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Evangelist Tim Todd of Revival Fires Ministry has returned to “The Corner.”

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now the Hamilton Corner.
0:33Good evening everyone.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:36My name is Abraham Hamilton the third.
0:38I am the host of this program joined by the corner contingent right across from me.
0:44My man 100 grand none other than Mr. Bobby.
0:51And then the screening room produced extraordinaire often imitated,
0:55but never duplicated.
0:56The real Jay Mac ladies and gentlemen is in the screening room.
0:59when we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. I missed being with
1:04you all last week, but I'm grateful to be back again. So much is happening in the world. And
1:12you know, I'm not, I don't want to sound like a repetitious and he more cowbell broadcaster.
1:20I'm grateful for the revelations. You know, today, Pam Bondi sound signed in order to have
1:26the whole Russian collusion delusion hoax presented to the grand jury, you know, and it's, it's
1:36galling man. I just, I, maybe this is just me. I remember the years I spent, um, long before
1:44I ever had access to anybody's microphone, warning people about Barack Obama, not just
1:49the individual, but what he represented in addition to the individuals, not as if the
1:52individual is not relevant. You know, the same one who said he thinks boys need all boys,
1:58by the way, he needs gay mentors,
2:00but he wanted the American public.
2:01He told the American public
2:03that he opposed same sex marriage
2:05and he ran for the presidency.
2:08Oh, but after he's elected,
2:09he evolved on the matter.
2:10Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
2:15To live in many of you, you are with me,
2:19you lived through this and you knew it was wrong.
2:22You since it was wrong, many people reported it on.
2:24I brought, I covered it on the air.
2:26The 2020 effort was a cumulation of what was precipitated before Donald Trump was elected
2:40in 2016, taking office in 2017, to where I would argue the agents of the spirit of the
2:47age fought with fevered zealotry to try to maintain a grasp on power.
2:57And if you think that fight has ended, I would just encourage you to think differently.
3:06And with all of the warnings and all of the coverage, and I can't tell you the type of
3:11a stupefied looks I got when I was talking to people to have you heard about 100 Bodies
3:16laptop and they would say, what?
3:19Where have you been?
3:23To live in an era where we literally watched and were not only watched, but were being manipulated,
3:33by agents of the spirit of the age, behind the scenes, and writing our faces by their accomplices
3:41in the national media, even to this very moment.
3:44A great example of it is Jake Tapper being one of the chief media apparatus, or apparatics,
3:49I would say, that tried to scuttle any assertion that Joseph Robin Ed Biden was mentally incapable
3:58of being the president.
4:01this Joker has the unmitigated
4:02temerity to turn right around and
4:08write a book about a cover up and
4:10like he's the one exposing it.
4:15I mean, the epitome, the audacity,
4:17but that's what literally just
4:19happened. She who shall never be
4:21president who as secretary of the
4:23state is the very person who said
4:26we need to hit a reset with
4:27Russia hitting the big red button.
4:28Remember that? Remember that,
4:29Bobby? Then turns right around and
4:32say, how I got a plan? This I was
4:33going to stop Trump. We're going
4:34to say he is connected to Russia.
4:37Back on the block, my grandma, you say, you ain't just a lie, you're a bold face lie.
4:43Guys, we have literally witnessed a bold face lie in our society.
4:46If we had any level of objectivity, and I want to make this connection for us,
4:51of objectivity and the capacity to connect dots, there should not be a person right now that would
4:57say, man, I support the Democrat Party. It shouldn't be, but I know that's not the case,
5:02because we are so far gone as a society,
5:08we are living the embodiment of the ends justify the means.
5:15Who cares if you destroy the American Republic
5:17and the process, we must maintain power.
5:20And this is why the Alinsky tactic to not only disagree
5:24with political opposition, but to demonize them
5:27is such a salient point because we're now in the place
5:30the place where they're clearly the battle is not merely political perspectives versus other
5:36but it's a battle of good versus evil but what's happening is that our society is living the
5:40redefinition of evil. So we have people that say yes this is a battle of good versus evil
5:45but they don't know what evil is which is why we need God's word to the word of God we
5:53go. Isaiah chapter 60 my goodness and as we are I got my Bible turned to the page but
6:01I want to remind you that what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House
6:05Most of your transitioning right now from your part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs
6:10Your fault there is nothing more important in terms of your external engagement than your full-time jobs
6:15the reason why I'm saying that
6:19Is that we cannot have the preservation of a nation in the experiment of self-governance if we don't have a self-governed people a
6:27A people that lacks a self-governing capacity are a people that will welcome the depravity
6:36of the human heart to run amok in society.
6:39And there are others like I just, there are people like Alinsky who dedicated his book to
6:43the devil, frankly, who wants to take advantage of the rejection of self-control to promulgate
6:50chaos for the express purpose of seizing control and to use government as a public cudgel.
7:00which is why we have now in the home of the free,
7:05the land of the free and the home of the brave,
7:07we have outright socialists running for office as socialists.
7:16But the scripture gives us clarity and wisdom.
7:19So as we to allow us to diagnose where we are
7:22and know how to respond appropriately.
7:23And to that end, Isaiah chapter 60 is where I'm gonna go.
