August 7, 2025 · 50:49

Reactionary dispositions are never visionary.

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0:00 - 15:00. 2 Kings 23:4-7. Judgment must begin at the House of God. 15:00 - 31:00. Reactionary dispositions are never visionary. 31:00 - 48:00. Without vision, political gang-banging will persist. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call : 877-616-2396

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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.
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0:33Good evening, everybody.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
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0:51Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program.
0:56At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your
1:00part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs, where you cultivate
1:05an outcome.
1:06And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
1:12the primacy that God places on family,
1:14recognizing the privilege that you get to enjoy
1:18and being his hands and feet,
1:20starting first in your home.
1:22Because what goes on in your house
1:25is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
1:27I know there's conversations right now
1:29about Trump meeting Putin to address
1:33the Ukrainian war situation.
1:36That is certainly an important matter,
1:38but it's not more important what's going on in your home
1:40for you. It's not more important than what's going on in my home for me because I'm directly responsible
1:46what happens in my house. You are directly responsible for what happens in your home. We are not directly
1:52responsible for what happens in Ukraine, but all too often we have succumbed to the siren song of the
2:01society to play significance and importance everywhere else. I was out yesterday attending some
2:12legal matters on behalf of the ministry.
2:15But I've been just praying and pondering
2:20the status of affairs, the stage of affairs in our nation
2:25and the state of the church in our nation.
2:28Because simply put, this is not my opinion.
2:32The Lord told us in His word that He ordained His church
2:35to be the pillar and ground of truth.
2:38The Lord has told us in His word
2:40that the manifold wisdom of God
2:42will be put on display by his church.
2:46Like it or not,
2:46Jesus has ordained his church to be the vehicle
2:52through which he asserts himself
2:55and establishes his kingdom.
3:01And I've been honestly lamenting a degree
3:06to which lamenting to a degree about the reality
3:11that I think in many instances,
3:12the church doesn't understand just how potent God has ordained
3:16the body to be.
3:19Secondarily, I don't think many understand the role
3:21that God has ordained the body to play in the world,
3:25but in particular in our nation.
3:27Acts 17 says he determines the boundaries of our habitation
3:31and the times in which we would live.
3:34Think this kind of escapist orientation combined
3:40by this effort to, we're above the fray.
3:44It's like, how are you above the fray
3:46when you're called to make disciples
3:48and the culture where God has placed you.
3:51This notion, we're above the fray,
3:53but at the same time, you have people saying,
3:55but the church should be a hospital,
3:56which is not to be a hospital.
3:58But we certainly deal with broken people,
4:00but not for the purposes of perpetuating the brokenness.
4:07And so I'm gravely concerned
4:12because the whole notion Satan knows is in.
4:17I've explained before when Jesus enters the Gatorian region
4:21and the demoniac in Gdara before Jesus even comes to him,
4:26he begins to quake and says,
4:29Son of man, Son of God, have you come to torment us
4:32before our time?
4:34Which reveals that the demons know
4:37that their end is torment.
4:40But the devilish scheme is to try to deceive as many as possible
4:45so that they would join them in eternal damnation.
4:50And so Jesus said that the gates of hell
4:53not prevail against the church, straight up, full stop.
4:59So the demonic scheme then is to attempt to nullify and to winnow the church's potency
5:09by infiltration.
5:10And this dates all the way back to the first century.
5:14The apostle Jude talked about false brethren having crept in unawares in the first century,
5:19perverted the grace of God.
5:22And I'm greatly concerned because the same thing is happening now and not many of us even
5:27recognize it.
5:29Not enough I should say of us recognize it.
5:32Let's go to the Word of God.
5:33The second king, chapter 23.
5:35Now tell you plainly why I'm going there and in the context here, this is the portion
5:42of scripture that's recorded after King Josiah through Hylkiah's efforts, discovers, rediscovers,
5:49the book of the law and the temple.
5:51The temple had been shut down.
5:53You've had, there were consistently wicked kings
5:58prior to Josiah.
6:00You had the wicked king, Manasseh,
6:02who was exceedingly wicked.
6:04And he followed, I would call,
6:08the abandoned man, Hezekiah,
6:13who when he learned through prophecy
6:15that judgment was coming
6:17because he had opened the war machine
6:21and the treasury to the Babylonians,
6:24and the prophet Isaiah said,
6:25the same people who you just let roll up in here,
6:28they're gonna come back and they're gonna knock down
6:30and conquer everything, and they wanna carry off your own
6:32children, and as the Kiah goes, oh, that's a good word,
6:35at least it's not gonna happen to me.
