September 10, 2026 · 51:19

One way to encourage civic participation: $5,000 per adult U.S. citizen…???

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0:00 - 15:00. Colossians 1:13-17. Christ is before all things and in Him all things consist. 15:00 - 31:00. One way to encourage civic participation: $5,000 per adult U.S. citizen…??? 31:00 - 48:00. “He had the hardest time getting over the fact that [she] viciously killed her children.” Not all heroes wear capes.

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0:53Jay Mac, ladies and gentlemen, that is Mr. Jeff McIntosh.
0:56And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition
0:59of the program at this very moment. Many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from
1:04your part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an
1:10outcome. And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
1:16primacy that God places on family and welcoming God to transform us individually and to grace us
1:25to be agents of transformation starting right in our homes where we are today. It is gripping
1:36and sobering to reflect on the fact that this day last year was a day that Charlie Kirk was
1:43assassinated. And it's not lost on me if you are familiar with the trajectory of Charlie Kirk's life.
1:50He began with a emphasis primarily on kind of libertarian economic policy.
2:01That birthed into wanting to activate young Americans to engage as voters, to be civically
2:10engaged and to present a politically conservative message.
2:14But the more he invested, he was confronted with the fact that, wait, there has to be something
2:20more. From the economic perspective, it has to be something more from the politically engaged
2:28perspective. He concluded this is his own words. There had to be something more and he realized
2:33that what was necessary was a populace, as John Adams described, that was comprised of religious
2:41and moral people who were meet for an experiment in self-governance because the regeneration of the
2:51soul is what precipitates the fruit of the spirit called self-control. And so he became a passionate
3:01and robust evangelist for the Christian faith, ultimately. And if you examine that life trajectory,
3:10nobody tried to kill Charlie Kirk when he was focusing on libertarian economic policy.
3:14Nobody really tried to kill him when he was going around college campuses around the country
3:23and investing himself into turning young people on to civic engagement and conservative political
3:32philosophy.
3:34But when he became passionate about his faith in Christ, that is when the assassins bullet
3:43found him.
3:46I believe that's instructive for us because much of what is transpiring in our world, the Lord
3:55reminds us in Ephesians 6 that we are not wrestling merely against flesh and blood, we're not.
4:02We're not. And the demonic scheme into endeavor to get us to reduce the main thing into a side thing.
4:12But the truth is we do not wrestle against flesh and blood.
4:20And my heart still breaks for his family, his wife, and his young children.
4:30And I pray that we would understand the times that we are in and take full advantage of the
4:37time that God has given us and that we do life from heaven down, recognizing that eternity
4:41is our home.
4:42Our temporal station is a temporal stage of engagement.
4:46But heaven is our home.
4:47The eternal state is our home.
4:49And the whole idea that because heaven is our home
4:52that we disengage from the here and now
4:53is actually contrary to the biblical import,
4:56it is because heaven is our home that we seek to take
5:00full advantage of the time that we have in the here and now.
5:04And so it is a sobering time,
5:13but it's also the time that God has ordained for you
5:18and for me.
5:21and we have the privilege and the opportunity
5:23to be about our Father's business.
5:27That every joint needs a supply.
5:29We need all hands on deck.
5:31To the word of God, we go Colossians chapter one,
5:34verses 13 through 17, Colossians chapter one,
5:38verses 13 through 17 is where I wanna go
5:42to start the program.
5:46And this is what God's word says for he referring to,
5:50Yeshua, Hamashiyak, Jesus, the Messiah,
5:54for He rescued us from the domain of darkness,
5:59and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,
6:05in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
6:11He is the image of the invisible God,
6:17the firstborn of all creation,
6:22For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth visible, and invisible,
6:31whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things have been created through Him
6:43and for Him.
6:46He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
6:58The Spirit of God moved the Apostle Paul to pin these words, conveying the absolute pre-eminence
7:08of Yeshua, God the Son.
7:14The question and a half for us is, well, before I even ask that question is, do we believe
7:21what I just read?
