“A Republic, if you can keep it…” What exactly is necessary to “keep” our Republic?

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11. 0:31Good evening, everyone.
12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
13. 0:37Abraham Hamilton III is my name.
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17. 0:46And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition
18. 0:49of the program.
19. 0:50This has been quite the week, quite the week.
20. 0:57Looking forward to being with beautiful people
21. 1:02in Waco, Texas tomorrow at the entrusted home school,
22. 1:06entrusted Christian homeschool conference there.
23. 1:09I've been preparing and praying quite a bit.
24. 1:13For that, we'll get started bright and early,
25. 1:15and 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.
26. 1:20At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you,
27. 1:22are making your transition from your part-time jobs,
28. 1:25where you generate an income to your full-time jobs,
29. 1:29where you cultivate an outcome.
30. 1:32And as you do so, I want to remind you to do it
31. 1:34with intentionality, you know, this, this necessary outcome
32. 1:38cultivation, in my mind, and I really don't believe is limited
33. 1:44to my mind, but I'm expressing it because this is my perspective,
34. 1:48that outcome cultivation is the missing ingredient. And what
35. 1:52Benjamin Franklin formulated, when he was asked, and when he
36. 1:56was leaving the Pennsylvania State House, which we now describe
37. 1:59as Independence Hall, following the conclusion of the
38. 2:02Constitution Convention, when he was asked,
39. 2:04oh Benjamin, what have you rocked in his response was a
40. 2:08republic if you can keep it.
41. 2:10My heart is heavy this evening because the most necessary
42. 2:17component of keeping that republic, in my view, is outcome
43. 2:22cultivation, also known as discipleship, disciple making.
44. 2:28I think we have given in our country significant and
45. 2:36appropriate attention to things like fiscal policy.
46. 2:39We've given appropriate attention, or let me say,
47. 2:44we've given significant amounts of attention
48. 2:46to things like tax policy.
49. 2:50I'm grateful that President Trump has been able
50. 2:54to oversee the closure largely of the Southern border.
51. 3:01I'm heartened by the demonstration of our military capacity.
52. 3:07What can I tell you that none of those things
53. 3:10are the fulcrum of keeping our republic.
54. 3:13In the motivation, frankly, should not be,
55. 3:17let me say it differently,
56. 3:18the motivation for outcome cultivation
57. 3:22should not be, we're gonna cultivate an outcome
58. 3:25so that our republic can be preserved.
59. 3:29But preservation of our republic will be
60. 3:31the inevitable consequence of employing
61. 3:37the preservative mechanism that is making disciples.
62. 3:42I am grateful for the America
63. 3:50Reads the Bible last week, but I'm also sober and prayerful that America would
64. 4:00I only read the Bible in an event like last week, but we'll welcome the Lord to
65. 4:04read us through his Bible. We do not have a significantly sufficient
66. 4:14discipleship investment in our country, and I'm concerned as to whether or not
67. 4:20out there enough people understand how important it is.
68. 4:23I just got a fresh report from Dr. George Barna yesterday morning, because when I got it yesterday
69. 4:30morning, I said, Gen Z, the biblical worldview percentage that Gen Z has is 1%, 1%.
70. 4:41In some ways we are seeing some young people in Gen Z trend toward biblical faithfulness,
71. 4:51but at the exact same time, there are other ways where they're trending away from biblical
72. 4:55faithfulness. Dr. Barna Opine in his report that there have been some positive movements
73. 5:08following Charlie Kirk's assassination, but he expressed concern and warning as to whether
74. 5:16or not well, concern that these movements could be temporary and superficial in nature. And
75. 5:24as a result, they won't necessarily be enduring.
76. 5:28Now he's offering that as a social scientist.
77. 5:35I'm concerned that when you speak to most people,
78. 5:38you know, let's say you go into,
79. 5:40you get some chicken wangs, not wings, you get some wangs,
80. 5:43which by the way, the best place in the world to get wings.
81. 5:45And if you debate this, you know,
82. 5:47argue with your matriarch.
83. 5:50It's a place called Wing Shack.
84. 5:52In New Orleans, Louisiana is right across the street
85. 5:54from the project.
86. 5:56If you go there, you probably have to deal
87. 5:57with something called bulletproof glass in the turnstile.
88. 5:59I ain't gonna be nowhere to sit now.
89. 6:00You can get your wings in roll.
90. 6:03But you're getting wings at the gas station
91. 6:05or whatever you're talking to people.
92. 6:07When people talk about the issues with our country,
93. 6:12for the most part, what comes up?
94. 6:15How often do you hear people express,
95. 6:17we really need our country, any repentance?
96. 6:22I've been alluding to this,
97. 6:23but I wanna take you in a little journey with me.
98. 6:24This is what I've been meditating on personally,
99. 6:26my own devotional time.
100. 6:28In the book of Judges,
101. 6:30and it's easy as we turn pages
102. 6:33to fail to recognize, man,
103. 6:35this, there are decades between these pages.
104. 6:38And I wanna give you kind of a sample of that.
105. 6:40So I'll start first in Judges chapter three.
106. 6:44To where the first judge to serve Israel
107. 6:47after Joshua passed away is Caleb's nephew.
108. 6:50His name is Othniel.
109. 6:51And in Judges chapter three, verse 11,
110. 6:52I want you to point you to this.
111. 6:54Because after Othniel served,
112. 7:02for I'll read verse nine through 11,
113. 7:03just to give you a setup.
114. 7:06Judges chapter three, verse nine.
115. 7:07It says this,
116. 7:08Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the
117. 7:11sons of Israel to deliver them. Othniel, the son of Kinesh,
118. 7:14Caleb's younger brother. The spirit of the Lord came upon him
119. 7:18and he judged Israel. When he went out to war, the Lord gave
120. 7:22Kushan Rishathayim, King of Mesopotamia into his hand, so
121. 7:27that he prevailed over Kushan Rishathayim. Then the land had
122. 7:34rest 40 years, 40 years.
