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Nigerian Christians respond to their church’s attack.

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0:00 - 15:00. Acts 14:19-23. Paul’s courage is convicting. 15:00 - 31:00. Nigerian Christians respond to their church’s attack. 31:00 - 48:00. Russia officially blames the U.S. for the attack on Crimea. Video Clip Links Nigerian Church Ketsia Corbett Ukraine attack

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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 out of the bondage of mainstream media. And the philosophies of this world. God has called you and me to be his ambassadors. 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. My name is Abraham Hamilton, the third joined by the Corner contingent, right across from me, my $100,000, Mr. Bobby. Arrr. Nooooooo! Sigh. It's in the building. Yes, sir, yes sir. And in the screening room produce extraordinary, often imitative and nebrr. successfully duplicated the real J. Matt. Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program 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 encourage you to be mindful of the intentionality that God places on the family, no matter what is going on around the world and a lot is going on. We're going to get into some of that today. It should never trump no pun intended. What goes on in your home? What goes on in your house is far more important than what transpires in the White House. The purpose of this statement is not to minimize the significance of White House affairs, but for you and I to come face to face with a fact that what we do is G5 classified activities from God's standpoint, not because they're secreted, of course, but their significance is what I'm talking about.

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    We will never be able to out church or out politic deficiencies in the home deficiencies in the family. I've been encouraging you for quite some time, especially following the matters that transpired in 2020 to live locally. And I know we're all at different stages of our lives. We have different contexts, different makeups, but God has ordained his bride to be a kinetically connected body. What I mean by kinetic connections, real, interpersonal interaction, flesh and blood makeup. I don't want to burst anybody's bubble and I know what's happening with all the technology but I'm gonna just tell y'all straight up, there's no such thing as online church. I'm sorry. At best, you can communicate what is transpiring at a place digitally but church, the Lord's Eclacia, which the New Testament phenomenon is not the initial introduction of the the ecclesiastical concept is just a new testament iteration of it. It requires interpersonal interaction. There are commands that God has given that apply horizontally within the body of Christ that you cannot execute if all you have is digital interactions. I'm just, I'm not trying to throw shade. I'm not trying to slam anybody. I'm not trying to condemn anybody, but I want you to understand that if we are manipulated into thinking and in this, and I know it's marketing, these social media companies, they're They say things like, you're online community, and I know what they're trying to say, but interpersonal interaction is what truly, truly makes a community.

  3. 4:12

    I'm just telling you, I'm just telling you, and we have people, and I'm grateful for these folks that they come together, and they, during this program, they wanna chat online, but digital relationship is not the same as relationship, all right? there are aspects. I mean, a lot of you people that study communication, there's a significant percentage of communication that's nonverbal. You know, Bobbi and I can be in a room together. We can say no words, but we can communicate. And by the way, we've done it before. Jim McAnae, we can be in a room together. Nobody's talking whole, but we come, let me say it better. Nobody's verbalizing, but we show how communicating. I'm just, I'm just saying, and again, I'm not trying to condemn. I know that people in different circumstances, one of the first things that I did, When I did an internship at my local church, my pastor assigned me to visiting the sick and shut in. There were members of our congregation who were physically incapable of coming to our corporate gatherings anymore. So you know what we did? We went to them, but still having interpersonal interactions. There was a brother I'm telling you, got to a place he couldn't come out to our gathering anymore. He became a Christian later on in his life. And I kid you not. the road will be the equivalent of a commentary on the entire New Testament. He wrote it by hand. He would have these notebooks. And it was my job to go to minister to this brother, but I'm going to tell you every time I went, he would minister to me. I would be quiet for about two hours. And this brother would go through with the Lord as shown him, would read to me from his handwritten commentary. But the interpersonal interaction was something that was required. It's required of us. And it's something that we miss out, we lose out. This is why we lose out if we don't have this.

