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This past week was certainly
a week of great sorrow. On Wednesday we were caused again
to think upon the terrorist attack in this part of the world. Perhaps
you, as I did, heard the reading of the names that began at 8.46
in the morning and continued on for two hours. As 3,066 names
are read, those that were killed and put to death by terrorists
in this country. In focusing on what happened
on Wednesday, most of the focus has been upon the sorrow or the
deliverances. There were many deliverances.
God did some very unusual things. It was the ex-mayor of New York
who said this has been the greatest terrorist attack in this country,
but it's also been the greatest deliverance, the greatest rescue
effort in this country. The last lady who was rescued
had been buried for 27 hours. Her name was Janelle Guzman.
She had given up hope. She went to sleep the first night,
just thinking that she was going to die, and out of sheer exhaustion
went to sleep. Later in the morning, she heard
voices, and she began to claw through the rubble toward where
the voices were coming from. As on top, they began speaking,
and she, back to them, there was an opening, and she stuck
her hand up through the opening, and one of the rescue workers
grabbed her hand, and after 27 hours, her first words were,
thank God, thank God. Some great rescues took place.
The focus has been on either the destruction of life or upon
the rescue of life. But you know, as I was thinking
more and more upon what took place, we have had a group of
people in the world declare a holy jihad, a holy war against this
country. We have done nothing against
them. Nevertheless, they've declared themselves to be our mortal enemies.
They do so because they find a religious basis for this holy
jihad, this war against our country. Now there are many Muslims in
this country who say they are misguided and extremists. But
when you look at what they teach, they too teach that we are an
error as to what we believe. They teach that what we believe
will indeed damn the soul, that we are enemies to be fought with
and to be overcome. It is my lot in life as your
pastor to spend Sunday after Sunday exhorting in sound doctrine.
But it is also my lot as your pastor to refute those who come
against the word of God. You can see this stated very
clearly in Titus chapter 1. If I had my brothers I would
rather spend my time exhorting in sound doctrine. But at times
we have to look at the errors that are being presented and
refute them. This morning that is what we're
about. The religion of Islam or the Muslims as they're called
in the world is founded upon a man by the name of Muhammad.
and his teaching which is found in the Quran. This morning we
are going to look at this prophet Mohammed in light of the scripture
and then tonight we are going to, in the will of the Lord,
look at the Quran in light of the scripture. I have no desire
this morning to spend my time talking about a false prophet.
It is my desire that we would see this man for what he is and
see our Christ for who he is. You have seen two glorious statements
about Christ in this morning's service already. We have read
from John chapter 1. We have read from Hebrews chapter
1. Our Lord is God, manifest in the flesh. He is the one seated
above the kings of the earth, who now rules and reigns. And
in his mercy, we have come to know him. But who is this man
who calls himself Mohammed? Well, he lived almost 600 years
after the time of Christ. born around 570, we're not sure
of the exact date of his birth, died 632. He was born in Mecca,
a familiar town by your own understanding of the situation today. His father
died when he was still in his mother's womb, and his mother
died when he was six years old. He was raised for a couple of
years by his grandfather, who then died, and then he was raised
by his uncle. For the most part, he didn't
have an extraordinary youth, He was a shepherd boy, he was
a tradesman, he was in poverty. When he was 25 years of age,
he had the privilege of leading a caravan
for a rich widow. This widow liked what she saw,
and then proposed marriage to Muhammad, and Muhammad accepted.
She was 40 years old, he was 25, but she was rich and he was
poor. They seemed to have a fairly
well marriage, that is, they got along all right. Two sons
were born to that marriage, both died in infancy, and four daughters. During this marriage, he was
able to spend time alone. He was disturbed about the paganism
and the idolatry of Mecca. Some who were disturbed turned
to Christianity, found Christ as Lord and Savior. He went to
the mountains, went alone into the caves, and spent time alone
in fasting and seeking for an answer. He says that during one
of these occasions there was an angel who came to him by the
name of Gabriel. Gabriel came to him and he choked
him and he said, read. And then he choked him again
and said, read. And each time he would say that
he would read and each time he was choked again, told to read
or to recite as some would recount the story. What was given to
him then was what he read or what he recited, what we now
call the Koran, which comes from the meaning of the word to recite.
