Rewarded Confidence
August 07, 2020
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“Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward” Hebrews 10:35 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Sometimes there’s a delay between crying out to God in prayer and seeing those prayers answered.
It is imperative for us in those times that we don’t waver in our confidence in our God.
The next verse goes on to say, “For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.” Hebrews 10:36 (ESV).
You see, the delay between supplication and delivered answer is one of the ways God develops endurance in us.
He desires that the roots of our faith grow down deep, that we become trees planted by rivers of living water … steadfast, immovable, always abounding in His work. In this we grow beyond superficial Christianity.
Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
At the climax of the account when Jesus restored Peter’s personal relationship with him, and Peter’s call to ministry, He saw John following them.
Jesus had just predicted that Peter would give his life for the Gospel, when Peter said, “What about John, LORD?”
Jesus responded, “What does he have to do with your calling? You follow me.”
With those words, Jesus hit a consistent flaw of the human condition. We derive value and self-worth by comparing ourselves to other people.
Your ups, your downs, your failures, your victories were never meant to be compared to other people.
We have been called to serve an audience of One. The only approval you need is His.
“So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped" Numbers 16:47-48 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Often, when the concept of intercession is raised, we normally think about prayer and we should. Prayer is one form of intercession.
Here, we see another – living intercession.
At the climax of a plague, Aaron runs into the fray, armed with incense, and where he stands, the plague stops. Aaron literally stands between the living and the dead.
May God move us to be living intercessors for our day, and where we take our stand in Christ, the plague stops!
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.
"We must obey God rather than men.” Acts 5:29 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered churches closed indefinitely in at least 32 counties in the state.
To which Pastor John McArthur and the Elders of Grace Community Church responded,
The biblical order is clear: Christ is Lord over Ceasar, not vice versa. Christ, not Ceasar, is head of the Church. Therefore, in response to the recent state order requiring churches in California to limit or suspend all meetings indefinitely, we, the pastors and elders of Grace Community Church, respectfully inform our civic leaders that they have exceeded their legitimate jurisdiction, and faithfulness to Christ prohibits us from observing the restrictions…
Amen Pastor McArthur. Amen!
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.” John 15:18 (ESV)
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
A Florida man threatened AFA through Facebook saying he was “coming to Tupelo to kill every single person who runs your group. Yes, I literally mean killing all of you.” Why, because he didn’t like AFA’s commitment to the Biblical teaching on identity, human sexuality and marriage.
AFA reported the threats to Facebook but was told that the threat was not a policy violation. AFA appealed the decision to no avail.
The threatening man now sits in federal prison. Facebook said the threats didn’t violate their policy. A federal judge said the threats violated federal law.
Interesting isn’t it?
"A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.” Proverbs 13:22(a) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
John James, a veteran business man, combat veteran and current Michigan candidate for U.S. Senator, explained his family history alongside his father in a recent campaign ad.
James said his father was a storyteller. He told him how the son of a slave became a sharecropper, the son of a sharecropper became a mason, and the son a mason became an entrepreneur.
John James is that entrepreneur.
James concluded, the United States, is the “only country where you can go from slave to senator in four generations and from poverty to prosperity in one.”
That, folks, is the truth.
That is the United States of America.
"What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.” Genesis 4:10 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name of Margaret Sanger, the national organization’s founder, from its Manhattan clinic because of her “harmful connections to the eugenics movement.”
Yeah, right!
What good does removing the woman’s name from a building do when you continue the practices that reflect her views? If you recognize that Sanger sought to “exterminate the Negro population,” sterilize those she called “human weeds,” and prevent those she deemed “genetically inferior” from reproducing you got to do better than a building name change.
You still kill babies! That’s her legacy.
“Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, But the one who gathers by labor increases it.” Proverbs 13:11 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Maryland officials have uncovered a massive identity theft scheme involving more than 47,500 bogus unemployment claims worth over $501 million, following the passage of federal Coronavirus aid.
State officials became suspicious, upon noticing a surge in out-of-state claims.
U.S. Attorney Robert Hur said people were using “stolen personal information to fraudulently attempt to obtain unemployment benefits.”
In spite of this and other massive fraud attempts, what is currently being debated in the White House… passage of Phase 4 legislation for more Coronavirus stimulus spending.
John Maynard Keynes’ views have become U.S. policy.
“In the image of God he created him; male and female.” Excerpted from Genesis 1:27 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Australian doctors are calling for people to stop using terms named after men, to describe body parts - such as Adam's apple and Achilles heel.
For example, Dr. Kristin Small, teaches students to phase out irrelevant and misogynistic medical language.
Dr. Small said, “I think we have a personal choice to decolonize our language and these historical terms will fade out.”
Dr. Small also said she makes sure her students still know eponyms for exam purposes, but she objects to the fact that women are not represented in most of the 700 body parts that are named after people.
Wow!
“God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7(b) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture posted its discriminatory “whiteness” exhibit wherein they described a hard work ethic, rational linear thinking, and an intact nuclear family as indicative of “whiteness.”
They’ve been forced by massive public outcry to retract this tripe.
In their effort to signal virtue to a rabid culture the tax payer funded Smithsonian revealed just how lowly they actually view the legacy, values, and contributions of melanated Americans today and throughout our history.
Beware, the loudest virtue signalers are usually the least virtuous.
“Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.” 2 Timothy 3:5 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The Black Lives Matter organization is a wicked and deceptive front for unabashed Marxism.
145 melanated people were shot in Chicago over the 4th of July weekend and the Monday that followed, more than 30 of them murdered over that time span. Children in Atlanta, New York, New Orleans, St. Louis, and more have been murdered. Families have been ripped a part as they cry for justice in these cases, in most of which no arrests have been made and no suspects identified.
Yet BLM, with its millions of dollars, says nothing!
That’s because Marxists don’t care about black lives.
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness.” Excerpted from Jude 4 (KJV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
During an episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s “Red Table Talk” program, the 48 year-old actress revealed on television that she’d had an adulterous affair with her son’s 27 year-old friend… who called her “mom.”
Pinkett-Smith tried to downplay the adultery by referring to it at as an “entanglement.”
Pinkett-Smith then went on to say that she didn’t see her adultery as a “transgression.”
Whether she sees it that way or not the LORD certainly does. His word says adultery is sin.
Sin is transgression.
And transgression without repentance leads one to hell.
“Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.” Romans 16:17(b) (KJV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Columbia Professor John McWhorter took Robin Diangelo’s NY Times bestseller “White Fragility” to task in a recent article.
McWhorter wrote,
DiAngelo’s outlook rests upon a depiction of Black people as endlessly delicate poster children within this self-gratifying fantasy about how white America needs to think—or, better, stop thinking. Her answer… entails an elaborate and pitilessly dehumanizing condescension toward Black people. The sad truth is that anyone falling under the sway of this blinkered, self-satisfied, punitive stunt of a primer has been taught… how to be racist in a whole new way.
“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.
“You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness.” 2 Timothy 3:10 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Apostle Paul penned his second epistle to Timothy, now an Elder in the Church at Ephesus, about 64-65 A.D. while imprisoned in Rome awaiting his imminent execution under Nero.
In warning Timothy about the coming perilous times, marked by the increased anti-Christian persecution in the Roman empire in 64 A.D., Paul directed Timothy to his speech and his feet.
In speech, Paul gave Timothy priceless Biblical instruction. In feet, Paul left Timothy a legacy of lifestyle.
Christ-following demands consistency between speech and feet.