7:26So Isaiah chapter 60 verses one through three.
7:29Unsurprisingly, the Lord has already told us
7:31in his word what we could expect.
7:34The prophet Isaiah is talking and this is what he says,
7:36a rise shine for your light has come.
7:42And the glory of the Lord has risen.
7:45I want you to notice that has risen past tense upon you.
7:50For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
7:55and thick darkness the peoples,
7:58but the Lord will arise upon you.
8:03and his glory will be seen upon you.
8:09And nation shall come to your light
8:12and kings to the brightness of your rising.
8:16We'll kind of unpack this a little bit
8:17in a few minutes we have here.
8:21The prophet Isaiah is explaining the role of God's people
8:24in the midst of what's unfolding and cascading nationally.
8:29So to the people of God, the Lord says to Isaiah,
8:31arise and shine for your light has come
8:34and the glory of the Lord, the word glory there in Hebrew,
8:37which the Old Testament is written in Hebrew,
8:40the word glory there is the cavode, the weightiness,
8:43the splendor, the heaviness of God has risen upon his people.
8:49This is an assertion that the people of God
8:53in the midst of what Isaiah's gonna unfold,
8:55articulate in a few moments, the people of God
8:59are the beneficiaries of God's glory,
9:05having risen upon them.
9:08And the Hebrew word for risen there has risen as Zahrok.
9:11The word Zahrok has a connotation,
9:14kind of like a geyser breaking forth through the ground,
9:21piercing its way through the ground
9:23to spurt into visibility.
9:25It's present below the surface,
9:26but to explode, if you will, into visibility.
9:30Then the Lord through it,
9:31Prophet Isaiah explains the circumstances,
9:33the context in which this transpires.
9:35verse two, for behold, darkness shall cover the earth.
9:38That is a generalized darkening of society.
9:42If you ever wonder what is a darkening of society,
9:44it looks like, oh yeah, I don't know,
9:45I'm a couple of things, you know.
9:48Supreme Court justices who don't know what a woman is.
9:52Even though her nomination is historic
9:54because among other things she is a what?
9:57Say it with me now, y'all go ahead and say it.
10:00What does the darkness look like?
10:01Oh, we have decades of sociological information
10:06explains that the best context for children to be born into and to grow in and to thrive
10:12in is the context where you have a married father and mother who are living in the home
10:17with their child and father and mother are raising their child together within the context
10:21of lifelong holy matrimony.
10:25We have massive amounts of sociological data that says no matter what your background may
10:29be, one of the most key components to absolving the reality of poverty is having a father
10:35commit himself to the mother of his children and holy matrimony for life.
10:41Regardless of your educational background, if you have a father who commits himself to
10:44the mother of his children and they stay together, all indices point to the elimination of poverty
10:53among the many.
10:56But in addition to that, all of the sociological contexts that produces a degenerate societal
11:03engagement.
11:05We know that yet, yet, the learner among us
11:09was spent our time trying to,
11:12well, we need to celebrate single mothers.
11:14We certainly should not denigrate single mothers, certainly.
11:20But let's not act like exceptions are the rule.
11:24We now have, you know, you have like these,
11:26these ascendants of podcasts,
11:30like what the Bible would call
11:33these serial heterosexual fornicators
11:36that would say things like, and this is the voice,
11:39If a man next to your body count, he needs to grow up.
11:43Excuse me, man, God didn't design you
11:47to give your body to every time
11:49they can carry on the block.
11:52And then to develop a pseudo novel morality
11:56that says who I've been with in the past shouldn't matter.
11:59That's insane.
12:02And it's a lie.
12:03I don't care how many podcasts you watch,
12:05I don't care how prevalent pornography is,
12:07I don't care how much we are living in a hookup culture,
12:10Deep down, these people know that they're lying to themselves.
12:15You wanna talk about what darkness looks like.
12:20A society that would celebrate sexual confusion
12:26and would denigrate God-design masculinity
12:28and call it toxic.
12:32You wanna know what the darkness looks like?
12:33Kinda looks like that.
12:36And then it says,
12:37where behold darkness shall cover the earth
12:38and thick darkness to peoples.
12:40This reference to the thick darkness
12:41is really describing the mental state.
12:43This is an Old Testament reference
12:45to the New Testament reality
12:47what the Apostle Paul says, that when mankind rejects God,
12:51refuses to retain God in knowledge,
12:53he becomes futile to base in his reasoning.
12:58We are living with it, the old school movie,
12:59Ineocracy is coming to light.
13:04Children use an AI and things of that,
13:07so often they cannot complete sentences.
13:11We have a nation that's founded on original documentation
13:14that's written in cursive, yet we have schools
13:17that are supposed to be bastards of education
13:19that will say, you don't need to learn
13:20how to read and write in cursive.
13:23And guess what they're telling you without telling you that?
13:26We're depriving of your ability
13:27to read your nation's founding documents.
13:31Guys, that's what it looks like.
13:33But look at what the scripture says though.
13:36In this environment where darkness covers the earth
13:38and darkness covers the earth
13:40and thick darkness covers the peoples, verse two,
13:42but the Lord will arise upon you.
