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 --> 00:00:22,080 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,280 And turn your Bibles, please, to Matthew chapter #12 the book of 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,480 Matthew chapter #12 We got a lot to get to. 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,000 So let's get right to it as we continue looking at the 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,920 fundamentals of the faith and comparing them to the religion, 11 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,880 the false religion of Islam. And we'll go through just a tiny 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,400 amount of review here in just a moment, and then get to where we 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,200 need to go this week so we can finish those fundamentals of the 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,840 faith. And then next week, answer the 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,320 question I'm sure is on your mind. 16 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,640 How do we witness to the Muslims, friends and the people 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,320 that we have in our community? And I'm really looking forward 18 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,360 to getting into that next week. And so just by way of review, we 19 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,840 want to remember that there are 5 pillars of Islam and we saw 20 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:07,760 that they are the creed. And what is that creed? 21 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,520 It is there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet. 22 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,120 But then we also saw that there is prayer. 23 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,600 That prayer is offered five times a day. 24 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,560 Then there is almsgiving. And that is in certain 25 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:26,400 situations, 2.5% of a person's income is given to charitable 26 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,080 pursuits with others fasting, particularly during the month 27 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,240 long celebration of Ramadan. And then we saw there's a 28 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,320 pilgrimage. Those who are physically and 29 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:39,000 financially able are required to be able to go to Mecca. 30 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,240 And then we saw last week that there were two fundamentals. 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,520 We saw a sacred texts and authorities. 32 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,600 And we saw that the sacred texts conclude the Quran, but also the 33 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,920 hadith, and that hadith that was the book or books rather of 34 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,680 which spoke of Muhammad and what his exploits and his thoughts 35 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,800 were, as well as some interpretation of those and then 36 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,040 his authority, Muhammad being the prophet of prophets, the 37 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,440 highest of all of the prophets. And then we looked at creation 38 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,880 and we saw that while there were some similarities to where we 39 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,440 find biblical creation in the Word of God, that the idea of 40 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,000 creation is much different in Islam in the sense that and 41 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,800 evolution is allowed to be part of it on top of the fact that 42 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,160 Jesus Christ would not have been part of creation. 43 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,480 And that really is going to be part of what we want to talk 44 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,440 about today because this week we're going to look at the other 45 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,640 two fundamentals that we mentioned last week, which is 46 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:37,040 the nature of God and the nature of salvation. 47 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,160 And much of the issue with the nature of God comes down to this 48 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,920 Jesus Christ, because Muslims will say to you to your face 49 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:46,800 that they believe in Jesus Christ. 50 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,240 This is important for us to understand here today that if 51 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,720 you were to ask a Muslim, do you believe in Jesus Christ, if that 52 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,320 was the question that you were to pose to someone of the 53 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,800 Islamic faith, they would say absolutely, we believe in Jesus 54 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,680 Christ. The issue, however, is what 55 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,560 Jesus Christ do they believe in? Because their Jesus would not be 56 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,600 our Jesus. And that's why when you're 57 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,480 dealing with false religions, when you're dealing with cults, 58 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,200 it's very important to get past the first question and typically 59 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,800 to dig deeper into the answer than just simply accepting the 60 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,680 answer. We're going to see a lot of the 61 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,320 cults, particularly when you ask, do you believe in Jesus 62 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:24,480 Christ? They'll say, of course we 63 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,000 believe in Jesus Christ. Do you believe that God is the 64 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,560 creator? Yes, we believe that God is the 65 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,320 creator, but what does that mean? 66 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,000 Define your terms so that we can better understand and you start 67 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,440 to find that, well, this is not what we believe from the Word of 68 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,080 God, and what they are saying is not from the Word of God. 69 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,280 And it's important for us to understand because the way that 70 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,520 error flourishes is by having some element of truth within it. 71 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,760 The best counterfeits are the ones that look a lot like the 72 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:52,440 real thing, aren't they? I don't know anything about 73 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:53,800 counterfeit money. I mean, I haven't used it 74 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,040 lately, but I do know this. Is this OK? 75 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:58,720 We can't use this in a court of law, I don't think. 76 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,800 But anyway, I would know this, that if you put Monopoly money 77 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,960 into the deposit at the bank, you know, put it up that little 78 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,160 tube, I imagine that tube would be coming back real quick 79 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,560 saying, yeah, you cannot make a deposit with this pink note that 80 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,520 comes from your game of Monopoly. 81 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,120 However, what could be passable is something that has the look, 82 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,680 the feel, the smell of regular money of which we are used to. 83 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,360 And so when it comes to false religions, listen, the most 84 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,160 outlandish thoughts are typically discarded by most. 85 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,680 It's the ones that have some element of truth within them. 86 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:35,760 That's what Satan does, isn't he? 87 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,480 He makes sure that there's a little bit of truth and that is 88 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,640 the worm, but the hook is the error, and that's the one that 89 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:44,640 gets you. And so if you were to ask again, 90 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,560 a Muslim, do you believe in Jesus Christ? 91 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,880 The answer, of course, 100% will be yes, we believe in Jesus 92 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,400 Christ. But what exactly does that mean? 93 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,040 Well, as we look at the nature of God, they do not believe that 94 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,720 Jesus is God. Do they believe in Jesus? 