May 7, 2026 · 48:48

There has been much MAGA conversation, but not as much discussion about what originally made America great.

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0:00 - 15:00. Psalm 20:5-8. We, the U.S.A., should know better than anyone that boasting in chariots and horsemen is a fool’s errand. 15:00 - 31:00. There has been much MAGA conversation, but not as much discussion about what originally made America great. 31:00 - 48:00. Tennessee has moved quickly to redraw its congressional districts following Louisiana v. Callais SCOTUS decision. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call: 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links Brutal Blow For Democrats In Red State Sparks Leftist Outrage

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0:01Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
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0:33Good evening everyone.
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1:01I'm grateful to be with you again.
1:03We came back it's been kind of world-wade
1:05and the world-wade's gonna continue even next week.
1:08We came back from CentCause Texas
1:11had an amazing time at the intrusted Christian
1:14homeschool conference.
1:15And then last week, well, no, I asked this week.
1:18Well, these days run it together.
1:19Earlier this week, I was in Virginia with HSLDA,
1:25preparing some things for their commemoration
1:29of our 250th anniversary for our Declaration of Independence.
1:32So it has been quite a busy time.
1:35And next week, we will be in Lansing, Michigan
1:41at the inch homeschool conference.
1:44a broadcast live from Michigan during that conference.
1:48So it is a busy, busy, busy time.
1:52A lot is going on, and I'm grateful that you've tuned into today's program.
1:57There's a lot happening in the country, a lot happening in the world.
2:01We have not surprisingly states running with to borrow Dave Ramsey's expression, Gazelle
2:09like intensity.
2:10to say, oh, what'd you say?
2:13No more having skin shades dictate how congressional maps look, okay?
2:20So Tennessee is already made a move to change their maps and it's been very, very quickly.
2:29Today all over our country, the National Day of Prayer is occurring, which is exceedingly
2:37appropriate right here. We had a National Day of Prayer event, right in town and right
2:42in front of City Hall and it was just sobering to reflect on our nation's history and this
2:49is something I've been doing quite for quite some time and just being able to be in a nation
2:54to where we can pause and have city officials, business leaders, community leaders come together
3:01and to cry out to our Lord for our nation, it's just a powerful time.
3:06I know in DC, our Speaker of House, Mike Johnson led a time of prayer there and indicates that
3:13our rights as human beings do not come from government, that it come from God.
3:17And that's just foundational true and it's foundational to our nation.
3:21And unsurprisingly, there are some who seek to reverse that.
3:27You have those who are working to reverse the understanding
3:29and our fellow countrymen's understanding
3:32and their insights and their others
3:34who are trying to implement policies that reflect that.
3:38But by God's grace, he is the one who erects the standard.
3:43And I pray that he mobilizes his body
3:45to be his hands and feet in this day and age.
3:48It's this very moment many of you, if not most of you,
3:50are making your transition from your part-time jobs
3:52where you generate an income to your full-time jobs
3:55where you cultivate an outcome.
3:56And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
4:01primacy that God places on family and the necessity of us being Jesus's hands and feet.
4:09Proclaiming his gospel, what we want and what we need is for people who know the King of
4:16glory to share the love of Christ and proclaiming his word, proclaiming his gospel and making
4:23disciples.
4:24That is, in my view, the missing ingredient in our body politic.
4:31I've been reflecting quite a bit on what I've said before.
4:35At Osgenden shared in Florida, there are lots of people talking about making America great.
4:40A lot of people want to talk about them.
4:41So quote unquote, my God coalition, that's my words.
4:45Osgenden didn't say that, but then he said, this is what Osgenden said, there's not enough
4:49conversations about what it is and what it has been that has made America great in the
4:54first place. And I agree with that wholeheartedly. I understand the propensity to
5:02respond to things with kind of a knee jerk and emotional response but I just
5:07want to urge caution against that. But that we, be a people, were not led by our
5:13emotions but we are led by the Spirit of God. So as you're making your transition
5:18to your full-time jobs, man, give yourself to your full-time jobs. Some of
5:23you're listening to me, you would say if you would query you'd honestly say, you know,
5:26I've never really shared the gospel with anybody. I've never done that before. Or some
5:31others might say, I've never really been in a discipleship relationship where I've been
5:35discipling somebody. Some of you might say, I've never been discipled. That is the great
5:41chasm that has transpired in our nation. And that is something that I pray that we reverse.
