Hamilton: God has called us to be ambassadors even in this dark moment
>> 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
>> Abraham Hamilton III: out of the bondage of mainstream media and the philosophies of this world.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: God has called you and me to be his ambassadors, even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment.
The Hamilton Corner is headed to Texas tomorrow for a homeschool conference
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>> Abraham Hamilton III: Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner. Abraham Hamilton III is my name. I'm the host of the program, joined by producer extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated, the real J. Mac. And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program. This has been quite the week, quite the week. Looking forward to, being with beautiful people in Waco, Texas tomorrow at the Entrusted Homeschool, Entrusted Christian Homeschool conference there. I've been preparing and praying quite a bit for that. We'll get started bright and early 9:00am tomorrow morning.
The most important component of keeping our republic is outcome cultivation, Caleb says
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 it with intentionality. You know, this, this necessary outcome cultivation, in my mind, and I really don't believe it's limited to my mind, but I'm expressing it because this is my perspective that outcome cultivation is the missing ingredient. And what Benjamin Franklin formulated when, he was asked and when he was leaving the Pennsylvania State House, which we now describe as Independence hall following the conclusion of the Constitution Convention, when he was asked, oh, Benjamin, what have you wrought? And his response was a republic, if you can keep it. my heart is heavy this evening because the most necessary component of keeping that republic, in my view is outcome cultivation, also known as discipleship, disciple making. I think we have given in our country, significant and appropriate attention to things like fiscal policy. We've, given appropriate attention, or let me say we've given significant amounts of attention to things like tax policy. M. I'm grateful that President Trump has been able to oversee the closure largely of the southern border. I'm heartened by the demonstration of our military capacity. what can I tell you? That none of those things are the fulcrum of keeping our republic. And the motivation, frankly should not be. Let me say it differently, the motivation for outcome cultivation should not be we're going to cultivate an outcome. So that our republic can be preserved. But preservation of our republic will be the inevitable consequence of employing the preservative met preservative mechanism that is making disciples. I am I'm grateful for the America reads the Bible last week, but I'm also sober and prayerful that America will not only read the Bible in an event like last week, but we'll welcome the Lord to read us through his Bible. we do not have a significantly sufficient discipleship investment in our country. And, and I, I'm, I'm concerned as to whether or not there are enough people understand how important it is. You know, I just got a fresh report from Dr. George Barna. This yesterday, morning is when I got it yesterday morning I said Gen Z, the biblical worldview percentage that Gen z has is 1%. 1%. In some ways we are seeing some young people in Gen Z trend toward biblical faithfulness. But at the exact same time there are other ways where they're trending away from biblical faithfulness. Dr. Barna opined in his report that there have been some positive, movements following Charlie Kirk's assassination. But he expressed concern and warning as to whether or not, well, concern that these movements could be temporary and superficial in nature and as a result they won't necessarily be enduring. Now he's offering that as, a social scientist, I'm concerned that when you speak to most people, you know, you, you, let's say you going to get some chicken wings, not wings, you get some wangs, which by the way the best place in the world to get wings. And if you debate this, you know, argue with your matriarch. It's a place called Wing Shack in NewSong Orleans, Louisiana is right across the street from the projects. If you go there, you probably have to deal with something called bulletproof glass in the turnstile. Ain't gonna be nowhere to sit. Now you can get your wings and roll, but you have, you getting wings, you at the gas station or whatever, you're talking to people. And when people talk about the issues with our country, for the most part what comes up? How often do you hear people express, you know, we really need in our country any repentance? I've been alluding to this, but I want to take you on a little journey with me. This is what I've been meditating on personally in my own devotional time in the Book of Judges. And as easy as we turn pages to fail to recognize man, this, there are decades between these pages. And I want to give you kind of A sample of that. So I'll start first in Judges, chapter three, to where the first judge to serve Israel after Joshua passed away is Caleb's nephew. His name is Othniel. In Judges, chapter 3, verse 11, I want you to point you to this, because after Othniel served. Well, I'll read verses 9 through 11 just to give you a setup. Judges, chapter 3, verse 9. It says this. When the sons of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to deliver them. Othniel, the son of Kenes, Caleb's younger brother, the spirit of the Lord came upon him and he judged Israel when he went out to war. The Lord gave Kushan Rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia into his hand, so that he prevailed over Kushan Rishathaim. Then the land had rest 40 years. 