September 12, 2025 · 48:48

The Mrs. returns: Maria Hamilton is back to discuss the necessity of marital unity in the mission to disciple the next generation.

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0:00 - 15:00. Matthew 28:16-20 (ESV) The Great Commission is still the mission. 15:00 - 31:00. The Mrs. returns: Maria Hamilton is back to discuss the necessity of marital unity in the mission to disciple the next generation. 31:00 - 48:00. What we’re witnessing now is the evidence of generational failure to execute the LORD’s Commission. or call: 800-326-4543 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.
0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be His ambassador.
0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now, the Hamilton Corner.
0:33Good evening, everyone.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:35My name is Abraham Hamilton III.
0:37I am the host of the program joined by a produced extraordinaire,
0:42often imitated and never duplicated the Rio J. Mac.
0:46We're ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program.
0:51Where, yeah, frankly, I'm still reeling
0:59from the news of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
1:06Here we are just, you know, 24 years
1:11and a day following 9-11.
1:13I know I mentioned this yesterday,
1:17but the Islamic terrorists struck our nation in 2001,
1:24referring to America as the Great Satan,
1:26simply because they hate our nation.
1:30And Charlie Kirk was assassinated Wednesday
1:36because he had the audacity to exercise his God-given right, which is protected by
1:48our First Amendment to speak. The freedom to speak is a core rubric of what it
2:03means to be an American. The freedom to speak, frankly, is one of the primary
2:14tools we have in our tool belt, so to speak, to obey the Lord's Commission. Now,
2:24I know that about it.
2:25The Great Commission was still applied if we lived in a closed country, if we lived in a
2:29communist country, you lived in a totalitarian country.
2:32But the freedom that we enjoy in our nation is a God given inalienable right protected by
2:37our First Amendment that serves as a means by which we reason with people's civilly, appeal
2:48to them to persuade them and their hearts and their minds.
2:57By all accounts, that's exactly what.
3:00And not just accounts, I mean, it's not like do was hiding anywhere.
3:03You can see his online footprint.
3:08That's what he attempted to accomplish.
3:12And that's why the assassin killed him.
3:19Something worth pondering.
3:23I recall in the biblical witness when starting with the Roman Empire in the first century and
3:33continuing thereafter when efforts to crush the way of Christ, followers of the way of Christ
3:41to destroy the Lord's church and its infancy, that was pursued in a manner very similar.
3:50Of course, it wasn't with a firearm, but this is why all of the apostles, except one,
3:58died by martyrdom.
4:01The one apostle who didn't die, the apostle John, it's not because they didn't try.
4:05They tried, but it just didn't work.
4:10And something strange happened.
4:16way of Christ following exploded and infiltrated the entire known world.
4:25I pray and I expect something very similar to happen because a sober reality took place
4:32this week that has crystallized for our nation that we really can't go back from.
4:41And that reality is this.
4:46If they cannot overcome you by reason, articulation, and persuasion, their next effort will be
4:56be violent. And it's one thing that is similarly core to the American people that dates back
5:08to the American Revolution. And we don't like being pushed around. And by God's grace, my
5:27prayer is that we will have a similar phenomenon transpiring our nation to where the sober
5:37reality of the stage and state that we are in as a nation will come to rest. And we will
5:46see, oh, it's high time that I respond appropriately. At this very moment, many of you, if not most
5:58of you are transitioning from your part time job to your full time jobs. And I want to encourage
6:02you to do so with intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on family and allowing
6:09that to guide and govern your engagement to the word of God. We go Matthew chapter 28,
6:14I'm going to jump right into it, because in many ways, what we're experiencing, and I'll
6:21share a little bit of why I'm saying this, this morning, is a failure generationally to
6:29execute with the Lord commanded of us. Matthew 28 verses 16 through 20. And this is what God's
6:34word says. Now the 11 disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed
6:40them. And when they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubt it. And Jesus came and
6:47said to them all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me, go therefore and
6:55make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and
7:05of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold,
7:12I am with you always to the end of the age."
7:22Verse 16, there are 11 disciples here because Judas is gone.
7:28Matthias has not yet been added.
7:30The book of Acts explains how that transpires with Matthias
7:32is addition to the Lord's cadre of disciples and apostles.
7:39This is post-resurrection.
7:42So this is where Jesus, after he is resurrected,
7:46He encounters his disciples.
7:48And I say this all the time,
7:50AFA's founded down wildman talks about the great scandal
7:54that Jesus entrusted his mission to regular people
7:57like you and me.
7:59That reality is made evident in verse 17,
8:03that when these 11 disciples are staring in the face,
8:06they are beholding the resurrected Christ.
8:09Verse 17 says, and when they saw him, they worshiped him.
8:13But even then, some doubted.
8:18They are standing in front of the resurrected Christ.
