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The Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio is in dark times

Abraham Hamilton III: Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.

Abraham Hamilton III: This is the, Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.

Abraham Hamilton III: It should be uncomfortable for a believer.

Abraham Hamilton III: To live as a hypocrite, delivering people.

Abraham Hamilton III: Out of the bondage of mainstream media and the philosophies of this world.

Abraham Hamilton III: God has called you and me to be his ambassadors even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment.

Abraham Hamilton III: And, now the, Hamilton Corner.

Abraham Hamilton III: Good evening, everybody.

Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome to the Hamilton Corner. I'm your lovable, huggable host, Abraham Hamilton iii, joined by the Corner contingent right across from me, my man, 100 grand, Mr. Bobby. And in the screening room, producer extraordinaire, the real J. Mac. Ladies and gentlemen, and we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program.

Joszek: What goes on in your home is far more important than politics

At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income, to your.

Abraham Hamilton III: Full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.

Abraham Hamilton III: And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on family, recognizing the privilege that you get to enjoy, and being his hands and feet. Starting first in your home, because what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House. I know there's conversations right now about, Trump meeting Putin to address the Ukrainian war situation. that is certainly an important matter, but it's not more important than what's going on in your home for you. It's not more important than what's going on in my home for me, because I'm directly responsible for what happens in my house. You are directly responsible for what happens in your home. We are not directly responsible for what happens in Ukraine, but all too often we have succumbed to the siren song of the society to place significance and importance everywhere else. I was out yesterday attending to some legal matters on behalf of the ministry. but I've been just praying and pondering, the status of affairs, the stage of affairs in our nation and the state of the church in our nation. Because simply put, this is not my opinion. The Lord told us in His Word that He ordained his church to be the pillar and ground of truth. The Lord has told us in His Word that the manifold wisdom of God would be put on display by his church. Like it or not, Jesus has ordained his church to be the vehicle through which he asserts Himself and establishes his kingdom. And I've been honestly, lamenting a degree to which, lamenting to a degree about the reality that I think in many instances the church doesn't understand just how potent God has ordained the. The body to be. Secondarily, I don't think many understand the role that God has ordained the body to play in the world, but in particular in our nation, you know, Acts 17 says he determines the boundaries of our habitation and the times in which we would live. I think this kind of, escapist orientation combined by this effort to.

Abraham Hamilton III: We're above the fray.

Abraham Hamilton III: You know, it's like, how are you above the fray when you're called to make disciples in the culture where God has placed you? This, this notion we're above the fray, but at the same time, you have people saying, but the church should be a hospital, which is not to be a hospital. But we certainly deal with broken people, but not for the purposes of perpetuating the brokenness. And so, gravely concerned because the whole notion. Satan knows his end. I've explained before, when Jesus enters the Gadarean region in the demoniac in Gadara, before Jesus even comes to him, he begins to quake and says, son of man, Son of God, have you come to torment us before our time? Which reveals that the demons know that their end is torment. But the devilish scheme is to try to deceive as many as possible so that they would join them in eternal damnation. And so Jesus said that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church. Straight up, full stop. So the demonic scheme then is to attempt to nullify and to winnow the church's potency by infiltration. And this dates all the way back to the first century. The apostle Jude talked about false brethren having crept in unawares in the first century, perverting the grace of God. And I'm greatly concerned because the same thing is happening now and not many of us even recognize it. Not enough, I should say, of us recognizing. Let's go to the word of God to second kings, chapter 23. I'll tell you plainly, why I'm going there. And in the context here. This is, the portion of scripture that's recorded after King Josiah, through Hilkiah's efforts, discovers rediscovers the book of the law in the temple. The temple had been shut down. You've had. There were consistently wicked kings prior to Josiah. You had the wicked king Manasseh, who was exceedingly wicked. And he followed. I, would call the abandoned man Hezekiah, who, when he learned through prophecy that judgment was coming because he had opened the. The War machine and the treasury to the Babylonians. And the prophet Isaiah said, the same.

Abraham Hamilton III: People who you just let roll up in here, they're going to come back.

Abraham Hamilton III: And they going to knock down and conquer everything, and they going to carry off your own children. And Hezekiah goes, oh, that's a good word.

Abraham Hamilton III: At least it's not going to happen to me. What kind of man is. Would. Would. Would be able to celebrate that his children and his grandchildren and his great grandchildren will be made slaves and eunuchs in a pagan empire. Unsurprisingly, his son was exceedingly wicked.

Abraham Hamilton III: And so in Jer.

