If she is to endure, America must be made godly (MAG).

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1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
2. 0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Corner, on American Family Radio.
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10. 0:28and now the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:33Good evening, everyone.
12. 0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
13. 0:38Abraham Hamilton III here.
14. 0:40I'm the host of the program joined by a producer,
15. 0:42Stroyd Nair.
16. 0:43Mr. Jeff McIntosh often imitated, never duplicated.
17. 0:47And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition
18. 0:50of the program right at the very beginning.
19. 0:52I want to once again express my sincere gratitude
20. 0:57to this audience for participating in our spring
21. 1:00shareathon. It's always quite a bit overwhelming for me to see
22. 1:04how people continue to support this ministry. And I am grateful
23. 1:09to you for doing so. We recognize that people that you work
24. 1:13hard for what you earn, you know, and having such a willingness
25. 1:19from you to support this work, it shows that you are willing,
26. 1:22not just with mental assent or with platitudes,
27. 1:28but you're willing to materially support
28. 1:32the work that is done here.
29. 1:34And I will tell you, I for one am exceedingly grateful
30. 1:38for that.
31. 1:40I am sobered by it.
32. 1:42And it's one of the things that encourages me to strive
33. 1:48to make this platform, through this platform,
34. 1:51make this a resource for you. I take it very, very seriously. And I'm grateful to God to
35. 1:58have the opportunity. And I'm also grateful to God to be connected with people like you
36. 2:03who support this work. So thank you again for what you have done these last three days.
37. 2:08It really is amazing. At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making
38. 2:12your transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs
39. 2:17where you cultivate an outcome.
40. 2:18And as you do so, I want to remind you as I do daily, that what goes on in your house.
41. 2:25And I know this may sound a little strange while we have Operation Epic Fury surging in
42. 2:32the ceasefire or not to ceasefire.
43. 2:35That is the question, you know, the immediate question.
44. 2:38But nonetheless, guys, what goes on in your house is more important than what goes on in
45. 2:41White House because you and I are directly responsible for what we do in our homes.
46. 2:47It's the bottom line.
47. 2:48look at our country and today we're gonna delve into it a little bit.
48. 2:53But if you look at that our national slide, our regression as a country,
49. 2:59guys, it corresponds with retrenchments that have occurred in the family as well as
50. 3:08attacks on the family.
51. 3:13I think you can trace some of the pertinent launches against God's
52. 3:19designed for his primary institution, that you can trace them to things like the prevalence
53. 3:26of Darwinism.
54. 3:30And you followed it up.
55. 3:31And when I say that, it's a Darwinism and it's a Marxism, but prior to getting to a Darwinism
56. 3:37and a Marxism, it's a rejection of the truth of scripture.
57. 3:41Those ideologies simply gave voice and an lexicon to articulate a rebellion that was already
58. 3:50occurring in the hearts.
59. 3:53And then the embracing of these ideologies led to the direct onslaught against God's
60. 3:59institution had followed the onslaught against God's holy word.
61. 4:05As God's word became less and less invoked because the pursuit of literacy in America
62. 4:11was for two purposes, first and foremost, so that every American can read God's holy
63. 4:16word, the Bible.
64. 4:18Secondarily so that every American can read our founding documents, our Declaration of
65. 4:22independence and the Constitution. It will be a surprise for some of you to consider that we used
66. 4:29to have references to the Declaration of Independence and Supreme Court opinions. The last time you've
67. 4:35seen that happen, you know? But those things have those negative forces and I have no hesitation in
68. 4:45saying this. Those demonic strategies were launched for the express purposes of undermining God's work
69. 4:51work through our nation because he can do things
70. 4:55or every wants but he's chosen to utilize the family
71. 4:58as the primary discipleship and generational kingdom expansion
72. 5:03institution.
73. 5:08But the secularization of our country can be directly connected
74. 5:13to the secularization of our families,
75. 5:15the families in our country.
76. 5:18And the only way forward for us is to employ God's ways,
77. 5:26starting in our homes.
78. 5:28May this be the day if you've never done it before,
79. 5:31may this be the day where our homes are transformed
80. 5:35into altars of incense to where we gather our families together,
81. 5:40we fathers gather our wives and our children together,
82. 5:46and we lead our family in worship and turn into God's word.
83. 5:52I know some of you are in different family structures.
84. 5:56We have the reality of our society of single parent families.
85. 5:59If you're in one of those families, grab your children and demonstrate the necessity of seeking
86. 6:07the Lord.
