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Be Still My Beating Heart!

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1:01Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
1:04Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio.
1:07I am your host Abraham Hamilton the third we have a pleasure this evening
1:14Some of you hear the one minute commentaries that I offer on a daily basis on the American Family Radio Network
1:21But what you don't know is that behind the scenes the man who age and that recording is here in studio with us today
1:29None other than mr. Mark. Oh, so I said it walking into the studio
1:33Gotta have more than just one dose
1:35That's why we call them Mark Os and we have our friendly neighborhood with a haulik in the
1:41screening room aiding us and bringing this program to you this evening.
1:45So many things have happened this week and I really want to kind of drill down on some
1:51of the things that I unexpectedly said was that Wednesday because we have to get out
1:59this idea of playing defense, you know, and it's not that we're losing ground in the culture.
2:07The reality is we're seating it. One of the major mechanisms of that session, if you will,
2:15is our refusal to implement the mechanisms that God has provided for us in his holy words.
2:22You guys have heard me say, the first time I said it, I didn't know it would become like a thing
2:26for the show, but darkness is not an affirmative force, but it does reoccupy the space that
2:32is vacated by the light when we have things happening like a Islamist communist being
2:38the Democrat nominee for the for mayor in New York City.
2:43That's voters who are supporting this guy.
2:45And I pointed out that there's some people who will be tempted to say, Oh, I, you know,
2:49that's that's New York.
2:50It's New York.
2:51What do you want me to do about it?
2:53And I'm saying, it's not just New York guys.
2:57Who do you think were the people that voted for she was trying to be president of the remix?
3:01Why did that happen?
3:03What is the demographic to the people that are doing this?
3:05Largely, you have regressive women and young people.
3:11What is happening to our society?
3:12I really believe it's a wake up call.
3:13So by God's grace, we're going to delve into that a bit during today's program.
3:17And I have someone.
3:18You'll have to forgive me if I seem to be distracted today because the studio feels a
3:24a little different.
3:26I'll get to that later.
3:27At this very moment, many of you,
3:28if not most of you are making your transition
3:31from your part time jobs where you generate
3:32an income to your full time jobs
3:35where you cultivate an outcome.
3:36Outcome cultivation is the order of the day.
3:40When I said that we are not losing ground,
3:43we're seeding ground.
3:44One of the major reasons and mechanisms
3:47for that ground being seeded
3:49is that outcome cultivation is not being engaged in
3:53at the clip that is necessary.
3:56We have people who are made in God's image
3:59whose hardware is amazing.
4:01I mean, God is the one who designs the body, designs the mind,
4:04gives us brains, all these kind of things.
4:06But the software is infected with the virus.
4:09There is a societal anti-Christ malware
4:13that is corrupting our society, man.
4:15And we're witnessing it happen,
4:17and part of the reason why there's not the sense of urgency
4:20that should be there is because it's happening,
4:23happening incrementally.
4:25If somebody would have come with an atom bomb,
4:27so to speak, a bombastic approach and say,
4:29hey, we're gonna deny you biological sanity
4:34and fiscal sanity and the whole gamut to where
4:38all of these things are lost as one big cosmic societal
4:42Molotov cocktail, you would have a lot of resistance to it.
4:45But when it happens, subtly, over time.
4:50Not major shifts all at once,
4:52just a little bit all at a time, just a little bit at a time.
4:55You know, why can't we pursue the benefits
4:59of holy matrimony without the holy or the matrimony?
5:02Why can't we focus solely on pleasure?
5:04Didn't God make our bodies for pleasure?
5:07But not focused on the responsibility,
5:09responsibilities attendant to pleasure,
5:13subtly imperceptibly.
5:15Oh, so it doesn't matter anymore.
5:18If it's a man and a woman who are together
5:20and they're not engaging with holiness or matrimony.
5:24So why not to the Swiss?
5:25Why not a man and a man?
5:27Why not?
5:28Why not?
5:30We have an entire system of instruction
5:32and denies and allows for God,
5:33but boys sure produces good jobs.
5:39The next thing you have New York City Democrats
5:41doing the 21st century version of Give Us Barabbas
5:46doesn't happen overnight.
5:49Unsurprisingly, man, the word of God gives us clarity
5:51as to how we should engage and understand
5:52how we should respond to the craziness that is replete in our society.
5:59To the word of God we go Ephesians 4, Ephesians 4 verses 12 through 16.
6:05I've explained this before, but it's important to go back here because I personally always
6:11want to make sure that my engagement is anchored in God's word.
6:14And one of the objectives that we have for this program is to help to cultivate a biblical
6:19framework through which we engage the issues of the day, refusing to abandon or to jettison
6:25the truth of God's word that we exalt the king of kings by adhering to his word.
6:32And then we apply his word to our contemporary environment.
6:35If he's a chapter four, verse 12 says this, and the Lord is describing, he gave some, you
6:43know, the various roles and functions with the body of Christ.
6:46in verse 12, he begins explaining why, why? For the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry,
6:54or the work of service to the building up of the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity
7:01of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a mature man, to the measure of the stature
7:10which belongs to the fullness of Christ. That's the objective. Then verse 14 explains
7:19some of the immediate consequences of the objective being fulfilled. As a result,
7:26we are no longer to be children tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every
7:35wind of doctrine was the next phrasing by the trickery of men, by craftiness and deceitful scheming.
