula was asked because he's the head coach
377. 25:36of the Boston Celtics and Jason Kidd,
378. 25:38former basketball player himself,
379. 25:40NBA Hall of Famer, Jason Kidd,
380. 25:42that they're both more melanating,
381. 25:44except I don't know how much melanin Jason Kidd had.
382. 25:47Jason kid, you know.
383. 25:48But he was asked, coach Missoula was asked whether or not this was something he took note
384. 25:55of or it's just something he was proud of.
385. 25:58And I want you here.
386. 25:59Not only the question, the three points of this clip is a very short clip.
387. 26:01The clip is going to last a total of what?
388. 26:03Twenty, twenty seven seconds.
389. 26:05All right.
390. 26:06I want you to know the question that's asked.
391. 26:07All right.
392. 26:08Note coach Missoula's answer.
393. 26:12But then notice the response to coach Missoula's answer.
394. 26:15All right.
395. 26:16Those are the three components of this clip.
396. 26:17Flip number one, go.
397. 26:19Hey Joe, Vince Guelloy, Yahoo Sports.
398. 26:22For the first time since 1975,
399. 26:23this is the NBA Finals where you have two blackhead coaches.
400. 26:27Given the plight sometimes of blackhead coaches in the NBA,
401. 26:30do you think this is a significant moment?
402. 26:32Do you take pride in this?
403. 26:33How do you view this or do you not see it at all?
404. 26:36I wonder how many of those are Ben Christian coaches?
405. 26:45David Aldridge?
406. 26:51Did you hear that?
407. 26:52Oh my goodness.
408. 26:54Oh my goodness, you heard the question.
409. 26:56This is something you take pride in?
410. 26:58Is this something you're celebrating?
411. 26:59Is this a wonderful strive?
412. 27:01What?
413. 27:02How do you think about it?
414. 27:03Because of clearly, you can see what the question was promulgated to.
415. 27:10Elist it, right?
416. 27:13Either you're going to affirm, and it is, you know, in oftentimes, in trial alternatives
417. 27:24will resonate with this.
418. 27:25If you're in a court of law, when you suggest the answer that you're looking for in the question,
419. 27:29that's called a leading question.
420. 27:30Now, you have some very intelligent, very smart attorneys.
421. 27:33they find all kinds of ways to ask leading questions.
422. 27:36But what a leading question is,
423. 27:38is one, to where the answer to the question
424. 27:40is suggested in the question.
425. 27:42For example, here's a leading question for Jay May.
426. 27:45Jeff, you think, I'm the greatest talk show host, don't you?
427. 27:49Heh heh heh heh.
428. 27:50What had I just do?
429. 27:51I suggested in the question,
430. 27:54what I want Jeff's answer to be.
431. 27:56So I put him in a position,
432. 28:00well he already knows what I want him to say.
433. 28:02All right, I'm just describing that.
434. 28:04However, Joe Missoula doesn't take the bait
435. 28:07in one direction or the other.
436. 28:08You see, because he's either put in a position
437. 28:10where he has to affirm a notion and listen.
438. 28:16The answer to this question doesn't mean he's unaware
439. 28:19of his own ethnicity or the ethnicity of Jason Gitt
440. 28:23or his significance or lack thereof in NBA history,
441. 28:27but his answer revealed, and you saw how quickly
442. 28:29Coach Missoula answered, his answer revealed
443. 28:32what was chief in his mind and heart,
444. 28:35which is why I love this clip so much.
445. 28:41Because if you have been purchased
446. 28:43by the shared blood of Jesus Christ,
447. 28:46and you are a member of his eternal family,
448. 28:49that you are doing life at whatever stage you're in,
449. 28:51whether you're an MBA basketball coach,
450. 28:53whether you're a sanitation engineer,
451. 28:55whether you're a high school teacher,
452. 28:56whether you are a home builder, whether you're an attorney,
453. 29:00you're a doctor, you're a law enforcement officer,
454. 29:02no matter what you may be,
455. 29:03if you are a member of the Lord's eternal family,
456. 29:07Guess what ranks foremost in your mind and heart?
