Regeneration produces transformed desires which are exemplified by transformed conduct.

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11. 0:33Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
12. 0:36Abraham Hamilton. The third is my name and I'm excited to be here another day.
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14. 0:49Jay Mac, ladies and gentlemen, and we are ready to rock and roll with today's program at this very
15. 0:54moment. Many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your part time jobs,
16. 0:58where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. And as you do
17. 1:04so, I want to remind you to make that transition with intentionality, recognizing the primacy that
18. 1:11God places on the family, allowing that reality to guide and inform and instruct your engagement
19. 1:19with your families, adopting and embracing the reality that God has called His people
20. 1:24to be executed towards of his commission. If you are listening to me and at this
21. 1:31very moment you would say, hey, about, you know, if I were to pass right now, I don't
22. 1:37know where I would spend eternity. I simply want to encourage you to refuse to
23. 1:44harden your heart as the Lord draws you. I was reading some statistics,
24. 1:49interestingly enough, that there appears to be a resurgence in Christianity in
25. 1:53America and in some portions of Western Europe.
26. 1:58And I believe a lot of it is resulting from people recognizing
27. 2:02the vacuousness of this world and realizing that there's an
28. 2:07eternal echo in our hearts.
29. 2:10For those of you who are not yet members of the eternal family
30. 2:14of God, the scripture teaches that if you confess with your
31. 2:17mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, that
32. 2:22God having none better to swear by that he swore by himself, that God put on human flesh,
33. 2:29invaded human history, lived a sinless life in the person, Yeshua, the Messiah, Jesus, the
34. 2:36anointed one, died on a cross not for anything that he'd done, but for our sin, and that he
35. 2:45was resurrected on the third day according to the Scriptures.
36. 2:48If you believe that, if you confess that with your mouth and believe it in your heart, now
37. 2:53This belief is not an easy believer in them.
38. 2:56It is a genuine phenomenon that is in your heart.
39. 3:01You can be saved and you can begin the life of a Christ follower because that life begins
40. 3:08at regeneration being born again.
41. 3:10Now this belief having our eyes opened to the truth that Jesus is in fact, Messiah, it is
42. 3:20a work of the spirit of God.
43. 3:21It is God who works within us to open our eyes and remove the scales from our eyes and to open our hearts to embrace this.
44. 3:29And if you place your faith, your confidence in Jesus Christ's full eternal life, you will live forever.
45. 3:37You will live forever.
46. 3:40However, the opposite is also true.
47. 3:42If you reject the finished work of Jesus Christ, if you reject what he has done for you, then eternal damnation is your future.
48. 3:53There are only two options.
49. 3:55And there's some of you listening to me right now,
50. 3:58and you know the Lord has been drawing you.
51. 4:00Don't resist him.
52. 4:02Surrender.
53. 4:04Surrender.
54. 4:05You might have a lot of questions,
55. 4:06what will life look like on the other side?
56. 4:08And God is so good, he is a question answering God.
57. 4:12But don't allow the questions to cause you
58. 4:14to reject what you know to be true in your heart,
59. 4:17that you are in desperate need of a savior.
60. 4:20Nobody has to tell you that mankind is sinful
61. 4:24because you know for a fact who you are, the real you.
62. 4:27And the real you is you and nobody else is around.
63. 4:29If you ever wonder why do I lean towards sinfulness
64. 4:32is because of the sin nature.
65. 4:34It's because of the sin nature and there's only one remedy
66. 4:37for a man's sinful condition, that is Jesus Christ.
67. 4:40So render your life today.
68. 4:42Admit that you're in desperate need of salvation.
69. 4:44Admit that you're a sinner.
70. 4:46Confess that reality.
71. 4:49Believe on him who took upon himself the punishment
72. 4:53that we all rightly deserve.
73. 4:56And then you'd be able to enjoy the free gift of salvation
74. 4:59that is available to each person by grace alone
75. 5:03through faith alone.
76. 5:04To the word of God we go.
77. 5:06First, that's the law in chapter four, verses seven and eight.
78. 5:09This is something that I've been just meditating on
79. 5:12in my own heart.
80. 5:14You know, David cried out, oh Lord, how I love your law,
81. 5:18it is my meditation day and night.
82. 5:22You know, I know the world has a cycle, babble, descriptions of meditation,
83. 5:27but we need to be very diligent and refusing to allow this, the world,
84. 5:31empty your mind and that's not biblical meditation.
85. 5:35We don't empty our minds.
86. 5:36We feast upon the truth of God's word that drives us towards the character
87. 5:42and attributes of our God that overflow in us through gratitude for who he is
88. 5:50and what he secured for us.
89. 5:52So we ponder these things.
90. 5:54Well, you'll recall the book of Acts tells us
91. 5:58that the Apostle Paul was able to have a short time
92. 6:01in the city of Thessalonica, only a couple of weeks,
93. 6:05but the Lord by his grace opened the hearts of many there
94. 6:08to salvation, which caused the church to be formed
95. 6:11in the city of Thessalonica.
96. 6:14And when Paul was away, he ended up conferring with him
97. 6:17by Epistle by letter.
98. 6:19And one of the things that he communicated
99. 6:21to the Thessalon, I can believe us,
100. 6:23is what we're going to read here.
101. 6:24First Thessalonians chapter four,
102. 6:27verses seven and eight,
103. 6:27and this is what God's word says.
