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Abraham Hamilton III: Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.

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Abraham Hamilton III: It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite, delivering people.

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Abraham Hamilton III: God has called you and me to be his ambassadors, even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment.

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The Great Commission is to call to make disciples, but evangelism is not required

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. Understanding the primacy that God places on the family, recognizing that there are many things that we can do. We're going to talk about this a bit in this segment. But there is one thing that God requires of his disciples. And that is when I say requires, I want to be clear. It's a command from God that we are to execute his commission. The Great Commission is to call to make disciples. That certainly includes evangelism, but evangelism is not the totality of the Great Commission. Disciple making is what is required. And it is by making m disciples that the kingdom of God is expanded. And as the kingdom of God expands, it impacts the kingdom of God, impacts the society that is populated by Christ followers. We should never forget that. We should never forget that the opportunity to make disciples and the command to make disciples starts in our homes. Too often we neglect our homes in an effort to win and be effective in the world, which simply put, is theological malpractice. Theological and ecclesiastical malpractice. The scripture tells us when the wicked rule, the people groan. In a nation that is a constitutional republic with democratic features, how are servant leaders positioned by, the consent of the governed? Well, how long will a, wicked populace abide righteous leadership? That's an obvious self answering question. It's not going to happen. So we should not be surprised, as wickedness abounds, that there's a consistent and concerted effort to jettison our Constitution to encroach upon individual liberty because there's a connexity between them. I, shudder to think that many of the people who rightly lament what has transpired in our society have wrongly diagnosed the cause, or should I say, at a minimum, a large contributing factor. I'm going to get into this more so in the second segment, but our constitutional republican form of government in order to be sustained and to endure. You know, Benjamin Franklin's adage, a, republic, if you can keep it. I don't think a lot of people recognize that the ability to keep the republic depends upon a robust and thriving church in our nation. To the word of God we go. Colossians, chapter 4. Colossians, chapter 4. This is why I say, guys, what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House. I talk a lot about, interacting with our family. And I would add to that that our homes have to once again become a place that is ripe with a compassion and hospitality that undergirds great commission execution. Colossians, chapter four, verses five and six. This really, is a. Is a profoundly convicting source of scripture. The Apostle Paul is, communicating with the church at Colossae. you'll recall from chapter one. This is a church that was not planted as a result of the Apostle Paul's preaching. primarily that the Lord operated through a brother from this city named Epaphras. Chapter 1, verse 7 indicates that. That Epaphras is the one who brought the gospel back to his hometown and then ended up developing a relationship via, epistle with the Apostle Paul. And that is how we have Paul's Epistle to the Colossians.

Paul exhorts believers to conduct themselves with wisdom toward unbelievers

But in it, Colossians, chapter four, verses five and six is what I want to focus on. Colossians, chapter four, verses five and six. And this is what God's word says. And by, reminder, he's talking to believers in Colossae. Conduct yourselves with wisdom. With wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of every opportun. Sorry. Making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how to respond. So that you will know how you should respond to each person. I'm going to read it again. Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace. That just. Yeah. Speech. Always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person. The text here is very clear. The Apostle Paul is exhorting the believers in Colossae by the spirit of God to conduct ourselves with wisdom toward unbelievers. Now I know I've talked a lot about wisdom, I do talk a lot about wisdom. But how often do we consider the real time necessity in engagement upon engagement of drawing upon the wisdom of God and operating with wisdom as we interact with unbelievers? The reason why I can say, and I know, this text is describing interacting with unbelievers is because Paul is talking to the Colossian believers about outsiders. The Colossian believers largely were comprised of Gentile believers. They were just south of the Black Sea. So when it says conduct yourself with wisdom toward outsiders, that is what it's referring to. Going a bit further, saying making the most of the opportunity. How often do we reflect on engagement with unbelievers as an opportunity, and not just any opportunity, but an opportunity that beckons God's wisdom in that moment. How often? There is no way for us to be salt in light if our only disposition is to despise those who are lost and blind. Have the bowels of our compassion been shut up because of the prevalence of, of egregious wickedness? And make no mistake about it, there is robust wickedness all around. You know, I was pondering earlier today, prior to this show about the reality that there needs to be a clear and a conviction to defeat evil, not to just identify it, not merely to counteract it, but to defeat it societally. But defeating evil includes having a Christ centered eternity based compassion that would cause us to engage the unbeliever with truth. As I've said before, Mark 6:23, biblical compassion leads to a compassionate yet corrective engagement without apology. Because anybody who would suggest that there is any such thing as neutrality, they're either selling you a bill of goods or they're exceedingly wicked, or both. Because there's no such thing as neutral, everything includes a worldview consideration.