457. 29:13So Coach Mizzoula in turn,
458. 29:17answers the question with a question,
459. 29:18revealing what is chief in his heart by saying,
460. 29:22I wonder how many of those coaches were Christian,
461. 29:27elevating the entire conversation,
462. 29:33putting the kabosh on efforts to use the question
463. 29:37or the answer, more importantly, Coach Mizzoula's answer
464. 29:41as a mechanism for divisiveness,
465. 29:45but he elevates the conversation to an eternal consideration.
466. 29:52Coach Missoula, thank you for that.
467. 29:54I appreciate what you did in that answer.
468. 29:57And then did you note the response?
469. 30:03Question didn't have any follow-ups.
470. 30:06You heard that silence,
471. 30:07and if you ever been to NBA press conference,
472. 30:09you know that's not how it normally rolls.
473. 30:14You could have heard a pin job in that,
474. 30:17that's moving on next question.
475. 30:22The reason why I wanted to bring that to your attention,
476. 30:24because I believe it is a one answer,
477. 30:29brief demonstration of how we as believers should engage
478. 30:33in our current time period.
479. 30:34We should look for opportunities to elevate the conversations
480. 30:39and to centralize eternal matters at every opportunity.
481. 30:44That mean we are unaware of temporal matters.
482. 30:47That mean we don't engage in temporal matters at all.
483. 30:50But it was massively done.
484. 30:51And the thing I love most about it
485. 30:53is that it clearly came out of Coach Missoula's heart.
486. 30:56This was what his immediate thought was.
487. 31:01What are my coaches and Christian?
488. 31:07Thought it was masterfully done.
489. 31:09I thought it was masterfully done.
490. 31:10And I thought it highlights
491. 31:14why the Lord has deposited Christ followers in this moment.
492. 31:20Brothers and sisters, if we would rely on the Lord,
493. 31:24we can be vessels of honor to respond
494. 31:26to our moments in the exact same way, in the exact same way.
495. 31:32We don't have to be compelled to joust in carnality
496. 31:36and allow carnality in all of the attendant features of it.
497. 31:40You know, ugliness, ungodliness.
498. 31:42We have the wherewithal to be Christ ambassadors
499. 31:44in the time that He's planted us in.
500. 31:50It was massively done and they didn't really know
501. 31:51what to do with it.
502. 31:52Now I thought it was interesting because after this,
503. 31:55the reporter went on to begin to write,
504. 31:59Oh, for whatever coach Missoula was unwilling to engage in conversations about, he said race, you know, y'all know, it's ethnicity, not race.
505. 32:06But I'm like, that's a lie.
506. 32:08His answer didn't reveal that he was unwilling to engage in the conversation, and you reported and asked any follow-ups.
507. 32:16So because either you didn't have the wit to respond, or because you was stunned, for whatever reason you knew asking the follow-ups, so now you're gonna lie about the coach,
508. 32:25and say he was unwilling to engage in the conversation about ethnicity, which is simply untrue,
509. 32:30which is simply untrue, but because you didn't know how to respond in the moment, it's kind
510. 32:36of like you were confounded, simple, concise, retort, confounded the reporter who then left
511. 32:45the exchange to go and lie about what was said.
512. 32:50Coach Missoula, good work, my man.
513. 32:52The Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute commentaries are available at aFR.net back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio
514. 33:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the third here man. This show is moving and we're already in the third
515. 33:20segment
516. 33:21the simple
517. 33:24Encapsulation I'm gonna put on coach mazula's description is a man is Jesus over everything
518. 33:29Jesus over everything
519. 33:31So I'm grateful for that display in that moment.
520. 33:35I pray to the Lord, we're strengthening for future moments.
521. 33:40It is interesting that the Celtics are putting a whooping on the maps from Arizona and the
522. 33:44standard, I think it's two to nothing.
523. 33:46But you know, that's a side I'm talking about.
524. 33:49The man's bold and courageous declaration of Christ following Trump being socio-political
525. 33:56discussion.
526. 33:57I truly, truly appreciated that.
