En route to abolishing the IRS, is exempting those who make up to $150,000 annually a good place to start?

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11. 1:01Mr. Marty Sparks, ladies and gentlemen, J. Mac will be joining us shortly thereafter.
12. 1:11At this very moment, many of you, well, I said shortly here after, I mean, I should say shortly
13. 1:15here after at this very moment, many of you have not most of you are making your transitions
14. 1:18from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate
15. 1:25an outcome.
16. 1:26And as you do so, I want to remind you to make your transition with intentionality, understanding
17. 1:32the primacy that God places on family, welcoming his insight on these matters to inform you
18. 1:41and me as we go about our daily lives, which is why I remind you every opportunity that I get
19. 1:48that what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House. It's very
20. 1:52easy to allow things to capture our attention and our focus and really to distract us away from
21. 2:00from what should be our primary engagement.
22. 2:03I've been continuously encouraging
23. 2:05and I will continue to encourage us to live locally.
24. 2:08You know, refuse to allow the things that happen
25. 2:10on the national and international stage
26. 2:12to consume us to such a degree
27. 2:14to where we have no grasp, nor investment, nor commitment
28. 2:18what's happening right in our immediate vicinity.
29. 2:21Of course, the genesis of the local living
30. 2:24has to take place within our homes.
31. 2:28So as you are making your way to your full time jobs,
32. 2:31remember what goes on in your house
33. 2:34is exponentially more important
34. 2:35than what goes on in the White House primarily.
35. 2:38Because when you stand before the Lord,
36. 2:41what you will be held directly accountable for
37. 2:43is what goes on in your family.
38. 2:45What goes on in your home?
39. 2:47What is your jurisdiction?
40. 2:50That is where your primary resource of accountability will be.
41. 2:54So with that in mind, let's make it our business, man.
42. 2:59Let's make it out of business.
43. 3:00If you are a husband, your first priority is your wife
44. 3:04outside of yourself.
45. 3:06Your wife, your first priority is your husband.
46. 3:11As a couple, husbands and wives,
47. 3:12your first priority are your children, if you have children.
48. 3:16Those are first order priorities.
49. 3:19It's not to say that you shouldn't be effective everywhere else.
50. 3:23Those of you who are not in those particular life circumstances
51. 3:27and dynamics, I know we have a significant continue
52. 3:29people who are unmarried, you know, I know we have some who are widowers, who are widowed,
53. 3:35we have grandparents, we've talked about that.
54. 3:38We need all hands on deck.
55. 3:40God knows your particular station, but that doesn't nullify the reality of what God has
56. 3:46designed in terms of the family.
57. 3:50And while we have the opportunity, the order of the day is disciple-making, is disciple-making.
58. 3:55We will never be able to outvote, outchurch, our politic deficiencies that are in the home,
59. 4:00The great commission is to make disciples, which of course includes the proclamation of
60. 4:03the gospel and evangelism.
61. 4:07But evangelism is not the whole commission.
62. 4:11It is a significant component of the commission, but it is not the whole commission.
63. 4:16Make disciples is the whole commission.
64. 4:19When we begin the program and the Word of God, we're going to turn to 1 Peter chapter
65. 4:235.
66. 4:241 Peter chapter 5.
67. 4:27This is something that has just been pressing me that I want to present to you for your
68. 4:33consideration in the word of God. First Peter chapter five verses five, sorry, verses one through five.
69. 4:38First Peter chapter five verses one through five is where we're going to begin the program today.
70. 4:44And this is a sound council from the Apostle Peter as a spirit of God inspired him to pin these words.
71. 4:57First Peter chapter five verse one is says this, so I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder
72. 5:05and the witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to
73. 5:12be revealed, separate the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion,
74. 5:22but willingly, as God would have you, not for shameful gain or filthy looker, some translation
75. 5:32say. We can just pause right there, can't we? For this day and age, not for shameful gain, not for
76. 5:40filthy leuker. The Lord's shepherds do not shepherd his flock for money. All right, let me keep going.
77. 5:51But eagerly not domineering over those in your charge, but being an example, being, sorry,
78. 6:00being examples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading
79. 6:08crown of glory. Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves,
80. 6:20all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud, but gives grace
81. 6:31to the humble. Oh man, this is so rich. This is so rich. So Peter begins by, in this portion
82. 6:40of text, by appealing to the elders, but he does so by referring to himself as a fellow
83. 6:46elder. Peter is literally saying that he is not above the actual instruction that he is
84. 6:54given in this epistle. This applies Peter saying as much to me as it does to other elders,
85. 7:03As a fellow elder, I am appealing to you, as well as a witness of the sufferings of Christ,
86. 7:10and a partakers of the future exaltation that we anticipate enjoying, shepherd the flock
87. 7:16of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, willingly,
88. 7:26not for shameful gain.
89. 7:28is it is a pitiful embarrassment. How much of Christ following has been really used for
90. 7:42profiteering. And I've said and I will continue to say, if the gospel that you purport to
91. 7:49proclaim, cannot be proclaimed in Nigeria, in Sudan, and in Congo, and in Syria, just as
92. 8:05well as in America, then you're not proclaiming the gospel because the gospel applies equally
93. 8:10in all context and all content, continents, and all time periods equally.
