CSN - LightWing Messages - 9/4/2022
Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King
When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
Jesus at the Temple
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But then the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,
“‘From the lips of children and infants you,
Lord, have called forth your praise?’” Matthew 21:10-17 (NIV)
FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:
Last week I mentioned this, and I’ll mention this today once again: It seems that not a week goes by without some dramatic or historic event occurring in our midst –within the nation, or within the world somewhere. This may turn out to be an understatement. This Saturday, Joe Biden spoke in Philadelphia at Independence National Historical Park in front of Independence Hall. It may have been fitting that he spoke there because old Ben Franklin installed a lightning rod on that building, as well as others, to protect those buildings from the lightning of storms. It may be only symbolic but the rhetoric Biden used was seen by many as dark, divisive, or just plain destructive, or any combination involving all three. The lightning rods may have held to protect the Republic from such divisive political propaganda.
Yet, Biden himself may have become a lightning rod because of the onslaught of reactions from many prominent individuals. His words attracted the wrath of so many Americans, especially as he declared that the supporters of Donald Trump were fascists. It was seen by many as divisive,
as such words seemed more intended at dividing Americans even more than they are already. It is clear that it was a political speech, but even more evident as capable of destructiveness, not only of the unity of the American people, but of the foundation of the nation itself. It was Lincoln, quoting Jesus, who said, “a house divided against itself, cannot stand.”
To step back a bit from such fierce rhetoric, however, one needs not only to go back to the time of the War for Independence, gut also the time in which one section of the nation refused to be united, and actually seceded from the Union over the issue of the respective state government’s claims that their rights were not being honored under the Constitution. What rights? In reality, the southern states that became the Confederacy had all of the rights of the other states, except they felt threatened that their “democracy” was being threatened because people of faith began to object to owning human beings. These states of this region in the Deep South were run by the Democrat Party, primarily enabled by the wealthy slave owners. Slavery had been instituted and protected since the days of colonization – longer than the United States had existed. With their “democracy” being threatened, the elites in these southern states proceeded to secede, and then they started the American Civil War.
Biden’s speech had a tone of autocracy aimed at turning citizen against citizen. One may truly wonder why so many poor white southerners were willing to fight and die for a regional cause that aimed at maintaining the “peculiar institution’ of slavery. The majority of slave -owners in such a time were in the minority. Perhaps 30% of the white population owned slaves, but it is likely only 30% of that number were plantation owners who owned large numbers of slaves. The propaganda of the white southern plantation owners convinced the poor white share croppers and dirt farmers that the Yankees were evil and were going to “invade” the south, their “country” and bring harm to them. There was an underlying propaganda in the South that enabled the Democrat Party to not only institutionalize racism via slavery, but to control the ignorant white population and to have them fight their war.
We are living in such a time as that. Divisive rhetoric is meant to divide, and the strategy of “divide and conquer” has existed for thousands of years. Americans need not listen to such propaganda, unless they are confident to discern the evil intent behind the words.
Today, to offer a counter to Biden’s divisiveness, the LightWing Messages features the words of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. We offer some excerpts of a sermon he delivered on July 4, 1965. It is imperative that one grasp the significance of his words for such a time as this. MLK deeply understood the consequences of the white southern power structure being extended from the time of the Civil War and the roots of slavery from the British colonial foundation. However, quite unlike the Black activists today, MLK found treasure in the American foundations that had truly rejected such early colonial autocracy of the Empire. His sermon is titled “The American Dream” and more than offsets the petty words of a political puppet. In his day, the words of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. rang true and served to shake things up in a culture and society that had slowly become much more tolerant, even comfortable with evil than could have ben acceptable to God. As one will learn through his words, the label of “deplorable” or “citizen terrorist” has a similar connotation as “maladjusted.”
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May we humble ourselves, seek His face, truly appreciate with deepest gratitude His Mercy and His loving Grace. repent, and turn from wickedness - especially in order to truly pursue the building of His Kingdom and promote His righteousness in all the days we are allotted in such a turbulent time as this.
