God of all races :In memory of Martin Luther King Jnr

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God of all races :In memory of Martin Luther King Jnr

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Pastor Ocean Hamandishe—

GOD is the creator, the maker of all human races under the sun. His love was revealed in that He gave his only begotten son Jesus Christ. John 3:16  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.

The world referred here includes everybody. 1 John 2:2 And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. This means that sin has no respect of a race. God regarded everybody and every race special before him. God never segregate His love or reserve it for few individuals, but it is for all. His love has nothing to do with background or colour of skin.

A few days ago we saw the media carrying images of Martin Luther King Jnr and his quotes. He left a legacy. His name is popular the world over and his quotes are found in books and on social media. He believed that everyone is equal before God. He believed that God `s Spirit was breathed to every human being; hence discrimination or segregation based on colour was not right. However, many do not really know the history of this man, what he stood for and what happened to him. In this article, I thought of extracting the history or a background of this great man of God.

King, Martin Luther, Jr. was American clergyman and Nobel laureate, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of non-violent resistance to racial oppression. He was not just a human – civil rights activist but one who was considered God fearing. In memory of him, here is his background or bibliography from one of the encyclopedia:

Martin Luther King Jnr

EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE:

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929, the eldest son of Martin Luther King, Sr., a Baptist minister, and Alberta Williams King. He entered Morehouse College at the age of 15 and was ordained a Baptist minister at the age of 18. Graduating from Crozer Theological Seminary as class president in 1951, he then did postgraduate work at Boston University. King’s studies at Crozer and Boston led him to explore the works of the Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi, whose ideas became the core of his own philosophy of non-violent protest. While in Boston, he met Coretta Scott of Marion, Alabama. They were married in June 1953, and the following year King accepted an appointment as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

To be continued next week…

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