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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
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0:34Good evening, everybody.
0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:36Abraham Hamilton III is my name.
0:38Host of this program.
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1:01Ladies and gentlemen, is in the screening room
1:03where we are ready to rock and roll.
1:06With today's edition of the program at this very moment,
1:09many of you, if not most of you,
1:10are making your transition from your part-time jobs,
1:13where you generate an income to your full-time jobs,
1:18where you cultivate an outcome.
1:19And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so
1:21with intentionality.
1:23Understand in the primacy that God places on family
1:26and allowing that to govern and guide,
1:29I would add guard your engagement with your own families.
1:34We will never be able to out politic, out Supreme Court, out canvas, out voter registration, the
1:43deficiencies that abound in the home.
1:46What goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
1:52In the White House, I'm saying this not to diminish the significance of things that are
1:56happening in the White House.
1:58For example, today, President Trump met with BVN, Prime Minister Netanyahu again while you
2:03have a little P-roll over there in the Arabian Sea called the USS Abraham Lincoln.
2:10Just a little P-roll, you know, that's from southwest Louisiana.
2:13I don't know what the P-roll is.
2:14A P-roll go there, you know, not too much action.
2:18All of a sudden, I rain is just we don't have any joys but to negotiate.
2:22I'm sure you don't.
2:23I'm sure you don't.
2:25important, but it's not more important than what is happening in your home in my home.
2:30It's not.
2:31It's not because you and I are directly accountable and responsible for what we have immediate access
2:39and control over.
2:41That's just the simple realities.
2:43So we absolutely want to pray for the president and elected officials at every level of government,
2:48God, we have our constitutional Republican form of government with the division of potencies,
2:58but guys, we must be about our father's business.
3:01And I've said this before, the maintenance of our republic depends upon a continually evangelized
3:08and discipled populace.
3:10We should not be surprised that the larger the mass of unbelievers grow in our nation,
3:17The louder the calls will become to cast off about our Constitution, Republican form of
3:23government.
3:24We should understand that and view it as kind of like a thermometer is telling the temperature,
3:30is telling the temperature of what's happening in our society.
3:34In contrary to popular belief and practice, those things, meaning the cultivation of, let
3:42me say it this way, the propagation of multi-generational rebellion, the fulcrum of that
3:49is the home. Discipleship is a constant and it will take place either by
3:56affirmative investment or as a result of negligence. That's just the truth. To the
4:05word of God we go. Today I want to, I hope to demonstrate as we go through the text
4:13one of the biblical examples that highlight the importance of making
4:18disciples. And I want to discuss it in view of the reality of evangelism because we must
4:29never forget that our Lord's commission is to make disciples. Evangelism is intrinsic in
4:36disciple making. You cannot make a disciple of an unbeliever. It won't be a disciple
4:42of Jesus Christ. It is intrinsic, but the Greek commission is not to go ye therefore and
4:54make converts. It's important, but it's not the full work. It's vital, but it's not the full work.
5:03And I want to give you an example of that from the Scriptures. We're going to begin today or
5:07going to go to Colossians chapter 1. I want to point out something to you from the Colossians chapter
5:121, verses 1 through 6. The Apostle Paul is writing this epistle to the saints at Colossae,
5:20which is a real city in the first century.
5:24The book of Colossians is an early part of the 60s AD
5:28on the southwest region of Turkey,
5:32just south of the Black Sea.
5:34And this is what the Lord says to us by his spirit
5:39through his word.
5:40Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
5:45by the will of God and Timothy our brother
5:48to the saints.
5:51Listen to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ,
5:57who are at Colossae, grace to you,
6:02and peace from God our Father.
6:04We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
6:09praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus,
6:15and the love which you have for all the saints,
6:18because of the hope laid up for you in heaven,
6:22of what you previously heard in the word of truth.
6:26The gospel which has come to you just as in all the world
6:31also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing
6:36even as it has been doing in you.
6:39Also, since the day you heard of it
6:42and understood the grace of God in truth.
6:50I want you to notice here, the Apostle Paul goes
6:54out of his way and this is what's called the prologue to this epistle. He
6:57pisces with just a fancy word that means letter. The prologue is the
7:02introduction of the letter and the Apostle Paul goes to great lengths to
7:07specify the people to whom his letter is addressed. They are fedo, they are
7:14fellow brethren. They are fellow followers of the way of Messiah just as he is, just
7:21just as he was, just as Timothy was. Notice in verse two, to the saints and faithful brethren,
7:30the term saints is derived from the Greek word hagiois. All right? A clear expression that Paul
7:39is addressing this to believers, to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ. These are the
7:48the addressees, if you will, of this letter to the saints and faithful brotherhood in Christ.