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    The Lord has provided his body as a means of, as a means of his grace. Obviously not the total consummation of his grace, but it is a means of his grace. There's provision, there's protection provided. There's accountability, there's encouragement that happens. It is vitally important that we refuse to allow the world to make us believe everything else is important, But what goes on in our homes, it's not that big of a deal. No, it's a huge deal. And it's a deal that we ultimately will be accountable for to God. To the word of God, we go. Acts 14 is where we're gonna go today. Acts 14 verses 19 through 23. Oh man, Sister Pamela said that was sweet, I'm sure all was so good. I look forward to going to spend time with this brother. I was just listening and gleaned. It's still to this day, one of my favorite things to do is to spend time with seasoned saints. They've been walking with the Lord faithfully over time and so much wisdom that is available. Still one of my favorite things to do. But Acts chapter 14 verses 19 through 23. A bit of context, so the Apostle Paul and Barnabas in there, apostolic team were initially, well I won't say initially, but they were ministering in Iconium in the scripture records. And this is in the beginning of Acts, chapter 14, in the scripture records that they were doing so in a Jewish synagogue. And there were people based on how the synagogue was unfolded, where the Gentiles would gather, but they gathered such a crowd. You had just curious Gentiles and curious Jews who arrived. And they were ministering powerfully, but the scripture records, some of the unbelieving Jews who were there stirred up the Gentiles in Iconium. And they basically wanted to attack Paul and Barnabas in their traveling companions physically, even stoning them.

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    But Paul and Barnabas and his team, they got away from them before the overt physical assault could occur. So they leave Iconium. They travel down to Lystra by God's grace to Lord, a minister through the Apostle Paul to heal the man who had been born blind. And Leyshire was a prominently populated Gentile area, not Jewish, I'm sorry, Gentile area. And it was so robust. And as I described it, some of you going to remember this, that because of the mist that they believed in the areas, they said, Zeus and Hermes have come among us. And they said, Barnabas was Zeus and Paul was Hermes, you know, because he spoke more. And at first Paul and Barnabas didn't know what was going on, but then they realized, what's happened? They said, no, no, no, no, man, we're flushing blood just like you. Don't worship us. And while they're in Lystra is where I'm going to pick up in verse 19 of Acts chapter 14, because the scripture records, some of these unbelieving Jews traveled from Iconium to continue their murderous pursuit of Paul and Barnabas, follow them all the way to Lystra. Now what's not obvious is that the distance between Iconium and Lystra was near a hundred miles. Again, you don't have plain trains and automobiles. So these unbelieving Jews had such a murderous devotion that they took that show on the road, followed Paul and followed Barnabas all the way to Lystron. We'll pick up the end verse 19 and Acts 14 verse 19. And this is what the word of God says, but Jews came from Antioch. That's Pecidian Antioch, I should mention. Pecidian Antioch is not where Syrian Antioch is. Pecidian Antioch is in modern day Turkey. All right. came from Pecidien Antioch in Iconium and having persuaded the crowds, they stone Paul and dragged him out of the city. Now remember this started in Iconium, but they took that murderous show on the road and when they finally caught up to him in Lystra, they stone Paul there. They stone Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city. And on the next day, he went on with Barnabas to Derby. And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Poseidon Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith and saying that through many tribulations, we must enter the kingdom of God.

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    And when they had appointed elders for them in every church with prayer and fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. Oh, the Word of God, so rich, so rich. So verse 19 records what I just described. Paul and Barnabas and their team having left Iconium traveled to Leistra. The Lord is ministering powerfully there. A man who was born crippled from birth would never walked his miraculously healed, the gospel is advancing in power, but the same group of unbelieving Jews took their murder and show on the road, followed them all the way to Lystra. Finally, Stone's Paul. The scripture depicts the condition of the stoning. They stone Paul inside of Lystra. The conditions indicate to them that Paul is dead. I'm not gonna debate you in this moment as whether not Paul was or was not dead. I'm just telling you what the scripture says. Not only did the people who Stone Paul believe he was dead, most likely, the disciples did too. But the scripture records that they gathered around him and he gets up. Not only did you get up, he enters the same city where people just try to stone him to death. I, the Apostle Paul's courage is convicting. convicting. I don't know very many people who will return to the place where the bullets were shot, so to speak, where the rocks were tossed. This is one indication that that Paul's ministry was not flowery beds of ease where he's just going from city to city and they're rolling out the red carpet for Paul. It wasn't like that. It wasn't like that. But he enters the city, regathers himself with Barnabas. They go to Derby, which is another nearby town.