5:47To the word of God we go, I want to go back to Psalm 20. Because I think this is worth
5:52consideration in discussing what made America great and I want to be clear what I'm saying,
5:59what I mean when I say that, what made America great in the first place. There's never been
6:03a time in our nation's history where our nation has been perfect, has been a utopian ideal of
6:11any since by any stretch of the imagination. Our founders even understood that they were
6:16building something and task, subsequent generations of Americans were tasked to be a part of the
6:23formation of a more perfect union. When those words were included in our Constitution's preamble,
6:29the prevailing understanding is that each generation of Americans would work
6:33to strive toward our nation becoming better and better and better and better.
6:39I have referred to repeatedly, Ben Franklin's contemporaneous speech at the Constitutional Convention,
6:49in which he said that when we were engaged in a contest with Great Britain and we were
6:54sensible of danger, that daily in this very same room prayers were offered.
7:02But now that we have the privilege of deliberating our nation's future in peace, have we forgotten
7:06our divine friend.
7:07And in those words, he really needles one of the features of humanity is that we have the
7:17tendency to get big for our britches in thinking that, hey, I mean, we got it.
7:23We got it going on.
7:26But Psalm 20, David is writing here, verses 5 through 7, which I've referred to before.
7:38Now, I'm going to go all the way to verse 8.
7:40I don't think I've shared verse 8 before.
7:43Just by way of reminder, Psalm 20 is written chronologically following the events that are
7:48listed and recorded for our benefit in 2 Samuel 10 in 1 Chronicles 19.
7:53And in 2 Samuel 10 in 1 Chronicles 19, what you will find there is that two nations came
7:59to war against Israel during David's time as King of Israel.
8:04Those nations were Syria and Ammon.
8:06The Syrians and Ammonites both came to make war upon Israel.
8:13The Syrians boasted that they had 40,000 horsemen and 700 chariots.
8:24And that is the backdrop for this Psalm.
8:29Psalm 20 verse 5, may we shout for joy over your salvation.
8:33And in the name of our God, set up our banners.
8:36May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.
8:39Now I know that the Lord saves his anointing.
8:43He will answer him from his holy heaven,
8:49with the saving might of his right hand.
8:53Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
8:58but we trust in the name of the Lord our God,
9:03or some translations will say some,
9:05boast in chariots and some boast in horses,
9:09but we will boast in the name of our Lord our God.
9:14They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright,
9:21or they bow down and have fallen,
9:23but we have risen and stood upright.
9:27When you see that phrase, that expression in verses,
9:31in verse seven, some boast or some trust in chariots
9:34and some in horses, when you take that into consideration
9:37and pit it against the backdrop of the Syrians
9:41boasting of their horsemen and their chariots,
9:44and that Bose was a Bose based in a factual, natural assessment of a perceived military superiority
9:53based upon weaponry, innovation. They had more advanced weapons than the Israelites had.
10:04Because of their more advanced weapons, they anticipated that they would be able to wheylay
10:09the Israelites. David contrasted their perception of military superiority with the anchor of his trust.
10:18while they boast in their military might.
10:21The only, the only boast we have is in the name of our Lord, God.
10:27And I said before, our nation's origin story,
10:30the United States of America's origin story,
10:32it's just like that.
10:33It is a David and Goliath story.
10:36To have you would have surveyed the nations of the world
10:41in the late 18th century and asked,
10:43do you think the American colonists have a chance against,
10:48Great Britain, what do you think their answers would have been?
10:55Most of them, what does it say?
10:57It ain't no way.
10:59There's no way.
11:03I am gravely concerned.
11:06I've talked about the cycle of nations and how what the 250th year can indicate.
11:14I'm gravely concerned that in the highways and byways of our nation, talking about talking
11:22to regular people on the street.
11:25On one end, we have a hyper focus on politics, a hyper focus.
11:37And I agree that we must be engaged civically.
11:41We must be informed.
11:44I agree for people that say, oh, yeah, right when the left wing two wings and the same
11:49bird.
11:50Nah, I play a one group of people want to sterilize and castrate children.
11:57children in the name of progress.
12:04That's nowhere near the same platform.
12:08But make no mistake about it, the swamp is a bipartisan institution.
12:16And I don't have any hesitation in saying that.
