Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, says Bill Nye and his “False Prophet” Scientists can Dump Their Phony Doomsday Clock Into the Trash Can, and People Should Not Pay Them Any Attention.

The scientists behind the clock are largely on the Left and keen for America and its allies to abandon (or at least reduce) their nuclear weapons whatever our enemies are doing

Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, says Bill Nye and his “False Prophet” Scientists can Dump Their Phony Doomsday Clock Into the Trash Can, and People Should Not Pay Them Any Attention. The Governments of the World Ought to demand That Bill Nye and Others Scrap the Fake Doomsday Clock Hype, Which is Now Perpetually at 90 Seconds Away from Midnight. Doomsday will come soon enough! Only God Almighty knows when it will happen. The lying, “false prophet” scientists know nothing. What these phony scientists need to do and what people around the world need to do is obey the most important words ever spoken in the history of the world that were said by none other than the Lord Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Do not worry about when Doomsday will happen. Get ready for it by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ and obeying the Lord Jesus Christ.

ANDREW FERGUSON NEIL says, We’re not quite as close to Armageddon as those Doomsday Clock scientists say. But the lessons of history are clear — DICTATORS SMELL WEAKNESS AND WE HAVEN’T BEEN SO WEAK FOR DECADES.

Suddenly the air is thick with the threat of wars on multiple fronts and even predictions of imminent nuclear Armageddon. Never, it seems, have so many experts been so convinced that we’re teetering on the brink of global catastrophe.

Today the American scientists behind the so-called Doomsday Clock left it at 90 seconds to midnight, where it was moved in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, meaning it remains as close as ever to predicting nuclear war.

The BBC got in on the act ahead of the announcement with a documentary titled, appropriately enough, ‘Nuclear Armageddon’, further ramping up the fear.

It’s not just the prospect of imminent nuclear war. German newspapers have been reporting a leak from military intelligence which seems to have picked up signs that Vladimir Putin might be planning a conventional war with Nato by the summer of 2025.

In the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel in October, the Middle East is already a tinderbox, with missiles and drones being fired from Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and Yemen – every such incident raising the risk of a wider conflagration.

On the other side of the world, barely a day goes by without Chinese incursions into Taiwan’s air and sea space, accompanied by relentless sabre-rattling from Beijing and large-scale Chinese military drills just off the Taiwanese coast.

The hostile rhetoric has been ramped up since Taiwan elected a new government committed to the country’s independence earlier this month.

Impoverished North Korea continues to find the money to develop its nuclear arsenal and the missile technology to deliver it. It already has the capability to nuke the two neighbours it dislikes the most, South Korea and Japan, while its dictator is forever threatening all and sundry.

Iran could soon be a nuclear power too, which would destabilise an already shaky Middle East even more.

For the moment it heads a self-styled ‘axis of resistance’ involving Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraqi Shia militia and Houthi rebels sowing mayhem and mischief across the region from Lebanon to the Red Sea.

Along with North Korea it is also sending drones and missiles for Russia to deploy in Ukraine.

Almost everywhere you look in the world hostilities have already broken out or are at risk of doing so. As our Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, said recently: ‘The lights are flashing red on the global dashboard.’

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has rightly made the point that, unlike our dealings with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, with Iran and North Korea we are confronted by regimes that are inherently ‘unstable and irrational’, which makes them unpredictable.

The same might be said for Putin. However the gloom and doom should not be swallowed wholesale. Some of it is mere scaremongering in search of headlines. Take the Doomsday Clock. It isn’t actually a clock and it doesn’t mean we’re now 90 seconds away from nuclear war.

It’s an effective public relations device, which the media regularly reports without caveat, to highlight that the risk of a nuclear exchange has risen.

The scientists behind it are largely on the Left and keen for America and its allies to abandon (or at least reduce) their nuclear weapons whatever our enemies are doing.

That leak of German intelligence about Putin’s military ambitions should also be taken with a pinch of salt. It was suspiciously detailed and intelligence simply doesn’t reach the public in this form, even when leaked.

Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, has spoken of the dangers of a Russian attack on a Nato country but he put the risk at five to eight years away. Perhaps he hasn’t seen his own department’s intelligence report. But somehow I rather doubt that.

Even in the cauldron of insecurity and unrest that is the Middle East we can take some comfort from the fact that the Israel-Hamas clash has not already spilled over into a wider conflict with global consequences – unlike, say, the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973 which led to the quadrupling of oil prices and crashed the global economy, creating rampant inflation and mass unemployment.

That said, it cannot be denied that the world is a much more dangerous place than it was even five years ago and looks set to get even more dangerous. As Admiral Rob Bauer, one of Nato’s most senior commanders, said recently: ‘We now live in the most dangerous world in decades.’

What he didn’t add, but I would strongly contend, is that it is all the more parlous because the world’s democracies are in no shape to deal with the multiple threats now crowding in on them. No, not even America.

‘Belligerent autocratic states’ have made a comeback Mr Shapps said in his keynote speech this month. In the modern age we have always counted on America to lead the fight against threats to our way of life.

But US leadership is a shadow of its former self. The rest of the world sees a doddery, confused president in the Oval Office who sometimes doesn’t even seem to know what day it is.

America’s enemies are emboldened, its allies in despair. Yet the alternative in November’s presidential election will be Donald Trump, who doesn’t seem to give a fig for America’s allies and is often happier cosying up to the autocrats. It’s a depressing, debilitating choice.

But there’s also something more fundamental at work. This was supposed to be the Pacific century for America, in which Washington would gradually withdraw from Europe and the Middle East to concentrate its military and diplomatic assets on the eastern Pacific Rim to deal with the rise of China. Clearly it hasn’t worked out like that. Events have dragged America back into Europe and the Middle East, essential since Europe on its own could not cope.

But China is still rising and America is struggling to deal with that and renewed commitments in our hemisphere.

Even the economic might of America, which spends more on its military than the next 20 countries combined, is struggling to afford the huge amphibious build-up which containing China requires, while increasing boots on the ground in Europe to deter Putin. On top of this there is boosting naval deployments in the Middle East from the eastern Mediterranean to the southern entrance to the Red Sea.

