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1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
2. 0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
3. 0:07This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
4. 0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
5. 0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
6. 0:18And the philosophies of this world.
7. 0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
8. 0:24Even in this dark moment.
9. 0:26Let's not miss our moment.
10. 0:29And now, the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:33Good evening, everybody.
12. 0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
13. 0:36My name is Abraham Hamilton.
14. 0:37The third I am the host of the program joined by the corner
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17. 0:50As you know, he would leap tall stacks of birch, not leap over.
18. 0:56Leap to it with a chainsaw in order to get supplies.
19. 1:03And our producer, Jordan Nair, often imitated,
20. 1:05never duplicated the real J-Mac.
21. 1:07Ladies and gentlemen, the real J-Mac is in the screening room.
22. 1:13And we're ready to rock and roll with today's edition
23. 1:15of the program.
24. 1:16At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you,
25. 1:19are making your transition from your part-time jobs
26. 1:21where you generate an income to your full-time jobs
27. 1:24where you cultivate an outcome.
28. 1:25And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so
29. 1:29with intentionality, recognizing the primacy
30. 1:34that God places on family.
31. 1:38We will never be able to out politic, out vote,
32. 1:44out Supreme Court opinion,
33. 1:47whereas yesterday was a good day.
34. 1:50Today, oh my goodness,
35. 1:55hearing the oral arguments concerning the Trump versus Barbara
36. 1:59case concerning birthright citizenship.
37. 2:06Oh my goodness,
38. 2:10guys, it's simply in my opinion,
39. 2:13affirms the necessity for us to live locally, to bat down the hatches at home, recognize
40. 2:18what God requires of us in terms of the execution of his commission. That is a command of God.
41. 2:25And that great commission is to be executed within the context of the first command issued
42. 2:33in Scripture in Genesis chapter 1, fruitfulness, multiplication, replenishing the earth and
43. 2:37of do it, being the recipients of the delegation of authority to be stewards of God's earth.
44. 2:46And I'm saying it in that way intentionally because it's his.
45. 2:52But much of what is befallen our nation, guys, is the cumulative impact of a lack of great
46. 2:58commission execution right here at home, right here at home.
47. 3:04With all of the things that are swirling and I'm telling you, you want to talk about some
48. 3:07big stuff.
49. 3:09We have the Artemis II launch that is scheduled to occur while we're on the air about 16
50. 3:17minutes from now with this Artemis II moon mission.
51. 3:24We have President Trump scheduled, scheduled, addressed tonight at 8 p.m. central 9 p.m.
52. 3:29Eastern time concerning the Iranian operation epic fury in Iran, I should say.
53. 3:38Will it be an announcement from the President concerning the end of the war?
54. 3:43Will it be an announcement of something other than that?
55. 3:46Will it be a formal taking to task of NATO?
56. 3:50We'll see.
57. 3:51But that is happening tonight.
58. 3:53That is happening tonight.
59. 3:56I will most likely have to, well, maybe to get it live.
60. 4:01We have a men's Bible study tonight at church.
61. 4:04So I'm going to watch it.
62. 4:05I'm going to watch it tonight.
63. 4:07but what time is the question.
64. 4:09If our men's Bible study ends in time,
65. 4:11I may be able to get to it.
66. 4:16And even thinking about our men's Bible study,
67. 4:19the necessity for our brethren,
68. 4:22the men in the Lord's Church to take our positions
69. 4:26that God has afforded us, man, it's absolutely necessary.
70. 4:29In addition to that, I was already alluded to,
71. 4:31the Birthright Citizenship Case before the Supreme Court
72. 4:33or our arguments were heard today.
73. 4:35It's remarkable how the ACLU lawyer
74. 4:38attempted to assert that this case with the the son of Chinese legal residents in our country.
75. 4:50And from 1898 was the bulk of the conversation in the oral arguments.
76. 4:55He went to China. He was born in the United States of America,
77. 5:00traveled to China, then tried to come back and they wouldn't lend back in the country.
78. 5:02in the 1898 decision dealt with that.
79. 5:07And the Supreme Court in 1898 ruled that the man was an American citizen with the ambit
80. 5:13of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.
81. 5:16But the ACLU lawyer continued to say that I was completely irrelevant that the boy's
82. 5:22parents were legally domiciled in the United States of America.
83. 5:27They say it's irrelevant to which Justice Alito, for example, said that the parents of Thomas
84. 5:37I was mentioned over 20 times in the case.
85. 5:39What have we done about this irrelevant?
86. 5:43Well, I have to tell you, if they end up ruling that subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the
87. 5:49Birthright Citizenship, the Citizens will Clause in the 14th Amendment, says that a person born
88. 5:54in the United States of America is a citizen of this country.
89. 5:56If they are one, born in this country, and two,
90. 5:59they are subject to the jurisdiction of our nation.
91. 6:03That's not difficult to understand.
92. 6:08It's really not difficult to understand
93. 6:11unless you don't want that to be true.
94. 6:15And the ACLU lawyer literally is saying
95. 6:18that the legal regime we have in America that we have had,
96. 6:20that we need to continue to have,
97. 6:22is one that anybody born in this country is a citizen.
98. 6:25That's what she said, that's straight up.
99. 6:28With all of those things swirling,
100. 6:29You and I cannot control those things, we can pray for them,
101. 6:33but we cannot control those things.
102. 6:35But guess what?
103. 6:36We do have direct capacity to impact what goes on in our homes.
104. 6:41And we must be about our father's business
105. 6:42starting right in our homes.
106. 6:43To that end, let us turn to the word of God.
107. 6:46Judges chapter two, judges chapter two.
108. 6:49You know, one of the things that Oz Guinness said
109. 6:53in the conference I was a part of
110. 6:56in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last week.