95 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,120 Yes. But Jesus is not God. 96 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,800 He is not part of the triune God at all. 97 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,440 Jesus, rather is one of the prophets that he was the 98 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,200 greatest of the prophet, except for Muhammad. 99 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,960 Now understand, even those words just coming out of my mouth, 100 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,760 they're blasphemous. Of course, I'm not committing 101 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,080 blasphemy on teaching you this. But that that would be taught is 102 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,400 rank heresy, that Jesus is lesser than Muhammad. 103 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,960 And we saw the character Muhammad last week, that he was 104 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:33,240 not a man of high character, that he was a warrior prophet, 105 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:38,400 but that he also had very low morals in every metric and in 106 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,680 every sense of the word. But then we also saw that they 107 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,760 believe that Jesus is to be revered. 108 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,680 Now, this is important, that they do believe that Jesus is to 109 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,640 be be revered. In fact, some of the videos that 110 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,840 I watched this week about Islam and about this very issue, they 111 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:02,000 would often say Jesus may peace be upon him, Jesus may peace be 112 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,560 upon him. And they say that as a form of 113 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,600 reverence. But here is where the issue 114 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,200 comes. Here's where the rub is that 115 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,440 Jesus is not simply to be revered, but it is not enough to 116 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,680 Revere Jesus Christ. What do we need to do to Jesus 117 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,160 Christ? We bow the knee to him that he 118 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,680 is not just simply revered as we Revere many things, don't we? 119 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,880 We have great respect for many different elements in this 120 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,200 world. But Jesus Christ is not simply 121 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,560 to be revered. He is to be worshipped. 122 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:38,320 He is to be the one and only way of salvation and because Jesus 123 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,920 is revered, quote UN quote by Islam. 124 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,360 And again, I want to make clear that while they give lip 125 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,520 servants to reverence, you cannot change the very 126 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:50,560 fundamental character of God himself and also Revere him at 127 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,320 the same time. There is no way that those two 128 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,320 spheres can overlap any way at all. 129 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,160 You cannot have reverence for God and then also besmirch his 130 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:04,400 name and then also blasphemy his name at the same time that there 131 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,480 is no reverence there at all. It's just a way to placate 132 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,400 Christians. It's a way to sound more 133 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,880 reasonable, but in no way, shape or form is there any type of 134 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,080 reverence truly for Jesus Christ in Islam. 135 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,520 Well, we're going to look more at what they believe the nature 136 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,080 of Jesus Christ is in just a moment. 137 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,680 But before I do that, I would like to show you a brief video, 138 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,120 again, not from a Christian point of view, but from a direct 139 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,400 Muslim point of view about what they believe about Jesus Christ. 140 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:32,200 And then we'll dig a little bit deeper into that. 141 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,360 Let's go ahead. Jesus or Isa Al Isalam is an 142 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,160 important figure appearing in both the Bible and the Quran, 143 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,000 but do both Muslims and Christians have the same belief 144 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,000 regarding his position and role? There are some similarities 145 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,680 between them when it comes to the life of Jesus, such as the 146 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,760 belief that he was born to the Virgin Mary or Lady Mariam, as 147 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,320 the Quran says. She said. 148 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,920 How can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have 149 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,080 not been unchaste? He said. 150 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,840 Thus it will be. Your Lord says it is easy for 151 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,920 me, and we will make him a sign to the people and a mercy from 152 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,280 us. And it is a matter already 153 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,640 decreed. Secondly, Jesus was given the 154 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,920 ability to perform certain miracles, such as resurrecting 155 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,040 the dead, giving sight to the blind, and curing the severely 156 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,040 paralyzed. Despite these similarities, 157 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,600 there are some points of differences as well. 158 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:36,679 Christians believe Jesus is an Incarnate or son of God who is 159 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:41,240 crucified in this world as a sacrifice and atonement for the 160 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,280 sins of mankind. Muslims, on the other hand, 161 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,760 believe Jesus was one of the greatest prophets to have been 162 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:52,040 sent by Allah for the guidance of humankind, and believing in 163 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,520 him as a prophet is a requirement. 164 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,320 In Islam. He was sent with a divinely 165 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:01,560 revealed book called the Injeel, a gospel that was later 166 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:04,800 corrupted and altered, Allah says in the Quran. 167 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,760 Then we made our messengers follow them one after the other. 168 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,240 Then we sent after them Isa, the son of Mariam, and gave him the 169 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,720 Injeel and placed compassion and mercy in the hearts of his 170 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,400 followers. In another verse of the Quran, 171 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,120 Allah says Jesus came to his people as a prophet, confirming 172 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,920 the teachings of the previous divinely revealed book and the 173 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,920 teachings of Prophet Moses. Jesus, son of Mary said, 174 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,480 Children of Israel, I am sent to you by God, confirming the Torah 175 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,280 that came before me. One of the most important 176 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,480 differences Islam has with Christianity is on the 177 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,240 crucifixion of Jesus. According to the Muslims, Jesus 178 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,720 was never truly killed, rather it was made to appear for the 179 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,200 people that it was Jesus but in reality it was someone else. 180 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,520 Allah says in the Quran and for their saying surely we killed 181 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:03,040 the Messiah ISA son of Mariam, the messenger of Allah. 