Doctor King was & always will be our national hero of REGARD ~! He refused the disbelief...disregard for the poor of the world & disrespect for God's precious LOVE I praise Jesus for, His right hand man, Martin Luther King Junior~
We need to protect ourselves from today because of the wicked masters of darkness. The rulers of evil ,which bear hatred and evil within their hearts. Problem is money has diluted their minds..very few good speakers like Dr. King..proud to be Black and proud
I say yet brothers and sisters the struggle isn't over as I seek understanding of the last moments of his live here in Memphis I'm hear to say the revelation is not over yet
“Sir, I’m sorry you don’t know me. I’m not a consensus leader. I don’t determine what is right and wrong by looking at the budget of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference....” My God!!! Couldn’t be bought. I thank God for your efforts.
Just heard the entire sermon nonstop and cried .Word's pierced my heart because I could feel it .I'm listening 24july 2020 .rip Dr M Luther King Jr. Thank you very much for the upload. Salisbury Park.
They may have took him but not what he stood for may GOD reward him all rewards due unto him he truly was a GOD fearing man i respect him even in death. Rip Dr King may u rip
people say Dr. King and Malcolm X was enemies, Fact of the matter they were friends. Malcolm on his last meeting, while I disagree with you, I love you. U know we are both Dead Men
So inspiring and to know that this message is timeless is truly uplifting. Wish many in our world would listen to this word in season and message from God almighty speaking through his servant MLK. MLK spirit is gone but this message will live forever and still carry the same meaning. Blessed are those who will hear this word and treasure it in their hearts for messages like this are the foundation of life.
I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here this morning, to have the opportunity of standing in this very great and significant pulpit. And I do want to express my deep personal appreciation to Dean Sayre and all of the cathedral clergy for extending the invitation. It is always a rich and rewarding experience to take a brief break from our day-to-day demands and the struggle for freedom and human dignity and discuss the issues involved in that struggle with concerned friends of goodwill all over our nation. And certainly it is always a deep and meaningful experience to be in a worship service. And so for many reasons, I’m happy to be here today.
I would like to use as a subject from which to preach this morning: "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution." The text for the morning is found in the book of Revelation. There are two passages there that I would like to quote, in the sixteenth chapter of that book: "Behold I make all things new; former things are passed away." I am sure that most of you have read that arresting little story from the pen of Washington Irving entitled "Rip Van Winkle." The one thing that we usually remember about the story is that Rip Van Winkle slept twenty years. But there is another point in that little story that is almost completely overlooked. It was the sign in the end, from which Rip went up in the mountain for his long sleep. When Rip Van Winkle went up into the mountain, the sign had a picture of King George the Third of England. When he came down twenty years later the sign had a picture of George Washington, the first president of the United States. When Rip Van Winkle looked up at the picture of George Washington-and looking at the picture he was amazed-he was completely lost. He knew not who he was.
And this reveals to us that the most striking thing about the story of Rip Van Winkle is not merely that Rip slept twenty years, but that he slept through a revolution. While he was peacefully snoring up in the mountain a revolution was taking place that at points would change the course of history-and Rip knew nothing about it. He was asleep. Yes, he slept through a revolution. And one of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution. There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today. In a sense it is a triple revolution: that is, a technological revolution, with the impact of automation and cybernation; then there is a revolution in weaponry, with the emergence of atomic and nuclear weapons of warfare; then there is a human rights revolution, with the freedom explosion that is taking place all over the world. Yes, we do live in a period where changes are taking place. And there is still the voice crying through the vista of time saying, "Behold, I make all things new; former things are passed away." Now whenever anything new comes into history it brings with it new challenges and new opportunities. And I would like to deal with the challenges that we face today as a result of this triple revolution that is taking place in the world today.
First, we are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood. Now it is true that the geographical oneness of this age has come into being to a large extent through modern man’s scientific ingenuity. Modern man through his scientific genius has been able to dwarf distance and place time in chains. And our jet planes have compressed into minutes distances that once took weeks and even months. All of this tells us that our world is a neighborhood. Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.
John Donne caught it years ago and placed it in graphic terms: "No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." And he goes on toward the end to say, "Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." We must see this, believe this, and live by it if we are to remain awake through a great revolution. Secondly, we are challenged to eradicate the last vestiges of racial injustice from our nation. I must say this morning that racial injustice is still the black man’s burden and the white man’s shame. It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle-the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic. And I can see nothing more urgent than for America to work passionately and unrelentingly-to get rid of the disease of racism. Something positive must be done. Everyone must share in the guilt as individuals and as institutions. The government must certainly share the guilt; individuals must share the guilt; even the church must share the guilt. We must face the sad fact that at eleven o’clock on Sunday morning when we stand to sing "In Christ there is no East or West," we stand in the most segregated hour of America.