104. 6:30For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity,
105. 6:35but in sanctification.
106. 6:37So he who rejects this is not rejecting man,
107. 6:41but the God who gives his Holy Spirit to you,
108. 6:45the King James renders the same verse,
109. 6:48and verse seven,
110. 6:49For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.
111. 6:55But to holiness.
112. 6:57And he who rejects this is not rejecting man,
113. 7:01but rejecting God who gives us his Holy Spirit.
114. 7:05The thing that I've been pondering and meditating on,
115. 7:07that one of the features of regeneration
116. 7:10when we are born again,
117. 7:12God gives us for the first time in our human experience,
118. 7:15a desire for holiness, for holiness.
119. 7:21I'm pointing this out because we live in a time period where, as I referred earlier to
120. 7:26easy-believism, you know, greasy grace.
121. 7:30Some people describe it that way.
122. 7:32To where people have used grace as an excuse and a justification for all manner of sinfulness.
123. 7:38But I just want to drive us back to what the word of God says.
124. 7:42He didn't call us for the purpose of uncleanness.
125. 7:46And the reference to call there is a reference to the effective call of salvation.
126. 7:53didn't call us out of the tomb, like Lazarus come forth.
127. 7:56He didn't call us who were dead and trespasses and sins
128. 8:01to newness of life and him for us to live lives of uncleanness.
129. 8:09He's called us to holiness.
130. 8:13Holiness, a heart disposition of holiness,
131. 8:18is one that is not comfortable living lifestyles
132. 8:23of sinfulness.
133. 8:25One who is called to uncleaness is grieved,
134. 8:30but not just, oh, shucks, no grieve to the point of change.
135. 8:39God has not called us to uncleaness,
136. 8:42He's called us to holiness.
137. 8:45I wanna simply ask the question,
138. 8:46do you have a desire for holiness?
139. 8:54Is there a yearning inside of you
140. 8:59to become more and more like God day by day,
141. 9:02Day by day, day by day.
142. 9:06You know, one of the blessings, and this actually is a means of grace, the body of Christ, is
143. 9:10a means of grace.
144. 9:11God has provided His ecclesia, His called out ones, the assembly of the called out ones,
145. 9:16to aid the individual believer in growth in holiness, growth toward holiness.
146. 9:24One of the things that should transpire as a result of interacting with members of God's
147. 9:29family that it should provoke you to want to be more godly.
148. 9:35That's what biblical fellowship should result in.
149. 9:38Not just yucking it up, having a good time.
150. 9:40Listen, I love having a good time.
151. 9:41I like to laugh.
152. 9:42I crack jokes.
153. 9:43People don't, well, you guys will believe me.
154. 9:44Y'all hear me cracking jokes on there.
155. 9:47When they did they lie to some people's surprise because he was
156. 9:50always so serious.
157. 9:51Did you ever tell you?
158. 9:54I like to have a good time.
159. 9:57But when you interact with the Lord's bride, man, you should
160. 9:59walk away, desire to be more godly.
161. 10:02I want to be more godly.
162. 10:04I like being around brothers that provoke me toward godliness.
163. 10:11That's one of the major things that I employ to determine
164. 10:14who I'm willing to be friends with.
165. 10:18Does this brother make me want to be more godly?
166. 10:21Does his walk with the Lord inspire me
167. 10:24toward wanting to be more godly?
168. 10:27Or does this brother carnal?
169. 10:31That's a real thought.
170. 10:33It should be a real thought for all of us.
171. 10:37I'm not trying to be an old, uh, funny daddy, stick in the mud,
172. 10:41but I'm going to tell you, man, the Puritans had some things right.
173. 10:46I'll say some of the Puritans had some things right.
174. 10:49The desire for holiness is a desire that is, that is, that is produced in us as a
175. 10:56result of the spirit of God at work within us.
176. 11:02The spirit of God at work within us makes us uncomfortable with sin.
177. 11:09One of the not so secret secrets of sin is that it's the opposite of a plant.
178. 11:17It grows in darkness.
179. 11:19One of the things that many people who curate lifestyles of sin is that they also curate lifestyles
180. 11:29of secrecy, secrecy and deception.
181. 11:33So if you can see it, don't expose it.
182. 11:36But what happens in that scenario is that sin grows in the dark.
183. 11:41You know, like plants need water and sunlight, right?
184. 11:44takes darkness to grow.
185. 11:47One of the blessings of the body of Christ,
186. 11:50which is why I described it, this is a means of grace,
187. 11:52is that the Lord gives us guidance to confess our sins
188. 11:55one to another.
189. 12:02But in this greasy grace kind of climate,
190. 12:06you don't hear people talking about holiness,
191. 12:09let alone desiring holiness.
192. 12:17People want the Lord to be like, bless me, Lord, bless me,
193. 12:20indeed.
194. 12:21They're talking about largely accumulating material things.
195. 12:24Well, the blessing from the Lord is one that provokes you
196. 12:26She took you to righteousness.
197. 12:28A blessing from the Lord is a brother to say,
198. 12:29man, listen, you know that's not right.
199. 12:32A blessing from the Lord is for our sisters to have a sister
200. 12:34to say, you know that's not right.
201. 12:40The Lord conveys to us in His word,
202. 12:42God has not called us for the purpose of uncleanness
203. 12:45or impurity.
204. 12:46God has not called us for that.
205. 12:50He's called us to holiness.
