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11. 0:31Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, what a day to be alive.
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25. 1:24We are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program at this very moment.
26. 1:31Many of you, if not most of you are making your transition.
27. 1:33Most of you making your transition to your full time jobs, part time jobs where you generate
28. 1:39an income full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
29. 1:43As you do so, I want to remind you to make your move with intentionality, understanding
30. 1:49the primacy that God places on the family, recognizing the truth in this statement.
31. 1:55goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House, even though
32. 2:00I am intrigued about the, uh, uh, announced today, establishment of the external revenue service.
33. 2:10That is President Trump's announcement that, uh, we're gonna make a, make moves to collect
34. 2:18from, from the nations that are riving us blind. They're riving us blind. I'm telling you,
35. 2:23It's going to stop now.
36. 2:27But what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House,
37. 2:31even though there are lots of things that are important.
38. 2:33You had the confirmation hearing today in the United States Senate Armed Services Committee
39. 2:39for President Trump's Secretary of Defense nomination, Pete Haggseth.
40. 2:44We'll get into that.
41. 2:45But I want to remind you to refuse to neglect your home.
42. 2:51The world works overtime to get us to play significance and importance and to devote our
43. 2:55our time and our energy and our resources to everything except the family.
44. 3:01The spirit of the H.A. says, you do all of that and let me take care of your family.
45. 3:07Let me take care of your children.
46. 3:12Refuse allow that to happen and recognize that the first human institution that God established
47. 3:17was the family with marriage at the center of it, that the family is God's primary vehicle
48. 3:28to establish transgenerational faithfulness.
49. 3:33It doesn't mean that other aspects of life are unimportant, but we cannot afford to allow
50. 3:39this centrality to drift not on our watch.
51. 3:44So as you make your transition to your full-time jobs, make it your priority for the home to
52. 3:52be a place where the glory of the king is extolled. And discipleship is the primary objective of
53. 4:00the family. To the Word of God, we go to the book of Nehemiah, to the book of Nehemiah, we're
54. 4:05going to go. And I'll have to set this up a little bit. There are two verses I'm going
55. 4:08to focus on in particular, but I'm going to explain some other things from some other references
56. 4:14in this book. Nehemiah chapter 6 verses 15 and 16 and where we're going to go ultimately.
57. 4:20But I'm going to explain something from chapter 4 and chapter 2 in the book of Nehemiah.
58. 4:27And this is what I want to explain.
59. 4:29Many of us are familiar with the idea.
60. 4:31And this is how it breaks down on our Christian people to grasp the differences between the
61. 4:35two books.
62. 4:36I encourage reading the books of Ezra and Nehemiah together.
63. 4:40Ezra focuses on the temple's reconstruction and the re-institution of Yahweh worship.
64. 4:48But it's important to note that the book of Ezra contains a lot of history because the
65. 4:52Temple was actually rebuilt prior to Ezra's arrival.
66. 4:57Okay. Ezra came, returned to Jerusalem as a teaching priest,
67. 5:03focusing on authentic Yahweh worship and instituting proper Yahweh worship,
68. 5:08having the favor of Artaxersees, even the funding of Artaxersees' kingdom to
69. 5:13support the ministerial work of the priesthood in Jerusalem, post exile.
70. 5:20Nehemiah arrives in Jerusalem 13 years after Ezra and Nehemiah is focusing on
71. 5:28Primarily the reconstruction of the wall around Jerusalem. All right, and Nehemiah's book we are introduced to to
72. 5:37Not just two but two of them multitude of antagonists
73. 5:41To the will of God being fulfilled in Jerusalem in the persons of
74. 5:46of sand ballad and tabaya.
75. 5:48You also have geshim, the Arab,
76. 5:51you have others who have mentioned in the book.
77. 5:56And then you have, for example,
78. 5:58as Nehemiah's going about doing,
79. 6:01well, Yahweh required of him in reconstructing the wall
80. 6:05surrounding Jerusalem and eliciting assistance
81. 6:09from people from all different walks of life,
82. 6:13which everyone, every family tending to the wall
83. 6:16right in front of their own home.
84. 6:20You look at chapter four verse one, for example,
85. 6:23now when it came about that when Sam ballad heard
86. 6:25that we were rebuilding the wall,
87. 6:27he became furious, enraged,
88. 6:33and he jeered at the Jewish people.
89. 6:38Why is this too so angry?
90. 6:41I understand you have opponents,
91. 6:43but why would he be so mad?
92. 6:47What's beef?
93. 6:48I mean, I know you never listen to notorious B.I.G.,
94. 6:50but what's beef?
95. 6:51What's your problem?
96. 6:54But one of the things that is often overlooked
97. 6:58and easily misconstrued,
98. 7:01toggle over to chapter two in the book of Ezra,
99. 7:04then we go to chapter six.
100. 7:07Chapter two, verse 10,
101. 7:08gives us a little bit of background
102. 7:09about who these people were.
