1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,040 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,840 Deuteronomy chapter #13 Last week we started as we looked at 8 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,400 the five pillars of Islam and you might remember from our 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,760 study of the five pillars of Islam, we saw that there was the 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:40,440 creed and that creed is this, there is no God but Allah and 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,520 Muhammad is his prophet. That someone was to recite that 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,360 three times to make them part of the faith. 13 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,200 But then we also saw that there are the other 4 pillars which is 14 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,120 prayer and that prayer would be offered five times a day towards 15 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,160 Mecca as well as those Friday prayers that everyone would 16 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,280 gather together for in a more of a service like would be 17 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,920 reminisces of how we gather together on a Sunday. 18 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,840 Of course the only thing that is similar is the fact that they 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,000 gather together. What happens in that service is 20 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,120 much different than what we would have happened in a Bible 21 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,720 preaching church. But they have prayer five times 22 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,400 a day. They have alms Guild giving 23 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:21,960 which is 2.5% of their income in certain situations that they 24 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:25,480 would give to the poor, to the needy or to the mosque. 25 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,840 Testing from sun up to sundown during the monthly celebration 26 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,840 or rather the month long celebration. 27 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,200 Ramadan takes place once a year would fast from sun up to 28 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,880 sundown and then a pilgrimage that everyone would be required 29 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,920 to travel once in their life to Mecca as long as they were 30 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,640 physically and financially able to do so That these were the 31 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,280 five pillars of Islam. And you might even remember we 32 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,000 watched a little bit of a video at the end of the lesson to be 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,600 able to show you in Islam's own word. 34 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,640 Now, again, just like no one person can speak for 35 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,800 Christianity, no one person can speak for Islam and all the 36 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,040 different flavors, if you will, of Islam. 37 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,479 But I think what we saw was a very down the middle from their 38 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:13,720 own mouth, from their own theology explanation of these 39 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,520 five pillars. And then I had mentioned that we 40 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,280 are going to this week, look at the fundamentals of the faith, 41 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,640 the fundamentals of the Islamic faith and see how they match up 42 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:27,080 with Bible believing Christianity. 43 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,640 That was 4 that I want to look at, but I'm afraid that getting 44 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:33,400 into my study that we're only going to look at two of them 45 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,040 here this morning. We'll look at the other two next 46 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,920 week. And then by God's grace, we'll 47 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:43,440 be looking at how we can better give the gospel to someone who 48 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,360 is a Muslim and be able to have some understanding of where they 49 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,960 come from so that we can be able to share the faith with them. 50 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,240 Now, of course, we understand that there aren't different 51 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,800 types of salvation. There's way to salvation, Amen. 52 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,880 And we can't give a Islamic person a different version of 53 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,840 the gospel that we would give someone who is a Jehovah 54 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,520 Witness, that we would give someone who is a Buddhist. 55 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,880 No, no, there's only one way to salvation that's through Jesus 56 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,240 Christ. That's salvation by grace 57 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,840 through faith alone. But we also understand that 58 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,120 understanding where they are coming from, understanding that 59 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,440 where their belief system lies, helps us to be able to better 60 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,680 present biblical truth to them. And so that's what we want to 61 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,240 present to the next couple a couple of weeks, the 62 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,160 fundamentals of Islam compared with Bible believing 63 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,800 Christianity. And then in that last week, we 64 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,720 will see how we can take those things and be able to show the 65 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,440 gospel to our Muslim friends and neighbors. 66 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,560 So well, let's look at two of these fundamentals here today. 67 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,800 The fundamentals we're going to look at are the sacred texts and 68 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,880 authority and creation. Of course, we understand that as 69 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,520 Bible believers that the Bible talks much about, well what the 70 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,800 Bible is to us and how it relates to us in our life, where 71 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,240 authority comes from, and also creation. 72 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,120 It's interesting that even creation itself will be part of 73 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,160 our message this morning in second Peter chapter #3 because 74 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,920 creation and the literal 6 day creation found in the Word of 75 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:14,400 God is often questioned from within Christianity and outside 76 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,680 of Christianity as well. So we'll be looking at that here 77 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,480 this morning. So first of all, we are going to 78 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:25,320 look at sacred texts and authority, the Quran, Surah 17. 79 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,000 When I say Surah, that is really meaning chapter the way we would 80 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,280 use the word chapter today. But Surah 17 verses 1:05 to 1:07 81 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:37,480 says this. So this is the Quran in its own 82 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,200 words about itself. It says We sent down the Quran 83 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,160 in truth, and in truth has it descended and We sent you but to 84 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,680 give glad tidings and to warn sinners. 85 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,120 It is a Quran which We have divided into parts from time to 86 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,040 time in order that you might recite it to men at intervals. 87 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,000 We have revealed it by stages. Say whether you believe it or 88 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,360 not. It is true that those who were 89 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,320 given knowledge beforehand, when it is recited to them, fall down 90 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,840 on their faces in humble prostration. 91 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,200 So the Quran is saying of itself that this is a sacred text. 92 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:17,560 The Quran to someone who is of the Muslim faith would be to 93 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,440 them what the Bible is to us. But that does not mean that the 94 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,840 Quran is on the same level as the Bible. 95 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:26,440 There are obviously many, many differences. 96 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,880 Well, the biggest being. One is true, the other is not. 