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Steve Deace, host of The Steve Deace Show, steps into “The Corner.”

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0:00 - 15:00. Revelation 3:14-20. Freedom and resources are tools, not destinations. 15:00 - 31:00. Steve Deace, host of The Steve Deace Show, steps into “The Corner.” 31:00 - 48:00. Over 6 million people have been murdered in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the last two decades. 70 more Christians were beheaded by Muslim terrorists last week. www.afaaction.net/life To donate call : 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links 70 Christians Beheaded

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivering people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be His ambassador.
0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28and now Mike Hamilton corner.
0:31Good evening, everyone.
0:33Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio.
0:36I am your host, Abraham Hamilton,
0:38the third broadcasting live and direct from NRB 2025.
0:43That is the National Religious Broadcasters Convention 2025.
0:46We're here at the beautiful Gaylord Texan Resorton Conference
0:50Center.
0:50We are right now on the exhibit hall floor,
0:54but because they closed it about an hour ago,
0:56it's a lot more quiet than it was a little early ago.
0:59Your fear is your fate.
1:00Dr. Tony Evans says,
1:01if the first thing that came to mind
1:03was your Sunday morning shot in the arm at church,
1:06your spiritual health is at risk.
1:09He'll tell us about the most likely symptoms today
1:11as we spend two minutes with Tony.
1:13At this very moment, many of you have not most of you
1:15are transitioning from your part-time job
1:17for your generating income to your full-time jobs.
1:20We are burning you.
1:21And as you do so, we all want to remind you
1:23to do so with intentionality.
1:25Understand in the primacy that God places on family.
1:28This is to show where we remind you daily that what goes on in your house is far more important
1:34than what goes on in the White House.
1:36I do not say that to denigrate or to minimize the significance of what happens in the White
1:40House.
1:41I do that to remind you that it simply does not outpace what happens in your home.
1:46So often we are pushed and pulled and squeezed.
1:49The world works overtime to cause us to play significance and primacy on everything else
1:54except our families.
1:56So often we look to be effective and fruitful in every other environment except in the home,
2:01but I want to encourage you to reverse that, which is why I describe what happens in your
2:04home as your full-time job.
2:07Outcome cultivation is your full-time job.
2:10Income generation, as important as it is, is a part-time gig.
2:14It's an accumulation in the generation of resources to enable us to accomplish God's will.
2:18We have to make sure we keep those things in proper perspective and simply put the most
2:22immediate outpost for your externalized demonstration and engagement and
2:28faithfulness is your home. Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and
2:33gave Himself for her wives. Submit yourselves to your own husbands as unto
2:38the Lord that covenantal submission guys is not a submission generally to
2:42maleness as a concept. It is specified within covenant to your own husband. One
2:46of the most important things we can do for our children is to demonstrate for
2:50them what Christ's like engagement looks like starting first in our homes.
2:54And then we work out what from there.
2:56There's a reason why Christ gave an out folding and unfolding, I should say, of the great commission.
3:02You are to be my witnesses first in Jerusalem and Judea in Samaria and to the
3:08other most parts of the world.
3:09Clearly, Jesus isn't saying that all of the apostles moved to Jerusalem, but he's
3:13articulating the fact that there is a home base from which faithfulness is worked out
3:17from far too often and too easily I might say the enemy has
3:21deceived us into a comfortable idolatry where we focus everywhere
3:24except in the home. We should be jarred by the fact that within
3:27merely one generation we've gone from Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall
3:31to being willing to consider a democratic socialist
3:34as a presidential candidate. That's a big problem so as you are making your
3:37transition from your part-time jobs remember the first human institution
3:41that got established was the family with marriage at the center
3:44before modern iterations of civil government, before orders of priests and prophets, the family
3:49was first with marriage at the center. That is done intentionally. So as you're making your transition,
3:55understand the significance and primacy that God places on family welcome his view to inform your
4:01view. I'll never forget our friend Dr. Renton Rathbun, Director of World of Year Bob Jones
4:05University, the best definition a world view I've ever heard. Because so many other definitions start
4:10start with us the lens we wear, the lens we see through, no, it starts with God. A biblical
4:15worldview is God's view of his world communicating through his word, providing his word for us,
4:21his image bearers to use his word to navigate his world. It starts with him, it persists and
4:27consists of him and it ends with him and we have the express privilege of embracing his
4:32view and welcoming it and infusing our world with his view of our world. To the word of God
4:37If you're new to the program, welcome.
4:39Welcome to the corner.
4:40If you've been around and with us for a while,
4:42it's amazing, man, we've been doing this show now nine years.
4:45That's wild to consider.
4:47But those of you who are not so new,
4:49you know we turn to the Word of God because on this show,
4:51we endeavor to articulate a biblical lens
4:55through which we navigate the issues of the day.
4:57We don't want to put the scripture on the shelf
4:59and then try to do life.
5:00No, we do life through the reality of what God has revealed to us.
5:03So today we're going to turn to Revelation chapter 3.
5:05Revelation chapter 3 verses 14 through 20 and I'll tell you right on the from the
5:09onset why I'm presenting this I am keenly aware that we face in our nation a
5:15particularized set of challenges but I do bristle at the fact that there's some
5:20many Christians who kind of uses this as a pejorative this American Christianity
5:25as if the trials that we face are are exclusively unique when they're not
5:30they're not all believers at all times and every generations I face challenged the
5:35the Apostle Jude, half brother of Jesus naturally,
5:38articulated in his epistle.
5:40That I wanted to write to you guys about our common salvation,
5:42but I can't do that, why?
5:43Because false brethren have crept in unawares,
5:47doing what?
5:48Perverting, twisting, the grace of God into lasciviousness.
5:52An iteration of antinomianism, basically using grace
5:55as an excuse to live all manner of perversion,
5:58internal personal perversion, external,
6:00sexual immorality, the whole gamut,
6:02but that's in the first century.