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    this remarkable that even though at this juncture the apostle Paul hadn't been there a very long time, and though it was clear that there was great opposition to the work that he was endeavoring to do, God saw fit to make disciples of Christ in that town. And if you keep reading, that's also where Paul meets Timothy. Keep going to chapter 16 verse one, it shows that Paul meets Timothy in the L'Eisler region. The Scriptures say that they made many disciples, heading to Derby, then returning back to Leistra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening in the souls of the disciples that the Lord had made. What I'm saying brothers and sisters, is that Christ following, it's not for the faint of heart. Jesus said in this world, we'll face trouble. But when we are committed to following Him, He works within us a lion-heartedness that enables us to have expensive, eternity-based compassion, that moves us to love not our own lives, even unto death. There's a response in our hearts that is available when we are fully persuaded and fully surrendered. Fully persuaded and fully surrendered. This near-death experience, if you will, does not deter Paul at one bit he continues going forward with the work that God has called him to. 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 ultrasounds to mothers to introduce them to the precious life growing inside them.

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    When a mother meets her baby on ultrasound and hears their heartbeat, she is twice as likely to choose life. Twenty-eight dollar sponsors one ultrasound and one hundred forty dollars helps rescue five babies. 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. Lots of issues happening all around the world, all around the country. But I wanted to start in this place. Well, let me mention this. Um, and I'm mentioning this because registration ends July 3rd. I'm sorry, June 30th. Culture roof conference is coming July 18th through the 20th is when it will be when the conference will be. It will be hosted at Faith Baptist Church in Bartlett, Tennessee. Simply go to cultureproof.net to register. But registration will end June 30th. That will be the last day you could register. So if you were thinking about it, deliberating whether or not you would go, participate. Now it's the time to make the decision because June 30th is the last day that you will be able to register. It is going to be an amazing, amazing time together in mutual encouragement. I'm always encouraged by these events as well and I'm looking forward to participating in it. All right. The story I wanted to begin the program with is one that I'd read about, but when I saw The video that I'm going to share with you here momentarily, I was deeply, deeply moved by these Christians in Nigeria.

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    An attack was lodged against these Christians in the Euweko village, also known as the Anguen Paul village located in the Mauro ward of Kaduru County in Nigeria. No debate as to what was a motivation because the attackers were yelling, you know, that Akbar phrase that I refuse to repeat on the air, clearly indicating who they were. It's Fulani Muslims who are attacking these Christians because they are Christians. It began at the church's door. I'm sorry, I should have said this at a church in this town, where people had gathered for prayer. They began with gunshots to where the reports now were confirmed that five people were killed. Then the terrorists, these Muslim-filani terrorists, turned to the pastor's house to set it on fire, set several motorcycles on fire that belonged to the people who were at the prayer meeting at the church. ultimately, set in the church on fire. I'm gonna play for you, Christians who belong to this church, who are members of this church, their response to this attack. And I pray that you will be encouraged and challenged and moved as I was. It's just a 41 second clip. I want you to listen to and watch these Christians' response to suffering this attack and having their church really set ablaze for no reason other than the fact that they're Christians. Clip number one, go. As you can tell, I just provided a short clip of a longer video.

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    These people returned to the exact same place. But several of their own local church members were just, were just gunned down, murdered to express their faith and confidence in God. And just seeing praises to his holy name. I pray that I would have the internal wherewithal to respond in a similar fashion. And the reason why I say I pray is because I believe that I would, but it's a lot of things that can be assumed unless you're under similar circumstance. This is happening now, guys. Some of the same types of things we've read in the scripture about Christians enduring, And we've read from church history, which you know, I describe as our eternal families history book, our eternal family's history book. It reminds me of the Apostle Paul and Barnabas worshiping the Lord after being unjustly arrested. I'm sorry, Paul and Silas, Paul and Silas, unjustly arrested, being battered, beaten. It really places things in perspective. And it really, for me, in the context of what God has planted me in our country, it shows the converse side, the flip side of Satan's design. There, our brethren are facing, and Nigerian talking about overt physical hostility in our country, the hostility is the same, but the means of delivery is different.

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    You've heard me say before that abundance and luxury can also be a prison, not because it has to be, but it can be if we are not intentional about refusing to allow our context to be manipulative for us. There's so many Christians who, well, let me say it this way. It's unfortunate that there are many professing Christians who are at a place in their lives that they've never shared the gospel that anybody never shared the gospel. And I'm not saying this as a condemnatory proposition. I'm saying this to look at how effective Satan has been in moving professing Christians away from God's purposes in our context. Satan's objective, frankly, is to get people to go to hell. It doesn't matter if they go to hell with full tummies or empty tummies to him. And there are many, there are many who have been deceived and don't even recognize it and even recognize it. To see these brothers and sisters to return to what only can be described as a shell of a building. to express their confidence and trust in the Lord was truly provoking. And I want to encourage you who are listening to me that come what made brothers and sisters, maintain your trust in the Lord, maintain your confidence in the Lord. He has overcome the world and he has postured us as overcomers that our contending is not for victory that is from victory, that having an eternal view, an eternal perspective of our engagements will enable us by the grace of God to navigate our time well that we would be outposts for the Lord's glory in our time.

