{"id":18233,"date":"2015-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/4-answering-islam\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:06:44","slug":"4-answering-islam","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/4-answering-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"4. Answering Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[146],"series_event":[458],"sermon_service_type":[541],"speaker":[456],"class_list":["post-18233","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-none","series_event-answering-islam-conference","sermon_service_type-special-event","speaker-shahram-hadian","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"4. Answering Islam","sermon_date":"20151107","sermon_month":"11","sermon_year":"2015","sermon_notes":"","sermon_slides":"","sermon_mp3":3133,"sermon_id":"117151922230","series_or_event":458,"service_type":[541],"speaker":456,"books_of_the_bible":146,"chapter_and_verse":"","sermon_transcript":"Answering Islam Conference\r\nSession 4 \u2013 Answering Islam\r\nShahram Hadian\r\nSugar Land Bible Church\r\n7-8 November 2015\r\nThank you for coming back--not that we didn\u2019t expect any of you not to come back, but it is nice to see people come back. What we\u2019re going to cover tonight and tomorrow is I\u2019m going to focus a little bit more on the spiritual nature of Islam and then also look at some of the apologetic and polemic aspects. Number one, what do Muslims believe about not just their theology, but what do Muslims believe about Christianity? What are they teaching about Christianity, so that when you try to share with a Muslim and they attack you or they criticize you--I don\u2019t mean attack physically; I mean criticize you and say, \u201cOh, well, your Bible is corrupted\u201d or \u201cYou believe in three Gods\u201d or whatever--then we have to at least understand what their arguments are. We understand maybe how to be able to refute some of those arguments. And I\u2019m not here in any way, shape, or form (like maybe other missionaries or other church leaders try to do) in trying to replace the Word of God. The Word of God addresses the Word of God. The Word of God doesn\u2019t need defending by me. However, we will stand for the Word of God, and so we\u2019re going to look at what the Bible says in addressing some of those things.\r\n\r\nThen I want to focus also on Islam as a spiritual entity. This is maybe new for some who inherently would know that okay, well, this is an evil demonic spirit as we\u2019ve said all day. But what does specifically the Bible address about a spirit that denies Christ in such a fashion?\r\n\r\nAnd tomorrow morning when we do \u201cChrislam Exposed,\u201d we will also look at some of the counter things between Islam and Christianity and some of the ecumenical movement--this whole idea of merging and blending (not just Chrislam), the idea that both are one. There are a lot of churches that say, \u201cOh, we don\u2019t believe it\u2019s the same God,\u201d and yet their practices are not matching what they\u2019re saying. And then hopefully in the Q and A, we\u2019ll address any other issues that are left out.\r\n\r\nBut I wanted to make sure that we\u2019re equipped a little bit to understand what Muslims believe. I want to start out by saying that in everything we\u2019re talking about today, the only answer--the real answer--is the gospel. There is no other answer because we can talk ad nauseam about all the so-called solutions. Well, how do we turn things around? We already talked about repentance and we talked about our responsibility, but the only thing that\u2019s going to change the heart of any individual, including a Muslim--as it did with me--is the gospel. As I shared with you guys earlier briefly, as Paul says in Romans 9:33, \u201cBehold, I lay in Zion that stone of stumbling, and he who believes in Him will not be put to shame.\u201d\r\n\r\nAnd I\u2019m living testimony that indeed the gospel was offensive, because when the gospel message was shared with me through an individual and the person gave me a tape to listen to from a church that had one\u2026 By the way, young people here, do you guys know what a tape is? [laughter] Sorry, I just had to make sure that I wasn\u2019t speaking like some foreign language. Sometimes I say that and they\u2019re like, \u201cWhat\u2019s that??\u201d It\u2019s a little thing that would go into\u2026. Never mind. How many of you still know 8-track? Yeah! Now you\u2019ve got the iPods in the car and MP3\u2026 anyway.\r\n\r\nSo they gave me a tape to listen to, and one side was about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and why the crucifixion was necessary. And the other side was on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I\u2019m talking about the gospel--not watered down, not make it palatable, make it non-offensive--I\u2019m talking about the unadulterated gospel. Even though I was more culturally Muslim, I still knew what I was supposed to believe as a Muslim and I knew to some extent what generally Christians believe. And so therefore it offended me. But what I realize now is that what I thought was offense was really the piercing of my heart, because that\u2019s what the Word of God does: it pierces and it leaves us without excuse. Right? It will not return back null and void. It will not allow us to have an excuse; we\u2019re now without excuse. And that\u2019s exactly the testimony.\r\n\r\nAnd so the brief part of my testimony\u2026 This person gave me this tape to listen to, and I had determined in my mind that I wasn\u2019t going to listen to it. So I put it in my car and I tried to ignore it, and for three days I tried to ignore that thing and I could not get that thing out of my mind. I mean, it was just like non-stop because my curiosity level was just going up to the roof. So finally I put it in the car, and I was listening to it and at the same time it was breaking my heart. It was hard to listen to. Fast forward, approximately two, three weeks later, I met with this person who had given me the tape and I literally told this person this offended me. And I remember the look--it was a gal who was a student of mine--and the look on her face was like, \u201cOh my gosh, I\u2019ve offended this Muslim.\u201d\r\n\r\nBut I praise God that she didn\u2019t stop. Do you understand? How many of us are like, \u201cOh-oh, I\u2019ve offended the Muslim\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ve offended\u2026(anybody). I\u2019m not going to do that again.\u201d But she could see something in me and the desire, so she didn\u2019t stop. And so she pursued, and then she connected me with a gentleman who was a Christian. And we met, and one of the funniest things was that we met and I had had some questions for him on the phone, and he said, \u201cThese are great questions! Write them on a piece of paper and bring them with you.\u201d And so I go and I meet with him. And you guys are from Texas. You guys know Cracker Barrel, right? I tell that story up north, and people are like, \u201cCracker what?\u201d And I go, \u201cNever mind, you don\u2019t know. You\u2019ve never been there.\u201d\r\n\r\nSo we met at a Cracker Barrel and I sat down and we had lunch. I shared some of my questions with him and he goes, \u201cThis is fantastic. Let\u2019s do two things. Let\u2019s pray and ask the Holy Spirit to give us revelation\u2026\u201d Well, first of all, as a Muslim I don\u2019t believe in the Holy Spirit. \u201c\u2026and number two, let\u2019s open the Bible and see what the Word of God says to these questions.\u201d And I\u2019m thinking, you mean that corrupt book? So we pray, he opens the Bible, and this so-called corrupt book is answering my questions. So the Lord was just working through all that. But it was actually a few days later, as I was in my car, I was still listening to that tape, front and back, front and back. And the Lord utterly broke my heart and I actually started weeping while I was driving, to the point where I thought I was going to get in an accident. So I pulled over to the side of the road, on a gravel road, and this was in Lawrenceville, Georgia. I was down in Georgia at the time. And I\u2019m just sitting there in my car crying, and I\u2019m thinking people are driving by thinking this guy is nuts-- he\u2019s suicidal. I don\u2019t know what they thought.