April 14, 2025 · 49:24

Revival requires repentance

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0:00 - 15:00. Luke 24:13-20. “While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near.” 15:00 - 31:00. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump celebrate Holy Week. 31:00 - 48:00. There can be no revival without repentance. Callers weigh in. To donate call : 877-616-2396

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:07This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now the Hamilton corner.
0:33Good evening everyone.
0:35Welcome to The Hamilton Corner, my name is Abrams Hamilton the third.
0:38I am the host of this program joined by the Corner Contingent right across from me.
0:43My man $100 grand Mr. Bobby, and in the screening room we have our friendly neighborhood would
0:53of hol strife perpetually in recovery.
0:57in the screening room.
0:58We also have Richie Rich, though the stock market made dip.
1:02It will not affect Richie Rich.
1:04He's in the screening room as well.
1:06And we are ready to rock and roll
1:08with the days addition of the program.
1:09And however, though the market dipped temporarily,
1:14it made a quick adjustment, shall I say,
1:20which should be expected with all of the tariff talking.
1:24And I want everybody to know when I'm talking about
1:26like tariffs, for example, I'm not immune.
1:28Mr. Rosa and I were even talking last week about it. Hey, we got some portfolios as being impacted as well
1:34but it is
1:37It's quite shameful
1:40There's no other way to explain it. It's quite shameful that we've had people in positions of public service
1:47and I'm going to emphasize that public service that
1:51Endeavour to serve the public by outsourcing our
1:56Occupational futures
1:58You know it is shameful that we've had an American government that has allowed a rust belt to a
2:06Develop in America that that that is shameful
2:09you know, you know people who are in business they are in business to make a profit no doubt about it and
2:15You know China is like well if y'all are gonna be fools
2:19Don't mind me for taking advantage of your fooler
2:21but we've had people in our own country and have sold us out and
2:27And the markets are responding because President Trump, true to his campaign promise to be America first, is endeavoring to rebalance that on the international stage.
2:39So, there's some tumultuousness in the stock market currently.
2:47But I pray that that wisdom would prevail and that the willingness of President Trump to stake the entirety of his presidency on this thing.
2:59He's doing a lot of other things that are being overshadowed
3:02by
3:03The tariff conversation understandably so, you know James Carvo comes to mind. It's the economy
3:10Comes to mind he said something after that and I ain't gonna say right now, you know
3:14I'm trying to tell my children I'd say those words but
3:17Try to is an operative word there at this very moment many of you if not most of you are making your transition
3:24From your part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you generate an outcome and
3:29And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understand in the
3:36primacy that God places on family and allowing that to inform your engagement as well as my
3:45own.
3:47Right now this is probably my favorite time of year because the entire world is brought
3:55face to face with the reality of Messiah's resurrection. I mean, no matter where you stand
4:03and no matter what is transpiring in the entirety of the world, much of the world is being confronted
4:13with the reality of Jesus's resurrection. So as you are making your transition, it is
4:22of utmost importance that we,
4:26as we talk about the celebration of the resurrection,
4:29and there would be no resurrection
4:31without the crucifixion,
4:33as we talk about the reality of the resurrection,
4:36may we all be found to celebrate in the resurrection
4:39in our own homes,
4:41in allowing the reality of the resurrection
4:45to inform the lives that we live
4:48because it is 100% true,
4:54that the resurrection has made eternal life a reality.
4:58To the word of God, we go Luke chapter 24,
5:00Luke chapter 24, this is a familiar passage of scripture,
5:04but it's a portion of scripture that I reflect on often.
5:08And I want to encourage you to consider this as well.
5:16The verses we're gonna focus on in Luke chapter 24
5:19is our verses 13 through 20.
5:22by way of reminder, one of the canonical criteria,
5:27one of the criteria that was employed
5:29to distinguish authoritative scripture from other writings.
5:35All right, because some people got to say,
5:37oh, the council and I see it created the Bible.
5:39No, it didn't.
5:40No, it didn't.
5:40And it wasn't even the council and I see it.
5:42Council's acknowledge was already recognized
5:44as authoritative within the body of Christ.
5:46So Lord move through Athanasius on one portion
5:49of the Roman Empire and council on the other portion
5:51to develop this canonical criterion, one of the criterion employed to determine what text
5:58would be recognized as authoritative, inspired scripture is that it had to be written by an
6:05eyewitness of Jesus Christ.