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,520 So the primary source of authority for Muslims is what's 98 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:39,120 called not just the Koran, but according to Surah 8522, the 99 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:43,400 Glorious Koran. It is the holy book of faith for 100 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,880 Muslims. It is a book that consists of 101 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:59,280 114 chapters, 6616 verses, 77,943 words and three 338,606 102 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:01,800 letters. And according to Muslim 103 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,680 teaching, each and every part of the Quran has been dictated by 104 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,800 Allah. The story of the Quran comes 105 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,840 through the Prophet Muhammad. And of course, remember, Allah 106 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:17,200 is God, Muhammad is the Prophet, and the Quran was received by 107 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,440 mankind through the Prophet Muhammad, although the sacred 108 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,560 text has little to say about him. 109 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,200 There's very few mentions of There's more mentions about 110 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,280 Jesus and Moses and Abraham in the Koran than there are 111 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:34,560 actually about Mohammed. But the Quran itself affirms it 112 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:41,840 to be irreproducible in Surah 223, incorruptible 15/9 and 113 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:46,960 inspired 4251. It is the word of Allah recited 114 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:51,600 in Arabic 12/2. According to Quran, it replaces 115 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,600 the corrupted text of the Bible, revealing to Jews and to 116 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:01,480 Christians much that they had hidden or that had passed over 117 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,960 in the Bible, and that now this is the better version of the 118 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,400 scriptures than what the Jews and the Christians had had. 119 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:15,520 So according to Muslims, this is the most pure, this is the most 120 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,960 most authoritative book, that the Bible is filled with errors, 121 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,440 whether it be Old or New Testament, that there are 122 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,440 certainly names that are mentioned in the Bible, but that 123 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,560 if you want to know who these people really are, you have to 124 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,800 find the Koran and find what the Koran says about those people. 125 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,640 And again, it says it's irreproducible, meaning this. 126 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,720 Not necessarily that you can't copy it, because obviously there 127 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,240 are many copies of the Koran that have reproduced, But the 128 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:47,520 idea is that it is the pinnacle of literature that there can be. 129 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:52,280 Nothing greater has been and will never be anything greater 130 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,200 than Quran. In fact, one of the proofs that 131 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,640 Muslims use that the Quran is the word of Allah and it is the 132 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,880 supreme authority, is that it stands at the very height of 133 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,680 literature and that no one has ever or will ever, ever be able 134 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,200 to write anything of its nature. In fact, I have a short video 135 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,320 that I want to show you about that. 136 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,880 And so we're going to watch that for a couple of minutes and then 137 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,480 we will make some comments about it. 138 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,640 The Quran is the direct word of God. 139 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,400 For that you should watch until the very end. 140 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,360 No matter how amazing Ronaldo is at football, you will always 141 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,960 have other amazing footballers like Messi. 142 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,720 No matter how amazing Charles Dickens is at writing, you'll 143 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:38,760 always have other amazing authors. 144 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,280 No matter how amazing some Youtubers are, you will always 145 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:46,760 have other amazing Youtubers. The point is that humans can 146 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,880 always imitate humans. This is very important. 147 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,520 Now focus with me for a second. Allah poses an incredibly 148 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,240 powerful challenge to all humanity in the Quran where he 149 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:01,680 says we're in Kung tum fiori Ben minman zalala abedina, that if 150 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:05,320 you are in doubt of this Quran, then produce even a chapter like 151 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,600 it. Basically, Allah is asking you 152 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,440 to imitate just one chapter. And considering the shortest 153 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,920 chapter in the Quran is just 10 words long and the fact that 154 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,640 humans can always imitate humans, they shouldn't be too 155 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,240 hard, right? That's literally like Ronaldo 156 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:23,880 challenging humanity to imitate just one of his goals that he 157 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,920 scored throughout his entire career. 158 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:37,480 Now if that doesn't sound easy enough, then Allah says and call 159 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,640 upon your helpers and witnesses other than Allah if what you 160 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:41,960 say. Is the truth. 161 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,320 In other words, not only is Allah basically telling you you 162 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,960 can get all the help that you like, He's also telling you to 163 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,960 call upon your own witnesses, your own scholars that don't 164 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:56,000 even have to be a Muslim and get them to testify that what you've 165 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,560 produced is like the Quran. Now here's the punch line. 166 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:04,080 Then Allah says for ILM Tefalu, Wellen Tefalu. 167 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,640 And if you are not able to do so and you will never be able to do 168 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,680 so. In other words, Allah has sealed 169 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:13,640 the challenge from the very beginning. 170 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:18,800 And guess what, more than 1400 years have passed and the Quran 171 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,880 remains at the pinnacle of the Arabic language on a level of 172 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:25,320 its own. And not only that, there's not a 173 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,320 single historical account of a reputable source saying that 174 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,760 someone has successfully managed to imitate the Quran. 175 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,880 So to summarize, humans can always imitate humans. 176 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,520 And because the Quran cannot be imitated, it is therefore from 177 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,120 God. And when you look into the 178 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,600 Quran, you'll actually realize that it answers all life 179 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,200 questions. No stones are left unturned. 180 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,240 And for that, I would absolutely love to invite you to pick up or 181 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,040 put it on and read it for yourself. 182 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,520 So the argument, and this is not a novel argument that is being 183 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,080 made by this gentleman. Some of the research that I have 184 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,080 done that this is an argument that has made many, many times 185 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,560 over that one of the greatest arguments that the Quran is the 186 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:14,360 height of spirituality and that there is no other book than the 187 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,400 Koran that will teach you things of Allah and things of the 188 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,320 world. And those types of things is the 189 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,120 fact that nothing else has ever been recreated like it. 190 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,240 And then no matter how hard anyone tries, it is the very 191 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,600 pinnacle of that. And the challenge has been laid 192 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,720 out by Allah. If you want to try to make 193 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,040 something better, make it. And so the biggest problem that 194 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,080 I have with that, there's a lot of problems that I have with 195 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,680 that. The biggest problem that I have 196 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:43,920 with that is that something greater came before the Koran. 