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Israel Wayne, director of Family Renewal, returns to “The Corner.”

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0:00 - 15:00. Colossians 2:9-10. Jesus is the head of all rule and authority. 15:00 - 31:00. Israel Wayne, director of Family Renewal, returns to “The Corner.” 31:00 - 48:00. Jesus’ authority must direct the details of our daily lives. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate

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0:00Darkness is an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:07This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
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0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
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0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28Mike Sade Hamilton Corner.
0:33Good evening, everyone.
0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner live broadcasting from the Culture Proof 2025 conference.
0:43I'm your host Abraham Hamilton the third joined by the corner contingent.
0:46I forgot to say this yesterday, but manning the controls back at home base is none other
0:52than my man a hundred grand Mr. Bobby.
0:56and right alongside me here on my left physically but not geopolitically or socio-politically.
1:09The real Jay Mac ladies and gentlemen often imitated but never duplicated and we are ready
1:14to rock and roll with today's edition of the program.
1:17As I mentioned we are broadcasting live from the Cultureproof Conference 2025 at Faith Baptist
1:24Church in Bartlett, Tennessee.
1:26Man, I literally just came out of two keynote presentations.
1:31The first was Dr. Lena.
1:32I want to pronounce this properly.
1:34Abu Jhamra, who is originally from Lebanon, and the presentation concerned, rejoicing
1:43in suffering, not merely enduring suffering, but rejoicing in suffering.
1:49How do we cultivate a maturity in the faith to where we not only endure suffering, but
1:56we rejoice in the face of it as the scripture outlines, as is available to the believer.
2:01And then we have our brother, Israel Wayne, who just provided a profound presentation.
2:13We're having a fantastic time.
2:14conference will conclude tomorrow I will be delivering a keynote address
2:18tomorrow I was a part of two panel discussions so far I'll be a part of
2:24another panel tomorrow and I and I'll have a keynote presentation folks I'm
2:28just telling you if you have the opportunity you need to come to the
2:33Cultureproof Conference I don't know if I can say this out loud but I'll say it
2:36anyway for all y'all just a few of my friends here in the corner from what I
2:40want for understand Lord willing the conference next year will be at the arc
2:44in Kentucky with our brother Ken Ham.
2:47So I'm just telling you, you do not want to miss it.
2:51It's just an amazing, an amazing time.
2:53If you weren't able to come this year,
2:54just go ahead and mark your calendars.
2:56July 16th through the 18th, I believe, 2026.
3:00And I should also add, because I know some of you
3:02have been praying for me that my schedule trip to Israel
3:06should be obvious, but it's been canceled in light of,
3:08you know, small thing like war going on there.
3:12So I will not be in Israel next week.
3:15I've been contacted by the Israeli government
3:17and they are endeavoring to reschedule that visit.
3:22Nevertheless, at this very moment,
3:24many of you, if not most of you,
3:26are making your transition from your part-time jobs
3:28at this very moment to your full-time jobs,
3:33part-time jobs are where we generate an income,
3:36our full-time jobs are where we cultivate an outcome.
3:39And as you are making that transition right now,
3:42want to encourage you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
3:45primacy that God places on family, recognizing the central role that family
3:52plays in God's economy and how the believer is called to outcome cultivation.
3:59Every believer, every believer is called to execute our King's commission.
4:06That commission execution is our outcome cultivation.
4:10It is our privilege.
4:13It is our opportunity.
4:15It is mandated to us by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
4:19And we have the express honor and privilege of joining him
4:22and fulfilling his mandate, his call for his people.
4:27We will do as we usually do on this program,
4:31begin with the word of God.
4:33We always want to make sure our hearts and minds are aligned
4:38According to scripture as we navigate the issues of the day
4:42We're gonna begin the program today in the book of Colossians Colossians chapter 2
4:47versus 9 and 10 Colossians chapter 2
4:51Versus 9 and 10 simply put this is what the word of God says for in him all
4:59the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form and
5:04in him you have been made complete and
5:06And he is the head over all rule and authority.
5:13I want to say it very plainly.
5:15The Greek word all in this text means all.
5:21The theologian Abraham Kuiper has articulated, and this is a paraphrase of that articulation,
5:28but there is not a molecule in the universe that is not subject to his jurisdiction.
5:38There is not an atom over which God does not exercise his jurisdiction.
5:46Here when it says for in him all the fullness of deity dwells, clearly the context indicates
5:50that it's referring to Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah.
5:54And it concludes in verse 10 that I just read, and he is the head over all rule and
6:04authority.
6:06So in this moment of tumultuous events, percolating on the world stage, war between Israel and
6:14Iran, war between Russia and Ukraine, uncertainty with China and Taiwan, uncertainty with
6:23tear of conversations, I want to simply remind you that none of this is beyond the jurisdiction
6:30and the scope of the sovereignty of Messiah.
