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Share-a-thon Day 1 | 1 Corinthians 16:13-14. Be on the alert. Stand firm.

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0:001 Corinthians chapter 16 verses 13 and 14 say,
0:04Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong, do everything in love.
0:11Christ is my firm foundation, it's all state, it's faithful to generations.
0:25So why would He want?
0:31It's Cherathon on American Family Radio.
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0:56Good evening, everyone.
0:58Welcome to the Fall Day One Share-a-Thon edition
1:03of The Hamilton Corner.
1:05We are in the thick of Sherathon, the very beginning,
1:09I should say, today many of you know
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2:03And we will be here today, we'll be here tomorrow,
2:06and we'll be here Thursday with the Shareathon three days,
2:11as I mentioned, that we will be here.
2:13At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you,
2:16are making your transition from your part-time jobs
2:19where you generate an income to your full-time jobs
2:22where you cultivate an outcome.
2:23And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so
2:26with intentionality, understanding the primacy
2:28God places on family and welcoming his view to govern to God and to guard your view.
2:38As usual, I'm joined by the corner contingent right across from me, my man 100 grand, Mr.
2:43Bobby, who's probably still trying to recover because we weren't expecting Freddy Jack to
2:48come on during the break.
2:51That hit me.
2:52I was surprised.
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3:05Once again, the number to call is 877-616-2396.
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3:22as AFR.net. Now to begin the program we're going to do as we always do. Even during
3:27Charathon we begin the show with the Word of God. First Corinthians chapter 16
3:32verses 13 and 14 is where we're going to go. First Corinthians chapter 16
3:37verses 13 and 14 is where we are going to go. Just for context for those who may
3:44not be aware of the Apostle Paul, pin this epistle to the Corinthians during a
3:49latter part of his missionary journey to Ephesus. So Paul is in Ephesus in writing a letter back
3:57to the believers in Corinth. And as you know these letters are inspired, divinely inspired
4:05by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And this happens to be the theme verse for this year's
4:11Shareth on 1 Corinthians chapter 16 verses 13 and 14 and this is what the text says
4:17be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Act like men. Be strong. Let all that you
4:31do be done in love and a couple things I want to point out to you from this
4:36verse. First of all where it says be on the alert I'm reading from the NASB 95.
4:41Some translations say be watchful and others render that differently, but they all
4:47communicate the same notion being attentive, being sober-minded, being alert.
4:52Then the then the exhortation is to stand firm. Stand firm. You might think why would
5:00that be necessary to include in the epistle? Why would the stand firm exaltation
5:05need to be included? Well the simple reality is similar to the way it's
5:08happening today. Similar to the way it's happening today, that there is a great
5:12temptation because of the press of the culture, because in many instances
5:16staring down the barrel, so to speak, a persecution, because of isolation. You know,
5:22we're gonna get into it later. Justice Samuel Alito is doing some interviews and
5:25he said, one of the things he said in the interview was that the Obergefell
5:29decision from 2015 was the turning point for overt hostility, governmentally and
5:35in society towards religious liberty in our country.
5:39You know, that was a turning point because of that decision.
5:43Well, there's a great temptation to become flimsy,
5:47concerned in the faith, you know,
5:48to allow the culture to press in upon us
5:52to where we become hesitant to state the truth.
5:55We become reluctant to proclaim the truth
5:57and that reluctance and hesitance then
6:00burge into an unwillingness to live the truth.
6:05That's why you see, unfortunately, in various iterations,
6:08people who profess to be Christ followers,
6:11but they embrace things, like same six mayors,
6:13they embrace things like, you know, shacking up.
6:16And that's what the season thinks you'd call it,
6:18but the Bible calls it for an occasion.
6:20Embrace things like adultery,
6:22embrace things like pornography, all while professing
6:24to be believers, that is not standing firm in the faith.
6:27You know, faithfulness to God is not confined
6:30even to church attendance.
6:31It's not how much you can, you know,
6:33I'm sorry, not how much you can attend the worship gatherings.
6:36It's how much of Christ's word do we live in submission to,
6:40hence the exhortation to stand firm, stand firm.
6:44And then it says to act like men.
6:48This is a command.
6:49The Greek word here is a command
6:50that will be often given to soldiers,
6:52to say to operate with a courage and a strength
6:57and a resolve, a requirement for your faith-filled commitment
7:02to be undergirded by courage, undergirded by valor, to practice biblical clarity for a
7:10biblical worldview to not merely be ideological responses to questions, but it would be the
7:16defining characteristic for how one lives our lives.
7:21Be strong.