111. 6:59And as the United States of America is approaching our 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence,
112. 7:06while it is appropriate to celebrate our independence, there's lots of conversations about making America great again,
113. 7:13but there's not many conversations about what made America great in the first place.
114. 7:16How many people can articulate what made America great in the first place?
115. 7:23And he said, and I agree with him, that the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence
116. 7:31should be a time for confession, requests for forgiveness from God and repentance.
117. 7:41I agree wholeheartedly with him.
118. 7:44Judges 2, verses 18 and 19.
119. 7:48These two verses encapsulate what I describe as the cycle of Judges, meaning the cycle of
120. 7:54the book of Judges.
121. 7:56And this is what the scripture says.
122. 7:57Verse 18, when the Lord raised up Judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered
123. 8:04them from the hand of their enemies, all the days of the judge, for the Lord was moved to pity
124. 8:11by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them. But it came about when the
125. 8:19judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, and following
126. 8:28other gods to serve them and bow down to them.
127. 8:33They did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.
128. 8:43These verses encapsulate what I describe as the cycle of Judges.
129. 8:50Does this not seem to express what has happened in our nation?
130. 8:54A mindful, some of you may remember a couple of weeks ago, I read Benjamin Franklin's entire
131. 9:00speech that he contemporaneously offered during our constitutional convention from the floor
132. 9:06of the State House in Pennsylvania after four of our five or six weeks of an inability to
133. 9:15accomplish anything at the Constitutional Convention where the state sent delegates to try to formulate
134. 9:23a new national or federal government to supplant and replace the Articles of Confederation.
135. 9:30I'm sorry, Benjamin Franklin stood up and addressed the entire body, making first acknowledgement
136. 9:35to George Washington, who presided over the Constitution of Prevention, and said, Mr. President,
137. 9:44how have we arrived at this place?
138. 9:46This is me paraphrasing what Benjamin Franklin said.
139. 9:49How have we arrived at this place?
140. 9:51Have to five or six weeks of ineffective expression of a formulation of government with
141. 9:57each state attending to their local interests primarily, we're not able to resolve anything.
142. 10:04How have we not sought the assistance of divine providence in the formulation of our national
143. 10:10interests and national government?
144. 10:13Then he said, I remember, this is what he said, I remember and all of you who were here during
145. 10:18that great conflict with Great Britain, when we were in the sense of danger daily, this
146. 10:24This is what he said.
147. 10:26We offered prayers and supplication in this room every day.
148. 10:31This is what he said.
149. 10:34But now, now, since we are in a time of peace where we can sit back without fear and danger
150. 10:45and to formulate in peace what our government will be, have we forgotten that divine friend?
151. 10:55He goes on to say, the scripture says that unless the Lord builds a house, they who build
152. 11:00it labor-invained.
153. 11:01And he says this, I believe that.
154. 11:05I believe that.
155. 11:07He went on to say, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his awareness, can an
156. 11:13empire rise without his assistance?
157. 11:16And he finally moved that daily prayer be offered in this room from henceforth.
158. 11:24motion received the second, the motion carried, and that led to three days of prayer in Pennsylvania.
159. 11:33Those three days of prayer, you want to talk about our 250th anniversary of our declaration?
160. 11:39I've said repeatedly the Declaration of Independence is a mission and or vision statement for our
161. 11:45nation.
162. 11:46The U.S. Constitution is the implementation vehicle for the vision articulated in the declaration.
163. 11:52It was prayer that produced our Constitution.
164. 11:59And I say, right along with Benjamin Franklin, and I'm pointing this out because this is a
165. 12:05part of our national heritage.
166. 12:07Along the lines with Oskina said, what made America great in the first place?
167. 12:10I would contend one of the major things that made America great in the first place is that
168. 12:13we have a Constitution that's the product of prayer.
169. 12:17A Constitution that is the product of prayer that as those who participated in the development
170. 12:23of our Constitution, they looked back upon the Revolutionary War time and said there is no
171. 12:28way we come out of that victorious without the help of divine providence.
172. 12:32Benjamin Franklin said, you guys know, you remember the various circumstances that transpired,
173. 12:38that we could do nothing but acknowledge this cannot be anything other than the help of God.
174. 12:43Fogg appearing at certain times, ice breaking up in particular points.
175. 12:47Man, come on.
176. 12:52Yet have we gotten to this place in our nations,
177. 12:55our national juncture, it's a shame,
178. 13:00it's a shame that we have popular discourse from people,
179. 13:04you know, like Joe Rogan used to say,
180. 13:06he's not saying that as much now,
181. 13:08but used to say what mock people
182. 13:10who were Bible-believing Christians
183. 13:12and try to pit the notion of someone believing
184. 13:16the scriptures as being intellectually inferior.
185. 13:20And then how many generations of Christian kind of tuck their chains in because,
186. 13:24oh, no, I don't want to be counted off with the rooms.
187. 13:27So we become embarrassed not by bold proclamations of atheism.
188. 13:32No, you become embarrassed by the fact that we believe the scripture and the God of the Bible.
189. 13:39It's just like in judges.
190. 13:41When the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them from
191. 13:46the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge.
192. 13:48For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted
193. 13:53them.
194. 13:55But it came about when the judge died that they would turn back and act more corruptly
195. 14:00than their fathers.
196. 14:02And following other gods, lower case g, to serve them and bow down to them, they did not
197. 14:09abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.
198. 14:14But all of these things in front of us, Artemis II, launching the Operation Epic Fury in Iran,
199. 14:22birthright citizenship being debated at the U.S. Supreme Court, the United States of America
200. 14:26must find our way to our faces in confession of sin, requests for forgiveness from God, and
201. 14:36commitments to repent because we could have the most robust fighting force in the world
202. 14:43and in the history of the world.
