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Joel 1:1-3. Generationality is central to a biblical worldview.

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0:00 - 15:00. Joel 1:1-3. Generationality is central to a biblical worldview. 15:00 - 31:00. Wriley Wildmon, Director of the AFA Foundation, steps into “The Corner.” 31:00 - 48:00. The Environmental Protection Agency seems committed to American energy destruction.

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    Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite. Delivery people under the bondage of mainstream media. And the philosophies of this world. God has called you and me to be his ambassador. Even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment. And now, the Hamilton Corner. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio. I am your host, Abraham Hamilton, III. Joined by... Rio J. Mac, ladies and gentlemen, produced extraordinary, often imitated, but never duplicated. He is in studio manning the controls, and we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. At this moment, many of you, if not most of you are making your daily Jot, you know, using a different word, you know, transition, it seems to... What a world we live in. Your daily transition from your part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome as you make your moves. I Want to encourage you Jeff somebody looking for you back there. Have to make your move. I just want to remind you to embrace God's view of the family. The first human institution, why are you laughing man? Stop you making me laugh Yeah, Jeff Jeff has fans guys Jeff Jeff has fans and and one just having a walk by the studio and Yeah as you're making your transition to your full-time jobs I want to remind you to do so in the digitality. This is not fair because we laughing they don't know we're laughing at I'm sorry y'all. I'm sorry y'all. Jeff you're supposed to be a professional as you're making your transition. I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on the family. The first human institution that he established was the family with marriage at the center. The first command God gave to mankind and recorded it for our benefit was issued within the familial context. Simply put marriage and family is a big deals to God and they're central to his plan. It is it should not be shocking to us that every encroachment we see from the Leviathan state, it corresponds with a retrenchment that occurs in the family. And I've said numerous times and I will continue to say that we will never be able to outchurch or out politic deficiencies in the home. The home is where the tide for the nation is turned. So as you are making your transition to your full-time job, please understand that you have the opportunity right there to be a part of executing our King's commission.

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    And as Psalm 127 lays it out beautifully, the warrior, the skillful warrior who has arrows and his quiver, the arrow is an instrument that is designed to hit targets at a distance. As we fortify them and prepare them for launch, by God's grace they will go further than where we go. And this is referring to our children. commitment to our full-time jobs is not limited to what had transpires with our children. It includes how we interact with our spouses and it's from that foundational vantage point that we work outward from there. So make this a day where you obey the Lord and exalt the King of glory starting right in your homes. All right to the Word of God we go. We're gonna go today to the book of Joel Joel, Joel chapter 1, just the first three verses in this chapter, just by way of a reminder, the prophet Joel ministered to the southern kingdom of Judah from about 835 to 796 BC. Now that timeframe is important because he is ministering prophetically to the southern kingdom of Judah before the northern kingdom of Israel is conquered by Assyria. All right, this is before the southern kingdom of Judah is conquered by Nebuchadnezzar. All right, this is prior to both of those major historical events, in particular in Joel's ministry. This entire book includes him and records him prophesying judgment that was coming to Judah in the future. And I remember as a child, we sang this song in children's church. Blow the trumpet in Zion, Zion, sound the alarm.

