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Isaiah 44:3

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0:00In Isaiah chapter 44 verse 3, God says,
0:04For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground.
0:08I will pour out my spirit on your offspring and my blessings on your descendants.
0:13It's Sharathon on American Family Radio.
0:16Help us rejoice in God's promise to pour out His Spirit.
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0:49Good evening everyone.
0:51Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, day three of the 2025
0:55Spring Sharethon edition of the program.
0:58This is the third and final day of this year's Sharethon.
1:03And I want to start off the program by simply thanking
1:06All of you who have given, who have expressed your willingness to support the work of the
1:13Lord here at American Family Radio, people like Paul and Cearcy Arkansas, Lonnie and Branson
1:19West Missouri, Kathy and Nederland, Texas, Hal and Florence Alabama, James and Albert
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1:37All of you, thank you so much for your gifts, your support, your rallying around the work
1:42of the Lord through the American Family Radio Ministry, the number to call of you would
1:46like to have your name added to the ranks of those who have materially supported this ministry
1:52during the Sharethon.
1:53You can do so by calling 877-616-2396.
2:00The number again to call is 877-616-2396, or you can give securely online at aFR.net.net.
2:14At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your
2:18part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate
2:23an outcome.
2:24And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
2:31primacy that God places on family, understanding that what goes on in your house is far more
2:38important than what goes on in the White House while we're learning how many nations are slapping
2:43tariffs on America's export goods.
2:47I simply want to ask how much cultural tariffs have been slapped on our efforts to serve our
2:53families.
2:54important that we do not allow things that are percolating and transpiring at the national
2:59and international levels to manipulate us away from being faithful where God has planted us.
3:05What goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House. Even
3:10in conversations about what the American economy is, you will consistently hear the word stated
3:15that Main Street determines the American economy, not Wall Street. What happens at the local level
3:20is ultimately what determines what our nation will be.
3:24And you can carry that local level consideration
3:27all the way down to the individual.
3:30What goes on in your house is far more important
3:33than what goes on in the White House.
3:34So as you are transitioning to your full-time jobs
3:37where you cultivate an outcome,
3:39please do so with intentionality,
3:41with personalized, specific investment,
3:44understanding that you have an immediate opportunity
3:47to execute the Great Commission,
3:48starting in your homes.
3:50It doesn't conclude there, but it certainly starts there.
3:53And by you extending yourself to support AFR doing the Sharethon,
3:57that should be an extension of what you're already doing in your home
4:02to join us by making your pledge, by making your gift.
4:05You can do so by calling 877-616-239-6.
4:11We are in the final, I guess, 50 minutes of the spring 2025 Sharethon.
4:18and you can lay your log on the proverbial fire
4:24by calling 87616-2396, that is the number to call
4:29or you can give securely online.
4:32I'd like to turn your attention and my attention
4:35to the word of God, which is actually to our theme verse
4:39for Shiritha on this year, and it comes from Isaiah chapter
4:4144 verse three, and I wanna point out one thing
4:44that I strongly believe is worth considering
4:48that is consistent in a revelation of God's heart
4:51throughout the Word of God.
4:52And I believe it has particular application to us
4:54at this day and age where we are in the United States of America.
4:57And the Word of God says this, Isaiah chapter 44 verse 3,
5:00I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground.
5:05I will pour my spirit upon your offspring and my blessing on your descendants.
5:10One of the amazing things that the scripture points out
5:14that is central to the heart of a Christ follower.
5:18And frankly, it contrasts with the revelation
5:21of the heart of King Hezekiah, for example,
5:23when there was a prophecy of disaster coming to Judah,
5:26Hezekiah's question, or Hezekiah's posture was,
5:29hmm, well at least the calamity will not transpire in my day.
5:34One of the main features of being a Christ follower,
5:36especially being a godly man,
5:39is God makes us generational in our impact.
5:41The scripture says,
5:42Ladies and inheritance for his children's children.
5:45You guys have heard me say that I often pray, Lord,
5:48may my ceiling be my children's floor.
5:50I endeavor to live and comport myself in such a way
5:54to where my children and my God's grace,
5:56my grandchildren become faithful Christ followers
6:00in light of my example, not in spite of my example.
6:03I pray, Lord, may life, my life be a runway
6:06for my children and my children's children
6:08to come to know you as opposed to being an obstacle course.
6:11I don't want my life to be an impediment to my children coming to know the Lord.
6:15I want my life to be a means by which, an example by which my children and my grandchildren,
6:20my great-grandchildren, Lord willing, I have learned of a testimony of faithfulness to the Lord.
6:26And Isaiah reflects that with the Lord's commitment to generationality.
6:30And one of the most enduring features of the financial support we receive during Sharathon,
6:36and this is something that has just been ringing in my heart throughout this Sharathon,
6:38that the things that we do now will determine whether or not
6:42AFR is available for subsequent generations.
6:46You know, throughout Sherathon, I come on an hour earlier
6:49than my normal hour and there were consistent testimonies
6:53provided of people who would say that I began listening
6:58to Sherathon when I was this age.
6:59There was one testimony of a brother who went to prison
7:03in the 1985 and got out in 2006 and AFR was available
7:07to him upon his release from prison.
7:08And by God's grace, according to his testimony,
7:11he's been able to faithfully serve the Lord
7:12following his release from prison.