Abraham Hamilton III: In.

Abraham Hamilton III: In Second Kings, chapter 23, the Lord records for our benefits some of the reforms that Josiah implements after he discovers.

Abraham Hamilton III: The Book of the Law. Re. Enters covenant with Yahweh.

Abraham Hamilton III: But it shows you just how bad things have become in Judah in general. But there's specific observations made about the temple, and this is what the word of God says. Second Kings 23, verse 4. Then the king, I.e.

Abraham Hamilton III: Josiah, commanded Hilkiah, the priest, the high priest, and the priests of the second.

Abraham Hamilton III: Order, and the doorkeepers to bring out.

Abraham Hamilton III: Of the temple of the Lord, out of the temple of the Lord all.

Abraham Hamilton III: The vessels that were made for baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Abraham Hamilton III: He did away with the idolatrous priests.

Abraham Hamilton III: Let's say that again.

Abraham Hamilton III: He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places, in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem. Also those who burned incense to baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven. He brought out. He brought out the Asherah from the.

Abraham Hamilton III: House of the Lord, from the house of the Lord.

Abraham Hamilton III: Outside Jerusalem to the.

Abraham Hamilton III: Brook Kidron, and burned it at the Brook Kidron and grounded to dust and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

Abraham Hamilton III: He also brought. He also broke down the houses of.

Abraham Hamilton III: The male cult prostitutes which were in.

Abraham Hamilton III: The house of the Lord where the.

Abraham Hamilton III: Women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.

Joseph Parker: Society has suffered greatly because the church has strayed

Things in Judah, things in the nation whose very name means praise.

Abraham Hamilton III: Things in the very nation whose forefather is a direct offspring of Israel, a descendant of Abram, whose name was changed to Abraham. Things degenerated so fervently that upon Josiah's discovery, rediscovery of the Book of the Law, which the Lord had already said Every king of Israel is supposed to have his own copy, to make his own handmade copy, to keep this book of the law. Josiah was surprised to learn there was a such thing. And then he had to command the high priest to bring out of Yahweh's house, the same house that was dedicated under Solomon, that the glory of the Lord filled the temple. So much so that the priests were unable to maneuver because the glory cloud was so thick, that same house. But at this stage, they had to remove the vessels that were used to worship baal.

Abraham Hamilton III: From there.

Abraham Hamilton III: You had to remove idolatrous priests, who, regardless of what Yahweh ordained.

Abraham Hamilton III: To be the way priests are to be selected.

Abraham Hamilton III: Verse 5 shows that idolatrous, priests were appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places. They were ordained for idolatry. Ordained for idolatry, burning incense to buy all, in the Lord's temple, worshiping the sun in the Lord's temple, worshiping the moon in the Lord's temple. And if that's not enough, verse seven.

Abraham Hamilton III: Shows that there had to be a.

Abraham Hamilton III: Removal of cult m prostitutes.

Abraham Hamilton III: Who were.

Abraham Hamilton III: Plying their trade in the Lord's temple, religiously legitimized prostitution in the house of God.

Abraham Hamilton III: Now, of course, it's very easy to.

Abraham Hamilton III: Say, oh, my gosh, what's happened there? But look at the visible church in our culture today. And I'm saying this with the backdrop. What did God ordain the church to be the pillar and ground of truth? There's lots of conversations about, oh, man, our political discourse has devolved to such a place.

Abraham Hamilton III: Could it be because the bride that's ordained to be the pillar and ground of truth.

Abraham Hamilton III: Has similarly rejected our first love?

Abraham Hamilton III: I mean, we just had the most.

Abraham Hamilton III: Recent phenomenon, unfortunately, with the United Methodist.

Abraham Hamilton III: denomination, when they're straight up saying we don't care what the Bible says, not only are we going to sanction homosexuality, now, I, want to be clear. This is what the American United Methodist decided. The many others departed from there. You have the Global Methodist movement that's departed from that. But you have this schism in a.

Abraham Hamilton III: Major American Christian denomination because you have a significant contingent that happens to be.

Abraham Hamilton III: A moneyed contingent that says, oh, it don't matter what the Bible says. We, we gonna read the Bible the way we want it. We not only would accept homosexuality, we want to ordain homosexual clergy. Some of the same things I've said before, dating back to 1973, the Presbyterian denomination had a split over the same thing. You have rumblings, but those who are, who are endeavoring to maintain the biblical inerrancy in the Southern Baptist denomination now, those who are. Who are wrestling in the other direction. This thing is happening with such consistency.

