Discernment is Not Optional Folks

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1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
2. 0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
4. 0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
5. 0:15Delivering people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
6. 0:18And the philosophies of this world.
7. 0:20God has called you and me to be His ambassador.
8. 0:24Even in this dark moment.
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10. 0:28And now the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:31Good evening everybody.
12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
13. 0:35My name is Abraham Hamilton, the third host of this program
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20. 1:01are perpetually recovering neighborhood with a hauling the ladies and gentlemen mister
21. 1:05marty sparks
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23. 1:09we're ready to rock and roll with today's edition
24. 1:12of the program i i hope and pray that you all had a fruitful
25. 1:17and enjoyable weekend.
26. 1:21This past weekend, many of us had the day off on Monday,
27. 1:25but we're ready to rock and roll today at this very moment.
28. 1:29Many of you, if not most of you,
29. 1:30are making your transition from your part-time jobs,
30. 1:33where you generate an income to your full-time jobs,
31. 1:37where you cultivate an outcome.
32. 1:38And as you do so, I want to remind you
33. 1:41to do so with intentionality,
34. 1:43recognizing the privacy that God places on the family.
35. 1:47I cannot state this enough.
36. 1:49We have to recognize what God has done in establishing the family.
37. 1:56If we fail to recognize the designed significance and potency that God has established through our families and in our families,
38. 2:06we are going to fail to understand how we are to engage in this day and time.
39. 2:20The agents of darkness very, very simply work overtime to access your families and my family.
40. 2:32The press of this wicked culture is inescapable, but this is not to cause us to be fearful at all,
41. 2:39because the Sovereign King of Glory planted us for this moment, knowing full well what we
42. 2:44were going to confront in our day and age. But we need to be sure that we employ the weapons of
43. 2:52of our warfare, which Descriptive describes as divinely powerful.
44. 2:58What goes on in your house simply put it more important than what goes on in the White House,
45. 3:02because you and I are directly accountable for what transpires in our homes.
46. 3:06We do not have direct access to instruct or to direct what transpires in the White House,
47. 3:11but we do have direct access and capacity to instruct and direct what happens in our homes.
48. 3:18What God requires of His people is that we all are committed to outcome cultivation as
49. 3:23that outcome cultivation is the overflow of what we enjoy in the Lord personally. He's not asking us,
50. 3:31you know, to sell what we have in purchase. He's commanding us out of the overflow of what we
51. 3:37enjoy with him to compel men and women to be reconciled to the King of glory. And this is our duty,
52. 3:46this is our charge, and this is the command we have from now until our Lord returns until he calls
53. 3:56us home. That's the simple reality. Before any other human institutions were established,
54. 4:03the family was established with marriage at the center. Before any other commands were
55. 4:07given, the first command to mankind was given within the familial context because God designed
56. 4:13it that way. It would be prudent for us to understand it, to heed it, and to respond accordingly.
57. 4:20To the word of God we go Ezekiel chapter 1, Ezekiel chapter 1 verses 1 through 3 is where
58. 4:26where we're going to go by way of reminder, Ezekiel, you're going to see was actually a
59. 4:32priest whom the Lord called to add texture to his life and devotion to Yahweh by functioning
60. 4:45prophetically. He ministered to the exile Jews in Babylon. And the word of God unsurprisingly
61. 4:58is instructed for us on so many fronts.
62. 5:02When I pray this is encouraging and edifying to you as well.
63. 5:05Ezekiel chapter one, verses one through three.
64. 5:07Now what came about in the 30th year,
65. 5:10on the fifth day of the fourth month,
66. 5:12while I was by the river Chibar among the exiles,
67. 5:16the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
68. 5:19On the fifth of the month,
69. 5:20in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile,
70. 5:24the word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel, the priest,
71. 5:28son of boozy in the land of the caldians by the river qibar and there the hand of the
72. 5:34lord came upon him. There is much that is instructive to us and I know some of you are thinking what
73. 5:39from those verses they just stick with me. The first thing I want to mention to you
74. 5:44is that the entire book of Ezekiel and I'll add this Ezekiel is regarded as one of the major prophets
75. 5:52that denotion is not because he and Jeremiah and Isaiah are more significant than others who are
76. 5:58to a described as minor prophets,
77. 5:59it's simply meant to convey the length of their writings.
78. 6:04So theologians have described the major prophets as major
79. 6:07because of the length and duration of their writings.
80. 6:09The minor prophets are described as minor
81. 6:11because their writings are shorter.
82. 6:12That's it.
83. 6:13But they're all equally significant,
84. 6:16equally a part of the canon of God's Holy script.
85. 6:20All right, having said that,
86. 6:22the first thing I want to emphasize for you
87. 6:25that the book of Ezekiel in and of itself stands for us
88. 6:30as another demonstration of God's sovereignty
89. 6:36being consistently and continually potent.
90. 6:40Here you have God's people, they have been exiled
91. 6:43into Babylon yet God nevertheless provides a witness
92. 6:48for his people.
93. 6:50Many times in our lives we face ups, we face downs
94. 6:53and if we are not anchored biblically,
95. 6:55We could yield to a temptation that would suggest if we face a circumstantial downturn in our
96. 7:02lives, it is as if God somehow is no longer available, no longer accessible.
