Lessons from our nation’s history can aid us through this current Iran quagmire.

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26. 1:50are making your transition from your part-time jobs where you generate an income
27. 1:54rate in income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
28. 1:58And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
29. 2:03primacy that God places on family.
30. 2:07You know, this is going to be one of those shows as we start the second segment, because
31. 2:11some of you may have noticed I haven't been talking a lot about Iran.
32. 2:15And I'll explain why I haven't been while just telling you plainly.
33. 2:17I've been quite frustrated with what has been happening there.
34. 2:21And I'm going to dig into that.
35. 2:22But today, we're going to have a conversation about it and we're going to toggle back into
36. 2:26our own nation's history to explain or should I say to exemplify the reality of the maximum
37. 2:34if we do not know history and learn from history, we are destined to repeat it.
38. 2:44We're going to do that today.
39. 2:45So as you're making your transition, this also you might have might be, you may want to call
40. 2:49this a public service announcement for discipling our children from the home and cultivating
41. 2:53their minds at home because what we're going to talk about today will be lessons that are
42. 2:57not being taught in our schools in this country. They are not teaching what I'm about to share
43. 3:01with you today. And that should cause you to ask the question, I wonder why this portion
44. 3:06of our nation's history has not been included in robust, frequent and consistent conversation
45. 3:13to shape the hearts and minds of our youngest Americans, especially when as you're going
46. 3:17to learn in a few moments.
47. 3:19If you don't know this already,
48. 3:20the opening line to our Marines,
49. 3:24him has a particular reference.
50. 3:26Bobby, I know you know it from where?
51. 3:29Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.
52. 3:32Hmm, where did that come from?
53. 3:36Why is that in the song?
54. 3:38We're gonna get into it.
55. 3:40We're gonna get into it.
56. 3:42But it's man is vitally important,
57. 3:44refuse to allow the headlines,
58. 3:48refuse to allow the lying media,
59. 3:51refuse to allow all of those things to distract you
60. 3:55or to turn you away from living locally.
61. 4:00If you are a member of the Lord's eternal family,
62. 4:02never forget that the stuff that we're facing
63. 4:06is not a surprise to our King.
64. 4:08In fact, he's deposited you and I here
65. 4:11for this specific time, Act 17 tells us
66. 4:14that before time, the boundaries of our habitation
67. 4:17and the times, the epoch, the epics in which we would live
68. 4:22have been divinely ordained for you and I.
69. 4:24Guys, we were made for this moment.
70. 4:27We cannot allow information and mood and vibes
71. 4:34to get us to lull us into a despondency
72. 4:38or to distract us away from what our full-time jobs are.
73. 4:43We are to love our Lord with all of our heart,
74. 4:45our soul, our minds, and our strength as Deuteronomy says,
75. 4:50and love our neighbors as ourselves.
76. 4:55We can, if we will,
77. 4:57we simply have to be about our Father's business.
78. 4:59To the Word of God, we go John chapter 11,
79. 5:04verses 38 through 46 is where we're gonna go today.
80. 5:0738 through 46.
81. 5:11We're talking about Lazarus in his resurrection.
82. 5:14And by God's grace, I want to make some observations from the text that I pray,
83. 5:20and I have prayed and I continue to pray that it will be encouraging and
84. 5:23strengthening for all who are listening, including myself, John chapter 11,
85. 5:29verses 38 through 46.
86. 5:32And this is what God's word says.
87. 5:36Well, let me explain a little bit of context before I start reading.
88. 5:38Remember, Jesus was away from Bethany where Mary, Martha, and Lazarus lived.
89. 5:47Mary, Martha, and Lazarus were all siblings.
90. 5:50And Jesus got word of Lazarus' passing, though he knew Lazarus had passed away.
91. 5:57Jesus arrives in town and ultimately accesses Lazarus' burial site four days after Lazarus
92. 6:04had been dead.
93. 6:06Lazarus's sister even says,
94. 6:09my Lord, if you'd been earlier, I know you could have kept him from dying.
95. 6:14And then Jesus queries her, basically saying to you,
96. 6:18what you think is her rap, you think is over, she says, oh I know he'll,
97. 6:20I know he'll be raised later. To is Jesus said, well, well, you must understand him
98. 6:26my lady,
99. 6:26because I am the resurrection and the life. Show me where you've laid him.
100. 6:30And we pick up from there in verse 38. Then Jesus,
101. 6:33Deeply move, also that is when Jesus swept the shortest scripture in the Bible.
102. 6:37Jesus swept upon learning of Lazarus' dying and passage.
103. 6:41Alright? But look at verse 38.
104. 6:43Then Jesus deeply moved again, came to the tomb.
105. 6:46This is the tomb where Lazarus is buried.
106. 6:48It was a cave and a stone lay against it.
107. 6:51Jesus said, take away the stone.
108. 6:54Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him,
109. 6:58Lord, by this time there will be an odor,
110. 7:01For he has been dead four days.
111. 7:05Jesus said to her, did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?
112. 7:12Claim to divinity by the way.
