Mankind was made to worship. It is undeniable. The prevailing issue is who we worship: God or ourselves.

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1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
2. 0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
4. 0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
5. 0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
6. 0:18And the philosophies of this world.
7. 0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
8. 0:24Even in this dark moment.
9. 0:26Let's not miss our moment.
10. 0:28And now the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:31Good evening, everyone.
12. 0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
13. 0:37Abraham Hamilton.
14. 0:38The third is my name.
15. 0:39I'm the host of this program back from Washington, DC.
16. 0:45I had to go there to do my continuing legal education duties
17. 0:52in order to keep my law licenses current.
18. 0:54But I'm back from the belly of the beast.
19. 0:58Glad to be in studio with you.
20. 1:00again, I am joined by the corner contingent right across from me, my man 100 grand. Mr. Bobby,
21. 1:06and then the screening will produce extraordinary often imitated. Never duplicated successfully,
22. 1:14that is many try. But like that fishing at Greece, they fry the real J. Matt. Ladies and
23. 1:21gentlemen, we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program at this very
24. 1:25moment. Many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part time jobs
25. 1:31where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
26. 1:35And as you do so, I want to remind you to do it with intentionality, recognizing the
27. 1:42primacy that God places on family, developing an internal resolve to where God's word remains
28. 1:50the ultimate standard for all matters of life, doctrine and practice, allowing the Lord's
29. 1:59Revelation to us concerning family to guide our engagement therein and to understand that
30. 2:06what goes on in our houses is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
31. 2:13Primarily, because you and I are directly responsible for what we do.
32. 2:19We are directly responsible for our jurisdictions.
33. 2:22We are directly responsible for what we do with the 24 hours, the King of Kings and the
34. 2:28Lord of Lord, grace is us.
35. 2:30Lord of Lords, grace is us with daily.
36. 2:35The things that happen in the White House,
37. 2:36they are important, but they do not usurp
38. 2:40or should I say take preeminence in our daily lives
39. 2:44over what we do.
40. 2:45I have been appealing to you for quite some time now
41. 2:48to live locally.
42. 2:51If our homes don't look the way that God would have them
43. 2:55to look, we are directly involved in that.
44. 2:58if our families are not shaped the way the Lord
45. 3:02would have them to be, we are directly involved
46. 3:04in that our communities, we are directly involved
47. 3:07in that our churches, we are directly involved there.
48. 3:11We must, we must, we must be about our father's business.
49. 3:14And to be frank about it is very easy,
50. 3:17it's far easier to kind of sit on the proverbial couch
51. 3:21and Sunday morning quarterback,
52. 3:23or Monday morning quarterback, everybody else's life,
53. 3:25you can't use that phrase anymore
54. 3:26because they're playing football every day the week.
55. 3:28Monday, Thursday, Friday.
56. 3:31Yeah, no, I know it's not Friday,
57. 3:33but y'all know what I'm saying.
58. 3:35But it's easy to sit back and criticize
59. 3:37that everybody else is doing and not looking at
60. 3:40the man in the mirror.
61. 3:42What are we doing?
62. 3:43Much of what has transpired in our nation,
63. 3:45this is the unfortunate but true reality
64. 3:50that has happened on our watch.
65. 3:53One of the things, man, my wife and I,
66. 3:54were talking about this.
67. 3:56We're on the plane coming back home
68. 4:00And we're just talking about what's happened
69. 4:04to our people in America.
70. 4:06What's happened to our federal fellow citizens?
71. 4:08Whenever any issue arises, most people today,
72. 4:14I'll say many people today, their immediate question
73. 4:17and immediate response is,
74. 4:19well, what is the government gonna do about it?
75. 4:22Guys, if that's your posture,
76. 4:23you've already forfeited much of what it means
77. 4:28to be an American.
78. 4:30We used to have the ethos,
79. 4:31whenever anything transpires, our first response is,
80. 4:34How are we going to handle this?
81. 4:36How are we going to respond to this?
82. 4:40And that's not out of some humanistic hubris.
83. 4:42That's simply a full recognition
84. 4:44of what it means to be made in the image of God
85. 4:46and being responsible and accountable for our own lives.
86. 4:52Too many people, they're immediate response
87. 4:54to any issues, any quandary,
88. 4:56is to look externally for somebody to do something.
89. 5:00Phew, what about me?
90. 5:05And we haven't gotten here overnight.
91. 5:07We got this step by step, piece by piece.
92. 5:15And one of the things I was just considering is how much further along we would be as a
93. 5:19nation if Booker T. Washington's ideals were more normalized.
94. 5:26Oh boy, to the word of God, we go Hebrews chapter five Hebrews chapter five.
95. 5:34We're going to focus on verses 12 through 14.
96. 5:37I want to remind you that the book of Hebrews is written primarily to, well, really the
97. 5:44title of the book says it all to Hebrews who converted to Christ following and showing how
98. 5:50Yeshua is in fact the Messiah and how the Old Testament order pointed toward what would
99. 6:00be fulfilled in Christ that the Christ is the promised Messiah.
100. 6:06To the word of God we go Hebrews chapter 5 verse 12 for though by this time you ought
101. 6:14to be teachers. You have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the
102. 6:22oracles of God. And you have come to need milk and not solid food for everyone who partakes
103. 6:30only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food
104. 6:38is for the mature who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
105. 6:48Some translations render that text in verse 14, but Salah food is for the mature who by reason of use
106. 6:56or another translation who are trained by constant practice. The tense of the Greek verbiage there
107. 7:04is that this, this utilization is
108. 7:07constancy and practice.
