Reactionary dispositions are never visionary.

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19. 0:56At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your
20. 1:00part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs, where you cultivate
21. 1:05an outcome.
22. 1:06And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
23. 1:12the primacy that God places on family,
24. 1:14recognizing the privilege that you get to enjoy
25. 1:18and being his hands and feet,
26. 1:20starting first in your home.
27. 1:22Because what goes on in your house
28. 1:25is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
29. 1:27I know there's conversations right now
30. 1:29about Trump meeting Putin to address
31. 1:33the Ukrainian war situation.
32. 1:36That is certainly an important matter,
33. 1:38but it's not more important what's going on in your home
34. 1:40for you. It's not more important than what's going on in my home for me because I'm directly responsible
35. 1:46what happens in my house. You are directly responsible for what happens in your home. We are not directly
36. 1:52responsible for what happens in Ukraine, but all too often we have succumbed to the siren song of the
37. 2:01society to play significance and importance everywhere else. I was out yesterday attending some
38. 2:12legal matters on behalf of the ministry.
39. 2:15But I've been just praying and pondering
40. 2:20the status of affairs, the stage of affairs in our nation
41. 2:25and the state of the church in our nation.
42. 2:28Because simply put, this is not my opinion.
43. 2:32The Lord told us in His word that He ordained His church
44. 2:35to be the pillar and ground of truth.
45. 2:38The Lord has told us in His word
46. 2:40that the manifold wisdom of God
47. 2:42will be put on display by his church.
48. 2:46Like it or not,
49. 2:46Jesus has ordained his church to be the vehicle
50. 2:52through which he asserts himself
51. 2:55and establishes his kingdom.
52. 3:01And I've been honestly lamenting a degree
53. 3:06to which lamenting to a degree about the reality
54. 3:11that I think in many instances,
55. 3:12the church doesn't understand just how potent God has ordained
56. 3:16the body to be.
57. 3:19Secondarily, I don't think many understand the role
58. 3:21that God has ordained the body to play in the world,
59. 3:25but in particular in our nation.
60. 3:27Acts 17 says he determines the boundaries of our habitation
61. 3:31and the times in which we would live.
62. 3:34Think this kind of escapist orientation combined
63. 3:40by this effort to, we're above the fray.
64. 3:44It's like, how are you above the fray
65. 3:46when you're called to make disciples
66. 3:48and the culture where God has placed you.
67. 3:51This notion, we're above the fray,
68. 3:53but at the same time, you have people saying,
69. 3:55but the church should be a hospital,
70. 3:56which is not to be a hospital.
71. 3:58But we certainly deal with broken people,
72. 4:00but not for the purposes of perpetuating the brokenness.
73. 4:07And so I'm gravely concerned
74. 4:12because the whole notion Satan knows is in.
75. 4:17I've explained before when Jesus enters the Gatorian region
76. 4:21and the demoniac in Gdara before Jesus even comes to him,
77. 4:26he begins to quake and says,
78. 4:29Son of man, Son of God, have you come to torment us
79. 4:32before our time?
80. 4:34Which reveals that the demons know
81. 4:37that their end is torment.
82. 4:40But the devilish scheme is to try to deceive as many as possible
83. 4:45so that they would join them in eternal damnation.
84. 4:50And so Jesus said that the gates of hell
85. 4:53not prevail against the church, straight up, full stop.
86. 4:59So the demonic scheme then is to attempt to nullify and to winnow the church's potency
87. 5:09by infiltration.
88. 5:10And this dates all the way back to the first century.
89. 5:14The apostle Jude talked about false brethren having crept in unawares in the first century,
90. 5:19perverted the grace of God.
91. 5:22And I'm greatly concerned because the same thing is happening now and not many of us even
92. 5:27recognize it.
93. 5:29Not enough I should say of us recognize it.
94. 5:32Let's go to the Word of God.
95. 5:33The second king, chapter 23.
96. 5:35Now tell you plainly why I'm going there and in the context here, this is the portion
97. 5:42of scripture that's recorded after King Josiah through Hylkiah's efforts, discovers, rediscovers,
98. 5:49the book of the law and the temple.
99. 5:51The temple had been shut down.
100. 5:53You've had, there were consistently wicked kings
101. 5:58prior to Josiah.
102. 6:00You had the wicked king, Manasseh,
103. 6:02who was exceedingly wicked.
104. 6:04And he followed, I would call,
105. 6:08the abandoned man, Hezekiah,
106. 6:13who when he learned through prophecy
107. 6:15that judgment was coming
108. 6:17because he had opened the war machine
109. 6:21and the treasury to the Babylonians,
110. 6:24and the prophet Isaiah said,
111. 6:25the same people who you just let roll up in here,
112. 6:28they're gonna come back and they're gonna knock down
113. 6:30and conquer everything, and they wanna carry off your own
114. 6:32children, and as the Kiah goes, oh, that's a good word,
115. 6:35at least it's not gonna happen to me.
116. 6:37What kind of man is, would be able to celebrate
117. 6:41that his children and his grandchildren
118. 6:42and his great-grandchildren will be made slaves and eunuchs
119. 6:49in a pagan empire?