113. 7:14Verse 41, so they took away the stone and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank
114. 7:18you that you have heard me.
115. 7:20I knew that you always hear me.
116. 7:23But I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.
117. 7:29And he had said these things he cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus come out.
118. 7:35The man who had died came out, his hands and his feet bound with linen strips and his face
119. 7:43wrapped with a cloth.
120. 7:46Jesus said to them, Unbind him and let him go.
121. 7:52Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary, had seen what he did and who had
122. 8:00come with Mary and had seen what he did believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees
123. 8:07and told them what Jesus had done. Now, one thing I didn't mention as I was setting up
124. 8:13the context, they had already had a morning party en route from Mary, Martha, Lazarus'
125. 8:21home area to the tomb. And so when this transpires as we just read in the scripture, Martha said,
126. 8:28Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh,
127. 8:31no, no, it's gonna be an odor if you move that.
128. 8:35And Jesus said, didn't I tell you?
129. 8:37Didn't I tell you if you believe you would see the glory of God.
130. 8:43And I get so stirred every time I read this scripture for a host of
131. 8:47reasons. One of the first things I want to point out to you
132. 8:49as the apostle John is recording his gospel.
133. 8:53Did you notice that John does not include anything
134. 8:58concerning Lazarus' personal resurrection...
135. 9:00sorry, personal reaction to having been resurrected. You notice that? It doesn't say anything about
136. 9:06Lazarus and Lazarus rejoiced and Lazarus was overjoyed and Lazarus started doing the cabbage patch and
137. 9:12it took to row all at once. It didn't say any of those things which it caused you to upon making that
138. 9:18observation to ponder and to meditate and even to inquire Lord what are you trying to show us from
139. 9:25there and very simply. That is not an accidental omission by the apostle John, it's intentional.
140. 9:32Why is that intentional? Because though the fulcrum of this account is Lazarus, Lazarus is not the main
141. 9:41character in the account. You see, this is about Jesus. This is about the divinity of Yeshua,
142. 9:48the Messiah, this is about the potency of the God-man. No, he's no mere man. No, he's truly God
143. 9:59and truly man. The main focal point in this as John is conveying it is Jesus. That's why you don't see a
144. 10:10lot of details about Lazarus' personal response. What was he thinking? What were his emotions?
145. 10:16Because frankly, those things are ancillary to what the true glory point of this story is.
146. 10:25The true glory point of this story is that the prophet like Moses as revealed in Deuteronomy
147. 10:3118 has come and we behold, we're beholding him.
148. 10:36And as we read the text, we're beholding him.
149. 10:39That is the focal point of the account.
150. 10:42The next thing I want you to note is that with this divine,
151. 10:45a miraculous display of omnipotence,
152. 10:49that I am the resurrection and the life.
153. 10:51I am the author of life.
154. 10:53I am the finisher of life.
155. 10:56The other thing, one other thing I want you to notice
156. 10:58from this is that as Jesus declared Lazarus come out,
157. 11:03in verse 44 it says, he comes out,
158. 11:05and verse 44 describes how he comes out.
159. 11:09The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face
160. 11:16wrapped with a cloth.
161. 11:20So Lazarus is now resurrected.
162. 11:24He is now exited the tomb, but he is still wearing the garments of burial.
163. 11:32And though Jesus is the one who proclaimed his resurrection and raised him from the dead,
164. 11:37Jesus dispatches others to lose him from his grave clothes.
165. 11:46When I look at this, I get a picture
166. 11:48of what discipleship truly is,
167. 11:50because as God by his divine grace opens the heart
168. 11:55of an unbeliever to recognize
169. 11:58that they are desperately lost in a need of a savior.
170. 12:02The Lord dispatches his disciples, his body,
171. 12:06as his hands and feet to help to disciple the new converts,
172. 12:12to which I have a challenge for us today.
173. 12:14Are you and I willing to be those whom our Lord
174. 12:18can call on to lose people from their grave clothes?
175. 12:23I've explained before, you read Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians.
176. 12:26He spends a significant amount of time in the prologue
177. 12:29to his Epistle to the Corinthians, affirming the fact
178. 12:32that they are fellow believers, that they are saints of God,
179. 12:36that there are fellow worshipers and believers in Christ
180. 12:40just as the Apostle Paul was a believer in Christ.
181. 12:43And then he spends the balance of that epistle
182. 12:46confronting all manner of sinful activity.
183. 12:48And I've explained before that sometimes, not always,
184. 12:51but sometimes when you have a phenomenon
185. 12:53when someone may genuinely be born again,
186. 12:55but they've never been discipled,
187. 12:57their lives can look as if.
188. 13:00Man, what is going on here?
189. 13:02Which is why the Great Commission
190. 13:04is not merely to make converts.
191. 13:06The great commission is not merely to proclaim the gospel.
192. 13:08And when I say merely, don't miss true what I'm saying.
193. 13:11The gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God
194. 13:13in the unto salvation.
195. 13:16But the great commission is to make disciples.
196. 13:18It requires a gospel proclamation.