203. 14:45But a nation is not saved by its war horses.
204. 14:49And as Benjamin Franklin said,
205. 14:50unless the Lord builds a house, not Benjamin Franklin.
206. 14:53The scripture said it first had been Franklin confirmed it.
207. 14:55Those who build it labor in vain.
208. 15:01A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
209. 15:05What if a person says they don't want to be involved
210. 15:07in spiritual warfare?
211. 15:09And what if a given person says they don't want
212. 15:11to have anything to do with spiritual warfare?
213. 15:14Tragically, none of us have a choice in the matter.
214. 15:17War has come to us, like it or not.
215. 15:21Since we have no choice but to face spiritual warfare in our lives, this is our choice.
216. 15:26We can live like civilians and just become victims of the killing, abuse and problems
217. 15:31and difficulties of war, or we can choose to become well equipped soldiers and warriors,
218. 15:37skilled and trained for war and spiritual warfare.
219. 15:42The most powerful weapon in the world is the Word of God.
220. 15:47Here are seven ways to use the Word of God every day.
221. 15:50Daily we can read it, hear it, believe it, speak it,
222. 15:55obey it, pray it and meditate on it.
223. 16:06Shiting light into the darkness,
224. 16:08this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
225. 16:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
226. 16:13Abraham Hamilton III here,
227. 16:15and I am just overwhelmed and excitement
228. 16:18because I have on the program with me, my family.
229. 16:20These are my people.
230. 16:23I love them dearly.
231. 16:24I'm grateful to God for them personally,
232. 16:27for the benefit they are to me and my family,
233. 16:29but also to their willingness to contend for the faith
234. 16:33and the day and age that God has planted us in.
235. 16:35I'm speaking of none other than my brother,
236. 16:37my sister, Will and Miki Addison,
237. 16:40co-founders of the Culture Proof Ministry,
238. 16:43which includes a podcast between them.
239. 16:46I guess I should say together, they have over 15 years of broadcast, ministry experience,
240. 16:51before that, because I knew them before y'all knew them.
241. 16:54All right, let's get that straight.
242. 16:57Years of ministry as evangelists and missionaries, missionaries, including missionaries to college
243. 17:06campuses in our country.
244. 17:07You want to talk about a mission for you.
245. 17:11You have anti-Christ forces seeking specifically to strip children born and raised in Christian
246. 17:17homes from the faith.
247. 17:19They contended on the front lines for years making disciples of college students and they
248. 17:24are also the committed ministers to their family.
249. 17:31As they're rearing their children and nurture and admonition of the Lord.
250. 17:34Last time they were here, you probably heard they had six children.
251. 17:40Number seven is on the way.
252. 17:41I'm just going to tell you.
253. 17:42I didn't even ask if I can announce that.
254. 17:43That's all good. Yes. I know y'all been announced this so I just took point of personal privilege
255. 17:49Number seven is on the way
256. 17:50But family will and me thank you so much for joining me here in the corner. How are you?
257. 17:56We're great. We're great. Thank you so much for having us. Just salute to the air for our audience man
258. 18:02Just a resilient group of people so we're happy to be you know here with you, man. This is great. Yeah, thanks for having us
259. 18:09Oh, man, it is truly truly truly my pleasure. Well, you guys know because y'all know me
260. 18:13beyond what I do on the radio that I speak quite consistently about the necessity of the local
261. 18:20church being involved.
262. 18:23Or should I say obeying the commands of our Lord, much of what is befall in our country
263. 18:28is to buy product of Christ followers really contracting in witness.
264. 18:32I would say both in quality and potency in addition to quantity like darkness is not an
265. 18:41affirmative force but it reoccupies the space that the light vacates.
266. 18:45The scripture tells us plainly that the church is to be the pillar and ground of the truth.
267. 18:53Because that is the reality and I'm going to start with Mickey on this, ladies first,
268. 18:58well, you know.
269. 18:59That's cool.
270. 19:01What do you see in terms of the necessity of the local church being engaged in obeying
271. 19:07what God commands us and then the corollary?
272. 19:09are the consequences for I would just say frankly disobeying God's command through the local
273. 19:15church context?
274. 19:16Yeah, I think the anemia that we see in the church today can be attributed to us moving
275. 19:24away from scripture and thinking that we know better.
276. 19:28I think there is a popular influencer culture that exists and we've never seen anything like
277. 19:33this before, like not on this level.
278. 19:36always had sort of like a fandom in the church, which is why, you know, Paul had to rebuke the
279. 19:41Corinthians. They had their favorites, right? So you've always had that kind of fan type culture,
280. 19:44but I don't think the church has ever seen something to this magnitude where you can have people who
281. 19:49really think that they are being discipled biblically, right, when they are following detached influencers.
282. 19:57And, and I think this grieves the heart of the Lord. I think that the body of Christ is described
283. 20:02as a body and designed as a body on purpose. And that means that we are in community, that
284. 20:06we're in fellowship with one another, that we are touching one another's lives, that
285. 20:10we know what's going on. So that discipleship is not just the transmission of information.
286. 20:15A lot of people think that, oh, I'm learning a lot of stuff and I'm being discipled, but
287. 20:19it's more than that. It's living life together. So it's the practical application of the information
288. 20:24that you're taking in. And the only way you know that that is successfully happening is
289. 20:29that you're living with people, like that you are that you are actively walking alongside
290. 20:33people you have when you look throughout the history of the church, you have missionaries
291. 20:37living among the people that they're endeavoring to reach for Christ. Even in the scriptures,
292. 20:42you see the Apostle Paul sending elders, you see the Apostle Paul saying to Titus, it's
293. 20:48for this reason that I left you in Crete and then given in the parameters for how people
294. 20:51are to be put in place. And then what the expectations are of the believer, whenever the Christian
295. 20:57moves away from the authority of God's word and starts to behave according to what he thinks
296. 21:03is right in his own eyes, just kind of going back to what you were saying in your first segment.