97. 7:09Oh, dare I say, it doesn't exist.
98. 7:11I want to simply remind you guys, you have the prophet Ezekiel who was a priest who found
99. 7:19himself in Judah, sorry, in Babylon, exiled, yet the exile does not prevent God from ministering
100. 7:28to him and through him in that exiled condition. The next thing I want to point out to you, and this
101. 7:36is where if you're taking notes or you go back and listen to this, across reference, this text is
102. 7:41E.Q. chapter 1, verse 1 through 3 with 2 Kings chapter 24. Because the 2 Kings 24, it explains a bit
103. 7:48more detail. The Babylonian exile was actually a product of a of a of a siege work initially.
104. 7:55And then it culminated into intensifications from the Babylonians that culminated about
105. 8:02586 BC with the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. But it begins at about 606, 605 BC as a
106. 8:10siege. Daniel was mentioned as one of the first of the exiles. The book of Daniel explains that.
107. 8:16But you have others that come thereafter. Ezekiel was one that comes thereafter,
108. 8:22exiled at about 597 BC there or so. In 2 Kings 24 it explains how Jehoya-kin, Jehoya-chin's father,
109. 8:31was kind of a vassal king for time under Babylon. But then, you know, he's like, man, I'm tired of
110. 8:39being a vassal. We're gonna fight against the Babylonians. And then that led to a reprisal by
111. 8:45Babylonians, an increase of persecution, and a dethroning of the joya kin in
112. 8:53Nebuchadnezzar, then places joya chin on the throne. And after, and when I'm saying
113. 9:00replaces joya kin, Nebuchadnezzar had him executed, simply put. Excuse me. Then you
114. 9:09have joya chin who is king of Judah, who is king at the time that Ezekiel is
115. 9:15is exiled to Babylon.
116. 9:18So in verse two, when Ezekiel explains his book
117. 9:21as coming in the fifth year of Jeho'y'a-chin's exile,
118. 9:26he's explaining that when Yahweh reveals himself
119. 9:30in this way, Ezekiel had been exiled to Babylon five years,
120. 9:39which compounds the point I was making to you before.
121. 9:42Not only was Ezekiel in Babylon,
122. 9:44but it had been five long years.
123. 9:47Can you imagine Ezekiel's disposition in those five years?
124. 9:52Being a Levitical Priest, the entire focal point of his life,
125. 9:57and ministry to Yahweh has now been removed from him.
126. 10:01He's not in Jerusalem and Judah
127. 10:04when the temple was finally destroyed,
128. 10:06but as you know, it ultimately is destroyed.
129. 10:08He's cut off from the Lord's temple,
130. 10:10cut off from his function.
131. 10:11And can you imagine his disposition?
132. 10:15Well, where are you?
133. 10:17Yahweh, where are you?
134. 10:20Nevertheless,
135. 10:23Though five years have transpired,
136. 10:26they have an nullified deservant of Yahweh.
137. 10:32We have to remember that though we function
138. 10:34within the timeline of human history,
139. 10:37God is not a feature of the human history timeline.
140. 10:40He exists outside of the timeline and he created,
141. 10:43which is why he can be at the beginning
142. 10:45and at the end and in the middle all at once.
143. 10:50He is not subjected to our timeline.
144. 10:57Nevertheless, five years after exile,
145. 11:01God begins to reveal himself to Daniel.
146. 11:03I'm sorry to Ezekiel in another fashion.
147. 11:06Then I want you to know what as it says in verse three,
148. 11:10the word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel,
149. 11:12the priest.
150. 11:16Ezekiel was a priest born to function
151. 11:22as a Levitical priest.
152. 11:24Yet here the Lord is adding texture to his call for Ezekiel,
153. 11:30adding a prophetic function to Ezekiel's relationship with him
154. 11:35and this call to him.
155. 11:37And this is why I'm very cautious.
156. 11:40And I would encourage others to adopt this caution.
157. 11:44I'm cautious against describing things
158. 11:46that God has called me to as quote unquote, my ministry.
159. 11:50Because simply put brothers and sisters,
160. 11:52it's not my ministry.
161. 11:53The ministry is the Lord.
162. 11:55And if he entrusts an aspect of his ministry to me,
163. 11:59it is still his ministry
164. 12:02that he has called me to function with them.
165. 12:05And we have to be very careful that our fidelity
166. 12:08is to the caller and not to a particular assignment
167. 12:12within the context of the call,
168. 12:13because we could very well find ourselves
169. 12:16resisting God's efforts to add texture
170. 12:19to the ministry he's calling us to.
171. 12:20Perfect example.
172. 12:21Imagine, Yahweh revealing himself to Ezekiel,
173. 12:26calling him to function prophetically in Babylon.
174. 12:30And yet Ezekiel going, no, no, no, Lord, I'm a priest.
175. 12:34I'm not a prophet.
176. 12:36I'm not a prophet.
177. 12:38clinging, clinging so hard to his ministry
178. 12:44that he rejects God's effort to add texture
179. 12:47to what he's calling them to.