123. 7:39And Othniel the son of Kines died after Othniel did his thing.
124. 7:45The land of Israel had rest for 40 years.
125. 7:49He went a little bit further down in the same chapter.
126. 7:51Look at verse 30.
127. 7:54Because after Othniel, the scripture says, well, I read first 12 before I get to verse 30
128. 8:07after, you know, verse 11 says, then the land had rest 40 years and Othniel the son of
129. 8:11in the Bookiness died, then we're verse 12,
130. 8:13look at what verse 12 says.
131. 8:15Now the sons of Israel again did evil
132. 8:18in the sight of the Lord,
133. 8:21and they became oppressed by the more bites.
134. 8:29The king of the more bites was a man named Egalon,
135. 8:31the Bible says Egalon was an overweight man,
136. 8:33an obese man, that actually he was very fat.
137. 8:38Now if you think the assessment of fatness
138. 8:39is something that's a novel term, you're wrong.
139. 8:43The Lord said about Egalon that he was very fat.
140. 8:46in the scripture.
141. 8:50But E. Hudd, who was a left-handed man,
142. 8:52the Bible says, he was left-handed.
143. 8:54The Lord used him to deliver Israel from Moab.
144. 8:58And then look at verse 30.
145. 9:00Judges chapter three, verse 30.
146. 9:02So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel
147. 9:06and the land was undisturbed for 80 years, 80 years.
148. 9:13You'll see this time period.
149. 9:16So the time period of peace between from Othel to Ihid is 120 years of peace.
150. 9:25That doesn't include the amount of time that the more bites were oppressing the Israelites.
151. 9:30But you see this cycle, 40 years of peace, Israel does evil.
152. 9:35The Lord's, they cry out to the Lord, he sends a deliverer.
153. 9:39The Lord delivers 80 years of peace.
154. 9:41And look at chapter four, verse one, then the sons of Israel again,
155. 9:47did evil in the sight of the Lord after hehood died.
156. 9:58What happens next?
157. 9:59King Jabin of Canaan, O press his Israel for 20 years.
158. 10:08Y'all doing the math with me?
159. 10:09So that's 140 years, guys.
160. 10:13140 years.
161. 10:16Then the Lord raises up Barack and Deborah,
162. 10:19which I've explained Deborah's role in the judges,
163. 10:23was a byproduct of a refusal
164. 10:26of Barak to lead as God has ordained them to.
165. 10:33The Lord delivers Israel from Canaan,
166. 10:36Jael, the wife of Hebrew, the kingite, the Bible says,
167. 10:41uses a tent peg and, you know, the tent peg made a do what to do,
168. 10:45after the milk was consumed.
169. 10:54And then look at Judges chapter five, verse 31,
170. 10:58the very end of it.
171. 10:59It says, and the land was undisturbed for 40 years
172. 11:04between Barack and Deborah and Gideon,
173. 11:06there's another 40 years of peace.
174. 11:09So if you're doing quick math,
175. 11:14that's 180 years guys, that's 180 years.
176. 11:20And the Midianites are pressed to use your lights
177. 11:21for seven years, that's 187 years.
178. 11:24Do you see?
179. 11:25The math that I'm attempting to help you to see,
180. 11:30is that's 187, 87 years, that's only a handful of judges.
181. 11:34You've gone from Othniel, to E-Hud,
182. 11:38the Deborah Barat, that's three judges.
183. 11:43And I'm reading this and then I'm looking at,
184. 11:47oh, America 250, I'm gonna be doing next week with HSLDA
185. 11:55and commemorating the 250th anniversary
186. 11:57of our Declaration of Independence.
187. 11:59And I'm like, Lord, do we see what's going on here?
188. 12:03We have social scientists and philosophers
189. 12:06who talk about the cycle of nations
190. 12:07in the 250th year, historically,
191. 12:11has been an indication of a precipitous decline.
192. 12:15I don't believe that has to be the American story.
193. 12:21It doesn't have to be.
194. 12:24I led devotions to our AFA staff here earlier this week,
195. 12:27and I just happened to mention to them,
196. 12:29do you do realize that our nation really,
197. 12:31the Genesis story, the origin story,
198. 12:33if you will, for the United States of America,
199. 12:35is a David and Goliath story?
200. 12:38If anybody should recognize that the strength
201. 12:41of military might and economic prowess
202. 12:44does not guarantee and preserve geopolitical longevity.
203. 12:49We should understand that.
204. 12:52We should understand that.
205. 12:54How you have a group of colonial farmers
206. 12:58who raise up and are able to discombobulate King George
207. 13:04in England, that's our origin story.
208. 13:08That's what we're commemorating in 2015.
209. 13:11What I'm saying guys, is I'm not sure
210. 13:15that there has been a sufficient amount of communication
211. 13:18in our society as to what is necessary to preserve a
212. 13:22republic.
213. 13:24Whatever you rattle, Benjamin, a republic if you can keep it.
214. 13:27That if is a strong, if the if is doing a lot of work, it's
215. 13:32doing a lot of work.
216. 13:35You go to the grocery store, you go to the gas stations, you go
217. 13:38to your football games, you go to the children's recitals, and
218. 13:40you talk about the state of America, what do we need?
219. 13:42You'll get a whole lot of answers.
220. 13:44How long will it be before you get to, man?
221. 13:46really need to do, we need to get on our faces before God. And we need to cry out to him.
222. 13:53We need to repent for our wickedness and ask God according to his benevolent mercies
223. 14:05to preserve our nation. The forces within our nation, animated by evil, many of them are far
224. 14:15more potent threats to something coming from the outside. And while all this is happening,
225. 14:22We have the nipping at the seams to cast off the application of Scripture,
226. 14:28to cast off the benefit of Christ following.
227. 14:34And if the people of God don't lead in making this clarion call,
228. 14:39it's not going to come from anywhere else.
229. 14:41We have an obligation to say,
230. 14:43hey, God is one who gives us times and seasons.
