Elder Bernice King's
Eulogy for Coretta Scott King
February 7, 2006
I am not sure how many people across the country had the opportunity to see the, as her family called it, home going
celebration, for Coretta Scott King today.
My family and I had the chance to watch it for over six hours today.
As
most people blog or give other press to the shameful political remarks, or make snide remarks about the 'politeness' of a six
hour service when people are so busy, I think it's more important to hear the message of Coretta's daughter, Bernice King,
and ponder it and take it to heart.
After searching the internet, we could not find a transcript of her eulogy to her
mother so I have typed it up from a recording and posted it here.
Everything that follows is from her eulogy. I did not
want the 'normal' blockquote background to interfere with her words, so the rest is not in blockquotes.
After all, it is 4:45 A.M. and my resident blog expert is sleeping. Going myself now. God Bless you, King Family and Thank
you God for giving us such a great lady to abide by for a little while.
TRANSCRIPT
FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WISH TO HONOR THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST IN THIS PLACE TODAY.
AND I THANK GOD FOR THE INDWELLING AND THE FEELING OF THE HOLY GHOST THAT GIVES ME THE STRENGTH TO STAND EVEN NOW.
TO SPEAK WHAT THUS SAYETH THE LORD.
I GIVE HONOR AND RESPECT TO MY SPIRITUAL FATHER AND MY PASTOR, BISHOP EDDIE LONG.
AND ON BEHALF OF MY ENTIRE FAMILY, THANK YOU, FOR ALLOWING US TO SHARE MY MOTHER'S HOME-GOING CELEBRATION FROM THIS
PLACE.
IT IS SO PROPHETIC AND I WILL BE SPEAKING TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT THAT
WE WOULD BE HERE ON THIS, UH, AFTERNOON, AT THE FIVE O'CLOCK HOUR, THE
HOUR OF GRACE.
I ALSO WISH TO THANK EACH AND EVERY PERSON THAT PARTICIPATED ON THIS PROGRAM ON BEHALF OF MY FAMILY.
WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE AND FOR SHIFTING YOUR SCHEDULES TO BE HERE TO SHARE WITH US ON TODAY.
AND IN SOME STRANGE AND WIERD KIND OF WAY, I WANT TO APOLOGIZE - TO THE
MASSES OF PEOPLE, WHO IN SOME FORM OR FASHION HAD WORDS IN THEIR HEARTS
THEY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK IN HONOR AND REVERANCE TO CORETTA SCOTT KING.
IT IS A DAUNTING TASK TO PUT TOGETHER A HOME-GOING CELEBRATION FOR A WOMAN AS SUCH.
BECAUSE SHE HAS TOUCHED SO MANY LIVES IN SO MANY DIFFERENT UNIQUE AND PECULIAR WAYS,
BUT I THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR LOVE AND YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND YOUR LOVE AND YOUR PATIENCE AND YOUR KINDNESS.
WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS - BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THERE WAS NO WAY HUMANLY
POSSIBLE, TO GET EVERYBODY WHO NEEDED TO SAY SOMETHING, TO SAY
SOMETHING.
ONE THING I LEARNED IN THESE LAST FIVE MONTHS, AFTER MY MOTHER'S STROKE, IS THE VALUE OF MOMENTS.
BECAUSE IN MANY WAYS, WE TAKE FOR GRANTED EACH AND EVERY HOUR OF THE
DAY AND EACH AND EVERY MOMENT THAT GOD GIVES US, WITH ANYBODY, AND IN
PARTICULAR, OUR FAMILY.
WE KIND OF SAY HELLO CASUALLY, WE SAY GOODBYE CASUALLY, WE SAY SEE YOU
LATER CASUALLY, WE GET IN ARGUMENTS AND SLAM DOORS AND WALK AWAY.
NOT REALIZING THE VALUE OF EVERY MOMENT THAT WE HAVE WITH A PERSON.
BECAUSE IT IS IN THOSE MOMENTS, THAT AN EXCHANGE TAKES PLACE, IN SUCH A
WAY THAT WHEN THAT PERSON TRANSITIONS INTO THE NEXT DIMENSION OF
ETERNAL LIFE, THAT WE CAN REST IN THE PEACE AND IN THE ASSURANCE, THAT
I DEPOSITED EVERYTHING THAT GOD WOULD HAVE ME TO DEPOSIT INTO THEIR
LIFE, AND THEY DID THE SAME.