Abraham Hamilton III: We can see things got so bad in Israel's history, in Judah in particular, where you have male cult prostitutes in the Lord's house. In the Lord's house. And we have this diminishment of the witness and the clarity and the conviction.

Abraham Hamilton III: Generally speaking, because I don't want anybody to misconstrue what I'm saying. I know for a fact that there's a remnant in America, but I'm talking about the broad representation, the most popular representations.

Abraham Hamilton III: And I'm saying our country and our.

Abraham Hamilton III: Society has suffered greatly because in many ways the church in our country has, strayed. Has strayed. And so we're left with the.

Abraham Hamilton III: The fallout from that is that we're.

Abraham Hamilton III: Left with political movements that by and large are often simply reactionary, don't necessarily know what we should be pursuing.

Abraham Hamilton III: All I know is I don't like that. I don't like that. And let me just tell you, zealous.

Abraham Hamilton III: Reactionary dispositions are never visionary and are never sustainable. If we're going to have a course correction in America, it has to come through the Lord's bride.

Abraham Hamilton III: A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.

Joseph Parker: What should a pro life church look like? It's a church that will prayerfully consider encouraging members to volunteer at local pregnancy centers and to volunteer for other pro life ministries. It's a church that would prayerfully consider supporting a baby clothes closet with diapers, clothes, wipes and other needed items. It's a church that will prayerfully consider becoming a sanctuary church. They will help moms who find themselves expecting a baby at a difficult time. They will come alongside a mother who feels all alone and walk with her through her term of pregnancy and beyond. It's a church that will learn about important pro life outreach ministries that are doing vital work to end legalized abortion in different. Am I really seeking to honor the Lord in doing what he would have me to do as an individual disciple of Christ to help stand for life.

Abraham Hamilton III: Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.

Abraham Hamilton: People who say America is terrible want foreigners

Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third.

Abraham Hamilton III: Here.

Abraham Hamilton III: I want to explain why I was.

Abraham Hamilton III: I started in 2 Kings 23. because I'm, I'm, I'm greatly concerned that, that things are happening and I know they're concerted efforts following, you know, American industrialization, which on the one hand, led to amazing prosperity, but on the other hand, it had an impact on the family unit. You know, and our lives are so.

Abraham Hamilton III: Busy in many ways.

Abraham Hamilton III: The kind of the perpetual busyness is.

Abraham Hamilton III: In and of itself a scheme to.

Abraham Hamilton III: Keep us distracted, to keep us divided, to keep us stratified and unable to really stop and breathe for a moment.

Abraham Hamilton III: You know. But I've made this point before.

Abraham Hamilton III: The very same people who want to convince us that our nation, that the United States of America is the worst.

Abraham Hamilton III: Place in the world.

Abraham Hamilton III: It's states united, you know, it's overrun with, you know, you know, racist and.

Abraham Hamilton III: All of these things at the exact same time. These are the exact same people who are saying, no, no, we need to have an open border. We need to have as many people from other countries to come here as possible and just forget the political rhetoric for a moment. If you just stop and consider. Wait a minute. Both of these things can't be true.

Abraham Hamilton III: At the same time. Because if you. If you think that our nation is just utterly horrible, right, and you have.

Abraham Hamilton III: This overwhelming compassion for the foreigner, why would you want to bring the foreigner to this horrible place? Why would you want that? Why would you want that? Because they don't really believe that. For them, that is a rhetorical device. It is a political cudgel that they.

Abraham Hamilton III: Wield, but they're wielding it for.

Abraham Hamilton III: For a particular purpose.

Abraham Hamilton III: One of the things, if you study, you know, the cadre of Marxist philosophers and theorizers, you'll find for them, simply put, the issue that is being discussed.

Abraham Hamilton III: Popularly is never the issue. It's never the issue.

Abraham Hamilton III: The issue that is being discussed is only being discussed for its usefulness to. To accomplish their ultimate agenda.

Abraham Hamilton III: So what is that agenda?

Abraham Hamilton III: We're living in a time, and I've explained on this show, it's a. It's amazing that we don't have more conversations about it, like, why don't children.

Abraham Hamilton III: In American schools study Pol Pot?

Abraham Hamilton III: You know, why our American children don't.

Abraham Hamilton III: Know more about Stalin? Why don't American children know about Mao state tongue?

Abraham Hamilton III: Why do they know these things? Because there were people who intentionally infiltrated our American system of instruction who wanted to put a glossy, positive veneer on Marxism.

