{"id":18514,"date":"2018-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/exposing-islam-part-1\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T06:00:00","slug":"exposing-islam-part-1","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/exposing-islam-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposing Islam – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[106],"series_event":[488],"sermon_service_type":[473],"speaker":[456],"class_list":["post-18514","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-2-peter","series_event-exposing-islam","sermon_service_type-sunday-school","speaker-shahram-hadian","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"Exposing Islam - Part 1","sermon_date":"20180311","sermon_month":"3","sermon_year":"2018","sermon_notes":"","sermon_slides":"","sermon_mp3":5544,"sermon_id":"3111810244110","series_or_event":488,"service_type":[473],"speaker":456,"books_of_the_bible":106,"chapter_and_verse":"2:1-2","sermon_transcript":"Shahram Hadian\n\nExposing Islam, Part 1\n\nMarch 11, 2018\n\nGood morning everybody.\u00a0 It is such a blessing to be back with you again.\u00a0 I can\u2019t tell you what a blessing it was to be here a few years back and have a conference here; of course you\u2019re going to be over tomorrow at Chafer and I\u2019m having a conference there but I want to tell you what an amazing pastor you have.\u00a0 [Someone says amen, someone else says yeah, then clapping]\u00a0 I want to tell you how much I appreciate Pastor Andy and everything he\u2019s doing for the kingdom of God and for bringing the truth and standing here as a courageous pastor, a shepherd, a true shepherd and your leadership here.\u00a0 So it is truly an honor to co-labor, to be here and to serve this body and serve the Lord however He desires.\n\nSo my prayer for this morning and for these sessions and for the conference is really, I think Andy would share this, is really that we want to see this impact, equip the body because we are at a critical juncture.\u00a0 As Andy just mentioned there is so much confusion and misinformation and deception, intentional deception about the issue of Islam.\u00a0 Yet, as believers in fulfilling the great commission it is our number one challenge.\u00a0 Right? We\u2019re talking about 1.7 billion Muslims.\u00a0 So it is our number one obstacle to fulfilling the Great Commission.\u00a0 Yet the church is so confused and it\u2019s actually opening the door, as you\u2019ll see in the 11:00 o\u2019clock service, opening the door for the wolves to come in among the sheep.\u00a0 So this is very, very important.\n\nSo what I wanted to do this morning is actually focus a little bit on the missional side of things in this time because as Pastor Woods said very poignantly, and I say in all my presentations because you know, a ministry like ours we get accused as I travel and speak we get accused all the time of being anti-Muslim, you hate Muslims, you hate Muslims!\u00a0 You\u2019re inciting violence. That\u2019s nonsense because every single time we will stress that we want to have the heart of Christ for those who are lost, like myself. \u00a0I was lost without the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 So we want to have that heart for these individuals who are lost, yet we want to expose an ideology that you\u2019ll see it altogether in the 11:00 o\u2019clock service, is directly the opposite of our faith.\u00a0 It is set against that.\n\nBut sadly we see the encroachment of compromise even coming into our missional practices in reaching out to Muslims and fulfilling the great commission.\u00a0 So I wanted to start with just a\u2026 you see the screen there, a little about my background.\u00a0 I\u2019ll share a little bit more in the 11:00 o\u2019clock service on that but basically I was born in Iran, I grew up as a Muslim, my dad was in the military, we fled there right before the revolution in 1978, the overthrow of the government happened in 1979.\u00a0 And then through a lot of different circumstances in1999 is when I got saved, when I became a Christian, so 19 years now; it\u2019s sort of my journey and the predominant reason, there\u2019s two very, very specific reasons why the Lord opened my heart and I\u2019ll share that with you in a minute.\n\nBut what I want to tell you here is that when I travel and talk about the issue of Islam and the concerns that I have for our nation, our church, our freedom, it\u2019s not coming from a textbook; I didn\u2019t read it in a textbook, I\u2019ve seen it firsthand in my birth country.\n\nIran was a monarchy under the Shah; it now is an Islamic Republic.\u00a0 When the overthrow happened in 1979 the Constitution was changed.\u00a0 That\u2019s why it\u2019s called The Islamic Republic of Iran.\u00a0 In fact, you have theocracy, it\u2019s the only Islamic theocracy on the planet.\u00a0 Maybe you could argue Saudi would be there but Iran is a true Islamic theocracy on the planet today.\u00a0\u00a0 So I\u2019ve witnessed this firsthand that the absolute shift of the culture, the absolute loss of freedoms, and of course in Iran today there is great persecution for Christians, true Christians, born again Christians.\u00a0 YET, Iran by many estimates is the fastest growing church in the world.\u00a0 The underground church before the revolution in 1979 they estimated was maybe a thousand born again Christians, not Arminian, born again, Muslims who converted to Christianity.\u00a0\u00a0 Today that number is somewhere between 500,000 and 2,000, 000.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know because of the underground church; it\u2019s all underground.\u00a0 But some estimate it is the fastest growing in the church in the world and Iran has lowest mosque attendance in the world; it has less than 8% because a lot of the young people there are rejecting Islam.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0 you just saw about a month ago the protests that were there.\u00a0 Right!\n\nSo I share that to say when I talk about the issue of Islam I\u2019ve witnessed it, I\u2019ve lived it, I fled my birth country because of it and here we are in America and it is now coming around us.\u00a0 And sadly many in the church are embracing it.\u00a0 That\u2019s what\u2019s really, really concerning.\u00a0 You can see on the screen there that after I became a Christian I [can't understand word], I became a pastor, and currently pastor a church in Spokane Valley, Washington.\u00a0 I was a police officer, teacher, coach, I\u2019ll talk a little bit about more of my experience during the conference as well as law enforcement, elected official, things like that.\n\nBut I wanted to share two aspects of my testimony here this morning very quickly and then we\u2019ll jump into the content.\u00a0 People ask me, well what was it for you Shahram, what was it for you that really showed you Christianity is the true way?\u00a0 Two very specific things; the number one issue is an issue of salvation because as a Muslim growing up when I would ask my parents\u2026 and it\u2019s weird, I have to think it was the hand of God, the true God, because I would ask my parents at a young age, if I die how do I know I\u2019m going to go to heaven?\u00a0\u00a0 This is a question I asked them all the time.\u00a0 And their answer was well, we don\u2019t know, Allah is just, the god of Islam, he\u2019s just, he\u2019s fair, he decides.\u00a0 I never liked that answer,\u00a0 you understand?\u00a0 Because I want to know\u2026 well what do you mean he decides?\u00a0 Is there anything I can do?\n\nSo as you know within Islam, Islam is works based, Islam is about works; it\u2019s a scale of works.\u00a0 So within that works [can't understand word] there\u2019s only one guarantee of salvation, and you can probably guess, martyrdom.