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

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

>> Abraham Hamilton III: It should be uncomfortable for a believer 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, uh, now the, uh, Hamilton Corner.

>> Abraham Hamilton III: Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio. I am your 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, often imitated, never duplicated, the real J. Mac. And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. I'm grateful to be with you again. Uh, we came back. It's been kind of a whirlwind. And the whirlwind is going to continue even next week. Uh, we came back from Waco, um, Texas, had an amazing time at the Entrusted Christian Homeschool Conference. And then last week. Well, no, not last week, this week. Well, these days, running together. Earlier this week, uh, I was, uh, in Virginia with HSLDA preparing some things for, uh, their commemoration of our 250th anniversary for our Declaration of Independence. So it has been quite a busy time. And next week we will be in Lansing, Michigan at the inch Homeschool conference. We will broadcast live from Michigan during that conference. It is a busy, busy, busy time. A lot is going on, and I'm grateful that you've tuned into today's program. There's a lot happening in the country, A lot happening in the world. Uh, we have not, m surprisingly, states running with, to borrow Dave Ramsey's expression, gazelle like intensity to say, oh, what'd you say? No more having skin shades dictate how congressional maps look. Okay, so Tennessee is already, uh, made a move to change their maps. And it's been very, very quickly, uh, today, all over our country, uh, the National Day of Prayer is occurring, which is exceedingly appropriate. Right here. We had a National Day of Prayer event right in town and right in front of city Hall. And it was, um, just sobering to reflect on our nation's history. And this is something I've been doing for quite some time. And just being able to be in a nation to where we can pause and have city officials, business leaders, community leaders come together and to cry out to our Lord for our nation. It's Just a powerful time. I know in DC, our Speaker, uh, of the House, Mike Johnson, led a time of prayer there and indicates that our rights as human beings do not come from government, that it come from God. And that's just foundational. True. And it's foundational to our nation. And unsurprisingly, there are some who seek to reverse that. You have those who are working to reverse the understanding in our fellow countrymen's understanding and their insights. And there are others who are trying to implement policies that reflect that. Um, but by God's grace, he is the one who erects the standard. And I pray that he mobilizes his body to be his hands and feet. In this day and age, 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 full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on family and the necessity of us being Jesus. Hands and feet, proclaiming his gospel. What we want and what we need is for people who know the King of glory to share the love of Christ in proclaiming His Word, proclaiming his gospel and making disciples. That is, in my view, the missing ingredient in our body politic. You know, I've been reflecting quite a bit on what I've said before, um, that Os Guinness shared in Florida. There are lots of people talking about making America great. There are a lot of people want to talk about them. So quote, unquote, MAGA Coalition. Uh, that's my words. Dr. Os Guinness didn't say that. But then he said, this is what Os Guinness said. There's not enough conversations about what it is and what it has been that has made America great in the first place. And I agree with that wholeheartedly. I understand, uh, the propensity to respond to things with kind of a knee, uh, jerk and emotional response. But I just want to urge caution against that, uh, but that we be a people who are not led by our emotions, but we are led by the spirit of God. So as you're making your transition to your full time jobs, man, give yourself to your full time jobs. Some of you are listening to me. You would say, if you would query, you'd honestly say, you know, Abe, I've never really shared the gospel with anybody. I've never done that before. Or some others might say, I've never really, um, been in a discipleship relationship where I've been discipling somebody, some of you might say, I've never been discipled. Um, that is the great chasm that has transpired in our nation. And that is something that I pray that we reverse to the word of God. We go. I want to go back to Psalm chapter 20, um, because I think this is worth consideration in discussing what made America great. And I want to be clear what I'm saying m. What I mean when I say that what made America great in the first place. There's never been a time in. In our nation's history where our nation has been perfect, has been, um, a utopian ideal since by any stretch of the imagination. Our founders even understood that they were building something and tasked. Subsequent generations of Americans were tasked to be a part of the formation of a more perfect union. When those words were included in our Constitution's preamble, the prevailing understanding is that each generation of Americans would work to strive toward our nation becoming better and better and better and better. I have referred to repeatedly, um, Ben Franklin's contemporaneous. I mean, sorry, extemporaneous speech at the Constitutional Convention in which he said that when we were engaged in that contest with Great Britain and we were sensible of danger, that's what he said. Uh, that daily in this very same room, prayers were