109. 7:09It is just that a constant phenomenon.
110. 7:12This is not something that is a one and done type of thing.
111. 7:14This is not something that's visited on and off, but there is a constant
112. 7:18disposition of putting into practice what is being learned.
113. 7:24But solid food is for the mature who because of practice, have their
114. 7:29senses trained to discern good and evil.
115. 7:34So what I want to present to you today is that God expects his children to mature.
116. 7:46God expects his children to mature.
117. 7:53The question I have in response to that biblical pronouncement is do we have that same expectation?
118. 8:01Do we expect to mature?
119. 8:04I want to be clear about what I'm saying, what I mean when I say mature.
120. 8:09You've heard me saying numerous times on this program.
121. 8:14The question is not how much scripture you can quote, how much scripture you can
122. 8:18memorize is how much scripture you can live.
123. 8:22This is not meant to denigrate scripture quoting quotation.
124. 8:26This is not meant to denigrate scripture memorization.
125. 8:28All of those things are vitally important.
126. 8:31But if all we're doing is quoting and memorizing, but we're not putting it into
127. 8:35into practice, we are forfeiting a huge swath of what it means to be a believer. Here in this text,
128. 8:44the Hebrew writer is rebuking these Jewish believers, these Messianic believers,
129. 8:51because at this juncture, they have demonstrated the quality of maturity. We'll have that quality
130. 8:57demonstrated eight. Verse 14 tells us, solid food is for the mature. Well, what's the touchstone,
131. 9:04the delineating factor of maturity? Matureity is made evident in believers who,
132. 9:10here's what the text says, because of practice or by reason of constant use or by consistently
133. 9:20implementing what God says by consistently living in obedience to God's holy word, we have our senses
134. 9:28trained, exercised, fortified, strengthened, to distinguish good and evil.
135. 9:39If you've been listening to the show for a while, you know I often quote Charles Spurgeon's
136. 9:43description of discernment.
137. 9:46Discernment is not merely distinguishing right from wrong.
138. 9:49Those are often polar opposites.
139. 9:51Biblical discernment includes also distinguishing right from almost right.
140. 9:57And not from this rhetorical philosophical hypothetical disposition.
141. 10:03No, by practice.
142. 10:07One of the things that I'm greatly concerned about is an inaccurate, let me say it better,
143. 10:13an inappropriate discussion of grace.
144. 10:16What do I mean by that?
145. 10:18The Apostle Jude told us in the first century, I wanted to write about our common salvation,
146. 10:23but false brethren have crept in unawares doing what perverting the grace of God, twisting
147. 10:29the grace of God into the civius. In other words, using grace as an excuse to live as rebels.
148. 10:38Guys make no mistake about it. And to describe this in theological terms, it is a misunderstanding
149. 10:46of the distinctions between justification and sanctification. I want to make it abundantly
150. 10:52clear. Every single believer is saved by grace through faith. Works are not what determines
151. 11:00whether or not we are regenerate.
152. 11:03We don't earn our way into salvation.
153. 11:07We are justified.
154. 11:08Justification is a legal declaration from God
155. 11:11as this only just judge,
156. 11:13where he declares your sin in my sin,
157. 11:19declares us as guilty,
158. 11:21because the wages of sin is death.
159. 11:25But with that legal declaration,
160. 11:27he simultaneously declares,
161. 11:29but the penalty that is owed for that sin
162. 11:31is not due to be paid by me or by you.
163. 11:35That's the glorious doctrine of the substitutionary atonement.
164. 11:38Jesus paid that penalty for our sin.
165. 11:42That's justification.
166. 11:44We stand justified before God in His holy heavenly court,
167. 11:48not because of our own works,
168. 11:49but He views us through the lens
169. 11:52of the righteousness of Christ Jesus.
170. 11:54That's justification, that's one concept.
171. 11:57Now sanctification is the currency, if you will,
172. 12:00that the justified function within.
173. 12:03All right, sanctification is what happens to and in the justifies hearts and lives where
174. 12:11we grow continuously in the Christ word direction to where we mature from being those who are
175. 12:20only capable of consuming milk to where we grow to where we are.
176. 12:26We don't just have gums anymore.
177. 12:28We have teeth now.
178. 12:29We can chew.
179. 12:30You know, we're growing in stature in grace.
180. 12:35expects every believer to mature. Hence the description, the rebuke in Hebrews 5 at the
181. 12:41time that you should be able to teach others, you should be able to teach others. But you
182. 12:46can't. Why? Because you need to be taught again the basic principles, the elementary
183. 12:50concept of Christ following. And what was the reason that the Hebrew writer points out?
184. 12:54Not because they had a faulty understanding. It was a faulty, faultiness in the living,
185. 12:59a faultiness in the lifestyle. You can't withstand solid food because you don't have
186. 13:04your senses exercise to discern good and evil because you are not putting into
187. 13:09practice what is being taught. Brothers and sisters, I want to be clear about
188. 13:13something. God expects maturity in us. The question I have for us is do we have
189. 13:20that same expectation? Are we those who, similar to what the apostle Jude confronted,
190. 13:26are we those who use grace as an excuse to remain with an arrested development?
191. 13:32been saved five, ten, twenty years, having the same struggles today as you've had five,
192. 13:37ten, twenty years ago.
