The Hamilton Minute

“A woman shall not wear man's clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 22:5 (NASB95).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

A Bridal magazine out of India has featured a hairy male model wearing a dress on the latest digital cover of Brides Today, an English-language Indian publication.

I guess the idolatry of diverse culture gets shoved to the back of the bus if those cultures don’t comport with the sexual deviancy social political orthodoxy of our day.

Do you think the people of India celebrate this sexual and identity perversion as its done in the West? They will try to force Indian culture to bow too.

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.” Matthew 5:11 (NASB95).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

Tucker Carlson was surprisingly ousted at Fox News the Monday after he gave a rousing speech for the Heritage Foundation during which he argued the outdated binary political lens is woefully inadequate to confront the issues of our day.

He stressed that abortion zealotry and the transgenderism movement are theological phenomena. Political rhetoric is insufficient to confront and defeat objective evil.

Reports are swirling now that Carlson’s “spiritual talk” made Rupert Murdoch, Fox Corporation’s CEO, uncomfortable.

Is that why they fired their most popular host?

“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.

"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.

“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.

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."

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29:2 (KJV).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

Jessica Bates became a single mother and widow after she lost her husband to a car crash. Ms. Bates, a Christian, sought to open her home to adopt a sibling pair, but the Oregon Department of Human Services denied her adoption application because her Christian beliefs wouldn’t allow her to “respect, accept and support… sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression” as the agency’s regulations require.

Ms. Bates has secured the services of Alliance Defending Freedom and she has filed a lawsuit against the agency for excluding her from adopting due to her Christian faith.

“All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” Hebrews 12:11 (NASB95).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James Ho denounced the recent disruption and intimidation tactics employed by law students and seemingly supported by the administrations at Yale and Stanford Law Schools. Judge Ho called it intellectual terrorism.

He also called out the cowardice in those schools’ administrations for failing to discipline the intellectual terrorists and has refused to hire any law students who enroll and graduate from either of these law schools unless they curb the anti-intellectual discrimination at their institutions.

“You live in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.” Ezekiel 12:2 (NASB95).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

Regressive Janet Protasiewicz prevailed in the hotly contested Wisconsin state supreme court election. Her victory is being hailed as a “Victory for Abortion Rights.”

Chicagoans have just elected Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson to become their next Mayor. Policy-wise, Johnson is more Regressive than Lori Lightfoot. When Lightfoot got the boot, many thought this could lead to positive change in Chicago.

Now, it seems it may be more of the same, if not worse.

America desperately needs repentance!

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29:2 (KJV).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

After the widespread reporting of the imminent indictment of former president, Donald J. Trump, in Manhattan many were braced to see specifically what crime he was accused of committing.

The indictment's release confirms that this is nothing more than a raw exercise of political retribution and abuse of formal process. Legal experts across the entirety of the national landscape have resoundingly concluded that this indictment is vacuous.

The most concerning part of this whole debacle is that we have now firmly entered the era of weaponization of government office to destroy political opponents.

Pray for America.

“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.

"The borrower is the slave of the lender."

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.

“Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them.” Ephesians 5:11 (NASB95).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

With a 68-62 vote, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed a bill to make Minnesota a “sanctuary state” for so-called gender affirming care for minors.

The bill now goes to the Senate for consideration and, should it pass there, Democrat Governor Tim Walz has already committed to sign it into law once it reaches his desk.

This bill, should it become law, would allow Minnesota’s governmental apparatus to refuse to comply with parents’ efforts to rescue their children from permanent life altering medications and/or procedures if their child made it to MN to request them.

“For behold, darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness the peoples.” Isaiah 60:2(a) (NASB95).

My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.

From California, to Idaho, to Maine state lawmakers are working to pass laws that prohibit secreted socialized sex transitions of children at America’s public schools.

All across the country parents are waking up to nightmares in which a public school guidance counselor, a teacher or in some cased an administrator has a developed rapport with their child an encouraged them to “live as their true selves” at school. And the parents, had no idea this was happening.

With the prevalence of this type of deception, please cover your children. God entrusted them to you, not the government or this wicked culture.