The Hamilton Corner

February 10, 2026 · 50:49

Superbowl LX’s dueling halftime shows points to a significant reality for our nation.

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0:00 - 15:00. Psalm 119:33-40. Understanding empowers obedience. 15:00 - 31:00. Superbowl LX’s dueling halftime shows points to a significant reality for our nation. 31:00 - 48:00. The keyboard warriors are often just cosplaying outrage for clicks. | Family Focus Weekend Feb 20-22, 2026 | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call : 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links ICE Director Todd Lyons

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  1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
  2. 0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
  3. 0:07This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
  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. 0:29And now, the Hamilton Corner.
  11. 0:33Good evening, everyone.
  12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
  13. 0:36Here on American Family Radio Army,
  14. 0:38a host, Abraham Hamilton III.
  15. 0:40Grateful to be with you.
  16. 0:43I have to tell you, I may have to go into more detail on this.
  17. 0:47At a later date, I won't be able to do this today,
  18. 0:50but man, it has been quite a time where, you know,
  19. 0:55the Lord has really been convicting me
  20. 0:57and ministering to me about gratitude.
  21. 1:00And it's one of the tools that we as followers of the way of Jesus Christ, yeshua, the Messiah,
  22. 1:13that we are equipped and fortified against succumbing to the insanity of this world and
  23. 1:20even the, I would say the normalizing efforts to make professing believers comfortable with
  24. 1:28varying degrees of godlessness. It should not be lost on us that much of the
  25. 1:37chicanery that's happening in our day right now really flows. When you get
  26. 1:42right down to it, from an entitlement that's related to a lack of gratitude.
  27. 1:48It's been quite a journey. It continues to be quite a journey.
  28. 1:57And I look forward to unpacking that as it continues.
  29. 2:04At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your
  30. 2:09part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an
  31. 2:13outcome.
  32. 2:14And as you do so, I would like to remind you, as we do daily on this program, to do so with
  33. 2:19intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on family.
  34. 2:24This is what we're going to talk about quite a bit this weekend at, not this weekend, next
  35. 2:31weekend.
  36. 2:32What time is running?
  37. 2:34Next weekend in Simsboro, Louisiana, if you have not registered yet, what are you waiting
  38. 2:37for?
  39. 2:39Go to fpcsimsborough.org and register.
  40. 2:44There's no fee, no payment necessary for the event.
  41. 2:47It's the family focused weekend, family focused weekend.
  42. 2:51The church would just like to have an idea as to how many people they can expect to attend
  43. 2:56because they want to provide food for attendees.
  44. 2:59You have the option there to register for one night, two nights, or the entire weekend, however
  45. 3:07you choose to do so.
  46. 3:08I know there has been some contacts made.
  47. 3:11There are provisions that are made available for child care.
  48. 3:14If you have questions about that, I'd encourage you to contact the church, fbcsemsborough.org
  49. 3:19website, but we're going to be talking about why the family must be our focus, why we have
  50. 3:27to place focus there.
  51. 3:28And I don't mean to offer it or present that as if it is the exclusive focus.
  52. 3:32However, it is a primary focus in God's kingdom.
  53. 3:35And for far too long, we've relegated it, the family that is, to a secondary or tertiary
  54. 3:41consideration and placed importance on everything else to the neglecting of the family.
  55. 3:49And because darkness is not an affirmative force, it merely reoccupies the space vacated by the
  56. 3:53light when we allow the family to be relegated to a secondary or tertiary consideration, guess
  57. 3:59what reoccupies?
  58. 4:02Yeah.
  59. 4:03So as you're making your transition to your full-time jobs, do so with intentionality.
  60. 4:10We are joined by the corner contingent right across from me, my man, a hundred grand, Mr.
  61. 4:14Bobby.
  62. 4:15Rosa is here and produce extraordinary, often imitated, never duplicated.
  63. 4:20The real J. Mac is in the screening room where we are ready to rock and roll with today's
  64. 4:24edition of the program.
  65. 4:27We are going to begin in the Word of God as we do on a daily basis on this show.
  66. 4:32Today we're going to turn to Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible.
  67. 4:40This is a Psalm, so this text you should envision put to music.
  68. 4:49The 119th Psalm, in addition to being the longest Psalm in scripture, it is also a poem, a Hebrew
  69. 4:58acrostic poem.
  70. 5:01Each stanza in the poem begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
  71. 5:09I mean, this is, I mean, the entire scripture, honestly, is a marvel of literary offerings,
  72. 5:16which we shouldn't be surprised at because it's divinely crafted, but it's just amazing
  73. 5:24what is there.
  74. 5:26But man, the word of God is so nourishing and enriching, and it must, if it's not your
  75. 5:35habit yet, if you are listening to this program, I want to challenge you and encourage you to
  76. 5:40to make a daily appointment to commune with the Lord
  77. 5:44through his word, in his word.
  78. 5:47This is time you will not regret investing.
  79. 5:53Like everybody, we all have lives that are busy.
  80. 5:55I'm a very busy man, but I am so busy
  81. 5:59I cannot afford to commune with the Lord through his word.
  82. 6:05And the more you do so, the more the creator of heaven
  83. 6:11earth reveals himself to you through his holy word. And this text is an example of
  84. 6:18that Psalm 119. This is the stanza verses 33 through 40. Again, this is a
  85. 6:25portion of this Hebrew acrostic poem. And this is what the Lord says through his
  86. 6:31word, teach me. This is the Psalmist writing, teach me O Lord, the way of your
  87. 6:38statutes and I will keep it, keep it to the end or keep it as a reward. Give me
  88. 6:46understanding that I may keep your law and observe it with a whole heart, with my
  89. 6:53whole heart. Lead me in the path of your commandments for I delight in it.