206. 12:56Holiness is not something that, oh, you know,
207. 12:59that's the old scoop.
208. 13:00No, God is the one who calls us to holiness.
209. 13:06And in case you don't recognize that he transcends time,
210. 13:14culture, circumstance, someone asked me the question
211. 13:21not too long ago, well, how do you navigate the notion
212. 13:24of varying cultures when you're a Christian?
213. 13:26And I simply say, God is, God transcends culture.
214. 13:34God doesn't want us to automatically reject culture,
215. 13:36but what God wants us to reject is sin.
216. 13:38So there are certain aspects of your culture
217. 13:40that you recognize that are clearly sinful.
218. 13:42Guess what God requires if you end up me?
219. 13:47Now we don't want to be, you know, legalistic and unilaterally
220. 13:54determine everything is, but the resistance,
221. 13:59resistance of legalism is not a license to just kind of have
222. 14:03a pendulum swing when we go all the way over here.
223. 14:05No, God has given us clear standards.
224. 14:06It's what he requires of us.
225. 14:08As to what he requires of us in our lifestyles.
226. 14:12He has not called us to impurity, to uncleanness.
227. 14:15He's called us to holiness.
228. 14:16Do you have a desire for holiness?
229. 14:22You, do you have a desire to grow in righteousness,
230. 14:30in thought and indeed?
231. 14:33If not, if not, thanks be to God.
232. 14:37The Lord has said that we can come to Him and ask.
233. 14:43So if you recognize as I'm speaking right now
234. 14:45that you do not have a desire for holiness,
235. 14:48I would simply challenge you to go before the Lord
236. 14:51and say, Lord, I do not have a desire for holiness.
237. 14:54will you give me a hunger and a thirst to walk up right before you?"
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245. 15:28Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III and I'm here in studio, delighted
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249. 16:03for joining me here on Hamilton Corner. Good to be in the Hamilton Corner. Good to
250. 16:08be in the Hamilton Corner. And it's been a while. I know you and I get together
251. 16:12during shareathon on the final day. But otherwise good to be back in the program.
252. 16:15I've awesome. I wanted to have you on because there is an episode of a F.A.
253. 16:20at home that is soon to be released on the streaming service stream.afa.net and I wanted
254. 16:27to invite you to have a conversation about that first. What is AFA at home?
255. 16:32We started AFA at home in the months following COVID, the COVID pandemic and we noticed a
256. 16:38lot of people obviously were spending time in their home. So I wanted to get content into
257. 16:43their home through online streaming, which was kind of spiking at the time with just
258. 16:48people not having anything else to do.
259. 16:50And so we started producing AFA at home content.
260. 16:53And some of it had to do with the election in 2020 early on.
261. 16:58We've done one on spiritual warfare.
262. 17:00And then the most recent one you're talking about,
263. 17:02which you're actually one of the panelists on there,
264. 17:04along with a couple others, is discussing education in America.
265. 17:09And what we're going to do is this is coming out
266. 17:11on the 15th of May, this month, on May 15th.
267. 17:14And it'll be free for at least a week
268. 17:16on our stream platform at stream.afa.net.
269. 17:19But we basically look at, the panel looks at education
270. 17:23in America, talk a little bit about early America,
271. 17:26colonial America, what was education like?
272. 17:28Was it like what we see today with a school on every corner?
273. 17:32Or was it, you know, was government involved
274. 17:36in the early role of education in America?
275. 17:39How has homeschooling or private options played a role?
276. 17:42So we kind of look at the history of it,
277. 17:44just to give everybody some context.
278. 17:46Because one thing that's a misconception is education today
279. 17:50is that's how it's always been, right?
280. 17:52And one fascinating truth that we uncovered
281. 17:56as we talked through it on this episode
282. 17:59is that this mass education system,
283. 18:05or I call it almost this like industrialization
284. 18:07of education where you kind of mass-produce
285. 18:10the education model, it hasn't always been this way.
286. 18:14where you've got dozens of schools in every city, especially larger cities, and heavily government
287. 18:22subsidized and heavily regulated from the top down all levels of government. So this is more of
288. 18:29a modern phenomenon. And so we get into all that, which is a very fascinating discussion. But the
289. 18:35most important thing that we do is we talk about what forms of education work, which ones have
290. 18:41been proven not to work over time.
291. 18:44And then we also talk about also importantly,
292. 18:48God's role and the Bible's role in education,
293. 18:51which has been kind of a lost art,
294. 18:54broadly speaking in our country.
295. 18:56Can you give us a preview?
296. 18:57I mean, you mentioned that I'm one of the panelists.
297. 18:59Yes.
298. 19:00But who other people that are participating in that
299. 19:04were panelists for this episode?
300. 19:05Yeah.
301. 19:06So we brought in, and I don't have these lists in front of me,
302. 19:08but I think I've got them all in my mind.
303. 19:10We brought in a lady named Julie Pickering from Texas.
304. 19:14She serves as one of the Texas State Board of Representatives.
305. 19:17I think she's over one district.
306. 19:19I think it's District 7 in Texas, which is a couple of...
307. 19:21State Board of Elections?
308. 19:23Education, I'm sorry.
309. 19:24Yeah, Texas State Board of Education.
310. 19:26It's an elected position in the state,
311. 19:28not appointed by the governor.
312. 19:29It's an elected position.
313. 19:30And she serves a district, which in this case
314. 19:33is the Houston, Texas area.
