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("Best-of" Edition from 8/7/25) Reactionary dispositions are never visionary.

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0:00 - 15:00. 2 Kings 23:4-7. Judgment must begin at the House of God. 15:00 - 31:00. Reactionary dispositions are never visionary. 31:00 - 48:00. Without vision, political gang-banging will persist. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call : 877-616-2396

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
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0:18And the philosophies of this world.
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0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now the Hamilton Corner.
0:33Good evening, everybody.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:36I'm your lovable, huggable host, Abraham Hamilton III,
0:40joined by the corner contingent right across from me,
0:42my man, 100 grand.
0:44Mr. Bobby,
0:45We are ready to rock n roll with today's edition of the program.
0:56At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your
1:00part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate
1:05an outcome.
1:06And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
1:12the primacy that God places on family,
1:14recognizing the privilege that you get to enjoy
1:18and being his hands and feet,
1:20starting first in your home.
1:22Because what goes on in your house
1:25is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
1:27I know there's conversations right now
1:29about Trump meeting Putin to address
1:33the Ukrainian war situation.
1:36That is certainly an important matter,
1:38but it's not more important what's going on in your home
1:40for you. It's not more important than what's going on in my home for me because I'm directly
1:45responsible what happens in my house. You are directly responsible for what happens in your
1:50home. We are not directly responsible for what happens in Ukraine, but all too often we
1:58have succumbed to the siren song of the society to play significance and importance everywhere
2:05else. I was out yesterday attending in some legal matters on behalf of the ministry,
2:14but I've been just praying and pondering the status of affairs, the stage of affairs in our
2:23nation and the state of the church in our nation because simply put, this is not my opinion.
2:32The Lord told us in His word that He ordained His church to be the pillar and ground of
2:37truth. The Lord has told us in his word that the manifold wisdom of God would be
2:42put on display by his church. Like it or not, Jesus has ordained his church to be
2:50the vehicle through which he asserts himself and establishes his kingdom. And
3:01I've been honestly lamenting a degree to which lamenting to a degree about the
3:10reality that I think in many instances the church doesn't understand just how potent God
3:15has ordained the body to be.
3:19Secondarily, I don't think many understand the role that God has ordained the body to play
3:24in the world but in particular in our nation.
3:27Acts 17 says he determines the boundaries of our habitation and the times in which we
3:32would live.
3:33I think this kind of, um, escape this orientation combined by this effort to, we're above the
3:43fray, you know, it's like, how are you above the fray when you're called to make disciples
3:48in the culture where God has placed you?
3:52This, this notion we're above the fray, but at the same time, you have people saying, but
3:55the church should be a hospital, which is not to be a hospital.
3:58But we certainly deal with broken people, but not for the purposes of perpetuating the brokenness.
4:07And so I'm gravely concerned because the whole notion Satan knows is in.
4:17I've explained before when Jesus enters the Gatorian region in the Demaniac in Gdara before
4:24Jesus even comes to him, he begins to quake and says, son of man, son of God, have you
4:31come to torment us before our time, which reveals that the demons know that their end
4:37is torment. But the devilish scheme is to try to deceive as many as possible so that they would join
4:46them in eternal damnation. And so Jesus said that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church
4:55straight up full stop. So the demonic scheme then is to attempt to nullify and to
5:07The winner of the church's potency by infiltration.
5:10And this dates all the way back to the first century.
5:14The apostle Jude talked about false brethren having crept in unawares in the first century,
5:19perverted in the grace of God.
5:22And I'm greatly concerned because the same thing is happening now and not many of us even recognize
5:27it.
5:29Not enough I should say of us recognize it.
5:32Let's go to the word of God, the second king, chapter 23.
5:35I'll tell you plainly why I'm going there and in the context here.
5:40This is the portion of scripture that's recorded after King Josiah through Hylkiah's efforts,
5:48rediscovers the book of the law in the temple.
5:51The temple had been shut down.
5:53You've had that there were consistently wicked kings prior to Josiah.
6:00You had the wicked king, Manasseh, who was exceedingly wicked.
6:04And he followed, I would call the abandoned man, Cesar Caiya, who when he learned through
6:14prophecy that judgment was coming because he had opened the war machine and the treasury
6:23to the Babylonians.
6:24And the prophet Isaiah said, the same people who you just let roll up in here, they're going
6:28to come back and they're going to knock down and conquer everything.
6:31And they're going to carry off your own children.
6:33And Cesar goes, oh, that's a good word.
6:35He's not going to happen to me.
6:37What kind of man would be able to celebrate that his children and his grandchildren and
6:42his great-grandchildren will be made slaves and eunuchs in a pagan empire?