231. 14:47We're approaching the 250th anniversary of our declaration.
232. 14:50America's future is contingent upon faithfulness to the King of Glory.
233. 14:56to the King of Glory.
234. 15:00When Dad passed away in 07, he left an inheritance and they had saved and saved through the years.
235. 15:09I was just wondering what I could do with that money, invested or whatever.
236. 15:14I knew that I would like to help the Lord somehow in his work and then I kept hearing
237. 15:20about the charitable gift in Newity and I thought, well that really sounds good.
238. 15:25And I knew that AFR would just be the best because they're in my home all day, all day
239. 15:32long.
240. 15:33And I kind of wanted to partner with the Lord through AFR and AFA and give back.
241. 15:39And I just felt like I knew that's what I wanted to do.
242. 15:43Like I say, it's just so easy.
243. 15:47I would just highly recommend the foundation.
244. 16:04Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton corner on American family radio
245. 16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton corner Abraham Hamilton the third here. I am delighted to have in the studio the love of my life my
246. 16:17lovely wife
247. 16:18Where that rhymes? Hey got bars. I don't tell me
248. 16:25My wife Maria Hamilton the first is in studio with us and
249. 16:30She's gonna help me kind of unpack this story. We've been talking about this quite a bit at home
250. 16:33because I can't escape the timeline in Scripture as you turn the pages in Scripture, you go a few pages,
251. 16:39but you cover a century, nearly two centuries in just the first several chapters of Judges, actually from chapters,
252. 16:46really two to four, really to five, really because five is a song reflecting somebody's events from chapter four.
253. 16:55And we also had and this this is a little bit eerie
254. 17:03because
255. 17:04When you had the White House correspondents dinner and you have this
256. 17:10Would be assassin who tried to literally murder President Trump for the third time. Yeah third time
257. 17:15Trying to murder him
258. 17:16I think one of the things that people don't realize is that he just was awarded teacher of the year in California
259. 17:21yeah that this man was a public school teacher in the state of California and
260. 17:26and felt he needed to try to murder the president
261. 17:35and all of his cabinet.
262. 17:37And I can only imagine the kind of things
263. 17:39that he conveyed in the classroom to his students.
264. 17:41I'm sure his classroom was a very neutral
265. 17:45and benign and welcoming place for all comers to learn
266. 17:50without a bias slant at all.
267. 17:52I'm sure that was the case, right?
268. 17:53Right, right.
269. 17:55And then you had Barack Obama who took to X to say,
270. 18:02well, we don't know the motivations of the shoot.
271. 18:06We don't know the motivations.
272. 18:10At a minimum, we could know the motivation is
273. 18:12when you shoot a gun at somebody, you wanna kill them.
274. 18:14That's right.
275. 18:15At a minimum, I don't think you shoot a gun at anybody
276. 18:18because you want to help them file their taxes
277. 18:21or to cut their grass, I don't think.
278. 18:24But to have this being the third, the third assassination attempt on the President of
279. 18:30the United States of America.
280. 18:33And you have some people just like, well, you know, it's Trump's fault.
281. 18:36Yeah.
282. 18:38When you see these things accumulating and knowing what you know about scripture and about worldview
283. 18:47and about history generally, but also biblical history, what are these things converged to
284. 18:52communicate to you?
285. 18:54So you know, one of the things that I was looking at was when he if this manifesto is
286. 18:59real, because you know, it's going around or whatever, if that's it actual manifesto,
287. 19:04you can read and you can see that he's been deceived, right?
288. 19:09Because what is being spewed through the airways in the media are lies about the president.
289. 19:16Now that he's perfect, now that we agree with everything he does, but they're lying on him.
290. 19:20They're lying on what the administration is doing as a whole and where they stand on
291. 19:25things.
292. 19:26And so these people are just eating it up.
293. 19:28And so the country has turned from embracing and desiring truth, which again, we have stains
294. 19:34on the history of the United States, but embracing and desiring truth to advocating for and embracing
295. 19:40lies.
296. 19:41And those who spew the lies know their lies, but they don't care because it's demonic and
297. 19:46evil at the root.
298. 19:47And so we've turned.
299. 19:48and we now embrace lies from the top down.
300. 19:53And we see it not only in ideology,
301. 19:55but ideology informs behavior.
302. 19:57So then we see that in confusion, sexual confusion,
303. 19:59and everything else.
304. 20:00And so it's just a culture that is immersed in deceit.
305. 20:06But that's from the enemy.
306. 20:08There's an originator, and then there are people at the top,
307. 20:11if you will, in regards to power and influence.
308. 20:13Who spew that?
309. 20:14And so then you have people like this who are deceived.
310. 20:18but I'm not excusing him.
311. 20:19I'm just saying that what is at the root of who he is
312. 20:22and what he's embraced our lies.
313. 20:24And so then he's acting seemingly in a righteous manner
314. 20:28because if he wants to kill him,
315. 20:29he's saying in his manifesto,
316. 20:30he said, pretty much trying to end
317. 20:33what the evil that this administration is doing,
318. 20:36when it's a lie.
319. 20:37But then he's educating our children, right?
320. 20:39So then it's continues.
321. 20:40So it's the same thing, scripture warns us,
322. 20:44but also instructs us and commands us to pass down
323. 20:48to the next generations, who God is and what he's done,
324. 20:51which is truth, because his truth is a person.
325. 20:54But then the enemy flips everything God does, right?
326. 20:56And so he is a counterfeiter.
327. 21:00And so it's the same thing that God has instructed us
328. 21:04to do in the positive, advancing truth and passing it down.
329. 21:07He's doing it, but with the seed and lies.
330. 21:09So now we're raising a generation,
331. 21:11continued regeneration of people who are embracing lies
332. 21:15and advocating for lies and spewing lies.
333. 21:18And so he once upon a time was a child that was taught lies
334. 21:20and now he is teaching other children lies
335. 21:22because I'm sure like you said,
336. 21:23in the school, in the classroom or whatever,
337. 21:26he's not neutral.