AND SO WHEN I COME TO THE HOME-GOING CEREMONY OR THE CELEBRATION, I'M JUST HERE TO CELEBRATE.
I DON'T HAVE TO SAY A WORD.
I'M JUST HERE TO CELEBRATE.
SO LET EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW THAT HAVE BREATH PRAISE YE THE LORD FOR THE LIFE OF CORETTA SCOTT KING.
A STALWART.
A BEACON OF HOPE.
A KING IN HER OWN RIGHT.
A WOMAN OF AUTHORITY.
A WOMAN OF POWER.
A WOMAN OF GRACE.
A WOMAN OF ESSENCE.
A WOMAN OF STRENGTH.
A WOMAN OF DIGNITY.
WE PRAISE THE LORD FOR CORETTA SCOTT KING AND HER EXAMPLE OF LIFE.
I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DID NOT ALSO JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS OVER THE LAST FIVE MONTHS.
WE'VE BEEN IN THIS PROCESS FOR NINE MONTHS.
MY MOTHER FIRST ENTERED THE HOSPITAL THE DAY BEFORE HER 78TH BIRTHDAY, LAST YEAR, APRIL 26TH.
AND SINCE THAT TIME, UH, THE LIFE OF BERNICE AND YOLANDA, AND MARTIN AND DEXTER WERE FOREVER ALTERED.
AND GETTING TO THIS MOMENT, WERE WEARY.
AND WERE TIRED.
AND WE JUST SOLICIT YOUR CONTINUED PRAYERS, AS WE CONTINUE TO PROCESS
AND TO UNDERSTAND AND GET QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND PERHAPS QUESTIONS
BEING ANSWERED HAVING TO BE AMMENDED, AS WE SEEK GOD TO BRING COMPLETE
CLOSURE BECAUSE ONE THING THAT IS SO CRITICAL IS THAT WE DON'T HOLD
ONTO OUR MOTHER AS LONG AS WE HELD ONTO OUR DADDY.
BECAUSE THE WAY WE HOLD WILL PROHIBIT AND INHIBIT THE DESTINY THAT GOD HAS INSIDE OF EACH ONE OF US.
AND SO WE THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR PRAYERS OVER ALL THOSE MONTHS AND
WE ALL PRAY FOR HER HEALING, BUT YOU KNOW, SHE'S PERFECTLY HEALED NOW.
WHEN YOU PRAY, YOU ALWAYS PRAY, AS JESUS CHRIST DID IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, FATHER NOT MY WILL BUT THY WILL BE
DONE.
NOT THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE FAITH AND THE INSURANCE BY JESUS'S STRIPES
THAT SHE IS HEALED, BUT HE HEALED US IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE COULD HAVE
ETERNAL LIFE AND EXPERIENCE THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE
DON'T EVEN HAVE TO FACE ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE FACE IN THIS EARTHLY
DIMENSION.
AND SO WE THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR WELL WISHES AND YOUR VISITS AND THINGS OF THAT
NATURE.
AND FINALLY, BUT NOT LAST, I WANT TO JUST RECOGNIZE AND THANK FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, MY MOTHER'S CARETAKERS.
WHO WERE SO LOVING AND SO CARING AND SO SACRIFICIAL IN THE TIME THAT
THEY SPENT RELEASING US FROM THE BURDEN OF HAVING TO DO IT, LITERALLY,
AS A CARETAKER, WE DID IT IN ANOTHER FORM AND ANOTHER FASHION.
UM, BUT I WANT THEM TO STAND NOW JUST SO THAT WE MAY GIVE THEM APPLAUSE
AND THANK GOD FOR THEM: LYSIA CARTER, KIMBERLY JUDD, EVELYN DUDLEY, JOY
MCKINNIS, WANDA HUNTER, KELLY MCASKEL AND JEWEL DAVIS.
ARE THEY HERE?
OH, THEY'RE RIGHT BACK THERE.
