("Best-of" Edition from 7/11) Mental anxiety usually flows from belief in a lie.

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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 Quarter on American Family Radio home.
4. 0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
5. 0:15Delivery 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.
9. 0:26Let's not miss our moment.
10. 0:28And now, the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:31Good evening, everyone.
12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
13. 0:36Abraham Hamilton the third is my name.
14. 0:39I'm the host of the program joined by
15. 0:41Producer extraordinaire often imitate and never duplicated the real.
16. 0:45Jay Mac, ladies and gentlemen,
17. 0:47emphasis on the real.
18. 0:50Some try, but like,
19. 0:53Pop us in beef tallow they get fried.
20. 0:59At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you,
21. 1:01are making your transition from your part-time jobs
22. 1:03where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. As you do so,
23. 1:11I want to remind you to do it with intentionality, recognizing the primacy that God places on family,
24. 1:19embracing that primacy as it pertains to your engagement in your family,
25. 1:26also recognizing that what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the
26. 1:31the White House, not to diminish the significance or importance of White House
27. 1:36going on, but simply to highlight that we are directly responsible and accountable
28. 1:44for what we have control over. None of us can call up Donald Trump.
29. 1:52Donald Trump. But this beautiful bill is a big, beautiful bill. It's very big, very
30. 2:00beautiful. And tell him, hey, you know what, how about we reconsider the tariffs?
31. 2:05No, but what we do have control over is what goes on in our homes.
32. 2:12What we consume in our homes, what is priority for us in our homes.
33. 2:16The quality with which the word of God is exalted.
34. 2:22I should say better that the quality with which God is exalted through his word in our homes.
35. 2:27We have control over that.
36. 2:29How we spend our time, what we invest ourselves in, what we give ourselves to, we have control over that.
37. 2:36that. And right in our own homes, we have the opportunity to execute the Lord's commission,
38. 2:45starting right in our own homes. If you are in a life stage as I am where you have young
39. 2:49children still in your home, we have the opportunity to influence the eternal destination of our
40. 2:57children. If you're in a place you may be, you know, that you no longer have children in
41. 3:01your home, but you more than likely have neighbors. You may be on the other end of the spectrum,
42. 3:08You know, on the younger end of the spectrum, you know, you still are in life stage where
43. 3:14the great commission should be a matter of priority for you.
44. 3:18You have peers, you have friends, you have those around you who you can influence for the
45. 3:25glory of the God, glory of the glory of the Lord, the glory of the King.
46. 3:30And I simply want to encourage you to do so.
47. 3:32You know, all of us have the exact same 24 hours in a day, all of us.
48. 3:36The question is what will we do with it?
49. 3:39So as you are making your transition right now, man, set your course to do it with intentionality.
50. 3:45How are you going to spend this time?
51. 3:47What are you going to do with it?
52. 3:48What are the matters of most important for those of us who have friends and family members
53. 3:52and loved ones?
54. 3:53They are all kinds of conversations and fellowship that we can engage in.
55. 3:57But what's most important?
56. 3:58Have you even considered or inquired as to where they would spend eternity?
57. 4:05Do you know if they're believers?
58. 4:08If not today is a great day, a great opportunity to ask and to put into practice what the scripture
59. 4:15says in 1 Peter 3, always be ready to give a reason for the hope that you have to any who
60. 4:20might ask you.
61. 4:23That presumes one that you would live in such a way to where the quality of your life provokes
62. 4:27inquiry.
63. 4:29Society is going left, but I see you going right.
64. 4:33How and why are you so willing to live according to your convictions?
65. 4:38The second thing that's presumed in that text, that you live in proximity to people sufficiently
66. 4:42so that they can ask.
67. 4:45One of the great downsides of the technological age that we live in is that people have replaced
68. 4:50digital interaction with interpersonal kinetic interaction.
69. 4:55We've often replaced shaking hands and hugging necks with posts and emojis.
70. 5:06And they have it, they have that place, know that about it.
71. 5:07I'm not one of these people that sneers at technology.
72. 5:11But we have to be aware of how it is influencing our interconnectedness and most importantly
73. 5:17how it influences our capacity to put into practice what God has required of us.
74. 5:24So if you have not done so, let today be the day.
75. 5:27Well, you say, you know what?
76. 5:29I'm going to switch it up a little bit.
77. 5:30I'm going to go see how my neighbors are.
78. 5:32I'm going to invite them over for coffee.
79. 5:37Today might be the day if you've never done it before.
80. 5:38You know what?
81. 5:39I've heard Abe talk about this family worship thing.
82. 5:41Today is the day we're going to do it.
