Darkness is not an affirmative force so we won’t treat it like one.

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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.
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8. 0:24Even in this dark moment.
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11. 0:33Good evening, everyone.
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23. 1:14Welcome back to Mr. Bobby, Rosa.
24. 1:17He told me he got tired of me for a while.
25. 1:20He's like, I'm sick of you.
26. 1:22You're sick.
27. 1:24And then he said, oh, but I miss you.
28. 1:27I miss you.
29. 1:28back. He didn't say any of those things. But he's back ladies and gentlemen. My man, 100
30. 1:34grand Mr. Bobby, Rosa in the screening room, produce extraordinaire often imitated, never
31. 1:41duplicated. The real J. Mac emphasis on real. Many tribe, but many fry. It's a Jeff McIntyre
32. 1:51ladies and gentlemen. And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program
33. 1:56at this very moment many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your
34. 2:02part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs.
35. 2:08It's where you cultivate an outcome.
36. 2:10And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality.
37. 2:15Understand in the primacy that God places on family and allowing that to govern, guide,
38. 2:22and guard your engagement in your families and in your homes.
39. 2:27I will say and I will continue to say as important as Pennsylvania Avenue, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
40. 2:35is or Mar-a-Lugo from time to time.
41. 2:38It is not more important to things that go on there, not more important than what goes
42. 2:41on in your home, in your homes and in my home, simply because you and I are directly responsible
43. 2:49and accountable for what transpires within our jurisdiction.
44. 2:53things that happen in other places that we cannot directly impact or control, but we can
45. 3:01directly impact what happens in our homes.
46. 3:05And it's vitally important, vitally important that we understand that, that we understand
47. 3:10that the opportunity to execute the Great Commission starts in our homes.
48. 3:16Darkness is not an affirmative force.
49. 3:19It's not, but it merely reoccupies the space that is vacated by the light.
50. 3:28So we need to be salt and light.
51. 3:30I'm going to talk a little bit about this today because God's word is true and remains
52. 3:35true no matter what it looks like on the surface.
53. 3:39There are forces that want to demoralize you and demoralize the people of God in our country
54. 3:49and to get us to become listful and hopeless and allow that
55. 3:54listfulness and that hopelessness to kind of
56. 3:57burgeon into and neglect to where we kind of shrug our
57. 4:01shoulders and you know and I'm not gonna make a difference
58. 4:05anyway. I just want to tell you guys that's a flat
59. 4:08line. That is a flat line. We have the capacity to be
60. 4:15and to do everything God has called his people to do and our
61. 4:19method of assessment, however, our method of assessment is not the world's method of assessment.
62. 4:26You know, the founder of American Family Radio and American Family Association, Don Wildman, would say
63. 4:34that the responsibility of God's people is to be faithful. That is our responsibility to be faithful,
64. 4:44but we need to be honest with ourselves as to whether or not we are being faithful
65. 4:48and trust God with the results of that faithfulness. We don't stick our heads in the saying like,
66. 4:53ostriches, we don't become conveniently ignorant as to what's happening all around us. No, no, no,
67. 5:00no, no. We understand faith doesn't deny reality. It persists in light of reality. And God's word
68. 5:08is true. Let's turn to it right now. James chapter 4, James chapter 4, verses 6 and 7 is
69. 5:17where we're going to go today. James chapter 4, verses 6 and 7 is where we're going to go.
70. 5:22to begin this program today.
71. 5:26Verse 6, but he, referring to God, gives greater grace.
72. 5:33That's myzon chiris, the Greek phrase in there,
73. 5:37myzon chiris.
74. 5:38Therefore it says God is opposed to the proud,
75. 5:43but gives grace to the humble.
76. 5:47Submit therefore to God.
77. 5:50Resist the devil and he will flee
78. 5:54from you. I'll read that in again in verse 7.
79. 5:58Submit there for it to God.
80. 6:00Resist the devil and he will, not me.
81. 6:05Notice that the text says he will flee from you.
82. 6:14The Apostle James is explaining here that God is the one who provides
83. 6:19my son, Kares.
84. 6:21And I know how some people describe grace,
85. 6:23but the reality is, the Greek word for grace is Kares.
86. 6:26It is God's empowerment, God's ability, God's capacity that he operates through us.
87. 6:34All right, but it's noteworthy to recognize that God opposes the proud. This is why I say
88. 6:44oftentimes there are a lot of things a person can afford, but you cannot afford
89. 6:48to have God opposed to you. The clear, biblical communication to us is that if you are a prideful
90. 6:58person that you are placing yourself
91. 7:02contrary wise against God, but God gives grace
92. 7:06to the humble. As verse 7 says, submit
93. 7:11therefore to God. And there are lots of people
94. 7:13who want to speed by and get to that second
95. 7:15half of verse 7. But you cannot speed by
96. 7:18it. Submit therefore to God. Before you
97. 7:22get to the second half of verse 7,
98. 7:23submission to God is absolutely necessary.