120. 6:51Unsurprisingly, his son was exceedingly wicked,
121. 6:56And so in 2 Kings, chapter 23, the Lord records for our benefits,
122. 7:01some of the reforms that Josiah implements after he discovers the book of the law,
123. 7:06re-entice covenant with Yahweh,
124. 7:08but it shows you just how bad things have become in Judah in general,
125. 7:13but their specific observations made about the temple.
126. 7:17And this is what the word of God says. Second Kings, 23 verse four,
127. 7:21then the king that is Josiah commanded, he'll kire the priest,
128. 7:25the hide priest.
129. 7:27and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers to bring out of the temple of the
130. 7:34Lord, out of the temple of the Lord, all the vessels that were made for Ba'al, for Ashara,
131. 7:46and for all the host of heaven.
132. 7:49And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes
133. 7:54to Bethel.
134. 7:56He did away with the idolatrous priests.
135. 7:59priests. Let's say that again. He did away with the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had
136. 8:07appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of
137. 8:15Jerusalem. Also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations
138. 8:26into all the host of heaven. He brought out the asherah from the house of the Lord,
139. 8:33from the house of the Lord, outside the rules of them to the Brook Kidron and burned it
140. 8:40at the Brook Kidron and ground it to dust and through its dust on the graves of the common people.
141. 8:46He also brought down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord,
142. 8:56with the women were weaving hangings for the ashara.
143. 9:09Things in Judah, things in the nation whose very name means praise, things in the very
144. 9:18nation whose forefather is the direct offspring of Israel, a descendant of Abraham whose name
145. 9:31was changed to Abraham, things degenerated so fervently that upon Josiah's discovery,
146. 9:48rediscovery of the book of the law, which the Lord had already said, every king of Israel
147. 9:52is supposed to have his own copy to make his own handmade copy to keep this book of the
148. 9:58law.
149. 9:59Josiah was surprised to learn there was such thing.
150. 10:03And then he had to command the high priest to bring out of Yahweh's house, the same house
151. 10:12that was dedicated under Solomon, that the glory of the Lord filled the temple so much
152. 10:16so that the priests were unable to maneuver because the glory cloud was so thick, that
153. 10:22same house.
154. 10:27But at this stage, they had to remove the vessels that were used to worship Baal from there.
155. 10:39We had to remove idolatrous priests who regardless of what Yahweh ordained to be, the way priests
156. 10:50are to be selected.
157. 10:51Verse five shows that idolatrous priests were appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense
158. 10:56on the high places.
159. 10:57They were ordained for idolatry, ordained for idolatry, burning incense to bow all in the
160. 11:10Lord's temple, worshiping the sun in the Lord's temple, worshiping the moon in the Lord's
161. 11:15temple.
162. 11:16And if that's not enough, verse seven shows that there had to be a removal of cult prostitutes
163. 11:25who were applying their trade in the Lord's temple, religiously legitimized prostitution in the house of
164. 11:37God. No, of course, it's very easy to say, Oh my gosh, what's happened there? Well, look at the
165. 11:47visible church in our culture today. And I'm saying this with the backdrop, what did God
166. 11:51the church to be, the pillar and ground of truth.
167. 11:57There's lots of conversations about, oh man,
168. 12:01our political discourse has devolved to such a place.
169. 12:04Could it be?
170. 12:06Because the bride that's ordained to be the pillar
171. 12:10and ground of truth has similarly rejected our first love.
172. 12:20I mean, we just had the most recent phenomenon, unfortunately,
173. 12:24with the United Methodist denomination,
174. 12:26when they're straight up saying, we don't care what the Bible says.
175. 12:30We, we, not alone, not only are we going to sanction homosexuality.
176. 12:35Now, I want to be clear, this is what the American United Methodist decided, the many
177. 12:40others departed from there.
178. 12:41You have the global Methodist movement that's departed from that, but you have this schism
179. 12:46and a major American Christian denomination because you have a significant contingent
180. 12:51that happens to be a moneyed contingent that says, oh, we don't know what the Bible says.
181. 12:56We, we're going to read the Bible the way we want it.
182. 12:58We not only would accept homosexuality, we want to ordain homosexual clergy.
183. 13:09Some of the same things I've said before, dating back to 1973, the Presbyterian denomination
184. 13:12had a split over the same thing.
185. 13:16You have rumblings, but those who are endeavoring to maintain the biblical inerity and then Southern
186. 13:22Baptist nomination now, those who are wrestling in the other direction, this thing is happening
187. 13:27with such consistency.
188. 13:29We can see things got so bad in Israel's history in Judah in particular, where you have
189. 13:34of meo-coat prostitutes in the Lord's house,
190. 13:38in the Lord's house.
191. 13:45And we have this diminishment of the witness
192. 13:47and the clarity and the conviction, generally speaking.
193. 13:51Cause I don't want anybody to misconstrue what I'm saying.
194. 13:53I know for a fact that there's a remnant in America,
195. 13:58but I'm talking about the broad representation,
196. 14:03the most popular representations.
197. 14:11And I'm saying our country and our society
198. 14:13has suffered greatly because in many ways,
199. 14:17the church in our country has strayed, has strayed.
200. 14:26And so we're left with the fallout from that
201. 14:29is that we're left with political movements
202. 14:32that by and large are often simply reactionary.
