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A mountain’s summit provides clarifying views.

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0:00 - 15:00. Luke 6:40 (NASB95). “A student, when fully trained, will be like his teacher.” 15:00 - 31:00. A mountain’s summit provides clarifying views. 31:00 - 48:00. God’s word gives us insight concerning Satan’s devices. We don’t have to succumb to them. or call: 800-326-4543 To donate call : 877-616-2396

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:07This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivering people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be His ambassador.
0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:29And now the Hamilton Corner. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner. My name is Abraham
0:36Hamilton the third broadcasting yet again from beautiful Greenville South Carolina.
0:43My main man Bobby Arrosa is not here in South Carolina. My man 100 grand but produce extraordinaire
0:50often imitating never duplicated the real J. Mac is here. We are ready to rock and roll
0:56with today's edition of the program, ending our time here in South Carolina for this week at the
1:03BJU Press homeschool Foundations Summit. It's a lot of words, but you get a lot of clarity when you're
1:14able to mount a mountain or traverse a mountain to its summit. You're able to get a lot of clarity
1:22as a result of doing so. And this has been an amazing time here these last few days, getting
1:29a bit more clarity really, what's happening in our country and around the world. We'll
1:35probably talk more about that as we go forward in additional programs. But at this very moment,
1:42many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part-time jobs where you
1:46generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. And as you do so,
1:51So I want to remind you to do so with intentionality understanding the primacy that God places on family guys
2:00We will never we will never outpace the deficiencies that abounded our homes and when I'm talking about the deficiencies
2:07I'm talking primarily about the refusal of Christian parents to take the leadership and discipling our own children
2:14The deficiency of Christian grandparents taking the leadership to make disciples starting first in our own homes great grandparents
2:22We've got to get out of this mindset what we think a ministry is confined to people who
2:29have positions within the church.
2:32Every believer is called to ministry.
2:34Every single one of us is called to ministry.
2:36The Lord's will is for every member of his bride to seek him diligently and fervently as
2:42to how God would have us to engage in the execution of his commission.
2:46I love hearing the stories of brothers and sisters who reached retirement years and they take
2:52the time to go to the local malls to evangelize.
2:55You know, I've been saying often that we as Christians shouldn't have neighbors that we don't
3:00know, you know, if you're blessed with neighbors, let's go knock on their doors, man.
3:10Like the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witness don't have a corner of the market on knocking
3:14on people's doors.
3:16You know, it actually is an indictment that usually that's who that is associated with.
3:23You know, I'm mentioning that I'm out.
3:25I guess I was gonna mention this later, right? I mentioned it now
3:28Later next month March 27 through 29th
3:31I'll be ministering at the Kingdom come conference at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Fort Lauderdale, Florida
3:40which is the church that was founded by the late de James Kennedy and
3:44Among the speakers there. I mentioned Oz Guinness will be there Eric Metaxis will be there bill Federer will be there
3:50there. David Bonson will be there, but one of the other people who will be there is Rosaria
3:56Butterfield, you know. And I'm looking forward to hear her. I've heard portions of her testimony.
4:02Some of you are familiar with her testimony, but she was the poster child for Regressive
4:09ism as it applies to sexuality. She was that liberal, lesbian, intellectual, you know,
4:17committed lesbian relationship and she was asked, well, how did the Lord break in upon
4:23you? And she said several hundred meals with a Christian neighbor, that she had a neighbor
4:30who refused to let her die in her sin in the gift of hospitality is what drew her. She said that her
4:39neighbor, a husband and wife, more chronologically seasoned than herself and her lesbian,
4:49and so-called partner at the time, and loved them,
4:55that she got to first witness with Christian love look like,
4:59and the husband's interactions with his wife.
5:03And then within the environment that had become comfortable
5:07for her, Rosario Butterfield,
5:10that the husband led in preaching the gospel to her.
5:14So she got to see what the impact of the gospel is
5:17in their lifestyle, what the impact of the gospel was
5:19in their lifestyles first,
5:20and then she heard the gospel proclaimed,
5:22and God drew her ever so slowly through that hospitality,
5:26that neighborly hospitality.
5:29And now you know the rest of the story,
5:30Rosaria Butterfield is one of the foremost profound speakers
5:35who condemn all of the regressive sexual identitarian
5:41offerings in our society.
5:43She argues passionately about the fact that there's no such
5:46thing really as a homosexual person.
5:49There's no such thing really as a transgender person
5:52because every person is either male or female, you know,
5:57but that started for her with her neighbor
6:03in welcoming, inviting her to her into their home.
6:07Her neighbors inviting her into their home.
6:13Guys, the time has far spent, man.
6:16What are we really living for?
6:18What are we really living for?
6:21And we will welcome the Lord to capture us,
6:23to get ahold of us in our homes.
6:24There's no question that's what can happen in our societies.
6:27The gospel will go forth in power and do in our day and our time what it has done
6:32throughout all of human history.