6:06All right, during his incarnation, sorry, an eyewitness of Jesus Christ or a disciple of
6:14an eyewitness of Jesus Christ of the apostles of Jesus Christ.
6:20They all witnessed Jesus during his incarnation save for the apostle Paul who describes himself
6:26as one born out of time who yeshua reveals himself to en route to Damascus.
6:34So you have for example, one was described as a four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and
6:37John written by apostles who beheld the incarnate Christ directly.
6:42The gospel of Mark is actually Mark serving as a stenographer, if you will, for Peter's
6:47account of Jesus's life. The Gospel of Luke, Dr. Luke, is detailed by a disciple of the
6:59Apostle Paul. Luke was a disciple of the Apostle Paul. Those are some of the criterion that
7:07distinguished canonical text from other writings, apocryphal writings and other things. I wanted
7:13to mention that. The beginnings of chapter 24 provide details from Dr. Luke concerning
7:20Messiah's resurrection verse 13 begins with a post resurrection or begins a post resurrection
7:30Account and it's there will pick up
7:32Luke 24 verse 13 and word of God says this that very day two of them two of the disciples
7:39Not the apostles with two of the other disciples
7:41We're going to a village named Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem
7:47And they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened while they were talking and discussing together
7:56Jesus himself
7:58drew near and
8:00Went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him and he said to them
8:08What is this conversation?
8:10That you are holding with each other as you walk and they stood still
8:16Looking sad
8:17Then one of them named Cleopas answered him. Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem?
8:25Who doesn't know the things that have happened there in these days?
8:28And he said to them what things that's what Jesus says what things?
8:33And they said to him
8:36Concerning Jesus of Nazareth a man who was a prophet
8:40mighty indeed and word before God and all the people and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be
8:49be condemned to death and crucified him.
8:52Oh, so what we have here, as I mentioned earlier,
8:58is a post-resurrection account.
9:02To where we have two disciples, one of them is named
9:04in the text, Cleopas.
9:08They are identified as walking away from Jerusalem
9:13toward Emmaus.
9:14Many of you will recognize that that is in direct
9:16contravention, direct contravention to a Jesus,
9:22tarry in Jerusalem, wait in Jerusalem,
9:25until you receive the promise of my father, where Cleopas and his companion are doing the
9:28exact opposite, which she immediately calls to begin to examine why are they doing the
9:34exact opposite?
9:35Why are they going in a different direction?
9:38Well one of the major things or the primary reasoning for this is that they along with
9:44all in Jerusalem had just witnessed Jesus' crucifixion.
9:50as the scripture unfolds, this transpires during Passover.
9:57In contrary to many of the,
10:00much of the iconography and the imagery,
10:03Jesus's torture and crucifixion was brutal.
10:10Unlike many of the depictions,
10:11there was no cloth covering his private regions.
10:16He blanned from every orifice of his body.
10:22And many of them, including Cleopas and his companion, had hopes placed in one direction
10:31that were utterly decimated by the cross.
10:37You would be right to say that as Jesus was brutalized and ultimately executed on the
10:42cross, that they beat the hope out of Cleopas' companion and many people who profess to be
10:48disciples.
10:49And so they were going away from where Jesus had instructed them.
10:54the gospel's record, Peter, who was called away from being a fisherman, went back to
10:58fishing because he was so hopeless at that juncture.
11:02But in one of the most profound offerings in the scripture, notice, I want you to notice
11:12what the text says.
11:14The two of them were going to a village named Ami.
11:16It's about seven miles away from Jerusalem.
11:20And they're talking with each other about what had just happened, namely Jesus is crucifixion.
11:27to at this juncture were not aware. Oh God, that Messiah resurrected. They were unaware at this
11:36junction. So with their hope crushed the expectations decimated and en route to a place away from
11:47where Jesus had instructed them to be. Look at verse 13. While they were talking and discussing
11:55together, Jesus himself draws near to them. He goes with them. Though they were unaware of
12:06the resurrection, Jesus didn't wait until they learned about it. He draws near to them. The entire
12:14Emmaus road encounter the things that transpire thereafter, the communication from the entirety
12:21of scripture, you read them in the continued portion of this account. Jesus continues talking
12:26with him and then they notice the observation is made that he begins to teach
12:32them all things concerning himself from the Hebrew text while their eyes are being
12:38kept and when they arrive in Emeas they still didn't recognize that they have been
12:45conversing in striding with a resurrected Christ and this the scripture reveals he
12:50was made known unto them in the breaking of the bread then their eyes were opened
12:55What I want you to notice is who was it that initiated the Emmaus Road encounter?