7:22And if you have your Bibles and you're reading along with me,
7:25I get encouraged by the notes I get from people that say,
7:27hey, I pull over and read the scripture with you.
7:31Praise God for that.
7:32Do we believe this?
7:35He is before all things and all things hold together in Him.
7:46A long time ago, my man, Will Addison said,
7:48when we make less of Christ, we invariably make much
7:53of everything else.
7:56As I said before, I even began to read the scripture
7:58much of the satanic project is to get God's people, get God's people to minimize the import
8:07and the significance of Christ, to reduce Him to become one among many, to make much of
8:16everything else.
8:20Because the reality is Christ is all in all.
8:27I remember old song, Jesus is all the world to me.
8:32Here in this, this is extremely significant passage of Scripture.
8:37For in verse 13, when it says,
8:38for he rescued us from the domain of darkness
8:40and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved son,
8:43in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
8:51He is the image of the invisible God,
8:55the firstborn of all creation.
8:57The utilization of the terminology firstborn there
9:00is what led to the church schism,
9:03led to Athanasius ultimately becomes Athanasius contra-bundam. That's the Latin phrase for
9:10Athanasius against the world. Athanasius would write that because Christ is all and in all,
9:17if the world is against Athanasius, then an Athanasius is against the world. It's led to him being
9:24exiled twice to be excoriated, only later to be vindicated because Athanasius stood against
9:31the Aryan presentation that reflected that Jesus was not eternally God the son, but that he was a feature of creation.
9:40And Arias misinterpreted this passage of scripture that we just read, that says even the Lord's inspired word refers to him as the first born.
9:50What Athanasius misunderstood was the Greek terminology employed there did not mean first in chronology.
9:57Right?
9:58This was not first in terms of chronos.
10:04This is first in terms of primacy, protakas, from where we get our English, where a prototype
10:10from.
10:11This didn't mean a chronological first.
10:14This means a first in terms of preeminence because God the Son is in fact eternally God
10:20the Son.
10:22He is there at the beginning.
10:26He is there at creation.
10:28This is what the Apostle John picks up on in the first chapter of his gospel.
10:35But Christ is pre-immanent.
10:39The question I want to ask in a rhetorical fashion is, in addition to the previous question
10:46I asked, do we believe this?
10:53And related to the question, do we believe that Christ is pre-immanent?
10:58Have we allowed in practical life reality?
11:00we allowed various things in life to encroach upon that pre-eminence of Christ in our own
11:07hearts, in our own lives.
11:09And in order to conduct this assessment, I invite you to evaluate what are the things
11:16that you deem most important?
11:18What are the most important things?
11:20Right now?
11:23What are the most important things?
11:25I think many of us, if we were honest, we would say the most important things have to
11:34deal with temporal matters.
11:36don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying temple matters are irrelevant. Like I said before,
11:39because of our eternal home that our life engagement now and here and now has has God-sized significance.
11:50But we do ourselves a disservice that if we intellectually assent to the fact that Christ
11:56is preeminent, but in functional practicality, we act as if everything else is preeminent.
12:03are offering countervailing narratives. I am not one of the people who would say, don't
12:13worry about, you know, the those who seek to advance Sharia law in America and just preach
12:19the gospel. I am not one of those who would say that. But I would say in your effort to
12:25address Sharia law, don't leave the gospel on the sidelines. Don't leave the gospel on
12:32the sidelines? Is Christ truly preeminent? Do we believe that? How do we display that if
12:45we do believe it? When I say display, I'm not saying for performative purposes, I'm saying
12:52in our life engagement, what do we lead with? What is the substantive urgency of our engagements?
13:02When rearing our children, what is the urgency? Do we want? Are we trying to prepare them so
13:08so they can pass a certain standardized test
13:10so they can achieve scholarships
13:11so they can go to university?
13:14You know?
13:15How do we view our lives?
13:17Do we view our lives, you know,
13:19where the work and the job, those are the important things,
13:22you know, we do a little Sunday, go to meeting
13:23on the sideline of our lives.
13:26Or is Christ all and all?