7:23And those cascading exhortations are then underlined by the very next phrase in verse 16, let
7:32all that you do be done in love. See, what the Lord is attempting for us to understand
7:38is that this command, this exhortation to act like men, to be strong, to be courageous, to be
7:45valorous, to refuse to wilt, or to be flimsy, to be to be fickle, to be weak, that all of that
7:54is done through love. You want to talk about counterculture, none of those characteristics are viewed
8:02in our culture as characteristics that are anchored by love.
8:06But guess what? In Christ they are.
8:09It is the love for Christ and the love of Christ
8:14that causes us to love our neighbors as ourselves
8:17that drives us toward this.
8:19Be sober minded.
8:21That's why I was warning yesterday
8:22about that middle school in Burlington, Massachusetts,
8:25Marshall Simon's Middle School,
8:27the hyper-sexualization of children,
8:29The reason why we want to be strong and vigilant and firm in our faith is because we love people.
8:35And it's love for people, flows from our love for God.
8:39And that love for people includes loving our neighbors as ourselves.
8:43One time somebody said to me, hey, well, you homeschool your children.
8:45Why do you care what's going on in these schools?
8:47Because I love other people's children too.
8:49And I don't want them to go to a place where they're required to submit to the authority figures
8:56while they're being inundated with anti-Christ messaging.
9:02It is love that compels this stance.
9:05It is love, but there's a concerted effort
9:09by demonically-inspired forces to penetrate
9:14into sectors of our society where young people
9:17are developing and it encroaches upon their development
9:21to break them early, to bend them early,
9:24to cause them to embrace anti-Christ ideologies
9:26and have their entire growth and upbringing to be bent by wickedness.
9:36It's because I love Christ.
9:38That Christ love compels me to love people.
9:43And is that love that compels us to stand up and to say something.
9:50And this is what we're seeking to accomplish through American Family Radio
9:54and through the American Family Association.
9:56There's a quote that's attributed to Billy Graham,
9:59that in the context where there's coward is being displayed.
10:02And he says that all that it takes is for one person to be willing to stand up.
10:09And what ends up happening when one person is willing to stand with a strengthened and
10:13stiffened neck, that that courage becomes contagious and others become willing to stand.
10:21And that is what we're seeking to do.
10:22Yeah, we can read the headlines.
10:24Yes, we can read the society.
10:26We can see what's going on around us.
10:27But guess what?
10:28We don't take our marching orders from that.
10:30Our marching order comes from the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who says to us, be alert,
10:35firm in the faith, stand firm in the faith, stand firm in the faith. Again, why would
10:43Paul say that? Why would the spirit of God move Paul to say that? Because the potential
10:46exists for you to press to have faith, but you become weakened. You become afraid. You become
10:53fearful. And listen, I'm fleshing blood just like you. I live in this world just like you.
11:00A lot of the attacks come from penetrations and family. You know, to be polite, you don't
11:10discuss politics and religion. Religion, it just means a well
11:18held set of beliefs. What is politics the external application
11:21of what one really believes that belief system applied to
11:25policy? There are a lot of people that are afraid to talk
11:29about these things because they want to be polite. Well, how do
11:32you how are you polite when souls hang in the balance? And let
11:38me remind you the number to call is 8776162396 8776162396
11:47is the number to call. That is where you will speak to a person and you make your gift, you
11:53can make your pledge by calling that number. Or if you prefer, and if you're comfortable
11:58with it, you can do the same thing by going to aFR.net. You no need to converse to someone
12:02by phone, but you'd make it get your gifts right there online at aFR.net. Because this,
12:10these are the kinds of conversations we have to have folks. These are the types of conversations
12:15we have to have. I was on last hour with Alice McFarland, he brought up a new mom who
12:20stated that the express goal is to make the United States of America an Islamic state by
12:262050. That's the express goal. But the word of God tells me, be alert, stand firm in the
12:37faith, act like men. Be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. A part of the reason
12:45why I'm contending is because image bears of God who believe wrongly are still image
12:52bears of God and God is in the business of saving souls.
12:58And yes, I want to see the individual, the individual who professed to be a Muslim to
13:03be born again.
13:04Oh, what a glorious testimony.
13:08And while at the exact same time, I can say unflinchingly that Islamic ideology is evil,
13:13unflinchingly because of what they seek to accomplish because of how they treat bears of God's
13:20is an anti-Christ ideology.
13:25And here's the worst part of it,
13:26those who believe it without repentance
13:29will face eternal damnation.
13:32That's what the scripture teaches.
13:35So I'm not hesitant or a bashful in inviting you to call
13:38877-616-2396 to aid us in continuing the mission
13:44of this ministry to continue contending for the faith.
13:47That has been once and for all passed down to the saints
13:49to do what the scripture says, be on the alert.
