Erastus
September 27, 2022
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“And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.” Acts 19:22 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
As Apostle Paul navigated torrential ministerial waters in Ephesus, he sent Timothy and Erastus ahead of him as an advance team to Macedonia. Paul also includes Erastus as one who greeted the church at Rome in Romans 16:23 in which Paul described Erastus’ job as the City Treasurer in Corinth.
In 1929, archeologists in Corinth discovered a mid-1st century latin inscription that read “Erastus in return for his aedileship laid the pavement at his own expense.” The modern equivalent of a 1st century aedile would be a City Manager.
The Bible is trustworthy!
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people.” 1 Peter 2:9(a) (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
When the the Spirit of God penned those words through Apostle Peter he meant every bit of them. Christ-following is distinct from the world. Christ-followers must look different from the world.
We shouldn’t be surprised then, when the world does not understand us and demonizes our faith. Jesus said, the student is not above the teacher. The world hated Jesus. We mustn’t be surprised when the world hates us.
We are called to be peculiar. Understand it. Embrace it. Get comfortable with it. Get used to it.
We are in the world, but not of the world.
Stay peculiar my friends.
“The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.” Jeremiah 1:1-2 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Jeremiah descended from a priestly lineage in Judah. He grew up in Anathoth, about 2-4 miles northeast of Jerusalem, where the temple was located. He began ministering prophetically about 627 B.C., during the 13th year of King Josiah’s reign. This is about 5 years before Josiah began Judah’s spiritual reformation.
It is very likely that Josiah’s reformation was influenced by Jeremiah’s preaching.
“He who walks with wise [men] will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.” Proverbs 13:20 (NKJV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The American Enterprise Institute conducted an empirical study to understand the decline of religious faith in America. They concluded,
The data seem to show the main driver of secularization in the United States is government spending on education and control over the curricular content taught in schools.
Why? Because,
Children learn more at school than reading, writing, and arithmetic. They imbibe a whole set of implied assumptions about what’s important in life. Faith in God becomes a sort of optional weekend hobby akin to playing tennis or video games.
And our taxes dollars pay for it.
“Therefore the law is ignored And justice is never upheld.” Habakkuk 1:4(a) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin is a former Constitutional Law professor at American University College of Law in Washington D.C.
He recently appeared on MSDNC host Chris Hayes’ show. During his appearance he said the U.S. Constitution’s creation of the Electoral College is “an accident waiting to happen” and that we should “deal with it.”
This hostility and animosity toward the U.S. Constitution is rather prevalent among Regressives. That is why we very rarely see them uphold it. And instead, see them work over time to destroy it.
The simple fact is these people crave power. The Constitution is an impediment to them.
“Hezekiah was pleased, and showed them [all] his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and his whole armory and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.” Isaiah 39:2 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The Chinese became the most common foreign buyer in the U.S. after purchasing a total of $6.1 billion in real estate last year. They also became the most common foreign buyer of real estate adjacent to U.S. Military bases.
What could go wrong with having our biggest enemy on the world stage owning the property surrounding our military bases…???
“The borrower is the slave of the lender.” Proverbs 22:7(b) (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Mr. J Robinette Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer all delivered speeches at the White House during a large event focused on the signing of the deceptively named $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act on the same day it was announced that inflation was 8.3% higher than it was last August.
Their inflation celebration also occurred just after the stock market had its worst day since June 2020.
This once again reveals the utter contempt these people have for hardworking Americans. They celebrate what they perceive as a political victory as the American people struggle.
Repugnant!
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Images from the new James Webb Space Telescope are causing secular astronomers and cosmologists to conclude the “The Big Bang” didn’t happen. One paper’s title begins with the candid exclamation: “Panic!”
University of Kansas astronomer Alison Kirkpatrick said,
NASA built its state-of-the-art James Webb Telescope to replace the Hubble Telescope and to peer into the distant universe. Who knew it would also be used to peer deeply into mankind’s hearts and minds, confronting us with the Creator of that universe.
“And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation.” Acts 17:26 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The scripture teaches that God has sovereignly “determined the boundaries” of our habitation and the “appointed” the times in which we would live.
That means the fact that you live right now in the United States of America, in the 21st Century, following the November 2020 elections is not a mere coincidence. It is the time and place that God has appointed for you. This isn’t a time to shrink back. It’s our moment to contend! May the Remnant arise to meet our moment.
In Jesus’ name.
“Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own [nature,] for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John 8:44 (b) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The Newport-Mesa school district in California has implemented health education textbooks that claim there are over 10 sexual orientations and 8 so-called genders.
The textbook, titled “Comprehensive Health Skills for High School,” includes androgynous, bigender, gender non-conforming, gender questioning and nonbinary among the purported options for high schoolers.
The listed sexual orientations include androsexual, polysexual, skolioksexual, demisexual and gynesexual.
But, Regressives bristle when you say they are grooming children for sexual behavior and normalizing extramarital sexual contact.
Everyone is welcomed out of the cultural closet except Christ-followers.