13:31As I'm presenting this to you,
13:32I'm not only presenting this to you,
13:34I'm asking the Spirit of God to examine my heart as well.
13:41Where am I?
13:45Because the time is far spent, man.
13:48And I have said it on the show and I will continue to say it on this program, the most
13:51desperate need that we have in our society.
13:56His full repentance.
13:57That's the most desperate need.
14:00There are other things that are accessible downstream from that.
14:07But that's why I urge Adams' words that are populous, unharnessed by religion and morality.
14:17They're not conducive to our Constitution.
14:20They'll run through like a whale runs through a net.
14:25As this experiment in self-government presumes and has by necessity a populace that is self-governed.
14:34Self-governance is not something that comes natural to the fallen Adam to this inflammation.
14:40Self-governance is a fruit of the spirit called self-controlled.
14:46As we are engaging in our lives, let the preeminence of Christ that we embrace be made evident
14:53in our life engagements.
15:00a discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:03Spiritual habits are so important.
15:05Being God's Word absolutely every single day
15:08on a pretty regular basis, I challenge believers
15:10to set the goal of reading at least three chapters
15:13in your Bible each and every day.
15:15Why is that important?
15:16Because amongst other things, the Word of God
15:19refers to itself as being the sword of the Spirit,
15:21and that's exactly what it is.
15:23But when you're consuming God's Word,
15:25when you're reading and meditating on it,
15:27it's equipping you with the weaponry of God's Word,
15:30the most powerful weapon in the universe is the Word of God.
15:34And when you're reading and studying God's Word,
15:36it's equipping you to be a better equipped soldier
15:38who knows how to take the weapon of the sword of the spirit
15:41and use it wisely and productively.
15:44As we prepare ourselves for battle on a daily basis,
15:47we can prepare to stand against the devil
15:50and not only just to defend ourselves,
15:53but to do battle with him and to take territory away from it.
16:04Shining light into the darkness.
16:06This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
16:13Abraham Hamilton the third here.
16:17So the Republican Mid-term convention kicked off last night.
16:22When I left the studio, I took a lot of it in
16:27and one thing is for certain,
16:30there will not be another like President Donald John Trump.
16:34There will not be another like him, you know, and you can see how, at least I can, when you
16:43watch that and you know his background and you know his development and wealth and all
16:49of that coming up from the, you know, the non-elite type side of Manhattan to ascend to the places
16:57where he ascended to.
16:58Yet, he's a regular guy and that comes through so easily when he communicates, which is why
17:04why he resonates with so many people in our country.
17:07As usual, President Trump, there's a lot of stuff
17:09that I could have done without.
17:12And then there are things, frankly,
17:14that were just absolutely hilarious.
17:18I'm just saying, some of the stuff was hilarious.
17:23Some stuff, I was like, come on, please, man.
17:27Profanity and things of that nature.
17:31But I'm going to talk a little bit about it,
17:32and I know what the big thing is from last night,
17:34for many people, it is for me too, and we'll get to that.
17:37But one of the things that was kind of a surprise
17:40was John Federman's appearance.
17:43The Democrat Senator from Pennsylvania
17:47made an appearance at the GOP midterm convention.
17:52Yeah, yeah, John Federman, very interesting.
17:59He said during the convention, quote,
18:02But I'm always going to stand with America.
18:05I'm always going to reject the extremes, socialism, and the anti-American way of life.
18:12He said he's going to work with President Trump to defend the steel way of life right
18:17here in the steel valley.
18:19And then he went on to endorse the Republican Senator and his reelection campaign from the
18:25state of Pennsylvania.
18:27And that is Senator Dave McCormick.
18:31Democrat sitting Senator John
18:33Fetterman endorsed Republican incumbent senator who was seeking reelection
18:38Dave McCormick
18:40And he said quote Dave McCormick is the kind of senator that gets the job done and he's going to fight for Pennsylvania
18:46I am proud to count him as my friend in quote
18:51that was
18:53At least from my vantage point an unexpected
18:56Thing that transpired last night and as you can imagine as you can imagine
19:01imagine the Democrat or if you heard President Trump last night, he calls them the Democrats.