13:53One of the things I endeavor to do on this program is to sound the alarm, to help you remain informed
13:59of the various things that are happening in our society.
14:04Because we all have lives that are busy, we have things going on, and you can't follow
14:09every little thing at every point of the day.
14:11Well, that's why we're here to help in that regard.
14:13Be on the alert.
14:15Stand firm in the faith.
14:18Christ following and cowardice are mutually exclusive.
14:23You cannot be in the disciple of Jesus Christ and be a coward at the same time.
14:27Cannot do it.
14:28Cannot do it.
14:31Act like men.
14:32Be strong.
14:33And let all that you do be done in love.
14:36And this is what must remain our anchor.
14:39That we don't get hopped up in the flesh.
14:41The apostle James told us the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.
14:46But it is the love of God that compels us to compel men to be reconciled to God.
14:54What is what we're going to be about here on American Family Radio?
15:00American Family Association founder Don Wildman saw signs of the times long ago.
15:06At the turn of the century, he wrote these words, which ring even more true today.
15:12A dark cloud has descended on America.
15:16This cloud has left us unable to tell right from wrong.
15:20In pursuit of what is called politically correct, tolerant and diverse, we have not only permitted
15:26but promoted a way of life that should we continue to follow it,
15:31will ultimately destroy this grand experiment we call America.
15:36There is a way to live this cloud of darkness,
15:39a light to show the way.
15:41Jesus said, I am the light of the world.
15:44Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness,
15:48but will have the light of life.
15:51We need to do the best we can to follow that light
15:54and share him with others.
15:56a reminder from the American Family Association.
16:32Hello, I'm Abraham Hamilton III. Did you know that this content is listener supported? Without
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17:02Shari Thon continues on American Family Radio.
17:06Let's stand firm in the faith and do everything in love.
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17:28And thank you for partnering with AFR during Shari Thon.
17:33Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner.
17:36This is the Shareathon Edition, day one of the fall Shareathon 2026 Abraham Hamilton the
17:42third is my name, the number to call to make your pledge is 877-616-2396.
17:51Again the number to call to make your gift is 877-616-2396 or you can give securely online
18:01at aFR.net, that is aFR.net.
18:06You know, I was listening during the break and the voice who was describing AFR's founder,
18:13Don Wildman, was our brother, Mark Ose.
18:15And he was talking about Brother Don's clarity and the vision that God gave him.
18:20And I remember listening to one of the spots where he said that if we don't contend in this
18:26spiritual war that's described as a cultural war, we're going to have a hedonist, godless
18:3186 society. Now he said this in the 80s, in the 80s, in the 90s, and then look at where we are
18:40today. It was clear that he could see what we would face and which is why one of the things
18:46that God moved him to do was to start the radio network so that we would have a direct source
18:52to communicate a biblical worldview. That is why this radio ministry began in 1991,
18:58And by God's grace, it continues to this day in your material support by calling 877-616-2396
19:09is one of the things that God uses to keep this radio ministry afloat and continuing.
19:16Not just afloat, but thriving 877-616-2396 is the number to call or you can give securely
19:25online by going to a fr.net. Well, there were some things that happened just today. Some
19:34of you might recall back in 2009, November 5, 2009, when then major Nadal Hassan, who
19:45was a U.S. Army major and also a psychiatrist, right? Psychiatrist, mental health professional.
19:56I can't remember a psychiatrist, a psychologist, but I believe he's a psychiatrist.
20:02And he took it upon himself at Fort Hood to discharge his firearm into a crowded space
20:15filled with our soldiers, killing 12 U.S. Army soldiers and one civilian, wounding 32 others.
20:24And some of you might recall that then President Barack Obama refused to describe it as a terrorist
20:29attack, even though witnesses testified, and when I say testified, I literally mean immediately
20:36during the incident and at a trial thereafter because Nadal Hassan was ultimately tried by,
20:42tried in military court and was sentenced, in fact, to death in 2013.
20:48But even with all of that, Barack Obama called it workplace violence.
20:52Remember that?
20:53violence even though the witnesses testified that he was yelling I want my
20:58snack bar while he's murdering American soldiers. Well today as a result of
21:07Secretary of War Pete Haggsess prompting and President Trump agreed to the
21:15president has now greenlit the firing squad for the Dow Hassan listen to and
21:22Watch clip number three, clip three, go.
21:25Chris, this news broke on social media just a couple of hours ago.
21:29I want you to take a look at what the chief Pentagon spokesman posted.
21:32Sean Parnell said Secretary Pete Haggset has recommended
21:35and President Trump has approved death by US Army firing squad
21:40for convicted terrorist, Nadal Malik Hassan.