“But they became futile in their thinking.”Romans 1:21(b) (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
A little girl at Fort Riley Middle School in Kansas was socially transitioned at the school but it was intentionally concealed from her parents. Social transition is where agree to treat a person, or student in this case, as if their identity is opposite of their sex.
Pamela Ricard, a Christian teacher at the school, refused to go along with the charade. As a result, the school suspended Ms. Ricard. She secured representation by Alliance Defending Freedom, sued the school and district and Ms. Ricard was ultimately vindicated… after Kansas School officials socially transitioned a child and fought to conceal it from her parents!
“The wicked borrows and does not pay back.” Psalm 37:21(a) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Mr. Robinette announced his administration’s plan to “cancel” $10,000 of student loan debt for borrowers with individual incomes under $125,000. Pell Grant recipients get up to $20,000 in “cancellation.”
There’s about $1.6 trillion in American student loan debt. 50% of it is carried by people who borrowed money to finance graduate school, medical school, law school and PhD studies. The other half is owed by people who financed two-year and 4-year degrees… which likely includes later post-graduate students.
You can’t disappear debt. It isn’t being cancelled. It’s being re-apportioned. The American taxpayer pays for PhDs we didn’t sign up for.
“For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.” Matthew 12:34(b) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Five-time New York Times best selling author, atheist philosopher, podcaster and overall darling of Regressives Sam Harris said censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story to get Mr. Robinette elected was a conspiracy and it was the right thing to do.
He said even if there was evidence of “corpses of children in his basement” or evidence that Mr. Robinette was getting kickbacks from Ukraine or China on the laptop, Harris doesn’t care. Stopping Trump was worth it.
I share that with you because Sam Harris publicly disclosed the ethical commitment of Regressivism. Agenda advancement by any means necessary.
“When we heard [it,] our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you; for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.” Joshua 2:11 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
When Israel was poised to enter the promised land, Rahab, the Canaanite harlot, risked her very life to protect YHWH’s people. This woman, whose life was filled with immorality, with no knowledge of YHWH’s law yet she risked her life for His people after only hearing of His exploits.
How much more then, should we give our lives for Him. We have His word. We know His ways. She we be any less committed?
Rahab’s conviction is provoking.
“And you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:8(b) (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The 128th Psalm explains it is the individual who’s been transformed by the power of God who then builds the transformed family. Transformed families build transformed churches. Transformed churches build transformed communities and transformed communities impact the broader society.
The way forward in America is repentance and living locally. Focus intensely on your families, your local church, and your local community.
What goes on in your house is far more important that what happens in the White House.
Great commission execution must begin in Jerusalem.
“Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people.” Proverbs 14:34 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The prophet Isaiah diagnosed the condition of the rebellious nation of Judah prior to its conquest and exile by Nebuchadnezzar in chapter 59 of his book. He explained that Judah’s transgression separated the nation from YHWH. Due to Judah’s sinfulness truth had fallen in the streets. The consequences for their rejection of truth was that lawlessness abounded.
Similarly, truth has been rejected in our nation. Abundant lawlessness is the consequence for a nation that has turned away from the LORD. Repentance is what is needed in our nation, starting in the church. Righteousness is what exalts a nation.
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” Revelation 21:1-2 (ESV).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
The city lies foursquare. Its length, width, and height all equal: 1,380 miles for each dimension.
The city’s wall is 216 feet high. Twelve gates surround the city, with each gate made of a single pearl.
Streets of gold so pure their translucent.
No need for a sun. God’s glory light’s the city.
No tears. No pain.
I wouldn’t miss it for the world!
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Have you ever seen one of those track and field events where the runner starts out in blazing fashion, leading the pack for majority of the race, only to stumble just before reaching the finish line?
Starting the race well and running well are vitally important, but if we don’t finish the race well, all else can be overthrown.
The Apostle Paul penned those words, having fought the good fight, right on to the end as he faced imminent execution under Nero’s sword.
Let us all brothers and sisters set our courses to finish well.
The borrower is slave to the lender.
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Prior to the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, over 80% of American families were debt free.
Today, over 80% of the American people are saddled with debt.
I was asked recently asked what advice I could offer in the midst of the national tension we currently face. One of the things I said in response was to work toward getting completely out of debt.
So much fruitfulness and faithfulness to God has been robbed from us due to the impact of crushing debt.
One of the best things you can do for your family right now is to become debt-free.
"Faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NASB).
My name is Abraham Hamilton, III and this is The Hamilton Minute.
Karl Marx, an emissary of evil, and Charles Spurgeon, the “Prince of Preachers,” were evangelists of diametrically opposed messages, yet they both lived in London and the same time.
In fact, when asked the name of the person he most detested, Friedrich Engels, Marx’s cohort in chaos, responded unequivocally: “Spurgeon.”
A generation later George Bernard Shaw, a hardcore communist, seethed in hatred for William Booth and his Salvation Army of volunteers.
Time and again, robust Christian witness has been the inoculate against the proliferation of Marxist poison in society.