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 According to Islamic text the only guarantee of salvation if you are martyred for the sake of Allah then you are guaranteed to go to paradise, heaven.\u00a0 And the big trick within Islam is not the seventy-two virgins that we hear about; that is one of the seven blessings, according to Islamic texts, given to the martyr.\u00a0\u00a0 But it\u2019s the seventh blessing, not six, the seventh blessing that most people admit that is the shedding the blood of the martyr he gets the key\u2026 by the way, there\u2019s no text for \u201cshe,\u201d Islamic scholars are not consistent on what happens to female martyrs, but he will intercede for seventy of his relatives.\n\nDo you understand?\u00a0 That\u2019s collective salvation.\u00a0 So now you know that when there\u2019s a suicide bomber, have\u00a0 you ever wondered why the family throws a party?\u00a0 It\u2019s because they believe they are all going to go to heaven.\u00a0 Now don\u2019t ask me who gets the cutoff at seventy, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But it\u2019s collective salvation and that\u2019s the motivation, is that Islam is a cult of death because it promotes death as the highest goal whereas here\u2019s my testimony, when the gospel was shared with me in 1999, and by the way I had Christian friends growing up because when we left Iran, came to the west, I had Christian friends.\u00a0 But can I tell you none of them ever shred the gospel with me.\u00a0 They were nice, but how many of us know nice doesn\u2019t get people saved.\u00a0 The truth sets them free.\u00a0\u00a0 They were very nice but they never\u2026 now I don\u2019t know why, maybe they were afraid, maybe they didn\u2019t know, but it was not until the gospel was shared that it set me free.\n\nAnd here is the gist of it then I\u2019ll get back to the part of my testimony, the gist of it is this: the god of Islam says the highest aspiration for a Muslim is if you are willing to die as a martyr for him, to go to heaven.\u00a0 The God of the Bible says I love you so much that I have come and died for you so you can live for Me and have eternal life.\n\nNow how is it in 2018 as we\u2019re sitting here talking about we have a common God and common faith and we have so much in common?\u00a0 For\u00a0 us as former Muslims we\u2019re pulling our hair out; you notice I have no more hair left [laughter], I pulled it all out\u2026 I\u2019m just kidding.\u00a0 That\u2019s my excuse for\u2026\u00a0 So for me salvation was number one because to know that I\u2026 because as a Muslim I thought I don\u2019t want to die, I like life, and so growing up the older I got the more I realized I am not a good Muslim because if I\u2019m not willing to wage jihad, if I\u2019m not willing to become a martyr then I\u2019m not the best Muslim.\u00a0 Do you understand?\u00a0 If you\u2019re not the best Muslim then everything else is based on works.\u00a0\u00a0 You have to be a faithful Muslim based on works, called the five pillars, everything you\u2019re comman\u00added to do and then, here\u2019s the thing, here\u2019s the caveat, you hope that Allah will accept for me.\n\nOne of the things that I\u2019ll talk about in the conference is that most people don\u2019t know that Islam teaches that every person that dies must first go through hell to get to heaven.\u00a0 That\u2019s why Mohammed, they say, \u201cpeace be upon\u201d him; Jesus, \u201cpeace be upon Him,\u201d because they don\u2019t know if they\u2019re in heaven.\u00a0 Mohammed didn\u2019t die as a martyr; there is controversy about how was he killed.\u00a0 Some say he was poisoned, so we don\u2019t know, they don\u2019t know.\u00a0 So here\u2019s my question to you: do you want to wait to go to hell before you find out if you go to heaven?\u00a0 Yet that is the reality of what Muslims have to endure, if\u2026 IF they\u2019re honest with themselves.\u00a0 And when I became honest I realized I have no hope of salvation. Does that make sense?\n\nNow, number two, the secondary applicable that was critical for me was relationship, because the other question I asked my parents is if I die and go to heaven can I be with God?\u00a0 And they said well, no.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well the teaching of Islam is that Allah, the god of Islam, is not\u00a0 personable.\u00a0 He\u2019s not knowable, he doesn\u2019t interact with his creation. That\u2019s why the concept of God becoming flesh is foreign for Muslims because the idea that God would enter His creation is impossible because according to Islam the god of Islam can\u2019t enter his own creation.\n\nNow if you\u2019re me you\u2019re thinking well, how powerful is this god that he can\u2019t enter his own creation?\u00a0 Because he\u2019s so holy that he can\u2019t enter his own creation?\u00a0 So I have no knowledge of God and then I thought well if this is God, if Allah is God, what\u2019s the point of going to heaven if\u00a0 you don\u2019t get to be with God?\u00a0 Think about it, these are questions I had as a child and there was no answer.\u00a0 So I grew up with no relationship because the god of Islam is not personable; Muslims when they pray every day they don\u2019t get to pray personally, they have to recite prayers, and so all of this led me to thinking well, if this is God I don\u2019t want to follow God, I don\u2019t want to know God.\u00a0 In fact, probably I would say I became a little more agnostic towards my mid 20\u2019s before I got saved.\n\nWell, here is the good news; the good news is that the true God is personable.\u00a0 The true God is relational.\u00a0 The true God is our heavenly Father, He asks us to call him Allah.\u00a0 The true God loves us and the true God wants us to know that there\u2019s a guarantee of salvation.\u00a0 That\u2019s the good news.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 So 1999, a young lady in Atlanta, Georgia, where I was working, had the courage to talk about her faith in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 And I thought wow, this is a different kind of Christian.\u00a0 Do you understand what I\u2019m saying?\u00a0 This is not\u2026 remember, I had Christian friends, they were nice but none of them ever told me.\u00a0 She was bold and so she gave me a tape to listen to; I listened to this tape because it was a tape from her church that two sides; the first side young people in the room.\u00a0 You know what the tape is, right?\u00a0 I was just going to clarify, I say that and people go ah, what\u2019s a\u00a0 tape?\u00a0\u00a0 Before we\u00a0 had CD\u2019s and I-pods and whatever else.\n\nSo she gave me a tape to listen to, one side was the crucifixion, the necessity of the crucifixion.\u00a0 Now remember, as a Muslim I\u2019m taught that the Bible is corrupt, Jesus is not God.\u00a0 And I\u2019ll show you at the 11:00 o\u2019clock service that He wasn\u2019t even crucified.\u00a0 So when this was shared with me I thought well, this is garbage.\u00a0 The second side of the tape was about the resurrection.\u00a0 So when she gave this to me I politely took it from her, planning on lot listening to it; I put it in my car.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the interesting thing, I couldn\u2019t get it out of my mind.\u00a0 For a couple of days I had that tape in my car, I couldn\u2019t get it out of my mind.\u00a0 I kept driving around and would just keep thinking about it.\u00a0 Finally I broke down and I said fine, I\u2019ll listen to it.\n\nAnd I popped that thing in and I couldn\u2019t stop listening to it because now the truth was piercing my heart.\u00a0 But at the same time, I\u2019ll be honest, it was very difficult.\u00a0 In fact, when a few days later when I saw her she asked me did you get a chance to listen to the tape, I said yes, I did, and it offended me. \u00a0And to her credit, which I\u2019m not sure many Christians would do today, she didn\u2019t get phased by that.