6:37God is still in the business of saving men and women.
6:43We must be about our Father's business. To the word of God we go Luke chapter 6 is where we're going to begin this program.
6:49And I want to set this up Luke chapter 6. I'm just going to zoom in on verse 40 to get right to it.
6:55As we read this scripture,
6:57I want you to welcome the Lord
7:00to age you in assessing within your own minds and hearts.
7:03If this is true, how should I respond to it?
7:10What am I about to read if this is true?
7:11Now I'll tell you it is true
7:14because Dr. Luke is quoting Jesus.
7:16So this is Jesus saying these words, all right?
7:20If this is true, how should this impact me?
7:23How should I respond to it?
7:25And this is what the Lord says.
7:27And Dr. Luke recorded it for our benefit.
7:30A pupil, this is Luke chapter six verse 40.
7:33A pupil is not above his teacher, but everyone.
7:41But everyone after he has been fully trained
7:48will be like his teacher.
7:50I wanna read it again.
7:52A pupil is not above his teacher,
7:55but everyone after he has been fully trained
7:58will be like his teacher.
8:02That's what Jesus said, guys.
8:06Now, if this is true, and I'll just tell you it is true, Jesus said it is true.
8:11This is the word of the incarnate word.
8:14You know what I'm saying?
8:16If this is true, how should this impact you and me?
8:22Let me give a couple of examples.
8:26If it's true that a pupil is not above his teacher, but everyone
8:31after he's been fully trained will be like his teacher.
8:34Do you think it's important to understand the quality of the person who teaches
8:42you and me if this is true. If every student in the scripture,
8:46Jesus said it, everyone, when they're the students of a teacher,
8:51when that student is fully trained, everyone will be like the teacher who trained
8:55them. Do you think it's important we attend to pay attention to who it is that
8:59teaches us? I ask the next question. If this is true and it is true,
9:07do you think it is important to understand who it is,
9:12to know intimately well who it is we allow to teach our children because the student when fully trained
9:23and not just some students all students when fully trained will be like their teacher.
9:33Do you think it's important for us to know who's teaching our children?
9:37When you say teaching, what do you mean? I want to be clear about something and I've said this before
9:40when the Bible talks about false doctrine don't allow your mind to immediately go to someone
9:45behind a lectern or behind a pulpit. Our world is full of false offerings of doctrine.
9:51Disney offers false doctrine. PBS offers false doctrine. Peanut and Junebug offer false doctrine.
10:00Advertisers offers false doctrine. False teachers offer false doctrine. Politicians offer false
10:07doctrine. I'm not saying categorically, but I'm saying these are all sources of false doctrine.
10:13We have a duty brothers and sisters, a biblical mandate to know who it is that is teaching us.
10:23We have a duty brothers and sisters to know who it is that's teaching our children.
10:32My heart breaks for the number of times I have heard
10:38Christian parents say things like this. I
10:41Did not raise them like that. I don't know where they got that from.
10:51have y'all heard expressions like that to which the very simple answer is they
10:59got that from whoever's been teaching them the late dr. Vody Bockum we should say
11:09used to say all the time that we have for generations sent our children to
11:15Caesar I'll say it my way for discipleship and then he says and then we are
11:24surprised when they come home as Romans guys that's a cognitive dissonance that
11:34that should not be in the life of a believer who was indwell by the Spirit of God.
11:42But I'm gravely concerned that the reason why a phenomenon like that transpires is because we've been sending people to teachers,
11:49and we have not attended to the quality of teacher they were.
11:53Now when I say quality of teacher, I'm not talking about whether or not they do a good job with the physical sciences.
11:58I am talking about what are the worldview notions and presumptions and assumptions
12:07that permeate the instruction, that permeate the offerings.
12:12What are the worldview presumptions and assumptions
12:17that cause the elimination of certain offerings?
12:20I've said and I use this example because it's a
12:23popularly provocative example, but can you imagine
12:29how radically impactful it would be for every child
12:34who learns about Newton's or Isaac Newton's laws of motion
12:37to know that Sir Isaac Newton was a theologian?
12:39Can you imagine how impactful that would be for Christian children to know that the Christ that we follow
12:45illuminates our hearts and minds so much so that a man who's made such enduring contributions to our society to the world as
12:53Newton's laws of motion that he did so because of his diligent study of God's word
12:58Can you imagine how impactful that would be?
13:01I'm I'm gravely concerned that we that we're playing paddy cake
13:10with serpents
13:12But we're not identifying them as serpents. So we patty cake patty cake baked cuz man oh
13:20Got your mommy in the shoe through in the can. I don't know how those things go
13:23But y'all know what I'm saying and we playing games and the enemy is capturing souls
13:30We're playing games. It's kind of like you know when you have a
13:35An official that's been bought off that's been bribed a judge knows the verdict should be
13:43guilty but the judge says not guilty why could they've been bribed. I feel like in
13:48some ways man our society we've accepted the material bribe of our society that
13:55has made us comfortable in outsourcing the hearts and minds of the generations of
14:00Americans to make us feel okay with not being aware of who is actually doing
14:05the instruction and then when the full instruction is realized we're surprised
14:13I didn't raise and to be like that.
