("Best-of" Edition from 3/13) Clarity concerning the past often gives light and guidance for the present and future.

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1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
2. 0:02It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
4. 0:10It 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. 0:23Even in this dark moment.
9. 0:26Let's not miss our moment.
10. 0:28And now, the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:33Good evening, everybody.
12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
13. 0:36My name is Abraham Hamilton, and third, the third.
14. 0:40Yes, there was an Abraham Hamilton senior,
15. 0:42and junior, then me.
16. 0:46And my great-grandfather's name is actually Benjamin Hamilton.
17. 0:54And I remember my father explaining to me
18. 0:57that my great-grandfather would tell him
19. 1:01when he would visit because my great grandfather's family is from North Louisiana in the Nackity
20. 1:08area and my grandfather, sorry my father was born in Houston, Texas and he used to visit
21. 1:14North Louisiana as a little boy and my dad would say my great grandfather would tell him,
22. 1:19now listen there Abraham, I know people might think that I named your daddy after Abraham Lincoln,
23. 1:26but that ain't true, that's not true, that's not true. Your daddy is named after Abraham from the
24. 1:31Bible. That's what my dad would tell me that my great-grandfather Benjamin would tell him when he
25. 1:37was a little boy. And that actually I have a son who his middle name is named after my great-grandfather
26. 1:47Benjamin. I don't even know why I'm sharing that with y'all. But I just I've been thinking about
27. 1:54lineage and heritage and posterity and the opportunities that we have to set the
28. 2:04course as Psalm 78 says for children who are not even yet to be born but who are
29. 2:10influenced by that witness and I never met my great grandfather Benjamin so I'm
30. 2:17obviously I'm hearing this account from him second-hand but I guess I'm sharing
31. 2:23with you all because that's something that shaped me, that's influenced me to think that
32. 2:28my great grandfather had such was gripped by the testimony of scripture so much so that
33. 2:37he named my grandfather after Abraham, the father of nations in the scripture and here
34. 2:44I am standing.
35. 2:47As a believer though, I've never met my great grandfather in person based on what I've heard
36. 2:54about him. That's one of the things I'm looking forward to in eternity is finding my great grandfather
37. 2:58Benjamin. So I guess that's why I'm sharing that with you guys. At this very moment, many
38. 3:03of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part time jobs to your
39. 3:07full time jobs. Your part time jobs aware, you generate an income. Your full time jobs
40. 3:15are where we cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with
41. 3:20intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on family and welcoming God's
42. 3:26view of his world to govern, guide, and guard your engagement in his world.
43. 3:34We will never ask the society outpace the deficiencies that persist in the home, out
44. 3:40politic, outvote, but we must welcome the Lord to transform us personally and individually
45. 3:47and then export that transformation to our homes first.
46. 3:54From our homes, we leak out into our immediate communities,
47. 4:00from our communities, into our societies,
48. 4:04as we leak out into our communities,
49. 4:06our churches are impacted by that transformation.
50. 4:10And then we set our course man
51. 4:11to exalt the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords,
52. 4:15starting with living locally.
53. 4:18Because what goes on in your house
54. 4:20is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
55. 4:24Clearly, there are important things happening.
56. 4:25I mean, what a week it's been this week
57. 4:28with all of things swirling globally and domestically,
58. 4:31you have reports indicating Iran wants to try to pop off,
59. 4:38drones and whatnot, domestically
60. 4:40in the United States of America.
61. 4:41That's what they're saying, the saber rattling,
62. 4:44whether or not they're successful in doing so, frankly,
63. 4:46I doubt the capacity of that happening,
64. 4:50but that is combined with reports of sleeper cells of terrorists in our own nation.
65. 4:57We had a great history lesson this week with Bill Federer walking us through a bit of the history of
66. 5:04Islam generally, then then Elam, also known as Persia, Makhkot contemporaneously, or currently I
67. 5:13I should say, named Iran, giving us a bit of the history concerning the Shia Sunni divide,
68. 5:22and helping to give us some background and context in that regard.
69. 5:28But then when you learn about things like Jimmy Carter's involvement and how that led
70. 5:34to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and you start learning, it's kind of like the deeper
71. 5:40you dig into some of the historical stuff, the uglier it gets, man.
72. 5:45Ugly or get you find out that the Brits were involved working with the Russians
73. 5:51Historically and that gave rise to the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood and just all of this stuff, man.
74. 6:00It reminds me of why of the reason, the reasons I would say
75. 6:06why we have to continuously place our faith in God. And I don't mean that in an escapist sense.
