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George Barna released a new study that shows Evangelicals are more likely to be shaped by the prevailing culture than we are to influence it.

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0:00 - 15:00. Matthew 5:13-14. Is the church in America salt of the earth or have we become lightly salted? 15:00 - 31:00. A pre-recorded joint interview with Tim Walz is how Kamala Harris wants to present in her first interview as the Democratic presidential nominee? 31:00 - 48:00. George Barna released a new study that shows Evangelicals are more likely to be shaped by the prevailing culture than we are to influence it. Dr. George Barna’s Christian Evangelicalism Study (PDF) To donate call : 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links Dr. George Barna

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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, everybody. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio. I am your host, Abraham Hamilton the third. Thank you for tuning into the program today. We are ready to rock and roll during the program. I am joined by the corner contingent right across from me. He's back. He's been slacking, but now he's back macking. My man, a hundred grand, Mr. Bobby. is in the building and we have in the screening room produced extraordinary often imitated, but never duplicated y'all know what it is the real J Mac ladies and gentlemen and 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 your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome just like I do and as you. And as you make your transition, I want to encourage you to remember the primacy of the God places on the family. Before there was ever an order of prophets before, the iterations of modern iterations of civil government, the first institution that God established was the family with marriage at the center. It is very easy, especially during this time where a little something is going to happen in November. It's easy to become distracted. It's easy to allow what should be prioritized to be relegated to a second position. I want to encourage you to resist that temptation.

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    I want to encourage you to make sure that you keep as primary what God has established as primary. First and foremost, this our personal commitments to the Lord, our personal commitments to the Lord I've been talking on repeated programs about the significance of living lives of holiness personally. We're almost chapter 12 verses 1 and 2. The Apostle Paul is writing to Christians in Rome saying, do not conform to the world around you. And man, what that statement is really, really, really significant when we get into what we're going to talk about during today's program. Do not conform to the world around you, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God. One of the amazing realities is that the converse is true. If we profess to be believers, yet we are conformed and conforming to the world, guess what happens? Our discernment capacity is blunted. Discernment is not something as optional, something as vitally necessary. Our first commitment is personally to the Lord. Secondarily, our most immediate outpost in which and through which we are to do ministry is in our families. I'm not ignoring foreign missions, I'm not ignoring things outside of the home, but we certainly should not sacrifice our homes in an effort to win the world. And too often, too often, that is exactly, exactly what transpires. Well, I am here by God's grace in an effort to help us to recalibrate appropriately. So we keep the main thing, the main thing and keep the first thing, the first thing. So as you make your way home today, let today be a day, if you've never done this before, if the words of worshiping the Lord with your family doesn't resonate with you, you have no idea how to do that, let today be the day where you venture out into that.

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    And it doesn't have to be, you know, this drawn out liturgical enterprise, I encourage 10 to 15 minutes, sing a Psalm together, read through the scripture together. It doesn't even require extensive teaching. It doesn't require extensive, read the scripture together. Read the scripture together. Pray together and make this a consistent feature of your daily life. One of the most important things that will be the result of this is that your family will learn what their priorities should be. We had a lot going on in our families. But this one thing we need to make sure we don't miss. We're showing the Lord together. You've never done it before, let today be the day. And if you already do it, by God's grace, do not become weary and well-doing. Do not become weary and well-doing. To the Word of God we go. Matthew chapter five, Matthew chapter five. Get myself together here. Matthew chapter five, verses 13 and 14 is where we're gonna go. go versus 13 through 14. And this is a part of the sermon on the mount, the longest recorded sermon that Jesus taught. It's a very familiar passage of scripture, but it's one that we should visit often. And we certainly, we certainly should make a central feature of our lives for a number of reasons. But one of the most important reasons is that the simplicity of the word of God is deep when it is applied. The simplicity of the word of God is oceans deep when it is applied. One of the major reasons for this is that when you read the scripture, you're not merely reading the scripture. The God of the scripture reads you. The God of the scripture reads me. Matthew 25, Jesus makes these statements.