19:09That's what he says.
19:11He said he called them Democrats, but quite predictably, the calls for primary challenges
19:24to John Fetterman have reached a fever pitch among the Democrats.
19:32Case in point, Congressman Chris Delusio, who is a Democrat, he is currently running
19:38for re-election to his congressional seat in Pennsylvania's 17th district.
19:45There was speech about wanting to primary federal government even before now, but after last
19:50night, they have gone through the roof with it.
19:55Congressman Chris Delusio, who's already running for re-election in the 17th congressional
20:01district in Pennsylvania. But while he's doing that, he said he's thinking about running against
20:07John Federman in the 2028 Democratic primary. Now, when you think if you are running for
20:13reelection now, you should probably just focus on that and give a stiff arm to any questions
20:18about what you're going to do in 2028 and beyond, but they cannot resist. And there are
20:24so many statements, you know, dead man walking John Federman that his days as a Democrat Senator
20:31are over which has led to speculation as to whether or not John Federman is going to change
20:36parties. To date he has said he has no plans to change parties but what I anticipate is
20:44if he loses the Democrat primary if he runs again in 2028 and he loses he probably will
20:50reclassify and run in the general election as something other than a Democrat. Will it
20:58will be a Republican, will it be an independent?
21:00I don't know, but you know, John Federman put on his best hoodie
21:06for the Democrat convention and made an appearance at the
21:11midterm congressional, I'm sorry, the congressional midterm
21:15convention now to one of the biggest things that happened
21:22last night, they came from President Trump himself.
21:26and this is one of those things where when I heard it the first thing that I thought was
21:37President Trump himself said I have a teleprompter but I don't really like to use the teleprompter
21:45and so he said that himself last night it was obvious that he was not using the teleprompter
21:51look at the fake news look at him back there you see him I have the teleprompter but I don't
21:57really like to use it too much. They try to make me talk. He even said this. This is
22:03what it did was funny because they like me to speak like this. Well, I'm your president
22:06and I'm so happy to be here. I don't like to talk like that. That's what he said. When
22:11he said this, I said, Oh boy, I'm not even one. Well, I'll give you a little warning.
22:17And then we're going to play the play the clip. President Trump promised and he called it the
22:22the Trump dividend, he promised and his words, I promise, I promise. Jeff, did you get it?
22:29Did you write that down? I promise. When I say I promise, I mean it. He promised to give
22:37$5,000 to every adult American citizen if Republicans win the midterm elections and retain
22:52both the House and the Senate.
22:56Listen to and watch clip number one, clip one, go.
23:01But what we're doing is because we've done so well and because our country is making
23:07so much money that only I can make this promise to you.
23:13And here is my promise.
23:15If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them,
23:22Because of our economic, tremendous economic success, like in history we've never had anything
23:29like what's happening, but because of our tremendous strength and success economically,
23:36I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000,
24:00very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to a chair-olders.
24:08Or like last year when I gave our great members of the military, 1,776, remember?
24:18I gave it to our military, 1,776 dollars.
24:22If the Republicans win, if you win, we might not win.
24:25The reason the Democrats can't do that is because they don't do tariffs, they don't
24:30taking money. All they know is poverty and had a rule in our country. But we're making
24:35a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000, it will be called
24:44the Trump dividend. We'll call it the Trump. Congratulations. Now all we have to do now
24:56all we have to do is win. I was listening to that. I said, did he just say that? And
25:07He said it. He repeated it several times says the as a night went on. He repeated it several times.
25:19Oh boy. So the Trump dividend, huh? It's for adults. So no, it is an apply to your under 18 year old
25:30children, but it's the adults. All right, let's get into it. First things first.
25:37Did he just bribe people to support the Republicans?
25:46Is he bribing voters?
25:48It's a dividend.
25:49Yeah, yeah, dividend, huh?
25:51Not a bribe.
25:52But a dividend that's conditioned upon a particular event occurring.