13:46You have the glory of God that is resident upon his people
13:49in the generalized application of verse one.
13:51Then you have the Lord articulating the context in which there's a particular application, a specified application of his glory that is about to come when darkness is covered in the earth and gross darkness is covered in the people.
14:04But his glory shall zaraq, like a geyser upon you.
14:09And his glory will be seen, the Hebrew word for will be seen that phrase there is raah, the same phrase that is said to Abram when the Lord sends him to the Promised Land.
14:18That is to perceive with revelatory insight. That's what it means.
14:22And the consequences of this, the darkness has the backdrop, the glory of the Lord,
14:26Zaraqin through and upon his people, the consequences of this is verse 3.
14:30And nations shall come to your light, where a nation there in Hebrew is goe,
14:35which means very peoples.
14:38So darkness serves as the backdrop for the glory of God to ascend
14:43in the result of this, because bad ideas have consequences and bad ideas create casualties.
14:50When people try all of the insanity in the world and come up empty,
14:53they'll still be looking for the truth.
14:55And that is where the people of God must stand in the gap.
15:23to seek in my own dream and one happiness,
15:26I want life, I want to be fulfilled,
15:28I want to do what I want to do.
15:30The purpose of life is not to fulfill our dreams,
15:33it's to fulfill God's dreams and how important it is.
15:36Lord speak to every listener,
15:39help them to recognize Lord that you have a work
15:41and a will and a design for every one of our lives,
15:44you have a calling up on each of our lives.
15:46Our job is to be listening to your word and your spirit
15:50in doing what you call us to do.
15:52Help us to answer that call.
15:54We thank you in praise in Jesus' name.
15:56We do pray. Amen.
16:06Shiting light into the darkness.
16:08This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
16:14The third here I am delighted to have in studio with me.
16:18Man of God, my brother.
16:21Evangelist Tim Todd of Revival Fire's International Ministry.
16:26This is Truth's Reuse Bible Week here in American Family Radio.
16:30but among the things that I appreciate the most about Brother Tim is,
16:33simply put his love for the Lord and his love for fellow mankind,
16:43so much so that he's willing to tell the truth.
16:45Amen.
16:46You know, the Bible says the Lord loves those whom he corrects.
16:49And what our society offers as love, you know,
16:53air quotes if you're not watching the show,
16:55is really a perversion of what love truly is.
17:00It is a passive willingness to represent anything
17:05that really is an exercise in self-preservation
17:07because if you tell the truth,
17:08there's often consequences that flow from that,
17:10including social consequences,
17:13because oftentimes people don't like to hear the truth.
17:16So to kick off our conversation,
17:18and we were just talking about this during the break,
17:22I just wanted to ask you because I know you travel
17:25a lot in you minister, a lot around our country,
17:29and even internationally in various instances,
17:33what are you seeing in your ministry, in your travels,
17:37in terms of the spiritual quotient, if you will,
17:40that's prevalent in our nation,
17:41in particular here in America?
17:43I appreciate the question, and first of all,
17:45it's an honor to be on your program,
17:48the Hamilton Corner.
17:49I consider you to just be,
17:53have one of the most excellent shows,
17:56and you prepare at a higher level of excellence.
18:00And I appreciate that very, very much.
18:03I just, the only thing I don't like about that, Pastor Abe,
18:05is that whenever I'm on your program,
18:08it's the end of the day.
18:09And I mean, I am frazzled.
18:11And then to be with somebody that is as sharp as you,
18:15in your mind, and you're, you know,
18:17appreciate you so much.
18:19Oh.
18:20And just honored to be on your program.
18:23Oh man, well, I appreciate that more than I can even
18:25express here and one of the things, and this is just God's
18:28divine providence. And I think a lot of people know, I never
18:31envisioned I would do radio, you know, but God saw what I
18:34didn't see. And I appreciate getting the opportunity that it
18:38is the end of the day. You know, a lot of people don't know, but
18:41honestly, to do a lot of other things that's not on the radio.
18:43But to be able to accompany people as I described as a
18:47transition to their full time jobs, I think it's good to have
18:50that recalibration moment and reset to recognize it is what you
18:54do for the kingdom of God that alone is what will stand throughout eternity.
18:58And so I appreciate that.
19:00And even though I know you've been going all day long, I appreciate you coming on here today.
19:04I'm honored to be here and to answer your question now.
19:07Yeah. Okay.
19:08So I'll preface what I'm saying with telling you, I've been in ministry now on the evangelistic field for 38 years.
19:16And the reason I'm telling you that is to let you know that I've seen a shift
19:24through the years.
19:26Okay.
19:27And from the beginning of being on the evangelistic field 38 years ago to the present, I'm seeing
19:34a higher level of darkness and wickedness in our nation than I've ever seen before.
19:41But at the same time, I am seeing a higher level of the Spirit of God being poured out.
19:48I believe that God is honoring his word.
19:51He said that in the last days that he would pour out his spirit upon all flesh.
19:57And so I'm seeing that in with pockets of revival across America and around the world
20:04where that we're seeing more people give the heart to the Lord than we've ever seen before.
20:10We're seeing more young people when they take their Bibles.