87. 6:08Grandparents, we need you.
88. 6:11Support your children and help them to see the urgency of taking advantage of the familial
89. 6:18context to execute God's purposes.
90. 6:22Because we're never going to out politic, out talking head, out podcast, listen, podcast,
91. 6:27listen, the deficiencies that are bound in our homes.
92. 6:38morning, we're going to turn to the Word of God and I alluded to this before, but at the conference
93. 6:44I was at a couple weeks ago in Florida where I was speaking, I snuck in to listen to several of
94. 6:50the presenters and I heard Oz Guinness. One of the things he said, because though he is a European,
95. 6:57he lives in the United States of America now. And one of the things he said is there are lots of
96. 7:02conversations about making America great, but there are not as many conversations about what it is
97. 7:08is that actually made America great.
98. 7:14I want to invite you to participate
99. 7:16in one of those conversations.
100. 7:17And unsurprisingly, I want to get to the root
101. 7:19of it, get to the nut of the issues,
102. 7:22because there are lots of things
103. 7:23that contributed to America's greatness.
104. 7:25But they are secondary to the foundational reality
105. 7:28that established America's greatness.
106. 7:34As the Tocqueville one said,
107. 7:35America is great because she is good.
108. 7:39But the moment America ceases to be good,
109. 7:41this was his warning.
110. 7:42He commended America at one point and then he offered the warning.
111. 7:45The moment she sees it to be good, she will cease to be great.
112. 7:52Psalm 127 is where I'm going to go. Verse one alone. That's where I'm going to go.
113. 7:57When I read on the air, the entirety of Benjamin Franklin's speech on June 28th,
114. 8:071787 on the floor of the Pennsylvania State House,
115. 8:13which we now refer to it as Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
116. 8:21He alluded to this particular scripture and said he believed it.
117. 8:27This is what God's Word says, unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who
118. 8:35build it.
119. 8:37Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchmen keeps awake in vain.
120. 8:47Now I want to point out a couple things.
121. 8:52As Solomon is articulating this in this Psalm,
122. 8:55he begins with the construction of a house singular,
123. 9:00a singular house.
124. 9:02And he rightly observes,
125. 9:04unless the Lord builds the house,
126. 9:08they who labor do so in vain who build it.
127. 9:13Solomon is acknowledging that you can have
128. 9:15all of the tools, all of the skills,
129. 9:18all of the things you desire,
130. 9:19but if the Lord does not favor or bless or grace
131. 9:25your endeavors, it will fail.
132. 9:30It will fail.
133. 9:32And the construction of the physical structure
134. 9:34is not merely what is in view in this scripture.
135. 9:39The construction of the physical structure
136. 9:43is tied to that construction being consistent
137. 9:48with the will of the omnipotent creator and sustainer of heaven and earth.
138. 9:57Never forget the Tower of Babel was constructed but it was an unauthorized
139. 10:07construction. So purpose for the unauthorized construction was never fulfilled,
140. 10:14never realized. In many of our lives we find ourselves seeking to build but don't
141. 10:27realize in many instances we're pursuing unauthorized construction. One of the main
142. 10:33evidence of the construction lack of authorization that the the
143. 10:37babble builder said we're going to build this for our own glory
144. 10:42that our names will be known put our names and lights put our
145. 10:46names in the history books and we want to make sure that we are
146. 10:50not scattered all over the earth when that was a direct
147. 10:56rebellion against instruction that Yahweh had given them which
148. 10:59reveals that they knew exactly what got required of them and they
149. 11:02decided, you know what? Instead of going God's way, we're going to go our own way. Benjamin
150. 11:09Franklin referred to this during his June 28th speech. He says, guys, and it was during his plea
151. 11:19to the assembly to turn to daily prayers in the Pennsylvania State House as they sought to hammer
152. 11:27out what would become what would become the longest enduring constitution for the longest enduring
153. 11:37Republic, let me say it better, the longest enduring constitution in the history of republics
154. 11:44in the world. That's what it became. There is much attention because Benjamin Franklin referred to
155. 11:54that first half of verse one exclusively during his speech. There's a lot and rightly so, of course,
156. 12:00he was making the speech during the time of our constitution's construction. So, of course,
157. 12:04he's going to talk about the construction component. But not as many people have paid
158. 12:09attention to the second half of this verse. I'll read the whole verse again,
159. 12:13unless the Lord builds the house, they eat labor and vain, who build it. Unless the
160. 12:17Lord guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain. Solomon makes a
161. 12:23transition in this Psalm to where he referred to the singular house in the first
162. 12:29half of the verse. In the second half of the verse, the singular house has now
163. 12:34expanded to an entire city.