25:56Am I right about that, Mr. Rosa?
25:57I mean...
25:58You gotta make my dividend.
26:00Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the dividend distribution, however, is conditioned upon a certain condition
26:06being met.
26:07Is that not correct, sir?
26:08We got mine.
26:09Yeah.
26:10So he's saying that the dividend will be distributed if Republicans win in the midterm. Guys, that is
26:18illegal. You cannot do that. Now, the one thing he is not distributing money to vote for him personally
26:26because he's not on the ballot, you can't do that. And this is where I wish you would have stuck to
26:36the teleprompter because I don't think any speech writers said that you need to go ahead and say that
26:40if we win, because guys, he could have communicated the exact same message by saying something like
26:47this. Ladies and gentlemen, you all elected me in 2024 after the Democrats stole election
26:54in 2020. You can throw that in if you want. You elected me in 2024 brought me back into
26:58the White House to put the nation put our nation on a course correction after the horrible
27:06things we suffered under Joe Biden. We have we're halfway through with executing and delivering
27:13the agenda you sent me to the White House to accomplish. Though my name is not on the ballot,
27:19the agenda you elected me to execute remains on the ballot because the vision of our founders
27:26requires the interaction between the executive and the legislature in order to advance policy,
27:33especially domestic policy. In order to finish the job, we need to make sure that we
27:44expand Republican support in Congress so that those who are roadblocks to the agenda you elected
27:51me to execute, that they can be moved out of the way.
27:55Things like the Save America Act, things like you named the various policies.
27:59And when you allow for an expanded majority in the Congress and both the House and the
28:06Senate will be able to even focus even more so on economic policies that could possibly
28:15and very likely include and then you can fill in the rest of the sentence. But to get up there
28:20and say, if we win and then I have this idea, I mean, color me a radical, right? This is an
28:30extreme thought, right? What about, you know, chopping down some of that 40 trillion plus debt
28:39that we have in the country, you know, that that probably would be helpful. I don't know if that's
28:46on the stage and look I get it just like just like the aid the the childcare aid for couples
28:57and I want y'all to pay attention to the language to marry couples where a spouse is a stay at home
29:03spouse. I wonder what they're trying to slide in there you know and I know it's just an idea
29:10and they're considering it just is one of the casualties of the current state of affairs is that
29:20fiscal sanity is kind of just out of the window and what you have there and let's just be real
29:26with it. Yeah President Trump trying to out Democrats or Democrats because that's kind of things
29:29Democrats have done in the past you know to bribe people with various incentives to vote and it's
29:35it's just not a good look man it's just not it's not a good look and I just I don't believe it seems I
29:42don't know this war fact but I don't I don't believe that that was a product of a line that was included in the
29:46speech that was listed on the teleprompter you know and he kept saying it and so you have the the
29:53appearance of kind of a pay for play for electoral participation but then in addition to that a part
30:00of the reason why you can you say that is because in order to do something like that you cannot do it
30:04unilaterally from the executive branch, you would have to have some type of congressional
30:08legislation passed in order to do something like that.
30:14So you can even explain that in order to institute the economic agenda we have for the
30:19country, we're going to need the help of Congress.
30:22And that is why we need you to go out to make sure that we have more Republicans elected
30:27so they can support the agenda that will include the domestic fiscal policy that we're seeking
30:34to accomplish.
30:35You see it that way in a bit more artful fashion, but you know, President Trump, he's
30:40going Trump for good, for bad, for worse.
30:44And here's the other thing that's concerning and just doing a little math.
30:48You know, the United States of America has roughly $269.7 million adults.
30:53All right.
30:55If you are going to give $5,000 to $269.7 million, do you know how much money that is?
31:05$1.35 trillion. Just doing simple math to date from the time President Trump took office
31:13to the time I'm talking to you right now, we've only netted about $139 some odd billion
31:21in terrorist revenues. The tariff revenues in total grocery seats approached $300 billion,
31:27but because of the most recent, because of the recent Supreme Court case where the court
31:34ordered President Trump had to refund some of the tariff money.