20:13You know, I come on here once a year to do the big national Truthview Bible week on American
20:19Family Radio, but truth is, we give these Bibles away all year round.
20:24What I do is in my revival services during the school year, I give the Bibles away to
20:30every teenager.
20:31I haven't come to the front.
20:33On Sunday night, we pray over them.
20:35They go into their school campus and give the Bibles away during the revival and then
20:40invite their friends to come to the revival.
20:42And so during the school year, we're able, during those revivals, to see the young people
20:49get on fire for God.
20:51And we're seeing that at a higher level now than we have in 38 years of being on the evangelistic
20:56field.
20:57My wife and I actually have only been married for 34 years.
21:00So whenever we got married 34 years.
21:02Yeah.
21:03Well, and so when we got married, she hit the ground running.
21:05I'm telling you, we went on our honeymoon and we started back-to-back revivals as soon
21:09as we left the honeymoon.
21:11But from then to now, 38 years ago,
21:15whenever I started on the field, to now,
21:18I'm seeing a higher level of darkness,
21:20but at the same time, a higher level of intensity
21:24of the spirit of God being poured out.
21:27And we're seeing young people and adults
21:30that are getting on fire for God
21:32to take a stand for God in the communities,
21:36at the workplace, during our revival services,
21:39as well as the young people getting these Bibles
21:42and going into school with these Bibles.
21:44And so in the midst of the darkness,
21:47in the midst of the wickedness that is in our nation,
21:50so prevalent in our nation,
21:52we're seeing a higher level of intensity
21:54among those young people that love God
21:56and are sold out for Him as well as adults.
21:59Yeah, you know, I was just talking in the first segment
22:02from Isaiah 60 verses one through three
22:06that Isaiah, the prophet was talking about,
22:08though darkness covers the earth and gross darkness cover the people.
22:11So you have a generalized darkness that's prevalent in the earth and then you have a
22:15specified darkness in the mindset of the people.
22:18But the Lord specifically said through the prophet Isaiah that it is in that context
22:22that the glory of God will arise on and through his people.
22:27Paul in 2 Timothy 3 talks about in the last days will have perilous times.
22:32But then Paul goes on to say, but the word of God is sufficient.
22:35and you go on from 2 Timothy chapter 3 to chapter 4,
22:38Paul comes right to a point, preach the word.
22:40You know, that there should be,
22:43as we see this ascending darkness,
22:45that the ascending darkness shouldn't jostle the people of God,
22:48because we have our moorings in him.
22:51And so I refer to the phrase,
22:53and Francis Shafer said it initially,
22:56I kind of adjusted it some,
22:58that ideas have consequences,
23:00and bad ideas creates casualties.
23:02But what happens is people taste the dainities
23:05if you will of the world and realize that, man, I have this eternally sized void that no matter
23:12what the pleasures of the world that they offer, they are at best temporary and fleeting.
23:19And they're left longing for something more enduring, something more lasting.
23:24And I believe that they, that may very well be contributing to what you're seeing because
23:28we could talk about the darkness and, you know, in esoteric philosophical terms or in political
23:34policy terms with the reality is they are real people on the ground that are dealing with the
23:38with the carnage and the chaos that unfolds as a result of rejecting God's way that leaves people
23:47longing for something beyond the fleeting exhausting temporal pleasures of the world that
23:53you know the devil has a great marketing team but once you succumb to his advertisements
24:00You realize, man, this is not what it is, that I would argue
24:05amplifies that aching of the heart that has got to be something more.
24:09There's got to be something more.
24:10Do you think that's contributing to what you're seeing on the evangelistic front?
24:13I do.
24:13And you know, you said a lot of powerful things there, Abe.
24:18But one thing that I took from that is, and this may not even been the point that you
24:23were trying to make.
24:24But one thing that I took from that is that in the midst of the wickedness that is at
24:29a higher level than I've ever seen before. We as God's people should not be and cannot
24:36be intimidated by the devil. We have got the armor. We've got the tools, the weapons that
24:42we need. The battle has already been won. Jesus won the battle on the cross of Calvary. We
24:49have to walk in that victory. And in these last days, as wickedness is being poured out, we've
24:55You've got to take a strong stand for God.
24:58Absolutely.
24:59Something that I feel like is really powerful, that goes along with what we're talking about
25:04right here is in Matthew chapter 13, where that Jesus is talking about the wheat in the
25:11tears and verse 39 said, know if you pull out the weeds, because they said the workers asked
25:17him, now, do you want us to go pull out the weeds?
25:19He said, no.
25:21He said, because if you pull out the weeds, you may pull out the wheat with them.
25:25Let both grow together until the time of harvest.
25:29And when the grain is cut, I will tell the workers to gather the weeds first and tied them
25:36and bundle them to be burned.
25:37That's symbolic of judgment.
25:40But I'll have them bring the wheat into my barn.
25:43That is symbolic of harvest.
25:46So according to that, as far as I interpret the scripture, in this passage of scripture,
25:53harvest and judgment are going to come at the same time.
25:58And so whenever all hell is breaking loose in our nation and around the world, and we're
26:05seeing the terrors are being gathered up and taken out of the church body.