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    You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. You are the light of the world. A city set on the hill cannot be hidden, nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a stand and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others so that they may see your good work to give glory to your Father who is in heaven. And I say, verse 13 to 14, I read all the way to 16. Sorry, Jeff. The Greek for the word you in verses 13 and 14 is actually plural, all right? So Jesus in delivering this sermon on the Mount, he is addressing it to the people who were physically present before him at that time in the first century, but its application extends to the people of God today. Jesus conveys this notion of being the salt of the earth in a time period that predates the modern wonders of refrigeration in central air and heat. Salt served two primary purposes. It's one served as a preservative agent for major protein compounds. In order to preserve fish, that fish in when we catch they was salted immediately. Hang it, let it dry, they were preserved various meats salting it to preserve. An additional component is obviously as a seasoning feature. The question I want to pose to us rhetorically today concerning the Church of the Living God in America, and I want everybody to understand that I understand that there's a difference between the Lord's remnant and the visible professing church in our nation. But concerning the visible professing church in our nation, have we been salt in light in our nation? Or have we become lightly salted? When Peter Proclaim the sermon on the day of Pentecost.

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    You'll find there was no altar call, there was no invitation to respond. It was because of the conviction that the Spirit of God wrought through the preached word that the people responded in light of what you're saying, Peter. What must I do to be saved? We live in a time period. Well, instead of what must I do to be saved, we have a people saying, How much can I do and still be saved? I mean, how close to the line can I get? And I mean, what exactly is sin anyway Abe? You know what I mean? And can it, can it, you know, you know, you know what I mean, you know, I got a look. I told you guys that was a real conversation I had with a person one time. No, isn't it true Abe that, you know, you may be godly men, but even godly men who have wondering eyes, won't they? I said, no man, I don't see anywhere in scripture where the Lord uses biology as an excuse to have lust reflected through your eyes. How you use them? No, no, no ma'am. I'm not trying to condemn anybody, but there's no way in scripture where you should tolerate certain levels of worldliness just because we're in the world. Because when there is a heart of regeneration, there's a heart that reflects itself. Now we conduct ourselves, and I'm not saying, you know, I understand everybody's on their journeys, at various, various stages of sanctification, we have to be very intentional about refusing to allow the world to reestablish for us what our standards should be. Instead of recognizing God has already told us what our standards should be. That already told us. What, what, what our standards should be. And I know the reality that we're saved by grace through faith. We have a faith that is not, but we don't enter eternal life through works.

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    What I am talking about is a people who instead of being the pillar of ground, pillar and ground of truth in the world, simply put, we become worldly by and large. I'm going to get to some data later in the in the program that our brother George Barna just releases 2024 World Inventory Report, where his conclusions are, it's more likely for professing evangelical Christians to be shaped by the world and the culture around us that it is for us to shape and to influence the culture is providing empirical data that affirms and confirms what many of us experience on a daily basis. Are we salt and light or have we become lightly salty? The number of instances where we've seen, and I'm not going to go through some of the greatest hits, which are not great at all, but the score is a professing believers and large churches and things that are capitulating to things in the world. And it's just, it's sobering to read the data and in reading it immediately, the Lord will immediately remind me of the scripture. A city set on the hill cannot be hidden. You know, the call to be peculiar is not one, to where we just, let's find out just how different from everybody else we can be. That's not the call at all. The reality is if you've been captured by Christ, just keep living. Your peculiarity will be made evident When you start to hesitate, and we say, well, sure, well, surely Abe, I mean, you understand children have to be raised to reject the gender that they've been assigned at birth.