197. 13:20But the gospel proclamation must be accompanied
198. 13:23by disciple formation.
199. 13:27The challenge is, can our Lord call upon you and I
200. 13:32to lose people from grave clothes?
201. 13:35It's not in our own capacity to do so,
202. 13:36not in our own strength, but that detail is included in the scripture, not for us to just read by.
203. 13:44Jesus very easily could have personally walked up to Lazarus and started to remove the grave
204. 13:49clothes, remove the linen strips, remove the face coverings, but that is not what he did.
205. 13:54He called for assistance to unbind him and let him go. With this full picture
206. 14:06I was presented here, my hope and my prayers that will be stirred to be people that I loit
207. 14:11can call upon to lose gray's clothes.
208. 14:15Because I have said and I will continue to say,
209. 14:17the most enduring need for our nation
210. 14:20is for the gospel to be proclaimed
211. 14:22and for disciples to be made.
212. 14:24We have entered the stage that we are in in our nation,
213. 14:27one foot in front of the other,
214. 14:30the palpable biblical illiteracy,
215. 14:32the prevalent evidence of a lack of a biblical worldview,
216. 14:36these things are features of neglecting
217. 14:40the disciple making responsibility that is commanded of us by our Lord.
218. 14:45And the only way to address this is by reversing that reality and obeying what God requires of us.
219. 14:52Not looking at the man under the tree, but saying, Lord, it's me who needs to respond to you in obedience.
220. 15:01A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker, the Gospel of Matthew chapter 28 starting in verse 18,
221. 15:08it tells us these words, and Jesus came and spoke to them saying,
222. 15:11All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
223. 15:15Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
224. 15:22Teaching them to observe all things that I've commanded you and lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age.
225. 15:28Amen. That contains what we call the Great Commission.
226. 15:32God calls us to be a disciple and to make disciples.
227. 15:36And that's a command God lays before us each and every day.
228. 15:39Every day is a day for us to follow Jesus Christ and to be involved in the work of helping and teaching and encouraging others to follow Jesus Christ as well.
229. 15:47Ask someone how you can pray for them.
230. 15:50Encourage someone to read three chapters in the Bible every day.
231. 15:54Pray for God to help you to both be a faithful disciple and to make disciples as well.
232. 15:59Shiting light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
233. 16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here. This weekend August
234. 16:187th, 8th and 9th I will be joining the Darbonne Church of Christ family for a time in the
235. 16:27word over this weekend. The events and services will begin from Friday evening at 7 p.m. August
236. 16:34Friday evening 7 p.m. Then we will continue Saturday evening at 6 p.m. and I will also
237. 16:42be providing the sermon Sunday morning on the services begin at 10 a.m. This is
238. 16:49Darbon Church of Christ and Farmerville, Louisiana. I've been to this church
239. 16:54several times before looking forward to returning there. If you're in the area
240. 16:59and or near the area you're welcome to come. There are no charges or anything
241. 17:03like that, just bring yourself, bring yourself, but don't plead the fear. Don't do that, leave
242. 17:10that to Dr. Fauci. One, two, three, four, fear. Let me stay focused. Let me get back on
243. 17:18track. It's a sad day when Dr. Fauci turns to the Dave Chappelle. I'm telling you, crazy
244. 17:25times. All right. Well, I wanted to have this conversation because in the news today, just
245. 17:30And many of you heard it already, that there's been another statement to where, you know,
246. 17:35the president in Trump is saying that the negotiations happening in Iran, the Iranians are like,
247. 17:40mmm, I'm going to negotiate where.
248. 17:42I'm going to negotiate.
249. 17:43I'm going to.
250. 17:44Which is one of the major things that he said that frustrated him when he called them, not
251. 17:48so nice people.
252. 17:49That's not the exact word he used.
253. 17:51He said, but they'll be negotiating and then they'll go out and tell the world that they're
254. 17:53not negotiating.
255. 17:54All right.
256. 17:55um, the frustration that I've expressed has been that it seems or seemed and continues
257. 18:03to some degree, uh, that there may not be a full grasp as to who it is exactly that, that
258. 18:10you're, they're dealing with.
259. 18:12And this is something that many people, you know, first of all, I'm president Trump,
260. 18:19ran for office, they had no more forever wars.
261. 18:22And I do believe you believe that, you know, but the thing that's different.
262. 18:26about the Iranians in particular you can never forget that it is a radical I
263. 18:31would argue demonically inspired regime the nation has not always been the
264. 18:40quote-unquote Islamic Islamic Republic it was a nation of Persia in the Bible and
265. 18:46in in Islam is mentioned in the scripture they did not historically speak the
266. 18:51Arabic language in Iran they spoke Farsi in Iran alright everything that is
267. 18:57today is the product of the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
268. 19:03But we can't forget what that revolution was all about.
269. 19:05They were seeking to establish a Shiite theocracy.
270. 19:13That is what they sought to establish.
271. 19:14So when we would think with a conventional thought process that, well, people don't want
272. 19:19to die.
273. 19:20No, that is not how they think.