Abraham Hamilton III: That's why. That's why. So that you can have a populace who, when you hear Zorah Donnie, declare.

Abraham Hamilton III: Himself to be a socialist that you.

Abraham Hamilton III: Don'T have, immediately recoiling and saying, are, you get out of here. That's why. But for people who are regressive, they tend to Know what they're moving toward?

Abraham Hamilton III: What I was alluding to earlier, I've talked about on this program, the Hegelian dialectical process.

Abraham Hamilton III: George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who actually was.

Abraham Hamilton III: A teacher of Marx.

Abraham Hamilton III: Marx was a Hegel disciple in the Hegelian dialectical process. What is that process?

Abraham Hamilton III: Well, first of all, you have to.

Abraham Hamilton III: Remember that Hegel sought to move in the direction that later developed as Marxism. As,

Abraham Hamilton III: I told you Marx was a disciple of Hegel. I've explained before that Marx is not the author of socialistic thought, communistic thought. He advocated for the utilization of violence, the implementation of violence as a tool to accomplish his objectives.

Abraham Hamilton III: But there were others before him, like Hegel, for example.

Abraham Hamilton III: And it is from Hegel that we.

Abraham Hamilton III: Get this idea that, you know, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and George W. Bush end up describing as a third way. Remember that? The third way. Well, what is the third way? The third way is the synthesis from the Hegelian dialectical process.

Abraham Hamilton III: Those who remember our, discussion of this. Hegel's assertion was that when you are a. I'll just say it in my.

Abraham Hamilton III: Terms, a regressive, you introduce yourself, you introduce into the popular conversation, into the body politic, the most extreme radical position that you truly want. But you expect the populace not to accept, but you introduce it. But the purpose of your introduction is not to get a consensus around that radical position. Initially, you introduce the radical notion as a thesis. While you are introducing the thesis, you have a corollary component, some may say an opponent. You heard the term controlled opposition when you are a Hegelian. When you introduce your radical thesis, you are working in tandem with the antithesis advocates. The Hegelian introduces the thesis, the corollary opposition. The controlled opposition offers an antithesis, which is usually the opposite of the thesis. Then to add into this conversation the Alinskyite term of the community organizer. The community organizer is the one who.

Abraham Hamilton III: Introduces the radical thesis to stir up discontent around it.

Abraham Hamilton III: Then you stir up the antithesis groups to oppose. And you always present the issue in binary terms. There's no gradation, there's no reasonable alternatives. You simply have thesis, antithesis. And then the organizer comes in with the synthesis. K, come on, let's be reasonable. Let's compromise. Let's compromise. Which is why you have a society.

Abraham Hamilton III: That the only thing, I won't say the only thing, but one of the, the.

Abraham Hamilton III: The highest values in our society today is what?

Harris: We are living in a Hegelian dialectical process right now

Abraham Hamilton III: Compromise.

Abraham Hamilton III: But for the Hegelian, the very moment that, that you have an arrival at synthesis or the. The bill Clinton, the George W. Bush, the Tony Blair third way. The very moment you have the third way, you introduce a new radical thesis that pushes the dialogue even further. You've heard the term Overton window. As soon as you get the thesis, the synthesis accepted, you introduce a new new thesis.

Abraham Hamilton III: Then you have another round of it.

Abraham Hamilton III: Thesis, antithesis, synthesis, another round, new thesis. Which is why in our conversation, you've experienced the continued leftward drift of both the Democrat Party and the Republican Party. How many times have you heard people say, man, John F. Kennedy can never be elected as a Democrat today? How many times have you heard that? How many times have you heard this say, oh, the Republicans are just taking up the most recent position vacated by the Democrats because we are living in the Hegelian dialectical process, Living in it. And while this is happening, just to summarize it, and this is a very crude summary, no doubt, and a simplified.

Abraham Hamilton III: Summary.

Abraham Hamilton III: But the underpinning from a socialist, Marxist, communist worldview is atheism. The theological underpinning is humanism. Man is God.

Abraham Hamilton III: So we'll do, to use biblical language.

Abraham Hamilton III: Whatever is right in our own eyes. So it is to rightly describe the Marxist objective. It is an effort to establish a godless society where man determines virtue. Now, what is happening in our country.

Abraham Hamilton III: Right now, there is a major push.

Abraham Hamilton III: A major push to redefine conservatism in America.

Abraham Hamilton III: Without God.

Abraham Hamilton III: You see? You see? So what does that end up becoming? You end up with two sides of the same coin.