99. 7:27Then you have the additional component.
100. 7:30resist the devil. The Greek word there for resist is anestimimim, anestimimim, which is
101. 7:40where we derive our English word, anestimimim from. And aestimimim, this is what the scripture
102. 7:49is saying, anestimimim the devil. And the tense of the communication here is that it is a continual
103. 7:57resistance. It's a continual resistance. Just as God sets himself and opposes the proud as
104. 8:08God's people submit to him, we are called to anestimim, to anestimimim the devil. And I want
105. 8:14to explain it in that way first and foremost because that's what the text says. And then
106. 8:19many of us are familiar with how we use anestimimines in our society and how they help us to resist
107. 8:27Allergy seasons as the season changes and things of that nature.
108. 8:30Well, the Lord calls his people to enthistomy the devil.
109. 8:36Now, what's not obvious is that this resistance, it doesn't say that resistance gives you a
110. 8:43time cue as to when and where and how the devil flees.
111. 8:49But what is communicated is that the flight is a guaranteed phenomenon.
112. 8:58we can't speed by the prescription that God gives us.
113. 9:02We can't get to, hey, you know, I'm resisting the devil.
114. 9:04Well, how are you resisting the devil?
115. 9:05All my own terms?
116. 9:08I'm resisting the devil, but I'm not reading by Bob.
117. 9:09I'm resisting the devil.
118. 9:11I'm resisting the devil, but I'm not praying.
119. 9:13I'm resisting the devil.
120. 9:14And what invariably occurs, and this is why the Lord reminds us
121. 9:17to people like the Apostle Paul,
122. 9:21that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
123. 9:26The weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
124. 9:30but they're mighty to the pulling down of strongholds.
125. 9:35Mighty, and the might is not a humanistic might,
126. 9:38that they're mighty through God.
127. 9:41So there is a divine capacity,
128. 9:43a divine capacity that is available to us.
129. 9:50But we have to employ it.
130. 9:52We have to employ God's ways.
131. 9:55We cannot circumvent God's ways
132. 9:58and yet enjoy God's results.
133. 10:02So if we're going to be effective in our anestomy,
134. 10:06that effectiveness will be directly related
135. 10:09to the quality with which we submit ourselves to the Lord.
136. 10:15And that submission in the entirety,
137. 10:17we see verse seven, submit there for the God.
138. 10:20You guys know when you see a therefore,
139. 10:21you want to ask us, ask what is it there for?
140. 10:26Or everything that transpires in James' epistle
141. 10:29prior to this verse is what is being communicated here.
142. 10:34So as we employ God's mechanism, guys, this is an assuerti,
143. 10:41but there are certain stratagems that are employed to try to get us to become desponded,
144. 10:49to become listful.
145. 10:50What's the use?
146. 10:52It's going to happen.
147. 10:54What's going to happen?
148. 10:55It's going to happen anyway.
149. 10:56I simply want to remind you that God's word is true.
150. 11:01God's word is true.
151. 11:03Remember when the Father brought His Son, and He was trying to get to Jesus,
152. 11:13to get to Jesus, but he initially ended up with Jesus' disciples, and the Scripture says that the
153. 11:19boy was demon-possessed. And the disciples at that juncture were unable to do anything with the son.
154. 11:28Then the father brought him to Jesus. And remember what happened. Jesus cast the demons out of the
155. 11:34son. But if you remember, the Bible says that the demon convulsed the son before coming out.
156. 11:40And that convulsion had such a violent display, such a dramatic display that all of the people
157. 11:49there except Jesus thought the boy was dead.
158. 11:51Remember that in the scripture?
159. 11:52They thought he was dead.
160. 11:56And then Jesus walks over and stands above on his feet.
161. 12:01Why am I sharing that?
162. 12:03Jesus had no question to his potency.
163. 12:05He had no question to the effectiveness of what he had just done in the boy's life.
164. 12:11the external appearance temporarily seemed to contradict the truth of what it transpired.
165. 12:18You often hear me say on this show, we can if we will, because once again God's word is
166. 12:25true. Much of what is transpiring around us is not that it's beyond our capacity to respond,
167. 12:36but sometimes we get tempted to want to respond to things using carnal means. We have to be
168. 12:44mindful that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're divinely powerful to
169. 12:50the destruction of strongholds.
170. 12:54In the Apostle James is saying a similar thing in different words, but helping us to understand
171. 13:02what must transpire in order for that effectiveness to be displayed in our lives.
172. 13:09We as the people of God must never forget.
