Martin Luther King Speaks! "Why Jesus Called a Man a Fool"

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a man of food I want to share with you a little dramatic story from the Gospel as recorded by Saint Luke. It is the story of a man who by every standard of measurement would be considered a highly successful man, and yet Jesus

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will read that parable and discover that the central character of the drama is a certain rich man. This man was so rich that his farm produced a tremendous harvest, in fact, the harvests were so great that he did not know what to do. and it occurred to him that he had an alternative and that was to build some new, bigger pumps to be able to store all of his crops.

This recording is briefly interrupted at this point. Kneel down, eat, drink and have fun. That brother thought that. It was the end of life, but the parable ends with that man ma

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his declaration, it ends by saying that God told him: no

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s next year not next week not tomorrow but tonight your soul is required and so it was at the height of his prosperity, he died, look at that parable, think of this man, if he lived in Chicago today, he would be considered a big shot and would have been attached with all the social prestige and all the community influence that most could afford .

People would admire him because he would have what is called money and yet a Galilean peasant had the audacity to call that man food so that you can look at this parable with me and try to decipher the real reason why Jesus called this man. a number one fool Jesus called this man a fool because he allowed the means by which he lived to depart from us the ends for which he lived, you see, each of us lives in two

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doms, the end WIPP and the outside, now The interior of our lives is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, religion and morality, the exterior of our lives is that complex of devices of mechanisms and instruments by which we live, the house in which we live. , it is part of the means by which we live the car we drive the clothes we wear the money we can accumulate in short the physical things we need to exist now the problem is that we must always maintain a line of demarcation between the two this man was a fool because he didn't do it he didn't make contributions to civil rights he looked at suffering humanity one concerned about that he probably gave his wife Nicole a compatible car but he didn't give her what she needed more love and affection he probably gave her bread to his children but he didn't pay any attention to him he didn't really love them and that's why this man justly deserved his title he was an eternal food he allowed the means by which he lived through our distance the end for which he lived number two this man was a fool because he didn't realize his dependence on others now if you read that parable in the Book of Luke you will find out that this man has another 60 words and you know that in 60 words he said I and my more than 15 times this man was a fool. because he said so much I and my until he lost the ability to say we for an hour, this man spoke as if he could build the bonds by himself, as if he could heal the soul by himself, he didn't realize that there is always a result of the Commonwealth.

No, my friends, I don't want you to forget, no matter where you are today, someone helped you get there in a larger sense. We have to see this in our world today, our white brothers must see this that they have not seen. So far, the problem facing our nation today in the area of ​​race is that it is the black man who largely produces the wealth of this nation, the nation does not have enough common sense to share its wealth and its power with There are many people who did it, so I know what I'm talking about this morning, that man did good for America, that's why I tell you now that I'm not going anywhere, you can talk to this group.

Some people tell you a separate state come back to Africa I love Africa those ancestral homes I don't know about you my grandfather and great grandfather did too much to build this nation for me to be something of my generation you for the Pilgrim Fathers landed in Plymouth 1620 we were here to Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence we were here because the beautiful words of the star-spangled banner were written we were here more than two centuries our ancestors left him here without salary make cotton king with our hands and with our backs and with our leader they have built studied docks the strong factor is the impressive mansions of the south now this nation tells us that we cannot build blacks I have screwed it up almost completely from the building training its lily-white why because these jobs pay six seven eight and nine and ten dollars an hour and they don't want gold ahead of me I feel like it's a weapon that I didn't have soon and something nothing the same accusation will come to the United States for the food that man said he didn't know what to do with his goods, he had so many, oh, I wish I had advised him many places to go and now many things to do, our hungry stomachs that needed to be filled, now empty pockets. that he needed access to money.

America today, my friends, is also rich in goods, we have our bonds and every day our rich nation is building bigger and bigger bonds, you know, we spend millions of dollars a day to store surplus food, but I want to say America I know where that food can be stored for free in the wrinkled stomachs of the millions of God's children in Asia in Africa and South America and in our own nation who go to bed hungry at night there is plenty of food around because they fail to realize that it depends from others finally this man was a fool because he did not realize his dependence on God.

Do you know that the man spoke as if he regulated the seasons? He talks as if he told the guy that he was a fool because he ended up acting like he was the Creator instead of a creature. This man smelled nonsense is still alive today. You know, many people are forgetting about God. People just get involved in other things, yeah. I'll tell you this morning, my friend, there's no way to get rid of it, one day you're going to need it and life's problems will start to overwhelm you. These apartments will begin to hit the door of your life like a tidal wave if you don't If you don't have deep and patient faith, you won't be able to achieve it.

