Week 9: Islam and the Fundamentals of the Faith | August 3, 2025 Sunday School

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And turn your Bibles, please, to Matthew chapter #12 the book of

Matthew chapter #12 We got a lot to get to.

So let's get right to it as we continue looking at the

fundamentals of the faith and comparing them to the religion,

the false religion of Islam. And we'll go through just a tiny

amount of review here in just a moment, and then get to where we

need to go this week so we can finish those fundamentals of the

faith. And then next week, answer the

question I'm sure is on your mind.

How do we witness to the Muslims, friends and the people

that we have in our community? And I'm really looking forward

to getting into that next week. And so just by way of review, we

want to remember that there are 5 pillars of Islam and we saw

that they are the creed. And what is that creed?

It is there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.

But then we also saw that there is prayer.

That prayer is offered five times a day.

Then there is almsgiving. And that is in certain

situations, 2.5% of a person's income is given to charitable

pursuits with others fasting, particularly during the month

long celebration of Ramadan. And then we saw there's a

pilgrimage. Those who are physically and

financially able are required to be able to go to Mecca.

And then we saw last week that there were two fundamentals.

We saw a sacred texts and authorities.

And we saw that the sacred texts conclude the Quran, but also the

hadith, and that hadith that was the book or books rather of

which spoke of Muhammad and what his exploits and his thoughts

were, as well as some interpretation of those and then

his authority, Muhammad being the prophet of prophets, the

highest of all of the prophets. And then we looked at creation

and we saw that while there were some similarities to where we

find biblical creation in the Word of God, that the idea of

creation is much different in Islam in the sense that and

evolution is allowed to be part of it on top of the fact that

Jesus Christ would not have been part of creation.

And that really is going to be part of what we want to talk

about today because this week we're going to look at the other

two fundamentals that we mentioned last week, which is

the nature of God and the nature of salvation.

And much of the issue with the nature of God comes down to this

Jesus Christ, because Muslims will say to you to your face

that they believe in Jesus Christ.

This is important for us to understand here today, that if

you were to ask a Muslim, do you believe in Jesus Christ, if that

was the question that you were to pose to someone of the

Islamic faith, they would say absolutely, we believe in Jesus

Christ. The issue, however, is what

Jesus Christ do they believe in? Because their Jesus would not be

our Jesus. And that's why when you're

dealing with false religions, when you're dealing with cults,

it's very important to get past the first question and typically

to dig deeper into the answer than just simply accepting the

answer. We're going to see a lot of the

cults, particularly when you ask, do you believe in Jesus

Christ? They'll say, of course we

believe in Jesus Christ. Do you believe that God is the

creator? Yes, we believe that God is the

creator, but what does that mean?

Define your terms so that we can better understand and you start

to find that, well, this is not what we believe from the Word of

God, and what they are saying is not from the Word of God.

And it's important for us to understand because the way that

error flourishes is by having some element of truth within it.

The best counterfeits are the ones that look a lot like the

real thing, aren't they? I don't know anything about

counterfeit money. I mean, I haven't used it

lately, but I do know this. Is this OK?

We can't use this in a court of law, I don't think.

But anyway, I would know this, that if you put Monopoly money

into the deposit at the bank, you know, put it up that little

tube, I imagine that tube would be coming back real quick

saying, yeah, you cannot make a deposit with this pink note that

comes from your game of Monopoly.

However, what could be passable is something that has the look,

the feel, the smell of regular money of which we are used to.

And so when it comes to false religions, listen, the most

outlandish thoughts are typically discarded by most.

It's the ones that have some element of truth within them.

That's what Satan does, isn't he?

He makes sure that there's a little bit of truth and that is

the worm, but the hook is the error, and that's the one that

gets you. And so if you were to ask again,

a Muslim, do you believe in Jesus Christ?

The answer, of course, 100% will be yes, we believe in Jesus

Christ. But what exactly does that mean?

Well, as we look at the nature of God, they do not believe that

Jesus is God. Do they believe in Jesus?

Yes. But Jesus is not God.

He is not part of the triune God at all.

Jesus, rather is one of the prophets that he was the

greatest of the prophet, except for Muhammad.

Now understand, even those words just coming out of my mouth,

they're blasphemous. Of course, I'm not committing

blasphemy on teaching you this. But that that would be taught is

rank heresy, that Jesus is lesser than Muhammad.