164. 12:41So in short, order Solomon expressed as he's inspired
165. 12:47by the Spirit of God to write,
166. 12:49that is the Lord's superintending and providence
167. 12:54that has enabled the house to be constructed,
168. 12:57that continued superintending providence
169. 13:01is what led the individual house to become an entire city.
170. 13:06and the entire city in order for the city to be sustained.
171. 13:13So from the singular house to a city,
172. 13:15and you go from construction to sustenance.
173. 13:19Let me say it better.
174. 13:20You go from singular construction to expansion
175. 13:23and then sustenance being sustained
176. 13:27in Solomon observes wisely by the Spirit of God.
177. 13:31Unless the Lord, the same one who is the constructor,
178. 13:35Unless the constructor is also the maintainer and watchman,
179. 13:41the city will not be sustained.
180. 13:45Our nation has grown from the fledgling,
181. 13:49former English colonies to becoming the pre-imminate
182. 13:54superpower in the world.
183. 14:00While at the exact same time,
184. 14:03it seems as if the city is content to function
185. 14:08with its own humanistic watchmen
186. 14:11Without regard for the fact, the fact,
187. 14:14unless the Lord is the watchman,
188. 14:18the humanistic detached unilaterally,
189. 14:23volitional watchman, they watch in vain.
190. 14:28Simply put, if we are going to have a future
191. 14:31beyond the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence,
192. 14:35we must return as a nation to humble,
193. 14:40submission, and dependence upon the Lord.
194. 14:46Because without that, we may not see another 250.
195. 15:00Okay, here's an assignment for you, if you will.
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218. 16:00Shining light into the darkness.
219. 16:07This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
220. 16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
221. 16:13The third here, let me remind you, May 2nd,
222. 16:16we'll be at the entrusted homeschool conference in Waco,
223. 16:19Texas.
224. 16:19May 2nd is a Saturday, looking forward
225. 16:23who being there, encouraging families.
226. 16:25There we will talk about the overarching importance
227. 16:29of discipling our children using the home
228. 16:32as a fulcrum for ministry.
229. 16:33We'll delve into some Texas specific things concerning
230. 16:40what's necessary to make the transition homeschooling
231. 16:42legally in Texas.
232. 16:44We'll talk about some of the things concerning
233. 16:45this sports regime in UIL in Texas.
234. 16:48It's gonna be an amazing time there if you're in the area
235. 16:50willing to come to the area.
236. 16:52I'd love to meet you there at Intrusted,
237. 16:55at the Intrusted Homeschool Conference in Waco, Texas.
238. 16:58Simply go to Intrusted Homeschool Conference.org
239. 17:02to register.
240. 17:04Then May 14th through the 16th,
241. 17:06we'll be in Lansing, Michigan
242. 17:08at the inspirational networking conference
243. 17:10for homeschoolers in Lansing, Michigan.
244. 17:14The Intrusted Homeschool Conference,
245. 17:16that's the acronym for it,
246. 17:17put on by the Michigan Christian homeschool network.
247. 17:20We'll also be broadcasting this program live from Lansing, Michigan during the conference.
248. 17:26It's going to be a great time there as well.
249. 17:29This will be my first time ministering in Michigan that I can recall.
250. 17:32I have to look back through my old calendars and see.
251. 17:35But looking forward to being there, you simply need to go to michn.org to register.
252. 17:41is mission.org to register but that is michn.org. May 14th through the 16th. I will be ministering
253. 17:50there. My wife will be ministering there to the moms at the conference and we're going
254. 17:55to have an amazing, an amazing time. Please don't miss out. All right. There'll be more
255. 18:02events happening all throughout the year. The calendar is kind of full. So we'll try
256. 18:06to keep you posted and I will keep you posted as I mentioned before but a website is loading.