14:19But somebody else did.
14:22Where I came from people would say things like this.
14:24You know the streets raised me.
14:27Every student when fully trained will be like his teacher.
14:33I think it's important we know what kind type and quality of teacher
14:37we yield ourselves to and that we yield our children
14:42if God could get a hold of us in our homes man.
14:47That's what could happen in our society.
14:50is a scientist.
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15:37This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
15:41Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
15:42Abraham Hamilton III here.
15:45I am joined by my lovely bride, Mrs. Maria Hamilton.
15:49She has been with me this whole week
15:52at the BJU Press Home School Foundations Summit.
15:57and I've been just reflecting on what a summit is
16:01and if you ever have the opportunity
16:04to traverse a mountaintop, when you get to a summit,
16:07you get a bit more clarity concerning perspective,
16:09a bit more range in terms of what you're able to view
16:14and to see.
16:14And so I wanted to have you on the show
16:17because you've been with me in the various sessions
16:19and seeing the really the tremendous production
16:24production that they have here at BJU, which I was unaware of all the various
16:29details that are involved and the different branches of the ministry, the
16:35publishing house, the mechanism, it really is a top-rate press operation that they
16:43have here. Two million people they serve worldwide, but I wanted to invite you to
16:48reflect on some of the things you've seen and you've witnessed and obviously
16:53you know, we've been on our own journey, but just learning from being here.
16:58What are some of the things that have stood out to you?
17:01For philosophically, principally, typically, whatever you want to take it as
17:06a result of being here just last few days.
17:07Yeah.
17:07So one of the things that's very exciting and I'm very, very appreciative of them
17:13for doing is that they are intentional about making sure that every subject that
17:19of the materials that they produce, every subject is filtered through the lens of scripture.
17:24So it is not that they teach, because some curriculum we need to admit, right? Teach science, history,
17:31grammar, greeting, whatever, just kind of secularly really, and then the out of Bible, of course.
17:38But B.J.U. is very intentional at making sure that the biblical worldview is foundationally,
17:46and it foundational to the lessons, to the chapters and the books and the subjects, but
17:52it's very, it's very kid friendly and it is very engaging and the purpose of it is to
18:00be able to form that worldview in the child.
18:03So I think that's incredibly important when we're talking about curriculum, right?
18:06Because we can do it many different ways and there are so many different curriculum out
18:09there, but the ones for believers, we should want those that are filtered through the lens
18:15Now, I want to take you back a few steps because you'll remember a little while ago, about
18:2315 years ago, when I broached the topic with you about homeschooling, and I asked you,
18:31babe, what do you think about homeschooling?
18:33And what was your response?
18:34I don't think about homeschooling.
18:36Yes.
18:37Did you think I was crazy or something?
18:40Do you know, because of course, I knew your experience with homeschooling, and I knew you
18:44had a minimal experience with homeschoolers, I had zero, I had never met a homeschooler
18:48in my entire life, I had barely heard about it. And when I heard about it, it was just
18:52weird. Like who does that, you know? And so and that you have to add to that my trajectory
19:00through public schools, private and public schools, I was never an academic. I was never
19:05the student that had the straight A's. So I didn't think I could teach anybody anything,
19:09you know? And of course, I bought into the lie that the world says that you have to have
19:12of an education degree to be able to teach.
19:14And so, no, I never thought about it.
19:17I didn't think you were crazy, but I was like,
19:18sir, that was not part of our contact
19:20when we signed it and when we got married.
19:22So I don't know what you're thinking.
19:24You didn't read the fine prep because the contract said
19:27that we were gonna live for the Lord of the King.
19:29So you didn't see the fine print as a reply to the truth.
19:32I did sign up for that.
19:33You did sign up for it.
19:35And we had the by guys grace away, the Lord led us
19:36with the conversation before we ever had children.
19:39And I know you come across people, moms in particular,
19:45all over our country who were really the way you were
19:48before, I mean, I think it would be fair to describe you
19:50as being completely unfamiliar with the concept,
19:56interpreting the question through your own experiences,
19:58and feeling inadequate to the task.
20:02What would you say to a family who may be listening
20:05to us right now, watching us right now,
20:07who would say, that's me, that's me.
20:09Like I heard Abe say this stuff all the time, but man, I can't do it.
20:11There's no way I could do that.
20:13What would you say?
20:13And we all have different reasons why we feel like at first we can't do it, but ultimately,
20:19um, we are called to obey Christ in all things, right?
20:22So when the Lord reveals anything to us, whether it's homeschooling or anything
20:26else in our, in our walks with God, our duty is to submit to God who knows all
20:30things and who loves us perfectly.
20:32And so that's what I did.
20:33And that's what I encourage all moms to do is to pray about it.