6:37What kind of man is, would be able to celebrate
6:41that his children and his grandchildren
6:42and his great-grandchildren will be made slaves and eunuchs
6:49in a pagan empire?
6:51Unsurprisingly, his son was exceedingly wicked,
6:56And so in 2 Kings, chapter 23, the Lord records for our benefits,
7:01some of the reforms that Josiah implements after he discovers the book of the law,
7:06re-entice covenant with Yahweh,
7:08but it shows you just how bad things have become in Judah in general,
7:13but their specific observations made about the temple.
7:17And this is what the word of God says. Second Kings, 23 verse four,
7:21then the king that is Josiah commanded, he'll kire the priest,
7:25the hide priest.
7:27and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers to bring out of the temple of the
7:34Lord, out of the temple of the Lord, all the vessels that were made for Ba'al, for Ashara,
7:46and for all the host of heaven.
7:49And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes
7:54to Bethel.
7:56He did away with the idolatrous priests.
7:59priests. Let's say that again. He did away with the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had
8:07appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of
8:15Jerusalem. Also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations
8:26into all the host of heaven. He brought out the asherah from the house of the Lord,
8:33from the house of the Lord, outside the rules of them to the Brook Kidron and burned it
8:40at the Brook Kidron and ground it to dust and through its dust on the graves of the common people.
8:46He also brought down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord,
8:56with the women were weaving hangings for the ashara.
9:09Things in Judah, things in the nation whose very name means praise, things in the very
9:18nation whose forefather is the direct offspring of Israel, a descendant of Abraham whose name
9:31was changed to Abraham, things degenerated so fervently that upon Josiah's discovery,
9:48rediscovery of the book of the law, which the Lord had already said, every king of Israel
9:52is supposed to have his own copy to make his own handmade copy to keep this book of the
9:58law.
9:59Josiah was surprised to learn there was such thing.
10:03And then he had to command the high priest to bring out of Yahweh's house, the same house
10:12that was dedicated under Solomon, that the glory of the Lord filled the temple so much
10:16so that the priests were unable to maneuver because the glory cloud was so thick, that
10:22same house.
10:27But at this stage, they had to remove the vessels that were used to worship Baal from there.
10:39We had to remove idolatrous priests who regardless of what Yahweh ordained to be, the way priests
10:50are to be selected.
10:51Verse five shows that idolatrous priests were appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense
10:56on the high places.
10:57They were ordained for idolatry, ordained for idolatry, burning incense to bow all in the
11:10Lord's temple, worshiping the sun in the Lord's temple, worshiping the moon in the Lord's
11:15temple.
11:16And if that's not enough, verse seven shows that there had to be a removal of cult prostitutes
11:25who were applying their trade in the Lord's temple, religiously legitimized prostitution in the house of
11:37God. No, of course, it's very easy to say, Oh my gosh, what's happened there? Well, look at the
11:47visible church in our culture today. And I'm saying this with the backdrop, what did God
11:51the church to be, the pillar and ground of truth.
11:57There's lots of conversations about, oh man,
12:01our political discourse has devolved to such a place.
12:04Could it be?
12:06Because the bride that's ordained to be the pillar
12:10and ground of truth has similarly rejected our first love.
12:20I mean, we just had the most recent phenomenon, unfortunately,
12:24with the United Methodist denomination,
12:26when they're straight up saying, we don't care what the Bible says.
12:30We, we, not alone, not only are we going to sanction homosexuality.
12:35Now, I want to be clear, this is what the American United Methodist decided, the many
12:40others departed from there.
12:41You have the global Methodist movement that's departed from that, but you have this schism
12:46and a major American Christian denomination because you have a significant contingent
12:51that happens to be a moneyed contingent that says, oh, we don't know what the Bible says.
12:56We, we're going to read the Bible the way we want it.
12:58We not only would accept homosexuality, we want to ordain homosexual clergy.
13:09Some of the same things I've said before, dating back to 1973, the Presbyterian denomination
13:12had a split over the same thing.
13:16You have rumblings, but those who are endeavoring to maintain the biblical inerity and then Southern
13:22Baptist nomination now, those who are wrestling in the other direction, this thing is happening
13:27with such consistency.
13:29We can see things got so bad in Israel's history in Judah in particular, where you have
13:34of meo-coat prostitutes in the Lord's house,
13:38in the Lord's house.
13:45And we have this diminishment of the witness
13:47and the clarity and the conviction, generally speaking.
13:51Cause I don't want anybody to misconstrue what I'm saying.