\u00a0 She just said okay, great, what questions do you have?\u00a0 And from there I had a whole bunch of questions, she connected me with a gentleman, Bill Shaw, who\u2019s [can't understand word]\u00a0 I met with him and the Lord used all of that, that a few days later I was driving in my car, I had met with him, we had gone over the Bible, there was a lot of miraculous things that I don\u2019t have time to share, by the way, we have a DVD in the back called Chrislam Exposed<\/em>, that I\u2019ll be covering some of this stuff here in this Sunday School time.\n\nMy testimony on the special features recorded there along with the testimony of two other former Muslims from Iran as well, very powerful to listen to those testimonies, but for me it was where a few days later, maybe about a week later, I was driving in my car, I was still listening to that tape, and the Spirit of God came upon me (I now know it was the Spirit of God), I began to weep and I pulled over to the side of the road and right there in that car\u2026 right there in that car I felt the Lord speak to my heart, Shahram, you now know the truth.\u00a0 Choose!\u00a0 And here\u2019s what He said to me, in my heart, not audibly\u2014Shahram, both can\u2019t be true, one is true, one is a lie.\n\nSee, when we sit here today in 2018 at the church and we talk about ecumenicalism and interfaith and all this stuff we\u2019re going to talk about, as outreach options for Muslims not only are we doing ourselves a disservice we are doing them a disservice because we are basically holding their hands to help, we\u2019re ushering the way in for them.\u00a0 AND, we\u2019re bringing confusion into the church because the God of the Bible didn\u2019t say Shahram, let me show you how much you have in common with Islam!\u00a0 Let me tell you how much Islam is like Christianity.\u00a0 The God of the Bible showed me this is a lie, this is true, they are the opposite of each other; choose today whom you\u2019re going to serve because only one can be Lord\u2026 only one can be God!\n\nAnd right there in that car I prayed and I chose the Lord Jesus Christ; I chose the Bible, I chose the God of the Bible, I renounced Islam.\u00a0 Three days later I told my parents, they had come down to visit my brother in Atlanta, I went to dinner with them, I told my parents and my culturally Muslim dad disowned me because I disgraced my family.\n\nWell, here\u2019s one of the concepts that we\u2019ll talk about this morning; there are missionaries, well-meaning, some well-meaning some foolish who are telling people like me, you don\u2019t understand, Muslims don\u2019t get the concept of God as Father so we have to take those things out.\u00a0 I\u2019ll show you that, it\u2019s called contextualization.\u00a0 And here\u2019s what I would say to them: On day three, when my own dad disowned me, God became my Father.\u00a0 On day three I had no problem understanding God as Father.\u00a0 That\u2019s the good news.\n\nSo when I became a Christian, no longer did I have a fear of death because now I have the guarantee of salvation; I know where I\u2019m going so I live for Christ and \u201cto die is gain.\u201d\u00a0 Amen! And number two, I know that I have a relationship with the living God.\u00a0 Amen!\u00a0\u00a0 These are the beauties of the gospel, of Christianity and we\u2019re not sharing them; instead we\u2019re doing some things that I\u2019m going to show you here in a minute.\n\nHere\u2019s a warning from 2 Timothy 4:3, I believe we are in these days.\u00a0 \u201cFor the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;\u201d we\u2019re talking about Christians now, right, \u201cbut wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, [4] and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.\u201d\u00a0 This out of the NASB.\n\nSo this is what I believe we are seeing today; we are seeing those surround themselves in the church with a message that tickles their ears, a\u00a0 message that feels good.\u00a0 This is the impact of the social gospel, that is a cancer to the church.\u00a0 But look at the admonition here, for the true believer, [5] \u201cBut you,\u201d who\u2019s that?\u00a0 That\u2019s all of us who are alert, right?\u00a0 That\u2019s all of us who are not in a category of deceived, because I say all the times in my presentation there\u2019s only three camps you can be in: you\u2019re either in the camp of truth, you\u2019re in the camp of being deceived, or God forbid you\u2019re in the camp of a deceiver.\u00a0 Go home, think about it, you will see there is no other camp that you can be in.\u00a0 And the Bible clearly tells us to be in the camp of truth.\u00a0 \u201cBut you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s our calling; that\u2019s what we\u2019re supposed to be doing.\n\nNow, sadly, as I said, we\u2019re seeing Chrislamic practices, again when we talk about the idea of Chrislam you understand what that means?\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 We\u2019re seeing a syncretism.\u00a0 Does the Bible warn us about syncretism?\u00a0\u00a0 Does the Bible not warn us about blending?\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re seeing, we\u2019re seeing a blending and a mixing of Islam and Christianity.\u00a0 That\u2019s where the word \u201cChrislam\u201d comes from.\u00a0 But we\u2019re seeing these practices come in missions, that\u2019s why I want to focus on the [can't understand word] gospel.\n\nSo let\u2019s talk about some specific things.\u00a0 First of all, we\u2019re seeing the majority of our missional practices now promote a common word and a common God movement.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be talking about this at 11:00, Pastor Andy just talked about this on his podcast, Fifteen Reasons Why Christians and Muslims Do not Worship the Same God<\/em>, excellent teaching because it\u2019s talking about the fact that the common word \u201cmovement\u201d is what\u2019s driving this mixing and blending.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll talk about how that\u2019s affecting things.\n\nNumber two, more recently we\u2019re seeing now a push, even within missional practices, that indeed Islam is an Abrahamic faith.\u00a0 REALLLY???\u00a0\u00a0 Well by definition if Islam is Abrahamic doesn\u2019t that mean that it would have to then be the same God?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that where they\u2019re going?\u00a0 If Muslims can trace their lineage back to Abraham and Jews can trace their lineage back to Abraham and we can by extension of the Jews as Christians trace our lineage back to Abraham there you go Shahram, calm down, sit down, we all can get along, have world peace, kumbaya, we\u2019re all good to go.\u00a0 The problem is that these are deceptions that are just directly from the pit of hell.\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how else to say it.\n\nI was interviewed by a reporter from the Idaho State thing because our ministry, Truth in Love Ministries, our church ministry, is on the list of the Islamic phobic network; the Muslim Brother\u00adhood has a list, no surprise.\u00a0 Last year we got added to the SPLC Hate List, and so we\u2019re on both lists.\u00a0 And as such the reporter was interviewing me and he says well why are you on this list?\u00a0 Why did the SPLC put you on the list with a bunch of Neo-Nazi skinhead groups?\u00a0 Eleven groups in Washington State, where I\u2019m from, nine of them are Neo-Nazi skinheads, us and one other ministry were put on that list.\u00a0 He says why?\u00a0 He says are you anti-Muslim. I go no, we\u2019re not anti-Muslim.\u00a0 Are you anti-Islamic?\u00a0 Well, I have to be; I have to be because I have to be standing and resisting an ideology that denies my faith.\u00a0 Otherwise, if I\u2019m supporting it what am I saying?