The hour has come for everybody, for all institutions of the public sector and the private sector to work to get rid of racism. And now if we are to do it we must honestly admit certain things and get rid of certain myths that have constantly been disseminated all over our nation. One is the myth of time. It is the notion that only time can solve the problem of racial injustice. And there are those who often sincerely say to the Negro and his allies in the white community, "Why don’t you slow up? Stop pushing things so fast. Only time can solve the problem. And if you will just be nice and patient and continue to pray, in a hundred or two hundred years the problem will work itself out." There is an answer to that myth. It is that time is neutral. It can be used wither constructively or destructively. And I am sorry to say this morning that I am absolutely convinced that the forces of ill will in our nation, the extreme rightists of our nation-the people on the wrong side-have used time much more effectively than the forces of goodwill. And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."
he was send from god for god he lived for god he died he was a man of peace it looked foolish to man he worked for god don't get it mixed up discern and yall will know what he had to go through
They killed him but they didn't kill his ideas. Instead they valified his ideas as ideals. Even Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi and Socrates died for their ideas and beliefs upto now our communities still feed on them to fight against racism and injustices. May his soul rest in eternal peace.
Great sermon it was and still is and highly inspiring. but would like to correct. the passages quoted comes from 21st chapter of the book of revelation drawn from 4th and 5th verses but not from 16th chapter as Dr. King phrases it.
So what you found important was to shed light on an error? An error that is not important in the least. Because the scriptures were not enumerated into chapter and verse until well into the 1600's. Before that they were simply memorized by anyone interested in knowing their contents.
I thought the same thing...I went to Revelations 16 looking for the quote - I like to read along when someone quotes the bible. I saw that it was Revelations 21:4-5 too. However, this does not deter from the importance of the words spoken by Dr. King, Jr.
Milton was just shedding light as you put it and hope was not changing the content of its importance. it remains my best of speeches ever. Don't misunderstand my intent
MLK right verse in the Book of Revelation. Nothing wrong with pointing out a little slip - thanks for taking the time. - MLK the greatest president the world never had. greetings from Europe.
Only thing iCan Say is that “OUR” blacK H¡Story Will Forever Live Despite The Evil They Possess. God Will Deal With The Power oF Humans Who Believe oF Him Not 🤞🏼. Since The Beginning They Couldn’t Stop What Was &‘ Is Ordained On This Earth By The Most High OUR Lord &‘ Savior Jesus Christ . 🤦🏼♀️🥵🤭 RIP 👼🏽🌈🕊🙌🏼✊🏼🌹❣️
I don’t think MLK would want our praise. He would want is to wake up and act! He would tell us to stand up, wake up and participate in the great revolution taking place right now! He would tell us to use our time more wisely and not to accept gradualism or the advice of the comfortable who counsel us all to wait. They tell us to wait for healthcare for all. Wait for a livable minimum wage that ought to be $20/hour or more today not years from now! We need to reject this advice to wait and demand and work tirelessly for progress on every front! That is what this sermon was about: telling people to act and act now! Hearing his inspired words and praising them but failing to take action is to fail to understand the sermon entirely.
Doctor King was & always will be our national hero of REGARD ~! He refused the disbelief...disregard for the poor of the world & disrespect for God's precious LOVE I praise Jesus for, His right hand man, Martin Luther King Junior~
Relevant at this very moment in our America today
It's a shame
But yes it's still relavent
Thanks so much Mathew for making such an important piece of American history available to those who are thirsty for life'meaning. May GOD BLESS YOU,
This speech by far is the best speech I have listen from MR. King.
🕒 THE TIME
IS ALWAYS RIGHT
TO DO RIGHT 🕒
leaflet on campuses exposing the US's real human rights record
We need to protect ourselves from today because of the wicked masters of darkness. The rulers of evil ,which bear hatred and evil within their hearts. Problem is money has diluted their minds..very few good speakers like Dr. King..proud to be Black and proud
This is another revolutionary time especially for black people. Let us wake up
Luther's Voice and Message makes me feel like he is here speaking Great Things that arrests my conscience
I say yet brothers and sisters the struggle isn't over as I seek understanding of the last moments of his live here in Memphis I'm hear to say the revelation is not over yet
“Sir, I’m sorry you don’t know me. I’m not a consensus leader. I don’t determine what is right and wrong by looking at the budget of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference....” My God!!! Couldn’t be bought. I thank God for your efforts.