12:18But I think the greatest neglect and chasm, when you hear me say darkness is not an affirmative
12:27force, but it reoccupies the space that is evacated by the light.
12:30the biggest places where the light has been vacated in our nation is that I feel I am concerned
12:37that much of the professing body of Christ in our nation have been eroded, been grinded
12:42down to such a degree to where our lives don't indicate that we have hope in the gospel.
12:48What I mean by that is we should never allow the culture to cause us to have a lack of
12:55neighborliness. We should never allow the things that are percolating in the blogosphere and in the
13:02Instagram Facebook twist and shout that it causes us that we don't engage with people on an interpersonal
13:13and a regular basis. God has hardwired us for interpersonal, real, social, kinetic interaction,
13:19flesh and blood, shaking hands, looking people in the eye, having conversations.
13:23A lot of people are warning about AI will do this.
13:30AI will do that.
13:31Guys, AI will never replace interpersonal interaction.
13:36This is why while we are the most connected we've been in human history, while simultaneously,
13:41we have the highest indications and reports of loneliness thing we've ever had in the
13:46world.
13:47There's a reason for that.
13:48There's a reason for that.
13:50It's not normal for a person to be in the same house, to be sitting across the table from another
13:55person and you send a text message. That ain't normal. That's not normal. And if we have concern
14:05for our country, that concern should be reflected and concern for our country, men, and the concern
14:14by God's grace for those of us who've surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ,
14:18should burden toward loving our neighbors as ourselves. To what we love one another enough
14:25to talk to one another and to develop the maturity to where our words and speech is
14:33seasoned with salt and the love of Christ and compassion guides our communication.
14:39I noticed I said the love of Christ not some romantic, comedy, cultural notion
14:44of love is because that ain't love passive than agreeing with people but we
14:48have to get back to the foundational basics of engaging people on an
14:54interpersonal one-on-one basis.
14:56A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:03It is in fact relatively easy to bless others
15:06and encourage people with our words
15:08if we wisely and very deliberately seek to do so.
15:13Well, what are some words that we can speak
15:15as a lifestyle that can bless others?
15:18What are some words that can promote healing,
15:20grace and encouragement in the lives of others?
15:24Well, here are a few.
15:26Thank you.
15:27I appreciate you.
15:29Please, how can I help you?
15:33I'm sorry.
15:34I apologize.
15:36Please forgive me.
15:38How can I pray for you?
15:40What can I do to bless you today?
15:43You are awesome.
15:45You are a blessing.
15:47I believe in you.
15:48I believe you can do it.
15:50You will do great.
15:52And obviously these are just a few words,
15:54but words that can bless and encourage others
15:56in their daily lives.
16:04Shiting light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the third here. I want to make sure everybody understands what I'm saying clearly
16:17When I'm talking about our speech being seasoned with salt and love and compassion
16:23Driving our encounters. I'm not talking about being some, you know
16:29Mambi Pambi, you know, weak need we're stick communicator, but I'm saying
16:34I mean, there are several cliches that come to mind, not only let them even know what you're
16:42getting through what you're for, but I'm saying that our speech being seasoned with salt,
16:47a word properly communicated, aptly communicated.
16:51There are sometimes where the most important thing for us to do is simply to listen.
16:56There are other times when the most important thing to do is to engage.
17:02My wife and I have been talking lately about cults and false teaching and lamenting how
17:10sad it is that you have people who are deceived like Jehovah's Witnesses, for example.
17:19And some of them are sincere in their efforts, but many of them have been indoctrinated from
17:26a young age and some of the, well, not some of the reason why it's a cult is because they
17:32discourage research and study outside of the approved outlets.
17:40But if a hoe was witnessed knocks on my door, it's important that I don't let them steer the
17:46conversation.
17:47I want to steer the conversation.
17:49I want to be gentle and I want to be patient and I want to be loving, but I'm not going to
17:55let them tap dance on me for the duration of the conversation.
18:01I want to drill down on what I want to drill down on
18:04and the opportunity though.
18:06And here's the thing, not to view them as my enemy
18:11or to limit or to view them as an enemy of the gospel,
18:14but view them as a target of the gospel.
18:17You see what I'm saying?
18:18And when you have people who are indoctrinated
18:20into cultish beliefs.