offered. But now that we have the privilege of deliberating our nation's future in peace, have we forgotten our divine friend? And in those words, he really, um, needles. One of the features of humanity is that we have the tendency to get big for our britches and thinking that, hey, I mean, we got it. We got it going on. But. Psalm chapter 20. David is writing here. Verses five through seven, which. Which I've referred to before. Now I'm going to go all the way to verse 8. I don't think I shared verse 8 before. Just by way of reminder. Psalm chapter 20 is written chronologically following the. The events that are listed and recorded for our benefit. In Second Samuel, Chapter 10, in First Chronicles, Chapter 19, and in Second Samuel, Chapter 10 and First Chronicles 19. Uh, you. What you will find there is that Two Nation came to war against Israel during David's time as king of Israel. Those nations were Syria and Ammon. The Syrians and the Ammonites both came to make war upon Israel. The Syrians, um, boasted that they had 40,000 horsemen and 700 chariots. And that is the backdrop for this Psalm. Psalm 25. May we shout for joy over your salvation. And in the name of our God set up our banners. May the Lord fulfill all Your petitions. Now, I know that the Lord saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses. But we trust in the name of the Lord our God. Or some translations will say, some boast in chariots and some boast in horses. But we will boast in the name of our, uh, Lord our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright. Or they bow down and have fallen, but we have risen and stood upright. When you see that phrase, that expression in verse 7, some boast or some trust in chariots and some in horses. When you take that into consideration and pit it against the backdrop of the Syrians boasting, uh, of their horsemen in their chariots. And that boast was a boast based in a factual, natural assessment of a perceived military superiority based upon, uh, weaponry innovation. They had more advanced weapons than the Israelites had. Because of their more advanced weapons, they anticipated that they would be able to waylay the Israelites. David contrasted their perception of military superiority with the anchor of his trust. While they boast in, uh, their military might. The only boast we have is in the name of our Lord God. And I said before our nation's origin story, the United States of America's origin story is just like that. It is a David and Goliath story. To have, uh, you would have surveyed the nations of the world in the late 18th century and asked, do you think the American colonists have a chance against Great Britain? What do you think their answers would have been? Most of them would have said, ain't no way. There's no way. I am gravely concerned. I've talked about the cycle of nations and how what the 250th year can indicate. I'm gravely concerned that in the highways and byways of our nation, I'm talking about talking to regular people on the street. On one end, we have a, um, hyper focus on politics. A hyper focus. And I agree that we must be engaged civically. We must be informed. I agree. For people that say, oh, yeah, the right wing and left wing, two wings in the same bird. Nah. Player. One group of people want to sterilize and castrate children in the name of progress. That's nowhere near the same platform. But make no mistake about it, the Swamp is a bipartisan institution. And I don't have any hesitation in saying that. But I think the greatest neglect and, um, chasm. When you hear me say darkness is not an affirmative force, but it reoccupies the space as it's vacated by the light. One of the biggest places where the light has been vacated in our nation is that, uh, I am concerned that much of the professing body of Christ in our nation have been eroded, been grinded down to such a degree to where our lives don't indicate that we have hope in the gospel. And what I mean by that is we should never allow the culture to cause us to have a lack of neighborliness. We should never allow the things that are percolating, you know, in the blogosphere and in the, you know, the Instagram, Facebook, twit, twist and shout, that it causes us, that we don't engage with people on an interpersonal and a regular basis. God has hardwired us for interpersonal, real social, kinetic interaction, flesh and blood, shaking hands, looking people in the eye, having conversations. A lot of people are, um, warning about, AI will do this, AI will do that. Guys, AI will never replace interpersonal interaction. This is why, while we are the most connected we've been in human history, while simultaneously we have the highest indications and reports of loneliness than we've ever had in the world. There's a reason for that. There's a reason for that. It's not normal for a person to be in the same house, to be sitting across the table from another person, and you send a text message, that ain't normal. That's not normal. And if we have concern for our country, that concern should be reflected. And concern for our countrymen. And the concern, by God's grace for those of us who've surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ should burgeon toward loving our neighbors as ourselves, where we love one another enough to talk to one another and to develop the maturity to where our words and speech is seasoned with salt and the love of Christ and compassion guides our communication. Now, uh, notice I said the love of Christ, not some romantic comedy cultural notion of love, is because that ain't love. Passively agreeing with people. But we have to get back to the foundational basics of engaging people on an interpersonal one, on one basis. A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.