America’s predicament is made all the worse by Europe’s abject failure to maintain proper military capabilities in the aftermath of the Cold War. Politicians on the Left and the Right were too quick to pocket the proceeds of the peace dividend, oblivious to new threats that were rising, from Russia to Iran to China and North Korea. As Mr Shapps has bluntly said: that peace dividend is over.

But even Britain, which likes to think it’s one of the good guys when it comes to Nato commitments, has yet to turn strong words into resolute action. We still spend barely 2 per cent of our GDP on defence.

Mr Shapps says we’re committed to 2.5 per cent but remains silent on when that will happen, if ever. Of course we should be heading for 3 per cent. As usual Labour, which is likely to form the next government, is silent on this vital matter.

Britain has made a big deal of being part of the American-led attacks on Houthi installations. But our Typhoon fighter jets have had to endure a 3,000-mile round trip from Cyprus on their bombing raids, requiring in-air refuelling there and back. America has launched its attacks from an aircraft carrier off the coast of Yemen and the vast flotilla that surrounds it.

Of course the Royal Navy now has two state-of-the-art aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales, built at a combined cost of £8billion and carrying F35s, the world’s most sophisticated warplane. But both lie idle in dock in Portsmouth. Apparently we don’t have enough protective ships to put around them to deploy them to where they are needed. So our RAF pilots have to fly 3,000 miles instead.

Source: Daily Mail Online

READ THE MOST SHOCKING, SADDEST SUICIDE NOTE EVER WRITTEN FROM A 21-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO SAID HE CAME FROM A LOVING FAMILY AND HAD A GOOD LIFE, PLUS HE WAS IN AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL AND BREAKING RECORDS! THERE IS A SATANIC SUICIDE SPIRIT OF WOKEISM LOOSE THAT’S KILLING UPWARDLY MOBILE, EDUCATED, ACCOMPLISHED, RECORD-BREAKING YOUNG PEOPLE! This is inexplicable otherwise. Extraordinary student-athlete, 21-year-old Flordan ‘Flo’ Bazile, who set a new record for Dartmouth’s 100-meter sprint, is found dead in a Massachusetts river from suicide. The sad suicide note is in this article.

Found in a Massachusetts river this past Tuesday, 21-year-old Flordan ‘Flo’ Bazile is now being mourned by his old UMass Dartmouth classmates

READ THE MOST SHOCKING, SADDEST SUICIDE NOTE EVER WRITTEN FROM A 21-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO SAID HE CAME FROM A LOVING FAMILY AND HAD A GOOD LIFE, PLUS HE WAS IN AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL AND BREAKING RECORDS! THERE IS A SATANIC SUICIDE SPIRIT OF WOKEISM LOOSE THAT’S KILLING UPWARDLY MOBILE, EDUCATED, ACCOMPLISHED, RECORD-BREAKING YOUNG PEOPLE! This is inexplicable otherwise. Extraordinary student-athlete, 21-year-old Flordan ‘Flo’ Bazile, who set a new record for Dartmouth’s 100-meter sprint, is found dead in a Massachusetts river from suicide. The sad suicide note is in this article.

Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, again calls on those who know Jesus Christ in a real sense to pray and fast for these young people and to get back to your first love — the Lord Jesus Christ.

Found in a Massachusetts river this past Tuesday, 21-year-old Flordan ‘Flo’ Bazile is now being mourned by his University of Massachusetts Dartmouth classmates
In a post to Instagram time to publish after his death, Bazile revealed that he had been secretly suffering from what appears to be depression for several years
He made the declaration in a statement penned before officials found his body in a river seven miles from campus and revealed his cause of death was a suicide

A standout student athlete who broke his college’s 100-meter sprint record has died by suicide – after leaving a timed, heart-wrenching farewell to social media.

Found in a Massachusetts river this past Tuesday, 21-year-old Flordan ‘Flo’ Bazile is now being mourned by his old UMass Dartmouth classmates – after revealing on Instagram that he had been secretly suffering from depression for several years.

He made the declaration in an emotional statement penned before officials found his body in a nearby river and confirmed his cause of death.

In its own statement, the school’s athletics department framed him as ‘hard-working, passionate, [and] determined’ – not to mention ‘a champion’, and a ‘great friend.’

A ‘celebration’ of Bazile’s life, slated for 5pm on Thursday at the university’s 750 seat auditorium, is expected to be packed.

Divers and investigators did not find any significant trauma to his person – alleviating most suspicions of foul play. The Chief Medical Examiner put those suspicions to bed for those not keeping up with the athlete’s Instagram this week, when it confirmed his death was a suicide

He was last seen on campus around 2am on January 15, officials said – two days after competing at an event at Tufts University. His body was recovered in the Acushnet River seven miles away, cops said – before confirming he took his own life.

‘Hey everyone… this was scheduled to post after you know…’ Bazile’s final post reads.

‘First things first, I am sorry I am sorry to all my loved ones, my friends, anyone whose life I was in that is affected by this. I’m a hypocrite and a coward for taking the easy way it[sic].’

The college standout proceeded to lay bare how he had been secretly suffering from depression since – and potentially before – starting his undergrad at the prestigious school in 2021.

‘The past few years of my life have been tough mentally,’ Bazile – better known by his nickname ‘Flo’ – wrote.

Echoing statements from fellow students that painted him as bubbly, he added: ‘This may come off as a big shocker, as anyone that knows me knows I’m the happy, smiley, making everyone in the room laugh type of guys that just seems to never really be down.

In a post to Instagram designed to publish after his death, Bazile - better known by friends as Flo - revealed why he took his own life, stating that he for years has been suffering in silence

‘I just knew as soon as I walk out my door into the world to make sure I look fine and regular as I always do,’ the heartbreaking post went on.

‘Sometimes the mask would slip and someone who knows me would see and come up to me but I tried my hardest to make sure that didn’t happen. Mainly because I don’t like people to worry about me or have a thought that I wasn’t okay and would hit me with the “are you ok?”

‘[W]hich the default answer would be “yes” followed with a laugh after,’ he went on. ‘I had so many loving people around me yet I felt so alone. I am a peoples person that didn’t like myself. I am genuinely just an unhappy person.’