That was his call to the ministry. He was terrified by what he said
happened. He came to his wife, who was
a nominal Christian, told her what had happened, and she said,
this is a call from God to be a prophet. She went to her cousin,
who also was a nominal Christian, and he had conferred and said,
yes, this is a call to be a prophet. Muhammad's first convert was
his own wife and her cousin. Later, his cousin would also
be converted. A good friend of his was converted. An adopted
son was converted. And that began what we now know
as the Islam religion. He called it Islam because Islam
means submission. You are submitting to these revelations
that the Prophet has received from God. Well, his wife died
when he was in his early forties. And when his wife died, some
of the rich wealth that he had went with her, and some of the
protection he had in the city also went with her. And so he
was harassed as he was stayed in Mecca by other religious leaders
as well as political leaders. During this time, he supposedly
had another vision by Gabriel, where Gabriel actually came and
took him from Mecca, took him from Mecca to Jerusalem, therefore
Jerusalem is one of the holy sites in the Muslim religion,
and then from Jerusalem to the seventh heaven. And as he was
passing through each level of the heavens, he saw some of the
prophets who went before him. In the second level, he met Jesus
Christ. In the sixth level, he met Moses. In the seventh level,
he met Abraham, supposedly. Then when he got to the seventh
heaven, he received instructions for daily prayers. It continued
to heat up for him there in Mecca, and so he and his followers left.
75 converts had been found in Medina, which was 200 miles to
the north. Those 75 converts invited them up there, so they
left. They had to leave by night because
those in Mecca were hostile to Muhammad and some of them wanted
to imprison or even kill him. So they fled from Mecca to Medina. He was received there as a religious
leader and finally became also a political leader. He basically
ruled the city. Wasn't a lot of wealth in the
city. And so there was those who from the city went out to
the passing caravans and attacked them for their wealth. And Muhammad
gave them permission to do so. Not only did he give them permission
to do so, he led three of the attacks himself. Well, Mecca
had a lot of wealthy folks who had interest in these caravans,
and because of their wealthy interest, they decided that they
would come and do away with this man who was attacking their caravans.
And so you have the first battle mentioned there, the battle of
Badr, where the Muslims actually defeated, that is Muhammad had
defeated the Meccans. They were outnumbered 3 to 1,
950 came from Mecca, thinking that just by their sheer numbers
they would intimidate Muhammad. He with his 300 followers went
to war and defeated them. Because he defeated them and
he received from them their wealth, the wealth of this great caravan
that was going by, that brought prestige to this man by the name
of Muhammad in his follower's eyes. And his rank swelled from
300 to 1,000. Well a year later the people
from Mecca who had escaped decided they were going to come back
and teach this man a lesson. So you had 3,000 coming and again
they came against him. Same leaders basically, same
groups of people. They came against Muhammad. This
time Muhammad was defeated. His 1,000 were no match to the
3,000. Those from Mecca thought they had killed Muhammad. And
so they left alone those that were fleeing and went back down
the 200 mile journey to Mecca. Found out later he wasn't dead. So they came on another occasion
to Medina. Anticipating their coming, Muhammad
dug a ditch around the city. And so they came and they laid
siege to the city for two weeks. There was disarray among those
10,000 people from Mecca and they ended up leaving without
conquering the city and going back down to Mecca. But because
of that, again, the people's eyes were on Muhammad and his
victory, as it were, caused his stature to go up in their presence. He didn't like the Jews in Medina
because they would never accept his leadership. He drove out
one tribe of Jews Later he would drive out another tribe of Jews.
Finally, at this stage, when his political leadership was
secure, he took the third tribe that was left of the Jews and
slaughtered the men, had them executed. He took the women and
children and sold them off as slaves. Such was his hatred for
those who would not receive him as the great prophet. Later in
630, he would make his attack upon Mecca itself. He would go
back to his place of birth, and he would attack the city. Really,
he found little resistance. And the leaders, because he honored
them with wealth, really accepted his leadership, said, come on,
you can come and be our leader. So he came back to Mecca, took
over Mecca. And from there, Arabian tribes
and leaders also found their allegiance given, sworn, or being
sworn to Muhammad. And he actually basically ruled
that whole area at the time of his death, at the age of 63.
That's in a nutshell, very quickly, the life of the Prophet Muhammad.
We can't go through the great history of that belief, that
religious system, over these last 1400-1500 years. But now
they claim to have 1.3 billion followers of Islam in the world.
35 populations. have 87% of them Muslim. What I'm going to speak about
today in refuting what they teach about Mohammed, it could cost
me my life in many of these countries. This is very serious, what we're
dealing with this morning. There are divisions among the
followers of Islam. There are the Sunnis. 90% of those who are Islamic
are from that descent, the Sunnis. There are about a billion of
them. There are those who call themselves the Shiites, there
are about 170 million. There's the Sufis who are the
mystics, 240 million. These are large numbers. Put
those numbers into the United States and you have populations
here that far outnumber what we have here in this country.