94. 8:19You cannot present, you know, a wretched prosperity gospel to the believers in Syria, and it is shameful
95. 8:33that by large that deception has been exported to other nations from our own country.
96. 8:40When the scripture gives us clear indication that you don't shepherd the flock of God for
97. 8:45filthy Lucer.
98. 8:46I'm not saying anybody needs to be sworn to vows of poverty either.
99. 8:50those are not inherently virtuous.
100. 8:54But we cannot sanitize covetousness,
101. 8:58because covetousness is still a sin.
102. 9:01The text goes on, not domineering over those in your charge,
103. 9:04but being examples to the flock.
104. 9:07This is very similar to what, excuse me, I described
105. 9:13maybe last week when I was talking about one of the
106. 9:14qualifications for eldership in the Lord's church,
107. 9:16is hospitality, being hospitable.
108. 9:19How can you know whether or not a person who purports
109. 9:21to be an elder is hospitable if you never spend time with them
110. 9:24101 you never even ever been in their home never been in your home
111. 9:27And you got to get through the five layers of secret service more protective than the president of the United States
112. 9:33And I don't want stuff on anybody's toes
113. 9:37But I'll just say this the description of a first lady is something that usually applies to heads of state
114. 9:46The Lord Shepherd should be should be viewed and should view themselves as servants
115. 9:51Let me keep going Peter goes on and when the chief Shepherd appears you will receive the unfading crown of glory
116. 10:03Then Peter makes a transition. Likewise. So similar to the quality with which the elders
117. 10:11are to conduct themselves within the Lord's economy. Likewise, Peter says, you who are younger,
118. 10:17that's not just chronologically younger. This is also those who may be younger in the faith,
119. 10:22but really it's an appeal to the body of Christ at large. Outside of the eldership function,
120. 10:28this applies to everyone, frankly, in the scripture basis out you'll see, clothe yourselves. All
121. 10:35of you. This is a comprehensive application. This is something that applies to every member
122. 10:40of the Lord's bride. Clothe yourselves, all of you with what humility or my glasses into
123. 10:49my clothes yourselves with humility. I want you to see something here and I've said this
124. 10:57in the past when we are born again. Okay. That is the beginning, not the end or the culmination
125. 11:06of God's work in our lives.
126. 11:08Being born again sets us on the course for sanctification.
127. 11:11The sanctification process is where we agree with God about our sin and we grow continuously
128. 11:19in conformity to the image of Christ.
129. 11:24When I say we agree with God that we say what he says about our sin and we welcome him to
130. 11:30work within us to transform us from the inside out.
131. 11:35their portions within the sanctification process
132. 11:38where we have to responsibly respond
133. 11:44to what God is doing in us.
134. 11:46Here Peter's explaining humility is something
135. 11:50that we have a responsibility to participate
136. 11:53in cultivating in our lives and in our hearts.
137. 11:56Clothe yourselves with humility.
138. 11:59Then notice what it says next.
139. 12:01Clothe yourselves with humility toward one another.
140. 12:08I know this is not the reality and experience for everyone,
141. 12:12but the scripture bears out that one of the most enduring,
142. 12:16identifying characteristics of the believer
143. 12:19should be demonstrable, evident humility.
144. 12:25Guys, pride is a fully metastasized cancer
145. 12:30that will destroy you and those around you
146. 12:33if it is not eradicated.
147. 12:36if it is not killed.
148. 12:37Pride destroys marriages,
149. 12:40pride destroys relationships,
150. 12:42pride destroys local assemblies.
151. 12:46Whenever there's a situation where someone is offended
152. 12:49and that offense persists without reconciliation,
153. 12:53it is because one or more parties
154. 12:55are refusing to humble themselves.
155. 12:59I know that can seem like and feel like an oversimplification,
156. 13:02but when you excavate the reality
157. 13:04and dig down to the lowest common denominator,
158. 13:07which you often find is at the root of the matter
159. 13:11is somebody is refusing to yield.
160. 13:14Somebody is refusing to humble themselves.
161. 13:17Somebody is refusing to confess they're wrong.
162. 13:20Somebody is refusing to extend forgiveness.
163. 13:26And I'm communicating this with this passion
164. 13:29because there are lots of us that we are being waylied
165. 13:34in our real and our personal lives.
166. 13:35Some of us, honestly, we turn to the news and things
167. 13:38for an escape from our real lives
168. 13:40because I realize it's so intense
169. 13:41and our relationships are so tortured, some of us,
170. 13:47that we escape to the news.
171. 13:49We escape to the infotainment.
172. 13:55When I'm talking about living locally,
173. 13:56I'm not merely talking about accomplishing tasks
174. 13:59to build the body politic.
175. 14:02I'm talking about walking up right before the Lord.
176. 14:06God said he goes on in the same text,
177. 14:09clothe yourselves with all humility toward one another
178. 14:13For God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
179. 14:19Peter is quoting here from Proverbs chapter three, verse 34.
180. 14:22Apostle James says the exact same thing earlier
181. 14:25in his epistle.
182. 14:26In James chapter four, verse six.
183. 14:28If you wanna make yourself crossways with God,
184. 14:31if you wanna have God on one side of the aisle
185. 14:33and you on the opposite side of the aisle,
186. 14:35allow pride to persist in your lives.
187. 14:37Brothers and sisters, it is immediately necessary.
188. 14:41First Order Pride Arbity.