And we saw the character Muhammad last week, that he was

not a man of high character, that he was a warrior prophet,

but that he also had very low morals in every metric and in

every sense of the word. But then we also saw that they

believe that Jesus is to be revered.

Now, this is important, that they do believe that Jesus is to

be be revered. In fact, some of the videos that

I watched this week about Islam and about this very issue, they

would often say Jesus may peace be upon him, Jesus may peace be

upon him. And they say that as a form of

reverence. But here is where the issue

comes. Here's where the rub is that

Jesus is not simply to be revered, but it is not enough to

Revere Jesus Christ. What do we need to do to Jesus

Christ? We bow the knee to him that he

is not just simply revered as we Revere many things, don't we?

We have great respect for many different elements in this

world. But Jesus Christ is not simply

to be revered. He is to be worshipped.

He is to be the one and only way of salvation.

And because Jesus is revered, quote UN quote by Islam.

And again, I want to make clear that while they give lip

servants to reverence, you cannot change the very

fundamental character of God himself and also Revere him at

the same time. There is no way that those two

spheres can overlap any way at all.

You cannot have reverence for God and then also besmirch his

name and then also blasphemy his name at the same time that there

is no reverence there at all. It's just a way to placate

Christians. It's a way to sound more

reasonable, but in no way, shape or form is there any type of

reverence truly for Jesus Christ in Islam.

Well, we're going to look more at what they believe the nature

of Jesus Christ is in just a moment.

But before I do that, I would like to show you a brief video,

again, not from a Christian point of view, but from a direct

Muslim point of view about what they believe about Jesus Christ.

And then we'll dig a little bit deeper into that.

Let's go ahead. Jesus or Isa Al Isalam is an

important figure appearing in both the Bible and the Quran,

but do both Muslims and Christians have the same belief

regarding his position and role? There are some similarities

between them when it comes to the life of Jesus, such as the

belief that he was born to the Virgin Mary or Lady Mariam, as

the Quran says. She said.

How can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have

not been unchaste? He said.

Thus it will be. Your Lord says it is easy for

me, and we will make him a sign to the people and a mercy from

us. And it is a matter already

decreed. Secondly, Jesus was given the

ability to perform certain miracles, such as resurrecting

the dead, giving sight to the blind, and curing the severely

paralyzed. Despite these similarities,

there are some points of differences as well.

Christians believe Jesus is an Incarnate or son of God who is

crucified in this world as a sacrifice and atonement for the

sins of mankind. Muslims, on the other hand,

believe Jesus was one of the greatest prophets to have been

sent by Allah for the guidance of humankind, and believing in

him as a prophet is a requirement.

In Islam. He was sent with a divinely

revealed book called the Injeel, a gospel that was later

corrupted and altered, Allah says in the Quran.

Then we made our messengers follow them one after the other.

Then we sent after them Isa, the son of Mariam, and gave him the

Injeel and placed compassion and mercy in the hearts of his

followers. In another verse of the Quran,

Allah says Jesus came to his people as a prophet, confirming

the teachings of the previous divinely revealed book and the

teachings of Prophet Moses. Jesus, son of Mary said,

Children of Israel, I am sent to you by God, confirming the Torah

that came before me. One of the most important

differences Islam has with Christianity is on the

crucifixion of Jesus. According to the Muslims, Jesus

was never truly killed, rather it was made to appear for the

people that it was Jesus but in reality it was someone else.

Allah says in the Quran and for their saying surely we killed

the Messiah ISA son of Mariam, the messenger of Allah.

And in no way did they kill him and in no way did they crucify

him, but a resemblance of him was presented to them.

This also means Muslims believe Jesus is alive and never died,

rather his body was raised into the heavens by Allah.

He will return near the end of times along with the Mahdi, the

12th Imam from the Al UL Bay and assist the Imam in establishing

justice and peace in the world just as it would have been

filled with tyranny and injustice.

Jesus or Isa al Aisalam. So that's enough.

I don't know how you feel about that, but there's a major

differences between what the Bible says about Jesus and what

is taught by the Muslim religion about Jesus.