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    That was greatly, greatly encouraging to me. And I pray it's encouraging to you as well. Let us continue. I want to present this to you. This happened just today. The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari today for a case that was appealed by, I'm sure you'll be surprised by this by the Biden administration from Tennessee. The state of Tennessee passed a law that restricts puberty blockers and hormone therapy from being administered to confused minors. And the case passed the state legislature immediately regressive sued to halt enforcement of the state's law. The state of Kentucky has a similar law. And the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rebuked the Biden administration and said, it is nothing wrong with their law. So the Biden administration appealed to the US Supreme Court to try to keep Tennessee's law from going into effect. Well, today, the Supreme Court granted certiorary, which simply means that's the fancy terminology, the technical terminology that means that the US Supreme Court agreed to hear this case, which, you know, I don't know what Neil Gorsuch is going to do. I don't know what Amy Coney bear. I'm pretty sure I know what Justice Alito is going to do. I'm pretty sure I know what Justice Clarence Thomas is going to do. Similarly, I'm pretty sure I know with Justice Kataanji Brown. Jackson is going to do, I'm pretty, I know it pretty much Justice Sonia, my Sotomayor is going to do, I'm fairly certain about Elena Kagan, but I'm not sure about Justice Barrett and Justice Gorsuch.

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    Not really sure about Justice Kavanaugh, I think, but I'm not sure. But the law really from Tennessee has placed the issue of basically allowing for sterilization, well, medications that result in sterilization and how we're going to navigate this issue across the country as it pertains to children. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear it. Now this presents an opportunity for the Supreme Court to address the specifics of the Tennessee case, but also to discuss the necessity as a fundamental legal concept of making sure that our law means what it means, that it has consistency and understanding. reality of the impact on biology on the entire scope of the legal system. We have all kinds of laws that are specific and have all kinds of things. So it'll be interesting to see how this happens. I'm presenting this to you to encourage you to pray. I believe the Supreme Court is in a better posture than it was when Bostik was decided. But it is because of Bostik that I have hesitations, of course, which alarmingly and quite surprisingly that Justice Gorsuch wrote to Bostik opinion and argued that the Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in the employment context includes the concept of gender identity. When the Civil Rights Act was written in 1964, that homosexuality itself was criminalized in all 50 states. So to say that the words included protection of gender identity was just a fiction, it was simply a fiction. You know, in Justice Gorsuch's opinion literally said it's not my fault, not literally, but I'm paraphrasing. It's not my fault that Congress didn't know what the word sex mean when they included the word sex in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was to say it as a tortured reading of the text, to say the least. But this issue has now been elevated to the purview of the United States Supreme Court. And I wanted to make sure that you were aware that this is happening. All right, more events that transpired over the weekend. This is not surprising to me either, but Russia, his blame the United States of America for an attack on Crimea that transpired over the weekend that resulted in, according to reports for people who died and 151 more who were injured. At the exact same time, Ukraine is reporting that one person was killed and 10 others were wounded by Russian strikes on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Now, I'm mentioning this, this story to you particularly because Russia has amplified its rhetoric and is now directly blaming the United States of America for deaths of its citizens. It's Clip number three, listen to in Watch Clip 3, go.

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    Russia is blaming the United States for a Ukrainian attack on Crimea. It marks a new escalation in tensions between Russia and the West. Moscow has summoned the US ambassador to warn that it will retaliate. At least four people were reportedly killed in the attack on Sunday in over 150 wounded. Some of the injured are being transferred to Moscow for treatment. Russia claims long-range attack-em's missiles were used, like those seen here. The Kremlin says the weapons were supplied by Washington and programmed by U.S. specialists. The Pentagon denies responsibility, arguing that Ukraine makes its own targeting decisions and conducts its own operations. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm presenting this to you because it will be interesting to see what happens next because as the clip mentioned, the Russian nation, if you will, has contacted the US basically to accuse the US government of direct responsibility for this attack. Are we seeing an escalation? Are we seeing an escalation? Is this a preemptive step, not preemptive, but a step toward formal engagement in this war. I don't like it. I don't like it. But it's also not lost on me. I don't want to get too far out there. Well, you have occupants of the Oval Office who's approval numbers get this low. It wouldn't be the first time that a lot of a sudden the US finds itself directly in Connecticut warfare. The Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Minute Common Terrets are available at eFR.net back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.