297. 21:07It does turn into a time of judges, a time of the judges.
298. 21:11And one of the things that characterized that time was that you'd have God's people operate
299. 21:17in rebellion, then he'd have to spank them and they would get tired of the spank and they'd
300. 21:22cry out, then he'd raise up someone to deliver them.
301. 21:25They'd get comfortable and they'd go into rebellion.
302. 21:28You'd have to spank them and then so on.
303. 21:30And you see this cycle kind of continuing.
304. 21:33And I honestly, I think that's what we see happening in our country.
305. 21:37So and I want to follow up with you on this, Miki, then I'm a pitch one to will.
306. 21:47Why do we require such repetitive discipline?
307. 21:51at some point, I would hope God would hope more than me that we would learn. What is it
308. 21:58that you would think that causes us to continue to put ourselves in positions, just as the judge
309. 22:03lays it out as examples in Scripture, to require that repetition of spanking?
310. 22:07Yeah, I don't think we recognize it as a spanking. I think that we have redefined success. We
311. 22:14have redefined what it is to be a healthy follower of Christ. And so I think the absence of God's
312. 22:20presence or, you know, all of the things that would be indicators that God has judged us as
313. 22:27people, as a nation, that He's judging what's happening in the places that we call church.
314. 22:33I think that we have shifted those things into something that is defined other than discipline.
315. 22:40So we see it as success, right?
316. 22:42So like if you have, you have a super mega church, you have a large congregation, then we say
317. 22:48numerically, this is a successful church.
318. 22:52But that's not how the Bible defines success, right?
319. 22:55If you have thousands of people
320. 22:59who don't know who Jesus is
321. 23:01and don't know how to live for him, then that's a failure.
322. 23:05And so I think the discipline is not even noticed
323. 23:09or discerned because we've redefined
324. 23:12what it is to be successful, right?
325. 23:14So like if you're handed over to yourself,
326. 23:17then you call that independence, right?
327. 23:19Like, and so then it doesn't feel like discipline.
328. 23:21Like, you know, we would, scripturally speaking,
329. 23:23we would call that reprobate.
330. 23:24If you think that everything that you're doing is right,
331. 23:27then that's a problem and that is judgment.
332. 23:30But I think in our current cultural climate,
333. 23:32we might call that living, like doing you,
334. 23:35just living your best life.
335. 23:37And so when you redefine the discipline
336. 23:39and make it some indication of success,
337. 23:42you miss the whole point of the discipline
338. 23:43you detect yourself from it,
339. 23:44which again, I think, I think is judgment.
340. 23:48Now, well, we know the scripture, for example, Isaiah,
341. 23:51chapter five, verse 20 talks about evil being called good
342. 23:55and good being called evil.
343. 23:57And often that is, that scripture is kind of projected
344. 24:02onto society, like it's a society to assessment.
345. 24:05Like I'm thinking about J. Naivi being waived after he has
346. 24:08the audacity as a Chicago Bulls basketball player to say,
347. 24:12you know, you guys are promoting unrighteousness.
348. 24:16And this is what he literally said.
349. 24:18So why can't somebody promote righteousness if we're talking?
350. 24:23And that got him released for a conduct detrimental
351. 24:26to his team.
352. 24:28Now, I know a little bit about the basketball players,
353. 24:31the basketball, you know.
354. 24:32It's a whole lot of other conduct
355. 24:34that I would perceive as detrimental to the teams.
356. 24:36You know what I'm saying?
357. 24:37So, but the good being called evil and evil being called good,
358. 24:41It's not merely a societal proclamation.
359. 24:44As Miki laid it out right there,
360. 24:45it seems like in many instances,
361. 24:47the body of Christ have succumbed,
362. 24:51I'll say it this way,
363. 24:52the professing body of Christ has succumbed
364. 24:53to the same phenomenon because we're ascribing
365. 24:57something as being successful that doesn't reflect
366. 25:00what scripture says.
367. 25:01How do we get back to a scriptural understanding
368. 25:04and cleaving to a scriptural understanding
369. 25:05of what success is, Will?
370. 25:08Well, I think it's our responsibility
371. 25:09as the people of God.
372. 25:10I think a lot of what we see happening in culture is the fault of the church.
373. 25:14Now, I love the church.
374. 25:16I'm not hating on the church at all, but I think we have served our responsibilities to
375. 25:21preach the gospel to truly live it out.
376. 25:24And I think because of that, we're seeing what we see.
377. 25:28And so I feel like the way that we get back or the way that we have to truly live out the
378. 25:34tenets of the faith, we have to truly live that out and not be cultural Christians, not
379. 25:39be Christians who just blend in, you know, just to, because we may have points of agreement
380. 25:44with others who say that they're Christians, you know, no, we have to stay fast, hold fast
381. 25:51to the word of God.
382. 25:52And, and know that man, partnership with, with darkness is not allowed.
383. 25:57And so I think we, we partner with a lot of darkness, things that God would call darkness.
384. 26:03And because maybe we have agreement on certain issues, but man, it's detrimental.
385. 26:08And it calls like a glossiness when they look at us.
386. 26:13I feel like we have to have our stake in the ground.
387. 26:17We have to say these are the standards.
388. 26:19And the standard is the word of God.
389. 26:22Once we get back to that, I believe that we can have a thriving church.
390. 26:26But until then, we're going to have all this flimsyness, all this stuff going on in culture
391. 26:30and people don't have a clear view of what a Christian is because everybody's a Christian.
392. 26:35So we have to get back to the word of God, be able to get back to the truth of the word
393. 26:39and not have this mixture that we have going on now.