21:43His post went on to say that the Secretary of the Army
21:46will set the time and place of the execution.
21:49In 2009, Adal Hassan was an army major at Fort Hood in Central Texas.
21:54He opened fire on unarmed fellow soldiers.
21:57He killed 13 people, wounded 32 others.
22:00In 2013, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
22:04He has been in a federal prison in Kansas ever since.
22:08What is good money?
22:10Yes.
22:11So even though he had a conviction, criminal conviction, an assentance had to be applied,
22:18The assentants had been delivered.
22:21The application of that sentence has not been carried out to date.
22:25Well, that changes now as you heard in the clip there.
22:29Acting US Army Secretary Adam Tell is responsible for determining the date
22:35of the fire and squad execution.
22:38And according to military law, the execution date must fall within 60 to 150 days
22:44from the date of the president's approval.
22:46All right.
22:47So I'm sharing that with you for a couple of reasons.
22:50Let me mention, as I'm discussing this,
22:52the number to call is 877-616-2396.
22:57That is the number to call to make your gift 877-616-2396
23:03is the number to call, or you can give securely online
23:06by going to afr.net.
23:09That is afr.net because we wanna share truth.
23:13We wanna be alert.
23:15We wanna encourage you to stand firm.
23:17we want to encourage you to act in love, never allow your engagement to be divorced
23:22from the love of Christ and what Christ commands of us.
23:25But it is because we love God that we love our neighbors.
23:28And I love for God and our neighbors what compels us to engage.
23:31Now getting back to Nadal Hassan, some of you were surprised to know that he was still alive.
23:38You know, I didn't know he was still alive.
23:40And that means that the US taxpayers have been footing the bill for him,
23:45even though we clearly know that he had acquitted himself as an enemy of our nation, as a terrorist.
23:52And I wanted to bring a couple things to your attention because, as I was mentioning earlier,
23:58the effort to kind of encroach upon the body of Christ to get us to embrace ungodly ideologies
24:04to where their people say, well Abraham, how can you be pro-life and yet you support the
24:08death penalty?
24:09First of all, because of the scripture.
24:11That's why.
24:13there's a distinction between murder and killing. Murder as commanded, as prohibited,
24:19I should say, by the ten commandments, the sixth commandment particularly, prohibits the
24:25unlawful termination of innocent human life. When you have the adjudication of criminal penalty
24:34for one who has taken the life of one, let alone thirteen image bearers of God, that criminal
24:41So penalty being adjudicated is not biblically speaking murder.
24:47All right.
24:48So going all the way back, starting in the book of Genesis, and this is why biblical worldview
24:52is important.
24:53Genesis chapter nine.
24:55All right.
24:56Genesis chapter nine, verse six tells us, and this is after the flood account.
25:03Genesis chapter nine, verse six, and this is important.
25:05You may want to share this with your friends and loved ones, but this is God, not me.
25:09this is God saying this. Genesis 9, 6, whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be
25:17shed. In the name, sorry, in the image of God, he made man. For in the image of God, he made
25:25man. See what's happening in our society, there's been such a devaluing of human life.
25:32There's been a diminishment of an understanding of the sacredness of human life. And the purpose
25:38of this as the scripture bears us out was not merely to protect society from the murderer.
25:43Known the purpose of this was to drive the notion of slaying God's image bearers from
25:50the midst of his people to drive that evil out.
25:54All right.
25:55Then from Genesis from Genesis from Old Testament to New Testament, you see that consistency.
26:00Then in Romans 12, particularly verses 19 to 21, the inspired word of God through the
26:05Apostle Paul, the Lord prohibits vigilante justice.
26:10This is where the Lord says, don't repay evil for evil.
26:13Vengeance mind says to the Lord, I will repay.
26:17Well, then you go into chapter 13,
26:18remembering there's no chapter and verse demarcations
26:21in the original manuscripts.
26:24While the Lord says, vengeance mind says to the Lord,
26:26I will repay no vigilante justice, no vigilantism.
26:30Then from his 13, the Lord says, government is my
26:34minister to reward righteousness and to punish the wicked.
26:39And you get to Romans 13, verses 3 and 4, the Lord says that if you want no fear of government,
26:44then do what is right.
26:46Because government is an avenger of God to bring God's wrath upon the evil doer, for it
26:54does not bear the sword in vain.
26:56What do you think the sword was used for in first century Rome?
26:59So Abraham, how could you entrust such a task to fall in human beings?
27:05Guys, do you realize that the Romans 13 text was articulated in the time period where Nero
27:10was the head of the Roman government?
27:12You think God was unaware that Nero probably is not the best person to have the responsibility
27:17at the head of government that is tasked with carrying out justice as a minister of God?