13:03Was it Cleopas in his companion?
13:06No.
13:07They were walking away from what Jesus told them to go.
13:11But Jesus himself walks up alongside them.
13:15Brothers and sisters, this gives us a profound picture of the enduring love of Christ.
13:21At the moment where their hope was decimated, their anticipation was crushed.
13:26They had no expectation concerning the very thing they previously placed their hope in.
13:31And at that very moment, Jesus didn't wait for them to get it together.
13:35He comes up alongside them.
13:39And when the eyes are finally opened, they could remark to one another, did not our hearts
13:43burn within us?
13:45Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked with us along the way?
13:51Oh man, one of the most profound realities.
13:56The scriptures revealed that there were none that our Lord could swear by so he swore by himself
14:01that the King of glory invaded human history so that he might redeem for himself a people
14:08to live eternally.
14:11At the moment where you and I are tempted to become listful and hopeless, it is Christ
14:17himself who draws near to us.
14:21And I want to say something very simply as we are in the throes of this holy week.
14:27of you listening to me right now have felt the Lord drawing you and nudging you toward him,
14:32but you felt like, man, I'm with my life as a mess. Then I'm a wreck. I got to get myself
14:38together. And I would simply say that the Lord Jesus, his example is you don't have to
14:43get yourself together. You come to him and it isn't coming to him that he makes crooked
14:49places straight. It isn't coming to him that he redeems us from sin, death, hell in the
14:55the grave. You don't have to fix yourself. You come to him because he is the fixer.
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16:15Shining light into the darkness,
16:17this is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
16:21Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
16:22Abraham Hamilton the third here.
16:24Man, this is going to be.
16:28busy summer.
16:32May 22nd to 24th, we will be in North Carolina,
16:36Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the NCHE Thrive Convention.
16:42That is North Carolinians for home schooling,
16:44for home education, I should say.
16:46We'll be there, keep your eyes and ears tuned.
16:51The AFA activate summit will happen this summer.
16:54In June, it's gonna be a busy summer.
16:57will be broadcasting from North Carolina in May, May 22nd to 24th.
17:02Please visit nce.com to register to check back with the AFR.net speakers page where you'll
17:11see the events where we're loading them up there.
17:15They're being loaded up a few months at a time.
17:18So it's not to overwhelm the schedule, but we will be on the road this entire year.
17:23It's going to be a busy year.
17:25God is good, God is faithful, and I am so looking forward to it.
17:31We are in Holy Week, and it was heartening for me to see President Trump issue a statement
17:38from the White House concerning Holy Week and what she said, quote, this Holy Week, Melania
17:43and I join in prayer with Christians celebrating the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord
17:48and Savior Jesus Christ, the living Son of God who conquered death, freed us from sin
17:53and then unlocked the gates of heaven for all humanity."
17:56In quote, it is encouraging to have the White House be so forthright in describing this and
18:07not trying to say yes and along with all of these other things.
18:13And I know other people, the separation of church and state people are going to be upset,
18:16which is so funny that the only way they can be upset is if they do not understand Thomas
18:24Jefferson's eight words from his letter to the Christians in Danbury, Connecticut.
18:32But I stated in the first segment, this is my favorite time of year, because the
18:38whole world is confronted with the reality of Messiah's resurrection.
18:45But the longest people attempted to debate and to question the historicity of
18:56Jesus Christ, whether or not Jesus was a historical person, historical figure.
19:09It was quite interesting to watch a debate between the gentleman just last last month,
19:19his name, not Hitchens, the other atheist who had to admit, well, of course, Jesus is a historical
19:25person, because in his book, he questioned whether or not he was, you know, and the reason
19:32why I'm reflecting on this and just in my own reflections, it is true.
