I planned to use for the
textual basis for our thinking together that passage from the prologue of the
book of Job where Satan is pictured as asking God, "Does Job serve thee
for nought?" And I’d like to ask you to allow me to hold that sermon ["Why Serve God?"]
in abeyance and preach it the next time I am in the pulpit in order to share
with you some other ideas. This morning I was riding to the airport in
Washington, D.C., and on the way to the airport the limousine passed by the
Jefferson monument, and Reverend Andrew Young, my executive assistant, said to
me, "It’s quite coincidental that we would be passing by the Jefferson
Monument on Independence Day." You can get so busy in life that you forget
holidays and other days, and it had slipped my mind altogether that today was
the Fourth of July. And I said to him, "It is coincidental and quite
significant, and I think when I get to Atlanta and go to my pulpit, I will try
to preach a sermon in the spirit of the founding fathers of our nation and in
the spirit of the Declaration of Independence." And so this morning I
would like to use as a subject from which to preach: "The American
Dream." (Yes, sir)…
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