40 years. And Oathniel, the son of Kena has died. After Oathniel did his thing, the land of Israel had rest for 40 years. A little bit further down in the same chapter, look at verse 30. Because after oath neel, the scripture says, well, I'll read it verse 12 before I get to verse 30. After, you know, verse 11 says, Then the land had rest 40 years and Othniel the son of Kenos died. Then verse 12, look at what verse 12 says. Now the sons of Israel, again did evil in the sight of the Lord and they became oppressed by the Moabites. The king of the Moabites was a man named Eglon. The Bible says Eglon was an overweight man, an obese man. It actually, he was very fat. If, you think the assessment of fatness is something that's a novel term, you're wrong. The Lord said about Eglon that he was very fat in the, in the scripture. But Ehud, who was a left handed man, the Bible says he was left handed. The Lord used him to deliver Israel from Moab. And then look at verse 30, judges, chapter three, verse 30. So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel, and the land was undisturbed for 80 years. 80 years. Y' all see this time period? So the time period of peace between from Othniel to Ehud is 120, is 120 years of peace. That doesn't include the amount of time that the Moabites were oppressing the Israelites. But you see this cycle. 40 years of peace. Israel does evil. The Lord, they cry out to the Lord, he sends a deliverer. The Lord delivers 80 years apiece then look at chapter four, verse one. Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud, died. What happens next? King Jabin of Canaan oppresses Israel for 20 years. Y' all doing the math with me? So that's 140 years, guys. 140 years. Then the Lord raises up Barack and Deborah, which I've explained. Deborah's role in the Judges was a byproduct of a refusal of Barak to lead as God had ordained him to. The Lord delivers Israel from Canaan. Jael, the. The wife of Heber, the Kenite, the Bible says, uses certain. A, tent peg. And, you know, the tent peg made it do what it do after the milk was consumed. And then look at Judges, chapter 5, verse 31, the very end of it, it says, and the land was undisturbed for 40 years. Between Barack and Deborah and Gideon, there's another 40 years of peace. So if you're doing quick math, that's 180 years, guys. That's 180 years. Then the Midianite suppressed the Israelites for seven years. That's 187 years. Do you see the math that, I'm attempting to help you to see? That's 107, 87 years. That's only a handful of Judges.
Hamilton: We're approaching the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence
You've gone from Othniel to Ehud to Deborah, Barack. That's three judges. And I'm reading this, and then I'm looking at, oh, America 250. Have an event I'm going to be doing, next week with HSLDA, in commemorating the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence. And I'm like, lord, do we see what's going on here? We have social scientists and philosophers who talk about the cycle of nations in the 250th year, historically, has been an indication of a precipitous decline. I don't believe that has to be the American story. It doesn't have to be. I, led devotions for our AFA staff here earlier this week, and, I, just happened to mention to them, do you do realize that our nation, really, the Genesis story, the origin story, if you will, for the United States of America is the David and Goliath story. If anybody should recognize that the strength of military might and economic prowess does not guarantee and preserve, geopolitical longevity, we should understand that. We should understand that. How? You have a group of colonial farmers who raise up and are able to discombobulate King George in England. That's our origin story. That's what we're commemorating in 250 years. What I'm saying, guys, is I'm not sure that there has been a sufficient amount of communication in our society as to what is necessary to preserve a republic. What have you wrought? Oh, Benjamin. A republic. If you can keep it. That if is a strong if. The if is doing a lot of work. It's doing a lot of work. You go to the grocery stores, you go to the gas stations, you go to your football games, you go to your children's recitals. And you. And you talk about the state of America. What do we need? You'll get a whole lot of answers. How long will it be before you get to man, what we really need to do? We need to get on our faces before God and we need to cry out to him. We need to repent for our wickedness and ask God, according to his benevolent mercies, to preserve our nation. The forces within our nation animated by evil, many of them are far more potent threats to something coming from the outside. And while all this is happening, we have the nipping at the seams to cast off the application of scripture to cast off the benefit, Christ following. And if the people of God don't lead in making this clarion call, it's not going to come from anywhere else. We have an obligation to say, hey, God is the one who gives us times and seasons. We're approaching the 250th anniversary of our declaration. America's future is contingent upon faithfulness to the King of Glory.