19:37This with the scripture says, it's only one name under heaven by which men must be
19:40saved, you know, and the greatest news in human history is that Jesus Christ died
19:51for the sins of mankind.
19:54Now, make no mistake about it.
19:57No man comes to the Lord, unless he is drawn, the spirit of God must open the eyes
20:01of the unbeliever.
20:02But I often say that the believer's privilege is to live from eternity for eternity.
20:12And it is heartening to see and to hear.
20:17I am by no means attempting to assert anything concerning President Trump's salvation, the
20:25lack thereof.
20:26I know some people say he saved.
20:27I'm not saying that I know for a fact he is saved or he isn't saved.
20:33If he is in our prey to the Lord, would open his eyes and draw him to himself.
20:41But it is a welcome change to not have overt hostility coming from the over office against
20:49Christ followers in our day and our time.
20:58The scriptures command the believer to pray for all men are prayer for all men are people,
21:03including civic leadership.
21:05And we have a duty to obey the Lord.
21:08I would assert that one of the most enduring needs
21:13or prayers certainly wisdom for our leadership,
21:16but for their souls to be saved.
21:19You know, because there are a lot of things that,
21:23well, let me say it differently.
21:25When the Lord opens a man or a woman's heart,
21:28open their eyes to embrace salvation,
21:31everything is impacted by that.
21:35So I just was heartened by that,
21:39and I just wanted to share that with you.
21:42I also mentioned in the first segment
21:44that you had ups and downs with the stock market,
21:50stock market closed today, up quite significantly.
21:56Up quite significantly.
21:57Then you have this announcement from the company in Vidia.
22:02Nvidia announced today that it will quote design and build factories that for the first
22:07time will produce Nvidia AI supercomputers entirely in the United States of America.
22:14The US based multinational tech corporation has committed to spend $500 billion to make
22:20AI supercomputers entirely in the United States of America.
22:27Was that because of Terrace?
22:28Not because of Terrace?
22:30According to Nvidia CEO, they had been in conversations with the Trump administration for
22:34quite some time about this. It is encouraging. The NVIDIA statement continued saying quote,
22:52within the next four years, NVIDIA plans to produce up to half a trillion dollars of AI
22:58infrastructure in the United States through partnerships with TSMC. That is, I have the
23:05Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing company, Foxconn,
23:08Wistrum, Amcore, and SPIL. These world leading companies are
23:13deepening their partnerships with Nvidia growing their businesses
23:16while expanding their global footprint and hardening supply
23:20chain resilience.
23:27Currently, Nvidia outsources production of its chips to
23:32Taiwan's, Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing company, and
23:37Samsung, which manufactured their chips in Taiwan and South Korea, and some of the United States.
23:43But with this communication, the video is commuting itself to make the supercomputers
23:49exclusively in the United States of America. This follows, this follows, TMSC, Taiwan,
23:56semiconductor manufacturing company CEO, Jinseng Wang announcing a $100 billion investment in chip
24:04manufacturing plants here in America. I'm just saying, I've said and I will continue to say,
24:11President Trump does things that I would probably do differently. However, he has been the only
24:16president within the last half century that has been willing to take aim at China. Today's
24:25announcements to where he's adjusting tears even more and the stock market's response
24:31is an indication that if you're willing to do something,
24:35you could drive some response.
24:38But for far too long, it would be unwilling,
24:43which provokes, in my opinion, the question,
24:48why hasn't any other American president
24:53been willing to take China on?
24:56Obviously, I'm aware that Bill Clinton
24:59had the exact wrong policy because he is responsible
25:02for introducing China into things like the World Trade Organization and attempting to normalize
25:11relations with him.
25:12Why didn't anybody after him do anything differently?
25:16Why?
25:18So I'm explaining this.
25:22I am still one who is a bit skeptical about kind of the transhumanism that undergirds many
25:31who are advocates for artificial intelligence.
25:35I know many of you heard the program we did Friday,
25:38talking about how China's feverish interest
25:44in using CRISPR to alter the human genome.
25:49And this is what they've said.
25:51This is not my opinion.
25:52This is what they've said.
25:54It's a concerning phenomenon.
25:58Now over the weekend, many of you might've heard
26:00about this news, this was concerning.
26:05At about 2 AM Sunday morning, members of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Bureau of Fire responded
26:12to the Pennsylvania Governor's Mansion.