315. 19:35I think she has a couple million kids
316. 19:36in her district under her purview.
317. 19:39That's not surprising because Houston has Harris County in total has about five million people in it
318. 19:43Yeah, and Houston proper several million just at one city and and her and she talks a little bit about this in the video her
319. 19:50Districts her region or her yeah district in the state is
320. 19:55Has been one of the fastest growing in the country to your point with the population growth in in Texas
321. 20:01So we brought in dr. Jameson Taylor one of our colleagues here. We also had in
322. 20:06Toby Paxton, she does school board research for iVotarguide, so she's kind of in the know on how these elections work, how people get in charge of school boards and other administrative positions.
323. 20:17You were in there and then we had a few others as well, so it was a great conversation. We had a lot of different backgrounds there represented, which helped people be able to speak in to the issues when it comes to education.
324. 20:29What about the gentlemen from Oklahoma?
325. 20:31The, yes.
326. 20:32Okay, yeah, I can't believe I missed him.
327. 20:34Ryan Walters.
328. 20:34Yes.
329. 20:35The Oklahoma State Superintendent of Education.
330. 20:39That's another elected position in Oklahoma.
331. 20:41And so he was there, he's been a very outspoken critic
332. 20:44of our modern education system.
333. 20:46He's done a lot of reforms in the state of Oklahoma.
334. 20:49One of the major reforms he did within the last few years
335. 20:53is introducing the Bible back into the public education system.
336. 20:58system in the form of whether it's the history subject or other subjects introducing the Bible.
337. 21:04And he went about this through a creative way because anybody who studies constitutional law,
338. 21:11unfortunately, with different rulings and different laws, you have to go through some hoops to figure
339. 21:16out how to get the Bible back in the classroom, which is very unfortunate. But they introduced it
340. 21:22in Oklahoma as a historical document. What it is, it is. The Bible is a very key historical
341. 21:27document, a lot of our founding fathers had their own copies of the Bible and the Bible
342. 21:32was read before Congress and so the Bible is not an exaggeration to say it's a historical
343. 21:37book as well in this country.
344. 21:40So they've introduced the Bible as an educational document and an educational study and so that's
345. 21:45how they've gotten the Bible back into their public schools in Oklahoma.
346. 21:49So yes, Ryan Walters was with us as well.
347. 21:51Yeah, and that's not foreign.
348. 21:53You talk about the Bible being a historical document.
349. 21:56the Bible is one of the most influential sources
350. 21:59in the shaping of our nation.
351. 22:01You know, we're talking about it in the world.
352. 22:02Yeah, in the entirety of the world, absolutely.
353. 22:05And, you know, I often reflect on the fact
354. 22:08that I mentioned this fact in this recording,
355. 22:11that the earliest forms of formalizing education directly
356. 22:15were connected to communicating the Bible.
357. 22:18Like our university was literally formed to train pastors.
358. 22:21Literally, that was, it's expressed purpose in 1636.
359. 22:24and scriptures still etched in their stone on their buildings.
360. 22:26Yes. They don't acknowledge it, but it's there.
361. 22:28In one particular building, they've allowed the Ivy
362. 22:30to grow over it so they can't see the engraving
363. 22:33on the side of the buildings, but it's right there.
364. 22:35Yeah, that's telling, isn't it?
365. 22:37It's almost a spiritual analogy or metaphor
366. 22:40of how that's happened there.
367. 22:41But to your point, when you look at the,
368. 22:44and this is why we wanted to do this episode,
369. 22:48on education, once again, we're talking about episode seven
370. 22:50of A F A at Home that'll come out on May 15th.
371. 22:53It'll be free for a week over at stream.afa.net.
372. 22:57You can create a free account.
373. 22:58But this is a big topic with President Trump coming in,
374. 23:02signing the executive order to try to disband or abolish,
375. 23:05or very much shrink the Department of Education
376. 23:08or the federal level.
377. 23:09And then we had the Loudoun County controversy
378. 23:12a couple of years ago following COVID
379. 23:14that really got kind of woke up a lot of parents
380. 23:17in a positive way, our awakened parents
381. 23:20to some of the filth that was being taught
382. 23:22in our public schools.
383. 23:24So I think this episode is really gonna serve
384. 23:27as a knowledge base for how do we get here?
385. 23:32Where do we come from?
386. 23:33What's worked?
387. 23:34What hasn't worked?
388. 23:35And I really am encouraged by a lot of,
389. 23:38there's really a surge, a statistical surge
390. 23:41in private educational options.
391. 23:44And specifically Christian educational options
392. 23:47following COVID.
393. 23:48So I think that's encouraging,
394. 23:50You go out of this and you need to keep that trend going.
395. 23:53But a lot of people are waking up to the reality that the way we've been doing education the
396. 23:58last 100 years just is fundamentally not working.
397. 24:01We're spending a ton of money.
398. 24:03And of course the ultimate unfortunate stat is that children are suffering.
399. 24:09That's kind of the ultimate point is that children aren't being served well.
400. 24:13And we've got to get also moral Bible teaching back into the classroom, even at the public
401. 24:19education level because when you look at our founding fathers, they understood that all
402. 24:24knowledge comes from God.
403. 24:26And they wanted students in the early universities and the early schoolhouses in America.
404. 24:32The Bible was the central textbook because not only did it teach morality, but it taught
405. 24:38basic literacy and it taught basic values that were good for society.