7:46Some translations render that text in the craftiness of men by which they lie in wait to deceive.
7:53It literally is a booby trap of deception. That is a premeditated booby trap of deception.
7:59So when the scheming begins and the enticements are offered, the enticements are offered at the very
8:05moment that the schemers know is a trap. But they say, come on, jump on in, the water's fine.
8:13What's wrong with the little communism? It hadn't been done right before in history,
8:17but when you think about it, everybody being equal. No haves, no haves knots,
8:25isn't that attractive? And then the immature and the gullible go, uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh, not knowing,
8:32It's a booby trap. Back to the text. Verse 15, but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up
8:42in all aspects and to Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body being fitted and
8:48held together by what every joint supplies according to the proper working of each individual part
8:56that causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. One of the major things I
9:01I want you to see from this, that a vibrant functional church, a vibrant functional body
9:09of Christ produces demonstrable stability, demonstrable stability.
9:17As verse 14 lays out that the result of the church functionally equipping the saints for
9:24the work of ministry, the result is that we're no longer tossed here and there by the waves
9:30are carried about by every wind of doctrine.
9:34When you think doctrine, you have to get away from the notion that doctrine is limited
9:38to some type of well-suited, sweater-vested, podium-laden, doctrinal presentation in a
9:47formal hall of academia or behind a lectern in some theological establishment.
9:53Listen guys, the world offers doctrine.
9:57Economists offer doctrine.
10:00Noticians offer doctrine wicked
10:04Organizations offer doctrine doctrine simply means teaching
10:10Teaching and what is happening by and large?
10:14Because of the imperceptible things, you know
10:16There's a major recognition that younger people today are looking they don't they don't want to just have the American dream
10:22They're looking for some sort of fulfillment as
10:25They pursue their course of life
10:27What's the basis of that, guys?
10:30It's because the word of God is true.
10:32He said eternity in the hearts of men.
10:34We've gone through, you know, that 80s, greed is good.
10:38You know, we've gone through materialistic pursuits.
10:40And here's the thing, surprise, when one gives themselves to materialism
10:46and the pursuit of some type of fulfillment without any recognition of God,
10:52it's an exercise of futility.
10:54But the sad part about it that futility is often unrealized until it's too late
11:00That's why I've said before the most consistent examples of people who commit suicide unfortunately most often are wealthy people
11:08Most often that's the most frequent occurrence. Why is that?
11:14Because they've been told man you really want to have a life of feel you gotta have a lot of money
11:17You gotta who you gotta have this you gotta have that you gotta have this and they get all of those things and they get to the top of the
11:22proverbial worldly mountain and go is that it
11:24Is that all there is to offer?
11:28You know how many times you see athletes who they tell you, man, it's a hard transition.
11:32Why don't you retire from playing professional sports?
11:35Why is that transition so hard?
11:37Because the whole lives, the focus has been, man, our society glamorizes, idolizes athletes.
11:45You have all the money, I think that flow from it.
11:48And they conflict their identities with a physical capacity that God has given them.
11:53That's enabled them to generate wealth.
11:55But then they come to a place where they say,
11:57well, who am I if I'm not the middle linebacker anymore?
12:01I don't hear the roar of the crowd.
12:03Who am I?
12:04And it becomes a crisis of identity.
12:07The exact same things elementary school students are struggling with.
12:11The exact same things, the world is telling our women,
12:17you can have it all.
12:19You can be everything.
12:21When the truth is, no, you can be who God has created you to be.
12:24It can't be everything.
12:26It can't be.
12:27If you a six foot five woman, you can be a horse jockey?
12:29No.
12:31No, you can't.
12:35If you can't, what's my dad say?
12:37If you can't hit a bull on the backside with an iron bull,
12:39you think he'd be a baseball player?
12:41No, you can't.
12:43No, you cannot.
12:46That mean you're bad.
12:47What it means the world has offered you doctrine, that's false.
12:51But what happens when we're not grounded,
12:53we're not rooted in Christ, we become susceptible
12:56to being tossed here in there.
13:00The, whoo, I think today I'm a furry.
13:09No, today I'm a day trader and it blows.
13:17I have lots more examples when I'm gonna stop here
13:19because I'm thinking about people and I stop here.
13:22But what happens is that there is a functional instability.
13:25And so now we have people, New York City's the latest
13:29example of that, who have become frustrated, disenfranchised,
13:34disgusted, exhausted, pick whatever description
13:36you want to have there.
13:37And they say, you know what?
13:39Why are we trying American application of communism?
13:41How about that?
13:43I shared with you guys, I literally posted it on X.
13:45It's up there right now.
13:46If you go to the artist formerly known as Twitter,
13:48you go to the Hamilton corners page,
13:50there's literally a woman on the page
13:52in New York City leaving the polling station.
13:56And the interviewer asks her, who do you vote for?
13:58I voted for Mom Donnie.
14:01And if you go zone and say, so you think socialism works?
14:03No, that's what she says.
14:05No, I don't think it works.
14:07And I'm just like, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am,
14:10lady, ma'am, miss, ma'am, lady, ma'am.