6:51Unsurprisingly, his son was exceedingly wicked.
6:56And so in 2 Kings 23, the Lord records for our benefits some of the reforms that Josiah
7:03implements after he discovers the book of the law, re-enters covenant with Yahweh, but
7:08shows you just how bad things have become in Judah in general, but their specific observations
7:15made about the temple.
7:17And this is what the word of God says.
7:19Second Kings 23 verse 4, then the king that is Josiah, commanded He'll Kiah the priest,
7:25the hide priest and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers to bring out of the
7:34Temple of the Lord out of the temple of the Lord
7:39All the vessels that were made for by all
7:44for ashara
7:46And for all the host of heaven
7:49And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the kiddran and carried their ashes to bethel
7:56He did away with the idolatrous
7:59priests
8:00Let's say that again. He did away with the idolatrous priests
8:04whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places, in the cities
8:12of Judah, and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem. Also those who burned incense to
8:19Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the hosts of
8:27heaven. He brought out the asherah from the house of the Lord, from the house of the
8:34the Lord. Outside the rules of them to the brookhedrin and burned it at the brookhedrin
8:41and ground it to dust and through its dust on the graves of the common people. He also
8:47brought down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the
8:56Lord where the women were weaving hangings for the ashara. Things in Judah, things in
9:12nation whose very name means praise things in the very nation whose forefather is the direct
9:25offspring of Israel, a descendant of Abraham whose name was changed to Abraham, things
9:36degenerated so fervently that upon Josiah's discovery, rediscovery of the book of the law,
9:50which the Lord had already said, every king of Israel is supposed to have his own copy,
9:55to make his own handmade copy, to keep this book of the law.
9:59Josiah was surprised to learn there was such thing.
10:03And then he had to command the High Priest to bring out of Yahweh's house, the same house
10:12that was dedicated under Solomon, that the glory of the Lord filled the temple so much
10:16so that the priests were unable to maneuver because the glory cloud was so thick, that
10:22same house. But at this stage, they had to remove the vessels that were used to worship
10:35by all from there. You had to remove idolatrous priests who regardless of what Yahweh ordained
10:46to be, the way priests are to be selected. Verse 5 shows that idolatrous priests were appointed
10:54by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places. They were ordained for idolatry
11:03ordained for idolatry burning incense to buy all in the Lord's temple, worshiping the sun in the Lord's temple, worshiping the moon in the Lord's temple.
11:16And if that's not enough, verse seven shows that there had to be a removal of cult prostitutes who were plying their trade in the Lord's temple,
11:28religiously legitimized prostitution in the house of God.
11:41No, of course, it's very easy to say,
11:42oh my gosh, what's happened there?
11:47Well, look at the visible church in our culture today.
11:49And I'm saying this with the backdrop,
11:51what did God O'Dane the church to be?
11:56The pillar and ground of truth.
12:00There's lots of conversations about,
12:01oh man, our political discourse has devolved
12:04to such a place, could it be?
12:08Because the bride that's O'Dane to be the pillar
12:11ground of truth has similarly rejected our first love.
12:20I mean, we just had the most recent phenomenon, unfortunately, with the United Methodist denomination,
12:28when they're straight up saying, we don't care what the Bible says.
12:31We not alone, not only are we going to sanction homosexuality.
12:35Now, I want to be clear, this is what the American United Methodist decided, the many others
12:40departed from there.
12:41You have the global Methodist movement that's departed from that, but you have this schism
12:46in a major American Christian denomination,
12:49because you have a significant contingent
12:51that happens to be a moneyed contingent that says,
12:54oh, we don't remember what the Bible says.
12:56We're gonna read the Bible the way we want it.
12:59We not only would accept homosexuality,
13:01we want to ordain homosexual clergy.
13:08Some of the same things I've said before,
13:10dating back to 1973, the Presbyterian denomination
13:12had a split over the same thing.
13:16You have rumblings, but those who are endeavoring
13:20to maintain the biblical inerity
13:22in the Southern Baptist nomination now, those who are wrestling in the other direction, this
13:26thing is happening with such consistency.
13:29We can see things got so bad in Israel's history, in Judah in particular, where you have
13:34male co-prostitutes in the Lord's house, in the Lord's house.
13:44And we have this diminishment of the witness and the clarity and the conviction, generally
13:50speaking, because I don't want anybody to misconstrue what I'm saying.
13:53I know for a fact that there's a remnant in America.
13:56But I'm talking about the broad representation, the most popular representations.
14:11And I'm saying our country and our society has suffered greatly because in many ways the
14:17church and our country has strayed, has strayed.
