“When Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
Genesis 5:32
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“…THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE...” John 17:11
Living the Prayer of Jesus through Racial Sobriety
Matthew 5: 1-12a
The teaching of the Beatitudes on the mountaintop captures Jesus as the great teacher which is a characteristic of the Gospel of Matthew. The mountaintop experience represents our higher consciousness that is above the valleys of darkness and shadows of ignorance. The attitudes we need to maintain in order to “Be” at this level of consciousness when we return to the valleys are listed in the Beatitudes. The Beatitudes are the ways of re-engagement for the world that has not chosen racial sobriety and other changes in their behavior. To maintain one’s racial sobriety entails the Beatitudes of forgiveness and witness. Without the Beatitudes that come from the mountaintop experience we can not maintain the graces and insight we have found there. The Rev. Dr. King, in one of his greatest speeches tells the audience, “I have been to the mountaintop and looked over.” Once we have been to the mountaintop of faith, we must tell others and witness to the power of that moment. Matthew captures his moment with Jesus in the Beatitudes. |
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