Muslim evangelism. We're going to start with challenging Muslims. How can we challenge Muslims with the Gospel? What kind of challenging questions can we come up with? Now what I'm going to give you are 18 battle-tested, field-tried questions that I have used in mosques, Muslim homes in Muslim areas and which I found Muslims not having an ability to answer adequately. First question, the Lord Jesus Christ warned us to beware of false prophets. What can you say to convince me that Muhammad is a true prophet of God? Now, the kind of answers I've had is the Quran says he is. Which brings us to the next question. The Bible warns us not to add to or take away from His revealed word. What can you tell me to convince me that the Koran is true? And the normal answer is, well, Muhammad says it is. Okay? Now this is what we call circular reasoning because Muhammad testifies to the Koran but Muhammad wrote the Koran and the Koran testifies to Muhammad. But this is self-testifying which is not particularly very effective. I've also been told, when I asked Ahmadiyyat in the Islamic propagation of saints in Durban, how can I know that Muhammad is a true prophet of God? He literally said, I mean it sounds like it came out of the National Enquirer, but this is what he said. He had a gap between his two front teeth, and he had a mole on his back. Okay, something a dermatologist and a surgeon can fix, and this is meant to be proof that he's a prophet? I mean that sounds a bit bizarre, but literally that's the answer. gap in his teeth, and mole in the back. Now, how can they convince us the Koran is true? Well, I've heard them say things like, nobody could produce literature as beautiful as it. well actually yes we can, like Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, beautiful literature, far superior, or take any of the Psalms, or you can just carry on with some great literature. So they argue by the beauty of the Quran and they argue by the fact that Muhammad says it's not part of it, not many other arguments. Third question, it's good to clean your body before prayer. They like to tell you how they clean up to the elbows and how they rinse out their nostrils, because Satan apparently lives in nostrils. And you've got to be serious. And clean their ankles and so on and so forth. So they're very serious about their bodily cleaning before prayer. Fine, that's good. The Bible even says we should come before the Lord with bodies washed with fresh water and with a clear conscience. How do you clean your heart and your mind? What do you mean? New concept to them. Fourth question. Our Lord Jesus warned us not to use vain repetition when we pray. How do you maintain your sincerity and devotion, repeating the same words 50 times a day every day of the year? And you've heard if you've been to any mosque how they chant these things 10 times, 5 times a day, 50 times a day. Is that not vain repetition? Fifth question. Why are Muslims required to dress like 7th century Arabians, eat like 7th century Arabians, and speak like 7th century Arabians, and even have names like 7th century Arabians? Isn't it cultural imperialism to require everyone to speak Arabic? We have the Roman Catholic Church trying to tell us a church service could only be in Latin. We had a referendum that fought that. What's this business of coming to be an Arabic? In fact, now, this is probably not orthodox Islam, but this is what I've heard too. I've come across Muslims who swear and I've said, now, are you as a Muslim allowed to swear? And the answer I've had from a number of them, especially around Durban area, I've heard Muslims say, oh, Allah only understands Arabic. We're not allowed to swear in Arabic, but it's okay to swear in other languages. I doubt that's orthodox, but this is what common folk Islam sometimes believes. By the way, another question that I've asked them, how is it that you're allowed to eat all you like after sunset during a fast? And they said, Allah can't see in the dark. Now again, I don't think that's orthodox, but I've literally heard Muslims talking like that. Pretty strange. Sixth question, why do all Muslims bow down to Kaaba and Mecca? So, it starts off like this. In what direction do Muslims pray? Oh, we all pray in the same direction. Okay, so you all pray North, yes. And what about if you're in Russia, Europe? No, well then you pray South. Oh, if you're in America, do you also pray South? No, if you're in America, you pray East. Oh, okay, so if you're in Japan, you pray East. No, if you're in Japan, you pray West. I thought you all prayed in the same direction. We do. We pray towards Mecca. The slave market in Medina. Okay. But now, you've all got to a Hajj to Mecca. Yes, we've got to a Hajj to Mecca. Now, when you get to Mecca, which direction do you pray? Well, we pray towards the Kaaba. What's the Kaaba? It's a big black box. Is there anything in the box? Well, as a matter of fact, there's something in the box. There's a meteorite. There's this piece of rock that they think fell down from the moon, and they march around it. So you're all bound down to a rock in a box. Isn't that kind of like idolatry, bowing down to some graven image? No, well of course they don't want to accept it, but you've made your point. Hopefully you've made them think. Seventh question. What does the Quran teach about marriage? Is polygamy allowed? Well, yes. What about divorce? Of course. In fact, it's easy for a