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    Some of y'all know that song. Oh, my holy mountain. Blow the trumpet in Zion, Zion, boom, boom, sound the alarm. Some of y'all know that song. But you may not know that comes from Joel chapter two. And that's not necessarily text you should want to use for a song because the trumpet is being sounded in that portion of scripture because the Lord is judging Judah and the judgment that we ultimately know came through Nebuchadnezzar. It wasn't a good thing. You know, they rush in the city, they run on the walls. That wasn't something that we should be celebrating. That was Judah being rebuked, being judged for perpetual, unrepentant sinfulness after being warned decade after decade after decade. So I just if you listen to me and you know, you're involved in the music, why don't you go here and retire that one? That one, you probably don't want to run back. You know, that one don't need to be in the greatest hits, you know, or let me say it better. Why don't you go read the whole book of Joel, including chapter two, then consider whether or not you should continue singing that song. How about that? So I don't want to tell anybody what to do, but I just, this is just a recommendation I would make. But here you have, as I mentioned, Joel ministering in the Southern Kingdom of Judah, he's prophesying judgment that is to come in the way that he's saying that this is what is going to happen unless we repent. This is what is going to happen unless we repent. But the Lord directs Joel to begin this prophetic declaration to the Southern Kingdom of Judah with the first three verses in chapter one. And again, I want you to note this and consider, as we've described before, the hermeneutic principle of primacy. What is stated first? This is the beginning of Joel's book and these are the first words that are penned by the Prophet Joel in obeying the Lord's instruction to warn the Southern Kingdom of Judah.

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    And this is how it begins. The word of the Lord that came to Joel, son of Petheol, hear this, O elders, and listen all in the happenance of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days or in the days or in your Father's days? your sons about it and let your sons tell their sons and their sons the next generation. This is another portion of Scripture similar to Psalm 78 similar to Psalm 127 Psalm 128 Ephesians 6 Malachi 2 Genesis 1 this is another source of scripture that points to the intrinsic generationality that is present in faithfulness to God. To say that in a different way is that God has established and ordained it for His people to be a people who are generational in view and in commitment. The Lord has never desired for His people to live the Hezekiah phenomena. when Hezekiah was worn by Isaiah because of his foolishness that his own offspring would suffer harm. And he said, outwardly, yeah, that's the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. But internally he said, at least it's going to be peace and prosperity in my day. He's not going to be a problem for me. Guys that kind of self-centeredness, that kind of myopathy is sinful. It's wicked. And it is not appropriate for a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. I've shared before how the cry of Marinath, which means our Lord come, is an appropriate cry if it's whole in his orientation, not self-centered and escapist. Lord, things are getting so bad. Give me out, bam, it's, beam me up, Scotty. Get me out of here. That's not the Lord's will for his people.

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    We should not be a people where we are content to watch others live in such a way, where they are foreclosed from the benefits of Christ following. And most importantly, that they're living in such a way that is clearly indicates that eternal damnation awaits them. That should bother us. That should bother us. I have to refer to the quote of pendulette. You know, the atheist, I don't know if he's still an atheist, he was an atheist at the time he made this statement because it's a convicting statement. He said, I know no greater demonstration of hatred for a fellow man than for a person who who knows the way to eternal life. For a Christian who would know how to access eternal life, yet they would keep that to themselves. Who's right? And the unfortunate reality is we have lots of people that are professing Christians, many of whom are most likely churchians. Y'all know churchy-anity not should never be confused with Christianity, but we've embraced this undisturbed life life of laissez-faire theology. This is plainly that we have no compassion for our fellow man, for people who are hellbound. No eternal compassion. We are content, and I'm not saying anybody says this, but our lives often reflected. Here's a simple self-evaluation, right? When was the last time you spent time praying for unbelievers? It's a simple question. My goal is not to intrude on anybody's consciousness. I'm not endeavoring to be a source of condemnation, but I do want to offer this invitation for introspection. When was the last time you prayed for unbelievers?

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    Go a little further. When was the last time that you shared the gospel with someone who was an unbeliever? Anyone, I'm not saying it has to be a stranger. It could be a family member, could be a child, could be a parent. When was the last time? If you were to rip open your heart right now and expose it to the rest of the people listening and to and watching the show right now. And the question was, do you have compassion for the loss? What would be revealed at that moment? What I'm saying, what I'm saying, and I get it, man, I see all of this craziness, but we can never forget a lot of these people like the folks who are trying to take down the U-turn sign in Los Angeles. A lot of these folks are lost, man. and our effort to contend for the faith, we have to be very careful that we don't allow our hearts to become callous to where we become the loveless people. And I'm not talking about, you know, the Hollywood, worldly, romantic comedy type stuff they're talking about. I'm talking about a love that is anchored in eternity. A love that is anchored in the truth of that there is a heaven and there is hell. I'm talking about a love that will cause us to be willing to yield from time to time our own comfort, to adjust our agenda, to meet the Lord's agenda, to comply with His agenda. That's what I'm talking about. And I'm simply offering this as a checkup. You know, where are we? Where are we? Have we become so consumed with, you know, we have this program and that program and this program and that program where we, our love has begun to begin to wax cold.