274. 19:23When you understand their theology, the only way they can guarantee entree into quote
275. 19:27quote, paradise is to die in the cause of advancing Islam.
276. 19:34This is why you see over and over and over, you know, Muslim women would pray that the
277. 19:39thing they want more and more for their sons than anything else for them to die is Mujuhadim.
278. 19:44Well the reason why they say that is because of what the theology teaches.
279. 19:51The theology also teaches I've been enjoying, I even shared some on social media that is
280. 19:56remarkable because you had a debate at the Oxford Student Union, the debate society.
281. 20:03That's whether or not the West should trust Islam.
282. 20:05And I'm thinking, man, this debate should have happened like 20 years ago, 40 years ago,
283. 20:10you know?
284. 20:11But it's happening now.
285. 20:13And it's interesting the way the debate is taking place.
286. 20:18And one of the betors, I think his name was Lawrence Fox, was feigning as if he was about
287. 20:22to show a picture of Muhammad and you should have saw a lot of people went crazy.
288. 20:27Oh, no, don't do an objection.
289. 20:29We can't have props.
290. 20:31And then it ended up showing it was just a character of himself, caricature of himself.
291. 20:35And you could feel the exhales through the screen to which his point was, see, this is
292. 20:39what I'm talking about.
293. 20:41If showing a photograph leads to people murdering, it's probably something we need to be concerned
294. 20:48about whether or not it's accessible to civil society.
295. 20:53know, but I digress briefly. I mean, somewhat, not not entirely, because if we would understand
296. 21:00our nation's history, a lot of the debates that we're having currently, we would not have
297. 21:06to have because we'd have a clearer understanding as to what we're dealing with. And unfortunately,
298. 21:13some of the things that we're confronting right now look a lot like things that we have
299. 21:16confronted in our nation's history. I've talked to you a bit in the past about Islamic theology.
300. 21:22talked with Bill Federer about the history of Islam all around the world, even leading
301. 21:27up to the Islam revolution of 1979 in Iran.
302. 21:31But there are also parts of history that are common, I won't say common, that are applicable
303. 21:35right here to our own nation.
304. 21:37There was a series of wars that were fought starting in the late 1700s, shortly after the
305. 21:46Declaration of Independence was signed, leading all the way up into 1805, all right, to where
306. 21:53there were battles fought between the United States of America and Muslim
307. 22:00terrorists that were supported by national state sponsors of the terrorism.
308. 22:08So they weren't they weren't terrorists acting in a rogue fashion. They were
309. 22:13terrorists that were state-sponsored that used terrorism as a way to to fund
310. 22:17their national interests. Let me explain what I'm talking about. They're described
311. 22:25large in our history as the Barbary Powers Wars. The Barbary Powers Wars. Why the term
312. 22:32Barbary? Because one, it was not limited to any, to one specific nation. There were multiple
313. 22:37nations involved, the common denominator between the nations that were attacking our nation,
314. 22:42as well as other Western nations, were that they were all Muslim nations. And because of
315. 22:47the tactics that they employed, the American citizens are countrymen from the late 1700s
316. 22:54into the early 1800s, described their tactics as barbaric, hence the reference to the opponents
317. 23:02of the United States of America at this time as the Barbary Pirates. Pirates, because much
318. 23:07of what transpired happened by C. Let me explain what I'm talking about. The Barbary Powers Wars
319. 23:14where the First Wars officially declared against the United States of America following our
320. 23:19victory in the war for independence. Think about that. As soon as the American colonists
321. 23:27finished Molliwapping the British for the first time, because you end up having subsequent issues
322. 23:32battle New Orleans, for example, in 1812, against the British again. But after the United States
323. 23:39won the war for independence, the first officially declared war following that victory was a war
324. 23:45against these, these, these, uh, Barbary powers. Who were the barbery bar, who were these Barbary
325. 23:51pirates? They were Muslim terrorists from five different nations, Islamic nations in the late
326. 23:581700s, Turkey, Tunis, Morocco, Al-Jiers and Tripoli. All right. Muslim terrorists from these
327. 24:09five nations were making indiscriminate attacks against the property and interests of the United
328. 24:16States of America, as well as other nations that they declared quote unquote Christian nations.
329. 24:22Now notice I said indiscriminate attacks, unprovoked attacks. There was no hostility happening.
330. 24:30You had you had commercial and civilian ships that were sailing. Some of them were ships where
331. 24:38people were sailing between England and the US, just regular citizens, and they will be
332. 24:45attacked. Some people will be murdered. Some women will be violated. Many of them, most,
333. 24:53the most frequent thing that they would do is would take captives in order to make slaves
334. 25:00and to hold people for ransom. Stick with me. These Muslim terrorists who were called by
335. 25:09Americans at that time, Barbary pirates, as I mentioned, just now attacked American civilian and
336. 25:14commercial merchant ships wherever they found them. They would seize the cargo and they would enslave
337. 25:19the crew. In 1784, and I do quick math, from 1776 to 1784, how long is that? You're not even a decade
338. 25:28away from the Declaration of Independence, guys. In 1784, Congress dispatched three diplomats,
339. 25:34the U.S. Congress dispatched three diplomats. John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson.