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    Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. It's kind of hard to, uh, wax shocked at anti-Semitism amongst college students when, hmm, kind of find out. The administrators are pretty much in the same boat. What am I talking about? Columbia University. administrators are, let me make sure it's four, three, with a, well, three and a possible slightly playing space here. The fourth may be in the crosshairs because they got caught on the text exchange as well. I am talking about Columbia University's administrators, Vice Dean Susan Chang Kim, Dean of undergraduate student life, Christian, Cro- Kristen, Crom, and associate dean for student and family support, Matthew Patashnik. I like saying Patashnik. This gave him an opportunity to say Patashnik. Matthew Patashnik have all been placed on leave quote, pending further investigation, end quote, unquote, I should say. What happened was these administrators were at an on-campus event where a panel was presenting concerns about anti-Semitism on campus. We all know at this juncture, if you don't know, there has been massive pro-Palestinian protest and that stuff has been going on in these college campuses. Well, these administrators got caught using their mobile computers that have calling and text capabilities, you know, because we call them phones, but they're not phones. These little devices are little, little computers and not laptops, because you know, laptops have a particular style, but their computers is what they are. And they have calling and texting capabilities. They got busted.

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    J. Mac, you have a couple screenshots of some of the text messages, which you put them on the screen for the people, please. What happened is that some enterprising students leaned over the shoulder and caught some snaps, snaps, some picks of their austere leadership during the panel that indicated they're actually mocking and making fun of these the expressions of concern for anti-Semitism. Because remember that that's how this usually works. You have you know you have a re-education you know we we need to get a pam hmm we need talk. Mm, we need to think about let's get some experts on this. And you have these administrators, Dean of Undergraduate Student Life, Vice Dean and Associate Dean and they're all saying, yeah, yeah, right. This is just a good fundraising opportunity. And so these screenshots of these text messages got leaked to local media, not local, but international media outlets. And now the school has requested these deans to step away from their duty for a while as investigation into their anti-Semitic investment and commitments is brought to the fore. You know, a lot of times a lot of people are saying, what's going on in these college campuses? Why are they allowing all of this hostility and things of that nature? Well, you kind of won't. You won't have anything to say or do if you you agree? If you agree with what the 20 something's are doing on campus, you probably will have anything to say, which reveals, you know, this is almost like an yeah, and water is wet moment, you know, many of you are listening to me like, yeah, we kind of knew that already. And I feel you, I feel you, I did too. But it's amazing when you see, huh, you got screen grabs, huh.

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    And they may not want my help in this, but I'll let you know, even if they delete the text messages off their devices, all of this information is on servers held by the communications company that they may be customers of. And if necessary, a subpoena can be sent to these companies to obtain the text messages from the phone numbers. Very simply, very simply. So there's your water is wet moment for the day that Columbia's administrators are now under and sub these three and a fourth and then give you the name of the fourth. The fourth is Dean Joseph Sorret, who was on the receiving end of some of the text messages. So he wasn't a screenshot, wasn't caught of him, but he was on the receiving end of some of these text messages. So you're like, oh, and he comments with a acronym that indicates he's laughing as well as the other administrator. So there you go. All right. This, what I'm about to share now is quite sad, quite, quite, quite sad. Many of you may recall, unfortunately, the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 under Mr. Robinette and the I still have a hard time saying this with the US military was put on the run by the Taliban with dudes in sandals. I still, yeah, anyway, there's a man by the name of Ryan Corbett. He and his family used to live in Afghanistan.