  90. 7:00Encline my heart to your testimonies and not to dishonise gain or to selfish gain.
  91. 7:08Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things and give me life in your ways.
  92. 7:16Confirm to your servant your promise that it produces reverence for you or that
  93. 7:27you may be feared. Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your ordinances are good,
  94. 7:34for your rules are good. Behold, I long for your precepts in your righteousness. Give
  95. 7:41me life. So right at the beginning, and again, I want to
  96. 7:48encourage you to envision this melodically, because this is a
  97. 7:51Psalm divinely inspired as a Psalm. And the Psalmist is again
  98. 7:57inspired by the Lord has carried about by his spirit to cry out
  99. 8:01for the Lord to teach me the way of your statutes. And I will
  100. 8:07keep it to the end or keep it as my reward as it may be rendered
  101. 8:10well. Give me understanding that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.
  102. 8:19The communication from this portion of the Psalm, guys, makes a vibrant connection between instruction
  103. 8:29and or understanding and how instruction or understanding empower obedience. Teach me your
  104. 8:37your statutes, O Lord, and I will keep it. Give me understanding, O Lord, and I will keep your
  105. 8:46law and observe it with my whole heart. Because this is why I encourage daily meeting with
  106. 8:54the Lord through his word. Because the more you understand him, the more he is unfolded
  107. 9:08to you by divine revelation, it has a direct impact on the quality of life you live as a
  108. 9:17result. It moves you away from kind of a normalized cultural, really, socio-pagan disposition of
  109. 9:31humanistic moralism to beholding the face of God and the life that is lived is the life that is lived
  110. 9:40in view of the revelation of God. It takes it out of just a theoretical realm and it makes it real. It
  111. 9:49It makes it tangible.
  112. 9:50I often say when you have the steady habit of reading the Lord's word,
  113. 9:56what you ultimately end up experiencing is the Lord reading you through His word.
  114. 10:02You begin to recognize, man, oh Lord, that is where I am.
  115. 10:07That is what is happening.
  116. 10:10You know, this is why you have the consistent admonition to the believer,
  117. 10:13like Romans 12.
  118. 10:14Believer, don't be conformed to this world.
  119. 10:16Well, what should we do then?
  120. 10:18Rather be transformed.
  121. 10:21What is that vehicle of transformation?
  122. 10:23Renewing your mind.
  123. 10:26Renewing your mind.
  124. 10:29Renewing your mind.
  125. 10:31God knows when we are born again that our minds are not
  126. 10:35instantaneously renewed.
  127. 10:37But what transpires as a result of that dual imputation,
  128. 10:41that our sin is imputed to Jesus, and Jesus' righteousness is imputed to us.
  129. 10:47We are indwelled by the Spirit of God.
  130. 10:50We now ascertain a capacity that did not exist prior to that regeneration.
  131. 10:57We now have the capacity to obey the Lord.
  132. 11:01And that capacity is not engendered humanistically.
  133. 11:05That capacity is super intended by God the Holy Spirit.
  134. 11:12And as that superintendency takes residence in our lives and our hearts,
  135. 11:17We now, we now have eyes that are opened, ears that are opened, hearts that are softened to
  136. 11:24receive the engrafted Word of God.
  137. 11:29And as that transpires, our minds are renewed, our understanding is enlightened, enlightened
  138. 11:38and that understanding powers, obedience.
  139. 11:43The cumulative impact of that reality is that we are able to live lives where we get to
  140. 11:48to enjoy with the Hebrew writer describes the book of Hebrews I'm talking about describes
  141. 11:52as the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
  142. 11:56It is the life quality that results from living and walking and endeavoring in a life of righteousness.
  143. 12:07This is why I say it differently.
  144. 12:09This is how you move from merely perceiving holiness as an external characteristic to be
  145. 12:15observed.
  146. 12:18It becomes an internal reality that our hearts yearned for.
  147. 12:22And then we have the promise as articulated in the Gospel of Matthew that those who hunger
  148. 12:27enthursed after righteousness, guys, that hungering and thirsting after righteousness
  149. 12:35is a real phenomenon.
  150. 12:39Is a real phenomenon.
  151. 12:42One of the evidences of that proper hungering and thirsting is reflected right in this exact
  152. 12:48song.
  153. 12:50in verse 37, that hunger and thirsting, that understanding that is given, that
  154. 12:57empowers obedience causes the disciples plea to be. Turn my eyes from looking at
  155. 13:03worthless things, as that hungering and thirsting capacity is increasing within
  156. 13:11us our discernment, our capacity to identify things that are valuable in
  157. 13:17words investing in and things that are worthless, that are vanity exercises, that are things that
  158. 13:26have no eternal benefit, that are things that have no substantive quality to them, no merit
  159. 13:34to them. It changes everything. It changes everything. And it causes us to no longer be
  160. 13:43be willing to give ourselves in worthless pursuits, in worthless endeavors, and in worthless things.
  161. 13:55Verse 40, behold, I long for your precepts. Some of you are listening to me and you'll say,
  162. 14:01hey, I don't understand how this could actually happen. Whenever I try to open the scripture,
  163. 14:05man, I guess, leave me. It's boring to me. Guys, don't let that stop you. The Lord revealed
  164. 14:15to us in policy, pistol to the Philippians, that he works within us both to will and to
  165. 14:21do according to his good pleasure.
  166. 14:23This posturing, this positioning ourselves for this transformation where understanding
  167. 14:29empowers obedience, that it, it, it, it, burgends into a transformed appetite to other things
  168. 14:36that used to be exciting.
  169. 14:37They're not as exciting anymore.