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Abraham Hamilton: Third assassination attempt on President Trump this year
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton iii. Here I am, delighted to have have in studio the love of my life, my lovely wife. That rhymes.
>> Maria Hamilton: Hey, you got bars.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: God, I I do. Don't tempt me. my wife, Maria Hamilton the First, is in studio with us, and she's going to help me kind of unpack this story. We've been talking about this quite a bit at home, because I, I can't escape the timeline in Scripture. As you turn the pages in Scripture, you go a few pages, but you cover a, century, nearly two centuries in just the first several chapters of Judges. Actually, from chapters, really two to four, really to five. Really? Because five is a, A song reflecting some of the events from chapter four. And we also had. And this, this is a little bit eerie, because when you had the White House correspondence dinner and you have. This would be assassin who tried to literally murder President Trump for the third time. Third time trying to murder him. I think one of the things that people don't realize is that he just was awarded Teacher of the Year in California.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yep.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: That this man was a public school teacher in the state of California and, felt he needed to try to murder the president and all of his cabinet. And I can only imagine the kind of things that he conveyed in the classroom to his students. I'm sure his classroom was a very neutral and, benign and welcoming place for all comers to learn without a bias, slant at all. I'm sure that was the case. Right, right, right. and then you had Barack Obama, who took 2x to say, well, we don't know the motivations of Line Snake the shooter. We don't, we don't know the motivations. at a minimum, we could know. The motivation is when you shoot a gun at somebody, you want to kill them.
>> Maria Hamilton: That's right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: At a minimum. You know, I don't, I don't think you shoot a gun at anybody because you want to help them file their taxes or, or to cut the grass. I don't, I don't think. but to have this being the third. The third assassination attempt on the President of the United States of America, and you have some people just like, well, you know, it's Trump's fault.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: When you, when you see these things accumulating and knowing what you know about scripture and about worldview and about history generally, but also biblical history, what do these things converge to communicate to you?
>> Maria Hamilton: So, you know, one of the things that I was looking at was when he, if, if this manifesto is, Is real because, you know, it's going around or whatever, if that's actual manifesto, you can read and you can see that he's been deceived. Right. Because, that what is being spewed through the airwaves in the. In the media are lies about the president. Not that he's perfect, not that we agree with everything he does, but. But they're. They're lying on him. They're lying on what they. The, administration is doing as a whole and where they stand on things. And so these people are just eating it up. And so the country has turned from embracing and desiring truth, which, again, we have stains all in the history of the United States, but embracing and desiring truth to advocating for and embracing lies. And those who spew the lies know their lies, but they don't care because it's demonic and evil at the root. And so we've turned. We've turned. We now embrace lies from the top down. and we see it not only in ideology, but ideology informs behavior. So then we see that in confusion, sexual confusion, and everything else. and so it's just a culture that is immersed in deceit, but that's from the enemy. There's our originator. And then there are people at the top, if you will, in regards to power and influence, who spew that. And so then you have people like this who are, deceived. But I'm not excusing him. I'm just saying that what is at the root of. Of who he is and what he's embraced are lies. And so then he's acting seemingly in a righteous manner because if he. If he wants to kill him, he's saying in his manifesto, he said, you know, pretty much trying to end, what. The evil. The evil that this administration is doing, and it's a lie. But then he's educating our children, right? So then it continues. So it's the same thing. You know, Scripture warns, us, but also instructs us and commands us to pass down to the next generations who God is and what he's done, which is truth, because truth is person. But then the enemy flips everything God does, right? And so he. He is a counterfeit or counterfeiter. And so it's the same thing that God has instructed. Instructed us to do in the positive. advancing truth and passing it down. He's doing it, but with deceit and lies. So now we're raising a generation, continued raise a generation of people who are embracing lies and advocating for lies and spewing lies. And so he, once upon a time was a child that was taught lies. And. And now he is teaching other children lies. Because I'm sure, like you said in the school, in the classroom or whatever. he's not neutral.
Do you think everybody who's spewing lies know they're lies
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Now you said something, you said the people who are spewing lies, they know they're lies. Do you think everybody who's spewing lies know that they are lies that they're spewing?