197 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,520 That would be the Word of God. And that there is much of the 198 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:52,480 Koran that is either borrowed or outright well stolen from the 199 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:57,200 very word of God that the pinnacle was and is remains the 200 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,480 word of God. And that the Quran, like many 201 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,400 other of these will all other texts that try to present 202 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,360 themselves as a religious authority outside of the word of 203 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,880 God, have either begged, borrowed or stolen from the word 204 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:14,480 of God names like Jesus and Muhammad or Jesus. 205 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:19,040 And we'll see Adam in a moment. Abraham, Isaac. 206 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,800 These are names and then sometimes even themes that are 207 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,080 taken directly from the word of God. 208 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,920 And so no, the Koran is not God's word. 209 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,680 The Koran is not equivalent to the Bible. 210 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:34,280 The Koran is not irreproducible, incorruptible or inspired. 211 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:39,120 The Koran is rank heresy from beginning to end because it 212 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,040 teaches that there is another God. 213 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,520 What we understand that the Bible says there is but one God. 214 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,240 There's only one thing that he said I would agree with and that 215 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,040 would be this, to be able to pick up a copy of the Koran and 216 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:52,480 to be able to read it on your own. 217 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,040 Say, pastor, why would you suggest something like that? 218 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,840 I would encourage you and I would encourage you to be very 219 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,440 careful in how you do so, but do not just take my word for 220 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,080 certain things that are being said here. 221 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,920 I have a copy of the Quran in my office that I have read through 222 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,320 myself, not cover to cover, but I've read fairly extensively 223 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,720 because I wanted to see for myself what the Quran said. 224 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,840 It You say, well, did that weaken your faith? 225 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,000 Well, no, it only strengthened my faith when I saw the 226 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,280 difference of what was being written there compared to the 227 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:28,240 purity and the authority and the beauty of the word of God that 228 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,800 we're able to hold in our hands. No, no, I'm very confident that 229 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,640 we have. The very word of God in the 230 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,520 Quran is filled with errors, and the greatest error of all is 231 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,200 this, that Allah is God. And really every other error 232 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:46,000 flows from that very fatal flaw that is at the very top of their 233 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,200 religion. Like Mormonism. 234 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,120 The words of Allah came on a tablet that was preserved. 235 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:56,120 This tablet, of course, does not exist and is only mentioned in 236 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,200 one verse of the Koran. As such, many Muslims regard the 237 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,440 tablet as metaphorical, meaning Allah promises to preserve the 238 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,280 Koran from distortion here on earth. 239 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,480 Other Muslims believe this verse is literal and that there is a 240 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,000 heavenly tablet that is secured for all eternity as well. 241 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,840 But a critical investigation of the Quran exposes many of the 242 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,280 contradictions of their own claims. 243 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,040 For instance, they say that the Quran is to be unchangeable in 244 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:30,400 634 and 1064, but Allah removes verses as He pleases. 245 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,680 Quran 1339. The Quran is regarded as 246 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:39,200 preserved. Surah 80, 522 Yet Allah causes 247 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,840 Muhammad to forget some of the passages. 248 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,000 Surah 87, verses 6 and 7. The Koran states that it's 249 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,520 dictated from Allah, Surah 39, one and two and will be guarded 250 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,240 from corruption. Surah 15-9. 251 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,240 Yet there were varying copies of the Koran during the earliest 252 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:00,200 days of Islam. These differing manuscripts 253 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,360 caused the third leader of Islam, Uthman, to choose one 254 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,160 copy over the others and to burn the others. 255 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,080 Additionally, A Quran discovered in Yemen in 1972, perhaps the 256 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,680 oldest manuscript that is currently in existence, was 257 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,320 found to have small but intriguing aberrations from the 258 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,240 standard Quranic texts. As in, they are finding newer 259 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,120 copies, and the newer copies contradict the older copies that 260 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,920 were out there. How can this dictation by Allah 261 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,480 have any irregularities, however small they may be? 262 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,800 And early leaders in Islam admitted that they did not have 263 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,440 the entire Koran. The second leader of Islam, 264 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,080 Umar, stated. Let none of you say I have got 265 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:49,200 the whole of the Koran. How does he know what all of it 266 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,160 is? Much of the Koran has gone. 267 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:55,560 Let him say instead I have got what has survived. 268 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,360 So even the very second leader, the spiritual successor of 269 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,360 Muhammad, said this. We don't have the whole Koran. 270 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,000 We have as much as we can have. And we're just going to have to 271 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,120 do the best we can with what we have. 272 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,000 And so there are a great many contradictions that take place 273 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,960 with their sacred text, which is the Koran. 274 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,680 But also secondary to the Koran is the hadith. 275 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,280 And that word hadith means traditions. 276 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:23,760 It is another sacred book which gives example for Muslims to 277 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,200 live by revealing the life and manner of Muhammad. 278 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,080 So the hadith is where the Quran has very little to do with 279 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:33,840 Muhammad. The hadith is all about 280 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:35,680 Muhammad. Here's how he lived. 281 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,680 This was his manner of living. And this is how you can live by 282 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,320 following the great prophets example. 283 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:46,280 But as we saw last week, well, Muhammad is no St. 284 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:50,080 We looked at a lot of issues about him last week in brief, 285 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,200 but I would put him down as an authority as well because the 286 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,440 hadith points to Muhammad. And you certainly have a lot of 287 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,680 talk about Muhammad. You have Allah, the Quran, the 288 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,280 hadith which speaks about Muhammad, and even when Muhammad 289 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,040 is named, and I've watched several videos about Islam just 290 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,359 this last week, when Muhammad is named, it's right behind it. 291 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,760 May peace be upon him, may peace be upon him. 292 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,800 It has to be said when you say his name in a way that's very 293 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,480 reminiscent about how people would talk in Islam about Allah. 294 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,480 So when I look at sacred texts and authority, I would include 295 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,880 Muhammad in as that authority as well. 296 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,080 There's a reason why for that, that we'll look in Deuteronomy 297 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,880 in just a second. Well, we talked last week about 298 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:36,440 his warrior past that we saw that Islam means submission, 299 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,320 right? And that submission, while they 300 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,560 would deny that it has anything to do with the sword, because 301 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,160 submission has to do with committing to the will of Allah. 