14:13You don't think socialism works,
14:15but you vote a mom, Donnie?
14:17Yeah, I just thought it was time for a change.
14:20Time out.
14:22I wanna grab her, like this, come here, let's talk.
14:28You just think it's time for a change, okay?
14:30Not all the changes are good.
14:32Not all changes are good.
14:35But when I see those kinds of things,
14:37What I see is a lack of effective full-time jobbing,
14:44a lack of effective full-time jobbing,
14:49because as the sanctuary quipped for the work of ministry,
14:53and as we are growing into the fullness,
14:55and I know the world is gonna world,
14:56it's not the body of Christ,
14:57but the Lord tasked about it first with his great commission,
15:01the result is that we're no longer to be children,
15:04tossed here and there by the waves and every wind of doctrine.
15:10And this is why I say daily, what goes on in your house
15:13is far more important than what goes on in the White House
15:16because in your house, depending on your life station,
15:19we all have that opportunity.
15:21That's not limited to our biological officer,
15:23but we at minimum should serve our own children well enough
15:27to the best.
15:37Shining, lighting to the darkness,
15:39this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
15:43Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamles,
15:45the third here and now you know if you're watching this show why I was so
15:48balded in the first segment because to my left my favorite guest my absolute
15:55favorite guest of all time is with me in studio my lovely wife Mrs. Maria Hamilton
16:01welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Thank you thank you very for having me. Let me
16:04turn my mic properly so I can fall into those eyes again as we speak. Oh my
16:10I'm gonna try.
16:11Y'all get ready.
16:12Hehehe.
16:13So you heard the first segment, and we talked about this at home quite a bit, um, with the
16:21shifting in our nation, and I said in the first segment that we're not losing territory, we're
16:25seeding it, and seed is spelled C-E-D-E.
16:28I'm not talking about farming, it's not, you know, grass seed, anything like that is C-E-D-E.
16:34We're seeding the territory.
16:38But it brings me all the way back.
16:40So, you know, some people may not know our story.
16:42You know, most people know I'm originally from New Orleans.
16:44You're originally from Puerto Rico.
16:46We met in the Harris County District Attorney's Office
16:49in Houston, Texas after Hurricane Katrina.
16:53We married and then I never forget,
16:56we were doing a bunch of things and I asked you to question,
16:59Maria, what do you think about homeschooling?
17:00And what did you say to me?
17:02And I said, I don't think about homeschooling.
17:05I never had ever crossed my mind that we were homeschool.
17:08I know you had met some homeschoolers
17:10had never met one homeschooler in my entire life.
17:14I thought it was two.
17:15You had met two.
17:16My whole life.
17:17Yeah, I had never met any
17:18and it was just a strange concept to me.
17:20And then also growing up thinking that I was not a teacher,
17:24that I can't teach.
17:25So I remember telling you,
17:27I don't think they'll learn how to read and write,
17:28like if I do it, you know.
17:30Of course, plugging from that mentality of experts,
17:34you know, experts know better
17:35and they know what to do with my kids.
17:37And so, yeah, it was kind of like a wake-up call for us
17:42because at the same time the Lord was showing us
17:45a lot of things in the educational system
17:47that we were not in agreement with.
17:50But then the Lord guided us
17:52and it was awesome to see his faithfulness
17:55and his direction, his even starting us before our kids
17:59were even born with these conversations.
18:01And then eventually he made it clear we had to do it.
18:05Yeah, so this is, and this is conversation we had.
18:08We didn't have any children yet.
18:09We were having this conversation
18:10who was soon after we just got married.
18:14I want now though, because you mentioned about,
18:16man, how the Lord led us.
18:17What were some of the things,
18:19obviously with the background,
18:20I don't think about homeschooling.
18:21What are you talking about?
18:22Are you crazy?
18:23I wish I could take you guys with me to that moment
18:25so you could see her face.
18:27When she said, I don't think about homeschooling.
18:28It was like, are you, what, you alien?
18:31What are you talking about?
18:32You know?
18:33But what was it?
18:35when you say that the Lord is that what was it that caused you to say, you know what, I
18:38know this is what God is calling us to if and when we eventually have children.
18:43Yeah. So the Lord was showing us through different people in different ways we had gone to a world
18:48view weekend seminar thing that taught us really a lot of the history behind the educational
18:55system in America. And of course we grew up in public schools, so we saw and we knew a
19:00a lot of things.
19:01And so we wanted better for our kids in that regard.
19:04But bottom line, man, the Lord was showing us that He was calling us to disciple our kids,
19:10that it was bigger than just reading, writing, and arithmetic.
19:12You know, it was bigger than just getting them to college or getting them to be functional
19:16citizens.
19:17But it was, we are entrusted by God to shape their hearts and to pour into them to help
19:24them to learn who God is and how to live obedient lives unto Him, to be a light in darkness.
19:30And so I didn't feel like, and we really didn't feel like we could do that with just
19:36a couple of hours a day, if we send them off.
19:40And of course we even prayed about, because at first it was private school versus homeschooling,
19:44those were the two options that God was showing us.
19:48And we prayed about that, and we just felt strongly that the Lord was saying to us that
19:52it was our primary responsibility, which meant we needed to have the time with them.