26:11I mean, there's people that have been sitting on the pews in our churches that have been
26:14and taken up space and sucked in our better condition
26:16and not doing anything at all to help build the kingdom of God.
26:19And those are not the ones
26:20that are gonna bring in the harvest.
26:22It says when the, at the same time judgment comes,
26:26harvest comes and harvest begins,
26:32whatever harvest takes place at the same time
26:34that judgment takes place,
26:36judgment begins in the house of the Lord.
26:39And so I believe right now we're seeing
26:41in the midst of the wickedness,
26:43People are being exposed for their trickery
26:46and for the things that they're doing
26:47that don't line up with the word of God.
26:49God is removing the tears from our church body
26:52and in the midst of darkness,
26:54God is bringing in a harvest of souls.
26:56I believe that as things get rough,
26:58just like in the days of Noah,
27:01things are so bad.
27:03And Jeremiah says that God appoints the time of harvest.
27:08the time of harvest. So the time of harvest has already been appointed by God. And then you look at
27:15the foolish man and the wise man, okay? They both went out to build a house because a storm was going
27:22to come. And God held back the storm not because he loves sin, but to give the righteous man time to
27:29finish building his house. And then, but when he finished his house, then God said, let the storm
27:35So I believe a storm is coming and in the midst of the wickedness and the storm that's on its way
27:41We God's people have got to continue to build our spiritual house on a rock solid foundation
27:48So though when the storms come our house is gonna stand firm
27:53So what would you say and I obviously I have my own thoughts about this, but what would you say it's necessary?
27:59for
28:02the believer to move to the place and there are lots of contributing factors no doubt about it
28:07to move to the place where
28:10the believer is no longer willing to be a passive consumer if you will of
28:15the things of God but recognizes the signs at the times recognizing that the harvest is plentiful
28:20but the labors are few to to to move the believer from being a passive consumer of the goodness of God to becoming an
28:28advocate and an
28:30exponent, if you will, of delivery of that to the
28:34lost dying world around us.
28:35Because what I find is that people are hungry for the truth.
28:39I know it and look like it on the national media,
28:42but I'm talking about it in the highways and byways.
28:44The most consistent question I get is that travel.
28:45Hey, where can I find a solid church?
28:47I need to find somewhere that will communicate the truth
28:50of God to me on all of these issues.
28:52And it's so consistent that I almost feel embarrassed
28:55to say that so often because it looks like,
28:58Man, nobody's really interested, but I know that's not true.
29:01In my own experiences, and I know from the scripture,
29:05the Lord told Elijah, that's 7,000 I have about the need.
29:08So what would you say would be necessary to get the believer
29:12to move from being on the back bench
29:15to get it on the front lines in this time?
29:17Well, first of all, my opinion is that they have to have
29:21an intimate marriage relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
29:25Now, just to not to sound generic with that, back to that passage of Scripture, Matthew 13
29:32verses 24 through 31, whether he's talking about through 30, where he's talking about the
29:40wheat being brought in, the harvest being brought in, while judgment is coming and he takes the
29:46tears and burns them at the same time that the harvest is taking place. And the wise man
29:54built his house on a rock solid foundation. So, you know, I was traveling through South
30:00Louisiana and I, and you know that area. I mean, oh yeah, God's country. That's it.
30:05I'm outside of Timbido, which I know you know right.
30:09Some people, if they don't know anything about it, they call it Thibidox.
30:12Thibidox, it's it. That's it. I'm traveling through there and I came up on a house that was
30:19absolutely beautiful.
30:21But when I got close to it,
30:23I noticed there was a sign in the front yard that said,
30:27house condemned faulty foundation.
30:30Didn't matter how pretty that house was, Abe.
30:32It was empty and condemned and gonna have to be torn down
30:35because it was, it had a faulty foundation.
30:38Didn't matter how nice it looked.
30:40So I'm afraid that we got a lot of people
30:43that the reason why they don't get on fire for God,
30:47don't do what they're supposed to be doing
30:49is because their foundation is faulty.
30:51And because of that, that may look good on the outside,
30:54but a cemetery can look good, a casket can look good,
30:57and we can look good.
30:59But unless we have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ,
31:02and our foundation is rock solid, if we don't have that,
31:06then we're not gonna really have the desire
31:08to be doing what we're supposed to be doing as a believer.
31:11I believe it starts with the intimacy of the Lord.
31:14So then, in addition to that, get into a Bible believer
31:18Holy Ghost Firefield Church.
31:19If you're not gonna have a relationship with the Lord,
31:22being in a Holy Ghost Firefield Bible believe in church,
31:24it isn't gonna amount to a hill of beans
31:26if you're not serving the Lord the way
31:28that you're supposed to.
31:29But then get into a church that has a rock solid foundation
31:33that's preaching the Word of God
31:35that promotes the importance of fervent prayer,
31:40the foundation of fervent prayer,
31:42studying God's Word, being a soul winner.
31:45And if your relationship is right with the Lord,
31:48you're attending faithfully, you're tithing, you're giving,
31:51you're reading your word, you're praying fervently,
31:55and then you're gonna out of that, out of that relationship.