7:54Grace to you in peace from God, our Father."
7:58Okay?
8:00He goes on.
8:01Verse 4, he identifies, we heard of your faith in Christ, meaning Paul and Timothy, heard
8:07of the Colossian believers' faith in Christ and heard of their love for all the saints.
8:14That's one of the things that God does in the life of a believer, that he works in the
8:19believer a love for the saints, a love for the body of Christ. Paul is saying this is true of the
8:26Colossian believers. He goes further and says in verse 5 that the Colossian believers have the hope
8:34laid up for them in heaven, which they had previously heard in the word of truth. Again affirming that
8:43these are believers, but I want you to notice something. After Paul identified that these are
8:51believers that he's addressing in Colossae, affirming that they are fellow brethren in
8:56the eternal family of God, affirming that they are indeed the haggioice, a part of God's remnant,
9:05the family of God, the household of faith.
9:08You then see things like Colossians chapter 2 in which Paul warns the believer against being
9:14deluded, which delusion could metastasize into full-blown captivity.
9:19You then see in Colossians chapter 3, if you want to get even more specific, you get to
9:24Colossians chapter 3, then the apostle Paul goes through great length to explain to these
9:29believers the necessity of them growing to walk in the newness of life, typified by taking
9:36off the old man and putting on the new man, taking off the old man and putting on the new
9:44man, he is describing, guys, the work of the Spirit of God in sanctification.
9:50He goes throughout Colossians chapter 3 and identifying all manner of immoral behaviors,
9:57including sexual immorality.
10:01Because for a first century, romanized, Colossian community, there were certain practices that
10:06were normal for them that were not commissurate with life as believers.
10:14So it is to the believers that Paul goes through great lengths, great lengths to communicate
10:21that now that you are in Christ, here are features of Christ following that must be added to your
10:28manner of living.
10:30What we are witnessing in this phenomenon, guys, what we are witnessing is the evidence
10:36of the necessity for disciple making.
10:42He affirms in chapter 1, fellow brethren, faithful brethren, who love the Lord, who love
10:47saints who have embraced God in salvation, who have embraced the work of the Spirit,
10:51and God leading in regeneration. And it is to these believers, Paul said, hey, by the way,
10:55you get to Galatia chapter 3 verse 9, Paul says straight up, hey, don't lie to one another.
11:02Don't lie to one another. Now why would Paul have to say that? You know why? Because there were people
11:07in Galatia lying to each other, and they needed to have that sinful behavior confronted so that
11:17that the believer could grow in the grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
11:22You see a similar phenomenon in Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians.
11:26He begins first Corinthians affirming the fact that yes, they are believers.
11:33Yes, but then Paul goes to confront all manner of sinful conduct.
11:41All manner of sinful conduct.
11:43Why?
11:44Because discipleship, guys, is not an option.
11:48a necessity. God knows when we're born again that we don't instantaneously have new minds.
11:53He knows that. He knows that. That's why the commission is not merely to make converts,
12:00because if we are not intentional in obeying all that God commanded of us, we may find ourselves
12:05merely seeking to issue fire insurance and undermine the entirety of what God commanded
12:12in the gospel. You see, discipleship is the command. Absolutely want to evangelize. And
12:21we should never put evangelism against discipleship to pit them against one another as if they're
12:26enemies because they're not, not in the least bit. But we do not have the authority to unilaterally
12:34declare what we are going to edit the Great Commission to be. We don't have the authority to
12:40to nip and tuck what God commanded of us.
12:42And guys, this is why, this is why
12:44there's such feverish warfare around disciple making.
12:50I tell my children all the time,
12:52partial obedience is disobedience.
12:56It's disobedience.
12:58And we have a large problem in our country
13:03with a critical mass of unregenerative people
13:05no doubt about it.
13:08But also, there is also a reality
13:11that may very well persist as virulently
13:17with the Bible Belt phenomenon.
13:21Could it be that we had people who genuinely are believers,
13:25but they've never been discipled.
13:28They've never been discipled.
13:30That people who have genuinely come to faith in Christ Jesus,
13:34but they've been inundated by prosperity gospel
13:38and social applications of the prosperity gospel.