173. 13:11But God gives more grace, my Zonchirus.
174. 13:19God is opposed to the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.
175. 13:23Because God gives grace to the humble, we submit ourselves to the Creator and
176. 13:32Sustainer of heaven and earth, and in submission to God, we enthistimy the devil.
177. 13:43And the result of that investment, the result of that commitment,
178. 13:48The result of that resolution is that the devil will flee.
179. 13:55The devil will flee.
180. 13:58But the submission to God must be the currency,
181. 14:03if you will, of the fully persuaded.
182. 14:05The submission must be the resolve of the fully persuaded.
183. 14:08And as we are fully persuaded,
184. 14:10we recognize this as the Apostle Peter, you know,
185. 14:14do you want to leave to Peter's response?
186. 14:16Where am I going?
187. 14:18with you are the other words of eternal life,
188. 14:21that we have to have a similar resolve.
189. 14:24And as a result of having that fully vested submission,
190. 14:31we stand against the wilds of the enemy.
191. 14:34We call sin sin.
192. 14:36We speak the truth in love,
193. 14:37but we stand flat for the ten toes down.
194. 14:43The truth of who God is, and we resist the devil.
195. 14:49He has no option but to flee.
196. 14:53This is a part of our heritage in the Christ that we serve.
197. 15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
198. 15:03What exactly does the Bible say about life,
199. 15:06standing for life, and the abortion issue?
200. 15:08Deuteronomy chapter 30 verses 19 and 20.
201. 15:11I call heaven and earth to witness against you today
202. 15:14that I have said before you life and death, blessing and curse.
203. 15:18Therefore, choose life that you and your offspring may live,
204. 15:21Loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days.
205. 15:28That you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give them.
206. 15:36Proverbs 24, verse 12 tells us,
207. 15:39Rescue those who are being taken away to death.
208. 15:42Hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
209. 15:46If you say, behold, we did not know this.
210. 15:49Does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
211. 15:52Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it?
212. 15:55And will he not repay man according to his work?
213. 16:04Shiting light into the darkness,
214. 16:07this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
215. 16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton,
216. 16:14the third here.
217. 16:17I've mentioned, man, this is coming up very, very soon,
218. 16:21March 27th through the 29th will be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the whole Ridge Presbyterian Church at the Kingdom
219. 16:29Com Conference. It'll be that weekend, March 27th through the 29th. I'm looking forward to being a part of that
220. 16:38conference where the theme is Christian citizenship. If you are in the area or will it come to the area,
221. 16:43I'd love to meet you there, see you there. It's going to be an amazing time. Several speakers,
222. 16:50I'm looking forward to hearing many of the speakers myself at this conference and I also will be presenting
223. 16:56At the at the conference King the Kingdom come conference March 27 through through the 29th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
224. 17:04I'd love to see you there if you're in the area or able to make it out to that conference
225. 17:10All right, I want to take a few moments now just to
226. 17:14kind of zoom out
227. 17:16from what's been happening in our country and really around the world as
228. 17:22You know operation epic furious continuing in Iran
229. 17:26You have the selection of a new Ayatollah of a president Trump is saying that
230. 17:31According to reports he's severely injured if not
231. 17:38Also deceased they have it confirmed that yet
232. 17:43but I want to just
233. 17:46discuss some of the things that's been happening domestically. Many of you will recall
234. 17:52following the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk before the entire world because
235. 18:01we all were able to see what happened on video in contrary to certain cycles suggesting that
236. 18:11Charlie Kirk's wife has something to do with that.
237. 18:21And one of the things that God by a sovereign grace did,
238. 18:24and there was quite a trajectory in Charlie Kirk's life,
239. 18:29and the turning point, USA organization,
240. 18:33to a started in one space that was pretty exclusively
241. 18:37political, and then in his own words,
242. 18:40he explained he thought that kind of a libertarian economics
243. 18:43would be what needed to happen. And then as he studied that and involved himself there,
244. 18:47realized, no, that's something deeper, he began to delve into broader worldview conversations.
245. 18:53And he said, these things are important, but there's something deeper. And then it came to the
246. 18:57place to where he began to boldly proclaim his faith, proclaim the gospel. Even when he was asked,
247. 19:03what did he want to be remembered for? And his response was, I want to be remembered for courage
248. 19:08for my faith, the arc of his witness grew consistently towards a more robust gospel presentation.
249. 19:18And a lot of his communications about family and encouraging young men to get married and
250. 19:23things of that nature followed that representation.
251. 19:26And then regardless of some of the individual consternations or whatever, at his funeral,
252. 19:35You have the gospel proclaim to hundreds of millions of people all over the world.