18:25Sometimes it can be laborious to penetrate
18:29that calcified surface, because it's
18:33one of the features of Jehovah's Witnesses,
18:35they've been taught to distrust any source that's not
18:38been approved by the Wasp Tower Group in Brooklyn.
18:40You know what I mean?
18:41So if it's not even on com for JW.org,
18:43they ain't trying to hear it, generally speaking.
18:47But when they come to my home, I'm
18:49I'm not gonna let them control the conversation,
18:54but I'm also going to recognize that this is a gospel opportunity
19:01and engage in such a way.
19:03Now that's an example that's a little bit different
19:06from the more routine normative experiences in life
19:12in terms of them knocking on your door
19:14and wanting to have a conversation.
19:16And this is something I've done several times.
19:19You knock on my door, are you knocked on my door?
19:22So I'm not going to let you dictate the conversation as my own, you know?
19:30But often think, man, how would I want, if I were in that position of being deceived, how
19:35would I want to be?
19:37How would I, how would I, what I want somebody to present the truth to me?
19:40You dog going, right, because eternity hangs in the balance.
19:45And man, I'm telling you, I'm greatly concerned that there's been this, this, you know, fundamental
19:53transformation of the United States of America, guys, news flash, it's happened. It's happened.
19:59It's happened. I mean, modesty, chastity, you know, speech. I think I was on air when I
20:11was talking about it. I came across a book not too long ago, George Washington wrote a
20:15book about manners, being mannerly, you know, and it is like, oh, nobody's really on that
20:23anymore, not many people.
20:26I'm not, I know they're some, but not, not many people.
20:29And when I'm talking about it's happening, it's the heart and the,
20:31and the mind of our fellow countrymen have been turned to such a way to where we
20:37have been moved into being a largely secular nation.
20:48Mm hmm.
20:50And much of that has transpired with our consent.
20:56I know that's hard to hear.
20:57I know it's hard to hear, but it's true.
21:00And it didn't happen all at once.
21:01And when I say consent, I harken back to a conversation I had.
21:10I shared this story before with a leader of a very large national Christian ministry.
21:18And this man was lamenting the successful advance of the homosexual agenda in our country.
21:27I paused and I said, you do realize that that is the latest iteration at that time of the agenda
21:37to move America into being a humanistic atheist ignition. I said, godless. I said, it's part of
21:45the larger agenda to move America to a godless agenda. He was like, kind of surprised. And I said,
21:52And that gets our attention.
21:55But we're not really moved by having a fully, a full-fledged system of instruction, a discipleship
22:05system that assumes or articulates that God does not exist.
22:13He's like, what?
22:15I say, yeah, the most popular notions that's taught to our children in these instruction
22:22systems that we call them schools is that God does not exist.
22:28The macro-evolutionary theory is the dominant dogma and the dominant practical dogma in
22:34that combined with kind of a paganistic syncretism.
22:37I mean, how often in your everyday lives do you hear people, including young people talk
22:44about the universe?
22:45The universe?
22:47The universe?
22:48Where did that come from?
22:50That sure didn't come from Genesis to Revelation.
22:53You got kind of a hodgepodge of pagan spiritism, a little side note of Hinduism, a little
23:01Buddhism plopped on top and you have a functional self-appeasement of spirituality.
23:09That's the dominant ethos in our country.
23:13How often do you hear people talking about karma?
23:16Again, Genesis revelation.
23:18You can go find it about karma and from Genesis revelation.
23:25You'll find sewing and reaping.
23:29Oh, you know, you just hand it out.
23:30You're quippling over semantics.
23:31Oh, it's a big deal.
23:32It's a huge difference.
23:34People use words that don't even know the significance.
23:37You can't de-spiritualize a word that's spiritual at its genesis and at its core and at its root.
23:44And so all of these other ideologies have floated into the hearts and the minds of our
23:57fellow countrymen.
23:58I mean, how often do you hear fellow countrymen talking about consciousness?
24:01You know, I'm at this stage of consciousness.
24:05What?
24:06Like, stop the madness.
24:07If you alive, everybody's conscious.
24:11No, you use the term consciousness
24:12to convey a spiritual phenomenon.
24:19You see what I'm saying?
24:23Even or an avatar, do you realize the term avatar?
24:26Has a Hindu Genesis?
24:30But how much are these ideas and these notions
24:33in our world and like our children watching shows,
24:36you know, the avatar, you know, the last airbender,
24:39all of these things.