6:03We rightly look at the first century
6:05as a high watermark of ecclesiastic functions,
6:08which we should do.
6:10But even then, the church faced difficulty.
6:13And there are some, and man, my heart is gripped
6:15thinking about the 70 believers who were beheaded
6:18in the Democratic Republic of Congo last week.
6:21And we talk about people, one of my heroes in the faith,
6:23Pauli Karp, his ability to stand against Roman persecution.
6:27But a lot of people forget that Pauli Karp was a minority.
6:32There were many, many, many other believers
6:33in the first and second centuries
6:35that as persecution intensified,
6:37many of them lapsed, they're called the lapses.
6:38Go ahead and read about it in church history.
6:40There are far more lapses than there were people
6:42that were faithful.
6:43We lionize those that were faithful,
6:44and we often forget there were many lapses,
6:46because overt physical hostile persecution
6:49is one source of temptation that Satan uses
6:52to get people to reject Messiah.
6:55But can I tell you another one?
6:57Abundance, luxury, plenty, natural materials is another one.
7:03Satan doesn't care if people go to hell
7:05with a billion dollar bank account like Elon Musk,
7:07or to go to hell like Paul Press
7:08from the block where I'm from in the night,
7:09or the New Orleans.
7:10No matter which way it comes, he'll take it either way.
7:12But we often have the tendency to kind of lineize
7:15other people's trials, and we'll look at man,
7:18overt physical hostile persecution,
7:19you really must be faithful to stand there.
7:21But I'm telling you, I believe, I truly believe this,
7:23that when we stand before God,
7:24and we have the beautiful privilege of fellowshipping
7:27with believers from all over human history,
7:29I believe Apostle Paul and many from first
7:31and second and third and fourth century,
7:33they're gonna ask us,
7:33when you were able to stand, when you had a micro computer in your pocket, that you had
7:38all manner of lust at odds, lust at the flesh that you carried around with you every day.
7:41How did you navigate faith on the stand?
7:42You know, how did you navigate the reality that you can literally get in a aluminum tube
7:48and travel across the world and be back home in the same day?
7:52How did you navigate the time period?
7:53What I'm saying is that every generation in every environment, in every context of Christ's
7:58following will face challenges.
8:00There is a reason that the Lord moved Moses to write in Deuteronomy 8.
8:05Be careful when you've eaten and your tummies are filled and your herds are reproducing and
8:08your gold and silver is amplified.
8:10Be careful then because then you could forget God.
8:15And to that point, let's start in Revelation chapter 3, this always strikes me because when
8:20I talk about the church in Laodicea and it's instructive for us that the Apostle Paul mentions
8:25the same church when he's writing to the Colossians.
8:27scholars date the book of Colossians to about 60-62 AD. In Colossians chapter 2
8:33verse 1 Paul writes about his concern for the Colossian believers but also his
8:37concern about the Laodicean believers. Now if some scholars date the book of
8:42Revelation which the group where for Revelation is Apokolipsus was simply
8:45means to see much later but the indication there if the Laodiceans would
8:49have heated with Paul was articulated to the Colossians perhaps their fate
8:53wouldn't have been what Jesus condemns in Revelation chapter 3 verses 14 to 20
8:57But I'm going to read the text and get right into it before the disrespectful clock grabs us.
9:01But a few minutes left in this segment, Revelation chapter 3 verse 14 says this,
9:07To the angel of the church in Laodiceia, right, the Amen, the faithful and true witness,
9:12The beginning of the creation of God says this,
9:14I know your deeds that they're neither hot nor cold.
9:18I wish that you were cold or hot.
9:19So because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
9:24Because you say I am rich and have become wealthy and have
9:27need of nothing.
9:28And you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and
9:32poor and blind and naked.
9:35I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you
9:39may become rich and white garments so that you may clothe
9:42yourself and that the shame of your your nakedness will not be
9:45revealed and I self to anoint your eyes so that you may see those
9:49who my love I reprove and disciplined.
9:53Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
9:57If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him
10:01and will dine with him and he with me. One of the major reasons why I'm pointing this
10:05out to you is that I want you to see that the concept of wealth and luxury and
10:11abundance is not a 21st century American exclusive concept.
10:15Here you have Jesus, Messiah, being recorded by the Apostle John,
10:20articulating his concern for the Leodicean Church.
10:24And rightly so, talking about the lukewarm,
10:26or versus coldness wanted to not one of the natural things
10:29that the Leodiceans knew and lived with was an aqueduct.
10:32That at the source of the aqueduct,
10:34you had warmer water.
10:35By the time it got to the end of the aqueduct,
10:36the water was cold, you know?
10:38And so in that trajectory,
10:39because cold water had a particular usage
10:40that they could use in the first century,
10:42and the hot water had a usage,
10:44but the lukewarm water didn't have much of a usage.
10:46And so the Leodiceans would have immediately understood
10:49what they were saying.
10:49One of the other things that's not so obvious is that Leodicean, well, Jesus says they were
10:54wealthy, but some of the practical things that Leodice was such a wealthy locale, such a wealthy
10:59locale that when they suffered major natural disasters, they were able to tell the Roman
11:03Empire, you know what?
11:04We don't need any government money.
11:05We'll rebuild our own city.
11:06We'll do it ourselves.
11:07And because of their wealth, they developed this perception of themselves that almost like,
11:11hmm, we're doing pretty good.
11:13You know, our pockets is rocking and rolling, our bucks is banging, our NASDAQ and our stock
11:18Marcus or Rockin' and Rollin', we have need of nothing.
11:20And it's to that backdrop, Jesus says of the church
11:23in that region that, wait, you think that you're wealthy,
11:27but the reality is you are wretched, you are poor,
11:30you are miserable, and here's one of the major things
11:33that would have been a gut punch for the Leodiscians.
11:35You are pitiable, like others should pity you.