76. 6:11But I mean that in a true sense, not denying what happened factually and ignoring the realities
77. 6:18of history, even the ugliness of things that have transpired in history, but placing our
78. 6:24faith in God in a transcendent manner in light of what we've learned.
79. 6:32It's something that enables us to process and to navigate at a clip that we would not
80. 6:38be able to if we were not anchored into Lord Jesus Christ.
81. 6:42But that let us turn to the word of God to Proverbs 22, Proverbs 22, verse 28 is where
82. 6:48I want to go to start the show today.
83. 6:52And the one verse you will recall, this is wisdom literature, the genre of literature
84. 6:56in the book of Proverbs is wisdom literature, which enables us to navigate the individual
85. 7:01Proverbs and plumb their depth, plumb, it's depth, it's depth.
86. 7:07verse 22 verse 28, and this is what it says,
87. 7:11do not, do not move the ancient landmark,
88. 7:16or some translations might say, the ancient boundary stone.
89. 7:20Do not move the ancient landmark or boundary stone
90. 7:24that your fathers have set.
91. 7:27Do not move the ancient landmark that your father
92. 7:34have set.
93. 7:36Now this proverb comes to us as one of multiple sayings that pertains specifically to economic
94. 7:46issues in the book of Proverbs.
95. 7:49The text is specifically referring to moving the ancient boundary stone or the boundary
96. 7:56line, if you will, that your ancestors have set one of the primary considerations and
97. 8:01concerns in this verse and a cross-reference for this verse is actually Deuteronomy,
98. 8:07chapter 19 verse 14, which says the same thing, because moving the ancient landmark was akin
99. 8:16to stealing a portion of your neighbor's real property, stealing a portion of their land.
100. 8:23If you had just to communicate this in contemporary language, if you had one neighbor has a plot
101. 8:31of land with several acres and it's adjacent to another neighbor's plot of land with several
102. 8:35acres, if you move that boundary line ever so slightly to the east or to the west, you will
103. 8:40encroach on a neighbor's property in one direction or the other. That encroachment, if left unchallenged
104. 8:46and unchecked, would be akin to stealing your neighbor's property. The effort to move the
105. 8:53boundary stone or the boundary line, what would be an effort to confiscate your neighbor's
106. 9:01And so the Lord had strong prohibitions against this.
107. 9:08As I mentioned, the front facing issue being addressed here is property, and property specifically
108. 9:20in view of heritable property.
109. 9:25That one's family was to pass to his descendants in terms of inheritance.
110. 9:33Well, while this is clearly discussing real property, Proverbs 22, 28, and I would throw
111. 9:41the cross-reference due to around me 1914 in as well, the principle guys applies not only
112. 9:50to property, but the principle also applies to historical inheritance.
113. 10:01I've said in the past that a proper reading and rendering of his story, his story, history
114. 10:08directs us toward transcendent theological truth.
115. 10:13Well what happens when malign actors are able to distort history, to move the ancient boundary
116. 10:25line to move the ancient boundary stone historically. Well, if the malign actors are successful in
117. 10:37moving ancient boundary stone historically, then they're able to commit theft of another type.
118. 10:48They're able to skew and to bend and shape the perceptions of the future.
119. 10:54Now theft right now as we're speaking in legal terms is considered a crime of moral
120. 11:02turpitude. You know theft prior inconsistent statements or evidence of
121. 11:09lying, crimes of moral turpitude are of the sort of crimes that though if one is
122. 11:19being charged with a crime currently that the trial is confined to that specific
123. 11:24crime if one takes the witness stand an exception to the legal rules that
124. 11:30normally would exclude other crimes evidence and exception to that is evidence
125. 11:34of crimes of moral turpitude. If we can show that a witness taking the stand has a
126. 11:39history of a demonstration of moral turpitude which which shows that it's
127. 11:44immorality and evidence of a wiggliness to be deceptive committing crimes of
128. 11:53deception that would call into question their capacity for truthfulness currently would be
129. 12:01admissible in court because it is a crime of moral turpitude. Guys, we are living in an
130. 12:07era where a great effort has been employed to commit theft of our national history. And
131. 12:15I'm not, I'm trying, I try my best. And I feel like sometimes I'm more successful than
132. 12:20other times, but I try to be objective, to be a neutral broker, to the good, bad, and
133. 12:26the ugly.
134. 12:27It's one of the reasons why I get extremely frustrated when people want to tell the history
135. 12:30of the Republican Party, for example, and they'll talk about the party with the genesis with Abraham
136. 12:37Lincoln and just skip over a century of his history and skip right over from Abraham Lincoln
137. 12:41all the way to Ronald Reagan, to which I would say, well, what happened in those intervening
138. 12:46years?