20:36If God is presenting this to you through whoever it is,
20:40and you feel afraid, intimidated, it's not for you,
20:43I can't do it, I don't even see how we can do it
20:45with the one income, all the reasons that we have,
20:47which are many, and are legitimate,
20:49because we're living this life, and so I understand,
20:54we have to pray and ask God, Lord,
20:55is this what you're calling me to do?
20:57Or are you telling me this is what I'm supposed to do?
20:59And biblically, we can support that God calls us
21:03to disciple our children.
21:05the Lord is clear about that in his word.
21:07So that would be the main thing is Lord,
21:09if you're calling me to do this,
21:11equip me to do it.
21:12And we know that he will equip us when he calls us to something.
21:15So that's what we did, you know?
21:16I was like, Lord, if this is what you want us to do,
21:19show me how, train me to do it.
21:21Like lead me to the resources, the people,
21:23the wisdom, the insight, the intellect, the patience,
21:25everything I need so that I can disciple these children
21:29for your glory so they can know you.
21:31You know, I often say in response to the question the very question I post to you people tell me able there's no way I could do that
21:39I often offer a little bit of pushback
21:42because
21:43For someone to tell me that I can't do that my initial pushback is simply
21:48Are you sure you can't have you examined whether or not you really can and sometimes this is just a reality?
21:55When people have said I can't do that what they really mean is I won't do that because
22:01because this is our lifestyle, this is where we're comfortable, we need these, you know,
22:08if you have a dual income family, we have a father and a mother and they have to have
22:12this type of money and sometimes I'll drill down a little deeper and say, are you sure?
22:17You know, do you and your, do you have a budget? Have your family ever put together a budget?
22:20And sometimes people haven't put together budgets. Sometimes you may have single parents,
22:27you know, and I know we know single parents who are doing it.
22:31So when you hear the various iterations, and I don't want to diminish anybody,
22:36because there are real circumstances where the circumstances are such that,
22:41that it's not possible, but I have found in my experience that that's a minority
22:46of the circumstances.
22:47Is that something you've experienced?
22:49Yeah.
22:50So one of the things that I always think of, man, and I'm blessed to have you
22:55in this journey in discipling our children,
22:58but they're moms who are single moms, you know?
23:01But I know single moms who are homeschooling.
23:03I know single moms who have full-time work
23:06providing for their homes, sustaining their households
23:08and homeschooling their kids.
23:09So is it possible, we know it's possible.
23:11I think the conversation though,
23:14needs to be, do we understand the magnitude
23:20of what education is and does to our children?
23:24say does to our children because when we think of academia, yeah, when we think about academia or the
23:30the process of learning, all the disciplines that we have access to learning these days,
23:37we have to come to the realization that that is a formation process. Like the knowledge that we
23:44receive academically impacts and forms the child. The experiences that they are placed under form the
23:52child. The authorities that they're placed under, they form the child. When I say form, I'm talking
23:58about the building the human from a child all the way to teenage years in adulthood, it
24:07is a formation process. All of the stimuli that we surround ourselves in our formative
24:12years make who we become and contribute to who we become. And so when we as parents,
24:18parents. Most parents want the best for their children. No parent is out there. Very few
24:24parents are out there really doing evil. It exists. Well, it exists, but they're few. They're
24:30the minority. The majority of parents want what is best for their children. So then the
24:35question then is if we all want what is best for our children, what is actually best for
24:40our children? Right? And as believers, we don't have to guess. We don't have to try
24:46try to figure it out. We don't have to go to the world to see what is best for our children.
24:51We have the manual for life, the word of God, the supernaturally written word of God right
24:57in front of us. And it's a guide for us. And I know we're going to go there later, but just
25:02to say it right now briefly, it is the same manual that we need to be Christians. It's
25:07the same manual that our kids need to be believers. And then what is the chief and of mankind?
25:12Is it to be happy?
25:13Is it to have the money?
25:14Is it to have the luxury?
25:15The chief end of mankind is to know God and glorify him forever.
25:19Amen. And so it just goes down to,
25:21is that, do we agree with that?
25:22Do we believe it?
25:23Yeah. Do we want that?
25:24Man, I started out the show today in Luke chapter six verse 40.
25:28And this is a scripture that resonates in my heart repeatedly.
25:35I meditate on it, going to bed when I awake in the morning.
25:38I think about the scores of people who invite me
25:42to their homes through this program, you know.
25:45And the text reads,
25:47a pupil is not above his teacher,
25:49but everyone after he has been fully trained
25:53will be like his teacher.
25:54When you consider that text and reflect on it,
25:57what are some of the things that immediately resonate
25:59within you when you see and recognize,
26:01this is what Jesus said.
26:02This is not some educator at some international conference
26:06given the speech.
26:06This is what Jesus said about the formation process
26:09you just described.
26:10Yeah, you know, when we have the proper perspective and the proper foundation, the original understanding has to be who was God.