We also have another movement in this country called the Black
Muslim Movement. Now the Sunnis were those who
felt that the leadership in the movement of Islam ought to come
from a elected person. Those who were the Shiites thought
no, no, it ought to descend from a blood relative of Muhammad.
And they've never been able to get together. The first four
caliphs, that is the first four leaders, three of them were assassinated.
Very bloodthirsty religion. We have then, in our day, these
different divisions in the movement, plus we have different terrorist
organizations. Al-Qaeda is the one that you're
familiar with because of the terrorist attacks here in this
country, associated with Bin Laden. But there are other terrorist
organizations, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian
Liberation Organization, these are names that come up on your
TV set over and over again, and this is but the tip of the iceberg.
those who declared holy war on the rest of the world. The world
has been divided into two groups, those that are Islamic and those
that are unbelievers. And as unbelievers, you and I
have been targeted by these terrorist groups, as well as Israel and
others. In this country, Islam has grown.
It's one of the rapid-growing, perhaps the most rapid-growing
religion in our country. Islam itself claims that they
have 6 million Muslims in this country. Most would say that's
a little bit inflated, it's closer to 5 million, but still that
is a lot of followers. They went from 30 mosques in
1990, according to one source, to over 3,000 mosques now in
2001. Great growth. Chicago itself
has 50 mosques devoted to the worship of Muhammad and his Quran. Is the man a real prophet or
not? This is something we have to take into account. We say
we have the word of God, and I believe we do. We have worshipped
the true and the living Christ. Here is a man who came 600 years
later who says he is the last of 124,000 prophets. He is the last prophet.
He has given the final message. He has evaluated all the prophets
who went before them and their message, and that his message
is the one that's true. Well, my proposition to you this
morning is that Muhammad was nothing more than a false prophet.
A deluded man, as we'll see, maybe even a demon-possessed
man, but nothing more than a deluded prophet. Let me give you four
reasons why I come to that statement that he is a false prophet. First
of all, his claim that the Old and New Testaments spoke of him,
that claim is false. Now there are a number of verses
that they point to, but the prominent verses that they use to teach
us are Deuteronomy 18, verse 15, and John chapter 14, verse
16. The Qur'an says, To those that
shall follow the apostle, the unleaded prophet, that is Mohammed,
whom they shall find described to them in the Torah and the
Gospel. That is, he was predicted and defined and described in
the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, and in
the Gospel that was given to Christ. Even Jesus Christ, the
Son of Mary, is supposedly one who came from God to speak concerning
this prophet who would follow him. Where did he speak of this
prophet? In the Gospels. First of all,
Deuteronomy 18, verse 15, the claim that he is the coming prophet
that was predicted by Moses, that is a false claim. What does
Deuteronomy 18, verse 15 say? The Lord thy God will raise up
unto thee, that is, unto Israel, a prophet from the midst of thee.
O thy brethren, like unto me, unto him shall ye hearken. He's
going to raise up a prophet, like Moses, in the midst of the
brethren. Well, that can't be Muhammad. Muhammad was not a Jewish descent. He's from the loins of Abraham,
but he's from Ishmael. Ishmael is not the nation of
Israel. At this point in time, Moses is writing, and he's saying
he's going to be from your brethren, which would make him an Israelite.
Mohammed was not from the descendant of Isaac. He himself would claim
only to be a descendant of Ishmael. More than that, Muhammad never
did some of the things Moses did. When you go to Exodus, excuse
me, Deuteronomy 34 and verse 11, what does Deuteronomy 34
and verse 11 tell us of Moses? Is that he met with the Lord
face-to-face? And that he did great signs or
miracles? Now even Muhammad doesn't claim
to meet with Jehovah face-to-face. He said he met with Allah through
this ministry of Gabriel. He met with Gabriel. More than
that, Muhammad never claimed to do miracles. In fact, in the
Quran, he makes this statement in chapter 2, verse 118. The ignorant asked, why does
God not speak to us or give us a sign? He couldn't do a miracle. He wished he could, but he couldn't.
And when they came and demanded signs from him, he couldn't point
to it. All he could do was chide those who came to him. Now, later
on, 100 years later, 200 years later, when the Christians would
bring this up to the followers of Islam, They produce miracles. They started making them up.
Trees talking. Trees saluting the Prophet. Wolves
saluting the Prophet. Mountains moving. Christ turned
water into wine. Will Muhammad turn water into
milk? I mean, all kinds of crazy things they came up with. You
want miracles? We'll give you miracles. And
they started writing miracles. When you go back to the Koran,
In the early days when Mohammed lived, there were no miracles.