>> Maria Hamilton: No, but I know Barack Obama does when he's posted that. Cuz he's a snake. When he posted that, he knew exactly what the motivation was. He knew exactly what the. What. Why President Trump is, why they're killing him. And he knows why. Trying to kill him, Trying to kill him. but he knows a lot more than he wants to convey. And he's been like that since before he ran and before he became president. So what he does is he sugar coats and hides and comes off like he's a positive good person. But it's all lies. And so some people do know, some people know that they're advancing lies and they don't care.
>> Maria Hamilton: Because they're being led by demonic forces. And so that's just the truth. Not everybody, but a lot of people, especially at the top, that have power, influence, know that they're lying.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah.
>> Maria Hamilton: Not only about Trump, but just in general.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah. The scripture says evil men and seducers. 2 Timothy 3, evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse. Deceiving.
>> Maria Hamilton: That's correct.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And being deceived. So I think you're spot on when you say that there are some who are purveyors of lies and they know for a fact that, that they are lies. But there are others. And I think this, this second category, this other group is a far larger group. I think there are lots of people who are spewing lies, but they don't know that they're lies.
>> Maria Hamilton: Correct?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes, they are passionately misinformed.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: and being passionately misinformed is not an excuse or a justification for being misinformed. Or as you rightly pointed out, ideology often informs conduct. there's no excuse or justification for the being misinformed, first and foremost and secondarily, pursuing sinful conduct in light of that misinformation. Because oftentimes misinformation is a product of preferences and biases. Like you already think certain things and you look for information sources that confirm what you already think, which is, I know I frustrate you often because I spend, I won't say a whole lot of time, but I often want to see what people who don't agree with me and don't think like me. I want to understand what they think because I don't want to be in a situation to where I'm contending against an idea or an assertion and I'm not giving appropriate, I'm not appropriately conveying the views that I'm contending against.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes. And I very much respect, that. But it gets under my skin when my sanctuary of my bedroom is infiltrated with cnn.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Like, people, come on now, tell the truth, shame the devil. I don't do it all the time.
>> Maria Hamilton: It's not all the time.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: But, but I do watch to try to get an idea of what other people are saying. Now, now, you mentioned something and this, this is a part of the story. And I know people might get mad at me, but you know, and water is wet. You know, here's another data ends in why.
>> Maria Hamilton: Right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I don't think we're giving enough attention to the aspect of the story that you pointed out. I have referred to it as, well, that this man was teaching children.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Elementary school students, older students, teacher of the year in California. If I were to ask audience members, would you allow somebody to come babysit your child? Who? One, you've never met, you've never met him. Two, you don't know what they believe about anything, about anything. Three, you don't know their worldview. You don't know whether or not they are believers. You don't know if they have Bibles. Do they read the Bible? You don't know anything about their history, their background. Would you allow that person to babysit your child? Most people say, what?
>> Maria Hamilton: No, no, clearly not.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: But every day in our country we have people do that very same thing, but they allow it to happen. And let, me ask this. Would you allow them to babysit your children and you give them full authority with your children for eight hours a day, for five days a week? No, but we do that in our country when we send people to school.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: When we send our children. Let me say that better. When we send our children to school. We do that every day. And why do we do it? Because we trust this.
>> Maria Hamilton: We trust the system.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Education.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I can only imagine what this man taught in the classroom. On this show, I've shared story after story after story. I shared a story of a father who learned that his children were going in the class, his elementary school age children, 8 year old, 9 year old, going in the classroom. And the class is littered with, you know, lgbtq, iap, element of XYZ flags all over the classroom, all over the classroom. In that same classroom. Would not allow an American flag. Oh, and the father was banned from the campus because he brought attention to it. You know, I can tell you story after story after story. Why do we keep doing this? Why do we keep doing it?
>> Maria Hamilton: And why do we think that it's only happening in certain places and it's not already enough time has passed to know and embrace the reality, the truth, that it has impacted every area of our culture, every area of our. Of our nation, from sea to shining sea. Small, town, big town. These influences are happening in our culture, and we want to turn a blind eye. And then here's the most egregious thing, because education, you know, it's a huge component of our culture, but we turn a blind eye to what God requires of us as believers.