7:14I mean, these are the kinds of things
7:16that are vitally, vitally important.
7:19So as you are prayerfully considering joining us
7:22in the Sharethon, I also want you to consider
7:25how you can use the resources that you have now
7:29to pave a foundation for future generations.
7:31What would you want to be available
7:33for your children and your grandchildren in the future?
7:36You know, there are lots of places where you can go, you know, for, you know,
7:40politically conservative commentary and things of that nature.
7:43They're not very few public places where you can go to have the communication of a
7:48biblical worldview and its application to the issues of the day.
7:51They're not as many.
7:52I'm just telling you that's the simple truth.
7:55Eight, seven, seven, six, one, six, two, three, nine, six is the number to call.
8:00We still though we're in the final, the last inning, if you will, the bottom of the
8:04and I think that's why we have
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8:28I love this verse.
8:29but I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground.
8:34I will pour out my spirit upon your offspring, upon your offspring and my blessing on your
8:41descendants."
8:44This scripture points towards generationality, you know, in dating back to the founding of
8:49our nation when Benjamin Franklin left Independence Hall, he was asked following the constitutional
8:54convention in 1787, what have you wrought for Benjamin and his response to the inquirer
9:00was a republic if you can keep it.
9:03You know, that was the stated expression.
9:05Fast forward to the 20th century.
9:09Ronald Reagan's opine that's freedom
9:11is never more than one generation away from extinction.
9:13We've heard that quote numerous times.
9:16The scripture bears out.
9:17The scripture bears out.
9:18And of course I understand I'm presenting
9:22socio-political observations alongside scripture observations.
9:25And I'd explain why I'm doing that in a moment.
9:28but the Apostle Jude, Jesus is half brother naturally,
9:31in his epistle, he wanted to write about our common salvation,
9:35but he was unable to do so, why?
9:37Because false brethren had crept into the first century church
9:41where Jesus is half brother was present.
9:44False brethren had crept in unawares,
9:47perverting the grace of God into life's seriousness.
9:50And so instead of being able to address
9:54in poetic and large s in terms of describing our common salvation, I have to write to you
10:01to earnestly contend for the faith that was once and for all passed down to us as saints.
10:07The faith was passed down once and for all, but every generation of believers are called
10:13to contend.
10:15Every generation is called to contend.
10:18Now why am I pitting this biblical fidelity with the principles of sound governance?
10:23I'll tell you very simply because good governing principles flow from a biblical worldview.
10:31Guys, this is an inescapable reality.
10:34It was the truth of Scripture that led to the establishment of what we know as Western civilization.
10:42You have no Western civilization without a biblical worldview.
10:46You have no discovery of the individual's capacity to study Scripture without the revelation
10:52of the Imago Day.
10:54This is the simple truth.
10:56You do not have the discussion or description of inalienable rights and the declaration of
11:03independence that recognize that no, the end of the states are not the recipients of rights,
11:09of an alien ability.
11:11It is the image bearers of God who have that inalienability.
11:16It is God who said in Romans 13 that government is supposed to be a minister of his to punish
11:21and restrain wickedness and reward righteousness.
11:26So those things are inextricably tied.
11:29Now make no mistake about it,
11:30one is superior to the other.
11:34Biblical fidelity is superior to governing principles,
11:37but sound governing principles flow from a Biblical worldview.
11:418, 7, 7, 6, 1, 6, 2, 3, 9, 6 is the number to call.
11:478, 7, 7, 6, 1, 6, 2, 3, 9, 6 is the number to call.
11:52or you can give securely online at aFR.net.
11:56I have some stories I want to get to.
11:59Doge is added again, more revelations
12:01of particular things that are happening.
12:03When we learn that there are millions of dollars
12:06that are being fraudulently disseminated,
12:09when we learn that you have millions of non-citizens
12:13who are being given Social Security numbers
12:16and immediately being enrolled in federal programs
12:18like Medicaid, when we learn that our tax dollars
12:21are being fraudulently spent and frankly being stolen,
12:25we have a visceral reaction to that, why do we?
12:28Why do we despise people breaking in and stealing
12:33our hard-earned produce?
12:35The things that we generate,
12:37because there's an internal cry for justice,
12:39well, where does that cry come from?
12:41Why is it wrong for someone just because
12:44they may have the force of government,
12:45they may have more guns or whatever?
12:47Why is it wrong for them to take your stuff?
12:50There's one reason.
12:52because God said so.
12:54Without a biblical worldview,
12:56all we're left with is the Darwinian law of tooth and claw
13:00where might makes right.
13:02Well, if might makes right, why would it be wrong
13:04for someone who has more might to take your stuff?
13:07I'll tell you very simply, it wouldn't be wrong.
13:11There wouldn't be any transcendent objective source
13:13to determine that it's wrong.
13:15At best what you would have is a subjective humanistic
13:19conference as to what is right and what is wrong.
13:22But then what do we do?
13:23When you have other people say, well, I don't care
13:25what your standards are, my standards are different.
13:29What do you say to the Mujuhadim who says
13:34that I am compelled morally to fly a plane
13:37into traits and the towers?
13:40No, we say that that is wrong.
13:41Why?
13:42Because there was a transcendent objective standard of truth.
13:44And it ain't you, chief.