13:53I know for a fact that there's a remnant in America,
13:58but I'm talking about the broad representation,
14:03the most popular representations.
14:11And I'm saying our country and our society
14:13has suffered greatly because in many ways,
14:17the church in our country has strayed, has strayed.
14:26And so we're left with the fallout from that
14:29is that we're left with political movements
14:32that by and large are often simply reactionary.
14:35Don't necessarily know what we should be pursuing.
14:37All I know is I don't like that.
14:39I don't like that.
14:40And let me just tell you,
14:41zealous reactionary dispositions are never visionary
14:47and are never sustainable.
14:49If we're gonna have a course correction in America,
14:53it has to come through the Lord's Bride.
15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:04What should a pro-life church look like?
15:07It's a church that will prayerfully consider encouraging
15:09members to volunteer at local pregnancy centers
15:12and to volunteer for other pro-life ministries.
15:16It's a church that would prayerfully consider supporting
15:19baby clothes closet with diapers, clothes, wipes, and other needed items.
15:24It's a church that will prayerfully consider becoming a sanctuary church.
15:29They will help moms who find themselves expecting a baby at a difficult time.
15:33They will come alongside a mother who feels all alone and walk with her through her term
15:37of pregnancy and beyond.
15:39It's a church that will learn about important pro-life outreach miniatures that are doing
15:43vital work to in legalized abortion in different ways.
15:48Am I really seeking to honor the Lord in doing what he would have me to do as an individual
15:53disciple of Christ to help stand for life?
16:05Shiting lightning to the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
16:14I want to explain why I started in 2 Kings 23 because I'm greatly concerned that things
16:25are happening and I know they're concerted efforts following American industrialization,
16:30which on the one hand led to amazing prosperity. But on the other hand, it had an impact on
16:36the family unit, you know, and our lives are so busy in many, in many ways, the kind of
16:44the, the, the perpetual busyness is in and of itself a scheme to keep us distracted, to
16:49keep us divided, to keep us stratified and unable to really stop and breathe for a moment.
16:58You know, I've made this point before, the very same people who want to convince us that
17:03our nation, that the United States of America is the worst place in the world.
17:08It's, you know, it's overrun with, you know, you know, racist and all of these things at
17:13the exact same time.
17:15These are the exact same people who are saying, no, no, we need to have an open border.
17:18We need to have as many people from other countries to come here as possible.
17:23And just forget the political rhetoric for a moment.
17:26If you just stop it, I'll sit away in a minute.
17:29Both of these things can't be true at the same time because if you think that our nation
17:34is just utterly horrible, right, and you have this overwhelming compassion for the foreigner,
17:44why would you want to bring the foreigner to this horrible place?
17:47Why would you want that?
17:50How would you want that?
17:53Because they don't really believe that.
17:57For them, that is a rhetorical device.
18:00It is a political culture that they wield,
18:02but they're wielding it for a particular purpose.
18:09One of the things, if you study, you know,
18:11the cadre of Marxists, philosophers,
18:14and theorizers you'll find for them,
18:16simply put the issue that is being discussed
18:19popularly is never the issue.
18:22It's never the issue.
18:23The issue that is being discussed is only being discussed for its usefulness to accomplish
18:29their ultimate agenda.
18:33So what is that agenda?
18:36We're living in a time and I've explained on this show.
18:41It's amazing that we don't have more conversations about it.
18:46Like why don't children in American school study pole pop?
18:49You know why our American children don't know more about Stalin?
18:52Why don't American children know about Miles Tae Tung?
18:54Why don't they know these things?
18:55Because they were people who intentionally infiltrated
18:59our American system of instruction,
19:01who wanted to put a glossy positive for near our Marxism.
19:05That's why, that's why.
19:09So that you can have a populist who,
19:10when you hear Zoramam Donnie declare himself to be a socialist,
19:13that you don't have immediately recoiling and saying,
19:16are you, get out of here.
19:19That's why.
19:21But for people who are regressive,
19:24They tend to know what they're moving toward.
19:28What I was alluding to earlier,
19:29I've talked about on this program,
19:31the Hegelian dialectical process.
19:33George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
19:37who actually was a teacher of Marx.
19:40Marx was a Hegel disciple in the Hegelian dialectical process.
19:46What is that process?
19:47Well, first of all, you have to remember
19:49that Hegel sought to move in the direction
19:53that later developed as Marxism, as I told you,
19:56Marx was a disciple of Hegel.
19:58I've explained before that Marx is not the author
20:00of socialistic thought, communist thought.