8:22These men who had been with them for the previous three years and yet even then some of them
8:27doubted.
8:28Glory be to God that that doubt didn't persist.
8:31They were doubting there, but they became fully persuaded to the point of giving their
8:36own lives in service of the Lord's purpose.
8:42Jesus then communicates, all authority is mine.
8:48And this commission that I am giving you, I am giving you this commission to execute.
8:53Not in your own authority, but upon my authority.
8:59Whenever you consider, and what gives me the right,
9:03what gives me the wherewithal to tell anybody
9:07about the way of Christ?
9:09What gives me the wherewithal to try to disciple anybody?
9:13I wanna remind you when Matthew 28 says,
9:16it is Jesus's authority.
9:18It is not your own, it is Jesus's authority.
9:24And based on that authority, verse 18 says,
9:26go therefore, therefore, what is it, therefore?
9:30The therefore is in light of what Jesus is instructed
9:33in the fact that he has given his authority
9:36to undergird this work, this mission.
9:38Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
9:42all ethnos, make disciples.
9:50Baptizing them in the name of the Father
9:52and as the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
9:54verse 20, teaching them to obey all things.
9:59What is a disciple?
10:03A disciple is a lifelong discipline learner
10:07and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ,
10:09who is committed to obey everything he commands.
10:19Discipleship impacts every aspect of the life of the disciple.
10:26There are no sections of one's life
10:30that are not surrendered to the authority
10:32of the Lord Jesus Christ.
10:36How do I stew up my finances?
10:38How do I stew up my body?
10:39How do I engage in interpersonal relationships?
10:41How do I comport myself romantically if I'm unmarried yet?
10:45How do I treat my wife if I am married?
10:48What way do I worship?
10:49How do I give every aspect and talk to her?
10:52How do I give materially?
10:53Every aspect of our lives is surrendered to the
10:55worship of Christ.
10:58But can I tell you something?
11:02I've been talking quite frequently about understanding the
11:05signs of the times based on first chronicles, 12, and what
11:09we ought to do, recognizing where we are,
11:12having moved as a society from beyond the debates
11:16between donkeys and elephants to debating good versus evil,
11:20but what's happening because both sides of this argument
11:23are saying that the other side is evil.
11:25We don't understand what good is,
11:26we don't understand what evil is,
11:28and I'm gonna tell you very plainly, guys, where we are.
11:34We've arrived at this station in our nation's history
11:37as a product of a failure to obey.
11:41Matthew 28 to 16 through 20 generationally.
11:45That's what I'm talking about.
11:47I was in a meeting earlier this week, meeting with some men,
11:49there was an older brother.
11:51We were praying together and this brother prayed
11:53and it, it, it, it, I didn't want to react visibly too much,
11:58but tears, welled up in my eyes,
11:59making the fall on my shirt.
12:02Because this brother is an older gentleman.
12:03You guys know my affinity for wisdom from the elders.
12:08And this brother prayed asking God for forgiveness.
12:12Oh, man.
12:14asking God for forgiveness for his generation,
12:18for their ignorance as to what God required of them
12:21in their failure to do what was necessary.
12:29The brothers prayer was so genuine.
12:34And I know this brother and he said to me,
12:37Abe, we just didn't know this is what we were supposed to do.
12:44I can't tell you the number of times
12:45we have people that have joined our church
12:48and they say to me, Abe,
12:52I've never heard of discipleship until I came here.
12:56Some of you listening to me, that is your testimony.
12:58You never heard the word discipleship mentioned
13:00in all of your years of church attendance.
13:03Or if you did hear it, you didn't understand what it meant.
13:07And if you did hear it and didn't understand what it meant,
13:10it's certainly what's communicated to you
13:12that this was central to what your function was to be
13:16as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.
13:21I wanna be clear, disciple making is not mutually exclusive
13:24from evangelism, there's no need for people to debate
13:28whether I evangelize or make disciples
13:30because evangelism is a critical component of disciple making.
13:40But disciple making is necessary because we have a people
13:42that are not merely trying to secure for themselves
13:45fire insurance, but it is a disciple
13:52who welcomes all of Christ for all of life.
13:58And it is an inescapable reality
14:01that when you have people who have been born again
14:04by the power of the Spirit of God,
14:06and they are committing themselves
14:07to be disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ,
14:10that will inevitably impact the construction
14:14and maintenance of the society
14:17that is comprised by people similarly situated.
14:21They say it differently,
14:23you shouldn't be shocked
14:24that you don't have a First Amendment in Iran.
14:28You shouldn't be shocked that the fulcrum
14:31for innovation for well over a century
14:33has come from a place where freedom has abounded,
14:36but that abundance of freedom for the individual
14:38has flown from the revelation, has flowed from the revelation.
14:42That man is made in God's image, and that the individual,
14:47the liberty of the individual must be protected.