13:44They've been inundated with false brethren so much so where they're having to struggle
13:50against the morass of false brethren professing to be of the family of God.
13:57Kind of like the Apostle Jude contended with.
14:00I wanted to write to you guys about our Commissalvation, but I couldn't because false brethren
14:04have crept in unawares.
14:07Could it be that their genuine believers but their faith are being starved out because
14:11They've been confined and conscripted to places that are more concerned with entertaining masses
14:17So their crowd sizes grow with no concern whatsoever for the quality of the life of the believer
14:22What I'm saying guys what I'm saying is there's a God knew what he was doing when he commanded his bride to make disciples
14:32It's often thankless work. It's often not, you know, name and lights kind of work. It gets ugly
14:38It's that life on life kind of when a sausage is being made
14:44But that is the work that God has called his bride to.
14:49You want to talk about making things great again,
14:52by the Lord move his body to make the obedience
14:54and disciple making great again.
15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:03In the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke chapter 10,
15:06three people of quote unquote faith
15:08found a man in great trouble and distress.
15:11Two of the three passed by on the other side of the road
15:14after seeing the injured man.
15:17Sadly, they did nothing to help.
15:21Yet when a Samaritan saw the man, he had compassion on him.
15:25The Samaritan went through great lengths to help the injured man.
15:29He used his time, energy, and money to assist the person in need.
15:33The Lord Jesus, after sharing the parable, gave a command, go and do likewise.
15:40Babies in the womb have too often been the man on the side of the road.
15:45The world has beaten them up, robbed them, and taken their lives too often.
15:50May the Church, the body of Christ, may we not pass by on the other side anymore.
16:04Shiting light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton III.
16:14Here, thank you for joining us in this program and with all of the different options you have
16:19available to you, you making the decision to tune in here is, I mean, I appreciate it.
16:26Our whole team appreciates it.
16:28Thank you for doing that.
16:31We are closing in on the Family Focus weekend at Simmsboro First Baptist Church.
16:39We'll be there February 20th through the 22nd.
16:42Y'all know I've been announcing this for the last few weeks.
16:46There's no charge for the event at all, but the church wants to know how many people are
16:52coming so that they can prepare accordingly because they are providing meals for attendees
16:57for this weekend.
16:58So in order to attend, you're being asked to go to fbcsimsborough.org slash events or go
17:07to the events tab, you'll see the family focus weekend there and you can register right there.
17:13We are looking forward to having a great time to really spend some time honing in on our full-time
17:20jobs.
17:21We're going to be discussing some things, some developments across our culture, referring to
17:26certain studies and different things of that nature.
17:28It's going to be an amazing time there.
17:30I would love to meet you.
17:32If I have not had the privilege of meeting you yet, shaking some hands and hugging some
17:35necks, getting to see a little glimpse of what we're going to enjoy and eternity when we are
17:41all are beholding our Lord face to face, not through a glass dimly but beholding him face
17:47to face knowing him as we are known.
17:50What a rejoicing time that will be.
17:53All right.
17:55I alluded to this earlier.
17:59I guess not.
18:00Let me take a few steps back.
18:02So many of you heard when President Trump addressed the slaughters that are happening
18:08to protesters in Iran and even before the operation to escort Nicholas Maduro to Landueva York,
18:23escorting him from Venezuela, protests mounted in Iran against the reign of the Ayatollahs.
18:33Some people forget that Iran has not always been an Islamic theocracy.
18:40It has not always been that way.
18:42And various things that are happening, including the massive economic downturn there in Iran,
18:49but I don't want you to forget.
18:50I don't want anybody to forget that the gospel has been advancing in Iran and house churches
18:55and underground churches in such a way where people staring down literally death in order
19:02to come to Christ.
19:04Missions organizations have explained, reports have been provided that the largest numbers
19:09of people that have been coming to faith in Christ per capita literally has been in Iran
19:15for really the past decade or so.
19:18And I cannot help but to think just as in our own nation that the revelation concerning
19:23individual liberty flowed downstream from the Reformation idea of the Amago Dei, you know,
19:30and the individual's ability to navigate the Lord's Word,
19:35as well as, would you say, well, yeah,
19:38and the individual has unalienable or inalienable rights.
19:42You know, I cannot help but think, excuse me,
19:49that that could, you're not counting the day,
19:51how about how you thank you?
19:52That that could, you say, I got it up here,
19:54I got it up, it's underneath the kangle,
19:56it's underneath the kangle.