253. 19:41And then following that, following that, there was a almost immediate pivot to kind of encroach
254. 19:51upon the elevation of Jesus the Messiah to these kind of internecine squabbles, you know,
255. 20:07dumbed down the attentive focus away from the gospel to parochial political concerns.
256. 20:17And a lot of the gospel momentum that was prevalent.
257. 20:23And I mean, many of you read and heard just like I did, scores of people who had never
258. 20:28been to church or hadn't been to church in years.
259. 20:31And now they're returning to church and all of these things that are happening.
260. 20:36And I just want to remind you that it was God's divine providence that set the course for the
261. 20:45gospel to take center stage as it had.
262. 20:48And I want to tell you that God still rules and reigns in the affairs of men.
263. 20:52I hope all of you listen to the program that we did Friday just sharing the entire impromptu
264. 21:01extuboraneous speech that Benjamin Franklin gave on the floor of the Constitution Convention.
265. 21:06talked about the contrast between the founders is dependence and reliance upon the Lord during
266. 21:13the American Revolutionary War because they were in immediate danger.
267. 21:17And now that they were, had some modicum of some level of peace, he basically chastised
268. 21:22him.
269. 21:23Have we forgotten, you know, our faithful, providential friend, you know, who all of you,
270. 21:29he would say that all of you who were involved in that struggle, talking about the American
271. 21:33revolution, you recognized that how certain things were
272. 21:38transpired that would only happen because of divine
273. 21:40providence. There's no way these things could have happened on
274. 21:42their own. But now we've gotten to the place that where it seems
275. 21:45like as if we don't need him. And then he makes the statement
276. 21:48that resonates with me deeply if a sparrow cannot fall to the
277. 21:51ground out is his knowledge how then can an empire arise without
278. 21:56his aid. I want I want in these few minutes to simply remind
279. 22:02you of what Benjamin Franklin said and what echoes the scripture
280. 22:06that God rules and reigns in the affairs of men.
281. 22:11And there are many people right now,
282. 22:13you're kinda feeling a drift.
283. 22:19It's like, what is going on here?
284. 22:20Like, what is happening?
285. 22:24I want to remind you that God rules and reigns
286. 22:27in the affairs of men.
287. 22:29And I want to remind you to trust Him with the results,
288. 22:34that as you see these things unfolding around us,
289. 22:36the insanity, the foolishness, the jure happening,
290. 22:39I'm gonna get to it.
291. 22:40you see these, you know, terrorist attacks that are transpiring and you see an uptick in them
292. 22:45domestically in light of, or should I say following Operation Epicurean, all of these things, when
293. 22:52you're tempted to be whipped up into a frenzy, I want to remind you to anchor yourself in the
294. 23:01immovable rock that is higher than us, to steady yourself in the one. We look unto the hills
295. 23:11from whence cometh I hope, I hope comes from the Lord.
296. 23:14And I'm not saying that like a throwaway,
297. 23:15like a Hail Mary pass, may hopefully this comes through.
298. 23:19No, no, no, I'm saying it with a confidence.
299. 23:22I'm saying it with a consistency.
300. 23:24I'm saying it with a hope.
301. 23:26I'm saying it that what we should look to
302. 23:30is as we talked about in the last segment,
303. 23:32are we submitting ourselves to the Lord?
304. 23:34You know, the wrath of man does not work the righteousness
305. 23:37of God.
306. 23:38Are we in a position where we're responsive to God's leading?
307. 23:41Are we a people that will complain about elected officials,
308. 23:45but we're not open to the Lord leading us
309. 23:47to become elected officials?
310. 23:49And I wanna be clear about something.
311. 23:51I know plainly that politics shall never be our salvation.
312. 23:56And I also know that God calls his people to do tough things.
313. 24:03I refer often to what my man, Will Addison says all the time.
314. 24:06If we prayed as much as we complained,
315. 24:08We probably see a lot of different functions.
316. 24:12A lot of different things happening.
317. 24:18The scripture says, not my opinion.
318. 24:19This is not my opinion.
319. 24:20This is not my preference.
320. 24:21The scripture says submit ourselves to God.
321. 24:24And this to me, the devil, and he will flee from us.
322. 24:28My question is, are we submitting ourselves to God?
323. 24:32Very many times in very many places,
324. 24:34very many different ways.
325. 24:35Many of the people who are professing to be God's people
326. 24:38allow ourselves to be moved over.
327. 24:42though the Bible tells us the weapons of our warfare not carnal,
328. 24:44we find ourselves, we're kind of leaning on the strong armor of carnality.
329. 24:48We've kind of find ourselves leaning on the flesh.
330. 24:53You know, I've told you I had conversations with people and it would say to me,
331. 24:57eight, what can we do other than pray?
332. 25:00And I understand what the question is, is being presented,
333. 25:04but sometimes the question is revealing a heart condition that is not conducive
334. 25:11to the desire that they may actually have.