>> Joseph Parker: It is, in fact, relatively easy to bless others and encourage people with our words if we wisely and very deliberately seek to do so. Well, what are some words that we can speak as a lifestyle that can bless others? What are some words that can promote healing, grace and encouragement in the lives of others? Well, here are a few. Thank you. I appreciate you. Please. How can I help you? I'm sorry. I apologize. Please forgive me. How Can I pray for you? What can I do to bless you today? You are awesome. You are a blessing. I believe in you. I believe you can do it. You will do great. And obviously these are just a few words, but words that can bless and encourage others in their daily lives.

>> Abraham Hamilton III: Foreign.

>> Abraham Hamilton III: Light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.

>> Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here. I want to make sure everybody understands what I'm saying clearly when I'm talking about our speech being seasoned with salt and love and compassion driving our encounters. I'm not talking about being some mamby pamby, weak kneed, weak wristed communicator, but I'm saying, Uh, there's several cliches that come to mind. Not only letting people know what you're gangster, what you're for, but I'm saying that our speech being seasoned with salt, a word properly communicated, aptly communicated. There are sometimes where the most important thing for us to do is simply to listen. There are other times when the most important thing to do is to engage. You know, um, my wife and I have been talking lately about, you know, uh, cults and false teaching and lamenting how sad it is that you have people who are deceived, like Jehovah's Witnesses, for example. And some of them are sincere in their efforts, but many of them have been indoctrinated from a young age. And some of the, well, not. Some of the reason why it's a cult is because they discourage, uh, research and study outside of the approved outlets. Um, but if a Jehovah's Witness knocks on my door, it's important that I don't let them steer the conversation. I want to steer the conversation. I want to be, I want to be, um, gentle and I want to be patient and I want to be loving. But I'm not going to let them, you know, tap dance on, on, on me for the duration of the conversation. I want to drill down on what I want to drill down on and the opportunity though. And here's the thing, uh, not to view them as my enemy or to limit or to view them as an enemy of the gospel, but view them as a target of the gospel. You see what I'm saying? And when you have people who are indoctrinated into cultish, um, beliefs, sometimes it can be laborious to penetrate that calcified surface, you know, because it's. One of the features of Jehovah's Witnesses is they've been taught to distrust any source that's not Been approved by the Watchtower group in Brooklyn, you know what I mean? So if it's not, if it don't come from jw.org they ain't trying to hear it, generally speaking. But when they come to my home, uh, I'm not going to let them control the conversation. But I'm also going to recognize that this is a gospel opportunity and engage in such a way. Now that's in an example that's a little bit different from the more routine normative experiences in life in terms of them, you know, coming knocking on your door and wanting to have a conversation, you know, and this is something I've done several times, you know, you knock on my door, you knocked on my door. I'm not gonna let you dictate to deserves a conversation. It's my home, you know, um, but often think, man, how would I want, if I were in that position of being deceived? How would I want to be? Would I want somebody to present the truth to me? You're doggone right, because eternity hangs in the balance. And, uh, man, I'm telling you, I'm greatly concerned that there's been this fundamental transformation of the United States of America. Guys, newsflash. It's happened. It's happened, it's happened. I mean, modesty, chastity speech. I think I was on the air when I was talking about it. I came across a book not too long ago, George Washington wrote a book about, uh, manners, being mannerly. And it is like nobody's really on that anymore. M. Not many people. I, um, know there are some, but not many people. And what I'm talking about is happening. The heart and the minds of our fellow countrymen have been turned in such a way to where we have been moved into being a largely secular nation. Mm. Mhm. And much of that has transpired with our consent. I know that's hard to hear. I know it's hard to hear, but it's true. And it didn't happen all at once. And when I say, uh, consent, you know, I hearken back to a conversation