189. 14:44For us to obey what the Lord tells us through the apostle Peter here to clothe ourselves with humility.
190. 14:51Because nothing is a destroyer like pride.
191. 15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
192. 15:03Looking in the book of Romans, Romans chapter 12, beginning at verse 1.
193. 15:08I beseech you there for brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.
194. 15:14Holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
195. 15:18and do not be conformed to this world,
196. 15:21but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
197. 15:24which you may prove what is that good and acceptable
198. 15:26and perfect will of God.
199. 15:29For I say, through the grace given to me,
200. 15:31to everyone who is among you,
201. 15:32not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think,
202. 15:35but to think soberly as God has dealt
203. 15:37to each one a measure of faith,
204. 15:39and individually members of one another.
205. 15:43Father, we thank you once again for the wisdom,
206. 15:45the powerful grace, the powerful understanding,
207. 15:48inside that is ours, as we spend time with you one on one in your word each and every day.
208. 15:53We thank you and we praise you. Jesus' name, we do pray. Amen.
209. 16:05Shiting light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
210. 16:11Welcome back, Abraham Hamilton, the third here. As you're listening to me,
211. 16:17we never want to forget as we recognize man. The Lord has done a mighty work of many of us,
212. 16:22And it's a right thing to say, I may not yet be why I know God intends for me to be, but I'm not what
213. 16:29I used to be. If that's true for you, that is worth praising the Lord. But it is vitally necessary
214. 16:36that we understand pride is no friend and the longer we allow pride to linger. And we can even
215. 16:43allow certain aspects of it to seem as if it is our personality, but it's not. It's a foreign
216. 16:48in beta trying to take up residence.
217. 16:52All right, several things transpired today,
218. 16:55yesterday, a couple of last few days.
219. 16:58Not all of it is foolishness,
220. 16:59that it does have some foolishness.
221. 17:02But I'm gonna start earlier this year, maybe in February,
222. 17:06mid-February, President Trump announced
223. 17:09through his Commerce Secretary and others.
224. 17:12His Commerce Secretary is Howard Lutnik,
225. 17:15that he wanted to see the eradication
226. 17:18of the internal revenue service, the IRS.
227. 17:21And to see that replaced with the next
228. 17:22internal revenue service, he has initiated a lot of the
229. 17:25tariffs, things that are happening.
230. 17:26I mean, some of the things are happening now.
231. 17:28And I have a reporter in this in detail because the tariff
232. 17:30conversations are very fluid.
233. 17:32You know, you might report something now,
234. 17:33then that has changed.
235. 17:34Like for example, the tariff application to Canada
236. 17:38resulted in the premier of the Ontario province saying,
237. 17:42well, hey, I'm gonna institute a 25% tariff on electricity
238. 17:46to the Northern American cities
239. 17:48that we supply electricity to,
240. 17:50to which President Trump responds,
241. 17:51well, we're gonna add an additional 50% tariff
242. 17:54to aluminum and other things coming from Canada.
243. 17:57And immediately Canada says,
244. 17:58not Uncle, Uncle, we would just play.
245. 18:00We would just play.
246. 18:02We would just play.
247. 18:03Which is that is going to play out.
248. 18:05The tariff conversation is contributed
249. 18:08to some of the fluctuation and even the downturn
250. 18:11of some of the markets.
251. 18:13And it's important that we understand
252. 18:15that the markets where stocks are traded
253. 18:18is not synonymous with the economy.
254. 18:20Okay, the economy includes the exchange of goods
255. 18:23and services beyond merely acquisition
256. 18:27of ownership shares and stock prices.
257. 18:30That's an important metric,
258. 18:31but it is not indicative of the entire economy.
259. 18:33There are many instances where the market is doing great
260. 18:36when the economy is suffering.
261. 18:38And then conversely, when the economy may be not as robust,
262. 18:41I'm sorry, the markets may not be robust,
263. 18:43economy is a bit more stabilized. So we need to keep that in mind. But a couple weeks ago,
264. 18:51President Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lucknick talked about that one of President Trump's goal
265. 18:58is to abolish the IRS. This is why he talks about President William McKinley so much and how
266. 19:04tariffs is really what funded the federal government prior to in our nation's history all
267. 19:09the way up to the Civil War and thereafter. There was no such thing as a direct income tax on American
268. 19:14citizens enduringly until 1913. Prior to 1913, we had temporary federal income taxes only to
269. 19:21pay back war debt. You know, you had a temporary income tax following the Civil War. And once
270. 19:27the war debt was paid off, that was eradicated until 1913. But listen to Howard Lutnik describing
271. 19:34President Trump's goal to abolish the IRS. It is clip number two, clip two, go.
272. 19:41Donald Trump announces the external revenue service,
273. 19:44and his goal is very simple, to abolish,
274. 19:47his goal is to abolish the internal revenue service,
275. 19:50and let all the outsiders pay.
276. 19:52I mean, this is someone who is focused on America.
277. 19:55Let's drive down our waste, foreign abuse.
278. 19:59I'll give you an example, cruise ships.
279. 20:01You ever see a cruise ship with an American flag on the back?
280. 20:04They have flags of like Liberia or Panama.
281. 20:07None of them pay taxes.
282. 20:09None of them pay taxes.
283. 20:11Every super tanker, none pays taxes.