335. 25:12The question might at least at least state as I am praying, what else can I do?
336. 25:18And as I am praying, I am praying.
337. 25:21What can I do in addition to praying?
338. 25:23Not like, well, I mean, praying one thing.
339. 25:26What else can I do?
340. 25:27Beside praying.
341. 25:28You know, as a prayer is nothing.
342. 25:30That's the point I'm driving at.
343. 25:35If you study the scriptures, you'll find God has never required a majority to execute as
344. 25:43well, never required a majority.
345. 25:46I was reading the stories of Jonathan and how one particular battle Jonathan only had his armor bear and he said
346. 25:58Well man, let's go over perhaps got perhaps God will be thankful to us
347. 26:10Oh man
348. 26:12What I'm saying folks is the weapons of our warfare
349. 26:16That they're not they're not carnal if we are limiting ourselves to carnality. That is the only way we can get to a position where we're
350. 26:26we're despondent and hopeless.
351. 26:28And I'm not saying this because I don't know
352. 26:32what's happening in the world.
353. 26:33I was even, before the show, coming on was like,
354. 26:35why is it so hard to get Republicans to pass
355. 26:37the Save America Act?
356. 26:38Why is that such a hard thing to do?
357. 26:42And I understand the reality of the 5347 majority
358. 26:45and all that kind of stuff.
359. 26:45I'm like, this is an issue that voters
360. 26:50across the board support.
361. 26:51So why is this such a challenging thing?
362. 26:57Because we're not merely wrestling against flesh and blood.
363. 27:00So instead of saying, man, man, look at what happened.
364. 27:05And ever since all of that momentum following Charlie Kirk's assassination,
365. 27:10and this has been snuffed out by all this political bickering and all this other kind of things,
366. 27:13my question is how are we responding personally and individually, personally and individually?
367. 27:24How are we responding?
368. 27:25Are we continuously seeking the Lord?
369. 27:27Are we in the position where we're responsive to the Lord's leading?
370. 27:29Are we obeying all that the Lord is calling us to?
371. 27:32Or are we just complainers?
372. 27:36The Lord says it plainly, submit to God,
373. 27:42resist the devil, healfully.
374. 27:46The submission precedes the resistance.
375. 27:50We have a lot of people that want to resist.
376. 27:52We don't have as many people that are willing to submit.
377. 27:54The resistance must be preceded and accompanied by the submission.
378. 28:03All right.
379. 28:05With that said, I've been saying this, I'm going to continue saying it.
380. 28:12One of the things that needs to happen in our country, especially in light of Operation
381. 28:19Epic Shiree, is that there needs to be more candid conversations about the truth of Islamic
382. 28:29supremacy and what the ideology is.
383. 28:32For people to say that it is merely religion, that is an inaccurate articulation of what
384. 28:40the truth is.
385. 28:44There is a core political ideology that is intrinsic.
386. 28:48Now again, this is, this is not to say that there aren't people who
387. 28:51derogate from that, but we need to be clear about it, that people who do not
388. 28:56embrace the political supremacy portions of Islam, they are
389. 29:00derogating away from what Islam teaches.
390. 29:02They are not.
391. 29:06And if you study history, this is why we spent the episodes we have with Bill
392. 29:09Federer talking about the history of the ideology and the things that are
393. 29:13happening, because none of this is new.
394. 29:17None of this is new.
395. 29:18Now, in our country, recently, I'll start this now, I'm going to run out of time in this
396. 29:26segment to talk about this.
397. 29:28We need to be honest about something.
398. 29:30So you have this terrorist murderer who murdered ROTC instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw
399. 29:41at Old Dominion University injured several others.
400. 29:45Well, it doesn't take rocket surgery to figure out, first and foremost, this dude had already
401. 29:52been convicted and was serving time in federal prison, not for some general criminality, specifically
402. 29:59for providing material support to ISIS.
403. 30:03That's why it was in federal prison, which brings another issue to the forefront.
404. 30:09But I want you to listen to a little bit about this.
405. 30:12This is some of the things we know about this guy who murdered this innocent man in Virginia
406. 30:20and injured several others.
407. 30:21Listen to and watch clip number four, clip four.
408. 30:24Go.
409. 30:25we know about this individual is they actually convicted
410. 30:28in a completely separate case 10 years ago, right?
411. 30:30So back in 2016, they're arrested in connection
412. 30:32with this FBI bust of involving support for ISIS.
413. 30:36And in that case, what the authorities alleged
414. 30:39is that this individual bought a gun
415. 30:41and was part of a plot to kill members of the military.
416. 30:44So while we do not, you know, the authorities
417. 30:47have not yet spoken as to the official motive,
418. 30:49we know that he was associated with ISIS in the past
419. 30:51and admitted to that in conjunction with that case.