203. 14:35Don't necessarily know what we should be pursuing.
204. 14:37All I know is I don't like that.
205. 14:39I don't like that.
206. 14:40And let me just tell you,
207. 14:41zealous reactionary dispositions are never visionary
208. 14:47and are never sustainable.
209. 14:49If we're gonna have a course correction in America,
210. 14:53it has to come through the Lord's Bride.
211. 15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
212. 15:04What should a pro-life church look like?
213. 15:07It's a church that will prayerfully consider encouraging
214. 15:09members to volunteer at local pregnancy centers
215. 15:12and to volunteer for other pro-life ministries.
216. 15:16It's a church that would prayerfully consider supporting
217. 15:19baby clothes closet with diapers, clothes, wipes, and other needed items.
218. 15:24It's a church that will prayerfully consider becoming a sanctuary church.
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224. 15:48Am I really seeking to honor the Lord in doing what he would have me to do as an individual
225. 15:53disciple of Christ to help stand for life?
226. 16:05Shiting lightning to the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
227. 16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
228. 16:14I want to explain why I started in 2 Kings 23 because I'm greatly concerned that things
229. 16:25are happening and I know they're concerted efforts following American industrialization,
230. 16:30which on the one hand led to amazing prosperity. But on the other hand, it had an impact on
231. 16:36the family unit, you know, and our lives are so busy in many, in many ways, the kind of
232. 16:44the, the, the perpetual busyness is in and of itself a scheme to keep us distracted, to
233. 16:49keep us divided, to keep us stratified and unable to really stop and breathe for a moment.
234. 16:58You know, I've made this point before, the very same people who want to convince us that
235. 17:03our nation, that the United States of America is the worst place in the world.
236. 17:08It's, you know, it's overrun with, you know, you know, racist and all of these things at
237. 17:13the exact same time.
238. 17:15These are the exact same people who are saying, no, no, we need to have an open border.
239. 17:18We need to have as many people from other countries to come here as possible.
240. 17:23And just forget the political rhetoric for a moment.
241. 17:26If you just stop it, I'll sit away in a minute.
242. 17:29Both of these things can't be true at the same time because if you think that our nation
243. 17:34is just utterly horrible, right, and you have this overwhelming compassion for the foreigner,
244. 17:44why would you want to bring the foreigner to this horrible place?
245. 17:47Why would you want that?
246. 17:50How would you want that?
247. 17:53Because they don't really believe that.
248. 17:57For them, that is a rhetorical device.
249. 18:00It is a political culture that they wield,
250. 18:02but they're wielding it for a particular purpose.
251. 18:09One of the things, if you study, you know,
252. 18:11the cadre of Marxists, philosophers,
253. 18:14and theorizers you'll find for them,
254. 18:16simply put the issue that is being discussed
255. 18:19popularly is never the issue.
256. 18:22It's never the issue.
257. 18:23The issue that is being discussed is only being discussed for its usefulness to accomplish
258. 18:29their ultimate agenda.
259. 18:33So what is that agenda?
260. 18:36We're living in a time and I've explained on this show.
261. 18:41It's amazing that we don't have more conversations about it.
262. 18:46Like why don't children in American school study pole pop?
263. 18:49You know why our American children don't know more about Stalin?
264. 18:52Why don't American children know about Miles Tae Tung?
265. 18:54Why don't they know these things?
266. 18:55Because they were people who intentionally infiltrated
267. 18:59our American system of instruction,
268. 19:01who wanted to put a glossy positive for near our Marxism.
269. 19:05That's why, that's why.
270. 19:09So that you can have a populist who,
271. 19:10when you hear Zoramam Donnie declare himself to be a socialist,
272. 19:13that you don't have immediately recoiling and saying,
273. 19:16are you, get out of here.
274. 19:19That's why.
275. 19:21But for people who are regressive,
276. 19:24They tend to know what they're moving toward.
277. 19:28What I was alluding to earlier,
278. 19:29I've talked about on this program,
279. 19:31the Hegelian dialectical process.
280. 19:33George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
281. 19:37who actually was a teacher of Marx.
282. 19:40Marx was a Hegel disciple in the Hegelian dialectical process.
283. 19:46What is that process?
284. 19:47Well, first of all, you have to remember
285. 19:49that Hegel sought to move in the direction
286. 19:53that later developed as Marxism, as I told you,
287. 19:56Marx was a disciple of Hegel.
288. 19:58I've explained before that Marx is not the author
289. 20:00of socialistic thought, communist thought.
290. 20:02He advocated for the utilization of violence,
291. 20:05the implementation of violence as a tool
292. 20:07to accomplish his objectives.
293. 20:09There were others before him like Hegel, for example.
294. 20:13And it is from Hegel that we get this idea that,
295. 20:16you know, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and George W. Bush
296. 20:19end up describing as a third way.
297. 20:20Remember that?
298. 20:21The third way?
299. 20:22What is the third way?
300. 20:24third way is the synthesis from the
301. 20:26Gailion dialectical process.