13:46It's not you.
13:48That flows from biblical morality.
13:51Biblical morality creates the foundation
13:54for social cohesion.
13:57877-616-2396 is the number to call.
14:02877-616-2396 is the number to call.
14:0740 minutes, 50 seconds left in this 2025 spring,
14:11Sharethon, this is day three, the third and final day
14:14for Sharethon, you still have an opportunity
14:17to make your gift, you can do so by calling 877-616-2396,
14:23that is the number to call, or you can go to
14:26AFR.net, that is AFR.net and give securely online there.
14:32We're gonna take a brief break here,
14:34but when we get back, we will continue with Sharethon,
14:37and we'll talk a bit about what I just described to you.
14:41We've got revelations from Doge for Social Security.
14:44We've got revelations from Doge in various departments.
14:47Now, we have insight from the Department of Labor,
14:51because unemployment, unsurprisingly,
14:54is being abused as well.
14:55Stay with us, we'll be right back after the spring.
15:03After crossing the Jordan River into the Promised Land,
15:06God instructed the children of Israel to take stones from the river and make a memorial.
15:12When their future children would say, what do these stones mean?
15:15The parents would recount the Lord's deliverance of Israel from slavery
15:19and Israel's arrival in the Promised Land.
15:22In each of our lives, there are events that ought to be remembered.
15:25Events where the Lord moved and delivered us.
15:28Whether we use stones, photos, or special celebrations, it matters only that we take time
15:34to remember what the Lord has done and pass that testimony on to future generations.
15:40Since 1977, the American Family Association has been informing, equipping, and activating
15:46individuals to strengthen the moral foundations of America.
15:50The Lord has given us many victories over the years that laid the foundation for our
15:54work today and into the future.
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16:27until I began listening to American Family Radio.
16:32So I just thank God for what you all do.
16:35I pray that He'll continue to strengthen and to lead you as you continue to inform the body of Christ
16:41and help us all to see things through the lens of the Word of God.
16:49Sharethon continues on American Family Radio, and we rejoice in God's promise to pour out His Spirit.
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17:07Welcome back to this day three, spring 2025 Shareathod edition of the Hamilton Corner.
17:20Man, here in testimonies like that brother's testimony just, they really move me, man.
17:26It is by God's grace, man, that we are.
17:28that we are and I just give glory to God.
17:31Many of you guys know my testimony.
17:32I never in a million years dreamed
17:34I would ever be on anybody's radio.
17:36But God in the sovereign grace knew exactly
17:38where I needed to be.
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18:06This has been, once again, an amazing Sharethon so far.
18:08We still have about 26 minutes and about 10 seconds left to go.
18:13Marty likes my math.
18:14He gets a kick out of that.
18:15About 26 minutes and 10 seconds to go,
18:18as we are closing in on the conclusion of this Sharethon,
18:24the track coaches tell their runners all the time,
18:27make sure you run through the tape.
18:28And that is what we wanna do here to make every second count.
18:32And we are committed to being good stewards
18:34over the resources that you have worked so diligently for.
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18:41we recognize that we are accountable to God
18:44for how we utilize that resource.
18:45And we view the American Family Association
18:48as consisting of all of us,
18:50the teams that are here on the front lines
18:52and more visible portions of our team,
18:54the less visible components of our team,
18:56Mr. Bobby,
18:57a ro-a ro-a ro-a ro-a ro-a
18:59that Roland R kind of had a,
19:01that must have been under the Biden era,
19:03you know, had a little hiccup, you know?
19:06Let me get my full,
19:07ro-a ro-a ro-a ro-a ro-a ro-a ro-a ro-a
19:09You know how to get it going?
19:10What is this one?
19:11Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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19:14is in the building in the screening room today,
19:16you know, the J. Mac,
19:17he's not feeling the best today.
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19:21but also you at home,
19:23who listen and support and you share the information,
19:26that's one of the most vital components of being a part
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19:31is that you share what you learn,
19:33you share what God provides to you,
19:35you share that information so that those around you
19:39can equally be equipped.
19:41Because unfortunately, the lying media,
19:44talking to the media is not going to address these issues,
19:47not gonna share a lot of the things that you learn here
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20:08Now to the story I alluded to in the first segment,
20:11Labor Secretary, Lori Chavez-Darema, Darema, I'm sorry,
20:16testified today concerning more things that the Doge Department, the Department of Government
20:23Efficiency has uncovered.
20:26This time they turned their attention to the unemployment insurance program, the portion
20:32that is administered federally.
20:35Just prepare yourselves now because you are going to be flabbergasted as I am at what you
20:42learn.
20:44you know, and it is, it is galling to me.
20:47I was telling Bobby this during the break.
20:49How many people tried to poo-poo the doge efforts?
20:52Oh, they just uncovered $100 million and I was like,
20:55maybe because I'm, I'm head of a household.
20:58We have six children, you know,
20:59and I'm trying to navigate the things
21:00that they have going on now.
21:02And I'm trying to prepare for their futures
21:04that I understand if every week one of my six comes
21:07and say, hey, daddy, can I get a new plushie?
21:09It's about $35.
21:10Every week they do that.
21:13every week, I realize how that ultimately impacts the broader vision.
21:18That I might have many of you understand that, you know, eggs go go up a couple
21:22dollars per dozen.
