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0:00 - 15:00. Psalm 1. Christ following requires firm planting. 15:00 - 31:00. The blessing of God makes us stable in the face of a pressurized culture of wicked conformity. 31:00 - 48:00. Is there a silent majority today in America?

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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 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 or NRB-TV. No matter how you are tuning into the program, thank you so much for doing so. If you are a podcast listener, a live radio listener, a video streamer, a AFA streamer, which is the streaming service provided by American Family Association, where you can get this program you not only can listen to it, you can watch this program and a host of other programs, all AFA, AFR and AFS content is available to you there. You can actually open a free profile by simply going to streaming.afa.net, a free profile, you'll get access to some of the content. If you become a great commission partner, you'll get 100% access to all of the content a great commission partner simply someone who supports the Ministry of AFA on a regular I'm sorry on a monthly basis at any level so you can be a great commission partner at the $3 a month level $5 a month level or all the way up to whatever you'd want to do and I will tell you there's some exciting things coming out there I just was a part of a recording that will be coming out in the in the not too distant future that you will only be able to get at the streaming service in addition to several other film projects and others that are coming your way. You don't want to miss out on that.

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    But 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. All right. Not casually approaching it, not haphazardly approaching it, but understanding going from part-time to full-time work requires a specified investment. And I'm describing it this way because the Lord has revealed to us in His Word the first institution that He created was the family, with marriage at the center. The first command God gave to mankind He gave within the familial context. These are a couple of historical and biblical facts that reveal to us God's heart concerning the family, the primacy that he places on the family, and that primacy should inform us. We have to get out of this mindset to where we spend ourselves in income-generating capacities, doing all types of other things, and then we're just too tired, frankly, too distracted because we prioritize other things, too distracted to offer our home the type of commitment that God requires of us. I didn't say this Abraham Hamilton the third is my name. The real Jay Mac is on tap. So we had a little bit of collision in the way to the studio. I don't know why you know Jeff Always want to get in my way. I don't know why So then he told me I have four eyes try to make fun of me because of my glasses. They have you not looked in the mirror, bro Happening to studio that's a little behind the scenes action going on But it's vitally important man that we understand the primary city God places on the family What goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House, primarily, primarily because what goes on in your house, you have the direct ability to impact the direct where we're all to confront, to adjust, to change.

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    Things going on in the White House, you can't, you can't make Mr. Robynet stop eating his ice cream. You can't cause him to change his foreign policy. You can't cause him to change his domestic agenda. but what you can do is impact your home. What you must do is impact your home. It should not be lost on us, that when the resurrected Christ instructed his disciples, saying, you will be my witnesses in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria on to the othermost parts of the earth. The Lord was establishing a home base from which the ministry would begin. The principle we can derive from that that we must start at home. It doesn't mean we neglect the world, praise God for foreign missionaries, we support foreign missions through our family, through our local church. We support mission work, but we should not step over those in our own homes in order to reach and to win the world. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. And those that are closest around us, we have the most immediate impact, the most immediate ability to impact. And when we talk about being about our father's business. It has to start. It has to start at home. You know, one of the great realities that persists is a refusal by many parents, frankly, to take the initiative to obey the Lord in taking the initiative in being primarily engaged and recognizing the primary responsibility we have for evangelizing, catacizing, and making disciples of of our own children has resulted in the deficiency and sanctification for us. I've explained the phenomenon before, I benefit from taking the responsibility to disciple my children. It helps my walk with the Lord. It helps the quality of my obedience. It gives me an internal accountability mechanism that would not exist otherwise.

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    When I take the responsibility to be a diligent student of God's Word, to make sure I'm rightly dividing it as I endeavor to teach my own children, teach my own family. It causes me to study with equality and an intensity that is ripe, that is appropriate, that is worthy for this offering for my own family. We absolutely do. I want my son to be a man of God. Do I want my daughter to grow into a government, a woman of God? Yes. So I want them to have sound, godly biblical teaching, biblical instruction. When I take the responsibility on my shoulders, recognizing that that is my job. I'm going to pour into them. Look, what I'm supposed to. But then I get the benefit. Me as the dad, as the parent, as the head of my family, I get the benefit of having them watch my life as I endeavor to apply what I am teaching my children. It's a different level of accountability. We miss out on that when we attempt to outsource that responsibility. Then my children get the benefit of having a consistent source of biblical instruction right in our homes, combined with a tangible example. And when I'm saying a tangible example, I'm not saying perfection, because that example also includes me teaching my children how to repent. When we've missed the mark, teaching my children how to say, man, I'm sorry, daddy was wrong when he did this, because that is a part of the instruction. All right, so when I say example, don't misconstrue what I'm saying, don't conflict that with saying, oh, I don't wanna do that, because that means I have to be perfect. No, but you should be striving for holiness, not perfection, but you should be striving for holiness and having that accountability. And my children having the benefit of having an in-home, tangible example of what Christ's following is supposed to look like in application. How does daddy approach going to work? How does daddy approach leisure? How does daddy treat mommy?