11:41Jesus finds nothing to celebrate, nothing to rejoice over
11:47Rejoice over with the leodiscence.
11:49It's all rebuke.
11:53It's all rebuke.
11:54And I'm highlighting this for you
11:55because you've heard me say on the show many times,
11:57one of the major things that has infected our nation,
12:00as a result has affected the church in our nation,
12:02we've allowed our freedoms to manipulate us.
12:05I've said to you guys numerous times
12:07that there's no one who will successfully
12:09be able to convince me that the 2020 election
12:12wasn't a false election.
12:15I told you many times that even talking about fraud,
12:18It wasn't even necessary.
12:19Talk about election irregularities.
12:20Talk about violations of state law,
12:22which states are allowed to be prominent
12:24and preeminent determining the manner means
12:26of how federal elections to take place.
12:27There's nobody who successfully tell me that,
12:30oh, everything is normal.
12:31Get out of here with that.
12:32You know, I've had numerous strikes and removals
12:34from the tube of you and all kinds of other things
12:36and saying that nobody would convince me about that.
12:38But you know what else?
12:39No one will ever be able to convince me of?
12:43That God's sovereignty somehow was abandoned
12:47during the 2020 election time.
12:49So what possibly could have been transpiring,
12:51and I believe one of the major things that could possibly
12:54have been transpiring,
12:55is that it was far more easy to people show up for a rally
12:57for President Trump saying election was stolen,
12:59then for prayer meetings to be filled in our churches.
13:02I think that's one of the major things
13:03that God was allowing us to see.
13:05Where do our loyalties truly lie?
13:06Where our confidence is truly lie.
13:09So if that is the case, because after 2016,
13:11and y'all know the drill here in this program,
13:13she who shall never be president,
13:14that name is for Bowton.
13:15Y'all know what to know to drill.
13:17You know, I knew nothing about what a president would be.
13:19All I knew is that she would never be president.
13:21I knew exactly what she would be.
13:24And God spared us from her, but there were many,
13:26many who became naval gazers after that.
13:28You know, when Jesus ascended, the apostles at Arbonne,
13:31given their marching orders, but they were still gazing
13:33in the sky.
13:35And the angels had to come and say,
13:36yo, yo, yo, what are you doing?
13:37Why are you standing here gazing in the sky?
13:39Get to work, you already know what the orders are.
13:41And there were many who thought, oh, well, you know,
13:43hmm, she'll never be president.
13:45is done, she's not elected, and so now we can just kick up,
13:48you know, and I'm greatly concerned
13:51that some of that may be happening in here and now,
13:53because God spared us from she who shall never be
13:55president of the remix, but we still have
13:59amended from our king.
14:01We cannot afford to allow our circumstances
14:04to manipulate us away from faithfulness.
14:06God is sovereign over our circumstances.
14:09Act 17, he determined before time the boundaries
14:11of our habitation and when we would live.
14:14He's not surprised that we live in the constitutional republic with democratic features, with robust economies and things of that nature, comparatively speaking to other nations around the world.
14:24But we cannot allow our circumstances to manipulate us away from faithfulness to God.
14:28Though the Odysseans had a problem with wealth, and one thing I want to point out that Jesus' rebuke wasn't a final condemnation, because look at what he says,
14:35Those whom I love, I reprove, and discipline, bezealous, and repent.
14:41Guys, if we have allowed ourselves to become soft,
14:43tenderized by our circumstances, luxury abundance,
14:46it doesn't have to stay that way.
14:48God can empower us to refocus, get our focus back on point,
14:51and put our hands back to the plot it got us a dame does for
14:54by His grace, Lord, may it be so.
14:59Shining light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner.
15:07I know American Family Radio.
15:09Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
15:11The third here I'm excited to have on the program a man who I've appreciated and respected,
15:16rejoiced.
15:17I can feel I've stood up in my car as you can stand up.
15:21The stuff he said on this program and I'm delighted to have him on the show.
15:26I'm speaking of none other than the host of the Steve Dase show on the Blaze Network.
15:31He's seated to my left.
15:33Steve Dase, welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
15:34But I'm always to your right.
15:35I can promise you that.
15:36I don't know.
15:37I don't know.
15:38I don't know.
15:39Well, fight it for that.
15:40I don't know.
15:41I will say this.
15:42That's the fight worth having though.
15:43Yes, that's the kind of fights we should be having.
15:45But I will say this flat out.
15:47What I just heard is one of the best 20 minute messages
15:49I've heard in my entire life.
15:50Wow.
15:51That was absolutely fantastic, man.
15:54Absolutely fantastic.
15:55Wow.
15:56And extra points, as I told you during the break,
15:58extra points for actually understanding the historicity
16:01of what the reference to, you know,
16:03spit you out of my mouth is.
16:05It's taught in many church today,
16:06like it was a descriptive statement of just kind of a shallow,
16:12you know, lukewarm version of the faith.
16:14And it can be contextually applied broadly that way.
16:18But he's actually making a very specific reference
16:20to a specific location and a specific water
16:23aqueduct filtration system.
16:25And what happened to the water there
16:26when the hot and the cold springs mixed together.
16:28Absolutely right.
16:29Props for knowing that, that's good.
16:30Well, praise God.
16:31And I had to really nerd out to learn that kind of stuff
16:34because Lord knows our churches ain't preaching it now.
16:36and teaching that now, day brother.
16:37So I had to, that took a lot of Google searches
16:40and book reading and books written like prior to like 1998.
16:44Okay. To learn stuff like that.
16:45Yeah, I read old guys.
16:47Man, wow, I mean, here not from you is really,
16:51I didn't really know how to respond to it
16:52because I've appreciated you for so long and respect you.
16:55So glory to God, I'm grateful to you for that.
16:59And more than that, the investment you've made with your life
17:02and then endeavoring to be something like
17:04through the platform and access to God has given you.
17:07Thank you.