26:16So when we answer the question, who is God based on who he revealed himself to be, then the next thought then has to be.
26:24Since he carries all truth, since he is who he says that he is in his word, since everything that is true comes from him,
26:30then therefore he by creation rights has the authority to determine who man is.
26:35Man is formed.
26:37Man grows from a baby into adulthood.
26:40and all the, like I said earlier, all the stimuli,
26:42all everything, their environment,
26:44the authority figures, their learning process,
26:46everything is going to form the human, right?
26:50Well, Jesus, knowing that because he made humans,
26:52he says, hey, that student is gonna become a great student
26:57after the authority figure, after the master,
27:00after the teacher, after that child is learned,
27:03the child is capable of learning well
27:05because he is made an image and likeness of God.
27:08So he's able to learn well, what is he gonna learn well?
27:09what the teacher is pouring into that child.
27:12So then who is going, like you said earlier
27:14in the first segment, who is going to teach our children?
27:17But here's the thing that we also need to think about.
27:21There are situations where the parents really feel
27:26like there are better teachers,
27:28because if they want-
27:29Better than whom?
27:30Than themselves, thank you for the clarity.
27:32Than themselves.
27:33So, and I remember that feeling, feeling like,
27:36if I want, let me use this example.
27:38I remember when I met you
27:39and I always make fun of you for this.
27:40But when I met you, I was like.
27:42She always makes fun of me for this.
27:44Always, always sometimes.
27:45Like I said, always sometimes.
27:47Yeah, Jeff's going like this one.
27:49Listen, so this man was a walking Bible, like super holy,
27:54right? Like floating on clouds, noting all script,
27:56knowing all scriptures back when it forwards and all that.
27:58And I was like, sir, sir, I'm just now just starting to read
28:02the Bible for myself.
28:03Like I love Jesus, but I don't know the word like you do.
28:05And I remember when you talked about homeschooling or when
28:08And you said, man, I want a wife that can run hard after me
28:10and the things of God.
28:11I was like, run after me.
28:12I run after me.
28:13No, run with me.
28:14Excuse me.
28:15Sorry.
28:16Thank you.
28:17See, you're so good to clarify.
28:18Run with me after the things of God.
28:19I was like, ooh, intimidation, intimidation because I'm like, I'm like brand new to this.
28:23I had the hunger, but I didn't have the knowledge of the wisdom yet.
28:27Anyway, so long story short, that feeling of inadequacy or feeling like there may be,
28:33if I want my child to know, let's just say that there's a family out there that wants their
28:36children to know Christ.
28:37They really do.
28:38the leavers are in church, they really feel like
28:40they don't have what it takes to impart into their child
28:44a biblical worldview.
28:45They don't have the ability to rightly divide
28:48the word of truth, right?
28:50That is scripture.
28:51And so they feel like, man, maybe if I put them
28:53into Christian school, it'd be better.
28:54I understand that.
28:55And I understand that God is so good and so sovereign
28:59that if you get on your knees as a parent,
29:02I'm speaking of parents now, and you pray,
29:04and you ask the Lord to show you which way to go.
29:08And if he reveals to you to homeschool,
29:11he will make you a theologian,
29:13because he did it with me.
29:15And I'm not talking about,
29:16I'm not saying that I'm a theologian,
29:17I'm just saying that I can rightly divide the word of truth
29:20because the Holy Spirit is alive
29:22and he teaches us when we read this word
29:24and he trains us and he transforms us.
29:26And we have to embrace the reality that God wants us
29:31to be like him.
29:33So if we are being formed as disciples
29:37when we are growing, becoming disciples,
29:40then we can make disciples of our children.
29:42We can, we have the ability to do that
29:43because we have the Holy Spirit in us.
29:44And so to the parent that is concerned,
29:47that is feels inadequate, I understand that.
29:50And I understand that you feel like,
29:51man, somebody else can do it better than me.
29:53And that can be true to one extent
29:55in the sense that there can be other people
29:57that are able to like teach them the word, right?
29:59Like we all come together to pour into children.
30:01And I understand that, but do not remove yourself
30:05the game because what you're doing is you are saying that God is not able to give you the
30:11anointing that he put in you because he birthed these children through you.
30:16And so you are in other words saying God you gave me these children but I'm not good enough
30:21for them.
30:22And so then you make a mistake because you made a mistake because others are better to
30:26pour into them than me.
30:27You made a mistake by putting them in my care and making me responsible for them primarily.
30:34right. And so what is the primary job of the parent and it's all through scriptures, guys,
30:39the Lord says, remember me, tell the next generation who I am, tell them about me. So
30:44what we are responsible for doing is to dig into this word, become disciples of Christ, and
30:49then pour everything we're learning into our children. And if we're learning it alongside
30:54them and glory to God, run, run hard after things like God, and you can pour into them.
30:59So I understand the hesitation, but there is a God who is more powerful than our insecurities
31:05and more powerful than what we don't know about the Word of God.