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    How does daddy treat strangers? How does daddy deal with the homeless person who knocks on his car door when he's asking for money? How does that, you see what I'm saying? It's the combination of lecture, the affirmative instruction, and lab all in one. And my prayer consistently is what let my life and Maria, my wife's life, my wife's life to be a runway for my children to know you, as opposed to being an obstacle course. We don't want our lives to be a hindrance to our children knowing and following the Lord. We want it to be a runway for our children to be able to say, I know what godly manhood looks like, biblical manhood looks like. I know what biblical womanhood looks like because I've seen daddy and mommy. That is what is at stake. And that is what is available for us. Okay, to the word of God we go. Man, I talked longer, just not that I expected to. Psalm one, Psalm one, and it is important to note that Psalm one comes to us, Psalm one and two actually. Chronologically Psalm one and two come to us after the events recorded in 1 Chronicles 16. This is where Daniel attempted to bring the ark into Jerusalem after it had been, and admitted ab's house. They didn't seek it the entirety of Saul's reign after the Philistines, Miley Wapped, Israel, under Saul. And then the matter with Azah, when the oxen stumbled and Azah touched the Ark of the Covenant, Psalm 16 comes to us chronologically following those events. All right. In Psalm 1, it consists of six verses. And I'm gonna read those, but I wanna point out one thing in particular, and let's see how far we get time wise. This is what the scripture says. Psalm 1 verse 1, blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the wicked. The wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but as delight is in the law of the Lord, and on and on his law, he meditates day and night.

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    He, the blessed man, is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore, the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous, for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. Now, in describing this psalm and discussing this psalm before, we have conversed about this. There is a crescendo that's presented to us, actually a devolution crescendo, and I explain what I mean by that, but the psalm opens by saying, blessed is the man. So the psalm opens by revealing these are the characteristics. So these are the features of the blessed man. where it begins by saying, the blessed man avoids these phenomena, okay? Blessed is the man who does not walk in the council of the wicked. The employment of the term walk is not talking about who takes the stroll. I'm strolling by the beach. Strolling by the dock of the bay. I think that's almost as sitting by the dock of the bay, but you can get what I'm saying. No, it's talking about the blessed man, the blessed man's life and lifestyle are not characterized by embracing the counsel, the advice, the instruction of the wicked. So right off the bat, and this is for those who say, this Bible says just not, that's not what the Bible says at all. The Bible says that we as individual believers, first of all, we don't have the ability to condemn anyone. Then the term judge as employed in that scripture simply means evaluate. And it's saying, judge not unrighteously, lest you be judged unrighteously.

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    But when you judge, when you evaluate, make sure you judge with righteous judgment. You simply apply to others the same standard of evaluation you apply to yourself. Why? Because God knows we have the tendency to highlight the egregious wickedness of other people's sins, but we give ourselves passes. The Bible calls that unrighteous judgment, partiality, or because of a particular bias, I like J. Mac, I'll rule in his favor, I don't like J. That's J. Mac's sister, by the way. So because J. Mac, that's my man, that's my homeboy, I'm gonna, that's unrighteous judgment. Consistency with the same measure applied internally as externally. Then it says, the blessed man does not devolve from walking in the council of the wicked to standing in the way of sinners. Do you see the progression, the negative progression to where it was a casual occurrence initially. Now, the standing in the way of sinners, that now the wicked man becomes comfortable. In the term center here is employed, employed categorically. Saints versus sinners. It's not talking about particular conduct. It's talking about those who are in Christ and those who are not. Those who are up, the people of God and those who are not. Okay? Who walks into what council of the wicked, stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scoffers. You see that progression? You go from walking to standing to sitting. From walking, you become comfortable to stand. From standing, you really getting comfortable. Now you're gonna kick up the feet. I'm at home with the centers. It's kinda like being around people who smoke. When you're not a smoker, that smell is repulsive to you. But the smokers, they don't even notice it. In contrast to those features, the Wicked Man walks into the council of the Wicked, stands in the way of sinners and sits in the seat of his coffers. But the blessed man doesn't do any of those things. In contrast to that, his delight is in the law of the Lord. His delight is in the law of the Lord.

