CSN - LightWing Messages - 10/30/2022
The Song of Moses and Miriam
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord:
“I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted.
Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.
“The Lord is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation.
He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name.
Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea.
The best of Pharaoh’s officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
The deep waters have covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.
Your right hand, Lord, was majestic in power.
Your right hand, Lord, shattered the enemy.
“In the greatness of your majesty you threw down those who opposed you.
You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.
By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up.
The surging waters stood up like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.
The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils;
I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.’
But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them.
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Who among the gods is like you, Lord?
Who is like you— majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?
“You stretch out your right hand, and the earth swallows your enemies.
In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed.
In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.
The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the people of Philistia.
The chiefs of Edom will be terrified, the leaders of Moab will be seized with trembling,
the people of Canaan will melt away; terror and dread will fall on them.
By the power of your arm they will be as still as a stone— until your people pass by, Lord, until the people you bought pass by.
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance— the place, Lord, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, Lord, your hands established.
“The Lord reigns for ever and ever.” Exodus 15:1 - 18 (NIV)
FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:
Last Sunday we offered a sermon delivered by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that seemed fitting for our troubled times. As I mentioned last week, that message from Dr. KIng originated more from divine inspiration than from my own planning. The previous Sunday, we had offered a passage from Exodus 14 in the LightWing Messages because it was aligned with Bonhoeffer’s sermon from 1933. Last Sunday’s message from Dr. KIng from 1956 was linked to the same chapter of the Bible used as a foundation for Bonhoeffer’s message. Additionally, in searching for relevant videos for our aggregated features, Prophet Hank Kunneman’s recent prophecies he has shared relating to the Red Sea moment in Hebrew history resonated with me and the messages we were sharing in the past couple of weeks.
Today’s edition of LightWing Messages features another related message from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His message is related to the Exodus of the Hebrews from slavery Egypt. But, it his message is about "The Birth of a New Nation" regarding the creation of the nation of Ghana in 1957, after he witnessed the events surrounding that transformation of a nation controlled by Great Britain become an independent nation – without violence. King related this birth of a new nation in his time to the emergence of the Israelites from slavery and eventual freedom to form their own new nation. However, please know that the message from Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. being offered in this edition is only the first part of the sermon as the original was very long (it’s over 5,000 words). There is a link to the entire sermon for impatient readers at the end of this entry being offered today.
Rev. King brings to readers an interesting perspective that despite the political intrigue and the turmoil of the Cold War as it played out in African nations after World War II, Ghana’s birth was modeled after the birth of Israel as a nation, as well as the eventual freedom the nation of India obtained. Rev. King saw it from the lenses of one who understood the quest for freedom from a very personal perspective because he experienced the fruits of oppression first hand. His view and subsequent analysis was based upon his direct experiences of an oppressive government in which racism was instituted through the business community in cooperation with the Southern
Democrat power structure that had existed for nearly 40 years prior to the Civil War.
King’s message can be relevant to Americans today, who have eyes to see and ears to hear, just as Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s messages to his people could have been relevant during his time. However, history does reveal a major difference in the reception of the messages of these two men of God. The German people, even the Christians, who in their time, had little common sense enough to recognize how tyranny was encroaching upon their nation. They did not pay heed to Bonhoeffer’s words. Yet, the Chritian Blacks in the Deep South did pay heed to King’s words and put forth an effort to make some positive changes that emerged from theirtime.
Yet, in our time, who are we listening to as a people? Do we also not now share a “Red Sea” moment with the Hebrew people. They were filled with fear and felt helpless against Pharoah’s advancing army as their backs were against the Red Sea. As we observe the advance of tyranny growing like a cancer within our nation, we can also recognize what our Founding Fathers and the founding generation experienced. It may have been akin to what the people of the Gold Coast in west Africa felt as finally individuals rose up, willing to go to jail, willing to suffer, to advance the true cause of freedom in their nation. King could take his message of
this “revolution” back to his people, and history was changed in a positive way once again.
King’s message may only be relevant to Americans today who have eyes to see and ears to hear. There are similar messages at present ringing through this nation – voices of prophets, of pastors, of priests, of patriots. Will the messages resonate with the people, or will they fall upon deaf ears just as Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s messages to his people fell on deaf ears. In truth, this has less to do with race or nationality and much more to do with the age-old battle between good and evil as it manifests in the form of freedom vs. tyranny. Whether we like it or not, it is our time; it is our turn. It is our “Red Sea”moment in which we must heed the words of God to resist evil and help bring forth His Kingdom on Earth, as reflective of it, as it is in Heaven.
