December 3, 2025 · 51:19

A new study shows children given “smartphones” by age 12 have greater health risks

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0:00 - 15:00. Proverbs 13:20. Who influences you? Who influences your children? Are they wise, according to Scripture? The answers are truly a life or death matter. 15:00 - 31:00. The American Academy of Pediatrics has published a new study that shows children given “smartphones” by age 12 have greater risks of depression, obesity, and other horrible problems. 31:00 - 48:00. There is a continuous push to pervert the hearts and minds of children. Anybody wonder why? | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call : 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links Kids and Smartphones Trump Halts Immigration From 19 ‘High Risk Countries’

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
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1:04Many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your part time jobs where
1:08you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome, cultivate an
1:13outcome.
1:15This is going to be one of those shows where the necessity of being diligent and vigilant
1:21in that exercise is going to be highlighted.
1:26even talking all of this week about the necessity of treating God's Word with appropriate gravity
1:31that it requires, their respect, the indispensable ability of His Word because we truly, truly
1:39do not live vibrate alone, but by every word that proceeds from our God and King.
1:46And I don't know if you've noticed it yet, but the hounds of hell don't take days off.
1:55They don't. They don't. One of the greatest exercises and deception is to get people to believe that we are not actively engaged in the spiritual warfare.
2:04And I'm not talking about the, ooh, you need to be aware. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the hellish, the odors of screwtaping wormwood linger as the
2:25consistent, insistent, unrelenting effort to twist and pervert the hearts of men and women,
2:35boys and girls with the ultimate objective of getting people to reject the free gift of salvation
2:43and the secondary objective to contract the witness of the professing Christ follower or
2:51to pervert them so thoroughly so that they are indistinguishable from the world around them.
2:57I'm going to talk about that.
3:02Which is why I insist daily.
3:05I'm grateful for the privilege of being able to serve you all through an evening drive time
3:10show to aid most of you.
3:15Although I know there's something to do it in an opposite way, we have a pretty significant
3:17podcast audience who listens on demand.
3:20We have a pretty significant television show audience that watches the show in the evenings,
3:28on Friday evening in particular, at 8th Central Nine Eastern Time.
3:33But the biggest part of this audience is the live radio audience.
3:38And I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of your transition to your home to recalibrate
3:43your thoughts concerning what you're doing, which is why I describe it as your full-time
3:47job, your full-time job, which is outcome cultivation, so that we can have an appropriate
3:55understanding of what it is we get to do.
3:57And I describe it that way because you don't get to pre-programmed chirose moments, moments
4:03of grace.
4:04I mean, by God's grace, man, we have them so frequently, but they're never pre-planned.
4:12Never pre-planned.
4:13consistently check in with my children because they're things that I think, well, maybe that's
4:18not going on. Oh, yes it is. Yes it is. The world is consistently trying to grab at all of us.
4:26It's not just the children and to divert our minds away from the truth of his word so that
4:31we are the opposite of Romans 12. We are conformed to the world around us instead of being transformed,
4:39but it's a consistent phenomenon.
4:40And with all of the work and the efforts,
4:44and I thank God for ministries and parachurch ministries,
4:48like of course, AFA and AFR as a parachurch ministry.
4:51But can I tell you something?
4:52The reason why a parachurch ministries
4:54are so important in our culture,
4:56it highlights some of the deficiencies
4:58that we have in the church.
5:02And God said that the church,
5:04his church is the pilgrim ground of truth.
5:06His church is the vessel, the vehicle through which
5:10His manifold wisdom we put on display.
5:12And so my hope and prayer as I'm a part of your transition
5:16to your full time job is that all of us
5:18are able to do so with clear eyes and full hearts
5:22and understanding what it is we get to do
5:23because we are in the Lord's army
5:27and we are in His harvest field.
5:30And we need to understand it that way and see it that way.
5:33All right, to the word of God we go.
5:35Proverbs chapter 13 verse 20.
5:38By way of a reminder, the book of Proverbs
5:40is a compilation of wisdom literature.
5:42It is one of the few contexts in which you can delve
5:46and plumb the depths of individual verses
5:48unlike other genres of scripture.
5:51But in Proverbs 13, 20, we have,
5:53and you wanna talk about the final wisdom.
