Go To The Other Side
April 22, 2021
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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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.” Proverbs 18:2 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
As we are witnessing a crisis on our southern border with a presidential administration that seems unwilling to protect our national sovereignty it may be helpful to consider the perspective of those in South and Central America.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said that over one-third of the Salvadoran population is now living in the United States.
He explained further that this immigration crisis is devastating for both America and El Salvador. Finally, he concluded that its immoral for his country to be unable to meet the needs of its citizens and for America to incentivize illegal immigration.
“For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.” James 3:16 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Juan Williams, of Fox News, was invited by PBS to participate in a panel on social justice, but they dropped him from the panel after they found out he wasn’t black enough.
The PBS host said Juan is Panamanian so he couldn’t discuss be being black in America.
Williams’ mother is Panamanian. His father is Jamaican. He moved to the U.S. when he was 4 years old and grew up in the hood in Brooklyn.
But the cancerous focus on CRT strips us of our humanity and reduces us to nothing more than points on an intersectionality scale.
LORD help us.
“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 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, CO is back in court again!
After earning unwanted fame after an unelected gaggle of authoritarians at the Colorado Civil Rights Commission embarked on a six-year bigoted crusade to wreck his business after he refused to design a specialty cake for a same-sex wedding in 2012.
Now, a transgender activist has admitted targeting Phillips by requesting a cake celebrating transgenderism. Jack declined and that activist filed a lawsuit against him. But, they’ve picked on the wrong guy.
Jack will not back down, because he says the fight is worth it.
“A fool's mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his soul.” Proverbs 18:7 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Bruce Sacerdote, a Dartmouth College economics professor, noticed Covid-19 television coverage always seemed negative.
He then gathered two other researches to analyze the matter and they found about 87 percent of national U.S. media coverage was negative compared to only 51 percent in international media, 53 percent in U.S. regional media and 64 percent in scientific journals.
But New York Times columnist David Leonhardt is careful to emphasize that Sacerdote doesn’t think journalists reported falsehoods per se. They simply emphasized certain negative facts and ignored…. other… facts!
We call that lying where I’m from.
“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 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Coming 3 points shy of advancing to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Elite 8 round in their Cinderella March Madness journey, the Oral Roberts University Golden Eagles drew the ire of USA today’s “For the Win” publication.
The opinion article author said ORU adhered to “archaic” behavioral standards and codes of conduct.
And you know what those standards are. Because ORU adheres to the Bible’s teaching on sexuality, USA Today published a piece calling for them to be booted out of the NCAA.
Regressive want Christianity cancelled from the public life. Period.
“But evil men and impostors will proceed [from bad] to worse, deceiving and being deceived.” Ephesians 4:28(a) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Columbia University is slated to hold six segregated graduation ceremonies, in addition to its school-wide ceremony, based on ethnicity, income, and sexual orientation.
Yep, you heard me right.
The segregation celebrations listed include:
“Latinx Graduation,”
“Black Graduation,”
“Asian Graduation,”
“Native Graduation” for Native American students,
“Lavender Graduation” for the LGBTQIAP+ identified,
and an “FLI Graduation” for “first generation and/or low income community students.”
This is textbook regressivism! What is wrong with these people?!?!?!?!
Who in their right mind would think segregating graduation ceremonies like this would make life better in America?
“Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands.” Ephesians 4:28(a) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Whenever I hear the federal government is going to give something to someone I reflexively clutch my wallet. Because the federal government doesn’t generate money in its own right. So whenever they “give” something it always comes from you and me, the taxpayers.
The Biden administration has signaled that it will introduce a gradual tax increase to help “pay for” his spending initiatives, including Covid stimulus payments.
How would Americans feel if they knew the stimulus payments they may receive today will only be followed by increases in their federal income taxes tomorrow?
“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 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Thanks to State Senator Angela Hill, who authored and fought tirelessly for the bill, Mississippi has become the first state in the U.S. in 2021 to enact a law that prohibits males who identify themselves as females from competing against girls in public school sports in the state.
The Mississippi Fairness Act was passed by the state legislature and signed into law by the state’s governor and it will apply to public K-12 schools as well as colleges and universities.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” Jeremiah 1:15(a) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The Arkansas legislature has passed and its governor signed into law a measure that bans abortion except to save the life of a pregnant woman in a physician determined medical emergency. The value of a person’s life isn’t determined by the circumstances in which they were conceived. So, there are no other exceptions in the law.
It’s expressly stated in its legislative findings that intentional elimination of infant life is a crime against humanity. This is the first law to explicitly do so and it will challenge the horrendous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and its progeny.
“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 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
It was announced last week that prosecutors in Canada have agreed to withdraw all but one of the Public Health Act offenses that Pastor James Coates was charged with. Additionally, after a month-long incarceration that began February 16th, Pastor Coates was finally released from jail without any conditions, pending his May 3rd trial on the one remaining charge of violating an Order of the Chief Medical Officer when he refused to limit corporate worship in the church he pastors due to Covid.
Yeah, they put him in jail for that.