257. 18:13So it's coming soon. The Hamilton Corner website will be live and will announce when that's available
258. 18:18so you can keep up with all of the going zone in the corner. Alright, as I mentioned in the previous
259. 18:28segment, Psalm 127 verse 1 discusses the construction component component unless the Lord builds the
260. 18:34house, those who build the labor in vain. But the building is only one aspect of it. The singular
261. 18:40house is expanded upon to ultimately become a city. And the city, as the Lord inspired Solomon
262. 18:49in right, requires a watchman. The watchman serves in the capacity to aid in the sustenance of the
263. 18:58city, maintaining the city, maintaining its longevity continually. The watchman played a role, played
264. 19:05that role. Solomon declared, unless the Lord serves as the watchmen, the under watchmen,
265. 19:12watch in vain. Simply put, the constructor must also be the watchmen. What it took for the
266. 19:20house to be built, it was necessary for the city to be built. What it took for the house to be built
267. 19:25is necessary for the city to be preserved. Similarly, what it took for the United States of America
268. 19:34to be built is what is required for her, our nation, to be preserved. There's a concerted effort
269. 19:49in our nation and it's not something that just started, that we are centuries in in this endeavor.
270. 19:54There was a concerted effort to seek to have, as our constitutional preamble states, to seek a
271. 20:02more perfect union, meaning that we're getting better and better over time, to seek a more perfect
272. 20:07union while excluding the knowledge of God from our nation and our body
273. 20:12politic. And I just want to tell you guys that that is an exercise in
274. 20:16futility. First and foremost, what is your standard for good? I've
275. 20:25explained that that expression in our preamble, and that that our
276. 20:29Constitution was created in order to form a more perfect, perfect union
277. 20:34was a statement that said that our populace, our people via our
278. 20:39Constitution will seek to be a better and better and better nation over time.
279. 20:46That pursuit brothers and sisters cannot occur if we don't have an objective
280. 20:56anchored understanding as to what is good and what is better.
281. 21:05This is why our nation is experiencing the strain of things like the 8 to 1 Supreme
282. 21:14court decision earlier this week in the Kaylee Childs versus Salazar case out of Colorado.
283. 21:23When Kaylee Childs, eight members of the Supreme Court, the remainder of the sane citizenry
284. 21:32of the United States of America understands that it is good for there to be Christian counselors
285. 21:43who have the professional expertise and learned capacity to aid a minor with unwanted same
286. 21:52sex attraction or a minor who had unwanted dysphoric concerns about their sex and identity.
287. 22:05good for that counselor to be able to help the confused child in embracing their
288. 22:17God-given bodies and identities, embracing their God-designed sexual orientation.
289. 22:26Never forget, it is God who said it is not good for a man to be alone. It is God who
290. 22:33allowed his word to illustrate the union between Christ and the church as being reflected by
291. 22:40the marital union of a husband who is committed himself in
292. 22:45Like lifelong covenant to commitment to his wife with the capacity to bear offspring God did that
293. 22:51But at the exact same time there's some in our society
294. 22:57One of them I'll name very plainly Justice Kataan Jibran Jackson who does not think it's good
295. 23:02for Kaylee Childs to be able to help a minor who is confused,
296. 23:07to reject unwanted same-sex attraction,
297. 23:10and to reject that dysphoric ideation.
298. 23:13Now I know Justice Brown Jackson will say,
299. 23:15oh no, Abraham, I'm not saying that it's good.
300. 23:19All I'm saying is that the state of Colorado should be able to do that
301. 23:23if that's what they choose to do.
302. 23:26That's what she'll say. That's what I suspect she'll say.
303. 23:30But that's not what I believe she really believes.
304. 23:33And regardless of what I think she believes, the facts are, the objective fact is, in this
305. 23:42instance, that she voted against.
306. 23:47What is good?
307. 23:48There are often conversations about cleaving to what is good and true and beautiful.
308. 23:54Well her vote on the court showed that she did not believe in what was good according to what
309. 23:59the scripture says.
310. 24:03Interestingly enough, that that same Colorado law says, no, no, while the mental, it said,
311. 24:09as a Supreme Court has slammed it now,
312. 24:11and that also will affect the other 23 states
313. 24:12to have laws like that.
314. 24:15But the law also said while Kaylee Childs
315. 24:17would have been prohibited from helping a minor
316. 24:20who had unwanted same sex attraction
317. 24:23to reject homosexuality, or a minor who had unwanted dysphoric
318. 24:28ideas, the law says she couldn't help that child
319. 24:32to embrace their God-given biology and identity.
320. 24:37But the same law says, but if she wanted to help
321. 24:39a confused child transition.
322. 24:42If a child is confused and there's a little boy
323. 24:45and say, I want to be a girl, the Colorado law
324. 24:47said, yeah, you could do that, Kelly Childs.
325. 24:49You see the twistiness of it.
326. 24:53Now the Lord has already told us,
327. 24:56those of you who causes these little ones to stumble,
328. 24:59and that's Milstone qualified.