31:58You know, more important than anything is to have
32:02an intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
32:04And if you have that intimate relationship with the Lord,
32:07then out of that relationship,
32:09you will automatically be hot and on fire forgotten.
32:12In which you're describing,
32:13it's not really an emotional phenomenon.
32:15It's a fire that's not a top-down fire.
32:19It's an inside-out fire.
32:20It's a fire that is fixed in the person of Jesus,
32:24often described it this way because this is the way
32:26it impacted me, that when you've been captured
32:28by the King of glory, you move away from healing,
32:30giving offerings to be commonly offering.
32:32The public engagement really becomes an external expression
32:36of your outsized eternal appreciation
32:39for being purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ.
32:42The greatest miracle any of us will ever experience
32:44is being born again and when we are born again,
32:47they make movies about this.
32:49But the reality for us is that we are immortal.
32:51We'll live forever.
32:53So why not?
32:54Give the Lord everything that we have.
32:55That's right.
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34:01Growing in your love of God, this is David Wheaton, host of The Christian World View.
34:07Loving God means to think and do what pleases and glorifies Him.
34:11Jesus said that loving God is the great and foremost commandment.
34:17The problem is your unredeemed flesh is constantly telling you to love yourself, not God.
34:23The world wants you to love the things and pleasures of the world, not God.
34:28Love for God must be cultivated through drawing near to Him in His word, in prayer, with other
34:34believers in the local church.
34:36For when the believer grows in love of God, he will enthusiastically want to worship and
34:41obey him no matter what.
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35:10Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
35:14Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
35:17My guest is evangelist Tim Todd of Revival Fires, International Ministries.
35:22You know, we're here when Texas Governor Greg Abbott is having the issue arrest warrants for Texas state legislators
35:30because they don't have the numbers that they can't stop votes, including a redistricting plan.
35:36So they just do what they've done. They've done in 2021. They've decided, well, we just don't want to show up.
35:41So you can't have a core of the vote. And this is my estimation, an example of the type of darkness that is so proliferated
35:50in our current society that, yeah, people that lived kind of the ends justified, the means kind of thing.
35:58But we were talking about really the love of God that is
36:04virgins in us like Jeremiah says, like a fire shut up in our bones.
36:08And this fire is what I know because I've known you after all of these.
36:13Opportunity we've had to spend time, it is that fire that has led you to
36:18want to do something about the utter insanity that attempts to grip the hearts and minds
36:25of the youngest Americans that we have through the school system.
36:28That's led to the truth for youth's Bible and its campaign.
36:31Would you share with our listeners a little bit about that?
36:33Yes.
36:34And how they can get involved.
36:35Many years ago, Abe, I'm older than I look.
36:39I will look at what, 37?
36:42Thank you.
36:43Thank you.
36:44Thank you.
36:45I went to Russia and it was right after the walls came down in Russia.
36:51Boris Yeltsin had become president.
36:53the door was wide open for the gospel.
36:56And so I had a meeting with my dad,
37:01who's now in heaven,
37:03with the minister of education over all of the schools in Russia.
37:06Wow.
37:07And we were given permission in a window of time,
37:10several years, to put Bibles as textbooks
37:14in the public schools of Russia.
37:15I didn't know this.
37:17It started in 91, and it went to 97.
37:20And so we were able to go over there on a regular basis,
37:23go into the classroom,
37:25get Bibles to the young people as textbooks.
37:28And they, you know, we had get an altar call for salvation.
37:32It was crazy cool what God was doing.
37:36But in that first meeting, the Minister of Education
37:38asked me through an interpreter,
37:41what kind of a Bible project do you have
37:43for the public schools of America?
37:44This is 91.
37:46I had to tell it, Russia put God in school,
37:49but America kicked God out.
37:52And so I came home with a burden on my heart
37:55for young people stronger than I had ever had before.
37:57And I made up my mind that if the young people
38:00in the public schools of Russia could freely have Bibles,
38:03that the young people in America's schools
38:06should have the same right too.
38:07And of course, you know, as having being well-versed in law,
38:13that young people had the right to give Bibles away
38:17on campus during non-instructional time.
38:20So on the back cover of the Truth for Youth Bible,
38:22we put the students' legal rights on public school campus.
38:26We put number four in bold.
38:28And number four says that the young people have the right
38:31to get Bibles away on campus during non-instructional time.
38:35So we put the Bibles into the hands of Christian young people
38:38that commit to give them to their friends in school
38:41that don't know the Lord.
38:43And we're saying many of them get saved.
38:45I like to call it, since it is legal,
38:47I like to call it legally smuggling Bibles
38:51into America's public schools.
38:531.3 million so far, 30,000 plus decision cards
38:57from young people that have given the heart
38:59to the Lord as a result of getting a copy
39:02of the truth for you, the Bible.
39:03They send it to our ministry.
39:06We get them plugged in to be discipled
39:08in a local church wherever they live.
39:10A Bible believe in church because those young people,
39:13they don't just need to get saved.
39:15They need to be discipled as well.
39:17And so they'll read these comics that deal with the truth
39:20about issues of moral concern.
39:22I mean, we deal with all of them.
39:24In fact, we just came out with a brand new one
39:26that is not in there yet,
39:28but it's in the process of being in there.