182 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,360 And in no way did they kill him and in no way did they crucify 183 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,840 him, but a resemblance of him was presented to them. 184 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:15,240 This also means Muslims believe Jesus is alive and never died, 185 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,480 rather his body was raised into the heavens by Allah. 186 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,400 He will return near the end of times along with the Mahdi, the 187 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,400 12th Imam from the Al UL Bay and assist the Imam in establishing 188 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,840 justice and peace in the world, just as it would have been 189 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,440 filled with tyranny and injustice. 190 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:40,360 Jesus or Isa al Aisalam. So that's enough. 191 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,680 I don't know how you feel about that, but there's a major 192 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:47,440 differences between what the Bible says about Jesus and what 193 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,640 is taught by the Muslim religion about Jesus. 194 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:54,200 And the greatest perhaps would be this was that first, well, 195 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,000 first of all would be that Jesus is not God, but secondly, that 196 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,960 he did not die on the cross, that he went on the cross but 197 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:04,160 was somehow replaced on the cross and never truly died in 198 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,360 the way that the Bible says. Now, if you're like me, this is 199 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,400 a curiosity. How would he have been on the 200 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,320 cross, but yet not died on the cross, but somehow was replaced 201 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,960 on the cross. And so I went on to a little bit 202 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,360 of a rabbit hole, or down a rabbit hole, if you will, 203 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,840 looking on YouTube at different Muslim clerics and to be able to 204 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,600 hear some teaching. And I did bring me to the place 205 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,760 of where we are in Matthew chapter #12 And so we're going 206 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,800 to read just a moment Matthew chapter #12 beginning in verse 207 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:37,760 #38. But I, I watched a, a Muslim 208 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,880 cleric answering questions from different people, including from 209 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,560 Christians. And when this video that I had 210 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:48,600 seen, there was probably well over 1000 people who were in 211 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,720 this room. And this gentleman was asking a 212 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:57,280 question of the cleric and said, well, you do not believe that 213 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,720 Jesus died on the cross. But I would tell you that the 214 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,160 Bible does say that Jesus died on the cross. 215 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:04,640 And so how would you answer that? 216 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:11,000 And so he said, I'd like you to consider Matthew chapter #12 and 217 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,840 verse #38 He says, because your own Bible teaches that Jesus 218 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,280 never died on the cross. And if you're like me, that 219 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,520 immediately gets your interest because I'm thinking I've read 220 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,280 the Bible enough to know it seems very clear that Jesus died 221 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,400 on the cross. And so again, I, I want to be 222 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,560 very careful how I explain this to you, that when we're dealing 223 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:33,000 with error, when we're dealing with these false doctrines that 224 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:38,240 are out there, is that they will take one verse of the Bible or 225 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,520 one small section of verses from the Bible and they will twist it 226 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,000 into something completely different. 227 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,800 And that they will do was they will rely on the ignorance of 228 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,440 the people who they're talking to who do not realize there's a 229 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,400 whole mountain of evidence that would be contrary to the one 230 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,960 verse that they are quoting. So look at Matthew chapter 12 231 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,000 verse #38 it says this. Then certain of the scribes and 232 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,880 the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from 233 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,520 thee. And he answered and said unto 234 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,480 them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, 235 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,680 and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of the prophet 236 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:13,040 Jonas. Now look at this. 237 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,240 For as Jonas was in the belly, or rather whereas Jonas was 3 238 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,600 days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son 239 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,360 of Man be 3 days and three nights in the heart of the 240 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,280 earth. And so this cleric is starting 241 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:31,160 to expound off of these verses and he says that prophet Jesus, 242 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,680 you know, peace be unto him. And he says this prophet Jesus 243 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:39,280 that he makes the mention of the sign and he says in the sign is 244 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:43,840 going to be the fact that of the sign of Jonah. 245 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,760 And so he says, now let me ask you when he says, you know about 246 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,600 the book of Jonah, right? And the man said, yes, he says 247 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,240 Jonah. And he goes through explaining 248 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,080 what happened in Jonah up to the point when Jonah got thrown off 249 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,960 of the boat. He says when Jonah got thrown 250 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,080 off of the boat, was he alive or dead? 251 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:03,240 And the man said alive, He says when he was bobbing up and down 252 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,240 in the water, was Jonah alive or dead? 253 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:08,880 He said alive. He says Jonah got swallowed in 254 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,240 the the fish. He says was he alive or dead? 255 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:15,240 And the man said alive. He says when he was spit back 256 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,920 out, was he alive or dead? He said alive. 257 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,440 He says at any point in the book of Jonah, do you find Jonah 258 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,640 being dead? And he said, no. 259 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:30,040 He says, well, this is the sign that Jesus pointed to. 260 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:36,040 He says, and as Jonah was alive, he says then also Jesus was 261 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,720 alive and never died. Now we'll say that you can just 262 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,360 quickly look at those verses and maybe make a connection to what 263 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,880 he's saying if you didn't know any of the other verses of the 264 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,160 Bible. But the problem with this, and 265 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,360 This is why Bible proper Bible interpretation is so important. 266 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,280 This is why every word in the Word of God is important, that 267 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,160 we don't just read just in a very general way, but that every 268 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,600 word and how the words are put together are so important. 