180. 12:50Sometimes in our lives, God has called us
181. 12:53to a historical iteration of faithfulness,
182. 12:55but then he begins to stretch us
183. 12:57and seeks to add texture to our functioning.
184. 13:01If we are not prudent,
185. 13:05if we don't have the proper disposition
186. 13:07concerning the Lord, we can find ourselves saying,
187. 13:09No, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is where this is my ministry, not this over here.
188. 13:13It could find ourselves kicking against the very thing God is attempting to add to us.
189. 13:21It's not my ministry.
190. 13:22This is a ministry that God has called me to for this stage, for this season, for this
191. 13:27function.
192. 13:28By God's grace, I'm in the life stage where I have young children in my home.
193. 13:32They are my second responsibility, ministerily, after my wife externally, my second external
194. 13:42Ministerial responsibility. But guess what? The time will come when I don't have young children
195. 13:47in my home any longer. What am I going to do now? What will I do at that point? Oh Lord,
196. 13:52I need to go and find somebody else to do something with. Maybe I need to go do something
197. 13:56to keep this happening in my home. No, the Lord may add texture to what he's requiring of me.
198. 14:04The priest has now being called to function prophetically. And then lastly, reiterating the
199. 14:11the point I began with. The word of the Lord came expressing to His eager the priest son
200. 14:15of Buzi in the land of the Chaldeans. Notice the Lord didn't remove His Ezekiel from Babylon
201. 14:22while He added texture to Him, added texture to what He was requiring of Him. He was still
202. 14:27in the same locale, but with an expanded function that God was requiring of Him. All of this
203. 14:34is instructive for us. Not prescriptive saying that God must do it this way, but it is descriptive
204. 14:40of how God operates with His people.
205. 14:44It is incumbent upon us to be wise,
206. 14:47prudent, biblically anchored disciples of Messiah.
207. 14:51And as we are anchored in His holy word,
208. 14:54we will be able to engage successfully
209. 14:56in what He calls us to.
210. 15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
211. 15:03He who dwells in the secret place of the most high
212. 15:06shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
213. 15:08I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge
214. 15:10and my fortress, my God, in Him.
215. 15:12I will trust Psalm 91 verses one and two.
216. 15:16In a perilous world, so many people are afraid.
217. 15:20They're fearful.
218. 15:21In a world where inner cities and many other communities
219. 15:24are just simply dangerous places to be.
220. 15:26We see the drug trafficking, human trafficking,
221. 15:29muggings, murders, physical and sexual abuse.
222. 15:33There is a place of safety in this world
223. 15:35and it's found in God.
224. 15:37It's found in that secret place,
225. 15:39that intimate relationship with God.
226. 15:41No one can protect you like God can, but it's important for us to do our part to
227. 15:46appropriate to place ourselves in that secret place. Praying Psalm 91 every day is a
228. 15:52very wise thing for all believers to do. No one can protect you like God can.
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268. 18:06This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
269. 18:10Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here shortly before coming
270. 18:16on to the air President Trump was conducting an Oval Office session, if you will, with reporters
271. 18:24and some of the things he said have been confirmed or should I say echoed by Secretary of State
272. 18:31Marco Rubio and what President Trump said in the Oval Office was, quote, just over the
273. 18:39last minutes, literally we shut out a boat, a drug carrying boat.
274. 18:43It just happened moments ago when our great general head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he
275. 18:46gave us a little bit of a briefing.
276. 18:49There's more where that came from noting that a lot of drugs, lots, a lot of drugs have
277. 18:56been pouring into the US from Venezuela shortly after that Marco Rubio posted on the artist
278. 19:03formerly known as Twitter, said quote, as potus just announced moments ago that today the US
279. 19:08military conducted a lethal strike in the Southern Caribbean against a drug vessel, which had
280. 19:14departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco terrorist organization.
281. 19:23Now I'm pointing that out because our military had deployed more than 4,000 Marines and sailors
282. 19:31to the waters around Latin America prior to this strike and the Caribbean as part of
283. 19:35a ramped up effort to combat drug cartels.
284. 19:38All right.
285. 19:41And so with this, with this, you have this strike which have been described so far as
286. 19:47a precision strike against these drug cartels. And as Mark Herubia pointed out, a designated
287. 19:55narco-terrorist organization. So I wanted you, you wanted you all to be aware of that,
288. 20:00that that had transpired just now, which indicates, you know, and, you know, people
289. 20:08may get upset with me for saying this, but I don't care. If the United States of America
290. 20:15wants wanted to end the drug traffic in our country, we have the where with all to do it.
291. 20:23We have the where with all to do it. So the question has to be asked why haven't we done it?
292. 20:32Why not? You know, we have and I appreciate this strike, you know, and we have portions of our
293. 20:41nation being overrun with fentanyl. We know it's being made by the Chinese who have said they want
294. 20:48to kill us. And mainly who said they want to supplant our nation as a global preeminent superpower.
295. 20:56And they've called themselves as being engaged currently in all out warfare against our nation.
296. 21:05You have, you know, the Mexican cartels using the Chinese produced fentanyl and others and not just fentanyl cocaine, heroin.