I LOVE YOU!
I APPRECIATE YOU ON BEHALF DEXTER, MARTIN, YOLANDA AND MYSELF, THE REST OF THE FAMILY.
AND WE KNOW ALTHOUGH THIS ASSIGNMENT IS OVER, GOD STILL HAS EVEN GREATER ASSIGNMENTS FOR YOU.
THAT GOD MADE DEPOSITS IN YOUR LIFE THRU THE LIFE OF CORETTA SCOTT KING
AND YOU HAD TO MAKE A STOP BY, AND BE INTRODUCED TO HER SPIRIT, THAT
YOU MIGHT TAKE THAT SPIRIT THAT LIVES INSIDE OF HER AND BEGIN TO SHARE
IT WITH SO MANY PEOPLE OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR NEXT ASSIGNMENTS.
GOD BLESS YOU.
AND WE THANK YOU AND WE PRAISE GOD FOR YOU.
BEFORE I, UH, UM, UH DELIVER THESE LAST WORDS, I DON'T WANNA, UH, I DON'T LIKE THE WORD EULOGY, EVEN THO I KNOW WHAT IT
MEANS.
I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT UH, REISA, MICHELLE AND NELSON
MANDELA SENT A LETTER, UH, TO US, AS WELL AS BISHOP DESMOND TUTU.
WE DID NOT WANT TO GO ON WITHOUT RECOGNIZING AND ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR CONDOLESCENCES AT THIS VERY DIFFICULT TIME.
[PAUSE]
AS I WAS TRYING TO PREPARE WHAT I WOULD SAY AND, TO PEOPLE OF TODAY, IT
DAWNED ON ME THAT MANY OF US, PERHAPS UH, ARE HERE TO HONOR THE LIFE
AND THE LEGACY OF CORETTA SCOTT KING.
WE DID CHANGE OUR SCHEDULES TO BE HERE AND PAY OUR CONDOLESCENCES.
BUT IF I MIGHT BE HONEST WITH YOU ON THIS EVENING, THOSE WHO ARE STILL HERE, YOU REALLY DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE.
BECAUSE BEFORE THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH WERE LAID, GOD
ORDAINED THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE DRAWN FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST AND THE
NORTH AND THE SOUTH INTO THIS PLACE CALLED NEW BIRTH FOR SUCH A TIME AS
THIS.
GOD MAKES NO MISTAKES. HE'S A GOD OF PERFECT TIMING.
AND THERE'S A THING CALLED KAIROS MOMENTS WHEN GOD INTERJECTS
HIMSELF IN TIME LIKE HE DID BACK IN 1955, 50 YEARS AGO, TO MOVE THIS
NATION INTO ANOTHER PLACE AND HERE HE GOES AGAIN, IN A KAIROS MOMENT.
IT WOULD BE NEGLECTFUL OF US IF WE MISS THIS MOMENT AND TREATED IT LIKE
WE WERE ATTENDING SOME FUNERAL OR HOME-GOING SERVICE AND PAYING
CONDOLESCENCES AND RESPECT AND THEN WE ALLOWED OURSELVES TO RETURN TO
LIFE AS USUAL AND NOT STOP AND LISTEN AND HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD.
SO GOD DREW YOU IN HERE TODAY, EVEN THE FOUR PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, BECAUSE GOD HAD A WORD THAT HE NEEDED THE NATIONS TO
HEAR.
AND AS I WAS SITTIN THERE AND I WAS VACILLATING BACK AND FORTH THE LORD
BROUGHT BACK TO MY REMEMBERANCE THE VERY WAY THAT MY MOTHER LEFT THIS
PLACE.
I REMEMBER ON FRIDAY, JAN. 27TH, AS I WAS WITH HER DOWN IN MEXICO,
SOMEWHERE AROUND THE EIGHT O'CLOCK HOUR, EIGHT IS THE NUMBER OF NEW
BEGINNINGS, MY MOTHER STARTED GROANING, MOANING, FOR THREE STRAIGHT
HOURS.
AND EVELYN CAN ATTEST TO THE FACT BECAUSE SHE WAS THE CARETAKER THAT
WAS WITH ME, THAT IT WAS LITERALLY, THREE STRAIGHT HOURS WITHOUT A
BREAK.