The post went on to reveal how the student was suffering from what seemed like textbook clinical depression.

He wrote: ‘Growing up my life wasn’t hard or anything, I had a loving family, an older sister that raised me and adored me with all her life.

‘I’d say on the outside I had a good life, had things going for myself but then again, moment I’m alone and in my room, my thoughts, just wander.

‘I realize now that thats[sic] probably why I was always involved in so much things, just doing anything and everything just so I wasn’t alone.

‘To anyone I’ve ever hurt or done wrong, I am truly sorry. I have no excused for what I did, I was only thinking about myself and I hate that thats[sic] the last memory you have of me.

‘To all the people whose life I ever left an impact on, whether it was making you laugh or smile, or mad you have a good day, I thank you. You Helped me keep going and I love you for that.

‘Lastly, I am sorry for putting so much false hope into the world, all the empty promises, talks about the future etc… because deep down I knew this was going to eventually happen. I was just prolonging it as much as I could.’

In a chilling signoff, he pleaded with his friends and family for understanding when it comes to his choice.

‘Try to be happy for me please. I’m finally happy and free. “I was crying out for help but wasn’t screaming loud enough.”‘

How Bazile killed himself, as of Tuesday, remains unknown. The Charlton College of Business student was revealed to be a member of the Class of 2026 as well marketing major – but no major insight was offered as to what may have influenced his death, apart from his note

Bazile’s body was found roughly 20 feet from the river’s eastern shoreline, at around 4:45 pm on Tuesday, Jan. 16, Massachusetts State Police said.

The New Bedford native was found in about 15 feet of water just north of the Coggeshall Street Bridge, cops added, after they had out extensive water and ground searches in the region.

Shortly before being reported missing, the student was seen leaving an on-campus dormitory in the very early morning.

Prosecutors with the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office later confirmed the discovery, before declaring it a suicide.

UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Mark A. Fuller remembered the accomplished sprinter in a statement sent across the school community

‘His coaches and teammates described Flo as hard-working, energetic, a champion, and a great friend,’ Fuller wrote in remembrance.

Bazile was last seen on campus around 2am on January 15, officials said – two days after competing at Tufts University. His body was recovered in the river seven miles away, cops said – before confirming his death was a suicide

Kimberly M. Scott, vice chancellor for student affairs, added that the school was offering grief counseling, and urged students secretly struggling with mental health to seek help.

‘You or your friends may be grieving the loss of our friend and brother, Flordan ‘Flo’ Bazile, or experiencing loneliness, anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns,’ Scott said.

‘There is often a stigma attached to mental health, but I ask you to please speak up and reach out to someone if you need help.

‘We are a community, and we must support each other.’

The school’s athletic department added on Facebook: ‘The UMass Dartmouth Athletics Family is heartbroken by the unexpected passing’ and promised to share more information in the coming days.

The Charlton College of Business student, meanwhile, was revealed to be a member of the Class of 2026 as well marketing major – though no major insight, apart from his note, was offered as to what may have led to his his death.

He had succeeded athletically, and achieved a school record in the 100-meter dash this past May, with a time of 10.56.

He was also named the 2024 Little East Conference Track Athlete and Track Rookie Athlete of the Week over the past two weeks, since the start of the indoor season and his second school year.

A resident of Orlando, he joined Dartmouth in the fall of 2021, officials said.

He was reported missing Monday after UMass Dartmouth Police went to his dorm room for a well-being check, only to find him not there.

Authorities started searching the river at 10am Tuesday, before finding and retrieving the body.

Divers and investigators did not find any significant trauma to his person – alleviating most suspicions of foul play.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner put those suspicions to bed this week, when it confirmed his death was a suicide.

Ahead of his memorial, the UMass Dartmouth Student Government Association issued a statement showing what an impact the victim had on others during his short time on campus.

‘Bazile was a beloved student, friend, teammate, and leader here at UMass Dartmouth,’ the group wrote.

‘We will always remember his success, presence, and impact on the student body.”

More details gleaned by experts are expected to be aired in the coming days.

Source: Daily Mail Online: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12997673/missing-umass-dartmouth-student-athlete-dead.html

THERE IS A WOKE DEVIL LOOSE! This Senseless Killing of 8 People by 23-year-old Romeo Nance and his committing suicide is Inexplicable Outside of Demonism and the Spirit of Wokeism.

Romeo Nance, who police said was ‘armed and dangerous’, is dead after he was surrounded by police in Texas on Monday evening.

THERE IS A WOKE DEVIL LOOSE! This Senseless Killing of 8 People by 23-year-old Romeo Nance and his committing suicide is Inexplicable Outside of Demonism and the Spirit of Wokeism.

Daniel Whyte III says, instead of Christians and so-called “Evangelicals” getting caught up in politics this year, they truly need to get caught up in Prayer, Fasting, Bible Reading, Proclaiming the Gospel, and Obeying the Word. God’s people need to humble themselves, pray, seek God’s face, turn from their wicked ways, repent of their sins, and turn back to their first love — the Lord Jesus Christ — for the church is partly responsible for this country turning out the way it has.

Joliet shootings: Gunman kills himself at a gas station in Texas after slaughtering eight people, including seven family members, across three homes in Illinois

The killer behind a Chicago shooting spree which left eight dead – including seven family members – has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound
Romeo Nance, 23, was caught by US Marshals at a Chubby’s gas station in Natalia, Texas, over 1,191 miles from the shootings in Joliet, Illinois
The gunman shot himself with a handgun in an altercation with police on Monday evening around 8.30pm after being on the run for over 24 hours

The gunman behind an Illinois shooting spree that left eight people dead has killed himself after he was surrounded by police more than 1,100 miles away in Texas.

Romeo Nance, 23, was on the run after he was linked to three separate shootings in Joliet, near Chicago, in the past two days.

A man was killed and another injured on Sunday before seven more dead bodies were found on Monday afternoon.

Joliet Police Chief Bill Evans said Monday’s victims were ‘family members’ who were found dead in two homes on the 2200 block of West Acres Road in one of the ‘worst crime scenes’ he had ever seen.