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    Well, what would you say? This is another real conversation I had in a lift. You know, I don't tend to use Uber as much if I'm traveling, I use Lyft more than Uber. I say, right? The gender assigned at birth, that's why did you get that terminology from it? And I look, I know what happened in the culture. So you know, that's the way we describe it now. I say, who is we? That's not how I describe it. I said, man, do you realize sex? We talked about that, the difference between using term, gender to apply to human beings versus inanimate objects. I said, sex is discernible at a molecular DNA level that predates birth. Why do you think, wait for this, why do you think, who use sonograms? He was sautograms often to confirm what it is that mommy is carrying in her tummy before the baby is even born That's not an assignment made at birth and the guy's like oh I hadn't thought about that and I'm just like what do you mean? So we'll go off and spout these things and won't even think about what we're spouting Salt and light are lightly salted the greatest and most enduring need for the United States of America is Repentance One of the things we're gonna get into this study, that Dr. Barna says, believe is not even endeavoring to share the gospel. By and large with people who don't agree with him. Again, I know that's not everybody, but that's a generalized cumulation based on his empirical data collection. We'll get into it, we'll get back. Deuteronomy six verses four through eight direct us to display scripture in our homes and other places.

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    It says you should decorate with the word of God and that you are to fill your hearts and minds with these words. There's no greater cause than for those of us who know Christ to share Him and God's word. Get the full article, God's Word on display by Joseph Parker on the stand.net and join the movement to put God's word on display at 10laws.us. Shiting light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton. The third here. Got a lot on my heart today, man. A lot on my mind. I'm processing things as I'm speaking on the air. We're at a pretty significant juncture. We're at a very, very significant juncture in our nation's history. It's now been announced and confirmed that Kamala Harris will make her first interview appearance. Oh man. Tomorrow night at 9 p.m. Eastern APM Central Time on CNN. She will not however be interviewed live. Oh, no, no, no. Can I do that? Can I do that? She also will not be interviewed alone. Oh, no, she will make a joint appearance with Tim Walz. This will be her first appearance as a DNC standard bear and she's made the decision to have this prerecorded, certainly campaign approved, video, air tomorrow. It has not been disclosed when the recording will take place. There have been lots of people who have said that this certainly doesn't project leadership quality.

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    is if your first interview is going to be a joint interview. And there's no problem with joint interviews, generally speaking, but this is your first one? And are there any others that are planned? People in the live stream saying, we thank you for watching The Force Abe. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I'm here for y'all man, I'm here for you, I'm here for you. , , actually I won't be able to watch it live I am going to come and catch it with it later, but I'm not going to watch what you , this is not an interview. This is a paid campaign ad. That boy, y'all is sharp. Y'all is sharp, but it's true. It's true. So it's not going to be live as prerecorded. I guess she didn't want another one of those Lester Holt moments when you haven't been to the border. I haven't been to the border. And I haven't been to Europe. What is what is this is one of the things I'm processing, guys. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Regressives despise the American people. So you have the reality of according to the prevailing narrative, right? You have the most popular president in American electoral history. According to the reports of 81 million votes, this is the objective facts. The 81 million vote total is the largest vote total of any American presidential candidate in our nation's history.

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    You have that popular president who had his entire campaign largely from his basement, square that circle for me, if you will, who then was observed by Nancy Pelosi saying she's never been impressed by his election operation. Hmm. Again, square that circle for me. Then got another nearly 15 million votes in the Democratic primary process. One that the Democrats were feverishly to keep RFK junior away from as well as any other candidate. And then when the world learned what they all knew for years that the man did not have the capacity to do the job of the president, that they dispatched him quickly and installed the selected candidate. I believe by and large the major reason why is financial because of the federal elections rules that she was the only one that would have access to all of the money that was raised under the proverbial Biden-Harris campaign. But yeah, I mean, people ask, you mean to tell me Biden's vote total is more than Obama's vote total? Yes. Yes. Go on, look it up for yourselves. Yes. So she is installed as a nominee and commences to refuse to have any public engagement at all. Fodz, no need to explain anything to any of the American people, as I mentioned to you, early voting is already for all intents and purposes underway, literally days from now, early voting begins in some states. So, for people to say, yeah, this is an interview and a run-up to the election, the election has started, folks. We realized this. I said, no, I don't need to interview you. I don't need to interview you. I played the audio for you earlier.