193. 13:39You were mean twenty years ago and you still mean today.
194. 13:45You had profane, profane words, you were profane in speech, profane in thought and mind, and
195. 13:51you're still profane today.
196. 13:54Brothers and sisters, I want to tell you that is not the will of God for us and we should
197. 14:00not be comfortable there.
198. 14:02God requires holiness of his people.
199. 14:04because he wants us on a sideline shining our Christian merit badges.
200. 14:07But because we've been captured by the King of Glory, we love what he loves.
201. 14:12And we loathe what he loathe.
202. 14:13And we don't want to be in the ranks of those.
203. 14:16Imagine, you know, a 45-year-old man, still talking about, come on, come on, come on, come
204. 14:20on, come on, that applesauce, pep-pep-pep, and some of that pudding, because I don't have
205. 14:23the teeth to navigate solid food.
206. 14:27That gives you a visual of what we look like before the Lord, remaining, having been saved
207. 14:32We're protracted amounts of time, but we're still, we're still babes, not in what we know,
208. 14:39not in what we can articulate, but how we live.
209. 14:44Holiness is required of God's people.
210. 14:46Maturity is required of God's people.
211. 14:49The expectation is that we grow, that it's God's expectation, and it should be our expectation as well.
212. 15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
213. 15:02It is in fact relatively easy to bless others and encourage people with our words if we wisely and very deliberately seek to do so.
214. 15:11Well, what are some words that we can speak as a lifestyle that can bless others?
215. 15:17What are some words that can promote healing, grace and encouragement in the lives of others?
216. 15:22Well, here are a few. Thank you. I appreciate you. Please. How can I help you? I'm sorry.
217. 15:33I'm sorry. I apologize. Please forgive me. How can I pray for you? What can I do to bless you today?
218. 15:43You are awesome. You are a blessing. I believe in you. I believe you can do it. You will do great.
219. 15:51And obviously these are just a few words, but words that can bless and encourage others in their
220. 15:56daily lives. Shining light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Quarter, an American
221. 16:09family radio. Welcome back to the
222. 16:12Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the
223. 16:14third here. I want to be clear about
224. 16:15something I was saying. I completely
225. 16:16understand that perfection will not
226. 16:19occur on this side of eternity. But we
227. 16:22cannot allow ourselves to be deceived
228. 16:24and to allow that fact to cause us to
229. 16:26resist the work of God's spirit to draw
230. 16:29us into maturity because what we're
231. 16:32saying or let me say it this way is
232. 16:33better. What what transpires when we
233. 16:36resist. Well let me say it this way we
234. 16:38who remain in the immature posture,
235. 16:41the only way we can do so is by developing a lifestyle habit
236. 16:44of resisting the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
237. 16:47Why can I say that so confidently?
238. 16:48Jesus told us one of the main things the Holy Spirit would do
239. 16:51is convict men of sin.
240. 16:54That's not only for the unbeliever to be drawn to salvation,
241. 16:57that includes the life of the believer
242. 17:00and includes in the life of the believer.
243. 17:02And so what's unfortunately happened is too many
244. 17:05have used that, well, you know, nobody's perfect
245. 17:08and we should never expect to be perfect as an excuse
246. 17:11or a license even to remain immature.
247. 17:16So I wanna present that to our audience here to have
248. 17:19this mindset in understanding God expects maturity.
249. 17:22How do we measure maturity?
250. 17:23How much of the scripture do we put into practice?
251. 17:31The main feature of a mature believer's life
252. 17:36is that it can be characterized by one word, obedience.
253. 17:40So if we want to assess our maturity, that introspection to transpire by assessing are
254. 17:48we obedient Christ, Christ, Christ instructions, are we obedient to Christ commands?
255. 17:57All right.
256. 17:58I'm delighted to have on the program with me the associate director of the AFA foundation
257. 18:05who has been employed at a F A for 12 years.
258. 18:11She is married to a F A's vice president Wesley Wildman.
259. 18:14I'm talking about none other than Chelsea Wildman.
260. 18:18Chelsea, thank you for joining me here on the Hamilton corner.
261. 18:21Thank you so much for having me, Abe.
262. 18:24It is a pleasure to have you on.
263. 18:26And as I mentioned, you are the associate director of the AFA Foundation.
264. 18:30A lot of our listeners and viewers and supporters are aware of what the AFA Foundation is, but
265. 18:36some are not aware.
266. 18:38What is the AFA Foundation?
267. 18:40Yes, so the AFA Foundation is our stewardship branch of American Family Association and American
268. 18:48Family Radio, and how we help folks to steward their resources into retirement years.
269. 18:55And one of the best ways that we can help people do that is through a charitable gift
270. 19:01annuity.
271. 19:02And just a quick overview of that, ABA Charitable Gift Annuity is a gift to American Family Association
272. 19:09to our foundation and in return the donor gets a fixed income for the rest of their
273. 19:16life.
274. 19:17So however much they gift, a percentage of that, they're going to receive back either
275. 19:22monthly, quarterly, annually, semi-annually, however they choose to receive that usually
276. 19:27during their retirement years and they get some wonderful tax benefits from that.
277. 19:32First of all, they get a partial tax deduction, the year that they give the gift and put that
278. 19:38in place and then they get partial tax-free income.
279. 19:42So once they start receiving those payments at the time of their choosing, then part of
280. 19:47it is tax-free.