\u00a0 If I\u2019m saying that it\u2019s the same what am I saying?\u00a0 So from this Abrahamic move then we see now a brand new push among missional practices, which is oh, you know what?\u00a0 Muslims actually believe Jesus the Messiah\u2026 really!!!!\u00a0 So there you go, we\u2019re even having more in common.\n\nYou see this movement towards this one-world religion?\u00a0 We\u2019re moving and moving and moving.\u00a0 And finally we now see interface practice becoming normative, not abnormal, not something that would have been taboo ten years ago maybe, or fifteen years ago, it\u2019s now becoming normative.\u00a0 That means that if myself and Pastor Andy and others teach against it we are now in the minority, WE are now the outcasts because this is becoming normative.\u00a0 And it\u2019s going to continue!\u00a0 And of course the ecumenicalism, right, all faiths are equal, all faiths have respect\u2026 I\u2019m sorry, how can I give respect for an ideology, as Andy said earlier, that is victimizing and enslaving people?\u00a0 How can I give approval to an ideology, folks, that again denies everything I believe?\n\nAnd the ecumenicalism and Interfaithism is coming from the social gospel.\u00a0 What is the social gospel in a nutshell?\u00a0 It\u2019s all about love.\u00a0 I just heard a brother in the Lord preach this yesterday. He was doing a conference and he said this:\u00a0 he says the message of the Bible is not about love.\u00a0 I thought finally I have a pastor who\u2019s willing to say this.\u00a0 Some of you are going well hold on,\u00a0 where\u2019s he going with this?\u00a0 The message of the Bible is not about God\u2019s love; the message of the Bible is about God\u2019s glory.\u00a0 We live for His glory and in His glory is manifested His love.\u00a0 If we compromise God that denies His glory.\u00a0 I thought man, praise God that we have those who are saying these messages.\n\nWhere is the missional, specifically the missional [can't understand word] is coming from, I\u2019ve got to go faster here, there\u2019s a little book that a colleague of mine did on Chrislam, how missionaries are promoting the Islamite gospel, I think this is available on Amazon, we don\u2019t carry this, but this is heady, this is for missionaries; if you\u2019re a missionary, you\u00a0 know a missionary, you want to get into it I recommend\u2026 it\u2019s a slow read because there\u2019s a lot of detail, but they try to break it down into basically that the mindset of current missional practices that\u2019s been going on for a while, probably 15-20 years, they have now come up with a concept called contextualization.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve created a scale, a C-1 to C-6 scale so when we\u2019re looking at reaching unreached people groups we\u2019re going to evaluate, this is their mentality, of a C-1 to C-6 scale.\n\nWhat is contextualization?\u00a0 The concept of contextualization is that basically when we go into another culture, another ideology or belief system, there are things about the gospel and the message of Christ that we have contextualize for that culture.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to make it relevant for that culture.\u00a0 You go ahh\u2014where are they going with it? \u00a0That\u2019s my question.\u00a0 When I started hearing this ten years ago that was my question.\u00a0 When I started going to missions, because I was a missions pastor and I\u2019d go to mission conferences and they\u2019d start talking like this and I thought where are they going with this?\u00a0 Now I know where they\u2019re going because C-1, C-2 is, I would say, fairly safe and innocuous, meaning this: if I go into a culture and let\u2019s say that culture has a certain dress code, well, I can contextualize my dress code to the culture in order to be able to have open doors for the gospel.\u00a0 Does that make sense?\u00a0 Maybe they have certain music, language, certain customs that are not real religious, meaning it\u2019s not tied to any ideology and so therefore in being respectful in the sense of wanting to have an open door for the gospel I can observe some of those concepts of that culture.\u00a0 Does that make sense.\u00a0 Okay.\n\nAnd they do this for C-3, to get to C-3, which is with church planting.\u00a0 The idea is when we\u2019re church planting we have to take some of these aspects into culture, so let\u2019s say, for example, you start a church in Hawaii and everybody comes to church with sandals and a Hawaiian shirt.\u00a0 Okay, so do we get offended or do we say well that\u2019s kind of the culture there so we go with it.\u00a0 I was in\u2026 we were on our honeymoon in Hawaii, my wife and I, in 2001 and we went to a church service.\u00a0 I dressed up like this and I stood out like a sore thumb.\u00a0 I was like, gee, where am I, because all, you know\u2026 vast contextualization, that is somewhat, we would say, safe.\n\nThe problem is when they get past C-3, that\u2019s what I want to talk about today.\u00a0 Now we get into a danger area.\u00a0 So what is C-3 to C-4; now the concept comes to what\u2019s called bridge building.\u00a0 There are bridge building ministries, I\u2019ll put three of them up here for you, these are three examples of a bridge building ministry.\u00a0 What\u2019s the concept of bridge building.\u00a0 The concept of bridge building is can we within those cultures and ideologies find a bridge, meaning that we have to find something they believe in that we have common ground and make that bridge over to Christianity, to the Bible.\n\nOkay; now there are parts of this that I go okay, maybe it could work but it\u2019s dangerous because in the concept of Islam if I\u2019m going to bridge build Islam is not a culture; this is a mistake we\u2019re making.\u00a0 Islam is an ideology, it\u2019s a spiritual phenomenon, right, and being an Arab is a culture; that\u2019s cultural.\u00a0 You have an Arab culture.\u00a0 But are all Arabs Muslims?\u00a0 No, in fact, most Arabs are not Muslims.\u00a0 So the context\u00a0 of culture versus religion and ideology is being confused.\u00a0 So they\u2019ll say well Muslims go to the mosque and pray five times a day, that\u2019s cultural.\u00a0 Ahhhhh! Ehhhhh! That\u2019s NOT cultural, that\u2019s spiritual.\u00a0 Yes, the mosque is the part of a life of a Muslim but that\u2019s not a cultural phenomenon.\u00a0 Does that make sense?\u00a0 So now let\u2019s find common grounds, they\u2019ll say well let\u2019s go to the Qur'an, open the Qur'an, find common themes and bring them to the Bible.\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, well, there\u2019s some basic common themes. \u00a0Pastor Woods covered some of this on his show, for example, if Muslims believe in one God they\u2019re monotheistic, they claim they\u2019re monotheistic, they claim Mohammed came and destroyed polytheism, which they call shirk, it\u2019s the worst sin in Islam, shirk, s-h-i-r-k, it means to be a polytheist.\u00a0 By the way, that\u2019s what they believe we are.\u00a0 You understand Muslims view Christians as the worst sinners because they claim we\u2019ve made God into three.\u00a0 So when you hear the Muslims tell you how much they love Christians and how we have so much in common, we don\u2019t understand the concept of ideology.\n\nBut when we get into the Quran and we start looking specific examples and specific stories that seem like they\u2019re biblical, and we\u2019re trying to make common ground there now we\u2019re getting into trouble, because the average Christian doesn\u2019t know the Quran, and here\u2019s the thing, sadly, many don\u2019t know the Bible.\u00a0 So what\u2019s the Hub Community?\u00a0 Well, frontier, you\u2019re going to talk about frontiers quite a bit, I talk about them quite a bit, sadly they\u2019re very, very compromised, Frontiers put something together called Hub Community where they encourage Christians to go find Muslim friends and sit down and have tea or coffee or break bread and then have conversation about our faith.