302 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,480 History is very clear. Remember the map that we showed 303 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,600 you last week of how Islam spread like wildfire across the 304 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,720 Middle East and into North Africa and even into points of 305 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,440 Europe of places that we would call today Portugal and Spain. 306 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,880 That this was not a missionary endeavor like we would see in 307 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:08,040 the book of Acts, where Paul and Barnabas or Paul and Silas or 308 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:12,120 any of the other apostles that went to corners of the globe. 309 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:16,440 That the word of God spread and people believed and people 310 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,680 rejoiced and lives were changed. No, no, this was quite 311 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,560 different. This was submissioned by the 312 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,200 sword. This was you believe or you die. 313 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,520 And this is history. This is not just the conjecture 314 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,560 of a wild Baptist preacher who's trying to put Islam in a corner. 315 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,400 No, history is very clear. Muhammad's life is very clear 316 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,920 about this. And so because of this, Muhammad 317 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,320 as an authority should be judged by this. 318 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:46,960 As we look at Islam as a whole, we should be able to look at the 319 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,680 Koran and be able to point out the many irregularities in the 320 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:52,400 Koran. We should be able to look at the 321 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,640 hadith that points to Muhammad and say, yes, there's some grave 322 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,080 and great irregularities in the life of Muhammad. 323 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,000 Muhammad's personal failures, not just his warrior past, but 324 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,240 his personal failures were very great. 325 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,280 Muslims are forbidden to marry. Listen to this. 326 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:14,040 According to Surah 4 verse 3, there's there are required to 327 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:19,040 marry no more than four women. A male can have up to four 328 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:20,680 wives. But after four, that's when you 329 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:25,880 have to stop Muhammad however, and isn't this by the way, isn't 330 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:30,880 this the way that cult leaders and religious leaders of false 331 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,920 religions act that he says, well, I have a special 332 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:39,440 revelation, you know, hey you peasants, you only get 4 women. 333 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,760 But you know, for me, Allah has told me I can have as many as I 334 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,520 want. And the sordid history of him 335 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:53,640 taking on wives to himself speaks very, very poorly of this 336 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,520 religion as a whole. Muhammad received a special 337 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,480 revelation that he could marry as many as he wished due to 338 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,760 Allah's favor. Surah 33 verses 37 and 51. 339 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,240 He took full advantage of this blessing. 340 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:10,120 For example, Muhammad was infatuated with a woman named 341 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,440 Zainab. But there was one problem. 342 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,880 Zeynab was married to Muhammad's adopted son, Zaid. 343 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,440 Eventually, the Prophet convinced Zeynab to divorce her 344 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,720 husband, Muhammad's son, and marry the Prophet. 345 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,320 As stunning as it sounds, Muhammad married his 346 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,560 daughter-in-law. Yet that's not even the most 347 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:35,560 controversial of all of the marriages of which he partook in 348 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,520 such was involved a young girl by the name of Aisha. 349 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:46,640 Bukhari's hadith states that Aisha was six years old when the 350 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:51,920 couple was betrothed and she was 9 when they consummated their 351 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,120 marriage. Now I'll be honest with you, I 352 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:59,480 read this in my materials of which I have possessed and and 353 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,360 that is I said is this is this for real? 354 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:09,040 This can't be real and I went through and by Muslims own 355 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:13,120 sources they would acknowledge. Yes, that's what it says. 356 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:16,080 And it doesn't just say it in one passage, it says it in 357 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,280 several different passages of the hadiths that Aisha was six 358 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,640 years old when they were married and nine years old when the 359 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,280 marriage was consummated. Recognizing that the hadith is 360 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,440 considered authentic and authoritative to Muslims, it's 361 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,240 difficult to imagine any justification of this as 362 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,040 standard or action by a biblical standard, much less desire to 363 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,320 consider Muhammad as many do, as the excellent exemplar one 364 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,680 should follow. This is the man who should be 365 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,520 followed. This is the man who heard from a 366 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,960 righteous God. My only answer to that would be 367 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,480 absolutely not that. I know that I'm saying this 368 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,840 online before God and man, but I'll say it because it is what 369 00:21:55,840 --> 00:22:00,240 it is. The man was a pedophile and it's 370 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:04,200 gross and disgusting and disturbing on every single 371 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,040 level. And this is something that has 372 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,000 been commonly reported through the centuries. 373 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,160 This is not a religion that should be followed. 374 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,840 It is a religion that should be swept into the dustbin of 375 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,920 history, never to be visited again. 376 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:24,920 But yet, remember, there is over a billion adherents to the 377 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:30,200 Muslim faith here in the world today, somewhere between 1 and 2 378 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:31,760 billion depending how it's reckoned. 379 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,200 Now, I think a lot of those might be cultural Muslims. 380 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,160 They live in Muslim countries, so they're just counted as 381 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,440 Muslims. But yet nonetheless, somewhere 382 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:45,440 between 1 and 2 billion people believe that this man is an 383 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:51,520 authority who heard from God. And it's not just wrong, it's 384 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,840 disgusting and it is an abomination before a good and 385 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:00,200 right and holy God. Of course, as believers, our 386 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,320 perspective on sacred texts are much different, aren't they? 387 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,760 What is our final authority for faith and practice? 388 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,560 Well, the good news is you're holding it in your lap right 389 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,120 now, aren't you? Or it's on your phone or tablet 390 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:14,800 right now. It's the word of God, isn't it? 391 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:18,480 That the Word of God is our final authority for faith and 392 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,640 practice. And often times when people ask 393 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,360 me what makes you different as a Baptist, particularly talking 394 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:26,000 about Catholics and other denominations or even other 395 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,360 religions, but what makes you different as Baptists? 