31:39There's been over, there have been about $100 billion in tariff revenue refunded back to other countries.
31:44You know, and I'm not trying to, trying to poo poo on anybody's parade, but man, these are facts.
31:51So you are talking about something, you are, you are talking about something that will exacerbate the deficit, potentially.
32:03Now I know this is today, if this were to happen, it would happen within the next two years after the,
32:08the midterm elections, but this could potentially exacerbate the deficit. And then what would that do
32:14for inflation? These are just economic realities that all converge together to say,
32:21that's not the best idea. That's not the best idea. So, you know, I think President Trump has some
32:33good ideas. I think some of the most recent ones that we've discussed, the $9,000 child care deal,
32:40this $5,000 deal. There are better ways to skin this cat. And I know there's an urgency and a need to
32:48to generate support and an energy for the midterm elections, but bad policies are not the way to go.
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33:58Here's a $10 bill.
34:01It's got the picture of Alexander Hamilton on the front of it.
34:04You know, it's kind of sad.
34:05When I was 10 years old, everything that I could buy for a dollar now costs about $10.
34:10That's the cost of inflation.
34:13It's just paper.
34:14It's not backed by anything.
34:15You can't exchange it for gold and silver.
34:16You used to, but you can't do that anymore.
34:19And that's unfortunate.
34:20You know, pirates wouldn't accept this.
34:22Pirates, they wanted gold and silver.
34:25Patriots, the founders of this nation, also wanted gold and silver coin.
34:28In fact, they put a provision in the Constitution.
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35:45Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
35:49I had this queued up before, but in light of the interview we had previously scheduled
35:56But Brother Squires, we didn't have a chance to get to this yesterday, but I want you to see this and hear this for yourself for yourself because
36:05And where we are it is gravely concerning and so
36:14several of the jurors in the
36:21In this trial in Massachusetts have given interviews
36:33man, it's crazy. And the trial had three men on the jury and nine women. And one of the
36:45things that I did in every trial that I had, I always found it to be edifying and beneficial
36:54to talk to every jury when I tried a case. If I was allowed to do so, I always asked the
36:58judge after the trial ended and the jury had rendered its verdict, whatever the verdict
37:03was, could I speak with the jurors? And I wanted to learn from
37:09them. What do they find to be helpful? What do they find to be a
37:11distraction? You know, this is, this is something I thought it
37:17was my responsibility to do in order to sharpen my craft as an
37:19attorney. And hearing from jurors after the fact, it was always
37:25a lesson to see what things stood out to them. And so listening
37:29to these, and what I'm about shares is is video is kind of a
37:34montage of three of the three of the female jurors. And I want you to listen all the way
37:43through to the very end because all of it is important to note. But the very last statement
37:50just echoed in my heart powerfully. Here are three of the jurors in this case in Massachusetts.
38:02It's clip number, uh oh, yes, clip number two.
38:07It's clip number two, clip two, go.
38:09He was very arrogant.
38:11He really did not take anything that anybody said.
38:17The nurses, he tried to ask a question about the medications and we went back to the report
38:26from South Shore Hospital.
38:27We had the toxicology report.
38:29We could see exactly the amounts.
38:31nurses in the room spoke to that and they spoke to that specific thing that was a
38:42question that he had and he just completely disregarded the information
38:48that they gave. I mean he had reasonable doubt he admitted he had reasonable doubt
38:52after we watched that video of the interview I think that's when it was he
38:57admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms I was so
39:02excited I actually did with three forms I had to fill out and I started filling
39:08them out I wrote my signature on each one and then he said but I'm still not
39:13gonna say that she's not guilty with by reason of incense. I'm not sure if Rogue
39:18is the right word to but every one of us in the hours of a frustration would get
39:26up and walk the room because you just couldn't sit anymore.
39:29And we'd all go to the cart with the exhibits.
39:33He, I think, got up to the cart once very briefly
39:38and went back to a seat.
39:40He would not interact with us and try to understand.