139. 12:48Why don't we discuss what happened in those intervening years?
140. 12:52And many of you, as I'm saying that, you're saying, you know, I realize that is, try to really hear
141. 12:57much about the Republican Party just intervening years. And I've done a program going looking up on
142. 13:03the AFR podcast page to say, what happened between Lincoln and Reagan? We talk about that. I explain
143. 13:13the devious insidious, malicious efforts of people like Nicole Hannah Jones and the 1619 project to
144. 13:20to lie about our nation's history.
145. 13:22Those lies are not benign.
146. 13:25They're not benign lies.
147. 13:27They're lies that are promulgated to commit a theft
148. 13:32by removing the ancient boundaries
149. 13:35stone of our national history.
150. 13:37And they're doing the bidding, frankly,
151. 13:40of people like Antonio Gramsci,
152. 13:42who said, man, any nation that's anchored
153. 13:45with a Christian foundation,
154. 13:48There's no way they're going to fall to a Marxist program.
155. 13:56But what has to occur is that you have to sever
156. 13:58the root of that society, which gave rise
157. 14:02to the long march through the institutions.
158. 14:05Is there any wonder that a nation such as ours historically,
159. 14:09patriotism was a universal feature.
160. 14:15But now scores of our young people
161. 14:16are taught to hate our country, how are they doing that?
162. 14:19Because they're twisting our national history.
163. 14:22people that are revisionists in one direction or the other,
164. 14:27make it easier to twist our national history.
165. 14:32God in his scripture shows us the good, bad, and the ugly.
166. 14:35Doesn't only show us David overwhelming Goliath.
167. 14:38He also lets us see the ugliness with Bathsheba and Uriah
168. 14:46because God's interest is pointing to his glory, not man's.
169. 14:53If we want a correct course in our nation,
170. 14:55We have to refuse to allow the ancient boundaries
171. 14:57to want to be moved.
172. 15:00Satan wants to destroy God's sacred design
173. 15:02for marriage and family.
174. 15:04How do we defend them in this hostile culture?
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194. 16:04Shining, light into the darkness.
195. 16:07This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
196. 16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton,
197. 16:13the third here, March 27th through the 29th.
198. 16:16I will be joining the brethren at Coral Ridge,
199. 16:21Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
200. 16:23for the Kingdom Come Conference March 27th
201. 16:26through the 29th.
202. 16:27If you're in the Fort Lauderdale area,
203. 16:30or wanted to come to the area,
204. 16:31I'd love to meet you at this conference.
205. 16:34The conference is Kingdom Come,
206. 16:37and the subtitle for this Christian citizenship.
207. 16:41It is going to be a great conference.
208. 16:43I'm looking forward to attending the conference
209. 16:46in addition to participating
210. 16:48in by presenting a plenary presentation at the conference.
211. 16:54David Bonson will be there.
212. 16:55I'm looking forward to hearing him,
213. 16:57Rosaria Butterfield. I'm looking forward to hearing her present. It's going to be a host of people,
214. 17:03Oz Guinness, looking forward to hearing him. I have not heard him in person yet. I've read a lot of his
215. 17:10writings and heard things he's provided in various outlets, but it'll be great to be able to hear him
216. 17:16in person. It's going to be a powerful time in Fort Lauderdale. Simply go to have the website here,
217. 17:26and I know we have it in the show notes,
218. 17:28InstituteFC.org, InstituteFC.org.
219. 17:33That is a Cool Ridge Presbyterian Institute
220. 17:36of faith and culture.
221. 17:38And they are the ones putting this conference on.
222. 17:42So I'm looking forward to being there.
223. 17:44And if you're there, I'd love to meet you there.
224. 17:47You don't want to miss this conference for sure.
225. 17:48And I will continue it to share
226. 17:51because it'll be quite a bit of traveling again this year.
227. 17:54And the main thing, man, and I, I, I, I kind of try to balance this because I have young children.
228. 18:01So I really limit the amount of invitations I accept to speak in different places
229. 18:08because I don't want to be away from home more than I'm home at home.
230. 18:13And I balance them with the amount of conferences I'm able to bring my family with me to.
231. 18:20So the ones that the invitations that I've accepted are ones that I believe
232. 18:26are the ones that God would have me except for this year. There are also some
233. 18:30some things that are happening in 2027. Some invitations I've already agreed to
234. 18:36by God's grace that we'll be able to to meet them and some later dates as well.
235. 18:42But I'll share those as we get closer to those dates and my simple press is
236. 18:47is because, man, we must work while it is day.
237. 18:53There's so much that is happening.