  170. 14:39And I think that used to be boring, these things now have new life and they transform our perspective.
  171. 14:47Behold, I long for your precepts in your righteousness.
  172. 14:53Quicken me to life in your righteousness that is available.
  173. 14:57Thank you, Lord.
  174. 15:01A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
  175. 15:05What should a pro-life church look like?
  176. 15:08What are some of the priorities, attributes and perspectives of a local church,
  177. 15:11which seeks to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our nation today, as it addresses life issues.
  178. 15:17A pro-life church needs to be a praying church.
  179. 15:21Through prayer, they help to usher in the presence of God into their church,
  180. 15:26and they share the heart and the mind of God with the culture.
  181. 15:29It can help a church family and an individual believer
  182. 15:32to both ask and receive the answer to another important question.
  183. 15:36The question the Apostle Paul asked immediately after he met Christ
  184. 15:40in Acts chapter 9 verse 6.
  185. 15:42Lord, what do you want me to do?
  186. 15:46And a very important companion question is this,
  187. 15:49am I really seeking to honor the Lord
  188. 15:51in doing what he would have me to do
  189. 15:54as an individual disciple of Christ
  190. 15:56to help stand for life?
  191. 16:06Shiving light into the darkness,
  192. 16:08this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
  193. 16:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
  194. 16:15The third here,
  195. 16:16I'm in the studio and you know there's news playing in the studio and just you know I
  196. 16:24asked this question you know to some of our security personnel and staff and I was kicking
  197. 16:28this around with Bobby.
  198. 16:32It's gravely sad and concerning what's happening you know with Savannah Guthrie's mom Nancy
  199. 16:38Guthrie but I just had a question why is it having such ubiquitous news coverage is it because
  200. 16:45Savannah Guthrie is kind of a celebrity, is that the thing?
  201. 16:50Having a background and prosecuting major felonies, I can tell you that there are lots
  202. 16:55of cases that include, sadly to say, kidnappings and things of this nature, missing persons
  203. 17:04and things of that sort.
  204. 17:07I understand that there are certain cases that are what we would call media cases, that
  205. 17:12garner media attention for a host of reasons, but usually when a case becomes a media case,
  206. 17:19it's pretty obvious as to why that is the case.
  207. 17:22And I'm just, I don't know, I just, I see this coverage and I'm like, man, they're covering
  208. 17:27in this, you know, in great detail and multiple angles and it just makes me wonder, what's going
  209. 17:39on here?
  210. 17:43You know, like there's a homicide case that I was looking into that has not gotten major
  211. 17:53attention.
  212. 17:54I pull it up here.
  213. 17:57I have this case up here.
  214. 17:59Do I still have it?
  215. 18:02Decaded Thompson, young lady who was murdered in the Maryland area.
  216. 18:08Now, she's been killed.
  217. 18:12But as I'm saying that name, many of you are saying,
  218. 18:16who, what?
  219. 18:18She was killed by an illegal alien.
  220. 18:23Yeah, it's just, I'm just,
  221. 18:25I'm not trying to, I never wanna compare people's misery
  222. 18:28and compare pain, but it's just interesting to me.
  223. 18:31It just stands out to me.
  224. 18:33All right, let me move on.
  225. 18:36I'll move on from that.
  226. 18:40It's just weird to me.
  227. 18:41the exhaustive coverage of this story.
  228. 18:47That's not that it's being covered,
  229. 18:49but it's exhaustively being covered.
  230. 18:53Anyway, there's been lots of conversations
  231. 18:58and commentary and things on the Super Bowl halftime show.
  232. 19:05I'm not trying to virtue signal anything,
  233. 19:07but I didn't watch it,
  234. 19:09but it's not the first halftime show I didn't watch.
  235. 19:11I got you guys know I have young children.
  236. 19:16I try to be vigilant about what I allow in my home.
  237. 19:20You know, regardless if it's a super bowl or not.
  238. 19:23And I saw, you know, Representative Ogles's post saying
  239. 19:28that he wants to investigate, you know,
  240. 19:30the lewd lyrics and, you know, the,
  241. 19:34I'll just say it this way, the pelvic thrusts
  242. 19:37and all these things is being inappropriate
  243. 19:39and both the NFL and NBC knew about it beforehand,
  244. 19:42which you know I agree with I agree with that it is not appropriate for children.
  245. 19:46There are a lot of other super bowl have time to show that we're not appropriate for children
  246. 19:49either.
  247. 19:50You know what I mean?
  248. 19:52The bigger issue that I have is much of the profane lyrics and you know many of you guys
  249. 19:59know because you know my wife is a Spanish speaker English is her second language even though
  250. 20:04she learned English pretty much contemporaneously to learning Spanish.
  251. 20:09to the Americans people who did watch it.
  252. 20:11They didn't know what he was saying.
  253. 20:15They don't know what he was saying.
  254. 20:16Now don't misconstrue what I'm saying.
  255. 20:17I'm not saying that because they didn't know what he was saying.
  256. 20:19That makes it okay.
  257. 20:20No.
  258. 20:21I think the bigger issue is what the halftime show represents.
  259. 20:29You know, it's a broad side and let's just be clear about something.
  260. 20:32Jay-Z, the rapper, turned businessman, turned, whatever else,
  261. 20:37you know, how you want to describe him is responsible for selecting
  262. 20:41who performs at the halftime show.
  263. 20:43So he's the one who picked, you know, bad-bunny dish,
  264. 20:46or he's the one who picked Kendrick Lamar last year, you know?
  265. 20:48He's the one.
  266. 20:53And everybody knew he was gonna do the whole deal in Spanish.
  267. 20:58Now here's the thing, the Super Bowl is the largest media event
  268. 21:01in our country every year, every year.