20:02He advocated for the utilization of violence,
20:05the implementation of violence as a tool
20:07to accomplish his objectives.
20:09There were others before him like Hegel, for example.
20:13And it is from Hegel that we get this idea that,
20:16you know, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and George W. Bush
20:19end up describing as a third way.
20:20Remember that?
20:21The third way?
20:22What is the third way?
20:24third way is the synthesis from the
20:26Gailion dialectical process.
20:27Those who remember our discussion of
20:29this, Hegel's assertion was that when
20:32you are a, I'll just say in my terms, a
20:34regressive, you introduce yourself, you
20:37introduce into the popular conversation,
20:39into the body politic, the most
20:41extreme radical position that you truly
20:44want, but you expect the populace and not
20:48to accept, but you introduce it.
20:52But the purpose of your introduction is
20:54not to get a consensus around that radical position initially. You introduce the radical
21:03notion as a thesis. While you are introducing the thesis, you have a corollary component.
21:14Some may say an opponent. You heard the term controlled opposition? When you are a Hegelian,
21:20When you introduce your radical thesis, you are working in tandem with the antithesis
21:27advocates.
21:35The Hegelian and introduces the thesis.
21:38The corollary opposition, the controlled opposition offers an antithesis, which is usually the
21:44opposite of the thesis.
21:46Then to add into this conversation the Alinskyite term of the community organizer, the community
21:53organizers, the one who introduces the radical thesis to stir up discontent around it.
21:58Then you stir up the antithesis groups to oppose and you always present the issue in binary
22:06terms.
22:07There's no gradation, there's no reasonable alternatives.
22:11You simply have thesis antithesis and then the organizer comes in with the synthesis.
22:17Caw, come on, let's be reasonable.
22:19Let's compromise.
22:20Let's compromise, which is why you have a society that the only thing, or I won't say
22:25only thing, but one of the highest values in our society today is what compromise.
22:32But for the Hegelian, the very moment that you have an arrival at synthesis or the Bill
22:38Clinton, the George W. Bush, the Tony Blair Third Way, the very moment you have the third
22:42way, you introduce a new radical thesis that pushes the dialogue even further.
22:51You've heard the term over 10 window.
22:53As soon as you get the synthesis that synthesis accepted, you introduce a new new thesis, then
22:59you have another round of thesis and synthesis synthesis, another round new thesis, which is
23:06why in our conversation you've experienced the continued leftward drift of both the Democrat
23:12party and the Republican party.
23:14How many times have you heard people say, man, John F. Kennedy can never be elected as a Democrat
23:17today.
23:18How many times have you heard that?
23:19How many times have you heard this say, well, Republicans, it should take up the most recent
23:23position vacated by the Democrats, because we are living in the Hegelian dialectical process,
23:28living in it. And while this is happening, just to summarize it, and this is a very crude
23:38summary, no doubt, and a simplified summary. But the underpinning from a socialist Marxist
23:48communist worldview is atheism. The theological underpinning is humanism. Man is God. So we'll
24:00do to use biblical language, whatever's right in our own eyes. So it is to rightly describe
24:06the Marxist objective. It is an effort to establish a godless society where man determines virtue.
24:16Now what is happening in our country right now? There is a major push, a major push to redefine
24:23conservatism in America without God. You see, you see? So what does that end up becoming?
24:33You end up with two sides of the same coin.
24:36Now I am not one of these people will say,
24:38there's not any difference between Democrats or brothers.
24:39There's lots of differences, no doubt.
24:41But think about what is happening on our very watch
24:43as we're existing.
24:46You have two sides both pushing for an establishment
24:50of a society based on their vision of virtue
24:53with a godless definition of it.
24:58That the fecklessness of the Republican party
25:00is now a given way to MAGA,
25:02but I simply ask you,
25:04What is the guiding principle of it?
25:08What by and large passes for conservatism today
25:11is nothing more than a reactionary response
25:14to whatever it is the regressives are doing.
25:17Think about it.
25:21But what is the guiding principle?
25:22To be honest, to be fair, if you would be honest and fair,
25:27President Trump doesn't have a core
25:29conviction or ideology.
25:32In some ways, you can see how there is benefit
25:35in being flexible and negotiating.
25:36But the truth is what is the core conviction of ideology?
25:41And I can even hear it now.
25:42Why do you have to be ideological?
25:44I'm not saying you have to be ideological,
25:46but there is something called truth.
25:47This is what I'm getting toward.
25:50There is something, say better.
25:55Truth is real, guys.