5:58For those who are trying to get back into a consistent habit
6:01of reading the scripture,
6:02a great place to start is the book of Proverbs.
6:05You can read an egg proverb, an entire chapter
6:08of the book of Proverbs a day
6:09and continue that for the duration of an entire month.
6:13Many people now are participating
6:14in kind of an advent preparation.
6:16That is also a good source.
6:19But we must have a steady diet of the Lord's word,
6:22encountering our Lord through His word daily,
6:25because our lives truly depend on it.
6:28In Proverbs 13, verse 20, this is what the scripture says,
6:30"'Whoever, whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
6:37comes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
6:42Some translations literally say that the companion of fools
6:45shall be destroyed.
6:46Read it again.
6:47Whoever walks with the wise shall become wise,
6:51but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
6:53The questions that I have for you is,
6:55who is influencing you?
6:59Who do you give ear to?
7:02Who do you give access to your mind and to your heart?
7:06And I wanna be clear about something.
7:08When I say who is influencing you, I'm not limiting it to, well, who do you follow on social media?
7:15What shows do you watch?
7:17What preachers do you listen to?
7:20It also includes what people do you allow to give commentary on your life.
7:24Sometimes there are people that are influencing you and they're introducing ideas to your lives
7:28that you have to cast down and overcome in order to walk in the manner that God calls
7:33you to.
7:34Because that's a modicum of influence.
7:36Who is influencing you?
7:38In addition to a question, who is influencing your children?
7:43Do we know them?
7:44Do we know the people who are influencing our children?
7:47Do we know the people who are influencing us?
7:49Or is it all that we know is a public presentation of them?
7:57And then probably the most important question in this litany of questions is once we discover
8:04and recognize, or should I say, acknowledge who is influencing us, are they wise according
8:11to scripture?
8:13Are they wise?
8:15Are the people who influence us?
8:18Are the people who influence our children?
8:21Are they wise?
8:24Do we even know?
8:28Because contrary to popular practice, the answers to those questions have life and death implications
8:36because the scripture tells us, whoever walks with the wise becomes wise.
8:42But in contrast, the companion of fools will suffer.
8:48The pain of fools shall be destroyed.
8:53You know, I made the statement one time,
8:55that some of us do with our children things
8:57we would never do.
8:59If you had your children and needed a babysitter,
9:00would you allow them to be babysat by somebody
9:02you'd never met?
9:04Would you allow them to be babysat by somebody
9:06who you know nothing of their background, their history,
9:10their belief system, their worldviews?
9:11Would you allow them to babysit your children?
9:16Would you allow them to influence your children?
9:21But we often, under the guise of what's popular,
9:24we describe this education, do that very same thing.
9:26We don't know the people, we don't know their background,
9:29we don't know their ideology, we don't know their worldview,
9:31we don't know where they're coming from,
9:32we don't know what they believe,
9:33but because their presence in our lives
9:36and our children's lives have been sanitized
9:38by this accepted so-called system,
9:41then we just go along with it.
9:47And often when the scripture is pointed out,
9:48sometimes people think it's solely applicable to children,
9:51but it's not, it applies to adults as well as children.
9:54So I say again, who is influencing you?
9:56Who are you walking with?
9:58I've explained this text before
10:00when the proverb writer talks about he who walks with the wise,
10:03he's talking about having a consistent
10:07and repeated presence in one's life.
10:11Who are you doing life with?
10:14The simple fact is for all people,
10:16but it also applies to our children,
10:21the people with whom we spend the most time
10:23shape our values.
10:28I told the story before.
10:30I remember I was in middle school.
10:33I didn't know anything about name brand shoes at the time
10:36and I went to school and the boys at school,
10:41some people call it Jones and what they call the ribbon,
10:44they started ribbon me talking about I had image image shoes on.
10:48Well, I didn't like the feeling of being ridiculed for shoes
10:51I wore and so immediately I turned home
10:53and demanded my parents, I need a different type of shoe.
10:58If my parents, they didn't,
10:59but if my parents would ask me why,
11:01a simple, honest question answer would have been,
11:03well, because the boys at school
11:05mocked me because of what I had on.
11:07I didn't think it was a problem before the mockery ensued.
11:11So in that brief encounter,
11:14that was a value shaping phenomenon for me.
11:19Did I know anything about the cost of the shoes?