  269. 21:04You have people who don't care anything about football.
  270. 21:06They get together with friends and family,
  271. 21:09often concerned for the Super Bowl, and what it represents.
  272. 21:12And here's the reality and I think people,
  273. 21:16if you will be honest about this, be objective,
  274. 21:19well, what an objective, yeah, right?
  275. 21:22In this day and age, be objective.
  276. 21:28Try to be objective.
  277. 21:31The issue is you're gonna have a halftime celebration
  278. 21:34to where it is the largest media event
  279. 21:36in the United States of America
  280. 21:38where the language of the United States of America
  281. 21:41is English.
  282. 21:42And you're going to do an event that the majority,
  283. 21:45the overwhelming majority of the American population
  284. 21:47are unable to comprehend.
  285. 21:51That's an intentional effort to say
  286. 21:54what you thought was America is no longer that.
  287. 21:58And that is the intentional provocation
  288. 22:01that is happening here.
  289. 22:03And Jay-Z is leading it and the NFL is allowing it
  290. 22:07and NBC is broadcasting it.
  291. 22:09That's the issue.
  292. 22:11So for those who are saying, oh man,
  293. 22:12He just, he's just a very, you whoa, my Lord.
  294. 22:15Stop the presses, stop the presses.
  295. 22:17Let's just keep it real.
  296. 22:18That would be no reggae tone if it wasn't for rap and hip hop.
  297. 22:21Let's just be real.
  298. 22:21Come on, man.
  299. 22:22Dude became famous doing a Spanish interpolation
  300. 22:26of an American art form.
  301. 22:30That's just the truth.
  302. 22:32Now imagine, imagine that you have like a World Cup
  303. 22:36or the Copa or whatever.
  304. 22:38And you say, you know what?
  305. 22:40For the big time entertainment,
  306. 22:42going to have a country music artist be the entertainment for, you know, lee gah, tonne
  307. 22:50first, I ain't that, you know, that's, that's what you're gonna have.
  308. 22:53You have Garth Brooks, you know, let's get, let's get Garth, is he the one that goes in
  309. 22:56all black?
  310. 22:57Which one goes in all black?
  311. 22:58I don't know.
  312. 22:59He did.
  313. 23:00Garth Brooks is the, oh no, I, I, I wasn't talking about that.
  314. 23:04That's the one that goes in all black.
  315. 23:06Maybe I'm wrong.
  316. 23:07I don't know, I don't know these things.
  317. 23:10You know, but here's the thing, people who speak Spanish natively understand that.
  318. 23:16So you're going to have the Spanish Festival Headline by Garth Brooks.
  319. 23:19Go man, stop the presses.
  320. 23:22You know what's going on here.
  321. 23:24So you had, once that announcement was made, you had the turning point USA have their deal
  322. 23:29and this is something and this might not be a popular opinion, but y'all know me.
  323. 23:32I don't care.
  324. 23:33I'm going to tell you what I think.
  325. 23:36I didn't like to turn the point USA halftime show either.
  326. 23:42Not because of musical genre.
  327. 23:43I did country music.
  328. 23:44I did my top favorite, but it's cool as a genre.
  329. 23:49This is why I didn't think it turned to Point USA to halftime show either.
  330. 23:53Do you guys remember when this thing first got announced?
  331. 23:56Well, let me take a few steps back.
  332. 24:00Before Charlie Kirk was murdered, he had a trajectory.
  333. 24:04Much of his public engagement at its genesis was solely political.
  334. 24:09Then he had a personal arc where he from his own mouth would say, I thought, you know economics
  335. 24:14was a jam that that needed to be what needed to be addressed.
  336. 24:17But then he began to realize, oh no, that is much bigger than having, you know, a proper
  337. 24:21economic philosophy.
  338. 24:22There's some worldview considerations and he kept digging and he said, man, yes, this worldview
  339. 24:26is big, but I realize even worldview, there's something even bigger than that.
  340. 24:30And he turned the focal point of his work to proclaiming the gospel.
  341. 24:36Many people witnessed this.
  342. 24:38Many people witnessed this.
  343. 24:40He began to talk about the gospel.
  344. 24:41Shortly before he was murdered, he was asked,
  345. 24:43what is one thing if you want to be remembered for anything?
  346. 24:45His words were, I want to be remembered
  347. 24:47for courage for my faith.
  348. 24:51My concern with Turning Point USA
  349. 24:54is that Charlie Kirk's vision and investment
  350. 24:57wasn't necessarily shared unanimously
  351. 25:01throughout all of Turning Point USA.
  352. 25:05And I'm concerned that Turning Point USA
  353. 25:07is more than willing to kind of reverse course away from
  354. 25:11where Charlie Kirk was leading the organization.
  355. 25:16Now, to the halftime show.
  356. 25:18When conversation started first about turning point USA
  357. 25:20offering an alternative halftime show,
  358. 25:22do you remember what the conversations were initially?
  359. 25:24You had people like Forrest Frank and Cory Asbury,
  360. 25:27I'm not saying the music is the greatest,
  361. 25:29I'm not throwing a shade or anything like that,
  362. 25:30but they specifically said that we want to be involved
  363. 25:35in not only doing a counter halftime program,
  364. 25:40but take advantage of the moment
  365. 25:43to point the nation to Jesus,
  366. 25:46to have a worship event.
  367. 25:50Do y'all remember that?
  368. 25:50Some people don't remember that.
  369. 25:52And I didn't say much about it
  370. 25:54because I was just watching it.
  371. 25:57And then, for us, Frank and Corey Asbury,
  372. 26:00I had to say, you know, we've decided
  373. 26:03we're not gonna be a part
  374. 26:04of what turning point USA is trying to do.