\r\n\r\nAnd right there I just felt the compelling, compelling Spirit of the Lord saying to me, \u201cShahram, you now know. One is true and one is a lie. Choose today whom you\u2019re going to serve.\u201d And right there in that car I prayed and I said, \u201cLord Jesus, I believe who You are. The Bible says You are the Son of the Living God. You are God. You came in the flesh. And I just confessed openly all that I had heard on that tape. So the very thing that offended me saved me. So I share this to say this passage is true. God\u2019s Word is true, and we have to exercise, through the power of the Holy Spirit, a spirit of boldness. And this isn\u2019t just with Muslims; this is with anybody in our society.\r\n\r\nThis nation is broken; it is hurting, The world is hurting and broken, and the only answer is the gospel. Now keep in mind that we don\u2019t just preach the gospel. Right? As Paul says in one of my favorite passages in 2 Timothy, chapter 4, when he says, \u201cI solemnly charge you before God the Father and Christ Jesus, the judge of the living and the dead\u2026\u201d (what does he say?) \u201c\u2026preach the Word, in season and out of season. [2 Timothy 4:1-2, \u201cI solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: [2] preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.\u201d]\r\n\r\nSo we have to be ready to stand on the Word of God, but we know that the gospel, the true gospel, has power. You\u2019ll see tomorrow that one of the things that is happening in some of our main churches is they have adopted the social gospel--the idea that it\u2019s all about feelings and emotions. The last thing I would want to do is offend somebody, because if it\u2019s all about feelings and emotions, then God forbid if I offend them, I failed. What the gospel has become--or evangelism has become\u2014is, \u201cWell, I want to make friends with them.\u201d And I hear this all the time: \u201cWell, we just have different tactics on how we share the gospel with Muslims, because what I want to do is teach people let\u2019s become friends for a while and \u2026\u201d I go, \u201cWell, where in the Bible does it say that you have to be a friend with someone for a month before you share the gospel?\u201d\r\n\r\nIn fact, the gospel says the opposite, doesn\u2019t it? Today is the day of salvation. Do not put off till tomorrow what you can do today. How do you know you\u2019re going to see them again? How do you know that tomorrow they\u2019re not going to get hit by a bus or, God forbid, go back to their home country, or whatever it is? How do you know? So we have to be bold and courageous and risk offending. And in fact, the more in an evangelistic sense you try to befriend a Muslim and simply be friends, the harder it\u2019s going to get, because the deeper your friendship goes, the less you\u2019re going to risk offending them.\r\n\r\nAnd really, can I be honest? Can we be honest? That\u2019s not God\u2019s love. That\u2019s not agap\u0113 love. That\u2019s the fleshly love, because the agap\u0113 love of God would care about their eternity and not just about, \u201cAre they happy right now?\u201d or \u201cLet\u2019s have a nice meal together.\u201d Now I\u2019m telling you, I hear that from these missionaries and these churches and these pastors all the time: \u201cWell, we\u2019re not going to bring you into our church because your style is very harsh, and we really focus on relationship evangelism.\u201d And again, I ask you, where is that in the Bible--the idea that evangelism is tied to relationship? I get what they\u2019re saying, that we want to have some rapport and build some respect and trust. That\u2019s fine, but share the gospel.\r\n\r\nNow, as I share with you today, what I want to do in all fairness to Islam is share with you the mentality of what Muslims think and how they try to be good Muslims. We talked about the overt aspects--the violent stuff--but there are five pillars of Islam. Some of you may know this, some of you may not, but I just want to be sure we cover it. The basic five pillars of Islam are what every devout Muslim is supposed to follow. Number 1, they are supposed to pray this prayer called the Shahada, which is what you will hear people say, \u201cThere\u2019s no god but Allah and His prophet, Mohammed.\u201d (None of you\u2019d better say that--I\u2019m going to be upset with you if any of you ever pray that. If I find that any of you\u2026.) So that\u2019s the prayer that they will pray.\r\n\r\nNow here\u2019s what\u2019s interesting, and I didn\u2019t get a chance to say this in our last session. In the public school textbooks--remember I was referencing the public school textbooks--and the bias\u2026We know for a fact that many of the textbook companies (including Houghton-Mifflin and McPherson and three or four top textbook companies) are now partially Saudi-owned. What they\u2019ve done is when they teach cross-cultural studies or comparative religion and focus on Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, they\u2019ll get maybe two or three pages on Christianity (and two of the pages are on the Crusades and how bad the Christians were during the Crusades). A lot of the books I look at barely have any teaching on Judaism--the oldest religion upon the planet and no teaching on it. And when they get to Islam, the one book that we actually got pulled out of one of the school districts (because a dad complained) up in Washington State had seven chapters on Islam. And the very first chapter was the five pillars; they literally had listed the five pillars of Islam. Well, pillar number one is their prayer to become a Muslim. That would be like having the sinner\u2019s prayer in a public school textbook. And of course, the ACLU had no problem with that.\r\nSo this prayer is their prayer, but it\u2019s also what they use to evangelize or to do their da\u2019wah.\r\n\r\nNumber 2, they have to do fasting. And they have certain restrictions on fasting, including Ramadan, which is that month out of the year (forty days) where they fast from sunup to sundown. Then at sundown they\u2019ll break their fast and have a big celebration. So if you have the joy--or the not joy, depending on how you view it--of living next to a Muslim, or if there are Muslims in your neighborhood and you wonder why at 1:00 in the morning, five, six, ten cars will come to a Muslim\u2019s house, the reason is because they\u2019re coming back from the mosque or the Islamic center, where they\u2019ve broken their fast during Ramadan. Especially in the month of Ramadan, they\u2019ll come in and keep going through the early hours of the morning. I\u2019ve had Muslim neighbors and they haven\u2019t had much of a sense of noise or time or anything like that. So they are supposed to fast.\r\n\r\nThey are supposed to do their daily prayers, of course. They pray a minimum of five times a day. There\u2019s a back story to Mohammed negotiating with Allah, according to Islamic tradition, about how many times they are supposed to pray. And the back story is that Mohammed apparently was taken to Jerusalem--this is according to him or according to tradition--where he negotiated with Allah, where they were supposed to pray thirty times a day (or more than thirty times a day) and he supposedly negotiated it down to five times a day. But it\u2019s an Islamic tradition and it\u2019s not backed.\r\n\r\nThey are supposed to pray five times a day, and when they pray they use cyclical prayers. So for a Muslim, they don\u2019t get to talk to God. There isn\u2019t like where we would open the Bible or we would be able to communicate through the Holy Spirit. They\u2019re doing recited prayers that are memorized. And remember I said earlier, they have to pray in Arabic. Well, what if they speak Chinese or Swahili or\u2026? It doesn\u2019t matter--they have to learn to pray in Arabic, and it has to be classical Arabic. They have to learn to pray correctly.\r\n\r\nOn my \u201cChrislam Exposed\u201d DVD, one of the testimonies that I have of another former Muslim is that he was actually in Mecca. He was from Iran, he was a devout Muslim, his father was training him to be an imam, and he was in Mecca. He had gone to Mecca for number 5 here (which I\u2019ll get to in a minute), which is called the Hajj, or their pilgrimage. And in Mecca he was praying, but apparently he was praying in the wrong accent. So the imam of the mosque taps him on the shoulder and says to him, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d He says, \u201cI\u2019m from Iran.