27:23God establishes this in spite of man's fallenness.
27:29Then you have text in Ecclesiastes chapter 8, and I want to read this to you because this
27:35is what's kind of been lost upon us, but that you want to talk about in an injustice.
27:40This is something that has the capacity to cause our society to lose our bearings.
27:49In Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verse 11, look at what the text says, because the sentence against
27:55an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are
28:01are given fully to evil.
28:04Guys, if Nadal Asan had an adjudication of guilt
28:07with the sentence of death in 2013,
28:09why did Taxpayer still pay for him?
28:12And make no mistake, I'm not saying this should be
28:13entered into callously, I'm not saying this should be
28:16entered into rashly, but the scripture, not me,
28:20not my opinion, the scripture says.
28:24The failure to execute a sentence,
28:26because the sentence is not executed readily,
28:29therefore the hearts of the sons and men among them
28:31are given more fully to evil.
28:33What I'm saying, folks, is that we have to get beyond being really emotional about things.
28:37We have to be biblical.
28:39I would argue and submit to you that the delay of the application when the death penalty is
28:44rightly and justly, meet it out.
28:46All right.
28:48And the people will say, well, Abraham, what about when they make a mistake?
28:50Guys, that is so rare.
28:53It's so rare.
28:54It does happen, but it's rare.
28:58But God is one who says government is a minister of justice on this behalf.
29:01So the decision to re-institute the application of the sentence that Nadaha Saan himself earned
29:07by his wicked conduct is actually an exercise in righteous justice.
29:13Again, the number to call is 877-616-3996, that number is 877-6162-396.
29:23This is not something that should be weighted into casually.
29:28This is not something that should be haphazardly pursued.
29:31If you would say that you're uncomfortable with the death penalty, you can have that opinion,
29:35but you just need to understand that that is not a biblical opinion.
29:38Don't try to put that on the scriptures because the scriptures does not support that perspective.
29:43All right?
29:44And if we're going to be biblical, we need to be biblical thoroughly and comprehensively.
29:48877-616-2396 is the number to call 877-616-2396 or you can give securely online by going
30:00to a fr.net a fr.net. Let's take a few moments to listen to this testimony from a fellow listener.
30:09Go. As a female mom, a poor girl, foreign to me daily without even realizing it. I listen
30:18on my way to work on the rural male care here and it gives me hope for my morning time.
30:26And when I start my daily rail, I listen all day long.
30:29When I get off work, I listen on the way home.
30:33You are on my radio all day long.
30:36I am so thankful for all the warnings that y'all contribute to.
30:42You are winning total pride and won't know exactly the impact until we all just live
30:50I just pray that God continues to live.
30:54Give her one at AFR.
31:01Wow, praise God.
31:02Man, that is, again, what you're supporting when you support this work.
31:06Here you have this woman who's a single mom and the Lord has allowed her to get connected
31:12with AFR and it becomes a support line for her and her family has been serving to raise
31:17her four girls.
31:1887616-239-6 is the number to call 877-616-2396 is the number to call or you can give securely
31:31online at aFR.net.
31:34That is aFR.net.
31:37This is a great opportunity to do so.
31:39Fall Shareathon 2026, this is day one of the Shareathon just getting started with this falls
31:49Sharethon. All right. One other thing that is just in the news, several things really,
31:55and I want to spend some time on this as we continue to discuss the reality of Sharethon.
32:00I'm going to talk a little bit on the other side of the break, some of the things that are available
32:04as a thank you from us to you for your gifts because we recognize that you work hard for what you earn,
32:13and we don't take for granted the people who join us in supporting the work here. So we want to say
32:19we thank you in addition to doing what we do,
32:22and we'll get to that on the other side of the break
32:24in the next segment.
32:25But one of the things I wanted to bring to your attention,
32:27and I alluded to it earlier,
32:29is from Justice Samuel Alito.
32:32And so he has a book coming out,
32:34and the title of the book is so ordered,
32:36and the book consists of a 19 speeches
32:39he's delivered over the years.
32:41And he says that by reading this book,
32:44you get a clarity concerning his judicial philosophy,
32:48and his outlook on
32:50uh... our country now as you know
32:52uh... he is one of the most consistent
32:55and reliably consistent
32:57constitutionalists on the u-s supreme court
32:59and as
33:01uh... he was describing his book
33:04he talked about one of the speeches he delivered back in twenty eighteen three
33:07years after the obrigo felt decision was made
33:10during which he said
33:11that the turning point the turning point
33:15uh... towards hostility against religious liberty in our country
33:18came directly as a result of same-sex marriage.