  375. 26:06their vision is what they said, their vision is a bit different from what we were seeking
  376. 26:12to accomplish.
  377. 26:14And when that happened, I thought to myself, what is going on here, what began as a conversation
  378. 26:27about having a worship center, Jesus' exulting event became this real America here event.
  379. 26:38Now listen, I love America.
  380. 26:42to listen to this show knows this.
  381. 26:44But America's greatest need is not another patriotic event
  382. 26:52in which Jesus is a side dish at best.
  383. 26:56You understand what I'm saying?
  384. 26:58That's not what we need.
  385. 27:00That's not what we need.
  386. 27:02And the turning point USA halftime event was very successful.
  387. 27:05It shows that the nation has an appetite
  388. 27:07for something other than the smut that is peddled
  389. 27:08by mainstream.
  390. 27:10All of that I commend, I celebrate, I'm grateful for.
  391. 27:13However, I'm gravely concerned, I'm gravely concerned that our populace is more comfortable
  392. 27:20with just having, can I say it the way it is, a Republican form of godlessness, a patriotic
  393. 27:28form of godlessness.
  394. 27:29And I'm concerned that many who might identify themselves as, you know, on the right, so to
  395. 27:35speak, have not heeded the words of our founders.
  396. 27:39They have not recognized, like what John Adams said, that there is no government that is sufficient
  397. 27:46to contend with human passions unbridled by religion and morality.
  398. 27:52That's the statement that proceeds, the more popular quote from John Adams's quote, our
  399. 27:56nation, our Constitution is for a holy religious and moral people.
  400. 28:01It is inadequate for the governance of any other.
  401. 28:03That's the statement that's made after John Adams says there's no form of government that's
  402. 28:08sufficient to contend with human passion unbridled by religion and morality.
  403. 28:12And I just want to tell you something. If we opt for a patriotism and a conservatism that is godless,
  404. 28:24you've hopped out of the frying pan and into the fire. And frankly, I'm not in favor of that. So,
  405. 28:32So I don't want to be, you know, pelvic thrusting with Bugs Bunny and also don't want to be
  406. 28:40Merka, a godless Merka over here now.
  407. 28:44Because honestly, I didn't watch it.
  408. 28:46So I don't know.
  409. 28:47I didn't watch Bugs Bunny's halftime show.
  410. 28:49And I didn't watch the fullness of the Turner Point USA halftime show.
  411. 28:52I've read that, you know, Kid Rock started with, you know, a profane song from his past.
  412. 28:57He ended with something indicating his trajectory, a change in his life that the Lord's superintendent.
  413. 29:06But I've also seen some things that Kigrock has said and done since the halftime show is over.
  414. 29:12Like yesterday.
  415. 29:16And I will never try to.
  416. 29:17Y'all know my stance.
  417. 29:18If somebody is born again, they're walking with the Lord.
  418. 29:21My prayer for them is that they are able to grow and be sanctified in anonymity.
  419. 29:24The scripture warns us about putting new believers on platforms prematurely.
  420. 29:31The scripture warns us about that.
  421. 29:33So I'm not going to try to slam Kid Rock, you know, because I don't know where he is in
  422. 29:36his journey and I hope and pray that, you know, that the Lord has opened his eyes and broken
  423. 29:43in upon him and revealed himself to him and that he's met the Lord in salvation.
  424. 29:46I don't know that.
  425. 29:47And if that is the case and that I pray that he's in a discipleship relationship with
  426. 29:54with a more mature brother in Christ,
  427. 29:56in that he's anchored in a Bible,
  428. 29:59teaching Bible believing church, and he's growing.
  429. 30:02But brothers and sisters, I'm telling you that if we opt,
  430. 30:05let me say it this way, if we settle for a right wing version,
  431. 30:10a conservative version of godlessness,
  432. 30:13the constant is godlessness.
  433. 30:17And we will inevitably end up in the same spot
  434. 30:21just having traveled there at a slower pace.
  435. 30:25So my plea, my prayer, my hope,
  436. 30:28and you know, maybe I'm a pina sky kind of guy,
  437. 30:30whatever you might say,
  438. 30:32is that we not only seek for an alternative to smut,
  439. 30:35but that we seek,
  440. 30:37just like I was saying in the first segment,
  441. 30:38for a hungering and a thirsting after righteousness,
  442. 30:41because there's no politician that's gonna save us
  443. 30:48as a nation.
  444. 30:50If you haven't noticed yet,
  445. 30:52the Trump administration only has about what,
  446. 30:54how much time left?
  447. 30:56Midterms around the corner,
  448. 30:59There are many who have misinterpreted God
  449. 31:02granting our nation a reprieve from the insanity
  450. 31:04of cackling she was never be present at the remix.
  451. 31:09Not realizing God has given his body a reprieve
  452. 31:12so that we can be about our father's business
  453. 31:14and making disciples.
  454. 31:19So, guys, that is where it is.
  455. 31:24And I know that that is not a message that's popular
  456. 31:26because in our reflexive kind of knee jerk,
  457. 31:30and I call it political gang banging,
  458. 31:32kind of shirts and skins, kind of mentalities,
  459. 31:34There's no room for, I'll say it to say, transcendent convictions.
  460. 31:40But I just want to tell you plainly, the Lord will share his throne with no one.
  461. 31:46With no one, with no one, with no one.
  462. 31:49And if we have an Article 4, US Constitution or Article 4, a guarantee of a constitutional
  463. 31:55Republican form of government to where we are the citizens, our government is of the people,
  464. 32:00by the people, for the people that we as the people get to select our servant leaders and
  465. 32:05and re-presentatives, but we have a continuously
  466. 32:08and increasingly wicked populace,
  467. 32:10what do you think that increasingly
  468. 32:12and continually wicked populace will do
  469. 32:14with the right to vote?
