Government has a role, but it alone will not ultimately determine whether America is great.

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11. 0:35Good evening, everybody.
12. 0:36Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton.
13. 0:38The third is my name here.
14. 0:41I'm glad that you have made the decision to join us here
15. 0:46on the program.
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17. 0:50That is the name of the show.
18. 0:51I'm trying to get all of these details together.
19. 0:53I have to get that in a moment.
20. 0:58Man, so much is happening in the world.
21. 1:00I'm still thinking about those people who were the families of the people who lost loved
22. 1:09ones in the crash here in Washington, D.C., my heart is heavy for them.
23. 1:17And I just pray that the God of all comfort would comfort these bereaved family members
24. 1:23and that out of this tragedy that many will come to faith in Christ.
25. 1:28But at this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from
26. 1:35your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate
27. 1:39an outcome and as you do so I want to remind you to do so with intentionality.
28. 1:45I'm excited about this program because we're going to be talking about that.
29. 1:50The intentionality that is necessary within this juncture of our nation's history.
30. 1:57This is a program where we remind you what goes on in your house is far more important
31. 2:02than what goes on in the White House.
32. 2:05And I will add to that, that if this nation
33. 2:07is truly going to be a great nation,
34. 2:10it's going to require more than what government has to offer.
35. 2:15Our nation will not be a great nation
36. 2:19based upon the actions of government alone.
37. 2:21Government has a role to play,
38. 2:24but its role is not the primary mover
39. 2:28or primary driver in what our nation is,
40. 2:33to be the primary driver says right at the beginning
41. 2:37of our constitution, we the people will be
42. 2:40and must be that primary driver.
43. 2:45So as you're making your transition from your part time jobs
44. 2:49where you generate an income to your full time jobs
45. 2:51where you cultivate an outcome,
46. 2:55I want you to understand that it is not only your full time job
47. 2:57but you have a say by your life and the quality
48. 3:05quality with which you live as to what our nation will be going forward.
49. 3:12You have a say, just like, you know,
50. 3:15electorally you have a vote to cast.
51. 3:18You have a vote to cast with your life in determining what kind of nation we are
52. 3:23going to be.
53. 3:28I'm going to turn us to the word of God in a moment and I'm going to take my time
54. 3:32to walk through this portion of scripture,
55. 3:37the context of it is vitally, vitally central
56. 3:41to the concept that the concepts we will discuss
57. 3:46during the program today,
58. 3:49and it's not necessarily novel information
59. 3:51if you've been listening to the program
60. 3:53for any length of time,
61. 3:56but it's nevertheless appropriate for where we are
62. 3:59within our nation's history.
63. 4:04One of the things I said when I first got on the air is that we are reeling in our society from an
64. 4:09ideology of the experts, you know, to where people feel like, well, unless I have these letters
65. 4:17behind my name as a result of academic accomplishment, then I am not qualified to speak to an issue,
66. 4:22which is just foolhardy, frankly, foolhardy. This is not to denigrate specialization or
67. 4:28or particularized education or even professional accomplishment.
68. 4:36But the idolatry of the experts causes us to seed
69. 4:40ground and authority to people based on externalized status
70. 4:45alone, like one sector of that, right?
71. 4:48Is we have people who truly believe that they are unqualified
72. 4:51to teach their children because they don't have a quote
73. 4:54unquote degree in education.
74. 4:56When you're teaching your children from birth,
75. 4:58teach them how to walk, how to talk, how to chew food,
76. 5:02how to brush their teeth.
77. 5:05So what makes us think that we can't teach them how to read
78. 5:08or write?
79. 5:09Oh, well, you need a specialized degree to accomplish that.
80. 5:12And so because of the specialized degree,
81. 5:14we're willing to yield our offspring to complete strangers,
82. 5:19whom we don't know personally, nor do we
83. 5:21know the quality of their character.
84. 5:23But we assume things about them because some institution
85. 5:27says that they have these letters behind their names and these certificates that
86. 5:32qualifies them to do these jobs. When what does the scripture say? The scripture
87. 5:37says fathers do not exassperate your children. Rather rear them in the nurture
88. 5:42and admonition of the Lord. The phrasing I've explained before the
89. 5:45pidea, new thesia of the Lord. Pidea means the whole training of the mind of
90. 5:49the morals. The concept of bifurcating moral cultivation from academic
91. 5:54matriculation is not a biblical concept yet. It has become normalized in our society because we bought
92. 6:00into the idolatry of the experts. And there are many who assume perfect strangers to our children
93. 6:09are more readily situated to love our children enough to cultivate their minds. And I'm not saying
94. 6:18they don't, but the one thing is they don't know your children. But the assumption is made because of
95. 6:26of the expertise idolatry.
96. 6:28That's just one example what I'm talking about.
97. 6:33Our nation will not be a great nation solely
98. 6:36based upon the actions of government.
99. 6:38I'm grateful for the things that President Trump
100. 6:40is doing by and large.