269 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,440 You look at it again, verse #39 says an evil and adulterous 270 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,840 generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given 271 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,120 to it but the sign of the prophet Jonas. 272 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,280 What's the sign of the prophet Jonas? 273 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:20,880 4 As Jonas was 3 days and three nights in the whale's belly, so 274 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,160 shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in the heart of 275 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,960 the earth. Now does it say that the sign 276 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,960 was that he would die as Jonah died, or that he would live as 277 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:33,640 Jonah lived? No. 278 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,120 What is the sign? The three days and the three 279 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,160 nights, That's the sign. And So what he did was he took 280 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,680 what the word of God said and he turned it and twisted it into 281 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:45,920 something completely different and hoping that nobody paid 282 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,800 attention. Let me put it to you this way. 283 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:52,640 Some of you know, we had a little bit of an accident with 284 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,960 our car back before Bethany's wedding the day before. 285 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:57,360 As a matter of fact, we were stopped. 286 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,800 Casey was stopped at the light. My dad, Diane's mom were in the 287 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,800 were in the car and it was a three car pile up. 288 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,040 We were at the front. It happened at a light and so 289 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,960 there was some damage in the back corner of the car. 290 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,640 Now there's been someone else in the church, which for legal 291 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,600 reasons, I can't say because we're online and the insurance 292 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,000 companies might be watching, but that had some similar issues 293 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,280 that happened just recently in the last few weeks. 294 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:22,960 And I'm just kidding about the insurance company anyway. 295 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:23,960 But you understand what I'm saying. 296 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:30,160 But so, so could you imagine saying, I say, you know, I had 297 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:37,680 this accident and it damaged the corner of the car and my brother 298 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,720 had an accident and it damaged the exact same corner of the 299 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:43,560 car. And someone heard me say that 300 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,560 and say you, you were in the exact same accident. 301 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,320 I said, no, that's not what I said. 302 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:51,880 You, you both were on the same Rd. 303 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,680 No, I, I didn't, I didn't say that you, you, you both, you 304 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,360 were driving the same type of vehicle. 305 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,840 No, I I didn't say that they were both A3 car pile up. 306 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,960 No, that that's not what I said. No, no, that's what you said. 307 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:06,720 You said it's exactly the same thing I said. 308 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,400 No, I was just comparing where the damage was on one car and 309 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,319 where the damage was on my car. I wasn't saying that the whole 310 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:16,200 thing was the same. I was just saying that this one 311 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:20,160 thing was the same. Jesus was not saying that all of 312 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,920 his life experiences would be exactly like Jonas. 313 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,880 That's not what he said. He said this. 314 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,360 There was an element of time that was when one way in Jonah's 315 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:33,880 life that will be very similar in life. 316 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,640 And was that true? It absolutely was true. 317 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:40,040 We understand that the three days and the three nights 318 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,720 between the crucifixion and the resurrection, that's all that's 319 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:47,160 being said here. And false doctrine always takes 320 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,400 the clear teaching of the Word of God and does what it adds to 321 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,720 it, takes away from it or twists it. 322 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,560 And so that's what they've done here because they say, well, 323 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,600 this is really the only evidence of Jesus dying on the cross. 324 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,400 And I want to say, what about the rest of the Gospels? 325 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,200 And then they throw up their hands and say, well, yes, but, 326 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:05,920 you know, the Bible's been corrupted anyway. 327 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,720 Did you catch that in there, that the message was corrupted 328 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,520 of the word of God? The gospel message that he had 329 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,840 was later corrupted that he was really teaching about all that 330 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,360 time. But, you know, Bible translators 331 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:20,680 have twisted that and turned it into its own religion. 332 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:23,400 And so that's where it gets very hard to be able to talk to 333 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,640 somebody about these types of issues because you get to the 334 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,720 point where they say, well, is the Bible even true? 335 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,760 And of course, if they don't understand that the Bible was 336 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,680 true, then it gets very hard to have the place of commonality to 337 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,600 talk to them about salvation. So according to the Quran, Jesus 338 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,040 was created. He was not Creator, He was 339 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,120 created. He was the messenger of the 340 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:47,760 children of Israel who performed miracles in order to declare it 341 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,880 is Allah who is my Lord and your Lord. 342 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:56,960 Surah 351 Jesus then rounded up Allah's helpers, the disciples, 343 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:01,160 Surah 352, who bore witness that they were Muslim. 344 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,360 In time, Jesus fulfilled His mission of calling Jews to 345 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:07,600 worship Allah and was taken to heaven without experiencing 346 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,800 death. As we just mentioned, the Muslim 347 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,280 rejects any notion that Jesus is God or the Son of God. 348 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,280 Surah 19 verse 88. And as you can see, the 349 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,360 rejection of the deity of Christ goes hand in hand with the 350 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:24,600 rejection of the triune nature of the Lord. 351 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:29,000 Islam rejects the very nature and character of God as revealed 352 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,080 in scripture. We know that Lord, Father, Son 353 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,800 and Holy Ghost three and one, one and three and that that is 354 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,960 completely and totally rejected by Islam. 