And the greatest perhaps would be this was that first, well,

first of all would be that Jesus is not God, but secondly, that

he did not die on the cross, that he went on the cross but

was somehow replaced on the cross and never truly died in

the way that the Bible says. Now, if you're like me, this is

a curiosity. How would he have been on the

cross, but yet not died on the cross, but somehow was replaced

on the cross. And so I went on to a little bit

of a rabbit hole, or down a rabbit hole, if you will,

looking on YouTube at different Muslim clerics and to be able to

hear some teaching. And I did bring me to the place

of where we are in Matthew chapter #12 And so we're going

to read just a moment Matthew chapter #12 beginning in verse

#38. But I watched a a Muslim cleric

answering questions from different people, including from

Christians. And when this video that I had

seen, there was probably well over 1000 people who were in

this room. And this gentleman was asking a

question of the cleric and said, well, you do not believe that

Jesus died on the cross. But I would tell you that the

Bible does say that Jesus died on the cross.

And so how would you answer that?

And so he said, I'd like you to consider Matthew chapter #12 and

verse #38 He says, because your own Bible teaches that Jesus

never died on the cross. And if you're like me, that

immediately gets your interest because I'm thinking I've read

the Bible enough to know it seems very clear that Jesus died

on the cross. And so again, I, I want to be

very careful how I explain this to you, that when we're dealing

with error, when we're dealing with these false doctrines that

are out there, is that they will take one verse of the Bible or

one small section of verses from the Bible and they will twist it

into something completely different.

And that they will do was they will rely on the ignorance of

the people who they're talking to who do not realize there's a

whole mountain of evidence that would be contrary to the one

verse that they are quoting. So look at Matthew chapter 12

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verse #38 it says this. Then certain of the scribes and

the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from

the And he answered and said unto them, An evil and

adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no

sign be given it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.

Now look at this For as Jonas was in the belly, or rather

whereas Jonas was 3 days and three nights in the whale's

belly, so shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in

the heart of the earth. And so this cleric is starting

to expound off of these verses and he says that prophet Jesus,

you know, peace be unto him. And he says this prophet Jesus

that he makes the mention of the sign and he says the sign is

going to be the fact that of the sign of Jonah.

And so he says, now let me ask you when he says, you know about

the book of Jonah, right? And the man said, yes, he says

Jonah. And he goes through explaining

what happened in Jonah up to the point when Jonah got thrown off

of the boat. He says when Jonah got thrown

off of the boat, was he alive or dead?

And the man said alive, He says when he was bobbing up and down

in the water, was Jonah alive or dead?

He said alive. He says Jonah got swallowed in

the the fish. He says was he alive or dead?

And the man said alive? He does.

When he was spit back out, was he alive or dead?

He said alive. He says at any point in the book

of Jonah, do you find Jonah being dead?

And he said, no. He says, well, this is the sign

that Jesus pointed to. He says, and as Jonah was alive,

he says then also Jesus was alive and never died.

Now we'll say that you can just quickly look at those verses and

maybe make a connection to what he's saying if you didn't know

any of the other verses of the Bible.

But the problem with this, and This is why Bible proper Bible

interpretation is so important. This is why every word in the

Word of God is important, that we don't just read just in a

very general way, but that every word and how the words are put

together are so important. You look at it again, verse #39

says an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign,

and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the

prophet Jonas. What's the sign of the prophet

Jonas? 4 As Jonas was 3 days and three

nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be 3 days

and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Now does it say that the sign was that he would die as Jonah

died, or that he would live as Jonah lived?

No. What is the sign?

The three days and the three nights, That's the sign.

And So what he did was he took what the word of God said and he

turned it and twisted it into something completely different

and hoping that nobody paid attention.

Let me put it to you this way. Some of you know, we had a

little bit of an accident with our car back before Bethany's

wedding the day before. As a matter of fact, we were

stopped. Casey was stopped at the light.

My dad, Diane's mom were in the were in the car and it was a

three car pile up. We were at the front.

It happened at a light and so there was some damage in the

back corner of the car. Now, there's been someone else

in the church, which for legal reasons, I can't say because

we're online and the insurance companies might be watching, but

that had some similar issues that happened just recently in

the last few weeks. I'm just kidding about the

insurance company anyway, but you understand what I'm saying.

But so, so could you imagine saying, I say, you know, I had

this accident and it damaged the corner of the car and my brother

had an accident and it damaged the exact same corner of the car

And someone heard me say that and say you, you were in the

exact same accident. I said, no, that's not what I

said. You, you both were on the same

Rd. No, I didn't, I didn't say that

you, you, you both, you were driving the same type of

vehicle. No, I didn't say that they were

both A3 car pile up. No, that that's not what I said.

