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("Best-of" Edition from 9/9/22) We must be re-introduced to God’s glory.

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0:00 - 15:00. Romans 1:18-25. They exchanged the glory of God for an image in the form of corruptible man. 15:00 - 31:00. We must be re-introduced to God’s glory. 31:00 - 48:00. A wrong view of God is truly the root of mankind’s difficulty. www.afaaction.net/life To donate call : 877-616-2396

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  1. 0:00

    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. Delivering 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, Abraham, Hamilton. The third here, you've made it to your on your way to the weekend edition of the Hamilton Corner. It's been a full week, but I'm very excited about today's program. I have some things in my heart. I just want to share with you from my heart primarily from the Word of God. And at this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making that transition from your part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. As you are doing so, let me remind you that what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House. The world works feverishly, works overtime to get us to divert our attention in a place import and the significance on everything else around us. And really in a lot of ways to just wear us out to where when it comes to serving the Lord through what transpires in our homes, many of us, one of the first obstacles to overcome is literal physical fatigue. You know, mental fatigue, physical fatigue. But what I want to encourage you to do is to understand that as you're doing your part time jobs to make sure you have your full time jobs in view. You know, when you wake up in the morning and you go to your part time place of employment, if you are an employee or an employer or whatever the situation may be, keep in mind that ministry is required of you once you go home.

  2. 2:04

    You know, and I know there's some who do this in a reverse that you go to your part time jobs in the evening, but the most, the majority of the audience, you're on your way to your full time jobs now. I want to remind you that what you do in your home is your full time jobs. I've never once and all the time I've spent with some of the more seasoned saints as they're transitioning from this life into the eternal state. I've never once seen anybody say, man, I sure wish I could have worked another overtime shift. I sure wish I could have had more time in the office. I mean, I really, I so love being in the office, you know, most of the time in my experience and in, and in my experience in terms of what I've experienced firsthand and as well as a lot of what I've read and what I've learned or what I've studied, people usually find themselves at the latter part to their lives lamenting what they had not done within their families. And I'm saying if you have breath in your lungs, you're listening to this show right now, you have an opportunity to make that correction on the front end that you make sure you understand that what transpires in your house is more important goes on in the White House and it is your full-time job. This is what we need to be able to understand. This is what we must embrace. And as I've said numerous times, the basis for this understanding comes right from the Word of God. The first institution that God created as he unfolded human history was the family. The first command that God gave to mankind was issued within the context of family before you get to an order of priests, before you get to prophets, before you get to monarchs, the first institution that you have is family. Family is important to God. As a result, it should be important to us. All right, to the word of God, we go Romans chapter one is where I want to go to start the show. And this is a very familiar passage of scripture, but I just want to slow down a bit and focus on it with a bit more specificity, because there are things in the text that we can miss if we are not careful in navigating what the Lord has provided for us there. So Romans chapter 1 verses 18 through 25 is what I'm going to read. The Word of God says this, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all godliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them. For God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen being understood through what has been made so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man, and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the the lust of their hearts to impurity so that their bodies would be dishonored among them, but they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who was blessed forever.

  3. 5:41

    Amen. Now I've said numerous times that the Apostle Paul's Epistles of the Romans was written to Christians. It is to Christians in Rome that the Apostle Paul said do not be conformed to this world but to be transformed by the renewing of your mind, which presents the reality that you could have people who make genuinely have had a born again experience, but because of a failure of discipleship and a lack of discipleship, they remain conformed in their mind to the thinking of the old nature. Here, the script reveals a truth, verse 18, in that it is the wrath of God that is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness. Men don't like to think about the fact that God, Who is a just God? Yes. Who is a loving God? Yes. But do you realize that his justice requires his wrath upon sin? I know again, I know that makes people uncomfortable. You have people that like to present a gospel to present something as if it is a gospel, which the Apostle Paul would say is no gospel at all. That would focus exclusively on God's compassion, his loving kindness, his tender mercies. but they would sidestep his wrath. It is because God is just that he must judge sin. Believers, when we declare ourselves to be Christ followers, followers of the way of the Messiah, followers Yeshua, Hamashiyok, we are not saying anything good or noble about ourselves. Contrary to cultural expectations and even practices, in our country here in America largely, when you declare you're a Christian, when I declare I'm a Christian, I'm not saying anything good about myself. What I am saying, I am declaring that I am woefully lost and bound for hell but for the grace of God. It is the grace of God that is the mechanism that salvages my soul from eternal damnation.