39:30But it deals with the truth about transgender ideology
39:35and a dangerous confusion.
39:37So that'll be in the next printing.
39:39But our young people need to know their identity in Christ.
39:43And so we've got that new one coming out,
39:45but we're so thankful for what God is doing.
39:47As Christian young people, bold,
39:50are giving away Bibles on their school campus
39:52to the friends that don't know Jesus,
39:54that's where the rubber meets the road.
39:57Young people that don't mean business with God,
39:59that claim to be Christians,
40:00they won't give a Bible away in school,
40:02but boy, because it lets their friends know,
40:04they really do love Jesus.
40:06And so this is an opportunity for young people
40:09to be bolded on fire for God,
40:11and we're saying God do a tremendous work
40:13the hearts of the young people.
40:15How can people get their hands on these Bibles?
40:18Well, since it's after four o'clock,
40:21they can go to t-f-y.org.
40:25That's t-f-y.org.
40:28And we have a submission form there.
40:30They can fill that out, submit it to us, age 13 to 18 years old,
40:36or a parent or a grandparent for a child at age,
40:39age 13 to 18 years old.
40:41They can fill that submission form out.
40:43will send them a Bible free of charge, no strings attached.
40:47The only string attached to that is they have to commit
40:50to give it to somebody that they know in school
40:52that doesn't know Jesus.
40:54And that's how they're able to get a Bible free of charge
40:57in order to deliver it.
40:58I often hear, and we have lots of parents
41:00and grandparents who listen to the show,
41:04how can they get their hands on Bibles
41:06if they wanna maybe get a case or a box or two
41:09or several to share with the children in their local communities.
41:13How can I do that?
41:14We have pastors and youth pastors and fellowship for Christian athletes and fellowship for Christian
41:20students and other Bible clubs that get them in quantities.
41:23If they get a case of 50 Bibles or more, I'll let them have them a but my cost, which is $2
41:30each.
41:31And the reason why they're so inexpensive, certainly not the quality.
41:34I mean, you can see it's a tongue quality book.
41:38But I print these 50,000 at a time.
41:42And so by doing so, I get them, I can make them available at my cost.
41:47If they get them 50 Bibles or more, $2 each.
41:50And it's a tremendous evangelism tool.
41:53And a missions tool.
41:55The biggest mission field in our nation are the public schools of America.
42:0040 million students in America's public schools don't have a Bible.
42:05That's the biggest mission field.
42:06And so getting the Word of God into the hands of young people that will give it to the friends
42:11that don't know Jesus, we're getting the Word of God in school, making soul winners out of
42:15those young people, and many young people are giving the heart to the Lord as a result
42:19of it.
42:20So those who would want to get the case or the box 50 or more that you mentioned, how
42:24can they go about doing that?
42:25Same way, tfy.org.
42:27There's also a place there that if they want to, they can click on and get cases or, you know,
42:32your Bibles or however many they want to get in addition to the ones that they get for free.
42:37And many know, and you know this as well, my wife and I, we homeschool our children.
42:41Yes.
42:42And there was a massive surge in homeschooling following...
42:45Absolutely.
42:46...Moved 19.
42:47But the facts are 90 plus percent of America's students, including the children of Christian
42:53parents, go to public schools still.
42:56Right.
42:57And my heart goes out because we are in an age and I've done shows on this.
43:04We talk about the secularization of our nation.
43:06I know for a fact that that is largely transpired intentionally and especially because of the
43:13public school system.
43:14I'm not saying individual teachers, but I'm saying the architects of the system, the Horace
43:19Manns and the John Deweyes and the others who intentionally sought to utilize public education
43:26as a mechanism really to aid the fundamental transformation of the United States of America
43:31away from a God-centered nation into a secular humanist panacea.
43:35That's just a fact.
43:37But there are lots of people still in this juncture who may not have known that.
43:40Some of them may know it that are caught up in that system.
43:43Any time where you have the Lord says that the fear of the Lord is a beginning of knowledge,
43:46but we will have a system of instruction that denies the knowledge of God institutionally,
43:50the express purpose is to deprive the people in the system from that knowledge of God.
43:54but this is a way to reintegrate,
43:59reintroduce the truth of God's word into these schools.
44:02And as I'm saying to men, if we love God,
44:04the highest efficacy of that demonstrable evidence
44:09of God's love is how love our fellow man.
44:10There's no greater love.
44:12Jesus said that we're gonna lay down his life for his friends.
44:15What greater exhibition of love can there be
44:17than to communicate the necessity for eternal life?
44:21There is no greater exhibition of love
44:23and the expression of love than that.
44:24That's right.
44:25And along those lines, Jeremiah chapter six, verse 16,
44:30it says, stand at the crossroads and ask for the old paths
44:34where the good way is and walk in it.
44:37And I believe we left the old paths
44:39when we took the Bible and prayer out of school.
44:42In June of 1962 with Abboton Vershem
44:45and then in June of 1963 with Ingeau verse five,
44:50and from that point to the present,
44:53We have kick got out of our schools.
44:55Thankfully, you've got some states
44:57that are bringing the Ten Commandments back
44:59into the classroom like Jeff Landry.