24:44And it's a comfortable deception.
24:50And we don't really realize it.
24:53And the reason the way we've gotten here
24:54is because darkness is an affirmative force.
24:57I mean, our darkness is not an affirmative force,
24:59but it does reoccupy the space that is vacated by the light.
25:03So you strip away the corpus of what the Bible requires
25:10of parents for fathers to lead their families
25:15with their wives and the mother of their children
25:17working with them to rear children
25:20in the Pidea and the Nuthasia of the Lord,
25:23the discipline and the instruction of the Lord,
25:25and that becoming a generational phenomenon.
25:32We've talked before that we have such low expectations
25:35for younger people today that we're surprised
25:37if children are in public with their parents
25:39and the children are obedient.
25:44But the Bible says he who does not discipline his son
25:50hates his son, but we're gonna have these
25:55oh, with gentle parenting, gentle parenting.
26:01And again, I'm not trying to intrude
26:02on anybody's homes or jurisdictions,
26:05but I'm saying how much have we, we've allowed everything,
26:10but God's word to dictate how we engage and what we do
26:14and what we think and what we really believe.
26:17How often has it become a habit for us?
26:21Whenever there's a notion that comes to us,
26:23a new station of life that our first and our default posture,
26:26let's sink the Lord and see what his word has to say on this.
26:33Parenting decisions.
26:34Now, I'm not gonna run to a podcast first.
26:37I'm not gonna run to a self-help book first.
26:38I want to run to the word of God first.
26:44Young man growing towards manhood.
26:46What should I consider from evaluating a potential wife?
26:49I don't want to go to a podcast first.
26:51I don't want to go to a self-help book first.
26:53Let's go to God's word first,
26:57which hopefully those conversations
26:59are happening long before the time to pursue
27:03has come upon us.
27:06I just want to, I guess maybe because I'm doing this myself
27:09to step back a little bit and to take stock of where we are
27:13and evaluate what's going on.
27:15And I think when you do, you'll begin to realize,
27:18man, we've seated so much ground societally.
27:27So when you get right down to it, it's the Father of Lies.
27:31It's the Father of Lies.
27:36Guys, these things have meaning.
27:38My children will get mad at me,
27:40because even when I send text messages,
27:42I text full of words, I don't use abbreviations.
27:47And I say, because you're practicing communication.
27:51And mad is a little too strong,
27:52I didn't get mad at me, and it's like, that's daddy.
27:55You know?
28:01I don't believe we recognize just how much ground we've seeded.
28:08And I'm saying that intentionally
28:10because yes, they're nefarious forces,
28:11they're evil people, concocting schemes
28:14and doing all kinds of things.
28:18But the Lord tells us that the believer's portion
28:21is to cast down vain imaginations
28:25in every high thing that would erect itself
28:28against the knowledge of God, destroying logismos,
28:31destroying the speculation is destroying these ideologies.
28:38Because weapons of our warfare have divine power,
28:41they're mighty to the destruction of strongholds.
28:43That's what the Bible tells us.
28:47I'm thinking about living in this time
28:48where technology is advancing as it is,
28:50but man, we shouldn't be afraid of that.
28:51We don't have to be afraid of it.
28:53God has ordained us for this time.
28:55And he's ordained his body, his remnant
28:57in each generation where he's planted us
29:01to be sold and like, to carry his cause.
29:05in our generations.
29:12So yeah, we may not know how, you know,
29:14all of the clawed AI and all of the inner workings
29:18of the algorithmic learning,
29:20but we don't have to be afraid of it.
29:24Lord, how will you glorify yourself in me first
29:27and through me secondarily in this time
29:28will you plan in me?
29:31And I think a large component of it, man,
29:33is like I've been saying for the longest time
29:34is living locally, engaging our neighbors,
29:38engaging with our community.
29:45And then planning to go on this long with this.
29:54But right now you have, predictably, we talked about it here as soon as the Supreme Court made
30:00this decision in the Louisiana versus Calais case, which is where the court ruled in 663
30:08that you cannot create congressional districts with skin color being the dominant consideration.
30:16And I keep pointing out one of the major factors that led to this case, get into the Supreme
30:19Court, is when Louisiana changed its maps from 2022 to 2024.
30:24there had mapped in 2020 already.
30:262022, they tried to change it,
30:28and then there was a lawsuit filed
30:29in validate to 2022 maps.