AND I ASKED MY MOTHER, I SAID, ARE YOU IN PAIN? IS YOUR STOMACH
HURTING? IS YOUR HEAD HURTING? I ASKED HER DIFFERENT PLACES AND SHE
SAID NO, BECAUSE SHE COULD STILL TALK UP UNTIL THE TIME THAT SHE
TRANSITIONED.
SO SHE WENT ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT COULD WE DO, AND I, I CALLED ON THE DOCTORS THERE.
THERE ARE MEDICAL DOCTORS THERE CONTRARY TO THE REPORTS THAT YOU MAY READ.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU READ IN THE PAPER PLEASE.
BE INTELLIGENT!
BE CRITICAL.
AND, AND THEY BROUGHT SOMETHING TO, TO TRY TO HELP RELIEVE HER, BUT I
IN THE MIDST OF THAT, AND I SAID, MOTHER ARE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE, AND SHE
SAID, UNCOMFORTABLE.
NOW, SHE SAID SHE WASN'T IN PAIN, BUT THAT SHE WAS UNCOMFORTABLE.
AND THAT WORD, UNCOMFORTABLE, DOESN'T, DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN WHAT WE THINK IT MEANS.
BECAUSE GOD GAVE ME A REVELATION AT THAT MOMENT, THAT MY MOTHER REALLY WAS WRESTLING WITH GOD.
AS JACOB WRESTLED WITH GOD.
AND I LOOKED AT MY MOTHER AND I SAID, MAMA, UH, UH, ARE YOU WRESTLING WITH GOD?
AND SHE DID NOT SAY A WORD TO ME.
BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THAT VERY MOMENT SHE WAS MAKING A DECISION AS TO
WHETHER IT WAS WORTH STAYING HERE IN THE EARTH TO CONTINUE SOME MORE
WORK, OR WHETHER SHE HAD TO TRANSITION TO BE WITH GOD.
AND I THINK THE GLIMPSE THAT SHE GOT AT THAT MOMENT, WAS A GLIMPSE THAT
TOLD HER, THAT UNLESS A SEED FALL INTO THE GROUND AND DIE, IT ABIDES
ALONE, BUT IF IT DIES, IT PRODUCES MUCH FRUIT.
IN OTHER WORDS, I THINK SHE GOT A GLIMPSE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS
A MOMENT IN GOD'S CALENDAR THAT IF SHE DID NOT MAKE THE TRANSITION THAT
SHE MADE, THAT THERE WERE SOME THINGS IN THE EARTH THAT COULD NOT BE
RELEASED TO THE PEOPLE IN THE NATIONS, OF MY GOD!
AND SO HER DEATH WAS MUCH GREATER AT THAT MOMENT THAN SHE WAS, THAN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FOR HER TO HOLD ONTO LIFE.
AND SO FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS, REMEMBER CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED AND ON
THE THIRD DAY HE WAS RESURRECTED, FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS SHE WENT IN
AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
THERE WERE MOMENTS WHEN SHE WAS VERY CLEAR AND THERE WERE OTHER MOMENTS
WHEN SHE WAS JUST SLEEPING HERSELF AWAY, IN THE ARMS AND THE PEACE OF
GOD.
AND I NEVER SEEN MY MOTHER IN SO MUCH, PEACE.
AND EVEN THO, I KNEW THAT I DID NOT WANT TO ACCEPT IT IN MY FLESH, THAT
THIS WAS PERHAPS - IT, I WAS STILL BELIEVING FOR A MIRACLE.
THAT MONDAY, PACIFIC COAST TIME, AROUND THE EIGHT O'CLOCK HOUR AGAIN,
EIGHT BEING THE NUMBER OF NEW BEGINNINGS, AS I REMIND YOU AGAIN, I WAS
LAYING IN THE BED NEXT TO MY MOTHER, NOT AS THE PAPER SAID, I DID NOT
FIND HER DEAD.
I WAS THERE WITH HER FOR THE LAST MOMENT.
I WAS LAYING IN THE BED NEXT TO HER.