No miracles substantiating him as a prophet. Christ is the fulfillment
of this prediction in Deuteronomy 18. Peter makes this application
in Acts chapter 3. He refers to this very passage
as he's preaching about Christ. We've just read in Hebrews chapter
1, God who at sundry times and in diverse matters spake in pastime
unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken
unto us by his Son. He's that prophet, raised up
among the Israelites, doing miracles, communing with God face to face. He is that prophet. And if you
won't hear him, you'll be destroyed. That is the message, both from
Deuteronomy and the book of Acts. What about the claim in John
chapter 14 and verse 16? Well, in John 14 and verse 16,
our Lord says, I will pray to the Father and He shall give
you another Comforter, another Helper, literally the word is
paraclete, that He may abide with you forever. Muhammad's
father said, that's Muhammad. He's the paraclete. He's the
Helper. He's the Comforter. Well, there's no such thing. However, speaking of the Holy
Spirit, he makes that very clear in John chapter 15 and verse
26, where he speaks of the Comforter, and he calls him the Spirit of
Truth. Also, this Comforter would be in the Apostles. You see that
in verse 17 of John chapter 14. He would be in the Apostles.
Obviously, Muhammad couldn't have done that. He wasn't even
born yet. It would be 500 years later that
he would come. More than that, it's said that he would be with
them forever in verse 16. He would be with him forever.
Muhammad can't even lay claim to that. It's not Muhammad that's
in view. The other comforter that would
be coming would be the Holy Spirit. And our Lord sent him at Pentecost
to be the one who, as it were, took his place. To comfort, to
exhort, to lead his people. This is not Muhammad. The claim
that the Old and New Testament speaks of Muhammad is certainly
false. But also, Muhammad was not a
holy man. Clearly not a holy man. Peter
very clearly says in 2 Peter 1, verse 21, For the prophecy
came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. And we can look at a lot
of areas of his life, but the most serious infractions against
God's law have to do with his immorality and his murder. He
was an immoral man. He practiced immorality. Now
not when his first wife was alive. When she died though, he began
taking other wives. He had his own harem, you would
call it. He multiplied wives. Even the
Quran itself says you're only to have four wives. He had eleven
at least. And that didn't count his concubines
or slaves and the other opportunities that he took toward immorality.
I have some statements here. It says in the 10 years following
her death, that is his wife's death, he married 11 other women.
First he married Sada, but simultaneously showed affection for Aisha, who
was 6 or 9 years old. She was a daughter of Abu Bakr,
his closest companion. At her father's request, their
marriage took place about 3 years later. Aisha was Muhammad's favorite
wife during this period. He was morally perverted. He
was an immoral man. It says there were many other
women who gave themselves to Muhammad out of devotion to him.
In addition, he had physical relations with slave girls whom
he owned. He was an immoral man. A wretched man. He had an adopted
son. He liked the adopted son's wife,
so he convinced the adopted son to divorce his wife. And then
he took her for himself. Not only did he do these immoral
deeds, He actually wrote them in the Qur'an as being legitimate. Not legitimate for others, but
for himself. So you find this statement in
the Qur'an. When Zayid, that is his adopted son, divorced
his wife, we, that is God, gave her to you in marriage, so that
it should become legitimate for true believers to wed the wives
of their adopted sons if they divorce them. God's will must
needs be done. No blame shall be attached to
the Prophet for doing what is sanctioned for him by God. How carnal and wicked can you
be that you will invoke the name of God to defend your immorality? The next statement says, The
Prophet, we have made lawful for you the wives to whom you
have granted dowries and slave girls whom God has given you
as booty, the daughters of your paternal and maternal uncles
and of your paternal and maternal aunts who fled with you, and
any believing woman who gives herself to the Prophet and whom
the Prophet wishes to take in marriage. This privilege is yours
alone, being granted to no other believer. Marriage is honorable, and the
bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
That's the standard of scripture. He was an immoral man. He was
also a bloodthirsty man. He was guilty of the death of
others. In the Koran we find him writing this. He tries to
give some legitimacy to his bloodthirstiness by saying, well, if you're first
attacked, then you have the right to attack. and so because he
portrayed himself as being forced out of Mecca that gave him a
right then to attack the caravans coming from Mecca not that the
caravans did anything to him but he now had a right to attack
them and to plunder them because supposedly he was attacked when
the Jews themselves would not bow the knee to what he was teaching
well that was hostility toward him that meant that he could
then attack them So he was able to twist even his prerequisite
of being attacked into showing that anybody who was really against
him was attacking him, therefore we could attack them. Muhammad sanctioned his followers
raids of the commercial Meccan caravans. The Prophet himself
led three such raids. At another time, Muhammad sanctioned
a follower to lie to an enemy named Khalid in order to kill
him. When a prominent Jew by the name
of Ka'ib had stirred up some discord against Muhammad and
composed a poem that was satirical against him. The Prophet asked,
who will deliver Ka'ib? And immediately four people went
and took the head of this man off and came and gave it to Muhammad.