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Our scripture verses for our LightWing Messages is also from Exodus – from the 15th chapter, after God saved the Hebrew people from their enemies. It is the victory song of Moses and his sister Miriam. The Hebrew people were willing to listen to the messenger of God, vacate their homes, leave their old lives behind, and follow Moses at the cost of their lives. The Founding generation was willing to listen to the messengers of God, vacate their homes, their farms, their businesses, and were willing to risk everything for freedom. In light of this, Americans today need to consider a couple of serious questions: How many Americans are willing to do this today to save the precious freedoms we have enjoyed since such a sacrificial beginning? How many Americans are even thinking it may be necessary to do this today to pass on the precious freedoms we have enjoyed to the future generations?
As always, we hope our readers would consider all the messages in this edition relevant or meaningful, and if readers know others who might value them as well, consider becoming one of our official LightWing messengers and please pass this newsletter on to those whom you feel would be able to welcome it. Or simply, please receive it yourselves. May God bless all of our readers and all of their loved ones. May God bless America!
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May we, who are called by His name, humble ourselves in such a time of tribulation as we witness the very foundations of the Land of the Free being shaken. May we seek His face as well as the knowledge of His Will, and pray in sincere repentance because our nation’s very existence and future depend on our willingness to do what needs to be done to save it. May we turn from our wickedness and manifest His righteousness and His Kingdom.
"The Birth of a New Nation"
By Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 7, 1957
The following is only excerpts from the full sermon Delivered by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. This sermon, which is over 5,00 words in length, has been divided into two parts. Today we offer the first part of that sermon. The second part will follow in a subsequent edition of the LightWing Messages. However, for the readers who cannot wait, a link to the entire sermon at the bottom of this message.
Background information: Upon returning from Ghana, King used several occasions to share his experiences with friends and supporters in Montgomery. (1) In his first sermon following his return, King draws upon Exodus to frame his impressions of Ghana's battle against colonialism. He elaborates on the spiritual and political significance of the new nation’s independence movement: “Ghana has something to say to us. It says to us first, that the oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed. You have to work for it.” King asserts that desegregation would not occur without the same determination. The following text is taken from an audio recording of the event.
I want to preach this morning from the subject: “The Birth of a New Nation.” And I would like to use as a basis for our thinking together, a story that has long since been stenciled on the mental sheets of succeeding generations. It is the story of the Exodus, the story of the flight of the Hebrew people from the bondage of Egypt, through the wilderness and finally, to the Promised Land. It’s a beautiful story. I had the privilege the other night of seeing the story in movie terms in New York City, entitled the “Ten Commandments” and I came to see it in all of its beauty. The struggle of Moses, the struggle of his devoted followers as they sought to get out of Egypt. And they finally moved on to the wilderness and toward the Promised Land. This is something of the story of every people struggling for freedom. It is the first story of man’s explicit quest for freedom. And it demonstrates the stages that seem to inevitably follow the quest for freedom.
Prior to March the sixth, 1957, there existed a country known as the Gold Coast. This country was a colony of the British Empire. This country was situated in that vast continent known as Africa. I’m sure you know a great deal about Africa, that continent with some two hundred million people, and it extends and covers a great deal of territory. There are many familiar names associated with Africa that you would probably remember, and there are some countries in Africa that many people never realize. For instance, Egypt is in Africa. And there is that vast area of North Africa with Egypt and Ethiopia, with Tunisia and Algeria and Morocco, and Libya. Then you might move to South Africa, and you think of that extensive territory known as the Union of South Africa. There is that capital city Johannesburg that you read so much about these days. Then there is central Africa with places like Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo. And then there is East Africa with places like Kenya and Tanganyika, and places like Uganda and other very powerful countries right there. And then you move over to West Africa where you find the French West Africa and Nigeria, and Liberia and Sierra Leone and places like that. And it is in this spot, in this section of Africa, that we find the Gold Coast, there in West Africa.
