![]() ![]() So I want to turn your attention to this subject: “Loving Your Enemies.” It’s so basic to me because it is a part of my basic philosophical and theological orientation: the whole idea of love, the whole philosophy of love. Although the content is, the basic content is the same, new insights and new experiences naturally make for new illustrations. I try to make it something of a custom or tradition to preach from this passage of Scripture at least once a year, adding new insights that I develop along the way, out of new experiences as I give these messages. I want to use as a subject from which to preach this morning a very familiar subject, and it is familiar to you because I have preached from this subject twice before to my knowing in this pulpit. So I’m going to try to follow his instructions from that point on. So he allowed me to come out with one stipulation, and that is that I would not come in the pulpit until time to preach, and that after, that I would immediately go back home and get in the bed. ![]() And I insisted that I would have to come to preach. And he said that it would be best for me to stay in the bed this morning. In fact, I had the doctor before coming to church. I am forced to preach under something of a handicap this morning. and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love.” This transcript is taken from an audio recording. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. 1 Using Matthew 5:43-45 as his text, King emphasizes that “hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. C., at the conclusion of Howard University School of Religion’s Forty-first Annual Convocation. A week prior to delivering this sermon at his church, King had given a similar version at Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington, D. ![]()
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