\u00a0 You go so far no problem?\u00a0 Or [can't understand word], we want to encourage them to have a Bible study.\u00a0\u00a0 I have the booklet, I read through it;\u00a0 A Bible study, for the Muslim?\u00a0 Oh wait a second, you\u2019ve got to read towards the end of the booklet; it\u2019s not a Bible study, it\u2019s a Bible\/Quran study.\u00a0 The idea is hey Christian, you open the Bible; hey Muslim, you open the Quran, let\u2019s find common ground.\n\nThis is all built upon the common word concept so\u00a0 you\u2019re trying to build a bridge.\u00a0 But here\u2019s my supposition for why C3 C4 is dangerous.\u00a0 How do you build a bridge if one side is sinking sand and one side is solid rock?\u00a0 Has anybody been an engineer and tried to build anything like that?\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t work very well, does it.\u00a0 It collapses.\u00a0 So it\u2019s very dangerous.\n\nNow is it heretical?\u00a0 It depends, that\u2019s why I put it in the dangerous category, so when you have Crescent Projects or Camel Methods.\u00a0\u00a0 [From Internet: Crescent Project is an American based Christian ministry with international impact focused on mobilizing the Church to reach Muslims with the Gospel.\u00a0 Camel is an acronym for Chosen Angels Miracles Eternal Life. This method aims to win Muslim converts to Christianity by beginning with passages about Jesus in the Qur\u2019an.]\n\nThese are all \u201cministries,\u201d quote unquote, that are using this concept\u00a0 of let\u2019s sit down with Muslims, find the Muslim [can't understand word, sounds like: man a peas] let\u2019s find this common ground.\u00a0 And the problem is, for example, I was at Moody Bible College in Spokane, Washington four years ago I spoke at that, and some students came up to me and talked to me afterwards and they said, yeah, we\u2019re so excited, we\u2019re doing Bible studies with Muslims and antennas go up, right?\u00a0 \u00a0What do you mean \u201cBible studies with Muslims?\u201d\u00a0 I go don\u2019t tell me, is it the Hub Community, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah\u2026 Oh\u2026 and then guess what the Muslims were doing to the Christians.\u00a0 The Muslims were critiquing the Bible\u2026 well, you know your Bible is corrupt?\u00a0 You know you can\u2019t trust that?\u00a0 And these are Christians that are supposed to be in Bible college who don\u2019t know how to defend the faith, AND don\u2019t know Islam.\u00a0 So I would argue Muslims are better trained to be apologetic for their faith than we are as Christians to be apologetic for our faith.\u00a0 That\u2019s part of the challenge we have.\u00a0 Let\u2019s move on.\u00a0 Again, there\u2019s a lot of examples, I\u2019m just trying to kind of give you just a surface look this morning.\n\nNow, C-4, we start seeing now what\u2019s called reconciliation efforts, King\u2019s Way Document, Peace Catalyst International, there are ministries.\u00a0 King\u2019s Way Document came out of Rick Warren\u2019s church.\u00a0 One of its pastors got together with an Imam in California, his name was Jihad [can't understand word], and they came up with a document called The King\u2019s Way Document.\u00a0 The idea is look, we\u2019re going to stop trying to evangelize each other; we\u2019re going to seek peace and reconciliation.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to find a way to live in peace; we\u2019re not going to make conversion our number one priority because we can reconcile our differences.\u00a0 You go ahhh\u2026 WHAT?\u00a0 We can reconcile Islam and Christianity?\u00a0 [can't understand words] They\u2019ve been trying that for 1400 years and it hasn\u2019t worked out very well, right?\n\nSo they\u2019re trying to spiritually\u2026 now we\u2019re not talking about you have a Muslim neighbor down the road or in your backyard or a co-worker at work and you want to get along with them and you want to be peaceful; I\u2019m not talking about that.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about ideology, spiritually reconcile.\n\nRick Love.\u00a0 Rick Love signed A Common Word<\/em> document, one of the top promoters of the Common Word<\/em> movement.\u00a0 [from the internet: A Common Word:\u00a0 historic open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars, clerics, and intellectuals from around the world. \u201cA\u00a0Common Word Between Us and You\u201d identifies some core common ground between Christianity and Islam which lies at the heart of our respective faiths\u00a0as well as at the heart of the most ancient Abrahamic faith, Judaism.\u201d]\n\nIf you look at the Peace Catalyst website, you can go look at it yourself, right at the very intro they say \u201cwe believe Muslims and Christians can live in peace.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Can Muslims and Christians live in peace?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because we have differing ideologies.\u00a0 Do you understand or did I lose some of you.\u00a0 An individual Muslim and an individual Christian can choose to live in peace; it does not mean their ideology will override peace; in fact, (I\u2019ll show you in a little bit where I got all this) when Islam is an antichrist spirit it can never be at peace with the gospel.\u00a0 In fact Islam, according to Paul, when he talks about ideologies that are enemies of the cross, I would argue that Islam is the number one enemy of the cross, because it literally denies the cross!\u00a0 So this is C-4, very dangerous, and I would say C-4 is now heretical.\u00a0 Bridge building, maybe.\u00a0 There are some parts of bridge building that could work, if you\u2019re well verses in the Qur'an there are some ways you can go through the Qur\u2019an.\u00a0 For example, the Qur\u2019an tells Muslims to respect the Injil, the gospel.\u00a0 Of course they believe it is the uncompromised gospel, before we added things like Jesus is God, the Son of God, was crucified, was raised from the dead, you know, those minor details\u2026 right!\n\nBut we can go to the Qur\u2019an and say well, look, the Qur\u2019an says respect the Injil, let\u2019s go the gospel and read it\u2026 if\u00a0 you are well-versed.\u00a0\u00a0 How many Christians do you know that are well-versed on both sides?\u00a0 C-4 heretical!\n\nLet\u2019s go to C-4-5, Insider movement, what\u2019s the insider movement.\u00a0 What\u2019s the insider movement?\u00a0 This is literally a tactic now that is being imported across the world by major mission or [can't understand word] agencies, including sadly many wire-land based.\u00a0 My brother-in-law is a wire land base leader, I have debated him on this numerous times.\u00a0 I\u2019ve talked to other wire-land based leaders, I\u2019ve talked to other missionaries [can't understand word] who are pushing this.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the concept: we believe that a Muslim can accept Jesus as Savior and remain as a Muslim for a while.\u00a0 Did I lose anybody?\u00a0 That\u2019s why it\u2019s called an insider.\u00a0 So what the missionaries are encouraging them to do, and if we have time I\u2019ll show you a couple of videos, is basically what if you\u2019re a Muslim believe in Jesus as the Savior, not as a prophet, but remain in your community was a Muslim, go to the mosque, do your prayers, tell people you\u2019re a Muslim, because it may not be safe.\u00a0 So the argument that I hear from people advocating insider is basically well, it\u2019s not safe for them to come out, they could get killed.\n\nWell this happens in Iran all the time; Muslims that become Christians immediately become outlaws or could be black-listed by the family or by the government.\u00a0 Many have to flee to Iran.