83. 5:43you're making your transition, man. Let's take full advantage of the time that God has given us
84. 5:49and trust him with the results of our obedience. To the word of God we go. Second Chronicles. Second
85. 5:56Corinthians. Second Corinthians chapter 10, verses three through five is where I'm going to go. Something
86. 6:03that's just been really on my heart that I want to deal with during the entirety of today's program,
87. 6:12But I want to start here because there's some things that I think we might gloss over when we read
88. 6:18Not recognizing the full significance and impact of them
89. 6:21But I like to try to point these out as we navigate today's program second Corinthians chapter 10
90. 6:27Versus three through five and this is what the word of God says for though
91. 6:30We walk in the fair though. We walk in the flesh
92. 6:33We do not war
93. 6:36According to the flesh
94. 6:37For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh
95. 6:41but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
96. 6:48We are destroying speculations, and every lofty thing
97. 6:52raised up against the knowledge of God,
98. 6:54and we are taking every thought captive
99. 6:57to the obedience of Christ.
100. 7:00One of the first things I wanna say that the scripture
101. 7:02points out very plainly, verse three,
102. 7:03for though we walk in the flesh, though we live
103. 7:06in our flesh and blood bodies, though we live
104. 7:08in this fallen world that we live in this temporal life station, if you are born again,
105. 7:15you need to understand that we are in this world, but not of it.
106. 7:21All right.
107. 7:22One of the major features of being born again, Gennaro and Othon is the Greek phrasing.
108. 7:26We are born from above.
109. 7:28We have been transitioned, transmuted from the line of the Adamic lineage of humanity and
110. 7:35placed into the blood line of the final Adam.
111. 7:39eternal blood transfusion has literally made us into a new family of people. Though
112. 7:47we're in this world, we don't engage as if we're of this world. Our perspective of
113. 7:54ourselves or our eternal fellow eternal family members is not of this world. It
114. 7:59is entirely otherworldly and it is eternal and the armament that we have,
115. 8:09the scripture tells us. The armament that we have is not of the flesh. And I'm
116. 8:17gonna tell you I want to talk a bit today about the mind. There is a strong and
117. 8:21concerted effort to get the believer to kind of reduce ourselves to a degree to
118. 8:28where we are limited to the resources that are carnal, that are fleshly, that are
119. 8:34natural. But the word of God tells us that our armament is not confined to what is
120. 8:40carnal is not confined to what is natural. And when we as believers reduce ourselves to worldly
121. 8:50remedies, we are the ones who were soft for it. For the weapons of our, for the weapons of our
122. 8:55warfare are not of the flesh. They're not of the flesh, but they are divinely powerful,
123. 9:04some translations say, but they are mighty through God. Verse four posits, a binary corollary that you
124. 9:14will either utilize the armament of the flesh, and in so doing you must know that the armament
125. 9:23of the flesh at best is finite.
126. 9:29At best is limited.
127. 9:33The armament of carnality at best has very limited effectiveness.
128. 9:40In contrast, the armament that is available to those of us who are of the final Adam's
129. 9:45Our armament has divine power. The potency of the armament of those of us who are of the lineage of the final atom, it is not limited.
130. 9:59It is not finite. The effectiveness of the armament of the final atom's lineage has divine power.
131. 10:08It is the potency of the Creator, the potency of He who was and is and is to come is what
132. 10:18the final Adam's lineage has access to by way of armament.
133. 10:23But what largely happens is that we allow the world to seduce us into putting down our
134. 10:30final, a damn lineage armament that is the armament available to us in Christ and limiting
135. 10:38ourselves to that which is carnal. And so if we employ that which is carnal, guess what
136. 10:43results we should expect, the results that are produced by carnality, which are at best
137. 10:52temporal and insufficient to accomplish what the rest of the text says.
138. 10:58Verse 5, because our armament has divine potency because of that divine potency, look at verse
139. 11:06We are destroying speculations, or some translations there say, imaginations, speculations, or imaginations,
140. 11:19or what's one another articulation.
141. 11:23Arguments, regardless of the English term employed there, whether it's speculations, arguments,
142. 11:30imaginations, the Greek word for all of these translations is logismus, which is from which
143. 11:37Our English word logic is derived from that the armament that we have as a result of being born again
144. 11:44That is divinely powerful gives us the wherewithal to destroy
145. 11:49Lagismas
146. 11:51This is ideology. These are ideas
147. 11:56This is mental anguish
148. 11:58to destroy Lagismas
149. 12:02And every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of god, but take a few steps back look back at verse four
150. 12:07For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but they have divine power for the destruction of
151. 12:15strongholds or
152. 12:18Fortresses
153. 12:19Determined blood they're in Greek for strong holds or fortresses in should and visions like like the old school castles with the
154. 12:25Motes and the fortified for all and all kind of things
155. 12:27The Lord wouldn't say that these things are strongholds if they weren't strong
156. 12:31So we need to be candid about the fact that oh we coming up against has some potencies
157. 12:38But I want you to see they're not equivalent potencies
158. 12:42The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they have divine power
159. 12:47For what purposes for the destruction of these strongholds
160. 12:50So as strong as the strongholds may be as strong as the fortresses may be what God has provided for his people is more potent than that
161. 12:59We need to understand this so remember the binary corollary
162. 13:04carnal armament limited carnal results
163. 13:07Final Adam armament, divinely powerful.