14:26And so we're left with the fallout from that is that we're left with political movements
14:32that by and large are often simply reactionary.
14:35Don't necessarily know what we should be pursuing.
14:37All I know is I don't like that.
14:39I don't like that.
14:40And let me just tell you, zealous reactionary dispositions
14:45are never visionary and are never sustainable.
14:49If we're gonna have a course correction in America,
14:53it has to come through the Lord's bride.
15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:04What should a pro-life church look like?
15:07It's a church that will prayerfully consider encouraging members to volunteer at local pregnancy centers
15:12and to volunteer for other pro-life ministries.
15:16It's a church that would prayerfully consider supporting a baby clothes closet with diapers, clothes, wipes, and other needed items.
15:25It's a church that will prayerfully consider becoming a sanctuary church.
15:29They will help moms who find themselves expecting a baby at a difficult time.
15:33They will come alongside a mother who feels all alone
15:36and walk with her through her term of pregnancy and beyond.
15:39It's a church that will learn about important pro-life,
15:42outreach ministers that are doing vital work
15:44to in legalized abortion in different ways.
15:48Am I really seeking to honor the Lord
15:49in doing what he would have me to do
15:52as an individual disciple of Christ
15:54to help stand for life?
16:04Shiting light into the darkness,
16:07this is the Hamilton Quarter, an American family radio.
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the third here.
16:17I want to explain why I was, I started in second Kings 23,
16:23because I'm, I'm greatly concerned that, that things are happening.
16:26And I know they're concerted efforts following, you know,
16:29American industrialization, which on the one hand, I led to amazing prosperity.
16:34But on the other hand, it had an impact on the family unit, you know,
16:38and our lives are so busy in many, in many ways,
16:43The kind of the perpetual busyness is in and of itself a scheme to keep us distracted to keep us divided to keep us
16:52stratified and unable to really
16:55Stop and breathe for a moment, you know
16:58But I've made this point before the very same people who want to convince us that our nation that the United States of America
17:05Is the worst place in the world?
17:07It's you know, it's overrun with you know, you know, racist and all of these things at the exact same time
17:14These are the exact same people who are saying no no we need to have an open border
17:18We need to have as many people from other countries to come here as possible
17:21And and just forget the political rhetoric rhetoric rhetoric for a moment if you just stop it
17:27I said wait a minute
17:28Both of these things can't be true at the same time
17:31because if you if you think that our nation is just
17:35utterly horrible, right and
17:37And you have this overwhelming compassion for the foreigner.
17:44Why would you want to bring the foreigner
17:46to this horrible place?
17:47Why would you want that?
17:50Why would you want that?
17:53Because they don't really believe that.
17:57For them, that is a rhetorical device.
18:00It is a political cudgel that they wield,
18:02but they're wielding it for a particular purpose.
18:09One of the things, if you study, you know,
18:11the cadre of Marxist philosophers and theorizers you'll find for them,
18:16simply put the issue that is being discussed popularly is never the issue.
18:21It's never the issue.
18:23The issue that is being discussed is only being discussed for its usefulness
18:29to accomplish their ultimate agenda.
18:32So what is that agenda?
18:36We're living in a time and I've explained on this show.
18:39It's amazing that we don't have more conversations about it.
18:46Like why don't children in American school study pole pop?
18:49You know, why are American children don't know more
18:51about Stalin?
18:52Why don't American children know about Miles State Tongue?
18:54Why don't they know these things?
18:55Because there were people who intentionally infiltrated
18:59our American system of instruction
19:01who wanted to put a glossy positive for near-arm Marxism.
19:05That's why, that's why.
19:09So that you can have a populist
19:10who when you hear Zora Mamdani declare himself to be a socialist that you don't have immediately
19:14recoiling and saying, are you, get out of here.
19:19That's why.
19:22But for people who are regressive, they tend to know what they're moving toward.
19:28What I was alluding to earlier, I've talked about on this program, the, the, the, the
19:32Hegelian dialectical process, George Wilhelm, Friedrich Hegel, who actually was a teacher
19:39of Marx.
19:40Marx was a Hegel disciple in the Hegelian dialectical process.
19:46What is that process?
19:47Well, first of all, you have to remember that Hegel sought to move in the direction that
19:53later developed as Marxism, as I told you, Marx was a disciple of Hegel.
19:58I've explained before that Marx is not the author of socialistic thought, communist thought.
20:03He advocated for the utilization of violence, the implementation of violence as a tool to
20:08accomplish his objectives.
20:09But there were others before him like Hegel, for example.
20:13And it is from Hegel that we get this idea that, you know, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and
20:18George W. Bush end up describing as a third way.