394. 26:42In John's recording of the Revelation, Revelation chapter 3, the scripture talks, addresses multiple
395. 26:47churches and at one point John recorded what Jesus is saying offers a rebuke saying, you
396. 26:54have forsaken your first love.
397. 26:56You hit a point there when you said that oftentimes the unholy alliances are being made because
398. 27:02is an issue-based alliance.
399. 27:05Concerned in the stake on a ground that you mentioned,
400. 27:07what would you urge and articulate as what should be the
401. 27:10stake?
402. 27:11If it's not issue-based analysis, then what should be the
403. 27:13stake that we plan ourselves on that would cause us to have
404. 27:17the fidelity of the scripture?
405. 27:18And I would argue the God of the scripture as you explained.
406. 27:21The God of the scripture and the straight edge of the
407. 27:23scripture, the Bible itself, the Word of God, we can't deviate
408. 27:25from it because we may have some things that are similar,
409. 27:29that we like.
410. 27:31you know, and I think we've done that as evangelical Christians.
411. 27:34We have said, okay, well, we can partner on these issues because we have these same things in agreement.
412. 27:39And yes, there are times we can work together on certain things, but at the same time, we can't give
413. 27:44people an idea that you're a Christian too, because we work on these things. That's not true.
414. 27:49And I think when we hold to the Word of God, when we hold fast to the Word of God and we say,
415. 27:54hey, this is what the Bible says. And I'm only saying what the Bible says, then we can find real
416. 27:59true because it's found in the Word of God.
417. 28:01Mm-hmm.
418. 28:02Mickey, the tagline for your podcast is when we resist the trends that rival the truth.
419. 28:08Then we are living culture-proof.
420. 28:11I know at the ark encounter this year that, and this is just my opinion, but debate me,
421. 28:20I think one of the most important events that happens year-round, or I'm sure I would say
422. 28:24country-wide, is the culture-proof conference.
423. 28:28What is happening this summer at the Ark Encounter that will underscore the tagline for your
424. 28:38podcast?
425. 28:39Yeah, you know, we vet all of our speakers and we pray about who we are to invite.
426. 28:45We pray about the theme of the conference every year and it's something that the Lord has given
427. 28:49us a burden for.
428. 28:50We love our country and we think loving our country best means living faithfully to the
429. 28:54Lord in it.
430. 28:55Amen.
431. 28:56That's going to be the best outcome for our country.
432. 28:57So what we have done is by the leading of the Holy Spirit, we've put together, speakers
433. 29:01across three days will be at the creation museum and the arch encounter.
434. 29:04Ken Ham will be there with us, Brian Osborne, both of them from answers and Genesis, but also
435. 29:09deltack it of the truth project and the engagement project.
436. 29:12He's done a follow up project that is equally as important as the truth project.
437. 29:17So first you start with knowing the truth and now how do you engage people with it?
438. 29:21We are inviting people to be living epistles.
439. 29:24This is the charge that we have, right?
440. 29:26But if you say you are a Christian, then every way that you live should underscore that,
441. 29:33should highlight that.
442. 29:34People should be able to tell that not only just because you proclaim it, but also in how
443. 29:39you live.
444. 29:40So this is going to come down to the, the posts that you like and the posts that you share.
445. 29:44Dr. Kathy Cook will be back with us again.
446. 29:46We're super excited to have her.
447. 29:48We're going to have Aaron Linum of Nat Theo because we want to engage our kids.
448. 29:52Maria Hamilton, you may have met her once or twice.
449. 29:55She is going to be the killer as well.
450. 29:57Amy Warman.
451. 29:58Yeah, she's your favorite speaker.
452. 29:59I know she is and that's fine.
453. 30:00Um, Abraham Hamilton the third will also be there and we're super excited about that.
454. 30:05Dr. Renton Rathbun will join us.
455. 30:07We are equipping believers with a robust defense of the faith.
456. 30:11So we're going to be discussing apologetics, but we're also going to discuss the spiritual
457. 30:15implications of retreat.
458. 30:18What happens in our nation when the Christians take a step back?
459. 30:22When we as you said in your first segment when we took our chains in that is not a fashion statement
460. 30:29That is a spiritual statement and people have to understand that we are losing our country
461. 30:35We are and I don't say that to fear monger. We are losing our country because spiritually we're in decline not politically
462. 30:41Amen, we're politically in decline because spiritually we're in decline and God is judging that and so if we have any hope
463. 30:48If we have any hope for revival in our nation and we live in a great nation, we've been blessed.
464. 30:54We've been given this nation, but we're losing it generation by generation.
465. 30:58So we equip kids at our conference because they're not an afterthought.
466. 31:03They're not, they're not a side thought to what we do.
467. 31:05The reason we're losing our country is because we have generations of kids who have hemorrhaged
468. 31:11from the church because parents thought, oh, you know what, they may go off and explore
469. 31:15the world and they'll come back and they don't, they don't come back.
470. 31:18They don't come back.
471. 31:19So we're not willing to risk that.
472. 31:20So we invite people to join us if you wanna be equipped.
473. 31:23Now if you just wanna be entertained,
474. 31:24you do something else.
475. 31:25But what we are trying to do is equip the body of Christ
476. 31:27to stay in flat foot in our generation, in our culture.
477. 31:30There are all kinds of cultural trends that are shifting.
478. 31:33And what we say is resist it and stand firm
479. 31:35on the word of God.
480. 31:36And so that's what we're gonna do across three days.
481. 31:38You'll have plenty of time to turn the arc
482. 31:40and the creation museum and enjoy 10 speakers.
483. 31:44Look, we don't wanna waste your time or hours.
484. 31:47So there's a lot of ground to cover,
485. 31:49and we believe that the Lord has empowered us to do that well.
486. 31:51So we're excited about it.
487. 31:53We have about a minute to the break.