6:36All of it is subjected to his authority, from the macro level issues all the way down to
6:46the parent that is praying for that prodigal child, the one who is wrestling with a challenge
6:54in marriage, the circumstances that seem to be provoking with an eroding capacity, none
7:05of it is beyond the scope of Jesus' authority.
7:09And because that is true, it must impact and guide how we navigate.
7:16So this is a moment where I simply want to remind everyone listening that Messiah's sovereignty
7:25has not, you know, you put certain items of clothing in the washing machine and you put
7:29in the dryer and they shrink, you know.
7:32I just want to remind you that the events that are percolating in the world today have
7:37not caused Jesus' potency to shrink. Like the extra large shirt didn't become a
7:43shmetium in the dryer all of a sudden. Didn't become a shmetium in the dryer.
7:46God is in control at the macro level and his jurisdiction permeates all the way
7:52down to how we live our lives on a daily basis. God is still in control. So when I
8:00encourage you earlier this week to pray for the President, I didn't do so because
8:04Oh, isn't that cute?
8:06No, I did so because the same God who's in control is the one who calls us to be anxious for nothing,
8:11but in everything by prayer and supplication, let our requests be made known and the peace
8:18that surpasses all understanding will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
8:22The same one calls us to rejoice at all times.
8:28I was reminded in Dr. Lina's presentation, you know, Acts chapter 5.
8:34Peter and John before the Sanhedrin.
8:37They were threatened.
8:39Then later in this passage, they were flogged, beaten.
8:45And you look at the text, I mean, this is striking
8:49to consider, but Acts 5 verse 41.
8:51So they went on their way from the presence of the council,
8:55rejoicing that they had been considered worthy
9:01to suffer for his name.
9:05How often do we think about that?
9:07that they went away from the presence of the council,
9:12rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer.
9:16We don't often think about that,
9:17but when we reflect on the jurisdiction,
9:21the expansive jurisdiction,
9:23the scope of massaged jurisdiction,
9:26it leaves us with no other option, no other alternative.
9:30But we're consistently put in the position
9:32to where we must re-examine.
9:36Are we going to live according to God's word,
9:40or are we gonna live according to man's word?
9:43Are we gonna live according to God's word,
9:44or are we gonna live according to man's word,
9:47even if man's word is our own?
9:50How do we respond when circumstances don't pay out
9:53the way that we want them to?
9:55Do we charge it to God?
9:56Do we charge God with folly?
9:58Do we allow it to become an occasion for unbelief
10:02to set in for bitterness toward God,
10:05to set in or, or can we mature to live according to what the
10:11Apostle James had counted all joy when you suffered trials of
10:17various sorts, because we understand that the trying of our
10:21faith produces patience. One of the things that was stated
10:27earlier, and in the presentation, this is back to Dr.
10:31Leanish presentation, that suffering is promulgated to
10:35produce endurance. Endurance. One of the main vehicles that moves the believer from being
10:42kind of a bantamweight believer to growing a bit of maturity and stability is enduring
10:48and overcoming difficulty. And I want to be clear, I don't say that with a casual,
10:53and during difficulty. Nah, man, I'm a human being too. I have faced and am facing things
10:59just like everybody else. But one of the great benefits to being a believer is that we don't
11:04to navigate difficulty as if we don't know God exists.
11:08And as if we don't know, he is our God personally.
11:13That's one of the things that causes us to get our weight up
11:16spiritually, that the weight up we navigate difficulty.
11:20How do we face challenges and adversity?
11:25We must be reminded, and man, and I'm looking at it,
11:27and Brother Iger was reminding us today
11:28about the expansive reality of God's authority.
11:31All authority is his.
11:33There is not a circumstance that presents a effective counter narrative to that fact.
11:40That is a biblical transcendent fact that all authority belongs to Jesus.
11:47So because that is a fact, how then shall we live?
11:51How then shall we live?
11:53How does Jesus' authority affect us as we assess macro-level things?
11:59How does Jesus' authority affect us when we consider how we operate within our homes?
12:04Does Jesus' authority extend to our homes?
12:07Does it extend to the way we manner,
12:09to our manner of living?
12:11Does it extend to what you guys heard me describe
12:13before the speech and speech phenomenon?
12:15Oftentimes we can speak consistent
12:17with the recognition of Jesus' authority,
12:19but how does that affect how we walk?
12:21How does it affect how we live?
12:23If he is who we have declared him to be,
12:26then our lives should bear out that reality.
12:30And I've often said, you guys know it,
12:32worship is not merely an activity.
12:34We worship, we have the blessing of skillful musicians and things of that nature.
12:40Worship and song is an aspect of worship, but it's not the sum total of them.
12:43And the pinnacle of a worship filled disposition, a worshipful follower of Jesus Christ, the pinnacle of worship is obedience.
12:53If he is who we have declared himself to be, if he is who we have declared him to be, then our lives should reflect that.