103. 7:11The Bible tells us when sand ballad the Horonite
104. 7:15and Tobias the Ammonite official heard about it,
105. 7:20meaning the walls reconstruction.
106. 7:22It was very displeasing to them
107. 7:24that someone had come to seek the welfare
108. 7:26of the sons of Israel.
109. 7:29What may not be obvious is that Sandbatt
110. 7:31was from a place called Beth Huron near Jerusalem.
111. 7:35Prior to Nehemiah's return and contiguous with it,
112. 7:41Sandbatt was the governor of the region of Samaria.
113. 7:47Tobias was not just an antagonist,
114. 7:50he was an Ammonite official,
115. 7:52a descendant of one of Israel's historical enemies,
116. 7:55Ammon, he was an official of the Ammonites.
117. 8:00One of the major realities first with the conquer and ex-exile
118. 8:04the Northern Kingdom of Israel,
119. 8:05then with the Babylonian conquest of the kingdom of Judah,
120. 8:10these foreign nations imported other peoples to those regions.
121. 8:14And you had people who were among,
122. 8:18what the book of Joshua described as theites,
123. 8:22they took advantage of that opportunity
124. 8:24to exercise governing over this region.
125. 8:30And for all of the years,
126. 8:32You have the Northern Kingdoms, conquest and exile long before.
127. 8:37The conquest and exile of Judah, then you have Judah's conquest and exile that was 70
128. 8:43years, just as the Prophet Jeremiah prophesied it.
129. 8:46I mean, you can literally trace from the date that Solomon's temple was destroyed under
130. 8:51Nebuchadnezzar.
131. 8:52The scripture tells us that about in 516 BC, the post-exilic temple was reconstructed.
132. 9:04You can really describe the book of Ezra as the book of God's faithfulness.
133. 9:09Because just as he said it would happen, it happened.
134. 9:12So when we see that Tobiah and remember it's Tobiah, the Ammonite official in Sandbala,
135. 9:20the governor of Samaria and guest them the Arab, these people developed a wicked conspirators
136. 9:28alliance if you will, because they wanted to preserve their own control of the region.
137. 9:35And then when we get to Nehemiah chapter six, the Lord, as he always does, gives us even
138. 9:41more insight.
139. 9:42Look at Nehemiah chapter six, verses 15 and 16.
140. 9:49So the wall, that is the wall surrounding Jerusalem.
141. 9:54So the wall was completed on the 25th day, I'm sorry, on the 25th of the month of Elol
142. 10:01in 52 days.
143. 10:06When all our enemies, this is Nehemiah speaking, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the
144. 10:11the nation surrounding us saw it, they lost their confidence.
145. 10:18For they recognized that this work had been accomplished
146. 10:22with the help of our God.
147. 10:26Let me unpack that a little bit first.
148. 10:28Verse 15, the wall was completed on the 25th day
149. 10:30of the month of your little, that's the sixth month
150. 10:32of the Jewish calendar, right at about the August,
151. 10:35August of September on our calendars,
152. 10:39on the 25th day of the sixth month.
153. 10:42The scripture records that the wall to Jerusalem
154. 10:46was reconstructed in a short 52 days.
155. 10:50It took less than two months to do it.
156. 10:56The people all around them who were antagonist
157. 10:59and opponents and enemies to the work the entire time
158. 11:03tried to kill Nehemiah, tried to frighten the people,
159. 11:06tried to threaten the people.
160. 11:07Nehemiah had the station guards who had their tool
161. 11:10and their weapon, had to put the people in shifts.
162. 11:16In spite of all of that hostility, you mean to tell me that the wall was reconstructed in 52 days?
163. 11:2452 days?
164. 11:26Then Lord gives us more insight.
165. 11:28And when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations surrounding us saw that, when they saw that,
166. 11:35how quickly this thing was done, they lost their confidence. Some translations render that that they became fearful.
167. 11:47They lost their self-esteem.
168. 11:50They lost their
169. 11:52esteem they were cast down in their own eyes
170. 11:56Civilian translations say why because they recognized
171. 12:00Mmm. Mmm ain't no way these people could have done this work unless
172. 12:06Their God was involved
173. 12:10But that idea that the God of the Jews was
174. 12:15Helping them accomplish this struck fear and all the peoples of the surrounding area and it began to think well
175. 12:22Oh, Judah as a global superpower seems to be back on the horizon.
176. 12:30The point I want to make for you, because when Nehemiah first shows up and his
177. 12:36on on instant arrival, Sam Ballet and Tobias and them all and got beef.
178. 12:40He'll why you guys hate us so mad at us. We ain't doing nothing to you all.
179. 12:44Y'all building on authorized. No way not.
180. 12:46We have official authority first from Yahweh.
181. 12:50Secondarily affirmed by Arthur Xerxes. What are you talking about?