355 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,320 Instead, the Quran reveals that a God Allah, who is transcendent 356 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:47,520 and removed from mankind and sovereign arbitrarily works as 357 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,680 he pleases and works in complete mystery. 358 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,880 So you can see not just the character of Jesus Christ, but 359 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,560 the very character of God. And I'll go through these very 360 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,480 quickly that it says Yahweh, the God of the Bible. 361 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,440 But then Allah, the God of Quran. 362 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,840 Look at the difference for God so loved the world compared to 363 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:09,200 God baguettes not nor is he forgotten that there is no. 364 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,040 Son of God, immutability. God never changes compared to 365 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:16,080 Allah, changes as he wills. How do you please a God who 366 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,360 changes as he wills? How do you please a God who 367 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:22,920 lives by his own whims and his own desires? 368 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:27,400 It's impossible to do one. God is knowable but yet Allah is 369 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,280 ultimately unknowable. The nature of the relationship. 370 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,640 God is sovereign and intimate compared to Allah is a dominant 371 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,400 master and sovereign. On one side the incarnation that 372 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,960 God became flesh but Allah does not become flesh. 373 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,680 According to Quran, the nature of unity 1. 374 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,920 Essence and three persons, Father, son and Spirit compared 375 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,520 to Allah is one. In mathematical terms, God's 376 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,440 love is unconditional according to the word of God, but Allah's 377 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,880 love is conditional in the Quran. 378 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,840 Truthfulness, God's word is truth. 379 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:02,360 We see in the word of God, Allah is the greatest deceiver. 380 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:07,120 Quran 354 That is certainly a very, very difficult thing to 381 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:09,360 understand. And of course, the word of God 382 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:12,760 says that God's son died on the cross to atone for the sins of 383 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,840 the world and that the that the Quran makes clear that Allah has 384 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:22,800 no son in Surah 2116. I want to read you a little bit 385 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,360 longer piece of hope. We're not there yet. 386 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,680 Sorry. Go back. 387 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,640 All right, push the wrong button. 388 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,280 All right, Let you look at that for a while. 389 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,640 But I want to read to you an article. 390 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,520 And I I don't like reading longer articles, but I do think 391 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:39,960 it helps gel this thought a little bit more is from a group 392 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,080 called the Muslim Unity Center. Sure, thank you, brother. 393 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,160 That'd be fine. The Muslim Unity Center, it says 394 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,080 this. The Quran tells us a lot of 395 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,840 wonderful things. Thank you about Jesus. 396 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,520 As a result, believers in the Quran love Jesus, honor him, 397 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,760 believe in him. In fact, no Muslim can be a 398 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,160 Muslim unless he or she believes in Prophet Jesus. 399 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,520 It will be quickly obvious though the disciples often 400 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:08,440 referred to him as Almighty God. But I'm sorry, it's important 401 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,320 that I read this correctly. It will be quickly obvious that 402 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,560 the disciples often referred to him as a servant of Almighty 403 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,800 God, but never son of Almighty God. 404 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,840 Peter, for example, said the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the 405 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,520 God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. 406 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,600 And their contention is the disciples only called Jesus a 407 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,800 servant. They never called him God, he 408 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,760 continues. Peter further said God raised up 409 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,560 his servant. Acts 326, where the title 410 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,960 servant refers to Jesus. Not only was it Peter, but the 411 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,920 entire group of believers viewed Jesus as Almighty God's servant. 412 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,400 When they raise their voices together in prayer to Almighty 413 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,640 God in the course of their speaking to Almighty God, they 414 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,680 call Jesus your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed. 415 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,920 Acts 427. They repeated this title also in 416 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,720 verse 30. Consistently Jesus was being 417 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,160 called servant of Almighty God by the original followers of 418 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,640 Jesus. Some people mistakenly thought 419 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,880 that the disciples called Jesus son of Almighty God. 420 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,880 This inconsistency of translation actually helped to 421 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,800 give this wrong impression. In Listen to this in the King 422 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,520 James Bible. This is a Muslim group that says 423 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,640 this in the King James Bible. The translator called Jesus son 424 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,280 of Almighty God in Acts 313 and 26 and the child of Almighty God 425 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,640 in Acts 427. They simply translated the Greek 426 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:32,120 word paeda as son or child. But the word paeda also means 427 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:35,760 servant, and the present context demands this translation, since 428 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,200 the author of Acts is trying in this passage to establish that 429 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,720 Jesus is indeed the servant of Almighty God. 430 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,600 The translators knew that the Greek word paeda means servant. 431 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:51,680 When the same word was used for David in chapter 4 verse 25, 432 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,800 they translated as servant. Why not call Jesus also by the 433 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,080 same title? Or do they feel that son is the 434 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,920 correct translation? Why not call David son of 435 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,680 Almighty God? Jesus and David are both called 436 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,600 by the same title in Greek. Why not call them by the same 437 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,240 title in English alone? Other translators recognizes 438 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,520 this inconsistency. Listen to this and corrected it 439 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,160 in modern translations of the Bible. 