284. 20:14Alcohol, all foreign alcohol, no taxes.
285. 20:18This is going to end under Donald Trump and those taxes are going to be paid and Americans
286. 20:23tax rates are going to come down.
287. 20:27Well, not to be outdone.
288. 20:32How it was making the rounds again on the media outlets and he had an interview last week
289. 20:35on CBS E, he was interviewed on shows today where he offered what seems to be the first
290. 20:41step, the first major step I should say in that direction to where Howard Lutnik has announced
291. 20:47President Trump is intending to exempt all American citizens who earn $150,000 or less
292. 20:55from federal income taxes.
293. 20:57I'm not joking.
294. 20:58This is what he said.
295. 20:59Listen to and watch clip number five, clip number five.
296. 21:03Go.
297. 21:04No tax on tips.
298. 21:05How about no tax on overtime?
299. 21:07How about no Social Security?
300. 21:08How about all those things?
301. 21:11These are the kind of thoughts that will change America.
302. 21:14I know what his goal is.
303. 21:16No tax for anybody who makes less than $150,000 a year.
304. 21:20That's his goal.
305. 21:22Now, in that interview, Howard Lutnik says that's the president's goal.
306. 21:26In other interviews today, he's saying this is what we're moving forward with.
307. 21:31What do you think about that?
308. 21:32That is very, very interesting.
309. 21:34It is certainly something to consider as it's interesting that Chuck Schumer and others are
310. 21:41taking the bull by the horns and initiating a shutdown with federal government.
311. 21:48It's just remarkable how the tides have turned.
312. 21:52The Democrats historically attempted to present themselves as the party for the working man.
313. 21:58Never heard them say let's exempt people $150,000 or less from taxes.
314. 22:02was so interesting when the federal income tax was proposed, initially via the 16th amendment,
315. 22:09it was the Soak the Rich Tax. It was a tax that applied to, stop me if you heard this before,
316. 22:15the top 1%, well, because Regressives never initiated a government program that they ever
317. 22:22intend to keep in the same barn, if you will, that they start with it somewhat, soonly, rapidly
318. 22:30became a tax. Oh, no, we we're going to ultimately tax all American citizens. It was I found myself
319. 22:36reading, you know, a book just now that that our friend Bill Federer wrote about the history of the
320. 22:41American income tax. And he included the entirety of John F. Kennedy's tax plan. And you'll be surprised
321. 22:47if you read that. You want to know what John F. Kennedy's plan was to stimulate the American economy?
322. 22:51Lower all taxes. Last time I heard the Democrats say let's lower taxes. He said we by lowering all
323. 23:00taxes will expand the tax base and will stimulate more revenue into the federal government's
324. 23:06coffers.
325. 23:07And we also have American citizens with more of their own money to spend.
326. 23:11I mean, it's not a secret.
327. 23:13Economists will tell you that when you have lower tax rates, the federal government collects
328. 23:17more in taxes.
329. 23:18Why?
330. 23:19Because you have more people with more money that is earned.
331. 23:24I for one am all for seeing IRS go bye bye.
332. 23:31one of the major things that the founding fathers articulated was that we want to make
333. 23:35sure that the national government, the federal government, remain small and limited, only operating
334. 23:40within those enumerated powers.
335. 23:44Those expressly articulated powers in the Constitution.
336. 23:50The best way to keep the government small is to keep it on a lean monetary diet.
337. 23:56The moment you give the federal government access directly to the American's pocketbooks,
338. 24:02guess what happens with government?
339. 24:05It grows so big, it begins to do things that American citizens were supposed to do.
340. 24:09It even takes over the responsibility of the church in functioning and charity to where
341. 24:13we have societies now, much like other countries and not like Marxist countries, when we consider
342. 24:19any problems the first thought is, what is the government doing?
343. 24:21When I was never supposed to be an American thought, it is never supposed to be an American
344. 24:26thought that whenever a problem was presented, you first started to be what is the government
345. 24:31doing about it? No, never. So hearing the Trump administration discuss any eradication of the
346. 24:43IRS, exempting from federal taxation, incomes at $150,000 or less, that's certainly something
347. 24:51as to get the conversation started. And it's worth examining whether or not it's something
348. 24:56that's worthwhile. Some economists say, ah, that'll never work. But like the tariff conversation,
349. 25:04Let's see what happened.
350. 25:07I want to share this next story with you because this is a huge story, but it is not really
351. 25:11getting getting a lot of attention.
352. 25:15EPA administrator Lee Zaldin has announced and he described it this way, but when you consider
353. 25:21what was done, it's actually true has announced the biggest do regulatory action in American
354. 25:28history.
355. 25:29Did you hear that?
356. 25:32The EPA under Lee Zaldin's direction, who was president Trump's nominee to be the EPA administrator,
357. 25:39as the Environmental Protection Agency. They have announced the largest deregulatory action
358. 25:46in US history. Listen to administrators as he talks about it. It is clip number three,
359. 25:52clip three. Go.
360. 25:54Today I'm pleased to make the largest deregulatory announcement in US history. The Environmental
361. 26:01Protection Agency is initiating 31 historic actions to fulfill President Trump's promise
362. 26:08to unleash American energy, revitalize our auto industry, restore the rule of law, and
363. 26:16give power back to the states.