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    I mean, maybe I'm an ass, Jeff, and we could pull that back up. We played it Monday. We didn't play yesterday, but it's not on the rundown right now. I'm asking, we can find it. I played it Monday, but she had one of our surrogates. Who came out and said, oh, no, no. We think it's the winning strategy for her as a Democrat. She didn't need to be the one explaining her policies. Let the journalists explain their policies. That's the winning strategy for us. What? And then you have a pretty significant contingent of Americans that are like, yeah. I'm like, y'all are cool with that? You don't find it the least bit disturbing, yet you have a person vying to be the next holder of the nuclear codes for our nation and don't feel obligated to talk to the American public. Yeah, some states start early voting early September. There's some depending on mailing balance and other kind of stuff that may start slightly early, but yeah, early voting is about to start in some states. We've gone from election day to election season, you see. And in our first interview is gonna be pre-taped. And part of the reason why I'm wrestling through this is that the political calculation that they're making is that the body politic in America has devolved as such a degree to where the people won't demand more. The people won't demand more from those who would be, when's the last time you heard this phrase, public servants. Y'all got it? Now, I'm sorry, I didn't give them any advanced warning that I wanted to do this. Which one is it, Jeff? Seven. All right.

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    Clip number seven. Go. Talking about policy. In fact, I think vice president Harris has been incredibly brave to roll out an ambitious economic agenda because we all know how this works. The more details you share, the more your policies are going to get picked apart. But she's saying, I trust the American people. I trust the journalists to explain these policies and our values to folks. And I think when that happens, it will be successful for Democrats. These are very pro-worker, pro-middle class policies that people have been waiting for. You get that? Oh, shit, I need to explain it to anybody. I trust you people can figure it out. I trust the journalists to explain it for me. And has our populace degraded to the place to where the people, sure, that's fine. Sure. That is outrageous. That is outrageous. And I'm thinking about the dumbing down of our society consistently, irrepressibly, continually. We've gone from a nation of producers to a nation of consumers. Is that truly a reflection and accurate, a reflection of where we are? Again, I'm not trying to paint with a broad brush. I know there are exceptions. I know that does not apply to the people in this audience, but I'm talking about beyond this audience. That is, that is amazing. And so you have this recorded interview, can't get caught saying anything live, you know?

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    And I understand the reality of campaigning. I'm talking beyond campaigning. I'm talking about, you know, maybe something wrong with me, but I appreciate people who wanna be serpent leaders country who have some type of investment, some type of skin in the game, so to speak, to interact with the American people. Not not. Don't appear to be very interested in that. So that'll be tomorrow. And soon thereafter, September 10th is supposed to be the first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But Kamala Harris is now squawking about the rules for the the debate that she agreed to now says she wants to change the rules. You know, you can't make this stuff up. You know, I could be wrong, but what I think is happening is that trying to have as little exposure to the American people as possible, because they know as well as we do that this is a repeat of the basement Biden strategy. You know, in the 2020 election, Schmovet was the reason for the basement by the Biden strategy, right? What's the reason now? What's the reason now? I'm gonna to move on because I feel myself getting worked up. If you're watching this show, I'm holding in my hands the report from my brother, Dr. George Barna, Director of Research from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University. This is another piece of information that is concerning to me. Dr. Barna is a researcher. In my view, the most reliable researcher, poll taker, statistician in our country is a blessing to the nation.

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    He's a blessing to the body of Christ. And he's willing to boldly assess where others are willing to just tip toe to kind of, kind of, through the tulip, so to speak. His American worldview in of inventory. Can I say the word inventory? His American worldview inventory. Not good news. good news, not good news. In his inventory, he discusses how events from recent years have caused millions of Americans to realize just how depraved American society has become corrupt politicians, dishonest journalists and media outlets broken social institutions, immoral religious leaders, unconstitutional government programs, policies, and more have generated nonstop headlines highlighting the decadence of American society and the demise of the United States. He goes on to contain, quote, the depth of the depravity is shocking and it is indisputable that the decline is a direct result of the collapse, the spiritual collapse of Christianity in the nation, particularly in the way in which the evangelical community has changed over time. Now, a clip of Dr. Barnard describing the result of his study, this is clip number five. Go. So, when we look at what evangelicals do and believe, yeah, they get some of the big picture things that the Bible teaches. And so, they'll believe in the biblical notion of God. They will believe that God is the basis of all truth. They'll believe that the purpose of life is to know love and serve God with all their heart, mind, strength and soul.