440 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,480 So the Muslims say, you know what, those newer translations 441 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,800 of the Bible, they take out some of the mentions of the deity of 442 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,240 Christ that probably ought to give us pause to think a little 443 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,600 bit about why we use the King James Bible, Amen. 444 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,960 And so it says this. Nevertheless, the fact that 445 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,800 Jesus was almighty, God's servant was so well known that 446 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,560 even the King James Bible called him by this title in Matthew 447 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:39,480 1218, referring back to Isaiah 42, one Matthew identified Jesus 448 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,480 as the servant of the one true God, Yahweh. 449 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,080 So there's a lot that can be said about what takes place 450 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,840 here, but the fact of the matter is Jesus Christ was a servant. 451 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,800 I, I think would anyone argue with the fact that Jesus was a 452 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,320 servant, of course was a servant. 453 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,760 You know he was a servant. I know he was a servant. 454 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,120 The Muslims know he was a servant. 455 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,040 Of course Jesus Christ was a servant. 456 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,680 We know that he came to serve. But we also know this while he 457 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,640 was a servant, he ultimately was and is God. 458 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,840 That part of the fact of Jesus coming to this earth was to 459 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,440 become as what the form of a servant, but yet the deity of 460 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,120 Christ is immestakable in the word of God. 461 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,840 You you can go to John 20 verse 28 where Thomas remember 462 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,720 doubting Thomas. I won't believe it unless I see 463 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,240 him unless I put my hands into the nail prints and and as soon 464 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,520 as he saw Jesus. What was his exclamation. 465 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,280 I use this often when talking to people about the deity of 466 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,840 Christ. He said this, My Lord and my 467 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,160 God. Thomas had no problem 468 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,920 understanding that Jesus Christ is God. 469 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,360 Hebrews one verse 8. But the But unto the Son, he, 470 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,680 God saith, thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. 471 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,480 A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy Kingdom. 472 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,520 Hebrews 18 refers to Jesus Christ explicitly as God. 473 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,000 I just mentioned this a moment ago. 474 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,720 Philippians 2 verse 5 and 6 Well I mentioned the same passage, 475 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,120 let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who 476 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:14,600 being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with 477 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,760 God. John 1030 Jesus said this I and 478 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:24,600 my father are one and he said well there could be a little bit 479 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,640 of misunderstanding about that. Well the next verse says that as 480 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,760 soon as the Jews heard him say I, my Father and one, they took 481 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:31,920 up stones and wanted to stone him. 482 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,680 I think they were very clear of what Jesus was saying, that he 483 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,320 was God. Jesus did actions that could 484 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,840 only be accomplished by God. He raised the dead, He forgave 485 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,000 sins, He created and sustains the universe. 486 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:53,040 This becomes even clearer when one considers that God said that 487 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,560 He alone was there during creation, which Jesus was active 488 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,520 in creation. Further, Christ possesses 489 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,280 attributes that only deity can have. 490 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,440 Eternality, omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. 491 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,880 That everywhere you look in the word of God, Jesus is God. 492 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:14,160 But what do the Muslims do? They take one verse and twist it 493 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,120 so much that if it was a towel full of water, they twist it so 494 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:18,920 much there wouldn't even be one drop left in it. 495 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,640 That's how much they twisted it. But they take that one verse, 496 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,320 ignore the balance of Scripture, and say that Jesus wasn't God, 497 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,240 and yet they Revere him. That's rejected completely and 498 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,240 totally that they do not Revere Jesus Christ in any way. 499 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,880 Again, you cannot just merely Revere Jesus. 500 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:41,160 He's either your Lord or He is not. 501 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:44,600 There is no middle ground. And so we look at all of this 502 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,200 and we see the nature of God. But then I also want us to look 503 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,040 at very quickly #4 and finally, the nature of salvation. 504 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,360 In Muslim theology, listen to this. 505 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:58,040 No one is lost. Now we understand we're lost in 506 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,600 our sins. That's why we needed Jesus 507 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:00,840 Christ to save us. Amen. 508 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,560 But in Muslim theology, no one is lost, but all are born weak 509 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,120 and forgetful. It's a big difference, isn't it? 510 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:09,760 You're merely weak and forgetful. 511 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,200 That's why you don't need a savior. 512 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,680 You need a prophet to guide you and to teach you. 513 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,160 Remember we saw that last week that that's why the Prophet 514 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,280 Muhammad was so uplifted. Why? 515 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:23,040 Because he was the 1:00 to be able to as the highest form of 516 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,280 prophet, to be able to teach people the good and right way. 517 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,720 They don't need a savior. They just need a guide and then 518 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,200 their guidance comes Quran, which states these are the 519 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:38,120 verses of the wise book, a guide and mercy to the doers of good. 520 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,240 So how is 1 saved, quote UN quote? 521 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,800 By being a Muslim. Now we understand that whoever 522 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,080 calls upon the name of Christ shall be saved, right? 523 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,720 That we repent of our sins and call upon Christ to save us. 524 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,280 We're going to see a lot of that in our message this morning from 525 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,680 second Peter chapter #3 But let's ask the question, what 526 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,160 does it mean to be saved to be a Muslim? 527 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,760 Well, there's a formula that you can follow and it's this. 528 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,680 It's repentance and faith plus works equals. 529 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,320 Now look at this possible salvation. 530 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,800 That is not a comfort in any way shape or form, is it? 531 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:21,800 Repentance, faith and works means only possible salvation. 