297. 21:15You know, do we need to be talking about El Chapo and all of this stuff?
298. 21:19If we wanted to stop what we would, why haven't we?
299. 21:25Follow the money.
300. 21:26So I'm grateful for this, but I am curious as to what's the ultimate objective.
301. 21:35And I know that those who oppose the Trump administration are just trying to, you know,
302. 21:40rope a dopey moment in front, law fair, congressional stalling.
303. 21:44I still can't imagine.
304. 21:45I can't fathom for the life of me why we have a US president who is identified with a Republican
305. 21:50part of we have a Republican Senate with a majority of 53 to 47. Yet we have
306. 21:58Trump appointees who have not been confirmed. Y'all want to go figure that out for me?
307. 22:02How does that work? You know, how does that work? You have
308. 22:12you have Mexican elected officials coming out and saying they welcome the US is
309. 22:18help in taking in stopping these cartels where you have the Mexican president saying,
310. 22:23No, no, they don't want they don't want US's help. I'm just saying if we wanted to we could we have the where with all. So do we really want to?
311. 22:43All right, I'm going to move on from that. But we have made a strike against a ship that's departed from Venezuela, according to the president and the Secretary of State.
312. 22:55Very interested to see where this goes. Just before the holiday, we can ensue last week in a special session in the Texas state
313. 23:05legislature, you know, the ones that the Democrats have sconded from before, and then they only
314. 23:09came back to go right into this special session. So effective, right? That was a bill that was
315. 23:19passed by the state Senate, Senate bill eight. It was passed by the Texas Senate, 86 to 43.
316. 23:30But I want to present this to you because you've heard me say that we are in the time period
317. 23:36where it's no doubt spiritual warfare is a foot. No doubt about it. You've heard people say we're
318. 23:45no longer in the era where it's, you know, Democrats versus Republicans, politically, it's an issue
319. 23:50of good versus evil, right versus wrong, righteousness versus wickedness. I've heard that in pretty
320. 23:55show, many of you have heard that. But here's the thing though, a lot of the people that are saying
321. 24:02this, they may be on, maybe on separate sides of an issue, but both of them are saying that they
322. 24:08on the side of righteousness. So guess what's required in order to know where you and I should
323. 24:16stand. That is called discernment. I continue to echo Charles Spurgeon's description, Charles
324. 24:28Spurgeon's description of discernment, not merely distinguishing right versus wrong,
325. 24:33but distinguishing right from almost, right. The Texas Senators debated Senate Bill 8, which is
326. 24:41This is called the Texas Women's Privacy Act.
327. 24:47The bill requires males to use male restrooms, females to use female restrooms.
328. 24:53The bill also prohibits men from entering women's domestic violence shelters.
329. 25:02Duh.
330. 25:03That's sure is deep.
331. 25:06No.
332. 25:07It prohibits men from entering women's domestic violence shelters.
333. 25:12the debate over this bill which lasted four hours, four hours. Think about that. A state
334. 25:20legislature debated four hours whether or not men should be allowed at the women's restrooms
335. 25:24and intimate spaces. Four hours. But what I want you to know about this debate is that
336. 25:34senators on both sides of the argument quoted scripture to support their position. You had
337. 25:45supporters of the legislation, I wanted to keep men out of women's spaces that refer to scripture
338. 25:50as a as a basis to support their position. But guess what? You had opponents of the measure.
339. 25:59We'll also refer to scripture. I will remind you that when Satan tempted Jesus, what did he use?
340. 26:06scripture, stripped from its context falsely and misapplied. Sure. But he used scripture.
341. 26:16A demon's no scripture.
342. 26:22So how do we navigate this?
343. 26:25God's word requires right division.
344. 26:31Discernment is not optional folks.
345. 26:33In the Epistle to the Hebrews, Spirit of God conveyed through the text that at the time that
346. 26:44you should be able to help and train others you have need to be taught again the basic principles.
347. 26:54You cannot abide strong meat you need milk because strong meat is reserved for those who
348. 27:00have had their senses for discerning, right, rightly exercised by reason of use.
349. 27:11You had two legislators in particular who opposed a bill that simply said men should be kept
350. 27:18out of women's intimate spaces.
351. 27:21Raphael and Chia from the Dallas County area to oppose the bill to say it. Now you need to keep
352. 27:30men out of women's spaces, bro. Representative Anciya invoked Galatians chapter three. And look,
353. 27:37he was saying it with his whole chest. Let's go to Galatians chapter three, shall we?
354. 27:44Galatians chapter three, Representative Anciya quoted verse 28. I thought I was in Galatians,
355. 28:00because that was in Colossians.
356. 28:02In Galatians chapter three,
357. 28:03Representative Anciya,
358. 28:04quote, verse 28,
359. 28:05verse 28 of chapter three says this,
360. 28:08there is neither June or Greek,
361. 28:10there is neither slave nor free man,
362. 28:12there is neither male nor female,
363. 28:13for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
364. 28:16Well, that's what the texts say,
365. 28:17that's what God's word says.
366. 28:21But you see, Representative Anciya was
367. 28:24doing great violence to the scripture
368. 28:27because he ripped this verse kicking and screaming
369. 28:29of his context to say, to say, and I'm going to tell you give the quote that he said.