31:08I am telling you, one of my fears, I'm sorry I'm talking too long, but real quick, one of
31:11my fears was Lord, what if my kids asked me questions about the Bible that I can't answer?
31:15And you know what I started doing?
31:16I started asking the questions that I thought maybe they would ask.
31:19I started asking the questions that I had about the Word of God.
31:22Lord, what about suffering?
31:23You know, there's so much suffering in the world.
31:24Where are you?
31:25Why is this continuing?
31:26You down on the cross?
31:27You said it's over.
31:28But why is it still happening?
31:30Lord, what about the dinosaurs?
31:31Did they really fit in the ark?
31:32Are they real?
31:33What do you mean?
31:34How does this work with Genesis 1?
31:35All these questions that I had, I started answering, got answered.
31:39Yeah, oh man, the music is disrespectful.
31:43But I want to pick up right there because the word theologian is a big word and it can
31:48be intimidating to some people.
31:50But God calls every believer to be theologians.
31:53Every one of us are supposed to be theologians.
31:55Every believer is supposed to be able to rightly divide the word of truth.
31:57It's a big word, but you break it down.
31:59It's a compound word.
32:00Theo means God.
32:01Logan is from the word logic.
32:03We have to we every believer is called to have logic about God, knowledge about God.
32:09We all should be able to read the Bible as theologians.
32:13And one of the things that's one of the things you pointed out is that feeling the
32:17pressure of being responsible for the children aided you in becoming a discipline
32:24learner of the Lord's way in his word.
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33:33Downtown these last few days has been pretty enjoyable as we're being challenged and learning different things
33:41Before we went to the break you were saying something babe, and it was just so profound
33:45I often have talked about on this show how about the reality that
33:50God has internal mechanisms to grow us as he desires us to grow one of the things that happens
33:57I don't know you experienced this from the mother standpoint
34:00I remember when we had our first child and we'd been married.
34:04He was born and we'd been married about two years.
34:09But you entered this mode of cleaning at the time we were living in our small apartment
34:13in Houston and it was a mode that you hadn't been in before.
34:18And it was one of the ways I knew I was saying, the baby's coming soon.
34:24It was like just something that just happened.
34:26One day you just started being super detailed.
34:29You just cleaning everything.
34:31And sure enough, Christian was born soon after that.
34:36And from the father standpoint, I've explained that becoming a husband and a father is one
34:42of the things that God has designed to catapult males into manhood to where that catapotion
34:51forces us who desire to be godly, be responsible husbands and fathers, that we become primarily
34:58selfless to where the first thought in any circumstances, how does this affect my wife?
35:04How does this affect my child? How does this affect my wife? How does this affect my child?
35:08How will this impact my family? It's very similar to how we know now it would be the nesting phenomenon
35:15thing phenomenon in moms that are pregnant and preparing for their babies to be born,
35:20that it is a it is a propulsion.
35:22It's like jet fuel for us men to become selfless that prior to, you know, we're not married.
35:29We just really thinking about ourselves.
35:31But when we take upon the responsibility of being husbands and fathers and especially in
35:35endeavoring to do so in the God honoring manner that it catapults us into this quality of manhood
35:41that I believe is a part of that when I was a child, I thought I was a child, but now
35:44I put childless ways behind me that as men we don't have the authority to be self-absorbed
35:49and self-centered, I mean without authority, we don't have the luxury to be self-absorbed
35:53and self-centered if we're going to be godly men.
35:55And it's a similar phenomenon in which you just described.
35:58I believe there's a similar thing that God does when we as Christian parents take on the
36:03responsibility of discipling our children where we recognize we are accountable to God for
36:09what we do with these image bearers.
36:12And we also want to do it well.
36:14Like we don't want to fall down on the job, so to speak.
36:18So in the example that you share from our lives
36:20and your own experience,
36:22that stepping up to the plate if you were to say,
36:24you know what, God has entrusted me to them.
36:28I need to be a more diligent student of his words
36:31so that I can be a more effective and diligent conveyor
36:34of the truth of his word to my children.
36:38Do you see, it's kind of a leading question,
36:41but I'm asking it anyway,
36:42do you see the refusal of parents sometimes
36:46to take that responsibility,
36:49to be a contributing factor to a delayed
36:53or diminished sanctification journey
36:55on the part of the parents?
36:57Yeah, so one of the things that I think of
36:59is that reality,
37:01that if Christ is not our treasure,
37:06Like if Christ is not the lover of our souls,
37:10and we have not like truly fallen in love with him
37:15for the lack of better word, I hate using that term
37:16because so worldly, but we love him.
37:19Well, it's just falling in love, it seems,
37:22it communicates this like, I don't know,
37:24we're meant to come and eat this.
37:25Deepening in our resolve and love.
37:26Yes, like deepening our love for him
37:28is what I really wanna convey, right.
37:29And so if we haven't done that yet,
37:32like if our walk with the Lord,
37:35because it's a journey and everybody's on a journey,
37:36I understand that.