281. 19:48And then ultimately, whenever that donor passes away and goes home to be with the Lord,
282. 19:56then any remaining funds are then gifted to ASA.
283. 20:00So American Family Association, American Family Radio is the beneficiary of that charitable
284. 20:07gift annuity. So it's a wonderful way. Our former advisor, Dan Silia, who I'm sure many
285. 20:15listened to for many, many years on ASR, he liked to say that it was kind of like a final
286. 20:20tide. So that's a great way to look at that. And you were speaking about obedience earlier.
287. 20:26And so if you've ever had a question about the charitable gift annuity, we would love
288. 20:30to see you through, following through with that obedience and just giving us a call. We
289. 20:36I would love to speak to any potential listeners about that.
290. 20:41That's where I was going to go next,
291. 20:43because some who are listening,
292. 20:44I'm probably thinking, man, that's something
293. 20:47I'd like to take advantage of.
294. 20:48How can people get in contact with the foundation
295. 20:51and you and others who are working at Division
296. 20:53in order to establish a charitable gift annuity?
297. 20:57Yes, so they can reach us by phone,
298. 21:001-800-326-4543.
299. 21:04and that's extension 345, and I'll give that number again,
300. 21:091-800-326-4543, extension 345,
301. 21:15or you can send us an email at foundationatafay.net.
302. 21:20We also have our website, if you're not ready to speak with someone,
303. 21:24but still want to learn information, it's www.afayfoundation.net,
304. 21:29and you can reach us there as well.
305. 21:32there as well.
306. 21:33Yeah, and a lot of people remember our brother Dan Celia passed away, but he was a primary
307. 21:40driver of the establishment of the charitable gift annuity option for listeners and supporters.
308. 21:45And so when people call the number that you just mentioned after maybe perusing the websites
309. 21:51you mentioned, what could they expect when they call that number?
310. 21:55Yeah, so they can expect to speak to Riley, Jessica, myself, and we will help them with
311. 22:03walk through their particular situation.
312. 22:06We're not financial advisors in the foundation,
313. 22:08so we do not give any advice on what folks should do
314. 22:12with their retirement funds, but we can,
315. 22:14and we have been trained by Dan Silia,
316. 22:17and now by Rob West with StateFy.
317. 22:20And so we can kind of let them know,
318. 22:23hey, usually generally at 10%,
319. 22:26you know, of their overall portfolio,
320. 22:29they can look at getting a charitable gift annuity with that.
321. 22:32And so we can kind of explain any tax questions
322. 22:35that they have and run an illustration
323. 22:38of what their particular situation could look like
324. 22:41and what their percentage would be.
325. 22:44Now, I know one of the things that you enjoy
326. 22:46in your position as the associate director
327. 22:48of the foundation is, you know,
328. 22:51learning how God has worked in the lives
329. 22:53of supporters who call.
330. 22:54Can you give us an example of something like that?
331. 22:57Not necessarily their names,
332. 22:58but just the testimony of the types of things
333. 23:00that you learn in interacting with supporters through the foundation?
334. 23:04Yes, absolutely. So there's a particular gentleman in South Mississippi and he says that we're
335. 23:12family now and I love that. So every time he calls, he asks for me and we get to catch up and
336. 23:19see what the Lord's doing in his life, especially through listening to AFA and AFR. And he said
337. 23:26that he's had an estranged relationship with a few of his children.
338. 23:31And since meeting him over the phone per se, since speaking with him for many years over
339. 23:38the phone, I've actually gotten to go to an event and meet him, so got to put a face with
340. 23:44a name and a voice.
341. 23:46And then since then, he has now reconnected with one of his daughters.
342. 23:51And so to get to speak with her, she had some questions about the foundation and about
343. 23:57ASA.
344. 23:58So I've gotten to speak with her and it's just so neat to see through the years of building
345. 24:02a relationship with this gentleman that he loves the Lord.
346. 24:07He loves the work that ASA and ASA are doing for God and he wants to sow seeds into kingdom
347. 24:13through a CDA.
348. 24:14So he's a wonderful donor and friend.
349. 24:18And so getting to build those types of relationships where we get to travel to different areas of
350. 24:23the country and then speak with and meet folks face to face is just so that's my favorite
351. 24:30part of the job for sure.
352. 24:33And you mentioned being able to participate in events.
353. 24:35There is an event coming up this fall, I believe it's in October called weekend with
354. 24:40with AFA, would you just share a bit with the audience here,
355. 24:45what that event is and what it consists of
356. 24:48and what those who come can expect there as well?
357. 24:52Yes, absolutely.
358. 24:53So the weekend with AFA is going to be,
359. 24:56this is a first time event.
360. 24:58So we are really looking forward to having folks
361. 25:01from around the country,
362. 25:02travel to Tupelo, Mississippi, where our headquarters is,
363. 25:06get to tour the facility of AFA and AFR,
364. 25:10see where our radio programs are hosted,
365. 25:13see where American Family Studios produces the documentaries
366. 25:18and films that we have,
367. 25:20and all of the different various departments of AFANA vars.
368. 25:25So October the 2nd through the 4th in Tupelo,
369. 25:30we will be again hosting a few events at our headquarters,
370. 25:34and then also traveling just a little bit up the road
371. 25:37to Kingfisher Lodge, it is a beautiful lodge,
372. 25:41very quiet tucked away in Tupelo,
373. 25:44and we'll get to kind of spend some time
374. 25:46of fellowship, of sharing a meal,
375. 25:49and listening to some wonderful speakers,
376. 25:52and yourself included.