  470. 32:16And the right to select its servant leaders.
  471. 32:18What do you think they're gonna select?
  472. 32:23This is why I'm saying, man,
  473. 32:25those of us who have discernment by God's grace,
  474. 32:28we have to cry out to the Lord for our nation.
  475. 32:32And as we cry out to the Lord, we have to put feet
  476. 32:35to our prayer to obey Him.
  477. 32:37We must be executed towards our Father's Commission,
  478. 32:44and we must work while it is done.
  479. 32:48We have to be about our Father's business man.
  480. 32:51I refuse to settle for Godlessness disguised as patriotism.
  481. 33:01The Ten Commandments aren't arbitrary man-made rules,
  482. 33:04nor are they merely suggestions.
  483. 33:07God meant them to be law,
  484. 33:08as He hand-wrote them on the stone tablets
  485. 33:10that He gave Moses.
  486. 33:12They're the basis for many of our nation's laws,
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  493. 33:31The Middle East, that's one part of the world
  494. 33:33we need to pay attention to, especially the country of Israel.
  495. 33:36Each week, I hope you make sense of what's happening
  496. 33:39in that region through a Biblical lens.
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  499. 33:45biblical prophecy, ministries happening on the ground,
  500. 33:47and much more.
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  503. 33:51every Saturday at 6.30 PM Central
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  505. 33:57places and geography, of what we read in God's Word.
  506. 34:01Mental health industry missing the mark.
  507. 34:04This is David Wheaton, host of the Christian worldview.
  508. 34:08The statistics are staggering.
  509. 34:10One in five people in America have been diagnosed
  510. 34:12with the mental illness.
  511. 34:14One in six are taking powerful psychotropic medications,
  512. 34:18such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety, and stimulants.
  513. 34:22And here's the troubling part.
  514. 34:23The material brain in the immaterial mind
  515. 34:26are wrongly considered to be one in the same,
  516. 34:28which means wrong and harmful treatments are administered.
  517. 34:32God's way to a sound mind is the right way.
  518. 34:35When we obey His command to be born again,
  519. 34:37we can then be, as scripture says,
  520. 34:39transformed by the renewing of your mind.
  521. 34:43Here are most recent program with Greg Gifford,
  522. 34:45author of Lies My Therapist Told Me,
  523. 34:47at TheChristianWorldView.org,
  524. 34:50and then tune in this weekend
  525. 34:51as we discuss freedom from lust.
  526. 34:54Listen to The Christian World View with David Wheaton,
  527. 34:56Saturday mornings at 8th Central,
  528. 34:58on American Family Radio.
  529. 35:05A Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute common
  530. 35:08terrace are available at aFR.net.
  531. 35:11Back to The Hamilton Quarter,
  532. 35:12on American Family Radio.
  533. 35:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
  534. 35:17Abraham Hamilton the third here.
  535. 35:21So there was lots of conversation,
  536. 35:27consternation, when you had the powder keg
  537. 35:32that was Minnesota, you have the Renee Good tragedy,
  538. 35:38really tragedy of our own making,
  539. 35:39you have the Pretti tragedy,
  540. 35:42It's not identical to the very good case, but it's a powder keg that honestly got as it
  541. 35:48guys as a manufactured powder keg and I'm going to explain why it's manufactured.
  542. 35:52We talk a little bit about it, but before I get to the explanation, I just want to give
  543. 35:56you this update because the ice director Todd Lyons was before Congress and he explained
  544. 36:05a bit of the lowering of the temperature and really evidence of Tom Holman's effectiveness
  545. 36:14and his role.
  546. 36:15And we have to understand that there are different agencies within the Department of Homeland
  547. 36:20Security.
  548. 36:21So ICE is not synonymous with Border Patrol.
  549. 36:25Those are two different entities all under the auspices of DHS, but different components.
  550. 36:32And unfortunately, man, living in the fallen world, pride gets in in people because they're
  551. 36:39human beings, they seek to capitalize and they contribute to the powder keg, not least to
  552. 36:43mention the efforts by the local officials, both the Governor Tim Walts and Jacob Fry,
  553. 36:50seeing an opportunity for them to kind of shade some of the, stave off some of the heat that
  554. 36:54they were getting because of all of the fraud that was being exposed there and their complicity,
  555. 37:00allegedly, in all of the fraud, but you've had, it's kind of flown under the radar, you've
  556. 37:06had scores of people indicted due to the revelations of fraud and the scheming and things that are
  557. 37:13happening there.
  558. 37:15But Todd Lyons before Congress testified and explained, look, there's been a turn there
  559. 37:21and that turn in Minneapolis is reflected in the fact that just, you know, last night,
  560. 37:28there were 54 protesters who were arrested by local law enforcement, not federal authorities
  561. 37:34arrested by local law enforcement. Listen to and watch clip number three, clip three, go.
  562. 37:41So we've seen a de-escalation in the fact that we the protests while they still go on have
  563. 37:47subsided and ICE has been allowed to do their targeted intelligence driven enforcement operation.
  564. 37:52the Salenite local authorities arrested 54 protesters at the local level where ICE officers
  565. 37:58did not have to be engaged in that.
  566. 38:03So that is a turn because before now, local law enforcement has kind of been, you know,
  567. 38:12my name Paul, maybe Minneapolis, same Paul, but that's all y'all.
  568. 38:15You know, what kind of thing they've been having a completely hands off approach, which
  569. 38:19I've said on today's issues and other programs and even on my own program that this is this
  570. 38:26is foundationally making the circumstances more risky for everyone involved.