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    And on his law, he meditates day and night. The next verse reveals the consequences. And we'll pick this up on the other side of the break. The next verse reveals the consequences, the affirmation, the positive consequences of the blessed man refusing to walk, stand, or sit with the wicked, sinners, and scoffers in their counsel, in contrast, his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. The medical establishment has been playing God with the lives of innocent babies for decades now. Many have grown callous because it seems surreal to think that over 64 million babies have been lost. Preborn will not stand silent nor should we. We cannot stand by and let babies die at the hand of abortion. That's why preborn exists, to stand up for those who cannot defend themselves. The only defense for these precious babies is their heartbeat, which begins in just three weeks and can be heard on ultrasound by five weeks. When a mother making that ultimate choice hears her baby's heartbeat and sees the precious life inside of her, the majority of the time she will choose life. By sponsoring an ultrasound for a mother, you are being the voice of the preborn. Please join pre-born in the cause for life. For just $28 you can be the difference between the life and death of a child. Just dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250 baby or go to pre-born.com. That's pre-born.com. 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, we were talking about Psalm 1 before we went to the break and we got to verse 3 where the blessed man is contrasted with the functions of the wicked. You know, when I explained before, to take counsel of someone doesn't require you to go and pay $250 an hour to a psychiatrist or whatever psychologist and prop yourself on their couch and have them, so tell me about your childhood. No, we receive counsel whenever we open our lives up for commentary from others.

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    But the Lord is saying that the blessed man does not have the habit, the characteristic, the life pattern of living according to the counsel of the wicked. So getting back to those who say, judge not, the scripture is revealing that in order for you to be the blessed man or woman, The first thing you have to, well, one of the first things you have to be able to do is identify and distinguish wickedness from righteousness. Guess what that requires you to do? Charge! Or if you're from the seven ward in the orange, you might say, judge, the blessed man does not walk in the counsel of the wicked. In order to obey this scripture, to comply with this scripture, you and I have to be able to identify wickedness versus righteousness and make a determination after we have identified wickedness versus righteousness, and make the determination that we will not walk in the council of the wicked. We likewise have to make determination who are in the hellbound sinners category because I'm not supposed to sit in their seat. I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to stand in their way. And who are the scoffers? These are not just the wicked or the sinners. These are those who are actively hostile to the truth. Kind of like Richard Dawkins saying, oh, what the Christian believe is nonsense. Do you don't believe it, do you? You have virgin birth. You don't believe a man rose from the dead, do you? That's scoffing. That is scoffing. Now I can acknowledge the moderation in the position because Dawkins like Hitchens previously were actively hostile to religion in total. But now, now that those chickens have come home to roost so to speak, Dawkins realizes, If we don't have a Christianized, I'll say it that way, society, we don't have that other thing.

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    And I don't want that other thing. But he didn't have the wisdom to see what he was uprooting would have this consequence. Perfect example of an intelligent fool, clearly an intelligent man who is a fool. Back to Psalm 1. In contrast to the wicked man who walks in the council of the wicked who stands in a way of sinners who sits in the seat of scoffers. in the seat of scoffers, the blessed man does none of those things. He denies that the active rejection of that manner of living, but his life does not consist solely of what he actively rejects. The blessed man also has an affirmative pursuit, actively rejecting the counsel of the wicked, the way of the sinners, the seat of the scoffer, while affirmatively pursuing the law of the Lord. It is his delight. The law of the Lord is not something he merely gives intellectual assent to. The law of the Lord is not something he's merely aware of. The law of the Lord is his delight and he meditates on it day and night. The results for the blessed man, verse three tells us, he is like a tree, a simile like a tree planted by streams of water, like a tree, firmly planted by streams of water. Being from New Orleans, something that happens often are hurricanes. I won't say often, but it happens with regularity enough that every region of the country has its challenges. Hurricanes are the things that happen in New Orleans. That's what thrusted me to Texas after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, and I was in my third year of law school when it hit. And one of the things we'd often marvel at is how, like, there's a park, there's an Audubon park in New Orleans. You have these huge trees, man, these huge trunks.