Thank you MARTIN LUTHER KING!
They may have took him but they cant take his soul may he reign wit GOD forever
Wow history repeat it self America now in 2019
No doubt the dream continues.
Lord Jesus! He's foretelling the future as well!
The meager views of this tremendous speech are full evidence of exactly what it speaks.
Good job, nice and inspiring speech. RIP Dr.martin Luther king Jr.
This is the man I will respect .... he redeemed his self but it was too late
He was on God's time. 😌
Redeemed himself? What on earth r u talking about???
Well done Martin King...well done!
Rings true today...sad but true. Mlk was a true prophet.
Dr King is simply Prophet Dr Martin Luther King, because he’s a true Prophet like no one in our time.
AMEN!! Dr. King subject is RIGHT on time, He was a GREAT Man!!!
Just heard the entire sermon nonstop and cried .Word's pierced my heart because I could feel it .I'm listening 24july 2020 .rip Dr M Luther King Jr. Thank you very much for the upload. Salisbury Park.
They may have took him but not what he stood for may GOD reward him all rewards due unto him he truly was a GOD fearing man i respect him even in death. Rip Dr King may u rip
Thank You.
people say Dr. King and Malcolm X was enemies, Fact of the matter they were friends. Malcolm on his last meeting, while I disagree with you, I love you. U know we are both Dead Men
Dr king was a prophet!!
united states government killed them both.
Could never get a better speak the great king 💯💯💯💯💯✊✊✊✊👁️
Powerful sermon.
THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD.
Powerful Words From Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
So inspiring and to know that this message is timeless is truly uplifting. Wish many in our world would listen to this word in season and message from God almighty speaking through his servant MLK. MLK spirit is gone but this message will live forever and still carry the same meaning. Blessed are those who will hear this word and treasure it in their hearts for messages like this are the foundation of life.
What a great speech
The speed if I’m correct I was eight years of age when Doctor king made this speech and speech is like today in this country 2021
2023 Love you Dr king
Right on
🌷RIP..........
POWERFUL!
43:00.. before the pilgrims we were here
The greatest spearker glory belongs to Jesus
🙏🏼
I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here this morning, to have the opportunity of standing in this very great and significant pulpit. And I do want to express my deep personal appreciation to Dean Sayre and all of the cathedral clergy for extending the invitation.
It is always a rich and rewarding experience to take a brief break from our day-to-day demands and the struggle for freedom and human dignity and discuss the issues involved in that struggle with concerned friends of goodwill all over our nation. And certainly it is always a deep and meaningful experience to be in a worship service. And so for many reasons, I’m happy to be here today.
I would like to use as a subject from which to preach this morning: "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution." The text for the morning is found in the book of Revelation. There are two passages there that I would like to quote, in the sixteenth chapter of that book: "Behold I make all things new; former things are passed away."
I am sure that most of you have read that arresting little story from the pen of Washington Irving entitled "Rip Van Winkle." The one thing that we usually remember about the story is that Rip Van Winkle slept twenty years. But there is another point in that little story that is almost completely overlooked. It was the sign in the end, from which Rip went up in the mountain for his long sleep.
When Rip Van Winkle went up into the mountain, the sign had a picture of King George the Third of England. When he came down twenty years later the sign had a picture of George Washington, the first president of the United States. When Rip Van Winkle looked up at the picture of George Washington-and looking at the picture he was amazed-he was completely lost. He knew not who he was.
And this reveals to us that the most striking thing about the story of Rip Van Winkle is not merely that Rip slept twenty years, but that he slept through a revolution. While he was peacefully snoring up in the mountain a revolution was taking place that at points would change the course of history-and Rip knew nothing about it. He was asleep. Yes, he slept through a revolution. And one of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution.
There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today. In a sense it is a triple revolution: that is, a technological revolution, with the impact of automation and cybernation; then there is a revolution in weaponry, with the emergence of atomic and nuclear weapons of warfare; then there is a human rights revolution, with the freedom explosion that is taking place all over the world. Yes, we do live in a period where changes are taking place. And there is still the voice crying through the vista of time saying, "Behold, I make all things new; former things are passed away."
Now whenever anything new comes into history it brings with it new challenges and new opportunities. And I would like to deal with the challenges that we face today as a result of this triple revolution that is taking place in the world today.
First, we are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.