406. 24:43And ultimately when you look at our founding fathers writings, there's a quote out there,
407. 24:48I forget which founding father it is,
408. 24:50but he was writing about the purpose of America.
409. 24:53Why are we founding this nation?
410. 24:55And one of the primary reasons that the founding fathers
411. 24:58had a lot of consensus on was for the propagation
412. 25:01of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
413. 25:03Well, how can you propagate the gospel of Jesus Christ
414. 25:05to the end of the world, which is the great commission,
415. 25:08if you don't know the Bible, right?
416. 25:11So that's another reason that the Bible
417. 25:12was a central textbook in America's early schools.
418. 25:15And so a lot of this is kind of foreign to some people,
419. 25:19you know, the Bible is a textbook in schools.
420. 25:21I thought we couldn't do that.
421. 25:23So that's why we had this discussion
422. 25:25and we're hopefully educating a lot of people on the subject.
423. 25:29Now you mentioned, I really have a two-fold question,
424. 25:31but I'll do it one at a time.
425. 25:33That episode seven will be available May 15th
426. 25:35on AFA Streaming Service.
427. 25:37What is AFA Streaming Service?
428. 25:39And what is the vision behind providing that as a resource
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433. 25:59And we actually began getting canceled in many regards, whether it was on Facebook or whether
434. 26:04it was on YouTube, we were having our videos pulled down and in some cases our entire accounts
435. 26:08pulled down.
436. 26:09And so we saw the writing on the wall about the censorship era.
437. 26:13Now thankfully it's gotten a little bit better,
438. 26:15but censorship is still an issue.
439. 26:18And so we wanted to be able to get our content out there
440. 26:20in an online digital streaming format
441. 26:22without the issue of censorship.
442. 26:24So that's why we developed AFA Stream,
443. 26:27and you can go over to stream.afa.net to check it out.
444. 26:30And so it's a one-stop shop for all AFA-produced video content,
445. 26:34even of course your show, the Hamilton Corner,
446. 26:36all of our major radio programs
447. 26:38are there at stream.afa.net as well.
448. 26:40So you can not only listen, you can watch the shows
449. 26:43at stream.afa.net.
450. 26:45And you mentioned earlier that an option is to open
451. 26:47a free account, would you just speak a little bit about that
452. 26:49and then the Great Commission Partner Option?
453. 26:51Yeah, and before I forget, we did develop a mobile app.
454. 26:54So we have a native mobile app, both on iOS,
455. 26:56which is Apple, Android, which is Google Play.
456. 26:59So we've got in Roku as well.
457. 27:01So we've got a couple of different apps out there
458. 27:03for AFA stream that folks can download.
459. 27:04But the account is free.
460. 27:06You just need a username and password.
461. 27:07If you want to become a Great Commission Partner
462. 27:09donate monthly to the ministry, you'll have unlimited access to the content and you can
463. 27:14also stream on multiple devices at the same time.
464. 27:16I think it's up to five devices.
465. 27:18So if you've got the kids watching Ryan Defrades, if you're watching a cultural institute and
466. 27:23somebody else is watching this episode of AFA at home, that's no problem there.
467. 27:27So the app and then yes, the free account and of course, if you become a monthly partner,
468. 27:31you can have unlimited access to all of the content there.
469. 27:35And so with that, would that give the individual access to AFA at home episode seven, which
470. 27:42would be available May 15th, but also the previous episodes that were recorded, right?
471. 27:45Yes, exactly right.
472. 27:46So this episode episode seven, we're going to make this available for free on AFA stream.
473. 27:51So all you do is need an account.
474. 27:52You don't have to pay anything.
475. 27:53You don't have to donate.
476. 27:55But then all the other content that's behind the great commission wall, you'll have the access
477. 27:59to that as well if you become a monthly partner.
478. 28:01So we try to do a little bit of both.
479. 28:03We want to incentivize people partnering with the ministry becoming donors to the ministry
480. 28:07because it takes a lot of resources to produce all this content.
481. 28:11But we also want to educate people who maybe can't donate or don't feel like donating at
482. 28:15the time.
483. 28:16So we have a ton of free content there as well.
484. 28:18And this episode is going to be brand new.
485. 28:19It's going to be free for up to a week.
486. 28:21So we just want to drive people over to stream.afa.net to really start to become familiar with
487. 28:26our content.
488. 28:27Now, we're in the time.
489. 28:29Thankfully, we're no longer in the Biden era.
490. 28:32was revealed this week, Tulsi Gabbard's department revealed a memorandum from the Biden administration
491. 28:38that lowered the threshold for the FBI to open investigations, which included parents who
492. 28:44had the audacity to go to their local school boards and say, hey, we don't think these policies
493. 28:48are good.
494. 28:49Well, the FBI wouldn't investigate them in things that nature.
495. 28:51What are some of the things you see now that were in firmly in the Trump era?
496. 28:56What are some of the things you see as most prescient, most important, most pressing for
497. 29:01people at home to understand in the secondary to get involved in.