45:01They're in the governor of the state of Louisiana,
45:05poster size Ten Commandments on the walls
45:08of every classroom K through 12.
45:10That's radical, that's powerful.
45:13But then there's pockets like that.
45:15But the truth is, from the year that we took
45:18the Bible out of school, 1963,
45:21America became number one in the world in violent crimes, illiteracy, teenage pregnancy, illegal
45:28drugs and the divorce rate.
45:30And it can all be accurately traced back to the very year we took the Bible out of school.
45:35I believe that's a fact.
45:36With Tim Todd just said, if a fact you can do the historical research you will find that
45:42the year the Bible was removed from a public schools in our country, all of those negative,
45:47I would argue demonic metrics skyrocketed.
45:50Yes, skyrocketed.
45:51Yes, and then also, you know, the prayer that they used,
45:54Abe, to remove prayer from school in 1962.
45:59Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on you.
46:03The young people were praying.
46:04We begged your blessings on us, on our parents,
46:08on our teachers and on our nation.
46:10And look what's happened in all four of those areas
46:14since we took God out of our schools.
46:16When we took God out of our schools in 1962 and 1963,
46:21the number one problem in the classroom
46:22was chewing gum and talking in class.
46:25Now look what's happened with the violence
46:27and all of the things that are happening.
46:29And then it says, we beg your blessings on our parents.
46:32Look at the marriages in America.
46:36From the year we took the Bible out of school
46:39for 20 years leading up to 1963,
46:43The divorce rate was dropping regularly.
46:47But from 1963, the year we took the Bible out of school,
46:50for the next 18 years, the divorce rate tripled every year.
46:55And it says though God was taking his hand off of the family,
47:01the very year that we took the Bible out of school in 1963.
47:05And then you look, they were praying,
47:08God, we'd beg your blessings on our teachers.
47:12And SAT scores from 1963 and back.
47:16For 20 years, they would remain the same.
47:18They'd go up a little bit, they'd go down a little bit,
47:20and they would level off.
47:22And for 20 years, the SAT scores were the same
47:25from 1963 back 20 years.
47:28But for 1963, for the next 15 years,
47:33the SAT scores drastically and dramatically dropped.
47:37And it was like an unexplainable phenomenon
47:41for those that were in the education in the area of education.
47:45I can explain it.
47:47We took God out of our schools and our nation has been reaping the tragic consequences.
47:53And then we beg your blessings on our nation.
47:55And again, America has become number one in the worst things.
47:59I believe that we took God out of our schools and the devil moved in.
48:04And as a result of it, now we have everything.
48:07Humanism, secularism, atheism, Satanism, socialism.
48:10and all of the other isms that the devil is using,
48:13we pulled God out and we let the devil come in.
48:17I say one thing that we need to do is get the word of God
48:20back in the public schools of America.
48:22Shine darkness, just like your program.
48:25Shine's darkness, shine's light in the darkness.
48:28That's what this Bible does.
48:29The word of God shines light.
48:32It's a weapon.
48:33It's that Hebrews four says that it is sharper
48:37than any two-edged sword.
48:38This is a weapon that we need in the public schools of America.
48:43And the Lord said to the Apostle Paul
48:45that the weapons of our warfare, not carnal,
48:47but they are divinely powerful.
48:49They are divinely powerful to the destruction
48:53of strongholds, to demolish strongholds.
48:57So we don't have to have the posture
48:59that we have to simply be casual spectators
49:03that have no wherewithal to respond to what's happening.
49:07We simply need to employ what God has put into our coffers to utilize.
49:11And the word of God is front and center to that.
49:15Would you please give the website again?
49:16We have a few seconds before the disrespect from music comes on.
49:20T-F-Y dot O-R-G T-F-Y dot O-R-G to get one Bible per teenager,
49:27per household to give away in school,
49:30help us legally smuggle Bibles into America's schools.
49:34Amen. Folks, you know I say often live locally.
49:37I share national news and information,
49:39international news and information,
49:41but the reality is each of us,
49:42the Lord makes, comprises his body of individual members.
49:46If we would live locally, take ownership of our communities,
49:49our local schools, our local community centers,
49:52our local churches, and we brick by brick
49:55build what God has called us to.
49:57I'm reminded of Nehemiah, the way that the wall
49:59was rebuilt in such rapid fashion,
50:01is that everybody reconstructed right in front
50:03their own front doors, right in front of their own homes.
50:06And in a matter of several weeks, the wall was rebuilt.
50:10You know, to have its height, we can do the same.
50:12T-F-Y dot org, T-F-Y dot org, brother Tim Todd,
50:17thank you for joining us here on The Hamilton Corner.
50:18Thank you, a appreciate you so so much.
50:20My friend, love it, appreciate you.
50:22Oh man, I appreciate you.
50:23You've been busy all day.
50:24Yes.
50:25So now, I officially deem you off the floor.
50:27Hallelujah.
50:29Folks, thank you for tuning in to the program,
50:30Lord, willing, we'll be back tomorrow.
50:33and we will dig into the foolishness to sure.
50:35Y'all have a great evening.
50:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
50:42may not necessarily reflect those
50:44of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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