\u201d \u201cWhere\u2019s your wife?\u201d \u201cWell, my wife is back in Iran; she\u2019s pregnant with our second child.\u201d And he says, \u201cWell, I have a recommendation from Allah for you.\u201d And he goes, \u201cWow!\u201d He gets all excited, thinking, \u201cI\u2019ve come to Mecca and Allah is going to speak to me.\u201d And the Imam says, \u201cWell, I was listening to you pray and your prayer was incorrect. You were praying in the wrong accent.\u201d So he opens one of the hadiths, and he says, \u201cAccording to the hadith, according to the prophet, if this happens, you must go and divorce your wife.\u201d\r\n\r\nThis happened right in Mecca, right in the corner (there\u2019s a corner of that Kaaba building and I\u2019ll cover this tomorrow) where they have a black stone that pre-Islam was a meteor that they worshipped. But now, apparently, it\u2019s the rock that Abraham was going to sacrifice Ishmael on. That\u2019s what Islam teaches, by the way. It wasn\u2019t Isaac--it was Ishmael. It wasn\u2019t on Mt. Moriah--it was in Mecca, apparently.\r\n\r\nSo he\u2019s in that corner and this is what he gets: go divorce your wife. And he says, \u201cRight there, it just came out of me.\u201d He said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what it was. I know it wasn\u2019t from me. I just shouted out to this cleric, \u2018then Allah is not God.\u2019\u201d And he goes, \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened. How did I say that? They could have killed me.\u201d And it was because he realized in that moment, \u201cIf Allah was God, number one, he\u2019d know where I was born and what language I speak and what my heart is in prayer. And two, he would know how long it took for me to marry my wife.\u201d That was the other part of the story that you have to listen to--that he had coveted marrying his wife for many, many years.\r\n\r\nThe number four pillar is the Zak\u0101t or giving. And number five is the Hajj--the pilgrimage, the once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage that they have to go to Mecca. By the way, one of the crazy things that\u2019s been going on in Mecca the last number of years is all these stampedes. It\u2019s been an under-reported story since, I think, 2005, that there have been something like over seven or eight hundred people killed in the yearly hajjs in Mecca by stampede. They stampede each other. Can you imagine if back in Jerusalem, some people have gone there to visit the Holy Land, and there\u2019s a story like 100 Christians stampede each other? It would just be bizarre, right?\r\n\r\nSo these are the basic pillars. Now remember earlier I covered Jihad, and Jihad is the unofficial sixth pillar of Islam. It is a pillar, because remember, it is what they are commanded to wage-- culturally, spiritually, and literally. But these are the official five pillars. And so there is a religious component for Muslims that they\u2019re trying to be good Muslims. But here\u2019s the sad part--in Islam there is no guarantee of salvation except one. Anybody want to guess what that is? Well, specifically martyr death. The word there is called Shaheed (to become a Shaheed). And on the DVD that I have on \u201cThe Unveiling,\u201d we covered the verse there that actually talks about seven blessings that are given to the martyr, including blessing number 6, which is the 72 virgins.\r\n\r\nBut most people don\u2019t talk about blessing number 7, which actually teaches that a Muslim that martyrs can actually intercede by the shedding of his blood for 70 of his family. So when you see someone martyred--for example in Palestine or around the world--have you ever noticed the family throws a party, a celebration? Have you ever wondered why they do that? And the same thing happened in Iran. I witnessed growing up in Iran and I witnessed when we left Iran where families would celebrate children that were martyred or had killed themselves for the cause of Allah. And the reason is because they now believe that the whole family is going to heaven. It\u2019s collective salvation. And that\u2019s one of the things that most people don\u2019t understand about Islam and even most Muslims don\u2019t understand about Islam. I will ask Muslims, \u201cDo you believe that a man can die for your sins?\u201d \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d I say, \u201cWell, you\u2019re wrong,\u201d and I lead them to that hadith and say, \u201cGo look it up. The martyr can intercede according to Islam.\u201d I say, \u201cBut here\u2019s the good news. The good news is a man didn\u2019t die for your sins, but God became man and died for your sins.\u201d\r\n\r\nSo I use that as an opportunity to then broach the subject that God Himself took upon what we could not do, and yet Islam\u2026so think about that. The Muslim believes that they have to die to go to heaven (meaning they have to kill themselves so Allah will let them get to heaven) and the Bible teaches that God has died for us so we can go to heaven and be with Him and have eternity. You tell me how those can be the same God. There\u2019s no commonality. But that\u2019s one of the things that was very paramount for me.\r\n\r\nBy the way, if you\u2019re talking to a Muslim, that is an appropriate question to ask: \u201cDo you know where you\u2019re going if you die? Do you have any guarantee of your salvation? Because if you\u2019re like me, I didn\u2019t want to die as a martyr. I had no desire to die. I liked life, but I knew I was not a good Muslim. And then beyond martyrdom, the only thing that Muslims can do is to try to follow the five pillars--follow the teachings of Islam and be a good Muslim. Even then, it\u2019s a hope. It\u2019s a maybe. The only guarantee is martyrdom. So you have to understand that death is glorified in Islam because of this reason. They don\u2019t have guarantee of salvation there, but there are their five pillars.\r\n\r\nNow I want to cover a couple of things that I didn\u2019t quite cover earlier. They\u2019re related to, again, one of the polemic kind of arguments that you have to refute with Islam. Number one I already covered with you, right? It is that Islam is a religion of peace. Hopefully today you\u2019ve been equipped to know that\u2019s absolutely a lie. There\u2019s no way that Islam, under any definition that we would have of peace, can be a religion of peace or tolerance or non-violence. However, one of the arguments that people will use is they\u2019ll say, \u201cLook, Islam never accepts or condones violence.\u201d Right? It doesn\u2019t. It forbids it. And they\u2019ll use this verse: Surah 5:36 from the Quran, that \u201cWhosoever so killed a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind\u2026\u201d\r\n\r\nSo you look at that verse. You go, \u201cWow, so Islam says that if somebody kills somebody else, other than in a situation of manslaughter or corruption, then it\u2019s like you\u2019ve killed all people. Well, clearly they denounce killing, right?\u201d Here\u2019s the problem: it\u2019s not true. That\u2019s a false statement because they\u2019ve taken that verse out of context. Here\u2019s the whole verse: Surah 5:32, \u201cFor that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he killed all mankind.\u201d\r\n\r\nSo \u201cWe decreed\u2026\u201d according to Allah to the Jews, if you kill for any other reason but these, it\u2019s like you killed all humanity. So this is not for Muslims--this is for the Jews. Isn\u2019t that convenient? So this is one of the ways that you have to understand these type of arguments, that Muslim apologists will oftentimes come and say look\u2026\u201d In fact, I just was contacted by a gal who has a Muslim friend who is a lawyer, who is of a sect of Islam I mentioned earlier (it\u2019s one of the heretical sects that are very minute, like 1% of Muslims). And this is one of the things that he was trying to pull on her: \u201cOh, well, Islam never, never, never, never condones violence. It forbids it.\u201d And he used this verse. Well, it wasn\u2019t true.