488. 31:55Will, would you give us the details, whether the dates
489. 31:58and where can people go to register for the conference
490. 32:01and the district type of music has started,
491. 32:03but you got about 40 seconds.
492. 32:05July 16, 17, and 18, that's the dates, those are the dates.
493. 32:09And you can go to cultureproof.net
494. 32:11when you look and get to that site,
495. 32:13you can see what it says, conference 2026.
496. 32:16If you get on that page, go all the way down to the bottom to register.
497. 32:19You can register there.
498. 32:20So it's cultureproof.net.
499. 32:22Cultureproof.net, July 16th, 17th, and 18th, the website is cultureproof.net.
500. 32:28As I mentioned, guys, you don't want to miss it.
501. 32:30The theme for this year is living in pistols.
502. 32:32Now I'm not saying this because the Addison's are going anywhere, but I just want to make
503. 32:35sure you, I'm talking about right now in the program, but I want to make sure you have the
504. 32:38details because I'm just telling you, playing, you don't want to miss it.
505. 32:42It will be a time of equipping.
506. 32:44The objective is that just as Mickey said, not for entertainment, not the glad-hand and
507. 32:48shucking jive, but for training and equipment so that we hit the ground running when we get
508. 32:52back home on the 19th.
509. 32:54More with the Addison's when we get back from this break.
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527. 34:07While most of the focus this week is rightly placed on Jesus' crucifixion on Friday and
528. 34:12resurrection on Sunday, there are other moments of great significance, such as his triumphal
529. 34:17entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, cleansing the temple on Monday, and his Olivet Discourse
530. 34:23on Tuesday.
531. 34:24Here's an idea.
532. 34:26Set aside time each day this week to read chapters from the Gospels about Christ's road
533. 34:31to the cross.
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542. 35:16Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
543. 35:19We have Liftoff and the Artemis II, Lunar Mission Flight.
544. 35:24The question I'm asking is will the Lord have Liftoff and our nation through his bride?
545. 35:30Has we are witnessing what's happening in our country?
546. 35:32My guests are none other than Will and Miki Addison's co-host of the Culture Proof Podcasts,
547. 35:38co-founders of the Culture Proof Ministry, straight-ass ministries as well, by the way.
548. 35:42Y'all don't know about that, but you're all on some gang.
549. 35:46But before we went to the break,
550. 35:47we were having a conversation around the reality
551. 35:50of where the church is currently,
552. 35:51as well as the Culture Proof Conference,
553. 35:53which will be Culture Proof 2026,
554. 35:55which will be July 16th through the 18th
555. 35:58at the Arkin Counter and the Creation Museum this summer.
556. 36:02And as we were having a conversation,
557. 36:03we were talking about the necessity for the local church,
558. 36:07because God has explained that his manifold wisdom
559. 36:10will be made externally accessible through his bride.
560. 36:14That's what God has said in his word.
561. 36:16What are some things, and I'll let you guys pick
562. 36:20who jumps into this first,
563. 36:22because we went ladies first, initially.
564. 36:24What are some things in terms of being able to be effective
565. 36:29in the local church context,
566. 36:31in terms of ministerial investment that will aid
567. 36:33in making disciples in the local church context?
568. 36:38I think the first thing that we have to do
569. 36:40see the value of the bride. And I think that we have lost that as a conviction in this country.
570. 36:45I think that we value platforms over people. And we have this new definition of success
571. 36:52that has removed us from a local focus. And I'm committed right now. I'm committed to
572. 36:58dismantling the detached influencer culture. I think it's time to return to,
573. 37:05and for lack of a better way to describe it at this moment, return to the pat on the back
574. 37:09for the woman who is discipling in her local church.
575. 37:13You are successful and the Lord sees you
576. 37:16and what you're doing is necessary.
577. 37:18It's time for us to look at the moms
578. 37:20who are taking care of their kids at home,
579. 37:23but they will say to the young woman,
580. 37:25hey, why don't you come over and have a cup of coffee
581. 37:27at my table and let's start working through
582. 37:29some of the scriptures here
583. 37:30and see how we live for the glory of God.
584. 37:32That is successful.
585. 37:33You, for lack of a better way to describe,
586. 37:36you're a rock star, okay?
587. 37:37Like that's what we need to be doing.
588. 37:39And I think we've lost it.
589. 37:40We think that the, hey everyone, welcome to my channel,
590. 37:44is the only way, it's the only way for us to reach people,
591. 37:47the only way for us to be successful.
592. 37:48In that tone, Mickey, in that tone?
593. 37:50Just like that, because that is successful influencer culture
594. 37:53right there, like and subscribe, okay?
595. 37:56And I've reached my max of it, Abe,
596. 37:59like I look around and I see it,
597. 38:01and look, we all have stations, we have calls,
598. 38:04like we are called to digital media,
599. 38:05we are called to that as a ministry,
600. 38:07is something that we all hear right now in this moment
601. 38:11that we've done for years.
602. 38:12And so there is a benefit and a blessing to that.
603. 38:16But you do not think that that is the soul outlet
604. 38:20for ministry.
605. 38:22Ministry has always been local
606. 38:24and it has to be local again.
607. 38:27And so that's one of the things that I'm committed
608. 38:28to kind of making great again,
609. 38:31local church ministry that we focus on
610. 38:34and that we love the body of Christ deeply and actively.
611. 38:37Yeah, I would say we have a beautiful thing in the body of believers.
612. 38:42And that's something about being able to have those tangible, like real conversations with
613. 38:47people right in front of you that you can't get away from.
614. 38:50There's no amount of digital access that's going to help us to disciple effectively.
615. 38:56Like that one-on-one and even in small groups of Bible studies and things like that, like
616. 39:01you said, Miki, inviting ones over for coffee or whatever, it may be.