25:57Truth is real.
25:59Zealous reactionary is not synonymous with visionary.
26:08You've heard me say we talk about the constructive of a family.
26:12There can be no submission of a wife to her husband
26:14If the husband has no vision, has no mission,
26:16submission requires a mission.
26:20We have lots of people that are in families
26:25and trying to lead families,
26:26but they don't even have a vision
26:27for what their lives are and want to be,
26:29what their lives are to be, what their family should be.
26:31What is the vision you have for your family?
26:34Do you have one?
26:36For most people, if we're honest,
26:37most people's experiences are,
26:39we just kind of drift along and kind of figure it
26:41out along the way.
26:44But there's not clarity and vision often.
26:49But should there be?
26:50Yes, there should be.
26:54Efforts to employ reactionary political engagement
27:00without any mooring in truth
27:02will ultimately spiral badly, ultimately, ultimately.
27:14Right now, I'll say it very simply.
27:15I strongly believe because of the chasm,
27:18the void left by the church in our society,
27:21a a a a a mega ideology has just has come to feel the void
27:25and why because some of it is because
27:29we've got we've been pushing pushing push with the high egalyan
27:33thesis
27:35the push that's with the deconstruction of the family you pushed us with homosexuality
27:39you pushed us with same sex marriage you pushed us with abortion but then you
27:42start saying but yeah and two year old don't two year olds can tell you if they
27:46are boys or girls and as we're like whoa whoa whoa whoa wait a minute
27:50Wait a minute. Wait, think about it.
27:53The one of the most profound ads from the 2024
27:55presidential election was Kamala Harris is for they them.
28:00She should never be president of the remixes for they them.
28:02Donald Trump is for us.
28:06Why did that resonate so?
28:08Because we know we're coming out of the air.
28:09What you want to tell me?
28:12Will Thomas who's on the pins swimming team for three years
28:15was ranked number 652 or whatever it was, 253rd.
28:19And then he makes a decision, oh, you know what?
28:20I'm a girl. And now I'm dominating.
28:23And we suppose to act like, yeah, this is right.
28:25We know that's wrong at a core level.
28:29But how many people are willing to say why it's wrong?
28:32Not as many, not as many.
28:37The popular understanding of conservatism
28:40has eroded to mere reactionary disposition.
28:43If you hit a time of conservatism,
28:44you should ask conserving what, what are we conserving?
28:47Do we know?
28:49Should there be conserving anything?
28:53What is the overarching vision?
28:58The same thing, the reactionary thing, even in media, you know,
29:02these are the stories to talk about.
29:03Who determines what stories are the stories to talk about?
29:07Why don't we, why don't we have more stories about good Americans
29:11that have weapons that are using their weapons responsibly to save people?
29:18We don't hear that very often at all.
29:21It actually happens way more than what people talk about these so-called
29:26gun violence incidents, which is so absurd to say gun violence.
29:30You have automobile crashes.
29:31Nobody says we have car violence.
29:35Nobody says that.
29:38We say we have a problem with intoxicated drivers.
29:41We have a problem with people driving badly.
29:43We don't say that there's car violence because there's an agenda.
29:48And so we even have this binary reactionary term,
29:52disposition in terms of what we discuss
29:54and how things are discussed.
29:56I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about.
30:00Right now there's lots of conversation
30:01about the, you know, Sydney, sweet,
30:03Sweeney, American, Eagle, edge, you know,
30:04and the people there, hey, why haven't you talked about it?
30:07I'll tell you plainly,
30:07because I don't want to talk about it
30:08in terms of the way that the world is talking about it popularly.
30:12The world wants you to say, ooh, Cindy Sweeney had good.
30:14Marga, Cindy Sweeney ain't bad, regressive.
30:22I got a big problem with the Cindy Sweeney had,
30:25but it's not because anything anybody else is talking about.
30:27Missed me with all that talking about her reference
30:30and skin color, all that kind of stuff.
30:31You know why I have a problem?
30:32Because America is addicted to pornography.
30:35That's why I have a problem with.
30:37And this is nothing more than another iteration
30:40of frankly, soft pornography.
30:43and there are lots of so-called, I won't even say so-called,
30:46lots of people who would identify themselves as conservative
30:50that completely missed the fact that they're trying to really do
30:56a sex sales thing in a particular way that appeals
31:01to particular demographics.
31:05But the issue that I have is that the scripture compels me
31:09to put no unholy thing before my eyes.
31:12And what we have is a normalization of the objectification
31:16of the female body, a normalization of lust so much so to where it almost doesn't even
31:21register.