30:31The 2024 maps were filed,
30:32and one of the things that was discussed was
30:34whether or not a district can be considered
30:38a true voting district because partisan affiliation
30:43wasn't sufficient to protect voting interests.
30:45You had to create districts where skin color
30:47was taken into consideration,
30:48and I've said that we got the people,
30:50what are we gonna be?
30:51Are we going to be a people to wear superficial
30:53topical assessments is going to be the governing evaluation or not.
30:57We got to pick we can't, we can't say we want to move beyond that and then say,
31:01but we don't, you know, we hokey poking all along, putting our left foot in and
31:05taking it out. So the Supreme Court made his decision. And unsurprisingly,
31:10he has states running, running to put new maps together.
31:18One of them, I think I have time for this is the state of Tennessee.
31:22Listen to in Watch Clip Number 5, Clip 5.
31:25Go.
31:25Tennessee Republicans are moving quickly
31:28to redraw the state's congressional map
31:30after last week's US Supreme Court ruling on voting rights.
31:34And the proposal is already triggering protests
31:37and accusations of voter suppression.
31:39New map would carve up Shelby County,
31:41including Memphis, into three separate districts,
31:44likely giving Republicans a clean sweep
31:47of all nine congressional seats,
31:49eliminating one held by Democrats.
31:52State House Speaker Cameron Sexton defended the move on X, writing,
31:55the Supreme Court has opined that redistricting, like the judicial system,
32:00should be colorblind. He added,
32:02Tennessee is joining other states in redrawing maps based on partisan politics.
32:07Democrats and voting rights groups are blasting the effort
32:10as a political power grab, targeting black voters.
32:13Protesters flooded the state Capitol this week.
32:16Police removed several demonstrators from hearings on Wednesday.
32:19Mmmmmm. Prior to this move, Tennessee has not, well, Tennessee has nine congressional districts.
32:30Eight of the congressional representatives are Republicans. One is a Democrat. Steve
32:35Cohen from the Memphis area. This proposed map with Tennessee's Republican governor. And
32:44if Republican majorities in the state legislature could result in there being nine Republican
32:51members of Congress from Tennessee and zero Democrats more to get back.
32:56Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute common
33:07Terrence are available at aFR.net back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
33:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the third here. You know it's it's
33:23pretty exhausting to see all of these people who were celebrating what Virginia is Governor
33:33and the Abram Crombie and Fitch was doing leading there.
33:38Why do you laugh about that?
33:41It's always fair.
33:42And they go, oh, you lecture them consequences.
33:45And all of these things.
33:47And they're efforts to redistrict, you know,
33:50to make basically a unanimous Democrat congressional delegation
33:55in the state of Virginia.
33:58And hearing lots of Republicans say, that's not representative.
34:02That's not representative of the national population.
34:04population, then you have the exact same thing being proposed in Tennessee.
34:07And you just see the predictable switch.
34:13And the thing that's, I don't blame the politicals.
34:19Yeah.
34:20Yeah.
34:21You know, these people, they eat, sleep and breathe this stuff.
34:25And you have people who believe, you know, politics is the end of everything.
34:35So when I'm telling you the people in Tennessee are going berserk, oh my goodness, protest.
34:42And I'm sure it's all organic though, Bobby.
34:44I'm sure about that.
34:45I'm sure these are people who just, you know, and even that becomes tiresome because before
34:54you can even assess what's happening, you have to stop and say, wait, wait, wait, wait,
34:59a minute.
35:00Are these organic protests?
35:01Like, do these people really understand what's going on?
35:03Like, like the no Kings rallies, right?
35:05I saw the different man in the street interviews to where people say, yeah, we're here to protest.
35:11We're no kings.
35:12And it was like, so we have a king.
35:18And then the lack of irony, right?
35:19So you have no kings protest in England where they literally have a king, but they're not
35:26protesting their king.
35:27They're in England protesting in the United States of America.
35:31It just, it nullifies the significance of the protest.
35:36it's a constitutional right that should be protected.
35:38And I would never advocate for curtailing that in any fashion.
35:42Obviously, you have to protest in illegal fashion in an illegal manner.
35:46But if every time you have any type of issue and you have a paid protester class, I guess
35:54you want to call it, like their jobs are to go from full test to full test to full test
36:00because it's fake.
36:03It's fake.