302. 20:27Those who remember our discussion of
303. 20:29this, Hegel's assertion was that when
304. 20:32you are a, I'll just say in my terms, a
305. 20:34regressive, you introduce yourself, you
306. 20:37introduce into the popular conversation,
307. 20:39into the body politic, the most
308. 20:41extreme radical position that you truly
309. 20:44want, but you expect the populace and not
310. 20:48to accept, but you introduce it.
311. 20:52But the purpose of your introduction is
312. 20:54not to get a consensus around that radical position initially. You introduce the radical
313. 21:03notion as a thesis. While you are introducing the thesis, you have a corollary component.
314. 21:14Some may say an opponent. You heard the term controlled opposition? When you are a Hegelian,
315. 21:20When you introduce your radical thesis, you are working in tandem with the antithesis
316. 21:27advocates.
317. 21:35The Hegelian and introduces the thesis.
318. 21:38The corollary opposition, the controlled opposition offers an antithesis, which is usually the
319. 21:44opposite of the thesis.
320. 21:46Then to add into this conversation the Alinskyite term of the community organizer, the community
321. 21:53organizers, the one who introduces the radical thesis to stir up discontent around it.
322. 21:58Then you stir up the antithesis groups to oppose and you always present the issue in binary
323. 22:06terms.
324. 22:07There's no gradation, there's no reasonable alternatives.
325. 22:11You simply have thesis antithesis and then the organizer comes in with the synthesis.
326. 22:17Caw, come on, let's be reasonable.
327. 22:19Let's compromise.
328. 22:20Let's compromise, which is why you have a society that the only thing, or I won't say
329. 22:25only thing, but one of the highest values in our society today is what compromise.
330. 22:32But for the Hegelian, the very moment that you have an arrival at synthesis or the Bill
331. 22:38Clinton, the George W. Bush, the Tony Blair Third Way, the very moment you have the third
332. 22:42way, you introduce a new radical thesis that pushes the dialogue even further.
333. 22:51You've heard the term over 10 window.
334. 22:53As soon as you get the synthesis that synthesis accepted, you introduce a new new thesis, then
335. 22:59you have another round of thesis and synthesis synthesis, another round new thesis, which is
336. 23:06why in our conversation you've experienced the continued leftward drift of both the Democrat
337. 23:12party and the Republican party.
338. 23:14How many times have you heard people say, man, John F. Kennedy can never be elected as a Democrat
339. 23:17today.
340. 23:18How many times have you heard that?
341. 23:19How many times have you heard this say, well, Republicans, it should take up the most recent
342. 23:23position vacated by the Democrats, because we are living in the Hegelian dialectical process,
343. 23:28living in it. And while this is happening, just to summarize it, and this is a very crude
344. 23:38summary, no doubt, and a simplified summary. But the underpinning from a socialist Marxist
345. 23:48communist worldview is atheism. The theological underpinning is humanism. Man is God. So we'll
346. 24:00do to use biblical language, whatever's right in our own eyes. So it is to rightly describe
347. 24:06the Marxist objective. It is an effort to establish a godless society where man determines virtue.
348. 24:16Now what is happening in our country right now? There is a major push, a major push to redefine
349. 24:23conservatism in America without God. You see, you see? So what does that end up becoming?
350. 24:33You end up with two sides of the same coin.
351. 24:36Now I am not one of these people will say,
352. 24:38there's not any difference between Democrats or brothers.
353. 24:39There's lots of differences, no doubt.
354. 24:41But think about what is happening on our very watch
355. 24:43as we're existing.
356. 24:46You have two sides both pushing for an establishment
357. 24:50of a society based on their vision of virtue
358. 24:53with a godless definition of it.
359. 24:58That the fecklessness of the Republican party
360. 25:00is now a given way to MAGA,
361. 25:02but I simply ask you,
362. 25:04What is the guiding principle of it?
363. 25:08What by and large passes for conservatism today
364. 25:11is nothing more than a reactionary response
365. 25:14to whatever it is the regressives are doing.
366. 25:17Think about it.
367. 25:21But what is the guiding principle?
368. 25:22To be honest, to be fair, if you would be honest and fair,
369. 25:27President Trump doesn't have a core
370. 25:29conviction or ideology.
371. 25:32In some ways, you can see how there is benefit
372. 25:35in being flexible and negotiating.
373. 25:36But the truth is what is the core conviction of ideology?
374. 25:41And I can even hear it now.
375. 25:42Why do you have to be ideological?
376. 25:44I'm not saying you have to be ideological,
377. 25:46but there is something called truth.
378. 25:47This is what I'm getting toward.
379. 25:50There is something, say better.
380. 25:55Truth is real, guys.
381. 25:57Truth is real.
382. 25:59Zealous reactionary is not synonymous with visionary.
383. 26:08You've heard me say we talk about the constructive of a family.
384. 26:12There can be no submission of a wife to her husband
385. 26:14If the husband has no vision, has no mission,
386. 26:16submission requires a mission.
387. 26:20We have lots of people that are in families
388. 26:25and trying to lead families,
389. 26:26but they don't even have a vision
390. 26:27for what their lives are and want to be,
391. 26:29what their lives are to be, what their family should be.
392. 26:31What is the vision you have for your family?
393. 26:34Do you have one?
394. 26:36For most people, if we're honest,
395. 26:37most people's experiences are,
396. 26:39we just kind of drift along and kind of figure it
397. 26:41out along the way.