Abraham Hamilton III: Now, I am not one of these people who say there is not any difference between Democrats and Republicans. There are lots of differences, no doubt.

Abraham Hamilton III: But think about what is happening on our very watch as we are existing. You have two sides, both pushing for an establishment of a society based on.

Abraham Hamilton III: Their vision of virtue with a godless definition of it.

Abraham Hamilton III: That the fecklessness of the Republican Party is now giving way to maga. But I simply ask you, what is the guiding principle of it? What, by and large passes for conservatism.

Abraham Hamilton III: Today is nothing more than a reactionary response to whatever it is the regressives are doing.

Abraham Hamilton III: Think about it. But what is the guiding principle?

Abraham Hamilton III: To be honest, to be fair, if you would be.

Abraham Hamilton III: If you would be honest and fair.

Abraham Hamilton III: President Trump doesn't have a core convictional ideology. In some ways, you can see how there is benefit in being flexible, in negotiating.

Abraham Hamilton III: But the truth is, what is the core convictional ideology? And I can even hear it now. Why do you have to be ideological? I'm not saying you have to be ideological.

Abraham Hamilton III: But there is something called truth. This is what I'm getting, what I'm getting toward. There is something. Say it better. Truth is real, guys.

Abraham Hamilton III: Truth is real.

Abraham Hamilton III: Zealous reactionary is not synonymous with visionary. You've heard me say we talk about the construct of a family. There can be no submission of a wife to her husband if the husband has no vision, has no mission.

Abraham Hamilton III: Submission requires a mission. We have lots of people.

Abraham Hamilton III: That are in families and trying to lead families.

Abraham Hamilton III: But they don't even have a vision.

Abraham Hamilton III: For what their lives are to want to be, what their lives ought to be, what their family should be.

Abraham Hamilton III: What is the vision you have for your family? Do you have one for most people, if we're honest, most people's experiences are, we just kind of drift along and kind of figure it out along the way. But there's not clarity in vision often. But should there be? Yes, there should be. Efforts to employ reactionary political engagement without any mooring in truth will ultimately spiral badly. Ultimately. Ultimately.

Abraham Hamilton III: Right now, I'll say it very simply. I strongly believe because of the chasm, the void left by the church in our society, a maga ideology has come to fill the void.

Abraham Hamilton III: And why? Because some of it is because we've been pushed and pushed and pushed with the Hegelian thesis. You pushed us with the deconstruction of the family. You pushed us with homosexuality, you pushed us with same sex marriage, you pushed us with abortion. But then you start saying but, yeah, and two year olds don't. Two year olds can tell you if they're boys or girls. And we're like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait. Think about it. Then, one of the most profound ads from the 2024 presidential election was.

Abraham Hamilton III: Kamala Harris is for they them.

Abraham Hamilton III: She should never be president of the.

Abraham Hamilton III: Remixes for they them. Donald Trump is for us.

Abraham Hamilton III: Why did that resonate so? Because we know we're coming out of the era. You want to tell me Will Thomas, who's on the pin swimming team for three years, was ranked number 652nd or whatever. He was 253rd. And then he makes a decision, oh, you know what? I'm a girl and now I'm dominating. And we supposed to act like, yeah, this is right. We know that's wrong at a core level, but how many people are willing to say why it's wrong? Not as many. Not as many.

The popular understanding, uh, of conservatism has eroded to mere reactionary disposition

The popular understanding, of conservatism has eroded to mere reactionary disposition. If you hear the term conservatism, you should ask Conserving what, What are we conserving?

Abraham Hamilton III: Do we know? Should there be conserving anything?

Abraham Hamilton III: What is the overarching vision? The same thing, the reactionary thing. Even, even in media, you know, these are the stories to talk about. Who determines which stories are the stories to talk about? Why don't we, why don't we have more stories about good Americans that have weapons, that are using their weapons responsibly to save people? We don't hear that very often at all. It actually happens way more than what people talk about. These so called gun violence incidents, which is so absurd to say gun violence. You have automobile crashes. Nobody says we have car violence. Nobody says that. We say we have a problem with intoxicated drivers. We have a problem with people driving badly. We don't say that there's car violence because there's an agenda. And so we even have this binary reactionary terms, disposition in terms of what we discuss and how things are discussed.

Abraham Hamilton III: I'll give you, I'll give you an.

Abraham Hamilton III: Example, what I'm talking about right now.

Abraham Hamilton III: There's lots of conversation about the, you know, Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ads, you know, and there's people there, hey, hey.