36:07And it's just so wild, even like, you know, I played the audio from Trump James, James
36:16Carvel, who was saying that what Democrats need to do is win the presidency back and immediately
36:23packed the Supreme Court.
36:25Like these same people had nothing to say about the Supreme Court manufacturing rights.
36:31Like I've talked about in this program before you go and read the Roe vs. Wade opinion, it's
36:38one of the worst legal opinions in the history of our country.
36:42You literally have the majority opinion saying that there is a quote unquote right to privacy
36:47and it exists in our Constitution to which the obvious question is, well, where can you
36:50show me which article?
36:51Oh, no, no.
36:53It's in the emanations and panumbros of our Constitution.
36:56So, yeah, lots of people in the American populace who didn't know what an emanation
36:59in a panumbros was.
37:00And so, they're literally running around saying that it's a constitutional right to which every
37:07Americans are saying, okay, show me where it is in the Constitution.
37:12But we've been so degraded to this political gang banging and our capacities to reason have
37:18been so dumbed down to where we don't really have much effort to persuade and social media
37:30has aided in the bulk and the bulk of our population of our populace because the algorithms
37:35social media exists to do one thing and one thing only, to keep eyeballs on the screen using their apps.
37:42That's what it exists for. And they've learned if they can keep you on the dopamine hits of having
37:49what you already think confirmed to you in 757 ways, they can keep people on their apps longer.
37:58And so what's happened as a result of that, what's happened as a result of that, is that we've kind
38:04of established a phenomenon to where the whole idea of reasoning with someone who thinks differently
38:11than you, that don't happen anymore because right now you just unfriend. Oh no, I don't want to hear
38:17what you have to say. Give me more people to tell me what I want to hear. Give me more people who
38:26tell me what I want to hear. And so we've lost in many, to a large degree, the willingness first
38:33and then the ability, secondarily, to reason with one another. And that, when carried out to
38:40its most extreme iteration, is where you end up witnessing what happened to Charlie Kirk. Guys,
38:47it's no different. Read Acts 8. Read Acts after 6. Read Acts after 7. Read Acts after 7. When
38:55Stephen was stoned, do you remember what was happening there? Stephen was proclaiming the truth,
39:01using history that is affirmed in scripture to tell the truth about the gospel and the truth
39:08about Jesus Christ and the Bible notes this because Stephen was a man full of the Spirit
39:14of God and of wisdom that the mob was unable to contest what Stephen was saying but they still
39:22didn't like it.
39:24So now they're in a position, they can't contest what he's saying but they still don't like
39:28it so they start tossing rocks.
39:32They rushed to Stone Stephen.
39:34Stephen.
39:35He had the same thing.
39:37Many people resented the effect of this Charlie Kirk was having with his influence in our
39:43country.
39:46There were many people showed up at Charlie Kirk's events for the express purposes of
39:52suning Charlie.
39:53I'm going to get him.
39:55I got what's going to happen.
40:02And the conclusion, so the thing that one of the things that really agrees with me with
40:13this and with all of the political rankering and all of the emotional upheaval surrounding
40:19it.
40:20And you know, you know when there's an effort of foot to try to keep people from thinking
40:24through anything is that they try to use loaded and provocative terms.
40:27Oh, this is, this is just Jim Crow.
40:30This is just, this is just, oh, we going back again, you know, Mr. Ice Cream Man, this
40:35is Jim Eagle.
40:36This is, oh, Jim Crow 2.0.
40:38Remember Chuck Schumer tried to say literally the Save America Act where you know it had
40:42to do a voter ID, oh, it's Jim Crow 2.0, because you don't want people to think through it.
40:47You just want people to be emotionally provoked, emotionally provoked, and to be emotionally
41:04stirred up and not think about anything, anything.
41:10That's what you want.
41:12And so with the assumptions, like with all of the congressional delegation realignments and
41:20all of the emotional fervor surrounding it, you know what?
41:26assume by the people that are hot like then in Tennessee.
41:29Oh, this is this.
41:30You assume that people can't reason for one another.
41:34That's just a soup.
41:35You assume that there is no amount of communication, and many of them don't want communication.
41:43That's why I share with you the words of people like Woodrow Wilson.
41:50This dude literally who became our president, he limited his eye.
41:53We get to vote on too much.
41:55We get to vote on too much.