19:59even prior to that or maybe I were on the same time if I remember correctly, the Lord
20:03was calling me to stay home, you know, from my career and all that.
20:07And so it was, it just worked like the way that God really let us
20:11worked well because He put it in our hearts to make that
20:15chief, right? That my commitment, yours too, but it was just your role
20:19looked differently than mine and then the way that we executed it. Our commitment was to
20:23pour into them every second of the day in
20:27shaping and in biblical knowledge and the foundations of truth so that they would grow
20:36to be who God called them to be. Not just because of us but who God called them to be.
20:40So it would take a lot of time and it would take a lot of prayer and it would take a lot
20:42of commitment to making this most important in our lives. And so man, we've been doing it
20:49and it's been a great blessing.
20:52So one of the things that you mentioned as God leading us, and we're being confronted
21:00with truths from Scripture primarily, because we didn't have anybody around us who homeschooled.
21:05When you said I met two people, it was two people at two different phases of my life.
21:10The first one, I was 17, I met who's a friend of the program, was a personal friend, and
21:17He's been a great blessing in my own life.
21:19The director of the Louisiana family form, Gene Mills,
21:23I met him as a result of going to the Louisiana State Capitol
21:26and learning a word I never heard before, lobbying.
21:29I didn't know just what that was, but I met his son.
21:33His son at the time was 12 years old.
21:35I was 17 or 18.
21:37And I was saying nothing, but Mr. Mills
21:42and several other people, a legislator,
21:44Tony Perkins was there.
21:45they were conversing about the US Constitution
21:49and legal policy and this 12 year old
21:51is sitting seated to my left
21:53who starts quoting the Constitution verbatim.
21:56I didn't know the Constitution.
21:58And so I lean over and I whisper,
22:00Mr. Mills, your son is so smart.
22:03Where does he go to school?
22:04He leans over to me and says, oh,
22:07my wife and I are we homeschooling.
22:12What is that?
22:13I said, what is that?
22:15So that was my first introduction.
22:16Years later, I was a fellow with the Blackstone Fellowship,
22:21a legal training program that Alliance
22:24for Fitting Freedom does.
22:25And my roommate for a portion of that training program
22:29was a great friend of mine, even to this day.
22:32His name is Travis.
22:34If you're listening, hello Travis, you know who you are.
22:38And he and I were the polar opposites.
22:40If you can imagine, I mean, this is the truth.
22:43You ever know Ed a guy, you go to play basketball,
22:45you tie their shoe strings,
22:46and they put a loop around their ankles.
22:47You ever seen that?
22:49Travis looped his shoestream behind his ankles.
22:51He would tuck his shirt and even to go to the park.
22:52I kid you not.
22:55And, but getting to know him, one thing I learned,
22:57he loved God.
22:58And on that point, he and I became fast friends.
23:02So we talked about our upbringing,
23:03he shared that he was homeschooled.
23:05Now here he is, this amazing scholar,
23:08law review student at his law school.
23:11He's like, man.
23:12So I just filed that away, didn't do anything with it.
23:16But one of the major things,
23:17when you said God led us, I said,
23:18all that to get to this place,
23:20as the God confronted us in scripture,
23:22with the fact that spiritual development
23:26and academic matriculation were never to be severed.
23:29Were never to be severed.
23:31And I could refer to the scriptures,
23:33but I wanna get your perspective on that,
23:35because when we, in these litigies,
23:37you and me and the Bible,
23:38and we wanted to do these things.
23:39We were unicorns in the church where we were at.
23:41Remember, like it was weird that we were homeschooling
23:44and that we were having lots of children
23:45according to people's, you know, math.
23:48And so, but the bottom line, you know,
23:51when we were navigating this and praying
23:53and the Lord was showing us things,
23:55it was our greatest desire because God put it in our hearts.
23:58Again, we come from the regular system, right?
24:01But the Lord put it in our hearts to make sure
24:03that they understood who He was as a foundational foundation
24:07for all learning, right?
24:09So like the aspect of like the beginning of knowledge
24:11is the fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom
24:13is the fear of the Lord.
24:14like raising children who understand
24:17that there is foundational truth that is solid ground, right?
24:21And that they can base their ideology and their perspectives,
24:25their understanding of society and the world
24:27from this foundational truth found in the word of God,
24:30because God is the truth.
24:31And so we wanted to make sure that our children
24:34grew up receiving that truth
24:36because we honestly, Abe's story is a little different
24:39than mine, but I did not grow up in the church.
24:41So I didn't have a foundation of truth
24:42until the Lord radically transformed my mind.
24:45And I had all the questions and I was digging
24:47and I was like, wait, but if this,
24:49then what about this?
24:50And I was trying to figure out really life
24:52and where my opinion should come from.
24:54And so starting, I felt like at the time late in my life,
24:58I wanted our children to grow up with that foundation,
25:00that everything that comes from the mind of God is true.
25:03And so if everything that comes from the mind of God is true,
25:05then everything else that we think of,
25:07any discipline, any area of society has to be brought over
25:11to what does the Bible say about that?
25:13What does God say about these aspects of society?
25:16Why is socialism bad?
25:17It's not just because people die in poverty and starvation.