Abraham Hamilton III: Why haven't you talked about it? I'll tell you plainly, because I don't want to talk about it in terms of the way that the world is talking about it popularly. The world wants you to say, ooh, Cindy Sweeney ad. Good maga. Cindy Sweeney ain't at bad regressive. I got a big problem with the Sydney Sweeney ad. But it's not because anything anybody else is talking about. Miss me with all that talking about, you know, her reference and skin color, all that kind of stuff. You know, I have a problem because America is addicted to pornography.

Abraham Hamilton III: That's why I have a problem with.

Abraham Hamilton III: And this is nothing more than another iteration of, frankly, soft pornography. And there are lots of so called, I won't even say so called, lots of people who would identify themselves as conservative that completely missed the fact they trying to really do a sex sales thing in a particular way that appeals to particular demographics. But the issue that I have is that the scripture compels me to put no unholy thing before my eyes. And what we have is a normalization of the objectification of the female body. A, ah, normalization of lust. So much so to where it almost doesn't even register. We don't care if it's soft porn, long as it's soft porn. And red, white and blue. Remember the whole deal we had not too Long ago, conservative women would pin up calendars. Remember that. What I'm saying, guys, I'm just. I'm using that as an example. Say, what is our governing dynamic? What are we aspiring toward? What is our positive vision for ourselves, our positive vision for our families, our positive vision for our churches, and our positive vision for our nation? What are we aspiring toward? For too many, the aspiration is nothing more than let's own the libs. I want to drink some liberal tears. That's only going to get you so far. What are we aspiring to as a nation? What is good, what is beautiful? What is true that we're aspiring for? What are we seeking to accomplish? For too many, it's nothing more than being the opposite of whatever them Democrats say or whatever them Republicans say. Guys, that's not going to be. That's not a sustaining virtue.

Abraham Hamilton III: Which is why to come full circle to the point I made in the first segment, at least I tried to make this is why the church of the living God must stand up to.

Abraham Hamilton III: No longer be a sleeping tiger and simply being tossed to and fro by whatever political wind and waves that are rivaling in society.

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Abraham Hamilton III: We cannot perpetually be described solely by what we're against

Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner.

Abraham Hamilton III: Abraham Hamilton III is my name. What I'm saying very simply, guys, is we cannot perpetually be described solely by what we're against.

Abraham Hamilton III: But here's the rub. But we have to wait to see what they say so that we can know what we're against next. How absurd is that? We need to wait to see what they're going to say to see what we against. Guys, that's, that's, that's absurd. What a, what is the positive vision that we have? It is a. There's a reason, guys, where the, the last, greatest hope of the Earth, the United States of America beacon set on the hill. It follows from a worldview that begins our declaration as to why we must be a sovereign nation separated from King George of England. That we hold these truths to be self evident, that man is endowed by the Creator. There's a positive affirmative vision. What are we ascribing toward? What are we endeavoring to build? What type of society do we want? The reason, I won't say the reason, but regressives use these ridiculous tactics like the Hegelian dialectical process, and they come up with different names for dialecticalism and Third Wayism and all of these things because they were trying to run game on you. Because they were trying to move in the same direction. Always in the same direction. Let's move in a certain way. Right now you're my opposition, but in the future you will be a Republican who supports same sex marriage, for example. Example. How many times have you been told, wow, let's not bring the Bible into this? Why? Why? Who are you to tell me that I need to leave my Bible on the side to engage you in discourse, but how often have professing Christians done so?

Abraham Hamilton III: Oh, yeah, you know, I don't want.