man to divorce his wife. All he has to say is, I divorce you. I divorce you, I divorce you. Three times. Ten seconds. Done. No paperwork required. No witnesses required. Even if the man's drunk and didn't mean it, it still sounds good. So, divorce is simple. Can a woman divorce her husband? Don't be stupid. Who is custody of the children in the event of the divorce? Well, the man, of course. Read Not Without My Daughter and you can get some of the ideas of the trauma that can be experienced by people who marry a Muslim and who had the problems that comes from that. And that's why this woman, when she wants to leave her husband, okay, she could do that, but not with her daughter. Her daughter had to stay in Iran with her husband. And this is what led to a huge, the whole drama of that book and film. The many consistent reports which are disturbing and shocking of human rights abuses and persecution of Christians in Muslim countries like Pakistan and Sudan. You could add Syria, Iraq, wherever ISIS is chopping heads off as well. What does the Quran teach about how Muslims should behave to Christians? And I took these pictures. This door, this wall, the west wall collapsing of the Fraser Cathedral, this evangelist in Noob Mountains whose feet were axed off at the ankles by the Arabs, and James Cramer, 52 years old, Episcopal Church member of Adudu in Nuba, who had his arm cut off by the Arabs, chopped off. Ninth question. According to the UN Commission on Human Rights and numerous anti-slavery societies, slavery still exists in some Muslim countries like Mauritania and Sudan. What does the Quran teach about slavery? Of course, it allows it, it encourages it. Muhammad owned slaves. We know the names of some of the slaves. In fact, he used to call his slaves raisin heads. and Muhammad not only owned slaves, he sold slaves, he captured slaves, he married some slaves, concubines, I suppose is a better word, and in fact at one point I was on a radio program in California and a Muslim phoned in and said, how can you say that Islam is anti-Semitic and anti-Christian? Why Muhammad had a Christian wife and a Jewish wife? I said Mohammed had a Christian concubine and a Jewish slave as a concubine after he had killed her husband and 600 other Jewish men for refusing to accept him as a prophet. Then he allowed his men to rape all the widows and to make them their slaves and he enslaved one and made her his concubine. I don't think that proves your point. Click at the other end of the line. But this is the point. According to Sharia law Everything Muhammad did is good. Everything Muhammad didn't do is not good. He is the gold standard of what's right and wrong. So, this is the reason why no Muslim country can outlaw slavery, really, when you get down to it, because how can you say something Muhammad did was wrong? That's why the age of consent for sex in a Muslim country is nine. His third wife, Aisha, he married her when she was six years old and he consummated the marriage when he was nine, he said, according to his testament. Therefore, any Muslim country has 9 years old as the age of consent. So that's statutory rape. It's paedophilia, child abuse in any civilized, decent country. And Muhammad was objectively, factually, according to our laws today and Biblical law, a rapist, a child abuser, a paedophile. I mean, that's just a fact. It's an objective fact. So what can a Muslim say about slavery when Muhammad did it? and never condemned it. I mean, how many slaves did Jesus own? None. Was anyone a slave by Jesus? No. I mean, you could just ask the question. You don't even have to say Muhammad did. You just have to compare Jesus. And this is what Mark Gabriel does in his book on Muhammad and Jesus, comparing Muhammad with Jesus. It's just no contest. I mean, it's like a massacre. Muhammad doesn't stand a chance. He can't stand for a second before the Lord Jesus. Tenth question. The National Islamic Front government in Sudan has declared holy war, jihad, against the black Christians in the Nuba Mountains and in the south of Sudan, killing many hundreds of thousands of Christians. What does the Quran teach concerning jihad? Well, now you'll start to hear some mental gymnastics. Well, jihad is more about dealing with the nafs. What's that? It's like the... I can't use the word sin. I don't know that they believe in sin. It's something, you know, like internal jihad. OK, but the people who flew into the World Trade Center, who chopped people's heads off, blow up churches, they're saying they're doing it in obedience to the 109 different Quranic passages that mandate jihad. And then you get someone like Obama saying Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, and Muslim terrorism has nothing to do with Muslims, and Boko Haram quoting the Quran for what they're doing, It's got nothing to do with the Koran and other kind of double think that you get from George Orwell's 1984. But anyway, you don't have to argue, you just need to ask the questions. 