182. 12:53The wall is rebut, y'all are angry, why y'all so mad?
183. 12:57They were so angry because the thing that they want to try to stave off was the idea that the
184. 13:05God of the Hebrews was on the march, was the notion that the Lord's people were favorably
185. 13:18disposed and it presented to them, uh oh, we could be losing our authority in this region
186. 13:26Because if they can do this in 52 days, what can, what couldn't they do?
187. 13:33And I am telling you the reason why I'm bringing this out, because many of you
188. 13:36listening to me and I know this, you're facing warfare of all different types
189. 13:41and you feel and you sense its intensity.
190. 13:43I want you to understand the intensity is not merely personal.
191. 13:47The intensity of the difficulty, the intensity of the opposition is because
192. 13:51the enemies around don't want to have to wrestle with the fact that, well,
193. 13:55If they can do this, what won't they be able to do?
194. 14:04In their efforts, which just as the efforts of Tobeyan sand ballot were futile,
195. 14:10the efforts are futile because God has no rivals.
196. 14:19The Lord's arms have not wacked short in our day.
197. 14:22He is just as potent today as he's always been.
198. 14:25The Lord still rules and reigns and he intervenes in the affairs of men.
199. 14:30And even when it turns to the National Affairs and things in our country,
200. 14:34I pointed to West Hub's interview at Joe Rogan just as another indication that God alone is God.
201. 14:40And there is not one of us who has the wherewithal to say what when he has concluded.
202. 14:45He alone determines when he's concluded. And what people thought was impossible,
203. 14:4952 days, there's a whole new wall around Jerusalem.
204. 14:54A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
205. 15:03The time you spend reading and meditating on the Word of God is extremely important,
206. 15:09and it needs to be one of those habits that we establish every day of our lives.
207. 15:14Why? Because our connection to Jesus, a vital part of that is being in the Word of God continually.
208. 15:22God literally pours grace into your life through His Word.
209. 15:26As you spend time in His Word, God's Word is working on you, molding, shaping you,
210. 15:31you and blessing you in ways you and I don't fully comprehend.
211. 15:34You're spending time in the presence of God when you're reading and meditating on the Word
212. 15:40of God.
213. 15:41And that's one of the reasons why Satan fights the Word of God, the reading of God's Word
214. 15:46in public or in private as much as he does, he recognizes the Word of God is Jesus.
215. 15:52And Jesus is the Word of God.
216. 15:54When you're reading God's Word, God is talking to you.
217. 16:05Shining light into the darkness.
218. 16:07This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
219. 16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
220. 16:13Abraham Hamilton III here.
221. 16:14We here at American Family Radio are in the midst
222. 16:17of our 2025 pre-born campaign,
223. 16:21where unfortunately, the intentional slaughter
224. 16:26of the innocence prior to their birth
225. 16:28is still the leading cause of death in America.
226. 16:31And with the transition to the majority
227. 16:33of the in utero baby murder being being executed by chemical abortions. That is the ingestion
228. 16:42of the abortion pills. The work that preborn is doing and that we are doing with them is
229. 16:49vital, vital in this moment. While we have seen thanks be to God, Roe vs Wade overturned, there
230. 16:57has been a shift in our culture to where surgical abortions are no longer the majority of the
231. 17:03way that these little babies are being slaughtered, chemicals are how it's happening.
232. 17:09And preborn exists to help every mother to choose life, to choose life.
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237. 17:38lies for decades that were propounded, just a clump of cells and all of that kind of foolishness,
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246. 18:23One of the major things that I love that Preborn does is they not only provide the ultrasounds
247. 18:27But they also provide care and support for mom and baby, even after delivery.
248. 18:33And so it is an amazing, amazing, amazing ministry and they proclaim the gospel to those
249. 18:40moms who may not yet know the Lord so that they can understand the real reason why life
250. 18:44is sacred because they get to meet the creator of all life.
251. 18:47And so that is a ministry that I am excited to lend my support to and invite you to do the
252. 18:54same as we come alongside pre-born.
253. 18:57All right.
254. 18:58Today, in really, I guess I'll frame this portion of the program, but just harkening to the constitutional
255. 19:12function that the US Senate is supposed to provide, the US Constitution grants the president,
256. 19:17the sole authority to nominate members of his cabinet.
257. 19:21The Senate has the constitutional function of providing advice or consent.
258. 19:26advice is to advise the president concerning his nomination and to provide or withhold consent
259. 19:35by their vote. All right, today, the Secretary of Defense nomination for president elect is the
260. 19:41technical term, the technical description. President Trump until he's inaugurated on the 20th, Pete
261. 19:48Hagg-Seth is the nominee. And he appeared before US Senate Armed Services Committee, which is chaired
262. 19:54by Mississippi State, Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker. The advice and consent role of
263. 20:02the Senate is to provide advice and consent to provide advice to the president concerning
264. 20:09his nominee, but also to aid the American public in the process of vetting the president's
265. 20:17nominee. When our Congress members, when we have not statesmen, when we have thespians
266. 20:24in Congress that are given to political theater, the American people lose.