25:20It is bad because it is not the way that God is ours
25:23for us as the body to live, right?
25:25It prohibits and limits the body of Christ
25:27being light and darkness, right?
25:29And then the results are starvation and murder
25:32and killing and all the things that happen
25:33in socialism and communism.
25:35But can we raise a generation of believers
25:37starting when they're four and five years old
25:39that can grow with that understanding
25:41of like, wait, I don't agree with this ideology
25:44because primarily it goes against God,
25:47but because it goes against God,
25:49it is not best for society, it is not best for humanity,
25:51it's not best for our homes,
25:52it's not best for our societies,
25:53and our culture, and our American way of life,
25:56and it really destroys civilizations.
25:59We've seen that throughout history.
26:00We grow up and we're ignorant about what happens in history.
26:03We don't know, we don't know why communism is horrible anymore,
26:06we don't know why the wall was torn down,
26:08we don't know why these things happen,
26:10and we're raising a generation of less than
26:13optimally intelligent people.
26:16Those who are easily blown by every win.
26:18Yes, tossed, tossed, left and right.
26:20Of doctrine.
26:21And so I want to drill down on this point a bit
26:26because several scriptures, but a couple I'll quote
26:28and explain very briefly and then go into another question.
26:32The Lord confronted us robustly with Proverbs 1, 7.
26:35The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
26:39Yeah.
26:40Proverbs 9-10, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
26:42and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
26:44One of the confrontations that we had,
26:46that the Lord confronted us with,
26:48is if the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
26:52can we truly convey knowledge to our children
26:55that does not include the fear of the Lord?
26:57Yeah.
26:58This is a conversation that we had in our home.
27:01This is a conversation that I believe
27:04all believers need to have.
27:07Ephesians 6-4, fathers, this is one that really gripped me.
27:10I felt like a pup being grabbed by the nape of my neck.
27:12Fathers, do not exacerbate your children.
27:14Rather, rear them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
27:18We learned those words in Greek mean the pidea and euthisia of the Lord.
27:24The word pidea literally means the whole training of the mind and the morals.
27:30Here's a second confrontation.
27:32Abraham, why do we as a society accept the idea that we sever training of the mind
27:40from training of the morals.
27:43Why do we accept, why do we normalize?
27:46Why do we accept this notion?
27:48If you ask a child, where do you go to learn about God?
27:50What do you think the answer will be?
27:52Church.
27:53You ask the same child,
27:54where do you go learn about life in the world?
27:55What will the answer be?
27:56School.
27:57Why do we as a society accept that severance?
28:00Yeah, it shouldn't be.
28:02Why do we pit two sources of true life and wisdom
28:07and wisdom and experience why are they pit against one another we used to
28:13understand this one of the things we came across in our studies is Harvard's
28:17rules and precepts for their students some of you may not realize I've explained
28:21on the show before why are the Ivy League's Ivy it's not because they're
28:25they're inherently superior they're just older they just been here longer then
28:30the question should be well why would what they long what was the motivation for
28:33Harvard's founding. Harvard was created to train pastors for ministry. Go and look it up. On
28:42the side of one of their buildings, they have our explained, engraved in the wall, reflections
28:49on Christ, but they've allowed Ivy, no pun intended to grow over it. Yeah. I'm going to
28:54read to you from Harvard's rules and precepts that were adopted in 1646. This is a part of
28:59if you will, their student handbook.
29:02This is what they gave each student who was enrolled.
29:05The handbook would state,
29:07or it's called Harvard's Rules and Precepts,
29:09let every student be plainly instructed
29:11and earnestly pressed to consider well,
29:13the main end of his life and studies is
29:16to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life.
29:20Then you have a parenthetical citation
29:22to John 17 verse three.
29:24And therefore, because that is the case,
29:26and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom
29:30as the only foundation of all sound, knowledge, and learning.
29:38And seeing the Lord only give it wisdom,
29:41let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret
29:45to seek it of him.
29:47Guys, this was a part of the student handbook
29:49that was handed to each student enrolled in Harvard.
29:51It goes on, everyone shall so exercise himself
29:54in reading the scriptures twice a day
29:56that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein,
30:00both in theoretical observations of language and logic,
30:04and in practical and spiritual truths, as his tutors shall require,
30:09according to his ability, seeing the entrance of the word
30:14giveth light. It gives understanding to the simple
30:18citation quote Psalm 119 verse 130. Compare that to the
30:24the mass production of people coming out of the of the universities today
30:29coming out of Harvard coming out of Harvard and coming out of every other
30:32institution that is run by the government every single person that is coming out of
30:36these or these universities institutions of
30:38quote-unquote learning there are most of them are coming out socialist
30:43most of them are coming out atheists most of them are coming out god haters
30:47why is that because the church has not done the job that guy called us to do
30:52which is to pass on the truth of the next generation.
30:56Like God, all throughout history, remember, remember my works,
30:59remember who I am, tell the next generation who I am.
31:02We have not done that as a whole.
31:04Now, we can foresee the trajectory of our country right now
31:09and where it's heading.
31:10And even with Donald Trump in office, okay,
31:11like let's not act as if that's gonna save us.
31:13So even with Donald Trump in office,
31:16he from the top cannot fix everything.