No, no, that's what you said. You said it's exactly the same

thing I said. No, I was just comparing where

the damage was on one car and where the damage was on my car.

I wasn't saying that the whole thing was the same.

I was just saying that this one thing was the same.

Jesus was not saying that all of his life experiences would be

exactly like Jonah's. That's not what he said.

He said this. There was an element of time

that was when one way in Jonah's life that will be very similar

in life. And was that true?

It absolutely was true. We understand that the three

days and the three nights between the crucifixion and the

resurrection, that's all that's being said here.

And false doctrine always takes the clear teaching of the Word

of God and does what it adds to it, takes away from it or twists

it. And so that's what they've done

here because they say, well, this is really the only evidence

of Jesus dying on the cross. And I want to say, what about

the rest of the Gospels? And then they throw up their

hands and say, well, yes, but, you know, the Bible's been

corrupted anyway. Did you catch that in there?

That the message was corrupted of the word of God?

The gospel message that he had was later corrupted that he was

really teaching about all all that time.

But, you know, Bible translators have twisted that and turned it

into its own religion. And so that's where it gets very

hard to be able to talk to somebody about these types of

issues because you get to the point where they say, well, is

the Bible even true? And of course, if they don't

understand that the Bible was true, then it gets very hard to

have the place of commonality to talk to them about salvation.

So according to the Quran, Jesus was created.

He was not Creator, He was created.

He was the messenger of the children of Israel who performed

miracles in order to declare it is Allah who is my Lord and your

Lord. Surah 351 Jesus then rounded up

Allah's helpers, the disciples, Surah 352, who bore witness that

they were Muslim. In time, Jesus fulfilled His

mission of calling Jews to worship Allah and was taken to

heaven without experiencing death.

As we just mentioned, the Muslim rejects any notion that Jesus is

God or the Son of God. Surah 19 verse 88.

And as you can see, the rejection of the deity of Christ

goes hand in hand with the rejection of the triune nature

of the Lord. Islam rejects the very nature

and character of God as revealed in scripture.

We know that Lord, Father, Son and Holy Ghost three and one,

one and three and that that is completely and totally rejected

by Islam. Instead, the Quran reveals that

a God Allah, who is transcendent and removed from mankind and

sovereign arbitrarily works as he pleases and works in complete

mystery. So you can see not just the

character of Jesus Christ, but the very character of God.

And I'll go through these very quickly that it says Yahweh, the

God of the Bible. But then Allah, the God of

Quran. Look at the difference for God

so loved the world compared to God baguettes not nor is he

forgotten that there is no. Son of God, immutability.

God never changes compared to Allah.

Changes as he wills. How do you please a God who

changes as he wills? How do you please a God who

lives by his own whims and his own desires?

It's impossible to do one. God is knowable, but yet Allah

is ultimately unknowable. The nature of the relationship.

God is sovereign and intimate compared to Allah is a dominant

master and sovereign on one side, the incarnation.

That God became flesh but Allah does not will become flesh

according to Quran. The nature of unity 1.

Essence and three persons, Father, son and Spirit compared

to Allah is one. In mathematical terms.

God's love is unconditional according to the word of God,

but Allah's love is conditional in the Quran.

Truthfulness. God's word is truth.

We see in the word of God, Allah is the greatest deceiver.

Quran 354. That is certainly a very, very

difficult thing to understand. And of course, the word of God

says that God's son died on the cross to atone for the sins of

the world and that the, that the Quran makes clear that Allah has

no son in Surah 2116. I want to read you a little bit

longer piece up. We're not there yet.

Sorry, go back. All right, push the wrong

button. All right, Let you look at that

for a while. But I want to read to you an

article and I I don't like reading longer articles, but I

do think it helps gel this thought a little bit more is

from a group called the Muslim Unity Center.

Sure, thank you, brother. That'll be fine.

The Muslim Unity Center, it says this, the Quran tells us a lot

of wonderful things. Thank you about Jesus.

As a result, believers in the Quran love Jesus, honor him,

believe in him. In fact, no Muslim can be a

Muslim unless he or she believes in Prophet Jesus.

It will be quickly obvious though the disciples often

referred to him as Almighty God. But I'm sorry, it's important

that I read this correctly. It will be quickly obvious that

the disciples often referred to him as a servant of Almighty

God, but never son of Almighty God.