\r\n\r\nHere\u2019s another verse. Surah 5:33, \u201cThe only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified\u2026\u201d (Just in case you\u2019re not sure about what killed or crucified means, that\u2019s literal, correct?) \u201c\u2026or have their hands and feet on alternate sites cut off or will be expelled out of the land.\u201d So all three of those are permissible. You go, \u201cWell, how do they pick which one? They get to pick. All three are permissible. You can kick them out of the land if they flee, you can cut off their hands and feet, or you can kill them or crucify them. And by the way, ISIS is doing all three. They\u2019re following this passage.\r\n\r\nHere is another argument. (That was one argument, and by the way, I hope that I\u2019ve shown you the whole Islam-is-a-religion-of-peace argument is bunk.) But this is another argument: Islam is pluralistic. This is what I was referring to earlier where you hear people--especially when Islamists are in the early house--where they will say something like, \u201cIslam\u2026\u201d Look at the verse up there. What does it say? \u201cThere is no compulsion in religion,\u201d (they use Surah 2) \u201c\u2026The right direction is henceforth distinct from error. And he who rejecteth false deities and believe in Allah hath grasped a firm handhold which will never break. Allah is Hearer, Knower.\u201d There is no compulsion in religion--I have had this used against me ad-nauseam by Muslim apologists who say, \u201cWell, see clearly Islam is pluralistic. They believe in religious freedom. They believe in coexisting. They\u2019re not intolerant in that way.\r\n\r\nAnd what is your answer? How would you answer this? \u201cThis verse has been abrogated!\u201d This verse is abrogated once you (Muslim) get the upper hand! A lot of times we can see what Islamists, (like the Muslim Brotherhood) do, as they\u2019ll work with interfaith groups--the so-called interfaith groups. And I hope--and I know Andy would support this in this church body here--that we have to be very clear. If somebody says they\u2019re a Christian and they claim to be interfaith, or that they\u2019re universalists, you need to lovingly say to them, \u201cYou\u2019re not a Christian. Can I share the gospel with you so you can get saved?\u201d Agreed? You guys weren\u2019t on board with that one. [someone says something, can\u2019t hear] \u201cThat\u2019s not my style, I wouldn\u2019t be that bold with them\u2026\u201d I would! Because they\u2019re in error! How can you say you\u2019re a Christ-follower, and then believe in interfaith dialogue and an interfaith path to God? There\u2019s only one way. So we\u2019ve got to be clear about that.\r\n\r\nBut they\u2019ll use this verse. So, the response back is that this verse has been abrogated--according to the Quran and according to the example of your prophet--because when Islam gets the upper hand, you have to go to Surah 9 (remember we covered that earlier, right?), which gives you the three choices: convert, dhimmitude, or fight. But this is the verse they use. I\u2019m just trying to show you their arguments for refuting people like myself that will claim Islam is not moderate, not peaceful, so forth and so on.\r\n\r\nOkay, within this I want to cover with you a couple of movements that are really seen as heretical movements within mainstream Islam. One is those who believe that Islam can be reformed. There are those like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and I have deep respect for her as an individual. I know that many groups have invited her; there are a lot of conservative groups that invite her to come and speak. In fact, a group called Act For America had her at their national conference. I respect her as an individual--she is very courageous, she\u2019s very outspoken about the ill treatment of women in Islam. And yet at the same time, she\u2019s very respectful not to criticize the prophet of Islam. She\u2019s a Muslim who teaches that Islam can be reformed, like she claims Christianity was reformed.\r\n\r\nWell, there\u2019s a major problem to this. Anybody want to guess what the problem is? Well let me ask it this way: Why can Islam not be reformed? Who would want to take a guess at why Islam cannot be reformed? Because of Mohammed! Simple answer! That\u2019s it--that\u2019s a simple answer. It\u2019s a very simple argument: because of Mohammed. Well, what do you mean? Well, Mohammed is the one, first of all, who came along and abrogated Islam from the early no compulsion. The other one they use, by the way, that I didn\u2019t put on the slide is they\u2019ll say, \u201cOh, in the early verses of the Quran, it says that Muslims can take Jews and Christians as friends.\u201d That\u2019s true, that\u2019s true. But in the abrogated verses, it says, \u201cO Muslims, do not take the Jew and Christian as a friend or as an ally. If you do, you become one of them.\u201d So the question is, which one is it? The answer is both, because it depends on which house you\u2019re in. Make sense?\r\n\r\nAnd there are numerous examples I could share with you. I have a friend from Nigeria who told me this story about growing up there, where he had Muslims as friends growing up, until the Muslims got the upper hand, got control. Nigeria is now predominantly Muslim; it used to be predominantly Christian. And so his very friends--they used to play soccer together, used to hang out together-- came to his neighborhood when they got the upper hand, and they said, \u201cListen, you need to convert.\u201d And when he and his family said no, they drove them out of their house and burned their house down. Same guy! What happened? What happened was Islam abrogated. Does that make sense? It\u2019s nothing personal, folks. They have to follow their ideology. So that\u2019s absolutely right-- it\u2019s about Mohammed, because Mohammed was the one who brought abrogation. Mohammed is the one who is to be imitated.\r\n\r\nAnd so what some of these reformers say is if we would only go back to the early verses of the Quran, we\u2019d be good to go. I\u2019d go, \u201cOkay, great! I\u2019m willing to come out and do a press conference. Let\u2019s do a press conference this week. We\u2019ll come out, maybe the media will show up, and we\u2019ll say, \u201cHey, we\u2019re here today to say that we\u2019re willing to accept that Islam is going to back to the early verses of the Quran. However, we\u2019re here today to denounce Mohammed as a true prophet. He\u2019s a false prophet. He\u2019s a liar. He\u2019s a deceiver. He\u2019s a mass-murderer, and we\u2019re going to denounce him.\u201d And they look at me like, \u201cAhhhhhh\u2026\u201d and I go, \u201cWhere did I lose you?\u201d I\u2019m willing to come out and say to you, \u201cIslam can be reformed.\u201d The reality is, Islam will never be reformed. It is a pipedream, because you have to denounce Mohammed. And if you denounce Mohammed, what happens to Islam? There is no Islam, because nobody else got the revelation of Islam. Does that make sense? He\u2019s the only one who got the revelation!\r\n\r\nSo, if you do away with Mohammed\u2026 (I\u2019m all in favor of coming out and denouncing Mohammed as a false prophet--I may get a couple more death threats on me, but I\u2019m all in favor of that)\u2026but the problem is: no Islam! Does that make sense? So while I respect these people\u2014Ayaan Hirsi Ali and others like Zahudi Jasser (another guy that is always on Fox News and talking about Islam being reformed)--the reality is, they\u2019re either genuinely na\u00efve or they\u2019re deceived. Again, that gets back to the whole deceiver thing. And I don\u2019t think that Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Zahudi Jasser are deceivers necessarily, because they are being very courageous. However, I believe that they are utterly na\u00efve. It\u2019s a pipedream, because it is impossible for Islam to be reformed because Islam, in the upper house, is militant and fundamentalist. It\u2019s not radical, because it goes back to what you said, ma\u2019am. The simple answer is, \u201cMohammed did it.\u201d The moment you say, \u201cMohammed did it,\u201d it is Islam.\r\n\r\nOkay, I want to take a quick right turn here and now talk about what does the Bible say, specifically, about a spirit that would look like Islam? Andy shared with you earlier, powerfully, about what the Bible says specifically about these Islamic nations, about the timing, the fact they\u2019re surrounding Israel. We are seeing prophecy fulfilled before our eyes. However, the Bible specifically addresses an antichrist spirit. Notice I\u2019m saying \u201can\u201d antichrist spirit, right? Notice the \u201can,\u201d not the \u201cthe.