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    These are things that we must consider. Jesus said it. We are in this world, but we're not to be of this world. Yes, the world will hate his disciples, but he's not trying to have us removed. He's called us to be in the world and not of it. You've heard me say before, the story in the scripture of Daniel and his friends that they lived a lifetime in Babylon, but Babylon never lived in them. Babylonian preferences and ideals never encroached upon their morality, their worldview, to where they internalized being Babylonian. They remain a distinct people of God though they lived in Babylon. This is what we should be in our day. The way in this world, we're not of this world. So the things that we ascribe to, the things that are foremost in our hearts, should not be what is reflected by the culture around us, but it should be reflected by the culture meet within us due to the presence and the indwelling of the Spirit of God and being members of the eternal family of God. This is our privilege and our prerogative. We must, we must, we must be about our Father's business. He's placed us for such a time as this. Let's not miss our moment. This June marks two years since the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, but did you know that the number of abortions actually increased the following year? In 2023, the amount of abortions reached its highest level since 2012. Preborn continues to stand strong for women in crisis. Preborn is a ministry of compassion that showers women and babies with God's love, providing free ultrasound some mothers to introduce them to the precious life growing inside them. When a mother meets her baby on ultrasound and hears their heartbeat, she is twice as likely to choose life. 28 dollars sponsors one ultrasound and 140 dollars this helps rescue five babies.

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    Your generous tax deductible donation will also help to provide women who choose life with assistance for up to two years. So please give your best gift to donate dial pound two fifty and say the keyword baby. That's pound two fifty baby or visit preborn.com slash a.f.r. That's preborn.com slash a.f.r. Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton corner on American family radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton, the third here. I am honored to be in studio with my guest, who is the director of the AFA Foundation. Mrs. Riley Whelman. Thank you, Abe. But this is my first time to be on your program. I'm so delighted to have you. Well, welcome. I'm so glad you made time coming to the desk here. Yes, sir. Absolutely. So some people are listening right now and they're saying the AFA Foundation, what is the AFA foundation. So you're here to answer that question. Yes, sir. I sure am. So the AFA Foundation is just a division of American Family Association and American Family Radio. We're one of our, I guess, mission to leave a legacy to last for generations to come through the foundation, through this department that I've been here for about 11 or 12 years. And it first started back in the 1900s. the former Dan... 1900s? Well, sorry, 1990s. Sorry, wait a minute. We got some people we need to bring up on this. 1990s, sorry. So, see, Abe, I don't do this a lot, so I get a little nervous. It is alright. It is alright. So Dan Sillya, who passed away a few years ago, he kind of, with Diana O'Neill, our former director, kind of started the foundation and got it kind of off the ground, so to speak. And so I'm just here to kind of help with that along now with Rob West.