14:50We fool ourselves if we think these things are not connected.
14:53What we're witnessing is a societal hemorrhaging
14:56that flows from a lack of generational disciple making.
15:00Are people basically good?
15:02God says in Romans 3-10, there is no one righteous, not even one.
15:07This doesn't mean that people are incapable of doing good things.
15:10It means that apart from God, our nature is bent toward self-centeredness, pride, and rebellion.
15:18We don't just make mistakes.
15:19We sinned.
15:21And sin separates us from a holy God.
15:24Read Our People Basically Good by Dr. Alex McFarland at thestand.net.
15:35Shining light into the darkness.
15:37This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
15:41Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
15:44And I just want to say one of the main reasons why we do this show is we want to minimize
15:52the frequency of the repetition of people who would say similar to the prayer.
15:56I just mentioned that that the elder brother shared, prayed and then conversed with me
16:02about, um, say it to forgive my generation because we did not know.
16:09I don't want anybody who listens to this program to say you did not know that the Lord's commission
16:17requires of you as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ to be directly involved in fulfilling
16:22his commission, starting in your homes.
16:26I don't want anybody who listens to this show to go away not recognizing that God established
16:32the parents and commanded parents to lead
16:36in making disciples of our children.
16:38Because discipleship is a constant,
16:41if we as parents refuse to or fail to disciple our children,
16:47darkness is not an affirmative force,
16:49but it reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
16:53There will be a vacuum filler.
16:55There will be someone who tries to offer purpose
16:58in life direction and identity
17:00and zealous commitment and passion and purpose.
17:05The question is, is that being presented
17:10in the manner that God requires?
17:14And much of what is transpiring in our nation
17:16is revealing that frankly,
17:21that the spirit of antichrist,
17:23which also happens to present itself as anti-American,
17:27has often filled the void of discipleship that is present.
17:32Now, my favorite guest is in a studio with me.
17:37matriarch of Hamiltonia, my lovely wife, my partner in our commitment to implement what
17:45I'm talking about because I want to be somebody that is yapping and not trying and not executing
17:50what I'm sharing.
17:52All be it not perfectly.
17:53We are committed to following the Lord and serving Him in our home first and in the flowing
17:58outwardly from there.
18:01Please join me in welcoming my beautiful wife, mother of our six children, Mrs. Maria Hamilton.
18:06Thank you for joining me.
18:08Thank you for having me.
18:09Oh, it's truly, truly, truly my pleasure.
18:13You were here, you heard what I shared in the first segment, and I just want to start off
18:18our conversation by asking how important is it for husbands and wives?
18:25Let me just be clear why I'm saying this.
18:27We live in the fallen world.
18:28There are all kinds of things that are evidences of fallenness, but fallenness doesn't change
18:33God's standards.
18:34is still God's order for children to be brought forth
18:39in procreation and reared in the nurture and admonition
18:42of the Lord within the context of a married father
18:45and mother as the parents of their child and children.
18:49That is God's standard.
18:50So we want to ascribe to God's standard.
18:54This is why I'm presenting the question in this way.
18:56How important is it and why is it important for husbands
19:00and wives to be committed in unity to obey
19:04what got required of us to make disciples starting in our homes?
19:08Well, I think we're all too familiar with marriages
19:11who are not united.
19:12I think the enemy has done a great job
19:14at destroying that foundational reality in our homes.
19:18I think there are many people who are in marriages,
19:22especially in the church, unfortunately,
19:24where they are not united in the raising of their children,
19:28whether it's the educational pursuits
19:30the decisions in that route or the discipline. And in all these different areas, a lot of
19:36us are not united in. So it is extremely important. I think the enemy has done a great
19:40job, unfortunately.
19:42And dividing. And the ones that come out, I don't want to say harsh words here, but
19:49impacted are the children. And so we have to pray. We have to pray. And I'm talking to those who
19:58who are remarried, who may be experiencing the division,
20:01that lack of unity.
20:03We have to pray, we have to pray for God to be the center
20:06of our marriage and the center of our pursuits.
20:12Like God has instructions for us
20:15and we can either leave them on the shelf
20:18or we can apply them to our everyday lives.
20:20And enough is enough for us to be sitting on the benches,
20:23like it's game time.
20:25And so we can allow the enemy to continue to divide
20:28and I want to homeschool, I don't want to homeschool.
20:31They should play literally, they should not play literally.
20:33We need to pray and ask the Lord to give us
20:36insight, revelation and wisdom
20:38on how to raise the next generation.
20:40God says, you read it today, make disciples of all nations.
20:44Well, that includes your own children
20:47because our nation, as we've seen,
20:49our nation needs disciples of Christ.
20:52And so we in the church, unfortunately,
20:54have either been unaware of how important it is
20:57to be united so we can accomplish this and obey God.