37:38I remember once upon a time I knew about God
37:39and then I loved him.
37:40You know what I mean?
37:41Like I understand the process that God brought me through.
37:43So I understand we're all on our journey.
37:45But if we're not there yet,
37:47then we can think little of our responsibility
37:51to our children and think little of their salvation, right?
37:55Because when I realized,
37:57and again, I understand that this is my walk,
37:59but I realized that the Lord entrusted those children to me
38:04that I have to respond to him or answer to him for them,
38:08but also the reality that I want above all things
38:14for them to love him and to glorify him
38:17and to know him deeply and intimately
38:20and to believe what the Bible says because I know it's true
38:24and he has revealed himself to humanity.
38:26I want them to know him and love him glorify him forever.
38:29That's what I want most.
38:30I'm not saying that because I'm super holy.
38:32I'm saying that because God has shown me
38:34that he is the greatest treasure.
38:35And he has transformed my heart and my life.
38:37So I understand we're on a different journey
38:39and not a different journey, the same journey,
38:41but at different points of the journey.
38:42So if we analyze ourselves truthfully and honestly,
38:46and we prefer for our children to have a good academic journey
38:51to arrive at a good career so they can have
38:54a good financial stable life, and that is our chief end,
38:58I understand that.
39:00But if we are Christians, there should be something
39:03that it supersedes that.
39:04And that is that we want our children to love Christ,
39:08to have Jesus on the throne of their hearts,
39:11to passionately pursue Him and desire to obey Him.
39:14And if we are able, if we have that within ourselves,
39:19and then we're able to convey that to our children,
39:20and we're able to disciple them by the Spirit of God,
39:23because none of this is in our own strength,
39:24by the Spirit of God, then they will be able to succeed
39:28in what God has called them to,
39:30and they will be warriors for the kingdom of God,
39:32impact the darkness and advancing the kingdom.
39:36That's what I want most, that's what you want most, I know.
39:39But I understand people are in different journeys
39:40in the different portions of the journey.
39:42Here's the bottom line.
39:44The second component that I think of is that we as believers
39:48must always want to be purified.
39:50We want to be transformed, we want to be more like Christ.
39:53So the more that we are aware that we like patience,
39:57the more we should desire to be patient.
39:58The more that we are aware that we desire,
40:00that we lack self-control, the more that we should want
40:03to grow and self-control, the foot of the Spirit,
40:04we should want to submit the Spirit of God.
40:06Our children and raising them daily
40:10is going to show those areas where we are lacking.
40:14And so that exercise, that anointing that God gives you,
40:19because I will say this and please listen carefully,
40:21the Lord has given us as parents
40:23an anointing over our own children,
40:25that a stranger does not have, they have knowledge,
40:28they may even have wisdom,
40:29and they may have a relationship with the Lord,
40:30but they don't have an anointing supernaturally
40:32from God for your children.
40:34And so we do, you have that for your children,
40:37we have that for our children.
40:38And with that comes a sharpening, a refinement, a growing,
40:44not only do they grow in Christ-likeness,
40:46but we grow in Christ-likeness.
40:48And so, and I know you've talked about this in other shows.
40:50So at the end of the day, bottom line is that
40:52when we refuse to follow God,
40:55if the Lord is calling in this way,
40:56We are leaving on the table, those aspects of refinement.
41:02What you just described, it's the parental equivalent
41:05to what we've discussed about the covenantal context
41:09of the biblical mandate of headship within a family
41:12and submission.
41:14The scripture says that wives are to submit themselves
41:17to their own husbands.
41:19It's not a generalized call to obeisance to maleness.
41:24It is a covenantal context that God has called to very similarly that God provides a particular
41:32grace and anointing to parents for our own children.
41:37I would add into that a particular discernment quality that those who are not the parents
41:42of the children do not have.
41:45And I asked the question that I asked you earlier simply because I know it's true.
41:52We've been talking about, you know, I don't even like to say homeschool because really it's
41:54Cultivation of the mind and the development of academic matriculation and academic discipline.
42:01It's just a portion of our investment in discipling our children in this context because it's like
42:08you said forming a whole person for the glory of God.
42:15But when you consider taking the responsibility to lead in discipling our own children, sorry,
42:27We take the lead in discipling our own children.
42:32It is not, and I want to say this as loudly as I can for the rooftops, it is not something
42:38that is exclusively beneficial for our children.
42:41Right.
42:42It's something that is beneficial to us that within the confines, and it's not identical
42:48because there's no relationship, familiar relationship, like the marital relationship,
42:52husband and wife.
42:53But the second closest relationship is the parent-child relationship.
42:56as and many of you listening and watching, you understand that marriage is a mirror that
43:01within the intimate confines of that husband and wife relationship, God reveals areas of
43:08our walk that require ironing.
43:10He reveals wrinkles that require ironing.
43:14Guess what?
43:15The same thing happens in our relationship with our own children.