21:24That's not something that's going to be easily escaped for many of us.
21:30You know, but when people are comfortable using, losing and abusing other
21:34people's money and you have so much fraud and waste and abuse going on,
21:39it makes it a whole lot easier to steal.
21:41But if you start adding up the stuff that Doge is doing and their goal was to
21:45to find $4 billion a day of waste fraud and abuse and they are finding it.
21:51It's galling to hear these numbers.
21:53Well, Laurie Chavez, Duramour, Secretary for the Department of Labor brought to the
22:01fore the latest discoveries by the Doge Department.
22:06Listen to Ann Watcher explain what they've uncovered.
22:11It's clip number one, clip number one.
22:13We're understanding unemployment insurance fraud.
22:18That trust needs to be whole for the American people.
22:20When we need it, we need it for who deserves it.
22:23That's not what we're seeing.
22:24And the numbers that we saw last night, again, exposed by our partners at Doge at the Department
22:29of Labor since 2020, over $400 million of payments have gone out already.
22:36And when you hear these numbers, apparently in the United States, we have over almost 25,000
22:42people who are over 115 years old, who are collecting $59 million that we have sent out
22:49to people who talk about fraudulent behavior.
22:54Mr. President, 28,000 people between one and five years old have collected fraudulent
23:00payments at the tune of $254 million has gone out.
23:05And lastly, 10,000 people who have not been born yet, 15 years into the future, 69 years
23:12million dollars and they haven't even been born yet but in one case they will be
23:16born a hundred and twenty nine years from now
23:19the united states government sent them forty one thousand dollars and they're
23:22not born yet so under the department of labor those are the things that were
23:26uncovering i couldn't be more honored to tell the american people that were
23:29bringing back their dollars and were saving them and returning them to the
23:33united states treasury
23:38question number one did you know that
23:41i i didn't know that
23:45I didn't know that.
23:46Did you know that?
23:49I like many of you, I work hard for the money that I earn.
23:53And it's, you know, it's just providential
23:55that here we are, what, five days away from April 15th?
23:59Tax day, tax day, is this what we?
24:04And every single one of us paying our tax dollars,
24:07is this what we're spending our tax dollars for?
24:10I mean, that's a question, did you know that?
24:13No, I didn't know that.
24:16I didn't know that other than doing my research
24:19and paying attention to what Doge is doing
24:21and all this other kind of stuff.
24:23Question number two, how do you feel about that?
24:26And again, we have to get out of this political gang banging,
24:30drop your red and blue flags,
24:35and just stop for a moment.
24:37That is why they want increased tax payments.
24:44More and more.
24:46Guys, since 2020, we're not talking about,
24:49you know, the last two decades,
24:52This is since 2020, over $400 million of payments already
24:57have been issued, nearly 25,000 people,
25:0324,500 people who are older than 115 years old
25:09according to what they have submitted
25:12to the Labor Department for Unemployment Insurance.
25:15Not hear me well.
25:17We're not talking about the Social Security Administration
25:19at this juncture.
25:20This is unemployment insurance guys.
25:22This is an entirely separate apparatus
25:25of the federal government, that there are 24,500 people
25:30over the age of 115 years old who have collected $59 million.
25:45You have, what's next, 28,000 people
25:49between the ages of one and five.
25:52Now again, we're talking about the data
25:55that has been submitted to secure the unemployment payment.
25:59There are, these are people that are using
26:02illegally secured data to gain access to this fraudulent money.
26:10To gain access to this money on a fraudulent basis.
26:16Between one and five.
26:20This segment has collected over $254 million.
26:25Now you have to stop and ask yourself.
26:27You process some paperwork that says this child,
26:29this is a person who's born whose birthday
26:32indicates that between one and five years old,
26:33you just like stamp send the money, stamp send the money.
26:42Then you got another 10,000 people who, according to the data
26:45that they've submitted and the birth dates that they've submitted,
26:49that people haven't been born yet, but they got social security numbers.
26:58They've gotten $41,000.
27:00No, no, that's right.
27:01That's one case.
27:02They got $41,000.
27:04It's 10,000 people in that category who hadn't been born yet,
27:07at least 15 years into the future that they've been to keep getting money from
27:11social, from sorry, from unemployment insurance.
27:13And then one case, a child who has, who will be born 129 years from now, got $41,000.
27:21Guys, that's embarrassing.
27:25And that is shameful.
27:28And what is equally shameful is the people who will be mad about it.
27:38How could you be mad when this kind of fraud is being exposed unless you are a beneficiary
27:45of said fraud?
27:47this may have something to do with one of the ways that these people who are making
27:51$120,000 in a few years, they're worth several million dollars in net worth.
27:56We want to continue to expose this kind of stuff to you.
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28:23Well, we're not lamenting, oh man, we're not getting under their fires of money.
28:26Got all of these professional athletes,
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28:31Look, I got jabbed with this mRNA.
28:33Listen to my show tomorrow.
28:35You're going to learn something about mRNA.
28:38I'll give you a hint, the connection between mRNA and CRISPR technology.
28:44I ain't going to go too far into it.
28:46But tune in tomorrow.
28:49You hear a little bit more about that.
28:51But our connection and our covenant is with God first and secondarily with you eight seven seven six one six two three nine six is the number to call.