101. 6:41I'm grateful that I don't know if you saw those hearings,
102. 6:45cash, Patel.
103. 6:47Oh boy, those things alone won't make our nation great.
104. 6:52Turn with me to Psalm chapter 33.
105. 6:55And this is the chapter where verse 12 and it's chapter six,
106. 6:58Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people,
107. 7:01the people whom he has chosen as his heritage
108. 7:04is in this chapter.
109. 7:06But we're gonna focus on verses 16 through 22.
110. 7:09All right, Psalm chapter 33 is a pendant chronologically
111. 7:14after the events that are recorded for our benefit
112. 7:16in 1st Chronicles chapter 17.
113. 7:18This is where Yahweh pronounces that David shall be
114. 7:23on the throne forever.
115. 7:24All right.
116. 7:25And this is the response to that pronouncement by God
117. 7:34and it results in this song.
118. 7:38Conjured a popular understanding at the time
119. 7:41in Old Testament Israel, verse 16.
120. 7:44The king is not saved by his great army.
121. 7:49A warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
122. 7:52The war horse is a false hope for salvation
123. 7:55or some translations they are saying,
124. 7:57victory or or safety. A war horse is a false hope for salvation and by its great might,
125. 8:04the wars that is, it cannot rescue. Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
126. 8:12on those who hope in His steadfast love, that He may deliver their soul from death and keep them
127. 8:20alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord. He is our help and our shield. For our heart is
128. 8:30glad in him because we trust in his holy name. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
129. 8:37even as we hope in you." Now, I've made the observation before these words contradict the
130. 8:46prevailing notion at the time. This point in history, kings believed that the potency of
131. 8:54their reign was determined by the size of their army, the military innovation in their weaponry.
132. 9:02in the quality of their horses.
133. 9:06You know, we have horses, we have chariots,
134. 9:09that was the Old Testament innovation akin
135. 9:12to the development of tanks and other things in our age.
136. 9:15Now you can add into like the concept
137. 9:18of unmanned aerial drones.
138. 9:20You know, you don't have to risk pilots in the air
139. 9:22in certain military excursions
140. 9:24because we can control them remotely with unmanned aerial drones.
141. 9:28This is what war horses and chairs were viewed as.
142. 9:30And so the king who had the most horses had the most chariots, the greatest army was then most confident in the duration capacity for their reigns.
143. 9:42But in contrast to the prevailing narrative, the psalmist here indicates the king is not saved by his great army.
144. 9:49This guys is where a biblical worldview contrasts prevailing worldly norms.
145. 9:59All right.
146. 10:01A recognition of who God is, his standards, his measure for what is available to us and
147. 10:10what makes people great in his stead will contradict the prevailing norms of society,
148. 10:20worldly society, and culture, frankly.
149. 10:22The king is not saved by his great army.
150. 10:26A warrior is not delivered by his strength.
151. 10:28Okay, how many muscles you have?
152. 10:33Biceps triceps traps delts if God is not with you
153. 10:38I mean do we need to recount the David and Goliath phenomenon it don't matter if you are a go light
154. 10:46If God is not on your side, man, you'll be felled
155. 10:50by a rock between the eyes
156. 10:52You'll be bested when you are a warrior from your youth by a shepherd boy
157. 11:00If God is not on your side
158. 11:05The Psalmist continues,
159. 11:07The high of the Lord is on those who fear Him.
160. 11:12This is why I have said and will continue to say,
161. 11:15a booming economy doesn't make a nation great.
162. 11:18A deregulated economic deregulation doesn't alone make a nation great.
163. 11:26In fact, a booming economy with a godless people simply resources well,
164. 11:32agents of chaos and destruction.
165. 11:35People often forget that
166. 11:38Hitler's Germany was a potent innovative military force, which is why Europe was like a feckless
167. 11:52reed before the torrential winds that were the German Empire.
168. 11:59They had money, they had ingenuity, and they projected chaos onto the world, frankly.
169. 12:10The Jews and the undesirable within the German Empire, within the entirety of the European
170. 12:16continent with designs to export that to the world.
171. 12:22It is a safe expression that had not,
172. 12:27the United States stepped in
173. 12:28and the Lord graced the United States to step in.
174. 12:33The world larger would be speaking German or Japanese.
175. 12:38Just like the world today, largely speaks English.
176. 12:47This almost continues, our soul waits for the Lord.
177. 12:52I'm saying what I'm saying, not too belittle
178. 12:54or to integrate or put a wet blanket on the things
179. 12:56that are happening governmentally.
180. 12:59those things are important, but never forget national government is not the same as local
181. 13:04government.
182. 13:05Lots of things must happen at the local level, governmentally, at the state level, governmentally,
183. 13:10but government is not going to make our nation great.
184. 13:18The recognition that blesses the nation who's God as a Lord, because when a people have submitted
185. 13:22themselves to the Lord, there is an outsized consequence that results from it.