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    And no matter how strong the winds may be, these trees don't move at all. If you ever wanted to know what is the cause of strong and older trees stability is their root system. It's the thing that nobody sees. Although, in some portion of the noise those roots are so big, they bust up sidewalks. But the root system is under the ground. It's not visible to the eye. And it is that root system, that rooting that has contact with water nourishing that tree under the surface continuously, uninterruptedly that causes that tree to be firmly planted. In our day and time, right now, we have great me, man. For those of us who are in Christ to be firmly planted, not as Ephesians 4 says, blown to and fro jostling and tossing and being tossed, being firmly planted. This psalm is revealing to us guys how we can be firmly planted. We must refuse to adopt the lifestyle habit, the lifestyle diet of consistent communication from the wicked, consistent counsel in advising and instruction in life course direction from the wicked. If the source of that counsel and instruction and advising is from the wicked, it will be temporal at best, or at worst, it would drive towards eternal damnation for those who are not in Christ. If you're in Christ and you have a consistent habit, consistent diet of consumption of the wicked, it puts you in a position where you could be less than firmly planted.

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    And then again, the firm planting is not merely the product of what we refuse to imbibe, What we refuse to consume, but it also is served by our firmative pursuits. O Lord, how I love your law, Psalm 119. It is my meditation day and night feasting on the Word of God with consistency and regularity. To it, Lord, not only transforms our conduct, but it transforms us at a heart and desire level to what we can say along with the psalmist. O Lord, how I love your law. We can say along with the Psalmist, the Lord's law is my delight and I meditate on a day and night. That is What is required for us to be firmly planted in this era of deception? So where we have people not do long ago I was explaining At our local church that the Lord's desire for his people man is For us to be stable in him. Too many professors and believers live the rollercoaster life to where you're up then you're down and you're up. Then it's, whoa! Back down again. That's not God's desire. Double-minded man tossed to and fro. And I made the description, I said that for a believer to be tossed to and fro, we look to God like those little flop, I call it the floppy. Things outside of the car seal, somebody use car dealerships sometime and they're trying to get your attention and you're just flopping all over the place. Oh, this obstacle's coming. No, I'm flopping. Oh, what are we doing with this? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, God makes a way for us to be stable in him, firmly planted. The Apostle James introduces us, as James is one of the oldest New Testament canonical writings, to the double-minded man who's unstable in all his ways. And the double-minded man is introduced to us within the context, to where this man refused to be, is not confident that God has the wherewithal to give him the wisdom necessary, or give her the wisdom necessary to navigate difficulty.

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    So it's like, well, there's a God that exists, but can he really do something in my circumstance? And so it's double-mindedness, hold it, we need to do opinions. Do I do it all in my own in the flesh? Do I trust God? Do I do it all in my trust? And it results in the floppiness, being blown all around. That's not God's will for us, man. And in this time period, the deception is prevalent. God desires for his ambassadors to be a part of the Lord garnering a harvest for himself in this time period. Like I know for example, and this part of the conversation was sparked, my sister, Miki Addison, posted a post, and I shared it on social media, because in her local Sams, they had this huge display, literally dedicated toward targeting little girls of Taylor Swift. And it's happening right now. Like I know Taylor Swift just released a new album. You got Christians debating whether or not other Christians should listen to Taylor Swift. And Miki's point, which I 100% agree with, It's like, wait a minute, does not Taylor Swift's lifestyle disqualify her from conceptions for believers? Like why we allow it is to be marketed to little girls? All these pictures and things of little girls. Her lifestyle of serial monogamy, serial monogamy. You going from one dude to the next dude to the next dude to the next dude to the next dude is that what we want for our little girls? And we're gonna let the culture because of this lady's popularity to cause her say, well, I wonder if my child should consume Taylor Swift? Like what? Man, I got daughters. I don't want them having nothing to do with Taylor Swift. Let alone her album is filled with explicit lyrics. She is blasphemous towards the cross. That shouldn't even be a conversation. Forget what the culture's saying. What happened to the Lord's instructions? Whatever is pure. Whatever is praise worthy. Whatever is true.