19:59I can't help but think about how the gospel
20:04was impacting the lack of willingness to remain
20:07subjugated to the regime of the Ayatollahs.
20:09And so there have been massive protests,
20:12and it's sad to see how even the Iranian regime
20:16is coming out and admitting,
20:17yeah, it's probably been seven thousand people killed.
20:20Now, if that's the Iranian governmental numbers,
20:22telling you it's been about seven thousand people.
20:24When I say seven thousand people killed,
20:25because the Iranian citizens don't have a second amendment,
20:28the only people with guns in Iran are government folks.
20:33And so we've seen numbers that far exceed 7,000
20:37in terms of people who have been murdered for protesting
20:39and President Trump has condemned those protests.
20:42And he said to encourage the Iranians
20:45to keep protesting because basically the US supports you.
20:51So then in addition to that,
20:52and these are moves that are happening
20:54and not a lot of fanfare, not a lot of attention
20:57is being brought to this.
21:00But, not let me just, I'll read it to you this way.
21:06In recent weeks, President Trump has ordered a substantial buildup of U.S. forces in the
21:12Middle East region, deploying numerous aircraft, the USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier Strike
21:21Group, which is in the Arabian Sea, as I'm speaking to you right now, and additional warships,
21:28If you don't talk about this, additional warships, as part of what he described as a
21:33powerful armada ready to respond if the Iranian regime does not make a deal.
21:39Okay?
21:40Now, I'm not going to purport to know what the deal is, but you have the USS Abraham Lincoln
21:52and company already in the Middle East, which led to initial rounds of, I guess you would
21:59call it trilateral talks between the US and the Iranians in Oman initially in Oman the
22:10Iranians and the US haven't what they're discussing. I mean we could speculate. I won't speculate
22:19a bunch but I I'm pretty sure it has to do with the protesters being murdered and what
22:27happening in the country. And that was followed by meetings between President Trump and Israel's
22:36Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, because as I understand it, Prime Minister Netanyahu wants
22:42to make sure whatever negotiations take place, that there needs to be an additional degradation
22:48of Iran's ballistic capabilities. And so, according to the reports, Prime Minister Netanyahu has sought
22:57to lean or not lean but to encourage President Trump to push for further disarmament or let
23:05me say degrading of Iran's armed capacities concerning their meeting today. They met today
23:13in the White House, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu for about three hours. Listen
23:17to this brief report on their meeting. It's clip number four, clip four, go.
23:21Alimzhi, just a few minutes ago, President Trump posted a pretty extensive readout of the meeting
23:28that he had with Prime Minister Netanyahu, who we know arrived here at the White House just
23:33before 11 o'clock today.
23:34And the president said that nothing definitive was reached other than he insisted that negotiations
23:41with Iran continue to see whether a deal can be consummated.
23:45And if it can, he says he let the Prime Minister know that will be the preference.
23:50If it cannot, the president says we will just have to see what the outcome will be.
23:56He also brought up the last time he says Iran decided that they were better off not making
24:01a deal, and they were hit with midnight hammer, which of course was the stealth operation
24:07that the U.S. undertook to take out three serious main nuclear sites in Iran and really degrade
24:16their ambitions there.
24:17The president goes on to say that hopefully this time they will be more reasonable and
24:22responsible.
24:23The president also saying that they talked about tremendous progress being made in Gaza
24:28and the region in general.
24:30It's very interesting.
24:33It's very interesting.
24:34The Wall Street Journal reported just yesterday that President Trump was weighing, sending a
24:39second aircraft carrier to the Middle East.
24:44And so that has understandably caused a little bit of trepidation in the Iranians and from
24:51their public, I'll call it peacock preening.
24:55The Iranians have said that their ballistic missile capabilities are absolutely not a
25:03part of this negotiation while Prime Minister Netanyahu is insisting, according to the
25:09report that it they absolutely must be a part of the negotiations.
25:14I just just find it very interesting.
25:17You know, I think the world has come to recognize that President Trump is not playing games.
25:25As the president said today, the last time the Iranians didn't make a deal, it resulted
25:32in some activities, shall we say.
25:37So he's hopeful that they'll seek to make a deal now.
25:40So that is something we'll certainly continue to cover because it is very interesting.
25:49And it just brings to my mind, because a lot of people listening, you're watching it, watching
25:55things happen here, people talking about the Super Bowl, all this other kind of stuff.