11:21And I know, and this is a funny part,
11:23and ain't nobody got two nickels rubbed together,
11:26but they're gonna talk about image image shoes.
11:28And it seems kind of silly,
11:33But I just highlight that as an example of how these things happen.
11:37While the little girls want to wear these certain type of skirts.
11:40You want to wonder where you came from.
11:43So now here's the biblical requirement.
11:45The next step we recognize is what the influence comes from.
11:47Now is it wise?
11:50See one of the things that has to be a part or included in our discipleship
11:55offerings is that the recognition that God calls his people to be peculiar.
12:00You don't just wake up and become comfortable with peculiarity.
12:04You got to be trained to embrace peculiarity.
12:08Had another, a brother was talking to,
12:10he had a daughter about the same age as mine.
12:14He was like, man, my daughter don't really talk that much.
12:17When she's at home at this time,
12:18he had her in public school.
12:20He said, but when I go to the school
12:21to teach someone how much she talks all the time.
12:24I was tempted not to say something,
12:25I had to tell them to trust you and to know why.
12:30Because the place where the person spends the most time
12:32is gonna shape their values.
12:34The reality is she spends more time away from you
12:36than she does with you.
12:37So she's not comfortable talking to you
12:39because that's an aberration from her daily life.
12:41The majority of our life is spent with you not present.
12:45So it's uncomfortable for you.
12:46And think about, just think about yourself as an adult.
12:50You go to like a dinner party or something.
12:51And it's people that are there that you don't normally
12:53interact with on a regular basis.
12:54You think you'll be more effusive in communication
12:56and engaging or less.
12:59Now add the additional biblical consideration.
13:03Are the influential sources in our lives sources of wisdom?
13:10And if they are not sources of wisdom,
13:13if they are sources of foolishness,
13:15what does the scripture tell us?
13:18You wonder how we get people like Afton Ben,
13:21and we can go down the line.
13:23Melissa Harris Perry years ago, when she said,
13:25there's no such thing as your children,
13:27there are all of our children.
13:29Where you get that from Melissa?
13:32Says who?
13:37It takes a village, no it doesn't.
13:39It takes a mom, a daddy and a mama.
13:41A village can help if the village is in sync
13:45with daddy and mom, but if the village is a rival
13:49to daddy and mom, the village ain't helping.
13:57And again, beyond the adolescent context,
14:00for us as adults who's influencing us,
14:02is our consumption causing us to be more or less godly.
14:08Are the people that we're subjecting our lives
14:11to sources of biblical wisdom?
14:15Or are they sources of something else?
14:17Because the Bible tells you he who walks with the wise
14:23shall become wise. But if you're fast and steady, influential sources, influential life sources are
14:31fools, guess what is ahead of you in that circumstance? Guys, we have to get back to giving the Word of
14:43God the proper weight in our lives and to treat the holy Word of God as it truly is. It is God's
14:54revelation to us.
14:55A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:04In the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation, there are many truths, insights and stories
15:09that help to paint a clear picture, a portrait of sorts of what a man is, a real man.
15:15They specifically paint a picture of what a godly man is.
15:19Now, I should say very quickly, there's only one man in all of the Word of God that perfectly
15:24paints such a picture for us.
15:26That man is, of course, the Lord Jesus Christ.
15:29He alone stands as our only perfect role model.
15:33There are though other individual characteristics that we find in some of the other men of the
15:37Bible that are definitely characteristics to be desired.
15:41In this day and time, there's a tremendous need in the world for a clear understanding
15:47of what a real man, a godly man, really is.
15:50There's an outstanding need to paint a picture, a portrait of what a godly man looks like based
15:55on the wisdom of God's precious word.
16:06Shiting light into the darkness,
16:08this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
16:14The third here, I am delighted to be able to thank
16:22the Tennesseans and the seventh congressional district
16:24who have spared our country from Afton bin.
16:28I'm mentioning her, they had the special election.
16:30On Tuesday, I didn't mention it yesterday
16:33because while we were on the air,
16:34we didn't have the voting results yet.
16:36It was still, had polls open while we were still on the air,
16:39but as the polls closed,
16:44the Republican congressional candidate Matt Van Epps
16:47defeated the self-described AOC of Tennessee.
16:50That's what she called this though.
