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Deuteronomy 15:4 However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you,
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It seems just like yesterday, MLK, when you were gunned down and I watched your funeral play out on TV. It was only a year before my own father died, when I was a 15-year-old idealist who had watched you turn from saint, to betrayed, to fallen, to lifted up, just like a Jewish preacher almost 2000 years before.
What has your life and death produced, Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.? Yearly celebrations? Renewed calls for action? Hopelessness still seems to
haunt the U.S., numbering 45 million (14.5%) living below the poverty line.
What would you say to learn that nearly 1/2 of the world's population - 3
billion people - live on less than $2.50 a day, with 22,000 children dying each
day due to poverty?
Since MLK was a preacher who wanted to help those in poverty and
gave his last sermon 50 years ago today, I know he was referring to Moses going to the mountaintop. I'm sure he
read the Book of Deuteronomy which gives concise rules one should live by that
could lessen the number of people living in poverty today.
We have strayed from these teachings and forgotten them. I must admit that I don't remember a preacher ever giving a
sermon on this and am reading it for the first time with awe.
Turn to it now with me, in remembrance of Dr. King. Read the whole Book of Deuteronomy, then act and be delivered.
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