338. 21:28Now you said the people who are spewing lies,
339. 21:30they know their lies.
340. 21:32Do you think everybody who's spewing lies
341. 21:34know that they are lies, that they're spewing?
342. 21:36No, but I don't know what Akobama does
343. 21:37when he's posted that, because he's a snake,
344. 21:39When he posted that, he knew exactly what the motivation was.
345. 21:43He knew exactly what the, why are President Trump is,
346. 21:47why they're killing him and he knows why.
347. 21:50Trying to kill him.
348. 21:51Trying to kill him.
349. 21:52But he knows a lot more than he wants to convey.
350. 21:56And he's been like that since before he ran
351. 21:58and before he became president.
352. 22:00So what he does is he surecoats and hides and comes off
353. 22:05like he's a positive, good person, but it's all lies.
354. 22:10And so some people do know, some people know that they're advancing lies and they don't care because they're being led by the by demonic forces.
355. 22:18And so that's just the truth, not everybody, but a lot of people, especially at the top that have power influence know that they're lying.
356. 22:24Yeah, not only about Trump, but just in general.
357. 22:27Yeah, the scripture says evil minutes to do so second, second, second, two, three, yes, evil minutes, the deuces will wax worse and worse deceiving.
358. 22:33That's correct.
359. 22:34and being deceived.
360. 22:35So I think it's about all when you say that there are some
361. 22:39who are purveyors of lies and they know for us that
362. 22:43that they are lies.
363. 22:44But there are others and I think this second category,
364. 22:46this other group is a far larger group.
365. 22:49I think there are lots of people who are spewing lies
366. 22:52but they don't know that they're lying.
367. 22:53Correct, yeah.
368. 22:54They are passionately misinformed.
369. 22:56Yes.
370. 22:58And being passionately misinformed is not an excuse
371. 23:01or justification for being misinformed,
372. 23:04or as you rightly pointed out,
373. 23:05ideology often informs conduct.
374. 23:10There's no excuse of justification
375. 23:11for the being misinformed first and foremost
376. 23:14and secondarily pursuing simple conduct
377. 23:17and light of that misinformation
378. 23:18because oftentimes the misinformation
379. 23:20is a product of preferences and biases.
380. 23:22Like you already think certain things
381. 23:24and you look for information sources
382. 23:26that confirm what you already think,
383. 23:28which is I know I frustrate you often
384. 23:30because I spend, I won't say a whole lot of time,
385. 23:34but I often wanna see with people who don't agree with me
386. 23:37and don't think like me,
387. 23:38I wanna understand what they think
388. 23:39because I don't wanna be in a situation
389. 23:41to where I'm contending against an idea or an assertion
390. 23:46and I'm not giving appropriate,
391. 23:48I'm not appropriately conveying the views
392. 23:50that I'm contending against.
393. 23:51Yes, and I very much respect that,
394. 23:55but it gets under my skin when my sanctuary of my bedroom
395. 23:59is infiltrated with CNN, like people.
396. 24:02Come on.
397. 24:03Not tell the truth, shame the devil,
398. 24:05I don't do it all the time.
399. 24:06It's not all the time.
400. 24:06But I do watch to try to get an idea of what other people
401. 24:11are saying.
402. 24:12Now, now you mentioned something, and this is a part of the story,
403. 24:15and I know people might get mad at me, but, you know,
404. 24:19and water is wet.
405. 24:20Here's another day that ends in why.
406. 24:22Right.
407. 24:22I mean, I don't think we're giving enough attention
408. 24:27to the aspect of the story that you pointed out,
409. 24:29I refer to it as well, that this man was teaching children.
410. 24:33Yeah.
411. 24:34Elementary school students, older students,
412. 24:38teacher of the year in California.
413. 24:42If I were to ask audience members,
414. 24:47would you last about a come baby, sit your child who,
415. 24:50Juan, you've never met, you've never met him.
416. 24:54Two, you don't know what they believe about anything,
417. 24:58about anything.
418. 24:59Three, you don't know their worldview,
419. 25:01You don't know whether or not they are believers.
420. 25:04You don't know if they have Bibles,
421. 25:06do they read the Bible?
422. 25:07You don't know anything about their history,
423. 25:09their background.
424. 25:10Would you allow that person to babysit your child?
425. 25:13Most people say what?
426. 25:14No, clearly not.
427. 25:16But every day in our country,
428. 25:17we have people do that very same thing,
429. 25:19but they allow what to happen.
430. 25:21And then let me ask this,
431. 25:22will you allow them to babysit your children
432. 25:23and you give them full authority with your children
433. 25:25for eight hours a day, for five days a week?
434. 25:28No, but we do that in our country
435. 25:33when we send people to school?
436. 25:34Yeah.
437. 25:36When we send our children,
438. 25:37I mean, we say that better.
439. 25:38When we send our children to school, we do it every day.
440. 25:40And why did we do it?
441. 25:41Because we trust this system.
442. 25:43We trust the system.
443. 25:44That's called education.
444. 25:46Yeah.
445. 25:47I can only imagine what this man taught in the classroom.
446. 25:53On this show, I've shared a story after story after story.
447. 25:57I shared a story from a father who learned
448. 26:01that his children were going in a class,
449. 26:02his elementary school-age children, eight-year-old, nine-year-old,
450. 26:05going in the classroom and the class is littered with, you know, you know,
451. 26:08LGBTQ plus IAP, L M and X, Y, Z flags, all over the classroom,
452. 26:13all of the classroom in that same classroom would not allow an American flag.
453. 26:17Oh, and the father was banned from the campus because he brought attention to it.
454. 26:23You know, I can tell you story after story after story.
455. 26:25Why do we keep doing this?
456. 26:26Why do we keep and why do we think that it's only happening in certain places?