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a problem with someone getting saved and going underground for a while.\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 Get discipled, get trained, and then many times those Iranians will go back to Iran to reach their people, once the Lord strengthens them, builds them up, equips them, they go back.\u00a0 But to say remain in the mosque\u2026 because remember, they view it as cultural.\u00a0 Remember I said earlier, contextuali\u00adzation, this is part of the contextualization madness, that it\u2019s cultural.\u00a0 Going to the mosque is not cultural, if, and I\u2019ll show you in the 11:00 o\u2019clock hour, if Muslims pray every day in their daily prayers Sera 1:12 verse 4 out of the Qur'an that a law is not begotten nor does it begat, they have to pray that verse at least seventeen times in their daily cyclical prayers.\u00a0 So in their daily prayers they are saying Allah is not a father nor is he a son.\u00a0 Yet the Bible very clearly says in 1 John 4 and 1 John 2 and 2 John 7-11, when it describes an antichrist spirit, it says he who denies the Father and the Son, this is a spirit of antichrist.\n\n[1 John 2:18-19, \u201cand every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit<\/em> of the antichrist,<\/u> of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.\u201d\n\n1 John 4:3, \u201cand every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit<\/em> of the antichrist<\/u>, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world\u201d\n\n2 John 1:7-11, \u201cFor many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as<\/em> coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist<\/u>. [8] Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. [9] Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. [10] If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your<\/em> house, and do not give him a greeting; [11] for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.\u201d]\n\nAnd you have western missionaries telling Muslims, who supposedly are believing in Jesus stay in\u2026 heresy in my opinion.\u00a0 I talked to a missionary, a couple from the Philippines, who worked with Muslims, who thirty years served in the mission field, and said now the insider movement has so taken, again normative, these are becoming normative practices, they said that what they saw was eighty-five percent of those Muslims who supposedly believe in Jesus, after a while go back to Islam.\u00a0 Well, that makes sense because they\u2019re basically one foot in, one foot out.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t the Lord call us out?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t the Lord call us to renounce our past allegiances, our past beliefs?\u00a0 Would we say this for someone who was in witchcraft?\u00a0 Would we say to a wiccan hey, you know what, go to the [can't understand word], do your thing, it\u2019s okay, believe in Jesus.\u00a0 We\u2019d be nuts.\u00a0 Would we say this to someone who, let\u2019s say is in Satanic practice?\u00a0 You know it\u2019s okay, go to the satanic temple, do your rituals?\u00a0 And believe in [can't understand word], no, we would say renounce, right.\u00a0 Repent, renounce, come out.\u00a0 Does the Lord not call us out?\n\nWhat are we doing?\u00a0 It gets worse.\u00a0 Now we have C-6, the worst.\u00a0 What\u2019s C-6?\u00a0 A concept called Messianic Muslims.\u00a0 You go ahhhhhh, what? ??\u00a0 You\u2019ve heard of Messianic Jews, right?\u00a0 The idea of a Messianic Jew is biblical in the sense of you have a Jew that then finally their eyes are opened, praise God, they see Yeshua as the Messiah.\u00a0 But do Jews not worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?\u00a0 If they are [can't understand word] a believing Jew.\u00a0 So now they are a Messianic Jew because they have finally recognized the Messiah, the true Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus is the Messiah.\u00a0 So these missionaries took that concept and apply it to Muslims.\u00a0 We have Muslims that can be Muslim and believe in the Messiah, not like the insiders, for a period of time but forever; they can do both.\u00a0 In fact it\u2019s called the common pact.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to show you a quick little video, I think I played this the last time I was here, I want to play it again.\u00a0 You guys are ready.\u00a0 This is a quick little video about the Common Pact.\u00a0 Watch this.\n\n[From video] So let\u2019s say this circle represents the kingdom of God, in Arabic you could say [says something in Arabic] the upper circle represents Christians, this circle represents Muslims.\u00a0 What\u2019s happened for so many years is that Christians have been telling Muslims you\u2019ve got to come over into our circle, become a Christian, that\u2019s the only way you can come into the kingdom of God.\u00a0 Muslims have been saying hey, come over here, you\u2019ve got to become a Muslim, that\u2019s how you really know God and are able to move in the right direction.\u00a0 But really those things aren\u2019t the issue.\u00a0 The real issue is how can we both move into the kingdom of God and find a straight path to God.\u00a0 That is the question.]\n\nShahram:\u00a0 That is the question.\u00a0 How can we find a straight path?\u00a0 Muslims [can't understand word] pray this daily.\u00a0 One of the verses they pray daily is for Allah to show them the straight path.\u00a0 So Allah sends Christian missionaries to show them the straight path.\u00a0 Christian missionaries show up and start promoting, and I have to use the word \u201cChristian\u201d loosely, the concept.\u00a0 You know what he says?\u00a0 Here\u2019s what he said.\u00a0 \u00a0[can't understand word; sound like mel-ho-kah Allah] not\n\n[same word] Jehovah, not [same word] Adonai,\u00a0 [same word]\u00a0 \u00a0mel-oh-kah la Allah.\u00a0 Oh really, so Allah is now the same god.\n\nAnd number two, for years we\u2019ve been saying you ought to become a Christian, for years how about that\u2019s the gospel, how about\u00a0 \u201cI am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through Me.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThere is but no other name under by heaven by which we must be saved.\u00a0 How about this, the gospel.\u00a0 For years they\u2019ve been saying there\u2019s no [can't understand word]\u00a0 you can just find a straight path.\u00a0 Heresy!\u00a0 Heresy!!!\u00a0 And this is being promoted in many of the emergent church, social gospel like churches now.\u00a0 Frontiers is promoting it, because why?\u00a0 We\u2019ve found a new way, new strategy, as if the gospel is not the same that it was 2,000 years ago.\u00a0 In my testimony new strategy didn\u2019t save me, the gospel saved me.\n\nAnd then it gets worse.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m going to actually, for time, fast forward here, I was going to show you a video, this is called Half Devil, half child, we won\u2019t play this clip, but you\u2019ll see here\u2026 I have it linked on my website, if you want to go look at it under my resource tab, it\u2019s a video about the fact that they interviewed insiders in Bangladesh and what they\u2019re doing is the insiders used Muslim insiders who were supposedly [can't understand words].\u00a0 We\u2019re confused, and you have the local former Muslims Christian believers in Bangladesh saying listen, we don\u2019t need your western influence, these western missionaries are what\u2019s the problem.\u00a0 In country nationals we know how to reach our own people.\u00a0 That\u2019s the same way it\u2019s in Iran, the best way to reach people in Iran, and this guy, Bill [can't understand word, sounds like Niketas ], is the one who made this video and he will tell you, he says listen, the reason I made this documentary is because we have to expose that this is becoming normative.