20:21Remember that the third way?
20:22What is the third way?
20:23The third way is the synthesis from the Gailion dialectical process.
20:27Those who remember our discussion of this, Hegel's assertion was that when you are a,
20:33I'll just say in my terms, a regressive, you introduce yourself, you introduce into the
20:38popular conversation into the body politic, the most extreme radical position that you
20:44truly want, but you expect the populace and not to accept, but you introduce it.
20:52But the purpose of your introduction is not to get a consensus around that radical position
20:58initially.
21:00You introduce the radical notion as a thesis.
21:05While you are introducing the thesis.
21:08You have a corollary component.
21:14Some may say an opponent.
21:17You heard the term controlled opposition?
21:19When you are a Hegelian, when you introduce your radical thesis, you are working in tandem
21:25with the antithesis advocates.
21:34The Hegelian introduces the thesis.
21:38The corollary opposition, the controlled opposition offers an antithesis, which is usually the
21:44opposite of the thesis, then to add into this conversation the allensky-like term of the
21:51community organizer, the community organizer is the one who introduces the radical thesis
21:55to stir up discontent around it, then you stir up the antithesis groups to oppose and you
22:03always present the issue in binary terms.
22:06There's no gradation, there's no reasonable alternatives, you simply have thesis antithesis
22:13And then the organizer comes in with the synthesis.
22:17Caw, come on, let's be reasonable.
22:19Let's compromise.
22:20Let's compromise, which is why you have a society that's the only thing,
22:25I won't say the only thing, but one of the, the, the highest values in our society
22:28today is what compromise?
22:32But for the Hegelian, the very moment that you have an arrival at synthesis or
22:37the, the Bill Clinton, the George W. Bush, the Tony Blair third way, the very
22:41The moment you have the third way, you introduce a new radical thesis that pushes the dialogue
22:49even further.
22:51You've heard the term over 10 window.
22:53As soon as you get the thesis that synthesis accepted, you introduce a new thesis.
22:58Then you have another round of thesis and synthesis synthesis.
23:04Another round, new thesis, which is why in our conversation you've experienced the continued
23:09leftward drift of both the Democrat party and the Republican party. How many times have
23:14you heard people say, man, John F. Kennedy can never be elected as a Democrat today. How
23:18many times have you heard that? How many times have you heard this say, well, Republicans are
23:21just taking up the most recent position vacated by the Democrats because we are living in the
23:26Hegelian dialectical process, living in it. And while this is happening, just to summarize
23:36and this is a very crude summary, no doubt, and a simplified summary.
23:44But the underpinning from a socialist Marxist communist worldview is atheism.
23:53The theological underpinning is humanism.
23:57Man is God.
23:59So we'll do to use biblical language, whatever's right in our own eyes.
24:04So it is to rightly describe the Marxist objective.
24:08It is an effort to establish a godless society
24:12where man determines virtue.
24:16Now what is happening in our country right now?
24:17There is a major push, a major push
24:22to redefine conservatism in America without God.
24:30You see?
24:31You see?
24:32So what does that end up becoming?
24:33You end up with two sides of the same coin.
24:36Now I am not one of these people will say,
24:38there's not any difference between Democrats or brothers.
24:39There's lots of differences, no doubt.
24:41But think about what is happening on our very watch as we're existing.
24:46You have two sides, both pushing for an establishment of a society based on their vision of virtue
24:53with a godless definition of it.
24:58That the fecklessness of the Republican Party is now giving away to MAGA,
25:02but I simply ask you, what is the guiding principle of it?
25:08What by and large passes for conservatism today is nothing more than a reactionary response
25:14to whatever it is the regressives are doing.
25:18Think about it.
25:21But what is the guiding principle?
25:22To be honest, to be fair, if you would be honest and fair, President Trump doesn't have
25:28a core conviction or ideology.
25:32In some ways, you can see how there is benefit in being flexible and negotiating.
25:36But the truth is, what is the core conviction or ideology?
25:41And I can even hear it now.
25:42Why do you have to be ideological?
25:44I'm not saying you have to be ideological, but there is something called truth.
25:48This is what I'm getting toward.
25:50There is something, say it better.
25:55Truth is real, guys.
25:57Truth is real.
25:59Zealous reactionary is not synonymous with visionary.
26:09You've heard me say we talk about the constructive of family.
26:12There can be no submission of a wife to her husband.
26:14If the husband has no vision, has no mission,
26:17submission requires a mission.
26:20We have lots of people that are in families
26:25and trying to lead families,
26:26but they don't even have a vision for what their lives are
26:28want to be, what their lives are to be,
26:30what their family should be.