340. 25:40to go to negotiate with these Muslim nations
341. 25:42and to end these unprovoked attacks.
342. 25:45You have Adams Franklin and Jefferson
343. 25:47kind of figure out, man, why are y'all attacking us?
344. 25:50During these negotiations, Thomas Jefferson
345. 25:52infamously learned that the Muslim men,
346. 25:55as they were described at that time,
347. 25:57said, well, because you're confused.
348. 26:00And our theology says, we can attack you,
349. 26:03we can enslave you, we can do whatever we want to you.
350. 26:06Thomas Jefferson's like, what?
351. 26:07This is insane.
352. 26:10Well, negotiating, obviously you might imagine,
353. 26:12Negotiating with these Barbary pirates was a difficult task because at this time by 1784,
354. 26:21Muslims had been attacking in this way for centuries.
355. 26:27For centuries.
356. 26:28The English had dealt with it before the US was a new nation now as a young fledgling nation,
357. 26:33the United States of America is dealing with it for the first time.
358. 26:37And here's one of the major reasons why they dealt with it.
359. 26:40The Muslims learned through these processes, tacking these vessels, commercial and civilian
360. 26:45vessels on the high seas, they learned that they could finance their national interests
361. 26:51in this fashion because they found that the westerners would pay high prices and ransoms
362. 26:57to get their people back.
363. 26:59So they would do this year after year after year.
364. 27:02In fact, in this time period to where Franklin, Jefferson and Adams are dispatching negotiate,
365. 27:11the Muslims took 1.25 million slaves just in that time period.
366. 27:17the high seas. 1.25 million slaves. This is such a wide spread and recurring problem. Many
367. 27:28of the Western nations formed standing organizations to raise money to purchase enslaved seamen.
368. 27:35Here's a quote from Thomas Jefferson. Let me give you the source for the quote. This is
369. 27:43from Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Adams written January 11, 1787, drawn from the
370. 27:50Right as the Thomas Jefferson published by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association in
371. 27:551903.
372. 27:56All right.
373. 27:57This is what Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams on January 11, 1787.
374. 28:01Quote, there is an order of priests called the Mathurans.
375. 28:06The object of whose institutions is the begging of alms for the redemption of captives.
376. 28:11About 18 months ago, they were deemed 300 captives, which cost them about 1500 livers,
377. 28:17livers or $1500 a piece.
378. 28:22They, the math trends, have agents residing in the Barbary
379. 28:25States who are constantly employed in searching and contracting
380. 28:30for the captives of their nation.
381. 28:31And they redeem at a lower price than any other people can."
382. 28:35In quote, not think about these guys.
383. 28:37You have orders of priests who move to Muslim nations,
384. 28:40and they're there for one reason and one reason only.
385. 28:43To find out how many captives have arrived, how many slaves,
386. 28:47how many people have been enslaved from their home nation,
387. 28:50and to try to negotiate a price for them as cheaply as possible to get their Muslim
388. 28:55captors to release them. Kind of like,
389. 29:01may I act up enough, I could get a plane with paddles of cash flow in my way.
390. 29:06Does that not sound familiar? Ransom Americans was also expensive,
391. 29:15and therefore it was a profitable trade for the Barbary Muslim pirates.
392. 29:21Additionally, get this. Stop me if you heard this before.
393. 29:26Muslim nations would sign treaties with the attack nations, including the United States
394. 29:29of America, providing that for an annual tribute, in quote, tribute that they would perhaps refrain
395. 29:40from further attacks if they were received a tribute and several frigates, which were ships,
396. 29:46war ships, give us a couple ships and give us a little bit of money and then maybe we
397. 29:51won't attack you again. Guys, the tribute in the early late 1700s was as much as a million
398. 30:00dollars a year, which I want to tell you plainly that the US paid for several years,
399. 30:10almost two decades before we did anything differently. I'm fast forwarding a little bit.
400. 30:15This led to a disagreement between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, because John Adams was like,
401. 30:21just pay them. So, you know, we don't want to fight. We just came off this thing with
402. 30:26Great Britain. We don't have any, we don't have to wear a daughter to just keep fighting.
403. 30:30Let's just pay them. I'm getting ahead of myself over when Thomas Jefferson became president.
404. 30:35He said, no, we ain't paying them no more. Because at the time they were paying this annual tribute,
405. 30:41which sounds a lot like, what does it sound like, Bobby? Kind of like a jiz-y attack?
406. 30:44Doesn't it sound a little bit? Doesn't it sound like a jiz-y attack? I attack. I'll attack
407. 30:49attack you, kidnap your people, take your slaves, but you pay me, I was giving back to
408. 30:54you.
409. 30:55But if you pay me money up front, maybe I want to attack you again.
410. 30:58Call you stupid.
411. 31:01Maybe I want to attack you again.
412. 31:06The annual payments became so high that at the time that Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson
413. 31:10are negotiating with these people that it had become upwards of 16% of the annual federal
414. 31:18budget.