238. 18:56And in many ways, I feel that there's been kind of a famine
239. 19:00of truth in our country.
240. 19:03And because of that famine of truth, lies are being disseminated
241. 19:10and they are effective in deceiving many.
242. 19:13So I pray that the Lord would move his remnant man
243. 19:17to combat these lies and do what Jesus said.
244. 19:21If I be lifted up, I will draw them into myself
245. 19:25because I'm most desperate in enduring the United Nations
246. 19:27man is for the gospel to be conveyed
247. 19:31and people to be born again and disciples to be made.
248. 19:35And Jesus is matchless in mighty name.
249. 19:38All right, now to the point I was making in the first segment,
250. 19:46and if it seems like I'm struggling today,
251. 19:49It's just because I'm just so perturbed by the persistent efforts to deceive.
252. 19:57And in many ways to obfuscate the truth of what God has done in our nation.
253. 20:01There's not a nation in this world that is a perfect nation, but the United States of America
254. 20:06is the greatest nation in the history of the world.
255. 20:12And the greatness of our nation has been a downstream flow from our nation being established on
256. 20:19biblical truth. The pursuit of the experiment in individual liberty was
257. 20:26pursued because of the revelation of mankind being made in God's image. The
258. 20:34articulation of the idea of mankind's creation in God's image, endowing mankind
259. 20:41with certain inalienable rights, was a radical departure from the normative
260. 20:49phenomenon of the late 18th century. That radical departure only existed because of the revelation
261. 21:03of divine truth. Guys, that's a simple fact. The reality is that the entire progressive
262. 21:13era that led to amending our Constitution to allow for United States senators to be elected
263. 21:21popularly as opposed to being elected by the state legislature, the passage of the Federal
264. 21:25Reserve Act of 1913, the passage of the amendment to allow for the first time an enduring taxation
265. 21:32system to where the productivity of American citizens was directly taxed by the federal government
266. 21:38or all features of the progressive movement, that I call regressive, that as you know, and that
267. 21:44regressive air in our society literally existed to be the governmental expression of one primary idea
268. 21:52is that the regressives wanted to move away from what they described.
269. 21:57This is not my opinion, from what they described as a Newtonian philosophy,
270. 22:04based on Sir Isaac Newton.
271. 22:06You know that Sir Isaac Newton that only gets described in our American government indoctrination systems
272. 22:12as a scientist, you know, the regressives knew that he was a socio-political philosopher
273. 22:17who articulated biblical truth.
274. 22:19They said we needed to move away from a Newtonian philosophy
275. 22:24that considered certain depravities and
276. 22:29Deficiencies of mankind we need to move into a Darwinian
277. 22:33Philosophy guys. This is what people like Teddy Roosevelt said people like Woodrow Wilson. They wrote these things guys
278. 22:39We need to move to a Darwinian philosophy to where we understand that as as human God has advanced
279. 22:46we know when to understand things now better than they understood in the past.
280. 22:50Whereas Newton's Newton's approach was that there are enduring truths that are
281. 22:54objective and that apply to mankind throughout all time.
282. 22:58No, we reject that.
283. 22:59We embrace a Darwinist view that says now that we have advanced, we know better.
284. 23:05We're smarter.
285. 23:06We're bigger.
286. 23:06We're stronger.
287. 23:08So we need to jettison the articulations of the past.
288. 23:13When you, when you had the expression of things like a mankind being in
289. 23:16endowed with certain unalienable rights.
290. 23:18Oh, no, no, no, mankind is only endowed with the rights
291. 23:20that government gives them.
292. 23:22You see, because the founders' articulation,
293. 23:24that was only something that was applicable to their time.
294. 23:28So we need to box in their perspectives
295. 23:31and limit it to their time.
296. 23:33And now we have advanced beyond their time.
297. 23:34Guys, this is do your research, do your homework.
298. 23:37This is the challenge and the contrast
299. 23:45and the binary tension of the regressive era.
300. 23:49And in many ways, we as a society have never recovered from that.
301. 23:53Because the influence of the regressive era has continued.
302. 23:58Don't we?
303. 23:59We've never gone back to senators being elected by state legislature.
304. 24:05We haven't gone back to a nation where there was no federal income tax.
305. 24:15You see what I'm saying?
306. 24:18Because when the ancient boundaries stones are moved,
307. 24:22there has been a theft that has transpired.
308. 24:28You even have people like Woodrow Wilson,
309. 24:33who say, you know, you don't need to read
310. 24:34the Declaration of Independence.
311. 24:36If you read the Declaration of Independence,
312. 24:38then you need to ignore that whole first part, you know,
313. 24:41where you had inalienable rights and being endowed
314. 24:44with the creator, you just need to not read that
315. 24:47and just start with the grievances.
