Posted on 01/11/2016 9:47:24 AM PST by Kaslin
My goal here is not to offend. Neither is it to persuade. In matters of the spirit, there is but One capable of opening the eyes of the heart. Rather, my objective is to sow seeds of Truth so that the Holy Spirit might, according to His perfect pleasure, purpose and will, cultivate the soul as He deems just.
We Christ followers are admonished to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us (see Matthew 5:44). This obliges us to at once love and pray for, among other antichrist subsets, the 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide, including the hundreds-of-millions who faithfully embrace Muhammad's myriad commands to wage violence against the Christian, the Jew and all other non-Muslims.
It is impossible to do this in our flesh and can only be accomplished through the supernatural grace and power of the Holy Spirit. It is, indeed, our great hope and prayer that every Muslim - every human being - might surrender self and come to the saving knowledge and grace of Christ Jesus, who, alone, is "the way and the truth and the life." For, "No one comes to the Father except through [Him]" (see John 14:6).
To be sure, it is the express desire of both God the Father and Christ His Son that each and every Muslim on earth should abandon Muhammad's broad path to perdition, turnabout and move toward Christ's narrow path to eternal life. "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).
God both created and loves, in a way incomprehensible to the finite human mind, every human being ever born, or otherwise. He wove us together in our mother's wombs and numbered our every hair. Yet God the Father has but one begotten Son. The rest of us, in order to become God's children, must be adopted and grafted into the vine by, in and through the One who is the Son - He who is the Vine: Christ Jesus (see John 15:5).
Those who are not adopted by God are not children of God.
And so the Muslim is not a child of God.
Indeed, to become a child of God, we must ask God, through Christ, to adopt us. We mustn't just believe upon Him - for "Even the demons believe that" (see James 2:19) _ but, rather, we must also receive Him as Lord and Savior. We must follow Jesus, the one true God, as our only God. "But to all who believed him (Jesus) and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God" (John 1:12).
The pluralist notion that, "There are many paths to God," is an insidious lie spread by the father of lies himself. Jesus said, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it" (Matthew 7:13).
Jesus is the "narrow gate."
Merriam Webster defines "pluralism" as "a theory that there are more than one or more than two kinds of ultimate reality."
To embrace pluralism is to embrace certain death.
The aim of pluralist philosophy is to muddy the waters and divert mankind from the "narrow gate" that leads to eternal salvation (Jesus), while, at one go, herding us along the "broad road" to eternal damnation (anything and everything that denies the singular and exclusive deity of Christ, or that rejects the certainty that He alone can save us from hell).
Pluralism is a non-starter. It is inherently self-contradictory and, therefore, self-defeating. Each of the world's major religions fundamentally contradicts the other. They cannot all be true. Either one is true or none is true. Pick your "ism," be it Muhammadism, Hinduism, Buddhism, humanism, atheism, et al., and, serving to undo each, you will find the leavening lie of pluralism.
Christ is both tolerant and intolerant, utterly exclusive and wholly inclusive. Romans 10:13promises, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord (Jesus) will be saved." And John 3:36warns, "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
Not only do Muslims reject Christ, the Son of God, but those who are faithful to the teachings of their "prophet" Muhammad persecute, under flame and sword, His very body: the Christian faithful.
As I've said before, Islam is Christianity's photo-negative. While Christianity brings eternal life to those choosing to surrender to Jesus, who, as He declared in no uncertain terms, is, alone, "the way and the truth and the life," Islam brings eternal death to those who surrender to Allah, who, as declared Muhammad, is "the best of deceivers" ("[A]nd Allah was deceptive, for Allah is the best of deceivers." [see Surah 3:54])
It's worth again mentioning here that the Bible similarly calls Satan a deceiver. Revelation 12:9, for instance, explains that he "deceives the whole world." Even though it is often claimed that Muslims, Christians and Jews "worship the same God," this is so very much not so. Allah is not God. Allah is the deceiver, and, insofar as Christianity, true Christianity, spreads peace, love and truth - Islam, true Islam, spreads violence, hate and deception. Allah definitely exists. He's just not God. Though he wanted to "ascend above the tops of the clouds" and "make [himself] like the Most High" (see Isaiah 14:14), Allah, most assuredly, is not God.
Indeed, the "best of deceivers" cares not whether we worship the idol of self, as do the secular-"progressives," the deceiver himself, as do the Muslims, or some other false god. The deceptive one cares only that we deny God the Father, Christ His Son and the Holy Spirit, three in one.
To the Muslim, to everyone, know this: You may deny Christ until the day you die. But soon after, you will deny Him no more. Hate Him you may still, but deny Him you will not. Philippians 2:10-11 assures us, "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
The die was cast before time began. Every Christian, Jew, atheist and pagan, to include each and every Muslim on earth - or, like Muhammad, who once walked the earth - will, in the end, bow a knee in worship to Jesus.
Because "in the end" is just the beginning.
Yet, whether you bow first in this life, or first in the next, you will bow.
And the when and how will mean much.
For it will decide the where and how of your eternity.
But it will be too late.
You are not getting the point.
Thanks, Matt. Time is short.
I miss the point as well because I don’t understand what you think can’t be done in the flesh. We can pray for them as we exterminate enough of them to eliminate the threat. The two are not mutually exclusive.
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:10-11
I am not required to love people who want to murder me.
Jesus was not in a loving mood with the money changers in the Temple, when he walked in and grabbed them by the scruff of the neck and THREW THEM OUT INTO THE STREET.
Sorry .. but I refuse to buy this “love your murderer” stuff.
You say this, perhaps, because you don't understand love. If you truly love your children you don't protect them of the consequences of all their actions. You let them suffer those consequences that will prove a more effective teacher than a lecture or a rule.
Although God would have been justified to destroy those who were defiling His temple, He chose, insetead, to let them see a lesser wrath. To have preteneded it was all OK until after they died would have been unloving. Showing them in a forceful manner how important respecting God's temple is was a very loving act.
BTTT
What you say is your opinion .. and you’re welcome to it.
I do not agree that I AM REQUIRED TO LOVE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MURDER ME.
Done!!!
Don’t agree ..??? That’s fine with me.
I suppose technically you’re not required to do anything as long as you are comfortable with the consequences. Jesus is the one who said to “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Any disagreement you have is with Him.
Now you're just arguing with Scripture.
In my view, the nation of Islam originates within the mind of Satan. The Muslim God, Allah, is a figment of Satan’s imagination, designed to confuse and pervert men.
As to what to do; Ephesians 6: 10-18: Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
“Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.”
That's antiscriptural. Muslims are part of the world that God so loves in John 3:16.
He's not too fond of their sin, but He does love them enough to die for them (While they are still sinners) just like He died for us.
Not arguing the point because I believe it is an “and/or” in the Kingdom of God.
We are to love and pray for our enemies...this is one of the greatest commandments. I would submit though, when God has had enough of evil, he not only brings his wrath supernaturally, he uses nations and their armies to wipe out the evil. Would you not agree? Your thoughts?
Well, thanks for the sermon .. but you’re preaching to the choir.
It would benefit you to search my screen name and see what things I have posted .. before launching out with your sermon.
I still refuse to become a sickly-sweet liberal who fawns all over people who want to murder you.
Don’t like my opinion .. GET OVER IT.
“persecute” is totally different from MURDERER.
I’ve had employees who were horrible to me .. and I never had any trouble loving them with my prayers.
But, I do not go against scripture when I say .. I AM NOT REQUIRED TO LOVE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MURDER ME.
DON’T LIKE IT .. LUMP IT.
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