31:25We don't care if it's all porn long as it's soft porn and red, white and blue.
31:29Remember the whole deal we had not too long ago?
31:31Conservative women with pinup calendars?
31:33Remember that?
31:35What I'm saying guys, I'm just using that as an example.
31:39I say, what is our governing dynamic?
31:42What are we aspiring toward?
31:44What is our positive vision for ourselves, our positive vision for our families, our positive
31:51vision for our churches, and our positive vision for our nation?
31:54What are we aspiring toward?
31:59For too many, the aspiration is nothing more than let's own the lives.
32:03I want to drink some liberal tears.
32:06That's only going to get you so far.
32:09What are we aspiring to as a nation?
32:13What is good?
32:14What is beautiful?
32:15What is true that we're aspiring for?
32:18Are we seeking to accomplish?
32:21For too many, it's nothing more than being the opposite
32:25of whatever them Democrats say.
32:28Or whatever them Republicans say.
32:30Guys, that's not a sustaining virtue,
32:33which is why to come full circle to the point
32:36I mean in the first segment, at least I've tried to make.
32:38This is why the church, the living God, must stand up
32:42to no longer be a sleeping tiger
32:48and simply being tossed to and fro by whatever political wind and waves that are rivaling
32:54in society.
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34:27Love for God must be cultivated through drawing near to Him in His word, in prayer, with other
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34:36For when the believer grows in love of God, he will enthusiastically want to worship and
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35:10Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
35:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner.
35:16Abraham Hamilton III is my name. What I'm saying very simply guys is we cannot perpetually be
35:23described solely
35:26By what we're against
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
35:37How absurd is that we need to wait to see what they're gonna say
35:43To see what we against guys that's that's absurd
35:46What is the positive vision that we have?
35:51There's a reason guys where the last greatest hope of the earth, the United States of America,
35:58a beacon set on the hill, it follows from a worldview that begins our declaration as to
36:05why we must be a sovereign nation separated from King George of England that we hold these
36:11truths be self-evident.
36:15The man is endowed by the Creator.
36:21a positive affirmative vision? What are we ascribing toward? What are we endeavoring to
36:26build? What type of society do we want? The reason what, I won't say the reason, but
36:37regressive use these ridiculous tactics like the Hegelian dialectical process and they come
36:41up with different names for dialecticalism and third-wayism and all of these things because
36:47they're trying to run game on you because they're trying to move in the same direction,
36:52always in the same direction. Let's move in a certain way. Right now you're my opposition,
36:57But in the future, you will be a Republican who supports same-sex marriage, for example.
37:06How many times have you even told, wow, that's not bringing the Bible into this?
37:09Why?
37:11Why?
37:12Who are you to tell me that I need to be my Bible on the side to engage you in discourse?
37:16But how often have professing Christians done so?
37:21Oh, yeah.
37:22You know, I don't want to compel someone to believe what I believe.
37:24You're not trying to persuade someone to embrace Christ by force, but you don't have to apologize
37:32that the word of Christ is truth,
37:34don't have to try to apologize for the fact,
37:39well, you know what?
37:39If you're gonna have a sustained society,
37:41we need husbands and wives to make babies.
37:45I don't need to apologize for that.
37:46Well, where did it come from?
37:48It comes first from God's word.
37:51And unsurprisingly, the science is that we have supports
37:54with God's word has already told us.
37:56I'm not gonna apologize for that.
38:01And then I'll add this, this into the conversation.
38:04The truth has benefit even for those
38:06who don't believe the truth.
38:10Whether you agree with it or not, that a husband and a wife raising their children together
38:13in the same home is the best thing for a child, regardless if you believe it or not, it's true.
38:20So I'm not going to apologize because that's true.
38:22Now you need to be more responsive to the multicultural effort to recognize that they're
38:27all types of families.
38:28No, no, I don't need to do that.
38:30What I will do is recognize that there's sin and that there are fallen men and fallen men
38:35intend an attempt to try to make adjustments and nip and tuck and accommodate their sin and
38:42rebellion but that doesn't change the truth. That doesn't change the truth. That's why I said
38:49you're entitled to your delusions but you cannot compel me to live by them. Guys there's a simple
38:55notion in order to maintain this experiment and self-governance we have to have individuals who are
39:01self-governed. Let's add something else to the conversation. Self-governance is not an
39:06and the damnically natural phenomenon.
39:09Guess what?
39:10Self-governance, also known as self-control,
39:12is a fruit of the spirit.
39:20The Spirit of God produces self-controlled men.