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    Whatever is lovely. Think on these things. And consider what the scripture says the consequences are. The blessed man avoids the counsel of the wicked. I don't care how much y'all like her guitar strumming if she's playing the guitar, I don't even know if she plays the guitar. Is not her council wicked? Is not her lifestyle emblematic of what the lost pursue? I'm just using that as an example because it's a contemporary one. It shouldn't even be a debate, but yet it is because there's a lack of stability. My heart's cry for us today is that we can become these trees that are firmly planted by rivers of living water whose yields fruit in its season, its leaf does not wither, because he's firmly planted in the source. I did not intend for that to go on as long as it did, but it did. Firmly planted, man, by streams of living waters, that is what we wanna be trees, oaks of righteousness that only happens when we're firmly planted. And the living water is our Lord, who ministers to us by his spirit, who has provided us his word, to nourish us into maturity, and not just merely consuming his word, but putting his word into practice. That's how we grow. Maturity is not merely the product of chronological age on our Lord's earth. Maturity is the product of how consistently we implement, we obey what God has commanded us.

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    The scripture says, a hory head, a gray head is a crown of life. If it be found in the way of righteousness, which means having gray hair alone is not a crown of life. And I want to be gray hair in the way of righteousness. That's my desire. Should the Lord tear? All right. I spent to announce this earlier this summer we're traveling. We're hitting the road June six through the eighth. And this is coming up. Maybe just about a month away now. Goodness. at the H E A V 41st annual homeschool conference, go to hcav.org to register. I will be ministering there, providing multiple sessions. And we will broadcast there, J Mac will be there with me. Lord willing, we'll be there together. So if you wanna come and see how many eyes J Mac really has. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh welcome to do so. Then the very next week we will be at the Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference in Denver, Colorado. And I have, I have breaking news for you. And you can find this on, on anywhere in my social media, anywhere I am on social media, but I wanna share this information with you. A special discount is available for Hamilton Corner listeners and viewers, supporters of this program. All you have to do is go to RockyMountainHomeSchool Conference.com, enter the code Hamilton25, no spaces, all caps. Hamilton 25 and you will get a 25% discount on your registration. Now here's the thing. The coupon expires on May 17th. So you have got to get to it. You got about three weeks to register. Hamilton 25 is the discount code. Go to Rocky Mountain homeschool conference.com enter Hamilton 25 at the registration and you will get that discount if you register before May 17th.

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    It's going to be an amazing time in Denver, Colorado. and I look forward to seeing you there. Also, July 18th through the 20th, through the 20th, Culture Proof 2024. It's going to be an amazing conference. Dr. Jason Lyle, Kathy Cook, Israel Wayne, Pastor Lee Brand, Pastor Torenn Dames, myself, Mark and Amy Warren, Will and Mickey Addison, my lovely wife, will be directing the Culture Proof Kids program at the Culture Proof Conference. Go to cultureproof.net to register. You will not be disappointed. The whole goal of all of this ministry really is to help to cultivate the type of stability that we need to be our Lord's Ambassadors in this time period. Different parts of the country coming all the next month, next two months, June and July. I would love to meet you there. Get a down payment on what we will get to enjoy eternity, but having contended for our Lord's glory and the time that he's planted us in. We come back more Hamilton Corner. You do not want to miss the remainder of this program. Stay with us. Hamilton Corner podcast and one-minute commentaries are available at aFR.net back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the third here. I wanted to have a conversation with you because I came across this piece by an author named Brad Little John. He wrote this piece for World Magazine and there were a couple assertions he made that I thought was worth having a conversation around in this piece. His article is titled, Are Americans Conservative?