370. 28:38He said, quote, I want to refer to an important passage in Galatians chapter 3 verse 28.
371. 28:44There was neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free. There is no male or female for you are all
372. 28:50one. He said, so he's using this verse to posit the notions, the notion that there's no male or
373. 28:57female. This is why you must know the word of God for yourself. Because when you see a man,
374. 29:08and I'm going to be very candid here, this man is functioning in this state as an agent of hell,
375. 29:14because he's taking God's holy word and twisting it to say the exact opposite of what the full
376. 29:20counsel of God word God's word says about humanity and his making of mankind in his image.
377. 29:27He is twisting the scripture to lie about God and therefore lie about mankind in order to assert a
378. 29:34political position. I would not want to be him. Because if you understand the context of the book
379. 29:46of relations, the first thing you need to know is that Paul wrote his epistle to the Galatians
380. 29:51specifically to convey to a Gentile congregation that they were not required to convert to Judaism
381. 29:59in order to be full-fledged members of the eternal family of God.
382. 30:04There were some who were tempted, they were seduced by some Judaizers who attempted to
383. 30:11require performance of aspects of the law in order to obtain justification.
384. 30:21In Paul, the Jewish Rabbi who himself was a Pharisee, penisipistle to the Galatians to
385. 30:28say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
386. 30:30My brothers and sisters, you don't need to do that.
387. 30:33Justification has been provided for you.
388. 30:37By grace alone, through faith alone,
389. 30:39through the finished work of the cross.
390. 30:44And Paul specifically confronts an argument the same,
391. 30:48lying representative made later on.
392. 30:51And to say that all mankind is made in God's image,
393. 30:54all mankind are image bearers of God,
394. 30:56but not all mankind are members of God's family.
395. 31:00See, if the demonically inspired representative
396. 31:03read a few verses above, you'll find. What do you find? Let's look at verse 26, shall we?
397. 31:11For you are all sons of God. You are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
398. 31:22For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
399. 31:30There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free man. There is neither mayor nor
400. 31:35female for you are all one in Christ Jesus, verse 29,
401. 31:39Representative Anciya.
402. 31:41And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants
403. 31:46and heirs according to the promise.
404. 31:49You see, Representative Anciya Paul's words here,
405. 31:51inspired by the Spirit of God are meant to convey one,
406. 31:55while all men kind of are made in God's image,
407. 31:58not all man kind of members of God's eternal family,
408. 32:02that you are made members of God's eternal family
409. 32:03through one way.
410. 32:05The Apostle John called him the door.
411. 32:08The one way you transition from merely being an image-bear of God
412. 32:13to being a member of God's eternal family is verse 26
413. 32:16through faith in Christ Jesus.
414. 32:20You see, what the Lord was conveying through the Apostle Paul here represented Manchia.
415. 32:28That the lack of being Jew or Gentile
416. 32:32is made evident in Christ in terms of its efficacy
417. 32:37for being made members of God's eternal family and an inheritor of eternal life.
418. 32:41But this passage does not exist to say that God now has nullified the complementary distinctiveness
419. 32:48between maleness and femaleness.
420. 32:53See we can put a lot of fancy words on it, but what Representative Anciu was doing was lying
421. 32:59on the Lord, lying.
422. 33:03And this is why I'm saying to you, in this audience, we have to have discernment.
423. 33:11because somebody say is from the Bible.
424. 33:13Don't mean that they're proclaiming it properly.
425. 33:18This man is literally using the scripture
426. 33:21to convey the exact opposite
427. 33:23of what the full counsel of God's word teaches.
428. 33:26And that's out there, y'all already know where I'm going next.
429. 33:29Then the same lying representative.
430. 33:30And listen, I'm not saying this to insult him personally.
431. 33:33I'm saying this because he's lying about the text.
432. 33:37Then he goes to his favorite, y'all know he went next.
433. 33:41Matthew chapter seven.
434. 33:42He went on to try to shout down people who were objecting to his twisted application of
435. 33:53scripture and say, well, the text says, judge not.
436. 33:57Y'all know what I'm gonna say all the time.
437. 34:01That's not what the full text says.
438. 34:02If you read Matthew seven versus one through five, you'll find, the scripture doesn't just
439. 34:08say judge not.
440. 34:10It goes on to explain.
441. 34:13When the way that you judge, you will be judged,
442. 34:15the standard you measure, it will be measured to you.
443. 34:18When it says, why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye
444. 34:20when you have a log in your eye?
445. 34:23Scripture never says, ignore the log,
446. 34:26I'm sorry, ignore the speck in your brother's eye.
447. 34:29It says, remove the log from yours first.
448. 34:32See what the scripture is explaining
449. 34:34is that we as recipients of salvation,
450. 34:37we do not have the wherewithal do condemn anybody.
451. 34:41But actually we have an obligation to judge,
452. 34:44but to judge rightly,
453. 34:47discernment is necessary to make sure
454. 34:51agents of evil are not able to manipulate us
455. 34:55with the text of scripture.
456. 35:00Thoughts of the child you were carrying
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467. 35:41have a hard time accepting.