39:50We read to him on numerous occasions
39:52the definition of a reasonable doubt from Jeff Sullivan's
39:57instruction. He actually said one day in the end, well, why don't we have the judge
40:02coming and read it again? And we were like, no, we have it in front of us. We don't need
40:08that. And we would highlight it. And, you know, so and so this is the definition of
40:15a reason of love. But yet the hardest time getting up the fact that Lindsay viciously
40:20kills her children.
40:22So what they were talking about was and it's amazing all
40:32One several of the jurors that wanted to vote to acquit this murdering mother
40:42They're all giving interviews
40:43But the one man who just stood his ground and said nope not gonna do it
40:50Not gonna do it. I don't care how long it takes. I don't care
40:54how many of you guys are trying to persuade me to to change my mind that I am not changing my mind and
41:00And I want to make a couple points to you in this.
41:09And so there was another, I didn't pull her audio,
41:11another juror who said, well, I initially was,
41:15I thought she was guilty.
41:16But then over time, the other jurors persuaded me
41:19and I changed my mind, right?
41:26Did you hear one of the ladies say,
41:28and notice these are not,
41:30I don't know these women personally,
41:32I don't know their ages, but let me just say,
41:33They didn't look to be between the ages of 19 and 23.
41:37I'll just say it like that.
41:39All right.
41:40I don't know them, but it does make me wonder
41:46if any of them may have had abortions.
41:49It does make me wonder that.
41:52I also want you to note how I believe two
41:57of the women mentioned we had nurses in the room.
42:00We had nurses who were explaining the toxicology.
42:02Okay, guys, the testimony, expert testimony
42:06supposed to come from the witnesses. But would you heard some of them wanted the jurors to be persuaded
42:15by the professional expertise of some of the other jurors? I want you to notice that.
42:25That some of them offered there, particularly the nurses in the jury room, sought to offer
42:31their professional expertise in an effort to persuade the other jurors. Then the other thing
42:40that stood out. One of that was just so like, wow, did you hear the lady at the end who said,
42:48you know, in referring to the one man who refused to go along with the rest of the 11 people in the
42:53jury room, he said, he had the hardest time getting over the fact that she viciously killed her
43:02children. You hear that? You're that? Yeah, that's caught at a point. That's caught at a point. That's
43:09That's kind of the point.
43:10That's kind of the point when you're in a position
43:12where you are tasked with the responsibility
43:15of meeting out justice, that is kind of the point
43:18that you are there in view of the victims.
43:26This is what happens in our society though.
43:28It's the out of sight, out of mind phenomenon.
43:32That's why I've been saying,
43:33man, I haven't seen anybody conducting any rallies
43:38in support of these three babies that were killed.
43:42that they're the victims I've seen any.
43:44I haven't seen people rallying in support of the husband.
43:54Can you imagine?
43:57You're endeavoring to serve your family
43:59and you come home to see your three children
44:01who've been strangled to death.
44:05You want to talk about lives that would never be the same?
44:11Did you hear any of the jurors talk about the husband?
44:20Guys, we are not in Kansas anymore.
44:22That we have crossed a threshold
44:27where there is an indictment on our culture.
44:30And again, I'm not saying this is every single person,
44:35100% in our country.
44:40But in terms of a jury in a suburb of Boston,
44:44because that's where they were,
44:45what type of jurors did you think was gonna be on that jury?
44:49Have you heard anything from the mayor of Boston?
44:55The Boston mayor is insane.
44:58The Boston state legislature,
44:59now keep bringing this point up,
45:00just pass a measure that would allow the slaughter
45:02unborn children throughout the entire gestational period. But within all of that,
45:12you had one man who said, I don't care what you guys say, I am not going to allow
45:18your presence to mar my moral compass. I know nothing about this soul, hold out
45:25juror other than the fact that he told these two other men and nine women that
45:31no, I'm not going to get past the fact that they're three big babies. I'm not
45:35I'm not getting past that fact.
45:36It's not possible for me to participate in a circumstance
45:40where this woman has admitted that she strangled
45:42these babies to death and I'm gonna say,
45:44okay, green light on your way away
45:49from any kind of responsibility.