398. 26:44But there's not clarity and vision often.
399. 26:49But should there be?
400. 26:50Yes, there should be.
401. 26:54Efforts to employ reactionary political engagement
402. 27:00without any mooring in truth
403. 27:02will ultimately spiral badly, ultimately, ultimately.
404. 27:14Right now, I'll say it very simply.
405. 27:15I strongly believe because of the chasm,
406. 27:18the void left by the church in our society,
407. 27:21a a a a a mega ideology has just has come to feel the void
408. 27:25and why because some of it is because
409. 27:29we've got we've been pushing pushing push with the high egalyan
410. 27:33thesis
411. 27:35the push that's with the deconstruction of the family you pushed us with homosexuality
412. 27:39you pushed us with same sex marriage you pushed us with abortion but then you
413. 27:42start saying but yeah and two year old don't two year olds can tell you if they
414. 27:46are boys or girls and as we're like whoa whoa whoa whoa wait a minute
415. 27:50Wait a minute. Wait, think about it.
416. 27:53The one of the most profound ads from the 2024
417. 27:55presidential election was Kamala Harris is for they them.
418. 28:00She should never be president of the remixes for they them.
419. 28:02Donald Trump is for us.
420. 28:06Why did that resonate so?
421. 28:08Because we know we're coming out of the air.
422. 28:09What you want to tell me?
423. 28:12Will Thomas who's on the pins swimming team for three years
424. 28:15was ranked number 652 or whatever it was, 253rd.
425. 28:19And then he makes a decision, oh, you know what?
426. 28:20I'm a girl. And now I'm dominating.
427. 28:23And we suppose to act like, yeah, this is right.
428. 28:25We know that's wrong at a core level.
429. 28:29But how many people are willing to say why it's wrong?
430. 28:32Not as many, not as many.
431. 28:37The popular understanding of conservatism
432. 28:40has eroded to mere reactionary disposition.
433. 28:43If you hit a time of conservatism,
434. 28:44you should ask conserving what, what are we conserving?
435. 28:47Do we know?
436. 28:49Should there be conserving anything?
437. 28:53What is the overarching vision?
438. 28:58The same thing, the reactionary thing, even in media, you know,
439. 29:02these are the stories to talk about.
440. 29:03Who determines what stories are the stories to talk about?
441. 29:07Why don't we, why don't we have more stories about good Americans
442. 29:11that have weapons that are using their weapons responsibly to save people?
443. 29:18We don't hear that very often at all.
444. 29:21It actually happens way more than what people talk about these so-called
445. 29:26gun violence incidents, which is so absurd to say gun violence.
446. 29:30You have automobile crashes.
447. 29:31Nobody says we have car violence.
448. 29:35Nobody says that.
449. 29:38We say we have a problem with intoxicated drivers.
450. 29:41We have a problem with people driving badly.
451. 29:43We don't say that there's car violence because there's an agenda.
452. 29:48And so we even have this binary reactionary term,
453. 29:52disposition in terms of what we discuss
454. 29:54and how things are discussed.
455. 29:56I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about.
456. 30:00Right now there's lots of conversation
457. 30:01about the, you know, Sydney, sweet,
458. 30:03Sweeney, American, Eagle, edge, you know,
459. 30:04and the people there, hey, why haven't you talked about it?
460. 30:07I'll tell you plainly,
461. 30:07because I don't want to talk about it
462. 30:08in terms of the way that the world is talking about it popularly.
463. 30:12The world wants you to say, ooh, Cindy Sweeney had good.
464. 30:14Marga, Cindy Sweeney ain't bad, regressive.
465. 30:22I got a big problem with the Cindy Sweeney had,
466. 30:25but it's not because anything anybody else is talking about.
467. 30:27Missed me with all that talking about her reference
468. 30:30and skin color, all that kind of stuff.
469. 30:31You know why I have a problem?
470. 30:32Because America is addicted to pornography.
471. 30:35That's why I have a problem with.
472. 30:37And this is nothing more than another iteration
473. 30:40of frankly, soft pornography.
474. 30:43and there are lots of so-called, I won't even say so-called,
475. 30:46lots of people who would identify themselves as conservative
476. 30:50that completely missed the fact that they're trying to really do
477. 30:56a sex sales thing in a particular way that appeals
478. 31:01to particular demographics.
479. 31:05But the issue that I have is that the scripture compels me
480. 31:09to put no unholy thing before my eyes.
481. 31:12And what we have is a normalization of the objectification
482. 31:16of the female body, a normalization of lust so much so to where it almost doesn't even
483. 31:21register.
484. 31:25We don't care if it's all porn long as it's soft porn and red, white and blue.
485. 31:29Remember the whole deal we had not too long ago?
486. 31:31Conservative women with pinup calendars?
487. 31:33Remember that?
488. 31:35What I'm saying guys, I'm just using that as an example.
489. 31:39I say, what is our governing dynamic?
490. 31:42What are we aspiring toward?
491. 31:44What is our positive vision for ourselves, our positive vision for our families, our positive
492. 31:51vision for our churches, and our positive vision for our nation?
493. 31:54What are we aspiring toward?
494. 31:59For too many, the aspiration is nothing more than let's own the lives.