Joseph Parker: Apostle Paul says to let our speech be seasoned with salt

Verse 6 Let your speech always be with grace as though seasoned with salt. Do we realize when the Apostle Paul says this, the command and instruction to let our speech be seasoned, let our speech be grace filled as though seasoned with salt is specifically in this context referring to how we interact with unbelievers. Now don't misconstrue what I'm saying. Don't get it twisted. Having speech seasoned with salt doesn't mean you tiptoe around the tulips. Not at all. Our speech being saturated with grace doesn't mean we nip and tuck and euphemize and beat around the bush? Not at all. But we cannot afford the opportunities that God gives us m to be opportunities that we engage solely in the flesh, that we don't consider relying upon the Spirit of God as we have the opportunity to engage the unbeliever, that we do not seek the wisdom of God as we engage the oppo have the opportunity to engage the unbeliever. The context here from which the exhortation for our speech to be ladened with grace as though seasoned with salt has in view the interactions that we have have with unbelievers. Primarily, yes, it we certainly should have grace filled seasoned salt speech with the believer. But this context in this scripture, it specifically has in view our interaction with the unbeliever. And I'm gravely concerned that many in our nation, especially with the backdrop of the metastasizing wickedness that we've allowed our responsibility to contend for the faith to devolve into simply being contentious in the name of the faith as opposed to conducting ourselves with wisdom in Search of My own Heart As I prepare for this program, I will be the first to confess there have been times that I have not conducting myself with wisdom concerning unbelievers, and I've asked the Lord to forgive me for that and to give me an opportunity to rectify those circumstances. Because the Scripture says that we ought to make the most of each opportunity. Some translations there say redeeming the time. I simply want to encourage you to envelop this biblical disposition to make the most of every opportunity that God gives us, that we would conduct ourselves with wisdom at each opportunity, at each opportunity, that we would not miss any opportunities. We will conduct ourselves with wisdom so that at the end of verse six that we will know how we should respond to each person. Brothers and sisters, I simply want to say that the wisdom of God is available for us to respond to each person with each opportunity with the wisdom of God specified for that moment, specified for that engagement, specified for that encounter, specified for that opportunity and that the love of God and and again, God's love ain't ain't soft, ain't we ain't man be pamby it ain't weak, but it also is not fleshly. It's not just getting something off your chest. It's not just an outlet to express ourselves in the flesh, but that we take advantage of each and every opportunity because it is God's instruction and his will for every believer to be an exponent, an outpost for the execution of his commission.

Jeff Chamblee: A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.

Joseph Parker: I was recently in conversation with another pastor and we were discussing the issue of some of the news stories about youth in our culture and nation. The pastor remarked, I've been praying and asking the Lord for what to do about all that's going on with our youth. Without question, we're wise to pray and ask for wisdom in addressing most any problem in our world. God and His Word always have an answer for every challenge we can possibly face. The answer to the challenges we face with our youth isn't complicated. In fact, the answer is much more simple than we may wish to admit. The answer to the problems in our culture for all that's going on amongst our youth is Jesus. Our children need to know Jesus Christ and our children and youth need to be discipled in their faith. They need to be taught and trained to read the word of God and walk in its wisdom.

Abraham Hamilton III: Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.

Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here. listen. Tomorrow evening at 6pm I will be joining Pastor Joseph Parker, AFR's own Pastor Joseph Parker at the Pregnancy Care Net and Hope Center's banquet. This will be their inaugural banquet that it will be a time of celebrating life, sharing powerful testimonies of transformation and raising the support that the Pregnancy Care Net and Hope center needs to keep Hope on the road through their mobile pregnancy care unit. As many of you know, Pastor Joseph is a brother who's been a guest on this program. He hosts a show here on AFR the Hour of Intercession. He's also a passionate advocate and committed ah, advocate for the sanctity of human life. And he's a brother who I respect for a host of reasons but including they didn't want to just talk about it man. He wants to be about it. And so the Lord moved him to start this ministry, specifically at this juncture, reaching out to the Delta area in the state of Mississippi. And he invited me to be the keynote speaker for their inaugural banquet. So if you are in the area or willing to come to the area, you are invited to join us tomorrow evening at 6pm at the North Greenwood Baptist Church that's located at 615 Grand Blvd. In Greenwood, Ms. 38930. I'll give you that information again. The, the banquet will be tomorrow Evening starting at 6pm at North Greenwood Baptist Church located at 615 Grand Blvd. In Greenwood, Ms. 38930. I'd love to meet you there. See you there. And join arms together as we contend for the faith and stand for life. Ah. In 21st century America. It, will be a wonderful time to gather together.

The dying declaration is an exception to the hearsay exclusionary rule

All right, I'm going to do something that's radical. It's really not, but it's viewed as radical in this day and age. I'm going to read from George Washington's farewell address. And I'm doing, I want to do so for a host of reasons. This is a document that used to be studied in America schools. But as our country has leaned more and more into a godless disposition, things like this have been kind of shuttled, shuttered, I should say, to the background, you know, because it's an inconvenient truth for those who would try to assert that America has been nothing other than a, secular nation and that simply is historically ignorant. it is. We have never had a national religion like other nations, but our country has been populated largely by Christians, and the dominant worldview has been anchored in a biblical ethos. All right, that's just a fact. All right, that's just a fact. That's why we have things like the evidentiary exception, to the hearsay exclusionary rule, called the dying declaration. Right, the hearsay rule. What is hearsay? Hearsay is a statement offered outside of court that assert that is asserted for the truth that is posited by the statement truth m of the matter asserted. The exclusionary rule says that hearsay is excluded from courts of law in the United States of America. That applies to federal courts as well as state courts. But there's a rule that makes an exception for this particular type of hearsay because it has an inherent indication of reliability. Because the conditions under which this hearsay statement is uttered would indicate it has a higher level of truthfulness. That is a dying declaration. So what is a dying declaration? A dying declaration is a hearsay statement, a statement uttered outside of a court of law and that is offered as evidence inside of a legal proceeding to establish the truth of the matter asserted in the out of court statement. Well, what makes that particular statement acceptable to be admitted in a court of law in a trial or a hearing? Well, a dying declaration is an out of court statement. That is all that is uttered under the immediate perception by the statement provider or the speaker that they are about to die. What is the policy notion undergirding that exception to the hearsay exclusionary rule? That nobody on their way exiting this life will want to be caught lying because no one exiting this life would want to be Caught lying. Well, what is the worldview implication from that? It is appointed unto man wants to die, and then the judgment. See, the dying declaration as an exception to the hearsay exclusionary rule is anchored in a biblical worldview. Everybody, follow me. There's no other reason for that, guys. There's no other reason. if America was steeped in an atheistic framework, there would be no dying declaration as an exclusion to the hearsay rule. Because the atheist worldview says, well, when you're dead, you're done. So you lie just as much when you're about to die as you will when you weren't about to die. But our legal system acknowledges that people have a propensity to be more truthful when they're about to die. There's no other explanation for that other than the scripture I'm, using. I'm just illustrating a point from that.

George Washington said religion and morality are indispensable supports for political prosperity