21:01Or if we are aware,
21:03make a same grace,
21:04if we're aware, we don't know the how to,
21:07which I understand, right?
21:08We have to read the word of God and be disciples ourselves
21:11and then make disciples.
21:13But then even when we are aware and we count the cost,
21:15we don't wanna do it.
21:17And we disobey the Lord.
21:18And that's what we have what we have.
21:21The church is asleep most of the time.
21:23And so it's about that time that we come together
21:27as husbands and wives who have children
21:29who have been entrusted with the next generation.
21:31We have to make disciples of them.
21:36In many ways, and this is something that comes up,
21:40when you get down to brass tacks, brass tacks,
21:43and the practical reality,
21:46and let's just be frank,
21:48what we do really reveals what we believe.
21:51Now we can talk about what we believe all day long,
21:53but what we actually do truly reveals our priorities.
21:58And oftentimes, there are people who will rhetorically put
22:06academic matriculation on the same level of significance
22:10as spiritual development.
22:11But when you evaluate practical living,
22:14the investment in time and in resources
22:18and in priority reflected in those ways
22:21is actually academics is viewed as more important.
22:27What would you say, time out,
22:31before I finish this question, all right babe, I love you.
22:33Let's go there.
22:34Do you really want me to say?
22:35What would you say here, but time back in.
22:36Here's the question, now I wasn't literally gonna
22:38tell him about, time back in.
22:39What would you say to the Christian parent
22:43who you have encountered and interact with
22:47that that is their posture to where frankly,
22:49their investment elevates academics over spiritual development?
22:53If we are not making disciples,
22:55and again, disciples has been defined, right?
22:57It is a discipline, lifelong discipline,
22:59follower of Christ, a discipline learner,
23:02one who wants to love God with all his heart,
23:04mind, soul, and strength, and one who wants to obey the Lord.
23:06If we are not making disciples in the home,
23:09and we are making worldly people,
23:12we are raising people who are after the material goods
23:15and the statuses of lives, and the cush lives,
23:18and the comforts, and the bling, and all the other things,
23:22What we are doing is we're feeding them to the world.
23:24That's just what we're doing.
23:25We're feeding them to the world.
23:26Now here's the thing, that's the best case scenario,
23:27if you will, in regards to the church, right?
23:29Like you have meaning and comparison.
23:31You have the world who don't, like you say,
23:33the world's gonna world, right?
23:34So you have the world who don't know up from down.
23:36They're in darkness.
23:37So they're making disciples of that, right?
23:40They're making, they're making,
23:42they're making those who think evil is good
23:45and good is evil, right?
23:46Like that's who the generation is today.
23:49Today they're confused.
23:50The Bible says they're deceiving and they're being deceived.
23:53And then you have us in the church,
23:55and I don't wanna say us because honestly,
23:57it is not us by the grace of God,
23:59but you have believed, you and I,
24:01but we have believers, believers within the body of Christ
24:05who have access to the truth,
24:08who have the spirit of God living within them,
24:10who have the manual for life.
24:13And we are elevating worldliness as if that is good.
24:18And I'm not talking about, you know, vowel poverty or anything like that, or even the lack of
24:24education.
24:25I'm not even advocating for that.
24:26What I am saying is, if we, and you know what you're saying as well, is if we do not elevate
24:34to its rightful position, this instruction from God in Matthew 28, where we are to live
24:40as disciplined learners and followers, those who give their lives completely and devoted
24:46to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and we don't make the young, we don't raise the young ones
24:53with this mentality, this boldness to proclaim the truth no matter what.
24:57This boldness to say, for Christ I live and for Christ I die.
25:01I don't want to cry.
25:03We are going to continue to raise.
25:05On the one hand, the world is raising them to be strong warriors for wickedness.
25:10And on the other hand, we're raising snowflakes.
25:14Those who want the warms and fuzzies of a cosmic Santa Claus, but not the steadfastness of a
25:21bold believer.
25:24And so it's very disheartening because these institutions that the Christians are sending
25:30their children to to get that education that is going to provide for them a comfortable
25:34American way of life, the doctors and the lawyers, those institutions are godless for
25:40the most part.
25:42And in those institutions, if we don't make disciples in the home, if we don't make disciples
25:46in the home, they can very easily go to a godless institution that continues to emphasize godlessness
25:53and godlessness leads to wickedness and wickedness leads to death.
25:57And so if the body of Christ is not making disciples in the home, but we elevate academics,
26:02we are synonyms, institutions that are godless and godless education is wickedness, is darkness.
26:10So we got to do it.
26:11We gotta make disciples, we gotta obey the Lord.
26:14But we haven't been for the most part.
26:17Yeah, the question is whether or not we really believe that.
26:20Yeah.
26:21And so too many have been kind of seduced
26:25into this comfortable deception of neutrality.
26:31That, you know, well, this is just neutral.