  571. 38:35It makes it worse in terms of health and safety for the illegal immigrants.
  572. 38:40It makes it worth worse.
  573. 38:41It makes it worse.
  574. 38:43I'm sorry for the Minneapolis and St. Paul community and communities.
  575. 38:47It makes it worse for ICE officers.
  576. 38:51It makes it worse for law.
  577. 38:52It makes it worse for everybody.
  578. 38:54Because if the goal, and this has been, and this is what people continually fail to recognize,
  579. 39:00that Tom Holman didn't just show up on the scene, he was the one responsible for enforcing
  580. 39:06removal of illegal aliens under Barack Obama.
  581. 39:09That's how Trump learned about him.
  582. 39:12Oklahoma gave home in an award for how well he was able to identify and remove illegal
  583. 39:20aliens.
  584. 39:23Not so fun fact is that local law enforcement, local police, and local law enforcement officers
  585. 39:31cooperated with ICE under Barack Obama.
  586. 39:35That cooperation included, and I explained this before, as a former prosecutor, this is
  587. 39:40something I did with routine, as a new case would come in.
  588. 39:44The investigators would run a criminal history and a background check on the new defendant
  589. 39:50in the new case.
  590. 39:51If there was an indication that the new defendant was an illegal alien, there would be an ice
  591. 39:59hole to apply to that defendant while they were in the local jail to where my office would
  592. 40:05notify the federal law enforcement authorities, including immigration and customs enforcement,
  593. 40:10To say, hey, there's a guy in our local jail who appears to be an illegal alien.
  594. 40:16You may want to open your files to confirm whether or not that is true.
  595. 40:21And if that is true, you will need to coordinate with our local law enforcement to facilitate
  596. 40:27deportation and removal proceedings.
  597. 40:29Guys this happened every day that ends in Y.
  598. 40:31All right.
  599. 40:33When you have sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, these are municipalities or states
  600. 40:37that have said we expressly refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement authorities.
  601. 40:43And cooperate is the exact term that's employed because as it stands, state and municipal governments
  602. 40:51are not compelled to cooperate with ICE.
  603. 40:54They are incentivized, however, to do so.
  604. 40:57Now, coming back to the Tom Homan conversation, the express objective all along as expressed
  605. 41:04by the Trump administration is that the priorities and identification and deportation were illegal
  606. 41:11aliens who commit additional crimes who have committed additional crimes on American soil.
  607. 41:17All right?
  608. 41:18So in addition to having entered our country illegally or having remained in our country
  609. 41:23illegally, they've committed additional crimes.
  610. 41:27Where do you think the bulk of people who fit that description, where will we find them?
  611. 41:37the bulk of the people who would fit that description we would find
  612. 41:41in local jails
  613. 41:42and prisons
  614. 41:46so you have an image you have a municipality
  615. 41:49that has already done this
  616. 41:52in terms of co cooperating with federal law enforcement
  617. 41:56when
  618. 41:57there
  619. 41:58is a democrat president in barak obama
  620. 42:01but now you have
  621. 42:02a president
  622. 42:03that's with a different party but it was saying the exact same thing barak obama
  623. 42:07said, but now you guys say, but we will not cooperate.
  624. 42:11So then what happens?
  625. 42:13Then that creates a scenario because it's the federal law enforcement officers are going
  626. 42:17to implement the policy that the commander-in-chief, the president has required, where do they now
  627. 42:22have to go to find these illegal aliens who've committed additional crimes upon American soil?
  628. 42:27Where do they have to go?
  629. 42:29If the local law enforcement authorities say we will not allow you to get them in our prisons
  630. 42:33and our jails, where do they have to go?
  631. 42:37the streets and what happens in the streets.
  632. 42:41You have coordinated efforts because as I told you, many of these protests like the one
  633. 42:44in city's church were participated in by local government officials, including in the local
  634. 42:53county attorney's office, including local city council members.
  635. 42:58They are creating a scenario where they are attempting to bring a circus to town.
  636. 43:06Why else do you think Don EZP's, the lemon juice squeezes shows up with a professional
  637. 43:10camera crew?
  638. 43:12They are attempting, guys, they are attempting to create the full test, to drum up attention,
  639. 43:20to fan into flame all of these things that really should remain low level, discrete,
  640. 43:27law enforcement activities.
  641. 43:29So now what's happened?
  642. 43:31Tom Homan announced, and with his presence in Minneapolis, because he hadn't been there
  643. 43:34before, and I'm going to talk about that in a second, announced an immediate drawdown
  644. 43:38of 700 ICE agents about the quarter of the force.
  645. 43:42There's still 2,000 ICE agents there.
  646. 43:45But the drawdown was conditional, conditioned upon what?
  647. 43:49I'm so glad you asked.
  648. 43:51The condition for the drawdown was the cooperation of local law enforcement officials.
  649. 44:03So Tom Holman, because people say, oh, yeah, Trump's surrender.
  650. 44:05It's like, it's not a surrender.
  651. 44:07It's a tactical shift.
  652. 44:09It's a tactical and here's what I want you guys to understand.
  653. 44:12It's a tactical shift to what should have been happening in the first place.
  654. 44:18So it's not a surrender.
  655. 44:21It's what this is what we wanted in the first place.
  656. 44:24So if you will allow us into your jails, if you cooperate and let us know, we'll come
  657. 44:30into the jail and arrest so and so.
  658. 44:33We're going to the prison in the court.
  659. 44:35So and so we don't have to do this on the street.
  660. 44:37We'll have to wait to see if there's a bond here.
  661. 44:39We don't have to wait until they're paroled.
  662. 44:41We don't have to wait until somebody's going
  663. 44:42to the grocery store.