Now, turning to George Washington's farewell address, penned at the end of his eight year terms. His eight. His eight years of service as the United States President, the first president under the US Constitution. There were no term limits at the time, but his practice set the stage for what would become the presidential term limit limits of two terms. When they wanted to make George Washington king, he said, no, thank you. That is not what we envisioned when this nation was founded. And he said this in his farewell address. Of all the dispositions. Quote. By the way, I'm quoting because I'm reading. Quote. Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician equally with the pious man ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for prosperity, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oath, which are the instruments of investigation in the courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. End quote. Did y' all hear what I just read? I'm getting goosebumps thinking about this right now. Because if you can describe the thrust of the United States of America for, at a minimum the last 50 to 75 years, it could be summarized the end of the quote I just read to you from George Washington's farewell Address as a pursuit of national morality while excluding religious principle. George Washington says that that is not possible and not just from a philosophical disposition. He says reason and experience would show it's not possible to preserve national morality while excluding religious principle. I mean, it is. It is amazing because when he talks about political prosperity, he's not. He's not talking about who can have a successful campaign. He's talking about the framework and structure that is sustained and enduring, that flows from the political processes. In order for those things to remain prosperous, George Washington said religion and morality are indispensable. If you read this quote, and for the sake of time, I don't have time to go through the entire thing, George Washington talked about several things that were preferable. This is better than that. This is better than that. But when it came to religion, immorality and its impact on the nation, he said this is indispensable for those all the way in the back. Indispensable means. We can't get it going without this. It ain't going to work without this is what George Washington is saying. He asserted, as I mentioned previously, that he questions and challenge challenged the notion of patriotism of those who would work to subvert these, as he described them, quote, as these great pillars of human happiness. Happiness, the firmest supports, the firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. Any gave examples. Let us simply ask, where is the security for prosperity? Now he's talking about, material prosperity. How can we be secure in our persons, our property, our belongings? How can we be secured from being defamed? How can our very lives be secure? Remember that thing from the Declaration? Life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. How can we be secure in our lives if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are instruments of investigation? What I'm saying, folks, and we have, we have a lot of components that make up our body politic here in our country. To summarize what George Washington is saying, guys, and he wrote this in 1796, all right before the turn of the century, that if we're going to have a future as a nation, there's no way we can allow religion and morality to be sidelined. We have lots of conversations about who is elected here and the makeup of the courts and Congress. This, you know, right now you have the whole redistricting in Texas. Oh, we're going to redistrict in California. Oh, we're going to Redistrict here, redistrict there. But you know, we don't have as much conversation, as much conversation about the role that the church is supposed to play in producing the types of citizens that are only that, are that the types of citizens that are necessary to preserve and continue this experiment in individual liberty. People that are concerned with the American way of life should be concerned with there being a robust disciple making thriving church in our nation. If you look at the decline in America, you cannot help but identify the decline corresponds with the decline of the public witness of the body of Christ in our nation. I mentioned just because it is a recent historical phenomenon that the, the schism and the United Methodist Church, you know, the church founded by John Wesley was preceded by schisms in previous denominations in our nation. That was preceded by the church's seduction, being seduced by secularism by this, you know, yielding to the siren song of Darwinism that undergird a biblical anthropology in generation after generation. The public witness of the bride of Christ in our nation has winnowed and winnowed and winnowed till now. It's nary a peep. There was a time where it used to be, regardless of party, where it used to be a feather in your cap. If you are a president who had an occasion with a Billy Graham, for example, what's happened there? The silent contributing factor, and I'm saying silent because it's not discussed publicly. The silent. Yet one of the most pronounced contributing factors to America's condition has been the softening and the weakening and the secularizing of the Lord's church. And I want to be clear for everyone listening and watching, when I say the Lord's Church, I'm not talking about buildings, man, I'm talking about the people. Talking about the people. My heart breaks that when I travel, one of the most consistent questions I'm asked is, Abe, where can I find a good church? It breaks my heart. It really, really does. Why won't the church discuss these things? One of the things contributing to the national schism and we see the Balkanization in our nation politically. But guys, politics is nothing more than an externalization of what people believe. Say it differently. It's an external externalization of theology. And what we largely have is an effort to pursue and establish a notion of morality void of scripture, void of the gospel, void of Christ. So when you have that as a pursuit, it becomes nothing more than a ping pong serve and return volley effort of humanism. This is why I said people want to say, well this is we're no longer talking about Republicans and Democrats. We're talking about good versus Evil. But what do you do when both sides are saying that we are good and you are evil? Because Biblical morality has been jettisoned, we should not be surprised as the public witness of the church declines in our nation, our ah, nation will decline.