26:15For what?
26:17A fire had started at the Pennsylvania's Governor's Mansion where Josh Shapiro and his family were.
26:26Josh Shapiro said, quote, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania
26:30State Police after an arsonist set fire to the governor's residence in Harrisburg.
26:37quote. Police have now arrested a man whose named name is Cody bomber 38 years old. According
26:47to the arrest report, Cody bomber had developed hatred toward Josh Shapiro. He walked on foot
26:56over an hour to get to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion. He apparently made homemade Molotov
27:03cocktails and had a small hammer that he utilized after he climbed the exterior security fence,
27:09which I would simply ask how does a random dude climb
27:14the governor's man to security fence.
27:17In this day and age, guys, I'm just reporting to you
27:20what has been reported.
27:23I find that interesting.
27:25He used a hammer to break a window
27:28and threw in two homemade,
27:30according to the reports, Molotov cocktails.
27:33He had two bottles that he filled with gasoline,
27:35let them entossed him into the governor's man.
27:38According to the police, he was the suspect, Cody bomber was asked,
27:43what did you plan to do with if you found governor Shapiro?
27:46He's going to beat him with a hammer in quote.
27:52Now what's interesting to me, this is interesting to me.
27:55And I'm not trying to play any games, anything like that.
27:59But if you contrast the way that this dude who clearly,
28:06according to the reports, attempted to attack Josh Shapiro's home,
28:09contrast that with the dude who rolled up on just as Brett Kavanaugh's home with zip ties into
28:15You notice a little bit of difference in the way those two stories have been reported
28:19So which I just simply say why I think the why is obvious
28:25But I even want to say before you even get to the obvious reality of the wise that guys we're in it
28:30We're in a we're in a procurious. We're in a we're in a we're in a we're in a we're in a difficult state in the nation where you have
28:37have, you know, people who are attempting to deal with whatever they have going on to
28:42weather resorting to violence.
28:43All right.
28:46Violence is never the way that you communicate your opinion.
28:48If you don't like the governor, start a campaign to, you know, to oust him.
28:53Find out what your state laws are.
28:54Can you recall your governor, you know, help somebody run against him?
28:58Guys, that's just straight up evil.
29:00It's just straight up evil.
29:02And I also would simply say, why is our media so willingly in eager to talk about the details
29:07So what happened with Josh Shapiro's attacker
29:10and for people like Justice Kavanaugh,
29:12they were just describing dude as a protester.
29:14For how long?
29:16For how long?
29:18And then thirdly, I simply wanna say,
29:19when you have these kinds of things happening,
29:21this is why an appropriate system of justice is required
29:29because punitive measures must be taken in such a manner
29:34to where they deter further activities like this.
29:37Now, of course, as many of you might expect,
29:40This Mr. Ballmer's mother was interviewed.
29:42What do you think the first thing that she said
29:44was her son's problem?
29:46What do you think?
29:47What do y'all think?
29:51Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
29:52yes.
29:53He has he's mentally ill.
29:56He's mentally ill.
29:58That was the first response.
30:03He's mentally ill.
30:07That's another one.
30:08You know how I remember seeing on MSNBC
30:13when you had after President Trump was literally shot in the ear when the
30:20subsequent attempted murder transpired at the golf course, I literally saw people saying, oh, I wasn't attempted murders like dude has a rifle
30:28Pointed at the president after he'd just been shot
30:31You know, oh, you don't know that I'm for assassination to tell we don't really know if that's really really what it was
30:39I'm just like man. We we are in a we are in a strange place
30:43when
30:44You know political violence is being sanctioned and then you have the polls I talked about these last week
30:49You have the polls of people who are self-identified as left-leaning
30:54significant portions of them
30:56Okay, you're okay, but the trouble is assassinated
30:59Yeah, it'd be okay. Be a lot of musculous assassinated. I'm just like what has happened to us. It's happened to us as a society
31:10Yes, let's debate have reason disagreements, you know deep
31:17passionate disagreements
31:19about ideas and about policy, but violence is never the way
31:23to resolve political disagreement.
31:27I'm not talking about defending yourself.
31:29Someone attempts to attack you or your loved ones,
31:33someone attempting to destroy your property.
31:36I'm not talking about that.