415. 31:19The United States of America was budgeting to pay Muslim terrorists to please y'all don't
416. 31:28attack our votes on the high seas.
417. 31:31Please leave us alone.
418. 31:32Do y'all understand what I'm telling you?
419. 31:35Now again, your children are not going to learn this in school.
420. 31:40They're not going to learn this in school.
421. 31:41Some of you are listening to me right now saying, hey, I never heard this before in my
422. 31:43life, to which I say, why?
423. 31:50Why haven't we heard this before if we haven't heard this before?
424. 31:56the many treaties and I want to give a little context of this that were signed
425. 31:59during this time period because what happened you have fights then you have
426. 32:03treaty signed then you have fights again why would you have fights again if you
427. 32:07had a treaty signed kind of like you have an agreement a memorandum a memorandum
428. 32:12of understanding if you will but when the barbarians feel like it it would just
429. 32:18attack again this led to one of the treaties that was signed is often cited
430. 32:24by, I would say, anti-Christ critics was the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797, which by the way
431. 32:32Tripoli is where modern day Libya is today.
432. 32:37I'll talk a little bit about the battle of Tripoli.
433. 32:39I don't think this is going to take this long, but this is important history for us to understand,
434. 32:42especially when we have people like, you know, Hassan Piker and Zoron Mamdani, and you have
435. 32:47to do El Syed in Michigan, who is the front-runner expected to win the Democratic primary for the
436. 32:52U.S. Senate today.
437. 32:53More when we get back from this break.
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462. 35:16Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
463. 35:17Abraham Hamilton III here.
464. 35:20So when we discuss the tree of Tripoli,
465. 35:23you have to understand the historical context
466. 35:25in order to properly assess what's happening there.
467. 35:28Instead of taking a half sentence,
468. 35:30it's not even an entire sentence,
469. 35:33decontextualized to assert your, you know,
470. 35:37isodhetical pre-existing notion,
471. 35:39for try to say, see the United States of America
472. 35:41not a Christian nation. So why am I saying this? Well, first of all, the Treaty of Tripoli
473. 35:45was one of these treaties that were signed that ultimately were broken by the Barbary
474. 35:51Pirates. And the whole purpose of the signature was that as the negotiations had unfolded,
475. 35:57as I mentioned, Jefferson Franklin and Adams were part of the negotiators initially in
476. 36:021784, fast forward to what you get to 1797, the Treaty of Tripoli assigned, the Muslim
477. 36:07Some nations regarded the United States of America as well as all the other Western nations
478. 36:13as if it were contemporary crusader nations.
479. 36:18And the whole point of the Treaty of Tripoli was to assert, listen, we're going to do our
480. 36:22thing in the US.
481. 36:24We believe what we believe over here.
482. 36:25You guys believe differently.
483. 36:27We're not trying to attack you because you believe differently.
484. 36:30That's not what we do.
485. 36:31In fact, we're only here because y'all keep attacking us.
486. 36:33But we're going to enter this treaty to chronicle and document our mutual respect.
487. 36:40That was the whole purpose of the Treaty of Tripoli, which is why it includes the infamous
488. 36:47phrasing verbiage that says this, quote, this is from the Treaty of Tripoli.
489. 36:52As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian
490. 36:55religion, as it has in itself.
491. 36:57Now let me pause.
492. 36:59usually when people try to critique the US, they stop the quote right there.
493. 37:03As the government of the United States of America is not any sense founded on the
494. 37:06Christian religion. They stop right there. They don't go on to explain the rest of
495. 37:11the sentence let alone the context of the entire statement. I'm gonna read the
496. 37:17entire statement. Says as the government of the United States of America is not in
497. 37:22any sense founded on the Christian religion, what they meant there is like
498. 37:25other nations in medieval times that would attack Muslims just because they were
499. 37:30Muslims. That's what they were saying. It goes on to say as it has in itself no
500. 37:35character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of the Muslim
501. 37:41men, which was how they referred to Muslims at the time. And as the said states,
502. 37:45the United States of America, have never entered into any war or act of
503. 37:50hostility against any Muhammadan. Any Muhammadan nation. It is declared by the
504. 37:56parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption
505. 38:02of the harmony existing between the two countries."
506. 38:06The whole point of the expression was to say, we believe what we believe over here.
507. 38:12We believe in Christianity.
508. 38:14We're not trying to fight you because of what you believe, but y'all have attacked us because
509. 38:20we don't believe what you believe.
510. 38:21So this treaty exists to say, y'all will believe what you believe and we're going to believe
511. 38:26we believe we're not going to attack each other. That's what the whole point of the treaty was.
512. 38:31Which by the way, who do you think broke the treaty? I'll give you a hint.
513. 38:40Who violated the terms of the memorandum of understanding in our reign? Who violated
514. 38:45ceasefire after ceasefire after negotiation after negotiation on the West Bank?