39:23This is why, brothers and sisters,
39:25George Washington said,
39:26religion and morality are indispensable support.
39:32Our government.
39:33And you simply can say very simply,
39:36I'm not trying to compel you to convert to Christ following,
39:39but I would not deny the truth of what Jesus Christ teaches.
39:43Guys, it ain't rocket surgery.
39:44There's a reason there ain't never been
39:46in the history of the world an atheist hospital.
39:50You know why?
39:51Because compassion for suffering people
39:53comes from people who have love for the Lord.
39:56Because it's the Lord who told us
39:57that the first commandment is to love Him with all that we are
40:00and the second is like it.
40:02Love your neighbor as yourself.
40:04Why is it that it's always the Christians
40:05opening up orphanages and opening up hospitals
40:08and feeding the homeless and clothing the homeless?
40:11But our Abe, religion has done all kinds of things.
40:13I don't care what you say,
40:15religion hadn't done more than the atheist 20th century
40:18which Stalin and Hitler and Paul Pot and Mao say tongue.
40:23Miss me with all of that.
40:24And here's another thing.
40:25The people who in the name of religion did this carnage,
40:27they were violating Jesus's teachings.
40:29They were not obeying him.
40:33So, miss me with all of that.
40:36And we have to stop being a man be-pamby church
40:39that we're gonna genuflect and apologize
40:41because we know the truth.
40:42I'm not sorry that I know the truth.
40:43I'm grateful and I'm thankful and I love my neighbor enough that I'll tell them that.
40:49But what's happened guys, we've allowed ourselves to be dumbed down but we won't talk about
40:56Christian and Western civilization.
40:58What's the folk room of Western civilization huh?
41:00Are we going to talk about Augustine and the city of God and how his writings as a Christ
41:05follower shaped the entire scope of Western philosophical and political thought?
41:09Are we going to talk about that or not?
41:11Nah, nah, we ain't going to talk about it.
41:13Why?
41:14of Christ. Why? Why? Who has been which does? Guys, we have been siren-songed and we have been
41:23seduced and we have been, you know, professionalized and we've been de-greed up and all of these things,
41:30all to get us to the place to become functionally comfortable with denying the truth and its application.
41:39We don't need to apologize that the positive vision for our nation is stems from clarity from
41:45God's Word. We're not trying to have theocratic rule compelling people to convert to Christ following,
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
41:57care how great your life may be here. If you die without Christ Jesus as your Savior, you will suffer
42:02eternally. And in addition to that, the teachings of Christ have great efficacy in its application
42:10for establishing in society that's best for maximize human flourishing. That's why you have some of the,
42:16You know, the atheist, what's old boy name from England I forgot so far?
42:20He doesn't like Christianity, but he likes to culture it produces.
42:24What's his name? No, it wasn't him, it was the other one.
42:29The name will come up, but y'all know what I'm talking about.
42:31I don't like Christianity. No, I don't believe it's absurd.
42:35To be able to write it's absurd, but I do rather do prefer
42:39the culture that Christians create.
42:43Why, bro? Why do you prefer the culture that Christians create?
42:45Why? Kind of like man is exceedingly wicked.
42:50Kind of like if you reject the culture that Christians create, you return to the doldrums.
42:58That's right. And somebody to put in the chat, Dawkins, Richard Dawkins.
43:03Guys, what we've enjoyed in what the Western civilization has been an aberration in world history.
43:10Yeah, that's what he said, cultural Christian. What we've enjoyed in our Western civilization
43:14as a whole is an aberration from human history. Then you get more specific. What we've had in America,
43:22There have been generations of human beings that could not fathom what we've enjoyed here.
43:32And with all of our mistakes, there's never been a perfect society.
43:36I say it without my whole chest, without successful contradiction, that the United States of America
43:40is the greatest nation in history of the world.
43:45Why is it that?
43:47Why is it that?
43:49We used to understand as the Tocqueville told us, in contrast in the French Revolution, the
43:53Bloody French Revolution that the symbol of the French Revolution was the bloody guillotine?
44:01The talk-fills question was why did the American Revolution result in their society versus what
44:05we had in France?
44:08And he told us, and he told us, in his twain volume on Democracy in America, he sought for
44:13the source of America's greatness in his banking systems.
44:15He sought for America's greatness in his halls of government, and it was not until he entered
44:19her churches with poor pits of flamed and righteousness.
44:22This is his word, not mine.
44:24a flaming righteousness that he recognized the source of America's greatness.
44:28He said, America is great because she is good.