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    And the piece can be found at wng.org, that's wng.org. But this is what Brad Little John wrote. This is a part of it. I want to kind of work through this to have this conversation." So he wrote this quote, in 1969, amid widespread violent demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the alarming public displays of a new sex, drugs, and rock and roll counterculture, Richard Nixon addressed himself to the silent majority of sensible, decent, conservative-minded American people. So the more than five decades since conservatives have continued to appeal to what they felt sure was the silent majority. A median voter demographic that didn't like abortion, didn't like same sex marriage, and was ready to join them in opposing the woke elites. So now you can see what Brad Little John is setting up is a question, what in fact is the silent majority? If it does exist, is there any such thing as a silent majority today and what does it consist of? All right. So this is what he's addressing in this piece, which is why I wanted to bring it to your attention. The idea and then there's a particular aspect of his idea that I want to delve into quite a bit. He goes on in this piece, quote, only it isn't working anymore and stayed after state since the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision in 2022, very vocal majorities have gone to the polls in defense of legal abortion. Even former president Donald Trump, who long boasted of his pro-life judicial appointments, effectively threw in the towel in his recent statement on abortion policy. What went wrong? Where did the silent majority go? So Brad Little John is talking about something that I've described where you have former president Trump, who campaigned on appointing Supreme Court justices that would consider overturning Roe.

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    He delivered on that promise because it was his justices that he appointed that led to Roe being overturned. Then, however, because for a lot of reasons, it seems like pro-life advocates weren't prepared to handle the state ballot initiatives on a state by state basis. It seems like the very president who led to Roe being overturned is ashamed or embarrassed. I won't say ashamed or embarrassed of roping overturned, but is ashamed or embarrassed of a true pro-life position to where it seems that Mr. Trump is kind of adopting the abortion policy of the Clintons. And as you've heard me say before, I don't understand why it's so difficult for Mr. Trump or a Republican candidate to say, stand tintos down to the ground and say it with their entire chest that killing babies is not an American value. Our most potent resource in our nation is our people. We will not be a great nation if we continue to kill our own people. That seems like a simple assertion. You don't have to try to, you know, mince words about the moms and the families. You can say that I love women and believe women and trust women so much that I want all of them to live, including those who are not yet born, but who are alive. Killing them is not the way, not the way to make their mom's lives better. Not only that, you have the same phenomenon and I'm not presenting this to be to be unnecessarily provocative, but I think it's vitally important for people who are Christians in our country to think through and pray through our allegiances and our positions on everything at all times. It is not lost on me. That is the same, Mr. Trump, who has become recently squeamish on his position on abortion, who's also consistently been a supporter of the normalization of the same same sex and the sexual deviancy social political agenda within the Republican Party. I've shared with you before how his wife not too long ago, held hosted a $10,000 of plate fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Guys, that's intentional. That's intentional. And it underscores the reality that Christ followers relationship with political parties and our government must be transactional.

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    It cannot become an idolatrous cult of personality because when you're dealing with fallen man, fallen man will create the environment to where your faith will contrast with what they're doing. I've said before, Trump is still better than Biden, but Trump ain't Jesus. And I understand, and some people have asked me why I haven't spoken more about these kangaroo court trials going on. One is because I talked about the main length when the indictments were filed. And two, the predictions, or should I say the outcomes are predictable. You literally have the man being prosecuted on false charges in New York. I ultimately believe that whatever happens in New York, if he's convicted under this Alvin Bragg ridiculous false charge from 11 years ago that they still have not named an intended felony to elevate whatever allegation is made in New York state. It's a misdemeanor at best, but Alvin Bragg the same Alvin Bragg that refuses to prosecute felonies in the state of New York, always reducing felonies of misdemeanor, but it comes to Mr. Trump, you're gonna elevate a misdemeanor to a felony. The same Alvin Bragg who DA's office, who these people that are protesting at Columbia and NYU who who were arrested, guess what happened after they were arrested, they were released. So it's gonna be tossed, I expect, ultimately, in the end, but the whole objective of it right now is political election interference. That is what's happening, and we'll talk more about it in the future, but it didn't have to be like this. Republican voters had options, but they chose to go with the man that they knew who would be in court for the entire election season.

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    unjustly no doubt about it, but this is what's happening. It literally is law fair, literally weaponization of the Department of Justice, the state courts now, they're attempting to repeat the Georgia type indictments, they're trying to repeat that in Arizona right now. Because this is a regressive effort to not only to hinder President Trump's reelection campaign, but in an attempt to send a shot across the bow. This is anybody who dare upset our system of regressiveism. This is what you can, you can expect. That's the objective. But getting back to Brad Little John's piece, he goes on later in this article to say this, consider these facts, quote, consider these facts. The average American alive is 39 years old and thus cannot personally remember a world before, say 1989, 1989. Their only knowledge of such a world would have come through education, either to hand ignore wisdom by parents and mentors or formal instruction at school. Neither form of transmission has been operating very well for the past 40 years, needless to say. For most people alive, then, the world of 1969, much less the world of 1869, or 1776, is simply Terra Incognita, Latin for unrecognizable. only to a small sliver of the highly educated or those of devout faith in religious communities that still recite creeds. Now, here's little John's point. His point is most Americans that are 39 years or younger, 39 years old or younger, which is the average age of the American citizen, they have an endemic of recency bias. They can't even fathom old world prior to 1989.