468. 35:43See how that relates to your assurance of salvation as we continue John MacArthur's study
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470. 35:51Be here for the next Grace to You.
471. 36:00John MacArthur's Memorial Service.
472. 36:03This is David Wheaton, host of the Christian Royal View.
473. 36:07Internationally known pastor John MacArthur entered heaven in mid-July at the age of 86.
474. 36:13His memorial service was recently held at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles where he
475. 36:17pastored for 56 years.
476. 36:19He was not so much a celebration of life, as a worship service to God for the grace and
477. 36:25gifts he bestowed on MacArthur's life in ministry.
478. 36:29MacArthur often stated that he so admired the Apostle Paul.
479. 36:33They shared the same mission, for to me, to live his Christ and to die his gain.
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506. 38:45Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton, the third here.
507. 38:50Over the weekend, there was an interesting post on true social from President Trump.
508. 38:56And I am covering this because it follows the reporting we shared here of the CDC officially
509. 39:05conducting its study on vaccine related injury, including the Schmovitz shots, injuries related,
510. 39:14injuries people endured and as a result of the Schmovitz shot, which when I first shared
511. 39:21that with you, I said, this is this indicative of a change in posture from the Trump administration,
512. 39:29because one of the things that I thought was a vulnerability to him in the Republican
513. 39:32presidential primary was his touting of, you know, operation warp speed, you know, and talking
514. 39:39about, oh, it's so wonderful. They made the shot that I'm saying, I'm not so sure that you should be
515. 39:46standing tend to those down on that one, my boy. I mean, and it, it, things surrounding Schmovit,
516. 39:52you know, you practically handed the end of your first term to the scarf lady and the wheeler
517. 39:59or leprechaun, you know.
518. 40:02And so President Trump posted this, which I thought,
519. 40:06hmm, could this be another indication?
520. 40:10If you wouldn't Marty, put up on the screen,
521. 40:13the screenshot of this truth, it's up there.
522. 40:18All right.
523. 40:20So he posted this over the weekend
524. 40:21and this is what President Trump said, quote,
525. 40:23it is very important that the drug companies
526. 40:26justify the success of their various COVID drugs.
527. 40:31Many people think they are a miracle that saved millions of lives.
528. 40:35Others disagree.
529. 40:38With CDC being ripped apart over this question,
530. 40:42I want the answer and I want it now.
531. 40:45I have been shown information from Pfizer and others
532. 40:49that is extraordinary, but they never
533. 40:52seem to show those results to the public.
534. 40:56Why not?
535. 40:57Three question marks after that.
536. 41:00They go off to the next hunt and let everyone rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy,
537. 41:05Jr. and CDC, trying to figure out the success or failure of the drug company's COVID work.
538. 41:12They show me great numbers and results, but they don't seem to be showing them to many others.
539. 41:18I want them to show them now to CDC and the public and clear up this mess one way or the other.
540. 41:26I hope Operation Warp Speed was as brilliant as many say it was.
541. 41:30Now, of course, he was one of the ones that was brilliant.
542. 41:34Back to the post.
543. 41:35If not, we all want to know about it and why.
544. 41:38Thank you for your attention to this very important matter, President DJT."
545. 41:42In quote, all right.
546. 41:44I added a little commentary in there.
547. 41:46I shouldn't have.
548. 41:47Sorry about that, y'all.
549. 41:50This is quite interesting to me.
550. 41:54President Trump is publicly calling out these big pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer by name,
551. 42:02saying you guys showed me all this stuff in private and you got me out here talking about
552. 42:07how brilliant it is.
553. 42:10But y'all haven't showed any of this stuff.
554. 42:15It's dripping my CDC apart.
555. 42:17So as I mentioned, you have, you know,
556. 42:19Robert Kennedy Jr.
557. 42:22So now we're gonna study the effects
558. 42:25of these vaccine related injuries, including COVID shots.
559. 42:32We are taking these COVID shots off
560. 42:34of the childhood vaccination schedule.
561. 42:39You have people protesting, walking out.
562. 42:42And this is, you know, this is not the whole deal, but I certainly believe this is telling.
563. 42:48I learned from my grandmother, hit dogs, holler.
564. 42:54I mentioned to you, I shared last week, you know, the woman who was a physician whose daughter
565. 43:01after a Gardasil shot that had to do with HPV woke up, woke up, didn't wake up, died
566. 43:06in their college dormitory room, two physicians talked about their specific COVID shot related
567. 43:12injuries.
568. 43:13There's scores of other people.
569. 43:15Many people that have people in our audience right here,
570. 43:17they were online posting, man, this happened to my brother.
571. 43:20This happened to my cousin, this happened to my son,
572. 43:22this happened to my, my own family, I have family members.
573. 43:25Perfectly healthy beforehand, have all kinds of issues now.
574. 43:31Almost on cue yesterday, Labor Day.
575. 43:35The New York Times published, and you guys tell me,
576. 43:38and what this sounds like to you.
577. 43:41They published a piece titled,
578. 43:42We ran the CDC.
579. 43:44Kennedy is endangering every American's health.
580. 43:47That's the headline of the New York Times article.