33:22His argument was that it is because of the Obergefell decision that we saw following that
33:29overt hostile displays by governments primarily against religious freedom that led to a bevy
33:36of litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court listened to and watched this clip from Justice
33:42Alito.
33:43It's clip number two, clip two.
33:44Go.
33:45Before the pandemic, there was growing hostility to the expression of unfashionable views.
33:51And that too was a surprising development.
33:53Here's a marker.
33:54In 1972, a comedian George Carlin began to perform a routine called, The Seven Words You
34:00Can't Say On TV.
34:03Today you can see shows on your TV screen in which the dialogue appears at time to consist
34:08almost entirely of those words.
34:11Carlin's list seems like a quaint relic.
34:14But it would be easy to put together a new list called things you can't say if you're
34:19a student or professor at a college or university or an employee of many big corporations.
34:25And there wouldn't be just seven items on that list.
34:28Seventy times seven would be closer to the mark.
34:32I won't go down the list, but I'll mention one that I've discussed in a published opinion.
34:37You can't say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman.
34:42Very recently that's what the vast majority of Americans thought.
34:47Now it's considered bigotry.
34:49That this would happen after our decision in Obergefell should not have come as a surprise.
34:55Yes, the opinion of a court included words meant to calm the fears of those who cling
35:01to traditional views on marriage.
35:03But I could see, and so did the other justices in dissent, where the decision would lead.
35:09I wrote the following.
35:11I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the
35:17recesses of their homes.
35:19But if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated
35:24as such by governments, employers and schools.
35:30Executive Vice President Ed Bittagliato
35:32I came to AFA in 1996.
35:36Now I have been paying attention to politics and culture since I had been in like the seventh
35:41grade.
35:42What I discovered when I came here to AFA is what a lot of people, I think,
35:47discover when they start listening to American Family Radio or start reading
35:51the magazine or they familiarize themselves with the content produced by AFA.
35:57I found out what a lot of those folks find out.
36:00And that is there were serious issues,
36:04even back in 1996, serious cultural trends
36:09and serious spiritual trends which were posing an existential threat to liberty in this country
36:19and our foundational principles and to the Christian faith.
36:24And so as I began to do research and read and pay closer attention to what was going on,
36:32I realized that the threat was dire and the future could be grim if Christians did not
36:40get involved.
36:41The fact that American Family Radio is a Christian minister, we're not just a political
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37:13So yes, these kinds of things that are happening in our country can weigh on folks.
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37:27God gives great encouragement even in the midst of the battle.
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38:53Five and a half years ago, I was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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39:08During that time, here at 4U of all been remarkably
39:14faithful companions for me.
39:16I had the pleasure of getting to Tupelo with my wife,
39:19and we got to meet some of the folks
39:22behind the voices I hear every day.
39:24And I thank you for the encouragement that you are to so many.
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40:01It's Share-a-Thon on American Family Radio,
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40:20Wow, welcome back to Share-a-Thon,
40:22Fall, 2026, day one edition of the Hamilton Corner,
40:28what a testimony, the scripture talks about mourning with those who mourn and weeping with
40:32those who weep and seeing an application of that in a sense where this brother suffered
40:39a severe diagnosis and was declared medically unable to work about how he found comfort and
40:47collegiality through the radio.
40:50That's just an amazing testimony.
40:52The number to call is 877-616-239-6.
40:57That number again is 877-616-2396.
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41:09When you call, you will get someone right here
41:12in our home office at Chanton Central,
41:15which is right in our devotions room.
41:17And I mentioned in the previous hour,
41:19one of the things that we get the benefit
41:20to participate in here in American Family Radio
41:23is that each workday begins with the time of devotion
41:27where we turn to God's word and to pray to begin our workday
41:31to anchor ourselves in God's word
41:33before we start engaging in our various tasks.