329. 25:03What I'm talking about is that that is a recent,
330. 25:06high court example of tension as to what is
331. 25:11and what is not good.
332. 25:14what would and what would not contribute to the formation of a more perfect union.
333. 25:29There's a significant percentage, I want to say the majority of Americans recognize that it's not good
334. 25:35for people to be willing to fly planes into buildings or to be radical. She died. 12
335. 25:42her Muslims who want to bathe the world in blood in an effort to hasten the return of the 12th
336. 25:49but there's some people who are in our country who are looking for the 12th
337. 25:58of what is good devotion to our Creator the revelation of Scripture I've said this
338. 26:11before guys these are the things that laid the foundation for mankind's pursuit of
339. 26:17liberty that led to this to the establishment of these United States of
340. 26:22America, the Amago day, the revelation of the Amago day and man's Holy Spirit and dwelled
341. 26:33capacity to navigate God's Holy Word is what led to the Jeffersonian articulation that we
342. 26:41hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men have been endowed by our Creator with
343. 26:52certain inalienable, unalienable rights.
344. 26:57That's where that came from.
345. 27:00I refer to Benjamin Franklin's speech, June 28th, 1787,
346. 27:06in the Pennsylvania State House.
347. 27:09But I wanna turn our attention to a particular focus upon it.
348. 27:15So I mentioned something from the very beginning
349. 27:17of the speech, and then I wanna point us to something
350. 27:19that Benjamin Franklin says, that's absolutely true
351. 27:21to this day.
352. 27:24In the beginning of the speech, Benjamin Franklin says,
353. 27:25quote, Mr. President, the small progress we have made
354. 27:28after four or five weeks, close attendance and continual
355. 27:32reasonings with with each other are different sentiments on
356. 27:35almost every question. Several of the last producing as many
357. 27:40knows as eyes or or ye is me thinks a melancholy proof of the
358. 27:47imperfection of the human understanding, the imperfection
359. 27:56of the human understanding. I'm gonna pause here guys, that is
360. 28:02something that is radically in contention in our society.
361. 28:07And we're laboring under the strain of that contention.
362. 28:10And many of us don't even know what we're
363. 28:11contention I'm not in my talking about.
364. 28:14Benjamin Franklin, in the presence of some of the most
365. 28:20profound thinkers, certainly in American history,
366. 28:25I would argue in world history, he says,
367. 28:28human kind's capacity to understand is imperfect.
368. 28:35I want to show you the touchstone of regressiveism
369. 28:38that they call progressivism in the progressive movement.
370. 28:41But in y'all know I call it regressiveism.
371. 28:43Thank you President Calvin Coolidge.
372. 28:46The touchstone of regressiveism is that man's capacity
373. 28:50is perfect.
374. 28:52Sin nature what?
375. 28:53No sin nature.
376. 28:56It's very, very invictus.
377. 29:01Like I am the master of my fate.
378. 29:04I'm the captain of my soul, God who?
379. 29:08Me me?
380. 29:10Like the rapper Jay-Z who has the audacity to call himself, Jay Hova.
381. 29:17That really is the impetus for the regressive movement.
382. 29:24There's a song, there's a second song, the song was named God Did.
383. 29:27This dude come on a song talking about Hov Did, talking about himself.
384. 29:32You know what I'm talking about, Jeff?
385. 29:35That really is the thrust of the regressive movement.
386. 29:38We don't need some external superintending force.
387. 29:41All you need is enough government because man has got it all to himself.
388. 29:49back to Ben Franklin.
389. 29:52After acknowledging the imperfection of the human understanding, he says, quote, we indeed
390. 29:55seem to feel our own want of political wisdom.
391. 29:58Want means lack.
392. 30:00Our own want to political wisdom since we have been running around, sorry, running about
393. 30:04in search of it.
394. 30:05We have gone back to ancient history for models of government and examined the different forms
395. 30:09of those republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no
396. 30:17longer exists.
397. 30:18in quote, in quote, not one of pause Benjamin Franklin is acknowledging guys we feel our sense
398. 30:26of lack of political wisdom because we're going all we're scouring history looking at other
399. 30:33forms of government and examining them and endeavoring to glean wisdom from them. But
400. 30:38we have to acknowledge that those governments were shown with the seeds of their own dissolution
401. 30:44within them. How do we know that's true? Because those governments ain't here right now.
402. 30:51They go.