44:33But then he added a warning, but the moment she ceases to be good, she will cease to be
44:40great.
44:42When Tim Taub was on the show, he sat in his chair and returned to the statistics that
44:47when America kicked prayer out of our public schools, how do all of the metrics?
44:53sexuality, murder, they all plummeted.
44:57You think that's a coincidence?
44:59Guys, we've got to wake up.
45:05We've got to wake up.
45:09Enduring virtue from the word of God, from Jesus directly.
45:15What is the greatest commandment to love the Lord
45:17with all that you are?
45:18Guys, when you love God with all that you are,
45:20the most immediate evidence of that love
45:22is the way you treat your neighbor.
45:25Love God with all that you are and love your neighbor
45:28as yourself on these hang the entirety of the law and the
45:33prophets. We have got to get to the place where we don't
45:36apologize for that. And that we're willing to live out loud in
45:40that fashion. What is your vision for yourselves for your
45:46life? What is your vision for your family? What is your
45:49vision for your church? What is your vision for our nation?
45:54The next level of analysis and what are you doing to bring that
45:57into fruition? Guys, the world is going to world. We cannot
46:04expect this to come from the world.
46:07But the thing that I'm greatly concerned about
46:09is that among the ranks of the regressives
46:11and among the ranks of the self-described conservatives,
46:14we are both pining for an establishment of a society
46:19in a godless direction, looking for a godless way
46:23to do life and to do governance.
46:27And I'm telling you, I'm telling you
46:29is going to end in the same direction.
46:33The only way we can get off this hamster wheel
46:35the Hegelian dialectical process to where we're simply waiting to see what the other side says
46:39so that we can react to it and be opposite opposite them. And to see what is it that you're
46:45striving for? What is it that you're aspiring to be? As a father, man, I have a desire and
46:56a vision for my family. I have a desire and a vision for my children. But it's my example,
47:03aiding that vision coming into reality as we're working against it. So many instances were able
47:10to identify and to criticize what's wrong with everybody else,
47:13but we're not introspective about our own examples.
47:18A lack of clarity as to the positive vision for ourselves
47:21as a church, for example, is what led to many places
47:25being bullied by government to shut down.
47:29The strip clubs and the liquor stores
47:32and the Walmart can be open,
47:33but you better not open your mouth to say Jesus is Lord.
47:37And if you dare come together to say,
47:39Jesus Lord, you better not sing.
47:41Guys, we need to wake up.
47:52is what I'm saying.
47:53We cannot simply be reactionary.
47:55Reactionary is not synonymous with the envisionary.
47:58These stories that are percolating,
48:00sometimes I want to talk about this stuff that's popular,
48:02sometimes I don't.
48:03You know why? Because what's popular doesn't dictate what's important.
48:08Sometimes they make stories that are popular,
48:10and the important things go completely ignored.
48:21Many of us have heard the adage,
48:22and our time right now we're no longer having
48:25discourse and disagreements between
48:27red and blue.
48:28We have conversations about right versus wrong,
48:31good versus evil. And I agree with that whole heartedly, but this is the thing that people don't say.
48:36Both sides of the dialogue believe that they're on the side of good and the other side is evil.
48:42Why? Because with the Lord prophesied, it's coming to fruition. Good is being called evil.
48:48And evil is being called good. So if you're having
48:56disagreements with good versus evil, but both sides of the discourse believe they're good and the
49:01the other side is evil. We're right back to square one because instead of merely discussing
49:06good versus evil, there needs to be a conversation about about what is true, what is true. And
49:18if we are merely reactionary, we become nothing other than controlled opposition in the Hegelian
49:24dialectical process because the floor for the negotiation, if you will, is always set by the
49:32the galeon with the thesis.
49:37The thesis, love who you wanna love.
49:42And the synthesis, no, that's wrong.
49:46Okay, okay, okay, civil union, civil unions.
49:49As soon as people say it, okay, the civil unions,
49:51what's the next thing?
49:52No, no, no, we want marriage.
49:56Marriage is wrong.
49:58Okay, okay, okay, the license for gay marriage.
49:59As soon as, not even before the desk
50:01and said on that, little boys and I'm always boys.
50:07It's just a more recent example
50:09of the exact same phenomenon.
50:14But the people of God must simultaneously be people of truth.
50:17And the beauty of this is that we don't have to try to develop our own unilateral vision.
50:25God has always showed us the way in which we ought to walk.
50:31God is good.
50:32Not because I'm saying so.
50:33It's because it is truth.
50:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
50:45Family Association or American Family Radio.

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