41:37And so, Sheraton Central actually is in our devotion room
41:41right now, 8, 7, 7, 6, 1, 6, 2, 3, 9, 6,
41:45is the number to call
41:46or you can give securely online at a f r dot net now i was referring to justice
41:53samuel elito's
41:54uh... assertion
41:56that the obriga felt decision
41:59was the launch point for
42:02all manner of hostility towards religious liberty in our nation so as a
42:06counterpoint someone puts back and say
42:09but there's been such a a s
42:11a spade of religious freedom cases
42:13that have been favorable towards
42:16religious practitioners people of faith in this country
42:19and so they would say
42:22just as a lead-o's
42:24position is much to do about nothing to which i would give you this gentle push
42:28back
42:30that if you haven't noticed
42:31that it was a burger fell that precipitated all of the litigation and
42:34made it up to the spring court
42:36and if
42:37our constitutional freedoms
42:40are a supreme court decision away
42:43from being eviscerated
42:45i think the justices opinion is validated in that
42:49because our constitutional republic was never meant
42:52to have the supreme court continuously
42:55adjudicating our domestic policy positions
42:59never was meant to be that
43:01that's why you have been fed over seventy eight for example
43:03alexander hamilton saying that the judiciary the federal judiciary
43:07having neither force nor will
43:08will be the least threatening source of government government of power in our
43:12country
43:13well how that
43:14how's that
43:15federal 78 assertion aged
43:18now i would say that the fact that you have so many things that had to be brought
43:22into the supreme court
43:23is evidence
43:24of what just as elito said
43:26actually coming to fruition
43:29i found it's never intended for all about the the freedom that we enjoy to hang by
43:32thread
43:33the threat of a five to four decision
43:36the u.s. supreme court
43:38so i think
43:39justice elito
43:41has been proven right
43:43just as he said in
43:45his descent in a burger fell just as he said in the speech we played a clip of
43:49just now
43:50and just as he said in interviews that he had just
43:53just recently again the number calls eight seven seven
43:56six one six
43:57two three
43:59nine six we get to another listening testimony in a few minutes
44:02get by the queue up for me eight seven seven six one six two
44:06three nine six is the number to call
44:09we will be here until six p.m. central time it's just about
44:12eleven minutes and fifteen seconds
44:15until we're done with day one of the spring, sorry, the fall, 2026,
44:21Sherathon here on the radio, 877-616-2396, or you can make your gift securely online by going to
44:33afr.net, that is, afr.net. I'm going to continue with some of the things that Justice Alito was
44:42saying because just as I stated here before when you had the
44:48Dobbs decision back in 2022 before the Supreme Court opinion,
44:52the final opinion was leaked. A draft of that. Sorry, before
44:56the final opinion was released. A draft of that opinion was leaked.
45:04And there's lots of questions. I had questions. How could it be
45:07leaked? There's only a very few amount of people who could have
45:11had access to it. So I don't think the investigation should be that difficult. You know, you had one
45:20of the justices who had a close, shall I say, confidant that had media access, you know.
45:30But Justice Alito was interviewed about this recently and he said that one of the things
45:36that has been most jarring for them as justices,
45:40is that the release of that opinion,
45:42for the justices that were in the majority,
45:44meaning who voted to overturn Roe versus Wade
45:46and Planned Parenthood versus Casey,
45:48that leak immediately made them targets for assassination.
45:53So much so to where one justice,
45:56Justice Alito's colleague Brett Kavanaugh,
45:59literally became the target of an assassination attempt.
46:05I want you to hear Justice Alito discussing this,
46:08Listen to and watch this video. It's clip number one, clip one, go.
46:38the most extreme forms. And I never dreamed that the draft of the opinion would be leaked.
46:46That was totally unprecedented in the history of the country. It was a grave breach of the trust
46:54that everybody who worked in this building had before that point. And it very predictably made
47:02the five of us in the majority targets for assassination and nearly resulted in the assassination of my
47:10colleague Brett Kavanaugh. Do you have an opinion about who you think the leaker was? I do have an opinion, but the evidence
47:21available at this time is not strong enough for the court or for me to say this is the person who was responsible.
47:29Very, very, very interesting.
47:33One of the things that struck me from this, and again, the number to call is 87761623968776162396
47:45to make your gift, or you can give securely online by going to AFR.net.
47:51That is AFR.net.
47:54One of the things that struck me from Justice Alito's interview was that he said that the
47:57The leak was a, quote, grave breach of the trust that everybody who worked in this building
48:04had before that point had what is it like now?
48:13Well, in quote, I should have said, what is it like now working in the court?
48:17Well, you know, with the reality of our nation, he said it was quite predictable that the justices
48:26in the majority would be made targets for assassination.
48:29you had one of your colleagues on the bench presumably or a staff member for one of your
48:34colleagues on the bench who might not have done that unless they felt like the justice
48:40for whom they worked what is okay with it.
48:42I don't know that speculation but at a minimum either one of the colleagues on the bench or
48:47one of the staffers for one of your colleagues on the bench thought so little of your life
48:52that they were willing to leak this opinion.
48:55What do you think that's like?
48:58You think they get in tea and going,
48:59you think they're playing a, what do you call it,
49:02pick a ball, you think they're playing pick a ball together?
49:06You think the pick a ball partnerships might have changed?
49:09After that, that is interesting to me
49:12because he is publicly discussing the deterioration
49:15and the erosion of trust amongst the Supreme Court.
49:19Guys, that's a small group of people.
49:22That's a small group of people.
