Under God
January 02, 2020
00:00:59
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.
You shall have no other gods before me.
My name is Abraham Hamilton III, and this is the Hamilton Minute.
In 1954 Americans lived under constant threat of nuclear attack from the USSR.
When American children practiced duck and cover in classrooms across the country, President Eisenhower realized that our pledge had no distinction from any other republic.
After hearing a sermon on February 7th of that year, President Eisenhower signed a law adding the words “under God” to our pledge.
The president recognized the true source of unity, of indivisibility is unwavering submission to the God of the bible.
As we go about our day, let us all remember the only true source of national unity is submission to almighty God.
“Immediately He made the disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds” Matthew 14:22.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Here Jesus instructed His disciples to cross a lake and meet Him on the other side of it. As they went, they were met by a violent wind storm that halted their progress.
Often in our Christian lives we receive clear instruction from the LORD, only to be met by an obstacle that halts our progress. We must, however, recognize that the onset of a storm does not cancel out God’s instructions.
Halted progress does not equal denied destination.
When Jesus directed the disciples to go to the other side, He absolutely meant for them to get there.
Delay does not equal denial.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
My name is Abraham Hamilton III and this is the Hamilton Minute.
Statistics show that children who grow up without a father are 5 times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime. They’re 9 times more likely to drop out of school and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. Yet the percentage of children born to fatherless homes has skyrocketed in America. As of 2015, 25 percent of white, 53 percent of Hispanic and 73 percent of black babies are born into fatherless homes.
While Scripture teaches that the weight of raising children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord falls upon fathers, seems like we need a movement that says fatherhood matters.
“Then David said to Saul, ‘I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.' So David put them off” 1 Samuel 17:39.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Corner.
As David prepared to face Goliath, Saul tried to outfit David with Saul’s personal armor. But David didn’t have Saul’s armor when he faced the lion or the bear, and David realized he did not need the armor to slay Goliath.
Today, many Christians yield to the temptation to be hipper, cooler, and even a little fuzzy on the clear teachings of Scripture in order to face the Goliaths of our day. But Jesus said, “If I be lifted up, I will draw all men" John 12:32.
We don’t need a cool light show to be an ambassador for Christ. All we need is to offer what we have freely received.
We know the transforming power of Christ because He has transformed us.
“I will build My church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it” Matthew 16:18.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
What are gates? They are defensive tools used to keep stuff out, to keep an advancing force at bay.
Too often the enemy is successful in putting Christians on defense, when the facts are the Lord established His church as an aggressive, offensive, territory-taking body.
The Lord never meant for us to sit on the sidelines of life or to cower in the corner as a result of the wickedness in our culture.
A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. The light of the world cannot be contained.
The Lord is building His church and the mamby-pamby gates of Hell shall not prevail against us.
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scoffers.
My name is Abraham Hamilton III, and this is the Hamilton Minute.
One word has proven to be debilitating in our society: the D-word. Discrimination.
What we fail to realize is discrimination is not automatically a dirty concept. We discriminate against thieves and murderers when we send them to prison. We discriminated against sexual predators by keeping them away from children. And yes, we rightly discriminated against men when we keep them out of women’s restrooms.
According to Psalm 1, we have to discriminate against the counsel of the wicked in order to be blessed. Good thing God isn’t debilitated by the D-word.
“And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” Matthew 15:14.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Gay and lesbian activists, along with their bisexual allies, are about face hostile opposition.
Not from those pesky evangelicals, whom many expect. It will arise from amongst their own regressive ranks.
There is much conversation today in the activist community that challenges LGB orthodoxy and this challenge is coming from transgender activists.
They assert, if gender is on a spectrum, then homosexuality and bisexuality don’t really exist because they can only exist where sexuality is binary.
In transgenderism, lesbianism, gayness, and bisexuality are a ruse, because you can’t really be male or female.
The LGBs are getting trouble from the Ts.
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20:35.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Edward St. John, owner and founder of St. John Properties, created a $10 million Christmas bonus money pool for his 198 employees.
Each employee, including the maintenance staff, receptionists, brokers, and executives, received a Christmas bonus check.
The bonuses averaged $50,000 per employee with some bonuses reaching the $250,000 and $270,000 mark. The bonuses were awarded based on the length of time each person has worked for the company.
The employees cried in exuberant joy saying this bonus changed their lives forever.
What wonderful generosity from Mr. St. John.
I doubt you see these types of Christmas bonuses given in a socialist country.
“The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.” Proverbs 18:17.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a thumping majority in Britain’s Parliament.
The decisive outcome to a Brexit dominated election will allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to remove Britain from the EU on January 31st.
Despite the English’s media’s predictions to the contrary, the election delivered the largest conservative majority since the Margaret Thatcher era.
Many regressive pundits frothed at prospect of England having its first openly Marxist Prime Minister in Jeremy Corbin predicted and Corbin’s election indicated what would happen in America in 2020.
But the Brits rejected Communist Corbin. Freedom won!
“So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well.” John 12:10.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
After Jesus resurrected Lazarus his and Lazarus’ fame spread. They already planned to kill Jesus. But now, because Lazarus was tangible evidence of Jesus’ resurrection power, the chief priests and Pharisees plotted to kill Lazarus too.