Abraham Hamilton III: To compel someone to believe what I believe. You're not trying to persuade someone to embrace Christ by force. But you don't have to apologize that the Word of Christ is truth. I don't have to try to apologize for the fact. Well you know what, if we're going to have a sustained society, we need husbands and wives to make babies. I don't need to apologize for that. Well, well, where did that come from? It comes first from God's word and unsurprisingly m the sciences that we have supported what God's word has already told us. I'm not going to apologize for that. And then I'll add this, this into the conversation. The truth has benefit even for those who don't believe the truth. Whether you agree with it or not, that a husband and a wife raising their children together in the same home is the best thing for a child, regardless if you believe it or not, it's true. So I'm not going to apologize because that's true. But now you need to be more responsive to the multicultural effort to recognize that there are all types of families. No, no, I don't need to do that. What I will do is recognize that there's sin and that there are fallen men. And fallen men intend and attempt to try to make adjustments and nip and tuck and accommodate their sin and rebellion. But that doesn't change the truth. That unchanged the truth. That's why I said you're entitled to your delusions, but you cannot compel me to live by them. Guys, there's a simple notion. In order to maintain this experiment in self governance, we have to have individuals who are self governed. Let's add something else to the conversation. Self governance is not an adamically natural phenomenon. Guess what? Self governance, also known as self control, is a fruit of, of the spirit. The spirit of God produces self controlled men. This is why brothers and sisters, George Washington said religion and morality are indispensable support to our government. And you simply can be, you can say very simply I'm not trying to compel you to convert to Christ following, but I will not deny the truth of what Jesus Christ teaches. Guys, it ain't rocket surgery. There's a reason there ain't never been in the history of the world an atheist hospital. You know why? Because compassion for suffering people comes from people who have love for the Lord. Because it's the Lord who told us that the first commandment is to love him with all that we are. And the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself. Why is it that it's always the Christians opening up orphanages and opening up hospitals and feeding the homeless and clothing the homeless, but our Abe, religion has done all kind of things. I don't care what you say. Religion hadn't done more than the atheist 20th century with Stalin and Hitler and Pol Pot and Mao Zedong. Miss me with all of that. And here's another thing. The people who in the name of religion did this carnage, they were violating Jesus's teachings. They were not obeying him. So miss me with all of that and we have to stop being a mamby pamby church that we're going to genuflect and apologize because we know the truth. I'm not sorry that I know the truth. I'm grateful and I'm thankful and I love my neighbor enough that I'll tell them that.

Richard Dawkins: Western civilization is an aberration from human history

But what's happened guys? We've allowed ourselves to be dumbed down, but we won't talk about Christendom. We'll say Western civilization. What's the fulcrum of Western civilization?

Abraham Hamilton III: huh?

Abraham Hamilton III: Are we gonna talk about Augustine and the City of God and how his writings as a Christ follower shaped the entire scope of Western civil, philosophical and political thought? Are we going to talk about that or not?

Abraham Hamilton III: Nah, nah, we ain't going to talk about it.

Abraham Hamilton III: Why?

Abraham Hamilton III: Because we're embarrassed of Christ.

Abraham Hamilton III: Why? Why? Who has bewitched us? Guys, we have been siren songed and we have been seduced and we have been, you know, professionalized and we've been degreed up and all of these things. All to get us to the place to become functionally comfortable with denying the truth and its application. We don't need to apologize that the positive vision for our nation is, stems from clarity, from God's word. We're not trying to have theocratic rule compelling people to convert to Christ following. But I'm not going to say, I'm not going to apologize to you and lie to you about the fact that I don't care how great your life may be here, if you die without Christ Jesus as your savior, you, you will suffer eternally. And in addition to that, the teachings of Christ have great efficacy in its application for establishing a society that's best for maximized human flourishing. That's why you have some of the, you know, the, the, the atheist. What's old boy name from England. I forgot. So far he, he doesn't like Christianity but he likes the culture it produces. What's his name? Was it? No, it wasn't him. It was the other one. The name will come up. But y' all know who I'm talking about. I don't quite like Christianity No, I don't believe it's absurd to believe a man raised from the dead. It's absurd. But I do rather do prefer the culture that Christians create. Why, bro? Why do you prefer the culture that Christians create? Why? Kind of like man is exceedingly wicked.

Abraham Hamilton III: Kind of like if you reject the.

Abraham Hamilton III: Culture that Christians create, you return to the doldrums.

Abraham Hamilton III: That's right.

Abraham Hamilton III: And.

Abraham Hamilton III: And somebody put in the chat.

Abraham Hamilton III: Dawkins. Richard Dawkins. Guys. What we've enjoyed in what they call. When Western civilization has been an aberration in world history. Yeah, that's what he said. Cultural Christian. What we've enjoyed in our. In Western civilization as a whole is an aberration from human history. Then you get more specific. What we've had in America, there have been generations of human beings that could not fathom what we've enjoyed here. And with all of our mistakes, there's never been a perfect society. I say it with my whole chest, without successful contradiction, that the United States of America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. But why is it that. Why is it that we used to understand this? The Tocqueville told us, in contrast in the French Revolution, the bloody French Revolution, that the symbol of the French Revolution was the bloodied guillotine. The Tocqueville's question was, why did the American Revolution result in their society versus what we had in France? And he told us, and he told us in his Twain volume on democracy in America. He sought for the source of America's greatness in his banking systems. He sought for America's greatness in his and his halls of government. And it was not until he entered her churches with pulpits aflamed in righteousness. This is his words, not mine, aflamed in righteousness, that he recognized the source of America's greatness. He said, america is great because she is good.