403. 30:52That's how we know that they were created with the seed of their own dissolution within
404. 30:56them because they are no longer existing now.
405. 31:00He goes on, quote, and we have viewed modern states all around Europe, but find none of
406. 31:05their constitution suitable to our circumstances.
407. 31:09In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth
408. 31:15and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have
409. 31:22not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the father of
410. 31:26lights to illuminate our understandings."
411. 31:30In quote, this is what Benjamin Franklin says, then he goes on
412. 31:33to reveal what I want to say to you now is the maximum efficacy
413. 31:38of human effort to try to make our way without God.
414. 31:45Ben Franklin goes on quote, I have lived sir a long time and
415. 31:49the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this
416. 31:52truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without
417. 31:57his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, sir,
418. 32:04in the sacred writings that accept the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
419. 32:09I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in
420. 32:14this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our
421. 32:21little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded and we ourselves shall become
422. 32:30a reproach and a byword down to the future.
423. 32:35I want to pick up right there because the last sentence I read to you is the inevitable
424. 32:42outworking of man's efforts to make our way without relying on God, inviting him to super
425. 32:51intend our efforts.
426. 32:53The constructor of the house must also be the watchmen.
427. 33:00Satan wants to destroy God's sacred design for marriage and family.
428. 33:04How do we defend them in this hostile culture?
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445. 34:10Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
446. 34:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third.
447. 34:17Here I want to pick up right where I left off before the break.
448. 34:21As Benjamin Franklin said,
449. 34:23after affirming his belief in the first verse of Psalm 127,
450. 34:27he goes on to say that without God's concurring aid,
451. 34:32we meaning the delegates to the constitutional convention
452. 34:35in their effort to create what became the US Constitution,
453. 34:40he says, without divine aid, we shall succeed
454. 34:44this political building no better than the builders of Babel.
455. 34:48Then he explains why.
456. 34:50Then he explains why that is the case.
457. 34:54And this is what I'm talking about, that this is the maximum efficacy of man's efforts,
458. 34:59but for God's leading.
459. 35:02Ben Franklin said, quote, we shall be divided by our little partial local interests.
460. 35:12projects will be confounded and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to
461. 35:18the future age."
462. 35:20You see guys, the core tenet of regressive is man-centrism.
463. 35:25Humanism, which gave rise to atheism and Marxism and all of that other kind of stuff, but this
464. 35:31man-centrism inevitably results in man only being divided by his little partial local interests.
465. 35:43This is why Marxism always fails.
466. 35:51This is why Marxism is a haven for corruption because the individual baked in a damnit depravity
467. 36:00will always look to his own interest.
468. 36:10I've explained economically the reason why capitalism is the best system for fallen Adam
469. 36:15is because it creates a system that incentivizes the
470. 36:21endemic propensity for human beings to look out for their own interest
471. 36:25because in the capitalistic system, you cannot satisfy your own interest
472. 36:28without benefiting somebody else. Say it all the time. I harvest
473. 36:37timber, Jeff Mines lead. There's a whole industry industry that
474. 36:44requires pencils. I cannot do well in serving the pencil industry. If
475. 36:49If I don't collaborate with Jeff, so it requires our interest to align while incentivizing the
476. 36:57endemic propensity to care for oneself, to provide for oneself, to look to one's interest.
477. 37:05The communism system doesn't leave room for that.
478. 37:10And I'm telling you if our nation persists in an effort to forge a path when there's a
479. 37:17normalization of godlessness, and I don't care if you're talking about it on a political
480. 37:20right on the political left.
481. 37:22It inevitably will devolve into being consumed
482. 37:27and dissolved in a damnate to gravity.
483. 37:32That is what the regressors reject at the core.
484. 37:37And God alone, this is why John Adams said
485. 37:40the man out way of life, our constitution is only
486. 37:42for religious and moral people.
487. 37:45Self-governance, that experiment is self-governance
488. 37:47will only work with a self-governed people.
489. 37:51That's the only way to work.
490. 37:54And here's the thing guys, regressives
491. 37:55have known this. I've alluded to this, but I want to give you this. I want to give you
492. 37:59the specific facts about it. The worst present in American history or one of the worst is
493. 38:10Woodrow Wilson, in my opinion. What an evil man. He was an evil man. An evil man. He understood
494. 38:24that if you're going to fundamentally transform the United States of America, you have to
495. 38:28move her away from her founding principles. In other words, you have to get away from the
496. 38:35builder who built the house if you're going to have a fundamental transformation of the
497. 38:41city, you got to move away from it.