13:00oftentimes life's circumstances arise to allow us to recognize where in our own hearts we stray
13:07from that recognition and that profession that all authority belongs to Jesus. And so when that
13:13revelation occurs, often there's a revelation to us, oh Lord, I didn't realize I had that area
13:19of darkness in my own heart. The covenantal response should be when I say covenant to
13:23I mean, those of us who are in covenant with Christ Jesus should be.
13:29Lord, help me.
13:31Lord, change me.
13:33Father, I confess which we have highlighted by your grace.
13:37I confess that that is an area of sinfulness.
13:40And I welcome you, Jesus, to forge me ever the more into Christ's likeness.
13:48That's the response.
13:50That's the covenantal response.
13:52And as that transpires, what God often does, man, He refines
13:56our capacity to be effective in his harvest field because our lives don't contradict our professions,
14:03but that we have lifestyles that confirm what we profess to believe, including the necessity of
14:10us being a people who bear fruit in keeping with repentance. Colossians 2, 9 and 10, for in him all
14:17the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form and in him you have been made complete and he is the head
14:24over all rule and authority. The word all in Greek there means all. There's nothing outside
14:33of Messiah's jurisdiction. We would be prudent, prudent to aspire to live as if that is true
14:42because simply put it is true and it is our privilege to align ourselves with the truth.
14:49Worship is a lifestyle, lifestyle, obedience is the pinnacle. We'll be right back when we
14:54come back from this break.
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15:33My child.
15:38Welcome back to the Hamilton corner. Abraham Hamilton III here. And I am delighted to have
15:43with me a man who was a hero in the face of to me a champion in the faith. And I'm saying to me and
15:50many others, a brother who has dedicated himself since the nineties traversing our country,
15:56encouraging families, encouraging the body of Christ to give their all to serve the Lord,
16:01starting first in their homes. He is a conference speaker. He is an author. I've
16:06said numerous times. His books have been a blessing to my family personally. We've
16:11used his catechism in training our children. His book, Education Does God
16:17Have an Opinion, has been a formative for our family. And I'm so grateful for none
16:23other than Brother Israel Wayne. He and his wonderful wife Brooke are living
16:27Southwest Michigan and they are pouring in and discipling their 11 children from their
16:34homes.
16:35You don't know how I always memorize.
16:36It's amazing.
16:37I'm impressed.
16:38What I do, man, I really think very, very highly of you.
16:40I counted a pleasure to know you and most importantly, I'm grateful for your commitment
16:45to our Lord and your commitment to building His bride.
16:48If you love Jesus, you must love His bride.
16:51When I meet people who love the Lord as you do, it's just heartening for me.
16:54Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner.
16:56Well, thank you, brother.
16:57It's a blessing to be back on your show.
16:59Oh, man, I'm telling you the pleasure is ours.
17:00So I wanted to have you on to begin this conversation
17:04with just simply articulating the significance,
17:08the importance, and I was just talking,
17:09you heard me talking about Jesus' authority.
17:12Jesus' authority must drive down to the lowest levels
17:17of our lives just as it applies to kind of the macro level
17:20transcendent ideas and how we conduct ourselves in our homes.
17:24So I wanted to just start the conversation by talking about the significance of parents responding to God's mandate for us to lead in
17:32disciplining our children and our homes.
17:34Amen. I think sometimes when we look at the problems in the world, it's very easy for us to feel like we check ourselves out
17:42of being part of the solution because the problems seem too big, they're macro. What are we going to do about the United Nations?
17:50going to do about war in the Middle East and all these kinds of things, right? And so we feel
17:56very helpless and powerless to actually be part of fixing the problem. And yet one of the most
18:04powerful things that we can do that is actually shaping future generations happens within our
18:10own home. And the influence that we can have with our own children, through our marriages,
18:17through the discipleship that we bring about in our homes, it literally transforms nations.
18:24And we don't sometimes think about how powerful that formation is.
18:31And so when we think about our responsibility, like there's the sovereignty of God,
18:37but then there's also our duty and our responsibility as a servants in the Kingdom, under the King.
18:44The things that we get to do on a daily basis are really actionable, but they also matter so significantly.
18:54I can't think of anything that is more important on this planet than being faithful in shepherding your own family.
19:05And sometimes I come home as a husband and my wife just like every other family
19:12Sometimes this had a hard day and we have children and we have had children who do things children do
19:18Yes, and whether that's just making messes or being disobedient or whatever the issue is and sometimes my poor wife will feel overwhelmed
19:27And she'll feel like she was a failure
19:30failure that day. And I will say to my wife, let me ask you a few
19:35things. I did our children today know that we love them. And she'll
19:45say, well, I think so. And I'll say, did you tell them? Did you
19:50tell the children that you love them? And she'll think and she'll
19:53say, yes, yes, I did. And I'll say, do you think they believed
19:57you?