They never worried about Lazarus before. But now, because he is a walking billboard of Christ’s power, they want him dead too.
This, brothers and sisters, is why many come against you. It isn’t personal, but Satanic forces can’t stand your representation of God’s power to transform lives.
That’s why we rejoice when we’re slandered for His namesake. Christ’s power is on display.
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God – what is good and acceptable and perfect” Romans 12:2 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Paul’s epistle to the Romans was written to believers. This verse highlights the fact that it’s possible for Christians to be conformed to the world’s ways.
The word “conformed” there means to be squeezed into the mold of another. Rather than to be squeezed into the world’s mold, the Lord requires us to be transformed by having our minds renewed by God’s Word.
Everything about us must be held up to the light of Scripture. And whenever there’s any discrepancy, we must be transformed.
“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you.” Matthew 7:12(a).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Democrat primary voters are becoming increasingly alarmed as 2020 primary candidates position themselves against school choice.
All while, sending their children the most elite private schools.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have pledged to eliminate school choice options.
Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg both omit school choice from their education platforms.
And earlier in 2019, House Democrats voted to cut funding for charter schools by millions of dollars.
Why? Because their true objective is to continue funneling as many American children as possible into government schools to be indoctrinated against a Biblical Worldview and become the Regressives of the future.
“Rejoice with those who rejoice.” Romans 12:15(a).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Michael, a five-year-old boy, showed up at the courthouse in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for an adoption hearing with his foster parents, and he had a crowd of unusual supporters.
Michael's entire kindergarten class sat in the audience behind him waving big red hearts mounted on wooden sticks to show their support.
The kindergartners offered the most touching answers, standing up and telling the court, "I love Michael" or "Michael's my best friend.”
Michael's new father and mother have been married for nearly 10 years, and he'd been living with them as a foster child for more than year.
Adoption truly is at the heart of the Gospel.
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Galatians 6:9.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
On June 20th, Daniel and Ashley Pardo’s 4-year-old son, Drake, was taken from their home on the authority of a court order.
Child Protective Services in Texas has now dropped its five-month long case against homeschooling parents who say their son was unfairly removed by the state on allegations of child medical abuse.
Kaufman County Judge Tracy Gray has now signed an order that ended the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services' cases against the Pardo family.
The Pardo family nightmare is now officially over.
Glory to God!
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.” Psalm 139:13.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The Church of God In Christ, has unanimously adopted an historic life affirming resolution.
It states:
Abortion is genocide… The Church of God In Christ opposes elective abortions. This issue of personhood has haunted America since the Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson and Roe v. Wade decisions. Just as slavery was overturned in America, Jim Crow was defeated, and Nazi Germany was overthrown, it is our prayer that the heinous industry of abortion will become morally reprehensible.
Therefore be it finally resolved that the Church of God In Christ denounces the systematic destruction of human life by way of abortion.
“And we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14(b).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
“By mercy and truth iniquity is purged” (Proverbs 16:6).
Love “does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:6).
Anyone notice a pattern here? Grace, mercy, and love all require truth. It is unloving to conceal or side step truth. Often, people avoid truth and use love as a justification when in reality their truth-aversion is a self-preservation tactic.
You cannot claim to love someone and simultaneously affirm them in a lie.
The absence of truth nullifies the application of grace.
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22.
My name is Abraham Hamilton III, and this is the Hamilton Minute.
This Scripture underscores the harrowing reality that permeates the life of many who profess to be Christians. The blessing of being a Christ follower comes not only from hearing God’s Word, but obeying it.
James continues, “for if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and perseveres, being not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing."
“The borrower is the slave of the lender” Proverbs 22:7 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Newly published information from Lifeway Research shows 77% of self-identified Christians in dozens of states think it’s a sin to lend money to someone who can’t afford to pay it back. Still, few say payday loans are immoral and one in six Christians have admitted to taking out a high-interest payday loan.
The federal government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the typical two-week payday loan charges the equivalent of a 400% interest rate.
These “sharks” prey on the poor, elderly, and most vulnerable in society.
Sound the alarm and make sure your family, church, and neighborhood steer clear of this vermin.
“And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this” Esther 4:14.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute
Esther, a young girl became Queen of the Persian Empire when Israel was subject to Persian rule. A wicked man named Haman tried to get the King to exterminate all Jews. Esther, a Jew herself, was Queen when this genocidal conspiracy was brought to bear. But her uncle Mordecai put her royal position in perspective.
“Perhaps God made you Queen for this very moment, to intervene on behalf of the Jewish people.”
Like Esther, perhaps God gave you the platform, position and influence you have for this very moment, to stand against darkness. Perhaps you were born for such a time as this.
David, the son of Jesse, was just an ordinary giant slayer.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
David’s battle with Goliath is an epic drama where the little boy stands in God’s power to conquer the Philistine giant.
David didn’t awaken that morning expecting to slay a giant. He didn’t stroll in with an entourage after a rugged mountain range training camp like Rocky in Rocky IV. He was just a regular kid bringing his brothers’ lunch. But fully confident in God’s immeasurable power, though he saw Goliath, David never acknowledged him as a giant, saying, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine who dares defy the Lord of hosts?”
When regular people are fully persuaded, fully confident in God’s power, giant’s fall.