377. 25:55So we look forward to the message that you bring,
378. 25:57as well as Jenna Ellis, and JJ Jasper,
379. 26:01Tim Barton, Jerry Bauer,
380. 26:03and then our panel of vice president.
381. 26:06So it's gonna be a wonderful event
382. 26:07that we really hope that a lot of folks come to,
383. 26:11but there are limited seats available.
384. 26:14So we wanna encourage people to find out more.
385. 26:18So that is weekend with AFA,
386. 26:20we wanna put that in the show notes
387. 26:22and even in the chat stream weekend with AFA's.
388. 26:25A lot of people will, may remember Tim Barton
389. 26:28is the president of wall builders,
390. 26:30the ministry found about his dad, David Barton.
391. 26:33Jerry Boyer is a brother in Christ
392. 26:36who's been helping AFA on the front lines of activism
393. 26:40in the corporate America sector.
394. 26:42We've been able to get certain resolutions put
395. 26:45on the dais against corporations like Apple and other places.
396. 26:49And Jerry Boyer has been helping us with that.
397. 26:51Jenna Ellis, host of Jenna Ellis in the morning here
398. 26:53in the AFR and myself.
399. 26:55I will be a part of the speakers at the weekend with AFA event.
400. 26:58It's going to be an amazing, an amazing time.
401. 27:00Is there a website where people can go
402. 27:02to get more information about the weekend with AFA
403. 27:05and maybe even register for the event?
404. 27:08Yes, absolutely.
405. 27:09A F A dot net forward slash weekend.
406. 27:14So A F A dot net forward slash weekend.
407. 27:17If you visit that site, it's got all of the pricing,
408. 27:20deposit information, and then also where to reserve
409. 27:25your ticket fat.
410. 27:27All right, and one more time would you give us the number
411. 27:29again for the A F A foundation for people who would like
412. 27:32to take advantage of the charitable gift annuity option?
413. 27:36Yes, one in eight hundred three, two, six, four, five, four, three, extension three, four, five.
414. 27:45We would love to speak with you.
415. 27:47Thank you so much, Chelsea.
416. 27:49And thank you for the work that you're doing through the foundation.
417. 27:52And it's, you know, it's overwhelming to think about the people who, you know,
418. 27:56worked and labored and even committed themselves that as a part of the end of their life on this side of eternity,
419. 28:03who want to continue to try to sow and to invest financially
420. 28:06into work in the work of the ministry.
421. 28:07It's amazing, amazing thing to consider
422. 28:10and to see people signing up for that sow consistently.
423. 28:14It is humbling even the thing about it.
424. 28:16So I'm grateful that you're there
425. 28:17and the whole team of the foundation
426. 28:19to interact with those donors and supporters.
427. 28:21And as you mentioned with the testimony you shared up
428. 28:23who become friends over time
429. 28:26because you've developed a relationship over time.
430. 28:27Thank you so much Chelsea for joining me here today.
431. 28:30Thank you so much.
432. 28:32all right
433. 28:33that was Chelsea Wildman the a.f.a. foundation
434. 28:37in a please go and visit the website
435. 28:39you can call the numbers you'll be one of the people who would answer your calls
436. 28:43unless one of the things that we try to do here is that when you
437. 28:46call us you speak to people
438. 28:48not machines I know I know people are artificial intelligence and all that but
439. 28:52we like to have people that you speak to
440. 28:55that's wonderful
441. 28:56but now I started this program where I didn't Hebrews five maybe because I am
442. 29:00and could greatly concerned about the prevalence
443. 29:05of frankly, sloppy lifestyles
444. 29:08that we have amongst professing believers.
445. 29:09And I'm not trying to come off some top road,
446. 29:12like I'm a human being just like everybody else
447. 29:15who's striving to walk upright before the Lord,
448. 29:18but we have to do that, strive to walk upright
449. 29:20before the Lord and recognize that his desire for us
450. 29:25is to be perfect, as he is perfect,
451. 29:28not in the humanistic sense,
452. 29:30but with the Greek term is for perfect is teleoise,
453. 29:33which is maturity, you know,
454. 29:35and by putting into practice what we learn.
455. 29:38What's the point if we're just gonna quote and talk
456. 29:40and jab, jab, jab, jab, or all day long,
457. 29:44but we never putting anything into practice,
458. 29:46we're deceiving ourselves,
459. 29:48if that's the course that we've chosen.
460. 29:50And we don't wanna, we should not want to continue
461. 29:53in that fashion.
462. 29:53We shouldn't want that to be our manner of living.
463. 29:57Now I want to mention something now, which is interesting,
464. 30:04and it should be a surprise to no one,
465. 30:07but President Trump signed an executive order,
466. 30:11just a little while ago, putting sanctuary cities on notice,
467. 30:16that if you continue to try to resist a federal prerogative,
468. 30:19which frankly the American people voted for
469. 30:20in terms of deporting illegal immigrants,
470. 30:23then you will face, it would draw the federal funds.
471. 30:26Listen to and watch clip number two, clip two, go tonight.
472. 30:30President Trump hours away from his 100th day in office focusing on his top day one priority,
473. 30:37border security.