31:18We from the bottom, we have to do what we need to do
31:22to impact darkness.
31:23And so we have droves of people
31:25that are literally tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine.
31:28Any idea, the latest trend,
31:30the latest superficial ideology that doesn't hold water,
31:34that you peel back one layer of the onion and they fall flat.
31:37They cannot argue, they cannot defend,
31:39they can't defend our founded documents,
31:41they can't defend the word of God.
31:42They cannot defend any sense of truth.
31:45They have no stability in their ideology and their thinking.
31:48and they're um, sinning upon like they're literally procreating right and they're
31:53fornicating and all of that and it's all destruction and chaos. I'll again reassert my question in light
32:00of all of this. Why have we accepted the separation, spiritual development and academic
32:09matriculation? Yeah. Then the other question I'll add to that, what has been the result of that
32:15and how much time have we invested in spirit development and academic history.
32:25More with the Mississippi.
32:27I'm back from this book.
32:37Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Bitted Common Terrets are available at EFR.net.
32:42Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
32:46Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
32:49The third here, you know, the conversation that we're having reminds me of a quote I've used in various presentations.
32:56use it on this program from a man by the name of Charles Francis Potter because he identified
33:02the need and let me say why I'm saying the need. Charles Francis Potter was an atheist
33:09and unsurprising a socialist who literally sought to utilize education and to amplify
33:15this bifurcation of academic development and spiritual development and to kind of put the
33:24marbles on the scale in one direction to the exclusion of the other and this is what he said.
33:28This makes me mad. He said this and he published it in a book titled Humanism,
33:34a New Religion, published it in 1938. This is on page 128 of his book. He said this quote,
33:40education is the most powerful ally of humanism and every American school is a school of humanism.
33:47What can theistic Sunday schools meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction
33:51of the children due to stem the tide of the five day program of humanistic teaching."
34:00Capitalizing on the bifurcation and saying, what can the churches in the Sunday schools do?
34:07They can't deal with this full on tide that we're offering in humanism. In humanism,
34:15it's simply ideology that man is God. That's why humanism and atheism go
34:19So, glove and hand in glove.
34:22Now think about what he said,
34:23he published this in 1930.
34:25Fast forward to 2025, Zoron Momdani.
34:30Yeah, he was right, right?
34:32Like he's right, unfortunately we have to give him credit.
34:34He's right in assessing and concluding
34:38that one hour on Sunday morning
34:41or three hours throughout the week,
34:43if you go to, you know, prayer or whatever midweek service,
34:47it's not gonna cut it, it's not gonna cut it.
34:49when we are literally feeding the next generation
34:54of Americans lies first, and then self-focused,
35:01self-centered socialism.
35:05Like literally it's all about how can you find true happiness,
35:10quote unquote humanistically,
35:11how you can be the best you in all this foolishness,
35:16and then you have societies run by people who lie to them
35:20and they believe it.
35:21So it's just, that's just, it's a repeat of all that,
35:23but he was right and it's worked, right?
35:26And then we're sitting back thinking, oh, you know what?
35:28I just believe in Jesus, honey, just believe in Jesus.
35:31What?
35:32Like God made us to think.
35:34God desires that we worship Him with our mind, you know?
35:37And with our hearts and God requires full submission.
35:40How can we submit, we as adults and ask even for children,
35:44because they can do it.
35:45How can we ask children to submit to an all powerful,
35:49Invisible creator being
35:51Just by poof magic. No, we have to exercise what God gave us. We have to understand
35:57We have to study we have to show us of the proof. We have to understand what is who is God?
36:01What does he say about truth and reality? What do we fit in the whole story?
36:05You know he's requiring full submission and we cannot ask them to fully surrender and submit to something that they can't even
36:12Understand because one hour a week is not enough, you know what I mean? And so that's what we have droves of not only
36:17institutions producing leftist God haters,
36:22but also church producing weak people
36:27who at the first doctrine of the world,
36:30they get swayed away from the body of Christ,
36:32away from the Lord.
36:33And so what are we gonna do about it?
36:36And it's not the type of thing that is an inevitable reality
36:41that we can't do anything about.
36:42God has given us tools, he's given us weapons
36:44and he's given us command.
36:45Amen.
36:46He's given us commands.
36:48But so often, and this is one of the things
36:49that really, really provokes me,
36:53while the world is offering our children drag queen story hours,
36:55we are often offering them graham crackers and apple juice.
36:59While the world is offering full on systematic theology,
37:04we're offering, I don't know, just trust Jesus, baby.
37:09How do you think that's gonna work out over time?
37:12And right now I referred to this earlier.
37:14Young people are seeking lives of meaning,
37:18but they're finding meaning in climate zealotry.
37:21They're finding meanings in electric cars.
37:25They're finding meaning in Zoron Mamdani's.
37:28They're finding meaning, and I don't need to have
37:30this selfish, capitalist, agreed motive.
37:34I'm gonna be an altruistic, you know?
37:38We are the world disposition.
37:40That denies reality.
37:41And the fundamental reason why socialism and communism
37:45is so diabolical is because at their foundation,
37:48not a truth of what God did.
37:49That's exactly right.
37:50Yes.