26:31What is the vision you have for your family?
26:34Do you have one?
26:36For most people, if we're honest,
26:37most people's experiences are we just kind of drift along
26:40and kind of figure it out along the way.
26:44But there's not clarity and vision often,
26:49but should there be?
26:50Yes, there should be.
26:54Efforts to employ reactionary political engagement
26:59engagement without any mooring in truth will ultimately spiral badly ultimately
27:07ultimately right now I'll say it very simply I strongly believe because of the
27:17chasm the void left by the church in our society a a a mega ideology has
27:23just has come to fill the void and why because some of it is because we've
27:30You've been pushed and pushed and pushed with the Hegelian thesis.
27:35You pushed us with the deconstruction of the family.
27:37You pushed us with homosexuality.
27:39You pushed us with same-sex marriage.
27:40You pushed us with abortion.
27:42But then you start saying, but yeah, two-year-olds can tell you if they're boys or girls.
27:46And we're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
27:50Wait a minute.
27:52Wait, think about it.
27:53The one of the most profound ads from the 2024 presidential election was Kamala Harris'
27:59for they them.
28:00She should never be president of the remixes for they them.
28:02Donald Trump is for us.
28:06Why did that resonate so?
28:08Because we know we're coming out of the air where you want to tell me Will Thomas who's
28:12on the pin swimming team for three years was ranked number six hundred fifty second or
28:17whatever he was two hundred fifty third and then he makes a decision or you know what?
28:20I'm a girl and now I'm dominating and we supposed to act like yeah this is right.
28:25We know that's wrong at a core level.
28:29And how many people are willing to say why it's wrong?
28:33Not as many.
28:35Not as many.
28:37The popular understanding of conservatism has eroded to mere reactionary disposition.
28:43If you hear the term conservatism, you should ask conserving what?
28:46What are we conserving?
28:48Do we know?
28:50Should there be conserving anything?
28:53What is the overarching vision?
28:58The same thing, the reactionary thing, even in media, you know?
29:03These are the stories to talk about.
29:04Who determines which stories are the stories to talk about?
29:07Why don't we have more stories about good Americans that have weapons that are using their weapons
29:13responsibly to save people?
29:18We don't hear that very often at all.
29:21It actually happens way more than what people talk about these so-called gun violence incidents,
29:27which is so absurd to say gun violence.
29:30You have automobile crashes.
29:31Nobody says we have car violence.
29:35Nobody says that.
29:38We say we have a problem with intoxicated drivers.
29:41We have a problem with people driving badly.
29:43We don't say that there's car violence because there's an agenda.
29:48And so we even have this binary reactionary terms,
29:51a disposition in terms of what we discuss and how things are discussed.
29:56I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about.
30:00Right now there's lots of conversation about the, you know,
30:02Sydney, sweet, sweetie American Eagle ad, you know,
30:04and this people, they're like, hey, why haven't you talked about it?
30:07I'll tell you plainly, because I don't want to talk about it in terms of the way
30:09that the world is talking about it popularly.
30:12The world wants you to say, ooh, Sydney, sweetie, add good.
30:15I got a big problem with the Sydney Sweeney ad.
30:22But it's not because anything anybody else is talking about.
30:25Missed me with all that talking about her reference and skin color, all that kind of stuff.
30:29You know what I have a problem?
30:30Because America is addicted to pornography.
30:33That's why I have a problem with.
30:35And this is nothing more than another iteration of frankly, soft pornography.
30:41And there are lots of so-called, I won't even say so-called, lots of people who would identify themselves as conservative.
30:49conservative that completely missed the fact that they're trying to really do a sex sales thing in a particular way that
31:01appeals to particular demographics. But the issue that I have is that the scripture compels me to put no unholy thing before my eyes.
31:11And what we have is a normalization of the objectification of the female body,
31:17a normalization of lust so much so to where it almost doesn't even register.
31:22We don't care if it's all porn long as it's soft porn and red, white and blue.
31:29Remember the whole deal we had not too long ago?
31:31Conservative women with pinup calendars?
31:33Remember that?
31:35What I'm saying guys, I'm just using that as an example.
31:38I say, what is our governing dynamic?
31:42What are we aspiring toward?
31:44What is our positive vision for ourselves, our positive vision for our families, our positive
31:51vision for our churches, and our positive vision for our nation?
31:54What are we aspiring to war?
31:56For too many, the aspiration is nothing more than let's own the lives.
32:02I want to drink some liberal tears.
32:04That's only going to get you so far.
32:08What are we aspiring to as a nation?
32:11What is good?
32:13What is beautiful?
32:15What is true that we're aspiring for?