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    They believe the universe was created by God. They believe in the reality of Jesus Christ that he lived on earth. They believe that Satan exists. So they get those things. But once you get away from those kind of Sunday school 101 teachings, that's where things get pretty murky. And so when we start talking about the nature of moral truth, when we start talking about the application of moral truth, when we start talking about our responsibility to other people in terms of sharing the gospel, what is the gospel? Did Jesus live a sinless life? These are things that don't get talked about quite as much in our churches, and those are kinds of issues that relate to not only our lives, but also the political issues of the day when we look at issues such as abortion, transgenderism and so forth. That's where evangelicals really struggled to make the connection between biblical truth. Who am I in America? What's my influence supposed to be here if I'm trying to honor Christ and advance His kingdom? I want to ask, can we make sure we have a link to Dr. Barna's study in the show notes because I want everybody have access to this study. One of the major observations he made was that most of the prevailing researchers put the number of evangelical Christians at about 40% of the American population to somewhat close to 100 million Americans. Dr. Barna says, when you dig deeper than superficial assessments and you start to evaluate solely answers to more detailed theological questions that number may be closer to only 10% of the population. So that's a major observation because I've said it, many of you have said it, that man, it seems like the law is church and I'm in our country, not as big as most people think it is.

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    It says when you come to just having an orthodox belief system, it's really only about 10% of the population that has an orthodox belief system. Notice, I didn't say a biblical worldview because those numbers plummet even more. He's just saying they know those basic Sunday school answers, but the real problem comes in when you actually apply God's Word. Because you have some who will give the Sunday school textbook answer responses, but then when you start applying that. So, for example, if marriage is exclusive union between one man and one woman, then by by implication is a homosexual person, sinful and going to hell unless they repent. According to Dr. Barnard, many of the responses are, oh well geez, I mean, I don't know. What's the definition of is? You can't set this election out. I know a lot of Christians do. This is true that God is sovereign. I tell you that all the time. But they fancy that somehow that is separate from their personal responsibility. We are his hands and feet. And so that's why we have to do what's right. The Bible says to him that Noah could do good and just doesn't do it. To him it is sin. Sandy Rios 24-7 with your host Sandy Rios. Listen on the podcast page at AFR.net. Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Minute Common Terrets are available at AFR.net. Back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. And of course, I mentioned, you know, homosexuality just as one of the issues. The Bible is clear, you know, heterosexual fornication, adultery, thievery murder before litany. But you don't have cultural protestation to these other areas.

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    And this is what Dr. Marner was pointing out. And then the sum total of his assessments, assessment is that as things stand currently, that is more likely that professing evangelicals would to be shaped by the culture, then it is to influence the culture. One of the observations that was just from the, from the world we study, Dr. Barna says, the research shows that evangelicals are significantly unlikely to speak to people who hold different opinions than them, which includes unlikely to share the gospel. Sharing the gospel is kind of the root word of being evangelical, you know, evangelism, evangelize, that there's been a reduction in the willingness to share the gospel concerning the impact this lack of spiritual engagement is having on our current cultural climate. Dr. Barnard says that it has allowed the media to become the evangelists of America, rather than disciples of Jesus being the evangelist of America. It's the disciples of Jesus who are called to go out and do everything that we can to share the love and saving grace of Jesus with lost sinners. But in reality, what's happening is that there is now an evangelistic vacuum in American society where both evangelicals and the rest of society are taking their cues from the media. It's by the way, I don't know if you noticed this yet, but one of the major voices, sorry, major forces that is attempting to silence Christianity in the country is the medium.