AROUND 8:25 PACIFIC TIME OUR MOTHER TOOK HER LAST FOUR BREATHS.
IT WASN'T THE STROKE THAT TOOK HER, IN THE NATURAL SENSE OF THE WORD.
BUT IT WAS A COMPLICATIONS FROM OVARIAN CANCER WHICH CAUSED RESPIRATORY PNEUMONIA THAT TOOK HER.
AND THE LORD HAD ME TO LOOK BACK ON THAT AND HE TOOK ME TO A SCRIPTURE,
WHERE A MAN OF THE PHARISEES NAMED NICODEMUS, A RULER OF THE JEWS, CAME
TO JESUS AT NIGHTTIME.
AND HE SAID, RABBI, WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE A TEACHER, COME FROM GOD.
AND NO ONE CAN DO THESE SIGNS THAT YOU DO UNLESS GOD IS WITH HIM.
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIM, MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS
ONE IS BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT/SHE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
AND I SAID, GOD WHY ARE YOU TAKING ME THERE?
HE SAID BECAUSE IT IS NO ACCIDENT AND MISTAKE THAT THE VERY THING THAT
TOOK YOUR MOTHER OUT OF HERE, OVARIAN CANCER, IS THE VERY, IS A MESSAGE
THAT EMERGES FROM, FROM THAT, THAT KIND OF DEATH, FOR PEOPLE ALL OVER
THE NATIONS, FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.
FOR YOU SEE, HER CANCER IN OTHER WORDS, WAS CONCENTRATED IN THE REPRODUCTIVE AREA.
THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.
AND GOD TOOK ME BACK TO THERE AND HE SHOWED ME HOW, HOW THE CANCER WAS
JUST GROWING IN THAT REPRODUCTIVE AREA AND IT WAS BEGINNING TO AFFECT
OTHER ORGANS, IN, IN THAT VICINITY, AND HE REMINDED ME, HE SAID, YOUR
MOTHER PASSED AWAY OF COMPLICATIONS OF OVARIAN CANCER, RESPIRATORY
PNEUMONIA, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, MY EARTH, MY WORLD, MY, MY NATIONS ARE ON
THE VERGE OF, OF, OF LOSING IT AND DYING AND BEING OVERTAKEN UH, WITH
REPSIRATORY PNEUMONIA, FAILURE BECAUSE OF COMPLICATIONS FROM
REPRODUCTIVE CANCER.
AND THOSE COMPLICATIONS ARE HINDERING THE ABILITY FOR A NEW BIRTH.
SEE WHAT GOD IS SAYING TO US TODAY THRU THE, THRU THE, TRANSITION OF
CORETTA SCOTT KING, IS THAT WE HERE IN THIS WORLD RIGHT NOW ARE
SUFFERING FROM A, A COMPLICATIONS OF CANCER FROM MATERIALISM AND GREED
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 IS EATING AWAY AT THE VERY ESSENCE AND THE NATURE OF
WHAT GOD CREATED HUMAN KIND TO BE FOR HE CREATED US! TO HAVE RULERSHIP
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 ARE NOT
REPRODUCING ANYTHING BECAUSE THE CANCER IS EATING AWAY AT US.
HE SAID, ROLES HAVE REVERSED.
CREATION HAS BECOME YOUR KING INSTEAD OF YOU BEING THE KING.
HE SAID BECAUSE THE VERY TREES THAT I HAVE 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 INDUSTRIES 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, YOU SEE
GOD DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LEAVING US, OF UH, RICHES AND WEALTH, OF
MATERIALS AND RESOURCES, HE DOESN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH BILLIONARES AND
MILLIONARES, IN FACT, GOD HAS LEFT ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY TO BE A
BILLIONARE, IN FACT.
WHAT HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH IS OUR AFFINITY TO, OUR LOYALTY TO, OUR SOUL
TIED TO MONEY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE LOVE IS OVERTAKEN US, AND NOW WE
HAVE ESCALATED DIVORCE RATES, AND NOW WE HAVE PEOPLE DOING VIOLENT
THINGS IN THE STREET.
HE SAID 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'S A DANGER WHEN
YOU BECOME A THING ORIENTED SOCIETY RATHER THAN A PEOPLE ORIENTED
SOCIETY.