186. 13:30There's a reason why at the time of the Great Awakening that it corresponded with an increase
187. 13:39in church attendance.
188. 13:40There's a reason that the Great Awakening also corresponded with a reduction in the patronage
189. 13:46for bars and pubs.
190. 13:47There's a reason because when Christ saves a soul, the entire scope of that person's life
191. 13:59is radically transformed.
192. 14:03I've told you guys before, I knew nothing about conservative politics.
193. 14:07All I knew is that Jesus saved my soul.
194. 14:10And his word gives guidance as to how I as a believer am supposed to live,
195. 14:15which is why I was surprised to learn when the, when the dude said,
196. 14:19you, you conservative.
197. 14:20I was like, well, call me what you want.
198. 14:21Cause it's clearly was an insult.
199. 14:23I said, call me what you want.
200. 14:24But what I know is this is what God's word says.
201. 14:26And I'm endeavoring to live according to what he's revealed in his word.
202. 14:33I want to have a conversation with you today about some of the things.
203. 14:37that must take place if our nation is going to be a great nation,
204. 14:40that cannot be done by government,
205. 14:45with the hope of cultivating within you,
206. 14:48a fire to respond within your spheres of influence,
207. 14:52in your portion of our society,
208. 14:54so that you can build your portion of the wall for our nation.
209. 15:01Psalm 2 is the hub of all messianic prophecies.
210. 15:04It even has God's perspective on those who oppose him.
211. 15:07In verse 3, the God haters reinterpret his moral law
212. 15:11when he clashes with their desires.
213. 15:13But Psalm 212 is true.
214. 15:15Do homage to the son that he not become angry
215. 15:18and you perish in the way.
216. 15:19For his wrath may soon be kindled.
217. 15:22Read the full article for some God's holiness
218. 15:24as fetters and cords.
219. 15:26By me, Dr. Ray Rooney on thestand.net.
220. 15:35Shiting lightning to the darkness,
221. 15:37this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
222. 15:41Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton III.
223. 15:44Let me remind you.
224. 15:46couple things I need to mention.
225. 15:48March 1st, that's a Saturday.
226. 15:50March 1st at, let me get the time.
227. 15:54Uh oh.
228. 15:57Saturday, March 1st at 5.30 PM.
229. 16:02I will be joining the Garrett Memorial Christian School for their fundraiser.
230. 16:07All right, this is in Hope, Arkansas.
231. 16:09If you are in the area, I was told I can invite you to come, but you do have to register to
232. 16:16to attend the fundraiser to do so,
233. 16:18you would have to go to GMCS,
234. 16:22that's for Garrett Memorial Christian School,
235. 16:24GMCS Gala, that's G-A-L-A, 2025.eventbrite.com,
236. 16:33or you can contact the school directly
237. 16:35and register by mail,
238. 16:37which you can do by sending your registration information
239. 16:42registration information to GMCS Gala at PO Box 2318 Hope Arkansas 71802.
240. 16:51Looking forward to this, this will be my second time actually in Hope, Arkansas
241. 16:56where it's going to be an amazing time together and as I've explained before,
242. 17:01one of the most important things we can do is offer our children a Christian
243. 17:06worldview as we seek to cultivate their minds which we call education. The
244. 17:12The cultivation of the mind is central to the disciples responsibility of the Lord Jesus
245. 17:16said it himself.
246. 17:17We must love the Lord with all our hearts, souls, minds, minds and strength.
247. 17:22That's a part of the process.
248. 17:24So Saturday, March 1st, you can still register, which I encourage you to do by going to GMCS
249. 17:30gala 2025 dot event, bright.com or you can register by meal.
250. 17:35This will be Saturday, March 1st at 530 PM.
251. 17:39So, fellas, have you checked the calendar lately?
252. 17:43You recognize that we are nearly in February.
253. 17:48You realize that, right?
254. 17:50What are you planning to do with your lovely brides?
255. 17:54On that date, you know what it is, February 14th.
256. 17:57Well, I know you had plans, right?
257. 18:01And you were planning to bring your bride
258. 18:02to double date night.
259. 18:04I know that's what you were planning.
260. 18:05But even though I know that's what you were planning,
261. 18:08and you may not have gotten your registration in yet,
262. 18:10You can still do so by going to cultureproof.net.
263. 18:13I will be joined.
264. 18:15My lovely wife and I, Marie and I will be joining the Addison's at Culture at Double Date Night,
265. 18:20presented by Culture Proof as well as Todd Wilson, who is hilarious if you have not heard him
266. 18:27in person.
267. 18:28It's going to be an amazing time.
268. 18:29You don't want to miss Double Date Night February 14th.
269. 18:33All right.
270. 18:34Because I knew you had plans and I knew you already knew what you were planning to do with
271. 18:37your bride.
272. 18:38But you just hadn't got your registration in yet.
273. 18:40you still have time to do so.
274. 18:42Go to cultureproof.net to register
275. 18:44and I will be grateful to see you there.
276. 18:48It's gonna be an amazing, an amazing time.