164. 13:11To do what?
165. 13:12There's a stronghold, but the divinely powerful armament
166. 13:15can destroy the stronghold.
167. 13:17What's the stronghold?
168. 13:20Logismos, speculations, arguments, vain imaginations,
169. 13:24and every high thing that would exalt itself
170. 13:27against the knowledge of God.
171. 13:30I'm gonna walk through some scripture in the next segments,
172. 13:36but the root calls to what many in our day
173. 13:40in our day are describing as mental health things in that nature are usually at some point when
174. 13:47you excavate, you get down to brass taxes or the lowest common denominator, whatever metaphor
175. 13:52you want to employ there, usually the root to what presents itself as mental deficiency,
176. 13:58mental anxiety is that we believe a lie at some point.
177. 14:02We believed in La Elagi's mosque that rivals the truth of Christ.
178. 14:07But God's word says that his divinely powerful armament is potent to destroy the consequences
179. 14:16of that Lagismos, that when there is a demonic effort to construct a castle in the mind that
180. 14:22the divine armament is available to us to destroy that castle.
181. 14:27We're going to talk about what are some of these divinely powerful tools that God has made
182. 14:34available to us.
183. 14:36You would be wise to put into practice what is made available to us.
184. 14:40Instead of dumbing ourselves down, reducing ourselves to be, to succumb to the environment
185. 14:47that we've been placed.
186. 14:48We can be in this world, but we're not of this world.
187. 14:58A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
188. 15:02It's like all of creation was screaming, God is good.
189. 15:06His goodness just flows from everything he created.
190. 15:10When the devil came to the garden, tempted Adam and Eve,
191. 15:14his approach was, is God really good?
192. 15:17And sadly, they kind of went along with his deception.
193. 15:22They fell into sin.
194. 15:23But the reality is, God's creation is good
195. 15:26and God is totally good.
196. 15:28And so he can be totally trusted.
197. 15:30So our worship and praise is acknowledging that he's good,
198. 15:32even when we don't fully recognize or see what he's doing.
199. 15:36On the other hand, complaining is, God, you're messing up.
200. 15:40I'm not sure if you really are good in this situation.
201. 15:43So I think clearly it's important.
202. 15:45And complaining is never a good thing.
203. 15:47It really is a way to curse something.
204. 15:49Praise and worship, even though we may not fully understand
205. 15:52what all is going on, it's so productive.
206. 15:55Wight into the darkness.
207. 16:05This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
208. 16:09Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
209. 16:10Abraham Hamilton III.
210. 16:12I'm gonna continue this conversation
211. 16:13because I understand there's a furtive push in our society
212. 16:18society that saying things like, the church needs to get on board.
213. 16:23We need to be appropriately responding to the mental health crisis.
214. 16:30And I understand what people are saying, you know what I mean?
215. 16:36But is God's word insufficient to address mental health issues,
216. 16:42mental anxiety, things of that nature?
217. 16:44That it's talking about how about we turn to the word of God.
218. 16:49point to that end, let's go to Philippians chapter 4. Paul's epistle to the
219. 16:56Philippians written about 62 AD. The city of Philippi was in the Macedonian
220. 17:06province. Macedonia is where modern-day Greece is and the city of Philippi was
221. 17:15actually named after Alexander the Great's father, Philip II.
222. 17:21So it is the Grecians, the Greeks who were the global superpower prior to the Romans, and
223. 17:27Alexander the Great is the one who named the city of Philippi after his own dad, Philip II,
224. 17:32by the way, that's just the way of an aside.
225. 17:34But in Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, a very familiar path to the Scripture.
226. 17:38But I think we can speed by some of the rich armament that God has provided for us in his
227. 17:44word if we're not intentional as we navigate the text, but
228. 17:47Philippians 4 verses 4 through 9, this is what the text says,
229. 17:51Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say rejoice. Let your
230. 17:57gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near, be anxious
231. 18:04for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
232. 18:08thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God, be made known to
233. 18:13God, I'm sorry, verse seven.
234. 18:15And the peace of God which surpasses all comprehension
235. 18:18will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
236. 18:22Finally, brethren, whatever is true,
237. 18:26whatever is honorable, whatever is right,
238. 18:30whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
239. 18:34whatever is of good repute.
240. 18:36If there is any excellence, if anything worthy of praise,
241. 18:41dwell on these things, the things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me,
242. 18:49practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. Now, I've described this text as
243. 18:57God's prescription for anxiety, but I want to ask this question. All right. Well, let me make
244. 19:06a statement first, and I'm going to ask a question by way of reminder, Paul's epistle is addressed to
245. 19:13Christians in Philippi, the Greek capital city of the
246. 19:19Macedonian province named after Alexander the Great's father,
247. 19:21Philipp II. Philippi is a city where Acts chapter 16 there
248. 19:28about tells us about Lydia, the seller of purple. She moved from
249. 19:31our hometown in Thyatira, whether you had particular plants
250. 19:35that were useful for creating this purple dye, unique to Thyatira.