The shootings were all linked to Nance and a frantic manhunt was launched until he was finally caught 1,191-miles away at a Chubby’s gas station in Natalia, Texas at 8.30pm on Monday.

Officers said they tracked him down in a ‘stand-off’ at the gas station before he shot himself dead with a handgun following the ‘confrontation’ with police.

The Joliet Police Department said: ‘At approximately 8:30 PM this evening, the Joliet Police Department learned that Nance had been located by US Marshals near Natalia, Texas at which time it is believed that Nance took his own life with a handgun following a confrontation with Texas law enforcement officials.’

He was caught at a Chubby’s gas station with photos of the cordoned-off scene showing a red Toyota Camry – with different plates than the ones that were seen on his car in Illinois – stopped at a pump with a large black SUV pinning it in.

Medina County Sheriff’s Office said they ‘received a call of an individual heading into our county on IH35 from Bexar County. The individual was believed to be wanted out of Chicago for multiple homicides.

‘Deputies were able to help assist the other agencies and the suspect was at a standoff in Natalia at Chubby’s Gas station.

‘The male suspect ended up sustaining self inflicted gunshot wounds.

‘The scene is currently secured and there is no threat to the public. We ask the public to please be mindful of this area and allow the Investigators and Deputies to conduct their investigation.’

The fastest route from Joliet to Texas by car would have taken Nance at least 19 hours and crossed through four states.

In Illinois, Will County Sheriff’s Office had started investigating Nance after the shootings on Sunday, when a 28-year-old man was fatally shot and another man was shot in the leg but survived.

They set up surveillance at an address linked to Nance’s car on Sunday night in the 2200 block of West Acres Road, and when he didn’t return they decided to knock on the door.

They said that when they approached the door of 2212 West Acres Road they saw blood on the floor and then forced entry to find ‘five individuals that appeared to be deceased from gunshot wounds’.

They then discovered ‘another possible crime scene at 2225 West Acres Road and made entry into this home as well, locating two individuals also deceased from gunshot wounds.’

Chief Evans said the seven dead people are ‘family members’.

A motive for their killings hasn’t been established, but Chief Evans said the family were ‘known’ to Nance.

He said: ‘I’ve been a policeman 29 years, this is probably the worst crime scene I have ever been associated with’.

Source: Daily Mail Online

GLORY BE TO GOD! The First 127 Chapters Have Been Read in the Gospel Light Society International 40-Day Chronological Bible Reading Campaign with Daniel Whyte III

GLORY BE TO GOD! The First 127 Chapters Have Been Read in the Gospel Light Society International 40-Day Chronological Bible Reading Campaign and are LIVE On Multiple Podcasts and Videos. Fourteen Days of Fasting Have Been Completed Out of the Annual Gospel Light Society International 40-Day Daniel Fast. If the Lord Leads You to Support Daniel Whyte III Reading the Bible Through in 40 Days and the Gospel Light Society International Evangelistic Ministries, Which Includes Blackchristiannews.com (Bcnn1.com), Please Support Through Givesendgo.com/blackchristiannews.

A New List of Chapters to Read for the fourteenth Day Have Been Posted Below. Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, Announces the Annual 2024 — 40-Day Daniel Fast Commences at 12:07 a.m. Wednesday, January 10th, 2024, so enjoy a great meal and fast with us for 40 days until February 18th, 2024. WHYTE ALSO ANNOUNCES THAT ALONG WITH FASTING FOR 40 DAYS, WE WILL COMMENCE READING THE CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE THROUGH IN 40 DAYS, STARTING ON WEDNESDAY 10th, 2024. This Fast is a continuation of last year’s fast, where we are fasting against the demonic destructive spirit of WOKEISM that is destroying the lives of young people. We are adding on prayer and fasting for the “Peace of Jerusalem,” the protection of the Israelites around the world as they are under the severest persecution in nearly one hundred years due to WOKEISM. We are also praying for the innocent Palestinians and for God’s people in the Church to humble themselves, pray, seek God’s face, turn from their wicked ways, truly repent of their sins, and get back to their first love — the Lord Jesus Christ. Daniel Whyte III will be communicating with all people who are fasting via his daily Gospel Light House of Prayer International Prayer and Devotional Service and through his Guided Prayers with the Prayer Motivator Minute, along with reading the Bible live and on demand via podcast streaming and video.

Daniel Whyte III is President of Gospel Light Society International, Pastor of Gospel Light House of Prayer International, “Crying in the Wilderness,” “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos,” and “Preaching the Gospel by any Means Necessary” with a tribute to Daniel Whyte III’s second daughter Daniella (Danni) Whyte who helped produce most of the Prayer Motivator Minute podcasts and the Prayer Motivator Devotional podcasts.

*If you would like to listen to and or read the first 121 chapters, click here: https://blackchristiannews.com/2024/01/the-first-121-chapters-have-been-read-in-the-gospel-light-society-intl-40-day-chronological-bible-reading-campaign-with-daniel-whyte-iii/

Gospel Light Society International 40-Day Daniel Fast; 40-Day Reading Through the Bible (29-A–Part 1)

Gospel Light Society International 40-Day Daniel Fast; 40-Day Reading Through the Bible (29-A–Part 2)

Gospel Light Society International 40-Day Daniel Fast; 40-Day Reading Through the Bible (30-A)

Below are the scripture passages that we will be reading for the Fourteenth day of the 40-Day Chronological Reading of the Bible.

1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

²And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

³And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

⁴And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

⁵And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

⁶And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

⁷Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

⁸And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

⁹And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

¹⁰And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

¹¹Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

¹²Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

¹³But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

¹⁴For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

¹⁵Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

¹⁶And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

¹⁷Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

¹⁸The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

¹⁹All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

²⁰But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

²¹Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

²²And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

²³Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

²⁴For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.

²⁵Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

²⁶The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

²⁷And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

²⁸And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

²⁹And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

³⁰And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

³¹And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.

³²And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.

³³And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

³⁴But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

³⁵And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

EXODUS 35

1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them.

²Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

³Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

⁴And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying,

⁵Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the Lord; gold, and silver, and brass,

⁶And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

⁷And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,

⁸And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,

⁹And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

¹⁰And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded;

¹¹The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,

¹²The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,

¹³The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,

¹⁴The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,

¹⁵And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,

¹⁶The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,

¹⁷The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,

¹⁸The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,

¹⁹The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.