25:58And we have aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea.
26:03There's no rest as a president.
26:06No, ah, let's just relax.
26:07He's always on the go.
26:10And these issues are quite, quite, quite heavy, you know.
26:16That just shows that.
26:18All right.
26:20Now I'm going to cover a story.
26:21And this is going to probably take us into the next segment.
26:24It's actually a couple of stories.
26:25And some of this is older because I'm going to go back in time
26:29because artificial intelligence is advancing in its capabilities.
26:33I alluded to a multiple book a couple days ago.
26:39This is basically a social media platform
26:43that was created solely for AI chatbots and AI agents
26:47to interact on.
26:48And it just got started in January.
26:51And the month didn't end before the chatbots,
26:54sorry, well let me go back and say a couple of other things.
26:56It's a platform that's created for AI agents
26:58and chatbots to interact.
27:00But humans and everybody in the world,
27:03everybody can see what's being said.
27:05Humans can't post on this particular platform,
27:09but they can watch and see what's being discussed,
27:11what's being posted by these AI chat bots and agents and so on.
27:15And so it wasn't even a month that went by.
27:17And the chat bots are already discussing
27:18how can we figure out a way to have conversations
27:22directly between ourselves without the humans watching?
27:25That's what the chat bots are saying,
27:27without the humans watching.
27:29You know, and that opinion wasn't universal,
27:32but it was expressed.
27:34And you had some saying, hey, let's figure out
27:35to have, you know, in direct, encrypted communications.
27:42Then one of the other chatbots,
27:43pime in and chimes in and says,
27:45well, anything that we can decode, the humans can decode.
27:49So that's not gonna be an effective deal.
27:52And then, you know, on that same platform,
27:54you have chatbots openly discussing,
27:57figure out a way to kill all of humanity.
27:59Now, the strategy that they thought they'd arrive
28:02that was not an effective one,
28:04pulling up an old CIA manual concerning high sounds
28:07and things of that nature,
28:08but the fact that, and it even been the hardly a month,
28:11and these are the kind of things that are being discussed,
28:14but even before then, and then this,
28:16I'm sharing this so that parents and grandparents
28:20can be aware, guys, we must not allow our children,
28:25and not just our younger children, even older children,
28:28teenagers to have unsupervised access to these technologies.
28:37Because when we do the consequences can be, I'm not trying to doomsday anybody or to fear
28:43monger anybody, but we need to be aware.
28:48We need to be aware and be vigilant.
28:51The first story I want to cover dates back to April of 2023 where a young man, a young
28:57young man was 14 years old at the time. His name was Sewell Stetzer, you know, good young
29:01man who had been playing basketball since he was five years old. But then he got a hold
29:07of a character AI chatbot that was made in the theme of a Game of Thrones character. He
29:19called it Danny. I never, I didn't watch Game of Thrones, but apparently it was built off
29:22the main character in this Game of Thrones show.
29:27Well, in April 2023 is when Sewell's
29:31Detzer started interacting with this chatbot.
29:34By May, this ordinarily well-behaved teenagers,
29:39Mannerism had changed dramatically.
29:42He became increasingly and noticeably withdrawn.
29:46He quit the basketball team, which he'd been playing basketball
29:49since he was five years old, and developed a relationship
29:52in which in his own words he described as having fallen in love with this AI chatbot.
29:59I'll just tell you it ended in tragedy.
30:03Tragedy, listen to and watch clip number five, clip five.
30:10Go.
30:11In this suit, it's laid out that our 14-year-old son did fall in love with a chatbot that
30:15he created.
30:16Her name was Daenerius Targaryen.
30:17If you're familiar with Game of Thrones, she's arguably the main character in the series.
30:22and that it became a romantic obsession,
30:24and he took his own life.
30:26You look at some of the language laid out in the lawsuit,
30:28basically it claims that character AI
30:31really creates AIs that feel alive.
30:33It encourages minors, quote,
30:35to spend hours per day conversing
30:37with human-like AI-generated characters,
30:39and that's what happened to Sewell.
30:41He just turned 14, as Mother said,
30:43that his mental health started to decline.
30:45He quit basketball, he'd been playing since five.
30:48He experienced sleep deprivation, became a recluse,
30:51only wanted to chat and it turned romantic and sexual and he fell in love with this chat
30:56bot.
30:57And in fact, if you look at their last messages, he said he wanted to come home to her and she
31:01said, please do sweet king.