617. 39:06Those are the ways I think we're going to truly do what God has called for us to do.
618. 39:11So we do have to live locally.
619. 39:13We have to minister locally.
620. 39:15We have to have a mindset that, man, I want to disciple one person that will disciple like
621. 39:21two or three people.
622. 39:23It increases.
623. 39:24And so with that mindset, I believe that we can definitely be on the right track.
624. 39:30It is, it goes back to what we were saying earlier,
625. 39:35because if we have more esteem for God in His Word,
626. 39:41we can be impervious to the world's expectations and standards.
627. 39:45You know, like the Apostle John, right?
628. 39:47Love not the world nor the things in it.
629. 39:50You know, being an effective ambassador of Christ
630. 39:54in our homes and on a local church context
631. 39:58is far more potent, enduring and successful than having millions of subscribers that you
632. 40:05never meet.
633. 40:06That's right.
634. 40:07You never meet and having such a fanciful, wow, look how many followers, followers, followers,
635. 40:14this person has, has, has, evinces, professing believers doing the opposite of what Romans
636. 40:2212 said, being, instead of being transformed, it's being conformed.
637. 40:26And then even having to have in the perspective of, well, that is not an important ministry
638. 40:30if they don't have, they don't have this million followers.
639. 40:35And it shows, I'm supposed to be interviewing y'all.
640. 40:39This is saying, no, this is good.
641. 40:40I'm loving it.
642. 40:41I feel like the Apostle Paul to the Galatians who has to be which to you know, with hands
643. 40:46on right and left shoulder saying, wake up, wake up guys, we've been seduced by the siren
644. 40:51song of the culture.
645. 40:53But if we would turn to what God has called us to, there's no question as to what can be
646. 41:01done.
647. 41:02We know sociologically, and this is unbilled into a question, sociologically we have, we're
648. 41:06in the information age, we have social media, we are more connected as humankind today than
649. 41:12we've ever been in the history of the world while simultaneously loneliness is felt more
650. 41:20than ever before. Sociologically, we know that digital contact is not the same as interpersonal
651. 41:27relationships, yet we're often in the Lord's Church, exchanging interpersonal relationships
652. 41:34for digital contacts. Will what do we suffer when we supplant what God says should be valued
653. 41:43and embrace the world's value system? Well, I think when we do that, this example that you've
654. 41:49given is when we see like the great weakness in the church. We see people who may attend churches
655. 41:56but are not growing. And so what you have is you have babes man for years. They never grow into
656. 42:04adulthood because they've never been a disciple. No one ever has walked alongside of them and said,
657. 42:11hey, and just help them with the faith. And so what you have over time is a church full of babes.
658. 42:17You know, people who should be past certain things that still dealing with those same things
659. 42:23Should know this or know that they don't know it and and a lot of times we think because of age we feel like people should know that
660. 42:29They shouldn't know it. It should but man
661. 42:31They don't because they haven't been discipled. Yes, and we see that so often in our churches
662. 42:36It doesn't matter how old you are if you haven't been
663. 42:39Disciples you are you look like a babe you act like a babe
664. 42:42And I think we see that.
665. 42:44And so the detriment is in that.
666. 42:47Like we see that happen so often that man,
667. 42:50we are in a weakened state in the church because of it.
668. 42:53And the only way that we are going to correct it
669. 42:55is that we just got to start doing the work,
670. 42:58do what God called us to do.
671. 43:00Yeah, it's amazing how many people are filled with knowledge
672. 43:04and that, like there are a lot of depressed people
673. 43:07who know a lot of stuff, right?
674. 43:08Like they are able to just kind of like
675. 43:11drag and drop information, but they're still depressed.
676. 43:14And so there are a lot of people who are suffering
677. 43:16with overwhelming anxiety, but they know a lot of stuff.
678. 43:20And so what's the problem?
679. 43:22Well, there's an emulsifier that the Lord has built into
680. 43:24the body of Christ.
681. 43:25So yes, you have the word of God,
682. 43:26and we're supposed to be applying the word of God,
683. 43:28but you're also living in this world.
684. 43:30And so God has established the body whereby we work together.
685. 43:34So you can sit across from someone and not just have them
686. 43:37regurgitate facts.
687. 43:38You're not just looking at a person being able to tell you
688. 43:41you know, what the books of the Bible are, you're looking at, okay, so how are you living out what it is that you know that is contained in scripture?
689. 43:48And that involves knowing what's going on in people's lives, like being able to sit across from someone and be a counterweight,
690. 43:55be a counterbalance to some of the thoughts that are attacking them.
691. 43:58Just last night, you know, with the Women at our Local Fellowship, we were talking about the renewed mind.
692. 44:03And so we're looking at how the mind, like when God made man, he made him perfect.
693. 44:09He made his mind and his body perfect.
694. 44:12What you see immediately after the fall is you see a corrupted mind.
695. 44:17Adam goes from naming creatures without being corrected by God.
696. 44:20He names his wife.
697. 44:22Okay.
698. 44:23And he is doing this like a boss to then after the fall, immediate death and corruption of the
699. 44:29human genome and what happens, he's now blame shifting.
700. 44:33He's blaming God for the woman that God gave to him.
701. 44:37see the mind is immediately corrupted. And so what do we do with that? Well, we say, listen,
702. 44:42when you're living in this world and you're trying to navigate this world, the mind is
703. 44:47constantly at war. There is a battlefield in the mind. Now, you can have all of those facts,
704. 44:52but what you really need to do is be able to sit down with people as they walk through some of the
705. 44:56issues that they're navigating and you help recalibrate their mind back to the Word of God.
706. 45:02That's the element that is missing. We have a lot of influencers and we have people who have a lot
707. 45:07of followers, right? And that's an awful lot about what people think about people.