251. 19:41She moved from Thyatira to Philippi, which was really like moving from a small town to New York City
252. 19:47because Philippi was a major city along the Ignatian Way, E-G-N-A-T-I-O-N.
253. 19:53The Ignatian Way, I'm sorry, E-G-N-A-T-I-A-N.
254. 19:57The Ignatian Way, it was a roadway that connected the western portion of the Roman Empire to the eastern portions of the Roman Empire.
255. 20:04So Lydia moves there and the church ultimately is birthed in Philippi.
256. 20:11And Paul is right into the believer.
257. 20:15Into the believer, Paul writes,
258. 20:19Philippians chapter four verse six,
259. 20:21be anxious for nothing.
260. 20:22Why do you think the Lord in his divine providence,
261. 20:26his omniscience and his sovereignty,
262. 20:29would include in his word two believers,
263. 20:32be anxious for nothing.
264. 20:33Why do you think that would be there?
265. 20:36Because God knows very plainly that believers
266. 20:41will invariably confront circumstances, occurrences,
267. 20:45life, happenings, and things that can provoke anxiety.
268. 20:52Believers can be confronted with circumstances
269. 20:56that provoke anxiety, anguish, mental difficulty.
270. 21:03But unsurprisingly, the same God who knows
271. 21:06that believers will face circumstances
272. 21:09that can provoke anxiety, the same God also says,
273. 21:13because I know that I'm gonna tell you on the front end
274. 21:16How do you, how you are supposed to deal with this?
275. 21:19Now the very first thing that the Lord says through the Apostle Paul,
276. 21:24in light of the reality that believers will be confronted from time to time with anxiety,
277. 21:29says be anxious for nothing, but in everything,
278. 21:33by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving,
279. 21:37let your request be made known to God and the peace of God,
280. 21:40which surpasses all comprehension and understanding
281. 21:43with God, your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
282. 21:45That is often one of them, not often,
283. 21:48that is what God prescribes for us to deal immediately
284. 21:52with the presence of anxiety.
285. 21:56But let me tell you something, the Lord also gives us
286. 21:58armament to preemptively cut off the potential
287. 22:03for anxiety production in the life of the believer.
288. 22:06How do I know that?
289. 22:07Keep reading in the passage.
290. 22:10So responding in prayer, in faith with thanksgiving
291. 22:15is vital for the believer.
292. 22:17But all too often, many believers have been seduced
293. 22:20by our culture into a tacit declaration of independence
294. 22:23from God, which I call prayerlessness.
295. 22:27And we cultivate or curate for ourselves
296. 22:30lives of prayerlessness.
297. 22:32And the only times we pray is when crises emerges.
298. 22:36When crises emerge.
299. 22:38Instead of a tacit declaration of independence from God,
300. 22:44the believer is summoned to live a life of dependency upon him,
301. 22:49most tangibly demonstrable in lives filled with prayer,
302. 22:55living the lifestyle of prayer.
303. 22:58But not only do we have a mechanism to respond
304. 23:01to the presentation of anxiety,
305. 23:02we have a mechanism to preemptively ward it off.
306. 23:08How so?
307. 23:10Verse eight.
308. 23:11Finally, brethren, whatever is true,
309. 23:18whatever is true in addition to living a lifestyle of prayer,
310. 23:25The Lord directs the believer to feast on whatever is true, to set our minds on whatever is true,
311. 23:34which is why I said what I said in the first segment. For many people, for the believer, usually,
312. 23:47I'm not saying in every circumstance, but usually when the believer is wrestling or struggling
313. 23:52with anxiety, mental anguish, mental difficulty, when you get right down to it, where rubber meets
314. 23:59the road, usually the root of that anxiety is that the believer has allowed himself to
315. 24:07believe a lie.
316. 24:10When you get right down to it, the root excavate the emotions and if different things that kind
317. 24:15of let on top, when you get down to the foundational level, it's usually at some place, at some
318. 24:21point, they believe the lie.
319. 24:24Sometimes for men, it's because we believe a lie that about humanity, which was to be this
320. 24:28kind of person and about masculinity, I'm sorry. And this is what men are supposed to be. And we've
321. 24:34never examined that lie. Sometimes the lie is a result of having watched the way our fathers operated
322. 24:39or being aware of, even if we didn't get the chance of watching, of how our fathers operated.
323. 24:43And we develop these ideas about masculinity that ain't necessarily biblical. Something with our women.
324. 24:50The world does these things and condenses us up these things. And this is what women are supposed
325. 24:54to be. Never have we examined that in light of what the scripture says, but we allow the lie to kind of
326. 25:01percolate and defester and the lie kind of takes residence.
327. 25:07And that lie as at the foundational level over time produces that anxiety.