396 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:32,000 My answer is always this, that we believe the Bible and the 397 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,840 Bible alone. That we don't need any other 398 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,680 type of sacred book, That we don't need any other type of 399 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,800 authority. That if the Bible says it, we 400 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,600 believe it, and the Bible says did not do it, we know we're not 401 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,800 supposed to do it. The Bible says to do it, we know 402 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,240 we're supposed to do it. This is where we get all of our 403 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,200 authority right here in the word of God. 404 00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:55,600 And so it's much different from what you would see within the 405 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,960 Muslim context. Second Timothy 316 and seven. 406 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,600 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. 407 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,600 It's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 408 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,120 obstruction of righteousness to the man of God may be perfect, 409 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:09,400 thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 410 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,400 Doctrine, reproof, instruction, and righteousness. 411 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,400 I love those 4 categories. Doctrine is what's right, 412 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,560 reproof is what's wrong, correction is how to get it 413 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,800 right, and instruction and righteousness is how to stay 414 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,840 right. What more do you need in life 415 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,960 that all of that is found in the Word of God. 416 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,320 Second, Peter 120 and 21. We just looked at these a few 417 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,960 weeks ago, knowing this first, that no prophecy of the 418 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,560 Scriptures of any private interpretation, for the prophecy 419 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,120 came not in old time by the will of men, but holy men of God 420 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:40,080 spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 421 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,640 That what we have here is a book, a compilation of 40 422 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,880 different authors, but truly those 40 different authors were 423 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,000 really 40 different Penman. That there is one author to the 424 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,480 Word of God, and that is God himself. 425 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,640 Psalm 12/6 and seven. The words of the Lord are pure 426 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,840 words, as silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified 7 427 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,680 times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, 428 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,120 Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever. 429 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:09,160 By the way, why do I believe that we have the preserved Word 430 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,760 of God today? And why do we use our King James 431 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,720 Bible just as a reminder that the Bible talks that there is a 432 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,800 preservation of the Word of God, that it's not just, well, there 433 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,920 were originals and they are correct, but we don't know that 434 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,880 we can have the correct word of God anymore. 435 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,440 I'm so glad that God is so mighty and He's so great that He 436 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,840 didn't just inspire His word, but He supernaturally preserved 437 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,280 His word, so that we can know that we have the word of God. 438 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,040 Matthew 518 For verily I say unto you, to heaven and earth 439 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,960 shall pass away, not one jot or one title shall pass away from 440 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,520 the law, till all be fulfilled. Proverbs 35 and 6. 441 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,360 Every word of God is pure. He has a shield unto them that 442 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,480 put their trust in Him. Add thou not unto his words, 443 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,920 lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. 444 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,040 Isaiah 40, verse 8. The grass withereth, the flower 445 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,760 fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever. 446 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,080 John 1717. Sanctify them through thy truth. 447 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,080 Thy word is truth. But as far as Muhammad, the 448 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:12,800 Bible has clear commandments of what should be done with false 449 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,960 prophets, particularly in an Old Testament context. 450 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:17,440 Hopefully you're in Deuteronomy 13. 451 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,560 Remember 30 minutes ago when I asked you to open there? 452 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,360 All right, I'm forgotten. All right, Deuteronomy 13. 453 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:25,200 Let's look at verse #1. In this retelling of the Law by 454 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,760 Moses, it says, If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer 455 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,680 of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign 456 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,160 or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, 457 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:39,160 saying, Let us go after other gods which thou has not known, 458 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,880 and let us serve them that should not hearken unto the 459 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,560 words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. 460 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,480 For the Lord your God prove with you to know whether you love the 461 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,840 Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 462 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,080 You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep 463 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,680 his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him 464 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,480 and cleave unto him. And that prophet or that dreamer 465 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,440 of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken to turn 466 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,960 you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the 467 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,960 land of Egypt, and redeem you out of the House of bondage, to 468 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,680 thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee 469 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,040 to walk him. So shalt thou put the evil away 470 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,920 from the midst of thee. So in this Old Testament context 471 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,960 that we have here, when the there was a prophet who would 472 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,800 come and speak to the people of Israel and they would say, 473 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,920 here's a sign, Here's a wonder because the Jews required a 474 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,600 sign. We see that quite often the Old 475 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,040 Testament reiterated the New Testament that the Jews wanted 476 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,560 to see a sign. But part of that was this issue 477 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,200 of, you know, there's also another God I want to tell you 478 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,040 about. It's not just about Jehovah. 479 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,320 There's these other gods as well. 480 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,640 Or maybe they would say outright Jehovah's false and this other 481 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,440 God is the true God or this whole group of gods are the real 482 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,520 God. The Bible was very clear. 483 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,400 This is not only not someone that should be heeded, it's 484 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,080 someone that should be put away entirely. 485 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:56,360 Now, I want to be very clear. What I'm saying here is that I'm 486 00:27:56,360 --> 00:28:02,680 not calling for those who are adherence to Islam or those who 487 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,440 preach from the Koran to be killed. 488 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,320 That's not what I'm saying here. We're understanding this was Old 489 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,920 Testament regulation that was given to the people of Israel. 490 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,560 But I do think what is very clear here is that those who 491 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:18,640 teach that there are another God must be disregarded and must be 492 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,200 put off to the side and say, we as believers, we don't believe 493 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,440 that, and that it will come to not whether it's here in this 494 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,160 life, it will come to not, not at the great white throne. 