On at least two occasions he ordered the death of those who
wrote poems against him. Two slave girls were put to death
because they had written poetry against him. and he slaughtered
this Jewish tribe that was under his rule, as it were, there in
Medina. A bloodthirsty man. And you can see that he has written
this very attitude into the Koran. The last statement I've given
you there, Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites,
and deal sternly with them. Hell shall be their home, evil
their fates. You look at these passages that
I've quoted, now you understand where some who are following
the footsteps of Mohammed get their holy war idea. Now those
who are peaceful Muslims say, this is only to be taken spiritually.
But we find that there are many who come here and take this very
literally. Fight for the sake of God, those who fight against
you, but do not attack them first. God does not love aggressors.
Slay them where you find them. Drive them out of the places
from which they drove you. Idolatry is more grievous than
bloodshed. Viciousness, bloodthirstiness. was a part of his life, and it
even found its way into supposedly the holy book that he was teaching. But even more so, the real touchstone
on any doctrine or any teaching in the world today is, what do
they say of Christ? Who is Jesus Christ? And he denied that Jesus
Christ was God manifest in the flesh. He denied, therefore,
the Trinity. And he denied that God had a
son, an only begotten son, that is, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now
he did teach many things about Jesus Christ. He believed he
was born of a virgin. He believed he did many miracles.
He believed that he was an apostle and a prophet and the Messiah.
But he was just a mortal man who died. And so they say in
the Koran, he wrote in the Koran, unbelievers are those who declare
God as Messiah, the Son of Mary. Well, what does the Bible say?
The Bible is very clear. The Messiah is God manifest in
the flesh. That was the prediction in Isaiah
7.14. The Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold, a virgin
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
And Matthew interprets that very clearly. It means God with us.
The very next prophecy then, in Isaiah 9, expands on this
prophecy, and what does it say? For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given, that government shall be upon his
shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor,
the Mighty God. Mighty God. He is God, manifest
in the flesh. In fact, our Lord Himself claimed
that. He used the very title of deity in the Old Testament
where God came to Moses and said, I am is sending you back to Israel. I am that I am. Our Lord took
that title and applied it to himself. And when he did so in
John chapter 8, they took up stones to stone him. Actually
in John chapter 8, he had done that twice before and they didn't
understand it. In John chapter 8, verse 24,
he said, I say therefore unto you that you shall die in your
sins, for if you believe not that I am, you shall die in your
sins. The word he, you'll find in your
English translation, is in italics. He literally says, if you don't
believe that I am, you're going to die in your sins. If you don't
believe I'm God, manifest in the flesh. If you don't believe
that I'm Jehovah, manifest in the flesh, you will die in your
sins. You can't get stronger language
than that, and it's coming from the lips of our Saviour. Did
we not read in John chapter 1, in the beginning was the Word,
the Word was with God, the Word was God, the Word is God? And
what happened? The Word became flesh and dwelt
among us, verse 14 says. God manifest in the flesh. Isn't
that what we read in Hebrews chapter 1? This One who created
the world, the God who made the world, also purged our sins? He's God, manifest in the flesh,
both God and man, 100% God, 100% man, apart from sin, yet one
person. That's what the Bible teaches.
Denying that He is God, they also deny that He is the only
begotten Son. The Jews say Ezra is God's son,
while the Christians say Messiah is the Son of God. Such are their
assertions, by which they imitate the infidels of old. God confound
them, how perverse they are. This is from Quran, chapter 9,
verse 30. Perverse, they say. Infidels
of old. And yet, what does the Bible
teach? Our Lord asked this very question to his disciples, whom
do the people say that I am? And their response was this.