527. 34:01I brought this next story to your attention when Dr. Ethan Heim was notified that he was
528. 34:09a person of interest in an investigation in Houston, Texas. He's a physician and a really
529. 34:17little known surgeon who worked at the Texas Children's Hospital, which is a pretty good
530. 34:24hospital because he learned that the hospital and that physicians in the hospital were continuing
531. 34:32to do transgender surgeries and treatments on minors,
532. 34:37even though first Texas Governor's Greg Abbott
533. 34:40issued an executive order for bidding it,
534. 34:45and then the Texas legislature passed a law
535. 34:50outlawing those procedures and treatments,
536. 34:53but people in his own hospital were continuing to do so.
537. 34:58So he anonymously provided redacted,
538. 35:03Anonymous records documenting the treatment although he did not identify any individuals because there's a law
539. 35:08The acronym for it is HIPAA
540. 35:11HIPAA I have
541. 35:14Utilize it numerous times with dealing with cases with medical records that that had us get under subpoena and the full
542. 35:22Name of the law is the health insurance portability and accountability at HIPAA
543. 35:28HIPAA
544. 35:30well
545. 35:31after being notified that he was a person of interest in investigation,
546. 35:38he could not identify for what?
547. 35:41For what have I been highlighted as a person of interest for this investigation?
548. 35:46Well, because of the legal matters, Dr. Heim began to speak publicly as a preemptive defense against what happened.
549. 35:55and said, I am the one who was the whistleblower,
550. 35:58who anonymously revealed that my hospital
551. 36:00was doing these things.
552. 36:03The illegal treatments in the state of Texas
553. 36:06were ceased after Dr. Heim went public.
554. 36:11Well, first leaked his findings to journalists,
555. 36:16to a journalist here in America.
556. 36:19And ultimately those things were stopped.
557. 36:20So is any number of children were spared
558. 36:24in the state of Texas from undergoing these procedures there because of what Dr. Heim courageously
559. 36:30did in serving as a whistleblower. Well, now he has been formally indicted by the Department of Justice,
560. 36:39Merrick Garland's outfit. In response to him, leakiness information, getting his hospital to
561. 36:47stop violating Texas law, he has now been granted and greeted with a federal indictment.
562. 36:53And what is the federal indictment for?
563. 36:56Well, violations of HIPAA.
564. 36:59Now the thing about it is that the law does not prohibit
565. 37:02discussing procedures and things in an anonymous manner,
566. 37:05what it prohibits is disclosing personal information.
567. 37:10So just to give a hypothetical example,
568. 37:12if there are records that are released that says,
569. 37:14you know, Richie Rich, Richie Rich is in the studio,
570. 37:16you know, in the screening room,
571. 37:18they're records that Richie Rich had a certain procedure.
572. 37:21If that was disclosed, that would be a violation
573. 37:23of HIPAA, but if what is disclosed, for example,
574. 37:26for data collection purposes or statistical accumulation,
575. 37:29that in this hospital there's a person
576. 37:31who had a particular procedure that would not be a violation
577. 37:34of HIPAA because you're not connecting whatever
578. 37:36the procedural information is to the person.
579. 37:39Simply put, HIPAA is for personal protection, all right?
580. 37:46And Dr. Hime would understand this, would know this, okay?
581. 37:48He would know that I cannot release
582. 37:52personal health information, all right?
583. 37:54So it will be interesting to see what evidence
584. 37:59the department justice has that Dr. Han violated hip
585. 38:02but because as far as he's aware,
586. 38:06what evidence is that he didn't disclose
587. 38:07any personal information.
588. 38:10But I want you to hear a little bit about him
589. 38:12because it seems that this indictment is nothing more
590. 38:17than retaliation from the Biden Department of Justice
591. 38:21because his whistleblowing, his whistleblowing,
592. 38:27put a halt on the Biden administration's preference
593. 38:35for alphabet regressive.
594. 38:37Listen to and watch clip number two, go.
595. 38:40Tell us what you saw or what you understood
596. 38:44and knew was happening with these transgender procedures
597. 38:48at Texas Children's, which is a phenomenal hospital,
598. 38:51by the way.
599. 38:52Yeah, it really is a phenomenal hospital,
600. 38:55but there are a select few individuals
601. 38:58who are not doing the right thing.