495 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,240 Judgment. Jeremiah 14, verses 14 and 15. 496 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,480 Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets, prophecy lies in my 497 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,440 name. I sent them not, neither I 498 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,440 commanded them, neither spake unto them. 499 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,200 They prophecy unto you a false vision and divination, and a 500 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,520 thing of naughty, and the deceit of their heart. 501 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,360 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets, that 502 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,720 prophecy in my name, and I sent them not. 503 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,960 Yet they say, sword and famine shall not be in this land. 504 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,680 By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. 505 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,400 He was saying here in the book of Jeremiah that those who were 506 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,720 talking about sword and famine, he says this if I didn't come 507 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,080 for me, then it's going to be placed upon you. 508 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,640 He says if that message of sword and famine didn't come for me, 509 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,120 then you're going to get the sword and famine that you have 510 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,280 prophesied for those other people. 511 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:20,920 And I will say this, the fruit of Islam today is that the whole 512 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,240 Middle East as well as Islamic countries are filled with 513 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,840 turmoil more often than not. That it is not a religion of 514 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,400 peace. It has not been a religion of 515 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,600 peace. And again, I want to be very 516 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,520 clear that there are very peaceful Muslims who live here 517 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,080 in our nation and that there are live in other places. 518 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,800 But we are looking at the overall arching look over 1400 519 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,680 years of this doctrine. And we would say this, that 520 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,480 those who live in a peaceful manner are the minority and 521 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,800 those who live according to Sharia law and according to 522 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,960 these other thought processes like women being property, as we 523 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,000 looked at last week, that this is really the literal 524 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,360 interpretation, the Quran that is used in many, many parts of 525 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,360 the globe. And it's very, very sad. 526 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,680 The bottom line is the prophet should live or die by his words. 527 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,160 That's what the word of God says. 528 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,560 The prophet. You say it, you got to live by 529 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,640 it, and then you'll have to be judged by it. 530 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,240 And I just think of Mount Carmel. 531 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,160 There's Elijah and all the prophets of Baal. 532 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,760 O Baal hear us. O Baal, hear us. 533 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,160 O Baal, hear us. Well, he didn't hear because he 534 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,440 couldn't hear because he wasn't. And that's the bottom line, 535 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,600 isn't it? What happened? 536 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,680 They live by their words, and by the end of the day, they died by 537 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,640 the words. And again, I want to be very 538 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,360 clear that I'm not calling for the death of anyone here today. 539 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,360 We want to love people who do not believe in Jesus Christ as 540 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,480 their savior. We want to love them to the 541 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,800 gospel. But at the same time, we cannot 542 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,640 hide the differences and call that love. 543 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,520 We need to expose the differences so that we can 544 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:56,160 expose them to the to the saving power rather of Jesus Christ. 545 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,240 And so the first of the fundamentals that we want to 546 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,400 compare Islam to Christianity, to a sacred text and authority. 547 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,560 The second is this creation, creation. 548 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,000 Now it's important that these go together because the second 549 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,720 makes sense of the first. If the Bible is your authority, 550 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,360 then we have a very clear understanding about creation. 551 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,920 When you have a different authority than the idea of 552 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,040 creation can be quite different. Now I will say on its face, 553 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,800 Islam and Christianity seem to have commonalities when it comes 554 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,760 to creation. Those similarities include that 555 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,160 heaven and earth were created in six days. 556 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,600 And may I remind you, sometimes we say they're created in seven 557 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,560 days, but really was six days because the Lord rested on the 558 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,280 7th day. Now if you say 7 days, no one 559 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,720 should get upset about that. But if we're being very literal, 560 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,120 which we ought to be very literal about the word of God, 561 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,000 it was created in six days. Humans were given responsibility 562 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,520 over creation. That's another similarity that 563 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,600 the woman was tempted in the garden. 564 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,520 Genesis chapter 3 is where we would find that and that Adam 565 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,840 and the woman were removed from the garden because of sin. 566 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:07,200 So there are similarities at the 1st and it would almost be to 567 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,480 the point to make you think that we believe the same things about 568 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,120 creation, but that certainly is not the case. 569 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,000 In fact, this is where the similarities end. 570 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,560 First of all, the Quran does not give a detailed account of 571 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,480 creation. In fact, creation itself is only 572 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,480 mentioned in about 30 verses of the Quran. 573 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,360 Not much at all when you consider that we have Genesis 574 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,360 1-2 and three on top of a multitude of other verses found 575 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,880 through scripture that affirm that the creation was not just a 576 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,360 myth, that it was not just an analogy for something else, but 577 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,480 it was a real event that took place in six days. 578 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,880 In fact, Jesus himself affirmed this, didn't he, That he will 579 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,960 also said that this was the creation. 580 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:54,840 And he affirms the first 12 chapters of Genesis himself. 581 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,000 Muslim clerics allow for evolution, saying that their 582 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,960 version of creation is likely just an allegory. 583 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,160 In fact, they use a verse that sounds very similar to what we 584 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,680 have in our Bible, very similar to what we're going to look at 585 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,960 today in second Peter chapter #3 where it says a day in the sight 586 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,720 of the Lord is like 1000 years. And so their idea as well, 587 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,160 listen, time is, you know, he said six days, but it really 588 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,120 could have been a whole lot more and it could have evolved. 