  4. 7:44

    I am declaring that my confidence in my eternal state is not of anything that I have manufactured of my own. It's not of anything that I have done to earn. It is solely the free gift of God that I have accepted by faith, by grace through faith. It is an acknowledgement that I recognized, man, I am irreparably broken, but because of God's grace, I made hope. Says nothing good about me, but says everything good about God. But the scripture says men suppress this truth, the truth of human depravity, the truth of man's lostness by our unrighteous conduct, by the frequency and the repetition of wicked conduct, the truth of that lostness is suppressed. And what wicked men do is that we begin to normalize lostness and we conduct soulless affairs based on a critical mass of what is human experience. But if we understand the scripture, the commonality of the human experience should once again drive us even more to the grace of God, which led the Apostle Paul to say in verse 21, for even though they knew God, not in terms of special revelation, but in a general revelatory sense, they did not honor him as God, all made. With the Apostle Paul pinned by the Spirit of God in these passages, really, in my opinion, diagnosis or diagnosis, diagnosis the crux of the human condition and the attended difficulties we endure as a result. For even though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but became futile in their thinking or speculation or reasoning. How do we get to the place, A, where you have men thinking they're women, women thinking they're men?

  5. 9:46

    How do we get to the place where you have a woman like Candace Parker, married to another basketball player, had some baby with the basketball player, but then says no, but I'm a lesbian now and I'm my true self. How do we get to that place? Verse 21, the consequences of refusing to honor God as God is that men devolve continually and unimpededly into futility in our thinking. That's all we got here. The only place you can get to, the only way you can get to the place where you have people saying we need to be able to sexualize children, to teach them about sex, and kindergarten to third grade, is because men have refused to honor God. Verse 22, professing to be wise, they became fools. Verse 23, and exchanged, here's the key, exchanged the glory, the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man. Before you get to any other forms of imagery, any other iconography, it is the exchange of the glory of God, his deity and his ascetic, and you exchange that for the corruptibility of men. The author's name escapes me at the moment, but he diagnosed the condition as a empty D, moralistic therapeutic deism. We have lots of people who are adherence to moralistic therapeutic deism, but they're passing that off as Christianity. Because the core of moralistic therapeutic deism is that you are God. Man is God. In a lot of ways, this moralistic therapeutic deism has even been embraced in the church. Think about some of the modern songs that are purported to be worship songs, but really they focus on what God does for you, for me as if he's some form of cosmic nature, you know, I worship you because this is what you've done for me. Oh God, you have this. Oh, your reckless love, like listen, man, there's nothing reckless about the love of God. God's love is intentional. God's love is specified. It is grand. It is massive, but it's not reckless. But we have all of these songs and they, they appeal to and swoon on the human emotions. I tell my wife and I tell my children, we seek to employ vertical songs, songs that celebrate the glory of God, the largess of God, that he doesn't become a footnote in our experience. But that is evidence of the embracing of this moralistic therapeutic deism. But the core of all of the difficulty that we endure here as human beings, it comes down. You can actually literally boil every issue down to this. God's word or man's word.

  6. 13:03

    You name the issue. Marriage, God's word or man's word. Rearing children, God's word or man's word. Financial stewardship, God's word or man's word. Social interactions, God's word or man's word. war, God's word or man's, you can, every issue, you can boil it down to that. And I truly believe, which by God's grace we're going to talk about at length during today's show, is that one of the major features that has contributed to this degradation of society in our country, in American particularly, is that we have lost our understanding, our view and our embrace of the transcendent surpassing glory of God. I really believe at the core of what's happening, that that is truly what it is. There was once a time in our nation's history where people generally speaking, by and large, had a reverence for God. That's been lost so much. So when people today now are celebrated for just how irreverent they can be. And they'll say things like, well, we're just bucking against traditional social moorings. No, you're not. That's why I refuse to describe marriage as traditional marriage. Because if it's nothing more than human tradition, what would prevent us from changing human tradition? But if it's God's design for the institution, if it's God's word on the issue, man's efforts to derogate from that is not merely an amendment to human tradition, it's actually an exercise in defiant rebellion. God's word or man's word. The beginning of the exchange, I won't say the beginning, the core of the exchange is that we've exchanged the glory of God for that a corruptible man. Instead of pursuing him, we've made our own image and put that on the throne of our hearts.