267. 20:32If I have a nominee where I support him or I oppose him, I want a substantive dialogue,
268. 20:38a substantive dialogue so I can know what I need to be concerned about, the things that
269. 20:44I may not know already that I wouldn't need to be concerned about to monitor as the ultimate
270. 20:50sovereign under the Lord here in our nation, unless we forgot that this is a nation where
271. 20:54the just authority government derives is just power from the consent of the governed.
272. 21:00So you operating US senators and your advice and consent function is ultimately to help
273. 21:05me and to help this audience and to assess those who would be public servants, not the
274. 21:12grandstand, not to score political points.
275. 21:15And I know how the game is played, but that doesn't mean I have to like it because news
276. 21:20flash shouldn't be a game.
277. 21:23It shouldn't be a game.
278. 21:25Well, largely it was.
279. 21:27So instead of having a substantive conversation where you had over four hours and 15 minutes
280. 21:31of a Senate confirmation hearing, you had people and I'm sorry.
281. 21:34I'm just going to say it.
282. 21:35Why is Maisie Orono a U.S. Senator?
283. 21:38Hawaii.
284. 21:39Can y'all help me, Hawaiians?
285. 21:40And I get the whole makeup.
286. 21:41But this, I'm sorry she's an embarrassment as an American.
287. 21:45It's embarrassing to me to have to watch these hearings.
288. 21:49And this is a person who my tax dollars pays her salary.
289. 21:52I don't understand that the citizens of Hawaii have elected her, but is this what they elected her for?
290. 22:00I'm gonna give you some examples as to what happens. I'll just give you a general overview. I expect Pete Haggs up to be confirmed
291. 22:08He's going to be voted favorably out of the Senate Armed Services Committee and with the 53 to 47 Republican majority
292. 22:15That the American people voted for Pete Haggs up will be confirmed. He is going to be confirmed
293. 22:20much of the conversation today.
294. 22:24And I do believe having conversations
295. 22:26about a person's character is important.
296. 22:29I do want to assess character,
297. 22:31but there's a difference between character assessments
298. 22:34and ad hominem attacks, personal attacks.
299. 22:37And not even like personal attacks that are merit worthy.
300. 22:39Is personal attacks, frankly, that are stupid,
301. 22:44that are a waste of time.
302. 22:49So just to give you a little bit,
303. 22:51two things really set the tone for the hearing,
304. 22:54starting with Pete Hegcess open the statement.
305. 22:59and he describes having taken the oath to uphold
306. 23:03into the defend US Constitution before as a soldier
307. 23:06and he will be eager to do the same
308. 23:09as our next Defense Secretary.
309. 23:13Listen to and watch clip number four, go.
310. 23:15Unlike the current administration politics
311. 23:19should play no part in military matters.
312. 23:22We are not Republicans, we are not Democrats,
313. 23:25we are American warriors.
314. 23:27Now it is true and has been acknowledged
315. 23:29that I don't have a similar biography
316. 23:31to defense secretaries of the last 30 years.
317. 23:34But as President Trump also told me,
318. 23:36we've repeatedly placed people atop the Pentagon
319. 23:39with supposedly the right credentials,
320. 23:41whether they are retired generals, academics,
321. 23:44or defense contractor executives.
322. 23:46And where has it gotten us?
323. 23:49He believes, and I humbly agree,
324. 23:52that it's time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm.
325. 23:56A change agent, someone with no vested interest
326. 23:59in certain companies or specific programs or approved narratives.
327. 24:04My only special interest is the warfighter.
328. 24:08I've sworn an oath to the Constitution before,
329. 24:10and if confirmed, I will proudly do it again.
330. 24:14This time for the most important deployment of my life.
331. 24:21What a novel idea to have as the primary focus
332. 24:29of the United States Secretary of Defense,
333. 24:33The soldiers who actually fight the wars on the ground.
334. 24:36What a novel idea.
335. 24:37And he was right to point out that sure,
336. 24:40he doesn't have the curriculum vitae
337. 24:44of previous secretaries of defense.
338. 24:47You know, all those others who presided over a Pentagon
339. 24:50that couldn't pass an audit, you know, all of them.
340. 24:54You know, those who like, you know,
341. 24:55our current defense secretary Lloyd Austin,
342. 24:57who was a previously a board member of Raytheon,
343. 25:00one of the largest defense contractors in the country,
344. 25:02like him.
345. 25:05I mean, and it just again shows that these people are so out of touch, they don't even understand what November was all about.
346. 25:15That the American people voted for a president who would nominate a defense secretary, who was a former soldier.
347. 25:21Not an ivory tower occupant, not a defense contractor, a sick event, who has a laser focus on military readiness and lethality,
348. 25:35who won't use the military as the greatest, you know,
349. 25:42social petri dish for all things of critical theory,
350. 25:48like what are we doing?