589 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:26,720 But you know, the problem is, is that their verse does not have 590 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,240 the context of creation. And I would say this some, but 591 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,240 some Christians would even say, well, we, you know, our Bible 592 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,720 says a day is like 1000 years. So couldn't creation have been a 593 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,080 whole lot more? What we're going to see this 594 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,920 morning that that verse has nothing to do with creation 595 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:40,840 whatsoever. In fact, it talks about the 596 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,160 timetable of when Jesus is coming back, that there were 597 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,840 those who were concerned about was he coming back yet? 598 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,360 Is he, is he, why isn't he here yet? 599 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,560 Like, listen, God's timetable is not our timetable, but we also 600 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,240 don't get to take that one little snippet of verse and try 601 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,680 to apply it to twisting Genesis chapters one through 3 into 602 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,640 something that it is not. There's a lot of differences 603 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,040 between the Bible, the Quran. I'm going to run through these 604 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,000 quickly. As far as it goes to creation, I 605 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,600 know it's a little bit smaller there, but hopefully it's big 606 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,000 enough for you to see. The Bible says there's precise 607 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,600 details of six days of creation, but there's very little detail 608 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,080 in the Quran, in the Bible. Listen to this. 609 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,840 Jesus is the creator. John 11 through three in the 610 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,239 beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word 611 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,440 was God, and the same was in the beginning with God. 612 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,040 But in the Quran, Jesus was a created being. 613 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:34,400 They affirm that Jesus was alive, but there Jesus is not 614 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,199 our Jesus. I want to be so very clear about 615 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,800 that, that just because they mentioned Jesus, he was one of 616 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,400 the prophets, but Muhammad is the greatest of the prophets 617 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,520 according to the Quran, that Muhammad is the greatest of the 618 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,960 prophets and Jesus was just one of the minor prophets. 619 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,679 And to that we say we cannot agree in any way, shape or form. 620 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:59,240 Eve was honored in creation and Bible taken out of the side of 621 00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:03,520 Adam and Eve is never mentioned by name in the Quran whatsoever. 622 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,560 I mentioned on the previous slide the fact of the woman. 623 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,240 The woman, Well, that's because Eve is never mentioned by name 624 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:13,320 and that name is just supplied by others later. 625 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:14,680 Well, where did they get that name from? 626 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:16,760 I wonder? Kind of like where they got a 627 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,520 lot of other names and information from. 628 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,120 And they want to have the the standard of, well, could anybody 629 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,760 make a book like this? And I think it's already been 630 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:31,240 made and a whole lot better and a whole lot truer, you know, and 631 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,560 righteous. So Eve was on her creation. 632 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,280 Eve was never mentioned by name. The Bible, mankind was made in 633 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,720 the image of God and the Quran. Mankind is a small creation. 634 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,720 Satan is seen as a cunning serpent in the Bible, but in the 635 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:44,720 Quran, there's no mention of Satan as a serpent. 636 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:48,320 Adam became a living being while the last Adam, Jesus Christ, 637 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,920 gives life. And Adam was the first Muslim, 638 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,160 and he was the first prophet of Islam as well. 639 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,960 Adam and Eve we're tempted by Satan to eat from the three of 640 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,040 the knowledge of good and evil. And then Quran Adam and Eve were 641 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,400 tempted by Satan, who also tempts the rest of humanity. 642 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,800 The Bible, Adam and Eve's sin recognize the need for a savior, 643 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:10,080 and the Quran recognizes that Adam and Eve's sin illustrated 644 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:15,120 the need for guidance. Now, this is where it's actually 645 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:19,120 quite important, this last part. We understand that because 646 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,240 mankind fell in the garden, there was a need for the Savior. 647 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,880 You remember on Wednesday night that we looked at Genesis 315, 648 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:30,120 that first mention of the gospel, the proto evangelium. 649 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:31,640 And why couldn't I say that on Wednesday night? 650 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,520 So I was, I was like drooling on myself trying to say that on 651 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,720 Wednesday night. But the proto evangelium tells 652 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:42,280 us that that there was going to be a savior. 653 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,160 Remember, it was hidden in mystery at the time that that 654 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,720 mystery gradually unfolded throughout the New, the Old 655 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:52,000 Testament until Jesus revealed himself in his incarnation in 656 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,760 the New Testament. But we realized through all that 657 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:59,200 that mankind needed a savior. According to Islam, mankind does 658 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:03,040 not need a savior. Mankind needs guidance. 659 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,880 That's a big difference. That may not sound like much but 660 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,640 it's a huge difference since mankind according to the Quran. 661 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,080 Since mankind has not fallen and death is natural. 662 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:19,680 Oh no, I'm sorry for Christians. Mankind need a savior to redeem 663 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,480 them, but in Islam they need a prophet to guide them. 664 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,200 The path to heaven is paved by good works, not grace. 665 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,840 By listening to the final Prophet Muhammad, not God our 666 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,520 savior. This is a burdensome struggle, 667 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,880 but it's great virtue for the Muslim meaning this is that they 668 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,240 know that mankind has had struggles, that different 669 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:43,520 prophets have guided them along the way. 670 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,200 But the greatest Muhammad, greatest prophet of all, 671 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,000 Muhammad, he is the one that you really need and he is going to 672 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,640 lead you into everything that you need. 673 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,520 That really there was no understanding of what quote UN 674 00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,480 quote salvation was until Muhammad came. 675 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,720 You know, you and I understand that salvation has been around 676 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:06,720 well since mankind's been around you say, well, I thought 677 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:11,360 salvation was just about Jesus and everybody after No, no, that 678 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,960 salvation has been this. There were those in the Old 679 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,880 Testament that believed in the promise of the Messiah and 680 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,000 looked ahead and those of us know that Messiah is Jesus 681 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,280 Christ and we look back. But salvation's always been by 682 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:23,880 faith. That's what it's always been. 683 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:28,280 It's always been through Jesus Christ and the to the Islam, a 684 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,920 believer that they just need guidance. 685 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,920 And Muhammad is the one that gives guidance. 