474. 30:38The president signing three executive orders on immigration, including one ordering the attorney
475. 30:44general to compile a list of sanctuary cities that don't cooperate with federal immigration
476. 30:50authorities.
477. 30:51Los Angeles is among the nation's largest sanctuary cities and is also facing a $1 billion shortfall.
478. 30:59The order the president signed is called protecting American communities from criminal
479. 31:04aliens.
480. 31:05That order states sanctuary cities could face consequences.
481. 31:09Federal funds those cities receive could be subject to suspension or termination.
482. 31:15It should be pretty obvious, but it is sad that we've gotten to this place, but the executive
483. 31:24board of the president signed, as you heard in the clip, requires a list of all sanctuary
484. 31:30cities and jurisdictions in the country and followed by immediate action to cut permanently
485. 31:37or to suspend federal funding for those places, depending on the particular details of where
486. 31:43they are.
487. 31:44The executive order also directs the Justice Department and Homeland Security to ensure
488. 31:48that federal benefits are not provided to illegal aliens in sanctuary jurisdictions and
489. 31:52to quote, take appropriate action to stop the enforcement of state and local laws, regulations,
490. 31:59policies and practices favoring illegal aliens over any groups of American citizens that are
491. 32:04unlawful and preempted by federal law.
492. 32:08This is a part of the executive, I should say in quote, I'm sorry, I didn't say in quote
493. 32:12in time.
494. 32:13This should, it seems to be an obvious phenomenon should be,
495. 32:17but it is not.
496. 32:18You have, you know, certain jurisdictions
497. 32:20that are still insisting, Boston,
498. 32:23Los Angeles, other places that say that they refuse
499. 32:26to cooperate with the administration and their efforts
500. 32:29to remove criminal aliens from the cities.
501. 32:32And it's laughable.
502. 32:34It should be laughable at this point,
503. 32:37because what's really being communicated
504. 32:39is that there are some who have higher affinity
505. 32:43for illegal aliens than they do for their own citizens.
506. 32:46I mean, I don't know if Senator Van Hyland
507. 32:49visited any people who are suffering in his own jurisdiction,
508. 32:52but the man will take a plane to El Salvador.
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531. 34:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
532. 34:17It's just absurd to see these things happening.
533. 34:21It's as if you have.
534. 34:24And the reality is, it's Democrat politicians and Democrat cities and jurisdictions that
535. 34:28are persisting and being sanctuary jurisdictions.
536. 34:31So you have places like Los Angeles facing these extreme budgetary conditions.
537. 34:36And now they're going to face even more hindering and hampering because they insist on elevating
538. 34:41illegal aliens over the American citizens.
539. 34:43system or simple reality. And by now, what should be plainly obvious what's happening. I've long
540. 34:47said that illegal immigration is nothing more than a cloud pivent strategy being applied to
541. 34:53the immigration issue. And it's high time that somebody did something about it. Since we're already
542. 35:02on President Trump, we have a US Senator who is rattling and articulating his opposition to
543. 35:12to President Trump's tariffs, which everybody, you know, you're free to have your opinion.
544. 35:16And even now stating that he's working to establish a legislative halt to President
545. 35:22Trump's tariffs. And I'm speaking of a senator who I like, what I think who's done a good
546. 35:28job generally, Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, still baffles me that the state that
547. 35:34and give us, you know, Rand Paul and Thomas Massey also continue to give us Mr. McConnell.
548. 35:43I still cannot figure that out.
549. 35:46But Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, who's, you know, libertarian and one of the only elected
550. 35:53officials ever to be willing to take on the Federal Reserve publicly, probably because he
551. 35:57noticed other politicians who did so didn't kind of end up to living to talk about it.
552. 36:04But Senator Rand Paul is coming out apparently to establish a legislative mechanism to oppose
553. 36:18President Trump's terrorist.
554. 36:19I want you to hear him from his own words.
555. 36:21Listen to him and watch.
556. 36:22Clip number one, Senator Rand Paul.
557. 36:23Clip number one, go.
558. 36:25I am a Republican.
559. 36:26I am the supporter of Donald Trump, but this is a bipartisan problem.
560. 36:30I don't care if the president is a Republican or a Democrat.
561. 36:33I don't want to live under emergency rule.
562. 36:36I don't want to live where my representatives cannot speak for me and have a check and balance
563. 36:42on power.
564. 36:43One person can make a mistake.
565. 36:46And guess what?
566. 36:47Terps are a terrible mistake.
567. 36:49They don't work.
568. 36:50They will lead to higher prices.
569. 36:52They are a tax and they have historically been bad for our economy.
570. 36:57But even if this was something that was magic and was going to be a pot of gold at the end
571. 37:02of the rainbow, I wouldn't want to live under emergency rule.
572. 37:06I would want to live in a constitutional republic where there are checks and balances against the
573. 37:11excesses of both sides, right or left.
574. 37:17To which I have one very simple response.
575. 37:23Senator Paul, what's your countervailing proposal?
576. 37:31What's your proposal?
577. 37:33I've said, you guys know me.
578. 37:35I've said, I am not a, you know, I'm not a tariff guy.
579. 37:39I've said I probably would have gone about things differently.
580. 37:45My simple question is, what is your proposal to address the trade imbalance?
581. 37:56You know, Bobby pulled it up for me a little while ago.
582. 37:58Senator Paul has been in the US Senate since 2011.
583. 38:02All right.
584. 38:04And listen, I'm not trying to throw shade on him.