351. 25:51But instead of having a robust dialogue
352. 25:54about how the soldiers' perspective would differ from,
353. 25:59you know, the previous types of defense secretaries,
354. 26:02no, we have, you know, political theater,
355. 26:08to be or not to be
356. 26:12add-ons to the left of it
357. 26:16kind of to the right of it
358. 26:20it's just it's just embarrassing
359. 26:23and I have to tell you I for one was
360. 26:24heartened by Pete Haggseth
361. 26:28flat footed ten toes down square
362. 26:30shoulder proclamation that a I'm a
363. 26:35Christian and I don't care what y'all
364. 26:36think about it listen to and watch how
365. 26:38you wrapped up his introductory comments
366. 26:40that I believe set the tone
367. 26:42appropriately for today's hearings.
368. 26:44Clip number one, clip one, go.
369. 26:47And as Jenny and I prayed together every morning,
370. 26:51all glory, regardless of the outcome,
371. 26:53belongs to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
372. 26:57His grace and mercy abounds each day.
373. 27:01May his will be done.
374. 27:05Amen.
375. 27:07Whatever the outcome confirmed or not confirmed,
376. 27:10may he alone be glorified.
377. 27:12Pardon me, but I find it refreshing
378. 27:13that we have people willing to say so out loud.
379. 27:17You know how it is?
380. 27:19Hush tones and all of this nonsense.
381. 27:23Oh, but the nonsense, the nonsense abounded today.
382. 27:30So many of the Democrat committee members
383. 27:33who clearly opposed Pete Hexeth on partisan grounds.
384. 27:39And I'm just, can we not have a substantive dialogue?
385. 27:41Many of them attempted to seize on comments
386. 27:44that Pete Hexeth has made historically
387. 27:46or even things he's written in his book.
388. 27:49I forgot to title the book that he released.
389. 27:52War on the Warrior, that's the book that he released.
390. 27:55Where he objects to the concept of women
391. 28:03in various ground troop positions,
392. 28:09infantry positions.
393. 28:11They attempted to willfully mutate his positions
394. 28:17into a card blanche objection to women in the military.
395. 28:20It's clearly not what his position is.
396. 28:25It's clearly not, but it doesn't matter to them.
397. 28:27It doesn't matter if that's not his position.
398. 28:30They're gonna make it his position
399. 28:31because what their interest is in,
400. 28:33it's a political theater.
401. 28:36Pete Hexas said repeatedly that his concern
402. 28:38is about the standards being satisfied
403. 28:41that we have the most military ready,
404. 28:44the most lethal fighting force in the world.
405. 28:47and his objection has been because of the social engineering that has taken
406. 28:53place in our military, because of the efforts to,
407. 28:59one in which Karl Marx will be proud to infuse all manner of really
408. 29:07Marx's social engineering into our military, that there have been a reduction
409. 29:10in standards in various things.
410. 29:14There's a lot of difference between pressing a button from an office in
411. 29:19carrying 100 pounds of gear out on the battlefield that has the potential to
412. 29:28imperil the individual soldier as well as the entire unit or units and again the
413. 29:37thing is and I try to do this I'm not perfect at it I try to do this that when
414. 29:42I'm making a point that is contrary to another person I want to make sure I'm
415. 29:48accurately conveying their position you know if Bobby doesn't like Pina coladas
416. 29:55I don't know what would be wrong with him with a lot of people like this.
417. 30:00I need to be sure that I say you know Bobby is crazy because this dude don't like Pina
418. 30:03Kaladas.
419. 30:05I can't say Bobby doesn't like cool desserts.
420. 30:09You know what I'm saying?
421. 30:10Bobby something wrong with Bobby.
422. 30:11He don't like any cool desserts.
423. 30:12He don't want any ice cream.
424. 30:13He don't want any root beer floats.
425. 30:14He don't want ice cream sundaes.
426. 30:16He don't want snowballs with condensed milk on Potanian Street, New Orleans.
427. 30:21He don't want no cool desserts.
428. 30:23I gotta have more cowbell.
429. 30:25That would be a willful misrepresentation of Bobby's position.
430. 30:29But if I want to raise the concern about Bobby's disdain for Pina Colada, I need to say, Bobby
431. 30:37enjoys vanilla ice cream.
432. 30:40He likes Copeland's cheesecake, especially when it comes out of the refrigerator.
433. 30:44He just has an issue with Pina Colada's.
434. 30:47Now, what is it, Bobby?
435. 30:48Is it the Pina?
436. 30:49Or is it the Colada?
437. 30:50Y'all get the point I'm trying to make.
438. 30:53So this is the thing that makes me so mad.
439. 30:55You suckers are on the United States Armed Services Committee.