581. 43:51This was an opinion piece authored
582. 43:53by the previous nine heads of the CDC.
583. 43:57Nine, dating back to 1977.
584. 44:01That's not like anything to anybody so far.
585. 44:04They began their piece saying,
586. 44:07we the authors previously led
587. 44:09the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
588. 44:11as directors or acting directors
589. 44:12under Republican and Democratic administrations.
590. 44:15Ooh, sounds so professional, doesn't it?
591. 44:18Back to the piece, quote,
592. 44:19we have each had the honor and privilege
593. 44:22of serving as Director of the Centers for Disease Control
594. 44:24and Prevention, either in a permanent
595. 44:26or an acting capacity dating back to 1977.
596. 44:30Collectively, we spent more than 100 years
597. 44:32working at the CDC, the world's preeminent public health agency.
598. 44:37We served under multiple Republican and Democratic administrations,
599. 44:40every president from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump.
600. 44:44Alongside thousands of dedicated staff members,
601. 44:47we shared our commitment to saving lives
602. 44:48and improving health.
603. 44:51What the Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy,
604. 44:53Jr. has done to the CDC and to our nation's public health system
605. 44:57over the past several months, culminating in his decision
606. 45:00to fire Susan Minarez as CDC Director Daze ago,
607. 45:04is unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency,
608. 45:09And I like anything our country had ever experienced."
609. 45:12In quote, of course it goes on and on and on,
610. 45:15to which many people would listen to me right now saying,
611. 45:17yeah, that's what we voted for.
612. 45:18Four, four CDC to be conducted differently
613. 45:21than it had been conducted in the past time periods.
614. 45:26Now I wonder what this sounds like to me.
615. 45:29Remember that was a little letter that came out
616. 45:30that had 51 intelligence officials
617. 45:34who had signed off on the letter?
618. 45:37And what would they attempt to do?
619. 45:38Oh yeah, that's right.
620. 45:39They were telling us that, oh, this whole deal about a laptop,
621. 45:45it has all the markings of Russian disinformation.
622. 45:49Did these nine previous acting
623. 45:51and permanent directors of the CDC just admit out loud?
624. 45:55Did they been on the dole from Big Farmer since 1977?
625. 45:59Heh heh heh heh heh heh.
626. 46:03Because that's what it immediately made me think about.
627. 46:05It immediately made me think about.
628. 46:07Hit dogs holler and they seek to provide
629. 46:10some professional appearance of objection.
630. 46:14For what purpose to dissuade the masses?
631. 46:17I simply would like to ask these nine previous CDC directors
632. 46:22and listen, I'm grateful for the polio vaccine
633. 46:26and things like that.
634. 46:28But the question I wanna ask is,
635. 46:30oh, so since 1977 has have Americans, by and large,
636. 46:34have we become more healthy or less healthy?
637. 46:38If you are at the Centers for Disease Control
638. 46:41and prevention, have disease has been controlled
639. 46:45and prevented?
640. 46:49This is the same CDC that you guys willingly alter
641. 46:52the definition of a vaccine because of Shmoven.
642. 46:57Because you realize, well, this vaccine is not like
643. 47:00other vaccines we've had.
644. 47:03These are the same people that told us that,
645. 47:05hey, you take the Shmoven shot,
646. 47:07you won't contract the virus nor will you spread the virus.
647. 47:12And many of these companies that President Trump is saying,
648. 47:14Hey, y'all show me all of this wonderful information privately,
649. 47:18but why don't you have a show that stuff publicly?
650. 47:20Why y'all don't show the public what y'all show me?
651. 47:24Now I just have this thing, and y'all know if you've been
652. 47:26listening to the show and watching the show for a while,
653. 47:28I just have this thing where I tend to remember stuff,
654. 47:30you know, like Scarf later, remember her Deborah Birx?
655. 47:34You say, you know, we, we, we, we, I just had to tell Trump
656. 47:39whatever I needed to get him to start to do
657. 47:42what we wanted him to do.
658. 47:43There was no rhyme or reason.
659. 47:44There was no, there was no scientific bases.
660. 47:48But what was it originally, originally?
661. 47:5015 days to slow the spread?
662. 47:52We just had to start with something that we knew Trump
663. 47:54would go with.
664. 47:55And then once we got him going with it,
665. 47:57then we would ramp it up.
666. 48:00Remember that?
667. 48:00And she put that in the book, didn't she?
668. 48:02Put it in the book.
669. 48:04She basically, look, I'm gonna translate this for y'all,
670. 48:07translate this for the hood for y'all.
671. 48:08She basically said, yeah, yeah, we played old boy,
672. 48:10we played him, we played him.
673. 48:12But you know, we had a plan to attune
674. 48:14that he initially saw the dancing to.
675. 48:16And once we got him snapping,
676. 48:18snap your fingers, do your stare.
677. 48:21You can do it all by yourself.
678. 48:23Let me see you do it.
679. 48:24Once we got him snapping, then we could change the beat.
680. 48:28This is what she said.
681. 48:30And now President Trump is saying,
682. 48:31did Fizer do the same thing to me?
683. 48:33Fizer's telling me all of this stuff in private.