16:52The one who says,
16:53she didn't want babies, she wanted power.
16:56She wanted white people to get on board
16:59with the balancing prisons,
17:03because she wanted to get to the root cause of crime, you see,
17:06and not worry about punishing crime.
17:09I guess you never read Romans 13, probably not.
17:15And a whole host of other things.
17:18I am grateful to you that you have protected our Congress,
17:25I'm talking about the voters in Tennessee
17:27from this ideologically twisted woman
17:36because she is ideologically twisted.
17:38And I don't think we should underestimate the significance
17:43of the impact of her hearing from our own mother.
17:47I mean, you think about this, her mother told her,
17:51you know, you shouldn't have, you don't wanna have children
17:54because children will hinder your life's aspirations.
17:59Now imagine you being the child hearing that.
18:04It's basically your mom telling you,
18:05you know, I wish I didn't have you.
18:08Am I misconstruing that?
18:10Is that too far?
18:15I mean, that has a capacity to linger with you.
18:24And when you bend a tree at its infancy,
18:26it gets out of that tree grows.
18:29It doesn't grow straight.
18:33So Matt Van Epps is now Congressman-elect
18:38from the 7th Congressional District in Tennessee
18:43and I am grateful to you Tennessee voters for that.
18:50All right.
18:52Earlier this week, and I have a link to this in the show notes to this study, the American
18:59Academy of Pediatrics published a study to where the sample size was 10,588 children aged
19:10nine through 16.
19:13The study was conducted over the course of two years, and then after the study was completed,
19:20compiled the data and analyze the data.
19:22And so they just published that study this week.
19:25The study is titled Smartphone Ownership, Age of Smartphone Acquisition and Health Outcomes
19:31in Early Adolescents.
19:36To no one's surprise, the study found that children who are given smartphones by the
19:44age of 12, they face increased risks of depression, obesity, sleeplessness, and a host of other
19:58ills that befall them before they even hit 13. Listen to and watch a clip on this,
20:06then we're going to post the study and the link to the studies in the show notes because I want you
20:11you to be able to read the actual study for yourselves. Listen to and watch clip number two, clip two, go.
20:18It's a question so many parents face. How old should your child be before getting them a smartphone?
20:24Now a study in the journal Pediatrics finds children who had a smartphone before the age of 12 were at a
20:30higher risk for depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep than those who did not yet have one. Researchers
20:38also finding the younger a
20:40get a smartphone the higher
20:43those issues. Most kids by
20:46had a smartphone. The midi
20:50with having a smartphone
20:52associated with worse ou
20:55stopped short of recommend
20:58for phone readiness. Doctor
21:01comes down to weighing the
21:03against a child's maturity
21:06We need to be thinking about their health, online exposure, potential addictive behavior,
21:13and how owning a smartphone might affect their long-term health.
21:16Now, let me say, did I say Matt Epps earlier?
21:22I meant Matt Van Epps.
21:24I said Van Epps?
21:25I said it properly?
21:26Okay.
21:27I don't want to mispronounce the man's name.
21:28All right.
21:30Not intentionally, at least.
21:32Now getting back to this study.
21:34The study just came out this week, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the lead researcher on
21:38this is Dr. Ran Barzalai, he said that his motivations for conducting the study were both
21:44personal and professional.
21:45He said, quote, I have a nine-year-old who wants a phone.
21:49And I think whether to get them a smartphone is a question that is relevant for every parent
21:54of a child going through adolescence, even before adolescence, end quote.
22:02I have so many thoughts about this.
22:07One of the first things I think we have to do, and I understand marketing, but you have
22:12to understand that as a consumer, just because a product is marketed to you in a certain way,
22:18doesn't mean that you have to adopt their terminology.
22:23For example, when you have a demonic death cult that wants to tell me trans women are women,
22:27I don't have to accept their terminology.
22:30One of the first things I think we need to do is that we need to be honest about something,
22:35that what we're calling phones, they're not phones, guys.
22:39They're not phones.
22:40little things, these little mama jammals or big things, depending on where they are,
22:45they are mobile computers.
22:50They have the computing capacity that could only be dreamed of.
22:57I mean, I remember my children laughing at me when I was in college, we didn't have,
23:01we had to go to the computer lab to use computers.