457. 26:30And it's not already enough time has passed to know and embrace the reality
458. 26:35the truth that it has impacted every area of our culture,
459. 26:39every area of our nation from sea to shining sea,
460. 26:42small town, big town, these influences are happening
461. 26:46in our culture and we wanna turn a blind eye.
462. 26:48And then here's the most egregious thing
463. 26:51because education, it's a huge component of our culture.
464. 26:55But we turn a blind eye to what God requires
465. 26:58of us as believers.
466. 27:00Can I read Psalm 78?
467. 27:02Yeah.
468. 27:03Three verses, real quick.
469. 27:03Verse five says,
470. 27:04That was the testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel,
471. 27:08which he commanded our fathers that they should teach them
472. 27:10to their children.
473. 27:11This is the law.
474. 27:12This is the heart of God that is being conveyed to Israel
475. 27:15so that they can teach their children.
476. 27:17Verse six, that the generation to come might know,
477. 27:20even the children yet to be born,
478. 27:22that they may arise and tell them to their children,
479. 27:24that's generation after generation.
480. 27:26Verse seven, that they should put their confidence in God
481. 27:29and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.
482. 27:33So we are not doing that any longer.
483. 27:35And when we consider education,
484. 27:39when we consider the eight hours that you're explaining,
485. 27:41when we consider the amount of influence,
486. 27:42the amount of indoctrination that is occurring,
487. 27:45what are the kids learning?
488. 27:46And when are we going to be about our father's business?
489. 27:49When are we gonna actually take the reins
490. 27:50of what God has called us to do as believers, as the church?
491. 27:53When are we gonna say, okay, enough is enough
492. 27:55because we see how the culture is advancing.
493. 27:58And we see how our children are either gonna fall prey
494. 28:02to this and agree with it and be deceived and advance it, or are we going to do the best
495. 28:07that we can be in love by the Spirit of God and with the power of God that splits Red Seas
496. 28:13to be able to train our children to love God and to advance who He is and to tell the next
497. 28:18generation who He is.
498. 28:20And I feel like we just put our very heads in the ground too much, you know, and we just
499. 28:24sit back and be like, oh, it's just a cycle over here and another cycle over here.
500. 28:27No, it is everywhere.
501. 28:29It is everywhere.
502. 28:30It's not just the leftist Democrats.
503. 28:32It's everywhere.
504. 28:33People are being deceived, left and right, and we are feeding our children to influencers
505. 28:39and people all over, whether it's a teacher or a YouTuber, who are spewing lies.
506. 28:44But we are not equipping our kids to fight against that because we're supposed to be
507. 28:47the light of the world, the truth.
508. 28:51And so we are the ones that are supposed to say, hey, that's the lie.
509. 28:54It's over here.
510. 28:55This is the way to go.
511. 28:56But we're not raising a generation of people that can do that.
512. 28:59You know, I started off, you heard me talking about Benjamin Franklin's quote, a republic
513. 29:07if you can keep it.
514. 29:09It is, in my view, the missing component, the foremost ingredient in this experiment is self-governance,
515. 29:18that we cannot have a nation of self-governance if we don't have a people that are self-governed.
516. 29:23That's right.
517. 29:24That's right.
518. 29:25You can't do it, and self-government is not natural to fall in Adam.
519. 29:31It's a fruit of the Spirit.
520. 29:32Self-government is not natural to fall in the atom.
521. 29:35It is a fruit of the Spirit.
522. 29:37Yes.
523. 29:39To say it more clearly and plainly,
524. 29:41it is something the capacity to govern oneself
525. 29:45is a by-product of being indwelled by the Spirit of God.
526. 29:50And I want to explain what I mean by that,
527. 29:53because self-governance is not a localized
528. 29:56or segmented phenomenon.
529. 29:58Self-government is something that pervades
530. 30:00that pervades the entirety of our being as human beings,
531. 30:04as individuals.
532. 30:05Because you may have people who in one instance,
533. 30:08exhibit some particular gift or some particular talent,
534. 30:11you know, a singer who can do something
535. 30:14or a mathematician or something.
536. 30:18But if you examine their lives,
537. 30:19what you'll find is more evidence of a lack of self-governance
538. 30:23than you will evidence of self-governance,
539. 30:25even if they're talented in one particular area.
540. 30:27Yes.
541. 30:28And we allow the talent to cloud their character.
542. 30:30We, we, conflate.
543. 30:32Yes, there we go, conflate.
544. 30:33With a character.
545. 30:34We say, because they're good at this thing,
546. 30:36therefore they're good people.
547. 30:38That's why we have celebrity worship,
548. 30:39we're not good.
549. 30:40Yes.
550. 30:41We have people who are very good at lying.
551. 30:43Oh.
552. 30:44So true.
553. 30:45Let me say what I mean by that.
554. 30:46Well that applies generally,
555. 30:47but you have people who are very good
556. 30:49at presenting themselves as someone else.
557. 30:53We call them actors and actresses.
558. 30:55Because you're skilled at displaying yourself as someone else, our society says, therefore, you are worthy of acclamation.
559. 31:03And we'll, because one of the chief values in our country today, we value entertainment over anything else.
560. 31:08Which is why entertainers are paid.
561. 31:10And by the way, athletes are entertainers. If the sport is not entertaining, they're not paid well.
562. 31:15For example, you have people who have very good bobsledder still, don't get paid like,
563. 31:19baseball players and football players.
564. 31:22Oh, please watch because it's not a very popularly entertaining sport.
565. 31:25Now they're skillful in that athletic exercise, but the highest paid athletes are entertainers.
566. 31:31And so when you look at what we value the scripture where man's treasure is, that's where
567. 31:36it's hard is also, we value entertainment in a country, which is why they're paid to well.
568. 31:40So people who entertain us well, we conflate that capacity with goodness to our detriment
569. 31:46because the Lord tells us, oh no, no, no,
570. 31:49he's just looking inside to see if there is a merit.
571. 31:52When I'm driving towards, and I think we'll have
572. 31:55a couple minutes in this segment,
573. 31:56so I don't want to start this.