328. 25:14One of the primary,
329. 25:16divinely powerful portions of our armament that God has given us is that as
330. 25:22believers, we have the unique ability to feast on, to dwell on,
331. 25:27to abide in what is true as a vibrant component of our life's existence, we should develop the lifestyle
332. 25:38habit of determining what is true, or how do we assess what is true. Truth is what flows from the
333. 25:46mind of God. So we have the wherewithal as believers to feast on what is true similarly, dwell on
334. 25:58brethren, whatever is honorable. Is the thought, is the idea, is the notion worthy of honor? Should
335. 26:07we be giving this idea, this laggy's moss, the place of honor that it has in us? Should that have
336. 26:16that place of honor? Or is it a lie? Or is it dishonorable? Well, if it is a lie and it is dishonorable,
337. 26:25Why would we give it?
338. 26:27Sanction to take a residence in our minds.
339. 26:32The text goes on.
340. 26:34Whatever is right.
341. 26:36Oh, that's a big one.
342. 26:38Whatever is right.
343. 26:39What is presumed there?
344. 26:40What is presumed from God's holy word?
345. 26:42Is that there is such thing called right versus wrong.
346. 26:47Or if you know the word, you know, they quote that, that, that
347. 26:50Miss out of context, script, you, how you gonna tell me was right?
348. 26:53Judge not.
349. 26:56Yeah, you're your judge not.
350. 26:58That's just a flat lie.
351. 26:59Scripture taken out of context.
352. 27:01Abused tremendously.
353. 27:03God didn't tell them to believe in not to judge.
354. 27:05God instructs the believer to judge.
355. 27:08But our judgment must be righteous.
356. 27:10Our judgment cannot be hypocritical.
357. 27:12Our judgment requires us to apply to others the same measure
358. 27:16that we apply to ourselves.
359. 27:20What Jesus was condemning, what the Lord is condemning,
360. 27:22is the one who has the propensity
361. 27:25to have an elevated standard to apply to others
362. 27:27and then a reduced standard apply to ourselves.
363. 27:30No, we have to judge.
364. 27:31Psalm 1,
365. 27:32blessings the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly.
366. 27:35According to Psalm 1,
367. 27:36in order to live in a life of blessing,
368. 27:38what do you have to be able to do?
369. 27:39To determine what is and what is not ungodly.
370. 27:43That's the judgment.
371. 27:44Now what we don't have the wherewithal to do as believers
372. 27:47is that we have no authority to condemn.
373. 27:50We don't have the authority to put anybody
374. 27:53in eternal damnation,
375. 27:54but we have an obligation to judge.
376. 27:58A, walk not in the council of the dope dealers.
377. 28:03In order to obey that instruction,
378. 28:05guess what I gotta be able to do?
379. 28:06I need to be able to identify the drug dealers
380. 28:08from the non-drug dealers.
381. 28:10And when I identify the drug dealers, guess what?
382. 28:12Don't hang out with them.
383. 28:17This next one, whatever is pure, set our minds,
384. 28:22feast our minds on whatever is pure.
385. 28:26Purity, guys, is not synonymous with abstinence.
386. 28:31You could have a person abstaining from something,
387. 28:35but the entire time in their hearts,
388. 28:37They're yearning for it like Schmiegel.
389. 28:39I pression.
390. 28:42Why must I have my precious?
391. 28:46Purity is a heart disposition, not merely a conduct.
392. 28:50God instructs the believer to dwell on, to set our minds on,
393. 28:54to feast on what is pure.
394. 28:56Guys, this is why what we consume is so important.
395. 28:59And that consumption is not merely passively
396. 29:02in terms of entertainment.
397. 29:03It also is involved in the types of interactions
398. 29:06that we have, conversations that we have with people.
399. 29:10How many times you have people that they
400. 29:11They may not even know what they're doing, but they'll just make a statement casually and
401. 29:15flippantly.
402. 29:16And they don't know where you are, what you're dealing with.
403. 29:19Hey, and brother so-and-so, you're not as good as so-and-so over here.
404. 29:22They don't know what kinds of thoughts of insecurity you're dealing with, compare yourself to other
405. 29:25people.
406. 29:26They didn't intend to send you on this spiral of internal anguish, but that's what happens.
407. 29:34Let's be honest, that's what happens.
408. 29:36Oh, look at your own, you ain't married yet.
409. 29:43They don't know how you will receive the comment.
410. 29:44They may not even mean anything but let's just buy it.
411. 29:50But if we have not set our minds to feast on what is true,
412. 29:53what is honorable, what is right, what is pure,
413. 29:56that one little comic could send us
414. 29:59careening down a valley.
415. 30:04Three weeks later, you still think about that comment,
416. 30:06so and so may, because we're not feasting on what is true.
417. 30:12If what they said is a lie, guess what?
418. 30:15Our warfare weapons are divinely powerful
419. 30:18to destroy the lie-loggy's moss.
420. 30:23Whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute,
421. 30:26if there is any excellence or anything worthy of praise
422. 30:30dwell on these things.
423. 30:32Guys, this is a part of our divine armament
424. 30:35that fortifies us in our minds against the lie-taking root
425. 30:40and sending us careening toward anxiety
426. 30:45and make no mistake about it,
427. 30:48that this ideology, it can be pernicious,
428. 30:53it can have tremendous impact, it could feel real.