498. 38:46What am I talking about?
499. 38:49Woodrow Wilson was one of the foremost intellectuals and academics who ultimately became the 28th
500. 38:54president of the United States of America who provided or not provided because really the
501. 38:59Dred Scott decision used this rationale, but popularized and used the platform of the prominent
502. 39:08intellectual stage, if you will, as the president of Princeton University, then he became president
503. 39:20of the United States of America. Woodrow Wilson delivered a speech and then later wrote an
504. 39:31article. The article was titled, The Authors and Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
505. 39:37The authors and signers of the Declaration. It was published in 1907. After publication
506. 39:45of this article, he published the article when he was a president of Princeton University.
507. 39:50after being Princeton's president, it became the governor of New Jersey.
508. 39:54And when he was governor of New Jersey, he had an eye toward the White House.
509. 40:07And I'm going to kind of take this in reverse order.
510. 40:10I'm going to start with the speech that Woodrow Wilson gave on July 4, 1914.
511. 40:18And you understand why this is so significant.
512. 40:22In contrast, Calvin Coolidge's Declaration of Independent Speech with Woodrow Wilson's
513. 40:28Declaration of Independent Commemoration.
514. 40:30Jorulson to speak in July 4th, 1914 to commemorate the 130th,
515. 40:34138th, I'm sorry, anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
516. 40:40During his speech, he asked his audience, quote,
517. 40:42have you ever read the Declaration of Independence with close comprehension?
518. 40:51In quote, that's really asked his audience because he wanted to know whether
519. 40:54they had focused on what he described as quote, the real character of the
520. 40:58Declaration of Independence.
521. 40:59The character in Woodrow Wilson's purview of the Declaration of Independence was not found
522. 41:08in what he called the quote, famous preamble.
523. 41:13This man took the heart of the Declaration of Independence and described it as just a famous
524. 41:19preamble and he does so in dismissing terms to express they have the impact that you might
525. 41:26imagine.
526. 41:27Oh, oh, she's on the 138th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
527. 41:33You have Woodrow Wilson dismissing the core thesis of the Declaration, the core philosophy
528. 41:40of the Declaration as a mere preamble.
529. 41:42Oh, maybe we don't need to think about it.
530. 41:47This mere preamble that Wilson, as Wilson described it, are the first two paragraphs of
531. 41:54the Declaration of Independence.
532. 42:01The first paragraph including the recognition of the separate and equal station to which
533. 42:06the laws of nature and nature is God entitled us.
534. 42:13The second paragraph beginning with the sentence, we hold these truths to be self-evident that
535. 42:17all men are created equal.
536. 42:19Woodrow Wilson pounded from the bulli pulpit of the presidency on the 138th anniversary
537. 42:29of the Declaration of Independence that the American people need to just toss aside that
538. 42:39mere preamble.
539. 42:43the preamble that set forth the idea that all men are created equal and the ideas that
540. 42:49all create equally created men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
541. 42:55It's not a surprise that Woodrow Wilson was a segregationist that after 50 years or so
542. 43:02of having an integrated federal workforce, Woodrow Wilson segregated the entire workforce.
543. 43:07You know, because he couldn't be bothered to embrace that whole all men are created equal
544. 43:12He didn't believe that.
545. 43:13He didn't believe that.
546. 43:16He didn't believe that.
547. 43:17Because as he described in his own terms, he was of the view of the Aryan supremacy.
548. 43:27Mm hmm.
549. 43:28Yeah.
550. 43:30Instead, Woodrow Wilson continued in this speech on July 4, 1914 by lecturing that the
551. 43:39quote, discerning reader would pass beyond those preliminary passages, pass beyond the famous
552. 43:47quote about the rights of men, because that's not the heart of the document, quote, that's
553. 43:52what Woodrow Wilson said.
554. 43:54Well if you follow Woodrow Wilson's career, you know that wasn't the first time he talked
555. 43:56about that.
556. 43:57By that point, there were enough people in a nation that embraced Woodrow Wilson's ideas
557. 44:04that he felt more comfortable saying something so ridiculous on the anniversary of the Declaration
558. 44:10of Independence.
559. 44:11And I'm bringing this out because America's 250th is the 250th anniversary of that same
560. 44:16Declaration of Independence. Back to the 1907 speech and article, the authors and signers
561. 44:26of the Declaration. Back when Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton University, he
562. 44:33said quote, that the Declaration does indeed open with the assertion that all men are equal.
