A Message For These Times
See, what God is saying to us today, through the -- through the transition of Coretta Scott King, is that we, here in this
world, right now, are suffering from a -- complications of cancer, from materialism, and -- and greed, and -- and
selfishness, and arrogance, and elitism, and poverty, and racism, and perversion, and obscenity, and misogyny. and idolatry,
and violence, and militarism.
It's a cancer that's eating away at the very essence and the nature of what God created human -- humankind to be, for, he
created us to have rulership in and dominion in the earth, and not allow the earth to dictate to us.
But, now, what has happened...
... is that the very earth, the very creation that he put us in charge of, is now controlling us.
And instead of us reproducing other people who look like God, who talk like God, who act like God, who think like God, who do
business like God, who govern like God, who entertain like God, we're not reproducing anything, because the cancer is eating
away at us.
He's saying, roles have reversed. Creation has become your king, instead of you being the king, he said, because the very
trees that I created for you, instead of you having dominion and authority over them, they are now dictating how your
families look, how your friendships look, how your governments look, how your media and entertainment industry look, how your
youth population looks, because, in fact, money is made from trees.
And the Bible says that the love of money, not money itself -- see, God didn't have a problem with leaving us riches and --
and wealth -- of -- of materials and resources. He doesn't have a problem with billionaires and millionaires.
In fact, God has left enough for everybody to be a billionaire, in fact. What he has problem with is our affinity to, our
loyal to, our soul tied to money in such a way that the love has overtaken us, and now we have escalating divorce rates. And
now we have people doing violent things in the street.
He's saying, now we have people that their only preoccupation is, how can I make more money? And he interjected Martin in
time to tell America, there is a danger when you become a thing-oriented society, rather than a people-oriented society.
So, Coretta Scott King's transition is calling for a new birth.
And we missed it. We missed the fact that the one who really caught the heart and the spirit of Dr. King and wouldn't let us
forget time and time again, as you saw on the video, that it's either nonviolence or nonexistence, that was Coretta Scott
King.
She held it down. God gave her the grace to be able to live as long as she did.
And, when she transitioned, she transitioned to a better place. But she left us, as Joshua did with the children of Israel,
with this question, or statement: Choose ye this day.
And, if I might abbreviate for her, which way you gonna live?
From
Elder Bernice King's
Eulogy for Coretta Scott King
February 7, 2006
WHICH WAY YOU GONNA
LIVE?
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