277. 18:50All right, what makes a nation great?
278. 18:55Y'all have heard me see on this program,
279. 18:57numerous, numerous, numerous times.
280. 19:00At the first human institution
281. 19:01that God established was the family
282. 19:02with marriage at the center.
283. 19:04The entirety of civilization turns
284. 19:07on the reality of marriage and family.
285. 19:12the quality of marriage family with offspring
286. 19:18as a feature of the marriage reunion.
287. 19:21Unsurprisingly, because Satan does not like
288. 19:24to continue with full grown opposition.
289. 19:26You know, there's a prophecy of a deliverer coming to Israel.
290. 19:29I'm sorry, coming to Egypt to free the Hebrew people.
291. 19:33What's the satanic plot, kill all the baby boys.
292. 19:36There's a prophecy of Messiah coming to Israel,
293. 19:39what's Herod's demonic inspired, let's kill all of it.
294. 19:42You don't like to continue to foregrow an opposition?
295. 19:44What was the first human institution that got established?
296. 19:49What is the primary unit responsible
297. 19:52for the pedagogical offerings
298. 19:55and the discipleship cultivation of children, the family?
299. 20:00What's Satan's plot?
300. 20:00Let's destroy the family.
301. 20:04There is no amount of governmental activity
302. 20:09that will primarily move the American populace
303. 20:14away from the current trajectory that we're on,
304. 20:20where the family is decimated.
305. 20:24We are living in a time, we are living in a time,
306. 20:28and I'll explain this to you from US Census data,
307. 20:34where the number of children living only with their mothers
308. 20:38has doubled in the past 50 years or so.
309. 20:42The percentage and number of children living
310. 20:44with two married parents has plummeted, has plummeted because of the all out attack on the
311. 20:56family, which I'll remind you is the only human institution that God allows to be described
312. 21:02in his word as a illustrative of Christ in his church. One of the major consequences that
313. 21:07often goes unspoken. Unspoken is that we have at this juncture at least two generations,
314. 21:16certainly one full heartedly, but burgeoning upon two generations of American citizens
315. 21:25who are having a very difficult time understanding manhood and womanhood. We talked earlier this
316. 21:35week with Dr. Gagnon on the program where you had a Supreme Court justice who could not
317. 21:40or would not define what a woman was, for whatever reason.
318. 21:45Can I tell you something?
319. 21:47That is the external, professionalized version
320. 21:51of what actually is true for many people in practice.
321. 21:55What is manhood?
322. 21:57The majority of children born today,
323. 22:00I'm not saying all children are not alive,
324. 22:02but newly born children are being born into families
325. 22:04where one of their parents is not living with them
326. 22:08in the household.
327. 22:10What is the consequences of that?
328. 22:12You have young boys who don't know what it is
329. 22:15and not being trained to know what it is to be made.
330. 22:19We have young boys who are being deprived
331. 22:22of the in-home discipleship rearing
332. 22:26that cultivates within them what it means to be
333. 22:30a provider, a protector, a prophet in the home, a priest.
334. 22:36Why?
335. 22:37I've never seen what it looks like.
336. 22:39simultaneously you have lots of young women who are growing up in a home that all that they've seen
337. 22:46is mama. So when this is happening, they have no practical comprehension nor concept for how a woman
338. 22:55is to interact with a man as the man's wife. Have no concept. Have no concept. In fact, I can tell
339. 23:04you anecdotally I've had conversations with men who resent the notion of why it's a financial
340. 23:11responsibility for the family resting on my shoulders. It's a real debate within communities
341. 23:26as to what it means to be ahead of a family. We have society that's cultivated an expectation
342. 23:35and it's contributing, I'm going to get to this in a moment, to a plummeting birth rate,
343. 23:39We have lots of women who've been told that,
344. 23:42oh man, look, you just made you,
345. 23:44you gotta get yourself to your life and your career
346. 23:46and all of this.
347. 23:47And the next thing you know, they're increasing in age
348. 23:52and realize there's a longing in my heart
349. 23:54to be a wife and a mother,
350. 23:55but I don't know how to respond to that.
351. 23:57And so we have brokenness,
352. 23:59beginning brokenness, beginning brokenness to wear
353. 24:02as the Hebrew writer says,
354. 24:03at the time that you should be able to teach others,
355. 24:05you have need to be taught again the basic principles of faith.
356. 24:11This practical society reality is not something government can do.
357. 24:18It's not something government can remedy, can repair.
358. 24:21How many conversations have you had?
359. 24:24We had a young man who was like, man, I don't really know what this,
360. 24:30I'm supposed to handle this as a man, because I never really seen it.
361. 24:33And make no mistake about it, the scriptures tell us very plainly
362. 24:37that God is a father to the fatherless.
363. 24:39But simultaneously you have to recognize that God never intended for children,
364. 24:46This is the reality of what Psalm 127 articulates.