23:05There were only a few who had wealthy families, wealthy air families, I should say, more well
23:10law family said that way, who had laptops with the 90 plus percentage of the student body,
23:16they went to the computer lab.
23:18And these little things that we have in our pockets now have the computing power that exceeds
23:23what we used to have to go to the computer labs to use.
23:26Guys, this is a mobile computing device that includes features that allow you to call.
23:36But how many do you remember back in the day, a phone was something that was connected to
23:40wall that had a cord before that that had rotary devices. Could you text on those? No.
23:55That's right. They have flashlights. They have all kind of things. The other thing and connect
24:03this to what I was saying early, who is influencing you? Guys, how wise is it for all people, but especially
24:12our children to have devices that the entire world has access to them 24-7.
24:20Some of you listening to me, you've experienced situations where you've had to take your child's
24:24phone away and how did they react? Full on meltdowns, full on, oh I got it, I got it all my friends
24:33to say, I got it. Is it a natural phenomenon to be connected to people outside of your home 25 hours
24:40today. Is that truly healthy? Now you have empirical data, 10,588 children, ages nine
24:54to 16 who were monitored over the course of two years. And they've in the study found is
25:02not my opinion. The study found, Jeff, would you please put the study on the screen for
25:06the people? The study found that the earlier you gave the child, the child, the children
25:13were given these mobile computers with texting and calling features.
25:21The more problematic the health risks were.
25:23Then the opposite side, the earlier, not this one, yeah, there we go, the earlier the child
25:31got the mobile computer, the pocket computers, and then the longer they got them early and
25:37then they kept them the next year and the next year their outcomes were worse.
25:42Mental health outcomes, depression, obesity.
25:50Why does an 11 year old need a mobile computer,
25:55a pocket computer, an 11 year old?
25:59I guess he didn't talk to you about teachers
26:01who said they can't teach classes,
26:02all their children, they're scrolling nonstop,
26:04and because their attention spans have been cultivated
26:07by snap face, insta chat, 15 second reels,
26:11that their attention spans are shot,
26:15but they've been trained by it.
26:20Who's influencing you?
26:24That's how you have little Johnny, little Junie
26:26in rural America somewhere, but they can't stop with the top
26:33box and they got all this stuff going on.
26:40I'm not trying to come in anybody's home.
26:42I'm not trying to parent anybody's children,
26:43but we need to employ God's word.
26:51And by the way, YouTube is social media too.
26:54How many of you listening to me, your children?
26:56I got children, that's how I know.
26:59I have children too.
27:02How many of you have children?
27:05They don't really watch TV, they just watch YouTube
27:07influencers. They can name them, tell you their whole lives and all of these things.
27:16It's one of the things I had to have a conversation with. Some of my children were telling me about
27:19this one couple, they're a married couple, but they're talking about they're doing these silly things
27:24and all that, but they spend time on their channel talking about, yeah, we never really want to have
27:29children. And the husband wants to have children, but the wife doesn't want to have any children.
27:40So wait a minute, they're trying to shape your views on children. The study went on to explain
27:56According to Dr. Barziline, it was several researchers, one just one.
27:59I said, the team found that 12-year-olds who had a cell phone had a 1.3 times higher risk
28:09of depression, a 1.4 times higher risk of obesity, a 1.6 times higher risk of insufficient
28:15sleep as compared to their peers, and the risk of developing these problems increased by 10
28:21percent.
28:22For each year, earlier, the children were given phones.
28:25some children being given phones as young as four years old, four years old.
28:35Dr. Barjilai said it was quote, quite surprising to find children who had no smartphone at 12,
28:40but then got one at 13 also had worse mental health and poor quality of sleep that year.
28:46Even after the study control for these factors, the conclusion of the study, smartphone ownership
28:51was associated with depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep and early out of that lessons.
28:58These provide critical and timely insights that it should inform caregivers regarding adolescent
29:02smartphone use and ideally the development of public policy that protects youth.
29:06No.
29:07Public policy, how about parents?
29:10How about parents?
29:15Guys, we can't keep feeding our children to the beast.
29:21We can't.
29:22Guys, aft and bends don't just wake up that way.
29:25They are trained into being that way.
29:30They are discipled into being that way.
29:38Why would a four year old need a pocket mobile computer?
29:43Why would an 11 year old need that?