316. 24:49And when you see the grievances,
317. 24:50and that's what government's supposed to kick in.
318. 24:52Guys, I'm telling you, it's in cities,
319. 24:57which is why in order to gain clarity
320. 24:59when we recognize that we've been knocked off course and let this be frank, the United
321. 25:03States of America has been locked off knocked off course, generally speaking, and much of
322. 25:12the support for President Trump and his election efforts have been because people recognize
323. 25:17that, man, we have gone astray.
324. 25:19You talking about using taxpayer money to pay for transsexual surgeries for prisoners?
325. 25:29Come on, man.
326. 25:33I'd say that's an example of being knocked off course.
327. 25:41June 28th, 1787.
328. 25:43I wanna take us back to June 28th, 1787.
329. 25:47To go back to a place, we now call it Independence Hall,
330. 25:50but at the time it was referred to as the Pennsylvania State House.
331. 25:55The United States of America has come off of a successful
332. 26:00reiteration of David slaying Goliath when the United States of America
333. 26:04was able to decouple from,
334. 26:11or uncoupled from Great Britain,
335. 26:16where we defeated the global superpower of the day.
336. 26:2255 delegates have been dispatched
337. 26:24to the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia
338. 26:28to deliberate concerning the construction
339. 26:30of a new national or federal government,
340. 26:33because they have been confronted with the failures
341. 26:37of the Articles of Confederation.
342. 26:39Sometimes people forget that between the successful
343. 26:42revolution beginning or should I say, follow a attendant to our
344. 26:49Declaration of Independence from England on July 4, 1776 from
345. 26:53there to 1787. There was a nation operating and we operated
346. 26:57under articles under the Articles of Confederation. Well,
347. 27:01there have been four to five weeks of stalemate in the
348. 27:06Pennsylvania State House, which led to one of the older, if not
349. 27:13The oldest delegates to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, one by the name of Benjamin
350. 27:24Franklin, who is widely regarded as one of the least religious delegates to the Constitutional
351. 27:34Convention.
352. 27:36At this time, June 28, 1787, Benjamin Franklin was 81 years old.
353. 27:43He didn't know it at the time, but he would die less than three years after he gives this
354. 27:47speech that I'm about to read to you.
355. 27:48I'm going to read the whole thing.
356. 27:50I'm going to read the whole thing because when the ancient boundary stone is moved,
357. 28:02that is an active crime of moral turpitude that is a theft that's being perpetrated.
358. 28:12As the four to five weeks of quagmire in the Constitution of convention took place, George
359. 28:18Washington is presiding over the convention in the elder states of Benjamin Franklin arose
360. 28:25to say this quote.
361. 28:28Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance
362. 28:35and continual reasonings with each other are different sentiments on almost every question.
363. 28:42Several of the last producing as many nays as eyes is me thinks a melancholy proof of the
364. 28:51imperfection of the human understanding.
365. 28:55We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in
366. 29:01search of it.
367. 29:04We have gone back to ancient history for models of government and examined the different forms
368. 29:10of those republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now
369. 29:15no longer exist.
370. 29:18And we have viewed modern states all around Europe, but find none of their constitutions
371. 29:25suitable to our circumstances.
372. 29:30In this situation of this assembly,
373. 29:32groping as it were in the dark to find political truth
374. 29:35and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us,
375. 29:39how has it happened, sir,
376. 29:41that we have not hitherto once thought
377. 29:44of humbly applying to the Father of Lights
378. 29:50to illuminate our understandings?
379. 29:54In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain,
380. 29:58That's the revolutionary war, by the way.
381. 30:00In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain,
382. 30:03when we were sensible of danger,
383. 30:05we had daily prayer in this room for divine protection,
384. 30:09for the divine protection.
385. 30:11Our prayer, sir, were heard,
386. 30:14and they were graciously answered.
387. 30:17All of us who were engaged in the struggle
388. 30:21must have observed frequent instances
389. 30:24of a super-intending providence in our favor.
390. 30:29To that kind of providence, we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means
391. 30:39of establishing our future national felicity.
392. 30:45And now we, I'm sorry, and have we now forgotten that powerful friend?
393. 30:51Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?
394. 30:57I have lived, sir, a long time.
395. 30:59In the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the
396. 31:05affairs of men.
397. 31:07And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire
398. 31:13can rise without his aid?
399. 31:16We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings that accept the Lord build the house.
400. 31:22They labor in vain that build it.
401. 31:24I firmly believe this.
402. 31:27And I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building
403. 31:33no better than the builders of Babel.