563. 44:40But Mr. Jefferson and his colleagues in the Continental Congress spoke for no generation
564. 44:44but their own. We in modern times are not bound to adhere to the doctrines held by the
565. 44:52the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
566. 44:55Every generation should determine a fresh,
567. 44:58what principles, what forms of power we think most likely
568. 45:02to affect our safety and happiness.
569. 45:04In quote, do you see what he's doing there?
570. 45:07You see Woodrow Wilson is on the exact opposite
571. 45:10of recognizing unless the Lord builds the house,
572. 45:14those who build a labor in vain,
573. 45:16unless the Lord watch the city,
574. 45:18the watchman says,
575. 45:19he's on the exact opposite.
576. 45:21Woodrow Wilson is saying,
577. 45:22Well, if the house is built, thank you,
578. 45:24glad that the house is built.
579. 45:25But now that I'm on the scene,
580. 45:26I don't care how the house was built
581. 45:29because I need to determine afresh
582. 45:32what forms, as he said, quote,
583. 45:34what principles and forms of power that I think
584. 45:37is most likely to affect my life and safety.
585. 45:40You see, severing the generational legacy,
586. 45:43severing the historical rooting,
587. 45:47willfully forgetting, no, not willfully forgetting,
588. 45:50rejecting any willingness to consider
589. 45:53What made America great?
590. 45:56We wanna talk about how great we are now.
591. 45:57We wanna forge a path forward
592. 46:00and we don't need to be bothered by the whole idea
593. 46:02of a creator and men being created equal
594. 46:05and being endowed with inalienable rights by the creator.
595. 46:11We need to be bothered with that.
596. 46:13Four years later after that 1907 article was published
597. 46:16as the president of Princeton University.
598. 46:18Then Governor Woodrow Wilson, New Jersey,
599. 46:21Governor Woodrow Wilson in 1911
600. 46:23was willing to be far more blunt.
601. 46:25And by the time he's saying this in 1911,
602. 46:27he's the governor of New Jersey,
603. 46:29but he's got his eye on the presidency.
604. 46:33The brand new governor, newly elected governor of New Jersey,
605. 46:42who was willing to be straight up blunt
606. 46:44about his perception of the declaration.
607. 46:49Speaking to the Jefferson Club in Los Angeles, California,
608. 46:53Woodrow Wilson warned the audience to ignore
609. 47:00the beginning of the Declaration of Independence.
610. 47:06He said, quote,
611. 47:07those words comprise merely a rhetorical introduction.
612. 47:13They are the least part of it.
613. 47:19If you wanna understand the real Declaration of Independence,
614. 47:23do not repeat the preface, end quote.
615. 47:31You can't get more direct than that.
616. 47:34What Jerusalem said, if you wanna understand
617. 47:35the real Declaration, don't repeat the preface.
618. 47:37What does he call it a preface?
619. 47:39The entire first two paragraphs.
620. 47:48Because the first two paragraphs include the reference
621. 47:51to the laws of nature in nature's God,
622. 47:52the initial reference.
623. 47:53It includes the fact that we all choose at a self-evident,
624. 47:56that all men are created equal,
625. 47:57that they are endowed by the created with unalienable rights,
626. 47:59among them included our life, among them are those,
627. 48:02I'm sorry, among those are life-liberty
628. 48:03in the pursuit of happiness.
629. 48:05That to secure those, governments are instituted among men,
630. 48:07deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
631. 48:10You see, Wilson was a regressive.
632. 48:13He didn't want Americans getting the idea that government only has power that is just
633. 48:18the utilized and operated according to the governed, the governed people's consent.
634. 48:25Wilson didn't agree with that.
635. 48:27He saw government as the Lord of the people.
636. 48:37So he would argue, no, not what he did argue.
637. 48:39Well, you need to reject the preface if you really want to understand the Declaration's
638. 48:43benefit.
639. 48:44So then what are you left with?
640. 48:45all you're left with if you reject the heart of the document or the grievances.
641. 48:56And when the grievances are presented, the only answer to the grievances is the aggrandizement
642. 49:01and the enlargement of government.
643. 49:06This was intentional from what Joe was saying because he had no interest in what made our
644. 49:13nation great, his only interest, what it was in utilizing the brute force and the centralization
645. 49:21of government and the wielding of its power.
646. 49:25But if we want a charter course forward, we have to affirmatively reject the Wilsonian
647. 49:30ideology which by and large is the framework that the American populace is functioning within
648. 49:36currently.
649. 49:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of
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