32:17What are we seeking to accomplish?
32:20For too many, it's nothing more than being the opposite of whatever them Democrats say.
32:26But whatever them Republicans say, guys, that's not going to be that's not a
32:32sustaining virtue, which is why to come full circle to the point I mean in the
32:36first segment, at least I've tried to make this is why the church, the living God,
32:40must stand up to no longer be a sleeping tiger and simply being tossed to and
32:50fro by whatever political, wind and waves that are rivaling in society.
32:56Hello, my name is Andy Miller and I'm the president of Wesley Biblical Seminary based
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34:01Growing in your love of God, this is David Wheaton,
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34:07Loving God means to think and do what pleases and glorifies Him.
34:11Jesus said that loving God is the great and foremost
34:15commandment.
34:17The problem is your unredeemed flesh is constantly
34:19telling you to love yourself, not God.
34:22The world wants you to love the things and pleasures
34:25of the world, not God.
34:27Love for God must be cultivated through drawing near to Him
34:31in His word, in prayer, with other believers
34:34in the local church.
34:36For when the believer grows in love of God,
34:38he will enthusiastically want to worship and obey Him
34:42no matter what.
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35:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton the third is my name.
35:18What I'm saying very simply guys is we cannot perpetually be
35:22described solely by what we're against.
35:28But here's the rub,
35:29but we have to wait to see what they say
35:31so that we can know what we're against next.
35:37How absurd is that?
35:39We need to wait to see what they're gonna say
35:43to see what we're against.
35:44Guys, that's absurd.
35:49What is the positive vision that we have?
35:52It is a reason guys where the last greatest hope
35:56of the Earth, the United States of America,
35:58beacons set on the hill, it follows from a worldview that begins our declaration as to
36:05why we must be a sovereign nation separated from King George of England that we hold these
36:11truths be self-evident.
36:15The man is endowed by the Creator.
36:18There's a positive affirmative vision.
36:23What are we ascribing toward?
36:25What are we endeavoring to build?
36:27What type of society do we want?
36:32The reason, no, I won't say V reason, but regressive use these ridiculous tactics like
36:39the Hegelian dialectical process and they come up with different names for dialectical
36:43ism and third-wayism and all of these things, because they're trying to run game on you because
36:49they're trying to move in the same direction.
36:52Always in the same direction.
36:54Let's move in a certain way.
36:56Right now you're my opposition, but in the future you will be a Republican who supports
37:00same-sex marriage, for example.
37:06How many times have you been told, wow, now, now, let's not bring the Bible into this.
37:09Why?
37:11Who are you to tell me that I need to be my Bible on the side to engage you in discourse?
37:16But how often have professing Christians done so?
37:21Oh yeah, you know I don't want to compel someone to believe what I believe.
37:24You're not trying to persuade someone to embrace Christ by force, but you don't have to apologize
37:32that the word of Christ is truth.
37:34You don't have to try to apologize for the fact, well you know what?
37:40If you're going to have a sustained society, we need husbands and wives to make babies.
37:45I don't need to apologize for that.
37:46Well, well, where did it come from?
37:48It comes first from God's Word.
37:51And unsurprisingly, the sciences that we have supports,
37:54what God's Word has already told us.
37:56I'm not gonna apologize for that.
38:01And then I'll add this into the conversation.
38:04The truth has benefited even for those
38:06who don't believe the truth.
38:10Whether you agree with it or not,
38:11that a husband and a wife raising their children together
38:13in the same home is the best thing for a child,
38:16regardless if you believe it or not.
38:18It's true.
38:20So I'm not gonna apologize because that's true.
38:22Now you need to be more responsive
38:24to the multicultural effort to recognize
38:27that they're all types of families.
38:28No, no, I don't need to do that.
38:30What I will do is recognize that they're sin
38:33and that they're fallen men and fallen men intend
38:36and attempt to try to make adjustments
38:39and nip and tuck and accommodate their sin and rebellion,
38:42but that doesn't change the truth.
38:45That doesn't change the truth.
38:49That's why I said you're entitled to your delusions,
38:51but you cannot compel me to live by them.
38:54Guys, there's a simple notion in order to maintain
38:57this experiment and self-governance,
38:59we have to have individuals who are self-governed.
39:03Let's add something else to the conversation.
39:05Self-governance is not an endamically natural phenomenon.
39:09Guess what?
39:10Self-governance, also known as self-control,
39:12is a fruit of the spirit.
39:20The Spirit of God produces self-controlled men.
39:23This is why brothers and sisters,
39:25George Washington said religion and morality
39:27are indispensable support our government.