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    And that hit me, that hit me like a ton of bricks. That hit me like a ton of bricks. And again, I wanna reiterate the fact that I know this is not everybody. I know there's a remnant, but this is a question that I ask often, when was the last time you shared the gospel with an unbeliever? When's the last time? Are we still, and I know there's some, I know brothers who go door to door sharing the gospel. I know there are some, but we need more. God places bride in the church to be salt and light. Not to be lightly salted, man. In an effort to, there's so much more in this. That's why I posted the show notes that I could spend four shows in a row just going data entry point by data entry point by data entry point showing you the percentages showing you the numbers at where we are in the state of affairs in our nation. We haven't gotten here overnight. has been the product of a combination of disobedience and negligence over time over time. That's heavy. That's heavy. I shared with you yesterday that the State of Oregon has a taxpayer funded grant program where they want to provide $30,000 down payment assistance to, but it only it's only available to non-US citizens. not to be outdone the state of California right on their heels. They have various programs at the state level. They want to expand the programs to now allow additional homebuyer assistance in the state of California to illegal aliens. At the exact same time, there's a fight happening in Congress over the Save Act. Save Act simply says illegal aliens cannot vote in federal elections. The response there is often where illegal aliens already cannot vote federal elections, which I would simply say, and what's the problem?

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    If they're not voting, then what's the problem with passing the laws? Make sure they're not voting. If they're not voting. If they're not voting. Now again, square the circle. We have all these programs like Oregon and California, and that's just a couple of states I'm highlighting. And you determined whether or not a program that's providing $30,000 in down payment assistance exclusively for non-US citizens with that incentivized or disincentivized illegal immigration. would it make him want to come or not want to come? All right. Oh goodness gracious. I know we're coming to the end of the end of the program but this is, can I make this stuff up? Many of you are aware that yesterday, Jack Smith, into this superseding indictment concerning President Trump in January 6th, it's the same fact pattern, it's the same for alleged offenses. It is obvious that Jack Smith is attempting to a side step, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Trump versus U.S. concerning presidential immunity where the Supreme Court, in my view, got it absolutely correct. U.S. presidents, and this is where we have to have mature, objective, and wise citizens, because this is something that has to do with the office of the presidency. It's not confined to an individual. So this would apply to all US presidents, okay? Supreme Court simply concluded that official actions taken by president during his time of office are immune from criminal prosecution, absolutely immune.

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    Non-official acts, private acts, don't. That is the proper reading of the US Constitution. Not saying anything you do ever for the rest of your life, you're immune from prosecution. No. official acts taking an office because our founders envisioned an energetic executive fulfilling His constitutionally mandated duties in article two of the u.s. Constitution. All right So a lot of people asked me about this case And I'll say it here just like I said in other places. I really think Jack Smith is trying to save face You know Because the facts are still the same one of the major is it's nine pages shorter than indictment is one of the major differences is that it no longer includes Mr. Clark, who was the Department of Justice official, who Jack Smith denied it initially, along with former President Trump, because Jack Smith, as a member of the Department of Justice, was working with President Trump. He gives the indication he's operating in a government capacity because a president has a vested interest to ensure the lawful discharge of federal elections. Guess who is tasked ultimately with the enforcement of federal law, the president, guess who's tasked with enforcement of the US Constitution? Guess who takes an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, the president? So, what Jack Smith is attempting to do is to edit the indictment to say that all of these things that he's attempting to accuse President Trump of were pursued in his personal capacity and has no bearing on his official capacity. That's what he's attempting to communicate, which I think he's going to have a difficult time articulating because he just presents another opportunity for the argument made by Justice Clarence Thomas in his concurring opinion to be brought to the fore. The exact same argument that Judge Eileen can and adopted when dismissing Jack Smith's documents case against President Trump. Justice Thomas raised the issue that Article 2, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution includes the Appointments Clause that we have a constitutional process that includes a U.S. Senate for the appointment of a federal office has that process been followed with the appointment of the special prosecutor's office currently.