420. 30:54and that was allegedly part of a plot to kill members of the military.
421. 30:57He ultimately got 11 years in prison and he was released in 2024.
422. 31:03Now there are a couple of facts facts that should be brought to the forefront.
423. 31:06For example, he was convicted in 2017, got 11 years in prison, quick math,
424. 31:11with 17 plus 11.
425. 31:15Well, that would be 28.
426. 31:17What year are we in right now?
427. 31:20Whoa, 2026.
428. 31:21So what does that tell you?
429. 31:22if he was sent to see 11 years in prison for providing material support to ISIS, but he's
430. 31:29out to commit these murders, commit this murder at Old Dominion University, what to tell you
431. 31:35is that he was released early.
432. 31:42This guy was a naturalized citizen and maybe, maybe people might say that that is harsh of
433. 31:53me to say this, but he was born in Sierra Leone.
434. 31:59He served in the Virginia National Guard from 2009 to 2015.
435. 32:07But according to what we know, his service in the National Guard ended and coincided with
436. 32:11him consuming radical jihadist teachings online.
437. 32:20He said in 2016 he had considered repeating a Fort Hood type massacre.
438. 32:30But he's in our federal prison.
439. 32:34He apparently participates in a drug program
440. 32:38that results in him being released from prison early.
441. 32:44And upon being released from prison early,
442. 32:46he commits this act of terrorism at Old Dominion University.
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469. 34:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
470. 34:20I'm intentionally not referring to the murderer in the old Dominion case by name.
471. 34:25Y'all know I don't like to grandize the murderers.
472. 34:30But anybody want to explain to me how we have a naturalized citizen who commits a crime and
473. 34:38is convicted to providing material support to a terrorist organization that is committed
474. 34:45to the destruction of the United States of America.
475. 34:47And we add a minimum that do not remove his naturalization status.
476. 34:51Somebody want to explain to me how you can have someone convicted of a terrorist-related crime,
477. 34:58but we let him back out of dark and let him out early, by the way.
478. 35:02Let him out early.
479. 35:03Let him out early.
480. 35:11And he's released in 2024 and guess what's happening in 2024?
481. 35:19or y'all want to tell me who is in,
482. 35:20who is the head of the federal,
483. 35:25the executive branch of the government in 2024?
484. 35:28That also presides over the federal bureau of prisons.
485. 35:31Anybody want to take a stab at that?
486. 35:36I know there's bureaucratic things that could happen,
487. 35:39but it's just, it's just galling that this happens.
488. 35:43Then, you have an addition to that.
489. 35:47You have just hours later,
490. 35:51or hours away in time, that you have another terrorist in Michigan.
491. 36:00Now, haven't we been talking about what's happening in Dearborn, Michigan?
492. 36:08Well, you have another terrorist who was shot dead after driving his vehicle
493. 36:18into Temple, Israel and West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.
494. 36:22Right?
495. 36:22Now, the thing that, and I found lots of these media outlets are not comfortable saying, but
496. 36:33I'm going to say it.
497. 36:34He drives, I have the distance here, with 38 miles from his home in Dearborn Heights.
498. 36:48Remember what we've been talking about in Dearborn Heights?
499. 36:51Remember we, with Bill Federer, we talked about the Shia Sunni distinction.
500. 36:56And remember what we talked about one of the places that is a prevalent Shiite outpost in
501. 37:03our own country, but we can't talk about it.
502. 37:14And y'all are going to really, and some of you might notice information already, but when
503. 37:20you hear what I'm about to tell you next, some of you are going to be like, what?
504. 37:25So this terrorist drives his car, pack with, you know, fireworks, this is funny, some outlets
505. 37:34say fireworks, other causes explosives.
506. 37:37Clearly he drove his car into a synagogue that also has a
507. 37:41school in a childcare center because he wanted to have a
508. 37:44fireworks show. That's why that's why he did it. He just
509. 37:47wanted to come on, man. And after driving his car into to the
510. 37:53synagogue in Michigan, he gets out and draws his own weapon.
511. 38:00Thankfully, nobody other than the terrorists lost their lives
512. 38:05in this scenario.
513. 38:08Um, but y'all want to know who, who, who, who, who, who this guy's family is?
514. 38:14I, I'll, I'll let you hear it from someone else.
515. 38:18Then I'll come back and tell you listen to and watch clip number three to learn a little
516. 38:22bit more about the terrorists in Michigan, clip three, go.
517. 38:28The Israeli military says the man who attacked a Michigan synagogue is the brother of a Hezbollah
518. 38:32commander killed in Lebanon earlier this month.
