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So this morning, as I look into your eyes, and into the eyes of all of my brothers in Alabama and all over America and over the world, I say to you, "I love you. I would rather die than hate you." And I'm foolish enough to believe that through the power of this love somewhere, men of the most recalcitrant bent will be transformed. And then we will be in God's kingdom. We will be able to matriculate into the university of eternal life because we had the power to love our enemies, to bless those persons that cursed us, to even decide to be good to those persons who hated us, and we even prayed for those persons who despitefully used us.[SIZE=1] [/SIZE]
When you learn to love your enemies... TRULY love them and not just love them in your mind, but love them in your HEART..this is when the Kingdom of God slowly, persistently becomes revealed. What you thought you KNEW about the Kingdom of God will fade and be replaced by the true picture as the glorious light of His magnificent love will absolutely STUN you. And you realize how and why every knee will bow.
You know it's funny when I was a liberal I was more into Malcom "X" philosophy. I considered Martin Luther King to be a sellout and a slave to the mentality of white Christianity but then I became born again and entered the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is revealed to any born again believer and it most definitely put everything into perspective.
Just a quick sidenote, don't want to take this off track: The Kingdom of God CAN be revealed to any believer.... it's not revealed automatically. God conceals and reveals when a human heart is prepared.
Please feel free to add any other sermons or quotes from MLK Jr.
Just a quick sidenote, don't want to take this off track: The Kingdom of God CAN be revealed to any believer.... it's not revealed automatically. God conceals and reveals when a human heart is prepared.
(John 3:5)
5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
(Romans 8:16)
16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
I applaud you for pointing out other speeches other than the "I have a dream" speech
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we shall be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, and stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of radical injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring-when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children-black men and white men, Jew and Gentile's, Protestants and Catholics-will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! -----------------------------------------------------------------------
This was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
I was present among the 250,000 people when that speech was delivered.
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