495. 32:03I want to drink some liberal tears.
496. 32:06That's only going to get you so far.
497. 32:09What are we aspiring to as a nation?
498. 32:13What is good?
499. 32:14What is beautiful?
500. 32:15What is true that we're aspiring for?
501. 32:18Are we seeking to accomplish?
502. 32:21For too many, it's nothing more than being the opposite
503. 32:25of whatever them Democrats say.
504. 32:28Or whatever them Republicans say.
505. 32:30Guys, that's not a sustaining virtue,
506. 32:33which is why to come full circle to the point
507. 32:36I mean in the first segment, at least I've tried to make.
508. 32:38This is why the church, the living God, must stand up
509. 32:42to no longer be a sleeping tiger
510. 32:48and simply being tossed to and fro by whatever political wind and waves that are rivaling
511. 32:54in society.
512. 32:55Hello, my name is Andy Miller and I'm the president of Wesley Biblical Seminary based in Ridgeland,
513. 33:05Mississippi.
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524. 34:01Growing in your love of God, this is David Wheaton, host of the Christian worldview.
525. 34:07Loving God means to think and do what pleases and glorifies Him.
526. 34:11Jesus said that loving God is the great and foremost commandment.
527. 34:17The problem is your unredeemed flesh is constantly telling you to love yourself, not God.
528. 34:23The world wants you to love the things and pleasures of the world, not God.
529. 34:27Love for God must be cultivated through drawing near to Him in His word, in prayer, with other
530. 34:34believers in the local church.
531. 34:36For when the believer grows in love of God, he will enthusiastically want to worship and
532. 34:41obey Him no matter what.
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538. 35:10Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
539. 35:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner.
540. 35:16Abraham Hamilton III is my name. What I'm saying very simply guys is we cannot perpetually be
541. 35:23described solely
542. 35:26By what we're against
543. 35:27But here's the rub but we have to wait to see what they say so that we can know what we're against next
544. 35:37How absurd is that we need to wait to see what they're gonna say
545. 35:43To see what we against guys that's that's absurd
546. 35:46What is the positive vision that we have?
547. 35:51There's a reason guys where the last greatest hope of the earth, the United States of America,
548. 35:58a beacon set on the hill, it follows from a worldview that begins our declaration as to
549. 36:05why we must be a sovereign nation separated from King George of England that we hold these
550. 36:11truths be self-evident.
551. 36:15The man is endowed by the Creator.
552. 36:21a positive affirmative vision? What are we ascribing toward? What are we endeavoring to
553. 36:26build? What type of society do we want? The reason what, I won't say the reason, but
554. 36:37regressive use these ridiculous tactics like the Hegelian dialectical process and they come
555. 36:41up with different names for dialecticalism and third-wayism and all of these things because
556. 36:47they're trying to run game on you because they're trying to move in the same direction,
557. 36:52always in the same direction. Let's move in a certain way. Right now you're my opposition,
558. 36:57But in the future, you will be a Republican who supports same-sex marriage, for example.
559. 37:06How many times have you even told, wow, that's not bringing the Bible into this?
560. 37:09Why?
561. 37:11Why?
562. 37:12Who are you to tell me that I need to be my Bible on the side to engage you in discourse?
563. 37:16But how often have professing Christians done so?
564. 37:21Oh, yeah.
565. 37:22You know, I don't want to compel someone to believe what I believe.
566. 37:24You're not trying to persuade someone to embrace Christ by force, but you don't have to apologize
567. 37:32that the word of Christ is truth,
568. 37:34don't have to try to apologize for the fact,
569. 37:39well, you know what?
570. 37:39If you're gonna have a sustained society,
571. 37:41we need husbands and wives to make babies.
572. 37:45I don't need to apologize for that.
573. 37:46Well, where did it come from?
574. 37:48It comes first from God's word.
575. 37:51And unsurprisingly, the science is that we have supports
576. 37:54with God's word has already told us.
577. 37:56I'm not gonna apologize for that.
578. 38:01And then I'll add this, this into the conversation.
579. 38:04The truth has benefit even for those
580. 38:06who don't believe the truth.
581. 38:10Whether you agree with it or not, that a husband and a wife raising their children together
582. 38:13in the same home is the best thing for a child, regardless if you believe it or not, it's true.
583. 38:20So I'm not going to apologize because that's true.
584. 38:22Now you need to be more responsive to the multicultural effort to recognize that they're
585. 38:27all types of families.
586. 38:28No, no, I don't need to do that.
587. 38:30What I will do is recognize that there's sin and that there are fallen men and fallen men
588. 38:35intend an attempt to try to make adjustments and nip and tuck and accommodate their sin and
589. 38:42rebellion but that doesn't change the truth. That doesn't change the truth. That's why I said
590. 38:49you're entitled to your delusions but you cannot compel me to live by them. Guys there's a simple
591. 38:55notion in order to maintain this experiment and self-governance we have to have individuals who are
592. 39:01self-governed. Let's add something else to the conversation. Self-governance is not an
593. 39:06and the damnically natural phenomenon.
594. 39:09Guess what?
595. 39:10Self-governance, also known as self-control,
596. 39:12is a fruit of the spirit.