29:01We have about twenty five minutes and ten seconds left in this spring twenty twenty five share on day three of the spring twenty five share on is here eight seven seven six one six two three nine six is the number to call to all of you who have called
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30:03It always stirs my heart and encourages me to hear directly from people just like you as
30:09to how this ministry is impacting their lives.
30:12And by God's grace, I pray that it will be an encouragement to you to not only continue
30:16you supporting and listening to the programming and supporting the ministry, but sharing it
30:21with your family, friends and loved ones that your sphere of influence can become an
30:25AFR sphere of influence.
30:27Let's listen to this testimony.
30:29Go.
30:33My name is Martha Hoover.
30:35I'm an immersing home in Plasti, Tennessee.
30:39And I can't tell you how much your radio program needs to me.
30:45I was without a radio for quite some time because my money is very limited and I'm unable to hear what comes on the television so I don't have a television.
30:56And when I got it, the first thing I came into was a wonderful minister.
31:03It is just thrilled my heart to be able to get AFR again.
31:09Thank you so much.
31:11Bye-bye.
31:12Oh, man. Oh, man, Bobby Union prepared me for that one.
31:19It is sister's in a nursing home in Tennessee.
31:23Can't hear the TV.
31:25She can show it at radio.
31:27And she went a little while without her radio,
31:29but as soon as she got her radio back,
31:31what did she do?
31:32Racist to AFR and as God would have it,
31:36Word of God is being proclaimed in power.
31:39And it is edifying to our dear sister,
31:41who may be in the nursing home,
31:43but the spirit of God is still drawing her to himself.
31:48Can't I make this stuff up, man? 877-616-2396. Man, I would love to see nursing homes all over
31:56the nation saturated with American family radio programming, encouraging them, heartening them,
32:03makes me think about my old friend brother Sheldon LaFrance. I got to stay around with him
32:08toward the end of his life and I'm telling you this brother was on fire. I told you all this story
32:12before. One of my first assignments when I was on staff at my church, I was basically, I was called
32:18an intern and I was assigned to what was called the sick and the shut-in. People who were no longer
32:23able to come out to get gathered corporately with the same. So they would send me to them.
32:27I would often administer communion and things like that. And this one brother, brother of France,
32:32I was assigned to go and minister to him, but this brother always minister to me. I would sit
32:37down, it would probably be, you know, it's supposed to be just an hour.
32:40I'd be two, three, four, five hours sometimes.
32:43And he had, I will never forget this.
32:45He had a handwritten notebook that really was a Bible commentary on the entire
32:50Bible written by hand.
32:54And, uh, but he would have, he would have the notebooks that would be several of them,
32:58several of them.
32:59Yeah, no pads.
33:00He had, you know, those black and white composition notebooks and he would say,
33:04little, take a look at this.
33:05You know, everybody called me a little way.
33:06was I was third, take a look at this.
33:08What do you think, man?
33:08This is I was up late last night praying
33:11and the Spirit of God stirred my heart
33:13and I couldn't stop writing.
33:15What'd you think about this?
33:16And I would just read, this is a man who never went to college.
33:18He was a bricklayer for his entire life until he retired,
33:22but the Spirit of God moved him so much,
33:24so he gave him such insight into the Word of God.
33:27I'm supposed to minister to him, he's ministering to me.
33:29Every time I visited him, I would go once a week,
33:32sometimes twice a week.
33:34And what a treasure possession man.
33:37And this brother used to be lighting up.
33:39He was in an assisted living facility.
33:41Every chance he'd get, he would tell,
33:43hey, you know, now you know you must be born again.
33:46You know, he must be born again.
33:47You say, he said, little a, I'll be talking to him.
33:49They would tell me they would go to church.
33:50And I would say, you know, going to church is wonderful.
33:52But have you been born again, sister?
33:55Have you been born again, brother?
33:58She said, sometimes in the place where I have,
33:59you would have nuns and priests who would come.
34:01And I would ask them,
34:02Have you been born again?
34:04And that's Brother Sheldon of France, man.
34:06877-616-239-6 is the number to call.
34:11877-616-239-6 is the number to call
34:15where you can help more sisters,
34:17like the one you just heard,
34:18that those she's in the nursing home,
34:20AFR is moving in her, stirring her heart
34:24by the Spirit of God.
34:25877-616-239-6 is the number to call,
34:29or you can give or you can give securely online at
34:33aFR.net, that is AFR.net.
34:36When we get back, we'll talk a little bit about Zeejin Ping
34:40try to get the world to say,
34:42he or the world, kumbaya, help me stand against
34:45the big bad American tariffs.
34:48And a couple people around the world said,
34:49not so fast, my friend.
34:51We'll get to that on the other side of the break.
35:00Executive Vice President, Ed Métagliato.
35:03I came to AFA in 1996.
35:06Now I have been paying attention to politics and culture
35:09since I had been in like the seventh grade.
35:12But what I discovered when I came here to AFA
35:16is what a lot of people, I think, discover when they start
35:18listening to American Family Radio or start reading the
35:22magazine or they familiarize themselves with the content
35:26produced by AFA.
35:28I found out what a lot of those folks find out.
35:31And that is there were serious issues, even back in 1996, serious cultural trends and serious spiritual trends,
35:43which were posing an existential threat to liberty in this country and our foundational principles and to the Christian faith.