David Frum: When we consider education, what are the kids learning
Can I read Psalm 78? three verses, real quick. Verse five says, for he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers that they should teach them to their children. This is the law. This is the heart of God that is being conveyed to, to Israel so that they can teach their children. Verse 6. That the generation to come might know even the children yet to be born, that they may arise and tell them to their children. That's generation after generation. Verse 7. That they should put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. So we are not doing that any longer. And when we consider education, when we consider the eight hours that you're explaining, when we consider the amount of influence, the amount of indoctrination that is occurring, what are the kids learning? And when are we going to be about our Father's business? When are we going to actually take the reins of what God has called us to do as believers, as the church? When are we going to say, okay, enough is enough? Because we see how the, how the culture is, advancing, and we see how our children are either going to fall prey to this and agree with it and be deceived and advance it, or are we going to do the best that we can, being led by the spirit of God and with the power of God that splits red seas, to be able to train our children to love God and to advance who he is and to, tell the next generation who he is. And I feel like we just put our. Bury our heads in the ground too much, you know, and we just sit back and like, oh, it's just a cycle over here and another cycle over here. No, it is everywhere. It is everywhere. It's not just the leftist Democrats. It's everywhere. People are being, deceived left and right. And we are feeding our children to influencers and people all over, whether it's a teacher or whether it's a YouTuber who are spewing lies. And, but we are not equipping our kids to fight against that because we're supposed to be the light of the world, the truth. And so we are the ones that are supposed to say, hey, that's the lie. It's over here. This is the way to go. But we, we're not raising a generation of people that can do that.
The foremost ingredient in this experiment is self governance
>> Abraham Hamilton III: You know, I, I, I started off, you heard me talking about Benjamin Franklin's quote, a republic if you can keep. is in my view, the missing component. The foremost ingredient in this experiment is self governance. That we cannot have a nation of self governance if we don't have a people that are self governed.
>> Maria Hamilton: That's right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: You can't do it. And self government is not natural to fall in Adam.
>> Maria Hamilton: Correct. It's a fruit of the spirit.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Self government is not natural to fall into Adam. It is a fruit of the spirit.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: To say it more clearly and plainly, it is something. The capacity to govern oneself is a byproduct of being indwelled by the spirit of God. And I want to, I want to explain what I mean by that. Because self governance is not a localized or segmented phenomenon. Self government is something that pervades the entirety of our, of our, of our being as humankind, as individuals. Because you may have people who in one instance exhibit some particular gift or some particular talent. You know, a singer who can do something, or, you know, a mathematician or something. But if you examine their lives, what you'll find is more evidence of a lack of self governance than you will evidence. Self governance, even if they're talented in one particular area.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes. And we allow the talent to cloud their character.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: We, we conflate.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes, there we go.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: With character. We say, because they're good at this thing, therefore they're good people. M that's why we have celebrity worship in our. Yes, we have people who are very good at lying.
>> Maria Hamilton: Oh, so true.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Let me tell you what I mean by that. Well, that applies generally. But you, you, you have people who are very good at presenting themselves as someone else. We call them actors and actresses. Yeah, because you're skilled at, ah, displaying yourself as someone else. Our society says, therefore, you are worthy of acclamation. And we'll. Because one of the chief values in our country today, we value entertainment over anything else. which is why entertainers are paid. One of those. And by the way, athletes are entertainers. If, if the sport is not entertaining, they're not paid well. For example, you have people who are very good bobsledders. They don't get paid like baseball players and football players. Why? Because it's not a very popularly entertaining sport. Now they're skillful, in that athletic exercise. But the highest paid athletes are entertainers. And so when you look at what we value, the scriptures, where man's treasure is, that's where his heart is. Also we value entertainment on a country.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Which is why they're paid well. So people who entertain us, well, we conflate that capacity with goodness to our detriment. Because the Lord tells us, oh no, no, you're supposed to look on the inside to see if there's is merit. What I'm driving towards in. I think we'll have like a couple minutes in this segment. So I don't want to start this now. And I'll pick it up on the other side. There is a missing ingredient to our body politic that even our founders, our founders warned that if we don't have this, our country will be in shambles.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Jon Adams said will our country will be a most miserable habitation on the earth if we don't have this. And it's what you're talking about is what the Lord is talking about. And my concern is that there we do not have enough believers who understand this.
