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March 26, 2025
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The Hamilton Minute is a power packed 60 seconds where we tackle the issues of the day through the lens of God’s Word. You don’t want to miss a moment of it.
The Hamilton Minute is a power packed 60 seconds where we tackle the issues of the day through the lens of God’s Word. You don’t want to miss a moment of it.
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“I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.” John 17:15 (NASB95)
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
In Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer recorded in John 17, He makes the observation that the world would hate His disciples. Yet, He follows that by praying not that His disciples would be removed from the world, but that we would be kept from the evil one.
As difficult as times have become, we Christ-followers must recognize that our God and King saved us and planted us in the world at this time intentionally. It would be an abdication of our assignment to adopt an escapist disposition. We’ve been ordained for this moment.
"Longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.” 2 Timothy 1:4 (NASB95)
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Paul’s second epistle to Timothy was written near the very end of Paul’s life, while he was incarcerated awaiting an imminent, albeit uncertain execution under Nero.
He begins chapter one of this epistle describing how he prayed for Timothy night and day and how he longed to see him. This reveals a fiber and texture that undergirded their relationship. Paul and Timothy loved each other deeply.
This deep and abiding reciprocal love is necessary to effective disciple making. Knowledge isn’t enough to make a disciple. The love of Christ must abound.
“Rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28(b) (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
President Trump’s EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, has announced the largest deregulation action in U.S. history. For years, Regressives have used “the environment” to impose all manner of insane shackles on the American energy and automobile manufacturing sectors. According to Administrator Zeldin,
This is the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen. We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back the U.S. and more.
“The first to plead his case seems right, Until another comes and examines him.” Proverbs 18:17 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
First, Ukraine announced its agreement to a 30-day ceasefire in the Russian-Ukraine war proposed by the Trump administration.
Then, Vladimir Putin agreed “in principle” to the 30-day ceasefire, though the details would have to be brokered with the United States. Putin specifically told a news conference in Moscow,
The idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it, but there are issues that we need to discuss, and I thing that we need to discuss it with our American colleagues and partners.
This seems to indicate that peace between the two countries may be on the horizon.
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked.” Galatians 6:7(a) (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The Oversight Project found an excessive use of autopen signature by Mr. Biden when he was in the White House.
Their investigation gathered,
Every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency. All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year.
President Trump responded,
The 'Pardons' that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.
Things are getting interesting. Could this lead to potential criminal prosecution of some of the pardoned?
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” Galatians 6:7 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey secured a historic $24 billion judgment against the Chinese Communist Party for unleashing the Schmovid pandemic.
A.G. Bailey said,
This is a landmark victory for Missouri and the United States in the fight to hold China accountable for unleashing COVID-19 on the world… We intend to collect every penny by seizing Chinese-owned assets, including Missouri farmland.
Missouri will now move to collect the $24 billion and, if necessary, work with the Trump administration to identify Chinese owned assets—a critical economic step and a move that bolsters national security.
“Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:10 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Over 1,300 people, including Christians, have been killed in Syria. This is the nation Apostle Paul was en route to when he met Jesus and became a Christian.
Before the civil war there, Christians made up 10% of the population. But by 2022, this number had dropped to less than 2% due to worsening conditions. The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime has left Syrian Christians in uncertainty.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s warning of a terrorist takeover in Syria seems to be coming true. Newly empowered jihadists are carrying out the massacres.
“And he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze.”
My name is Abraham Hamilton III, and this is The Hamilton Minute.
This is a description recorded in scripture about a man named Hiram. His father was a Sidonian. His mother was an Israelite, of the tribe of Naphtali.
Because God filled Hiram with wisdom, understanding and skill for all manner of metalwork, Solomon summoned him from Tyre to work on the Lord’s temple.
We must understand, embrace and celebrate that God’s granting of wisdom includes our metalworkers, stone masons, carpenters, plumbers, truck drivers and more.
He gives wisdom for daily duty, and we need laborers filled with God’s wisdom.
“I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139:14(a) (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
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“For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.” 1 Thessalonians 4:7 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
One of the deleterious consequences of the digital age is that it has given rise to the overwhelming scourge of pornography. It is ensnaring men and women at heretofore unspeakably alarming rates.
But, I want to remind you that Jesus is still in the business of delivering people from the snare of the devil and the bondage of sin. He frees us also from its guilt and shame.
We must, however, accept the free gift forgiveness and set our course, in fellowship with like-minded Believers, to live in the freedom He’s secured for us.
Jesus sets captives free!
“Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people.” Proverbs 14:34 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
During President Trump’s recent address to a joint session of Congress, the typical partisan histrionics were particularly revealing. President Trump predicted Democrats wouldn’t applaud anything regardless of its merits. His prediction came true immediately.
Seated Democrats refused to applaud in support a mom whose daughter was murdered by an illegal immigrant. They refused to applaud in support of law enforcement, arresting terrorists, destroying Mexican drug cartels. They even refused to applaud a 13 year old boy who’s survived cancer. Talk about heartless.
Oh, but they did applaud one thing: hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine.
They’re not even pretending anymore.
"Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands far away; For truth has stumbled in the street, And uprightness cannot enter.” Isaiah 59:14 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
In a brief unsigned opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the regressive wing of the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, to deny President Trump’s request to freeze $2 billion of USAID spending.
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, wrote in dissent that he was “stunned” that the majority ruled in this case that “a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction has the unchecked power to compel the U.S. Government to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars.”
“I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139:14(a) (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
President Trump’s Department of Justice is dropping a lawsuit filed by the Biden DOJ that tried to force Idaho to allow unborn babies to be murdered.
Idaho passed it’s Defense of Life Act to protect moms and their unborn children, preventing doctors from terminating pregnancies unless medically necessary to save the mom’s life or in cases of rape or incest.
In August 2022, the Biden-Harrises sued Idaho to overturn their law and to force hospitals to murder babies in elective abortions.
The Trump administration, however, has now notified the necessary parties that it is dropping that ridiculous lawsuit. Praise God!
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Proverbs 1:7 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Promise made, promise soon to be kept? The Wall Street Journal has viewed a draft of an Executive Order in which President Trump directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”
Immediately after her confirmation to the position, Secretary McMahon emailed her DOE staff stating that President Trump has “tasked us with accomplishing the elimination of the bureaucratic bloat here at the Education Department—a momentous final mission—quickly and responsibly.”
Families don’t need governmental co-parenting.
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” Matthew 19:5 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
God initiated human history and defined for all time what marriage is and identified the only two types of candidates that comprise a marriage: one man and one woman. He also identified the archetypical union from which these candidates would derive. The prospective husband and wife both come from the ancestral unit of a Father and Mother.
Though Adam and Eve didn’t have biological parents, this pronouncement reveals God had particularized specifics in mind as to what He ordained Fathers and Mothers to be. Fallenness didn’t change God’s plan.
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Matthew 7:24 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Our world that is changing quickly and dramatically. But we do not have to fret. Jesus, as He concluded the Sermon on the Mount, already told us how to prepare ourselves. Submitting ourselves to his Word with regularity and consistency is one part of the preparation strategy. The other part is doing what He’s said.
The coming rain, floods, and wind are inevitable. He didn’t say “if” they come. He said “when” they come. Having Christ’s Word, but failing to obey Him qualifies one for the hall of fools.
“And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.” Luke 9:23 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
As comforting as it is to know that eternal life in the tangible, manifested presence the Messiah is our home, salvation is not intended to focus us exclusively on the eternal state. In fact, Jesus explicitly instructed His disciples that we are to be reproducing disciple-makers.
Central to following Christ as his disciple is denying ourselves daily. Living self-willed, self-absorbed, and self-centered lives is actually contrary to the call to follow Christ. Denying ourselves is a daily priority if we are to follow Him.
“You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.” 1 Samuel 12:21 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Samuel admonished the Israelites, “… do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.” v. 20(b). The inevitable consequence of “turning aside” from the LORD is that you will give yourself to futility, things that “can not profit or deliver.”
Do you want your life to mean something? Do you want it to count? You actually were created for life eternal. The only way forward is to give your life wholeheartedly to Christ.
Eternal life is the only way to live now.
“Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.” 1 Samuel 12:23 (NASB95).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
When the Israelites finally grasped the gravity of what they’d done in demanding a “king to judge us like all the nations,” they asked Samuel to pray for them that they “may not die” (1 Samuel 8:5; 12:19). Samuel agreed to both pray and instruct them in righteousness.
Christ-followers shouldn’t allow people to manipulate us into co-signing wickedness by saying, “just pray for me.”
We will certainly pray AND speak the truth in love.
"Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.” Jeremiah 29:1 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Jeremiah 29:11 is one of the most quoted verses in scripture, albeit usually out of context and misunderstood.
Something that is often missed is that it is one sentence from an entire letter God sent to exiled Jews in Babylon. What should be noted here is that even in the midst of judgment, God still provided guidance and instruction to His people ,anticipating their return to Him.