365. 24:48God never intended for the children born,
366. 24:51especially into Christian homes,
367. 24:52to have to learn to fend for themselves spiritually.
368. 24:55And hear me well, when I say spiritually,
369. 24:57I'm not limiting that concept to understanding the beatitudes
370. 25:01and knowing what the fruit of the spirit,
371. 25:03the fruits of the spirit are and things of that nature,
372. 25:05because the fact is being ahead of a family
373. 25:09is a spiritual phenomenon.
374. 25:11So we've had this, you know, arresting of development
375. 25:17that has downstream consequences.
376. 25:24And I've mentioned before,
377. 25:25there is a reality of the outsized imprint
378. 25:28of a father's investment in his children's lives,
379. 25:32either by affirmative intentional investment
380. 25:34or by negligence that happens.
381. 25:37In the cycle, the mental health community understands this,
382. 25:39which is why no matter what the issue presented may be,
383. 25:42one of the first questions that are asked is,
384. 25:43tell me about your relationship with your father.
385. 25:46No matter what the issue is.
386. 25:51And how many people do you know?
387. 25:52Their answer to that question would be,
388. 25:54well, I had this deficiency
389. 25:55because I never really knew who my dad was.
390. 25:56Or I didn't know about this
391. 25:58because I really didn't,
392. 25:59my father really wasn't active in this way.
393. 26:04There's a real conversation with,
394. 26:07I don't really know amongst women,
395. 26:09I don't really know how to be feminine,
396. 26:10I don't really know how to be soft,
397. 26:12because all I've known is I've had to be hard,
398. 26:15and I had to be the breadwinner,
399. 26:16I had to be the one to go and get it.
400. 26:18Guys, this is not merely a cultural phenomenon.
401. 26:21I would present to you or submit to you
402. 26:24that this is evidence of a spiritual demonic attack
403. 26:29that exists for the primary purpose
404. 26:32of destroying God's design for family
405. 26:35and kneecapping image-bearers capacity
406. 26:39to fulfill God's destinies for them.
407. 26:48How many young men today have an idea,
408. 26:50have a concept, have a vision
409. 26:51for what it looks like to pursue a woman in righteousness,
410. 26:55to court her, to woo her, to win her heart,
411. 26:57commit himself to her alone.
412. 27:00Relationally, socially, emotionally, and physically,
413. 27:07with an eye towards rearing the family, with her.
414. 27:13How many men, honestly, are afraid of doing so?
415. 27:19Because of what they've seen.
416. 27:20Guys, these are areas that government cannot fix.
417. 27:25In fact, government's efforts have been,
418. 27:29I mean, of course, we're gonna have life inside.
419. 27:33We gotta create a financial and center structure
420. 27:35that keeps the man out of the home.
421. 27:37And let's reward that.
422. 27:43This has contributed to, and I wanna be clear about something.
423. 27:47I'm not condemning anybody personally,
424. 27:50not saying anybody's a bad person,
425. 27:51but I want us to zoom out and see,
426. 27:53oh snap, these are things actually,
427. 27:56that would make our nation great.
428. 27:59We'll never be able to out politic deficiencies in the home,
429. 28:02deficiencies in the family,
430. 28:04and things can become so bad to where we will normalize brokenness.
431. 28:09And because of our emotional investment in people,
432. 28:11we'll refuse to describe and assess brokenness as brokenness.
433. 28:16We'll establish for it a new normal.
434. 28:24You know, we'll have conversations
435. 28:25about the strong single mother instead of recognizing,
436. 28:33and this is not to condemn anybody.
437. 28:35I personally, no single mother is my own family,
438. 28:38but we need to be able to acknowledge with reality
439. 28:41that that's not God's design.
440. 28:43We have all kind of data that shows
441. 28:46that the best circumstance for a child to thrive
442. 28:50is to live with and be reared by their married father
443. 28:52and mother.
444. 28:54That's not an insult, that's not a pejorative.
445. 28:58But we reeling from the iterations of the sexual revolution
446. 29:03in the 60s and 70s,
447. 29:04to I don't know, we've normalized this to such a degree
448. 29:07to where you can't even say that in public,
449. 29:10at least you're not supposed to.
450. 29:18We've gotten to the place to where I mean,
451. 29:22these are statistics, this is just a fact.
452. 29:27According to the Barnard groups recently published study
453. 29:31beyond the porn phenomenon,
454. 29:32the top three pornography sites in the US
455. 29:34receive more web traffic annually
456. 29:36than Netflix, Amazon, Pinterest, LinkedIn,
457. 29:38and TikTok combined.
458. 29:41Do you hear them combined?
459. 29:45Why is that?
460. 29:49One of the major relational realities,
461. 29:52you can put the picture on the screen.
462. 29:55Oh, Zuckerberg's.
463. 29:58One of the major realities,
464. 29:59have young men who don't have the capacity to approach young women in person because they
465. 30:06have cultivated an entire life of digital engagement that has nullified their capacity to interact
466. 30:12in real life to where they begin to conflate digital interaction with real life.