440. 30:58know what this man is talking about when he says we need to make sure everybody's on the front lines
441. 31:02if it's a hundred pound bag you got a lifting pass everybody needs to be able to lift and pass
442. 31:06a hundred pound bag you don't understand that's what he's saying it sickens me but no no no because
443. 31:16political theater it is more important and for me to display my partisan resolve than I actually
444. 31:26should have a substantive conversation.
445. 31:30And we as American people lose, make him,
446. 31:34make Pete Hagg Seth articulate his position.
447. 31:37Explain why does he said what he has said
448. 31:40about women in infantry positions
449. 31:42in ground troop positions, while at the exact same time,
450. 31:49as he did, affirm the notions when you have various roles
451. 31:52that they could play, where you have like a circumstance
452. 31:54in Afghanistan, I'm sorry, in Iraq where he was,
453. 31:56where it required some women on the ground
454. 31:58to be able to have an interface with some witnesses
455. 32:01on the ground and the conference various missions,
456. 32:03why can't you have a more robust conversation
457. 32:05about that kind of stuff?
458. 32:06No, because you jokers aren't interested
459. 32:08in serving the American people.
460. 32:10You're only interested in grandstanding,
461. 32:11showing a fealty to your parties
462. 32:14and advancing your own personal careers.
463. 32:17And what I am clamoring for the United States
464. 32:19of America's citizens to do to no longer tolerate
465. 32:22the Tom Foolery from our elected officials.
466. 32:24We must demand more from them.
467. 32:28But because as much as we want to talk about Congress,
468. 32:31We cannot ignore who other people to keep re-electing these duds.
469. 32:37And when we have the type of sayspion displays
470. 32:41that we had today, the American people lose.
471. 32:45Because that's just keep it real.
472. 32:46None of that grandstanding by sending
473. 32:48the Liawata from Massachusetts and none of them
474. 32:50other ones are gonna change anything
475. 32:52because they know Pete Hexeth is gonna be confirmed.
476. 32:54So why not have a robust substantive conversation?
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506. 34:39Back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
507. 34:44Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
508. 34:49I want to continue on with this.
509. 34:51I didn't expect to go on that long in that segment.
510. 34:55But the conversation continued and it moved away.
511. 34:59I mean, really the bulk of the opposition.
512. 35:02And I was particularly interested to see if the opposition
513. 35:05would raise any substantive issues that required additional attention because, you know, the
514. 35:13scripture says one man thinks he's right until another comes and examines him. I was wanting
515. 35:17to see where there are going to be any substantive concerns raised. And I have to say I was greatly
516. 35:23disappointed greatly. They tried to turn it into a personal attack. Pete Hegset has been
517. 35:33on the record for years. It's not like the man has been under a rock. He's been on national
518. 35:38television for years, written books talked about his horrible life until he became a Christian,
519. 35:45his sin filled life before he became a Christian, and the changes he's made since then.
520. 35:59That's common knowledge yet the personal attacks continue.
521. 36:05But a portion of the conversation arose from Senator Mark Wayne Mullen when he was responding
522. 36:10to these personal attacks repeatedly, which prompted him to respond.
523. 36:16And I believe he was genuine in what he said, but I took his remarks a bit differently than
524. 36:22I think most people took them.
525. 36:25So as we're attempting to castigate P.H.I.K.S. for his previous drunkenness and his previous
526. 36:34indiscretions, Senator Mullins says, you fool, talking about him, y'all ain't qualified.
527. 36:41How many of y'all have seen a US senator come to vote in the evening time drunk?
528. 36:49He said that
529. 36:50Y'all think I'm playing listen to and watch clip number two clip two go
530. 36:55Senator Kane or why I guess I better use the senator from Virginia starts bringing up the fact that what if you showed up drunk to your job?
531. 37:03How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?
532. 37:08Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign for their job
533. 37:12And don't tell me you haven't seen it because I know you have and then how many
534. 37:17senators do you know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives? Did you
535. 37:22ask them to step down? No, but it's for show. You guys make sure you make a big
536. 37:29show and point out the hypocrisy because a man's made a mistake and you want to
537. 37:35sit there and say that he's not qualified? Give me a joke. It is so
538. 37:39ridiculous that you guys hold yourself as this higher standard and you forget you
539. 37:43got a big plank in your eye. We've all made mistakes. I've made mistakes. And
540. 37:48Jennifer, thank you for loving him through that mistake. Because the only reason why
541. 37:52I'm here and not in prison is because my wife loved me too. I have changed but I'm
542. 38:02not perfect but I found somebody that thought I was perfect and for whatever
543. 38:07reason you love Pete and I don't know why. But just like our Lord and Savior
544. 38:14forgave me, my wife said it forgive me more than once too and I'm sure you've had
545. 38:17forgive him to. And so thank you.
546. 38:21Now, I appreciate Senator Mullins' candor. I appreciate him identifying the reality of what
547. 38:30contrition and repentance looks like, mentioning the Lord's forgiveness. All of that is wonderful.