429. 30:57But how many you understand and how many you know, that feelings even can be liars.
430. 31:06But one of the first components of potent, divinely powerful members or components of our
431. 31:13armament is feasting in our minds on what is true.
432. 31:20So a robust component or a robust part of our lives as believers must be to set our minds
433. 31:28on what is true.
434. 31:30The Apostle Paul said to the Colossians that if you've been raised with Christ, set your
435. 31:34mind, set your affections, set your fronnayo on things that are above.
436. 31:40I understand what they say about you, but what does God say about you?
437. 31:44The world say, A.B., from the 9th Ward, you from the hood in the world is, you ain't going
438. 31:48nowhere but being dead or in jail.
439. 31:49But what does God say about me?
440. 31:54Can anything good come out of the 9th Ward?
441. 31:55What does God say about me?
442. 31:59They may not understand your gift.
443. 32:01You may not have to have the loud upfront gift, but God has given you a gift that's just as
444. 32:05This potent has a lot enough from gift.
445. 32:07Just because a person doesn't understand that your gift is just as potent, doesn't mean
446. 32:11you should embrace their lack of understanding.
447. 32:14What is true?
448. 32:15What is true is that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, that God is the one who made
449. 32:19you that way.
450. 32:20God is the one who gave you that make up.
451. 32:21God is the one who positioned you in his body as he wills.
452. 32:25So who is this person to be able to tell you something that God has not declared?
453. 32:31Whatever is true dwell on these things.
454. 32:35is right dwell on these things. Whatever is worthy of praise dwell on these things. Refuse
455. 32:43to give safe harbor to the lie that is a component of our divinely powerful armament."
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471. 33:50John McCrater helps you see that today on Grace To You.
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474. 34:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
475. 34:18I should mention that we will be in Phoenix, Arizona next week, July 18th and 19th participating
476. 34:26in the Arizona Families for Home Education Conference at the Phoenix Convention Center.
477. 34:32Yes, hitting up Phoenix in July.
478. 34:38If you're in the area willing to come to the area, please do so.
479. 34:42I'd love to see you at this convention.
480. 34:44go to AFHE.org to register. That is at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
481. 34:51We'll be there next week, July 18th and the 19th. I'll be providing a keynote address
482. 34:56and a few breakout sessions during the conference. My wife also will be at the conference doing
483. 35:02some things there. AFHE.org is a website, Arizona Families for Home Education is the website.
484. 35:09I'm sorry, it is the organization looking forward to being with you there.
485. 35:15All right, back to what I was discussing, man, I'm talking about this because again, the
486. 35:18world is making its emphasis on mental health and all of these things, but too often the
487. 35:22believer is not using the tools and the weapons that God has provided for us.
488. 35:29We've gotten to the place in many instances where we've been hospitable to a lie.
489. 35:35Somebody says something makes this suggestion about you or say something you can even be
490. 35:39going about doing something good on your way to minister or something and somebody will say something
491. 35:43to you, you know? And then that one little suggestion, if we're not intentional about rejecting what is
492. 35:52a lie, we'll allow that lie to kind of take root, allow it to kind of find safe harbor,
493. 36:00being a bit too hospitable for hospitable to the lie. And then you two, three weeks down the line,
494. 36:07And a month down the line, three months down the line.
495. 36:10And then you're, man, I don't know what's going on, man.
496. 36:12Jeff, I just, I'm not feeling right, man.
497. 36:15What's wrong, man?
498. 36:15I don't know.
499. 36:17I don't know what's going on, man.
500. 36:19I just, I'm feeling it, you know.
501. 36:22And then the world goes and the psychobablers would,
502. 36:25well, here is this medication.
503. 36:27Put you on these drugs, have you hopped up?
504. 36:31When the truth is, we simply were too hospitable,
505. 36:35to a lie.
506. 36:38There are many people that, again,
507. 36:40When you excavate the scenario,
508. 36:43you get down to the root of the matter.
509. 36:46You know, guys going through midlife crisis,
510. 36:47what is that really about?
511. 36:49Them believe in the lie about their masculinity.
512. 36:54Whether it's such a common phenomenon,
513. 36:58we give it a name, midlife crisis.
514. 37:02I don't remember seeing the scripture
515. 37:03where the Lord says thou shalt have a midlife crisis.
516. 37:06It's okay if you go through midlife crisis.
517. 37:08Feast on what is true.
518. 37:17Feast on what is true.
519. 37:18Now again, I want to point out something to you.
520. 37:20Psalm 42, because I don't want anybody
521. 37:25to think that as I'm talking about this, that I don't believe that the struggles are real.
522. 37:31Oh man, the scripture bears it out.
523. 37:33Oh, the struggles are real.
524. 37:37But just because we have feelings about things doesn't make the feelings true.
525. 37:43Psalm 42 verses 1 through 5, check this out.
526. 37:48As the dear pants for the water brook, so my soul pants for you, O God.