597. 39:20The Spirit of God produces self-controlled men.
598. 39:23This is why, brothers and sisters,
599. 39:25George Washington said,
600. 39:26religion and morality are indispensable support.
601. 39:32Our government.
602. 39:33And you simply can say very simply,
603. 39:36I'm not trying to compel you to convert to Christ following,
604. 39:39but I would not deny the truth of what Jesus Christ teaches.
605. 39:43Guys, it ain't rocket surgery.
606. 39:44There's a reason there ain't never been
607. 39:46in the history of the world an atheist hospital.
608. 39:50You know why?
609. 39:51Because compassion for suffering people
610. 39:53comes from people who have love for the Lord.
611. 39:56Because it's the Lord who told us
612. 39:57that the first commandment is to love Him with all that we are
613. 40:00and the second is like it.
614. 40:02Love your neighbor as yourself.
615. 40:04Why is it that it's always the Christians
616. 40:05opening up orphanages and opening up hospitals
617. 40:08and feeding the homeless and clothing the homeless?
618. 40:11But our Abe, religion has done all kinds of things.
619. 40:13I don't care what you say,
620. 40:15religion hadn't done more than the atheist 20th century
621. 40:18which Stalin and Hitler and Paul Pot and Mao say tongue.
622. 40:23Miss me with all of that.
623. 40:24And here's another thing.
624. 40:25The people who in the name of religion did this carnage,
625. 40:27they were violating Jesus's teachings.
626. 40:29They were not obeying him.
627. 40:33So, miss me with all of that.
628. 40:36And we have to stop being a man be-pamby church
629. 40:39that we're gonna genuflect and apologize
630. 40:41because we know the truth.
631. 40:42I'm not sorry that I know the truth.
632. 40:43I'm grateful and I'm thankful and I love my neighbor enough that I'll tell them that.
633. 40:49But what's happened guys, we've allowed ourselves to be dumbed down but we won't talk about
634. 40:56Christian and Western civilization.
635. 40:58What's the folk room of Western civilization huh?
636. 41:00Are we going to talk about Augustine and the city of God and how his writings as a Christ
637. 41:05follower shaped the entire scope of Western philosophical and political thought?
638. 41:09Are we going to talk about that or not?
639. 41:11Nah, nah, we ain't going to talk about it.
640. 41:13Why?
641. 41:14of Christ. Why? Why? Who has been which does? Guys, we have been siren-songed and we have been
642. 41:23seduced and we have been, you know, professionalized and we've been de-greed up and all of these things,
643. 41:30all to get us to the place to become functionally comfortable with denying the truth and its application.
644. 41:39We don't need to apologize that the positive vision for our nation is stems from clarity from
645. 41:45God's Word. We're not trying to have theocratic rule compelling people to convert to Christ following,
646. 41:52but I'm not going to say, I'm not going to apologize to you and lie to you about the fact that I don't
647. 41:57care how great your life may be here. If you die without Christ Jesus as your Savior, you will suffer
648. 42:02eternally. And in addition to that, the teachings of Christ have great efficacy in its application
649. 42:10for establishing in society that's best for maximize human flourishing. That's why you have some of the,
650. 42:16You know, the atheist, what's old boy name from England I forgot so far?
651. 42:20He doesn't like Christianity, but he likes to culture it produces.
652. 42:24What's his name? No, it wasn't him, it was the other one.
653. 42:29The name will come up, but y'all know what I'm talking about.
654. 42:31I don't like Christianity. No, I don't believe it's absurd.
655. 42:35To be able to write it's absurd, but I do rather do prefer
656. 42:39the culture that Christians create.
657. 42:43Why, bro? Why do you prefer the culture that Christians create?
658. 42:45Why? Kind of like man is exceedingly wicked.
659. 42:50Kind of like if you reject the culture that Christians create, you return to the doldrums.
660. 42:58That's right. And somebody to put in the chat, Dawkins, Richard Dawkins.
661. 43:03Guys, what we've enjoyed in what the Western civilization has been an aberration in world history.
662. 43:10Yeah, that's what he said, cultural Christian. What we've enjoyed in our Western civilization
663. 43:14as a whole is an aberration from human history. Then you get more specific. What we've had in America,
664. 43:22There have been generations of human beings that could not fathom what we've enjoyed here.
665. 43:32And with all of our mistakes, there's never been a perfect society.
666. 43:36I say it without my whole chest, without successful contradiction, that the United States of America
667. 43:40is the greatest nation in history of the world.
668. 43:45Why is it that?
669. 43:47Why is it that?
670. 43:49We used to understand as the Tocqueville told us, in contrast in the French Revolution, the
671. 43:53Bloody French Revolution that the symbol of the French Revolution was the bloody guillotine?
672. 44:01The talk-fills question was why did the American Revolution result in their society versus what
673. 44:05we had in France?
674. 44:08And he told us, and he told us, in his twain volume on Democracy in America, he sought for
675. 44:13the source of America's greatness in his banking systems.
676. 44:15He sought for America's greatness in his halls of government, and it was not until he entered
677. 44:19her churches with poor pits of flamed and righteousness.
678. 44:22This is his word, not mine.
679. 44:24a flaming righteousness that he recognized the source of America's greatness.