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Abraham Hamilton III says Christians need Christ followers in every discipline

Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III here. Guys, what I'm saying, I'm attempting to say, is the body of Christ is comprised of many members. As First Corinthians 12 lays it out, we need Christ followers in Every discipline we need, spirit filled, Christ following physicians, medical practitioners, bankers, postmen, lawyers, sanitation engineers, homemakers. But guys, if we have the greatest Supreme Court in the world, you know, great bankers, great candidates for elective office, but we are not making disciples across the generations. And we have the system of civic functioning that we have today, where the people, as the Declaration has said, governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. What do you think an increasingly wicked populace will consent to? This is what I'm saying. If we address all of the peripheral matters and we, allow the core to remain unaddressed, we may at best delay the inevitable. But we're not, you know, we may be trimming the hedges, but we're not uprooting the weeds. And, and because of, and I understand because of the frustration, many people have concluded, well, we, we have to focus on what's going on in our government, you know, because, because what the silent, many times unspoken thing is because, because the church has become feckless, the church has become weakened. And I'm just gravely concerned that many people are finding their footing, finding their place of settling in to where they're solely concerned about political, ongoing. Oh, you, come on, get to. What did Trump do today? Tell me about that. You know, tell me about the Putin, Putin summit. Is Zelensky going to come to the table? Tell me about that. And those things are important, no doubt about it.

Transgenderism at its core rejects biblical instruction and the biblical worldview

Today you had, you know, one of these transnational cartel drug dealers, you know, which is who pled guilty in federal court in D.C. today. But why is the United States of America such an attractive market for the drug dealers? Why are so many Americans hooked on drugs? We understand supply and demand. And listen, I would never excuse a drug dealer. Lock them up, throw away the key. I prosecuted drug dealers, so don't misconstrue what I'm saying. But if we continue to deal with the fruit and we never get to the root, we're fooling ourselves. We're fooling ourselves. And the fooling ourselves becomes so foolish that you have others who will take advantage of our constitutional republican form of government, perverted and twisted and say, yeah, let's take advantage of your Constitution to establish an American caliphate. Has anybody heard of Dearborn, Michigan lately? If you don't know, Dearborn is United States City to where you're more likely to come across a Muslim call to prayer than you are to come across an evangelist sharing the gospel door to door on a street corner. How does that happen in the United States of America? I'm using them as an example. It's happening in other portions of our city. All, of our other cities, all around our country. I told you about the effort to build this, this community in north of Dallas, in Texas. Yes. Epic city, guys. If we focus on it, well, what is the governor going to do about it? And we don't consider. Wait a minute. The church is to be the pillar and ground of truth. That's what God said. Let me give an example of what I'm talking about. are just the latter part of this past week. Virginia's current Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears is running for governor in Virginia. That's Bobby's old stomping grounds. You know, we sent Bobby, a missive m via carrier pigeon. He said, abe, I got my passport. Can I move to America? I'm joking. But Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears spoke at a meeting of the Arlington County School Board in Virginia. What happened in Arlington County, Virginia? A sex offender gained access to a girl's restroom at a local high school. How? Under the banner of transgenderism, a, ah, boy claimed to be a girl. The school board officials said, yeah, you could use a girl's restroom. Governor Sears, Lieutenant Governor Sears spoke at this rally saying that this should have never happened. Many of you may m recall I covered the case out of Loudoun county where this happened, where a boy not only identified himself as a girl as Loudoun County, Virginia. I'm talking about, access girls restrooms and sexually assaulted several girls. And guess what? The schools did keep it a secret. Let's just send them to another school. And what did he do at the next school? The same thing. How is this possible? It's happening all under the guise of transgenderism. Transgenderism at its core rejects biblical instruction and the biblical worldview concerning identity and human sexuality. All right, Some of you know, my minor is in psychology. When I was in school, the guideline that the mental health professionals utilize is called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. All right. As the push for same sex marriage was in full swing, there was concerted effort because homosexuality and transgenderism, by the way, were previously described in the DSM as mental pathologies. All right? They were saying that people claim to be this. Something is wrong with you mentally. That's what the DSM said following a massive, not scientific campaign, political campaign. We don't like that. That is in a dsm. So moneyed interests lobbied and appealed to the American Psychiatric association. And what happens? Voila. as a result of public political pressure, the APA removes homosexuality from being Described as a mental pathology. What happened to a society where mental health professionals previously recognized as a product of scientific query that these types of lifestyles were aberrations from normality? And not just aberrations, they were harmful to the individuals. That's what a pathology is.