In Matthew chapter 16, in verse 14, and they said, some say that
our John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremiah, are one
of the prophets. In other words, their evaluation of Jesus Christ
is no better than Mohammed's was. Then he said, but who do
you say that I am? And Simon Peter answered and
said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus
answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for
flesh and blood have not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which
is in heaven. God has taken the scales from
your eyes, and you see me as I really am. I am the Messiah. I am the Son of the living God. That's who I am. John 1, verse 14, we said there
that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld
His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth. The only begotten is another
way of saying the Son of God. When we come to verse 18, no
man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. Now I'm
not going to go through the New Testament and show you every
occurrence where it calls Jesus Christ the Son. But if you remove
that from the New Testament, you're going to have a big gaping
hole in the New Testament. He is the Son of God. He is the
second person of the Godhead. It is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
that we baptize in, in that name, in that name. John 3.16, perhaps
the most famous of all the verses of the Bible, very clearly says
that God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son.
But you go on in verse 17, it says, For God sent not his Son
into the world to condemn the world, that the world through
him might be saved. He was the Son of God before
he came. He was the Son of God sent into
the world. He did not become the Son of
God. He was the second person of the Godhead when he came.
God manifests in the flesh, the Son, the eternal Son, the only
begotten Son. In Hebrews chapter 1 and verse
8, We read there, but unto the Son he saith, that is, unto the
Son God saith. Thy throne, O God, is for ever
and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
Here is the Father addressing the Son, and He calls Him God.
The Bible is very clear. The Bible
is not only clear that Christ the Messiah is God manifest in
the flesh, that he is the second person of the Godhead, the Son
of God. The Bible is also clear that if somebody comes professing
to be a Christian, yet denying his sonship, he is filled with
an evil spirit. The Bible is clear on that. I don't want to skip over this
point too lightly this morning. If you deny the sonship of Christ,
It's even more than being filled with an evil spirit. You have
denied the only means of your salvation. When we go to the
Scripture over and over again, it's to the Son that we must
look. We just mentioned John 3.16, the one who believes on
the Son will not perish but have eternal life. Look at John 3.36,
he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. He that
believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God
abideth on him. You deny that Christ is the Son,
God's wrath is abiding on you. It's not merely you're filled
with an evil spirit. God's wrath is upon you, right then, if you
deny the Sonship of Christ. 1 John 5, verse 11 says, this is
the record, that God hath given us eternal life, and this life
is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life.
He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. This is not mere
some theological debate that's for theologians in some seminary
somewhere. This is telling us that if you
don't have the Son of God, you don't have eternal life. Salvation
is bound up in this person that Mohammed is denying. verse 7 says, We walk in the
light as he is in the light. We have fellowship one with another.
In the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all
sin. The Son needed to have blood
in order that he might shed it for the sins of his people. He
had to lay down his life in a sacrificial manner. There had to be the shedding
of blood. Without the shedding of blood,
there is no remission. He had to shed his blood for
our sins if we were going to be atoned for in God's sight.
Muhammad denied that that ever happened. We'll look at that
tonight, Lord willing. More than that, it's not just necessary
that a man die for another man. This man must be able to give
to a sacrifice of value, an infinite value, if he's going to atone
for the sins of more than one person. And so you note that
John correctly says, it is the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son,
that is, the God-man. Because the person behind the
sacrifice is Deity. He is able to give to the human
sacrifice an infinite value, because God is infinite. It's
because of that. The atoning work of Christ is
sufficient for you as an individual, and it's sufficient for everyone
in your family, and it's sufficient for everyone in this church,
and it's sufficient for every believer in the world, times
ten million. There is an infinite value placed
upon that human sacrifice, because it's his Son who is behind it. His Son. It's very important
then, that we understand that the denial of his son is the
denial and repudiation of the gospel and everlasting life and
it brings the wrath of God upon the head of the one who says
it. When we look at the history concerning Mohammed, there is
evidence in history that he was indeed filled with an evil spirit,
had contact with evil spirits. One biographer, Haikal, who himself
is a Mohammed who is writing In a positive way, a biography
of Muhammad says this. This is his description concerning
Muhammad's supposed meeting with Gabriel. He says this, stricken
with panic, Muhammad arose and asked himself, what did I see?
Did possession of the devil which I feared all along come to pass?
Muhammad looked to his right and to his left but saw nothing.
For a while he stood there trembling with fear and stricken with awe.
He feared the cave might be haunted and that he might run away still
unable to explain what he saw." This is the biography of a, as
it were, a follower of Muhammad, not an enemy. His first response
to what had happened was that he was dealing with an evil spirit.
Remember the spirit choked him. told him to recite and choked
him again and choked him again. His wife, the nominal Christian,
was the one who convinced Mohammed that it was indeed God dealing
with him. Convinced him that he didn't
deal or see an evil spirit, but he had dealt and saw Gabriel,
a messenger from God. But later on he would have other
revelations, and the same biographer does describe some of those revelations,
those times when supposedly God came and gave him more information.