\u201d Okay, what does the Bible say? Well, in the Bible there are only four verses-- five references--to the word \u201cantichrist.\u201d And they are all in 1 and 2 John. Now we know there are many references to the figure--like Andy talked about--the figure of the antichrist, the lawless one, the son of perdition, those type of things. But I\u2019m talking about to the actual word \u201cantichrist\u201d as used in Scripture.\r\n\r\nThe Lord led me to really look at this a while back, because what was frustrating me was, particularly within the missional community, they\u2019re not treating Islam as a spiritual issue. They\u2019re dealing with it as a cultural issue\u2014\u201cWell, it\u2019s just a cultural thing.\u201d No it\u2019s not! You\u2019re dealing with a demonic entity, because otherwise there\u2019s no explanation for the number of people that I\u2019ve seen deceived by Islam that should have never been deceived by Islam. But it\u2019s a spiritual entity.\r\n\r\nSo in 1 and 2 John, the Bible gives us a definition. It actually defines. So let\u2019s read it together here. It says, \u201cBeloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they\u2019re from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. [2] By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God\u2026\u201d That\u2019s pretty specific, isn\u2019t it? [3] \u201c\u2026and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.\u201d [I John 4:1-3 NASB]\r\n\r\nWell, we know from the beginning of the gospel that there were many that denied--including the Jews themselves--that would have denied that Jesus came in the flesh. The question is, how does Islam fit this definition? And I believe, again, this is leading towards that one-world kind of false peace--the whole idea of false peace, the idea of \u201cLet\u2019s be at peace with each other.\u201d But the Bible says no, no, no. You\u2019re supposed to test the spirits, right? Because remember what Paul says, what does light have to do with darkness? You can\u2019t sit at the table of the Lord and the table of demons at the same time. What does the Spirit of God have to do with the spirit of antichrist? The answer is nothing! Right? But what do people want us to do? What are missionaries and churches and interfaith and\u2026 They want us to all merge, right? And let\u2019s all just live in harmony and peace and get along. This is what is happening.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s look at 1 John 2:22-23: \u201cWho is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies\u2026\u201d what? \u201c\u2026the Father and the Son. [23] Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.\u201d So the Bible gives us a very specific definition of an antichrist spirit. Agreed, that it is one who denies that Jesus is the Christ, denies that Jesus has come in the flesh, denies the Father, denies the Son. So if you see an ideology, a belief system, that does those things, wouldn\u2019t it logically give us conclusion that that is an--an--antichrist spirit?\r\n\r\nNow, let\u2019s look at what Islam denies. First of all, Islam clearly denies the Trinity. Here is one of the strongest verses (there are many verses in the Quran, and I\u2019ll cover some more tomorrow, where they deny the Trinity): \u201cO followers of the Book\u2026\u201d Here\u2019s why this is so powerful, because it specifically is talking to Jews and Christians. Remember I said earlier that the people of the Book\u2026 Who are the people of the Book? Jews and Christians. So of course, it\u2019s specifically talking to Christians, because Jews don\u2019t believe in what? Jesus as God. \u201c\u2026do not exceed the limits in your religion and do not speak (lies) against Allah, but (speak) the truth;\u2026 and say not Three.\u201d What do you think they\u2019re talking about? The trinity, right. \u201cDesist\u2026\u201d Look at this. Look how strong this is. \u201cDesist, it is better for you; Allah is only one god; far be it from His glory that he should have a Son.\u201d - Surah 4:171. Again, those verses I\u2019m going to share tomorrow morning along this line of how vehemently not only do Islam and the Quran deny Jesus as God and that Allah has a son, but the fact that (you\u2019ll see in a minute) Muslims actually pray it daily in their prayers.\r\n\r\nOkay, so they deny the trinity. Well, we know that the Bible supports the trinity, correct? Not the word \u201ctrinity,\u201d but we know that this is an orthodox Christian understanding: one God, three persons--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Okay, so that\u2019s pretty serious, isn\u2019t it?\r\n\r\nOkay, how many of you know that Islam in the Quran actually denies Jesus was crucified? Now there\u2019s a huge problem with this. In fact, Dr. Woods earlier actually cited Josephus, right? Isn\u2019t there even secular history that acknowledges that a man named Jesus of Nazareth was crucified? So they may not believe he was God, but you can\u2019t deny that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. There are secular historians who validate Roman history, the Jewish history. So Islam comes along and says that\u2019s all wrong. What do they say? Watch this, Surah 4:157 \u2013 \u201cthat they said in boast\u2026 (this is talking about the Jews) \u201c\u2026\u2018we killed Christ Isa\u2026\u2019\u201d (They call Him Isa. Notice they use the word \u201cChrist.\u201d But it does not mean to them what it means to us or when the Bible addresses Christ. What is Christ? The anointed one. The One, right? The son of Mary.\u201d This is one of the ways that they get Christians, because there are verses that talk about Mary being a virgin in the Quran. And Christians would go, \u201cSee, there you go, this is all a common God.\u201d But you\u2019ll see tomorrow it\u2019s not.\r\n\r\nBut, look at this, \u201cthey killed Him not, nor did they crucify Him\u2026\u201d You go, \u201cHuh?\u201d \u201c\u2026but so it was made to appear to them\u2026for of a surety they killed him not\u2026\u201d So what Allah said through the prophet (supposedly) and remember, this is by the testimony (according to Mohammed) of the angel Gabriel. So the same angel Gabriel that shows up to Mary and says, \u201cYou are with child; you are to call Him Immanuel, God with us,\u201d gets Alzheimer\u2019s 600 years later and shows up and says \u201cNow, ah, you know, that stuff never happened.\u201d\r\n\r\nSo you go, \u201cWell, what happened?\u201d According to Islam, Allah made it appear\u2026which means that Jesus was never crucified. He was taken up into heaven--this is what Muslims believe--and that there was somebody who was on the cross. The majority opinion is that it was Judas. So Allah made it look like Jesus\u2019 face, but it really Judas. And it was to perpetrate (now follow me on this) the greatest hoax in human history. Would that not be the greatest hoax in human history? To pull the hoax off--the hoax of the millennium--that Jesus didn\u2019t really die?\r\n\r\nSo how many billions of Christians since the inception of the cross and the resurrection have believed in Jesus as God who died on the cross? So apparently all of us are a bunch of dummies, because according to Islam, it never happened. It never happened! Allah pulled off the greatest hoax in human history.\r\n\r\nMaybe that\u2019s why (and I\u2019ll cover this tomorrow) one of his 99 names in the Quran is Allah Khayrul-Makereen. The word makereen means \u201cdeceiver.\u201d Khayrul means \u201cthe chief of.\u201d Allah is the chief of the deceivers. Maybe that\u2019s why Muslims are allowed to lie--and obligated to lie.\r\n\r\nOkay, so they deny the Trinity. They deny the crucifixion. Well, that\u2019s Christianity isn\u2019t it? If they deny the crucifixion, is there any support in the Quran for the resurrection? Of course not. Even though the Bible says\u2026 remember John 11:25-26, \u201cJesus said\u2026\u201d (himself, by His own words to Mary) \u201c\u2018I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies. [26] and everyone who believes in Me will never die.