AND SO CORETTA SCOTT KING'S TRANSITION IS CALLING FOR A NEW BIRTH.
YOU ARE NOT SITTING IN THIS CHURCH JUST BECAUSE IT WAS LOGICAL TO BE HERE.
OF COURSE DISCUSSIONS ON WHERE TO HAVE IT.
WAS IT UH PLAIN? WE SHOULD HAVE IT EBENEZER, SHOULD WE HAVE IT AT THE CIVIC CENTER, SHOULD WE HAVE IT AT NEW BIRTH?
AND OF COURSE, LOGIC WOULD DICTATE SO THAT SO MANY OF YOU COULD BE HERE
TODAY, THAT WE COME TO ONE OF, IF NOT THE, LARGEST CONGREGATIONS OF
ATLANTA.
NOT ANY CHOICE OF OURS, GOD JUST ORDAINED IT TO BE THIS WAY.
AND I SAID, GOD, WHY, WHY HERE?
HE SAID BECAUSE IT'S TIME FOR THE WORLD TO BE BORN AGAIN.
IT'S TIME FOR A NEW BIRTH.
IT'S TIME FOR MY PEOPLE TO REPOSITION THEMSELVES INTO THEIR RIGHTFUL
PLACES AS TRUE KINGS AND THAT'S WHY HE USED THE LIFE OF A KING AT THIS
SET TIME, BECAUSE HE SAID WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF LOSING CREDIBILITY,
EVEN BEFORE THE CREATION AND THE ANIMALS AND THE FISHES OF THE SEA
BECAUSE THE WHOLE OF CREATION IS GROANING AND THAT'S WHY CORETTA WAS
GROANING ON THAT NIGHT, SHE WAS GROANING BECAUSE THERE'S AN EARNEST
EXPECTATION, THERE'S A WAITING FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD
AND THAT'S NOT MASCULINE BUT THOSE WHO MOVE AND OPERATE IN THE SPIRIT
AND IN THE HEART OF GOD AND WHO KNOW THEY WERE CREATED IN THE IMAGE AND
IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD.
AND THAT GOD PLACED THEM HERE TO REPRODUCT LIFE. AND EVEN LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY.
SO GOD SAYS TODAY, YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN!
BECAUSE THE WAY YOU HAVE BEEN OPERATING AS NATIONS IN THIS WORLD, IS CONTRARY TO WHAT MY WILL WAS FOR THE EARTH.
YOU'VE ALLOWED THIS EARTH TO BE CONTAMINATED WITH POVERTY.
AS MARTIN KING CALLED THE TRIPLE EVILS OF RACISM AND MILITARISM.
AND I AM NOW, RAISING UP A PEOPLE, WHO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD SAYING
IT'S TIME TO EMERGE AND TAKE YOUR PROPER PLACE AS KINGS IN THE EARTH
AND BEGIN TO RULE IN YOUR TERRITORIES ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD
WHETHER YOURE AN ENTERTAINER OR WHETHER YOUR A POLITICIAN OR WETHER
YOUR AN ENTREPRENEUR, OR WHETHER YOURE AN ACTRESS OR WHETHER YOURE A
BUSINESS MAN OR WETHER YOURE A MECHANIC OR WETHER YOURE A PASTOR, IT
DOESN'T MATTER WETHER YOU ARE A STUDENT, GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO BE A
KING IN THIS TIME.
TO RULE AND TO EXCERCISE, INFLUENCE FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
FIRST SERMON THAT JESUS PREACHED HE WASN'T INVITING PEOPLE TO CHURCH.
EVEN THOUGH WE DO THAT WELL, WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO COME TO OUR VARIOUS CHURCHES TO VISIT.
THAT WASN'T IT.
GOD WASN'T INTERESTED IN GETTING US INTO CHURCH.
BECAUSE CHURCH HAD CRIPPLED US.
AND CREATED TRADITIONS OF MEN, THAT ENTRAPPED US, AND KEPT US FROM
EXHIBITING A TRUE SPIRIT OF GOD, WHICH IS UNCODITIONAL LOVE, WHICH
CORETTA SCOTT KING EXHIBITED TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
AS CHRIST SAID, REPENT!