39:33And you simply can be, you can say very simply,
39:36I'm not trying to compel you to convert to Christ following,
39:39but I will not deny the truth of what Jesus Christ teaches.
39:43Guys, it ain't rocket surgery.
39:44There's a reason they ain't never been
39:46in the history of the world, an atheist hospital.
39:50You know why?
39:51Because compassion for suffering people comes from people
39:54who have love for the Lord.
39:56Because it's the Lord who told us that the first commandment
39:58is to love him with all that we are.
40:00And the second is like it.
40:02Love your neighbor as yourself.
40:04Why is it that it's always the Christians
40:05opening up orphanages and opening up hospitals
40:08and feeding the homeless and clothing the homeless?
40:11But our abe, religion has done all kinds of things.
40:14I don't care what you say, religion hadn't done more
40:16than the atheist 20th century,
40:18which stalling and Hitler and Paul Pot and Mao say tongue.
40:23Miss me with all of that.
40:24And here's another thing.
40:25The people who in the name of religion did this carnage,
40:27they were violating Jesus' teachings.
40:29They were not obeying him.
40:33So miss me with all of that.
40:36And we have to stop being a man be-pamby church,
40:39that we're gonna genuflect and apologize
40:41because we know the truth.
40:42I'm not sorry that I know the truth.
40:43I'm grateful and I'm thankful and I love my neighbor enough
40:47that I'll tell them that.
40:51But what's happened guys,
40:52we've allowed ourselves to be dumbed down,
40:55but we won't talk about Christian
40:56and what was it, Western civilization.
40:58What's the folk room of Western civilization?
41:01Are we gonna talk about Augustine in the city of God
41:03and how his writings as a Christ follower
41:05shaped the entire scope of Western philosophical
41:08and political thought?
41:09Are we gonna talk about that or not?
41:11Nah, nah, we ain't gonna talk about it.
41:13Why? Cause we're embarrassed of Christ.
41:16Why?
41:17Why?
41:19Who has been which does?
41:20Guys, we have been siren-songed
41:23and we have been seduced
41:24and we have been, you know, professionalized
41:27and we've been de-greed up in all of these things,
41:30all to get us to the place to become functionally comfortable
41:33with denying the truth and its application.
41:39We don't need to apologize that the positive vision
41:42for our nation is stems from clarity from God's word.
41:47We're not trying to have theocratic rule compelling people
41:49to convert to Christ following,
41:52but I'm not gonna say, I'm not gonna apologize to you
41:55and lie to you about the fact that I don't care
41:57how great your life may be here.
41:59If you die without Christ Jesus as your savior,
42:01you will suffer eternally.
42:05And in addition to that,
42:07the teachings of Christ have great efficacy
42:09in its application for establishing society
42:12that's best for maximizing human flourishing.
42:15That's why you have some of the, you know,
42:17the atheist, what's old boy named from England?
42:19I forgot so far.
42:20He doesn't like Christianity,
42:22but he likes to coach it, produces.
42:24What's his name?
42:26Well, no, it wasn't him, it was the other one.
42:29The name will come up,
42:30but y'all know what I'm talking about.
42:32I don't quite like Christianity.
42:33No, I don't believe it's absurd to believe in man,
42:36right?
42:36It's absurd, but I do rather do prefer the culture
42:40that Christians create.
42:43Why, bro?
42:44Why do you prefer the culture that Christians create?
42:46Why?
42:46I kind of like man is exceedingly wicked.
42:50Kind of like if you reject the culture that Christians create,
42:54you return to the doldrums.
42:58That's right.
42:59And somebody put it in the chat, Dawkins, Richard Dawkins.
43:03Guys, what we've enjoyed in what the,
43:05when Western civilization has been an aberration in world history.
43:10Yeah, that's what he said, cultural Christian.
43:12What we've enjoyed in Western civilization as a whole
43:15is an aberration from human history.
43:19Then you get more specific, what we've had in America,
43:24there've been generations of human beings
43:26that could not fathom what we've enjoyed here.
43:32And with all of our mistakes,
43:34there's never been a perfect society.
43:36I say it with my whole chest without successful contradiction
43:39that the United States of America's the greatest nation
43:41of the world. Why is it that? Why is it that? We used to understand as the
43:50Tocqueville told us in contrast in the French Revolution, the bloody French
43:54Revolution that the symbol of the French Revolution was the bloody guillotine.