This is one of those descriptions. Silence reigned for a while,
nobody could describe it as long or short. Muhammad had not moved
from his spot when revelation came to him, accompanied by the
usual convulsions. He was stretched out in his clothes
and a pillow was placed under his head. Aisha, his wife, later
reported, thinking that something ominous was about to happen,
everyone in the room was frightened except me, for I did not fear
a thing, knowing I was innocent. Muhammad later recovered. He
sat up, began to wipe his forehead where the beads of perspiration
had gathered. I'm not going to go into demonism
this morning, but there are descriptions that we could parallel this,
not of God's Spirit coming upon someone, but an evil spirit coming
upon someone. But we don't even have to go
to the murky and dark waters of history to tell whether or
not he was dealing with an evil spirit. It's very clear he was
dealing with an evil spirit. How do you know? Because the
Bible tells us that. The Bible tells us that. In 2 Corinthians
chapter 3, Paul writes, "...forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared
to be the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not
with ink, but with the spirit of living God, not in tables
of stone, but fleshly tables of the heart, and such trust
have we through Christ to God." Actually, that is not the passage
I want. Turn, if you would, to 2 Corinthians
11. But I fear lest by any means,
as a certain beguiled Eve through a subtlety, so your mind should
be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he
that cometh preacheth another Jesus whom we have not preached,
or if you have received another spirit whom you have not received,
or another gospel which you have not accepted, ye might bear it
well with them." Here Paul is saying that there is another
Christ that is being preached, there is another spirit, there
is another gospel. Now we have already seen that
the Christ preached by Mohammed was another Christ. He was animated
then by another spirit. Obviously the gospel he preached
also had to be another gospel. In that same chapter, the Apostle
Paul goes on and he says, For such are false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel
of light. Satan transforming himself into an angel of light.
Satan having his own apostles. It's interesting, that's one
of the titles they like to give to Muhammad, he's one of the apostles. Turn if you will to 2 Corinthians
chapter 3. I had it there in reference,
but the computer actually spit out the wrong verse, so 2 Corinthians
chapter 3. The reason it spit out the wrong
verse is chapter 4, I should have put. Chapter 4, verse 3. But if our
gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost. In whom the God
of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel, who is the image of God,
should shine unto them. Who has blinded the eyes? If
a man, if a woman, if a congregation, if a group of people cannot see
this Christ that we have been presenting this morning from
the Scripture, what has happened? The God of this world has blinded
their eyes. God of this world. He wasn't
dealing with the Gabriel of Scripture. If he were dealing with an angel
at all, it was the angel of light, that is Satan. If he were dealing
with a spirit at all, it was another spirit. His mind was
veiled, as it were, concerning the gospel of Christ. He couldn't
see it. Turn, if you would, to 1 John
chapter 2. 1 John chapter 2. We have it very clearly stated
there as well. 1 John chapter 2 and verse 21. John says, I
have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because
ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but
he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist
that denieth the Father and the Son. He is Antichrist that denieth
the Father and the Son. Not THE Antichrist, AN Antichrist. THE Antichrist is stated in verse
18. Now he's dealing with the spirit
of Antichrist in the plural. There are many Antichrists throughout
time. And he says, if you deny the Father and the Son, you have
this Antichrist spirit. Verse 23, Whosoever denieth the
Son, the same hath not the Father. But he that acknowledgeeth the
Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you
which ye have heard from the beginning. For that which ye
have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also
shall continue in the Son and in the Father." Hang on to what
you've been taught. Don't be persuaded by another
spirit. Don't be moved by these other teachers. Don't be moved. They're of Antichrist. Our Lord
himself in Matthew 24 said that after he would depart there would
be false prophets and false Christs who would arise. And in that
train of false prophets, and we can go into church history
and name many of them, but in that train of false prophets
is the name Mohammed. Mohammed. Empowered, deceived,
influenced, whatever word you want to use, by an evil spirit,
not the spirit of a living Christ. When Solomon Rushdie, who is
an Indian and a Muslim, wrote on what are called the satanic
verses. That, by the way, is not his terminology. That is
a terminology used by Muslims concerning some verses that Muhammad
put in the Qur'an and later he removed from the Qur'an saying
that Satan had influenced his putting them there. He wrote
on those satanic verses. I believe he wrote a novel. But
when he wrote that, you remember perhaps in the newspapers how
the Ayatollah Khomeini from Iran put him under the sentence of
death. and how that the English government had to protect him
and put him in hiding. He dared speak right against
the Prophet Muhammad. Today many who expose Muhammad
for being a false prophet do so in peril of their own lives.