686 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,480 And when you don't believe that you are a fallen creature in 687 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:39,200 need of the grace of God, you're in a very, very difficult place. 688 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,800 So what does the Bible say about this? 689 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,200 We'll turn to Ephesians chapter 2. 690 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:46,080 Some very familiar verses there. Ephesians chapter #2 691 00:38:56,770 --> 00:39:01,370 we'll begin in verse #4 Ephesians 24. 692 00:39:03,130 --> 00:39:07,120 But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he 693 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,600 loved us even when we were dead in sins. 694 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:11,800 Now I'm going to stop right there. 695 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,440 When someone is dead in sins, do they need guidance? 696 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,080 But they need a whole lot more than guidance, don't they? 697 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,920 If some, if something is dead, you can't really guide it 698 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,800 anywhere. You can't, you can't, you can't 699 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,080 move it around, right? It's there. 700 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,280 It can't move it. It, it's beyond guidance at that 701 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,360 point. It needs to be made alive again. 702 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,800 And we can't do that ourselves. We were dead in our trespasses 703 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,280 and sins. Could we make ourselves alive 704 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:40,400 again? We cannot. 705 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,760 Was there enough good works that we could do to revive ourselves? 706 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:44,800 We couldn't. We're dead. 707 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,000 So what we need is much different than what Islam 708 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,800 promises. Instead it says this. 709 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:56,160 It says, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us 710 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,480 together with Christ by grace you're saved, Hath raised us up 711 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,880 together, and made us to sit together in heavenly places in 712 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,320 Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the 713 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:11,520 exceeding riches of his grace. In his kindness toward us 714 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,640 through Christ Jesus for by grace are you saved through 715 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,360 faith and that not of yourselves. 716 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,280 It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast 717 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:24,240 what we need is the grace that only comes by Jesus Christ. 718 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,640 It's not by works, it's not by guidance, it's not by any of 719 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,000 those types of things It's by Christ and Christ alone. 720 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,120 I'll leave this with you and we'll, we'll leave off for today 721 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,840 and we'll hit the other two fundamentals next week. 722 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:42,280 But it's fairly often that I walk around downtown Mansfield. 723 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,680 And I've mentioned this to you before many times that maybe a 724 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,440 couple times a week that I go out there. 725 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,080 And it's been a habit that I've formed ever since my surgery a 726 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,160 few years ago to make sure my legs get the stretching that 727 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:57,360 they need. But there is an Islamic school 728 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,280 that is there just off of Main Street in Mansfield. 729 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:07,120 And it's very often that I see children getting off of the 730 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,480 train at the train station and walking a few blocks over to the 731 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,960 school and usually in their traditional garb. 732 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,760 And, you know, you look at that and you look at that within the 733 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,640 context of the society that we live. 734 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,520 And they look, they look different and we have some 735 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,640 preconceived notion sometimes because of some things that have 736 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,800 happened in our nation in our past. 737 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,600 And sometimes you can look at people that are in that 738 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,640 situation and you really don't have a lot of regard for them if 739 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,360 you're not careful. But I want you to know that when 740 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:44,000 we look at those Muslims that are here in our communities and 741 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,320 there are more than sometimes we realize that instead of being 742 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:53,000 put off by them or their appearance or put off by the 743 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,080 prayers and put off by the other things. 744 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:59,960 Know what we need to do is to put on compassion and love and 745 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,640 realize these are some people that have been very, very 746 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,920 misguided, likely for generations and generations in 747 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,360 their family that they know no other way. 748 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,040 They've never even considered another way that we need to show 749 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,640 them not just Jesus, but the Jesus of the Bible. 750 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,840 Not just the Jesus that was a good prophet, but the Jesus that 751 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:23,200 was the Creator, Godfather, Son, and Holy Ghost. 752 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,800 Three and one. This is who they need. 753 00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:28,600 But I'm afraid often times, because there are all these 754 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,960 grave differences and because of some of the things that we have 755 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,440 seen in the name of Islam over the years, that we just kind of 756 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,160 have no regard for them. Listen, we must have hearts of 757 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,000 compassion for all who do not know Christ, no matter what 758 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,280 their belief system is. Because listen, as we go back to 759 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:52,040 lesson #1 all the way back at the beginning of May, if we go 760 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,120 back to lesson #1 really it all comes down to this. 761 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,800 There's only two religions, God and not God. 762 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,960 There's one God, God's Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 763 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:04,760 Everything else falls under the category of not God. 764 00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,440 No matter what the flavor is, no matter what the clothing is, no 765 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,080 matter what the garb is, no matter who the authorities are, 766 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,360 no matter what the sacred books are, no matter what any of those 767 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:17,280 things are, there is one God. And it's up to us to be able to. 768 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:18,240 Thank you, Ralph. That's a good one. 769 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:23,320 So and so that's what we need is to be able to look at those 770 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,000 people who maybe look different than us or have different types 771 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,920 of beliefs than us or different types of habits than us and 772 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,680 realize this. We need to radiate Jesus Christ 773 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,800 to them because they are lost unless they come to know Jesus 774 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,400 Christ, the Jesus Christ of the Bible, as their Savior. 775 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,600 So next week we're going to look at the two other fundamentals, 776 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,880 and that's going to be the nature of God and the nature of 777 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,160 salvation. And we'll look at those in a 778 00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:51,440 greater way. Thank you for listening to the 779 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,040 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church. 780 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,680 If this message was a blessing to you, or if there's any way we 781 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,800 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at 782 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:05,680 info@mylibertybaptist.org. Or you can visit us this Sunday 783 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,600 at 800 Washington St. in Easton, MA. 784 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,640 May the Lord bless you as you grow in His Word.