11. In Islam, how is atonement made for your sins? How can you be forgiven? No answer. I mean, even Ahmad Didat, the most prolific author and evangelist in Islam, in the last century, and he just had to shrug his shoulders. What could he say? Twelfth question. How can you, as a Muslim, know for sure if you will go to heaven or not? If God was to ask you, why should I let you into my heaven, what would you answer? And, do you know, Ahmadiyyat, when I asked him, how can you know for sure that your sins are forgiven, that you're going to heaven, his answer was, he opened his mouth, no words came out. He shrugged his shoulders, No words came out. He raised up palms of his hands three times and I mean it was like making sounds of, I don't know. And that's Ahmadiyyas in the mosque in Durban asking my question, answering my question. No idea how your sins could be forgiven. Okay, 13th question. Does Islam recognize the rights of other religions to exist and freely operate in Muslim countries? Not really. But in order to exist as a Christian in a Muslim country, you've got to pay taxes. That's tribute tax. Extra, extra, extra tax. Now if we charged extra tax for Muslims, how would that be regarded? Imagine if Americans said, OK, because Muslims have caused so much havoc to America, so much destruction of property, massively increased international air travel and so on, Muslims are going to have to pay extra tax. And there's a surcharge if a Muslim wants to fly above a plane, they've got to pay four times more for the flight than other people do and so on. That would actually be reasonable and would have a logical reason. But Muslims are forcing Christians to pay four to eight times more tax than a Muslim in a Muslim country. Fourteenth question. If Muslims became the majority in our country, would Sharia law replace our present laws and constitution? Yes. In Canada, forget the Canadian Bill of Rights and all of that, they would bring in Sharia law. In fact, they're already having Sharia law in parts of Canada. recognized by Trudeau's Junta, and you've got Sharia law being effectively operated in parts of England. And there are places which are no-go areas in France to the police. The police are not allowed to go into hundreds of parts of France because it's Islamic Sharia law places. They own ghettos. They've got their own law and they do their own things. And a place like that, women's rights means nothing. It doesn't matter what the Bill of Rights is. They just allow these Muslims to do what they want, you know, lash, whip, and so on. 15. If Islam is a religion of tolerance, why do no Muslim countries allow freedom of religion? In Saudi Arabia no church or synagogues are allowed and no citizens can be a Christian. Why is that? 18th question, 16th question. How can Muhammad be called a prophet of peace when he engaged in 47 battles and raids on caravans in his lifetime? He was actually a cash and transit robber. He was an armed robber. He attacked caravans, that's merchants. Even during Ramadan, which is traditionally a time of ceasefire, and that predates Islam. Almost everything in Islam is something that's stolen from other religions, as you'll see from my articles here on the source of Islam, which is on page 9, which we're not doing here but you've got the notes. So, no Old Testament prophets, not Isaiah or Jeremiah, not Malachi, none of them engaged in military campaigns. Why did Muhammad? And military campaigns is too nice a word. I mean, what it is, is kidnapping, ransom, armed robbery, raiding caravans, murdering people, massacring people off their own graves, selling their wives into slavery and all that sort of thing. So, I mean, Muhammad authorised mass rape of captives, authorised mass theft, authorised slavery. How is he the holy prophet of peace? You wouldn't want to live next door to a person like this. 17th question. The Saudi Arabian government has funded the building of thousands of mosques in Christian lands, yet no church or synagogue is tolerated in Saudi Arabia. Why is it not one church, not one mosque, not one synagogue in all of Saudi Arabia. Why? Eighteenth question. Surely if the Saudi Arabian kingdom has the right to distribute millions of Qurans and finance thousands of mosques and Muslim masjids in Western countries, shouldn't Christians be allowed to do the same in Saudi Arabia? It's not equal. And yet America gives most favoured nation status to Saudi Arabia. Who founded and funded ISIS? who massacred Christians by huge numbers. In fact, America's Ambassador Stevens, the one who was murdered in Benghazi back in 2013, he was the bag man before he became ambassador. He took the 500 million dollars from Qatar, which was also with the backing of Saudi Arabia, to ISIS, to the al-Bukhari who had been a prisoner of America under Bush and he is released by Obama in his first month in office in January 2008, 2009. Obama ordered the man released al-Bukhari who became the founder of ISIS and Ambassador Stevens gave him the first 500 million dollars from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to get ISIS up and running. And they are able to fund terrorism, missionaries, Muslim missionaries, Qurans, mosques all over the world but we're not allowed to send one missionary to Saudi Arabia. We can't build one church in Saudi Arabia. And Saudi Arabia has monumentally large amounts of military weapons they get from Britain and America. How can this be possible? Okay, those are some 18 blockbuster questions to napalm the field and clear arguments. The Gospel of Abraham, for this you go back to, I think is it page 4? No, page 3 of your notes. In the manual, page 3, halfway down. So the Gospel of Abraham. Gospel in Abraham. You can ask a Muslim, do you believe in the God of Abraham? And certainly, we Christians can say we believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is the God of the