498. 29:04Yeah, I think the biggest opportunity, but also the biggest challenge in front of us,
499. 29:08is continuing the momentum. So there has been a lot of momentum in favor of alternative forms
500. 29:14of education. And when I say alternative, I'm talking alternative to what's broadly accepted in
501. 29:19society, which is the government institution model. And the challenge that we have and granted
502. 29:27homeschooling when you look at the legal history which I didn't really become
503. 29:31familiar with this until the last few months when I started prepping for this
504. 29:34episode homeschooling hasn't always been a thing I'm talking about in America as
505. 29:39far as it being broadly legal and broadly acceptable. Well it was and then it
506. 29:44wasn't. They started regulating it. Yeah so there's been a it hasn't always been
507. 29:48where homeschooling is is the thing there was a lot of legal battles over it and
508. 29:52they tried to regulate it but thankfully there's there's a pretty solid homeschooling
509. 29:57legislation on the books now and the vast majority of states.
510. 30:02But what we have to do, what's working is having multiple means of education, multiple
511. 30:11options for children.
512. 30:13And the private model, we're going to have to get states to get on board with it.
513. 30:17For example, in Mississippi, we don't have school choice.
514. 30:21We just don't.
515. 30:22And we're a very conservative state politically, but we just don't have school choice.
516. 30:26The education lobby's pretty big here and pretty strong.
517. 30:29And so, and there's other states too that don't have school choice.
518. 30:31So we've got to expand options for families.
519. 30:34We've got to put the options back into the parents authority.
520. 30:38And that's the main driver.
521. 30:40And whether that's school choice, whether that's charter schools,
522. 30:44whether it's vouchers, tax credits, whatever you've got to do
523. 30:48to make it to where parents and families are not stuck
524. 30:52in the government-run schools with no way out,
525. 30:55That's what we've got to avoid.
526. 30:56And when you give parents options,
527. 30:59then it creates competition.
528. 31:00And when you create competition,
529. 31:02people flock to what works.
530. 31:04And what doesn't work is the government-run force model
531. 31:07that we have now.
532. 31:09And it was one of the major things you mentioned,
533. 31:11the Loudoun County debacle.
534. 31:14You had the, at the same time that was happening.
535. 31:16That's when Governor Glenn Yunken was elected in Virginia
536. 31:18and you literally had his opponents saying that,
537. 31:21well, parents have no say
538. 31:22in what children learn in their classes.
539. 31:24So it seems that people are waking up to that reality
540. 31:29and passionately so.
541. 31:30And one of the things I often emphasize
542. 31:32is that concerning our children,
543. 31:33we really have one opportunity to serve them.
544. 31:36Children are growing, you have children, I have children.
545. 31:39My oldest is 14 now.
546. 31:40I can't go back and do 10 years old over again
547. 31:42with him and that window of years of formation for them
548. 31:47is very, very narrow window.
549. 31:49Very narrow window.
550. 31:50AFA at home, episode seven.
551. 31:52Just tell us one more time where we can access it
552. 31:54at the streaming service and the apps that are available.
553. 31:56That's right, stream.afa.net, stream.afa.net,
554. 32:00go there, create a free account,
555. 32:01download the AFA stream app on your device, check it out.
556. 32:05All right, stream.afa.net episode seven,
557. 32:09which will discuss education.
558. 32:11You do not want to miss it.
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589. 33:45Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton III here.
590. 33:48I just want to make sure one thing is particularly clear.
591. 33:52The truth is that homeschooling was a standard in America since its founding.
592. 33:57before the creation of what we understand now to be the public education system. That was a later
593. 34:02development with principal figures like Early Horace Mann and then John Dewey and others. And as
594. 34:09that stuff started to become mainstreamed, you had the promulgation of what was called compulsory
595. 34:15attendance laws which created the truancy regime. But one of the major goals that wasn't stated but
596. 34:22was a practical behind the scenes goal was to develop a legal regime that began to outlaw
597. 34:27homeschooling. And so then that took root in America. And then you had people like Mike
598. 34:33Ferris, who founded HSLDA, the Home School Legal Defense Association, who led the battle
599. 34:38state by state, county by county, all across America, to set the course to where homeschool
600. 34:43will be legalized once again. So it was, then it wasn't, then it was again, which is why
601. 34:49I explained it that way in the previous segment. But I encourage you to go and check that out.
602. 34:56lots of things happening. I've been mentioning May 22nd through the 24th. I
603. 35:01will be speaking at the North Carolinians for Home Education's Thrive
604. 35:06Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Jay Mac will be there with me as
605. 35:10well. Then soon thereafter we'll take the Hamilton Corner to Burbanet, Illinois
606. 35:16and Olivette Nazarene University for the Illinois Christian Home Educators
607. 35:20Conference. June 5th through the 8th is when that conference takes place for the
608. 35:25Winston-Salem North Carolina Conference simply go to nche.com to register for the
609. 35:31Illinois Conference simply go to iche.org to register there then after that
610. 35:37we'll have AFA's activate summit which will take place June 12th through the
611. 35:4214th I told you all that someone's gonna be busy June 12th through the 14th in
612. 35:46Tublom, Mississippi and then the very next week will be in Bartlett, Tennessee
613. 35:50at the Culture Proof Conference so it's gonna be very very very busy
614. 35:55summer later in the summer will be in Phoenix, Arizona.
615. 35:58Speaking at a conference, they are told you guys at the very end of June will be in Israel
616. 36:03broadcasting from there.
617. 36:04So it's going to be a very, very, very busy summer.
618. 36:07But the whole purpose of all of this is that there's an urgency, urgency because the harvest
619. 36:14is truly plentiful.
620. 36:15The harvest is truly plentiful and I'm endeavoring to do what I can to make my contribution to serving
621. 36:22the Lord's purposes in our time, helping to encourage individuals, helping to encourage
622. 36:26families to recognize that we have to work while it is day.