37:51They, you have to accept at a foundational level a lie about mankind.
37:56Yeah.
37:57In order to consider it viable.
38:00And that lie is directed connected to man's greatest need.
38:04What is the lie?
38:06God says the human heart is desperately wicked.
38:09Humanism, the theological underpinning for socialism communism says, oh man is perfect.
38:17That's right.
38:18you're great just the way you are.
38:21And then what is then during take away from that?
38:24Therefore, you have no need of a savior.
38:27That's exactly right.
38:27You are your own savior.
38:30The problem in the world is all of those people
38:33who use religion to manipulate the masses.
38:36Yeah.
38:37Religion is the opiate of the masses.
38:40And so you have to accept that lie
38:42and then try to construct a life of meaning
38:44based on that lie.
38:46Enter Zara Mamdani.
38:49One of the things that we endeavor to do in our home,
38:51that we teach in church, it's a principle
38:56that has been employed for years back when,
38:58you know, we had this thing they'll call dollar bills.
38:59I don't know if you've seen one lately.
39:01You know, maybe in the museum of somewhere.
39:05The introduction really to Fiat currency,
39:07he don't even get me started on that.
39:08But what bank tellers would do,
39:11because you had this, some of you've seen the movie
39:12catch me if you can, Leonardo DiCrapiros
39:14in the movie, whatever, he was a liar
39:16and a thief who became a profound counterfeiter.
39:20Marcus Crack enough.
39:23Well, what bankers would do, and I learned this personally,
39:26I had a cousin who was a banker,
39:29because you have so many varieties of counterfeit currency,
39:32the bank realized, and what we need to do
39:34is to make our tellers experts
39:36in what authentic currency looks like.
39:38So they didn't school the tellers
39:41in studying all the various iterations of counterfeit currencies,
39:46They made them experts in what legitimate, authentic tender looked like.
39:51Yeah.
39:52And when we do that, when they're young, when we do that, when we lay that foundation when
39:56they're three, four, five, sorry, when they lay the foundation when they're three, four,
40:00and five, and they are, they become, and I hate to use the word expert because in the
40:05worldly sense.
40:06I was about to set the question for you, but you read it for it already.
40:08I'm sorry, just real quick.
40:09So when you do that, they are able to buy in,
40:15because here's another thing.
40:16We think in the church that we should expect
40:20rebellious teenagers and we should expect kids that are like,
40:23oh, fine, I gotta go to church every Sunday, man.
40:25Cause my momma said, or my daddy said,
40:27in reality, it is possible to raise a generation of children
40:32who are completely convinced that God is.
40:36and that the God of the Bible is the true and living God.
40:40We are living it,
40:40and I'm not talking about because we're great parents.
40:42I'm talking about because the Holy Spirit
40:44has literally taught us and taught our children
40:48that he is who he says that he is.
40:49And so my, our 14 year old, very, very simply,
40:54he is now getting to the place where he's wrestling
40:56with his own walk, right?
40:58And he's like, okay, so if this is true,
41:00then therefore what is that required,
41:01what is God requiring of me?
41:02And what is God requiring of all of us
41:04as full surrender and full submission?
41:06So he's like, whoa, what does that even mean?
41:07Does that mean?
41:08And so we're walking with him, right?
41:10And at the end of the day, we ask him, okay, son, two options.
41:14You're gonna follow God or you're gonna reject him.
41:16Now he's not wanting to reject him,
41:18but it just in the way that we think,
41:19we can go there with him.
41:20Like we can go there with him.
41:21In his mind, he can logically think it through.
41:24And when he thinks it through, you know, he says,
41:26where am I gonna go?
41:28With you are the words of return on life.
41:29It makes me, sorry.
41:31Where's he gonna go?
41:32Where can we go?
41:33God is.
41:34And we have, we can as the body of Christ,
41:37raise a generation that understands that he is the truth.
41:40And then from him, from the truth comes all
41:43of the things of life.
41:44And so when we're wrestling with,
41:46with sanctification and growing and dying to our flesh
41:49and the things that are very difficult
41:51and suffering and difficulties in the world,
41:52we literally come back to, okay, Lord,
41:55but if I go to the ocean, you're there.
41:56If I travel to the another planet, you're there.
41:59If I go to the ends of the earth, you're there.
42:01So at the end of the day,
42:02we have to come face to face with that.
42:03but we can raise a generation of believers
42:04that are convinced of that.
42:06Why? Because we have exercised our mind.
42:09We have worshiping with our minds and we started four.
42:11And we study the legitimate.
42:14And then later on, we can study the Buddhism
42:16and the Hinduism and the Islam
42:18and all the other ideologies of the world
42:19and humanism and atheism, we can do that.
42:21But we don't focus on that, we focus on the real.
42:23And then they're able to dissect
42:25why those other things are not true.
42:26Yeah, which is what I was building toward
42:28is by making the bank tellers experts
42:31authentic currency, what they're doing simultaneously,
42:35is developing their radars to immediately detect.
42:38Well, that's counterfeit.
42:39That's right.
42:40Because you have so steeped in what is authentic,
42:43the counterfeit is like glaring.
42:45It's glaring, and I use the analogy for a person
42:49who is not a smoker to be moderately exposed
42:53to secondhand smoke.