574. 31:58Now, and I'll pick it up on the other side.
575. 32:01There is a missing ingredient to our body politic
576. 32:03that even our founders warned that if we don't have this,
577. 32:07our country will be in shamples.
578. 32:09Yes.
579. 32:10John Adams said, well, our country will be
580. 32:12a most miserable habitation on the earth.
581. 32:15If we don't have this and it's what you're talking about is what the Lord is talking about and my concern is that there
582. 32:23We do not have enough believers
583. 32:26Understand this let alone who are willing to advocate for it in the public square
584. 32:31But the world is going to world. What is the church supposed to do? How should we respond?
585. 32:38When we come back from this break
586. 32:43Maria will take over the show no no
587. 32:46We're gonna continue our conversation
588. 32:49about what is the most necessary but unfortunately,
589. 32:52neglected component of keeping our republic.
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604. 34:05Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Bitted Common Terrets
605. 34:08are available at afr.net, back to the Hamilton Quarter
606. 34:12on American Family Radio.
607. 34:16Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Hamilton's Corner.
608. 34:20Abraham Hamilton the third heel with Maria Hamilton.
609. 34:23wife of my life, wife of my life, mother of my children,
610. 34:27co-laborer, an administrative God has called us
611. 34:30who started first and foremost, in Hamiltonia.
612. 34:34That's right.
613. 34:36I wanna read this quote, babe.
614. 34:37This is from John Adams' letter to the Massachusetts militia
615. 34:41dated October 11th, 19, sorry, 1798.
616. 34:47John Adams, second president of the United States
617. 34:49of America under our constitution,
618. 34:52He wrote this letter and he said this.
619. 34:56And I'm sharing this because oftentimes people would use a quote that's included in this letter,
620. 35:00but they only use a quote at the end of what I'm about to share, but they remove it from
621. 35:04the entire to the context that John Adams was writing in.
622. 35:07And John Adams wrote this.
623. 35:08He said this quote, while our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which
624. 35:12are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world, while she continues sincere and
625. 35:19incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice
626. 35:25in the local destination assigned to us by providence. But should the people of America
627. 35:31once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another and towards foreign nations,
628. 35:38which assumes the language of justice and moderation, while it is practicing iniquity and
629. 35:46extravagance and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candor,
630. 35:51frankness and sincerity while it is rioting in repine and insolence. This country will be the
631. 35:59most miserable habitation in the world because we have no government armed with power,
632. 36:11or capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion,
633. 36:18avarice, ambition, and revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution
634. 36:25as a whale goes through a net.
635. 36:29Our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people.
636. 36:34It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
637. 36:37End quote.
638. 36:38He's right.
639. 36:39Now, many of you have heard that last statement, our Constitution was made only for a moral
640. 36:44religious people.
641. 36:45It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
642. 36:48Many of you heard that sentence and the sentence is right.
643. 36:53But most of you have never heard the context of that sentence.
644. 36:57John Adams is not saying that the only people that should be allowed in America are moral
645. 37:03and religious people.
646. 37:04What John Adams is saying is that we have a nation to where we have an external, shall
647. 37:11I say, reputation of sincerity and candor and frankness while the real truth on the streets,
648. 37:17what a real at least a real, rubber meets the road on real deal, holy feel on the streets,
649. 37:22we're rioting and repeating, avarice and ambition and revenge and gallantry.
650. 37:26Say we have an external testimony and reputation for being one thing, but the truth is we are
651. 37:31entirely rogue and rebellious against God.
652. 37:35Our nation will be the most miserable habitation in the world.
653. 37:39That's what John Adam said.
654. 37:41So you know what's interesting though, when we are fighting for political freedom and we're
655. 37:45fighting to preserve the rights that God has given us, we think that the way to preserve
656. 37:52this nation is to do it through government, is to do it through the voting bloc.
657. 37:59like, okay, so who's gonna be present or who's gonna be,
658. 38:01the justices on all these things.
659. 38:03And listen, yes, we need to participate in that.
660. 38:05But if we think that the solution is there,
661. 38:08we are completely deceiving ourselves.
662. 38:12And he's right.
663. 38:13If that's the only there.
664. 38:14Right, then you say that, right?
665. 38:16You say we're never gonna be able to out politic,
666. 38:19we're never gonna be able to out vote on righteousness.
667. 38:22Like we're never gonna be able to elect people.
668. 38:24And we always say this, we're like,
669. 38:25why is it that it feels like it's like the better of the two,
670. 38:28what is it, best in areas or whatever it is?
671. 38:31Lesser of the two evils.
672. 38:32If two evils will work when we're trying to vote.
673. 38:35Why?
674. 38:35Because we have a people on the ground,
675. 38:38the real that are replete with iniquity and sin
676. 38:44and advancing it and advocating it
677. 38:46from the Republicans and Democrats.
678. 38:47And so we cannot depend upon that.
679. 38:50What do we have to do?
680. 38:51We have to boil it all then.
681. 38:52We have to completely remove all that
682. 38:54and go back to what the Lord has called the church to be.
683. 38:58We have to, that's the only way we're going to preserve
684. 39:00this nation and that's not the goal, by the way.
685. 39:01The goal is not to preserve the nation
686. 39:03so we can have a great nation on this earth.
687. 39:07It's to advance the gospels, people can be saved
688. 39:09so that we can be with the Lord.
689. 39:11That's the goal.
690. 39:12The result will be a good nation and freedoms
691. 39:15and all these things and prosperity.
692. 39:17But that's not our goal.
693. 39:18But I just feel like we got it so wrong.
694. 39:20Yeah, the goal should be obeying the Lord.
695. 39:22Amen.
696. 39:23Seeing his kingdom expanded and seeing our fellow countrymen
697. 39:27become members of our eternal family.
698. 39:29When that takes place, it will inevitably infect
699. 39:33and impact the quality of our nation.