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    The answer to that is obvious. Someone said, well, hey, how is this different from other special counsel? When you have the attorney general who's been appointed by the U.S. president confirmed by the Senate, that process is followed when one of his lower level U.S. attorneys, because you have the Attorney General who is the head of the Department of Justice, you have US attorneys in each of the states when they are used as special prosecutors that would flow from the appointment. So, it presents an opportunity for that issue to come forward. Now, the other thing that is just noteworthy is that there's no way any of this stuff is going to be addressed before November 4th. And in my view, it's just the X-Men trying to say face. He wants to keep the issue up during this election season. It's kind of like, oh, I'm not going home yet. It's kind of like that. You know. And it's just the thing that's really weighing on me, man, it's just the deterioration of our body politic. You know, our people, it bothers me. How many regular people I meet on the street, they have no clue what our US Constitution is nor what it says. It bothers me. When you recognize that our founders drafted the constitution to be digested at a level, to be conversation fodder at dinner tables between moms and their children. And yet we're at a, you ever see these men on street interviews? I randomly do my own men on the street interviews. I just talk to people, hey man, what do you think about what's going on here? You know, maybe I might need to bring this to the show, Jeff. Maybe you start recording some of these things. You know.

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    Hey, you know what's going on in November? Yeah, yeah, we got an election. I'm voting for Trump. Man, can you tell me why? I'm voting for, can you tell me, I'm voting for Kamala. Can you tell me why? Oh, yeah, me. The number of people I run into who I've met who don't even know that Kamala Harris is Vice President now bothers me. Then you have that as a civic assessment, and then you come into Barna Studies saying, hey, you know, it's more likely that evangelicals are being shaped by the culture instead of influencing it. You can see it's kind of a bookends, you know, sandwich bread, you know. Like, come on, man, where are we? But thanks be to God that He warned us and He is faithful to uphold us even in the face of all of these shenanigans and the transpiring. To my encouragement to you is very similar to what I've said repeatedly that you don't forfeit your own communities, your own neighborhoods. Man, you're listening to me now. Serve your families well. If you're a parent, if you have young children in your home, proclaim the gospel to your children. Make sure your children understand the gospel. Make sure you understand the gospel. Make sure we understand the gospel. Proclaim it regularly. One of the great aspects of teaching is we demonstrate to our children what Christ Father looks like. Man, take them with you. And share the gospel with your neighbor. Obviously, if it's safe, don't put your children in danger. I'm not saying that. But get to know your neighbors, share with them the love of Christ, show them the hospitality that flows from the love of God. But God's grace man, the Lord can have an outpouring of his spirit right in your own community, right in your own neighborhood.

  23. 46:52

    I share with you guys my story. I knew nothing about conservative politics. What I knew is that God saved me. And he laid out standards that I was to ascribe to because he'd captured me. He'd capture my soul. I shared with I shared years ago about not killing the baby because babies are, bearers of God's image. You can learn a lot about a person when you consider how they view and treat the most vulnerable among us, the most innocent among us. The guy in the conversation with the guy, you knew I'm more, you know, I got a vote for the black woman. I said, wait a minute, now wait. Now do you think, you know, use that term when they, you know, do you think skin color based partiality is bad or not? What do you mean? Let me ask you this question. What do you have to go to? Man, I'm only gonna fight and vote for Trump if he's white because I'm voting for the white guy, white man all the time. No, so you try to twist my words, hey, but I try to twist your words. I'm just saying if it works for you, why can't it work in the opposite direction? If it works, what if it's wrong? That's the man that's wrong, this wrong should be wrong all the time, shouldn't it? Mm-mm, mm-mm. This is where we are, folks. But it's not a time to be despondent. It's time to remain confident in the King of glory. Let us be about our father's business. As much as it pertains to you and me, let's be about our father's business. 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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