\u00a0\u00a0 And one of the things he talked about in his documentary is this [can't understand word, sounds like C-6] contextualization now of the Bible itself.\u00a0 Dear God help us!\n\nSo what do they do?\u00a0 We\u2019re going to contextualize the Bible when we translate.\u00a0 Now we know Wycliffe has been part of this (sadly) and a\u00a0 year and half ago there was a split in Wycliffe on this issue.\u00a0 Wycliffe USA finally said we\u2019re going to stop contextualizing.\u00a0 Thank God.\u00a0 Wycliffe international has not as\u00a0 yet, because what happened was a colleague of mine George [can't understand word: sounds like Who sty ], we\u2019ve had him on our radio show before, he led a boycott against Wycliffe, he had 13,000 somewhat assemblies of God churches and other churches to lead a boycott because they weren\u2019t listening.\u00a0 They were contextualizing.\n\nFor example, the Bible says \u201cLamb of God,\u201d well, maybe a culture doesn\u2019t understand \u201cLamb.\u201d\u00a0 So maybe in that culture they\u2019ll say dog of God, or cat of God.\u00a0 Or maybe in the Hindu culture we\u2019ll say cow of God.\u00a0 NO, \u201clamb\u201d is a specific textual premise, you can\u2019t change it.\u00a0 But it gets worse than that.\u00a0 So Wycliffe, because of pressure finally said well, Wycliffe USA said we\u2019ll stop.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the problem though\u2014what about all the Bibles that are out there?\u00a0 What about all what they call Muslim friendly Bibles they produced.\u00a0 Here\u2019s some of the things that are in the Bible.\u00a0 Wherever the word \u201cOur Father,\u201d \u201cHeavenly Father\u201d appears you know what, Muslims don\u2019t understand it, so we\u2019re going to have to take that word out and put the name Allah in place of it, because Muslims, remember, they don\u2019t understand God as Father.\u00a0 Allah is not a father, so we\u2019re confusing them so let\u2019s take it out.\n\nAnd as you watched that documentary, I love the line of one of those missionaries, \u201cin country,\u201d in country nationals trying to reach their own people for Christ said if God is not our Father then what good news are we giving to these Muslim?\u00a0 And by what authority are we doing this?\u00a0 Whenever the term \u201cSon of God\u201d is there they\u2019ll take it out because this is confusing Muslims who don\u2019t understand that God has a Son.\u00a0 In fact, they believe Allah [can't understand words] to have a Son.\u00a0 So what do they do?\u00a0 Sometimes they put the term \u201cMessiah\u201d in because the Qur'an uses the term Messiah.\u00a0 But you\u2019ll see later that the term Messiah does not mean what it means to you and I.\u00a0 It\u2019s a copied term; this is where Mohammed took terms that the Jews and the Christians would use and they just threw it in the Qur'an.\n\nIn fact, the fact that Jesus in the Qur'an denies He\u2019s the Messiah.\u00a0 So what do they use in place of it?\u00a0 They either omit it or they use Christ of God or Christ sent from God.\u00a0\u00a0 Well, is that the same term?\u00a0 No, because the Son of God, Son of Man, these are specific terms that have incredible meaning.\u00a0 You understand when Jesus used the term \u201cSon of Man\u201d that meant something to the Jews.\u00a0 They knew what He was saying.\u00a0 What was He saying?\u00a0 He was saying I AM the long awaited Messiah.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t mincing words.\u00a0 And here we come along two thousand\u00a0 years later and decide you know what, we know better, we\u2019re going to change the Bible.\n\nBy what authority are we doing these practices?\u00a0\u00a0 And Bill Nikita in the video says listen, the problem is western missionaries are not listening to in country missionaries.\u00a0 They\u2019re coercing, forcing their views upon these in country missionaries, and the in country missionaries are saying cut it out!\u00a0 We don\u2019t need your corrupted Bible and your corrupted gospel to reach our own people.\u00a0 We have abandoned the true nature of the gospel because the Bible always, from the very beginning established the best people to reach a certain people group is the same people group.\u00a0 That\u2019s why God saved us.\u00a0 But no, we have these western missionaries who are telling former Muslims like me, you just don\u2019t know any better.\u00a0 Hello\u2026 I came out of Islam.\n\nWhy are they doing this?\u00a0 Because it offends Muslims?\u00a0 By the way, what does Islam teach about the Bible?\u00a0 It\u2019s corrupt!\u00a0 Why is it corrupt?\u00a0 Because of things that\u2019s put into it like God is Father, God is Son, so what do we do, we take it out.\u00a0\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 We just proved them right. Do you think they\u2019re going to get saved?\u00a0 No!.\u00a0 They\u2019re going to hell and we\u2019re being compromised. \u00a0\u00a0God help us.\n\nNow I put George Hosny\u2019s website there, instead of being compromised if you want to be set straight Hoostie has a website called Biblical Misseology.org.\u00a0 Not only does he look at how to evaluate\u2026 I get this e-mail a lot, Pastor Andy, maybe you do too: Pastor, how do I know a certain mission organization isn\u2019t compromised.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know every mission organization because mission organizations are popping up all the time, right?\u00a0 So what George Hoostie does on that website is they go through and they look at not only statements of faith and how to evaluate statements of faith, but actual statement of practices.\u00a0 In fact, they just have an article, I just looked at it last night, on the aspect of contextualization and the Bible on their website.\u00a0 Go read it, unbelievable.\u00a0 And they make the argument why this is there.\u00a0 Now my argument is there, I\u2019m putting it in the [can't understand word] category because I believe this is heresy.\u00a0 It is absolute unbiblical heresy; it is apostasy and we have to cut it out.\n\nAnd the last thing I want to show\u00a0 you very quickly here is this is affecting our missions program.\u00a0 For example, Biola, I\u2019ve got to be very quick here, I got a call from a gal who\u2019s a supporter of ours, her granddaughter was an missionary student intern at Biola\u2019s mission program.\u00a0 She was in Guatemala, Honduras, somewhere like that, she\u2019d gone on a mission.\u00a0 And the lady made the statement to her daughter that Muslims cannot be saved without the gospel of Jesus Christ, they\u2019re going to hell.\u00a0 She said her daughter, a grown woman, went in her room, broke down and started crying, she said I don\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 I have so many Muslim friends, I don\u2019t believe you, that they can\u2019t go to heaven without the gospel.\n\nSo that led us to look at Biola, what are they teaching at Biola?\u00a0 So we looked at their\u2026 here we go, it\u2019s coming up, their minor admission program: we found out that Frontier has their fingerprints all over it.\u00a0 In fact, they call it Frontier missiology.\u00a0 Here is part of their write up:\u00a0 \u201cAn examination of the theology in missiology of the Frontier mission movement and emphasis on unreached people, including its historical background leading proponents, anthropological conception and strategic implications, the dynamics of pioneer church movements and\u2026\u201d here you go, \u201ccontextualization in Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhists tribal societies, insider movement and other models of mission breakthrough.\u00a0 All of this is coming from Frontier, all of it is coming from the emergent church movement.\u00a0 They have completely infiltrated the majority of our missions program.