17:07One of the major reasons why, and I refer to the clock
17:10as a disrespectful clock and a bump of music
17:12is disrespectful music, because we get rolling
17:15and by the time we get rolling, those things pop up.
17:17But one of the major things I wanted to ask you about
17:19is one who is, and for those who don't know,
17:21Steve has been a long invested soldier in politics
17:27and helping candidates get elected to various offices,
17:30working on the ground in his home state
17:31God has allowed him to have an amplified voice as he's been faithful in each stage of his
17:38life. But right now, we stand in this first month or so of the Trump administration, things
17:43that I'd never imagined that a chief executive would do is happening right now. But I'm greatly
17:49concerned simultaneously that there are many Christ followers who can take the wrong marching
17:55orders from what's happening now. And simply put, I know President Trump's tagline for
18:00getting elected, but I've said on this program,
18:02just as David articulated,
18:04and the Psalms after he was elected,
18:07a war horse is a false hope for salvation.
18:09Government alone is not going to produce the type of America
18:13that God has afforded us to be.
18:15What can and should the American people do and be
18:19in order to make our nation, to move our nation
18:21in the direction where the Lord, I would argue,
18:23would have us to move based on scripture.
18:25You know, I wanna, and I'm not drawing
18:27a theological equivalency here, whatsoever.
18:29I want to make that very clear.
18:31I'm going to draw a situational equivalency
18:33to something you just mentioned.
18:35So the disciples see Christ ascended
18:38after they're given the great commission.
18:39And they just kind of sit there, kind of gobsmacked.
18:42This is really cool.
18:44And rightly so, I mean.
18:45To see Messiah's sin is like, whoa.
18:47They just saw the culmination of Jewish history
18:49after right in front of them.
18:51And they're Jews.
18:53They went to Hebrew school growing up.
18:54They heard these legends and myths and stories.
18:56Were they true?
18:57Were they not?
18:58God's been silent for 400 years,
19:00and they lived through all this,
19:02they experienced it for the last three and a half years,
19:04and the culmination now is to see Christ ascended,
19:07to sit it down at the right hand of the Father, right?
19:09And so they're kind of gobsmacked,
19:11and then the voice comes from heaven, like,
19:13let's go, you got a mission, let's go.
19:15And it kind of feels like we're doing it.
19:19First of all, we won.
19:20Wait, he's actually gonna do this stuff.
19:22He's gonna punch these people in the throat on that issue,
19:25and on that issue, on that issue,
19:26We're kind of like gobsmacked and spectators, all right?
19:29The reality is, just as the disciples,
19:31and Jesus looked at his disciples and said,
19:33you will do greater things than me.
19:35You did not mean that you will measure up to being God.
19:39It wasn't a qualitative assessment.
19:40Correct, the correct.
19:41What he's saying is, in terms of quantity,
19:44you're gonna be a movement.
19:46Okay, I'm gonna have my spirit in millions, billions of you,
19:50for the next 2,000 years, all right?
19:52and a point that you are functioning
19:55with the resurrection in your rear view mirror.
19:57Correct.
19:58No followers of the way of Messiah or Yahweh had that.
20:02Correct.
20:03Prior to them.
20:04It's pretty about what is in on some for particular function
20:05but not indwelling comprehension link
20:07to who so over will let them come.
20:08Yes.
20:09So they were to be the literal hands and feet of the gospel.
20:12Amen.
20:12What we need to be is the hands and feet of,
20:17if you wanna use the term maga, whatever term
20:19we're using nowadays, fine.
20:21but ultimately if everything is just outsourced
20:24to one singular leader, then it will not be a movement,
20:28it'll be a moment, because they can come one millimeter
20:31shot from the math club flunky,
20:33who somehow out navigated the entire Central Pennsylvania
20:36Police Department and the entire Secret Service
20:38to get within 150 yards of a kill shot
20:40of a presidential candidate,
20:42even though they were after he shot, of course,
20:44they were then able to take him out,
20:45with 500 yards away, which meant they had
20:49some kind of perimeter set up,
20:50And somehow they don't see math club geek,
20:52Spider-Manning his way to get a full-on face flush shot
20:56against the candidate.
20:57Even with a red beard dude, say,
20:58hey, this dude just climbed up there with a rifle on his back.
21:00So any moment, every good boss,
21:02I can promise you Tim Wildman's got to hit by the bus file.
21:05You can hit by the bus, Jen, and let's get to it by the bus.
21:08I can hit by the bus.
21:09Who's doing this?
21:10Your producer gets hit by the bus, what happens?
21:12So you can't put it everything on a singular leader,
21:16especially one who's 78 years old.
21:18They've already tried to kill,
21:19And let's face it at times, he's not doing it right now.
21:22Thank God.
21:23But at times, Donald Trump has gone through phases
21:25of his public life where he's never found a rake.
21:27He was not willing to step on.
21:28Let's keep it real.
21:30So all those things being considered,
21:32having this entire thing outsourced to one guy
21:35is a terrible decision.
21:36But here's our problem.
21:38This is what we've been conditioned by in our churches.
21:41And if you look at a lot of uplifting
21:44and hope-filled Christian radio, not counting you guys,
21:48That's why I come on this network and not the other ones.
21:50But if you look, everything has been going after Karen.
21:54The white woman in the suburbs has been the unique singular
21:57focus of the papacy of Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, and Joe
22:00Lostain for the last 35 years.
22:03And if you go to uplifting and hope-filled radio, and they
22:06have their programming meetings, they're like, all right,
22:08there's Karen.
22:09She's Neo Woke.
22:11Her, she's got a beta husband.
22:13She drives a Subaru, and it's got a coexist bumper sticker
22:16on it and that's our target demo, okay, in the suburbs
22:19and almost all Christian programming,
22:21except for organizations like yours,
22:23which is why you're effective,
22:24almost all Christian programming book publishing
22:26has been targeted at that audience, all right?