26:34This is just reading, writing, arithmetic.
26:37Like I shared this week the story
26:39from Texas A&M University,
26:42where you have a children's literature class.
26:45It's a children's literature class.
26:47The class is targeted to prepare the students
26:49to teach or to serve children ages three through 12.
26:56And the students in this class,
26:59this is not in, you know, the Pacific Northwest,
27:02this is not in California, this is not,
27:04this is in deep in the heart of Texas.
27:07And thankfully, the students spoke up
27:10and objected to that,
27:14and frankly, that indoctrination instruction.
27:17But how often would something like that transpire,
27:19nobody say anything?
27:21And then we wonder how we have the phenomenon
27:25in the education system right now, for example,
27:28rapid onset gender dysphoria, right?
27:33Was that, you have teenagers, all of a sudden decide,
27:35I'm dysphoric.
27:36Well, could it be that they have followed a battery of, you know, instruction, like the
27:43Montgomery School District in Maryland combined with online affirmation of these ideologies that
27:49rival the truth of God's word?
27:52But here, let's play the take back.
27:54Take the take back.
27:55Excuse me.
27:56Play it back.
27:57Why is it?
27:58Why is it that that would cause us as believers to rise up and speak up against transgender ideology
28:05being pushed and shoved into the kids' lives and ears, right?
28:09In every classroom it seems like.
28:11Why is it that that is what rises us up
28:14and not the scores, the years, the years,
28:17because you and I grew up in the 80s and 90s,
28:19the years of what they call neutral education.
28:22Guys, there is no such thing as neutral.
28:25When we teach, when we learn the sciences
28:27as if there is no God,
28:29when we learn social studies and history
28:31as if there is no God for science,
28:33what do we study?
28:34The discoveries of what man has discovered, right?
28:38There is no God, no mention of God at all, as if he's not the creator of all things, right?
28:44In social studies and history, what do we study?
28:46Dead people and dates memorize them.
28:49Godless history, Godless mathematics, Godless language arts, Godless every discipline,
28:56and it's neutral.
28:57It is not neutral because like we talked about this morning, the shooters that we're experiencing
29:01Today are not the 40s and 50 year olds and 60 year olds.
29:06It's the 20 year olds, the teens who have been raised
29:10in a neutral academic environment.
29:12It is not neutral.
29:14When we teach godlessness and then the enemy gets bolder
29:18and now he teaches gender confusion from the classrooms.
29:21Now we're like, wait, no, that's indoctrination.
29:24They've been indoctrinated.
29:25They've been indoctrinating.
29:27They have been convincing a populace,
29:29the next generation of believers
29:31that it is okay to be godless as long as you are humanistically good.
29:35But we cannot have morality without the moral giver.
29:38I want to cry, y'all, but I get so passionate about this.
29:41We cannot have morality.
29:45Like don't shoot a person for speaking their mind.
29:48Like thou shall not kill.
29:49Like, yeah, like that exactly.
29:50We cannot have that morality without the moral giver.
29:54But we have raised the generation in America, not in Taliban controlled regions or whatever
30:02here in the Great Satan, right?
30:07In the land of the free the home of the brave, right?
30:10Where Christianity is the religion.
30:13We have raised the generation of God haters, of truth haters, of people who are deceiving
30:19and being deceived.
30:20And it starts when we lay a foundation educationally of neutrality, whereas God less, there is no
30:27such thing.
30:29Basically developing over time a comfortability with a normalized Godlessness to where, because
30:36you say we're teaching Godlessness, we can teach Godlessness either through affirmative
30:42didactic instruction or, and this is the more insidious form of teaching.
30:47The more insidious form of teaching is omitting salient reality and truth from the consistent
30:54diet of instruction.
30:56So when you have K through 12 instruction where God has excluded from the scientists,
31:01God has excluded from language arts, God's God has excluded from mathematics, God has
31:05excluded from social studies, God has excluded from history.
31:08You the inevitable consequence of that is that there is a palpable normalized Godlessness
31:14to where the well-trained disciple, because Jesus told us this, that the student will become
31:20like its teacher.
31:21Yes.
31:22Jesus said that.
31:23So, when you have that consistent instruction that's affirmed repeatedly compounded over
31:28the years, then what becomes comfortable and normal is godlessness.
31:32Well, then what becomes the stranger?
31:35What becomes foreign?
31:39And that echoes what I said at the end of the first segment is that what we're experiencing
31:46currently is a nation that is hemorrhaging from a generational lack of discipleship.
31:55The disrespectful music is on. So when we come back from the break, I want to ask you a question.
32:00Of course, I've thought about this, I have an answer, but I want to ask you to share your response.
32:05How do we reconcile Jesus's commission to make disciples with the cultivation of the mind?
32:13How do we reconcile those concepts?
32:15You are listening to or watching The Hamilton Corner.