35:54And so as I began to do research and read and pay closer attention to what was going on,
36:02I realized that the threat was dire and the future could be grim if Christians did not
36:11get involved.
36:12The fact that American Family Radio is a Christian minister, we're not just a political ministry,
36:18we're not just a cultural ministry, we are a Christian ministry.
36:22So the calling for people who work here, who listen, who follow the prompts of our action
36:32alerts online, who get involved in the culture around them, this is a Christian endeavor.
36:38We care about the souls of the people around us and we care about the soul of our nation.
36:44So yes, these kinds of things that are happening in our country can weigh on folks.
36:52But the fact that this ministry is bathed in prayer, that it is focused on the Word of God,
36:58gives great encouragement even in the midst of the battle.
37:02So we ask people to come alongside American Family Radio and in a sense work with us.
37:09It's got shoulder to shoulder on the battle line loving our enemies but also standing firm
37:15for the truth.
37:16So we depend on people supporting us financially.
37:21I always loved what Brother Don always said on the air during Sherathon.
37:25He would say, we're not going to treat our listeners like kids.
37:31They're adults and they understand it takes money to fund a ministry like this.
37:36But I can't think of anything more worthy of the support of Christians other than the
37:44The work of the church itself as a nonprofit organization, American Family Radio is on the
37:52front lines.
37:54And we go where no one else wants to go a lot of times and we talk about things that nobody
38:00else wants to talk about because it's important.
38:03These things are important to discuss and as people kind of tune in to AFR, they find out
38:09what's really happening and we take that responsibility seriously.
38:13Hello, my name is Katrin and I'm from Alger, Ohio.
38:27Several years ago, I tuned in 91.5 coming from Delphus.
38:34My home radios were all set to this station, and they have been on full-time day and night.
38:42In 2021, my husband had a blood clot hit his brain, causing a stroke.
38:49I was determined to keep him home where things were familiar and he knew love.
38:55I had some help from the veterans comfortkeepers two days a week and later on from hospice.
39:02For three years, I watched as dementia gradually took away his abilities and all the while, AFR
39:11At my spirit's ill, I praised God for the strength I found, and I would steal away and listen.
39:20Your station greatly ministered to me all through those years.
39:26And I am so thankful you are there.
39:29God bless you richly, and thank you.
39:32It's Sherathon on American Family Radio.
39:37Help us rejoice in God's promise to pour out His Spirit.
39:41Call now at 877-616-2396 or give online at aFR.net.
39:48And thank you for partnering with AFR during Charathon.
39:52Jesus, you cannot want your boy as fear.
39:56Back day three, the final day of the spring 2025 Charathon.
40:04You still have a few minutes, about 14 minutes and 50 seconds there about to make your contribution
40:10eight seven seven six one six two three nine six is the number to call eight seven seven
40:16six one six two three nine six is the number to call or you can give securely online at
40:22a F R dot net a F R dot net thank you to every single one of you who is given you help to create
40:29the scenario where the testimony you've heard I told you about the gentleman who was incarcerated
40:34In 1985, got out of prison in 2006,
40:38AFR was able to be there for him
40:40to aid him in his transition into living
40:43outside of prison and ultimately committing his way
40:45to the Lord when you know about the recidivism rates.
40:48You know how important it is to have community
40:51and have most importantly, biblical resources available.
40:54But that was a blessing to that gentleman.
40:55You heard the testimony earlier today
40:56of the sister in Tennessee, he was in a nursing home.
41:00But AFR was made available for her.
41:02I mean, it just stirs your heart.
41:03eight seven seven six one six two three nine six is the number to call right now
41:08I am joined on my left if you're watching watching the show is a F R president Tim Wildman and
41:14on my right a F R vice president Walker Wildman who have joined us in studio. I don't I don't
41:20like we on anybody's left. Well what I'm going to do is I'm going to change seats. It's just
41:25it's just twice a year. Okay. You're on my left physically. All right. But not. I'm
41:30Sociopolitically but from Bobby's vantage point is on your right. Yeah. Well, no one is on my right
41:37It doesn't matter where you position there is no one who is on my right
41:47Atilla's always wrong. I don't care where he's positioned. He is always wrong
41:51But eight seven seven six one six two three nine six is the number to call one of the things I told you guys I would announce
41:57If you were with us since the four o'clock hour, I mentioned we had the $150,000 challenge
42:02where I am excited to announce to you that we have met that challenge for that.
42:09And God is just continuously faithful.
42:13Thank you to each and every one of you who have been a part of that.
42:16And then those of you who still want to participate, you can 877-616-2396 is the number to call
42:22or you can give securely online at aFR.net.
42:25When you see God's continued faithfulness as made evident by, you can see the screen, 17,570 families and counties who have taken some of their hard-earned wages.
42:38I just played a few minutes ago from Laurie Chavez-Doramer, who is the labor secretary, showing the fraud in the unemployment insurance program to the tune of $400 million since 2020.
42:532020. I work hard to earn what I earn and what I pay to the federal treasury. I don't want it to go
43:02to people who have birth dates on the application of unemployment who won't be born for another 15
43:09years. This is what was found. So when you have when these kinds of things are being discovered,
43:15you see 17,500 families who use their hard on resources to come along us at AFR to utilize
43:20it hard on resources to support our work, how does that resonate with you?