585. 38:06I felt like he's done some good things in the office.
586. 38:10What is your proposal?
587. 38:13See, there's a lot of people who can nitpick with somebody else's doing.
588. 38:19You know, Bobby and I were talking earlier, there's a difference between dreamers and visionaries.
589. 38:23You know, dreamers are idea factors.
590. 38:25You have lots of ideas, things that, man, I have this idea, I have that idea, this idea.
591. 38:32But never put foot to pavement.
592. 38:35Visionaries are those who have ideas and put feet to those ideas.
593. 38:39My simple retort to Senator Paul is what is your plan?
594. 38:44Don't just tell me what can't be done.
595. 38:47What's your solution?
596. 38:49What's your proposal?
597. 38:50Here's my other question.
598. 38:53not only what is your proposal, where has that proposal been before now?
599. 38:59Where's that proposal been before now?
600. 39:00Because last I checked, President Trump won in office when you became a Senator.
601. 39:07Where is your proposal, sir?
602. 39:14And I listened.
603. 39:15I didn't know.
604. 39:16You never won a serious crisis before the waste.
605. 39:18I didn't know I was going to be, you know, I know the NFL draft just happened there.
606. 39:21I was going to be made a left tackle for the Trump administration on the tariffs issue.
607. 39:27I know I was gonna be a run blocker and a pass blocker.
608. 39:30Which I'm not trying to be.
609. 39:31I just wanna know what's your proposal?
610. 39:35What is your proposal?
611. 39:37All these people saying, oh, Terrace,
612. 39:38I don't have to wait to go, what is your plan?
613. 39:43And again, not only what is your plan,
614. 39:46where has your plan been before now?
615. 39:49Because you don't get a Rust Belt overnight.
616. 39:51I don't know a lot about everything.
617. 39:53I'm not a metaler just,
618. 39:55but I don't think Rust occurs overnight.
619. 39:58So to have an American Rust Belt, that took some time.
620. 40:03Let's take some time. Why haven't y'all catered up before now about the the hollowing out of the
621. 40:10manufacturing sector of the United States of America before now? So, miss me with the critiques.
622. 40:17If the critiques are not accompanied by a counterproposal. What is your proposal? What is your plan?
623. 40:24None of y'all joke, none of you jokers had anything had any problem with the manufacturing sector
624. 40:30being shipped to China and to Singapore and to Bangladesh and to India.
625. 40:34Y'all have no problem with that.
626. 40:37We got Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen's, rolling around America like it ain't nothing.
627. 40:42We'll have Ford's rolling in Germany like that.
628. 40:45We'll have GMCs rolling like, what's your plan?
629. 40:48And I just, these people, and this is not directed to Senator Paul alone.
630. 40:57But I'm tired of these people, man, running their mouths, flapping their gums, flapping their jaws.
631. 41:01And they have nothing to say about America's trade imbalance.
632. 41:03In fact, they were cheering globalization.
633. 41:06Oh, the markets are open.
634. 41:07Oh, look at the stock market.
635. 41:08Whoa, trying to get the American people to be so confused
636. 41:11to where we don't understand the distinction
637. 41:13between the stock market and the economy.
638. 41:15So, stock market's doing so well.
639. 41:18And none of that affecting the bottom line
640. 41:19at the table, in the table of Americans' homes.
641. 41:24So now that President Trump is doing something,
642. 41:26you have all of these muckity mucks.
643. 41:30All they can do is complain about what he is doing,
644. 41:33but don't have any type of introspective critiques
645. 41:36for their own inactivity or even worse,
646. 41:39celebrating the outsourcing of the American middle class.
647. 41:48China then become China overnight.
648. 41:50The ascendancy of the communist Chinese
649. 41:54occurred on the backs and the dollar bills
650. 41:57of the American middle class.
651. 41:58That's a fact.
652. 42:03So I'm just, what is your plan, man?
653. 42:05In detail, lay it out.
654. 42:07If you're going to criticize what's your plan?
655. 42:09And here's something else that I know.
656. 42:12From my experience, from what I've seen,
657. 42:15President Trump will listen.
658. 42:15If you have a plan to have an idea,
659. 42:17and it's a good one, he'll listen to your idea.
660. 42:21Go and talk to him.
661. 42:25It just really, really, really bothers me.
662. 42:29It really, really bothers me.
663. 42:31And nobody had anything to say.
664. 42:32Permanent normal relations with China, hey,
665. 42:36and we'll trade with the communists.
666. 42:39The reason why America's new about China's one trial policy
667. 42:41is because they had to have their trade relations
668. 42:44renewed annually.
669. 42:47But you establish that, you get rid of that.
670. 42:50We're gonna naff our way into,
671. 42:55miss me with all of that, Senator Paul.
672. 42:58I get it, we're Americans, you have a right to speak.
673. 43:00And actually I want you to challenge.
674. 43:02The best ideas rise to the top as a result of being challenged.
675. 43:08You have an idea, challenge shows some of the holes
676. 43:12and deficiencies in your ideas,
677. 43:13then you make an adjustment to show up those deficiencies,
678. 43:16and then you end up with the best ideas possible.
679. 43:21But I'll just be a no man.
680. 43:23And that's a call people that matter what the issue is.
681. 43:25No, no, no, just a no man.
682. 43:27No alternative idea.
683. 43:36I'm gonna leave that alone for now.
684. 43:38I came across this and really man, this really broke my heart.