532 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,320 You might get there, you possibly could get there. 533 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,360 Well, that's not a comfort in any way, shape or form. 534 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,120 Repentance. What do we mean by repentance? 535 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:34,880 In Muslim terms, it means this salvation begins with right 536 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,800 belief as seen in the creed. There is no God but Allah and 537 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,880 Mohammed is the messenger of Allah. 538 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,400 Remember, we've seen that creed for the last several weeks. 539 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:48,000 Repentance is this is the creed. I say it three times to become a 540 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,400 active Muslim. But then faith. 541 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,280 What is faith? Well, according to Muslim 542 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,640 teaching, there are 6 fundamentals to the faith that 543 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,480 are essential to salvation. 6 fundamentals. 544 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,400 I'm just going to read them to you #1 Belief in one God alone 545 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,440 with no partners, which means this. 546 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:11,000 No Jesus #2 belief in angels #3 belief in the revelations which 547 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,920 came down, most notably the Quran #4 belief in all his 548 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:20,800 prophets from Adam to Muhammad. 5 belief that Allah will judge 549 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,800 all men and women, and six believe that all men and women 550 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,480 will spend eternity in either paradise or hell. 551 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,320 So that is faith. You have to believe in those six 552 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,760 things and then what follows is works. 553 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,000 Right action must accompany belief. 554 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,080 All the pillars must be followed on top of the commands of the 555 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,000 Quran and the Hadith. So you have to follow the five 556 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,200 pillars that we've been looking at everything that's in the 557 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,880 Quran, everything in the deep, and then it is possible that you 558 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,480 will achieve salvation. Now we see at the judgment, the 559 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,080 hope is the weight of the good outweighs that of the bad. 560 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,840 So we understand what the Bible says about salvation is this is 561 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,680 that if you sin, you are a Sinner and that you are in need 562 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,680 of a Savior, that when we get to the Great White Throne Judgment, 563 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,600 well, if you are saved, you won't go to the Great White 564 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,680 Throne judgment. But if someone is unsaved and 565 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,600 goes to the Great White Throne judgment, according to what we 566 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:25,120 see in Revelation chapter #20 is that your works will be judged. 567 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,800 And it's not your good works and your bad work weighed on a 568 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:34,800 cosmic scale is if you have sinned once, you're a Sinner, 569 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,520 you've transgressed and you need a Savior. 570 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,000 And everyone in humanity's history that has tried to save 571 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,080 themselves their own way, including by the way, Muslims 572 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,880 will have to show that they can have salvation on their own. 573 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,080 And every single person at the Great White Throne judgment will 574 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,840 be guilty because they'll find holiness within themselves. 575 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,600 And holiness isn't found with ourselves. 576 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,080 It's only found within Jesus Christ. 577 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,360 But to them it's this, your good works and your bad works. 578 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:10,280 You put them on a scale and you hope the good works tip to the 579 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,880 good side and the bad works lift themselves up. 580 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,920 Then this. There are many things that could 581 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,960 send someone to hell. Now look at this arrogance, 582 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,080 stubbornness, careless words, giving a temptation. 583 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,000 These are just a few of the examples of the sins that could 584 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,800 send a person to hell. So let me ask you this, where is 585 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,160 any type of comfort within the Muslim religion? 586 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,840 Where is there a time where you have the security of knowing 587 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,560 that someday you will spend an eternity with Allah? 588 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,200 Where do you get to the place where you feel like I know that 589 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,760 I am a friend of Allah, I know that I will spend eternity with 590 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,200 him and have comfort and peace? The answer is there is no Muslim 591 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,080 who could ever have that. So much so that listen, it's 592 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,240 taught that Muhammad couldn't even guarantee that he'd make it 593 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:03,760 to heaven. Muhammad, if he couldn't make 594 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:08,720 it, what Muslim could make it? What an awful, awful line of 595 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,760 theology. What hopelessness. 596 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,920 And that's why when we see the rabid following of Islam 597 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,080 throughout the world, the calls to prayer, the the absolute 598 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:24,640 devotion, listen, it's not about love, it's about fear. 599 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,800 Why? Because I've got to make sure 600 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,880 that in the scales of Allah's justice I've done enough good to 601 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,000 be able to make it to heaven. Listen to this. 602 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,000 Even infants are not assured of making it to heaven if they 603 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,200 pass. In fact, there's a great 604 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,960 likelihood that infants would die in the Muslim theology and 605 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:52,480 go to hell. It's an awful pernicious line of 606 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,000 doctrine. There is one guarantee though, 607 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,800 that someone could make it to heaven, and this is found in 608 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:06,760 Surah 9 1st #111 and it is this. It is not that that would be the 609 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,080 end. That would be the end. 610 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,239 How many times I push what? What did I do here? 611 00:34:16,030 --> 00:34:17,230 Let's see, Keep pushing this. Hold on. 612 00:34:19,230 --> 00:34:21,550 I feel like I had this, like this real flourish there, and 613 00:34:21,550 --> 00:34:24,030 then I just totally, totally messed it up. 614 00:34:24,070 --> 00:34:25,070 All right? I don't know what I did. 615 00:34:25,070 --> 00:34:28,590 Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go. 616 00:34:29,550 --> 00:34:34,350 This is it. No, that's not it. 617 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,159 All right, so I didn't save the last slide. 618 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:41,480 Here is the only pretend that last 30 seconds didn't happen. 619 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,679 OK, Here's the only guarantee that a Muslim has of making it 620 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:50,800 to heaven is being a martyr. Does that explain some of the 621 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,760 things that we see throughout the world? 