\u201d He Himself said that. But according to Islam, if there\u2019s no crucifixion, there is no resurrection. So, no trinity, no crucifixion, no resurrection.\r\n\r\nOh, it gets worse. They deny the Father and the Son. You go, \u201cWhat?\u201d Look at this. Surah chapter 112 verse 4. In the Arabic it is, \u201cLam yaled walam yoolad.\u201d What that translates to is, \u201cHe (Allah) begets not, nor was he begotten.\u201d So Allah was never a father, nor can he be a son.\r\nAnd Muslims actually recite this. Remember how many times did I say they pray every day? And how many times do they cycle the prayers? Anybody remember? Three, so that\u2019s a minimum of fifteen times a day\u2014minimum--that they will pray this verse. They literally recite this verse. Some of them may know what they\u2019re saying; some of them don\u2019t, because they have to memorize it. But they recite this verse in their daily prayers while they\u2019re prostrating themselves up and down towards Mecca. Allah is not begotten nor is he does not beget; he\u2019s not a father nor is he a son.\r\n\r\nWhat did 1 John 2 say? He who denies Jesus is the Christ, denies the Father and the Son. This is the spirit of antichrist.\u201d [1 John 2:22, \u201cWho is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.\u201d] Are we getting pretty clear with the evidence? Okay, so it denies the Trinity, denies the crucifixion, denies the resurrection, and denies the Father and the Son (because there cannot be no father and son because Allah doesn\u2019t have children).\r\n\r\nAND it gets worse. It\u2019s actually not only an antichrist spirit; it is anti-Semitic. Here\u2019s a verse that teaches about Isa returning. Remember I said he was taken up as a prophet? Islamic eschatology. And tonight in this area, I want to share with you again first of all so we understand we\u2019re dealing with a spiritual entity (number 1). And number 2, how can we refute it, because we have to be able to understand how to refute this. Because when the Muslim says to you, \u201cWell, we don\u2019t believe in the crucifixion,\u201d what we have to do is to say to them, \u201cLook, I encourage you to look up actual history--not just the Bible--but look up other historians who validate that Jesus was crucified. But the Bible validates this in its original manuscripts. There are thousands of original manuscripts and, remember, the Muslim is taught that the Bible is corrupted.\r\n\r\nI didn\u2019t cover this earlier. Let me stop here just real quick before we go on and cover this. What Islam teaches is called progressive revelation. So here\u2019s what they believe. Allah sent who? Abraham. Abraham brought the message of Allah as a prophet of Allah, and the people who followed him perverted it. So then after Abraham we have Moses, then David, and then ultimately they get to Jesus, number 6. So Jesus brought revelation. He was a prophet of Allah. He was not God, he wasn\u2019t crucified--all that stuff. Those pesky Christians perverted it. So now Allah has to send the final messenger to correct everything, and that\u2019s who Mohammed is.\r\n\r\nSo they will say the Bible is corrupt. Well, one of the ways that we can refute this is by a look at original manuscripts, because what they\u2019ve been taught is our Bibles are corrupted. They believe that we think that our versions are without error, and I\u2019ve said to them, \u201cNo, no, no. We believe that the Bible is incorruptible in its original language.\u201d So if you go and look (and there are some Muslims that think in a more apologetic way) there are resources out there that you can go and send them to online that will look at the actual contextual evidence of the Bible (meaning the thousands of numbers of original manuscripts and so on). But you have to get them to the fact that both the Bible and Quran cannot both be correct. Does that make sense?\r\n\r\nNow, the aspect of Jesus. I\u2019m going to cover this a little more tomorrow but I want to show you this verse. This is a hadith. This is out of the Bukhari, and this is Mohammed himself. \u201cAllah\u2019s Apostle said, \u2018the hour will not be established until the son of Maryam descends amongst you as a just ruler.\u201d So you go, \u201cWell look, Jesus is coming back. Look at how amazing this is!\u201d Hold on, hold on, hold on-- \u201che will break the cross\u201d You go, \u201cHuh? \u201c\u2026kill the pigs\u2026\u201d By the way, those are not little swine animals they\u2019re talking about. \u201c\u2026and abolish Jizyah tax.\u201d This is according to Mohammed. So Mohammed claims that Jesus is returning and He\u2019s going to lead an army, and (I\u2019ll show you this in a minute with further evidence) he\u2019s going to lead an army and He\u2019s going to destroy Christianity. Why would He destroy Christianity and the cross? Because it never happened. Right. According to Islam, the cross was a hoax; it never happened. It was just something the Jews perpetrated. It never happened, so therefore He\u2019s going to break the cross, and then He\u2019s going to lead an army and kill the pigs.\r\n\r\nYou go, \u201cWell, what does he have with a little pork?\u201d We\u2019re not talking about the pork animals; we\u2019re talking about Jews. Jesus, the Jewish Messiah (that we know, according to Islam, is not a Jew nor the Messiah) is going to lead an army and kill all the Jews. And then he\u2019s going to abolish the Jizyah. And the Jizyah, remember, was the second tax--the tax for the dhimmitude status. Well, that\u2019s not going to be necessary anymore. Why? Because there are not going to be any non-Muslims left. They\u2019re all dealt with; they\u2019ve all converted or all been killed. This is out of the mouth of Mohammed himself.\r\n\r\nNow, they believe that Jesus is going to come as a sidekick to their Messiah, that\u2019s the Mahdi. I\u2019ll show you the difference between the Shiite Mahdi and the Sunni Mahdi in just a minute. Here\u2019s another hadith even worse from Mohammed. Sahih Muslim Book 041, \u201cThe prophet said\u2026the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews\u2026\u201d By the way, this is to corroborate what Andy said earlier about what the Bible said, that Satan and the Satanic manifestation of the antichrist\u2019s spirit hates God and hates God\u2019s people and hates the Jews so much that he\u2019s going to move upon humanity to have this level of hatred for the Jews. Now do you understand why the Jews work really well with the Nazis?\r\n\r\nOkay, what\u2019s going to happen? \u201c\u2026the last hour will not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them, until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree, and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him\u2026 That\u2019s not anti-Semitic, right? It is anti-Semitic at its core! So the more that the spirit of Islam is manifested, the more a Muslim goes down the road of following Islam, the more inherently they\u2019re going to become anti-Semitic. That\u2019s why you see in a lot of these churches that now are becoming more pro-Palestinian pro\u2014you know, the poor Palestinians over there--they will then become pro-Islam. They\u2019ll support all these refugees and all this stuff and what will they do? They will start turning on Israel.\r\n\r\nI\u2019ve seen it time and time and time again. Andy, you\u2019ve probably seen it. It\u2019s just one goes with the other. Because why? It\u2019s a spiritual phenomenon. Do we understand this is a spiritual entity that is deceiving them? Come and kill them--why? Because they\u2019re going to be wiped out. So what we are witnessing, as Andy said, is these are the signs of these last days, both for the church and for Israel.\r\n\r\nAnd here\u2019s another sign of the last days. According to Open Doors (these are 2014 numbers), 14 out of the top 15 countries persecuting and killing Christians are under the influence of Islam. The only country\u2026You probably can\u2019t see it on the screen there unless you have really, really good eyesight. Can anybody read the first country? North Korea--good job. North Korea is the only country on that list, number 1. That is not a Muslim-controlled country; they just have that lunatic in. But the other 14 countries are Islamic, and if you look at the top 30, I think it\u2019s something like 25 or 26 out of 30 are Islamic. Signs of the last days? Signs of what we\u2019re going to see? That\u2019s why we believe that there is this worldwide genocide.