  7. 15:07

    Shiting lightning to the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham, Hamilton, the third here, a reminder, September 24th and 25th. and 25th. Wait, do I have those days right? September 24th and 25th. Clovis, New Mexico. I'm coming your way. Central Baptist Church is the place. Clovis, New, is the church. Clovis, New Mexico is the city. The senior pastor there is Pastor Michael Kirby and it will be, man, I am, I am so looking forward to it. Saturday evening, I will be ministering to the men of the Central Baptist Church as as well as those who will join Central Baptist Church. I'll also be preaching both Sunday morning services at Central Baptist Church on that Sunday morning. So I definitely would love to meet you, to see you there is going to be an amazing time. It seems that God is giving me more and more opportunities to minister men. And I really believe that the course for the church going forward will be charted by the Spirit of God and men's responsiveness to his ministry, to his leading, and to the shepherding of the Lord by his spirit. For so long, the third way feminism that is really infiltrated our society, it's also infiltrated the church. We're asking questions, navigating issues in the church that throughout the history of the church weren't even issues. You know, well, you know, even had a brother asking me the other day, I mean, how do you interpret first Timothy two in terms of the teaching responsibilities and the headship and shepherding and eldership responsibilities into the church? I say the scripture is evident. You know, you don't have to have high level deep dive hermeneutics is very, very evident that as the apostle Paul is delineating this to Timothy that headship in the church is reserved to men.

  8. 17:15

    That's what the scripture says. This is not something that was debated, but the reason why this is becoming debate is because of Third Wave Feminisms, Third Wave Feminisms, Infiltration into the Church. To where, now we're seeking to reinterpret the scripture in light of what's happening in culture, instead of allowing scripture in the exegetical instruction of scripture to dictate our engagement with culture, we're doing it in the reverse. There are things that God has reserved for men just as there are things that God has reserved for women. We know that on a natural plane, the same is true in the church and then the Lord even goes as far as to say in terms of one of the qualifications for heads of his church. If a man can't navigate his own household well, how then can he dare have shepherd the flock of God. That is the Lord applying an argument concerning his instruction for the conduct of the family and have an individual's home and extrapolating that instruction and applying it in a similar application in the Lord's church. It's not rocket science, but it's because we have people who, well, and I'm going to say it, who are willing to suppress the truth by waking conduct. I'm just, I mean, it's not difficult to comprehend if you want to comprehend. It don't wanna become as difficult when we don't want to comprehend. Now that doesn't mean that there aren't a bevy of areas where God is ordained for men to minister outside of the eldership and shepherding responsibilities, just like there are bevy of areas and places where the Lord has ordained for our sisters to minister. One of the major problems that we have though, and I know I'm a starter pot, but I guess that's what I do. I'm a potster, not intentionally be a popster, but I just endeavor to cleave tightly to the word of God, is that we have idolized the shepherding function.

  9. 19:23

    The Lord never intended for his shepherds to be viewed as hierarchical superiors in the body of Christ. And we have a diminished understanding of the theology of the body. You know how the Lord says, you know, the discrete members, the ones that are less visible, they were the double honor. You know, every joint is in the body is supposed to supply, not just a hand or an eye or a mouth or a more visible component. Every joint is to supply, but we have this notion that we've reduced, we reduced the Lord's house into kind of a celebrities, a spectator sport to where the person on stage is the one that does the ministry and we just cheer them on and we celebrate them and the rest of everybody else you know we just come kind of like a concert. That's not the way the church is supposed to be. The church is supposed to be the body of Christ, the house of the household of faith where every joint supplies and as he's reaching for lays out we need every joint in the body to supply so that the entire body is grows into full maturity but we become so unbiblical and ecclesiology that is made evident in an idolatous pension for the pulpit, as if that alone is ministry. When it's not the case at all I could spend and I may need to do it. Just go through the scriptures for it. I probably will do that because when the apostle Paul makes his argument at Timothy, it's rooted first and foremost in creation. So people would say, well, you know, the pulpit's limitation to the teaching responsibility and the corporate gathered body to men who are shepherds, that's a contemporary contextual thing. No, it's not because Paul roots his argument in creation. Then Paul comes around in 1 Timothy chapter 6 and says, this is the Word of God that she'll be kept until the end of the age. So he roots the argument in creation and says that this is scripture, that is to be embraced and and obeyed until the end of the age.