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    And for us, the foundation goes, you know, we offer different tools, what I call in our toolbox. And I can also give you a brief overview of how each one of those are. Yeah, I do want to hear that. But even before you came to Studio, we were talking about how the scripture has always pointed the follows of God to having a generational view, generational scope, not to not be of such an internal disposition, which is living for ourselves, but we live to glorify the Lord in our day, yes. But as Proverbs 1322 says, a good man loses inheritance for his children's children. And so for people who are interested in utilizing the resources of God as entrusted to their care, in the most God-honoring way possible, it would include doing so to leave a legacy of Christ following in our nation. And I know the foundation which, uh, uh, uh, glory to God for Dan, see how you have a division, uh, to introduce that aspect of ministry to AFA, getting that started. And now you, uh, serving as a director of that portion of AFA's ministry. And so you, you refer to having certain toolboxes that will enable people, uh, to leave that legacy using their resources to leave that legacy. What are some of those tools? So one of the main ones, Abe, is what we call a charitable gift annuity, and that is one of our main tools that we have in the foundation. I can give you listeners a brief overview of how that works. Basically, they call in to us and they tell us a certain amount, the minimum amount to fund the charitable gift annuity is $2,000 or anything above that that you can give to the ministry. You can have a single life or a joint life, so It can be a one life or a two life. And basically they receive a tax deduction, the year they set up the gift annuity. And then when they both pass away or sing a life or a joint, when they both pass away, anything left over is a gift back to American Family Association. So we have several hundred terrible gift annuities that we have that people have given to American Family Association.

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    So that's one of the tools that we have. And that's our most common one, so to speak. And then we'll ask a question about that. Yes. for two lives, you mean, does that mean you can have a charitable gift annuity in one person's name? That is correct. Or you can have an annuity in the name of two people. Either one. Yes, yes. So. It basically is an annuity, which is an investment vehicle, that allows the person, the new tenant, the one who is forming it to make an investment intent, then to draw monthly income as a result of that investment. Yes, yes, sir. But upon their passing, the initial invested amount, not the monthly amount that they draw, but the initial invested amount, if it was a charitable gift annuity, would go to whoever you wanted to make that donation. Donation too. That is correct. Okay. And that would be American Family Association. In this instance. Yes, sir. In this instance. So American Family Association would be, so to speak, the beneficiary of the annuity. So it, man, it has benefits in multiple directions. So for the person who wants to make a donation to AFA, but wants to do so in such a way that it would put them in a position where you can draw monthly income. A lot of retirees take advantage of that, for example. Yes, sir. To where you would make the donation, but actually the donation yields monthly income for you. Yes, for the remainder of your life. Correct, yes. You know. And then upon your passing, the originally invested amount, which you said the minimum starts at $2,000 would go to AFA. So you could benefit from your own investment through your lifetime, but also make a gift to sustain the work of AFA even beyond your years. It's an amazing opportunity. It is, it is. And that's a great tool as well as I'll tell your listeners about a stock. That's another option. A stock donation with a stock, you can do one or two things. We have a lot of people that just give stock to American Family Association and receive a 400% tax deduction by way of just gifting it to the ministry, but also with the stock donation is they can fund a charitable gift annuity with that.

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    Wow. So they can give stock donation just like you could do cash or $2,000 or anything above that. Like I said, for the charitable gift annuity, but you can use stock as a way to fund a charitable gift annuity. Wow. So a lot of people don't realize that and we have had the ministry has been blessed by stock because people now are just using stock as just an outright gift, I'm sorry outright gift to the ministry and it's a great another great tool. Wow that's amazing and I think you mentioned this as well with the charitable gift annuity is that tax deductible as well? Yes sir. Wow. Yes it's about one third of a tax deduction that they'll receive the year that they set up the gift annuity they do not receive a 400% tax deduction because they are receiving income coming back to them for the rest of their life. So it is not a full 100% tax deduction, but it is a little bit that helps them. But the main thing is that it helps American Family Association. And when they pass away, it's like pop on them when you say, you leave a legacy that lasts for generations to come. And Dan used to say that as well. So yes. And then you were about to mention, there's an additional tool, was there an additional tool you want to mention? Well, we call it like an estate. Some people just leave, you know, us in their wheel. I guess you would say, just leave American Family Association in their wheel. So that's also another tool that we give out our tax ID number. And then they just talk to a local attorney there in their area. And if they have a home or any estates or anything that they have, that they want to gift to American Family Association, they can do that as well. How can people listening now? Because I'm pretty sure some are listening that are saying, Man, I'm so glad they're having this conversation because I've been praying about and thinking about I wanted to do something that would even last beyond me to support this ministry. How can people contact you in order to do that? Yeah, so there's a few different ways. I'll give out our phone number and then also our website.