684. 48:38They don't ever say any of this stuff in public.
685. 48:41Are they trying to pay me again?
686. 48:43And finally, President Trump,
687. 48:45you're asking the right questions.
688. 48:47I would have those questions.
689. 48:49You have all this data that you show me,
690. 48:53but you're gonna show none of this publicly.
691. 48:54When you have people like Bobby Kennedy firing folks,
692. 48:58you have Dr. Martin McCarry being made a member
693. 49:02of the Presidential Administration in Health and Human Services.
694. 49:07A doctor who said,
695. 49:09nah, y'all saying this is the vaccine,
696. 49:14this is MRNA technology.
697. 49:19Got Jay Bhattacharya, similarly situated.
698. 49:28I am not at this juncture ready to say President Trump is fully on board because it seems based
699. 49:33on this post that he still, like he said, I hope Operation Warp Speed was as brilliant
700. 49:39as many say it was.
701. 49:40Come on, bruh, you were the one.
702. 49:41You were one of the main ones saying it was brilliant.
703. 49:45He wants it to be great.
704. 49:49But now he's at the place where it seems they've been telling me that it was cool and private,
705. 49:55but they won't say anything about it publicly.
706. 50:00Why won't they?
707. 50:01He's asking the right questions.
708. 50:05And I am, again, reporting this for you, so you can be aware of it.
709. 50:13And you monitor whether or not they start answering these questions publicly.
710. 50:17If you were listening to show you know where I stand on this, that you can't just change
711. 50:21the definition of a vaccine and expect me to act like I didn't see it.
712. 50:28It's absurd, man.
713. 50:30And you have these private companies producing this products and all of a sudden it's free.
714. 50:33It's free for everybody is free.
715. 50:34Hey, you haven't got yours yet?
716. 50:36Go.
717. 50:37Yes, free.
718. 50:38I ain't ever seen them do that before.
719. 50:40Now, I know I'm not as chronologically seasoned as some
720. 50:44But I have been around a little bit
721. 50:46Why are you all doing this for free?
722. 50:49And I'm supposed to just act like yes perfectly normal for a healthy 40 year old drop date of a heart attack. Oh, yeah, perfectly healthy
723. 50:5819 year old athlete dropped it
724. 51:02The position I shared the clip of
725. 51:08Had spinal problems inflammation at around his spine that prevents him from continuing his
726. 51:14medicine practice his medical practice
727. 51:16Perfectly healthy before then.
728. 51:21Got one more for you before we get out of here.
729. 51:23So we've been talking about how the de-banking phenomenon
730. 51:28is politically motivated.
731. 51:29Now you have bankers willing to come out
732. 51:33and say the quiet part out loud
733. 51:35about how the Obama and Biden ministrations pressured banks
734. 51:40to quote unquote de-bank conservatives.
735. 51:43Listen to and watch clip number three, clip three, go.
736. 51:46So to executives at leading US banks are now speaking out both anonymously, saying under
737. 51:52previous administrations they were under pressure to deny services to certain people and certain
738. 51:57businesses specifically because of politics.
739. 52:01One of those executives telling Fox News Digital, those pressures were very real.
740. 52:05When your regulator gives you a suggestion, it's not a suggestion, it's an order.
741. 52:09The political stuff is very real.
742. 52:11Those pressures are real.
743. 52:13D banking is when a bank closes an account or refuses business because of certain risks,
744. 52:17usually financial, legal, regulatory, or reputational.
745. 52:21President Trump's executive order outlaws D banking, but these executives say previously
746. 52:26federal laws were exploited to pursue political objectives.
747. 52:30When there's ambiguity in the law, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for a long
748. 52:34time the beholder was the Obama and Biden administration.
749. 52:38So you get a suggestion from your regulator.
750. 52:43Is that really even a suggestion?
751. 52:47I'm presenting this man because it highlights once again.
752. 52:52God has given us a reprieve, but a reprieve is a brief moment of respite.
753. 52:58It's not an enduring reversal of fortune.
754. 53:03It's not a enduring reversal of fortune.
755. 53:08So what are we going to do with the reprieve that God has given us?
756. 53:10You have these bankers.
757. 53:11I'm not one. I don't feel the whole anonymous thing.
758. 53:14You know, if you're going to say it, come on, say it.
759. 53:16But I understand there's great risk with that.
760. 53:18And these people, these bankers in particular, are still bankers.
761. 53:22And they have to work with future administrations.
762. 53:27But the American people need to be made aware of these things.
763. 53:33And I'm glad it's coming to light now.
764. 53:35While I'm grateful for that, I'm further provoked to be vigilant and diligent now.
765. 53:46And I'm thankful that God is pulling,
766. 53:48or should I say exposing some of this stuff to the light
767. 53:50so that we can hold this,
768. 53:51hold people accountable for this.
769. 53:54And that is my next question.
770. 53:55Who was going to be held accountable
771. 53:58for the debunking phenomenon?
772. 53:59Because if nobody's held accountable, guess what?
773. 54:01You can count down until this try again.
774. 54:08The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
775. 54:11may not necessarily reflect those
776. 54:13of the American Family Association
777. 54:15or American Family Radio.