467. 30:20Have you seen the video game is another two who will spend 12 hours straight on the video
468. 30:24game?
469. 30:26Have you seen the young children that have violent temper tantrums if their parents dare
470. 30:32removed from them, their digital interactions.
471. 30:38We've moved to such a place to where it's become a common
472. 30:40phenomenon where young girls are on social media all over,
473. 30:42they're talking about their body count,
474. 30:43just in case you don't know what that is.
475. 30:45These are them publicly describing the quantity
476. 30:49of men that they've slept with, outside of marriage,
477. 30:52of course.
478. 30:54And that's a normal conversation among young people.
479. 31:04Any wonder why US fertility rates have plummeted
480. 31:10to century lows, to where we're not having children
481. 31:18at replacement, how can a nation be great
482. 31:20if we are not having children?
483. 31:23You have lots of people to talk about,
484. 31:25we have to have immigrants because
485. 31:28we're not having enough people in our country.
486. 31:31Not nobody's saying we're having physical intimacy.
487. 31:33That's happening.
488. 31:35So what's happening with the offspring?
489. 31:37One of the major answers we're killing through abortion.
490. 31:41Now I know people talk about the political reality
491. 31:43of abortion, but I'm talking about the mindset
492. 31:46in the social appetite that causes that to be preferable.
493. 31:49What is happening to a populace to where
494. 31:53penograry sites are drawing more annual web traffic,
495. 31:57the Netflix, Amazon, Pinterest, LinkedIn,
496. 31:59and TikTok combined.
497. 32:01Combined.
498. 32:03Not just the reality that is occurring,
499. 32:05what is happening in the hearts and minds of the people
500. 32:07that are pursuing it?
501. 32:10Government can't address that.
502. 32:12Sure, there can be obscenity laws and things of that nature.
503. 32:15But I'm talking about the appetites among the people.
504. 32:20These are things that government cannot handle, cannot respond to.
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508. 33:11Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
509. 33:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton III here.
510. 33:18And listen, what I'm saying, I don't want you to just, this is something that's happening
511. 33:20in the world.
512. 33:24Why has divorce become so prevalent amongst professing Christians?
513. 33:27To where you have many churches want to even talk about what the Bible says about divorce because there's such a large quantity of divorce people within
514. 33:34The congregation
515. 33:36Why are Christians who supposed who have the word of God that profess to be indwelled by the Spirit of God
516. 33:44But have become incapable of living in holy hatrimony holy matrimony to where
517. 33:55We tear us under the band of union and have the downstream consequences
518. 34:05of, you know, children of divorce.
519. 34:10And again, I'm not condemning anybody,
520. 34:12but you have all the kinds of things
521. 34:14that are attended to that, the lack of security,
522. 34:16the desire for affirmation.
523. 34:17How many young girls who are the daughters
524. 34:20of divorced families who crave their father's attention,
525. 34:23affirmation, love and cultivation,
526. 34:24but because their father's no longer in the home with them,
527. 34:26they end up easy pray for the nearest dude
528. 34:31who will give them some attention.
529. 34:32And the next thing you know,
530. 34:33before they even understand what's happening,
531. 34:35they're giving their bodies to someone
532. 34:37who is not their husband.
533. 34:42How often, how frequent has that circumstance
534. 34:45that I just described occurred where you live?
535. 34:49This is not something government can address.
536. 34:52And I'm talking a lot about the marital relationship
537. 34:55because it's so foundational to God made us to be
538. 34:58and so central to God's plan for his kingdom.
539. 35:11Another one I alluded to earlier,
540. 35:15the pie dea, the cultivation of the mind.
541. 35:19Government would not give the American people
542. 35:22and even more particularly to people of God
543. 35:24a conviction to make sure whatever transpires by children must be inculcated with a biblical
544. 35:33world view as they learn reading writing in the arithmetic.
545. 35:38For so long and the ideology of the experts is one contributing factor, we have been content
546. 35:42with allowing our children to be indoctrinated by God haters in the name of what we call
547. 35:48education.
548. 35:51And we become surprised that in the nation where in the 1980s, President Reagan said,
549. 35:56Mr. Gorbachev tear down that wall that we have scores of American children who would vote for
550. 36:04Democratic socialist? Why are so many of America's children willing to take up ranks
551. 36:11with those who would be anti-Semitic on college campuses? Why is that? Sure, government can offer
552. 36:20an executive order condemning anti-Semitism, but what if there's a hard condition? Government has a
553. 36:28are old to play but it can't do the whole lift. You see what I'm saying?
554. 36:41Why is there such a prevalence of faithless organizations that call themselves
555. 36:48churches? Now y'all know I know that there's a
556. 36:52remnant in our nation and I praise God for the remnant of strong churches. Many of
557. 36:55them are functioning in anonymity. They don't have the large platforms, they're
558. 37:01not mega churches but they're faithful and unknown.