living, not of the dead, Jesus said. So Abraham matters a lot to Muslims. Abraham was called the friend of God in Arabic. Qalilullah. Now, why was Abram called the friend of God? And what does this tell you about the relationship between God and Abram? Actually, it tells us more about Abram's God than about Abram, because God has a relationship with his people, with his servants. God can be trusted. God keeps his promises. He does not change his mind. He even wants to share his plans with his servants. What an amazing God! Now is Abraham the father of the people of God? And of course all Muslims will say yes because they've got a tenuous link to Abraham and Abraham is super important to Muslims because it's a link that they are somehow connected to the people of God through Ishmael who was an illegitimate son of Abraham. But don't use the word illegitimate in the mosque. One of our people when he is asked about Ishmael and our missionary unwisely said that he was illegitimate and this Muslim imam jumped up, this is in the mosque in Durban, at one of our discipleship training courses and he shouted, are you calling us bastards? I want to punch you in the face. This is the Muslim imam's response in the middle of, I mean our chap had just made a comment from Galatians that Ishmael is not the legitimate heir of Abraham's promises. But boy was that a touchy point. It was like you just rubbed salt in somebody's wound. It was a very explosive situation. And we almost had a punch up in the mosque. I mean it was a very, very volatile. Why is it to avoid that subject in a mosque? So Abraham at a... but the point is any Muslim is going to agree Abraham is the father of the faithful. Now, we can go to Galatians to explain that he's the father of those who are of faith and that the promise to Abraham and his seed is through Christ. Because to Abraham and his seed, not as to seeds as to many, but to one seed which is Christ. Christ is the fulfillment of the promises to Abraham. So, anyway, you can have a great time going through the Gospels and Genesis and Galatians 3 to explain that. But notice how the Jews consider Abraham to be their father, the Muslims consider Abraham to be their father too. And every true Christian has reason to see himself as a descendant of Abraham. And that's what Romans 4, verse 16, Romans 9, verse 8, Galatians 3, 7 to 8 tell us. Now notice Jesus said, John 8, 56, that Abraham looked forward to his day and saw his day. Abraham had faith in Christ. There's one way of salvation in all of history. In the old covenant, people looked forward to Christ, to the Messiah, the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world. We look back to Christ's sacrifice on the cross. But there's one event, one person in all of history has been the means of salvation for all. And so it's good to make this point clearly. You can use Abraham to communicate the gospel. Now, Abraham found approval of God only by his faith, not by the law. Muslims are encouraged to follow the faith of Abraham in Surah 9, Surah 395, Surah 2, Surah 6 and Christians are reminded to consider Abraham's faith in Galatians 3. Now Abraham's faith was a reflection of God's faithfulness and this God reckoned to him as righteousness. Now notice God promised a son to Abraham and this is stated both in the Quran and in the Bible and interestingly in Surah 11 71 in the Quran Allah says that he gave glad tidings of Isaac notice that Isaac not Ishmael is the promised heir even according to the Quran but most Muslims will try and ignore that. Fifthly notice the command of Abraham to sacrifice his son his only son his only legitimate heir To Abraham, the question must have arisen, can such a holy and moral God ask for such a sacrifice? Unquestioning obedience to God's will, every Muslim will say, yes, you've got to obey Allah no matter what. But now contrast this with Genesis 22. How did Abraham respond? He must have been shocked, but in faith he was willing to obey. And he discovered that God was seeking to reveal to him, through this exercise, his salvation. It was a threefold test. To show love for God. Do you love me even more than you love your own son? To maintain his trust in God. Will you trust that God will do the right thing? To persevere in his faith, no matter what. The only solution left to Abraham, according to Hebrews 11, and Sorah 2, is that God will raise his son from the dead. So, Abraham is foreseeing the gospel. His son, his dearly beloved son, given through an unusual, miraculous birth actually, to be sacrificed as a sin offering. But a son will be raised from the dead and he will be a blessing to others, for all the families and nations of the earth. This Abraham foresaw. In this way Isaac becomes an object lesson of the atoning work of God's Son. So here's a question. What has God done to show his love to you? You ask a Muslim this question. Has God ever done anything for the human race to match Abraham's supreme act of love and self-sacrifice and being willing to sacrifice his own son? If the greatest way that a man could show his love for God would be to be willing to sacrifice his son to God, what is the greatest way God could show his love for us? Now at this point they're going to start arguing, but you've made your point. They'll never forget it. And this we've taken from John Gilchrist's Milad al-Ibrahim, The True Faith of Abraham, which we have on our shelf here too. John Gilchrist is a