45:50Because that one man was willing to say no,
45:53the potential exists for this murdering woman
45:57to still face justice.
45:59There still be hell to account.
46:04I don't know anything about this man.
46:05I don't know if he's a good man, bad man.
46:08I don't know anything about it.
46:09I know in this moment where duty required it,
46:12he stepped up to the plate.
46:15He stepped up to the plate.
46:19And in this time period where we are, where there is,
46:24and frankly, in many ways, a crisis of manhood,
46:28with courage and convictional courage is in short supply.
46:32And at the times where we need people
46:34who are willing to stand up, we don't have enough.
46:39In the old phrase that's attributed to Billy Graham
46:42as often was all that's needed for courage to take hold
46:44somebody to be willing to stand up.
46:47And then when one person is willing to step up,
46:49that courage tends to cascade.
46:54I'm hoping that that is something we see in our society.
46:59You know, with the conversation about, you know,
47:02the childcare support.
47:04Yes, I support and I agree with the idea
47:07of wanting to encourage and even incentivize parents
47:11to take care of our own children.
47:16I agree with that.
47:18but we don't need to co-parent with the government
47:21we need to go parent with the government
47:24what we need is for husbands and fathers to step up a ticket to lead a providing
47:28for our families providing for our lives and providing for our children
47:33i understand and agree
47:34uh... that the child care funds
47:36have an income threshold that is has in view
47:39people of lower incomes
47:41one of the blessings of being in this country
47:44is that no matter where you are you don't have to stay in that place economically
47:48So, you know, sometimes it takes courage to step up and go and get that second job.
47:52Sometimes it takes courage to go ahead that idea that God has given you,
47:55you've been waiting to put that business into practice.
47:58It takes courage to step on saying, you know what?
47:59Now is the time.
48:03That is what we've done historically in our country.
48:08Before the welfare state took over, when you had more
48:10melanated Americans who were deprived of various different things,
48:13we didn't sit around wasting our time saying what the government didn't do for us.
48:16We put our heads together, book or two, Washington, train people in trades and different things.
48:25Instead of looking for the government to co-parent with and to co-provide for our families,
48:31why don't we pick up? Why don't we build with our communities? I'm hoping that men all across this
48:42country will be inspired by that man in that jury room who said, I don't care how many times we go
48:46back. How many notes y'all want to send to the judge? How many times do you want to go over this
48:49over and over again? No, I'm not going to get over the fact that there are three dead babies here.
48:54Three dead babies. And then note the tone and the tenor of the juror. She just mentioned it like,
49:03I don't know, I can't understand, you know, you know, you know, he just had the hardest time.
49:09He just had the hardest time getting over the fact that she viciously killed her three children.
49:15Yeah, I'd have a hard time getting over that too. Because that's not something you need to get over
49:28when you have the responsibility of administering justice. And I don't know what's going on with
49:36this murdering mom's attorney, but I guess he doesn't understand how pardon law works.
49:39He's appealing to President Trump to get a pardon when she's been prosecuted under the state law. What are you talking about?
49:45What are you talking about?
49:48Yet these people in Massachusetts are trying to make a rock star out of this attorney. He doesn't even seem to understand how pardons work.
49:55What's going on guys?
50:03There is a a circling if you remember when the Lord warned
50:09Cain Cain
50:13Sin is crouching at your door and it desires to have you
50:20that same type of stalking, stealthy stalking, is what's percolating in our society,
50:26to where there is a a demonic push to move our populace into a disposition to where it becomes
50:34a normal thing to say is that, you know, for some reason, he just couldn't get over the fact
50:39that she viciously killed her children. Now that's not something you get over. That's something
50:46that as Romans 13 says, government's purpose is to punish wickedness and to reward righteousness.
50:52And in our constitutional republic with democratic features,
50:56where we have the opportunity to serve on juries of our peers,
50:59then we are in the position of ministers of justice.
51:03And when we are given those opportunities, we shall seek justice be done.
51:08The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those
51:14of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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