32:18We'll be back after this break more with my beautiful wife,
32:21Mrs. Maria Hamilton.
32:23Children, of course, are given to parents by God,
32:36not to the state. Children don't belong to the state,
32:38and we need to make sure that those lines are very clearly
32:42protected and increasingly secularized culture,
32:45where the government has not only tried to make the children
32:50church completely irrelevant, but basically replace parents.
32:54Jenna Ellis in the morning, weekdays at 7 Central on American family radio.
32:59A Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute common
33:08terry are available at AFR.net. Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
33:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here along with my lovely wife
33:20Maria Hamilton the first. I posed the question to you before the
33:26I want to pick up with it now.
33:27How do we reconcile as a society and individually, frankly?
33:31Jesus is commissioned to make disciples with the cultivation of the mind.
33:39Because so often people say, well, you know, we've got to get an education.
33:43And I often say, first of all, that education and academia are not synonymous terms.
33:48And education actually is a lifelong pursuit because as Christ followers, we are continuing
33:53according to 1 Peter chapter 2.
33:54But I want to invite you to share how would you address that?
33:58How we reconcile the commission to make disciples with the cultivation of the mind often referred
34:03to as education.
34:05So you know how we just read in Matthew 28 and how Jesus specifically says, make disciples
34:09of all nations and then he says baptize them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
34:14Baptizing carries with it the foundational understanding of fully immersed, you are fully
34:20immersed in God, right?
34:23the triune God. God calls us to be immersed in Him. We cannot learn unless we are immersed
34:31in Him. What I mean is we cannot learn foundational truth. We cannot learn consistent truth. We
34:40cannot learn what God has put us on this earth to understand. He has revealed himself to humanity,
34:46not just to Christians to humanity. And so he says be fully immersed in who he is. And
34:52We only think about the water and I understand that we do that as an obedience to the Lord.
34:57But he's calling us to be ourselves fully immersed in who he is.
35:02That includes the mind, the soul, the body.
35:06And so when we are talking about teaching children and we're talking about making disciples
35:12of your children and those that God draws to you, praise the Lord that there are others
35:16that God is going to draw to us to make disciples of them and that we are called to
35:19be disciples ourselves of Christ Jesus.
35:23It carries with it.
35:24You can divide it.
35:25You can separate it.
35:26It carries with it a full immersion of who he is, starting with who he has revealed himself
35:31to be first, which is Creator God.
35:33So all the sciences stem from Creator God.
35:37All the history of humanity stems from Creator God.
35:41And so we have to start there.
35:43When we remove that from our academics, right?
35:47Our sciences and our histories and our math and our language arts and our grammar and our
35:53ability to communicate and reason, right?
35:56When we unplug that, when we remove that,
35:58we are not learning the way that God put us on this earth
36:01to learn.
36:02He wants us to know him.
36:04That's the chief and of mankind, to know God
36:07and glory if I'm forever.
36:08So we are called to raise a generation of people
36:11who know how to think, not tell me what to think,
36:13but know how to think.
36:15And not just being critical, it's analyzing truth
36:17from its foundational understanding
36:19and being able to proclaim it boldly, right?
36:21We have to do that, but we don't do that in academics.
36:23And Christians have bought the lie that, like we said earlier, that it is neutral and that
36:27we do not need to be anchored in the foundational understanding of truth based on God's perspective
36:35and that we can just read and learn how to read and reading comprehension and math.
36:39And you know, sprinkle little science and social studies and you'll be all right because
36:42you can become a doctor that way you see.
36:45No, we are failing miserably if that's our perspective.
36:50I often reflect on Matthew 22 when Jesus was questioned as to what was the greatest commandment
36:56and it responds by quoting from Deuteronomy 6. And he says,
37:04that you shall love the Lord while your heart, your soul, your mind, and your strength. And the
37:13second is like you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am gravely concerned that many in the
37:21the body of Christ have failed to consider what it means to love the Lord with our minds,
37:28that the mind has been excluded from the calculus of what it means to be a lifelong,
37:37disciplined, obedient follower of Jesus Christ.
37:42And we've seeded that territory, the cultivation of the mind to frankly God haters.
37:48And we become comfortable in that simply because it's a ubiquitous phenomenon.
37:54The full says in his heart there is no God, right?
37:57That full is thinking, that full is thinking there is no God.
38:01We are called to think, but when we think of the mind for some reason, we disconnect it
38:06from the heart.
38:08God calls us to love him with all of our heart.
38:10We love that one.
38:11All of our soul, all of our might and all of our mind, right?
38:14And so when we're thinking and we're thinking about knowledge and we're thinking about reasoning
38:18and we're thinking about right from wrong and morality,
38:21you cannot unplug it from the mind.
38:22You have to think logically.
38:24You have to think like God put us on the search to think
38:26from the mind of God.