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.
HE WAS SAYING YOU GOTTA CHANGE YOUR MIND NOW, BECAUSE ALL OF THE
SYSTEMS THAT YOU HAVE CREATED, ALL OF THE TRADITIONS THAT YOU HAVE COME
THRU, THEY ARE FAILING AND THEY ARE FADING AND THEY ARE DOING IT VERY
FAST AND VERY QUICK AND THATS WHY YOU SEE RIGHT NOW THERE IS A
DIMINISHING OF SOMETHINGS THAT YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED LATELY.
AND GOD IS ELEVATING HIS SPIRIT IN THE EARTH.
SO HE SAID, THE WAY YOU BEEN TRYING TO WORK IT OUT, IT AINT WORKIN NO MORE.
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GET FREE.
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO TAKE OFF THE SHACKLES BECAUSE WE HAVE MOVED INTO ANOTHER DIMENSION NOW.
WHEN SHE PASSED, SHE CAUSED AN EARTHQUAKE OF A MAGNITUDE OF 8 IN THE EARTH.
AND THE REASON THAT SHE COULDN'T PASS IN ATLANTA, GA AND WHY GOD HAD TO
FLY HER OVER TO THE WEST COAST FROM THE EAST COAST AND DROP HER OVER
THE LINE IS BECAUSE SHE WAS NOT JUST A NATIONAL FIGURE, SHE WAS A
GLOBAL LEADER.
AND GOD WANTED THIS WORLD TO NOT JUST RECOGNIZE HER BUT RECOGNIZE THE
SPIRIT IN WHICH SHE LIVED AND MOVED AND HAD HER BEING OUT OF THAT
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
BUT THE INTERESTING THING IS, SHE COULDN'T GO CONVENTIONAL.
WELL SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT BECAUSE IF SHE HAD
GOTTEN CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT SHE WOULD HAVE LIVED, I DON'T THINK SO.
BECAUSE WHEN IT'S GOD'S TIME, IT'S GOD'S TIME.
THE REASON WHY WE MAKE DECISION IN THE NATURAL THAT SOMETIMES APPEAR TO
BE WRONG DECISIONS UNTIL YOU STEP BACK AND REALIZE FIRST THE NATURAL,
THEN THE SPIRITUAL, YOU BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND TAHT THIS WAS REALLY A
SPIRITUAL MOVE BECAUSE IN MANY WAYS, GOD WAS TRYING TO SAY THAT THE
CONVENTIONAL WAY THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING THINGS IN THIS WORLD,
ESPECIALLY THROUGH MILITARISM AND WAR, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, THEY
ARE NOT NATURAL AND NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF MY HEART AND MY NATURE AND MY
CHARACTER AND MY ESSENCE, AND SO, I HAD TO TAKE HER TO SOMETHING THAT
LOOKED LIKE AN ALTERNATIVE THING BECAUSE WHEN MARTIN CAME ALONG, HE
INTRODUCED AN ALTERNATIVE AND THAT WAS CALLED NON-VIOLENCE!
AND CORETTA, CORETTA CAPTURED THOSE WORDS WHEN MARTIN DIED.
AND I THANK GOD FOR THE REVELATION THAT HE GAVE TO OUR BISHOP.
GOD CAME TO CORETTA SCOTT KING, SAID MOSES, MARTIN, MY SERVANT IS DEAD,
ARISE, TAKE THIS PEOPLE OVER THE JORDAN, [GIGGLE] SEE, JOSHUA WAS
REALLY CORETTA.
I KNEW I WOULDN'T GET TOO MANY CLAPS.
CAUSE SEXISM IS STILL ALIVE.
AND SEXISM IS NOT ONLY JUST FROM MEN, IT'S FROM WOMEN TOO.
AND WE MISSED IT.
WE MISSED THE FACT THAT THE ONE WHO REALLY CAUGHT THE HEART AND THE
SPIRIT OF DR. KING AND WOULD NOT LET US FORGET TIME AND TIME AGAIN, AS
YOU SAW ON THE VIDEO, THAT IT'S EITHER NON-VIOLENCE OR NON-EXISTENCE.