602. 39:00And so I had found out that they released
603. 39:06that statement in March of 2022,
604. 39:08that they were shutting down their program.
605. 39:10But soon after I found out that was not the case at all.
606. 39:14I had talked to people who had done those procedures themselves
607. 39:19and saw that was being done on children
608. 39:21as young as 11, 12, 13 years old.
609. 39:24And I knew what kind of path these kids were being put down.
610. 39:28And as it was my responsibility as an individual,
611. 39:32but also my responsibility as a surgeon and a doctor.
612. 39:35Because if we can't speak up about something like this,
613. 39:39then we have no professional left.
614. 39:41There has to be some degree of accountability.
615. 39:46Now, what you guys are witnessing,
616. 39:49and I've been talking about Isaiah 59 a lot,
617. 39:51I've been talking about the process where lawlessness abounds
618. 39:56where truth is rejected, justice is perverted beyond recognition.
619. 40:04But remember in verses 15, towards 16, it says, those who refuse evil, those who shun evil,
620. 40:15make themselves a prey.
621. 40:17Remember that?
622. 40:18This is a perfect example of that.
623. 40:21Here, Dr. Heim literally and courageously calls out the hospital where he works.
624. 40:29His actions very likely have saved, who knows how many children from undergoing life-altering
625. 40:41treatments that were irreversible and now he's being prosecuted.
626. 40:50Now, HIPAA is a statute that's really clear.
627. 40:54It's going to be very obvious based on the records.
628. 40:58It's going to have to produce whatever records Dr. Hahn released to the journalist and it's
629. 41:03We're going to have to show that the records that he released includes personal information
630. 41:09of patients, meaning identifying information.
631. 41:13Dr. Heim insists what he released is simply saying that the law in the state of Texas
632. 41:19says these procedures are illegal.
633. 41:22These people in my hospital are doing this.
634. 41:26I will be interested to know if the Texas State Attorney General is endeavoring to prosecute
635. 41:31those physicians who violated Texas law.
636. 41:34That would be interesting to know.
637. 41:39And I'm not interested in retaliation,
638. 41:41but I would be interested to know,
639. 41:43and this is yet another indication
640. 41:47to where even the law itself is being twisted.
641. 41:51You read Daniel 7, you know, the scripture shows
642. 41:57that this is one of the measures that will be employed
643. 42:00to try to wear out the saints, you know,
644. 42:01chain twisting law, doing these things repeatedly.
645. 42:08But I would remind you that we've been ordained
646. 42:10such a time as this. I am grateful that Dr. Haym Hyam,
647. 42:15congrats, I'm sorry, courageously blew the whistle on his very own hospital
648. 42:21and shared that these things are happening still because if he had not done so,
649. 42:27who knows how long it will continue. And I would remind you guys, it's always
650. 42:31easier to go along to get along, always easier. He could have just ignored it and
651. 42:35you know, there's nothing to see here. But because he had actual compassion because he
652. 42:44Belize what he affirmed in the in the Hippocratic oath that his profession is to do no harm in
653. 42:51Addition to having the state law outlawing these procedures. He felt duty-bound
654. 42:56To speak up and I pray that our Lord would defend this man and protect him in this fight
655. 43:04and then just as as
656. 43:07Azariah and I am a sale were thrown into the fire refurnis and
657. 43:12The fourth man who never can as his folks him. That kind of looks like son of God
658. 43:18that Dr. Heim will see the fourth man in his fire.
659. 43:27Additionally, we're coming to the end
660. 43:29of this summer's Supreme Court term,
661. 43:32and there are several issues that are still before the court,
662. 43:34several very, very, very important issues.
663. 43:38And I wanna just put them on your radar
664. 43:39because we're going to be following these cases
665. 43:43as this term comes to an end.
666. 43:45First, the presidential immunity case
667. 43:48is before the US Supreme Court.
668. 43:50And the decision here will impact one,
669. 43:54the case that President Trump is involved in
670. 43:57concerning the 2020 election, as well as
671. 44:03the classified documents handling case after he left office.
672. 44:07Based on oral arguments that took place back in April,
673. 44:10it seems at a minimum, the Supreme Court has prepared
674. 44:12to grant former President Trump,
675. 44:14at least a partial victory there,
676. 44:16but that is a case that will, its decision,
677. 44:20will be announced this summer.