  10. 21:24

    There is no time limitation or cultural context, cultural contextual limitation on that instruction. That applies to the Lord's body in every time, in every place, in every context until Jesus returns. That's in the scripture. We'll have to delve into that. But this is connected to what I'm saying of one of the major problems in our day and our time, which is a, I can't even call it a loss. It is a forfeiture is what it is of our proper view and embracing of the glory of God. So I'm gonna share something with you guys, some of you know some of this before, but if it connects to with what I'm saying here now. So if you know anything about me and my history, you might know I've written some songs, you might still write some songs every now and again. Sometimes I know we'll play some of the songs I've written and recorded all the years on Aaron Addison's. I don't play music as much on my show. So people like, Hey, what are you? And then I put something on one of my social media feeds earlier. A friend of mine asked me to write a verse for a song so I did. And I'm going to share something with you from a song I wrote years ago called The Ultimate. And really, the whole thrust of the song was to convey the reality that God is the ultimate. And I started it this way. I said, the most difficult task in all the world is to portray divinity within limited words, accurately conveying the Creator with verbs, limiting infinity to organized blurbs, reducing the ultimate to little bite-sized pieces when mountains tremble at the thought of His speeches. reached its spans from Iceland to Fiji. Creation's his album and I'm glad to feature. Grand Canyon simply carved with the art of his fingers compared to him, complex ballads to sound like jingles.

  11. 23:28

    At the mention of his name, all creation tingles, a single choir singing from eternity's hymnal. We marvel at pyramids, but who invented the Nile? Instead of him, some of his men would rather worship a cow, having the form of godliness yet still denying his power when it's well represented in a newborn smile. the ultimate. I'm I'm when I wrote that song, I wrote it. And that's one verse. I have two other verses on it, but I wrote that song because I was gripped by the very thing I'm sharing with you now. I happened to be listening to some worship music and my wife will tell you my one of my favorite genres, if you will, I won't even say genres. It's a favorite, I guess, types of music I like to regardless of the instrumental genre is worship music. In In fact, my favorite type of music is where it should be. My favorite genre are hymns. And the reason why I enjoyed the hymn so much was because of the theological accuracy, but the theological accuracy was under the umbrella of the grandeur of God, of the largesse of God. When we sing, the hymn greatest I faithfulness was taken straight out of the book of lamentations. And the context of the scripture is with gripped me as Jeremiah is beholding the ravaging of Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar in the midst of what can only be described as a negative moment, a dark day, a chaotic place. The Lord allowed Jeremiah to focus in on his greatness, his grandeur. And he, it caused him to say, greatest thought, faithfulness as we are living in our day. And as it's, it's, it's plain as the noses are on our faces as persecution is intensifying, on our own country, which the Spirit of God through the Apostle Paul said would happen. All who desire, 1 Timothy, chapter 2, verse 3, all who desire to live godly will face persecution. Guys, that is a given to many of us because we have forfeited the glory of God.

  12. 25:33

    We have developed this kind of moralistic, therapeutic deism to where we want a persecutionless face, faith to where our passions and our investment is to try to side step persecution. When Jesus said in this world, you will have trouble. The spirit of God through the apostle Paul said, all who desire to live God will face persecution. The only variable is the type of persecution we'll face and the intensity. You know, in our country, many of us right now, that the persecution is being shadow banned on social media or being called a bigot. You know, we have others, you know, You know, there was just a huge win just this week in New York of all places where there was a Christian adoption agency that is a ministry that is an adoption agency, a social services organization and a crisis pregnancy resource center that doesn't take a dime from government. But because of their biblical commitments, they refused to place children with same sex couples or unmarried, cohabitating heterosexual couples. And New York came against them. They say, y'all can't do business here, whether the courts just vindicated them in their first amendment rights. And that is a type of persecution because their ministry is being attacked and being forced to shut down their work solely because of their commitment to Christ's following. That is a given. So the question then for the believer, and this is something the Lord has been impressing upon me, prepare my body to remain faithful to me in the face of persecution. In order for us to be faithful to God in the face of this overt hostility, we must be fastened to an expansive view of the glory of God to give you a picture. The only way that Stephen was able to sustain being stoned, why was it being stoned, for nothing more than preaching? truth of God's word. And at the height of him being stoned, he says something very similar to Jesus. Father, forgive them for they don't know what they are doing. Do not hold this into their account while he's suffering being stoned, which is an excruciating way to die.