364. 26:18EPA will be reconsidering many suffocating rules that restrict nearly every sector of our economy
365. 26:25and cost Americans trillions of dollars.
366. 26:30Our actions include the Biden administration's deeply flawed Clean Power Plan 2.0, Mercury
367. 26:37and air-toxic standards, Quato BC, particulate matter 2.5, light, medium, and heavy car and
368. 26:45truck rules, knee-shaps, and the so-called social cost of carbon.
369. 26:51To advance cooperative federalism, EPA will partner with states that were universally rejected
370. 26:57by the last administration's good neighbor rule.
371. 27:01Among many other actions, today's momentous day also includes the 2009 endangerment finding
372. 27:07along with all actions that rely on it.
373. 27:10I've been told the endangerment finding is considered the holy grail of the climate change religion.
374. 27:16For me, the US Constitution and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed.
375. 27:24No exceptions.
376. 27:26Today the Green New Scam ends, as the EPA does its part to usher in the golden age of American success.
377. 27:35Thank you, Lee. Thank you.
378. 27:37The green news today, the green news scam ends.
379. 27:40Now, I've explained many of you may recall,
380. 27:42first we had a massive win at the...
381. 27:47Well, let me take a few steps back.
382. 27:48One of the major things that has transpired
383. 27:50because Congress has not been passing lots of laws
384. 27:53for quite some time.
385. 27:54What's been happening is that Congress,
386. 27:56if they pass anything, they would pass a framework
387. 27:58of legislation and the executive agencies
388. 28:00would basically fill in the blanks.
389. 28:02You know, when Obamacare has passed,
390. 28:04the Department of Health and Human Services
391. 28:05is the one who filled in the blanks and the lead to mandating people like little sisters
392. 28:11of the poor to provide abortion, border fations and the healthcare coverage.
393. 28:14They're like, we are anti-abortion, so we don't want to be forced to provide a border
394. 28:19fations and healthcare coverage that literally the Obama administration sued them to attempt
395. 28:23to force them to do.
396. 28:24Thankfully, they end up winning at the US Supreme Court, but that is what is what happened.
397. 28:28And the reason why that type of thing transpired is because of the Chevron deference that said
398. 28:33when you had executive agency interpretations of laws or application
399. 28:37regulations, even if those interpretations directly contradicted Congress,
400. 28:42those interpretations were deferred to by the courts, hence the term Chevron
401. 28:47deference. Well, thankfully that was overturned as well.
402. 28:50So now you have President Trump coming into office and he has put in some
403. 28:54headcrackers in these various places.
404. 28:59And Lee Zeldin is announcing this.
405. 29:01And because it's the EPA and it's a lot of kind of technical language,
406. 29:05it's not getting the attention that it should, frankly, because really,
407. 29:08a lot of reporters are not that intelligent. I just want to say the truth. But this is huge.
408. 29:14This is huge what he's announcing. So let me give you a little kind of clip of what I'm talking
409. 29:22about. And this is thanks to Alex Epstein, who's an energy expert. This is one of the experts in
410. 29:29in this field who's writing who I read regularly because they're experts in this field.
411. 29:34But what he says, one, a reconsideration of regulations on power plants, the Biden administration
412. 29:39implemented this regulation called Clean Power Plan 2.0.
413. 29:43By reversing this, by reversing this, it is changing course significantly.
414. 29:51The Biden era regulations would have effectively banned all coal plants and new natural gas
415. 29:57plants by demanding the plants participate in this impossible 90% carbon capture carbon capture
416. 30:07insanity. Reversing course here is essential to helping to preserve our electrical grid
417. 30:15and unleashing energy in our nation. You have the reconsideration of the light duty, medium duty,
418. 30:22and heavy duty vehicle regulations. This is what provided the foundation for the Biden,
419. 30:27in the Biden administration to establish the electric vehicle mandate.
420. 30:33All right, reversing these Biden era regulations, paves the way, or what these regulations paved
421. 30:40the way for the electric vehicle mandate by imposing impossible, unachievable emission
422. 30:46standards on gas power vehicles.
423. 30:49So the Trump administration is reversing that.
424. 30:52All right, you have Lee Zaldin's EPA reconsidering the 2009
425. 30:58endangerment finding, all right,
426. 31:01and the regulations that stem from the endangerment finding.
427. 31:04Now this dates back to Barack Obama.
428. 31:08These Obama-era determination, this Obama-era determination
429. 31:16is what declared officially declared CO2 to be dangerous.
430. 31:21you know, plant food, carbon dioxide.
431. 31:26The Obama administration declared CO2 to be dangerous.
432. 31:30That determination is what technically allowed the Biden
433. 31:34administration to shut down power plants to slow us oil growth.
434. 31:39And to really hamstring our massive natural gas that we have in our country.
435. 31:48Remember under the Trump administration that we had for the first time in over
436. 31:5250 years become a net exporter of energy, liquid natural gas was a large part of that.
437. 31:57Well, this CO2 determination that was instituted, and announced by Obama first, re-instituted
438. 32:06by the Biden administration is what put the handcuffs on that.
439. 32:10This is some of the technical, these are some of the technical regulations that have
440. 32:14to be done away with to unleash what we have in our nation, our natural resources, our energy
441. 32:20and things of that nature.
442. 32:21This is just a snippet of that.