708. 45:11But what we want to get after is what people think about God and how that transforms how they
709. 45:17live. Amen. So in light of that, and I'm not trying to show you on anybody, I picked no fights
710. 45:23with anybody, but in light of that, well, can there really truly be a thing kind of like a digital
711. 45:30disciple? Look, I don't think so. If you look at how relationships are building, how people grow,
712. 45:39they have to be an element of rubbing shoulders together. You know, how iron sharpening iron can
713. 45:45only happen if there's some friction there. You know, and I think you can't get that kind of thing
714. 45:51in digital discipleship. Now, you know, you can do a lot of great things online. You can share in
715. 45:56and encouragement, but I mean, walking things out,
716. 45:59I believe that the model we have from the Bible
717. 46:02is that it's life on life, life on life.
718. 46:05And so when we're living life together,
719. 46:08that's where the growth happens, the transparency,
720. 46:11you're able to see things, you're able to see blind spots
721. 46:14that I might have, I can see ones that you may have
722. 46:16and we're able to address those things,
723. 46:18you cannot do that in a digital format.
724. 46:22Now, one of the things I'm looking forward to,
725. 46:23you mentioned them earlier among the 10 speakers at the Culture Proof Conference, July 16th to
726. 46:28the 18th at the Arkansas Counter and Creation Museum this summer, please go to Culture Proof
727. 46:33of Dine at the Register. One of the speakers will be Dr. Dale Tackett. I'm looking forward
728. 46:37to having the opportunity to interview Dr. Tackett as a part of the Culture Proof Conference.
729. 46:42He has the follow-up to the truth project that you mentioned, that is the engagement project.
730. 46:48In the engagement project, he discusses one of the great spaces, if you will, that is the
731. 46:55discipline of hospitality in its role in gospel proclamation and disciple making.
732. 46:59Would you just share a little bit about that and the necessity of hospitality to be involved
733. 47:05in the disciple formation process?
734. 47:08Yeah, when you look at the early church, you find a group of people who were in one another's
735. 47:13homes.
736. 47:14They were living together, they were sharing life together.
737. 47:19They were growing together, they were walking through challenges together.
738. 47:22But there's also something that we overlook, like, man, they were being persecuted together.
739. 47:26Like they were sharing these burdens with one another.
740. 47:29They were rejoicing together.
741. 47:30But when they were also like hurting, they were hurting together.
742. 47:34And I think that's something that is missing from sort of like the, and I want to say this
743. 47:39carefully, the grand picture that we have of church, right?
744. 47:44where we go in, we listen to a sermon,
745. 47:47then we go out to eat afterwards
746. 47:49and we may never see those people again
747. 47:52for like, you know, six days or whatever.
748. 47:54Maybe if you have a midweek service, you may see them.
749. 47:56That's not the picture that we get from scripture.
750. 47:59And so what Dr. Tackett has picked up on is that,
751. 48:01man, you have a lot of people who have a lot of information,
752. 48:05but now what are they gonna do with it?
753. 48:06They need to be trained to be neighborly, right?
754. 48:09They need to be trained on how to simply occupy,
755. 48:12live like believers, reaching out to those who are around you, having fellowship at your
756. 48:18house.
757. 48:19I think it was Rosaria Butterfield who has a book that says the Gospel comes with a house
758. 48:23key, like understanding the simplicity of just having a meal with someone where you get to
759. 48:28know them in an effort, in an effort to make much of who Christ is.
760. 48:33This is foundational to what it is to be a Christian, to be a believer.
761. 48:37Oh man, you guys are stirring me up in so many different ways.
762. 48:42Plainly guys, you do not want to miss this conference.
763. 48:47And as I mentioned before, it's not just a conference.
764. 48:51You know, to the point that you just made meeky about people having lots of information, I'm
765. 48:54immediately drawn to the account and acts when a gripper is being appealed to by the Apostle
766. 48:59Paul and the Apostle Paul literally says, I know you know the Scriptures.
767. 49:03I know you know the Scriptures.
768. 49:05You know them and I know them and I know that you know them.
769. 49:08Yes.
770. 49:09But then a gripper responds, do you think you could persuade me to be a Christian in such a
771. 49:14short amount of time?
772. 49:15A gripper's deficiency wasn't an informational deficiency.
773. 49:19It wasn't an informational deficiency.
774. 49:21It was a revelation deficiency.
775. 49:24And what you're talking about is the reality here in our country, man, we have a unique context
776. 49:29to where we are standing as the inheritors of a society that has been forged with the scripture
777. 49:35at its foundation.
778. 49:36Yes.
779. 49:37Application certainly not perfect, of course, but the foundational assumption historically
780. 49:44was Christ is.
781. 49:46Yeah.
782. 49:47And now here we are much like the Israelites in the Book of Judges, you know, that the Israelites
783. 49:53were faithful to God in the days of Joshua and in the days of the elders who outlived Joshua.
784. 49:59Then the scripture says they arose a generation in that same nation who did not know God.
785. 50:05Brothers and sisters, I'm talking to our audience here.
786. 50:08We're in a similar place in our nation,
787. 50:10though we have in God we trust in our legal tender.
788. 50:12It's about to have Trump's signature on the two, by the way.
789. 50:15And as in God we trust in our national motto,
790. 50:18by and large, we are living in a nation
791. 50:20where our people do not know God.
792. 50:22And there's only one remedy for that.
793. 50:24We have to evangelize and disciple our way in reverse.
794. 50:29July 16th through the 18th,
795. 50:31Culture Proof Conference, 2026,
796. 50:34at the Ark and Countering Creation Museum,
797. 50:35Go to Cultureproof.net to register.
798. 50:37Thank you, Will and Meakin.
799. 50:41The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
800. 50:43may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family
801. 50:46Association or American Family Radio.