²⁰And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

²¹And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the Lord‘s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.

²²And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the Lord.

²³And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them.

²⁴Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the Lord‘s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.

²⁵And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.

²⁶And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.

²⁷And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;

²⁸And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

²⁹The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the Lord, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

³⁰And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

³¹And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

³²And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

³³And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.

³⁴And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

³⁵Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

EXODUS 36

1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded.

²And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:

³And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.

⁴And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;

⁵And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the Lord commanded to make.

⁶And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

⁷For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

⁸And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.

⁹The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.

¹⁰And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.

¹¹And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

¹²Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.

¹³And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.

¹⁴And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.

¹⁵The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.

¹⁶And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

¹⁷And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

¹⁸And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

¹⁹And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.

²⁰And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

²¹The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

²²One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

²³And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:

²⁴And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

²⁵And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,

²⁶And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

²⁷And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

²⁸And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

²⁹And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.

³⁰And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.

³¹And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

³²And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.

³³And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.

³⁴And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

³⁵And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

³⁶And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.

³⁷And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

³⁸And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.

Below are the scripture passages that we will be reading for the Thirteenth day of the 40-Day Chronological Reading of the Bible.

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

²See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

³And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

⁴To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

⁵And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

⁶And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;

⁷The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,

⁸And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,

⁹And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,

¹⁰And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office,

¹¹And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.

¹²And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

¹³Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

¹⁴Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

¹⁵Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

¹⁶Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

¹⁷It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

¹⁸And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

EXODUS 32

1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

²And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

³And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

⁴And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

⁵And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.

⁶And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

⁷And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

⁸They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

⁹And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

¹⁰Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

¹¹And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

¹²Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

¹⁴And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

¹⁵And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

¹⁶And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

¹⁷And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

¹⁸And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

¹⁹And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

²⁰And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

²¹And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?

²²And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.

²³For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

²⁴And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

²⁵And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

²⁶Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord‘s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

²⁷And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

²⁸And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

²⁹For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

³⁰And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.

³¹And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

³²Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin–; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

³³And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

³⁴Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

³⁵And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

EXODUS 33

1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:

²And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

³Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

⁴And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.

⁵For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

⁶And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

⁷And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.

⁸And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.

⁹And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.

¹⁰And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.

¹¹And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

¹²And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.

¹³Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

¹⁴And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

¹⁵And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

¹⁶For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

¹⁷And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

¹⁸And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.

¹⁹And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

²⁰And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

²¹And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

²²And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:

²³And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

Daniel Whyte III Preaches “HOW TO LOVE YOUR ENEMIES” (Part 6) by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 23, 2024 (M.L.K. Jr. Week)

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Daniel Whyte III Preaches “HOW TO LOVE YOUR ENEMIES” (Part 6) by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 23, 2024 (M.L.K. Jr. Week)

“Loving Your Enemies,” Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Date: November 17, 1957?

Location: Montgomery, Ala.?

Genre: Sermon

Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. – Career in Ministry
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Political and Social Views
Nonviolence

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A week prior to delivering this sermon at his church, King had given a similar version at Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington, D. C., at the conclusion of Howard University School of Religion’s Forty-first Annual Convocation.¹ Using Matthew 5:43-45 as his text, King emphasizes that “hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. . . . The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. . . . and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love.” This transcript is taken from an audio recording.

I am forced to preach under something of a handicap this morning. In fact, I had the doctor before coming to church. And he said that it would be best for me to stay in the bed this morning. And I insisted that I would have to come to preach. So he allowed me to come out with one stipulation, and that is that I would not come in the pulpit until time to preach, and that after, that I would immediately go back home and get in the bed. So I’m going to try to follow his instructions from that point on.

I want to use as a subject from which to preach this morning a very familiar subject, and it is familiar to you because I have preached from this subject twice before to my knowing in this pulpit. I try to make it something of a custom or tradition to preach from this passage of Scripture at least once a year, adding new insights that I develop along the way, out of new experiences as I give these messages. Although the content is, the basic content is the same, new insights and new experiences naturally make for new illustrations.

So I want to turn your attention to this subject: “Loving Your Enemies.” It’s so basic to me because it is a part of my basic philosophical and theological orientation: the whole idea of love, the whole philosophy of love. In the fifth chapter of the gospel as recorded by Saint Matthew, we read these very arresting words flowing from the lips of our Lord and Master: “Ye have heard that it has been said, ‘Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.’ But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.”²

Certainly these are great words, words lifted to cosmic proportions. And over the centuries, many persons have argued that this is an extremely difficult command. Many would go so far as to say that it just isn’t possible to move out into the actual practice of this glorious command. They would go on to say that this is just additional proof that Jesus was an impractical idealist who never quite came down to earth. So the arguments abound. But far from being an impractical idealist, Jesus has become the practical realist. The words of this text glitter in our eyes with a new urgency. Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this command is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.

Now let me hasten to say that Jesus was very serious when he gave this command; he wasn’t playing. He realized that it’s hard to love your enemies. He realized that it’s difficult to love those persons who seek to defeat you, those persons who say evil things about you. He realized that it was painfully hard, pressingly hard. But he wasn’t playing. And we cannot dismiss this passage as just another example of Oriental hyperbole, just a sort of exaggeration to get over the point. This is a basic philosophy of all that we hear coming from the lips of our Master. Because Jesus wasn’t playing; because he was serious. We have the Christian and moral responsibility to seek to discover the meaning of these words, and to discover how we can live out this command, and why we should live by this command.

Now first let us deal with this question, which is the practical question: How do you go about loving your enemies? I think the first thing is this: In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self. And I’m sure that seems strange to you, that I start out telling you this morning that you love your enemies by beginning with a look at self. It seems to me that that is the first and foremost way to come to an adequate discovery to the how of this situation. Now, I’m aware of the fact that some people will not like you, not because of something you have done to them, but they just won’t like you. I’m quite aware of that. Some people aren’t going to like the way you walk; some people aren’t going to like the way you talk. Some people aren’t going to like you because you can do your job better than they can do theirs. Some people aren’t going to like you because other people like you, and because you’re popular, and because you’re well-liked, they aren’t going to like you. Some people aren’t going to like you because your hair is a little shorter than theirs or your hair is a little longer than theirs. Some people aren’t going to like you because your skin is a little brighter than theirs; and others aren’t going to like you because your skin is a little darker than theirs.