\u00a0 That\u2019s why a lot of mission pastors, in fact a lot of mission pastors were the entry doors for the Hub Community, those Hub Communities that I talked about, coming in, they were the ones that\u2019s supporting them.\n\nLet\u2019s look at the next part.\u00a0 They go on to say, \u201cApproaches to the Islamic world, exploration of historical contemporary approaches to Muslim people, including an analysis of an effective interactions and Muslim perceptions and individual and organizational approaches like evangelism, (we\u2019re good), apologetics (we\u2019re good),\u00a0 interfaith dialogues [ehh!] evangelism, they said it again, I don\u2019t know why they said it twice.\u00a0 Education, development and compassion ministries, reconciliation ministries, peace building ministries, you see the fingerprint, all of these concepts now are within our missional program.\u00a0 They are training our future missionaries with these concepts.\u00a0 Why is interfaith dialogue now a premise of Viola missions?\u00a0 Why is contextualization the primary aspect?\u00a0 Because they\u2019re now taking the C-1, C-2, C-3 doable; there aspects that I agree are legitimate to contextualization, but when we get past the line and we cross that boundary we now have compromised the gospel.\n\nSo look it up, this is not just at Biola, we\u2019re seeing this happen.\u00a0 But Biola came to our attention because of one of our supporters who said look, this is my granddaughter, she\u2019s training to be a full time missionary, and she\u2019s crying because I told her Muslims can\u2019t get saved without Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that supposed to be Christianity 101?\u00a0 And of course, we\u2019ll talk about it in the 11:00 o\u2019clock hour, Pastor Woods already talked about some of this, I\u2019m going to show you\u2019re seeing billboards like this just down the road pop up from you by the Islamic Circle of North America Muslim Brothers front group, pushing this ecumenical interfaith message.\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 One family, one message, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Islam\u2026 Why Islam?\u00a0 Call us, why Islam, please nobody call.\u00a0 Please!\n\nThis is the push and I\u2019ll show you in the 11:00 o\u2019clock hour this is not accidental, it is an intentional push to\u00a0 compromise the church.\u00a0 A compromised church has no power.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 We deny the gospel, we deny the power of the gospel, we have no power and I would argue we\u2019re losing our saltiness.\u00a0 And if we\u2019re losing our saltiness then what are we good for but the dung pile.\u00a0 God help us if that happens!\u00a0 That\u2019s why you see places like Dearborn, Michigan and other places around the country where you have churches on every corner but Islam is winning the day.\u00a0 In Washington state where I come from we have interfaith [can't understand word] becoming normative up and down Washington State because it is the way to go.\u00a0 And churches are afraid to even engage because we\u2019ll be called names.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to stand up for the gospel!\n\nIn wrapping up I want to just cover this and I\u2019ll cover it at 11:00 o\u2019clock, there\u2019s no common word,\u00a0 there is no common God, Islam is not Abrahamic, I\u2019ll go through that and I\u2019ll show you that at 11:00 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Muslims do not worship Jesus as the true Messiah.\n\nHere\u2019s what we should be doing?\u00a0 We must declare the gospel and call them to repentance, as someone did with me.\u00a0 \u201cFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek\u00a0 , for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written,\u00a0 [17] For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, \u2018BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.\u2019\u201d [Rom. 1:16-17]\n\nAnd folks, we\u2019ve got to return to biblical evangelism; there are simple things and I\u2019ll talk about it later, simple things that we can do to share the gospel, your testimony, ask if you can pray for them, in the name of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?\u00a0 Not Allah.\u00a0 Proclaim the gospel, tell them \u00a0who Jesus really is.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be\u2026\u00a0 listen, thank God that young lady 19 years ago, when I said I was offended she didn\u2019t say oh no, I\u2019ve offended a Muslim, I\u2019ll stop.\u00a0 Thank God she was persistent and pushed through because listen, the offense, what I thought was offense was really the piercing of my heart by the sword of the Spirit.\u00a0 The truth sets us free.\u00a0 We have to return to biblical evangelism.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about that more in the conference, we\u2019re going to be equipping people.\n\nAnd listen, a couple of things that are number 1, stop compromising the Word of God.\u00a0 Number 2, I believe that one of the things\u2026 outside I was talking to Russ Miller about this in Coeur \u2018d Alene last weekend that I believe that this is one of the biggest issues in the church today is that we have lost the concept of what it means to have God as our Creator.\u00a0 That\u2019s why we\u2019re so confused on LGBT this and transgender this and if we don\u2019t\u2019 know who God is as Creator we don\u2019t know who we are as His creation.\u00a0 And I believe that we have to restore God as our Creator to us and our children.\u00a0 And as such we have to train the next generation in apologetics.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to get better at actually knowing how to defend the gospel in apologetics.\n\nYou know, one of the things that\u2026 I want to say this about the Woods that I appreciate, because you can tell I\u2019m a little bit of a hmm what\u2019s the word when\u00a0 you\u2019re\u2026 expressive\u2026 demonstrative\u00a0 I\u2019m a little demonstrative, right.\u00a0\u00a0 And sometimes emotions can get the best of us but when I listen to Dr. Woods calmly, patiently, defend the Word of God, defend the gospel, we need that!\u00a0 We need more of that!!!\u00a0 We need to be believers who are not caught up in our emotions that the social gospel has done.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to deal in facts and truth and our faith because we are standing on the rock, the Word of God.\u00a0 And let us prepare ourselves and more importantly this next generation, who\u2019s being bombarded, to defend our faith and defend the gospel.\u00a0 And listen, when it comes to the issue of Islam they\u2019re doing the same thing.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t think that they\u2019re training in their Islamic centers and their mosques how to be apologetic towards Islam and break down Christianity then we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re talking about.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they\u2019re winning today; they have evangelism too, it\u2019s called dawah, they\u2019re trying to convert Americans and they\u2019re trying to convert Christians.\n\nSo in wrapping up again I just pray for great boldness, we\u2019ll talk about more in the 11:00 o\u2019clock hour.\u00a0 Pastor Woods, I\u2019ll turn it back to you.\u00a0 Folks, God bless you and again, the call is [clapping] the call is very simple, we are called to fulfill the great commission, not invent another gospel.\u00a0 So let\u2019s commit to the mission of the church and if we do that and stand with God we will be able to stand before Him on that day and He will say \u201cWell done, good and faithful servant.\u201d\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 Thank you pastor, God bless!","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