The dream that motivated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a vision that he referred to as the beloved community. In this community every human accepted every other human as a beloved member of the same family under Father GOD. What he popularized as the Beloved Community is similar to the gospel of reconciliation that YEHOSHUA HAMASHIACH brought to us as the way to salvation. I say they are similar because they are not the same.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw the pathway to the beloved community being opened by people of all nations, tribes, and tongues banning together with the help of God in non-violent revolt against the established evils of militarism, racism, and materialism. As these evils are toppled, an environment would emerge where peace, love, and unity could thrive and produce the beloved community. Christ the King of kings taught that He Himself was the only pathway of reconciliation to the Father and only by everyone denying their own ideologies of love, righteousness, and justice to follow His distinct commands as Lord and Savior could they become reconciled into one family with the ability to have lasting fulfillment in peace and joy.
There are a few major differences between the community dreamed of by Dr. King and the Kingdom established by the King of Kings. In the Kingdom of Christ, no other gods will be honored or worshipped except the one true GOD, YAHWEH as GOD the Father, the Word, and Holy Spirit. Reaching the Kingdom of Christ can only be obtained through the spiritual rebirth that comes from the Holy Spirit making you a bodily extension of the headship of Christ. You can see that the pathway to the Father is much narrower than the pathway to the beloved community dreamed of by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One last difference is that the beloved community of Dr. King includes Jews and Gentiles, and Catholics and Protestants, and other diversities but as the Apostle Paul explained, in the family of the Father all of those diversities are purged by the cross and we all put on the new person of Christ in the unity of one spirit.
This writing is in no way intended to discredit the sacrifices or impact made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because through his life he amplified many of the teachings of Christ. I am offering insights into why you see many people embracing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a great leader, while at the same time rejecting the gospel of Christ and His lordship as King of Kings. I feel duty bound as a follower and worshipper of the King of Kings to shed light on the differences, so that those seeking salvation in the eternal kingdom of the King of Kings would set their affections in Heaven, where Christ sits at the right hand of GOD the Father and realize that this world will be saved only when every knee bows and every tongue confesses the Christ is the Lord of lords, and the King of Kings, and all of these present nations and kingdoms pass away.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6)
1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4:1-6)
“Look to Me, and be saved,
All you ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
I have sworn by Myself;
The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness,
And shall not return,
That to Me every knee shall bow,
Every tongue shall take an oath.
He shall say,
‘Surely in the Lord I have righteousness and strength.
To Him men shall come,
And all shall be ashamed
Who are incensed against Him.” (Isaiah 45:22-24)
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