  21. 42:53

    So what does that mean? For them, role versus way it is traditional. For them, having this commonality of sexual rebellion is traditional. And he's saying, well, he just says it. Well, I'll read this part. For most quote, most people will extend to extinctively react to conserve the traditions they know. But those traditions may often be of laughably recent vintage. Indeed, it can take only a few years to establish a new tradition that people will fiercely cling to as anyone with experience a family holidays can attest. For most Americans alive today, the world of Roe vs. Wade simply is tradition. That doesn't mean they love abortion. They probably wish there were a lot fewer abortions, but they accept it as a fact of life. A fixture of the social and political world. The values it embodies, the social expectations for men and women makes possible. The so-called right it represents. All of these have been internalized by the new silent majority, as simply part of the status quo. Thus internalized by the, I'm sorry, thus confronted with the prospect of a post-Dav's rending of the social fabric, they knew the silent majority reacted precisely as one might expect them to take into the ballot box to restore the disruptive status quote, end quote. What do you think about that? Well, little John is saying is that these things, the slaughter of the unborn, and he didn't say this specifically but I'm adding in the normalization of sexual rebellion, These things represent status quo. And these are the things that the so-called silent majority are internalizing. I mentioned to you before, there's a full court press amongst even a Republican party to normalize homosexuality. You know, you got people like Dave Rubin, you know, what all these conservatives, yay, Dave Rubin and his man, having a baby. You know, Rob Smith on the Fox News channel, Guy Benson on the Fox News channel, Caitlyn, That's what they call them.

  22. 45:00

    Is momma name him Bruce? I'mma call him Bruce. Bruce Jenner turned Caitlyn Jenner. All of this, this is intentional, guys. This is intentional. There's an intentional effort to redefine what conservatism is. Well, little John is saying that there's been the development of a new status quo, that the silent majority has moved with the Overton window. But I did think it was noteworthy. And then this might be why, you know, I'm holding on. You know, little John said, for most people alive, the world of 1969, much less the world of 1869 or 1776, 1776, simply Terran incognita, known only to a small sliver of the highly educated or those of devout religious communities. I thought that was an interesting observation Because for those of us who have a Bible, we have something that stabilizes us, that we're not consumed by new fangled cultural moments that deny truth. We recognize that truth ultimately is a person and it is truth that makes us free. Could this be why you, where you are, are part of the reason why you and some of you feel this is one of the things, one of the comments I get often from people who listen to the show or come to various events that we participate in one of the things they tell me is, may not enjoy the Hamilton corner because it helps me recognize and I'm not the only one. I'm not the only one who thinks the way that I think. You say a lot of the things that I agree with, it helps me to know that I'm not alone. You're not. What happens when a world becomes dark and people are far more sheepish willing to follow a crowd than they are willing to stand firm and stand out.

  23. 47:19

    You can feel like you're alone, but I would just remind you of what the Lord told Elijah because he had a similar sentiment. The Lord said, man, there's 7,000 in Israel who have about their need to bow all. Know who have kissed his face. There is a remnant. And I'm reading all of this for two reasons, sharing it with you, Brad Little John's piece, for you to consider that there are certain things that you and I know to be foundationally true, but for other people, especially younger Americans, they are embracing things that have been normalized for them. The other reason I'm presenting this to you, the reason why I'm presenting this to you, is to refuse to be unstable. The positions I adhere to, I adhere to them because of God's holy word. My position on the sanctity of life, my position on the sacredness of marriage, my position on the value of work, is because of what God has revealed to us in His word. If a man doesn't work, that ain't my idea, that's God's idea. And this actually the work that we invest that enables us to eat is not only personally beneficial, but it resulted us producing things, good substances, social currency that are benefits to others. God's way is right. It is best for us individually and it is best for us society. 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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