Peter, for example, said the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the

God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.

And their contention is the disciples only called Jesus a

servant. They never called him God, he

continues. Peter further said God raised up

his servant. Acts 326, where the title

servant refers to Jesus. Not only was it Peter, but the

entire group of believers viewed Jesus as Almighty God's servant.

When they raise their voices together in prayer to Almighty

God in the course of their speaking to Almighty God, they

call Jesus your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed.

Acts 427. They repeated this title also in

verse 30. Consistently Jesus was being

called servant of Almighty God by the original followers of

Jesus. Some people mistakenly thought

that the disciples called Jesus son of Almighty God.

This inconsistency of translation actually helped to

give this wrong impression. In Listen to this in the King

James Bible. This is a Muslim group that says

this in the King James Bible. The translator called Jesus son

of Almighty God in Acts 313 and 26 and the child of Almighty God

in Acts 427. They simply translated the Greek

word paeda as son or child. But the word paeda also means

servant, and the present context demands this translation, since

the author of Acts is trying in this passage to establish that

Jesus is indeed the servant of Almighty God.

The translators knew that the Greek word paeda means servant.

When the same word was used for David in chapter 4 verse 25,

they translated as servant. Why not call Jesus also by the

same title? Or do they feel that son is the

correct translation? Why not call David son of

Almighty God? Jesus and David are both called

by the same title in Greek. Why not call them by the same

title in English alone? Other translators recognizes

this inconsistency. Listen to this and corrected it

in modern translations of the Bible.

So the Muslims say, you know what, those newer translations

of the Bible, they take out some of the mentions of the deity of

Christ that probably ought to give us pause to think a little

bit about why we use the King James Bible, Amen.

And so it says this. Nevertheless, the fact that

Jesus was almighty, God's servant, was so well known that

even the King James Bible called him by this title of Matthew

1218 referring back to Isaiah 42.

One Matthew identified Jesus as the servant of the one true God,

Yahweh. So there's a lot that can be

said about what takes place here, but the fact of the matter

is Jesus Christ was a servant. I, I think would anyone argue

with the fact that Jesus was a servant, of course was a

servant. You know, he was a servant.

I know he was a servant. The Muslims know he was a

servant. Of course Jesus Christ was a

servant. We know that He came to serve,

but we also know this while He was a servant, he ultimately was

and is God. That part of the fact of Jesus

coming to this earth was to become as what?

The form of a servant. But yet the deity of Christ is

immestakable in the Word of God. You can go to John 20 verse 28

John 20:28

where Thomas remember doubting Thomas, I won't believe it

unless I see him, unless I put my hands into the nail prints.

And as soon as he saw Jesus, what was his exclamation?

I use this often when talking to people about the deity of

Christ. He said this, My Lord and my

God. Thomas had no problem

understanding that Jesus Christ is God.

Hebrews one verse 8 But the But unto the Son, he, God saith, thy

throne, O God, is forever and ever.

A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy Kingdom.

Hebrews 18 refers to Jesus Christ explicitly as God.

I just mentioned this a moment ago.

Philippians 2 verse 5 and 6 Well I mentioned the same passage,

Philippians 2:5

let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who

being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with

God. John 1030 Jesus said this I and

my father are one and he said well there could be a little bit

of misunderstanding about that. Well the next verse says that as

soon as the Jews heard him say I'm my father and one, they took

up stones and wanted to stone him.

I think they were very clear of what Jesus was saying, that he

was God. Jesus did actions that could

only be accomplished by God. He raised the dead, He forgave

sins, He created and sustains the universe.

This becomes even clearer when one considers that God said that

He alone was there during creation, which Jesus was active

in creation. Further, Christ possesses

attributes that only deity can have.

Eternality, omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence.

That everywhere you look in the word of God, Jesus is God.

But what do the Muslims do? They take one verse and twist it

so much that if it was a towel full of water, they twist it so

much there wouldn't even be one drop left in it.

That's how much they twisted it. But they take that one verse,

ignore the balance of Scripture, and say that Jesus wasn't God,

and yet they Revere him. That's rejected completely and

totally that they do not Revere Jesus Christ in any way.

Again, you cannot just merely Revere Jesus.

He's either your Lord or He is not.

There is no middle ground. And so we look at all of this

and we see the nature of God. But then I also want us to look

at very quickly #4 and finally, the nature of salvation.