559. 37:06the far more prevalent reality in our nation today, that we have politicians and
560. 37:13pulpists that are afraid to tell the truth to preach the full counsel of God's word
561. 37:17because they don't want to offend or they're more invested in the size of the
562. 37:21crowd and the size of the offerings provided by the crowd than they are
563. 37:25with honoring God. Government can't fix that. The number one question I get is
564. 37:31I travel the country and I minister in various places is,
565. 37:33Abe, can you help me find a good church?
566. 37:39Why has it become so difficult to find a good church?
567. 37:43Government can't fix that.
568. 37:51I had a sister visit at our church not too long ago.
569. 37:54She said, you know, my husband and I
570. 37:55have been praying about finding a good church.
571. 37:58And I just, I wonder why they're so afraid to talk
572. 38:01about the issues that are really confronting us.
573. 38:07One of the problems could be the same Barn report
574. 38:09showed that nearly 20% of pastors are struggling
575. 38:13with pornography usage.
576. 38:17Government can't fix that.
577. 38:26Take it to another area.
578. 38:29What did the scripture say about debt?
579. 38:31Barrows will be a slave to the lender.
580. 38:34All right.
581. 38:35You realize in the second quarter of 2024,
582. 38:37total household debt in United States of America
583. 38:39rose to 17.8 trillion.
584. 38:42Now think about it, we talk about the US government
585. 38:45having $33 trillion being $33 trillion in debt.
586. 38:49And that doesn't include unfunded liabilities.
587. 38:51If you include unfunded liabilities for social programs,
588. 38:54Medicare, Medicaid, those things, those numbers go out,
589. 38:56are astronomically above 33 trillion.
590. 39:00But the American citizens are 17.8 trillion,
591. 39:03and here's the thing in household debt,
592. 39:08in consumer debt.
593. 39:12The term consumer debt, this is according to
594. 39:15financial times, the term consumer debt generally refers
595. 39:17to debt used to purchase goods and services
596. 39:19for individual and household consumption.
597. 39:2217.8 trillion dollars in consumer debt.
598. 39:25I'm not talking about what you think of your opinion.
599. 39:28I'm talking, what is the scripture?
600. 39:29The borrower is a slave to the lender.
601. 39:33How many of God's people in our nation,
602. 39:36their purposes and ability to fulfill God's will
603. 39:38for their lives has been undercut by their debt obligations?
604. 39:44Let me ask this question.
605. 39:45What would you do with your life and your time right now,
606. 39:47if you didn't owe anybody any money?
607. 39:51Would you make different choices with your lives?
608. 39:53Would you use your time differently
609. 39:55than you're using it currently?
610. 39:56if you didn't owe anybody any money,
611. 40:02and what would those choices be?
612. 40:04How would you do your job?
613. 40:05There are scores if you listen to me right now.
614. 40:07If you didn't owe anybody,
615. 40:08you would spend far more time at the homeless shelter.
616. 40:10You spend far more time sharing a gospel evangelizing.
617. 40:13You would go to the mall, you would go to the neighborhood,
618. 40:14you would knock doors.
619. 40:17Some of you would actually start that business,
620. 40:20the idea you've been having since you were a child,
621. 40:23or that the thing you drew on that napkin
622. 40:25when you were in college,
623. 40:26some of you would pursue those entrepreneurial visions
624. 40:30and goals if you didn't own anybody.
625. 40:32But because you have this debt, you know what?
626. 40:34You know what I even, you know I gotta pay my bills, bro.
627. 40:40Which I get, I'm a man, I live in this world,
628. 40:42I understand it, but these are things
629. 40:46the government cannot fix.
630. 40:54Did I mention 1.14 trillion of that 17.8 trillion
631. 41:00of household debt in America?
632. 41:02It's credit card debt, credit card debt.
633. 41:06Now, I'm not condemning anybody personally.
634. 41:11I'm just talking about the things that have to be addressed,
635. 41:15that government cannot address.
636. 41:17What type of vibrant nation would we be
637. 41:20if we were able to reverse course?
638. 41:22For example, prior to 1913, when the Federal Reserve Act
639. 41:25was passed, upwards of 90% of the American citizenry
640. 41:29was debt-free, that has flipped entirely
641. 41:35to where upwards of 90% of American citizens are in debt.
642. 41:39And understand, I know about mortgages versus generalized consumer debt and all these kinds
643. 41:44of things, but I'm talking about the things that shackle us and hinder us from fulfilling
644. 41:49what God has planted us in this life to be and put on our hearts to do.
645. 42:00These are things government cannot change.
646. 42:02What about the perception by and large in our society to where in order to have what's
647. 42:06quote unquote understood to be a good life, you have to pursue these types of occupations
648. 42:10and we leave the trades completely ignored.
649. 42:15about the idolatry of university that in many of our churches, when a child turns a certain
650. 42:20age, well, where are you going to college?
651. 42:23Assuming that college is around to pursue.
652. 42:25I'm not opposed to university as long as it's purposeful.