  13. 27:53

    But the Bible records that that Heaven's part in his Stephen saw the Messiah as he's in during this to encapsulate what I'm trying to say is that his ability to remain fast into the glory of God even in the face of that stoning is what allowed him to exemplify God's character in that moment. And what I am saying that in order for us to stand in this day, the same thing is going to be needed. There are many people individually, many pastors and many churches even that are abandoning orthodoxy in their reimagining scripture. You know, you have the whole revoice movement and so-called gay Christianity and all of these things and the reason why these things are taking root many times because people either themselves are bound in sinful conduct or they have friends, loved ones and family members who are bound. It is because of their commitments to their friends, family members and loved ones that they're willing to reimagine the scripture. But if you hold fast to the glory of God and refuse to reduce him to the image of Garruptible man, you will recognize that what I am adhering to is not my opinion. Hey, would you come to my same sex wedding? No, I will not come to your same sex wedding. And it is because I love you that I won't do that. It is because I love you that I won't come to your wedding, your same sex wedding. It is because my presence is saying something false about God and his institution. affirming you in a lie instead of loving you in the truth. Now that doesn't mean I'm going to be insulting to you, demeaning to you, but it's because the glory of God that I'm able to adhere to the truth of what he requires of me and you. For me to show up at that wedding is for me to say something that's false.

  14. 29:54

    To say that if you persist in this way without repentance, that your end will be something other an eternal damnation. And my brother or my sister, I love you too much to do that. But my ability to do that because I'm a human being, I have loved ones, I have feelings, I have emotions too. I don't want to like to have somebody, you know, tearfully appealing to you to cosign something that's wrong. And it is because of the love of God. It's because he is the ultimate. I have to love you in the truth. First Corinthians 13 says it plainly. that love does not rejoice in unrighteousness. But in order to live that, it's one thing to understand it intellectually. It's another thing to live it. And I'm saying that the most foundational and fundamental requisite to living it is embracing this expansive notion, the not notion, the expansive reality of God's glory. We obey him because he's worthy. We obey him because of his glory. We adhere to what he requires of us, because of the expansive, transcendent reality. What I am conveying to you is not my word. This is not my opinion. This is the heart of the designer, of the author and the one with whom both you and I have to do. The glory of God compels me to live in light of the reality. It's appointed unto man once to die. And then there's a judgment. It's the glory of God that compels me to live based in the reality that every single one of us will stand before the Lord and give an account. The unbelievers will stand before him at the great white throne, where the sin will be judged for the first time. The believers will have the quality of our lives evaluated as we stand before him at the judgment seat of Christ, the Be My Sea.

  15. 31:57

    Hamilton Quarter podcast and One-Bitted Common Terrets are available at AFR.net back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio. Welcome back. We have the final segment already, Abraham Hamilton the third here and this is the Hamilton Corner. It is the wrong view of God that leads really to the great difficulty that we see in our world. even like when you get to things like environmentalism, right? You have people who refuse to understand that God created the world. The Lord literally created the earth and infused in man, well, let me say the first part first. The Lord literally created the earth for man's flourishing. But the mechanism for man's flourishing or the capacity for man to thrive in that flourishing was put within man to make the earth fruitful for that flourishing. But an incorrect view of God reveals man's or leads to man having an inappropriate understanding of the earth that says, Oh, man lives to serve the environment as opposed to understanding. No, the environment exists to serve man. Now, it is the Christ follower that should be the foremost proponent of proper stewardship of the earth, but it is just that stewardship of it, not worship of it. When you have, and this continues to boggle my mind, when you have, you know, over the last 170 degrees that the temperature has increased a grand total of one degree Celsius and 170 degrees, 170 years, and you have people running around saying, oh, we got five years left, we have 10 years left. It stems from an inaccurate view of God, which leads to an inaccurate view of His creation, which leads to an inversion of the roles, instead of man exercising dominion and subduing kavashin, the earth's making flukeful for human flourishing, it leads to man worshiping the earth.