443. 32:24But the announcement that Lee Zelden had is 31 over 31 different regulations that are
444. 32:29massive that are taking the shackles off of our energy sector.
445. 32:33I know again, this is a little bit in the weeds, but this is how the sausages me.
446. 32:39So by getting in and having someone who understands this area, who knows whether proverbial bones
447. 32:44are buried and digging them up, this vitally important.
448. 32:47But what we need in addition to these regulations being overturned, we need for Congress to
449. 32:52to make these things enduring beyond
450. 32:54one administration to the next.
451. 33:00The feature-linked documentary Culture Warrior,
452. 33:02Don Wildman, and the Battle for Decency,
453. 33:04premiering November 11th,
454. 33:06chronicles the life and ministry of Don Wildman.
455. 33:09It takes you through the founding
456. 33:10of the National Federation for Decency,
457. 33:12what has become AFA.
458. 33:14It's a call to stand firm for righteousness
459. 33:17and shows how that resolve
460. 33:18can make a huge difference in our world.
461. 33:21If we lose this cultural war,
462. 33:23We're going to have a hedonistic humanistic society.
463. 33:26Find out more and watch the trailer at CultureWarrior.movie.
464. 33:30Let's think about what God has done.
465. 33:32I would wager that his top news story is still
466. 33:35that the free salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ
467. 33:38is available to all.
468. 33:40I wager that would be the top news story
469. 33:42until that salvation is no longer available.
470. 33:44You will have made your decision for eternity.
471. 33:47He doesn't ask us to do anything he wants.
472. 33:49than he does above what we can possibly do.
473. 33:53Here, Todd Herman, on a Disciples View, weekdays 12 p.m. Central on AFR.
474. 34:00White House faith leader, this is David Wheaton, host of the Christian worldview.
475. 34:05In just a short time in office, President Trump has made many good policy decisions,
476. 34:10such as ending governmental imposition of the sin of partiality with diversity, equity,
477. 34:16and inclusion, and the harmful transgender lie.
478. 34:19With the President's choice of Paula White to head the White House Faith Office is a
479. 34:24poor one.
480. 34:25She is one of the prominent leaders of the heretical Word of Faith movement, also known
481. 34:30as the Health, Wealth and Prosperity Gospel.
482. 34:34Scripture warns believers to be alert to false teachers who will secretly introduce destructive
483. 34:39heresies.
484. 34:40Pray for the President that he wouldn't be led astray.
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490. 35:10Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
491. 35:14Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III.
492. 35:17We are in the final segment already.
493. 35:19Well, just yesterday, just yesterday, a delegation from Ukraine, conversing with Secretary of
494. 35:27State Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia.
495. 35:31And they announced that the Ukraine had agreed to President Trump's recommendation of a 30
496. 35:40day ceasefire in the war with Russia.
497. 35:44You know, I wonder what it was that caused that to happen.
498. 35:47Perhaps it was the cessation of military support in terms of equipment and funds going to Ukraine
499. 35:54that caused them to say, you know what?
500. 35:56I think we will talk about that.
501. 35:59Here's a clip where Ukraine agrees to the U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire at Russia.
502. 36:05It's clip number six.
503. 36:06Listen to it and watch it.
504. 36:07Clip six go.
505. 36:08Ukraine is agreeing to support the Trump administration's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia
506. 36:14and the U.S. will immediately resume military assistance and intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
507. 36:20In a joint statement, both the U.S. and Ukraine said the ceasefire is also subject to Russia's
508. 36:25approval.
509. 36:26Here is Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking after that meeting.
510. 36:29We'll take this off for now to the Russians.
511. 36:32And we hope that they'll say yes.
512. 36:33That they'll say yes to peace.
513. 36:35The ball is now in their court.
514. 36:37But again, the president's objective here is, number one, above everything else.
515. 36:41He wants the war to end.
516. 36:42And I think today Ukraine has taken a concrete step in that regard. We hope the Russians will reciprocate
517. 36:49So after that conversation yesterday, obviously here at Marco Rubio say we would we're gonna take this to the Russians
518. 36:56The push for peace is in the Russians court
519. 37:00Well shortly before coming on to this program
520. 37:04Vladimir Putin was being interviewed at a press conference where he announced his agreement and his a keyword in principle
521. 37:12to
522. 37:13the idea of a 30 day ceasefire in the war against Ukraine. Listen to and watch Vladimir Putin.
523. 37:22Obviously to translators
524. 37:24indicating his agreement to the ceasefire proposal in principle clip four go of Vladimir Putin is now agreeing
525. 37:32with a US proposal for a ceasefire in
526. 37:35principle, so this is coming in from the Associated Press. I'm gonna read it word for word for you breaking Russian president Vladimir Putin said that he
527. 37:43a reason principle with a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, but those terms
528. 37:49do still need to be worked out.
529. 37:52So again, another developing story here that we are just going to bring you the latest details
530. 37:56as we are just learning this.
531. 37:58He said this in a press conference.
532. 38:01So here's that quote from Poon.
533. 38:03It says, quote, so the idea itself is correct and we certainly support it, but there are issues
534. 38:09that we need to discuss.
535. 38:11think that we need to discuss it with our American colleagues and partners.
536. 38:17So what's being communicated is that Vladimir Putin agrees with the idea of a ceasefire, but
537. 38:28the details need to be worked out. And as you heard, he said he would be open to discussing
538. 38:34this with his American counterparts. This is a major development for one primary reason.