>> Maria Hamilton: That's right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Let alone who are willing to advocate for it in the public square. But the world is going to world. What is the church supposed to do? How should we respond? When we come back from this break, Maria will take over the show.
>> Maria Hamilton: No, no.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: We're going to continue our conversation about what is the most necessary but unfortunately neglected component of keeping our republic.
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Abraham Hamilton shares quote from John Adams about American democracy
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Hamilton's Corner. Abraham Hamilton iii here with Maria Hamilton, wife of my life, wife of my life, mother of my children, co laborer in the ministry that God has called us to, starting first and foremost in Hamiltonia.
>> Maria Hamilton: That's right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: I want to read this quote. Babe. This is from Jon Adams's letter to the Massachusetts M. Massachusetts militia, dated October 11, 19. Sorry, 1798. Jon Adams, second president of the United States of America under our Constitution. He wrote this letter and he said this. And I'm, sharing this because oftentimes people will use a quote that's included in this letter, but they only use the quote at the end of what I'm about to share. But they remove it from the entirety of the context that Jon Adams was writing in. And Jon Adams wrote this. He said this quote. While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world, while she continues sincere and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another and towards foreign nations which assumes the language of justice and moderation while it is practicing iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candor, frankness and sincerity, while it is rioting and rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world because we have no government armed with power, capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion, avarice, ambition and revenge or gallantry would break the strongest chords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. End quote.
>> Maria Hamilton: He's right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Now many of you have heard that last statement. Our Constitution was made only for moral religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Many of you heard that sentence and the sentence is right. But most of you have never heard the context of that sentence. Jon Adams is not saying that the only people that should be allowed in America are moral and religious people. What Jon Adams is saying is that we have a nation to where we have an external, shall I say, reputation of sincerity and candor and Frankness. While the real truth on the streets where the real meets the real rubber meets the road. And, on real deal holy field on the streets we're rioting and rapine, avarice and ambition and revenge and gallantry. Say we have an external testimony and reputation for being one thing. But the truth is we are entirely rogue and rebellious against God.
>> Jeff King: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Our nation will be the most miserable habitation in the world. That's what Jon Adams said.
>> Maria Hamilton: So you know what's interesting, though, when. When we are fighting for political freedom and we're fighting to preserve the rights that God has given us, we think that the way to preserve this nation is to do it through government, is to do it through, the voting block. You know, like, okay, so who's gonna be president or who's gonna be, you know, the justices on all these things. And listen, yes, we need to participate in that. But if we think that the solution is there, we are completely, deceiving ourselves.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: If the solution is only there.
>> Maria Hamilton: Right. We're never. Then you say that.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Right.
>> Maria Hamilton: You say we're never gonna be able to, out politic. We're never going to be able to outvote unrighteousness. Like, we're never going to be able to elect people. And we always say this. We're like, why is it that it feels like it's like the better of the two. What is it? Best scenarios or whatever it is,
>> Abraham Hamilton III: lesser of the two evils.
>> Maria Hamilton: Lesser to evils when we're trying to vote. Why? Because we have a people on the ground, the real that are replete with iniquity and sin and advancing it and advocating it from the Republicans to the Democrats. And so we cannot depend upon that. What do we have to do? We have to boil it all down. We have to completely remove all that and go back to what the Lord has called the church to be. We have to. That's the only way we're going to preserve this nation. And that's not the goal, by the way. The goal is not to preserve the nation so we can have, you know, a great, nation on this earth. It's to advance the gospel so people can be saved, so that we can be with the Lord. That's the goal. The result will be a good nation and freedoms and all these things and prosperity. But that's not our goal. But I just feel like we got it so wrong.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah, the goal should be obeying the Lord.
>> Maria Hamilton: Amen.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Seeing his kingdom expanded and seeing our fellow countrymen become members of our eternal family.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: When that takes place, it will inevitably infect and impact the quality of our nation. Like being consistently presented with the lesser of two evils. It should cause us to begin to think, why am I only presented with evil as an option?
