He Came That We May Have Life

We must understand today, that the one thing the enemy has always feared is that the mass poor would hear and respond to a voice that would uplift them. In the scriptures, Jesus had a feast and he sent for the doctor, but he was busy. So Jesus sent for the lawyer, but he was trying his case. So, Jesus sent for the businessman, but he was busy taking care of business. When the disciples returned, the feast was empty. So, Jesus told his disciples to go out into the highways and the byways to invite people to the feast. When they went out into the highways and the byways, they filled up the feast with guests because the little man in the highways and the byways did not have any stake in the status quo. The little man had not benefited from being a magician of Pharaoh or a sycophant, or one of those who bowed to Herod or Caesar. They knew they were suffering and they were listening and looking for a voice that would speak to their hurt. And then, Jesus came. He was not a weak a man in terms of his speech; he admonished and rebuked the hypocrisy of the Jewish scholars of that day.

So many of us today are steeped in religiosity that we lose spirituality. So many of us are bound in rituals that we have lost the truths to which the rituals are pointing us. So many of us are spiritual hypocrites who strain at a gnat, while swallowing a camel. So Jesus was such a refreshing personality in the Roman society. The scriptures say that the poor heard him gladly. Anybody that the poor hear gladly concerns the rich, because the rich are rich because they are the bloodsuckers of the poor. You may say, “Wait a minute, Farrakhan. I am rich, but I do not suck poor people’s blood.”

But if money is the lifeblood of an economic system and you have a lot of it and others have none or very little of it, you must ask yourself, how did you get it? You say you are an entrepreneur, which is very good. But as a entrepreneur who is taking life from the community by the profits you gain, you have an obligation to put some resources back into the community. Those who gain profits from the communities of the poor and bring it to their communities, without putting any resources back into the poor communities, are the bloodsuckers of the poor.