19:58Which is right? So we got asked, and she'll think she'll say,
20:01You know, yeah, I think, I hope they did.
20:03I think they did.
20:04And I'll say, you know, did we teach them about Jesus today?
20:09She'll say, yeah, we did.
20:10And I'll say, you know what?
20:12We didn't have a trip to the emergency room.
20:14You know, the house is still standing.
20:18The dishes that are piled up, guess what?
20:19We can wash those.
20:21And the mess in the living room, we can clean that up.
20:24But you know, today we did the most important things
20:29that we could possibly do.
20:31We told our children about Jesus and we made sure that they knew we loved them.
20:37And if we got nothing else done today, I call that a win.
20:41You know, I think that is that today, because you can't do everything.
20:45You have to prioritize. We did the most important things.
20:48Today was a resounding success.
20:51And I think that's something that we as men have to have that macro big picture to realize.
20:56realize this is what the kingdom of God looks like practically applied on a daily
21:01basis and I always say to men that you know our families are kind of the
21:06thermometer spiritually and we come in sometimes and we check the temperature
21:10we're like oh not good right but as dads and husbands we're the thermostat we
21:17control the temperature of the home and we don't like the temperature the thing
21:21to do is not curse the thermometer. The thing to do is to change the temperature by changing
21:28us. And so we get to drive the emotional and spiritual temperature, relational temperature
21:34of our home. And so, you know, for us as men, this is a great duty. And these things are actionable.
21:42And they matter beyond what we can ever imagine. The impact and the ripple effect of that goes
21:49generation's deep. Now thank you for being so gracious to coming on now because I know
21:53you literally just came from the platform providing a keynote presentation and you booked
21:58it right over here to go on the program with me and I'm so grateful for you. Grateful to
22:03you for doing that. I wanted to follow up with something because you made a statement that
22:09conveying to your children that you love them. Do they believe you? Have you told them about
22:15Jesus today as the most important thing so often many people even professing Christians
22:21Internally the wrestle whether or not that truly is the most important thing
22:26What would you say to the person who would say to you what Israel? How can you say that is the most important thing?
22:31What about this? What about that? What about these other?
22:34Things are they not?
22:37Worth incorporating your assessment assessment as whether or not the day has been successful
22:41Well, think about what Jesus said in John 17, 3, this is eternal life, that they may know
22:47you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
22:53Man, that's the big thing.
22:55Do our children know God?
22:56Do they know Jesus?
22:58And then when Jesus asked what the greatest commandments were, he said, love the Lord your
23:02God with all your heart, your soul, your mind, your strength, love your neighbor as yourself.
23:07So our goal with our children is to teach them that's the whole thing.
23:12And everything else that we do in life is a means to an end.
23:17So education is not an end.
23:20It's a means.
23:21High school diploma.
23:23That's not an end.
23:24That's a means.
23:26College.
23:27College degree.
23:29A job.
23:30A paycheck.
23:32Even the things that we buy with the paycheck.
23:34A car.
23:35A house.
23:37Those things are all means.
23:39What is the end?
23:41The end is loving God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, loving our neighbor as
23:45ourselves.
23:46So God has put us on this planet to know Him, to love Him, to adore Him, to worship Him, to
23:52serve Him.
23:53But He doesn't need anything, right?
23:54So how do we serve God?
23:56It's by loving and serving the people that He's put in our path.
24:00So I constantly try to keep that in front of my children.
24:02But our goal that we're trying to equip you for is to know you're not here for yourself.
24:08You're not getting an education for you to know, love and serve yourself.
24:12You're getting an education and we're preparing you for ultimately loving and serving other
24:17people to the glory of God.
24:19And so I constantly try to keep that in front of our family.
24:23In fact, I made a family mission statement that I framed and I put in the living room of
24:27our house in the central place.
24:28I've done the same thing.
24:29This is who we are. This is why we're here and we want to remind ourselves all day every day
24:34And then ask ourselves are the things that we're engaging in in the family
24:38Are they keeping us on mission and are they bringing us closer to that?
24:42Ultimate goal or are they taking us further off?
24:46Does does this video game?
24:48Equip me to know God better and does it equip me to love and serve other people better?
24:52Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Well does this Netflix show help me to know God better and equip me to love and serve other people better?
25:01If it's taking us off mission
25:03Man, we need to evaluate that. Yeah, I mean ask ourselves
25:07Should we be doing stuff that's just completely distracting us and getting us off mission?
25:12Or are the things that we're doing on mission preparing us for that task and you know my children will all have different callings
25:20You know and let's say once a doctor, right? They're gonna need to know how to love and serve people
25:24I'm gonna need some skills. Yeah, you need to know some anatomy some biology
25:28Yeah, but for what purpose the love and serve themselves know to love and serve other people and a glorified God by being the best surgeon
25:35They can be mm-hmm. Don't fear an attorney or your accountant or you know you change people's oil
25:42Whatever it is that you do you do it for the love of God the glory of God and love and service of other people
25:48And so you're gonna need some skills. Yeah, you know, so we want to make sure kids have skills like we're putting practical
25:54Teaching into their life to teach them how to do the things God's gonna have them do in their life
25:59But again, we got to keep them loaded in front of them. That's right. Why but why are you doing this?