31:38That's an entirely different category.
31:40I'm talking about you dislike a person
31:42because of their political positions.
31:45This is why it was insane to me.
31:46And, you know, oh, are you using to let bygones be bygones?
31:52When Smovit was unfolding, you have people literally saying,
31:55you are an evil person.
31:57If you have questions about the mRNA jab,
32:00you're an evil person.
32:02You are willing to destroy your family,
32:05to cease relationship with family members,
32:10about Smovit policies as evil, man.
32:16Now, what's the root of all of this?
32:17The scripture says, we're doing murders
32:19things like that germinate from, it starts in the heart, starts in the heart.
32:24And we have to be diligent to refuse to allow the lying media to cause us to be so whipped
32:34into a frenzy and having such a palpably biblically illiterate populace to where these emotional
32:42uprisings cause the vacuousness of our hearts to be brought to the fore to where political
32:48The whole virus becomes the result.
32:50That becomes what we resort to.
32:53It's unacceptable.
32:55It should be unacceptable.
32:59We need repentance in our nation.
33:02We'll open the phone lines when we come back
33:04with the other side of the spring.
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33:16Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
33:20Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III.
33:24Richard Dawkins is the guy's name.
33:26name is the atheist who debated John Linux John Linux is the Christian
33:30mathematician and the God delusion debate John Linux I want to be very kind here
33:37wipe the floor with Richard Dawkins which caused Richard Dawkins to admit oh
33:42well of course Jesus is a historical person and now that debate was all in 2008
33:48and now you have Richard Dawkins talking about he's a culture and the culture of
33:51Christian I much prefer like oh after you spent the last 20 years trying to
33:55the world that there's no God.
33:57Now you're like, I'm so sorry I did that.
33:59I much prefer.
34:03And he's not sorry he did it.
34:05He just sorry about the consequences of doing it.
34:08Anyway, it caused Dawkins to admit that we put
34:12in his book, The God Delusion, was a lie.
34:18That absolutely right, Jesus Christ is an historical person.
34:23But then you have the reality, as Josh McDowell puts
34:25in more than the carpenter,
34:27and employing the, uh, see, as Lewis, trivia, um, liar lunatic, a Lord.
34:38So once you cross the bridge, recognize Jesus is a historical person.
34:42Well, who did he claim himself to be?
34:44Jesus himself.
34:45Jesus claimed to be God.
34:49There's not another man in human history who claimed to be God.
34:54Buddha never claimed to be God.
34:56Christian never kind of claimed to be God.
34:57note he claimed to be God. So then you left with three choices. As C. S. Lewis put it in
35:04Josh McDowell expounded upon that and more than the carpenter, he's either a liar, he's either
35:10a lunatic or he's Lord. So the reality of Passover in the resurrection forces the world
35:24to confront that reality.
35:27As we come to the phone lines, what I want to ask of the callers just to have a moment
35:33just to share with us that as we are in Holy Week, heading towards what's commonly described
35:39as Good Friday and appointing towards Resurrection Sunday, what are you reflecting upon as we're
35:46doing so as we approach the reality of Resurrection Sunday? This is something that I strongly
35:55believe should be celebrated as a high point of our year. I want to invite our audience just
36:03to share if you're willing to what you are reflecting on. What are you reflecting upon
36:09reflect reflecting on as we approach. And as we are celebrating our Lord's resurrection.
36:14And this is something frankly that I think should be a daily celebration, but I also think it's
36:18worth celebrating this reality. And even as the scripture commands as we celebrate the
36:26Lord's table as the believers celebrate the Lord's table, we do so in recognition of what
36:32has transpired in the sinless sacrificial death in the toning death of our Messiah in anticipation
36:42of his return. You see, that it is a celebration that is reflective, but is also prospective
36:51in anticipating what is to come. I just, you kind of get an idea what I'm reflecting on,
36:57but I want to see what you are reflecting on as resurrection, our Lord's resurrection,
37:03the world is being confronted with that reality. As we do so a couple points, I think I mentioned this,
37:10but I want to make sure everybody's aware. Former presidential candidate, former governor of Arkansas,
37:19Mike Huckabee was confirmed as a US ambassador to Israel. He was confirmed. And let me give the
37:27number for those of you who want to call in, we're open to the phone lines now. It's 888589840
37:35The number to call is 888-589-8840.