678. 44:22All right, then you have the first case concerning abortion
679. 44:28since role was overturned.
680. 44:30And this case has to deal with the Food and Drug
681. 44:32Administration's decision to increase access
682. 44:35to Mafrepasto.
683. 44:37All right, many of you may recall
684. 44:38and I reported on this that the FDA is easing access
685. 44:43to it, even allowing these drugs to be mailed,
686. 44:47changing the standard.
687. 44:49And this is important because dating back really prior to
688. 44:57Dobbs 2021 that the majority of the number now is two thirds of all
689. 45:02babies who are killed in the womb in our country now.
690. 45:05They are killed as a result of the use of a
691. 45:08fret pro stone along with the the chemical abortion
692. 45:13cocktail.
693. 45:16It also will address the scope of the FDA's regulatory
694. 45:20regulatory authority considering that it seems that an adjustment was simply made once again,
695. 45:26not a scientific decision, but to accommodate the Biden administration's political, political
696. 45:31agenda. All right, that's just one of the issues. Another one that this is a big one. All right,
697. 45:37all of these that I mentioned were big are big. The court is considering a case that is
698. 45:43going to address the 40 year old doctrine of the of Chevron deference. Chevron is a case
699. 45:48about four years old, that simply says rulemaking done by federal agencies is presumed constitutional.
700. 45:57Now I'm going to take a few steps back. This is why much of the congressional statues that are passed,
701. 46:03even Congress isn't passing very many statues. And the few that they are passing, they're not
702. 46:08articulating the full scope of the law. They're leaving spaces blank, so to speak,
703. 46:12in allowing executive agencies, this is that Leviathan state, the bureaucracy, to fill in those
704. 46:17blanks. Many of you may recall when Obamacare was passed, really it was kind of a bare bones
705. 46:22legislation, but the Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services,
706. 46:29filled in the blanks. And so this is why HHS was sued over and over and over again. Well, this case is
707. 46:34challenging whether or not Chevron deference should remain present and whether or not it should be
708. 46:38overturned. I and I am a passionate advocate for the overturning of Chevron deference because
709. 46:44there's nothing in the Constitution that says because an executive agency interprets rules
710. 46:49in a certain way that they are presumptively constitutional. The previous law, sorry, not law,
711. 46:55the previous ruling stood for the proposition that will Congress have the authority to make the law,
712. 46:59but they've abdicated that position and yielded that to these executive agencies.
713. 47:03So we are going to presume that these agencies' actions are constitutional.
714. 47:07That's just simply wrong. Chevron needs to be overturned.
715. 47:12there's a case addressing Chevron,
716. 47:15we're waiting for its decision to be announced
717. 47:18during this summer term.
718. 47:19So those are just a few of the cases,
719. 47:21there are several more, but those are some of the ones
720. 47:23that I'm following in particular,
721. 47:25and that I'm gonna bring that information to you,
722. 47:27because I want you to be worshipful warriors
723. 47:30who remain informed, who remain informed,
724. 47:34and that you're able to navigate these issues
725. 47:36from a position of knowledge.
726. 47:41The last few moments, I just want to pray for our country.
727. 47:43I'm going to be doing this a lot more lately.
728. 47:45Lord, I lift up our nation to you at this moment.
729. 47:48Father, we have millions of believers all over our country.
730. 47:51Father, I ask that you would cause us to have clarity concerning.
731. 47:55You appointing us for this time, for this season, Lord,
732. 47:57that we would serve you and we would invest ourselves in our nation at this time
733. 48:03for your glory with Jesus over everything.
734. 48:06Lord, I ask that you would strengthen your remnant, Father.
735. 48:09strengthen us, fortify us against we're in this Lord, and enable us by your grace to be faithful in the time that you're planted us in.
736. 48:16Lord, I pray that you would give us a boldness, Lord, that we would live according to your word, and we would proclaim your word without flinching.
737. 48:24And I pray that your love would abound in us and through us, and that we may be servants who are found faithful.
738. 48:32In Jesus' name, Amen.
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