539. 38:44President Trump coming into office, the conversations around this was if there would be a cessation
540. 38:51of hostilities. The conversation has turned and when you think about negotiations and conversations
541. 38:58about war, the conversation has turned to not if there would be a cessation of hostilities,
542. 39:05but how will we seize hostility? So from what all of the sources I've been able to access,
543. 39:14that the Russians have encroached upon about maybe 20% of Ukraine. One of the major considerations
544. 39:22on the onset was the advancement in expansive NATO around Russia supporters, which of course,
545. 39:28nobody wants to talk about because that investment that advancement happened with American support.
546. 39:34and also you had the, shall I say this, the agitation in 2014
547. 39:42of under Obama when you had, you know, Obama administration officials on the ground in Ukraine kind of working to
548. 39:51do certain things dashingly there and you know I've said there's no, there's no good guy in this scenario
549. 40:00But to see the conversation turn in this way where you have yesterday Ukraine say yeah, we're willing to talk about
550. 40:09Assessation of hostilities
551. 40:12Now the balls and rushes court and then you have Putin saying today
552. 40:16Okay, the idea is the right idea, but we need to work on the details
553. 40:20I'm sure I don't know just to be certain, but I would imagine that the
554. 40:26that Putin wants to lay claim to
555. 40:28to portions of Ukrainian land.
556. 40:34I'm pretty sure on the Ukrainian side,
557. 40:36they want to have, as Voldemort Zalinski said,
558. 40:39during the Oval Office debacle, security guarantees.
559. 40:47So the question will be how much, but it seems
560. 40:51that the conversation has changed significantly.
561. 40:58Even if you notice in the quote in this,
562. 41:01quote is in print, I've seen translations, I obviously don't speak Russian. But Putin
563. 41:05referred to his American partners, which is an interesting term employed. Or what's the
564. 41:14colleagues? What was there? I have the quote here. Yeah, colleagues and partners, he said
565. 41:20here, quote, there are issues that we need to discuss. And I think that we need to discuss
566. 41:24it with our American colleagues and partners. That's pretty significant guys. Maybe I'm wrong,
567. 41:29But I don't recall that kind of terminology employed previously.
568. 41:34So it'll be interesting to see, as always, the details are what is going to determine whether
569. 41:41or not there is any type of agreement ultimately reached.
570. 41:46But when you have the Ukrainians announced, and I was very encouraged by this, because
571. 41:52when the Ukrainians and the Americans got together, the Ukrainian delegation that men
572. 41:59in Saudi Arabia was intentional to include in its statement, quote, the Ukrainian delegation
573. 42:06reiterated that the Ukrainian people strong gratitude to President Trump, the US Congress,
574. 42:12and the people of the United States for making possible meaningful progress towards peace,
575. 42:17end quote. That is a pretty significant inclusion when you consider J.D. Vance's question in
576. 42:25And the old office, have you said thank you?
577. 42:28Remember that?
578. 42:29Have you even said thank you?
579. 42:31And now you have the Ukrainian saying thank you.
580. 42:34And then you have on top of that,
581. 42:37Vladimir Putin saying, hey, well,
582. 42:38it's the right idea we need to move towards the ceasefire.
583. 42:41That's a big deal guys.
584. 42:42That's a big deal.
585. 42:44Now I don't think there'll be much fanfare, you know,
586. 42:46I don't think President Trump will get the Nobel Peace Prize.
587. 42:49Even though Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize,
588. 42:5211 days after being elected and having done nothing.
589. 42:56And I hope they said, I hope he had change.
590. 42:59I mean, do I think he would deserve it?
591. 43:03Yes.
592. 43:04Meaning President Trump.
593. 43:05I mean, I don't know.
594. 43:06You have a war raging and then shortly after taking office, if the war comes to an end, that
595. 43:11will be peace.
596. 43:13But we'll see.
597. 43:14I just feel like there's some people who are just, the TDS is so enduring that they'll be
598. 43:21too afraid of what they're, you know, they're high-filuting partygoers would think of them
599. 43:26if they dare move in that direction.
600. 43:30So that is very, very, very significant.
601. 43:34So these are some things guys that are very, very interesting.
602. 43:42On the other side, I won't say the other side,
603. 43:45but in another area, and I alluded to this earlier,
604. 43:48with all of the tariff talk,
605. 43:51you see fluctuation in the stock markets,
606. 43:55but it's just a reflection on the tariff talk.
607. 43:58but President Trump has even,
608. 44:02he even said it and he's joining
609. 44:03the Justice Congress that there's
610. 44:04going to be some difficult days ahead,
611. 44:06but in the long run, this is what will be best for us.
612. 44:11I don't understand how we have allowed ourselves
613. 44:14to be in this position with such imbalances
614. 44:17on the global stage in terms of trade for so long.
615. 44:19For so long, nations like Canada put what?
616. 44:22200% tariffs on our milk and other things.
617. 44:25And we export the reason why, ultimately,
618. 44:29that President Trump has made the calculation that will ultimately prevail in the whole
619. 44:32tariff conversation is because the United States of America exports far less of our goods to
620. 44:40other nations. These other nations are dependent upon access to the American market. When you
621. 44:45see that we have what a $29 trillion annual GDP where we have $20 trillion that are expended
622. 44:53in consumer goods annually, the United States of America is the big dog in terms of a consumption
623. 44:59market and anybody who's selling anything, they want to sell it here.