  16. 34:14

    At least a man saying, oh, we can't produce energy sources that will aid mankind in this particular place and nations all around the world to flourish, we need to preserve the environment, just for the sake of the environment. And it comes down to an inappropriate view of God. The things I said earlier about sexuality. The scripture that says women shall be saved in childbearing, the purpose there is not to say women will be that is a salvific having children a salvific. When you read that in context, Paul is doing a whole delineation in confronting things that are struggles for men and things that are struggle for some women. And the whole purpose of the communication is to say that by embracing the femininity God has made you with, that you have to, as you embrace what God has created you to be, it enables you to thrive as he created you. Instead of having scores of women that despise the fact that they're women. Is that not happening right now? You have scores of men that despise the fact that they're men. Is that not happening right now? You have this phenomenon that mental health professionals have begun to diagnose, rapid onset gender dysphoria, teenage girls, all of a sudden deciding, oh, you know what? I'm not a girl anymore. Rapid onset. No incidences of this prior to that, but then all of a sudden, because it becomes groupthink. You have a society that demeans genuine authentic masculinity, calling it toxic. You have a society that demeans authentic femininity, you know? The only women, And I've said this, I forgot where I said this recently. The only women that are celebrating our culture today are women who decide they want to sacrifice their families to be corporate moguls or to do this, to do all of these millions of other things.

  17. 36:17

    The only men that are celebrated is the, they say, they're men that are in touch with their feminine side. I got a feminine side, her name is Maria. That's my wife. Ain't nothing feminine about me because God made me to be masculine. That's not a provocative boasting. That's glory in God's created design. And I'll let you in on something. Even regressive women. Women all of the work, look, it sounds good on Hollywood shows and on television and commercials and all of that. Talk about we need men with man-buns and skinny pants and so I can see your veins popping out of your thighs. Your pants are so tight. But let me tell you something. The overwhelming majority of women in our society they want real men. Keep it a buck. Even regressive women. I'm telling you because I talked to them. I talked to people who agree with me and I talked to people who disagree with me and you have many regressives. They'll talk, they'll rattle off every talking point from the donkey party and then at the end of it they'll say, you know what? Is this so challenging to find a real man? And I'm like, duh, cause you hang out with people and you espouse a worldview that says y'all despise masculinity. But deep down, even those women desire masculine men. Why? Because God designed it that way. I was telling a young brother the other day and a young, separate conversations, separate, separate people and different conversations, but the same topic because they were feeling guilty about their desire to be married, particularly the sister. You know, the sister was like, well, you know, I understand, you know, I don't, you know, I shouldn't be seeking fulfillment in marriage and having a child. And I asked the various, I was like, why do you think that? Well, you know, times have changed today. And you know, I know that's how it was in 50s and 60s but today that's not what it is. I said, does time change the word of God? I'm not saying it's true that every woman has to be married. The Bible talks about singleness being a vocation from the Lord but it is just that. A vocation from the Lord. It is a special calling from God but because of the overarching command, the first command is to demand con fruitfulness and multiplication. In order for mankind to be fruit and multiply, a man must marry a woman and a man must become a husband and a woman must become a wife married to one another and they bear children. Because that is God's desire that I know that the majority of people will be married and bear children. That's not bad to desire that. That is good to desire that. In the reason why it's good, it has nothing to do with societal norms, it has everything to do with the fact that God who is good designed marriage and he designed you and designed me to desire it in the minority circumstances, in the special circumstances where God has given a specific vocation to singleness, that is the reality. But for the majority of people, that is not the reality. So your desire, young sister, to be married is a good desire.

  18. 39:25

    Your desire, young brother, your young man was telling me, he's like, man, you know, yeah, I don't really fit in. He's telling me, you know, he ain't gonna really fit in, bro. You know, you know, You know, cause in the street they telling you, you know, you need to be doing this. You need to be doing this. And we're talking, you need to be knocking this one down. Knocking that one down. We got children listening. Y'all ask your parents what that mean. I'm not gonna tell you. He said, man, but I just really, I mean, I just really want to be with one. I said, brother, that is a God of desire. That is a God of desire. You know, we had Dr. Jameson Taylor on the show not too long ago. He was talking about with Roe vs. Wade being overturned. And you have all of these people saying, oh, we need to do this. these massive welfare states to aid the women who no longer would be able to kill their children. And Dr. Taylor said this and I wholeheartedly agree. I said, what about encouraging men to marry the mothers of their children? What about that? So you only get to this notion to when you have to find a substitute for God's design because of an improper view of the glory of God. God designed it for a man, let me say it the way the scripture says it, for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall be one flesh. That one flesh union is the foundational unit that produces offspring. Husbands loving and shepherding their wives and providing for their families are the means to provide for children. But if you create a system that celebrates men procreating with women but not marrying them and then requiring those women to keep them in out of the home in order to get benefits, you replace the husband in the home and you replace the father in the home with government. That is how you get to the place to where you look to government to be the source of provision continuously. At its core, at its foundation, it stems from an improper view of God and his glory. But if we go back to the root, we get to see the fruit with more clarity, the ultimate, the ultimate.