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    And I want to give you all this information up front because I've read stories about this and they kind of hide the truth because I don't want to unnecessarily place blame on our government, but I do want to accurately place blame on our government where it belongs, where it belongs. Ryan Corbett and his wife Anna Corbett, they have three children. They lived in Afghanistan up until the 2021 debacle. The Corbett family was evacuated from Afghanistan. However, Mr. Ryan Corbett had a business in Afghanistan. The name of his company was called Bloom Afghanistan. The purpose of Bloom was to improve the private economic sector of Afghanistan. So five months after the debacle withdrawal from Afghanistan, about January 2022, Ryan Corbett returned to Afghanistan. And this is where I stop and say, sir, what are you doing? Why are you going back there? What was going on? Nevertheless, Ryan Corbett returned to Afghanistan in January of 2022, along with two Afghans and a German colleague upon their return to, well, let me go back upon their return to Afghanistan. Ryan Corbett is two Afghan colleagues and the German colleague, all four of them were welcomed back to Afghanistan and remained there until August 10th, 2022. All right. However, on August 10th, the Taliban detained all of them. Mr. Corbett, the two Afghans and the German colleagues, the two Afghans were released a A month later, Ryan Corbett's German colleague was also released in December of 2022.

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    But from August 2022 until today I'm talking to you, Ryan Corbett has been detained by the Taliban, most likely for political leverage, that this is what they do. And over that more than two year period, Ryan Corbett has allowed only nine calls in total with his family video call. The last of which occurred yesterday. I'm gonna play a clip for you from his daughter, Keesia Corbett, because they've been trying to get the Biden administration to help them to get their father out of Afghanistan, which to date has been fruitless. Listen to and watch clip number two, go. My name is Ketsu Corbett and I'm 18 years old. On June 28th, I'm graduating from high school in Dan'sville, New York. This is while I'm starting nursing school. I am also the daughter of Ryan Corbett, who has been wrongfully detained in Afghanistan for 678 days. He is being detained because he is an American. It feels like the last two years of my childhood have been stolen from me. Every day I get out of bed, put on a smile and push forward, but my dad's suffering is constantly on my mind and in my prayers. We've talked to him only eight times, but the calls have become more and more terrifying. dad's being tortured and abused and he feels forgotten and alone, he has no idea what's being done to bring him home and why it's taking so long. He's only 41 but he's getting sicker and weaker with no medical care. I never imagined that I would spend my senior year doing news interviews and traveling to DC with my mom to advocate for his release. It's been horrible watching my little brother and sister and my mom suffer while trying to balance school, church responsibilities, college applications, and my part-time job. My dad has missed so many special dates in the past two years. He is a humanitarian who did nothing wrong to deserve this.

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    President Biden, if you see this or read my letter, I am asking you to do everything you can to bring my dad home. I hope you can meet him one day because he is an amazing man. Now as you heard in that video, our own State Department is confirmed that they are aware of Ryan Corbett that he is suffering what they describe as subhuman treatment, their concerns that he will die in Taliban custody. And to date, the Biden administration has not gotten him out. Now again, I agree. People will say, well, why did he go back there? I agree. That's a legitimate question. However, I can't fathom that we are now in an America where a regime like the Taliban will feel comfortable, just now we're just going to keep your citizen here. And we just want to just give him. And of course, Mr. Trump has seized on this to say that if this wouldn't be happening, if he was in the Oval Office, and I mean, a lot of people say, I don't think he will be there. I don't know Mr. Corbett's position in terms of faith or anything like that. But I would encourage you to pray for him and his family and pray for our current administration to do is necessary to get this man home. It also includes Americans who are held hostage in Israel. It's just a sad state of affairs where we now have people who are willing to, not people, we have states and groups and others that are holding Americans hostage and not much trepidation.

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    There used to be a time when traveling internationally, people do all kind of things, but not to Americans. And just witnessing the shuttling of our prominence in the world stages is hard, is hard to watch and to witness. I also understand that circumstances like these are complicated. I understand that. I understand that all of the details and twists and turns cannot be revealed publicly. But I hate hearing and learning about Americans held hostage overseas. I hate learning why anybody held hostage, but it is troublesome to me that these kind of things are happening and they're happening with increasing repetition, I'll just say it that way, with increasing repetition. It's a precarious place all around the world, but I will remind you as I do often that this is the time that God is ordained for you and for me. It's not a time for us to tuck tail and run. As I mentioned, Paul's courage is convicting. convicting. And then seeing a contemporary example like those believers in Nigeria, it is similarly convicting. So I would encourage you to gird yourself up, build yourself up in your most holy faith, ask the Lord to strengthen you, to stand fast and stand firm, and not merely to endure our time for that we would thrive in the moment that God has placed us in, that we would be as ambassadors, be His hands and feet that we will be about our Father's business. Just as it has always been, the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation, the power of God unto salvation.

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    And we have been entrusted amazingly with the responsibility of being God's ambassadors in our time period. You all have a great evening, Lord willing, we'll be back tomorrow. 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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