26:03Why are you changing oil? Why are you doing people's taxes, right?
26:06This is about the love of God's service of other people
26:09Man and as you're articulating this I think one of the major things that is a hindrance
26:13to the body of Christ, it has been really kind of competing
26:17loyalties.
26:18When you talk about what is the end, sometimes we
26:20conflate means with the end.
26:22Or we allow the world to dictate to us what our end should be.
26:27And as a result, you kind of reverse engineering it, we end
26:30up investing ourselves in things that would be detractors
26:33away from the ultimate objective, a mindful of the parable of
26:36the soils.
26:37And Jesus talked about the seed sown among the thorns, you know,
26:40and the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches
26:43making the seat unimpactful.
26:46How then do we contend to maintain clarity
26:49as to what should be the end?
26:51Because Jesus said we're in the world,
26:53what are I supposed to be of it?
26:54Yeah.
26:55Well, I think that's where we have to continually align ourselves
26:58to the truth of God's word and to know our end,
27:02start with the end in mind.
27:04And so again, I think so many times
27:06when we think about education, we tell our children,
27:10like you need a good education so you can get a good job,
27:13so you can be comfortable, so you can have the things you need, so you can buy the things that you need to basically be comfortable and affluent.
27:21Well, what is that? That's the American dream.
27:24So I often say that as Christians, we're often confessional Christians and we're functional humanists.
27:29We still have the same goals, the same desires, the same drives, the same ambitions as the world.
27:34We love the things of the world, we desire the things of the world, it's all about us.
27:40We're the king of self in our own life and our you know, and yet we're not supposed to be about that
27:45We're supposed to be about the kingdom of God and you mentioned us husbands and fathers being a thermostat
27:51thermostats in our home and if we recognize that temperature is off
27:54It's practically actionable for us to change that temperature
27:58What would you recommend to those maybe listening and I say whoo?
28:02Here's where you got steel to boots on I'm supposed to be thermostat in my home
28:07I may recognize if things are off, but I didn't realize I had such a
28:11Central contribution to that temperature. What are some of the practically actionable things that we can do as fathers and husbands to change that temperature?
28:20Well, we can be mindful of what we say
28:22But we also need to be mindful of the way we communicate in nonverbal ways because most most of communication is nonverbal
28:28And so guys sometimes go to work
28:30They have a hard day and they can't take out their frustrations on their boss
28:34loss, that's not wise. And they can't take the frustrations out on their customers,
28:39because that's not wise. So what do they do? They internalize that. They bring home that
28:43stress and then they offload it on people who can't defend themselves. Usually it's
28:49directed at their wife. So then basically you take this whole weight that you have on
28:53your shoulders of stress and anxiety and you know, anger, you offload it to her. When
28:58now she's got it. So what does she do with it? Well, she usually offloads it to the children.
29:03And then the older ones all floated on the younger ones, and this is why I jokingly say
29:06every family needs to have a cat, so that the little kid, the youngest one has somebody to
29:11all float too.
29:12You know?
29:13I'm just joking.
29:14I do.
29:15But you know, so what we can do is we can be mindful of our tone, we can be mindful of
29:21our attitude.
29:22Andrew Murray is one of my favorite authors, great godly theologian from 150 years ago.
29:28And he used to say this, let the light in your eyes and the smile on your face testify to
29:36your children that you fear the Lord.
29:39And he had eight children and all eight of his children were either pastors or married
29:44pastors and missionaries.
29:45All eight of his kids were faithful as adults in serving the Lord in ministry.
29:49That's a guy I want to listen to.
29:51And he talks about how you teach them, teach, teach, teach, teach, but he says, the smile
29:56on your face and the light in your eyes? Do we as dads communicate that to our family?
30:04Or do they get a lot of anger and frustration and annoyance from us? So I think it's not just
30:11what we say. Are we Christ-like in the way we relate to them? Again, these are practical,
30:17actionable things that we can control and that we should. Now I know you, I want to take a brief
30:23segue you write on these topics, you speak on these topics, where can people get the resources
30:28that you and your wife book publish to aid them in putting these things into practice?
30:33Our ministry website is familyrenewal.org, familyrenewal.org. And there's a button there,
30:40it says store, you can go over there and buy our books and look at our resources. We also
30:44have great articles and lots of things. We also have a video podcast on YouTube called
30:49Family Renewal. So we would love for people to connect with us. I'm on social media, Israel
30:53Wayne and then also family renewal love to connect with anybody there so great way to stay connected. It's one of the good sides of social media
30:59Yeah, we can stay connected encourage each other. Yeah and get good good resources
31:04Man the Andrew Murray quote that you shared is one
31:09He's from 150 years ago, but that's as current as right now
31:12Because that's one of the major transitions, you know, I end up it became a thing on the show
31:17So talking about leaving your income generating capacity as your part time job, but cultivating
31:23an outcome in your homes is our full time jobs.