653. 42:31But what's happened by and large university has been the place where many of our children,
654. 42:37the reality of what they believe is revealed and how they live.
655. 42:41And they also happen at the exact same time where you have wolves on campuses who want to
656. 42:46divert the children away from their parents' faith.
657. 42:54These are not things government can fix.
658. 42:57What about the entire complete ignorance
659. 43:03of the Great Commission's destruction to make disciples
660. 43:09let alone the ability to execute that commission?
661. 43:15George Barna released a report,
662. 43:18not too long ago that indicated
663. 43:19that profession Christians in our country
664. 43:20are more likely to be influenced by the world
665. 43:22than to influence the world.
666. 43:24government can't fix that. Government can't fix that. I can't tell you the number of conversations
667. 43:37I've had personally with Christians who are married. And let me tell you something. The objective
668. 43:47for our unions are not just to make it, you know. God makes available for us to thrive in his economy.
669. 43:56If I am a Christian and I'm a husband, the first external outlet for my Christianity to be in full
670. 44:02effect is in my relationship with my wife.
671. 44:07But we have many professors and Christians have gotten to the place that I can't even talk
672. 44:10to my husband.
673. 44:11I can't even talk to my wife.
674. 44:16And this has been the environment in which children have been reared.
675. 44:21And children may not know what to pursue, but all they can tell you, I don't want my parents
676. 44:25to have.
677. 44:28How frequent is the refrain of children?
678. 44:32I don't want the type of relationship my parents had that send them either running screaming
679. 44:36away from the concept of marriage or not knowing what affirmatively to pursue nor how to function,
680. 44:45but all they know is I just don't want that versus man, I love the marriage that my parents
681. 44:50have and I pray and I hope that God's grace that I can have a fraction of what my father
682. 44:56and my mother enjoyed.
683. 44:58What's the more common occurrence?
684. 45:00That's what I want to know.
685. 45:02What's more common?
686. 45:03What's more common in your experience?
687. 45:05What's more common in your environment?
688. 45:07Your spheres of influence?
689. 45:08Guys, these are things government cannot fix.
690. 45:10You understand what I'm telling you?
691. 45:14These are things government cannot fix.
692. 45:16And in fact, the Leviathan state that has metastasized has often grown with the retrenchments and
693. 45:26family.
694. 45:30Now, we can no longer trust families to be the source of establishing financial stability
695. 45:36generationally.
696. 45:37So we have to create these social systems.
697. 45:42The scripture indicates that as parents age,
698. 45:47the primary responsibility for those parents
699. 45:49are the adult children.
700. 45:53But because families have been decimated,
701. 45:55families have been isolated.
702. 45:58We can't trust families to care for family members,
703. 46:00so we have to create these governmental programs.
704. 46:03That last I checked our contributing to our nation's bankruptcy.
705. 46:10Government can't fix that.
706. 46:14What if we had this radical notion
707. 46:16where the people of God actually took the word of God seriously,
708. 46:18we understood that if a man didn't care for his own household, before the elderly parents
709. 46:27become a burden upon the church corporately, the first line of response is what's going
710. 46:32on with the adult children.
711. 46:35Guys, these are things government cannot nor should it address.
712. 46:42Should it be responsible for primarily?
713. 46:44This is what we are supposed to be about.
714. 46:50And because Satan does not like to contend with full-grown opposition, there is a hellacious
715. 46:54attack upon the family seeking to decimate the family.
716. 46:58something as potent as the drive for physical intimacy and remove it from the confines of
717. 47:03the boundaries that God has established for and allow it to burn the proverbial house down.
718. 47:08You have a fire, the same fire that is placed inside of the fireplace has a capacity to give
719. 47:14warmth to the entire home.
720. 47:16But if you remove that fire outside of the fireplace, it's going to burn the house down.
721. 47:26And that's what's been happening.
722. 47:29The assault on the family is an attack on the Amago Day, an attack on God's primary institution.
723. 47:35Young boys deprived of what it means to be men.
724. 47:38Young girls deprived of learning what godly man
725. 47:40who looks like in the home.
726. 47:41Young boys and girls deprived of what it looks like
727. 47:43to have godly womanhood in the home.
728. 47:45And so we're figuring out the best that we can.
729. 47:48And we live and life happens about a time we really get
730. 47:51a place to some wisdom and capacity to understand
731. 47:53by this time now.
732. 47:55At the time, we should have been able to help others.
733. 47:59We being taught again in this arresting of development
734. 48:03has protracted adolescence,
735. 48:07lack of covenant or commitment,
736. 48:09plummeting birth rates,
737. 48:12and we have boys and adult male bodies,
738. 48:16girls and adult female bodies,
739. 48:20with no capacity for the maturity of selflessness.
740. 48:25But we live from the maximum.
741. 48:27You exist for my fulfillment,
742. 48:30instead of I've been placed here to serve you in love.
743. 48:35Government can't make America great on its own.
744. 48:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
745. 48:45Family Association or American Family Radio.