lawyer from Benoni who has debated Ahmadiyyat and when Ahmadiyyat claimed it won the debate, John Gilchrist tripled to court and won the case and never again did Ahmadiyyat ever dare try and take on John Gilchrist. You don't take on a lawyer on things like that. John Gilchrist is a brilliant lawyer. I've done evangelism with John Gilchrist. I've learned from him. I've been in his debates. I learned the most from Herod Niels. Now Herod Niels is the greatest authority probably on Islam in the world. But I'd say the second greatest authority is John Gilchrist. And the funny thing is they both come from South Africa. When Josh McDowell was preparing for his debates, he had John Gilchrist prepare him for a year for this debate. And that's why he could just chop off Ahmadinejad at the knees. I mean, he knew his arguments. He blew him away. He pulled the rug out from under his feet. He completely decimated Jihad's position because he had John Gilchrist as his researcher who guided him in how to handle this man in debate. Now, John Gilchrist, a brilliant lawyer, and he knows how to take down these people. This is an excellent debating method. Now from Kenneth Niels, I did door to door in the Malay Quarter with Kenneth Niels, he's written many of the books on our shelves in Muslim Vans, a lot of the books in the bookshop, and Kenneth Niels was mobilized at age 14 for the Battle of Berlin, given Panzerfausts, like the old origin, the fathers of the RPGs, sent out to blow up T-34s, which he did. He was at age 14, destroying T-34 tanks when the Red Army was invading Berlin. Quite a character. And he moved to South Africa and he dedicated his life to learning how to win Muslims. Somebody who as a teenager could take on T-34 tanks, I suppose that's just good preparation for taking on Islam in the mosques. And one illustration I heard him use more than any other was this. Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a religious leader and the other was a tax collector. And the religious leader said, I thank you God I'm not like other men. I fast twice a week. I give one tenth of all my income to God. I'm not like that tax collector over there. But the tax collector stood aside by himself and he beat his chest saying Lord have mercy on me I'm a sinner. Now which one was right in God's eyes? Well of course the religious leader. I mean Muslims all identify with the religious leader. Home after home I've seen it both when I was listening and when I've been doing it myself. Every time the Muslims will choose the religious leader. Of course I mean he fasts twice a week, he's a religious man, he prays and Interesting you say that. Have a look at what Jesus says in the Bible. Turn the Bible, open the right page, and they'd look at it and they'd be shocked. I mean, literally shocked. This doesn't make any sense. I mean, they trust Nabi Isa, the prophet Jesus, but how can he say this? Is he condemning their religious duties? How is this possible? Because God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. This is a shock to any Muslim. I mean, I've seen this just shock and silence people in mosques, in Muslim homes, in the Malay Quarter, all over. Al-Madinah just brought, I mean, Karak Niels brought this through so effectively. They don't know what to do with it because their religion is proud. It's a very proud religion. It's a works religion. It's all about me and what I have done for God. And so, Bear in mind, everyone relates to stories. And people might forget a lot of what you say, but they remember the stories. And so the parables of Jesus are excellent tools for evangelism and for discipleship and teaching. So remember the two men who went up to the temple to pray, and in fact any of the parables of Jesus. But these are the sort of things I saw. I saw a character that was very gracious. We'd go into the homes, we'd have tea with the people, we'd be sitting around in their dining rooms and living rooms and discussing things. And he'd, you know, may I share with you a story from the Lord Jesus, and of course they're very polite, they like this sort of thing, but he's a good storyteller, and he wouldn't read the Bible for them, he'd have them read from the Bible for themselves, and they might be hesitating, stumbling, you might have to put your finger there to guide them, but it's more powerful for a person to read for themselves what the scripture says than to have it told to them. And so he tried not to do for the others what they could do for themselves, and he wouldn't always give the conclusion, but ask them. And of course that turns the tables. Very effective. I've put these notes, what you've got in your Muslim Evangelism manual is also added to the Slavery, Terrorism and Islam book as appendixes effectively. Now what I want to go on to now is comparing the Bible with the Quran. And this is super, super important. When it comes to evangelism, I think this is the most important. This is page 16 of your Muslim Evangelical Workshop Manual. Comparing the Bible with the Qur'an, I mean again, this would not be allowed in boxing. It's like putting a featherweight for the heavyweights, I mean it's just, and times infinity. It's just, it's not really going to be a fair match. But anyway, out of the mouth of two or three witnesses everything will be determined. The Bible is 66 books, in fact the Bible means library. The Bible is 66 books written by 40 different prophets and apostles, and