623. 36:31The enemy works over time and to get us to play significance and importance on everything
624. 36:35else.
625. 36:36But the things that are most important, most important, we have the tendency to allow to
626. 36:45kind of become a background consideration.
627. 36:46We're all at all kinds of other things to take precedent instead of the things that should
628. 36:50be most pressing for us. I began the program from First
629. 36:54Thessalonians, which I'm trying to get my Bible to turn back open to that.
630. 36:58Fastest because it closed on me. And that page talking about the necessity of
631. 37:03recognizing that God has not saved us. He has not called us to uncleaness but to
632. 37:10holiness but to holiness. And in so many instances and then you know what I
633. 37:16I didn't bring a picture of this guy.
634. 37:18Maybe you can grab it, Jeff, but you have situations,
635. 37:31you had a guy, I'm not even gonna call his name,
636. 37:34but here's a tire undercut the entirety of his message,
637. 37:37in these trying to communicate some things
638. 37:41with the very presentation of himself undercuts it.
639. 37:46And I'll just say, Michael Todd,
640. 37:49You know who has questionable teaching maybe you grab grab the picture and throw it up there
641. 37:54And it's this this dude is
642. 37:57He looks he feminine. I look he feminine on stage wearing wearing heels, you know
643. 38:03And it was just it was very grieving to me because what what's happened by and large and many instances man
644. 38:11It's it's two things right
645. 38:15So, setting strategies to prom, to keep as many people as possible from being born again,
646. 38:23to get as many people as possible to suffer eternal torment and damnation, which he knows
647. 38:28is his end.
648. 38:29I can tell you that plainly, because when the Gatorian demoniac was possessed by demons,
649. 38:34Jesus approached him and what did the demons say to Jesus?
650. 38:40Jesus of Nazareth, have you come to torment us before our time?
651. 38:45Satan and the demons know that their end is eternal judgment.
652. 38:50Eternal, they torment, they know this.
653. 38:53So their efforts are to try to get as many people
654. 38:57to reject the finished work of Christ
655. 38:59so that people will join them in eternal torment
656. 39:01when death and hell are casted to the lake of fire.
657. 39:05The second prong of Satan's strategy is
658. 39:08if he can't keep you from being born again
659. 39:10to try to limit the scope of your impact as a believer.
660. 39:14You know, the Apostle Peter said, if these qualities be yours and they abound, they will prevent you
661. 39:18from being barren and unproductive in your knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
662. 39:22That's a very sobering notion to think, man, I can be barren.
663. 39:26I can be unproductive.
664. 39:27I can be ineffective and in fruitful.
665. 39:30Well, you might be saved personally, but you have no impact on anyone else.
666. 39:35And so what's happened is that we live in a time where we have mega churches, we have
667. 39:41people professing to be Christ followers, but does that profession actually reflect the reality
668. 39:49of how one lives?
669. 39:50Now it is true that we are saved by grace alone through faith alone.
670. 39:54And it is also true for those who are saved, there's certain fruit that is made evident in
671. 39:58the lives of those who are saved.
672. 40:01That's just the truth, man.
673. 40:03So what invariably occurs is we have people gathering in crowds, some of them not even
674. 40:12saved.
675. 40:13Some of them genuinely are saved.
676. 40:15Like for example, remember Paul's epistle to the Corinthians.
677. 40:18He begins his epistle in 1 Corinthians, for example, affirming the fact multiple times
678. 40:23that these people are saved.
679. 40:25They are believers.
680. 40:27However, believers that are not discipled could have lifestyles that look just like the
681. 40:32world.
682. 40:33And so Paul spends the remainder of his epistle confronting all manner of sinful conduct
683. 40:39in the lives of people who he had already affirmed as believers.
684. 40:43a clear instruction and expectation is that having these sinful lifestyles confronted that
685. 40:49these people would repent and would walk and live consistent with a profession of faith.
686. 40:54All right.
687. 40:55So what invariably occurs in our day and age, we have people attempting to not make disciples,
688. 41:04discipline learners, and lifelong followers, obedient followers of Jesus Christ.
689. 41:10We have people that are attempting to create converts in church
690. 41:15attempts.
691. 41:17And we have many places to where the churches are endeavoring to draw people by the flesh with
692. 41:25the flesh.
693. 41:26Let me get this new gimmick, you know, using worldly corporate marketing strategies.
694. 41:30I got this new gimmick, this fresh, this fresh gimmick to get crowds in the seats.
695. 41:36And then what invariably occurs in order, say differently, what you draw the people with
696. 41:42is what you have to continue in order to keep them.
697. 41:45So you have continuous exercises of fleshliness
698. 41:51that are using to maintain crowd sizes.
699. 41:53Oftentimes, the purpose of the crowd size maintenance
700. 41:55is for one major purpose, making sure.
701. 41:59The donations continue at a certain rate.
702. 42:04And then there are instances where you have genuine believers
703. 42:07many times in many places.
704. 42:09But because the entire thrust of the corporate function
705. 42:14is toward the unbelievers or to the carnal, you have genuine believers who are being starved out,
706. 42:22not being nurtured, not being fed with the meat of God's word that are being starved out.
707. 42:31And so you have the prevalence of celebrity culture. Christian, kind of keep a new game,
708. 42:37got to keep it fresh. Why is there such a desire to keep something fresh?