43:18Yeah.
43:19When we take the leadership in discipling them that God uses that relationship to reveal
43:25ours, how many times have we in our own lives, we're experiencing
43:30in the area, we call it a discipleship issue with our
43:32children, and we retreat to the inner sanctuaries of our bedroom
43:38and say, babe, God just showed me myself through that.
43:43Yep. This issue that we're dealing with that requires
43:45discipline, how God's correction, man, I almost laughed, because
43:49as I'm listening to this child, God is showing me that's you.
43:54When you see your son do ABC and E, your son is reflecting to you.
44:02What you have reflected to me.
44:04This is what God shows us.
44:05And that's God ordained.
44:06And it's God ordained.
44:07Because God has made our children to learn how to imitate and how to live in accordance
44:14with what they see.
44:15And so if we are keeping our children home from a traditional school and we are discipling
44:19them from our home, they are going to see and learn and be formed by us.
44:23good, bad and ugly, good, bad and ugly.
44:26So I remember once I was venting to one of my friends
44:29and I was like, and she, my daughter, she does this
44:31and she, I don't know how to get through to her
44:33and my friend very gently, very lovingly said,
44:36ooh, that sounds like you though.
44:38And I was like, oh, thank you for loving me, my friend.
44:42And she was right, and she was right.
44:44And what was frustrating for me was that
44:47when I admitted that I had it within me
44:50and I knew that only the Holy Spirit could purify me,
44:52or move that field from me,
44:53I didn't know how to get out of my child.
44:55And I was like, how do I get that out of her?
44:57But it's a power of the Lord.
44:58But I'm saying that it refines us
45:01because we have to look at ourselves in the mirror
45:03and say, man, I don't wanna pass this down to my child.
45:05So any areas that I have that are not yet Christ-like,
45:08Lord, help me, you know?
45:10And so those moments are critical for our own walk.
45:13They're pivotal.
45:14Yeah.
45:15They're pivotal.
45:16And God knows, man, God knows there's certain things
45:19that we would never see within ourselves
45:21unless he shows him to us in the ways that he shows him to us.
45:25And I am saying that God has ordained the family
45:28as the primary vehicle for intergenerational discipleship.
45:33And one of the major reasons, or should I say,
45:36one of the major mechanisms for him doing so
45:39is that the intimate relational connectivity causes
45:43that draws to come to the surface.
45:46In a more precise, more ponion,
45:48and sometimes more potent manner.
45:51Like it's undeniable that when we're having these moments
45:54with our own children and under each year,
45:55something that they model from what they've seen,
45:59even sometimes some things that, you know,
46:01they're similar because we have the same DNA, you know?
46:04Yes.
46:05That God shows these things to us,
46:07and it aids us in being better followers of Christ.
46:10As we, like in instances you just shared,
46:13ooh, I see me and my child.
46:15So now I'm not only seeking how to help my child,
46:18I'm asking God, change me.
46:21God, change me, shape me, mold me.
46:24And we engage in our seminar ourselves to the Lord.
46:29Then through that, the Lord gives us more wisdom and insight
46:31as to how to minister to our children appropriately
46:34as those issues come to the fore.
46:35Yeah, it's incredibly important.
46:37And so the more that we submit to the Lord
46:41in our walk with God and we grow and mature,
46:43and he becomes more and more our treasure,
46:46the more we realize that the same hunger that we have
46:51and the same desire to follow him and to do his will
46:55is the same that we should want for our children.
46:58So our children are gonna grow up
46:59and our children are gonna be formed
47:00and they're gonna become the people
47:03that they're gonna become based on the Lord's sovereignty.
47:07Well, let's not ignore that
47:09because you and I were not discipling in the home
47:11and the Lord by His sovereign grace formed us
47:14and had to undo a lot and we came with a lot of baggage
47:16a lot of scars and we still have them, but the Lord has healed us and made us.
47:19So it's not like it is, the story is done, but if we are, if we have them little in the
47:27home, why?
47:28Why would we not submit to the Lord, be transformed, pour into them, disciple them so that they
47:36can have, because we are human, less scars and the Holy Spirit can come in and capture
47:41their hearts.
47:42And you always say it, we want to be a runway for them.
47:46We don't want to be obstacles in their way to come to Christ.
47:48We want to be a runway.
47:49Amen.
47:51Oh, man.
47:54In this time in our nation's history, man, I think more than ever before.
47:59The necessity of giving ourselves wholeheartedly to obey the Lord's
48:04call to execute his commission and make disciples is job numbers.
48:08One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten.
48:12Yes.
48:12And if we would respond to the Lord with you, militant obedience, with
48:16firm reliance upon him trusting him to remedy any perception of deficiency that we have and say
48:23Lord is by your grace only by your grace that I will be able to follow you that we would do that
48:28starting in our own home man there's no question that we would literally see a revolutionized
48:34society for the glory of the king that's right the views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
48:42may not necessarily reflect those of the american family association or american family radio

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