You also know that for years and for centuries, Africa has been one of the most exploited continents in the history of the world. It’s been the “Dark Continent.” It’s been the continent that has suffered all of the pain and the affliction that could be mustered up by other nations. And it is that continent which has experienced slavery, which has experienced all of the lowest standards that we can think about, and it’s been brought into being by the exploitation inflicted upon it by other nations.
And this country, the Gold Coast, was a part of this extensive continent known as Africa. It’s a little country there in West Africa about ninety-one thousand miles in area, with a population of about five million people, a little more than four and a half million. And it stands there with its capital city, Accra. For years the Gold Coast was exploited and dominated and trampled over. The first European settlers came in there about 1444, the Portuguese, and they started legitimate trade with the people in the Gold Coast. They started dealing with them with their gold, and in turn they gave them guns and ammunition and gunpowder and that type of thing. Well, pretty soon America was discovered a few years later in the fourteen hundreds, and then the British West Indies. And all of these growing discoveries brought about the slave trade…
With the growth of the slave trade, there came into Africa, into the Gold Coast in particular, not only the Portuguese but also the Swedes and the Danes and the Dutch and the British. And all of these nations competed with each other to win the power of the Gold Coast so that they could exploit these people for commercial reasons and sell them into slavery.
Finally, in 1850, Britain won out, and she gained possession of the total territorial expansion of the Gold Coast. From 1850 to 1957, March sixth, the Gold Coast was a colony of the British Empire. And as a colony she suffered all of the injustices, all of the exploitation, all of the humiliation that comes as a result of colonialism. But like all slavery, like all domination, like all exploitation, it came to the point that the people got tired of it…
There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom. There is something deep down within the very soul of man that reaches out for Canaan. Men cannot be satisfied with Egypt. They tried to adjust to it for a while. Many men have vested interests in Egypt, and they are slow to leave. Egypt makes it profitable to them, some people profit by Egypt. The vast majority, the masses of people never profit by Egypt, and they are never content with it. And eventually they rise up and begin to cry out for Canaan’s land.
And so these people got tired. It had a long history. As far back as 1844, the chiefs themselves of the Gold Coast rose up and came together and revolted against the British Empire and the other powers that were in existence at that time dominating the Gold Coast. They revolted, saying that they wanted to govern themselves. But these powers clamped down on them, and the British said that we will not let you go.
About 1909, a young man was born on the twelfth of September. History didn’t know at that time what that young man had in his mind. His mother and father, illiterate, not a part of the powerful tribal life of Africa, not chiefs at all, but humble people. And that boy grew up, he went to school at Achimota for a while in Africa, and then he finished there with honors and decided to work his way to America. And he landed to America one day with about fifty dollars in his pocket in terms of pounds, getting ready to get an education. And he went down to Pennsylvania, to Lincoln University. He started studying there, and he started reading the great insights of the philosophers, he started reading the great insights of the ages. And he finished there and took his theological degree there and preached awhile around Philadelphia and other areas as he was in the country. And went over to the University of Pennsylvania and took up a masters there in philosophy and sociology. All the years that he stood in America, he was poor, he had to work hard. He says in his autobiography how he worked as a bellhop in hotels, as a dishwasher, and during the summer how he worked as a waiter trying to struggle through school. (3)
“I want to go back home. I want to go back to West Africa, the land of my people, my native land. There is some work to be done there.” He got a ship and went to London and stopped for a while by London School of Economy and picked up another degree there. (4) Then while in London, he came, he started thinking about Pan-Africanism, and the problem of how to free his people from colonialism. For as he said, he always realized that colonialism was made for domination and for exploitation. It was made to keep a certain group down and exploit that group economically for the advantage of another. He studied and thought about all of this, and one day he decided to go back to Africa.
He got to Africa and he was immediately elected the executive secretary of the United Party of the Gold Coast. And he worked hard, and he started getting a following. And the people in this party, the old, the people who had had their hands on the plow for a long time, thought he was pushing a little too fast, and they got a little jealous of his influence. And so finally he had to break from the United Party of the Gold Coast, and in 1949 he organized the Convention People’s Party. It was this party that started out working for the independence of the Gold Coast. He started out in a humble way, urging his people to unite for freedom. And urging the officials of the British Empire to give them freedom. They were slow to respond, but the masses of people were with him, and they had united to become the most powerful and influential party that had ever been organized in that section of Africa.