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    Our phone number is 800-326-4543. Again, 800-326-4543. in extension 345, but they can also visit our website at afafoundation.net, that's afafoundation.net, and they can also run illustrations on our website as well. So that's another great aspect. Instead of calling, they can just run an illustration, put in their information, their date of birth, their name, and it'll run an illustration on our website. Now I'm pretty sure I know what an illustration is, but just in case I'm missing something, what is an illustration? So it's just a way that we can, we put in information, so to speak, into our system with their name, date of birth, and at city and state. And then it will run with their rate of return, so to speak would be. Kind of like a forecast of projection. So it would be a hypothetical analysis of, let's say you wanted to see, well if I do a $2,000 single life, one person charitable gift annuity, what type of investment should I expect over the course of my life in terms the monthly benefit I'd be paid prior to my expiration. So they can get that right on our website. Yes, sir. They sure can on AFAfoundation.net. And we also now are on some social media that's Facebook and LinkedIn. So AFA Foundation, if you'll go visit us at AFA Foundation in the Facebook and LinkedIn. We're also on both of those platforms. Very cool. Now I know, and you guys probably can tell this but listen to what Riley is extremely nice. So when you call, you'll get to talk to her on the phone and people in her team that'll help walk you through all of this. But because you spend such a significant amount of time talking to a new attention people who walk to use their resources, leave a lasting legacy for Christ and righteousness in our nation, do you have any examples of donor stories or things you'd like to share with the listeners from your interaction? Not all the top of my head, but I will say a while back, when Dan was here with us, we would go to visit with people in their homes and you know those are some great memories that I have that that can carry on with me we don't travel as much now sometimes as well as I used to before I had kids this was all before I had kiddos but you know that is just something that just going in people's homes that and talking with them one-on-one and getting to travel with them is a good memory that I have. Wow that's pretty cool anything else I'm leaving out. No sorry you're good yeah we're good.

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    All right, AFA Foundation was website again. Yes, FAFoundation.net. That's the website. Yes, sir. Okay, and the illustration is a great, the illustrations are a great device, a great instrument that you can utilize to see exactly what you're projected to get into if you were to consider a charitable gift annuity or any one of the tools that Riley just mentioned. Yes, sir. Thank you so much, A, for having me on today. Thank you, thank you for being willing to come on. I know you don't like doing it from the microphone, but I'm so grateful that you're willing to come here. All right, thank you. All right, AFAFoundation.net. That is where you can go. The mission of the AFAFoundation is this. AFAFoundation exists to help individuals and families leave a legacy that lasts for generations through requests, charitable gift annuities, trusts and wills. Your charitable gifts help AFA continue its 40 plus year effort to stem the tide of secularism in our culture and to rebuild our Christian foundations. It is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful opportunity that is available to you. Some of you are listening, you've been thinking, man, I wanted to do something like this and didn't know quite how to go about it well. As a little would have it, this show was promulgated just for you. Now, there's so many different things in this amazing that as we were talking about generational impact in the first segment and then talking about the AFA Foundation in in the second segment I'm grateful that a F.A. has never been an a far has never been You like some other places, you know money grubbing, you know, we have our share of thorns in the fall And the share thought in the spring. It's only six days out of entire broadcast year Well, we talked to you that has allowed us and and this this is something that I'm grateful to God for because it's It's not common in our day and our age, but we are able to operate as a debt-free ministry.