22:28And so the men have largely been left behind,
22:31the men have largely been conditioned to passivity,
22:34the men know way more about their fantasy football teams
22:36and listen, I've played fantasy football since 1993,
22:38I love it, all right?
22:39But you should not know more about your fantasy football team
22:41than your state legislature can I get an amen, all right?
22:43And so the men have been conditioned that pursuit,
22:47leisure pursuit is a way of life and not a Sabbath
22:51and not a hobby and not the things we do to stop ourselves
22:54from going insane and becoming some come
22:56by the things we're ultimately told to do
22:59and be a part of.
22:59There's a reason we have moms for liberty
23:01because there weren't any dads for liberty
23:02for the last 30 years.
23:04All right.
23:05And so we're in a position now where the men
23:08have no idea how to lead.
23:09Many of them, like myself, come out of broken homes,
23:12had no real masculine role model, don't know who their dad is.
23:15I check, I mean, all those boxes, all right.
23:17And now we've got young men who are sensing the next generation,
23:21the millennial young men are sensing,
23:23ah, heck no, we cannot do this.
23:26And they are instinctively flocking to MAGA,
23:28and that is great.
23:29It shows there's still some normalcy left
23:32in the American psyche, because I was beginning to doubt it.
23:34I was beginning to think there was no brink
23:36they could not push us to, that we would not acquiesce
23:38and surrender to.
23:39So they finally found a breaking point,
23:41and the young men are responding.
23:42That is the good news.
23:43The bad news is we're doing this in the wrong order.
23:46In the first American Revolution, we had awakenings
23:49and then we had a revolution.
23:50In this era, the revolution is happening
23:53before there's even a hint of awakening.
23:55And if we do it that way,
23:56you will not have an American Revolution
23:58or have a French Revolution.
23:59And power to the people doesn't work,
24:02the people are sinners, doesn't work.
24:04There has to be ultimately, someone must always rule
24:08and something must always be worship.
24:11those are iron laws, metaphysical truths of the universe,
24:14they are true in every culture, subculture,
24:17every era, every custom, every epoch, every time.
24:20And so this idea that we're just gonna have this widespread
24:23democratic, vote-populae process, no you're not.
24:26And eventually you throw out the era of stockercy
24:30and replace it with a reign of terror.
24:32And or even worse, you lose.
24:35And then the state says, hey, you came at the king and missed,
24:38you thought we were tyrants before,
24:40We're gonna teach you a total new definition of the word,
24:42and we're gonna consolidate power all the more, right?
24:45Either one of those outcomes are not long term
24:48for the cause of liberty.
24:50And so this is where the church,
24:52where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
24:54This is where the church must lead.
24:56And so what the church needs to realize
24:57is all those carons that it tried to disciple
25:00in the last generation, all voted to put all of us in prison
25:03for our beliefs last year, all right?
25:04Didn't work.
25:06Now, now here's what it did do.
25:07It's filled a lot of churches.
25:09It put no expectations on your pastors.
25:11It made a lot of them, it made celebrity pastors a thing.
25:14We can, instead of planting churches,
25:15we have multi-campus now,
25:17because your pastor's just so special,
25:19couldn't possibly plant a church in a town.
25:21He's got to beam himself in on a hologram,
25:23because just no one can do it quite like him.
25:25All right, that's what it did, all right?
25:27But it didn't, and the men's ministry's often went silent.
25:30Why?
25:31Because when the men get together,
25:32the first time or two, we'll talk,
25:34we'll confess our sins, we'll get that off our chest.
25:36Time three, time four, I got stuff to do.
25:39So I'm not doing this every week, we're not women,
25:42we're not primarily relationally driven creatures,
25:45we are primarily significant driven creatures.
25:48So I need a mission, I need a mission.
25:50And the problem if you give the men a mission,
25:52the men will go to the pastor and say,
25:54so there's drag queen story time hour
25:56at the public library across the street,
25:58how are we rolling, what are we doing about this?
25:59The pastor doesn't want to do anything about this.
26:01He wants to wear a sweater vest in July
26:03and a Hawaiian shirt in January, that's what he wants to do.
26:06And he wants to make sure his khakis are plated
26:08because that's what they taught him at seminary
26:10because he's from the paper, he's a bishop
26:13in the College of Cardinals of the papacy
26:15of Rick Warren and Bill Hybels and Joe Lostein.
26:17All right, and so we've now got all these young men
26:19that are like, all right, we're the ones raising
26:21the babies now, we're the ones building the businesses now,
26:23this insanity cannot go on, we cannot live like this.
26:26That's great, but if we do not catacize
26:29that generation of young men, all right?
26:31Let me give you an analogy, do I have a second here?
26:33Go for it, man.
26:34So one of my best friends used to be the chief of staff
26:37or a very conservative congressman on Capitol Hill.
26:39And he told me a story once that I think is so applicable,
26:42brother, to what we're talking about right here.
26:43He said that all the conservative congressional staff
26:46got together, pooled their money together,
26:48to hire a Navy SEAL who does self-defense training.
26:51And have him come in because let's face it,
26:53and ain't the safest place in the world in Washington, DC.
26:56Particularly if anybody knows you got an R after your name.
26:59And so let's get trained on self-defense and everything else.
27:01The Navy Seal comes in first day of the class, all right?
27:04And he makes every guy, raise your hand if you're not sure
27:08that the weapon you brought to here,
27:09that you would be willing to point it at somebody
27:11and kill him right now, if you had to.
27:13And anybody who didn't raise their hand,
27:14he refunded their money.
27:16And here's why he said, if I train you how to use this
27:20properly so that you will be licensed and own this kind
27:23of a killing machine of a weapon.
27:25And then when the moment comes that it is time to wield it
27:28and time to use it, and you don't have what it takes
27:31to point and click, then you're more dangerous
27:34than if you weren't armed, because the,
27:36because the perp will take your weapon
27:38and use it against you and your family members against you.