In Muslim theology, listen to this.

No one is lost. Now we understand we're lost in

our sins. That's why we needed Jesus

Christ to save us. Amen.

But in Muslim theology, no one is lost, but all are born weak

and forgetful. It's a big difference, isn't it?

You're merely weak and forgetful.

That's why you don't need a savior.

You need a prophet to guide you and to teach you.

Remember we saw that last week that that's why the Prophet

Muhammad was so uplifted. Why?

Because he was the 1:00 to be able to as the highest form of

prophet, to be able to teach people the good and right way.

They don't need a savior. They just need a guide.

And then their guidance comes Quran, which states these are

the verses of the wise book, a guide and mercy to the doers of

good. So how is 1 saved, quote UN

quote? By being a Muslim.

Now we understand that whoever calls upon the name of Christ

shall be saved, right? That we repent of our sins and

call upon Christ to save us. We're going to see a lot of that

in our message this morning from second Peter chapter #3 But

let's ask the question, what does it mean to be saved to be a

Muslim? Well, there's a formula that you

can follow and it's this. It's repentance and faith plus

works equals look at this possible salvation.

That is not a comfort in any way, shape or form, is it?

Repentance, faith and works means only possible salvation.

You might get there, you possibly could get there.

Well, that's not a comfort in any way, shape or form.

Repentance. What do we mean by repentance?

In Muslim terms, it means this salvation begins with right

belief as seen in the creed. There is no God but Allah and

Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.

Remember, we've seen that creed for the last several weeks.

Repentance is this is the creed. I say it three times to become a

active Muslim. But then faith.

What is faith? Well, according to Muslim

teaching, there are 6 fundamentals to the faith that

are essential to salvation. 6 fundamentals.

I'm just going to read them to you #1 Belief in one God alone

with no partners, which means this.

No Jesus #2 belief in angels #3 belief in the revelations which

came down, most notably the Quran #4 belief in all his

prophets from Adam to Muhammad. 5 belief that Allah will judge

all men and women, and six believe that all men and women

will spend eternity in either paradise or hell.

So that is faith. You have to believe in those six

things and then what follows is works.

Right action must accompany belief.

All the pillars must be followed on top of the commands of the

Quran and the Hadith. So you have to follow the five

pillars that we've been looking at everything that's in the

Quran, everything in the deep and then it is possible that you

will achieve salvation. Now we see at the judgment, the

hope is the weight of the good outweighs that of the bad.

So we understand what the Bible says about salvation is this is

that if you sin, you are a Sinner and that you are in need

of a Savior, that when we get to the Great White Throne Judgment,

well, if you are saved, you won't go to the Great White

Throne judgment. But if someone is unsaved and

goes the Great White Throne judgment according to what we

see in Revelation chapter #20 is that your works will be judged.

And it's not your good works and your bad work weighed on a

cosmic scale is if you have sinned once you're a Sinner,

you've transgressed and you need a Savior.

And everyone in humanity's history that has tried to save

themselves their own way, including by the way, Muslims

will have to show that they can have salvation on their own.

And every single person at the Great White Throne judgment will

be guilty because they'll find holiness within themselves.

And holiness isn't found with ourselves.

It's only found within Jesus Christ.

But to them it's this, your good works and your bad works.

You put them on a scale and you hope the good works tip to the

good side and the bad works lift themselves up.

Then this. There are many things that could

send someone to hell. Now look at this arrogance,

stubbornness, careless words, giving a temptation.

These are just a few of the examples of the sins that could

send a person to hell. So let me ask you this, where is

any type of comfort within the Muslim religion?

Where is there a time where you have the security of knowing

that someday you will spend an eternity with Allah?

Where do you get to the place where you feel like I know that

I am a friend of Allah, I know that I will spend eternity with

him and have comfort and peace? The answer is there is no Muslim

who could ever have that. So much so that listen, it's

taught that Muhammad couldn't even guarantee that he'd make it

to heaven. Muhammad, if he couldn't make

it, what Muslim could make it? What an awful, awful line of

theology. What hopelessness.

And that's why when we see the rabid following of Islam

throughout the world, the calls to prayer, the the absolute

devotion, listen, it's not about love, it's about fear.

Why? Because I've got to make sure

that in the scales of Allah's justice I've done enough good to

be able to make it to heaven. Listen to this.