43:25It's just, it's just, um, let's our spirits.
43:30Yeah.
43:31You know, it's just, uh, it's just wonderful.
43:33And I'll tell you another thing is what's impressive about that to me is, um, you know,
43:39we, we are a national radio ministry and so people don't see us every day.
43:45You know, a lot of most ministries that you support, a lot of them use, well, they do see
43:50us in the sense that they hear us on American family radio, but we're not in the same community
43:55with everybody. You know, you tie your church or you get to your local crisis pregnancy center,
44:00which we encourage strongly obviously. But I'm just saying we're, we're, you know, we're in
44:06Tupelo, Mississippi and a lot of people will never even get a chance to visit us here. But yet they
44:11trust us. They believe in us. They hear what we communicate 24 seven on American family radio.
44:16and they know that we're reaching millions of people.
44:19Many of them will never give.
44:21Don't give.
44:22I think one time I saw it's like 0.5% of people
44:26who ever listened to a Christian radio network
44:31will actually pick up the phone and make a contribution.
44:33But that's okay because what happens is,
44:36God provides what we need.
44:37That's right.
44:38Okay, God provides what we need,
44:40and he always has through his people
44:42who listen to American Family Radio
44:44believe in what we do
44:45and want to walk or include us in their budget.
44:48Yeah, that's right.
44:49And it's so encouraging, you know,
44:51this time is where we do it three days in the fall,
44:53three days in the spring, and we come before our audience
44:56and we ask them that we need their financial requests.
44:59We need their financial help,
45:01and that's what we do these three days.
45:02And seeing, listening to the listener testimonies
45:06is just powerful.
45:07I know you folks are touched by it out there in radio land,
45:10but we are too, because we don't get to hear
45:12these stories all the time.
45:13We're too busy doing show prep and just doing the daily work here at
45:17AFR.
45:18But these three days are very encouraging for our team.
45:21It's just as encouraging as it is for you guys out there listening to AFR.
45:26Hearing these listener testimonies, how God is using AFR is just amazing to
45:30hear.
45:31And I want to thank the 17,000 plus families and individuals all around the
45:35country that have donated to the AFR this year.
45:38I'm Tom.
45:38Thank you so much.
45:39And we appreciate you.
45:40Yeah.
45:41And earlier today, I said, we want to go over four million.
45:44That's kind of what we wanted to do here during Sharathon.
45:47And we have gone over four million.
45:48We have.
45:49We have.
45:50We have.
45:51We're four million, $12,000.
45:55And by the time it's all counted today,
45:57and some people will call even after hours probably,
46:00and make a donation, make a donation today.
46:03A far.net will be somewhere between one, four point,
46:08probably about four point one and four point two.
46:10What did you say the record was or last spring?
46:12What did we do?
46:13Last spring of 24, we did 4.07.
46:16So we're already ahead of last spring.
46:18And then that was including the weekend too,
46:20Friday and the weekend.
46:22So as you hit to your point, we'll see some donations
46:24trickling over the weekend.
46:25I'll tell you another thing.
46:26And you could put this one in the E of little faith category.
46:30OK.
46:31Last week when the stock market crashed, I thought,
46:35why was this a perfect time in for Sharathon?
46:38You know, the whole world, the whole world economy
46:40is going to the toilet and we're about to say send money.
46:44And people are gonna go, I don't have any to see them.
46:46It all went down the toilet.
46:48That's not true.
46:53Our people are a different breed, okay?
46:55I say our people, generally speaking,
46:57the people who listen to support American Family Radio
47:00are financially frugal and they plan and they save.
47:05and they save and so stock market going up or down doesn't affect them that much.
47:11You know, there's nothing wrong with investing in the stock market in my opinion.
47:15Millions of people do, but it is risky sometimes, you know, because, but you know,
47:22what I'm saying is I thought last week I thought, well, maybe this is the best time
47:27to have a share of time, but we had already had it on the books. We were going
47:30with it and you know, whatever God provided, He provided through His people
47:34and our folks have come through again.
47:37Yeah, we've come. We've had Sharathon through some pretty difficult times. I remember just after
47:41COVID. I mean, we were weeks or a month or two following the start of COVID in 2020. And a lot of
47:47unknowns. I think we've delayed it a couple weeks, but we didn't had a great Sharathon. But folks,
47:52our listeners always show up. And no matter what what's going on in the country and the culture,
47:57in the last several years have been difficult. We talked about this last year,
48:00on the last four years have been very challenging for families and for budgets and the economy
48:05and with inflation and everything that went on under Biden. And so, but even during those times,
48:11people showed up and they supported AFR. And when you hear the testimonies, when you read the stories
48:17of how God is using AFR, the lives that are being impacted, the marriages that are being restored,
48:21the families that are being reconciled, it's abundantly clear that God's hand is in this ministry,
48:27and we're just humble and thankful to be a part of it.
48:30I want to give the number to those who are still in the place
48:33where you'd like to give.
48:34It is 877-616-2396.
48:37We talked about running through the tape here.
48:39We have people stealing Sharethon Central, who
48:42are ready to take your call 877-616-2396 is the number to call.
48:48Or you can give securely online at afr.net.
48:51That is afr.net.
