What About John?
May 11, 2021
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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.
“When the wicked increase, transgression increases.” Proverbs 29:16(a) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
California's Secretary of State has announced that the requisite threshold number of verified signatures needed to place a recall initiative on the ballot in California has now been satisfied.
After imposing draconian Covid—related measures upon Californians, his treatment of churches like Grace Community Church in Los Angeles and North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, which pleaded for Newsom to relent after being fined thousands of dollars for meeting in their building, all while he dined publicly, and mask-free, in expensive Napa Valley restaurants like the French Laundry, Californians have had enough!
Gavin Newsom may become next CA governor recalled from office.
“Darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness the peoples.” Isaiah 60:2 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
In his response to Mr. J. Robinette Biden’s joint congressional address, Senator Tim Scott highlighted his own experience with discrimination, expressed a need for common ground on discussions of race in America, referred to America’s terrible history on racism, and stated directly that our journey toward [racial] healing is not finished. He also he stated, in light of our national progress, that America is not a racist country.
The entire world of regressivism descended upon en masse because of that statement.
The very next day Vice-President Kamala Harris said America is not racist country.
Regressives continue to excoriate Senator Scott. Kamala Harris… not so much.
“He who is often rebuked, and stiffens his neck, Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” Proverbs 29:1 (NKJV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Faced with complaints from parents about the indoctrination of children, Dr. Natalie Fallert, Literary Speech Coordinator and school district official in Rockwood, MO instructed teachers to create two sets of curriculum: a false one to share with parents, and a real curriculum focused on topics like activism and privilege.
Thanks to virtual learning, parents in the Rockwood school district discovered their schools were pushing Critical Race Theory and teaching children to become social activists via the at-home learning tool called Canvas.
In response, Dr. Fallert advised teachers to hide the real curriculum.
“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.
Just at the Biden administration removed Trump-era restrictions on fetal tissue research, thanks to a FOIA request from Judicial Watch, we now know that our United States Food and Drug Administration trafficked the body parts of babies slaughtered in abortions.
Our U.S. FDA purchased the organs of dismembered babies, demanded “fresh baby” parts like they were ordering meat from a butcher, bought the skulls of children murdered in the second gestational trimester all from a company that sold the skin of a 21 week-old murdered child who had down syndrome.
This is wicked!
“And although they know the ordinance of God… they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.” Excerpted from Romans 1:32 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has authorized U.S. embassies and consulates around the world to fly the rainbow flag, in celebration of the LGBTQIAP+ political agenda, on the same pole as the U.S. flag through the end of June.
Diplomatic outposts are not required to fly the flag, but Secretary Blinken has given the green light for U.S. embassies and consulates to do so.
They want to represent to the world that rebellion against God’s word is officially an intrinsic American value.
"For nothing is concealed that won't be revealed, and nothing hidden that won't be made known and brought to light.” Luke 8:17 (CSB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Over the last year grocery stores, churches, airlines and more have incessantly sprayed, disinfected, and wiped down surfaces. It was recommended and even mandated by the CDC… until April 5th.
That’s the day the CDC stealthily changed its website to include a discreet hyperlinked note saying, “in most situations, the risk of infection from touching a surface is low."
Click on the hyperlink and you’ll learn “studies suggest that the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection… via contact with a contaminated surface has less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection.”
Thanks CDC.
"Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.” Proverbs 28:5 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The “woke” classroom revolution is about to go federal. Mr. Biden’s Department of Education has proposed a rule establishing grant priorities for America’s public schools in American History and Civics Education programs.
The DOE’s rule cited and praised the New York Times’ “1619 Project” as well as the work of Critical Race Theorist Ibram X. Kendi.
Scholars eviscerated the “1619 Project” as an anti-historical propaganda effort for straight up lying about America’s history and Kendi’s work papers everyone as perpetual oppressors or victims based solely on their skin color.
This is education to the Biden administration.
“[Love] does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson denounced her organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger, as a racist eugenicist in a op-ed for the New York Times. Johnson said nothing, however, about ending Sanger’s racial abortion focus implanted in the DNA of this murderous organization.
Furthermore, Johnson took cover by embracing the full breadth and scope of transgender ideology, even setting the organization against “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” regressive feminists who say men aren’t women… yeah regressive infighting.
Did I mention Planned Parenthood has become America’s largest dispenser of cross-sex hormones to minors? Abusing children for profit.
Same game. Different Court.
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?” Psalm 2:1 (KJV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Seattle Pacific University’s Board of Trustees, a Christian University, voted recently to retain the school’s longstanding biblically-based policy requiring students and faculty to adhere to the Bible’s orthodox teaching on marriage and sexuality.
Thereafter the school’s faculty cast a vote of “no confidence” in the Board of Trustees because of its continued submission to biblical authority.
90% of all faculty members voted, 72% of whom favored the vote of the no confidence while 22% opposed it.
Imagine what the students are being taught when 72% of the school’s faculty are upset the trustees want to keep place Christian.
“For nothing is concealed that won't be revealed, and nothing hidden that won't be made known and brought to light.” Luke 8:17 (CSB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The United States Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts. The surveillance effort is known as the “Internet Covert Operations Program” or “iCOP.”
iCOP analysts are monitoring social media channels like Parler, Telegram, and Facebook for any potential “threats” and collaborates with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
Anyone want to explain to me why the U.S. government would go to the Postal Service for examining the internet for “security issues?”
Can’t get mail straight, and now they’re in on national security?
"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.
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."