Now it is true that the geographical oneness of this age has come into being to a large extent through modern man’s scientific ingenuity. Modern man through his scientific genius has been able to dwarf distance and place time in chains. And our jet planes have compressed into minutes distances that once took weeks and even months. All of this tells us that our world is a neighborhood.
Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.
John Donne caught it years ago and placed it in graphic terms: "No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." And he goes on toward the end to say, "Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." We must see this, believe this, and live by it if we are to remain awake through a great revolution.
Secondly, we are challenged to eradicate the last vestiges of racial injustice from our nation. I must say this morning that racial injustice is still the black man’s burden and the white man’s shame.
It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle-the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic. And I can see nothing more urgent than for America to work passionately and unrelentingly-to get rid of the disease of racism.
Something positive must be done. Everyone must share in the guilt as individuals and as institutions. The government must certainly share the guilt; individuals must share the guilt; even the church must share the guilt.
We must face the sad fact that at eleven o’clock on Sunday morning when we stand to sing "In Christ there is no East or West," we stand in the most segregated hour of America.
The hour has come for everybody, for all institutions of the public sector and the private sector to work to get rid of racism. And now if we are to do it we must honestly admit certain things and get rid of certain myths that have constantly been disseminated all over our nation.
One is the myth of time. It is the notion that only time can solve the problem of racial injustice. And there are those who often sincerely say to the Negro and his allies in the white community, "Why don’t you slow up? Stop pushing things so fast. Only time can solve the problem. And if you will just be nice and patient and continue to pray, in a hundred or two hundred years the problem will work itself out."
There is an answer to that myth. It is that time is neutral. It can be used wither constructively or destructively. And I am sorry to say this morning that I am absolutely convinced that the forces of ill will in our nation, the extreme rightists of our nation-the people on the wrong side-have used time much more effectively than the forces of goodwill. And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."
he was send from god for god he lived for god he died he was a man of peace it looked foolish to man he worked for god don't get it mixed up discern and yall will know what he had to go through
They killed him but they didn't kill his ideas. Instead they valified his ideas as ideals. Even Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi and Socrates died for their ideas and beliefs upto now our communities still feed on them to fight against racism and injustices. May his soul rest in eternal peace.
Tell the truth shame the 😈
March 4, 2020
The irish mafia is working like hell to indo his legacy
God's people praying and fighting on to victory. Amen
Great sermon it was and still is and highly inspiring. but would like to correct. the passages quoted comes from 21st chapter of the book of revelation drawn from 4th and 5th verses but not from 16th chapter as Dr. King phrases it.
So what you found important was to shed light on an error? An error that is not important in the least. Because the scriptures were not enumerated into chapter and verse until well into the 1600's. Before that they were simply memorized by anyone interested in knowing their contents.
I thought the same thing...I went to Revelations 16 looking for the quote - I like to read along when someone quotes the bible. I saw that it was Revelations 21:4-5 too. However, this does not deter from the importance of the words spoken by Dr. King, Jr.
Milton was just shedding light as you put it and hope was not changing the content of its importance. it remains my best of speeches ever. Don't misunderstand my intent
MLK right verse in the Book of Revelation. Nothing wrong with pointing out a little slip - thanks for taking the time. - MLK the greatest president the world never had. greetings from Europe.
@@xyzsame4081 What part of Europe are you from? I'm now reading a book called KING AND THE OTHER AMERICA by French historian Sylvie Laurent.
#ADOS
Only thing iCan Say is that “OUR” blacK H¡Story Will Forever Live Despite The Evil They Possess. God Will Deal With The Power oF Humans Who Believe oF Him Not 🤞🏼. Since The Beginning They Couldn’t Stop What Was &‘ Is Ordained On This Earth By The Most High OUR Lord &‘ Savior Jesus Christ . 🤦🏼♀️🥵🤭
RIP 👼🏽🌈🕊🙌🏼✊🏼🌹❣️
Wow, I hope one day I live long enough to see the drafts of "Why America May Go to Hell."
I don’t think MLK would want our praise.
He would want is to wake up and act! He would tell us to stand up, wake up and participate in the great revolution taking place right now!
He would tell us to use our time more wisely and not to accept gradualism or the advice of the comfortable who counsel us all to wait. They tell us to wait for healthcare for all. Wait for a livable minimum wage that ought to be $20/hour or more today not years from now! We need to reject this advice to wait and demand and work tirelessly for progress on every front! That is what this sermon was about: telling people to act and act now!
Hearing his inspired words and praising them but failing to take action is to fail to understand the sermon entirely.