written originally in three languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Written on three continents, Africa, Asia, and Europe, over 1,500 years. of the Old Testament are written in Africa, like Jeremiah, a good part of that. The epistles of Paul, many were written in Europe and so on, so it actually spans three continents, at least 1,500 years. In fact, with Jordan, more than that. The Quran is one book, written by one author, Muhammad, in one language, Arabic, in one geographic area, Saudi Arabia, over 23 years. Even the Quran acknowledges that Jesus Christ was miraculously born of a virgin, was holy and faultless, performed miracles, healed the sick and raised the dead. I don't have to go to the Bible for that. Even the Quran tells you that. Muhammad, however, was a trader who transported and sold slaves, amongst other things. He was also a slave owner. This we learn from the Muslims' own holy writings. This isn't something some nasty Christian like me wrote. This is what the Muslims write in their own hadith. One of Muhammad's 14 wives, Aisha, was only 9 years old when he married her, 6 years old when he married her, 9 years old when he consummated the marriage, they say. Child abuse. Statutory rape by the laws of most countries in the West today. Muhammad attacked caravans or merchants for loot. He had over 600 Jewish men in Medina dig their own graves before having them slaughtered in front of their wives and children. The wives and children were then sold as slaves. All this is recorded in the Hadith. You don't have to go to a Christian book to get this. The authenticity of the Bible as God's revealed word is attested to by many miracles. Big time miracles, like parting the Red Sea for the whole nation of Israel to go through. The fire that came down on Mount Carmel. Our Lord Jesus feeding thousands with a handful of food. Walking on water. Calming the storm of the word. raising Lazarus from the grave four days after he had died, and countless other events. The Bible contains hundreds of detailed prophecies, 2,000 of which are already fulfilled, 333 of which, Old Testament prophecies, are Lord Jesus Himself fulfilled in His life on earth. The Messiah was to be born of a virgin in Bethlehem, a descendant of David. 483 years after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem, He would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. He would be betrayed by a friend. His hands and his feet would be pierced, crucified. Psalm 22 was written 1000 years BC, 500 years before the Romans even devised the crucifixion. His robe was gambled for. He would be buried with the rich, yet he would rise from the dead. He would ascend to heaven. There is no provision for forgiveness of sins in the Quran. There is no atonement for sins. But Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. In the blood of Christ we have full atonement for sin. This is a famous painting of the blood of the Lamb from the Middle Ages. Now unlike the Quran, the Bible is convincingly attested to by countless miracles and detailed prophecies. If you visit Medina, you can see the tomb where Muhammad is buried, but no photographs are allowed. However, if you visit Jerusalem, you'll find an empty tomb. The Lord Jesus Christ is risen. He is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to Father except by Him. When you go into the tomb in Jerusalem, I believe it's got a sign saying, He is not here. He is risen. What a great message. Okay, now here's a poem I put together. Jesus healed the sick, Muhammad healed no one. Jesus could make the blind see, Muhammad could only make the seeing blind. Jesus made the crippled walk, Muhammad could only make the walking crippled. Jesus could take a dead man and make him alive, Muhammad could only take a live man and make him dead. Jesus multiplied food to feed thousands, Muhammad could divide the loot amongst his followers. Jesus could walk in the water, Muhammad could ride a camel. Islam is a religion of hatred and slavery based upon a lie. Christianity is a relationship of love with God based upon the truth. So, sorry? It should, it should be... We'll find it. It's, we'll find it. Okay. We all like soccer. Here's the scoreboard. Quran, one book. Bible, six six books. Quran, one author. Bible, 40 prophets and apostles. Quran, one language. Bible revealed in three languages. Now the most translated book with about 3,000 languages in the world having the Bible or Gospels translated into it. Quran written in one country. Bible in three continents. Quran written over 23 years. Bible revealed over 1,500 years. No prophecies in the Quran. Nothing. Nada. Not one. many prophecies in the Bible, big time, at least 2,000 really fulfilled. No miracles in the life of Muhammad. In fact, I've asked Ahmadiyyat again, the mosque in Durban, what miracles did Muhammad perform, and the only one he could ever come up with was when Muhammad was running from the soldiers of Mecca, he hid in a cave and a spider spun a web to cover the cave before the Meccan soldiers came and when they saw the spider web they assumed he wasn't there and kept going. Now that's actually plagiarized from a testimony of a Christian under persecution of the Roman Empire from 300 years before that. But anyway, nevertheless, even if that's genuine, I mean, you know, spider web, that's the best they've got, it's pretty flimsy. considering. But there's big time miracles in the Bible, serious