527. 37:52My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
528. 37:57When shall I come and appear before you?
529. 38:01My tears have been my food day and night.
530. 38:05While they say to me all day long, where is your God?
531. 38:10These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.
532. 38:18If I used to go along with the throng and lead them
533. 38:21in procession to the house of God,
534. 38:24with the voice of joy and thanksgiving,
535. 38:26a multitude keeping festival.
536. 38:29Why are you in despair, oh my soul?
537. 38:33And why have you become disturbed within me?
538. 38:36Here the psalmist is describing someone
539. 38:38who used to lead in worship, leading the procession
540. 38:42and singing and glorifying God.
541. 38:44But now, first three, my tears have been my food day and night.
542. 38:50This is a person who's crying all day long.
543. 38:53This is a person who's overwhelmed in anxiety,
544. 38:55overwhelmed in anguish to where they are crying nonstop.
545. 39:02And that crying nonstop has replaced the one who used to
546. 39:09We lift our hands in the sanctuary
547. 39:12We lift our hands to give you the glory
548. 39:17We lift our hands to give you the praise
549. 39:21Or we will praise you for the rest of our days
550. 39:24Yes, that's what it used to be
551. 39:27But now my tears are my food day and night
552. 39:34which causes Psalmist to ask the right questions.
553. 39:41Why are you disturbed within me, oh my soul?
554. 39:45Why are you disquieted within me?
555. 39:47With the scripture is bearing out
556. 39:49that there is a root, that's what I'm saying.
557. 39:53What lie have you believed?
558. 39:55Have you believed the lie that said at this time,
559. 39:58at this age you should be at this place in life?
560. 40:01I know the world says that, but is that true?
561. 40:04What does God's word say?
562. 40:07Have you believed a lie because you don't have this thing,
563. 40:09you don't have that thing that therefore you are somehow
564. 40:11less than who God says you are?
565. 40:13I know the world says that, but is that true?
566. 40:18Where do we get veneration from?
567. 40:20Where do we get our esteem from?
568. 40:23I know those were prevalent notions in the world,
569. 40:25but is it true?
570. 40:27Is it honorable?
571. 40:28Is it worthy of praise?
572. 40:30Is it right?
573. 40:36I go further, turn to Psalm 32,
574. 40:43because sometimes the issue,
575. 40:46And this is one of the deficiencies of the body of Christ being reduced from
576. 40:50worshiping together to merely worshiping beside one another to what we don't really
577. 40:55have vibrant true relationship in the body of Christ, where we're isolated in groups.
578. 41:02Sometimes the issue that's producing the anguish that's producing the anxiety,
579. 41:10sometimes it's unconfessed sin.
580. 41:12Look at Psalm 32.
581. 41:15This is a Psalm of David, and this Psalm is penned after his sinful taking of Bathsheba.
582. 41:25Look at Psalm 32, the first five verses of this Psalm.
583. 41:30Verse one, how blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered?
584. 41:38How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit or no guile?
585. 41:46the verse three, when I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted
586. 41:54away through my groaning all day long. For day and night, your
587. 42:00hand was heavy upon me. My vitality or my strength was drained
588. 42:05away as with the fever heat of summer. I acknowledge my sin to
589. 42:10you and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my
590. 42:15transgressions to the Lord. I will confess my transgressions to
591. 42:22the Lord. Sometimes the thing that is provoking the anxiety and the anguish,
592. 42:29sometimes it's unconfessed sin. Not always, but sometimes it is, lying, covetousness.
593. 42:37Why do they have that? Why don't I have that? Envy, pride, idolatry. Sometimes the thing that is
594. 42:49the root is unconfessed sin. And look, the scripture tells us some of the impact. When I kept silent
595. 42:58about my sin, my body wasted away. Some translations there say my bones wasted away.
596. 43:05Guys, make no mistake about it. Caring around unconfessed sin can sometimes even have a physical
597. 43:13symptomology. Sometimes in a word I call it psychosomatic symptoms. Caring and harboring unconfessed sin
598. 43:23can even manifest itself physically. I can tell you story after story dealing with people who
599. 43:31who wrestle with unforgiveness and bitterness
600. 43:33and how their physical health began to diminish
601. 43:36because that unconfessed sin.
602. 43:39I wanna be clear, I'm not saying this is always the case.
603. 43:42I'm not saying whenever people are struggling with anxieties
604. 43:44because they have unconfessed sin,
605. 43:46but sometimes it is the case.
606. 43:49And we need to be honest about that.
607. 43:52Sometimes you have people who have good church attendance,
608. 43:55but they're harboring unconfessed sin
609. 43:57and this double life is having an effect.
610. 44:05Unsurprisingly, the Bible tells us,
611. 44:07Yeah, yeah, that's true.
612. 44:09That happens.
613. 44:11Man, the scripture tells us that if we confess our sins,
614. 44:14he is faithful and just to forgive us.
615. 44:17Our sin, you read John 21, it gives a beautiful picture
616. 44:20of what confession should look like.