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    This is something that the Lord convicted Brother Don Wabman about, our founder from the very beginning, and it has been something that has become culturally normative for our organization. And by God's grace, we intend to continue in that fashion. And fiscal responsibility really is an outworking of self-control, which is a fruit of the spirit. A part of the reason why a lot of people have difficulty this thing is not because of a lack of income generation. If you work at a minimum wage fast food job, you work and you retire from that job, you will have generated over a million dollars over the course of your lifetime. You want to talk about everyday millionaires, minimum wage, revenue, earners in our nation have the capacity to generate over a million dollars. How often do you hear that? But the deficiency, however, is we often don't know how to manage what we earn. And because we live in this kind of consumeristic materialistic society, some people really conflate material acquisition with self-worth. You know? But one of the major things that should be pursued, and this is something that my wife and I have never implemented in our own lives, is we endeavor to live beneath our means because we want to be generational in view. We want to leave it inheritance for our grandchildren and Lord willing our great grandchildren. That inheritance isn't limited to finances or material things by no means, but it also doesn't exclude material things. As we see things swirling in our nation, one of the things that I'm encouraging people with in my personal life is simply debt elimination, getting out of debt. The Bible says that the borrower is a slave to the lender. of the evidences of God's blessing on the nation of Israel and do the right on 28 was that they would be a nation that lent to other nations, but they wouldn't borrow from any. You know, on a lot of you who are listening to me, you know, one of the most robust and continued, I'll say purpose stealers in our nation is that like think to yourself, what would you do with your life if you didn't owe anybody any money?

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    What would change? Would you still work in the same employment that you have? Would you make some adjustments? Would you be more involved in foreign missions, for example? Would you start a ministry in your local community? Would you use some of the resources that you've accumulated over time to do something in your local community? There are lots of people with the answers to all of those questions will be absolutely, but they haven't been able to do so. Why? Because they've been in debt. I'll never forget I met an attorney. And I want everybody to understand this notion of financial responsibility, fiscal responsibility, really which is self-control, self-control as applied to money, it's not limited to any income level. I'll never forget I'm at an attorney who, you know, in court and he had a pretty robust practice and he made lots of money and he reached a certain age and I just struck up a conversation with him and I asked him and I won't say his name of course. I said, man, why are you still going to court every day? At this stage of your life, you should be able to retire and he said, little That's what people call me. Because the people who know me, because I'm the third, they say, little a, but I can't retire. I say, you can't retire. He said, man, I got, I have too much, too many expenses to retire now. This was an older gentleman. It was sad. This man generated well over a million dollars a year in income, well over, but he couldn't retire. Because he was living not beneath his means. In many ways, living above his means. Let me tell you something, just cause you earn a lot of money doesn't mean you're wealthy. You're a higher earning broke person if you owe everybody. Just like the person who may not make as much money as you, if you owe people, you still broke. I refer to interest payments as multi-generational wealth stealers, things that could have gone to our grandchildren. We have to pay off in interest. Fisk responsibilities, nothing more than the fruit of the spirit's self-control as applied to finances and expenditures.

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    That is a feature of our stewardship mandate, being good stewards over the money gods and trust our care. Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Bitted Commentaries are available at AFR.net. Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton III. we are already in the third and final segment. I want to bring to your attention, and this is just another demonstration of the lawlessness that permeates, frankly, the Joseph Robinette Biden administration, in spite of the fact that the EPA suffered a significant loss at the US Supreme Court in 2022, in a case styled West Virginia versus the EPA. In that case, the Supreme Court, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency lacked the legal authority to impose emission caps on corporations in our country. Already said this. You need to stop the Biden administration? Absolutely not. Just this week, the EPA has positioned itself as the judge, jury, and executioner in its newest issued rule, which really, really is a death sentence for the energy sector and energy-producing states in America. What am I talking about? The EPA's most recent unilaterally issued rule, a final rule, establishes a draconian emission standard that targets existing coal and natural gas power plants nationwide. The regulation requires 90% carbon capture for power generating facilities by 2032.