I know this from my own experience. I grew up in the church. I am the son of a preacher. I am the great-grandson of a preacher. and a great-great-grandson of a preacher my father is a preacher my grandfather was a preacher my great-grandfather was a preacher my only brothers a preacher my father his brother are the preachers I guess I didn't have much choice, but I had Growing up in church and church meant something very real to me, but it was a kind of inherited religion and I had never felt an experience with God and the way you must have it if you ever walk the lonely paths of this life. one day after finishing school I was called to a small church in Montgomery, Alabama, a year later, by the name of Rosa Parks, she decided she didn't want to take it anymore and stayed in a bus seat, you may not remember because It's been several years now, but it was the beginning of a movement in which fifty thousand black men and women absolutely refused to ride the city buses and we walked together for 381 days.

Yes, that's what we learned in the north. Black people have to learn to do it. staying together we have stuck together sent out the call no blacks rode the buses it was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen the people of Montgomery asked me to serve as spokesperson and president of the new organization, the Montgomery Improvement Association , who was born to lead the matter. I couldn't say no, so we started our fight together, things were going well for the first few days, but about 10 or 15 days later, when the whites in Montgomery found out.

We were serious, they started doing some nasty things, they started making nasty phone calls and it got to the point where one day more than 40 phone calls come in threatening my life, my family's life, my children's life. I took it for a while. in a strong way but I will never forget it one very late night, it was around midnight, you can have some strange experiences, at midnight the phone started ringing and I answered it, on the other end there was an ugly voice that told me in substance: I'm tired of you and your mess now and if you want to leave this city in three days you will blow your brains out and blow up your house.

I've heard these things before, but for some reason that night it had gotten to me. I finished and tried to go to sleep but I couldn't sleep, I was frustrated, so I got up and went back to the kitchen and started heating up some coffee thinking that the coffee would give me some relief, then I started thinking about a lot of things. I went back to the theology and philosophy that I had just studied in the universities trying to give philosophical and theological reasons for the existence and reality of sin and evil, but the answer did not come at all, I said that and thought of the beautiful little daughter. that she had just been born about a month before, now we have four children, but we only had one so she was the darling of my life.

I came night after night and saw that gentle little smile that I said at that table thinking about that little girl and thinking about the fact that she could be taken away from me at any moment I began to think about a dedicated, devoted and loyal wife who had stopped sleeping, they could take it away from me they could take it away from me I got to the point where I couldn't Don't keep it in the record. I was weak. Something told me. You can't call dad. And now he's in Atlanta, 175 miles away. You came to call mom.

Now you have a call about that something in that person that you. Dad used to tell you about the Tipu law that can open a way out of nowhere. I discovered that religion had to really become me and I had to know God for myself. I bow to that cup of coffee. I'll never forget it, oh yeah. I said a prayer and I prayed out loud that night I say Lord I'm down here trying to do the right thing I think I'm right I think the callings we stand for are right Lord I must confess about wavering weakness I'm losing my courage I can't let people tell me look like this because if they see me we may lose our courage they will begin to weaken.

It seems that at that moment I could hear an inner voice telling me Martin Luther, defend justice. Stand up for justice Stand up for the truth and Laura will be with you even at the end of the world Tell yourself I saw the lightning I heard the thunder Oh I felt the sin break gassing trying to kaka my soul but I heard the voice of Jesus and keep fighting he promised never to leave me never leave me alone no never alone no never just promise to never leave me never leave me alone I'm going to keep believing in him you better know I don't want to say his name know how to pronounce his name don't be stupid recognize your dependence on the gum sensor , gold.

Jeremiah is the question: is there no balm in Gilead? His doctor is there, yes, really, because he saw good people suffer become soft and bad people prosper. Yes, since we took cover, the parents came, yes, to Saudi Arabia and to the judges of life and they had nothing to wait for morning after morning, but the rawhide paralyzed the supervisor, long rolls of cotton in a stifling heat , but they did something incredible, look back. Over the centuries they took Jeremiah's question mark and straightened it into an exclamation point. They could sing a bomb in your ears until you make the wound at home.

It is a bomb to remove the sin-sick soul from the hill. And that's another verse that I like very well sometimes I feel discouraged I don't mind telling you this morning that sometimes I feel discouraged I felt discouraged in Chicago I move around Mississippi and Jordan Alabama I feel this coverage living every day under the threat of death I feel discouraged sometimes living every day in the face of extensive criticism even from black people I feel discouraged yes sometimes I feel discouraged and I feel that my works are in vain but bend the Holy Spirit reduce my soul again please give me a bone and give it you have to heal the wound at home there is a balm in Gilead the heel that Simsek sold