519. 38:35On March 12, I'm in Mohammed Ghazali rammed a truck into the Temple Israel synagogue in
520. 38:41a suburb of Detroit, exchanged gunfire with security guards and eventually killed himself.
521. 38:46Reports last week suggested Ghazali was motivated by an Israeli attack in Lebanon that left multiple
522. 38:51members of his family dead, including two young children.
523. 38:54The Israeli military now says one of the dead is Ghazali's brother, Ibrahim Mohammed Ghazali,
524. 39:00a Hezbollah commander in the butter unit, which Israel says is responsible for firing hundreds
525. 39:04of rockets towards Israel in the last several weeks.
526. 39:10So the dude who rammed his car into the synagogue in Michigan is the brother of a Hezbollah
527. 39:17commander.
528. 39:24Is the brother of a Hezbollah commander?
529. 39:29Can I make this stuff up?
530. 39:31Even Gretchen Whitmer had to come out and say, well, this attack is anti-Semitism.
531. 39:37Duh, Gretchen, duh, duh.
532. 39:44But because I'm concerned about it, oh, I'm xenophobic.
533. 39:47You see, yeah, I'm xenophobic.
534. 39:49I'm not xenophobic at all.
535. 39:51I just happen to have eyes and the Lord has graced me
536. 39:53to be literate.
537. 39:55And I can read that what's happening now,
538. 39:58and it's just amazing to me because when,
539. 40:02even as some people who said, boy, Abraham,
540. 40:03I have to listen to several of my programs, boy, Abraham,
541. 40:06isn't the Christian doctrine, Christians want the whole world
542. 40:09to be Christians?
543. 40:13Not by force. Not by force. Nobody saying embrace Christ or off with your head.
544. 40:25Nobody saying that. What I'm saying is that our nation has been tenderized into ignorance and
545. 40:38negligence because we had the ideology as reflected in George W. Bush's statement,
546. 40:46Or this is just religion to peace.
547. 40:48It's like, how can you say that?
548. 40:54You don't have to broad brush, broad brush condemn all people, but you have a responsibility
549. 41:01to identify the ideology.
550. 41:04It's no different to remember when the Pulse nightclub in Florida dude literally is saying,
551. 41:12I want my snack bar and Obama and him talking about, well, you don't know why, what's going
552. 41:17on?
553. 41:18to see what's going on. It's like we have an obligation to be honest about what's transpiring.
554. 41:33And so that is how, and I shared this on my social media, how you have
555. 41:4224 years in counting after 9-11. Now you have the mayor of New York sitting
556. 41:50in the mayor's office in New York City, the exact same city. And if we have people unfamiliar with
557. 42:00with the ideology, they don't understand that terrorists see that as evidence of them winning.
558. 42:07Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
559. 42:11Historically, what puts the wet blanket on the fervor to commit acts of terrorism is when
560. 42:20they are met with force.
561. 42:29You think it's a coincidence that this also follows, you know, the would-be terrorists, young
562. 42:37terrorists in this instance in New York that we're making makeshift bombs to set off right
563. 42:43outside of the Islamianist, Mom Donny's, Gracie Manchin.
564. 42:48And then don't forget about old boy outside of the, the, the, the, the Austin, Texas.
565. 42:55What I'm, what I'm saying, folks is we can play if we want and act like this is, these
566. 42:59are all coincidences if we want.
567. 43:02And you're wondering why job number one for president Trump was securing the border who
568. 43:07all came into this country in the last several years.
569. 43:11This is not a provoked fear at all, but we need to be honest about what's happening.
570. 43:15We need to be honest about the reality that's happening in our own country and what has been
571. 43:24happening.
572. 43:31It is concerning to me that we can have a person who literally goes to prison for terrorism,
573. 43:39who is not from our country.
574. 43:41And we just shrug our shoulders and, yeah, sure, sure, right back out into the,
575. 43:46to the wonderful, fruited plain, right, right on.
576. 44:01And people don't understand why President Trump
577. 44:03was elected.
578. 44:03One of the major reasons why is he's peace plain spoken
579. 44:06and is willing to say,
580. 44:08hey, these people are trying to kill us.
581. 44:11So we're not gonna let them kill us.
582. 44:15You have people that are playing lip service all along.
583. 44:18Oh yeah, here's what our ally in President Trump said,
584. 44:21well, I'm gonna move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
585. 44:24And they remember how all the world screeched.
586. 44:26No, you can't do, you can't.
587. 44:27You can't do it, you can't do it, you can't do it.
588. 44:29And what happened?
589. 44:30Nothing.
590. 44:31Nothing.
591. 44:37I'm explaining all of this, guys,
592. 44:40for the express purpose is of reiterating
593. 44:42what I said earlier, we can if we will.
594. 44:44We can if we will.