548. 38:35But can I ask a question? Why is it such a repeated phenomenon that we have so many
549. 38:42U.S. senators that divorce because of adultery? See, this, I'm not talking about some, you
550. 38:51know, Monday morning quarterback, moralism. But when I tell you, a booming economy doesn't
551. 38:58make a nation great. When I tell you the things that are happening to us in our nation, and
552. 39:04that these, you know, public servants, they are external representations of what's happening
553. 39:09on the ground in the lives of people in our own country. Why is it such a frequent phenomenon
554. 39:18that adultery is so prevalent that adultery
555. 39:24and divorce following adultery can be raised
556. 39:27as a topic of conversation in a US Senate confirmation hearing
557. 39:33as a mechanism to quell a tax for nominee.
558. 39:42This is what I am talking about people.
559. 39:45If you do not understand the connectivity
560. 39:49between what John Adams said,
561. 39:52Our Constitution, a Republican form of government,
562. 39:54is only sufficient for a religious and moral people.
563. 40:00It is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other.
564. 40:06I agree.
565. 40:07We shouldn't hold people hostages to their past,
566. 40:14but should there not be some willingness to recognize?
567. 40:22And I know every, I already know a lot of them.
568. 40:24I'm a little separate from the church and the states,
569. 40:25not in the Constitution.
570. 40:27See what I'm talking about guys,
571. 40:32is that the biggest and most enduring problem
572. 40:34for the United States of America is repentance.
573. 40:37That's the biggest problem.
574. 40:40I appreciate Pete Hegsek's public testimony,
575. 40:44but I'm sorry.
576. 40:45I'm embarrassed by the fact that this senator can say,
577. 40:48don't y'all recall seeing US senators showing up
578. 40:50to a night vote drunk?
579. 40:52I got a problem with that.
580. 40:56I'm not gonna apologize for not wanting servant leaders
581. 41:01who I am paying with my tax dollars
582. 41:03to fulfill a constitutional role
583. 41:05to not to show up in the halls of Congress intoxicated.
584. 41:12I'm not going to apologize for that.
585. 41:20I'm not talking about conduct that earns one salvation.
586. 41:24I'm talking about a conduct that flows from a heart
587. 41:26that has been captured.
588. 41:29It's grieving to me that it's a well-known phenomenon
589. 41:34that y'all know we have US senators that show up to vote drunk.
590. 41:41I can only imagine what measures they were voting on.
591. 41:45I hope it wasn't anything substantive.
592. 41:49But when they tally in the votes,
593. 41:50I don't remember a line of says.
594. 41:52Right away, Senator So-and-so
595. 41:53from the Greek state of such-and-such
596. 41:54intoxicated. One of the main things is one of the concepts as a
597. 42:02vitiation of consent for contracts is whether or not the person was in
598. 42:06their right mind. You guys listen to me every contract you have
599. 42:09assigned. Are you a reasonable sound of reasonable soundness of mind
600. 42:15as you enter this contract? So we allow senators to vote when
601. 42:19they have lost the normal use of their mental faculties because
602. 42:22they're being intoxicated? I'm not trying to whack some moralistic
603. 42:26high horse. That's not a problem for you. That's a problem to
604. 42:35to me, a huge problem.
605. 42:40And then we all, you know how it is.
606. 42:42I mean, what's a vote drunk as a skunk this time vote?
607. 42:45Ha ha, so glad you're sober for this vote.
608. 42:50That was a telling look into our Congress.
609. 42:59And it's grieving to me, it's grieving to me.
610. 43:04I'm running out of time before I run out of show.
611. 43:05I have more clips, I'm not gonna get to them
612. 43:06because I wanna bring to your attention,
613. 43:08just as we reported that the Santa Ana wins
614. 43:13were projected to kick up in Southern California.
615. 43:15new fire started, it was viewed yesterday really close to the time that we came on the air called the
616. 43:21auto fire in Ventura County, Canada, Canada. Ventura County, California, that caused a fresh round of
617. 43:35evacuations and things of that nature is first reported at about 715 p.m. Pacific time. Near the
618. 43:43Santa Clara along the Santa Clara River near venture Ventura Boulevard and auto center drive in
619. 43:49in Ventura, California. Listen to and watch clip number five. This is a live look at a brand new
620. 43:55wildfire growing in Southern California this time in Ventura County. Now you're getting a close-up of
621. 44:01some of the crews on the ground right here but as we start to pan out in the next minute or so here
622. 44:07you're going to see the auto fire which was first reported at 7.15 tonight. Yeah this is a closer look
623. 44:13at just how bad things have already gotten. Now I would love to tell you the size of this fire but
624. 44:18So far, crews have not been able to put an estimate on the acreage that this is burning.
625. 44:22But as you could see, you had a view of that tiny little light right in the middle of your
626. 44:26screen.