404. 31:37We shall be divided by our little partial local interests.
405. 31:40Our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword down to
406. 31:47future age.
407. 31:50And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate circumstance, despair of establishing
408. 31:55governments by human wisdom and leaving it to chance, war, and conquest.
409. 32:02I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven and
410. 32:12its blessings on our deliberations be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed
411. 32:20to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that
412. 32:28service."
413. 32:33Ben Franklin made this motion on the floor of the Pennsylvania Statehouse.
414. 32:37Mr. Sherman seconded the motion, the motion carried, and this led to a three-day prayer
415. 32:43meeting in Independence Hall.
416. 32:48Four to five weeks of quagmire before, prayer invoking the presence of God, let the course
417. 32:56for our Constitution's development and passage.
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427. 34:10Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
428. 34:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton
429. 34:17III here.
430. 34:18Guys, that speech that I just shared with you
431. 34:20was delivered ex-step erroneously by Benjamin Franklin.
432. 34:24On the floor of the Pennsylvania State House, June 28, 1787,
433. 34:29that is recorded in our congressional records, our federal records.
434. 34:32We, we, this is, this is a part of our history, this invocation of the Lord's
435. 34:42presence and a request to daily, to begin the daily deliberations and prayer
436. 34:49before you ever get to any of the business of trying to create the
437. 34:51Constitution is what set the course for what is now, what is now the longest
438. 34:58enduring constitution in the history of the world.
439. 35:01Guys, our Constitution was steeped in bathed in prayer.
440. 35:10Prior to the time of prayer, there were arguments,
441. 35:14as Benjamin Franklin pointed out, over local interests.
442. 35:18But prayers would pave the way.
443. 35:25This is a part of our heritage.
444. 35:30This is a part of our national founding.
445. 35:33Does that sound to you like an irreligious man?
446. 35:39And to have, this was presented as a motion,
447. 35:41a formal motion, guys.
448. 35:43You gotta understand, like think about
449. 35:45the floor of Congress right now,
450. 35:47The floor of the house of representatives, for example,
451. 35:49in their debating bills,
452. 35:51and you have a representative stand up and say,
453. 35:53man, as Benjamin Franklin says,
454. 35:57says, sir, how is it that we have not hitherto,
455. 36:01that's old school, as I said before now,
456. 36:04once thought of humbly, applying to the father of lights,
457. 36:08to illuminate our understandings,
458. 36:09how have we been talking these last four or five weeks?
459. 36:13And we ain't thought once to ask God for his help.
460. 36:17That's what old man Ben Franklin said.
461. 36:23Have we not once thought to ask God for his help?
462. 36:25And then he diagnoses the problem.
463. 36:30He says, in the beginning of the contest with Great Britain,
464. 36:33talking about it in the beginning of the war,
465. 36:34the Revolutionary War, when we were sensible of danger.
466. 36:39There it is.
467. 36:41See, when you're fighting Goliath,
468. 36:43you won't have any hesitation to recognize.
469. 36:46Man, there ain't no way we beating this man
470. 36:48without the Lord's help.
471. 36:51So when the founders are sensible of danger
472. 36:53Every day in the Pennsylvania State House,
473. 36:56they cried out to the law for his help.
474. 36:58Every day, because there was sensible of danger.
475. 37:04And when there was sensible of danger, Ben Franklin says,
476. 37:06we had daily prayer in this room for divine protection.
477. 37:11Then Ben Franklin, he says,
478. 37:16and sir, our prayers were heard.
479. 37:20Our prayers were graciously answered.
480. 37:23And then he's turning to people, 55 of these delegates.
481. 37:26The Constitution ultimately have 39 people that signed it.
482. 37:30because you had some anti-federalists and others
483. 37:31who still didn't agree until the Bill of Rights was created.
484. 37:35But Ben Franklin turns to him and says,
485. 37:36our prayers, sir, were heard.
486. 37:38And they were graciously answered.
487. 37:40And all of us who were engaged in the struggle,
488. 37:43and he knows these 55 people that he's talking to,
489. 37:46they were engaged in the struggle.
490. 37:48He must have observed, we must have observed,
491. 37:51with frequent instances of a superintending
492. 37:55providence in our favor.
493. 37:57You know what Benjamin Franklin is saying, guys?
494. 38:00He is saying, unless God was on our side and miraculously and supernaturally did things during
495. 38:09the Revolutionary War, there's no way we would have been victorious.
496. 38:13That is what Benjamin Franklin is saying.
497. 38:15The least religious, that's what he's saying.
498. 38:23When we were sensible of danger, we cried out in this room every day for divine protection
499. 38:28and our prayers were answered.