515. 38:53The clause from the treaty of Tripoli simply affirms that America was not like medieval European
516. 38:59nations with an inherent hostility toward Muslims in that America had never been a part of arbitrary
517. 39:05awards against Muslims. That was the whole point. It's interesting to me though that people who critique
518. 39:13America's Christian heritage, they're never going on to explain what number the Treaty of Tripoli was
519. 39:18in the number of treaties that have been signed between the US and Muslim nations,
520. 39:22nor do they explain how the Treaty of Tripoli was violated. Nobody they don't ever seek to explain
521. 39:26that. I wonder why. Anyway, I just wanted to give you that because I know some of you probably have
522. 39:31have encountered people try to weaponize the treaty
523. 39:33tripply against you in the face of the entire bank of
524. 39:36american history from the declaration of independence to the state
525. 39:40constitutions of each individual state that gives us clear
526. 39:43understanding of our nation's history but then we go forward so from
527. 39:48seventeen eighty four
528. 39:50prior to seventeen eighty four so the united states of america's a nation the
529. 39:53declaration of independence is not a seventy seventy six we ultimately when
530. 39:56the war for independence the first thing that happens after we win the war for
531. 39:59independence is that the Barbary pyres start attacking the United States of America.
532. 40:03By the time we get to 1784, guys, this is before the US Constitution is even ratified.
533. 40:07The US Congress sends Franklin Adams and Jefferson to negotiate with Muslims because they keep
534. 40:12attacking us.
535. 40:15From 1784 until 1801, the entire time of Adams's presidency, we are paying the Muslim nations
536. 40:23over a million dollars a year not to attack us.
537. 40:26And yet they still continue to attack us.
538. 40:29So in 1801, when Thomas Jefferson becomes president, he says, man, we ain't paying these people
539. 40:34no more.
540. 40:35We're not paying these people anymore.
541. 40:38For the previous two decades, the Muslim, Barbary, terrorists have been attacking the United States
542. 40:45of America's vessels on the high seas.
543. 40:47So Jefferson said, we're going to use the brand new American Navy to transport U.S. Marines.
544. 40:56And we're going to run up in there and bust some gums.
545. 41:01No.
546. 41:02Yes. Yes. Yes. Jefferson says, we're going to run up in there and bust some gums. George
547. 41:11Washington had called for the construction of our Navy in 1795, John Adams oversaw the
548. 41:18buildup of our Navy. So a part of the issue that's happening is that we're a brand new
549. 41:23nation. We don't have the military built yet to that stage. We're still coming from state
550. 41:29run militia. So we didn't even really have a Navy yet. We're building that under George
551. 41:35Washington, continuing to build it under John Adams. So by the time Jefferson comes into
552. 41:39office, now we have a Navy. The Navy is now taking our Marines. We're not going to wait
553. 41:47for them to attack us. We're going to go over there and fight.
554. 41:50We were still broke from the Revolutionary War. The United States of America, we still
555. 41:56or trying to rebuild ourselves monetarily from the war for independence. Nevertheless,
556. 42:02Youtan-Tama Jefferson says that's enough of this. We can't continue to pay over 16% of our annual budget
557. 42:07to basically pay a Jesse attacks. We cannot do this. So the Navy boards up our Marines under the
558. 42:16authority of General William Eton and General William Eton rolls right into part of the world
559. 42:23where people are fighting right now, right now.
560. 42:27And he leads, you know,
561. 42:31Eton leads a five year successful campaign,
562. 42:341801 to 1805, that freed captured Americans
563. 42:41and they crushed Muslim forces.
564. 42:43Guys, this is an 1805.
565. 42:46It took five years to do this, five years to do this.
566. 42:53As I mentioned, Tripoli, which is now Libya,
567. 42:55finally capitulated in 1805, okay, finally capitulate inside and again, the people who
568. 43:04critique the Treaty of Tripoli, they never talk about the Septic Intrini from 1805.
569. 43:09That followed our US Marines, victoriously freeing American captives, and now a new treaty
570. 43:24assigned on the United States of America's terms.
571. 43:29This is why, as I mentioned in the beginning of the second segment, this is why the opening
572. 43:34line of the Marine hymn begins, quote, from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.
573. 43:42This is why the defining opening line for the hymn for our United States Marines is drawn
574. 43:50from a military campaign that occurred in a defensive measure after spending two decades
575. 43:56of paying a jizzi attacks.
576. 43:59i wonder why i didn't teach this in our schools
577. 44:06but guess what if you teach it at home you can teach this
578. 44:12it doesn't even stop there going forward shortly after president james madison
579. 44:16takes office
580. 44:17he became engulfed in the war of eighteen twelve that's where the british tried to
581. 44:21bus back again at us
582. 44:23this is what led to the white house being burned in eighteen twelve
583. 44:26i'm i'm familiar with this because of the battle war liens i mean
584. 44:30that's why i grew up in world of the india
585. 44:33so with the war of eighteen twelve
586. 44:35President James Madison was preoccupied with reminding the Brits that we don't care nothing
587. 44:42about the royal family.
588. 44:43All right.