So that some people aren’t going to like you. They’re going to dislike you, not because of something that you’ve done to them, but because of various jealous reactions and other reactions that are so prevalent in human nature.

But after looking at these things and admitting these things, we must face the fact that an individual might dislike us because of something that we’ve done deep down in the past, some personality attribute that we possess, something that we’ve done deep down in the past and we’ve forgotten about it; but it was that something that aroused the hate response within the individual. That is why I say, begin with yourself. There might be something within you that arouses the tragic hate response in the other individual.

This is true in our international struggle. We look at the struggle, the ideological struggle between communism on the one hand and democracy on the other, and we see the struggle between America and Russia. Now certainly, we can never give our allegiance to the Russian way of life, to the communistic way of life, because communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept. When we look at the methods of communism, a philosophy where somehow the end justifies the means, we cannot accept that because we believe as Christians that the end is pre-existent in the means. But in spite of all of the weaknesses and evils inherent in communism, we must at the same time see the weaknesses and evils within democracy.

Democracy is the greatest form of government to my mind that man has ever conceived, but the weakness is that we have never touched it. Isn’t it true that we have often taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes? Isn’t it true that we have often in our democracy trampled over individuals and races with the iron feet of oppression? Isn’t it true that through our Western powers we have perpetuated colonialism and imperialism? And all of these things must be taken under consideration as we look at Russia. We must face the fact that the rhythmic beat of the deep rumblings of discontent from Asia and Africa is at bottom a revolt against the imperialism and colonialism perpetuated by Western civilization all these many years. The success of communism in the world today is due to the failure of democracy to live up to the noble ideals and principles inherent in its system.

And this is what Jesus means when he said: “How is it that you can see the mote in your brother’s eye and not see the beam in your own eye?” Or to put it in Moffatt’s translation: “How is it that you see the splinter in your brother’s eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?”³ And this is one of the tragedies of human nature. So we begin to love our enemies and love those persons that hate us whether in collective life or individual life by looking at ourselves.

A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and every time you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points. I’ve said to you on many occasions that each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality. We’re split up and divided against ourselves. And there is something of a civil war going on within all of our lives. There is a recalcitrant South of our soul revolting against the North of our soul. And there is this continual struggle within the very structure of every individual life. There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Ovid, the Latin poet, “I see and approve the better things of life, but the evil things I do.”⁴ There is something within all of us that causes us to cry out with Plato that the human personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.⁵ There is something within each of us that causes us to cry out with Goethe, “There is enough stuff in me to make both a gentleman and a rogue.” There is something within each of us that causes us to cry out with Apostle Paul: “I see and approve the better things of life, but the evil things I do.” ⁶

²¹I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

So somehow the “isness” of our present nature is out of harmony with the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts us. And this simply means this: That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it. And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls “the image of God,” you begin to love him in spite of. No matter what he does, you see God’s image there. There is an element of goodness that he can never slough off. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.

The Greek language, as I’ve said so often before, is very powerful at this point. It comes to our aid beautifully in giving us the real meaning and depth of the whole philosophy of love. And I think it is quite apropos at this point, for you see the Greek language has three words for love, interestingly enough. It talks about love as eros. That’s one word for love. Eros is a sort of, aesthetic love. Plato talks about it a great deal in his Dialogues, a sort of yearning of the soul for the realm of the gods. And it’s come to us to be a sort of romantic love, though it’s a beautiful love. Everybody has experienced eros in all of its beauty when you find some individual that is attractive to you and that you pour out all of your like and your love on that individual. That is eros, you see, and it’s a powerful, beautiful love that is given to us through all of the beauty of literature; we read about it.

Then the Greek language talks about philia, and that’s another type of love that’s also beautiful. It is a sort of intimate affection between personal friends. And this is the type of love that you have for those persons that you’re friendly with, your intimate friends, or people that you call on the telephone and you go by to have dinner with, and your roommate in college and that type of thing. It’s a sort of reciprocal love. On this level, you like a person because that person likes you. You love on this level, because you are loved. You love on this level, because there’s something about the person you love that is likeable to you. This too is a beautiful love. You can communicate with a person; you have certain things in common; you like to do things together. This is philia.

The Greek language comes out with another word for love. It is the word agape, and agape is more than eros. Agape is more than philia. Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it’s what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them. You look at every man, and you love him because you know God loves him. And he might be the worst person you’ve ever seen. ⁷

And this is what Jesus means, I think, in this very passage when he says, “Love your enemy.” And it’s significant that he does not say, “Like your enemy.” Like is a sentimental something, an affectionate something. There are a lot of people that I find it difficult to like. I don’t like what they do to me. I don’t like what they say about me and other people. I don’t like their attitudes. I don’t like some of the things they’re doing. I don’t like them. But Jesus says love them. And love is greater than like. Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, “Love your enemy.” This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.

Now for the few moments left, let us move from the practical how to the theoretical why. It’s not only necessary to know how to go about loving your enemies, but also to go down into the question of why we should love our enemies. I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn’t cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. Somebody must have religion enough and morality enough to cut it off and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love.

I think I mentioned before that sometime ago my brother and I were driving one evening to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Atlanta. He was driving the car. And for some reason the drivers were very discourteous that night. They didn’t dim their lights; hardly any driver that passed by dimmed his lights. And I remember very vividly, my brother A. D. looked over and in a tone of anger said: “I know what I’m going to do. The next car that comes along here and refuses to dim the lights, I’m going to fail to dim mine and pour them on in all of their power.” And I looked at him right quick and said: “Oh no, don’t do that. There’d be too much light on this highway, and it will end up in mutual destruction for all. Somebody got to have some sense on this highway.”