500. 38:30And all of us who are engaged in that struggle with Great Britain, we know for a fact that
501. 38:34they were super-intending Providence in our favor.
502. 38:38And then Ben Franklin says, and it is to that Providence that we owe this happy opportunity
503. 38:43of consulting in peace the means of establishing our future national felicity.
504. 38:50Man Ben Franklin is in the kitchen, he's in the kitchen and he is cooking.
505. 38:55Without this divine intervention, we wouldn't have this happy privilege of being able to
506. 39:00be in a peacetime environment discussing what our future for our nation would be.
507. 39:05And then he says, and to have now, have we forgotten that powerful friend?
508. 39:10Have we gotten the season sites would say, have we gotten so big for our britches that
509. 39:14now we don't think we need him?
510. 39:17Benjamin Franklin is diagnosing the condition that we read over and over again in the book
511. 39:20of Kings.
512. 39:21When he was small in his eyes, he was dependent upon Yahweh, but when he was strong, when he
513. 39:25was established, when he was strengthened, then he forgot the Lord.
514. 39:30Benjamin Franklin saying, guys, that's what we're doing.
515. 39:32That's why we're having this difficulty in coming up
516. 39:35with this construct for our government.
517. 39:37And have we now forgotten that powerful friend?
518. 39:40Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?
519. 39:46Guys, I'm reading this speech to you right now
520. 39:48because I feel like this is the same spot
521. 39:51we are in as a nation.
522. 39:54Have we gotten so big for our britches
523. 39:56that we no longer realize our desperate need for God?
524. 40:01We content with our B2 bombers in our operation,
525. 40:06midnight hammer capacity,
526. 40:07absolute resolve capacity,
527. 40:09operation epic fury execution
528. 40:11that we don't feel like we need.
529. 40:15The Lord's help,
530. 40:17guys we desperately need the Lord's help,
531. 40:26equally if not more so now than they needed it in 1787.
532. 40:32The elder Ben Franklin goes on,
533. 40:33I have lived sir for a long time.
534. 40:35And the longer I live,
535. 40:37the more convincing proofs I see of this truth.
536. 40:42This is the least religious Ben Franklin, of course.
537. 40:45The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see
538. 40:48of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men.
539. 40:53And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice,
540. 40:56is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
541. 41:05Then Ben Franklin quotes scripture.
542. 41:08We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings
543. 41:10that accept the Lord build the house they labor in vain
544. 41:12that build it.
545. 41:14And then he says, I firmly believe this.
546. 41:21And I also believe that without his concurring aid,
547. 41:25we will succeed in this political building,
548. 41:27no better than the builders of Babel.
549. 41:32Does that sound like somebody who's unfamiliar
550. 41:34with the Scriptures?
551. 41:35The sacred writings.
552. 41:37Now, why am I presenting this guys?
553. 41:39I said it already, because this is our heritage.
554. 41:42This isn't something that is foreign
555. 41:44to the United States of America.
556. 41:46This is something that is intrinsic
557. 41:48to the United States of America.
558. 41:50This is, this should be more,
559. 41:52this should be considered more American than apple pie
560. 41:55in baseball, in James Naismith,
561. 41:59in the real football.
562. 42:01What am I talking about?
563. 42:05This appeal to divine providence in recognition
564. 42:09unless the Lord builds a house,
565. 42:10they who build it labor in vain.
566. 42:14that if we have the audacity to proceed, henceforth,
567. 42:20without appealing to divine providence
568. 42:21for his intervention in aid,
569. 42:24that we will succeed no better in this building
570. 42:28than the builders of Babel.
571. 42:31Guys, that is our national heritage.
572. 42:35It ain't the 1619 project.
573. 42:40And there are all of these competing forces
574. 42:43that is not a complete confrontation
575. 42:47in a direct contest, it's a death by a thousand cuts.
576. 42:53A little bit of omitting truth here.
577. 42:55A little bit of, we'll take Sir Isaac Newton's
578. 43:00laws of motion, but we'll exclude Sir Isaac Newton's
579. 43:03Bible commentaries.
580. 43:05We'll take Sir Isaac Newton the scientists,
581. 43:07but won't take Sir Isaac Newton the Christian,
582. 43:11theologian, and philosopher.
583. 43:14We won't include that.
584. 43:17We'll pivot and act like Darwinism has always been
585. 43:20the enduring thesis for the United States of America.
586. 43:23when no, that's not the truth.