49:23Then in addition to that, he went on to say that,
49:25yeah, I know, I think I know who it is.
49:27You know how translate right?
49:29I think I know who it is.
49:33Now though he said the evidence doesn't seem to be
49:35of the substance to be able to do something formally,
49:41yet is what he said.
49:44What do you think is like working with somebody
49:45when you hit him with the Sophie Cunningham finger?
49:49I know you did it.
49:51I know you, you the one.
49:54I know you did it.
49:55I gotta have more calories.
49:56You did it, you did it, you did it.
50:00I know you did it.
50:01What do you think is like working with them?
50:03You know?
50:06You, you did it, you, say what you want, you did it.
50:11What do you think is like having Supreme Court deliberations
50:15when they're having their meetings,
50:16when they're discussing these cases and backing them out,
50:18you know, this is the joke right here.
50:20This joke was cool when I was getting shot.
50:23Zip tie.
50:24This one right here, this one right here,
50:27Him, right? Yeah. Him or her. They're the ones who did it. Guys, this is a very, very wild,
50:34wild thing to have this kind of insight into what's happening in the courts. 87616-239-6
50:44is the number to call 877-616-239-6, or you can get securely online by going to aFR.net.
50:54is aFR.net. Let's take a few minutes now to listen to another listener testimony as they
51:00share how AFR and what AFR has meant to them.
51:04Hi, this is Lisa McEw. I'm calling from Hutchinson, Kansas. I regularly turn on American Family
51:10Radio when I'm working in the kitchen or I'm driving in the car. I'm also a monthly supporter
51:16and I just really needed some encouragement. I am a widow with an adult daughter with special
51:22who's gone through a particularly difficult year.
51:25So I turned on the radio yesterday afternoon
51:27to Dr. Nershwama who was interviewing
51:30Bida Rosenberger with Hope for the Caregiver,
51:33which I regularly listened to.
51:35But it was just what I needed to hear at just the right time.
51:38And I had prayed like,
51:39well, I just need to encourage him.
51:40And I turned the radio on and below it provided encouragement
51:44to that program.
51:45So often he does that when I turn on the radio station
51:49and just lift my heart and helps me to keep moving forward with the Lord.
51:53Wow, that really, wow, what an encouragement.
51:59That testimony was encouraging.
52:00Here she was, you know, a widow with an adult daughter with special needs and really crying
52:06out to the Lord almost like Hannah, you know, in the Scripture and saying she just really
52:12needed some encouragement.
52:13So she turns on the radio and I know everybody listening may not know the AFR lineup, you
52:20know, back to back or know it by memory. But Peter Rosenberger's program, Hope for the
52:26caregiver, usually airs on the weekends. And to be able to turn in during the week. And
52:32God within his divine providence would have Dr. Nurse Mama's guest that day to be Peter
52:39Rosenberger during the week. At that afternoon time slot, it's just, it's just providential
52:45and it ended up being exactly what this system needed.
52:49That's just amazing.
52:50I love hearing testimonies like that.
52:54In being here, I get to hear them quite frequently.
52:57And listen to testimonies that we're playing.
52:59I have not heard them in advance.
53:01So I'm reacting to them in real time.
53:04But to just see how good our God is
53:06to where he is transcendent,
53:08that he is the majestic, awesome, omnipotent omniscient God
53:12while simultaneously being imminent.
53:15He is Emmanuel God with us.
53:17And for this sister, he provided exactly what she needed
53:20right at that very moment.
53:23It is a wonderful, wonderful thing to hear
53:26and to be reminded of that God knows the cries of our hearts.
53:31And so by having programming available like this,
53:34that it's beyond really the ability to describe
53:39that we're able to be there for one another in such a way
53:41to where God uses programming like that show
53:44for this sister to give her exactly what she needed.
53:47Because many of you are just listening right now,
53:49we all experience times when we're just like,
53:51man, we just need a little bit of encouragement.
53:53We need a little push.
53:55We need a little bump, if you will, to move us forward.
54:00And what we know to be true intellectually,
54:02but it's not always easy to put into practice.
54:04But God gives us these moments of encouragement
54:07to hearten us and to strengthen us,
54:09to go forward and do what it is that we know we need to do.
54:14And I want to remind you as well, as we're definitely soliciting support, material support
54:19for the work of AFR.
54:20Man, if you have caregivers in your lives, please keep them lifted up before the Lord.
54:25Pray for the caregivers in your lives that you know of who are caring for others, loved ones,
54:32adult children, spouses, parents.
54:36Please lift them up.
54:37And if you are able, not if as you are able, offer them a bit of support as well.
54:42877-616-2396 is the number. Lord willing, we'll be back tomorrow.

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