29:48And here's the big thing that kept coming up.
29:50Well, the parents kept saying,
29:51well, it's so hard because all their friends have it.
29:54And we just didn't want our children
29:56to be the only ones who didn't have it.
30:04Y'all know my jam, the world is gonna world.
30:08But that's not how the body of Christ should rock.
30:11How can we re-regeneration that's peculiar
30:14if we're training them to not be peculiar?
30:18Well, I'm gonna get you this device
30:19because all of your peers have this device.
30:21And I don't want you to have to stand out
30:23and be the only one amongst your peers
30:25who don't have this device.
30:30Which brings us back where we started,
30:31who's influencing us?
30:33It's like, are they wise?
30:36I had conversations with some parents,
30:38they said, hey, we made this decision.
30:40And you know, because this is what our child wanted.
30:43And I said, it's what your child wanted.
30:46I said, let me ask you a question.
30:47If you allowed your child to decide what to eat every day,
30:50what would they choose?
30:52Do you think they would pick things every day
30:53conducive to their growth and the strengthening of their body, their bones,
30:57and their cells, and with nutrients? No, I won't put that. Why are you letting them
31:03determine what they pursue? I love my children. I tell them all the time. You
31:09live in a benevolent dictatorship because your understanding is being formed. We
31:21will absolutely consider your desires, but your desires don't govern what we do.
31:26Our course of action is not going to be determined by what you prefer.
31:31I told you guys a story a long time ago.
31:34Well, my now second youngest son, Danny literally thought he was Spider-Man.
31:38He big.
31:39Now you saw him another day, Bobby.
31:42He literally thought he was Spider-Man.
31:44Like, do you ain't Spider-Man, chief?
31:49So because he's frustrated he's Spider-Man.
31:53Spider-Man, I'm supposed to let him swing from the rafters.
31:55Guys, we have to...
32:00Let me just say, I don't want my child to be the only one without a device.
32:06without a device, it's not a good reason to get your child a device.
32:11In fact, we should look for opportunities to advocate for
32:14peculiarity because that is what they're going to need more than anything.
32:24I'm grateful for the study, but we shouldn't need a study to tell us
32:29what we should understand and these addiction to these devices and
32:36need and know what other people are saying 24-7. Guys, these are not behaviors that
32:40are conducive to robust Christ following. Remember the broad road and the direction
32:48at its heading and remember the Navajo Road in the direction that it's heading.
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35:46Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
35:52I have a new warning, an additional warning from parents.
35:57In addition to the pocket computers, the devices, there's a new book.
36:10I'll just hit the market.
36:14This book is marketed for children, marketed to children ages 5 to 8 years old.
36:23And I want parents to be aware of this so that if you see it
36:27in your local libraries or you see it anywhere else,
36:30that you can understand what is going to be in it.
36:33And you can raise the appropriate concerns.
36:39This book is titled, Abortion Is Everything.
36:46I got images of it for you just so for those
36:48who are watching the show, you can see what it is.
36:51Would you put those images up please, Mr. Jeff?
36:55Abortion is everything, marketed to children ages five,
37:02through eight years old.
37:05The objective of the book, as stated,
37:08is to quote, speak directly to children about abortion
37:17as a way to quote, normalize, unquote.
37:23What they call abortion, what I call the intentional murder
37:27of unborn children.
37:30And they're intending this, they're marketing this
37:33for kindergartenist to second to third grade.
37:36Now again, don't take this in isolation, pair this for what we covered yesterday about the
37:40Supreme Court case, but there was just oral argument for yesterday to where Justice Clarence
37:45Thomas forced the attorney for the state of New Jersey to acknowledge you filed this subpoena
37:53against this Christian pro-life crisis pregnancy resource center and you didn't have one complaint
38:01about them.
38:04Twits the lawyer tried to him and haul, well, you know, we had general complaints, yeah,
38:07But you didn't have any complaints about this facility.
38:10No, we didn't really have any about this facility.
38:14So, and I share with you what's happening
38:17is that as crisis pregnancy resource centers
38:19are becoming aware of the reality of chemical abortions,
38:24how they are the majority of the abortion
38:26that have been performed in our country now,
38:28and they're informing people about them,
38:30and informing people about abortion people
38:31reversal procedures, frankly, it's hormone,
38:34it's natural hormone consumption to reverse the effects
38:37of the UTEP 2 step for murder,
38:40the Fepperstah on a Mr. Prostall,
38:44those resource centers are coming under government scrutiny.