595. 44:45And I don't want anybody to mister true what I'm saying,
596. 44:47that I do not conflate gospel imperatives
597. 44:50in disciple making with civic engagement.
598. 44:52But understand that civic engagement is downstream
599. 44:56from the gospel imperatives.
600. 44:58Like some of the people,
601. 44:59and it just boggles my mind.
602. 45:03that was, will say some insanely idiotic things, you know, like, oh, the Christianity is a great
603. 45:11threat. Or even the people that try to use the Christian nationalism, it's like, do you
604. 45:19understand it was Christianity and the biblical worldview that led to the founding of this nation?
605. 45:24Do you understand that? And most people, I won't say most. Many people do not understand
606. 45:28Why don't they understand it?
607. 45:30Because they have been indoctrinated with an intentionally skewed presentation of history.
608. 45:38But because you've had papers and documents given from certain institutions, they believe
609. 45:42they're educated.
610. 45:44They haven't read the founding statements.
611. 45:46They haven't read anything about the lives of the American founders.
612. 45:52They don't know who the 39 individuals were who signed our Constitution.
613. 45:56They don't know the 56 people who signed our Declaration of Independence.
614. 45:59They don't know who they are.
615. 46:00They don't know when, here's some homework, here's some homework, right?
616. 46:04For you and to share, identify the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence.
617. 46:11Who were they?
618. 46:12Not just their names.
619. 46:13Who were they?
620. 46:14What did they do?
621. 46:15Where were they trained?
622. 46:17What did they study?
623. 46:20It'll radically transform your understanding of our nation's founding.
624. 46:27And that's a great homework assignment in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the
625. 46:32Declaration of Independence.
626. 46:35Why is it?
627. 46:36Why is it in our nation, land of the free, home of the brave, the United States of America?
628. 46:40Why is it that the majority of our citizens don't know the names of the 56 people who sign
629. 46:45our Declaration of Independence?
630. 46:48Why is it that the majority of our citizens don't know the 39 people who signed our Constitution?
631. 46:54And I'm not saying this to condemn anybody and I send it because I read a book and so I'm
632. 46:57I'm gonna pop my collar and flex on somebody.
633. 46:59No, I'm not saying it for that reason at all.
634. 47:01What I'm saying is that's evidence of intentional efforts
635. 47:05to fundamentally transform our nation
636. 47:07into something that it is not.
637. 47:09You understand what I'm saying?
638. 47:10There was a period of time, nearly an entire century
639. 47:14where elementary school students were required
640. 47:17to read George Washington's farewell address,
641. 47:19required to read it.
642. 47:21We're not required to read it anymore.
643. 47:23I wonder why, probably for the same reason,
644. 47:27And I just use this example because it's popular because it's a,
645. 47:30it's a provocative example, probably for the same reason.
646. 47:32We don't really know much about Sir Isaac Newton beyond his commitment to the laws of
647. 47:37physics. Do you think that's a coincidence?
648. 47:40Do you think that's just, man, oh yeah, that is true.
649. 47:45Why you thinking about it?
650. 47:46I don't really know who the 39 people who signed the US Constitution.
651. 47:52I know John Hancock, I didn't even realize the real person.
652. 47:55Do you realize John Hancock is a real person?
653. 47:57that we have the expression, let me put my John Hancock on it.
654. 48:02Because of the size of his signature on the,
655. 48:05but do we know who he is?
656. 48:06What he stood for?
657. 48:07What he believed?
658. 48:10Why is it that we don't study any longer?
659. 48:14The debates that took place in our constitute,
660. 48:19James Madison to copious notes, copious notes.
661. 48:25What I'm saying guys, it's been intentional.
662. 48:26That's what I'm saying.
663. 48:27It's been an intentional dumbing down,
664. 48:29and these are some of the same people.
665. 48:30They can't tell you nothing about the 56
666. 48:33sound as if the Declaration of Independence, but they're the same ones they'll tell you,
667. 48:35but you know there's a separation of church and state.
668. 48:41We have a separation.
669. 48:42Where's that in the Constitution?
670. 48:43Give me a second.
671. 48:44Let me find it.
672. 48:45You won't find it.
673. 48:48And you guys know if you listen to the show any length of time.
674. 48:52I'm not saying to you that I found us a perfect not an early spit, but God is a master at
675. 48:58using crickesticks to paint straight lines.
676. 49:03Whenever America has had problems, it is because we've deviated away from our founding
677. 49:10principles. Our practices didn't align with our principles. And now we've had
678. 49:15generations of Americans who've been deprived of knowing what our principles
679. 49:19are, which have resulted in really debates about varying degrees of
680. 49:27regressiveism as opposed to having a wholesaling constitutionalists understanding.
681. 49:34The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect
682. 49:44those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.