700. 39:35Like being consistently presented with a lesser of two evils,
701. 39:38she calls us and begins to think,
702. 39:39why am I only presented with evil as an option?
703. 39:41Yeah.
704. 39:42Why?
705. 39:43Why is that increasingly so common
706. 39:45that that is the expectation?
707. 39:46Correct.
708. 39:47Why is that?
709. 39:48And why do we settle for that?
710. 39:50Should we be settling for that?
711. 39:51Should we desire more than that?
712. 39:54We should, we should.
713. 39:55But then what we think is,
714. 39:56No, maybe we just need to get somebody else.
715. 39:58Like we need to get a Christian in office.
716. 39:59Listen, okay, that is like a bandaid on a huge problem, right?
717. 40:03Like it's bleeding out and we're like trying to patch it up.
718. 40:05We need to raise generations of people who love Jesus.
719. 40:08We need to strengthen the church.
720. 40:10We need to be the church.
721. 40:12We need to be able to start saying,
722. 40:13whoa, whoa, what is it?
723. 40:14What is God requiring of us?
724. 40:16What does it take to raise a generation of believers
725. 40:18that are going to stand for what is right and what is good?
726. 40:21And who?
727. 40:22And what is true?
728. 40:23And what is true?
729. 40:24self-govern who invite to the Holy Spirit to increase them and fill them.
730. 40:30When are we going to do that?
731. 40:32When are we going to do that?
732. 40:33But we think that the solution is elsewhere.
733. 40:35And God has already told us.
734. 40:36But what do we do as a nation?
735. 40:37What do we do in the church?
736. 40:39In the church we start saying, no, no, no, it's okay.
737. 40:42It just means to be good morally.
738. 40:43We just need to be good people.
739. 40:45And let the leaders do what they do.
740. 40:47That is completely moronic.
741. 40:50It's stupid.
742. 40:51It doesn't work.
743. 40:52We need to start at the ground level.
744. 40:53what it got calls to do.
745. 40:54Getting back to the quote from John Adams,
746. 40:57he literally says that if we have this public
747. 41:01outwardly facing reputation,
748. 41:03but that reputation is not consistent
749. 41:05in what the American people are on the ground,
750. 41:07that our nation will become the most miserable habitation,
751. 41:09but then he tells us why, he says why.
752. 41:11Why will our nation become the most miserable habitation
753. 41:14in that circumstance?
754. 41:15He says, because we, we, the United States of America,
755. 41:19the citizens of our country,
756. 41:21we have no government armed with power capable
757. 41:27of contending with human passions
758. 41:30unbridled by morality and religion.
759. 41:33Government can do it.
760. 41:34Where, where can a population be cultivated
761. 41:42and how can a population be cultivated
762. 41:44to have a morality, I'm sorry to have,
763. 41:47their human passions bridled by a transcendent morality.
764. 41:53That's not gonna come from the government.
765. 41:55No, it's not.
766. 41:56Now I wanna be clear about something.
767. 41:57I'm not saying that those things are unimportant
768. 41:59who we elect, very important.
769. 42:01Knowing who aren't school boards, very important.
770. 42:03Congressional representation, very important.
771. 42:05Presidents very important.
772. 42:07State judges who are elected very important.
773. 42:08Nominations, very important.
774. 42:10But if you have all of those things in place,
775. 42:13all of those things in place,
776. 42:14but you have a populace that have human passions
777. 42:17unbridled, unbridled. God, this is what we need to understand. There is no government. That's
778. 42:26strong enough to contend with that. John Adams says that if they're human passions that are
779. 42:35unbridled by morality and religion, they would break quote the strongest chords of our Constitution
780. 42:41as a whale goes through a net. Now I want you to think about something. How often in the last
781. 42:4930 days, six months last year, have you at home or in your cars or in your homes?
782. 42:56How many times have you said, well, that's unconstitutional.
783. 42:58Yeah.
784. 42:59Well, that's unconstitutional.
785. 43:00I just talked about this week on today's issues.
786. 43:02I didn't mention our hand with Hamilton Corner.
787. 43:04I might have mentioned it there.
788. 43:05But there's a case out of Vermont, right?
789. 43:08Mid-Vermot Christian School.
790. 43:10They had a radical idea that a girls basketball team had made it to the playoffs.
791. 43:14They were set to play against the team.
792. 43:15This is back in 2023 and the team had a boy on the girls team.
793. 43:19The mid Vermont Christian school said, nah fam.
794. 43:22We not putting our girls in harm's way to play against a dude on the court.
795. 43:25Our girls can get hurt.
796. 43:26So they did not play the playoff game.
797. 43:28The state of Vermont, what are they doing response?
798. 43:31They said we're fine, mid Vermont Christian.
799. 43:32Y'all can't compete in any scholastic activities.
800. 43:37Not only sports, not only the girls team.
801. 43:40You can't participate in the spelling bee.
802. 43:42You can't participate in the science fair.
803. 43:43You can't participate in nothing.
804. 43:45You don't want to play against a boy who thinks he's a girl in girls basketball?
805. 43:49Well, y'all can't participate in nothing.
806. 43:51And they were not able to participate for two whole years.
807. 43:53But you know what's crazy?
808. 43:54We think that the solution is to get Vermont right.
809. 43:57We need to elect people in Vermont.
810. 43:58We need to get Vermont to not be ridiculous.
811. 44:00We need to fight in courts.
812. 44:01And listen, yes, because they're so far ahead.
813. 44:04We need to raise a generation where boys are not confused and want to play in girls sports.
814. 44:08We want to raise a generation of children who are able to say what is right is right
815. 44:12and what is wrong is wrong.
816. 44:15But we get outraged about that and we say,
817. 44:17oh my gosh, how dare they limit the freedoms
818. 44:20for the Christian school?
819. 44:21How about the boy is not confused?
820. 44:24How about we have girls who know what it means to be a girl?
821. 44:28And they value that.
822. 44:29And boys that know what it means to be a boy
823. 44:31and a man and value that.