38:50Then you have this book that's published.
38:54They wanna normalize this for children.
38:58They go on explaining,
38:59what the image is up again please Jeff?
39:01They go on explaining that the framing of the book
39:05is that murdering children and what they call abortion,
39:08it is a quote unquote super power.
39:11It is a superpower and it is a superpower because it provides the ability to imagine a future
39:19to make and make choices to create the life that we want.
39:23That's how they're presenting this to children ages five through eight.
39:30Now they go on in this book and they advocate that, you know, you know, the murder of the
39:40child is just one of three normal pregnancy outcomes when people are pregnant.
39:46Let's be clear when women are pregnant, there are three outcomes.
39:51You either can have a live birth or there could be a miscarriage or the baby can be aborted.
39:58Oh, there's three normal outcomes.
40:00Let's say this to children.
40:04Now, two of these are not like the other.
40:08Live births and even a miscarriage is not the intentional termination of a human life.
40:13But this book with the colors and the crayons and the wonderful narration making a palatable
40:19for children, whoo colors, is attempting to, oh, the title we say in this word, to disciple
40:29children into an anti-Christ ideology.
40:35They are endeavoring to use the wonders of animation and child-friendly illustration to
40:42cause what is inherently abhorrent to be acceptable to children. And they say, you know, this is
40:53inclusive language. This is inclusive language. I'm sharing this because I want you to be aware of
41:07this soft illustrations, happy-go-lucky fonts. When it's insidious wickedness, it's arsenic wrapped
41:19in chocolate. That's what it is. And we need to be aware of these things. I don't think
41:27it's a coincidence that this book is being published now and shared now and disseminated.
41:37And this is once again why, you know, it's a drum that I beat consistently, but disciplining
41:42our children is a full time job, man. It's a full time job. We can play the games if we
41:49want to offering, you know, children, graham crackers and apple juice in the world is given
41:52and we strike drag queen story hours and abortion is everything.
41:56That's what they give them.
42:00And I'm not talking about fighting fire with fire.
42:02I'm talking about being anchored and anchoring in truth and truth.
42:12So I wanted you to be aware of it.
42:14We have grandparents in this audience,
42:16we have parents in this audience.
42:21And I know this, I mean lots of things,
42:23so many things swirling all around the world.
42:26And sometimes I was telling a friend of mine,
42:27Sometimes I feel like a soccer goalie, you know,
42:29just ooh, acting as anything, you know.
42:35But we must be vigilant.
42:35We must remain vigilant.
42:37Vigilant, we must remain diligent.
42:40Guys, discipleship is not an option.
42:42It's not an option.
42:43It's not an optional thing.
42:44It's not, well, if you'd like to, you can do it.
42:47No, if you don't, someone will.
42:50If we don't, someone's will, someone's will.
42:57And I'm not talking about playing defense
42:59and navigating from a position of trepidation,
43:04or anything like that.
43:06I'm sharing this so that we can have clarity
43:08as to what's really happening.
43:10This is why, this is why the enemy
43:15and the spirit of the age wants us overwhelmed
43:17and busy and exhausted.
43:19And so we don't have time,
43:21we don't have energy to invest in our families.
43:23And it was like, yes, that's exactly what I want.
43:26Be so consumed and so overwhelmed
43:32that you allow,
43:34grok and meta and chat GPT,
43:39to be the influences,
43:41which is stuff that comes from people
43:43that's just curated by these,
43:46these software, these software, these programs.
43:49But it comes from people.
43:53A portion is everything.
43:57Just think about how the Gram scene effort
44:01using terminology was so effective
44:04that even following 9-11,
44:06The nation was put in a position to where we're reluctant to think and to say, hey, you know
44:16what, if people are not ready to be American, they probably shouldn't come to America.
44:21You know what, we shouldn't be ashamed or be shy about the fact that we should govern
44:25and control whether or not there shouldn't be an automatic understanding.
44:29We should determine whether or not we want people to migrate to our country.
44:35So then following the heinous murder of one National Guard woman, 20 years old guys, then
44:47Andrew Wolf was shot.