27:41You'd be better off being unarmed than me training you
27:45how to use it and then you're not willing to use it.
27:47And I think that's, that's the young men,
27:50it's great that we've got all that energy now, all right?
27:52But if it is not, you and I have been young men,
27:54we know what that is like, we know what that,
27:56there's a reason why, no, don't prolong marriage.
27:59Don't sit there and have a prolonged adolescence.
28:01Don't do that.
28:02Do not walk around with a stick of dynamite,
28:04just waiting to go off all the time
28:06with all the temptation in the culture.
28:08That's a stupid move, don't do that.
28:10So we cannot have all that young masculine energy
28:14not properly channeled in righteous directions.
28:17Otherwise, it will end up coming out in unrighteous means.
28:20And the church must step forward now
28:22and realize that the men, the gospel is for everybody.
28:26But ultimately, there's a reason why every survey
28:28we've done for the last 30 years has shown.
28:30If mom goes to church every week and brings the kids,
28:32but dad doesn't go, there is a far less likelihood
28:35that the kids will grow up and go to church
28:37than if dad goes regardless of what mom does.
28:39And it's not that mom isn't important.
28:41None of us would be here without them.
28:42But this is the principle of headship.
28:45The dad is the head of the home, not the boss,
28:47but he is primarily responsible.
28:49That's what headship means.
28:50And accountable.
28:52Yes, it's not about authority,
28:53it's not about authority, it's about accountability.
28:55and you set the example of what it means
28:58to be submissive to God.
28:59And they're gonna follow that example.
29:01And if we don't, and these young men
29:03do not have a lot of righteous examples,
29:04and they don't.
29:05And if we don't have the church step in
29:07and galvanize that energy and say,
29:09hey, thank you, Maga, for showing us
29:11where the real evangelistic fields are,
29:13and the harvest is plenty, but the workers are few.
29:15So we're sending the workers out into that harvest.
29:18All these young Hispanic men, all right,
29:20one Hispanic men for the first time ever, all right?
29:22One out of five black men voted for Donald Trump.
29:25It's not because they got some right, none of them,
29:27white, black, Hispanic.
29:29It wasn't like they got some black-rode regimen sermon,
29:31and they were like, let's go to war.
29:33They did it instinctively, all right?
29:35So those instincts then have to be properly catechized,
29:39all right?
29:40Similar to we instinctively wanna mate with females, right?
29:42Instinctively, and that's a good instinct,
29:44but if not properly catechized, that instinct will,
29:47that's a stick of dynamite, right?
29:49Same thing applies here.
29:51And the church has to now step in, all right?
29:53put its arm around these young men
29:55alright and say
29:57we're gonna show you the way
29:58man is it is it's amazing because
30:00the atom bomb
30:02that went off culturally is the attack on the family you know we've deprived
30:05generations of men and women from normal godly male headship in the home looks
30:09like you know and the same fire
30:12that will warm your home if
30:14placed in the fireplace will burn a sucker down it gets outside of the fireplace
30:18and that further that potency is got designed to be potent
30:22because he has an objective for it to be potent.
30:24But if we misuse him as appropriate it,
30:26it will destroy us.
30:27And so what I hear you saying, very plain.
30:28My adult children do not continue to follow my example
30:31because I lord over them.
30:34But because when I sinned in our home and I did,
30:36I got down when they were kids.
30:38I got down on one knee so I could look them in the eye
30:41and say I am a sinner.
30:42Dad did what I did was wrong.
30:45And I need to ask God for forgiveness
30:46and I need you to forgive me too.
30:48I modeled that in the home.
30:50And that is why even my adult children continue to come to me, seek counsel, follow my lead.
30:56It's not because they're out of my home, they can do whatever they want now.
30:59I don't lord over them, they don't need me for anything more.
31:02It's because of the example of submission to Christ that I showed them my own humility.
31:06And that's what's lacking in a lot of these young men that have the right instinct, but
31:10they don't know the proper order of things.
31:12So in order to get the appropriate response to the Lord moving these people instinctually
31:18to vote in the particular manner is that they must be
31:21discipled and the church has to be on the front lines.
31:24One of the major things that is an indictment is when the rebellion,
31:28and I don't call it a fall, it's a rebellion at Transparent and Elgarden,
31:30high treason against the Holy God. I remember wondering, where was Adam the
31:34whole time? Verses three in chapters three, verse one, two, two, two.
31:36He's dared the whole time. Physical presence, functional absence.
31:39We can no longer afford to have the church physically present,
31:42but functionally absent in our society. It's stark at the household of faith.
31:47Judgment begins at the household of a god. You hear the disrespectful music Steve days. Thank you so much anytime brother. Appreciate it.
31:52Right. The Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute commentaries are available at EFR.net back to the Hamilton
32:10Party on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the third here. Don't mind us
32:18We're trying to put some put the flames out on the mic that Steve was just using
32:22I mean, man, where do I start?
32:30I mean, the recognition of the need of our responses just, it's appropriate and it's
32:38gripping.
32:39And I just, I want to talk about this and I didn't have the opportunity to address this
32:47on the radio last week, but I want to bring this up because this really, really brings
32:52the point home in my view, as for why concerning the reality of what we're facing.
33:02And so many of you have heard the news last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
33:1070 Christians were beheaded by Islamic terrorists in Congo.
33:17And this follows the last two decades where over 6 million people have been executed.
33:25in this nation.
33:27And when the tragedy first transpired,
33:33you couldn't hear an area of people about it in Western
33:36media.
33:37And one of the first things I want to say is that these are
33:43members of God's eternal family.