622 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,400 By the way, does that explain some of what we see in Gaza, why 623 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,280 people would so willingly do some of the unthinkable things 624 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,000 that they would do? Why? 625 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,920 Because it's the only way they can be sure they will go to 626 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,040 heaven. When you understand that, it 627 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:13,160 explains a lot of what we see in this world. 628 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,880 And again, this isn't my, my word saying this, that Surah 629 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:20,520 Chapter 9, verse #111 And I checked it myself to be able to 630 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,640 make sure that this wasn't something that was mistaken. 631 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,160 It is very, very real. The only way a Muslim can know 632 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,760 is by giving their life for the faith. 633 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,120 So what does that mean? Again, nothing is done out of 634 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,920 devotion, true devotion. It is completely done out of 635 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,880 fear. There is no love. 636 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,080 There is no love. What do we see about the word of 637 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,280 God when it comes to salvation? Well, that Jesus Christ, 638 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:48,400 actually, we have time to go there. 639 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,440 Turn to Acts chapter 4. I saved so much time on that 640 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,320 slide, not being there. I got time to turn to Acts 641 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,280 chapter 4. All right, I think I didn't save 642 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,760 that slide. That's a that's a bummer. 643 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:04,760 All right, by the way, this is, I purposely picked this text 644 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:10,720 because it's that sermon of Peter's that the Muslims were 645 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,520 out, that he just kept calling Jesus a servant, A servant, A 646 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,640 servant. As we read just a little bit 647 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:20,480 here, let me ask you, what do you think is meant by Peter in 648 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,720 relationship to Jesus and salvation? 649 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,040 So let's look at Acts chapter 4. Look at verse #8 it says this. 650 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,480 Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost. 651 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:28,800 I don't know how to explain that either. 652 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,200 So they don't believe in the Trinity. 653 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,400 But anyway, Peter filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, 654 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,880 You rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if we this day 655 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,920 be examined of the good deeds done to the impotent man, by 656 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,640 what means he is made whole? Be it known unto you all and to 657 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,640 all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of 658 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:51,280 Nazareth, whom He crucified, whom God raised from the dead. 659 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,080 Again, do you see it right there? 660 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,400 He's raised from the dead. Well, how is He raised from the 661 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,960 dead if he didn't die? The contradictions are so 662 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,120 numerous. We raised from the dead even by 663 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,120 him. Doth this man stand here before 664 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,200 you hold? This is the stone which was said 665 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,320 it not of you builders, which has become the head of the 666 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,080 corner. Now this is a strong and 667 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,760 important statement in the New Testament understanding the 668 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,800 person and work of Jesus that He is the chief cornerstone. 669 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:26,160 Jesus is quoting from the Old Testament Psalm 118 verse #22 670 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,160 but then Jesus made reference of this again himself. 671 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:34,720 Matthew 2142, Mark 12 verse 10 and 11 and Luke 20 verse 17. 672 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,240 Peter quoted it here that he also quoted in first Peter 673 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:40,720 chapter 2 verses 7 and 8, which you might remember from our 674 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:43,680 series on Sunday mornings. But then also Paul alluded to 675 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:48,080 this verse in Ephesians 2 verse #20 as well, that when it comes 676 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,040 to salvation that Jesus is the chief cornerstone. 677 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,000 And here's the capstone of all of this. 678 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,480 Go to the next verse. Neither is there salvation in 679 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,720 any other, for there is none other name under heaven given 680 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,640 among men whereby we must be saved. 681 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,880 Hey, there is. That's it. 682 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,320 All right. That's. 683 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,040 I know. Ralph, I'm with you. 684 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,120 All right, all right. I was dying up here, all right. 685 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:18,920 I was withering on the vine up here. 686 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:19,920 We found it. That's all right. 687 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,000 Thank the Lord. But what do we see? 688 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,320 We see this, that Jesus is the only name to be saved under, 689 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,440 that he is the chief cornerstone. 690 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:33,240 And that is the theme from Old Testament to New Testament, from 691 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:38,240 prophets to gospels to epistles, that it's all about Jesus 692 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,160 Christ. Now we learned some very 693 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:44,880 important things about folks who believe the Islamic faith This 694 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,320 last, this, this lesson we're going to try to take by God's 695 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,360 grace, take those things that we learned and be able to help 696 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,320 understand their mindset to better be able to show them the 697 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,040 Jesus Christ of the Bible. You say, well, they're not going 698 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,720 to be very receptive. They're they're very far away 699 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,520 from what we believe. It's not about whether they're 700 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,280 receptive enough or not. It's about us being faithful and 701 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,000 giving the gospel, and that's knowing the best way to do it, 702 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,480 by understanding a little bit of what they think. 703 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,200 Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of 704 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,120 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 705 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,600 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 706 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:26,200 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 707 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,000 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 708 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,840 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 709 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,040 grow in His Word.