I had. I shared this story before, uh, with a leader of a very large national Christian ministry. And, and this, this man was lamenting, you know, the successful advance of the homosexual agenda in our country. And I paused and I said, you do realize that that is the latest iteration at that time, of the agenda to move America into being a humanistic, atheistic nation. No, I didn't say. I said godless. I was gonna say it's part of the large agenda to move America to a godless agenda. He was like, kind of surprised. And I said, that gets our attention. But we're not really moved by having a fully a full fledged system of instruction, a discipleship system that assumes or articulates that God does not exist. He's like, what? I say, yeah, the most popular notions that's taught to our children in these instruction systems that we call them schools, is that God does not exist. Macroevolutionary theory is the dominant dogma and the dominant practical dogma. Huh? And that combined with kind of a paganistic syncretism. I mean, how often in your everyday lives do you hear people, including young people, talk about the universe? The universe, the universe. Where did that come from? That sure didn't come from Genesis to Revelation. You know, you got kind of a hodgepodge of pagan spiritism, a little side note of Hinduism, a little Buddhism plopped on top, and you have a functional self appeasement of spirituality. Uh, that's the dominant ethos in our country. How often you hear people talking about karma again, Genesis, revelation. You ain't gonna find out about karma from Genesis to Revelation. You'll find sowing and reaping. Oh, Abe, you know what you just saying? Why are you quibbling over semantics? Oh, it's a big deal. It's a huge difference. People use words that don't even know the significance. You can't de. Spiritualize a word that's spiritual at its genesis and at its core and at its root. And so all of these other ideologies have floated into, uh, the hearts and the minds of our fellow countrymen. I mean, how often do you hear fellow countrymen talking about consciousness? You know, uh, I'm at this stage of consciousness. What, like stop the madness if you alive, everybody's conscious. No, you use the term consciousness to convey a spiritual phenomenon. You see what I'm saying? Even the word avatar. Do you realize the term avatar has a Hindu genesis? But how much of these ideas and these notions in our, in our, in our world and like our children watching shows, you know, the Avatar, you know, the Last airbender, all of these things, And it, and it's a comfortable deception and we don't really realize it. And the reason, the way we've gotten here is because darkness is an affirmative force. I mean, sorry, darkness is not an affirmative force, but it does reoccupy the space that is vacated by the light. So you strip away the corpus of what the Bible requires of parents for fathers to lead their families with their mother with uh, their wives and the mother of their children, working with them to rear children in the paideia and the new of the Lord, the discipline and instruction of the Lord, and that becoming a generational phenomenon. We've talked before that we have such low expectations for younger people today that we're surprised if children are in public with their parents and the children are obedient. But the Bible says, he who does not discipline his son hates his son. But we're going to have these. Oh, we're gentle parenting. Gentle parenting. And again, I'm not trying to intrude on anybody, anybody's homes or jurisdictions, but I'm saying, how much have we, we've allowed everything but God's word to dictate how we engage and what we do and what we think and what we really believe. How often has it become a habit for us whenever there's a notion that comes to us, a new station of life, that our first and our default posture. Let's seek the Lord and see what his word has to say on this. Parenting decisions. I'm not going to run to a podcast first. I'm not going to run to a self help book first. I want to run to the word of God first. Young man growing towards manhood. How. What should I consider if I'm evaluating a potential wife? I don't want to go to a podcast first. I don't want to go to a self help book first. Let's go to God's word first, which hopefully those conversations are happening long before the time to pursue has come upon us. I just want us, I guess maybe because I'm doing this myself, to step back a little bit and, and to take stock of where we are and evaluate what's going on. And I think when you do, you'll begin to realize, man, we've ceded so much ground societally. To. When you get right down to it, it's the father of lies. It's the father