33:46According to what's being reported, basically ISIS-DRC,
33:51ISIS-democratic Republic of Congo, or also known as the
33:55allied democratic forces descended upon the Congo and came into town. One of the
34:01major reasons they knew that the town where they went had a significant amount
34:05of believers there, but they rounded up people. Initially 20 people were rounded
34:12up first, then an additional 50 women, children, men it didn't matter, and they
34:21They brought them to the local Protestant church because they clearly, the terrorists
34:28I'm talking about, wanted to make a political statement, listen to and watch clip number two,
34:33clip number two, go.
34:3570 Christians have been found beheaded.
34:39Yes, beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
34:45Why is no one reporting this?
34:47Why does no one seem to care?
34:50Let me bring in Dexter Van Zyl, an expert on anti-Christian violence.
34:55Dexter, what can you tell us about this absolutely barbaric atrocity?
35:00Okay, well first of all, it took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is a huge
35:04country with about 105 million people.
35:08That right now is basically in a conflict with neighboring Rwanda over territory in Kivu.
35:16And the violence was perpetrated by an organization that is affiliated with ISIS and the thing
35:24is that there are some people who have argued that they are essentially working on behalf
35:29of Rwanda because Rwanda is a neighboring country that covets and is actually taking control
35:34of an awful lot of the mineral resource.
35:41This, the combination of the fact that this happened as well as the near blackout of the
35:51information being disseminated, and I get it, you know, Western media doesn't like to
35:56talk about the issue of Islamic terrorism.
36:02You know, Western media doesn't like to talk about ISIS, you know, they don't want to talk
36:04about Barack Hussein Obama talking about ISIS.
36:07This is a JV team.
36:08It's a JV team.
36:09But alone, the CIA's involvement in arming what became ISIS in Syria.
36:23This is happening, guys.
36:24This is not 20 years ago.
36:25This is not 50 years ago.
36:27This happened just last week.
36:30And as I mentioned, these are members of our eternal family.
36:34Secondarily, in my heart grieves, not for the believers only because praise be to God, their
36:43faith is now sight. Many of them were called to renounce their commitment to Christ to refuse
36:48to do so and they were beheaded. It's not lost on me that you have the actress Cynthia
36:56Erivo and others wanting to play the role very blasamously of Jesus Christ in an upcoming
37:04flick. You never see them do that with Islam, would you? Would you see Hollywood maker? No,
37:14They'll never do that, but they continue to do these types of things to turn to Christianity.
37:21But one of the major things that this event puts a fine point on for me is what are we
37:32going to do with the time that God has given us?
37:34It's very easy to live and act like we have forever.
37:41And what I'm saying, what are we going to do with the time that God has given us?
37:43I'm not talking about having some personal perception of
37:49significance. I'm going to be a Mount Everest climber for the
37:52King of glory. No, daily routine faithfulness. God requires of
37:58us. I've said this and I've been appealing to our audience here
38:02repeatedly. You know, God has given many of you vision. God has
38:06given many of you passions. But for whatever reason, things
38:09always encroach things always, you know, cut us away, turn us
38:12away and similar to what Steve is saying, man, now is the time, guys, now is the time to respond
38:18accordingly. Now is the time to respond accordingly. We have lots of people that they don't understand
38:24a biblical worldview, they don't know what the scripture says, but they know one thing's for
38:26sure. I know this much, a man is not a woman, I know that. I know this much, you teaching my
38:32five year old and my seven year old that if they're a little boy that they could be girls, I know
38:35that's wrong, I know that's wrong. I don't want my tax dollars going to fund surgeries for men
38:42who believe that they're women in prison. I know that much. And it is incumbent upon Christ followers.
38:48It is incumbent upon Christ followers to take full advantage to the time, space,
38:55and the grace that God has given us, the resources that God has afforded us to have to utilize them
39:00for His purpose. The great commission is to make disciples, not converts.
39:07The great commission is to make disciples. A disciple is a disciplined learner
39:12or whether where we embrace the reality that it is all of Christ for all of life.
39:19That there's no area of our lives that are not impacted by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ
39:23and understanding because we are human beings, because none of us is perfect.
39:28That that is going to include repentance.
39:31That is going to include the necessity of saying that I was blind in this area.
39:35Now I see it's going to also include that I wasn't blind in this area.
39:39I knew this was a way to go, but I did not do it in this juncture, but now God has given
39:43me the opportunity to reverse course.
39:46That is a part of what has to happen.
39:48It's not a coincidence that the most recent generation of Americans, there is an increase
39:54in the amount of children being reared in fatherless homes, homes where the fathers are
39:59not living in the home with their children.
40:01That is a fact.
40:05That is a fact.
40:07But now what are we going to do?
40:09Do we think God is surprised at the prevalence of brokenness in our society?
40:13God is not surprised at all.
40:15He's not surprised at all.
40:19In his high time, for all hands to be put on deck, man, all hands to be put on deck.
40:27If you have been born again by the Spirit of God, you have the Spirit of God indwelling
40:32you.
40:33God has called you into ministry.
40:34If his desire was for you to be in the tangible presence, in his tangible presence right now,
40:39where you would be. But as Jesus articulated in John recorded in John chapter 17, the Lord
40:48isn't asking for us to be removed from the world prematurely, but that we may be sanctified
40:53by the truth in this world. And so I'm saying I don't want to be among the ranks of people
41:00that do nothing but sit back, observe and complain. Oh look at that isn't that terrible
41:05that this has happened, isn't that terrible that that has happened? I want to be a part
41:09of responding appropriately.
41:12And I know that's many of your desires as well.
41:15And I'm saying now is the time to not only talk about it,
41:18but to be about it.
41:19What is God moving you to in your environment?
41:21What is God moving you to in your neighborhood,
41:25in your community?
41:26If you say, man, we don't have enough children
41:29who are being taught the word of God in our community,
41:30are you willing to open the Bible study up to have
41:33in your home or to take advantage of a resource
41:35that's available to you?
41:37Are you willing to step out and do that?
41:40Are you willing to respond to what is necessary?