Abraham Hamilton III: But then he added a warning.

Abraham Hamilton III: But the moment she ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. When Tim Talbot was on the show, he sat in his chair. And return to the statistics that when America kicked prayer, out of our public schools, how to all of the metrics. Violence, sexuality, murder, they all plummeted. You think that's a coincidence? Guys, we've got to wake up. We've got to wake up. The enduring virtue from the word of God, from Jesus directly. What is the greatest commandment? To love the Lord with all that you are. Guys, when you love God with all that you are, the most immediate evidence of that love is the way you Treat your neighbor, love God with all that you are, and love your neighbor as yourself. On these hang the entirety of the law and the Prophets. We have got to get to the place where we don't apologize for that and that, we're willing to live out loud in that fashion.

A lack of clarity as to the positive vision for ourselves as a church is problematic

What is your vision for yourselves, for your life? What is your vision for your family? What is your vision for your church? What is your vision for our nation? The next level of analysis? And what are you doing to bring that into fruition? Guys, the world is going to whirl. We cannot expect this to come from the world. But the thing that I'm greatly concerned about is that among the ranks of the regressives and among the ranks of the, the self described conservatives we are, they're both pining for an establishment of.

Abraham Hamilton III: A society in a godless direction, looking.

Abraham Hamilton III: For a godless way to do life and to do governance. And I'm telling you, I'm telling you.

Abraham Hamilton III: It'S going to end in the same direction.

Abraham Hamilton III: The only way we can get off this hamster wheel of the Hegelian dialectical process where we're simply waiting to see what the other side says so that we can react to it and be opposite, opposite them and to see what is it that you're striving for, what is it that you're aspiring to be. As a father man, I have a desire and a vision for my family. I have a desire and a vision for my children. But is my example aiding that vision coming into reality or is it working against it? In so many instances we're able to identify and to criticize what's wrong with everybody else, but we're not introspective about our own examples. A lack of clarity as to the positive vision for ourselves as a church, for example, is what led to, to many places being bullied by a government to shut down the strip clubs and the liquor stores and, and the Walmart can be open, but you better not open your mouth to say Jesus is Lord and if you dare come together, take Jesus. you better not sing. What? What? Guys, we need to wake up is what I'm saying. We cannot simply be reactionary.

Abraham Hamilton III: Reactionary is not synonymous with the engineering.

Abraham Hamilton III: These stories that are percolating. Sometimes I want to talk about the stuff that's popular, sometimes I don't. You know why? Because what's popular doesn't dictate what's important. Sometimes they make stories that are popular and the important things go completely ignored. Many of us have heard the adage in our. In our time right now, we're no longer having discourse and disagreements between, you know, red and blue. We're having conversations about right versus wrong, good versus evil. And I agree with that wholeheartedly. But this is the thing that people don't say. Both sides of the dialogue believe that they're on the side of good and the other side is evil. Why? Because what the Lord prophesied is coming to fruition. Good is being called evil, and evil is being called good. So if you're having disagreements with good versus evil, but both sides of the.

Abraham Hamilton III: Discourse believe they're good and the other side is evil, we're right back to square one.

Abraham Hamilton III: Because instead of merely discussing good versus evil, there needs to be a conversation about. About what is true.

Abraham Hamilton III: What is true. And if we are merely reactionary, we become nothing other than controlled opposition in the Hegelian dialectical process. Because the floor for the negotiation, if you will, is always set by the Hegelian with the thesis.

Abraham Hamilton III: The thesis, love who you want to love. Antithesis. No, that's wrong.

Abraham Hamilton III: Okay, okay, okay.

Abraham Hamilton III: Civil union.

Abraham Hamilton III: Civil unions.

Abraham Hamilton III: As soon as people said, okay, the civil unions, what's the next thing? No, no, no. We want marriage. Marriage is wrong. Okay, okay, okay. I license for gay marriage as soon as. Not even before the dust can settle on that. Little boys are not always boys. It's just a late, a more recent example of the exact same phenomenon. But the people of God must simultaneously.

Abraham Hamilton III: Be people of truth.

Abraham Hamilton III: And the beauty of this is that.

Abraham Hamilton III: We don't have to try to develop our own unilateral vision. God has already showed us the way in which we are to walk. God is good not because I'm saying so. It's because it is true.

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