824. 44:34Now to your point, think about this,
825. 44:35you have a boy in Vermont who thinks he's a girl back in 2023.
826. 44:38And at the same time, we have a sitting Supreme Court justice
827. 44:42who don't know what a man is.
828. 44:44Right.
829. 44:46The whole head is sick.
830. 44:47Ezra said our sin has risen above our heads.
831. 44:49That's what Ezra said in Ezra, chapter nine.
832. 44:52So yes, yes.
833. 44:54Get Vermont right.
834. 44:55Our friends are the lives of fitting freedom.
835. 44:57Correct.
836. 44:58File the lawsuit.
837. 44:59They brought the case up the second circuit court of appeals ruled in favor of mid-remont
838. 45:03Christian school.
839. 45:04So you had a $566,000 settlement where the state of Vermont had to pay to mid-American
840. 45:09Christian.
841. 45:10That's wonderful.
842. 45:11You know, but let's just be real.
843. 45:12That's the Vermont taxpayers.
844. 45:13It's not like, you know.
845. 45:15But also can we invest ourselves so where we have families, where a father commits himself
846. 45:24to his wife who bears his children and her husband and wife who reared their children.
847. 45:33And let me take a few steps back.
848. 45:34You have a Christian man who has been a recipient of the gospel proclaimed where the Lord opens
849. 45:43his eyes to his need for a Savior.
850. 45:45This man is discipled to be a husband.
851. 45:47You have a woman who, her eyes have been open to her knee
852. 45:50for a save, she's been discipled to be a wife.
853. 45:52They join in holy matrimony.
854. 45:54Remember that word?
855. 45:55Sounds like stale break.
856. 45:57Okay.
857. 45:58Holy matrimony.
858. 46:02And they recognize that, you know,
859. 46:03family's not merely a relational context,
860. 46:05but it's a mission statement, mission statement,
861. 46:06or dain by God for the establishing
862. 46:09of his kingdom generationally.
863. 46:11And we're not even talking about perfection here.
864. 46:13We're not talking about raising a generation of believers
865. 46:14that are just gonna never gonna sin.
866. 46:16We're talking about raising a generation of...
867. 46:17It's theoretical.
868. 46:19Yeah, and strengthening the body of Christ,
869. 46:21by strengthening the family, going God's way,
870. 46:24because God's, do I need a quote by details?
871. 46:27God's way is the best way.
872. 46:29It's the truth, hands down, God's way is the best way.
873. 46:31So if we want a prosperous nation,
874. 46:34we cannot think that the way to solve it
875. 46:36is just by litigation.
876. 46:37It has to start in the home.
877. 46:41And my concern is that we have people
878. 46:43who feel like, well that's too far off, babe.
879. 46:46That's gonna take too long without having to.
880. 46:48We need to do this, we need to do this.
881. 46:50And I'm just saying, okay, okay.
882. 46:52But let's be real where we are right now.
883. 46:54And there are a lot of people that complain
884. 46:55about the young folks.
885. 46:56Gen Z's doing this, Gen Z's not doing that.
886. 46:58But I'm not, shoot the messenger if you will,
887. 47:01but all of Gen Z come from somewhere.
888. 47:03That's right, they all got parents.
889. 47:04They come from somewhere.
890. 47:05They all have parents.
891. 47:06They all have families that they come from.
892. 47:09They all, every person who is a person,
893. 47:11They came from a Y chromosome and an X chromosome.
894. 47:15Providers.
895. 47:16Yeah.
896. 47:18What we are experiencing guys is the systematic,
897. 47:20and I would argue,
898. 47:21demonically designed to be an intentional
899. 47:23decimation of the family.
900. 47:25Yep.
901. 47:25And the decimation of the family is even impacting
902. 47:29the way that we're forming our churches,
903. 47:31because we're allowing ourselves
904. 47:33to address symptoms and not the root.
905. 47:35That's right.
906. 47:37You know, and so people will say,
907. 47:39well, where's the ministry to the single moms?
908. 47:45And I know, you know,
909. 47:46I have single moms in my family.
910. 47:48I don't wanna disregard single moms,
911. 47:51but I'm not gonna allow the prevalence of sin causes
912. 47:53to all of a sudden act like we don't know what the standard is.
913. 47:56How about we get the men to not abandon those women
914. 47:58so they don't become single moms?
915. 48:00How about we get men to marry the women
916. 48:03that they are willing to
917. 48:07procreate with what I'm saying is the only way forward
918. 48:13for us guys is God's way and yes, it's hard work.
919. 48:16Yes, it's gonna take generational impact
920. 48:18in investment, yes.
921. 48:21We serve the living God though.
922. 48:22But we serve the true and living God.
923. 48:25And there are people that say,
924. 48:26because take all this, well, honestly,
925. 48:27I really don't believe it's gonna take
926. 48:28as long as people think if we have a people
927. 48:32who are willing to invest ourselves,
928. 48:33I believe the Lord can turn our country around
929. 48:35in one generation.
930. 48:36Yes.
931. 48:36I believe that.
932. 48:37I've seen that in families.
933. 48:40I've seen brokenness in one generation
934. 48:42in the very next generation,
935. 48:44the entire course of the lineage thereafter
936. 48:46has been transformed by the power of Jesus Christ.
937. 48:50But what's happened what has happened too often is that the Christian has been seduced into thinking well, man
938. 48:56Let me talk my chain in let me get every other remedy available to me and let's just keep the gospel on the sideline
939. 49:04Brothers and sisters we have to let the lion loose
940. 49:07We have to take God at his word amen and love him so much that we'll be we are radically
941. 49:15Disposed to obey and to trust him with the results. I'll give you the last amen. No, that's it
942. 49:21That's it. Are we going to do what the Lord has called us to do?
943. 49:24Are we going to stand on the truth of the word of God, defendant and live it?
944. 49:28Are we going to stand on the word of God, defendant, advocate for it, and live it?
945. 49:36The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those
946. 49:43of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.