of lies. Guys. These things have meaning. My children get mad at me because even when I send text messages, I text full words. I don't use abbreviations. And I said, because you're practicing communication and, uh, mad is a little too strong. They don't get mad at me. They just like, that's Daddy. You know, I don't, I don't, I don't believe we recognize, uh, just how much ground we've ceded. And I'm saying that intentionally because, yes, they're nefarious forces, they're evil people, uh, concocting schemes and doing all Kinds of things. Uh, but the Lord tells us that the believer's portion is to cast down vain imaginations and every high thing that would erect itself against the knowledge of God. Destroying logismas, destroying these speculations, destroying these ideologies, because the weapons of our warfare have divine power. They're mighty to the destruction of strongholds. That's what the Bible tells us. I'm, um, thinking about living in this time where technology is advancing as it is. But man, we shouldn't be afraid of that. We don't have to be afraid of it. God has ordained us for this time and he's ordained his body, his remnant in each generation where he's planted us to be salt and light to carry his cause in our generations. So, yeah, we may not know how, you know, all of the clawed AI and all of the inner workings of the algorithmic learning, but we don't have to be afraid of it. Lord, how will you glorify yourself in me first and through me secondarily in this time when you planted me? And I think a large component of it, man, is, like I've been saying for the longest time, is living locally, engaging our neighbors, engaging with our community. I didn't plan to go on this long with this, But right now you have. Predictably, we talked about it here as soon as the Supreme Court made its decision in the Louisiana vs Calais case, which is where the court ruled in 663 that you cannot create congressional districts with skin color being the dominant consideration. Uh, and I keep pointing out one of the major factors that led to this case getting to the Supreme Court is when Louisiana changed its maps from 2022 to 2024. They had maps in 2020 already. 2022, they tried to change it, and then it was a lawsuit filed to invalidate the 2022 maps. The 2024 maps were fined. And one of the things that was discussed was whether or not, uh, uh, a district can be considered a true voting district. Because, uh, partisan affiliation wasn't sufficient to protect voting interests, you had to create districts where skin color was taken into consideration. And I've said that we got to pick what we're going to be. We're going to be. Are we going to be a people to where superficial topical assessments is going to be the governing evaluation or not? We got to pick. We can't, we can't say we want to move beyond that and then say, but we don't. You know, we hokey poking all along, putting our left foot in and taking it out. So the Supreme Court made its decision and unsurprisingly, you have states running, running to put new maps together. One of them I think I have time for this is the state of Tennessee. Listen to and watch clip number five.

>> Steve Hilton: Clip five, Go Tennessee. Republicans are moving quickly to redraw the state's congressional map after last week's U.S. supreme Court ruling on voting rights. And the proposal is already triggering protests and accusations of voter suppression. New map would carve up Shelby county, including Memphis, and into three separate districts, likely giving Republicans a clean sweep of all nine congressional seats, eliminating one held by Democrats. State House Speaker Cameron Sexton defended the move on X, writing the Supreme Court has opined that redistricting, like the judicial system, should be colorblind. He added, Tennessee is joining other states in redrawing maps based on partisan politics. Democrats and voting rights groups are blasting the effort as a political power grab targeting black voters. Protesters flooded the state Capitol this week. Police removed several demonstrators from hearings on Wednesday.

>> Abraham Hamilton III: Prior to this move, Tennessee has not. Well, Tennessee has nine congressional districts. Eight of the congressional representatives, uh, are Republicans. One is a Democrat, Steve Coyne from the Memphis area. This proposed map with Tennessee's Republican governor and its Republican majorities in the state legislature could result in there being nine Republican members of Congress from Tennessee and zero Democrats. More when we get back.

>> Abraham Hamilton III: Uh, the Hamilton quarter podcast and one minute commentaries are available at afr.net back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.

>> Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here. You know, it's, it's pretty, um, exhausting to see all of these people who were celebrating what Virginia's Governor Abel Crombie and Fitch was doing, um, leading there. Why are you laughing, Poppy? They go, elections have consequences and all of these things and their efforts to redistrict to make basically a unanimous Democrat, uh, congressional delegation in the state of Virginia and hearing lots of Republicans say, uh, that's not representative, lots of, you know, that's not representative of the national population. Then you have the exact same thing being proposed in Tennessee and you just see the, the predict, the predictable switch and the thing that, that's, I don't blame, like the politicals. Yeah, yeah. You know, these people, they, they eat, sleep and breathe this stuff and, and, and you have people who believe, you know, politics is the end of everything. So when I'm telling you the people in Tennessee are going berserk. Oh, my goodness, protest and I'm sure it's all organic, though, Bobby. I'm sure about that. I'm sure these are people who just, you know, and even that becomes tiresome because before you can even assess what's happening, you have to. You have to stop and say, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. Are these organic protests? Like, do these people really understand what's going on? Like, like the. The no kings rallies, right? Y' all saw the different man on the street interviews to where you had people say, yeah, we're here to protest. We're no kings. And it was like, so we have a king. And. And. And then the lack of irony, right? So you have no kings protest in England, where they literally have a king, but they're not protesting their king. They're in. They're in England protesting in the United States of America. It's just. It nullifies the significance of the protest. Obviously, it's a constitutional right that should be protected, and I would never advocate for curtailing that in any fashion. Obviously, we have to protest in a legal fashion, in a legal manner. Um, but if every time you have any type of issue and you have a paid protester class, I guess you want to call it, like, their jobs are to go from faux test to foe test to foe test, because it's fake. It's fake. And it's just. It's just so, so wild. Even. Like, um, you know, I played the audio from James. James Carville, who was saying that what Democrats need to do is win the presidency back and immediately pack the Supreme Court. These same people had nothing to say about the Supreme Court manufacturing rights I've talked about in this program. Before you go and read, uh, the Roe versus Wade opinion. It's one of the worst legal opinions in the history of our country. You literally have the majority opinion saying that there is a quote unquote, right to privacy, and it exists in our Constitution. To which the obvious question is, well, where can you show me which article? Oh, no, no. It's in the emanations and penumbras of our Constitution. So you had lots of people in the American populace who didn't know what an emanation in a penumbra was. And so they are literally running around saying that it's a constitutional right to which every American to say, okay, show me where it is in the Constitution. But we've been so degraded to this political gang banging, and our capacities to reason have been so dumbed down to where we don't really have much effort to persuade. And social media has aided in the Balkanization of our populace because the algorithms of social media exist to do one thing and one thing only to keep eyeballs on the screen using their apps. That's what it exists for. And they've learned if they can keep you on the dopamine hits of having what you already think confirmed to you in 757 ways, they can keep people on their apps longer. And so what's happened as a result of that? What's happened as a result of that is that we've kind of established a phenomenon to where the whole idea of reasoning with someone who thinks differently than you, that don't happen anymore. Because right now, you just. You just unfriend, oh, no, I won't hear what you have to say. Give me more people to tell me what I want to hear. Give me more people who tell me what I want to hear. And so we've lost in many, to a large degree, the willingness first and then the ability secondarily to reason with one another. And that, when carried out to its most extreme iteration, is where you end up witnessing what happened to Charlie Kirk. Guys, it's no different. Read Acts 8. Um. Read Acts chapter 6. Read Acts. Chapter 7. Read Acts. When Steven was stoned, do you remember what was happening there? Steven was proclaiming the truth, using history that was. That is affirmed in scripture to tell the truth about the gospel and the truth about Jesus Christ and the people. And the Bible notes this because Steven was a man full of the spirit of God and of wisdom, that the mob was unable to contest what Steven was saying, but they still didn't like it. So now they're in a position. They can't contest what he's saying, but they still don't like it. So they start tossing rocks. They rushed to stone Steven. Steven, he had the same thing. Many people resented the effectiveness Charlie Kirk was having with his influence in our country. There were many people who showed up at Charlie Kirk's events for the express purposes of sunning Charlie. Imma. Um. Get. Imma get him. I got what's going to happen. And the conclusion. So. The thing. The thing that. One of the things that really grieves me with this and with all of the political rancoring and all of the emotional upheaval surrounding it, and, you know, you know, when there is an effort afoot to try to keep people from thinking through anything is that they try to use loaded and provocative terms. Oh, this is. This is just Jim Crow. This. This is just. This is just. Oh, we going back again. You