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    Now carbon capture, capture with that is very simply is that it will require these manufacturers to basically, basically collect direct carbon dioxide emissions, they would have to treat that carbon dioxide and then transport it to a long term storage facility. Now, aside from the questionable legality, because most likely the US Supreme Court will strike this down once this regulation is challenged, aside from the legality and the absurdity of treating what is commonly described as fossil fuels as if it is the big boogie man, the new rule is also unfeasible. It's also unfeasible. Current carbon capture technology, which is a water and energy-intensive process that would filter and sequester emissions, neither meets the standard, the 90% standard, nor is you projected to do so within the next 10 years. So you literally have, you literally have the EPA forcing a transition to a currently non-existent technology. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. According to research, and I'm reading this is from a piece published by the Daily Signal, the office are Andrew Bellaview and Amy Cook. Current research indicates that current technology could achieve at best 10% carbon I'm not talking about the wisdom of whether or not it's the sound policy. I'm just talking about the capacity, the ability to do so. At best, 10% can be captured. And that doesn't even include the high cost of implementation. And this is why guys take a few steps back. This is why this is a perfect example of what we talk about ideas have consequences.

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    Remember Colossians 2. Colossians 2 literally says, the apostle Paul is writing, he says, I'm writing this so that no one would delude you. right about verse four in that chapter. Or beguile you some translation saying. You know, that there is a deception, but the usage of the Greek phrase, the Greek term that's translated as diluted or beguiled communicates. It is a deception connected to seduction. It is a seductive deception, that seduction, that deception that begins with that seductive deception in verse four. By the the time you get to verse 8, metastasizes into full-blown captivity. I'm writing so no one would take you captive. And it's important to note that the Apostle Paul is addressing this to Christians because it communicates that the potential exists for Christians to be taken captive. Then the text goes on to explain what is the basis of this captivity? Because people, Christians, are relying upon elemental philosophies and human traditions rather than upon Christ. That is the biblical way of saying ideas have consequences. Bad ideas make people captives. This whole climate zealotry, climate alarmism is an example of what it looks like in real time, in the 21st century, for people to be taken captive by philosophies and ideologies that rival the truth of God's Word. The elemental philosophy, the elemental human reason that undergirds this climate zealotry, this climate alarmism, that results in destruction on massive scales. On massive scales is this idea that carbon pollutes the environment, that carbon is a result of manmade anthropogenic warming that will raise the temperature of the earth to levels that are destructive for human beings.

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    When the science actually indicates the warming that is threatening is one degree over the span of a very, very, very long time. Say it simply, it's not a threat to human existence. The Lord told us in his word, in his word, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and we who dwell therein. To say it differently, guys, this earth ain't going nowhere until Jesus says so. The same apostle, Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, talks about the world being created by Christ Jesus through Christ Jesus and currently being sustained by him. That pronouncement shouldn't keep us from doing sound scientific study. It actually should move us to be some of the most committed, the most thorough, the most excellent, the most diligent scientists, because that flows from the original command to mankind. Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth and kavash, subdue the earth. Interact with the elements that God has created to make the earth conducive to maximize human flourishing. This is why some of the most societally advancing discoveries throughout human history have occurred with people who were more to a biblical worldview. But when we reject the truth of God's word as a foundational premise, as a foundational premise, we end up adopting all types of absurdities and saying that this is going to be our policy going forward.

  20. 41:30

    This is an example of it. So the Environmental Protection Agency, you know, they're supposed to be about protection, But really, because they are tethered to, what I would argue, an unbiblical view of God's creation. They adopt an alarmist perspective, a climate alarmist climate zealot's perspective, that produces destruction. It is an uncontrovertible fact that energy resources, in particular, what is commonly derided as fossil fuels, are responsible for lifting the largest quantity of people in human history out of poverty. But when we're committed to, as Thomas Sol says, narratives as opposed to truth, it doesn't matter. Some, do you guys remember the winter storm that struck Texas that had people without power and sub-zero temperatures? Do you realize 246 people died in Texas during that thing? 246 people died because their grid wasn't sufficiently positioned, the electrical grid, wasn't sufficiently positioned to allow energy to continue to flow to these people's homes in those temperatures. We've talked about, you know, about, you know, remember back, not too long ago when you had the fires in Canada and you had all kind of smoke filtering down on the Eastern, Eastern East Coast, New York and all of those cities. And you had foresters who had been fired in Canada to say, yeah, they have this new, or whacked out approach to forestry. We've been clearing down trees and things of that nature years to allow the force of flourish. But when you leave all of that stuff on the ground, it creates an environment to allow massive catastrophe to flow, if anything would ever become ignited.