617. 44:22Because after Peter denies Jesus,
618. 44:25and that denial is followed by Jesus being executed
619. 44:32on the cross, Peter was devastated by his own betrayal,
620. 44:41had no hope, went back fishing,
621. 44:43back to what he was doing before he'd ever met Jesus.
622. 44:46But then Jesus shows up in resurrected form on the beach.
623. 44:50And as soon as Peter hurt, wait, that's my Lord?
624. 44:53While the others are trying to get there,
625. 44:54both to the show of Peter jumps in the water and swims.
626. 44:59That's the picture of confession we should have.
627. 45:02Because sometimes anguish is the byproduct
628. 45:05of having an immature response to God's conviction.
629. 45:09When David said, for your hand was heavy upon me,
630. 45:13He's talking about God convicting him for his sin.
631. 45:18In conviction, the mature covenant Christ followers
632. 45:21recognize is evidence of God's love for us.
633. 45:26But the immature response to conviction would be like
634. 45:31Adam and even the garden.
635. 45:32When they rebelled against him,
636. 45:34for the first time in human history, they hid themselves.
637. 45:37They always know when I come home,
638. 45:38usually when I come home from work.
639. 45:40You know, I got a chorus of greetings at the garage door.
640. 45:43Daddy's up!
641. 45:46But already no one went down.
642. 45:47When I pull up in the garage,
643. 45:48and nobody at the door already know what's going on.
644. 45:54Somebody's hiding because they have a misunderstanding
645. 45:58how to respond to conviction.
646. 46:01Man, the scripture tells us God corrects,
647. 46:03he chases those whom he loves.
648. 46:05He loves us so much he won't allow us to continue in error.
649. 46:10An inappropriate response to conviction,
650. 46:14like David here says, for your hand was heavy upon me,
651. 46:17my vitality drained away as with the fever heat of summer.
652. 46:24I know what that's like, man,
653. 46:25growing up in New Orleans with the humidity down south
654. 46:27below sea level.
655. 46:29Man, feel like a hot wet blanket,
656. 46:31it's just on your back, it ain't going nowhere.
657. 46:35No more time, it drains away your strength, your vitality.
658. 46:38But the response to that guys is not to wither away.
659. 46:43I bones eroding away because we're not confessing,
660. 46:46it's to come Lord, cards face up Lord, I'm sorry.
661. 46:50Forgive me.
662. 46:51This is why the Apostle James wrote,
663. 46:54that we confess our sins one to another
664. 46:56that we might be made whole.
665. 46:58And this goes back to the point I was making earlier.
666. 47:00But when we've been made into silos in the body of Christ,
667. 47:05nobody knows one another, let alone can be real with one another.
668. 47:09The scripture says, if a brother is caught in the fault,
669. 47:11yet you who are spiritual to restore such a one,
670. 47:13in the spirit of gentleness, consider yourselves,
671. 47:15lets you too should fall, that's an instruction from God, man.
672. 47:20But what does that require?
673. 47:21That we have relationship and fellowship with the body
674. 47:23sufficiently that I can actually know what's going on
675. 47:25in my brother and my sister's lives.
676. 47:27My brother's lives, I wouldn't encourage men to be the ones walking with women in this necessarily.
677. 47:38But you confess to sins one to another that you might be made whole.
678. 47:44Forgiveness comes from God, but oftentimes deliverance comes horizontally as a result of
679. 47:48the relationship within the body of Christ.
680. 47:52That you can be to a brother who is caught up in a fault, a means of restoration because
681. 47:57you'll walk with them into freedom.
682. 47:59And they will know that you won't condemn them and you won't think less of them and you won't
683. 48:03flip your nose about them.
684. 48:06Oh my God, they're going to believe you struggling with that.
685. 48:10I'm going to believe that.
686. 48:13Consider yourselves that you should fall.
687. 48:17And being in the family of God is supposed to mean something.
688. 48:21You're going to do everyone, especially the household of faith.
689. 48:24But you have scores of people struggling, being hospitable to a lie on other circumstances,
690. 48:34a harboring, unconfessed sin, but don't know what to do with it, don't know where to go with it.
691. 48:40And the enemy is just having a party weighing us down, eroding us, emaciating us, having the one
692. 48:47who previously we lift our hands in the sanctuary. And now bones are wasting away. Now we're being crushed
693. 48:56because we're not employing the divinely powerful armament that God has provided. Instead,
694. 49:02we're resting on carnal means.
695. 49:07Guys, it doesn't have to be that way.
696. 49:10I'm not saying mental health professionals
697. 49:11don't have their place,
698. 49:12but mental health professionals should not supplant
699. 49:15the truth of God's word.
700. 49:18The body of Christ does not have to succumb
701. 49:21to the spirit of the ages' press
702. 49:23to try to reduce everything down.
703. 49:26All I need is a mental health day.
704. 49:28Now, what we need is the feast on truth
705. 49:31and not surprisingly feasting on truth
706. 49:33is what enables us to rejoice always.
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