THAT WAS CORETTA SCOTT KING.
SHE HELD IT DOWN, GOD GAVE HER THE GRACE TO BE ABLE TO LIVE AS LONG AS SHE DID.
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?
ARE YOU GONNA LIVE ACCORDING TO THE WORLD'S SYSTEM AND THE TRADITIONS
AND THE CONVENTIONAL METHODS OR ARE YOU GONNA LIVE ACCORDING TO THE
RADICAL AND THE REVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMING WAY OF GOD THROUGH
NON-VIOLENCE WHICH IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD TO RISE UP AND
POSSESS THE KINGDOM AND MOVE IN EVERYTHING THAT GOD HAS ORDAINED FOR US
TO MOVE IN.
AND I CLOSE WITH THIS.
[LONG PAUSE]
GOD'S BEEN WAITING ON US A LONG TIME, TO GET IT TOGETHER.
AND IF WE MISS THIS ONE - WE ARE GONNA MISS ONE OF THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITIES TO DEMONSTRATE GOD IN THE EARTH.
WE'VE GOTTA CEASE FROM OUR DIVISIONS.
WE'VE GOTTA CEASE FROM OUR POLITICKING.
WE'VE GOTTA CEASE FROM THE EXPLOITATION AND THE INSECURITIES.
BECAUSE GOD IS NOT LOOKING FOR ANOTHER MARTIN LUTHER KING, OR CORETTA SCOTT KING.
THE OLD HAS PASSED AWAY.
THERE IS A NEW ORDER THAT IS EMERGING.
AND IN THIS NEW BIRTH, GOD IS GOING TO RAISE UP A REMNANT OF PEOPLE,
WHO ARE DETERMINED TO POSITION THEMSELVES, THAT THE KINGDOMS OF THIS
WORLD MIGHT BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS SAVIOUR, OUR
SAVIOUR.
IT'S TIME FOR US TO BIRTH OUT - RIGHTEOUSNESS - EQUALITY - TRUE JUSTICE - TRUE FREEDOM AND TRUE HOLINESS.
FOR IT'S AT THE END OF THE DAY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT HOLY, IT JUST
SIMPLY MEANS, WHAT SHE DEMONSTRATED AND LIVED, EVERY DAY OF HER LIFE,
IT'S WHY SHE COULD BUILD, AS A WOMAN, THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CENTER
FOR NON-VIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE.
AGAINST THE WISHES OF SO MANY MEN WHO TOLD HER TO STAY AT HOME AND RAISE HER CHILDREN.
BUT SHE WAS A WOMAN WHO BUILT A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FACILITY THAT WOULD BE AN EPI-CENTER FOR THIS KINGDOM OF GOD,
NON-VIOLENCE.
AND SHE DID IT BECAUSE - SHE WAS HOLY.
SHE HAD - HOLY MEANS HAVING OUR LIVES YIELDED, TO GOD.
SHE DIDN'T DO IT FOR FAME.
SHE DIDN'T DO IT FOR FORTUNE.
SHE DID IT BECAUSE IT WAS THE WILL OF GOD AND SHE YIELDED TO IT.
AND THAT'S WHY SHE COULD LAY ASIDE HER MUSIC CAREER.
THAT'S WHY SHE COULD PUSH BACK HER FIRST DESIRES.
AND IF WE WOULD JUST BEGIN TO DO THAT, THIS WHOLE WORLD WOULD BE
TRANSFORMED, AS MY FATHER SAID, INTO AN OASIS OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE.
THANK YOU MOTHER, FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE EXAMPLE, OF CHRIST LIKE LOVE AND OBEDIENCE.
WE ARE GONNA MISS YOU.
BUT AS I WAS LAYING ON THAT FLOOR AND TALKING TO YOU, YOLANDA, AND WE WERE PRAYING AND I WENT IN TONGUES.
I STARTED PRAYING IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
I FELT A TRANSFER TAKE PLACE.
THERE'S A MANTLE THAT HAS FALLEN AND WE ARE GOING TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT GOD DOES, THROUGH THE SEED, OF MARTIN AND
CORETTA.
GOD BLESS YOU.
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