41:57We don't need people participating.
41:59No, we just need them obeying.
42:02We need to have a populace that's more like Germany.
42:04They're more docile and compliant.
42:07More docile and compliant.
42:13Guys, there are things that are happening
42:15and I'm concerned that we're looking at the fruit,
42:18but we are completely ignorant
42:20as to what could be at the root,
42:22as to what is causing it.
42:24One of the chief things, and I know this is hard
42:27for people to hear, but I've got to say it anyway,
42:29is that we cannot allow ourselves to just parent
42:32on neutral with parenting on cruise control.
42:36We don't know what our children are being taught.
42:39We don't know what our children are being taught.
42:40I've said before, we make decisions
42:43that we will never do in terms of babysitters.
42:46Would you ever allow someone to babysit your child
42:48who you don't know their background,
42:51you know their history, you don't know their theology,
42:54you don't know what they believe,
42:55you don't know their worldview,
42:58you know anything about you,
42:59would never allow those people to babysit your child.
43:01Unless, unless you're giving them access
43:07to your child through an intermediary called a school.
43:15And then, I could do the same thing in terms of peer learning.
43:22You put your child to be a captive audience,
43:26to the types of people who will introduce them,
43:29to pornographic material, the types of people
43:33who will encourage them to live a sin-laden,
43:38sin-filled lifestyle will accumulate peer pressure
43:40surrounding their willingness and eagerness to zealously run head long towards sin and
43:45I mean mocked if they audacity to to stand in the God honoring manner.
43:55We never do that.
43:57Usually I've shared how Justice Stephen Breyer and his descent in the Carson versus making
44:10case when he said the reason why we fund the school system with taxpayer dollars because
44:16it is the primary system that we entrust to create the values upon which our society rests.
44:23It's like, what? This is why it's helping people say, well, Abraham, the school system has failed,
44:30and I say, well, has it? Has it failed? Because in order to assess whether something has been successful
44:37or whether it has been a failure, we would have to know what was the purpose from the beginning.
44:42You know, my purpose is to run a marathon, 26 miles, but I only run five miles.
44:51That could say, yeah, you missed a mark on that one.
44:54But if my goal was one run five miles from the beginning, you can't say running five miles
44:59was a failure.
45:00And I've said that the government school system hasn't failed.
45:04It's operating as it's been designed.
45:10It's operating as it has been designed to operate.
45:16I know there was selling Jesse Jackson's three R's, the late Jesse Jackson's three R's, reading,
45:24writing, arithmetic, but there's been, it's been, it's a values transmission system.
45:36So then you have to zoom out, step back for a second and think, hmm, it's the primary values
45:43transmission system upon which our society rests.
45:47It kind of values would be transmitted via a system to where God and the knowledge of
45:54God are intentionally and systematically excluded.
45:59What kind of values do you think would be transmitted?
46:12What kind of values would be transmitted?
46:15The kind of values that we see evident happening all around us, guys.
46:18That's what we're living in.
46:21There were concerted efforts to turn our nation in a particular direction and a particularly
46:28Godless direction. And it's largely happened, but it doesn't have to continue.
46:35We can adjust course now. We can make adjustments now. And one of the things that the enemy tends to do
46:43consistently is overplay his hand. And only so long you can continue to press people into a nihilistic
47:00disposition that there's nothing sacred about life. There's no purpose to life. There's something inside
47:05of us that rejects that notion because the Scripture tells us God has a hardwired eternity into us,
47:11that He has set eternity in the hearts of mankind, which is why we're beginning to see
47:22younger generations beginning to consider existential questions, questions of purpose and
47:30foundational worldview considerations. That's why you're seeing that happen.
47:34and I don't want us to miss what's truly before us,
47:44and we get so caught up in a lot of the fruit issues,
47:47but we don't get to the root issues,
47:52which is why it's vitally important, vitally important.
47:56For those of us who are members of God's eternal family,
47:59man, that we love the Lord,
48:02and we love our neighbor as ourselves so much so,
48:06while we're willing to get out of our comfort zones,
48:09necessary and to be, salt, and light.
48:16Make it your business to share the love of God with some body today.
48:20Find one person to share the love of God with, with ultimately culminating prayerfully
48:27with gospel engagement.
48:31In addition to that, the cultivation of a discipleship relationship.
48:39The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
48:44Family Association or American Family Radio.

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