709. 42:42when the New Testament church is over 2,000 years old.
710. 42:47What do you mean, fresh?
711. 42:48And Jude said that we have a salvation
712. 42:52that's been once and for all passed down to the saints.
713. 42:56I'm not saying that we need to be technology of verse
714. 42:58and but we don't need gimmicks for the Lord's bride,
715. 43:03for the Lord's body.
716. 43:05And so what we've seen in our nation,
717. 43:09we have the era of the mega churches
718. 43:12and buildings are being built, buildings are being built,
719. 43:14of being built, buildings are being built, and simultaneously our nation is becoming more
720. 43:18and more wicked. How does that work? It happens because of what I alluded to earlier this week.
721. 43:26God is not in agreement with everything that we're calling Church. So I had a prophet Amos
722. 43:31said, man, away in the Amos was speaking the words of God away with your songs, man, away from me.
723. 43:39Away these festivals. I'm not accepting this. And that's how we've gotten here by and large.
724. 43:48But it's not over.
725. 43:51Remember when the Apostle John records the words of Jesus when he confronted the
726. 43:56Liodesian Church, the church that had a reputation of wealth, but Jesus diagnosed
727. 44:04as being poor and wretched and pitiable, talked about the being neither hot nor cold.
728. 44:14Remember that?
729. 44:15Because it was the presence of the aqueduct in the Liodesian.
730. 44:17They were familiar with the aqueduct because cold water had a function, hot water had a function,
731. 44:22Luke, warm water was useless.
732. 44:24They knew exactly what Jesus was talking about.
733. 44:26But how did Jesus conclude that conversation?
734. 44:30He concluded by saying, those of my love are correct.
735. 44:36It doesn't have to continue to be this way.
736. 44:39In many sectors, we've normalized.
737. 44:42You know, the really, it's idolatrous and frankly, it's blasphemous.
738. 44:48You know, people that are profane artists and writers and direct all kind of profane.
739. 44:55and they'll say, well, thank God for giving me this ability.
740. 44:58Ability to do what?
741. 44:59To profane his holy name?
742. 45:02How many people crack jokes about you?
743. 45:05Yeah, you know, I be in the club on Saturday,
744. 45:07but you know we gotta be up on Sunday.
745. 45:10And I'm not trying to shade anybody.
746. 45:15Well, for that to be culturally normative, man,
747. 45:18that's idolatrous and frankly, that's blasphemous.
748. 45:21Because God says, first thessalonians 4, 7,
749. 45:24for he has not called us for the purpose of uncleanness.
750. 45:30He's not called us for the purpose of impurity.
751. 45:33He's called us for holiness.
752. 45:39But instead of humbling ourselves
753. 45:43under the mighty hand of God, what we endeavor to do
754. 45:46is redefine what it means to be a Christ follower.
755. 45:50And so we switch the prerogatives to where
756. 45:54we are not servants of God.
757. 45:55No, no, God is our servant.
758. 45:58And we seek to justify ourselves.
759. 46:06God is gracious.
760. 46:08We abuse scripture like passages when the woman was caught in adultery.
761. 46:17He was always seen as the first stone.
762. 46:21He tried to use that terminology.
763. 46:22He said, oh, well, chief, you see anybody standing around?
764. 46:25You got rocks in the hand trying to bust you up.
765. 46:26So actually they were rocks.
766. 46:29That was a context that that was recorded in.
767. 46:33No, you're seeking to justify a willing, intentional, volitional rebellion.
768. 46:40but you want to get personal comfort and furniture.
769. 46:46And God knows the difference, man.
770. 46:48One of the evidences of regeneration is that we have a desire for holiness.
771. 46:55For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in holiness.
772. 47:01So he who rejects this, the person who rejects the fact that God has called people from darkness
773. 47:09and moved us, transitioned us into his marvelous light,
774. 47:12not for the purposes of uncleanness, but for holiness.
775. 47:15The person who rejects this is not rejecting man.
776. 47:20So if you're listening to me right now,
777. 47:21you're bristling at what I'm saying,
778. 47:24you're not bristling at me as an individual.
779. 47:27And I wanna be very clear.
780. 47:29I'm talking about those who would bristle at the notion
781. 47:32that God says that he does not save people
782. 47:35for the purpose of uncleanness.
783. 47:40He saves people that we might be holy and that we would be pure vessels and that we wouldn't
784. 47:50be like snake oil salesmen as we endeavor to execute his commission, but we would communicate
785. 47:55to people that we are offering to you the very thing which has been offered to me, that
786. 48:00I am encouraging you to surrender and to submit to the very thing I have surrendered and submit
787. 48:06to and more specifically not to the thing, but to the person that I have surrendered and
788. 48:11submitted to.
789. 48:13And the evidence of that is born out in our lives.
790. 48:16For God has not called us for the purpose of uncleanness, but holiness.
791. 48:21And he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but rejecting God who gives his spirit to
792. 48:29you.
793. 48:31Conviction doesn't come from man.
794. 48:34Conviction comes from God.
795. 48:36How we respond to conviction is often the delineating factor into who we are in terms
796. 48:45of eternal destination.
797. 48:48The Lord loves those who we corrects.
798. 48:53That correction, that conviction is evidence of God's love so that we don't go another
799. 48:59moment living less than what God has called us to.
800. 49:04Holiness is still right.
801. 49:10The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
802. 49:14Family Association or American Family Radio.