miracles. There is a grave in Medina and there's no doubt Muhammad's in it. There's an empty tomb in Jerusalem and there's no question but Jesus has risen from the dead. No atonement in the Quran, full atonement in the Bible. Hatred for enemies commanded by Muhammad in the Quran, love for enemies commanded by Jesus in the Bible. Slavery fully accepted and endorsed in the Quran and practiced by Muhammad. Liberty proclaimed in the Bible. Proclaimed liberty throughout the land. Jesus said he came to set the captives free. So, the kingdoms of the world have become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever. All nations will come and worship before you. Psalm 72, 9-11. The desert tribes will bow before Christ, and His enemies will lick the dust. All kings will bow down to Him, and all nations will serve Him. That's the 9-11 of Scripture. Psalm 72 verses 9 to 11. So, we've got to understand Islam, we need to evangelize Muslims. And we've written a number of materials, but one highly recommended video is More Than Dreams. This is a dramatization of five true stories of Muslims who came to Christ from very different backgrounds. And this is a very good resource for you to lend to or give to Muslims. There's no copyright, you can make copies and we'll make them available at the end too. You can download it, but we can give you copies and you can lend them to Muslims. So this is something that's part of our digital library as well. Are you not going to watch this in one of your movies? We are planning to watch it, simply this time, but we will make it available for everyone to take. And I've written Slavery, Terrorism and Islam, which got me Death Threat Fatwa, so I doubled and then tripled the size of it because they liked it that much. And this is over 300 pages of everything on Islam that they'd rather you didn't know. And we've got the whole Muslim Evangelism Workshop, which is a 12-lecture series on audio MP3s available. My book, Faith in a Fine Sudan, which has also been reproduced over and over, revised, second edition, third edition, which is three times the size of the first. Three films on Sudan you already saw at the camp, Sudan, the hidden holocaust, you will see later on, Terrorism and Persecution, another one made by a secular humanist war correspondent, who was sent by SATV to do a hatchet job on Peter Hammond. And he came, he was only with us three days, and he ended up doing a very positive one, because he got bombed with us on day two. Funny how bombing can change people's perspective. So we make those three films available on one DVD. I also had a hand in helping to produce Islam Rising, which is a four-part series which is specifically designed to show to church Sunday evening services, midweek services. It includes excellent testimonies from former terrorists, Muslim radicals and so on, and they give you a better insight than you could ever get in the other direction. So, we need to pray for the Muslim world, we need to focus on the Muslim world. It's the biggest opponent of the church, the biggest threat to the church, the greatest persecutor of the church, the largest unreached people's group in the world, and also the most neglected mission field on earth. Any questions or comments? So between the peaceful Muslim communities and the radical Islamic groups, would you say that the radical Islamists are the ones who are most faithfully and most accurately living up to the teachings of the Quran? That is very observant. Yes, indeed. They are. Because if I do any kind of Muslim, if I do a terrorist act, I'm completely violating the laws of God. I'm going against the commands of Christ and the example of Christ. But if a Muslim does it, he's being true to Mohammed. I mean, this is the thing that a Muslim pew warmer, a carpet warmer, is the one who is are peaceful moderates, neither. But he's not being true to the Qur'an, whereas a Muslim terrorist can be a more consistently true Muslim than the moderates who say, oh well, you know, Islam's really peaceful. Well, that's like a Christian saying, no, God doesn't send anyone to hell. You get your compromise in any religion, but yes, the radicals are actually being more true to the Qur'an. Any other comments or questions? I would. For example, Samuel Zwemer is the ultimate. Samuel Zwemer, in fact I've got a short summary on his life in The Greatest Century of Missions, which if you haven't got you can have at the end of this course. So Samuel Zwermer is the gold standard when it comes to Muslim evangelism. He actually pioneered almost everything to do with Muslim evangelism, which was very, very, very inadequate before that. So, after Hanson Taylor and C.T. Studd, we should get to Samuel Zwermer. There we go, chapter 19, Samuel's mission to Muslims, part of our Great Commission program. You did get others who did work amongst the Muslims before him, but he really produced the most, and he went straight to Saudi Arabia, he went to the heart of Islam. Very, very brave man. Also Henry Martin, the missionary to Persia, he did the first Persian New Testament, another great one. So Henry Martin and Samuel Zwembel would be two of the most extraordinary missionaries to Muslims. And of the ones in our lifetime, Kenneth Niels. Kenneth Niels wrote a whole lot of these books such as Christians Ask Muslims, Christians Answer Muslims. He's the gold standard. You get John Gilchrist's written things like Muhammad and the religion