Somebody must have sense enough to dim the lights, and that is the trouble, isn’t it? That as all of the civilizations of the world move up the highway of history, so many civilizations, having looked at other civilizations that refused to dim the lights, and they decided to refuse to dim theirs. And Toynbee tells that out of the twenty-two civilizations that have risen up, all but about seven have found themselves in the junkheap of destruction. It is because civilizations fail to have sense enough to dim the lights.⁸ And if somebody doesn’t have sense enough to turn on the dim and beautiful and powerful lights of love in this world, the whole of our civilization will be plunged into the abyss of destruction. And we will all end up destroyed because nobody had any sense on the highway of history. Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

And this is why Jesus says hate, that you want to be integrated with yourself, and the way to be integrated with yourself is be sure that you meet every situation of life with an abounding love. Never hate, because it ends up in tragic, neurotic responses. ⁹Psychologists and psychiatrists are telling us today that the more we hate, the more we develop guilt feelings and we begin to subconsciously repress or consciously suppress certain emotions, and they all stack up in our subconscious selves and make for tragic, neurotic responses. And may this not be the neuroses of many individuals as they confront life that that is an element of hate there. And modern psychology is calling on us now to love. But long before modern psychology came into being, the world’s greatest psychologist who walked around the hills of Galilee told us to love. He looked at men and said: “Love your enemies; don’t hate anybody.” It’s not enough for us to hate your friends because—to to love your friends—because when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody. Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. So Jesus says love, because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, “Love your enemies.” It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. That’s why Jesus says, “Love your enemies.” Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption. You just keep loving people and keep loving them, even though they’re mistreating you. Here’s the person who is a neighbor, and this person is doing something wrong to you and all of that. Just keep being friendly to that person. Keep loving them. Don’t do anything to embarrass them. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with bitterness because they’re mad because you love them like that. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. “love your enemies.”

I think of one of the best examples of this. We all remember the great president of this United States, Abraham Lincoln—these United States rather. You remember when Abraham Lincoln was running for president of the United States, there was a man who ran all around the country talking about Lincoln. He said a lot of bad things about Lincoln, a lot of unkind things. And sometimes he would get to the point that he would even talk about his looks, saying, “You don’t want a tall, lanky, ignorant man like this as the president of the United States.” He went on and on and on and went around with that type of attitude and wrote about it. Finally, one day Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. And if you read the great biography of Lincoln, if you read the great works about him, you will discover that as every president comes to the point, he came to the point of having to choose a Cabinet.¹⁰ And then came the time for him to choose a Secretary of War. He looked across the nation, and decided to choose a man by the name of Mr. Stanton. And when Abraham Lincoln stood around his advisors and mentioned this fact, they said to him: “Mr. Lincoln, are you a fool? Do you know what Mr. [Edwin M.] Stanton has been saying about you? Do you know what he has done, tried to do to you? Do you know that he has tried to defeat you on every hand? Do you know that, Mr. Lincoln? Did you read all of those derogatory statements that he made about you?” Abraham Lincoln stood before the advisors around him and said: “Oh yes, I know about it. I read about it. I’ve heard him myself. But after looking over the country, I find that he is the best man for the job.”

Mr. Stanton did become Secretary of War, and a few months later, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. And if you go to Washington, you will discover that one of the greatest words or statements ever made by, about Abraham Lincoln was made about this man Stanton. And as Abraham Lincoln came to the end of his life, Stanton stood up and said: “Now he belongs to the ages.” And he made a beautiful statement concerning the character and the stature of this man. If Abraham Lincoln had hated Stanton, if Abraham Lincoln had answered everything Stanton said, Abraham Lincoln would have not transformed and redeemed Stanton. Stanton would have gone to his grave hating Lincoln, and Lincoln would have gone to his grave hating Stanton. But through the power of love Abraham Lincoln was able to redeem Stanton.

That’s it. There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a few years ago, but most men and most women never discover it. For they believe in hitting for hitting; they believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; they believe in hating for hating; but Jesus comes to us and says, “This isn’t the way.”

And oh this morning, as I think of the fact that our world is in transition now. Our whole world is facing a revolution. Our nation is facing a revolution, our nation. One of the things that concerns me most is that in the midst of the revolution of the world and the midst of the revolution of this nation, that we will discover the meaning of Jesus’ words. History unfortunately leaves some people oppressed and some people oppressors. And there are three ways that individuals who are oppressed can deal with their oppression. One of them is to rise up against their oppressors with physical violence and corroding hatred. But oh this isn’t the way. For the danger and the weakness of this method is its futility. Violence creates many more social problems than it solves. And I’ve said, in so many instances, that as the Negro, in particular, and colored peoples all over the world struggle for freedom, if they succumb to the temptation of using violence in their struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. Violence isn’t the way.

Another way is to acquiesce and to give in, to resign yourself to the oppression. Some people do that. They discover the difficulties of the wilderness moving into the promised land, and they would rather go back to the despots of Egypt because it’s difficult to get in the promised land. And so they resign themselves to the fate of oppression; they somehow acquiesce to this thing. But that too isn’t the way because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way. Jesus discovered that.

Not only did Jesus discover it, even great military leaders discover that. One day as Napoleon came toward the end of his career and looked back across the years, the great Napoleon that at a very early age had all but conquered the world. He was not stopped until he became, till he moved out to the battle of Leipzig and then to Waterloo. But that same Napoleon one day stood back and looked across the years, and said: “Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have built great empires. But upon what did they depend? They depended upon force. But long ago Jesus started an empire that depended on love, and even to this day millions will die for him.”

Yes, I can see Jesus walking around the hills and the valleys of Palestine. And I can see him looking out at the Roman Empire with all of her fascinating and intricate military machinery. But in the midst of that, I can hear him saying: “I will not use this method. Neither will I hate the Roman Empire.” [Recording interrupted] [ . . .] just start marching. ¹¹

And I’m proud to stand here in Dexter this morning and say that that army is still marching. It grew up from a group of eleven or twelve men to more than seven hundred million today. Because of the power and influence of the personality of this Christ, he was able to split history into A.D. and B.C. Because of his power, he was able to shake the hinges from the gates of the Roman Empire. And all around the world this morning, we can hear the glad echo of heaven ring: “Jesus shall reign wherever sun does his successive journeys run. His kingdom spreads from shore to shore, till moon shall wane and wax no more.”¹²

We can hear another chorus singing: “All hail the power of Jesus name.”