37:39I'm inviting you just to share with us what you are reflecting on as we are really celebrating
37:49the Messiah's incarnation and his sinless life, his atoning sacrificial death and his resurrection.
37:59And all of these things point us toward his return.
38:05What are you reflecting on?
38:06888-589-8840 is the number to call 888-589-8840 is the number to call a bit of good news.
38:19U.S. Special Envoy Adam Bowler announced that Robert Vieira, who is an American who was operating
38:27as a missionary in Tunisia, who was detained in Tunisia 13 months ago, 13 months ago,
38:35the suspicion of espionage, suspicion of espionage. He has been released. The Trump administration
38:43has secured Robert Vieira's release. And so he is en route back home to America. And we
38:52are grateful for that thankful for that phone number again is 888-589-8840. We'll begin.
39:02Are we ready?
39:06We're not ready yet, okay.
39:08All right, 888-589-8840 is the number to call.
39:13If you would like to join the program,
39:14you're welcome to do so.
39:16So many people are reflecting on the fact
39:22in opining whether Trump's tears are working.
39:27And I would simply say to everybody,
39:30wait and see is the best approach.
39:32But the willingness to take on China
39:34is something that's commendable.
39:35It's laudable in my estimation.
39:37But the reality is that a lot of the other things
39:42that the Trump administration is accomplishing
39:43are being overshadowed, like for example, for example,
39:49the border.
39:50You know, you had lots of people in President Trump said this
39:55and it's joined the address to Congress a couple months ago.
39:58There are a lot of people saying that
39:59in order to address what's going on at the border,
40:02we have to have this law passed, we have to have this past,
40:04we have to these things passed,
40:06which President Trump said, it seems like all we need
40:08was a new president because with the re-institution of the Trump era executive actions, the illegal
40:15entrance has dropped almost to zero.
40:18Now you've heard me say and I agree, I agree that we need congressional actions to make many
40:26of President Trump's executive actions permanent, but you don't have to have Congress to get the
40:33stuff going in the right direction.
40:36It is true once the Democrat party recognized how much of a political issue the immigration
40:44had become which to my estimates, why how could you not know it was an issue.
40:49Things changed toward the very end of the Biden administration because they put back into place
40:53some of the Trump era policies.
40:55But you've we've gone from being massively overrun by illegal immigrants to it being almost
41:01zero at the border.
41:02in terms of illegal border entry, almost zero.
41:06And that's intentional.
41:09And that is intentional.
41:13All right, you guys let me know when we're ready,
41:14just give me a thumbs up if we have something that's ready.
41:17Okay, all right.
41:18So with the intentional activity of the Trump administration,
41:23it's become clear, clear that all we needed
41:27was a different president.
41:29And a lot of those successes are going unreported
41:31because frankly people who are opponents of President Trump,
41:34that they need something to fixate on so they don't want to talk about things that are positive.
41:41It's a sad sad reality. But to the phone lines we go, we'll start in Oklahoma where Ladonna is on the line.
41:49I don't know why is this not working guys. I might need y'all to put Ladonna on.
41:54Ladonna from Oklahoma. Thank you for calling the Hamilton Corner. Welcome to the program.
41:59Well, thank you for having me and I really enjoy your show.
42:03And I just called to tell you that I am celebrating not just Holy Week, but I have
42:07watched God's goodness over the last year where he saved all my grandkids.
42:11And yesterday on a Palm Sunday, my seven year old granddaughter was that
42:16time after she was saved a couple of weeks before, but she was so excited.
42:20She jumped up on the floor and she got up to days and days.
42:24And she just loves the Lord and she understands what's going on.
42:28And Jesus died on the cross.
42:29her favorite song is that calls my name and I ran up out of that grave and she got the exercise
42:36that I saw the world yesterday so I'm calling to celebrate that she had it done on the time
42:41that she will always remember that Palm Sunday was the day that she showed the world her profession
42:46of faith. Oh, I just want to thank you for your show. Oh, thank you so much for your call and your
42:52comments. Oh, this warms my heart so much so it warms my heart, man. You know, I reflect on the
42:59the Apostle John's writings from my own family.
43:03I have no greater joy than to know that my children
43:06are walking in the truth.