Arlington, Virginia Democrats denounced controversial sign after it went viral

Well, truth. It's fallen in the streets. Well, surprisingly not. You had a group called the Arlington Democrats who showed up to protest. Protest Lt. Governor Winsome Sears presentation before the Arlington county school board. And one of them had artwork, that they brought with him. Jeff, you want to show the people the artwork? Had a little bit of artwork they wanted to bring with them to the, to the. To the protest. M. It's when you let. Let me. I wanna. I'm waiting for it to get on the screen so I can describe it for the people. Yeah, go ahead and put it up. it's up. Oh, I don't see. There it is. If you're watching the show, I'm gonna describe this for those who are listening. Audio only. But you had this person, we end up learning her name. Her name was Anita Martineau. She has a sign. You see that sign, Bobby? I'll read it for you. This is what Anita Martineau signed. And she was there with the Arlington, Virginia Democrats, says, quote, hey, Winsome, if trans can't share your bathroom, then blacks can't share my water fountain. End quote. Y' all see that? You watching the show? You see that? That's at the Arlington county school board. Mm Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead, go ahead and take it in. I'm gonna. Let's take it in for a little bit. Mm Yeah. Mm Now, I didn't even mention Lt. Governor Winsome Sears happens to be a black woman more melanated as myself, you know. So what do you think? Oh, Anita had in mind when she came out with that sign, huh? what do you think? What do you think? Is that surprising from the same party that supported the Ku Klux Klan, that opposed the Civil Rights act, who. Who reversed the Civil Rights act of the 1850s and 60s? See, a lot of people want to talk about the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Why don't we have conversations about the civil rights movement of the 1860s, huh? Huh? You ever wonder why? You ever thought about that? What I'm driving at? And I want to be fair, I want to be clear. After this protest sign went viral, the Arlington, Virginia Democrats, denounced the sign saying, you know, we don't support this. This is racism, discrimination, you know, whatever they Denounced it. But it's interesting because the little birders on the ground said, wait a minute. They only denounced the sign once it started going viral around the country. Because the Arlington, Virginia Democrats chairman, Steve Baker, that was named Mama, named Steve. I'm gonna call him Steve. Steve Baker was rocking around with Anita Martineau, saw the sign, said nothing about it, until people realized, oh, you listen. People started getting pictured that that sign is going viral. You need to take that down. And all of a sudden, Arlington, Virginia Democrats come out to condemn the sign. What am I driving at? Why do you think this lady Anita Martineau used her kindergarten crayons? You know, from the big box, you know, the 64 colors, you know, not, not, not the 32 or the 16 or not even the 8. She used her 64 pack. She might even had the little sharpener in the package. You remember that Crayola with the sharpener in there to go ahead and put the multicolor sign up. Hey, winsome, if a boy can't go in a girl's bathroom. And notice how she said, if a boy can't share your bathroom, then black people can't share my water fountain. Really? And this is a grown woman, folks. She didn't nothing. She had no, like, Wile E. Coyote cartoon thought bubble popped up around her head. Maybe you don't want to put this on the sign, do that. Nah, I never popped up. And I'm not asking you to evaluate this in political terms. What does the scripture say? Out of the abundance of the heart and. Oh, I could hear it now. Oh, Abraham, you want to talk about race? You want. What about these people who, are racist? So your concern is just which group is labeled racist? My concern about the wicked populace. Overall, you don't see the irony of a person attempting to protect what God has said is abominable by conflating her protection for the abominable with a decimation of the imago dei. This is what I'm talking about, folks. It's the same type of cognitive dissonance that'll have you like to lock up kids in cages to separate kids from their moms on the border are the same people that said mobs should be able to separate themselves from their children in the womb. Don't see it at all. Don't see it at all. And I feel like Paul writing to Galatians. Oh, foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you.

The church has fallen down on her job in our nation and making disciples

And the sad reality of the people having no problem with the signs until it goes viral. My concern, guys, is that by and large. And there are exceptions. There are exceptions. The Lord has a remnant in our nation. The Lord had to Show Elijah. There's 7,000 prophets who haven't bowed their knee to Baal. But I'm saying, by and large, man, the church has fallen down on her job in our nation and making disciples. And we've allowed ourselves largely to become a byword in our society, instead of making the most of every opportunity, availing ourselves of the wisdom of God to know how we should respond to each person. And the reality is that, as Reagan said about freedom, freedom is always only one generation away from extinction. The same is true with the necessity of making disciples. We must be faithful in each generation. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.

0:00 - 15:00. Colossians 4:5-6. Each encounter is an opportunity.

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