of Islam. So those are brilliant. Another one of the mysteries to Muslims today, that's a good friend of ours, would be Walter Geschwankner. Walter Geschwankner has written books such as Reach Out and so on. So we've got a whole range here. I'd say, oh, We should also add, while we're at it, Don Richardson's Secrets of the Crime. Absolutely brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, good material. Sorry, I'm pushing you away here. Yes, here we go. Here's Mark Gabriel, one of his books. Mark Gabriel on Islam and Terrorism, although this is the German version of it. Mark Gabriel is as a converted Muslim, brilliant insight. His analysis of Muhammad and Jesus is something no Christian could have come up with because none of us know Muhammad as well as a person who was in religion. And he is in University of Cairo as a professor teaching Muhammad, Muslim history and the Quran. So, I mean, it's devastating. Mission Saudi Arabia. Yes they are. Seriously illegal. I don't know if you are aware but there was a case I think back in the 80s, 1980s. A princess of the Saudi Arabian royal family was converted to Christ and was beheaded. and there was a documentary made of it which I never managed to see because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's embassy put pressure on the British government to put pressure on ITV, which is independent television in Britain, not to screen it. The American government also put pressure on the PBS, Public Broadcasting Service in America, not to screen The Death of a Princess. And so this film somehow got suppressed and withdrawn and there was a real war against it. I don't know anyone who's seen it but This document was made on this Saudi Arabian princess beheaded for coming to Christ. And somehow you're not allowed to talk about that sort of thing. There was another case not that long ago in Saudi Arabia where a very high up, they call him businessman, oil sheik or something, he drowned his daughter in the family swimming pool for converting to Christ, in front of the family, her brothers and sisters and mother, and all stood by while the father held her under water until she was drowned, and there was no inquest, there was no inquiry, no charges, because the Quran says there's no punishment for killing a Kafur, an infidel. That's what goes on in Saudi Arabia. You get people who go there as missionaries. Now I know the kind of people who do missionary work there are Filipino servants. The Saudi Arabians do no work. The Saudi Arabians all get money just for breathing, oil money. That's why we pay so much for our petrol. And they get millions of people from outside to do all their work. So all the work there is done by Filipino Christians and others. So you've got Christians in the country. Now they can't evangelize, but they're there to do work. And you've got Salafis up there as English teachers and things like this, and so obviously there's underground evangelism going on. It's super dangerous. Super, super dangerous. One testimony here that I'd recommend that you read, Prisoners of Hope. Heather Mercer, you can see the picture of her here. She's the one on the right. Heather Mercer was in this boardroom sharing our devotion. She's visited us and we've had meals together. She was imprisoned with a friend, Diana Curry, in Afghanistan for showing the Jesus film to four Muslims on their laptop. Four separate Muslims on different occasions. And they were sentenced to death. They were going to be beheaded in Afghanistan when 9-11 happened. the SEAL teams rescued them. If it wasn't for the 9-11, America would have done nothing. They were going to die there. The American government was doing nothing, but when they were going to warn Afghanistan, George Bush gave the order to them, the SEALs, to make a high priority of rescuing them. So went in and she was rescued by the SEAL teams, told this whole story, in a helicopter. First person we saw when we got to America, landed, and along comes George Bush to meet them. She said it was hard to see him as the present. He was just like a brother in Christ. That was an interesting perspective, but Heather Mercer, she's someone working in Afghanistan and got interesting insights. So working in the Muslim Middle East is super, super dangerous, extremely difficult, but it can be done. I mean, you've got to be really, really cautious. We've got people who've worked with us on our mission who went on to being missionaries there. One Texan who worked with us for four years went on to now she's in Jordan as a missionary with Wawa. Yes, well, for example, John is going to be giving a report back on his ministry in Egypt and Sudan, which includes amongst Muslims, obviously. That will be later on next week, I think. I'm going to be giving on some of my ministry experiences with Muslims in Sudan and Nigeria. That's our areas. General Mulder is wanting to go to Algeria and Morocco and do his last years of ministry there. I imagine, you know, 70s and people planning, that kind of challenging. It's like, Caleb, give me that mountain. Don't give me an easy assignment. Other questions, comments? I just want to know what credibility you give Waleed Shoubat. Waleed Shoubat, that other convert to Christianity. Yes. He was a Muslim and he became a Bengali. We're talking about Mark Gabriel. No, his name is Waleed Shah. Oh, oh, oh, him, yes, I know him. Yes, in fact he appears regularly in the Islam Rising DVD too.