44:49Thankfully, he's still alive, but he's in rough condition.
44:56President Trump has announced today the immediate halting of immigration from 19, what he describes
45:03as high risk countries immediately, effective immediately.
45:09from these countries has been halted. Listen to and watch President Trump discussing this
45:15in clip three, clip three, go.
45:17Under the Trump administration, he has strengthened the vetting process for incoming immigrants.
45:22She said, including reviewing social media accounts for anyone coming over and checking
45:27on who they interact with. And then Donald Trump, right after this happened, after the
45:31ambush on Thanksgiving Eve last Wednesday, he said he's going to impose additional restrictions
45:36on migrants and will stop all immigration from third world countries. And then he has
45:40since doubled down. Listen to this. How long does your administration plan to pause asylum
45:46into the U.S.? I think a long time. Can you can you give any where I want? We don't want
45:50those people. We have enough problems. We don't want those people. Is that a year to years?
45:57No time limit. And then you put it could be a long time. You said they don't want those
46:00people. Do you understand that? You understand that? So the
46:09nations that are included in this immediate halting of
46:13immigration is 19 of them. It includes Afghanistan, Myanmar,
46:18Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti,
46:24Iran, Libya, Somalia, here they are on Omar Sudan, Yemen,
46:31Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
46:38Now, I'm going to say something, maybe somebody was having an extreme is I don't care.
46:42I think there should be a moratorium on all immigration.
46:46All of it.
46:48Listen, you do not have a right to come to America.
46:51It's not a right.
46:52It's not a right.
46:54That's a privilege.
46:59We the immigration issue has gotten out of hand.
47:08Absolutely. Thanks be to God and his, the service of President Trump, he shut down illegal immigration
47:14largely. But we need a moratorium on legal immigration as well. I'm not disparaging anybody,
47:25but we have a lot of problems domestically that need to be addressed. And it's not bigotry for a
47:32nation to decide we will only adopt immigration policies that is best for our nation. We don't have
47:40legal obligation to be the global charity for the world. And there are evil people. Hear me clearly.
47:48I want to look directly in the camera and say this. There are evil people who are demonically invested,
47:56who look to take advantage of our extremely charitable immigration policies to come to our country
48:06for no other purpose than to destroy our country and to wreak havoc in our country.
48:16It should never have been. You just think about the things. Remember the nightclub
48:21shooting going on in Orlando, how they worked over time to prevent people from saying,
48:25hey, the dude who murdered the people was an Islamic terrorist. The Fort Hood shooting,
48:34San Bernardino, Coast Guardsmen in DC. Guys, frankly, I don't think President Trump is going far enough.
48:53I don't.
48:58We don't have an obligation to have an immigration policy that aids in the disintegration and the
49:06decimation of what it means to be the United States of America.
49:11Guys, that is an exercise, an insanity.
49:18And when you understand that many of these people, specifically in this context, the Islamic
49:23terrorists, they say, man, these people got to be stupid.
49:26They know we have folks who want to kill them and they still letting people in for our
49:31nations.
49:34They view that as their terroristic objectives being blessed.
49:42You don't think we need to stop and infect that?
49:44You don't think we should stop and consider that?
49:48And I know, and we talk about this, Brigitte Gabrielle was on the show not too long ago,
49:55I know not all of the people shared these ideologies, but don't we have an obligation
50:00find out who does? Shouldn't we learn what's the process for like old boy who came here who got asylum
50:07most recently and I know a lot of people want to say that it was Biden's
50:11disaster withdrawal it was but the process actually started under Trump the ideas and the
50:16processes started under Trump they were executed by biting horribly but he became radicalized
50:24when he got here we're gonna exact like on October 31st you don't have dudes in the
50:31in the Dearborn, Michigan area, it's like, yeah,
50:33we want to commit murder on pumpkin day.
50:39I think it's a good step to have the temporary
50:41immigration halt, and frankly, I don't care
50:44if people want to cry as racism, no it ain't.
50:47You're just willing to be a useful idiot.
50:50But I don't think it goes far enough.
50:51I think we need to have a moratorium on all immigration,
50:54and we need to get some things in order in our own house
50:57before we can invite people from all over the world
51:00to come to join us when we have all kinds of things
51:03going crazy.
51:03the views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
51:15Family Association or American Family Radio.

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