  21. 43:31

    It happens over and over and over. You have people trying to say, first it was, it was, they were caught. Members of the Biden administration, they want to eliminate gas stoves in people's homes. We don't want to get rid of gas stoves and then text to legislation and regulation that comes out, yeah, they're trying to get rid of gas stoves. Yeah, we want to make it harder to use oil, harder to use natural gas. Under former President Trump, we became the first, for the first time in America's 50 years, we're going to net exporter of energy resources. And I wouldn't want to continue that. Guys, these ideas have real world consequences. That's what I'm attempting to convey to you. Real world consequences. And the EPA does this and then again, I mentioned, so a lot of people tried to warn and was saying, oh, I'm a president Trump when he became president in 2016. Oh, he's going to be rogue. He's not going to adhere to the rule of law. The exact opposite. But now you have Mr. Robinette in the Oval Office. And how many times over and over and over again? The Supreme Court has already told the EPA, y'all can't do this. And now like 50 years ago, just told him this in 2022, June 30, 2022 is when the West Virginia EPA opinion came out was released by the Supreme Court yet they do it anyway. It's a lawless regime and it's a lawless regime regime with consequences. I'm bringing this to your attention so you can be aware of it. I want you to be aware of all of the different ways that this ideology is being advanced. I also want you to see why we need godly people. This is why I'm so grateful for Dr. Cal Byzner and the Cornwall Alliance and what they're doing with on the energy front. It is the cornwallalliance.org. That is my go-to for these types of conversations. I would encourage you to do your research, do your homework to look it up.

  22. 45:34

    But these things have real world consequences, man. Real world, real world consequences. I know one of the things that a lot of people are wrestling with, I get emails about this all the time. Well, who can I trust? Who can we trust? One of the benefits of the information age is that we can do a lot of research on our own. of the detriment is that you have lots of people, frankly, who just lie, you know? But do your homework, man, do your research. It's funny that as I was reading on this story, because of the embracing of the alarmist position, he realized that two-thirds of the United States is approaching a risk for blackouts. When the EPA, and this is something that the EPA announced itself, the EPA literally acknowledged per agency protocol that the EPA quote does not conduct operational reliability studies. What that means is when they implement policies, the agency ignores the widening gap between energy supply and energy demand. So a lot of their policies result in crises for the energy grids because they don't even think about that when they're approaching. You know, it's the things that we take for granted. I'll never get with my wife and I were in India and we were there right before the COVID thing happened. We were visiting a brother in ministry that we support, that does mission work in India. They have blackouts regularly. We were in this brother's house. All electricity went off, all of the lights went out. And the blackouts happened so regularly there that they just continue doing life living in the dark.

  23. 47:34

    Because it's so normal for them. Same thing in other countries. And we were like, I'm gonna just keep rolling like that with all the lights off. We're not accustomed to having regular blackouts in America, but guess who started to become a customer, California? And what's been established as Energy Policy in California? But wouldn't you know that the Robinette team are looking to export that to the rest of these United States of America. Ideas have consequences, folks. Bad ideas create captives and casualties. But thanks be to God, the Lord told us that the weapons of our war are not carnal, they're mighty, divinely powerful to the destruction of strongholds. We've been ordained for this time. Let us meet the moment that God has made us for. In Jesus' name. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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