“The American Dream”
By Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
July 4, 1965
The following is only excerpts from the full sermon Delivered by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He expressed a reality of a world perspective, and the notion that people will not be able to realize the American Dream until working to realize a world dream – a world dream for peace, and brotherhood, and goodwill. A full transcript can be found by using this link: https://singjupost.com/the-american-dream-martin-luther-king-jr-full-transcript/?singlepage=1
I would like to discuss some of the problems that we confront in the world today, and some of the problems that we confront in our own nation by using as a subject: The American Dream.
I choose this subject because America is essentially a dream. It is a dream of a land where men of all races, of all nationalities, and of all creeds, can live together as brothers.
The substance of the dream is expressed in these sublime words:
“We hold these truths to be self- evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Now, we notice in the very beginning that at the center of this dream is an amazing universalism. It does not say some men, but it says all men. It does not say all white men, but it says all men, which includes black men.
It does not say all Gentiles, but it says all men, which includes Jews. It does not say all Protestants, but it says all men, which includes Catholics.
That is something else that we notice in this American Dream, which is one of the things that distinguishes our form of government with some of the other totalitarian systems. It says that each individual has certain inherent rights that are neither derived from nor conferred by the state. They are gifts from the hands of the Almighty God…
One of the big problems in history has been in this discussion of ends and means. There have been those who argued that the end justifies the means. So they have the idea that sometime, the somehow destructive means can bring about constructive ends. Systems of government have come into being with this theory.
Sometimes they would argue that the end of the classless society justified using violence and defeat and any other method. Nonviolent resistance breaks with communism or any other methods that would say the end justifies the means.
In the long run, the history of destructive means cannot justify constructive ends because the end is pre-existent in the means. And so this method has certain moral aspects that go along with the practical.
Then it is based on the great ethical principle of love. Now people ask me so often, “What in the world do you mean when you say to us love these people who are trying to destroy us and these people who are trying to defeat us, what do you mean? How can you love people like this?”
Now I always have to pause and try to give the meaning of love in the area of human relations…
Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. In any rate when one arises to love on this level, he loves men not because he likes them, not because their ways appeal to him, he loves everyman, because God loves him. And he rises to the point of loving the person who does the evil deed while hating the deed that the person does.
I believe that this is a type of expression of love that can guide us through this period of transition. This is a part of the nonviolent resistance approach. It has practical consequences and is based on high and noble moral and ethical principles. So the individual who follows this method stands up before the opponent and says:
“We will match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force.
We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. So do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Put us in jail and we will go in with humble smiles on our faces.
Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities at the midnight hours, drag us out on some wayside road and beat us and leave us half dead and we will still love you.
Threaten our children, bomb our homes and do all of the things of violence that you think we’ll defeat our movement and we will still love you.
Send your propaganda agents around the country and make it appear that we are not fit morally, culturally or otherwise for integration and we will still love you.
But be assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. One day, we will win our freedom. But we will not only win freedom for ourselves. We will so appeal to your heart and your conscience that we will win you in the process. Therefore, our victory will be a double victory.”
Seems to me that this is the way. This approach to the problem is not without successful precedent. Mohandas Gandhi used it in India in a magnificent manner to free his people from the political domination and the economic exploitation that had been inflicted upon them for years. He achieved this victory by using only the weapons of soul force, non-injury courage and moral principles.
Negro students of the south have used it in a marvelous manner to stand up against the principalities of segregation to let them know that the hundreds of people who’ve gone into jail in Jackson, Mississippi have gone into jail in order to get America out of the dilemma that she finds herself in as a result of the continued existence of segregation and discrimination.
And also let them know that anybody who lives in the United States must be concerned about this problem. And so people who live in New York or in California or in Illinois, have an obligation to be concerned about this problem.
And whoever lives inside the United States cannot be considered an outside agitator because this problem is the concern of every individual in this nation and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, this method has worked in many dimensions. In our day, and in our generation, this method of nonviolent resistance.
God grant that as we go on with this struggle, working with determination to realize the American dream, that we will delve deeper into the meaning of non-violence. I believe firmly that it will help us to go into the new age with the right attitude. We will not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage thus abrading justice.