587. 43:27Will allow the regressives to rebrand themselves,
588. 43:32bullmooze party to progressives, to liberals,
589. 43:35to Democrats, back to progressives,
590. 43:37when people don't know what progressives mean,
591. 43:41when the whole progressive movement,
592. 43:43which y'all know I call it the regressive movement,
593. 43:45the foundation of it was, man,
594. 43:46we reject a biblical view, a biblical anthropology,
595. 43:50a biblical view of man's depravity and sinfulness.
596. 43:56The reason why there's an effort to consolidate power and make government the end all be all
597. 44:01is because man is rejecting God as an end all be all.
598. 44:04In rejecting the biblical truth of Jeremiah 17 9 of the desperate wickedness of man's heart.
599. 44:11That's the reason why I found this divided power.
600. 44:14That's the reason why there was this diffusion of political potency is because of the understanding
601. 44:23If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
602. 44:30But we know men are not angels.
603. 44:32That's why we have John Adams, second president of the United States, who would say, man,
604. 44:41there's no government that's sufficient to contend with human passion unbridled by religion
605. 44:47and morality.
606. 44:50But the ancient boundaries stone movements in our society would try to present it to you
607. 44:54and me as if our understanding is marginal.
608. 44:58Oh, you know, you listen to the Hamilton Corner, that Abe guy, he's just a religious
609. 45:04sycophant and they won't let you know how much like our founders that I actually sound.
610. 45:15That when I say to you, if I ever had the opportunity to moderate a presidential debate,
611. 45:18the first question I would ask is where do men get their rights from?
612. 45:25Because that's, you want, it's kind of like the, the regressive tagline, hashtag, the hashtag
613. 45:30for the regressives is that, oh, no, government is the one who gives rights.
614. 45:33almost with an an assumptive arrogance like like duh, like only a
615. 45:38roob, only an ignorant plebeian would dare challenge the notion
616. 45:45that well of course government are the ones who give rights.
617. 45:52So by moving that ancient boundary stone and by making disciples
618. 45:56generation in our nation through the government indoctrination
619. 45:58complex to where minds were cultivated, guess what's happened
620. 46:01entire nation. They hear me read this from Benjamin Franklin and what most of the young,
621. 46:09you know, Russell Enboggs, you say, minds full of mush will say is, what about separation
622. 46:15of the church and state? Mr. Jeff McIntosh, what about separation of church and state?
623. 46:21When you got Ben Franklin needing to congression, the Constitution of convention in a time of
624. 46:26prayer and the motion is seconded and he's, this speech is a motion. I move that we stop
625. 46:33by a judge, and we pray.
626. 46:36And we begin every day in prayer.
627. 46:41And Mr. Sherman goes, I second the motion.
628. 46:44Do y'all see what I'm saying?
629. 46:45I second the motion.
630. 46:48Prompt the breaks.
631. 46:49Stop the presses.
632. 46:50Do not pass, go.
633. 46:52Do not collect $200.
634. 46:56We've been talking and going back and forth
635. 47:00and being moved as, you know, Ben Franklin says,
636. 47:02divided by our partial local interests and local projects.
637. 47:07Also known as special interests, personal interests, and we have not developed the capacity to be
638. 47:18expressed to express our devotion and commitment towards our national felicity.
639. 47:24And God's the same thing is happening now.
640. 47:28Brothers and sisters, the only way forward for us is turning to the Lord.
641. 47:36If we continue down this trajectory, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, a godless conservatism
642. 47:43is no better than a godless regressiveism, because the truth is what the scripture tells
643. 47:50us.
644. 47:52He walks to the wise, shall become wise, but the companion of fools shall be destroyed,
645. 47:59and what invariably will occur.
646. 48:02Francis Shafer said it, many others, far more, erudite, scholarly, profound, and wise than
647. 48:08have come to the same conclusions.
648. 48:15Benjamin Franklin's appeal at the Constitutional Convention
649. 48:20to interrupt the incessant deliberations
650. 48:23with concerted prayer is foundationally American.
651. 48:33And if we want to charter course forward,
652. 48:35we have to return to our ancient boundary stone,
653. 48:38not because of the boundary stone,
654. 48:41but because of the one who gives the stone in the first place.
655. 48:46Because as he determined before times,
656. 48:48the boundary of our habitation and the times in which we would live.
657. 48:56Our president needs wisdom now.
658. 48:58Our congress needs wisdom and courage now.
659. 49:04Our greatest need man is repentance.
660. 49:12I pray that the people of God understand the times that we are in right now and know what
661. 49:17we are to do.
662. 49:19This is not a time to be list for or fearful.
663. 49:26It's a time to respond in the manner that God calls us to.
664. 49:32The Lord is not done with these United States of America.
665. 49:42The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
666. 49:47Family Association or American Family Radio.