38:27And the Lord says, we have the mind of Christ.
38:30So if we have a mind of Christ,
38:31there is a proper way to think.
38:33And there's a wrong way to think.
38:35And that's the thing that people don't like to hear today
38:37because truth is absolute,
38:38but they don't wanna hear that, right?
38:39Because it's like your opinion, but it's my opinion.
38:41But the reality is that we are called to worship God
38:44with our mind that is not limited to knowledge,
38:47but it includes knowledge, right?
38:49It includes education.
38:50It includes learning new things.
38:53It's not limited to knowledge, but it includes it.
38:55And so I think for the body of Christ too long,
38:56we've just liked the feeling of Christianity,
39:00but not the thought and the action of Christianity, you know?
39:04And I think that's just, we're not obeying Godfully.
39:10I often say that ideas have consequences
39:12and bad ideas create casualties.
39:14Yes.
39:18That thought has been ringing in my heart this week
39:20as we learned of Wednesday, Charlie Kirk's assassination.
39:27Ideas have consequences and bad ideas, create casualties.
39:32Paul wrote to the church of Colossae
39:34and in chapter two of his epistle,
39:35to the church there that I am writing,
39:37so that you would not be deluded by fine sounding
39:41and persuasive argument.
39:43That's in the beginning of chapter two,
39:45by the time you get to verse eight in that same chapter,
39:47he affirms to the believer, I'm writing,
39:51so that you would not be taking captives.
39:54What began at the delusion stage, metastasizes into full-blown
40:00captivity unless there's an interruption of the delusion,
40:06an interception of the delusion.
40:08And I want to underscore that Paul is saying this to believers.
40:14Believer, as you're listening to us right now, watching us right now,
40:17I want you to soberly consider that the prospect exists
40:23that we could be deluded in the Lord by the Spirit of God
40:29is compelling us to refuse that delusion
40:33by warning us that it's possible
40:35and then telling us the mechanism of it.
40:37Verse eight goes on to say that I write,
40:39so do you want me to take in captive
40:41by elemental philosophy based upon human tradition
40:45and the basic principles of this world
40:48rather than upon Christ.
40:51What's presented there is the binary relationship of having a life and worldview that is anchored
40:58in Christ versus a worldview anchored solely humanistically.
41:05So with Charlie Kirk, for example, right, he was a brother.
41:08He was a brother in Christ.
41:09He's now with our Savior, praise Jesus.
41:12But he was bold in going into these arenas,
41:17these college campuses, unfortunately today,
41:19that's what we have to do
41:21because the young minds are being corrupted.
41:22Almost like a modern day areaopagus.
41:24Literally, men of Athens, literally what Paul did.
41:26And so he's going into these environments
41:29and we're living in a nation
41:30where the young minds have been so deceived and so corrupted.
41:36I'm not gonna please blame the enemy
41:37because the devil is at work,
41:39that he has to go into an environment
41:41to proclaim the truth and he gets assassinated
41:46for what he believes, for what we believe, right?
41:50Because the honest truth is that we believe that.
41:52We believe that knowledge comes from God.
41:55We believe that the fear of God
41:57is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
41:58We understand that God is who he says that he is.
42:02That is why he was killed.
42:03He was killed because he was standing
42:05for what is true and what is right.
42:07And he was fighting for the freedoms of our nation.
42:08And now we're living in a country
42:10we cannot do that, we will do that,
42:13but we cannot do that without risking our lives.
42:16And so are we gonna raise a generation
42:18who can stand like that?
42:19Are we gonna end the church?
42:20Are we gonna raise a generation?
42:22I'm not saying that more bidly or anything like that,
42:25but are we gonna raise a generation
42:26who is steadfast in what is right and what is true,
42:28who in full abandonment worships God
42:31and proclaims the truth no matter what?
42:33Can we, that's a disciple?
42:35Because when he said men of Athens,
42:36when Paul said men of Athens.
42:38in Acts 17.
42:39In Acts 17, and he says you worshiping all these gods, but there's the unknown God.
42:43Let me tell you about him.
42:44When he did that, he ran the risk of being killed and he got shot.
42:48I mean, sorry, he got stoned and he got beaten and he got jailed for the sake of Christ.
42:53And we're living in an America where it seems like if we're not already there, we're heading
42:57there, but I think we're already there, where we have to stand for what is true and what
43:01is right.
43:02We have to be able to proclaim the truth and you may very well risk being killed, you
43:08know, so we have to make disciples.
43:10Man, this is a moment for really sober reflection, because I'm reminded in people you've listened
43:19to and watched the show for a while, you know, when Daniel and his friends who are often referred
43:24to as the Three Hebrew Boys, they were only boys in chapter one of the book of Daniel,
43:27chapter two, four where they were grown men.