We can hear another chorus singing: “Hallelujah, hallelujah! He’s King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah, hallelujah!”

We can hear another choir singing: “In Christ there is no East or West. In Him no North or South, but one great fellowship of love throughout the whole wide world.”¹³ This is the only way.

And our civilization must discover that. Individuals must discover that as they deal with other individuals. There is a little tree planted on a little hill and on that tree hangs the most influential character that ever came in this world. But never feel that that tree is a meaningless drama that took place on the stages of history. Oh no, it is a telescope through which we look out into the long vista of eternity, and see the love of God breaking forth into time. It is an eternal reminder to a power-drunk generation that love is the only way. It is an eternal reminder to a generation depending on nuclear and atomic energy, a generation depending on physical violence, that love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power in the universe.

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.

Oh God, help us in our lives and in all of our attitudes, to work out this controlling force of love, this controlling power that can solve every problem that we confront in all areas. Oh, we talk about politics; we talk about the problems facing our atomic civilization. Grant that all men will come together and discover that as we solve the crisis and solve these problems—the international problems, the problems of atomic energy, the problems of nuclear energy, and yes, even the race problem—let us join together in a great fellowship of love and bow down at the feet of Jesus. Give us this strong determination. In the name and spirit of this Christ, we pray. Amen.

“WHAT IF YOU DIED IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES?” The Gospel Light House of Prayer International in conjunction with The Gospel Light Minute X #511 With Daniel Whyte III

“WHAT IF YOU DIED IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES?” The Gospel Light House of Prayer International in conjunction with The Gospel Light Minute X #511 With Daniel Whyte III

“WHAT IF YOU DIED IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES?” The Gospel Light House of Prayer International in conjunction with The Gospel Light Minute X #511 With Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, Pastor of Gospel Light House of Prayer International, “Crying in the Wilderness,” “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos,” and “Preaching the Gospel by any Means Necessary” with a tribute to Daniel Whyte III’s second son Daniel Whyte IV who helped produce most of the Gospel Light Minute X podcasts.

THE GUIDED PRAYER with Daniel Whyte III (Praying for a Demon-possessed Person-Pt 3) #33-A in Conjunction with The Prayer Motivator Minute

THE GUIDED PRAYER with Daniel Whyte III (Praying for a Demon-possessed Person-Pt 3) #33-A in Conjunction with The Prayer Motivator Minute.

THE GUIDED PRAYER with Daniel Whyte III (Praying for a Demon-possessed Person-Pt 3) #33-A in Conjunction with The Prayer Motivator Minute.. Daniel Whyte III is President of Gospel Light Society International, Pastor of Gospel Light House of Prayer International, “Crying in the Wilderness,” “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos,” and “Preaching the Gospel by any Means Necessary” with a tribute to Daniel Whyte III’s second daughter Daniella (Danni) Whyte who helped produce most of the Prayer Motivator Minute and the Prayer Motivator Devotional podcasts.

What is a Guided Prayer? A Guided Prayer is when an experienced born-again-saved Prayer Warrior guides people to the Throne of Grace by praying for and with other Christians, guiding less experienced Christians in prayer, often times having them pray responsively out loud with one of the purposes being teaching them how to pray based on the Word of God, the Holy Bible, so they can become strong Prayer Warriors and lead their families and other groups in Guided Prayers to actually receive answers to prayer from God in the individual’s life, in their families, and in their churches for the Glory of God.

“THE BURNING HELL IS REAL” The Gospel Light House of Prayer International in conjunction with The Gospel Light Minute X #510 With Daniel Whyte III

“THE BURNING HELL IS REAL” The Gospel Light House of Prayer International in conjunction with The Gospel Light Minute X #510 With Daniel Whyte III

“The Burning Hell is Real” The Gospel Light House of Prayer International in conjunction with The Gospel Light Minute X #510 With Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, Pastor of Gospel Light House of Prayer International, “Crying in the Wilderness,” “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos,” and “Preaching the Gospel by any Means Necessary” with a tribute to Daniel Whyte III’s second son Daniel Whyte IV who helped produce most of the Gospel Light Minute X podcasts.

Daniel Whyte III Preaches “HOW TO LOVE YOUR ENEMIES” (Part 5) by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 22, 2024 (M.L.K. Jr. Week)

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Daniel Whyte III Preaches “HOW TO LOVE YOUR ENEMIES” (Part 5) by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 22, 2024 (M.L.K. Jr. Week)

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“Loving Your Enemies,” Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Date: November 17, 1957?

Location: Montgomery, Ala.?

Genre: Sermon

Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. – Career in Ministry
Martin Luther King, Jr. – Political and Social Views
Nonviolence

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²¹I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

We can hear another chorus singing: “All hail the power of Jesus name.”

We can hear another chorus singing: “Hallelujah, hallelujah! He’s King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah, hallelujah!”

We can hear another choir singing: “In Christ there is no East or West. In Him no North or South, but one great fellowship of love throughout the whole wide world.”¹³ This is the only way.

THE GUIDED PRAYER with Daniel Whyte III (Praying for a Demon-possessed Person-Pt 2. And In light of the death of Dexter Scott King, Preparation for Death and Death in the Family) #32-A in Conjunction with The Prayer Motivator Minute

THE GUIDED PRAYER with Daniel Whyte III (Praying for a Demon-possessed Person-Pt 2. And In light of the death of Dexter Scott King, Preparation for Death and Death in the Family) #32-A in Conjunction with The Prayer Motivator Minute.

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THE GUIDED PRAYER with Daniel Whyte III (Preparation for Death and Death in the Family) #32-A in Conjunction with The Prayer Motivator Minute. Daniel Whyte III is President of Gospel Light Society International, Pastor of Gospel Light House of Prayer International, “Crying in the Wilderness,” “Exiled on the Isle of Patmos,” and “Preaching the Gospel by any Means Necessary” with a tribute to Daniel Whyte III’s second daughter Daniella (Danni) Whyte who helped produce most of the Prayer Motivator Minute and the Prayer Motivator Devotional podcasts.