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One can be certain that Martin Luther King, Jr.
practiced this stage as he referenced many of biblical images in his sermons
and writings. While confined to a prison cell in Birmingham, Alabama, in
King's Letter from Birmingham Jail he acknowledged that he must
respond to the "Macedonian call for aid." With further investigation of what
the Macedonian call was we will discover that King understood something
about St. Paul. St. Paul stirred by the Holy Spirit in his second missionary
journey heard the cry of the Macedonian man, "Come over to Macedonia and
help us" (Acts 16:9) Mirroring St. Paul, King liken his experience to the
Macedonian call to the Birmingham, Alabama, call for help against the
injustice in there area. King investigated the Macedonian call.
When moving to our next stage; Integration,
we must practice listening to that inner voice, so that when clues or
markers appear in our text we will let Scripture speak to Scripture. Some
people may call this listening to the Holy Spirit, the inner man, or my
spirit man. However you may define that sense or gut feeling, this stage is
crucial. As a student of God's Word, you must recognize that some verses are
repeated which allows for certain passages to bring clarity to a selected
text. In certain Bibles there are some letters italicized next to a text or
font that is superscript, like an
 to show that this verse was stated
somewhere else in the Bible. You may also find some type of symbol like an
asterisk "*" that references the scholars comment about that passage. If you
feel the spirit moving you to examine a text through these markers, follow
the Spirit because this may lead you to the revelation that God wants you to
have.
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