\r\n\r\nAnother sick thing that I\u2019ve covered before is one of the things we\u2019ve seen coming out of Syria when we saw a lot of the Christians martyred in Syria. I think it was last year that there was a nun helping the refugees there who came out and said she had talked to these Jihadists who said that when they would kill Christians, they would hang them upside down, drain their blood (forgive me; this is graphic), and they would put their blood in vials. And they were selling them to rich Muslims, particularly in Saudi Arabia, for up to $100,000. And the Muslims were taking their blood and using it in their daily prayers. I just brought up this link, if you want to look it up. Worldnet Daily covered this story: the nun, the blood of Christians being sold. This was, as I said, early last year.\r\n\r\nThis is the verse that it made me think of in Revelation, \u201cAnd I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, when I saw her I wondered greatly.\u201d That verse never really spoke to me, that verse never really jumped out at me, until I heard a story like this. Literally they were using the blood of Christians in a sacrificial way in their prayers. So this is what we see with the manifestation that we\u2019re seeing of this antichrist spirit.\r\n\r\nNow please hear my heart. If you are engaging in evangelism with a Muslim, I don\u2019t recommend you starting off the bat like, \u201cOh, my gosh! You guys are drinking people\u2019s blood\u2026\u201d or \u201cYour prophet is a pedophile.\u201d Probably not a good tactical approach, right? You understand what I\u2019m saying. Focus on the gospel. Focus on the gospel! Let it be truth in love. Focus on the gospel. This is more for us, so that we understand what we\u2019re dealing with. By the way, if you\u2019re going to share the gospel with a Muslim and if there is a Muslim in your life--in your sphere of influence at work or whatever--you need to begin to pray. You need to begin to pray and ask the Holy Spirit (1) to subdue the spirit of Islam, and (2) to open your eyes and show you how to reach that individual Muslim, because the Spirit knows how to reach that individual person. But we have to recognize what\u2019s happening.\r\n\r\nAnd just to wrap up this part of the presentation, I wanted not to mess with anybody\u2019s eschatology, but I just wanted to teach you what Islam teaches about the end times and about their eschatology, and whether it would be possible if Islam is not just an antichrist spirit but potentially whether it could lead to the antichrist spirit. Again, I just want to share with you what they teach.\r\n\r\nSo number one, did you know that Islam has an antichrist figure? It\u2019s actually called Al Masihad-Dajjal. So it\u2019s the false Messiah--that\u2019s how it translates. So they believe that the Jesus of the Bible is the false Messiah, and that if that Jesus ever came back--or if someone came back claiming to be Jesus Christ in those last days--that they are to be deemed as the false Messiah. This is Sahih Muslim. I\u2019ve given some references there in case you want to look it up.\r\n\r\nHow many of you know that Islam, as I\u2019ve said, has a Messianic figure, a world ruler--the Mahdi?\r\nNow, here\u2019s where the Sunnis and the Shiites disagree. The Sunnis believe the Mahdi has not come and he\u2019s going to come in the last days. The Shiites believe that he came. He was an imam. In the 9th century he was mysteriously taken up to heaven. He\u2019s somewhere in a pit in the city of Jonkora in Iran. People literally go there and write him notes, and stuff like that. How sad is that. This is the Shiite Muslims, and they believe he will come back.\r\n\r\nNow where they agree is that when he comes back, He will usher in Islam upon the whole earth. And guess who his sidekick is going to be? Jesus. Now, how many of you know that in Islamic eschatology, they actually teach that the Mahdi will establish a peace agreement with a specific Jew and with what they call Christians (because they believe Romans were Christians). And this is the part where it gets really interesting--they actually teach that He will sign a seven-year agreement. I\u2019m not making this up. Here is Mohammed himself, Sunan Abu Dawad. So Mohammed himself said, \u201cThe Mahdi will fill the earth with the equity and justice as it was filled with oppression and tyranny, and he will rule for seven years.\u201d It\u2019s kind of interesting, right? They believe that the Islamic Isa is going to come back with him as a prophet to him. I though it\u2019s interesting, because the Bible talks about a false prophet\u2026maybe that\u2019s a possibility. But they believe very clearly that Jesus is not God, but He\u2019s going to return just as He was taken up--because He never died, remember, according to them--and that He\u2019s going to come back as a prophet. But when He comes back (this is one of the stories in this Sahih Muslim that recounts the story) it goes something like this: Jesus comes back. The Mahdi is there. The Mahdi says, \u201cJesus, you go ahead.\u201d And Jesus says, \u201cNo, no, no, Mahdi. You go ahead. I\u2019m going to take a secondary position.\u201d\r\n\r\nBoy, are they going to be wrong! Because, you know, Jesus is coming back, right? This is where it gets weird, and this goes back to that verse from Mohammed. Three things Jesus is going to do. Number 1, the Islamic Jesus is going to destroy Christianity. He\u2019s going to go around the world and destroy Christianity-- any vesture of Christianity--because according to him, it never happened. Number 2, he is going to establish Sharia upon the earth. And number 3, he\u2019s going to lead that army to kill every last Jew on the planet earth (according to Islam). Thank God that this is not true! This is lies and deception and garbage from the pit of hell, but this is what they believe. Many Muslims don\u2019t even know their own eschatology, so I just want to point out what the differences are there\r\n\r\nSo again, we have the commonality of the false Messiah and the commonality of the antichrist spirit. Now here\u2019s my question. Would you agree that without doubt, Islam fits the definition of an antichrist spirit? It denies Jesus came in the flesh--never happened. We believe the Trinity. They say not only stop it, but far be it from the glory of Allah that he would even have a son. It denies the crucifixion, denies the resurrection, denies the Father, denies the Son. You go, \u201cIsn\u2019t that all of Christianity?\u201d So what\u2019s the goal of Islam? To absolutely wipe out Jews and Christians. That\u2019s the endtime goal of Islam. That\u2019s what Islam would do, and this is why I believe that it is definitely an antichrist spirit because that level of hatred, that level of demonic activity, can only be explained from a spiritual phenomenon. As Andy said earlier, it is Satan himself through this spirit that would convince and put in the minds of men to hate the Jews and hate the Christians so much, because it\u2019s not human--it is demonically inspired.\r\n\r\nSo we\u2019re preparing for these ends days and we\u2019re preparing for the tribulation period. That\u2019s why I told Andy that these folks that are claiming the whole preterist and the whole aspect of, \u201cWell, we\u2019re not going to\u2026 that\u2019s all been fulfilled.\u201d The reason it\u2019s so dangerous is because we\u2019re not recognizing these signs of what is happening and that we\u2019re drawing closer to the coming of the Lord, right? We\u2019re supposed to be warning and sounding the alarm and preparing ourselves, right? Occupying until He comes and being about the kingdom and the business of sharing the gospel and fulfilling the great commission. But if we believe that Islam is a religion of peace, we\u2019re not going to share the gospel with the Muslims.\r\n\r\nThis is what they believe. This is the bondage that they\u2019re in. So the only way that we can combat this--I get back to what I said at the beginning--is we have to share the gospel. We have to be able to be bold. We have to pray for the boldness of the Holy Spirit in sharing the gospel with every person in our sphere of influence. We have to be bold Christians once again. I think that in our culture and in our society, we\u2019ve been browbeaten into political correctness. We\u2019ve been browbeaten into, \u201cListen, you can be a Christian--just go in your home, close your door, be private, stop talking to other people. I don\u2019t want to hear about your Christianity\u2026 blah, blah, blah.