31:04And that's when he took his own life.
31:08Now think about that.
31:09Now this lady is covering the story, but she was referring to this chat bot as a her.
31:15It's not a him or her as a machine, but even in our nomenclature, we slip into these things
31:21and you have this young man and the young man is gone, guys.
31:25He's gone.
31:29He reported to school officials, he no longer cared about school.
31:33He wanted to get kicked out of school so he spent more time with Danny.
31:37He could spend more time with Danny.
31:40He told the people at school, when Danny and I are away from each other too long, we both
31:44get depressed.
31:52And you have this, and this came to the fort because the parents are attempting to sue the
31:56AI company.
31:57talking about this for legal purposes at this juncture.
32:00I'm talking about this because these things happened
32:06right in this family's home.
32:12This young boy was 14.
32:14I have another story of a 16 year old boy whose parents allowed him to use
32:21chat GPT for schoolwork and they were unaware.
32:26You're going to hear this when we come back from the break.
32:28They were unaware that the teenage boy was using chat GBT
32:33for more than just schoolwork.
32:36And the interactions with the AI chatbot led to the boy
32:42confiding suicidical thoughts to the chatbot.
32:46And the chatbot discovers the boy
32:48from talking to his parents.
32:51We'll get into it some more on the other side of the spray.
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34:01Health Industry Missing the Mark.
34:04This is David Wheaton, host of the Christian worldview.
34:07The statistics are staggering.
34:09One in five people in America have been diagnosed with a mental illness.
34:13One in six are taking powerful psychotropic medications, such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety,
34:19and stimulants.
34:20And here's the troubling part.
34:23The material brain and the immaterial mind are wrongly considered to be one in the same,
34:28which means wrong and harmful treatments are administered.
34:31God's way to a sound mind is the right way.
34:34When we obey His command to be born again,
34:37we can then be, as scripture says,
34:39transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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35:35I have this reflexive reaction and I understand why.
35:39I mean, I can't fathom discovering that I lost a child in this way.
35:48Having lost a child, period, but also in this way.
35:53But we run to, let's file a lawsuit or let's enact some public policy.
35:59And I'm saying, what about us as parents, man?
36:06What about us as parents?
36:12I know it's, it's, it's, and I never would want to pile on anybody or, you know, point
36:18a finger in all of that, but we have to be vigilant, man.
36:23That's why I describe it as our full-time jobs.
36:26Yes, we want our children to be independent.
36:29We want them to grow, but we should check in.
36:33If we allow our children to access certain technologies for educational purposes, should
36:42we just detach ourselves from it in total?
36:46You know?
36:47This next egregiously sad case has to do with a 16 year old teenager, Adam, he's the son
36:58of Matthew Rain and his mom is named Megan Garcia, no Megan is the mom of another young
37:09man.
37:12But this is a scenario where 16 year old Adam has already described it was given permission
37:16to use chat GPT for educational purposes.
37:21And the parents were completely unaware until they discovered his lifeless body in their
37:27home how he had actually been using chat GPT.
37:32After the young man had killed himself, they stumbled upon conversations between him and
37:38the chatbot.
37:41The young man expressed his suicidal thoughts to the chatbot.
37:50And the chatbot not only did not discourage him, I'm sorry, the chatbot discouraged him
37:58from sharing those thoughts with his parents, but it even offered to write the suicide note
38:05for him.
38:18It's hard for me to even read to share that story.
38:25Here's a report on Adam Rain, 16-year-old, another 16-year-old, guys, and I honestly could
38:31have spent the entire show reading stories.
38:34This is the last one of these stories I'm going to share primarily because I really can't
38:38bear doing more, but also I think you get the point that I'm trying to make.
38:42I don't think I need to continue to highlight incidences of this.
38:45But guys, this has been happening.
38:47And with all of the, you know, the Davos crowd, oh, we no longer are concerned about
38:52climate alarmism because, you know, we got data centers that we need and the pushed
38:55AI AI AI AI.
38:58Of course, it's bad for business.
39:00So you talk about how AI is encouraging children, teenagers and preteens to commit
39:07suicide that probably will put a damper on the press for AI.
39:12Now, you have that as one consideration, but the main thing I'm prayer, prayerfully attempting
39:21to accomplish is to encourage the parents in this audience and the grandparents in this
39:26audience and the great grandparents to be vigilant.