589. 44:45But as soon as President James Madison and our United States military put a stop to the
590. 44:52Brits in the war of 1812, President James Madison dispatched American military once again and
591. 44:59warships against three Muslim nations.
592. 45:03Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli once again.
593. 45:06The United States of America subdue those Muslim nations and brought them to the peace table
594. 45:11where they once again freed all enslaved Christians, freed them all, but they freed them as a result
595. 45:19of U.S. force.
596. 45:22Remember what the negotiations did?
597. 45:24Two decades of paying, basically paying the juicy attacks.
598. 45:28John Adams was paying the tax.
599. 45:30Jefferson said enough of that.
600. 45:32So after our nation learned, oh, this is how we have to deal.
601. 45:36Under Jefferson, with our newly minted Marines, being victorious from 1801 to 1805, then James
602. 45:44Madison said, well, this is how we're going to roll there for going forward.
603. 45:47And that is the way we continue to operate for quite a long time until recent history.
604. 45:54Now why am I sharing all of this?
605. 45:56I'm sharing all of this guys because if we don't understand our own history, if we don't
606. 45:59learn from our own history, we're going to repeat the same kinds of mistakes. The ideology of Islamists
607. 46:05are the same today as they were then. I know for a fact not all professing Muslims agree with the
608. 46:11terrorist creed, but here's the reality. Which one is living up to the clear teachings of the
609. 46:16Quran and the Hadith? I know that there's variation between which Hadith they believe and I know
610. 46:20in some that's Quran only, but let's just be real about what does history teach us, what
611. 46:23is examining documents teach us, what is our own national history teach us. This is why I said I
612. 46:28I would caution President Trump against trying to negotiate in good faith because you have
613. 46:32a people who for them negotiation is just an attack to allow them to re-establish themselves
614. 46:39with the purposes of another attack.
615. 46:42What about all of those treaties in the two decades prior to 1801 that were signed?
616. 46:49This is why I said the United States of America has to establish what our objectives, what
617. 46:54are we seeking to accomplish is that we execute them and then we come home as best as possible.
618. 47:00I know there's lots of complicated things and additional considerations that have arisen
619. 47:04now that we're already over there.
620. 47:10But if we would have taken our lesson from our own nation's history, in addition to all
621. 47:15of the other lessons that are available to us, then I think it would change the way we
622. 47:19would engage.
623. 47:20And then while I'm talking about this, is it an interesting that right now, in the Democrat
624. 47:28primary in Michigan for the next US, for the vacant US Senate seat, formerly held by Senator
625. 47:33Gary Peters, US Rep. Haley Stevens, who was, I think, a four-term congresswoman, is locked
626. 47:40in a race against the Muslim socialist Abdul's El-Sayed, which according to the poll, Sayed
627. 47:48is expected to win.
628. 47:51And Sayed just happens to be supported and endorsed by Hassan Piker, who we mentioned
629. 47:57yesterday.
630. 48:02All over the country, these things are lining up in Massachusetts.
631. 48:06Where is the, you know, America's United for the Separation of Church and State?
632. 48:10Well, did you know that in Massachusetts that the state Senate has passed, passing legislation?
633. 48:16It hasn't passed finally yet, but it's passing legislation to create a Muslim commission where
634. 48:21the government entity is tasked with one primary objective, look for ways to advance Muslims
635. 48:26in the state.
636. 48:27Y'all think I'm kidding.
637. 48:29Listen to and watch clip number five, clip five, go.
638. 48:32Massachusetts, for example. Senate Democrats there are pushing a bill to form what they're
639. 48:38calling a Muslim commission. The goal to prioritize Muslims for jobs in state government. We need
640. 48:47Muslim voices at every table of government as full participants, shaping decisions that
641. 48:53affect their lives.
642. 48:55these the S-234 and H-335-1 is a meaningful, meaningful step forward toward ensuring that
643. 49:05Muslims are represented, respected and included in the life of the commonwealth.
644. 49:12Not a single court reviewing this could ignore the fact that it's just discrimination and
645. 49:18we spent decades and so long in the history of this country, Laura, to make sure that
646. 49:22we're not discriminating based on religion, based on race or any other way.
647. 49:28So instead we're going to give benefits and think that that's not discrimination.
648. 49:34It's mind-boggling.
649. 49:35I share the same sentiment that you do, but I will say I think this is a warning.
650. 49:40I think you remember Lara in Game of Thrones when they were testing the wall to see if
651. 49:44there were weaknesses.
652. 49:46This is the agenda.
653. 49:48the constitutional republic see where there are weaknesses where they can get inroads in
654. 49:54to start ushering in laws that are contradictory to our constitution.
655. 49:59This is their game plan. That's exactly right. Guys, this is what I'm saying. If we understood
656. 50:07our history, do you think we'd have a different kind of immigration policy? We have a different
657. 50:12type of understanding that we cannot ignore the true lessons that are readily available
658. 50:21to us if we would employ them. But the fact that many of our fellow countrymen know nothing
659. 50:27about the Barbary Wars is evidence, my estimation, that we have not just coincidentally arrived
660. 50:35where we are. There has been a plan.
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