By adhering to this method, all of the Negro people in the United States, all of the colored people of the world will seek democracy for everybody. They will not seek to substitute one tyranny for another. But I am convinced that black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy.
God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men, but God is interested in the freedom of a whole human race and the creation of a society where all men can live together as brothers, and every man will respect the dignity and the worth of human personality.
And also following this method, we may be able to teach this world something that it so desperately needs to learn and resolve in this hour. In a day when Sputniks and explorers are dashing through outer space, and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war.
It is no longer the choice between violence and nonviolence, it is now either nonviolence or nonexistence. And by following this method right here in this nation, maybe somehow Russia, then the United States will come to see this and move on toward disarmament and suspension of nuclear tests on a permanent basis. And the setting up of an international police force through the UN and thereby make brotherhood and peace a reality.
This is what we must do in order to realize the American dream. I believe if we would follow these things, we will be able to bring that day into being. But it will not come until every individual in our nation develops this type of concern.
And may I say, as I move toward my conclusion, that this is not just a local problem. People who live in New York and California, and Illinois have an obligation to be concerned about this problem…
We still confront segregation in its glaring and conspicuous forms in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and all over the South. We still confront it in its hidden and subtle forms in Illinois, in California, in Pennsylvania, and even in New York. And if democracy is to live, segregation must die…
If the person of goodwill were to rise up with as much righteous indignation when a Negro cannot live in his neighborhood, because he’s a Negro, when a Negro cannot join his professional society, or cannot be a member of this fraternity or sorority, or when a Negro cannot get position in his firm because he happens to be a Negro.
In other words, there must be a concern on the part of people all over this country, and this is the way we will solve this problem.
There are words that we use in every academic discipline, and pretty soon, these words become a part of the technical nomenclature to these particular disciplines. Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word than psychology, it is a word maladjusted. And certainly, we all want to live the well-adjusted life in order to avoid neurotic personalities.
And I say to you this evening that there are some things in our social order to which I’m proud to be maladjusted. I call upon men of goodwill all over the nation to be maladjusted until the good society is a reality.
I never intend to adjust myself to the evils of segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to become adjusted to the madness of militarism, and the self-defeating effects of physical violence.
And I think now it has come for men all over the nation and all over the world to be maladjusted to all of these things. For it may well be that the salvation of our world lies in the hands of the maladjusted.
And so, if you will allow the preacher in me to come out now, let us be maladjusted.
Maladjusted as the prophet Amos, who in the midst of the injustices of his day could cry out in words that echoed across the centuries, “Let justice run down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Maladjusted as Abraham Lincoln who had the vision to see that this nation could not exist half slave and half free.
Maladjusted as Thomas Jefferson who in the midst of an age amazingly adjusted to slavery, cry out in words lifted to cosmic proportions, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.”
Maladjusted as Jesus of Nazareth who could say, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you. Pray for them that spitefully use you.” I believe that the world is in desperate need of such maladjustment.
And with such maladjustment we would be able to emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man’s inhumanity to man into the bright and glittering daybreak of freedom and justice.
And as we struggle to realize the American dream, let us realize that we do not struggle alone. Even though there are the difficult days ahead, even though before the victory’s won, somebody else will have to get scarred up, somebody else will to have to go to jail, maybe someone will have to face physical death.
For the victories won, some will be misunderstood, called bad names, be dismissed as dangerous rabble-rousers and agitators.
Even in the midst of that, the struggle must go on. Knowing that the victory can be won because the odds of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
And I am convinced that that is something in this universe, which justifies Carlyle in saying, “No lie can live forever.”
There is something in the very court of the cosmos which justifies William Cullen Bryant in saying “Truth, cursed to earth, will rise again.”
There is something in this universe which justifies James Russell Lowell, in saying: “Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne —Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown.”
And so with this faith in the future, we will be able to adjourn the counsels of the staff, and rise from the fatigue of darkness, to the buoyancy of hope. And we will be able to bring into being this new society and realize the American dream.
This will be the day when all of the chosen black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, 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 ========================
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