685. 43:42Because I'm reading this and really what I hear
686. 43:46as I hear this interview and I read the transcript
687. 43:49of this interview, it's really just a cry for help man.
688. 43:53Really just cry for help.
689. 43:54What am I talking about?
690. 43:56This actress, Heather Graham, I'm completely unfamiliar with her.
691. 44:01I'm not the most dialed into Hollywood.
692. 44:04I'm just not, I'm just, you know.
693. 44:07But I read and I, you know,
694. 44:10Heather Graham is 55 years old.
695. 44:13She's unmarried, I believe, with no children.
696. 44:16And she fixed her jaws to say,
697. 44:24it's awesome that more women are not having children.
698. 44:28She thinks that's wonderful.
699. 44:31It's awesome.
700. 44:32I was just like, you know,
701. 44:36one of the major things that God has done
702. 44:38in hard-wiring mankind in establishing family
703. 44:42as the first human institution,
704. 44:45is that it is one of the primary vehicles
705. 44:47that God established to move humanity toward maturity,
706. 44:51and to enabling us to embrace the mature character quality
707. 44:55that is selflessness.
708. 44:58Great of love has no man than this,
709. 45:00that he laid down his life for another.
710. 45:01The Lord gives us the blessed privilege of family
711. 45:04cultivate within us a hardwired capacity begin to live for something beyond yourself.
712. 45:13Now, let's be clear. There is a reality that there is a divine vocation of singleness. And it is just
713. 45:23that it is a divine vocation of singleness that God allows by his grace that is accompanied by the
714. 45:29gift of celibacy. But I'm just going to cut right to the chase. Heather Graham ain't got two seconds
715. 45:35for celibacy. So I'm going to give you the fullness of her comments and try to get through all of her
716. 45:41comments before I provide commentary. But she said this quote Heather Graham is her name 55 years old
717. 45:49quote she says this and you can put her her picture up on a scheme you want to Joe.
718. 45:53Quote I think I've had moments where I wondered what would it have been like if I had a child.
719. 45:57I guess I would say 80% of the time I feel glad I don't have
720. 46:01children and I feel free and really good about it. Maybe 20% of the time I wonder what it would be
721. 46:05like, you just have to appreciate the life that you have.
722. 46:08I do think it's awesome.
723. 46:10That's how it sounds in my mind.
724. 46:11Dude, I think it's awesome.
725. 46:12Now that more women are expressing their desire not to have kids, the culture says you need
726. 46:18to have kids, but why?
727. 46:21If you're not being a people, please, what do you really want?
728. 46:27She goes on, in quote, for that portion of a quote, she goes on to explain that she's been
729. 46:31estranged from her family for 30 years because they're religious and they disprove of her
730. 46:36Hollywood lifestyle. Her comments continue. Quote, I kind of became my own person and discovered,
731. 46:43what do I like? What do I want? When I'm not under this very judgmental authoritarian parental
732. 46:48patriarchal structure, what do I want to do? What do I think of this? My father's really religious,
733. 46:54and they were, especially my father, very critical of everything I was doing. It didn't feel like a
734. 46:58healthy dynamic. I stopped talking to them and I have to say that was a huge relief. I felt like
735. 47:03Like at that moment, my life opened up with the freedom I didn't need to please them."
736. 47:08In quote, just like, Graham Palms glass one question.
737. 47:12He said that this led to you having a more healthy dynamic, according to what standard?
738. 47:18What are you evaluating healthy by?
739. 47:21She goes on quote, I feel like I wasn't brought up to have a deep sense of self-esteem and
740. 47:26I think as a deta- as I'm sorry and I think as I detached from my family, I built my own
741. 47:31sense of self-esteem.
742. 47:32Sort of like a detective.
743. 47:34I went through my past and looked at how I developed certain ways of thinking that weren't the healthiest and
744. 47:39basically went on the journey to be happier in quote again by what standard now as I'm reading that man my heart broke for this woman
745. 47:48because
746. 47:49her comments
747. 47:51Sound to me and you heard you know Tracy Ellis Ross saying similar things. There's this phenomenon now you have older
748. 47:58You know, it's these Hollywood types that are unmarried and they're saying hey, this is this is the healthiest life
749. 48:04This is the best life for me and you know what they're missing out on the glorious privilege of selflessness
750. 48:11Now I know that the words I'm using it's almost as if I'm speaking Mandarin to most America
751. 48:17You don't understand if you're not in Christ because he is the foundation of reality guys
752. 48:23Mankind was made for worship. We will
753. 48:27Either worship God as revealed himself in the Bible or we will worship ourselves
754. 48:31ourselves. There's no middle ground. So here you have this woman denying a fundamental component
755. 48:37of what femininity is. It is by divine design that women have the unique capacity to to gestate
756. 48:46and to deliver children. Yet she is saying she is not doing so and it's awesome that more
757. 48:53women are choosing not to do so. About what standard? She says she's chosen a healthier
758. 49:01lifestyle again by what standard what is her metric what is her evaluation metric
759. 49:06and if you have to peel back those layers it is a delusion that is centered
760. 49:10around the self so she denies a fundamental component of human maturation
761. 49:16which is selflessness and says that it's awesome to have a life to wear the
762. 49:23entire orbit. It is all about me. So for her, Bobby likes this. It's awesome that I'm an immature
763. 49:34baby and I'm 55 years old. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily
764. 49:44reflect those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.