41:42The outsized attack on the family,
41:45and it's one of those things,
41:46and I love how Ken Ham illustrates this,
41:48because the Satan's attack is to cultivate
41:51within a people a distrust and a disregard for God's word.
41:55But what he does is not a full on attack
41:58on the life, death,
41:59buried on the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
42:01No, just undermine the authority of Scripture.
42:04Undermine the authority of Scripture.
42:05Get people to begin to approach the Scripture
42:07as if it's an allegory.
42:09You know, Jesus didn't really mean what he said
42:12in the word of God.
42:13And what's happened as a result of that over time,
42:16people treat God's word as if it's just a bunch of suggestions.
42:20It's not anything binding upon me.
42:22It's not anything directive toward me.
42:26No, no, no, no, no, no, it's just one of these things
42:31that we take it to leave it.
42:32It's like Ryan's buffet.
42:35I know it's buffet, but it's the buffet.
42:37We take what we want to leave what we want.
42:39Guys, the same thing is happening in family.
42:41Satan doesn't come with a broad sign saying,
42:43hey, you know what?
42:44Let's eliminate manhood in society.
42:47We still have males, but eliminate manhood.
42:49Have males who think that they're really, really mature
42:53and they have evolved personally,
42:55if they can act like women.
42:57The only men generally speaking in culture
43:00that are affirmed are the men who are feminine,
43:03not just in mannerism, but in orientation.
43:07Don't be vigorous, don't be strong, don't protect your family, don't...
43:12No, no, we need a man that's in touch with his feelings.
43:16While at the exact same time, we lionize women ascribing to masculine characteristics.
43:22And that's the only women will affirm.
43:25You know, we want to celebrate women's choices as long as women choose what we want them to choose.
43:30That's a good point.
43:37The Great Commission includes evangelism. I don't want anybody to mistake what I'm saying.
43:40When I say the Great Commission is making disciples, evangelism is intrinsic to the command to make disciples,
43:47but evangelism is not synonymous with disciple making. That's what I'm trying to say.
43:54You cannot make disciples of unregenerate people. In order for a person to become a disciple,
43:59that person must be born again. This is why Jesus told Nicodemus who came to a man at night.
44:06Unless you're born again, you can't even see the kingdom of God.
44:09Unless you born again, you can't even enter the kingdom of God.
44:12So the great commission is to make disciples,
44:14that includes evangelism, absolutely right.
44:18But it's not limited to evangelism.
44:21And that is the point I'm endeavoring to make.
44:23Make.
44:24That is the point I'm endeavoring to make.
44:26And disciple making includes subjecting oneself,
44:31the whole of one's life to the authority of God's word.
44:36Across the board.
44:37And I say routinely, the whole notion of being so heavenly-minded
44:41that you're not earthly good, that is a misnomer.
44:43There is no way for you to truly be no earthly good
44:46if you are truly heavenly minded.
44:48Because heavenly mindedness includes the reality
44:51that we are confident in our eternal state.
44:53And it is because of our eternal state,
44:55which we have access to solely because
44:59of the finished work of Christ.
45:01We don't labor in order to obtain justification.
45:04We labor because we have been justified.
45:07But it is because we have been justified,
45:09We recognize that Messiah incarnated to demonstrate for us the significance of our humanity.
45:15So it is because our home is not here on earth.
45:19It is because heaven is our home that it informs our engagement in the here and now.
45:25To see it more fully that my life is made significant by the author of all life.
45:31Like the Apostle Paul would say, say to Timothy 1 Timothy chapter 1, he's overwhelmed with the fact that God
45:36but not only save him, but call him into his service.
45:40Which is why this same Paul would say,
45:42in his epistle to the Philippians,
45:44and I don't know which to choose,
45:47to be departed from this life
45:48and to be in the tangible presence of Jesus,
45:50is far better.
45:52But for me to live on in this life,
45:54is fruitful labor for you,
45:55and I don't know which to choose.
45:58Paul didn't have that tension
45:59because he was unaware of what was a better quality
46:02of existence for himself.
46:04No, Paul recognized that the lover of his soul loved him so much.
46:09And he loved the lover of his soul so much that he likewise loved
46:13his Lord's will for his life.
46:15And he recognized that God had ordained him to be an apostle to the Gentiles.
46:20So that tension between whether to depart or to be here existed
46:24because Paul was heavenly minded.
46:28And I'm saying the same must be for us.
46:30Man, we didn't ordain ourselves to live in the here and now.
46:32I've told you guys numerous times, if I could pick the era
46:35that I would be alive in.
46:36So many people tell me I'm an old soul.
46:38I wouldn't have picked the 21st century,
46:40but because I'm grateful to God,
46:41and I love my Lord so much,
46:42that I'm grateful that He's placed me here now.
46:44So my response to Him granting me eternal life
46:48is Lord, what would you have me become?
46:51Lord, what would you want to do with this life?
46:53In the prayer that I pray often for myself,
46:56is Lord, may I be poured out like a drink offering
46:58in service to your purposes
46:59in this time that you planted me in.
47:01In my prayer that I pray for myself,
47:03I pray also for you that we would take full advantage of this time,
47:08this grace and the space that God has given us for his glory.
47:14That we would live for his glory.
47:21May the Lord open our eyes to see what's before us and enable us to engage appropriately.
47:28Y'all have a good evening.

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0:00 - 15:00. Matthew 5:13-16. The heavenly Father’s glory is why we engage. 15:00 - 31:00. A culture of life is possible. We must press forward. 31:00 - 48:00. Did Ursula cry uncle in the most recent…

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Sep 18, 2024

Culture & Media

Death cultists seize on tragedy lie in furtherance of their bloodlust.

0:00 - 15:00. Esther 8:8-16. Deliverance from the LORD comes sometimes in the form of being able to fight. 15:00 - 31:00. Death cultists seize on tragedy lie in furtherance of their bloodlust. 31:00 -…

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