know, Mr. Ice Cream Man. This is Jim Eagle. This is, uh, this. Oh, Jim Crow 2.0. Remember Chuck Schumer? Tried to say, literally the Save America act, where, you know, it had to do a voter ID, oh, Jim Crow 2.0. Because you don't want people to think through it. You just want people to be emotionally provoked. Emotionally provoked and. M. To be, to be emotionally stirred up and not think about anything. Anything. That's what you want. And so with the assumptions, like with all of the congressional delegation realignments and all of the emotional fervor surrounding it, you know, what's assumed by the people that are hot, like they're in Tennessee. Oh, you assume that people can't reason with one another. You assume that, that there is no amount of communication and many of them don't want communication. That's why I share with you the words of people like Woodrow Wilson. This dude literally who became our president, he lamented, he said, uh, we get to vote on too much. We get to vote on too much. We don't need people participating now. We just need them obeying. We need to have a populace that's more like Germany. They're more docile and compliant. More docile and compliant. Guys, there are things that are happening and I'm concerned that we're looking at the fruit, but we are completely ignorant as to what could be at the root, as to what is causing it. One of the chief things, and I know this is hard for people to hear, but I've got to say it anyway, is that we cannot allow ourselves to just parent on neutral. We're parenting on cruise control. We don't know what our children are being taught. We don't know what our children are being taught. I've said before, we make decisions that we will never do. In terms of babysitters, would you ever allow someone to babysit your child who you don't know their background, you don't know their history, you don't know their theology, you don't know what they believe, you don't know their worldview, you don't know anything about. You would never allow those people to babysit your child unless, unless you're giving them access to your child through an intermediary called a school. And then I'm not even. I could do the same thing in terms of peer learning, you know, would you put your child to be a captive audience? The types of people who will introduce them to, um, pornographic material, the types of people who will encourage them to live a, uh, sin laden, sin filled lifestyle will accumulate peer pressure surrounding their willingness and eagerness to zealously run headlong towards sin and to be mocked if they have the audacity to stand in the God honoring manner. We never do that usually. I've shared how Justice Steven Breyer and his dissent in the Carson versus Making case when he said, the reason why we fund the school system with taxpayer dollars because it is the primary system that we entrust to create the values on. Upon which our society rests. Say what? M. What? This is why I tell people say, well, Abraham, um, the government, the. The school system has failed. And I say, well, has it? Has it failed? Because in order to assess whether something has been successful or whether it has been a failure, we would have to know what was the purpose from the beginning. You know, if my purpose is to run a marathon 26 miles, but I only run five miles, that could say, yeah, you missed the mark on that one. But if my goal was one run five miles from the beginning, you can't say running five miles was a failure. And I've said that the government school system hasn't failed. It's operating as it's been designed. It's operating as it has been designed to operate. I know they were selling Jesse Jackson's three R's, the late Jesse Jackson's three R's. Reading, writing, arithmetic. But there's been. It's been. It's a values transmission system. So then you have to zoom out, step back for a second and think, hmm, M. It's the primary values transmission system upon which our society rests. What kind of values would be transmitted via a system to where God and the knowledge of God are intentionally and systematically excluded? What kind of values do you think would be transmitted? Uh, what kind of values would be transmitted? The kind of values that we see evident happening all around us. Guys. That's what we're living in. There have been concerted efforts to turn our nation in a particular direction, in a particularly godless direction, and it's largely happened. But it doesn't have to continue, though we can adjust course now. We can make adjustments now. And one of the things that the enemy tends to do consistently is overplay his hand. And only so long. You can continue to press, um, people into a nihilistic disposition that there's nothing sacred about life. There's no purpose to life. There's something inside of us that rejects that notion. Because the scripture tells us God has hardwired eternity into us, that he has set eternity in the hearts of mankind. Which is why we're beginning to see, you know, younger generations beginning to consider, you know, existential questions, questions of purpose and foundational worldview. Considerations. That's why you're seeing that happen. And I don't want us to miss what's truly before us. And we get so caught up in a lot of the fruit issues. But we don't get to the root issues, which is why it's vitally important, vitally important for those of us who member, who are members of God's eternal family man, that we love the Lord and we love our neighbor as ourselves, so much so where we're willing to get out of our comfort zones as necessary and to be salt and light. Make it your business to share the love of God with somebody today, one person. Find one person to share the love of God with, with ultimately culminating prayerfully with gospel engagement. In addition to that, the cultivation of a discipleship relationship. The views and opinions expressed in this

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