31:25And that statement about the light of your eyes and the smile on your face to reflect
31:31your fear of the Lord.
31:33That is something that we as fathers can begin to put into practice right now.
31:39One of the things that are often encouraged dads practically to allow their commute home
31:43to be a time of prayer, you know, to where the Lord recalibrates our minds and our hearts
31:48so that we make that shift, okay?
31:50This is what I was doing there.
31:52Now it's time to be at home.
31:53I don't want to just really be physically present, but I want to be functionally present
31:57in that light of the eyes and the smile on our faces could bring us a long way into being
32:03effective to setting the proper temperature in our home as the thermostats.
32:07More with Israel Wayne when we get back from this break.
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32:59Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
33:02The third here, my guest is the director of Family Renewal.
33:05You can find all of the resources to God
33:08as blessed is brother and his wife to produce by going to familyrenewal.org.
33:14Familyrenewal.org.
33:15We were having a conversation before we went to the break and I wanted to continue that conversation.
33:19Brother Israel just finished a keynote presentation here at the Culture Proof Conference 2025
33:25and he began by discussing Jesus' authority, the same reality we talked about from the scriptures
33:31in Colossians chapter 2, verses 9 and 10.
33:34I wanted to invite you to bring the corner audience
33:38into your presentation concerning Jesus'
33:41expansive and comprehensive authority.
33:44Absolutely.
33:45And before I jump into that,
33:46I just wanna say for those who have never yet experienced
33:49the Culture Proof Conference, it is amazing.
33:52There's an amazing lineup of speakers.
33:54I love that I actually get to sit and listen
33:56to some of the best speakers in the country
33:58at this conference.
33:59And so to be able to be part of it,
34:01to be able to just be one of the speakers is a great honor.
34:05So what I wanted to talk about this year is rather than focusing on how bad the world is,
34:12because I think a lot of us are aware of that, and we do need to talk about that.
34:15That's important because, man, there's just a lot of terrible stuff going on out there.
34:20But sometimes we can be overwhelmed with fear and just feel so much stress and anxiety
34:25over things that seem like they're outside of our control,
34:28and yet somehow we feel responsible,
34:31like we're supposed to do something or whatever.
34:33And rather than focusing on that,
34:35I just wanted to talk about the supremacy
34:39of the Lord Jesus Christ.
34:40And so my message was called Almighty Overall.
34:43And I was talking about how Jesus told us in Matthew 28
34:48that all authority and heaven and on earth
34:52has been given to me, he says.
34:55Not some authority, not a little bit of authority.
34:57All authority has been given to me, and therefore you go.
35:01And so when we go through our daily lives, we do so,
35:05we should do so with the cognition, the realization
35:09that is not all about us.
35:12He's in control, he's king, he is the Lord of Lords,
35:15he's the authority over all authorities,
35:18and all the way through the prophecies
35:20in the Old Testament, Daniel chapter seven,
35:23talk about the Son of Man and how all dominion
35:25had been given to him and how he would rule over all the nations and this promise all the
35:32way through the Old Testament and the fulfillment of it by conquering death and sin and the grave
35:37and everything being put under his feet and being given to him is the wordy that we can
35:44go through this life not with the thought that everything is chaotic, not with the thought
35:50that it's all out of control and we're just on this dust ball spinning in space and who
35:54who knows what's gonna happen.
35:56But realizing that the history is controlled
36:02by the Lord Jesus, our future is secure in Him,
36:06that He's Lord over the past, He's Lord over the future,
36:10He's Lord of our present.
36:12He tells us we're not supposed to worry,
36:14we're not supposed to be anxious
36:16because He knows our needs.
36:18He will take care of us.
36:19And so what I find is that, again, I say this a lot,
36:24that we're confessional Christians
36:26and we're functional humanists.
36:28We say with our mouth we believe certain things,
36:30but then the way that we actually functionally live,
36:33we live as though these things aren't true,
36:37that Jesus isn't in control
36:39and that the world is spinning out of control
36:41and it's all hopeless and the economy is such a mess.
36:44And the Lord Jesus Christ has authority over all things.
36:49And so I think what we have to do is step back
36:52ask ourselves the question of when God allows difficulty into our life, why does he do that?
36:59And what's his purpose?
37:01And so we realize that God's number one goal all the time and everything he ever does is
37:06number one to bring glory to himself.
37:09So if God's doing something, it is always to bring glory to himself no matter what.