42:54It's like, whoa, do you smell that?
42:57Versus the person who grows up around the smoke,
43:01Say, I don't smell anything, you know,
43:03by having being steeped in what is authentic,
43:08it develops a radar to immediately detect the counterfeit.
43:10And so that when you see the counterfeit,
43:12it sticks out like a sore thumb,
43:15which was to which I was going to present to you,
43:18you already started answering,
43:19but I'm gonna invite you to expound on it.
43:21Why then is it important to teach apologetics to children?
43:28Yeah, so apologetics is the idea,
43:30the concept of the Bible that Peter teaches us,
43:33to sanctify Christ as Lord first, meaning to own
43:35and know who we are in Christ and know who he is.
43:38And then always be ready to give a reason
43:40for the hope that we have.
43:41And that we're defense there, always be ready
43:43to give a defense is Apologia.
43:46And so that's where we get the word apologetic.
43:47In Greek, Apologia in Greek.
43:48Yeah, and it's the concept of,
43:50do I know what I believe and can I defend it?
43:53Now God doesn't need defense in the sense of like protection,
43:56because he's the power, he's the leader.
43:58we follow, but can we reason and can we understand who he is and what he has
44:04declared in his word throughout history and be easily articulate and articulate
44:09it clearly to exactly to those who ask and so and even in the way that we live
44:14not only what we say with our words right as a defense but also do we live
44:18as Christ followers and even invoking or what's the word questions from the
44:24from the outsider.
44:25Provoking.
44:26Provoking questions from the outsider.
44:27And so, it is extremely important that we do that
44:32with little minds because children are learning,
44:36they're sponges, they're learning everything around them.
44:38They're gonna learn from Bluey,
44:39they're gonna learn from the commercials,
44:41they're gonna learn from their friends,
44:43they're gonna learn from people that they care
44:45or wherever you're sending them,
44:46they're gonna learn everything,
44:47and every day they're learning something new.
44:49From church members?
44:50From church members, from every environment that they're in,
44:51they're gonna learn.
44:52Are those messages that they're receiving
44:54from whatever environment that we're sending them to?
44:57Are those messages true or are they lies?
44:59Because there's no middle ground.
45:00At the end of the day, these messages are gonna either
45:03lead them toward the truth of God
45:04or they're gonna lead them away from them, from that.
45:06And so we have to teach them the truth
45:10so that they can articulate it and they can give that defense.
45:12And they'll have the questions.
45:13I always laugh about the questions that kids come up
45:16with their great questions, you know?
45:17But what are they asking at the end of the day
45:19when they ask things like,
45:20well, what about the dinosaurs that fit in the ark?
45:22or that Adam and Eve have belly buttons,
45:24or how can I see God if he's invisible?
45:26How can I know that God is real if he's invisible?
45:28These are all legitimate questions that kids ask.
45:30Why are they asking that?
45:31Because God programmed them to worship him with their mind.
45:34And so we have these questions and we start young.
45:37And so if we teach them the truth,
45:39remember that everything that comes from the mind
45:40of God is true, if we teach them that and those truths,
45:44then they grow up to buy in.
45:46And they're fully convinced that, wait, God is real.
45:49And then we couple that with the experiences
45:50that God will give him personally?
45:52Come on man, there's nothing that's gonna stop them.
45:54And so it's incredibly important that they understand
45:57that there is truth to be found.
46:00The Lord says that he says the glory of God
46:02to conceal him out, but the glory of Kings to search it out.
46:04So you literally have the Lord not hiding it from us,
46:07but saying come, come and seek, and you will find,
46:10come and discover my truth and you will find it.
46:13And we can do that with little ones.
46:15Guys, it's so necessary.
46:18I witnessed it, I mentioned before in our 14,
46:20was in my class, I teach civics to homeschoolers.
46:24And one of the things that I do when I teach,
46:28I'll present from an historical standpoint,
46:32other ideologies, like we talked, we did a section on marks,
46:36Karl Marx and Marxism and the development
46:39of socialism and communism.
46:40And just laid out what it is, and invite the children
46:44to respond.
46:45And it's funny.
46:46Specifically, what I older son, when I was there
46:50He said what what and he he began like using kind of as a refrain everything in our house that he finds the objection of
46:58But he was like communism
47:02Child is communism he developed the same communism, but we asked why is this problematic?
47:08You know what was the major problem with it said well these things they're presuming things that are not true
47:13They're presuming that man is inherently good. They're presuming not only is man in here
47:17really good man is inherently without God selfless.
47:20Yeah selfless, such a lie.
47:22They're presuming things that are not true.
47:24This is why these things inevitably fail
47:26and at the end of the year, we invited them
47:29to do their final speech.
47:30And what was his speech about?
47:34Why socialism?
47:35No, why children need to learn about socialism and communism
47:38and why they will never work.
47:40That was his speech.
47:42But the speech was because of being grounded in the word.
47:46And this is something he's taking ownership of.
47:47By God's grace, man, we have a long way to go.
47:49We're not trying to be here like we got it all figured out.
47:52We simply invite you into our home for a little bit
47:54of what we have going on,
47:55but guys we cannot continue to seed grounds.
47:59We cannot continue to see ground.
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