680. 44:28He said, America is great because she is good.
681. 44:33But then he added a warning, but the moment she ceases to be good, she will cease to be
682. 44:40great.
683. 44:42When Tim Taub was on the show, he sat in his chair and returned to the statistics that
684. 44:47when America kicked prayer out of our public schools, how do all of the metrics?
685. 44:53sexuality, murder, they all plummeted.
686. 44:57You think that's a coincidence?
687. 44:59Guys, we've got to wake up.
688. 45:05We've got to wake up.
689. 45:09Enduring virtue from the word of God, from Jesus directly.
690. 45:15What is the greatest commandment to love the Lord
691. 45:17with all that you are?
692. 45:18Guys, when you love God with all that you are,
693. 45:20the most immediate evidence of that love
694. 45:22is the way you treat your neighbor.
695. 45:25Love God with all that you are and love your neighbor
696. 45:28as yourself on these hang the entirety of the law and the
697. 45:33prophets. We have got to get to the place where we don't
698. 45:36apologize for that. And that we're willing to live out loud in
699. 45:40that fashion. What is your vision for yourselves for your
700. 45:46life? What is your vision for your family? What is your
701. 45:49vision for your church? What is your vision for our nation?
702. 45:54The next level of analysis and what are you doing to bring that
703. 45:57into fruition? Guys, the world is going to world. We cannot
704. 46:04expect this to come from the world.
705. 46:07But the thing that I'm greatly concerned about
706. 46:09is that among the ranks of the regressives
707. 46:11and among the ranks of the self-described conservatives,
708. 46:14we are both pining for an establishment of a society
709. 46:19in a godless direction, looking for a godless way
710. 46:23to do life and to do governance.
711. 46:27And I'm telling you, I'm telling you
712. 46:29is going to end in the same direction.
713. 46:33The only way we can get off this hamster wheel
714. 46:35the Hegelian dialectical process to where we're simply waiting to see what the other side says
715. 46:39so that we can react to it and be opposite opposite them. And to see what is it that you're
716. 46:45striving for? What is it that you're aspiring to be? As a father, man, I have a desire and
717. 46:56a vision for my family. I have a desire and a vision for my children. But it's my example,
718. 47:03aiding that vision coming into reality as we're working against it. So many instances were able
719. 47:10to identify and to criticize what's wrong with everybody else,
720. 47:13but we're not introspective about our own examples.
721. 47:18A lack of clarity as to the positive vision for ourselves
722. 47:21as a church, for example, is what led to many places
723. 47:25being bullied by government to shut down.
724. 47:29The strip clubs and the liquor stores
725. 47:32and the Walmart can be open,
726. 47:33but you better not open your mouth to say Jesus is Lord.
727. 47:37And if you dare come together to say,
728. 47:39Jesus Lord, you better not sing.
729. 47:41Guys, we need to wake up.
730. 47:52is what I'm saying.
731. 47:53We cannot simply be reactionary.
732. 47:55Reactionary is not synonymous with the envisionary.
733. 47:58These stories that are percolating,
734. 48:00sometimes I want to talk about this stuff that's popular,
735. 48:02sometimes I don't.
736. 48:03You know why? Because what's popular doesn't dictate what's important.
737. 48:08Sometimes they make stories that are popular,
738. 48:10and the important things go completely ignored.
739. 48:21Many of us have heard the adage,
740. 48:22and our time right now we're no longer having
741. 48:25discourse and disagreements between
742. 48:27red and blue.
743. 48:28We have conversations about right versus wrong,
744. 48:31good versus evil. And I agree with that whole heartedly, but this is the thing that people don't say.
745. 48:36Both sides of the dialogue believe that they're on the side of good and the other side is evil.
746. 48:42Why? Because with the Lord prophesied, it's coming to fruition. Good is being called evil.
747. 48:48And evil is being called good. So if you're having
748. 48:56disagreements with good versus evil, but both sides of the discourse believe they're good and the
749. 49:01the other side is evil. We're right back to square one because instead of merely discussing
750. 49:06good versus evil, there needs to be a conversation about about what is true, what is true. And
751. 49:18if we are merely reactionary, we become nothing other than controlled opposition in the Hegelian
752. 49:24dialectical process because the floor for the negotiation, if you will, is always set by the
753. 49:32the galeon with the thesis.
754. 49:37The thesis, love who you wanna love.
755. 49:42And the synthesis, no, that's wrong.
756. 49:46Okay, okay, okay, civil union, civil unions.
757. 49:49As soon as people say it, okay, the civil unions,
758. 49:51what's the next thing?
759. 49:52No, no, no, we want marriage.
760. 49:56Marriage is wrong.
761. 49:58Okay, okay, okay, the license for gay marriage.
762. 49:59As soon as, not even before the desk
763. 50:01and said on that, little boys and I'm always boys.
764. 50:07It's just a more recent example
765. 50:09of the exact same phenomenon.
766. 50:14But the people of God must simultaneously be people of truth.
767. 50:17And the beauty of this is that we don't have to try to develop our own unilateral vision.
768. 50:25God has always showed us the way in which we ought to walk.
769. 50:31God is good.
770. 50:32Not because I'm saying so.
771. 50:33It's because it is truth.
772. 50:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
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