  19. 41:40

    Churches don't need to shy away from encouraging marriage as a societal norm. We should up the ante and elevate it beyond a societal norm and describe it as a biblical reality. And you can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can celebrate God's design for marriage and family without denigrating those who God has given a special vocation, but guess what we're not gonna do? I gotta put on my ninth wall for this one. Because this is what society is trying to get our churches to do. What society is endeavoring to do is to get our churches to normalize rebellion. What am I talking about? To normalize sexual conduct outside of marriage. Let's just keep it a stack. What's one of the major reasons why we're seeing people much older in age today, yet still remaining on Mary? One of the major reasons, because we got a bunch of people that's having sex. Did I just say that out loud? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Well, what happens, when people have sex, people end up having children's, end up having children. Guess what happens in that circumstance, when you have people having sex who are not married, you have this new fangled phenomenon called single-parent household, in ever-increasing quantities, which is happening at such high rates that it is occurring in every demographic, in our society. Those numbers are increasing. And so the world would say, well, because of the prevalence of this phenomenon, the church you need to change. It's not the church needs to change. The church needs to call people back to the glorious gods standards for holiness. It doesn't mean we become hardhearted and dispassioned to the people of these different circumstances, but we should never change God's standards. God's standards don't change it because of man's inability to meet them, But what the culture wants us to do, well, you know, we had nobody really can live, chased and holy lives anymore.

  20. 43:47

    So what you really need to do is make your churches a place that's hospitable, hospitable to what, for an occasion? And listen, I'm not talking reckless. Like I told you guys before, I got family members who have single-parent households. But that doesn't change the standard. I can still love them, be compassionate, serve them, walk with them the whole nine without marring the glorious image of God and misrepresenting him as if he is all of a sudden okay with this because it's a frequent phenomenon. No different than it's not common for people not to lie. That doesn't mean the Lord doesn't require us believers to not lie. You don't see the church, the culture telling the church and the church is willing to embrace the culture's instructions. Well, you need to start worrying about people lying. Just because there's so many people in the world lying. No, nor should we do that with sexuality or in family structure, in relation, social relations. But it all comes back to having an improper view of God and his glory. To say it simply, we've reduced him to that a corruptible man, to where instead of we as mankind, who profess to be followers of his, endeavoring to worship him through our lives, we say, no, look, we wanna redefine what you are desirous of to match our conditions. It is the embodiment of Romans 123, exchanging the glory of God for that incorruptible man. God's word versus man's word. We have a responsibility to love people who are broken in all manners and brokenness. But in order to love them appropriately, we have to tell them the truth about what God requires. Jesus said to himself, when the blind needs the blind, everybody ends up in the ditch. Nobody avoids the ditch if everybody's walking in blindness. Well, what about, you know, the whole notion? What about, well, meet people where they are.

  21. 45:48

    Yeah, meet you where you are, not so you can stay where yet. We meet you where you are, so we all can grow to where Christ is. That's the whole point. That's the whole point. But all of this revolves around our forfeiture of the glory of God. In my prayer for the body of Christ and our nation, is that we would reorient ourselves, rediscover, or for those who may be discovering for the first time, the glory of God. A lot of the things that are, you know, like the perversions like prosperity gospel. The reason why it's so attractive is because it makes man God. It puts man in a position where God exists to do nothing but serve us. The same thing is true on the other end, because you have lots of people that are willing to confront the wickedness of things like the prosperity gospel. But then you have those, even though we know the Bible says knowledge puffs up, because they're so afraid of misrepresentatives of how the Spirit of God operates with people, they end up minimizing the role of God, Holy Spirit, and says he won't do this, and he doesn't do that, even though it's clear in his word. But because they can't wrap it around their minds, they end up committing great violence to the Lord's word by minimizing the role of God, the Holy Spirit. Think about that. In the part of the reason why that is the case is because men like to elevate ourselves to the place to a God fits in the box that we've designed for Him based on what we are comfortable with. Just because they are people that are false representatives of the truth of God's word, that doesn't make God's word false. That makes sense. 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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