627. 44:27That is the crew, but off the distance, you get an idea of just the size of this thing.
628. 44:32This comes in the wake of warnings to brace for this week.
629. 44:34Santa Ana wins.
630. 44:35And if that's not enough, so you have that, and as I mentioned to you guys yesterday,
631. 44:49really in California, it's a series of fires.
632. 44:52It's not just one.
633. 44:53It's several fires that are sparking up.
634. 44:56But instead of taking advantage of the technology, because in California they have technology
635. 45:00that is displaying the evacuation instructions and there's a curfew that's being enforced
636. 45:10from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in certain portions, in the wake of all of the tragedies and the
637. 45:17carnage, you have criminals who never let a crisis go to waste.
638. 45:25But the looters are taking to the streets in California.
639. 45:31Nearly 40 people have been arrested and they were arrested with the apps open to show which
640. 45:36portions of the area had been evacuated.
641. 45:40One criminal got arrested carrying an Emmy award from somebody's house.
642. 45:46It's crazy.
643. 45:51Listen to a watch clip number six.
644. 45:52Go.
645. 45:53The Santa Monica Police Department has arrested a number of burglary suspects near the evacuation
646. 45:59zone.
647. 46:00officers say the men who provided false IDs to them were in possession of burglary tools.
648. 46:07We also had the watch duty app open on their phone so they could track evacuation zones.
649. 46:12Detectives say the thieves are not from Santa Monica and travel to the disaster area from out
650. 46:18of town, specifically to loot homes.
651. 46:21The department has arrested at least 39 suspicious people illegally in the evacuation zones since
652. 46:27the start of the fires.
653. 46:30The district attorney for Los Angeles has come out and today announced nine indictments,
654. 46:37including burglary indictments.
655. 46:39Here's a brief report on that.
656. 46:42You just listen to the audio here.
657. 46:44It's clip number seven.
658. 46:45Clip seven.
659. 46:46Go.
660. 46:47The question is not if, but when you will be caught, if you engage in these crimes, the
661. 46:52ten charges or ten different individuals that have been charged today are evidence of that
662. 46:58fact.
663. 46:59and the warning shot remains.
664. 47:02Do not go ahead and engage in looting,
665. 47:05engage in internet scams, engage in price gouging.
666. 47:10Do not violate evacuation orders,
667. 47:13and do not commit any of these crimes
668. 47:16in which people are trying to profit from the tragedy
669. 47:20of the people who have suffered from these various fires.
670. 47:25And so now on the wake of California,
671. 47:27having these, you know, soft on crime policies,
672. 47:30or you can steal thousands of dollars worth of stuff.
673. 47:33Now they try to reverse that to their credit,
674. 47:35they've passed legislation to re-institute
675. 47:38some of the criminal penalties for theft.
676. 47:43Lutors are even in the midst of this tragic circumstance
677. 47:47are abounding.
678. 47:48And this is why it is the whole head is sick, man.
679. 47:55The whole head is sick.
680. 47:56We need sound leadership.
681. 47:59We need Godly leadership.
682. 48:01We need Godly people.
683. 48:03We need the gospel proclaimed unabashedly in our nation.
684. 48:07We have an opportunity to reverse course,
685. 48:10but God's long suffering should never be misconstrued
686. 48:12as his forever suffer.
687. 48:15It ain't the same.
688. 48:16It's not the same.
689. 48:18And so if you look at a thread of commonality
690. 48:20between these things,
691. 48:23what we have to confront is something
692. 48:26that most people do not want to have a conversation about.
693. 48:30But it is the Jeremiah 17-3 reality.
694. 48:33The heart is desperately wicked.
695. 48:38Desperately, the greatest and most enduring need
696. 48:41in our nation is repentance.
697. 48:44The Romans one phenomenon is absolutely true
698. 48:48when men rebel against God,
699. 48:53the most immediate consequence of the judgment of withdrawal
700. 48:57is that we become futile in our reasoning.
701. 49:01great example is the state of California. Hey, here's idea. We're no we're no longer. I'm sorry. I said
702. 49:0617, 3 17 9. Thank you. They're my 17 9. We hear here's an idea. We're no longer going to arrest people
703. 49:14for stealing felony amounts of things. But what do you think is going to happen with thieves?
704. 49:19Will that make them steal less? Or will that make them steal more? That's not rocket surgery.
705. 49:25And it's not until you have the bludgeoning of the nose. Romans one. I don't know if I said the Romans
706. 49:32one phenomenon. The bludgeoning of the nose didn't realize, oh, we need to make this adjustment.
707. 49:41It is imperative, as I said yesterday, that we have the conversations not merely about
708. 49:49the fruit, but what is that the root? The world view conversations are those that we have to
709. 49:54have, because contrary to popular practice, there's no such thing as neutrality. I'm grateful
710. 50:00for Pete Hakes' willingness to stand in the fire, and I hope he is confirmed."
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