624. 45:03You know, so why should we knowing that the producers around the world want to sell their
625. 45:09stuff here?
626. 45:10Why should we allow them to sell their stuff here very cheaply, but they can they can tax
627. 45:15us very extensively to sell those things there, which is why you're seeing such a significant
628. 45:21exporting of much of our manufacturing sector.
629. 45:24Like, you know, I'm a tribe and this is a late in the show.
630. 45:27I don't want to get my higher up.
631. 45:28But when we had things like, you know,
632. 45:30Bill Clinton establishing permanent normalized relations
633. 45:34with China.
634. 45:35And when you have, you know, these global deals,
635. 45:38you, you, a lot, a large of the guys,
636. 45:40you had a lot of the people, the Wall Street types,
637. 45:42selling out the main street types.
638. 45:44We should never have allowed there to be a rust belt
639. 45:46establishment in the United States of America.
640. 45:48Many of you listening to me, you recall the days
641. 45:51when you examined goods that you were purchasing.
642. 45:54If it did not say made in America, you concluded,
643. 45:56And that is junk.
644. 45:58Many of you listening to me, you know what that's like.
645. 46:00Some of our younger listeners and viewers
646. 46:02don't know what that's like.
647. 46:03All they know is Made in China.
648. 46:06All they know is Made in Bangladesh.
649. 46:12We never should have allowed there to be,
650. 46:15for a rust belt to develop.
651. 46:19And so my position on this is wait and see.
652. 46:24I believe President Trump has earned the right for us to say,
653. 46:30I don't know why it looks the short term
654. 46:32little rocky, but to say let's wait and see what happens.
655. 46:35Because one thing is for certain that he's willing to try things other
656. 46:39presidents have not even been willing to even discuss.
657. 46:41And the other thing, and I'll say this, and I've said this to people just in
658. 46:47regular conversation. President Trump had a pretty good life before he ran for
659. 46:52president. I know he has an outsized ego, but I truly believe that he ran for
660. 46:58president initially because he cared about the country. I do believe there's a part
661. 47:03of him feeling like that a ruse was pulled over the American people's eyes using schmovin
662. 47:12and things of that nature.
663. 47:13But I ultimately think the main reason why he's doing it because he believes he's the best
664. 47:16person for the job to help America get on the trajectory that needs to be established.
665. 47:22And based on the moves he's made thus far, I think he recognizes that he will only have
666. 47:29this term.
667. 47:30And as you've heard me say that this term really is this first 100 days or so leading up to the
668. 47:352026 midterms because the possibility exists if the midterms go the wrong way that
669. 47:41President Trump will not accomplish much legislatively after the midterm so what has to be done has to be done now
670. 47:46But the momentum has to be built in such a way where you have
671. 47:50America first
672. 47:52We have the people in our country that are willing to give ear to further an additional
673. 47:57America first candidates and this is the small window that we have and if we don't take advantage of this window the
674. 48:04The globalist hounds are at the door waiting.
675. 48:08They're at the door waiting.
676. 48:10And this very well could be, naturally speaking, the last opportunity we have to recalibrate in
677. 48:15such a way to where you think there's a chance that we could see made in America again in
678. 48:24plenty of supply.
679. 48:27Is there a chance of that occurring?
680. 48:34And this is frankly, what the scripture talks about spiritual wickedness in high places,
681. 48:38this is a part of it.
682. 48:39Because a lot of us, we know these things are happening, but we don't necessarily know
683. 48:42why they're happening or even how they're happening.
684. 48:44We recognize the shelves now filled with made in China.
685. 48:49Like, how does that make sense when China is our number one geopolitical rival, yet the
686. 48:55majority of the goods that the American people consume are made in China?
687. 49:00How does that make sense?
688. 49:01Do you think the majority of goods consumed in China are made in America?
689. 49:07No.
690. 49:08No.
691. 49:09So I'm grateful for the initiative to try to make America first, to put America first.
692. 49:18And should this effort succeed, it can completely transform the way life is done.
693. 49:25And what we could see, resturgences of all kinds of things.
694. 49:28I want to see America become a manufacturing nation again.
695. 49:31I like to see this become a nation where we no longer consume more than we produce.
696. 49:36All of that is on the table.
697. 49:42All of it is on the table.
698. 49:44So I want to wait and see, but not just waiting.
699. 49:47Praying, engaging, watching, and seeing.
700. 49:54And as we began the program saying, do what you can
701. 49:58and what you must where you live.
702. 50:00Some of you listening to me is high time for you to go ahead
703. 50:02and start that business that you've been dreaming about.
704. 50:05Some of you, some others, you've been praying and things.
705. 50:07It's time for you to be a part of establishing
706. 50:10that biblically faithful church in your community.
707. 50:13Some of you listening to me is high time for you
708. 50:15to run for office.
709. 50:17Some of you younger fellows you've been talking about, it's high time for you to go ahead and get married.
710. 50:23And raise a family,
711. 50:25and bring your children in a nurture and admonition of the Lord.
712. 50:28Live locally.
713. 50:29Be faithful.
714. 50:30Trust God with the results.
715. 50:31Y'all have a great evening.
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