\u201d\r\n\r\nAnd we have to say, \u201cYou know what? My responsibility is as Paul said it, \u201cI solemnly charge you\u2026\u201d It\u2019s pretty serious, isn\u2019t it, before God the Father and Jesus Christ--the judge of the living and the dead. By the way, that description of Jesus doesn\u2019t fit the social gospel\u2019s warm fuzzy Jesus, does it? That\u2019s the Jesus that is being preached in most of these churches in America or in western society--the Jesus that just wants to hug babies and animals and sheep and goats and just wouldn\u2019t hurt a fly and wouldn\u2019t argue with anybody, the Jesus that wouldn\u2019t confront anything and anybody. He would just give everybody hugs.\r\n\r\nDo you know what I\u2019m saying? What Jesus are we talking about? Come on. The Jesus of the Bible that is coming back--the description in Revelation! Paul says he\u2019s the judge of the living and the dead. Is that some power or is that some power! Come on, what Jesus are we worshipping? Are we not supposed to have the resurrection power of God in us? So we\u2019ve got to stop walking around like we\u2019re defeated and that we\u2019ve been browbeaten. I don\u2019t care. Listen, in Washington State they just told a football coach he can\u2019t pray on the 50-yard line. And he said, \u201cYou can arrest me, but you\u2019re not going to stop me from praying.\u201d That\u2019s the kind of courage we need! I said to people, \u201cThat\u2019s the book of Daniel coming to life.\u201d Remember what he told Daniel, \u201cYou will not pray to your God.\u201d What does he do? He doesn\u2019t go hide. He opens the doors wide and he prays openly and publicly. That\u2019s what we need to start doing, so we can once again reclaim the authority of the church and the power of the gospel that we have in us. Capitulation and appeasement not only does not work with the atheist and the secular humanist, but it surely doesn\u2019t work with Islam, because Islam is operating in an antichrist spirit.\r\n\r\nEven if you don\u2019t believe it could be the antichrist, we know--based on what Andy taught today--those nations are a player in the last days. And whatever the world system is that is controlling (and whoever the antichrist comes from) is going to use Islam as part of its arsenal, to do what? To come against Christians, and to come against Israel. That\u2019s consistent with Islamic teaching. But when you go out there and share--and I\u2019ll just end with this\u2014there are two things that you have that nobody can take away from you. One, you have your testimony. Two, you have the Word of God, the gospel. You share those two things with a Muslim and you pray the Holy Spirit over them and you see what God does. We\u2019ve got to stop all this, \u201cWell, I just want to like them, and I want them to like me, and I don\u2019t want to \u2026\u201d When did the Bible say that the world was going to like you? You can\u2019t and I can\u2019t go through life wanting the world\u2019s approval if we want to be obedient and faithful to our God.\r\n\r\nI\u2019m going to turn you guys over and I want to thank you again for your patience tonight. Hey, I was closer--I only went over by two minutes. So I want to thank you guys again. We\u2019ll be back at the table after the Q and A. Tomorrow morning we look forward to seeing as many of you as can come back. If for some reason I don\u2019t see you and you\u2019re not coming back tomorrow, from me, my wife Michelle, our ministry, and our family, thank you for coming. And I pray the Lord would just mightily, mightily stir your spirit and your hearts here to lift up the name that is above every other name. It\u2019s the only hope we have. Thank you guys so much. Thank you, Andy. Lord bless.\r\nAddendum\r\nSummary Slides for \u201cAnswering Islam\u201d\r\nFive Basic Pillars of Islam\r\n*Shahada (Prayer to become Muslim)\r\n*Sawm (Fasting)\r\n*Salat (Daily prayers)\r\n*Zakat (Muslim giving)\r\n*Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca)\r\nIslam Forbids Violence??\r\nNOT TRUE!!\r\nSurah 5:32 \u2013 that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter\r\nor corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind\u2026\r\nSurah 5:33 - The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His\r\nMessenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will\r\nBe killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides\r\nCut off, or will be expelled out of the land\r\nIslam is An Anti-Christ Spirit\r\n*I John 4:1-3 NASB\r\nBeloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.\u201d\r\n*I John 2:22-23 NASB\r\n\u201c\u2026Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also\r\n*Denies the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit)\r\nO followers of the Book! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, and do not\r\nspeak (lies) against Allah, but (speak) the truth;\u2026and say not Three.\r\nDesist, it is better for you; Allah is only one God; far be it from His glory that He\r\nshould have a Son\u2026 - Surah 4:171\r\n*Denies the Crucifixion\r\nSurah 4:157 \u2013 that they said in boast, \u2018we killed Christ Isa, the son of\r\nMaryam\u2026but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was\r\nmade to appear to them\u2026for of a surety they killed him not\u2026\r\n*Denies the Resurrection\r\nJesus said to her, \u201cI am the resurrection and the life; he who believes\r\nin Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who believes in Me will\r\nnever die.\u201d John 11:25-26\r\n*Denies the Father and the Son\r\nSurah 112:4 \u2013 \u201cLam yalid walam yoolad\u201d\r\n\u201cHe begets not, nor was He begotten\u201d\r\nIslam is an Anti-Christ Spirit and is Anti-Semitic\r\n*Isa will return with the Mahdi (12th Imam)\r\nAllah\u2019s Apostle said, \u201cthe hour will not be established until the son of Maryam\r\ndescends amongst you as a just ruler, he will break the cross, kill the pigs, and\r\nabolish Jizya tax\u2026Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:43:65\r\n*The Prophet said\u2026The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the\r\nJews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a\r\nstone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a\r\nJew behind me; come and kill him\u2026 -Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6985\r\nSigns of the Times?\r\n*World Wide Genocide: 14 out of the top 15 countries persecuting and killing Christians are\r\nunder the influence of Islam\r\n*Selling the blood of Christians\r\nThe blood of Christians being sold for big money\r\nLink: http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2014\/01\/nunslain-christians-blood-drained-and-sold\r\n\u201cAnd I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.\r\nWhen I saw her, I wondered greatly.\u201d - Revelation 17:6 NASB\r\n\r\nIs Islam The Anti-Christ Spirit?\r\n*Islam\u2019s anti-Christ figure: Al Masih ad-Dajjal\r\n(False Messiah) = Jesus Christ\r\n-Sahih Muslim, Book 041, Number 6924\r\n*Islam\u2019s messiah and world ruler: The Mahdi\r\n-Ibn Kathir, The Signs Before the Day of Judgment, p. 18\r\n*Mahdi will establish a peace agreement with a specific Jew and Romans (Christians)\r\nTabarini, as related by Hadrat Abu Umamah, as quoted by Zubair Ali, p. 43 & Abduallah, p. 55\r\n*Mahdi will reign for 7 years = Bible\u2019s Tribulation\r\nThe Prophet said: The Mahdi\u2026will fill the earth with equity and justice as it was filled with oppression and\r\ntyranny, and he will reign for seven years.\u201d Sunan Abu Dawad, Book 36, Number 4272\r\n*Islamic Isa (Muslim Jesus) = Bible\u2019s False Prophet\r\n*Returns in second position to Mahdi \u2013 Shahi Muslim, Book 001, Number 0293,\r\nNarrated by Jabir bin Abdullah\r\n*Islamic Isa destroys Christianity \u201cPeople of the Book\u201d \u2013 Sunan Abu Dawad, Book 37, Number 4310\r\n*Islamic Isa helps establish Shari\u2019ah law \u2013 Sahih Ashrat as-Sa\u2019at, as quoted in Kabbani, p. 236\r\n*Islamic Isa will lead an army to kill Jews \u2013 Sahih al-Bukhari, 3:43:65","series_sermon_number":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t