37:15But then secondly for us, his goal is to conform us into the image of Christ, to make us more
37:21like Jesus. And so sometimes we curse the very things that God has allowed into our lives
37:29for the purpose of making us more like Jesus. We resent it, we're bitter about it, we're angry
37:36about it. We yell at God about it. It's like, but this is the very things that God has allowed
37:43into our life to help strip us of ourselves, our own self-reliance, our own sense of self-imposed
37:52or our own capacity and to show us how needy we are
37:58and how much we just really need Jesus.
38:01And those things are blessings in our life.
38:03They are, that can be financial difficulty,
38:06it can be health crisis,
38:08it can be external opposition,
38:11it could be somebody slandering us,
38:13it could be any number of things.
38:15God is allowing that in our life
38:18to help us to become more like Jesus.
38:21Wouldn't it change our perspective as opposed to shaking our fist at God and getting angry and saying go out
38:26This thing that happened in my life. Well, we know why he allowed it. He told us in his word
38:31That he's doing it to help conform us in the image of Christ
38:34Shouldn't think it's strange when these things come upon us, right? And so
38:39What should we do in the middle of those things? We should worship
38:44We should praise God. We should exalt the glorious King
38:49Because He is good. And we should preach to ourselves and tell ourselves not how we feel,
38:56but tell ourselves what is true. I said to the audience here, sometimes you got to get up in the
39:02morning, you got to preach to the person in the mirror, and you got to tell that person what is true.
39:07And it changes how we live, rather than thinking that God is this cosmic Santa Claus in the sky,
39:15who's supposed to give us everything that we want and make sure nothing bad ever happens to us.
39:20We actually lived by our theology, we would say,
39:22God has allowed this difficulty in my life. He's doing so to bring in glory and to
39:27break me of myself so that I become more dependent on Jesus and therefore become more Christ-like.
39:34And so we thank God that we say, thank you Jesus. Thank you for allowing this in my life. I pray
39:37that you'll do the work in me to break me of myself, my own self-will, my own self-reliance.
39:42Just show me how much I need you and make me more like Jesus.
39:46And you know what we get through a lot of those things faster.
39:49Yeah. A lot faster.
39:50Yeah. And a lot different in terms of internal disposition.
39:54Yes for sure. Because the instruction to rejoice always.
39:58Yes. Doesn't mean that all things will be jovial.
40:01That is right. That doesn't mean that all things will be jovial.
40:05But the capacity to rejoice always requires us to take respite in God's
40:11His God's providence, His expansive and comprehensive jurisdiction,
40:16but also His love specifically for us.
40:19So that we can obey the admonition through the Apostle James to count it all joy.
40:26That's right.
40:27You know, to one of my favorite hymns,
40:29Great is Thy Faithfulness, written by the Prophet Jeremiah in the book of lamentations.
40:34Yes.
40:35As Nebuchadnezzar is waylaying Judah, you know, he is articulating what we offer.
40:40as he's watching the fulfillment of prophecy happen that wasn't
40:45comfortable for him.
40:46And it's one of those things, but we've had such a twisting of gospel
40:50presentation in our country to where many people try to curate for
40:54themselves suffering less lives, which result in a deprivation of our
40:59capacity to have this aspect of maturity, which is why we end up
41:04with professing believer done being a mile wide and an inch deep.
41:07I think believer dumb being a mile wide and an inch deep for sure to wear anything that kind of brushes up against us
41:13It causes us to be oh, I don't know what's true. I don't know what what what is and it's one of those things it's
41:22It's kind of like a child
41:25refusing to
41:27consume vegetables
41:29Because M&M's are so much preference so much so much more preferable. Yeah
41:34But the parent is trying to say, listen, I know what's best for you.
41:37You may not like imminence.
41:39I'm sorry, I may not like the vegetables, but you need them.
41:42Yes, absolutely.
41:45And it really is our theology that's supposed to drive the way we live.
41:48Like our orthodoxy informs our orthodoxy.
41:53And so when we start with a wrong premise based on theology, which is the knowledge of
42:00God, the understanding of God.
42:03When we start with that wrong understanding of who God is and what his role is and his
42:08purpose is, we're going to make a lot of bad conclusions and make a lot of bad decisions
42:13in our life and behave badly.
42:15So one of the fundamental premises that most Christians have, even if it's subconsciously,
42:20is that God is here to make sure that nothing bad happens to me.
42:24And that my life goes well and he blesses me and prospers me and he keeps all the bad
42:30stuff away.
42:31And so then what happens when they break their leg?
42:34What happens when their car is hit by another car in total?
42:37Then they shake their fist to God and say, God, why did you do this to me?
42:41They would only say that if they had a bad theology.
42:44They had a good theology.
42:46They really understood God and they understood his relationship with us.
42:50That thought process wouldn't go through their mind.
42:53God, why me?
42:54Well, I'll tell you why.
42:56Because we live in a sinful fallen world and God wants to remind us that we live in a
43:01a sinful fallen world and we're sinful fallen people and we need Jesus.