Even infants are not assured of making it to heaven if they

pass. In fact, there's a great

likelihood that infants would die in the Muslim theology and

go to hell. It's an awful pernicious line of

doctrine. There is one guarantee though,

that someone could make it to heaven, and this is found in

Surah 9 verse #111 and it is this.

It is not that that would be the end.

That would be the end. How many times I push?

What did I do here? Let's see, keep pushing this.

Hold on. I feel like I had this, like

this real flourish there, and then I just totally, totally

messed it up. All right?

I don't know what I did. Here we go, here we go, here we

go, here we go, here we go. This is it.

No, that's not it. All right, so I didn't save the

last slide. Here is the only pretend that

last 30 seconds didn't happen. OK, Here's the only guarantee

that a Muslim has of making it to heaven is being a martyr.

Does that explain some of the things that we see throughout

the world, by the way, to explain some of what we see in

Gaza, why people would so willingly do some of the

unthinkable things that they would do?

Why? Because it's the only way they

can be sure they will go to heaven.

When you understand that, it explains a lot of what we see in

this world. And again, this isn't my, my

word saying this, that Surah Chapter 9 verse #111 And I

checked it myself to be able to make sure that this wasn't

something that was mistaken. It is very, very real.

The only way a Muslim can know is by giving their life for the

faith. So what does that mean?

Again, nothing is done out of devotion, true devotion.

It is completely done out of fear.

There is no love. There is no love.

What do we see about the word of God when it comes to salvation?

Well, that Jesus Christ, actually, we have time to go

there. Turn to Acts chapter 4.

Acts 4 · chapter mention

I saved so much time on that slide, not being there.

I got time to turn to Acts chapter 4.

Acts 4 · chapter mention

All right, I think I didn't save that slide.

That's a that's a bummer. All right, by the way, this is,

I purposely picked this text because it's that sermon of

Peter's that the Muslims were out, that he just kept calling

Jesus a servant, A servant, A servant.

As we read just a little bit here, let me ask you, what do

you think is meant by Peter in relationship to Jesus and

salvation? So let's look at Acts chapter 4.

Acts 4 · chapter mention

Look at verse #8 the Holy Ghost. I don't know how to explain that

either. So they don't believe in the

Trinity. But anyway, Peter filled with

the Holy Ghost, said unto them, You rulers of the people and

elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deeds

done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole?

Be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel, that

by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom He crucified,

whom God raised from the dead. Again, do you see it right

there? He's raised from the dead.

Well, how was He raised from the dead if He didn't die?

The contradictions are so numerous.

We raised from the dead even by him.

Doth this man stand here before you hold?

This is the stone which was said it not of you builders, which

has become the head of the corner.

Now this is a strong and important statement in the New

Testament. Understanding the person and

work of Jesus that He is the chief cornerstone.

Jesus is quoting from the Old Testament Psalm 118 verse #22

but then Jesus made reference of this again himself.

Matthew 2142, Mark 12 verse 10 and 11 and Luke 20 verse 17.

Mark 12:10 Luke 20:17

Peter quoted it here that he also quoted in first Peter

1 Peter 2:7

chapter 2 verses 7 and 8, which you might remember from our

series on Sunday mornings. But then also Paul alluded to

this verse in Ephesians 2 verse #20 as well, that when it comes

to salvation that Jesus is the chief cornerstone.

And here's the capstone of all of this.

Go to the next verse. Neither is there salvation in

any other, for there is none other name under heaven given

among men whereby we must be saved.

Hey, there is. That's it.

All right. Amen.

That's I know. Ralph.

I'm with you. All right, all right.

I was dying up here. All right.

Now I was withering on the vine up here.

We found it. That's all right.

Thank the Lord. But what do we see?

We see this, that Jesus is the only name to be saved under,

that he is the chief cornerstone.

And that is the theme from Old Testament to New Testament, from

prophets to gospels to epistles, that it's all about Jesus

Christ. Now we learned some very

important things about folks who believe the Islamic faith.

This last, this, this lesson we're going to try to take by

God's grace, take those things that we learned and be able to

help understand their mindset to better be able to show them the

Jesus Christ of the Bible. You say, well, they're not going

to be very receptive. They're they're very far away

from what we believe. It's not about whether they're

receptive enough or not. It's about us being faithful and

giving the gospel. And that's knowing the best way

to do it by understanding a little bit of what they think.

Thank you for listening. To the sermon from the pulpit of

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