43:07And what an amazing, an amazing phenomenon to celebrate,
43:14but to be able to do so in such a memorable fashion.
43:17Thank you for sharing that with us.
43:19And also thank you for your encouragement
43:21concerning the program.
43:22Let's go next to Mississippi,
43:23where Elizabeth is on the line.
43:25Elizabeth, thank you for calling the Hamilton Corner.
43:27Welcome to the program.
43:30Thank you. I would say as I drive home from my part time job, as you say, I'm reflecting
43:39on the fact that Jesus had six trials, three religious and three civil, and the whole time
43:46that that was going on, basically they were inspecting our past plans. And he was found
43:53to be without blemish. And again, I just, I just, I'm so thankful and grateful for what
43:59Dolly and do or just for all of us.
44:02Elizabeth, if I had a pocket organ,
44:04I'll be playing it right now.
44:06You know, because the Passover,
44:08when it's instituted in the book of Exodus,
44:09it wasn't just a lamb that was to be offered,
44:11but it was a spotless, unblemished lamb.
44:17And you are explaining the trials,
44:20including these illegal civil trials.
44:22I'm not supposed to take place
44:23during Passover at nighttime like it is.
44:27that they found no fault in him confirming the fact that the lamb that was once and for all
44:35slain for the sins of mankind was in fact a spotless lamb. Thank you for sharing that. I am um
44:44and you guys really really really are stirring me up and thank you for listening to the program too
44:49um as you do so as you transition to your part time job that's right as I would describe it.
44:53Let's go next to believe this is Louisiana where Debbie is on the line.
44:57Debbie in Louisiana. Thank you for calling the Hamilton Corner. Welcome to the program.
45:02Oh, thank you so much for talking about call. I love your program. I listen to it every day. I can.
45:08And, you know, I just want to say to reflect on Holy Week, it's just that it is set apart
45:16everything from, you know, when he was arrested up until he was crucified.
45:24We were born and sinned. God loved us so much that he sent his son to die for us.
45:33And it's just, it just gives you chill bumps. And it's just a beautiful, beautiful thing that Jesus has done for us.
45:45Hmm so well said that be thank you for calling and sharing that and with all of us
45:50We'll go next to I believe this is Iowa where Marty is there not isn't a Marty Sparks is in the screening room
46:01But I'm not as good as him so I just appreciated
46:09I loved how you brought up the two on the road to a mass and
46:13And sometimes we can have catastrophic things happening in our lives.
46:22And yet how Christ, He's still there for us in my family and I've been in Psalm 103 and
46:28it says, for He knows how we are formed.
46:32He remembers that we are dust.
46:35And as for man, his days are like grass.
46:37He flourishes like a flower of the field.
46:40The wind blows over it and it is gone.
46:42That's what this week, there's a date coming.
46:49When Abe, I doubt I'll ever meet you on this earth,
46:52but I'm gonna live with you forever.
46:54And it is so exciting to think of the other great
46:58Christian brothers and sisters around this globe.
47:02But especially on the airwaves, I love you guys.
47:05You guys are incredible and you encourage me every day.
47:09Marty, thank you for that, man.
47:11Thank you for sharing that.
47:13And for that encouragement and the statement that you made is so true.
47:17So if we never meet here on this side of eternity, we are going to live together forever.
47:25When we stop and consider transcendent eternal truths like that, it changes everything about
47:32how we should interact and reflect, I'm sorry, interact with one another and allow the eternal
47:37truths that we are discussing to inform how we engage.
47:40It makes such these temporal things so silly.
47:43If that is the case, which it is, that we are going to live together forever, why would
47:49we allow trifling, small things to intrude upon what we're going to enjoy forever?
47:55Man, it's just thrilling.
48:00It's thrilling.
48:02And to know that though we see through a glass dark darkly now, dimly now, we will with unveiled
48:08face behold the glory of our King, Messiah, and be able to converse with all of the saints
48:14throughout human history, man.
48:15It's one of the things that lights up my life.
48:18And because that is true,
48:20to say it in the words of Francis Shaver,
48:22how then shall we live now?
48:25The daily activities that we pursue,
48:27the way we interact with people,
48:29day in, day out should be informed
48:31by the eternal truths we profess, to believe.
48:37You all have a great evening.
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