  664. 44:45And then President Administration has said
  665. 44:47that in the process of detaining these illegal aliens
  666. 44:50who've committed additional crimes,
  667. 44:52if there's another illegal alien around,
  668. 44:53we're not gonna act like they're not illegal,
  669. 44:56but that's not our priority.
  670. 45:00You see, so if the objective for everybody,
  671. 45:03because you think Jacob Fry and Tim Walsh
  672. 45:08are gonna say publicly out loud,
  673. 45:10we oppose the arrest and the deportation of illegal aliens who've committed additional crimes when
  674. 45:15they've arrived in American soil. Even though you know that's what they believe, that's what they really
  675. 45:19feel, but they ain't gonna say it out loud. So what has happened that has contributed to the loss of
  676. 45:29life, unfortunately, is that people who like to, and just get it ready, people who like to
  677. 45:36to create crises, because Romney manual gave away.
  678. 45:43He publicly stated the Alinsky theorem.
  679. 45:46You got it handy, Bobby?
  680. 45:48Go ahead and run it for the people.
  681. 45:49What's the Alinsky theorem?
  682. 45:50You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
  683. 45:52You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
  684. 45:55What Romney manual didn't say in that instance
  685. 45:57is that the Alinsky theorem is you create the crisis.
  686. 46:02So I'm explaining this in this way
  687. 46:04so everybody in this audience can understand
  688. 46:06everything that had just happened in the powder kick
  689. 46:08Minnesota and Minneapolis and St. Paul in particular was a manufactured
  690. 46:13powder keg because none of that had to happen if they would have done initially
  691. 46:19what they are doing now. Here's the other thing the Trump administration has said.
  692. 46:23The moment you Jacob Fry and he tried to say oh I have no control of what happens
  693. 46:28in the jail. That's a lie guys. That's a flat lie. The mayor in every town and city
  694. 46:32in America is head of the local police agent police office. Not the county
  695. 46:39share us, but the city police, the mayor is over that, the mayor.
  696. 46:45All right.
  697. 46:47And how do we know that?
  698. 46:49This is a law enforcement, all of a sudden local law enforcement, that is, not federal
  699. 46:53agents, because federal immigration's officers are not trained to do local policing.
  700. 46:59They're not trained to do crowd control.
  701. 47:02They're not trained to respond to protesters.
  702. 47:04They are immigration's and customs enforcement.
  703. 47:11But you have this manufactured chaos.
  704. 47:14Now I'm going to show you a little bit on the other side because this is a little bit
  705. 47:17of inside pool that people don't like to talk about but I'm going to tell you about it
  706. 47:20because you need to be aware of it.
  707. 47:22This approach with cooperation with local municipalities is the approach that Tom Holman
  708. 47:27used under Barack Obama.
  709. 47:28I told you that before.
  710. 47:30Well because of the popularity with the American public in terms of a policy issue, Christie
  711. 47:37And no, unfortunately, and Greg Bavino wanted to make spectacles.
  712. 47:47So they tried to maneuver to kind of sidestep Tom Omen, which is why when the funk gets the
  713. 47:54fan, what does the President of Trump do, Tom Omen, please go to Minneapolis because
  714. 48:03you have people on the right trying to capitalize on issues they view as the so-called 80-20
  715. 48:10issues to boost their own popularity.
  716. 48:16Instead of, why can't we just have people that do the work?
  717. 48:18You see Tom Holman, and I'm not trying to say he's a saint, trying to say I agree with
  718. 48:22everything he's ever said in life, but you think Tom Holman is trying to jockey for position
  719. 48:27to get a future, punted position on one of the major networks, trying to be tapped to be an
  720. 48:32ambassador to so and so and so next presidential candidate, that's not what he's doing.
  721. 48:37He believes in the work.
  722. 48:39He believes in protecting American borders and just wants to get that done.
  723. 48:42What's the most effective way to get it done with the least amount of drama as possible?
  724. 48:47That's how.
  725. 48:48The least amount of drama is possible.
  726. 48:50Let's just get it done.
  727. 48:51Let's keep the temperature down.
  728. 48:53Let's try to keep the American public safe.
  729. 48:54Let's try to even keep the legal immigrants safe.
  730. 48:56We ain't trying to, we don't want nobody to die in these processes.
  731. 49:01But the United States of America can't be the world's charity blanket.
  732. 49:05We can't absorb all of the world's charity cases.
  733. 49:09My heart breaks.
  734. 49:11My heart breaks.
  735. 49:12If I'm in a country that's overrun by drug dealing cartel members, yes, I want to try to get away
  736. 49:18to a safer place so I can raise my children in a more safe place.
  737. 49:23But these people because of the difficult circumstances don't have a right to violate
  738. 49:27our laws.
  739. 49:32So what is being presented as if well this person blinked and this person did this is not a blinking
  740. 49:37of anything.
  741. 49:39It's people having the tragedy and the loss of life as a background to finally get them
  742. 49:44to say, man we should probably do we should have been doing from the first place.
  743. 49:50And that said, that's what's going on.
  744. 49:56And so the only way to prevent these things from being repeated is people are exposed and
  745. 50:01held accountable.
  746. 50:04And we say very plainly, look, Jacob Fry and Tim Walsh, y'all ain't getting off, nothing.
  747. 50:09Y'all tried to obfuscate and distract and turn to what they still got, a few billions
  748. 50:14that didn't came up missing from this area.
  749. 50:16We got to find out what's going on with it.
  750. 50:20But that's how the Fotests work.
  751. 50:22You have manufactured crises where the Alinsky theorem is employed because crises become the
  752. 50:29environment where people seed liberty.
  753. 50:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
  754. 50:45Family Association or American Family Radio.

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