>> Maria Hamilton: Yeah.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Why, why is that? And why is that increasingly so common that that is the expectation? Correct even why is that? And why do we settle for that? Should we be settling for that? Should, we desire more than that?
>> Maria Hamilton: We should, we should. But then, but then what we think is, no, maybe we just need to get somebody else. Like we need to get a Christian in office. Listen, okay, that is like a band aid on a huge problem, right? Like it's bleeding out and we're like trying to patch it up. We need to raise generations of people who love Jesus.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
>> Maria Hamilton: We need to strengthen the church. We need to be the church. We need to be able to start saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, what is it? What is God requiring of us? What does it take to raise a generation of believers that are going to stand for what is right and what is good and what is true and what is true? And who self govern, who invite the Holy Spirit to increase them and, fill them? When are we going to do that? When are we going to do that?
We need to start at the ground level. We need to elect people in Vermont
But we think that the solution is elsewhere. And God has already told us, but what do we do as a nation? What do we do in the church? In the church we start saying, no, no, no, it's okay. We just, you know, it just means to be good, good morally. Like we just need to be good people and let, let the leaders do what they do. That is completely moronic. It's stupid. It doesn't work. We need to start at the ground level. What did God call us to do?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Get it. Getting back to the quote from Jon Adams. He literally says that if we have this public outwardly facing reputation, but that reputation is not consistent in what the American people are on the ground that our nation will become the most miserable hab. But then he tells us why. He says, why? Why will our nation become a most miserable habitation in that circumstance? He says, because we, we the United States of America, the citizens of our country, we do. We have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
>> Maria Hamilton: Government can do it. Where?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Where can a populace and a population be cultivated? And how can a population be cultivated? To have a morality. I'm sorry? To have their human passions bridled. Hm. By a transcendent morality that's not going to come from the government.
>> Maria Hamilton: No, it's not.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Now, I want to be clear about something. I'm not saying that those things are unimportant. Who we elect, very important.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Knowing who are on school boards, very important.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Congressional representation. Representation, very important. President's very important. State judges who are elected, very important. Nominations, very important. But if you have all of those things in place. All of those things in place. But you have a populace that have human passions. Unbridled. Unbridled. God. This is what we need to understand. There is no government that's strong enough to contend with that. Jon Adams says that if there are human passions that are unbridled by morality and religion, they would break, quote, the strongest chords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Now I want you to think about something. How often in the last 30 days, six months last year, have you at home or in your cars or in your homes? How many times have you said, well, that's unconstitutional. Yeah, well, that's unconstitutional. I just talked about this week on today's issues. I didn't mention on Hamilton Corner. I might, I might have mentioned it there. But, there's a case out of Vermont, right? Mid. Mid Vermont Christian School, they had a radical idea that a girls basketball team had made it to the playoffs. They were set to play against the team. This is back in 2023, and the team had a boy on the girls team. The Mid Vermont Christian School said, nah, fam, we're not putting our girls in harm's way to play against a dude on the court. Our, girls could get hurt. So they did not play the playoff game. The state of Vermont, what do they do? In response, they said, well, fine. Mid Vermont Christian, y' all can't compete in any scholastic activities. Not only sports, not only the girls team. You can't participate in the spelling bee. You can't participate.
>> Maria Hamilton: Oh, that's evil.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: You can't participate. Nothing. You don't want to play against a boy who thinks he's a girl in girls basketball. Well, y' all can't participate in nothing. And they were not able to participate for two whole years.
>> Maria Hamilton: But you know what's crazy? We think that the solution is to get Vermont right. We need to elect people in Vermont. We need to get Vermont to not be ridiculous. We need to fight in courts and listen. Yes. Because they're so far ahead. We need to raise a generation where boys are not confused and want to play in girl sports. We want to raise a generation of children who are able to say what Is right. Is right. And what is wrong is wrong. But we get outraged about that and we say, oh my gosh, how dare they limit the freedoms for the Christian school. How about the boys are confused? How about we have girls who know who. What it means to be a girl and they value that. And boys that know what it means to be a boy and a man and value that.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Now to your point, think about this. You have a boy in Vermont who thinks he's a girl back in 2023.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Mid Vermont Christian School
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And at the same time, we have a sitting Supreme Court justice who don't know what a man.