43:59The Tocqueville's question was why did the American Revolution result in their
44:04society versus what we had in France? And he told us and he told us in his
44:11twain volume on Democracy in America, he sought for the source of America's
44:14greatness in his banking systems. He saw it for America's greatness and it's also
44:17government and it was not until he entered her churches with pulpits, a
44:21flamed and righteousness. This is his word, not mine. A flamed and righteousness that he
44:26recognized the source of America's greatness. He said America is great because
44:30she is good but then he added a warning but the moment she sees this to be good
44:37she will cease to be great. When Tim Taub was on the show he sat in his chair
44:44and return to the statistics that when America
44:48could get pared out of our public schools,
44:50how do all of the metrics, violence, sexuality, murder,
44:56they all plummeted.
44:57You think that's a coincidence?
44:59Guys, we've got to wake up.
45:05You've got to wake up.
45:09Enduring virtue from the word of God, from Jesus directly,
45:15what is the greatest commandment to love the Lord
45:17with all that you are?
45:18Guys, when you love God with all that you are,
45:20The most immediate evidence of that love is the way you treat your neighbor.
45:25Love God with all you as you are and love your neighbor as yourself on these hang
45:31the entirety of the law and the prophets.
45:35We have got to get to the place where we don't apologize for that and that we're
45:39willing to live out loud in that fashion.
45:42What is your vision for yourselves, for your life?
45:46What is your vision for your family?
45:49What is your vision for your church?
45:50What is your vision for our nation?
45:53The next level of analysis and what are you doing to bring that into fruition?
45:58Guys, the world is going to world.
46:04We cannot expect this to come from the world.
46:07But the thing that I'm greatly concerned about is that among the ranks of the regressive and
46:11among the ranks of the self-described conservatives, we are both pining for an establishment of
46:18a society in a godless direction, looking for a godless way to do life and to do governance.
46:26And I'm telling you, I'm telling you is going to end in the same direction.
46:33The only way we can get off this hamster wheel of the Hegelian dialectical process to where
46:37we're simply waiting to see what the other side says so that we can react to it and be
46:41opposite opposite them.
46:42And to see what is it that you're striving for?
46:47What is it that you're aspiring to be?
46:54As a father, man, I have a desire and a vision for my family.
46:57I have a desire and a vision for my children.
47:01But it's my example, aiding that vision coming into reality
47:05as it's working against it.
47:09So many instances we're able to identify and criticize
47:12what's wrong with everybody else,
47:13but we're not introspective about our own examples.
47:18A lack of clarity as to the positive vision for ourselves
47:21as a church, for example, is what led to many places
47:26being bullied by government to shut down.
47:30The strip clubs and the liquor stores
47:32and the Walmart can be open,
47:33But you better not open your mouth to say Jesus is Lord.
47:37And if you dare come together to say Jesus Lord,
47:39you better not sing.
47:48Guys, we need to wake up, is what I'm saying.
47:53We cannot simply be reactionary.
47:55Reactionary is not synonymous with the envisionary.
47:59These stories that are percolating,
48:00sometimes I wanna talk about this stuff that's popular,
48:02sometimes I don't.
48:03You know why?
48:04Because what's popular doesn't dictate what's important.
48:09Sometimes they make stories that are popular
48:10and the important things go completely ignored.
48:21Many of us have heard the attitude.
48:22In our time right now, we're no longer having discourse and disagreements between, you know,
48:27red and blue.
48:28We have a conversation about right versus wrong, good versus evil.
48:32And I agree with that wholeheartedly.
48:34But this is the thing that people don't say.
48:36Both sides of the dialogue believe that they're on the side of good and the other side is evil.
48:42Why?
48:43Because with the Lord prophesied, it's coming to fruition.
48:46Good is being called evil and evil is being called good.
48:54So if you're having disagreements with good versus evil, but both sides of the discourse
49:00believe they're good and the other side is evil, we'll write back to square one.
49:05Because instead of merely discussing good versus evil, there needs to be a conversation about
49:08about what is true, what is true.
49:18And if we're merely reactionary, we become nothing other than controlled opposition in the
49:23Hegelian dialectical process.
49:27The floor for the negotiation, if you will, is always set by the hegalian with the thesis
49:33The thesis love who you want to love and titthesis. No, that's wrong
49:46Okay, okay, okay civil union civil unions as soon as people say okay the civil unions was a nice thing. No, no, no
49:52We want marriage
49:55There's this wrong
49:57Okay, okay, I licensed for gay marriage as soon as not even before the dust consider on that little boys are not always boys
50:04It's just a more recent example of the exact same phenomenon.
50:11But the people of God must simultaneously be people of truth.
50:18And the beauty of this is that we don't have to try to develop our own unilateral vision.
50:25God has always showed us the way in which we are to walk.
50:31God is good, not because I'm saying so.
50:33It's because it is truth.
50:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
50:45Family Association or American Family Radio.

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