43:30But when the scripture says that Daniel resolved in his heart and his friends, Hananiah,
43:33and asariah joined him in that resolution,
43:37that they were a remnant of Jews who were in Babylon.
43:42They were a remnant of Jews.
43:45There were others who were there,
43:48but they're not recorded in scriptures
43:50having the same resolve as Daniel and his friends.
43:53So when you have them as men in Babylon,
43:57I think it's noteworthy to highlight
43:59that they're in Babylon.
44:01And when Nebuchadnezzar issues the edict,
44:03that when you hear, you know, the sounds of the music
44:07that you have to face plant and worship my statue,
44:09my statue, and Daniel's friends are the only ones
44:14who are not doing it.
44:15We have to know that there were other Jews
44:17who were in that same audience,
44:19and they had no problem face planting.
44:22I guess the solar reflection that I'm encouraging
44:25at this moment is can we invest ourselves,
44:31Lord willing by His grace to rear a generation of Azariah, Han and I as a Miss I.L. and Daniel's.
44:38If we don't, if we don't, the darkness is going to continue to overcome, right?
44:46If you go back and examine the shooters that we've had in recent years, they're coming for truth.
44:51They're coming from the body of Christ. They're coming for what our nation stood for once upon a
44:57time. The enemy has deceived the young minds of people and they're coming for what is right.
45:03Truth is absolute. They're coming for the enemy does not want you to be proclaimed in the streets
45:08anymore. And so we can't cower because he hasn't wanted it forever, right? And he did it in Rome.
45:16They were burned at the stake, you know, but we're living in the American now where we have to raise
45:22Hebrew boys, they cannot bow.
45:24They cannot be weak.
45:25They have to be able to say, even if he does not deliver us,
45:29even if he doesn't deliver us, right?
45:31And so that's the believer that we should be
45:34and that's the believers that we need to be raising.
45:35I was just thinking that in order for us to be able to convey
45:38that type of conviction to our children,
45:40that type of conviction we have to have.
45:42Yes.
45:43That we cannot, the whole thrust of Deuteronomy 6
45:45is that you deliver what you have.
45:48You know, you love the Lord with all you are.
45:50and you teach this diligently to your children.
45:53That simply put, we have to get to the place
45:55where we as parents and adults, man,
45:56we gotta get off the couch.
45:57I was saying earlier this week,
45:58we gotta have to get off the couch ministry.
46:00We cannot afford to continue to just watch life go by
46:04and to be at best, armchair critics and commentators
46:10as it was happening, but we're not in the game.
46:12It's easy to complain about the plays being made
46:16when you're not on the field.
46:17It's easy to complain.
46:20But are we willing to get on the field?
46:22And here's the thing that's the rub.
46:23God requires us to be on the field.
46:25It's an instruction, it's a command.
46:28I have a fire in my heart
46:35because you have assassins that wanna take out Charlie Kirk's
46:39but ain't nobody really aiming at pastors.
46:41Mm, not really.
46:47The Lord said the church is supposed
46:48to be the pillar and ground of truth.
46:50Really, all of the parroturge ministries that exist,
46:52they exist largely because of deficiencies in the Lord's bride.
46:56Yeah.
46:57And I don't say that as an outside criticism,
46:59because I'm a member of the Lord's church.
47:04And I brought you to interview,
47:05but then I'm getting spun up.
47:07You good?
47:09Because it's enough as enough, man.
47:12Enough is enough.
47:13The answer is not violence.
47:15The answer is not just letting our emotions out.
47:18The answer is not letting anger overwhelm us.
47:21The answer is repentance and obedience.
47:24Amen.
47:25Amen.
47:26And obedience.
47:27We must go before the Lord in prayer,
47:33cry out to Him to forgive us for our contribution
47:36to what our nation has become.
47:37Yes.
47:38We have all kinds of civic and adults.
47:40Freedom is never more than one of generation from extinction.
47:42Ben Franklin, what have you wrought a republic
47:44if you can keep it?
47:44Yep.
47:45George Washington, religion and morality,
47:48indispensable supports to our Constitution
47:49Republic and former government.
47:53It's our time.
47:56Are we gonna meet the moment that God has afforded us?
47:59I'll give you the last word babe, 30 seconds.
48:00No, yeah, let's get in the game.
48:02Let's get in the game.
48:03let's obey God and let's do what He called us to.
48:06And if we have elevated idols above what He's calling us to do,
48:10we need to repent.
48:12Amen.
48:13Lord, I just ask You to strengthen us, Lord,
48:16and give us the grace that we need to obey You.
48:21In that, as You said in Your word,
48:23what is foremost required of a servant that He be found faithful,
48:26God, I pray that You are strengthen us,
48:28our hearts, minds, hands and arms
48:32that we will be found doing the work you've called us to.
48:35In Jesus' name, amen.
48:39The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
48:42may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family
48:45Association or American Family Radio.

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