>> Maria Hamilton: Come on.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Right. The whole head is sick. Ezra said our sin has risen above our heads. That's what Ezra said in Ezra, chapter nine. So yes, yes, get Vermont right. Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom.
>> Maria Hamilton: Correct.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Filed a lawsuit. They brought the case up. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled in favor of Mid Vermont Christian School. So you had a $566,000 settlement where the state of Vermont had to pay to Mid American Christian.
>> Maria Hamilton: That's wonderful.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: You know, but let's just be real. That's the Vermont taxpayers. It's not like, you know, but, but also. Can, can. Can we. Can we invest ourselves? So where we have, families where a father commits himself to his wife who bears his children, and a husband and a wife reared their children. And let me take a few steps back. You have a Christian man who has been a recipient of the gospel proclaimed, where the Lord opens his eyes to his need for a savior. Where this man is discipled to be a husband. You have a woman who, her eyes have been open to her need for a savior. She's been discipled to be a wife. They join in holy matrimony. Remember that word that sounds like stale brick?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Holy matrimony. And they recognize that, you know, family is not merely a relational context, but it's a mission statement. Mission station ordained by God for the establishing of his kingdom. Generationally.
>> Maria Hamilton: And we're not even talking about perfection here. We're not talking about raising a generation of believers that are just never going to sin. We're talking about raising a generation of believers. Sinlessness.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Theoretical.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yeah. And strengthening the body of Christ by strengthening the family. Going God's way. Because God's. Do I need to quote veggietales? God's way is the best way. It's the truth. Hands down, God's way is the best way. So if we want a prosperous nation, we cannot think that the way to solve it is just by litigation. It has to start in the home.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And my concern man, is that we have people who feel like, well that's too far off, maybe that's gonna take too long. We don't have time for that. We need to do this, we need this, we need to do this. And I'm just saying. Okay, okay. But let's be real where we are right now and there are lots of people that complain about the young folks. Gen Z is doing this, Gen Z is not doing that. But look, I'm not shoot the messenger if you will, but all of Gen Z come from somewhere.
>> Maria Hamilton: That's right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: They all got parents, come from somewhere. They all have parents, they all have families that they come from. They all, every person who is a person, they came from a Y chromosome and an X chromosome. Providers.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yep.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: What we are experiencing guys, is the systematic and I would argue demonically designed to be an intentional decimation of the family.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yep.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And the decimation of the family is even impacting the way that we're forming our churches because we're allowing ourselves to address symptoms and not the root.
>> Maria Hamilton: That's right.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: You know, and so people will say, well, where's the ministry to the single moms? And I know, you know, I have single moms in my family. I don't want to disregard single moms. But I'm not going to allow the prevalence of sin cause us to, to all of a sudden act like we don't know what the standard is.
>> Maria Hamilton: How about we get the men to not abandon those women so they don't become single moms?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: How about we get men to marry the women that they are willing to Procreate with. What I'm saying is that the only way forward for us guys is God's way. And yes, it's hard work. Yes, it's going to take generational impact and investment.
>> Maria Hamilton: Yes, we serve the living God though.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: But we serve the true and living God. And there are people saying because it take all this long, honestly, I really don't believe it's going to take as long as people think. If, if we have a, people who are willing to invest ourselves. I believe the Lord can turn our country around in one generation. Yes, I believe that. I've seen that in families. I've seen brokenness in one fam. One generation and the very next generation, the entire course of the lineage thereafter has been transformed by the power of Jesus Christ. But what's happened, what has happened too often is that the Christian has been seduced into thinking, well man, let me tuck my chain in. Let me get every other remedy available to me. And let's just keep the gospel on the sidelines, man. Brothers and sisters, we have to let the lion loose. We have to take God at his word.
>> Maria Hamilton: Amen.
>> Abraham Hamilton III: And love him so much that we will be. We are radically disposed to obey him and to trust him with the results.
Are we going to stand on the truth of the word of God
I'll give you the last one.
>> Maria Hamilton: Amen. No, that's it. That's it. Are we going to do what the Lord has called us to do? Are we going to stand on the truth of the word of God, defend it and live it?
>> Abraham Hamilton III: Are we going to stand on the word of God, defend it, advocate for it and live it?
>> Maria Hamilton: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