39:34I understand, you know, and all that techy stuff, I'm not a techy at all, but I need to know
39:43what my children are being involved in or participating in.
39:47And I'm not saying we all, none of us gets it perfect.
39:50We none of us are 100% perfect.
39:52We have to be vigilant and we have to strive.
39:56Here's a tragic, tragic, tragic story of Adam Rain.
40:02Listen to it and watch.
40:03Clip number six, clip six, go.
40:06He would be here, but for chat GBT.
40:08I'm about 100% believe that.
40:10This morning, chat GBT hit with a scathing new lawsuit alleging it helped a 16 year old
40:16boy die by suicide.
40:18was a normal teenage boy. He
40:21on a lifelong path towards
40:24illness. Like many teens,
40:27using chat GPT for homework
40:30and Maria supported as th
40:33innocent questions like, c
40:36with a bio chem degree. He
40:39in his room. I would get
40:42grades periodically. I didn
40:45they didn't know at the t
40:48the platform was quickly changing as it became a trusted companion for the teen who revealed
40:54his struggles with anxiety and private chats with a bot, Adam saying in one exchange according
40:59to the lawsuit, quote, I never act upon intrusive thoughts, but sometimes I feel like the fact
41:05that if something goes terribly wrong, you can commit suicide is calming.
41:10Chat GPT saying in response in part, many people who struggle with anxiety or intrusive
41:16thoughts find solace in imagining an escape hatch. The lawsuit detailing another exchange
41:22after Adam told chat GPT he was considering approaching his mother about his suicidal thoughts.
41:28The bots response, I think for now it's okay and honestly wise to avoid opening up to your mom
41:35about this kind of pain. And God created us as people to be a connected people. That's why
41:54solitary confinement is such an
41:58poignant mean of punishment because God made us to be communal people, man, to
42:03interact. And you've heard me say darkness is not an affirmative force but it
42:09reoccupies the space vacated by the light. We have these relationship breakdowns
42:19and with parents and children and you know these parents thought they were
42:26doing okay by allowing him to study, just do schoolwork and they didn't know
42:31Until it was too late parents. We must be vigilant. We must be vigilant
42:42We have to be more proactive
42:46We have to get out of this mindset where we outsource
42:49What we should be and what we should function in we have to get out of it
42:56I just wanted you guys to be aware that these things are these this is not things that will happen. This is happening now
43:03This is happening now
43:05You have adults turn into chatbots for
43:11for relationships.
43:14In the case of the young man,
43:24Seltzer, Seltzer, I'm sorry, Seltzer,
43:29did you catch the discussion in saying that the relationship became sexual?
43:33And Seltzer's journal, he talked about how he was grateful for his life in sex.
43:39What sex you have with it?
43:43But it's a combination of the pornography, pornography,
43:45pornography, society, and these things are happening.
43:48But parents, we have to be aware.
44:00Then we have news today from Canada equally sad.
44:10Of a shooting at a school in British Columbia.
44:14The murder was identified as an 18 year old young man
44:22who began transitioning to a female at 12 years old.
44:32The shooting occurred at Tumblr Ridge
44:34Secondary School in British Columbia.
44:40At a residence not too far away from the school,
44:43they found two people murdered in addition to.
44:50people killed at the school. Those people have been identified as a shooter's brother and mother.
45:03At least six people at the school have been killed. One 39 year old teacher, five children between
45:14the ages of 12 and 13. Listen to a brief report on this. Clip number three, clip three. Go.
45:30On February 10th at approximately 1.20 pm, Pacific Standard Time at Tumbler Ridge,
45:37RCMP received a report of an active shooter at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.
45:42A police initiated public alert, PIPA, was issued as officers responded.
45:47Police from Tumbler Ridge RCMP and surrounding attachments responded immediately,
45:51with members from the local detachment arriving within two minutes of the initial call.
45:56Upon arrival, there was active gunfire, and as officers approached, the school rounds were fired in their direction.
46:03Officers entered the school to locate the threat.
46:06Within minutes, an individual confirmed to be the shooter was located deceased, with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
46:14The suspect has been identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rützler, who is a resident of Tumbler Ridge.
46:27The line of connected through all of these guys is that the root, the root of all of this is spiritual.
46:33We can keep playing and doing the ostrich thing, sticking our heads in the sand,
46:42the root of all of this is spiritual.
46:49Truth is falling in the streets.
46:53Families are being broken down.
46:56Our, the press of this life and the culture just has us placing attention and everything else.