48:53You know, I mentioned before you guys came in
48:55that I was going to share with the audience here, that Xi Jinping in China who asked for
49:01nations to come together.
49:03I had the story right here to join hands.
49:07We are the world.
49:09Almost in some we are the world kind of disposition.
49:13What do you say?
49:14I didn't hear this.
49:15Yeah, to stand against the big bully United States of America and their efforts to impose
49:19terrorists on the world to which the Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles responded,
49:24quote, we're not about to make common cause with China.
49:27We're not going to be holding hands with China in any respect of any contest that is going
49:32on in the world.
49:34So it's interesting that you have other people who are joining this, tell I say, adjustment
49:40of the target of the terrorist, which is clearly now China and saying that they are not going
49:45to aid in supporting Xi Jinping and resisting the isolation being led by the United States
49:51of America.
49:52that somebody at some point in the whole world
49:55has been willing to stand up to China.
49:57And in this day and age, it's Donald Trump.
50:00It is.
50:01And he said yesterday, he said,
50:02don't retaliate and you will be rewarded.
50:04That's word for word.
50:06Because they're working out trade deals right now.
50:08There's over 90 countries they announced
50:10at the table right now negotiating trade deals.
50:12There's several that they're about to announce.
50:14I called.
50:15I've already been signed.
50:16You got a trade deal.
50:17Yeah, I got a trade deal going on.
50:18Is it simple?
50:19They may realize I'm not a country at some point
50:22I'm trying to get in on that deal there.
50:24You're telling me you're from Wildman's land?
50:25Yes, it's Wildman land.
50:27Tell them I was from Wildman land,
50:28and I was we're right over here by Switzerland.
50:31You just don't know, but we want to get in
50:32on this trade deal you got going on here.
50:35Focusing on China was smart because they're the bad actor.
50:38When you look at it all, they're the grand bad actor here,
50:40and it has been that way for a long time.
50:42But I think President Trump's going to get a deal
50:44with all of them.
50:45China's going to eventually have to come to the table.
50:47Well, let me just say this before we close that,
50:50We were about four minutes to go here.
50:55We all love our country.
50:58Our country, like any other country,
51:00but our country is not perfect.
51:02We've got problems.
51:03We always will.
51:03Why?
51:04Because we've got 330 million human beings
51:06in our country who are fallible people.
51:11But overall, our country is still a beacon for the world
51:15in many respects.
51:16And we don't want to lose our country.
51:20And by lose, I mean, lose, I mean, we may always have a place called the United States of America,
51:25but I'm talking about the heart and the soul of our country, our way of life, our freedom, our liberty,
51:31all those things that the values that we all share and make America great,
51:36we, those are biblical values for the most part. Okay, there's so much common ground between what's
51:42the Bible teaches and what our American experience has been. Has everybody been Christians? No.
51:49But we have honored and revered the Word of God and the Christian value system, Abraham,
51:58and we want to keep up with that, right, brothers?
52:00Yeah, and we were talking earlier about the simple fact that what we know as Western civilization
52:05is the direct product of a biblical worldview being applied to public life. There is no
52:10Western civilization without things like Augustine's City of God, which is one of the most robust,
52:16even to this date, a commentaries on the structure of any governmental apparatus and its connection
52:22to biblical worldview.
52:23There's no reference in our Declaration of Independence of unalienable rights without the
52:27discovery and the acknowledgement that human beings are made in the image of God, that they
52:31are rights that people have intrinsically because they're God-given and people or governments
52:36don't have the lawful authority to take them away.
52:38All of these enduring bedrock principles flow out from the truth of scripture.
52:43So regardless of where a person may stand,
52:46even the cries that we've heard routinely for justice.
52:49Well, where do those cries come from?
52:51You sure don't get them from a Darwinian world.
52:53No.
52:53The intrinsic desire for justice,
52:55have wrongs right it, comes from the fact
52:58that we have a just God who is our creator
53:00and he infuses us with the capacity
53:02to live out what he's hardwired within us.
53:04And so we just, you know, are the beneficiaries
53:08of that taking root in some courageous people
53:11in previous generations,
53:12doing what they needed to do,
53:13which is incumbent upon us to contend in our generations,
53:17equally courageously,
53:18and contending for that same truth.
53:20877-616-2396 is the number to call.
53:23If you wanna join in still,
53:25AFR.net is the website where you can give securely online,
53:29but I want to say thank you, Lord,
53:33for your provision, for your continued faithfulness.
53:36Thank you, Lord, for these amazing supporters
53:39who would use their hard-earned revenue
53:41to support the work of the ministry that God is doing here,
53:43glory to God for what he is doing.
53:45And we all are committed to using these resources wisely
53:50to steward them well for the glory of our King.
53:53Amen, and I would just encourage people to pray the prayer
53:55that we used as our theme for this, Sharethon.
53:58Pour your spirit out.
53:59Amen.
54:00Oh God, on our land.
54:01Amen.
54:02Amen.
54:03On our people.
54:04Thank you, everybody.
54:05From Isaiah 44, three, thank you, thank you, thank you.
54:07You all have a wonderful evening.
54:09God's grace, AFR will still be on the air tomorrow.
54:12Amen.
54:13Regardless of Chinese tariffs.
54:14Ha, ha, ha.

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