43:05This is not our home and bad things happen and so what is the solution to the macro sin
43:13problem and the micro sin problem?
43:15Jesus.
43:16Amen.
43:17So what do we do when difficulty hits our life?
43:19We run to Jesus.
43:22What do we do when we don't have finances?
43:25We don't run to Jesus and say, God why don't you give me more money?
43:28No, we run and say, God, what are you trying to teach me?
43:31What do you try to do in my life?
43:33I just share this.
43:34I've learned this in my life.
43:36I've learned this in my life.
43:37That in times where bad things have happened,
43:40that I couldn't explain, I didn't understand.
43:42I've done like everybody else and I go to God and say,
43:44God, why?
43:45Why did you let this happen?
43:47Here's what I've learned.
43:48You will never get an answer to that question
43:51unless there's something very specific
43:54that God wants you to change, that you can change.
43:58So when you say, God, why does it happen to me?
44:00Well, there are times where God will give you the answer like Joshua when he's on his face after they got defeated at AI
44:06And he's going well, what is happening goes up dude sending a camp
44:10Yeah, what are you doing on your face like they're sending the camp get up deal with the sin
44:13It was something that he could deal with and then he should deal with and so he got an answer
44:18But most of the time when difficulty has come into your life. It's not because you did something bad
44:24Most of the time it's because we live in a fallen world and God is trying to remind us
44:28this is not our ultimate home and we're very vulnerable and we're very needy and we need Jesus.
44:34And so here's what we should pray instead of, God why are you doing this to me? Why did you let
44:39this happen? Because again if there's sin or there's some thing that we're supposed to change then yeah
44:45God will he'll make that real clear. It'll be abundant. We'll know the Holy Spirit will put it on our
44:50heart but in most cases this is a better prayer. God what do you want me to learn through this?
44:55What are you trying to do in me?
44:58Who do I need to become that I'm not right now?
45:02And is this a process that you're allowing in my life for me to get there?
45:07And what do you want me to do next?
45:10What's my next step?
45:12So here I am, I'm in a bad situation.
45:14Maybe you're trying to redirect me.
45:16Maybe you're trying to move me from where I am into a different thing.
45:21What do you want me to do next?
45:22to do next, then how am I supposed to learn to love other people through this?
45:27How do you want me to learn to love you more through this?
45:31Start praying those kinds of prayers.
45:33Those kinds of prayers you get some answers to.
45:35The why me?
45:36Well, you know, why not you?
45:39What were something special?
45:40Like God's not so allowed to let me have anything bad happen.
45:43Just everybody else in the world can experience suffering and difficulty.
45:46Just not me.
45:47Like, I don't know.
45:48It's got a bad theology.
45:49But that's what I've learned is that God wants us to grow.
45:54He wants us to mature.
45:55And so submit to that.
45:57Say, God, well, how do you want me to grow?
45:59Amen.
46:00What do you want me to change?
46:02What things in my life you want me to change right now?
46:04Those kinds of prayers get better answers.
46:06Mm, you know, listening to you,
46:09the reality just comes to the forefront
46:12that we may not state this verbally,
46:16but the life proclamation often is that
46:19We don't want to be reminded that we need Jesus.
46:21We don't know.
46:22We kind of like the idea of taking the cultural ethos,
46:29say we are enough, we can do it, I am all that I need.
46:34I look in the mirror, I see all that I need in the mirror
46:37and it's like, first of all, that's just a flat lie,
46:40but it's even a more insidious lie for believers
46:44to functionally embrace the religion of humanism.
46:49Yeah, because it is disconcerting to be reminded.
46:53Oh, wait, no, I do need Jesus.
46:56Well, I would like to trust Jesus
46:58with a million dollars a month, checking account.
47:00You know, I mean, I can still trust Jesus,
47:03but at the same point, something bad comes up in my life.
47:05I can pay for it.
47:06Yeah.
47:07You know, I want to trust Jesus,
47:09but kind of with this guarantee that,
47:11hey, if anything goes bad in my health,
47:13when you just fix it, right?
47:16And so the thing that happens is when we get
47:19that situation where it's out of our control. It's not within our capacity to fix it. We freak
47:25out because we want to be our own little God.
47:28Is your wang ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you, you know, in a lot of ways much of which
47:37transpire on our own nation is God's invitation for his bride to grow up and more specifically
47:43to grow into being formed and shaped into Christ-likeness.
47:49But for real, not just saying it and singing cool songs and feeling good about ourselves
47:53because you have a perfect church attendance record, but being made Christ-like in much of
47:58that transpires in having the refining life capacity in which God is inviting us to renew
48:06our dependence upon him.
48:10renewal.org is website Israel Wayne is the man go to Israel Wayne dot com for more
48:15information for him you need him as your next event book him is your way calm
48:20thank you brother

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