He started writing, and his companions with him and many of them started writing so much that the officials got afraid and they put them in jail, and Nkrumah himself was finally placed in jail for several years because he was a seditious man. He was an agitator. He was imprisoned on the basis of sedition. And he was placed there to stay in prison for many years, but he had inspired some people outside of prison. They got together just a few months after he’d been in prison and elected him the prime minister while he was in prison. For a while the British officials tried to keep him there, and Gbedemah says—one of his close associates, the minister of finance, Mr. Gbedemah—said that that night the people were getting ready to go down to the jail and get him out, but Gbedemah said, “This isn’t the way, we can’t do it like this, violence will break out and we will defeat our purpose.” (5) But the British Empire saw that they had better let him out. And in a few hours Kwame Nkrumah was out of jail, the prime minister of the Gold Coast. He was placed there for fifteen years but he only served eight or nine months. And now he comes out, the prime minister of the Gold Coast.
And this was the struggling that had been going on for years. It was now coming to the point that this little nation was moving toward its independence. Then came the continual agitation, the continual resistance, so that the British Empire saw that it could no longer rule the Gold Coast. And they agreed that on the sixth of March, 1957, they would release this nation, that this nation would no longer be a colony of the British Empire, that this nation would be a sovereign nation within the British Commonwealth. All of this was because of the persistent protest, the continual agitation on the part of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and the other leaders who worked along with him and the masses of people who were willing to follow…
The thing that impressed me more than anything else that night was the fact that when Nkrumah walked in, and his other ministers who had been in prison with him, they didn’t come in with the crowns and all of the garments of kings, but they walked in with prison caps and the coats that they had lived with for all of the months that they had been in prison. (9) Nkrumah stood up and made his closing speech to Parliament with the little cap that he wore in prison for several months and the coat that he wore in prison for several months, and all of his ministers round about him. That was a great hour. An old Parliament passing away. And then at twelve o’clock that night we walked out. As we walked out, we noticed all over the polo grounds almost a half a million people. They had waited for this hour and this moment for years.
As we walked out of the door and looked at that beautiful building, we looked up to the top of it. And there was a little flag that had been flowing around the sky for many years. It was the Union Jack flag of the Gold Coast, the British flag, you see. But at twelve o’clock that night we saw a little flag coming down and another flag went up. The old Union Jack flag came down and the new flag of Ghana went up. This was a new nation now, a new nation being born. And when Prime Minister Nkrumah stood up before his people out in the polo ground and said, “We are no longer a British colony, we are a free, sovereign people,” all over that vast throng of people we could see tears. And I stood there thinking about so many things. Before I knew it, I started weeping. I was crying for joy. And I knew about all of the struggles, and all of the pain, and all of the agony that these people had gone through for this moment.
After Nkrumah had made that final speech, it was about twelve-thirty now. And we walked away. And we could hear little children six years old and old people eighty and ninety years old walking the streets of Accra crying: “Freedom! Freedom!” They couldn’t say it in the sense that we’d say it, many of them don’t speak English too well, but they had their accents and it could ring out “free-doom!” They were crying it in a sense that they had never heard it before. And I could hear that old Negro spiritual once more crying out: “Free at last, free at last, Great God Almighty, I’m free at last.” They were experiencing that in their very souls. And everywhere we turned, we could hear it ringing out from the housetops. We could hear it from every corner, every nook and crook of the community. “Freedom! Freedom!” This was the birth of a new nation. This was the breaking loose from Egypt…
This nation was now out of Egypt and had crossed the Red Sea. Now it will confront its wilderness. Like any breaking loose from Egypt, there is a wilderness ahead…
Still ninety percent of the people are illiterate, and it is necessary to lift the whole cultural standard of the community in order to make it possible to stand up in the free world. Yes, there is a wilderness ahead, though it is my hope that even people from America will go to Africa as immigrants, right there to the Gold Coast and lend their technical assistance… Now don’t think that because they have five million people the nation can’t grow, that that’s a small nation to be overlooked. Never forget the fact that when America was born in 1776, when it received its independence from the British Empire, there were fewer, less than four million people in America... America was smaller than Ghana when it was born.
There is a great day ahead. The future is on its side. It’s going now through the wilderness. But the Promised Land is ahead.
The preceding contains only excerpts from the first part of the full sermon delivered by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. A full transcript, which includes Rev. King’s footnotes and references, can be found by using this link: "The Birth of a New Nation," Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
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