There are countries where you could not do so without being
put to death. And 9-11 this past week, many
times you heard people talking about heroes and they would go
to those and say, who are your heroes? Oftentimes it was the
firefighters or the policemen or the brethren who were part
of the flight 93 that crashed out here in Pennsylvania, who
actually took on the terrorist or actually risked their own
life to try to save the life of others. While not in any way
trying to demean the fact of their heroic efforts, if you
were to come to me and say, who are your heroes? To me it would
be those who are bringing the gospel to those in Muslim countries. Those who right now are risking
their lives, that people in Saudi Arabia can hear the gospel. People
in Iraq can hear the gospel. People in Iran can hear the gospel.
We're not afraid of the persecution and death threats in Egypt, and
we'll take the gospel there and give them the word of Christ.
1 John 4 says, Beloved, believe
not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of
God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
This morning that's what we have been about. We have been trying
the we have identified a false prophet and a multitude of people
who are ensnared and being brought into bondage and will be taken
to hell by this false prophet. Should we be in despair ourselves?
No. He goes on in 1 John chapter 4 and says, Year of God, the
little children have overcome them, because greater is he that
is in you than he that is in the world. God has liberated
you. He's liberated you by the power
of the Spirit of Christ. The Spirit of Christ has opened
your eyes, and you have overcome. You have overcome this world. Brethren, God is able to overcome,
overcome in the lives of many who are now ensnared by this
darkness. We support his missionaries, Steve Ludwig and his wife, Kida. I've known Steve and Kida for
years. They labor in Turkey, a Muslim country. They have seen
some who have had their eyes open and overcome. We are about
this business of giving the gospel out and praying that the Holy
Spirit would come and overcome this evil spirit that has, as
it were, blinded the eyes of people and would keep them deceived
and keep them in darkness. As Muslims in their religion
grow in this country, you won't have to be a foreign missionary
to take the gospel to a Muslim. More and more you can just go
to your neighborhood, go to the cities of our nation. It is said
that Los Angeles is the second largest city in the world of
Iranians. Our nation is becoming more and
more Muslim. And you and I have this glorious
gospel to give them. You and I have the only thing
that will liberate them. And the one who is in you is
greater than the one who is in the world. We need not fear.
We need to boldly give out this word. That the Lord might set
free those who have been deceived by this madman. those who have
been deceived by this false prophet. We have to give out the word,
give out the gospel, that God might bring them to himself.
Let's pray. We have been dealing with that
which is a false gospel and a false prophet. Could be this morning
you're here and you say, I don't follow Mohammed, I'm not a follower
of this false prophet. But do you know Christ? Do you
know this one that we have been speaking of, the one who is the
eternal Son of God, God manifest in the flesh? Have you ever come
to him and laid hold of him as Lord and Savior? If not, then
you may not be a follower of Islam, yet you're still not in
the kingdom either. Come to Christ. Come to this
eternal Son and lay hold of Him as your Lord and Savior, and
He will save you. He will redeem you. He will cleanse
you from sin. You say, I'm bound by sin. I
can't come. I'm afraid of this and I'm afraid
of that. He can set you free. Go to Him for the power to be
set free. Salvation is in Christ. Come
and embrace Him. You are saved. who have declared
themselves our mortal enemies. Yet for Christ's sake, in love
we give them the gospel. And we plead with them in time
that they would repent, lest they spend eternity in hell.
May the Lord give us a great burden for all those that are
lost in our world, especially those who have been deceived
by religious teachers. Father in heaven, we come to
thee this morning, thanking thee that you have put us in the enviable
position You put your spirit within us, and he is greater
than the one in the world. You have removed our sins from
us, something the world cannot boast. You have brought us into
union with our own dear Son, so that he represents us, and
that he as man now is our living head, and that we are united
to deity through him. Lord, we stand amazed. We stand
amazed. Lord, you have said that we are
going to spend eternity with thee. Lord, give us in boldness. in our day and age, to be the
spokesman that we ought to be, to speak to this world concerning
the glory of Christ. Use us, Lord, that we might see
others one unto thee. Lord, we pray for any here who
may be without Christ. Lord, draw them graciously to
thyself. Open their heart as you opened the heart of Peter
to the great truth that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the
living God. Lord, do that we pray even this day, for we ask
this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Muhammad -- The False Prophet
Series Biblical Refutation of Islam
This sermon exposes Muhammad as Islam's false prophet and exalts Jesus Christ as God manifest in the flesh and the only true Savior for sinful men.
| Sermon ID | 9220223240 |
| Duration | 50:27 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - AM |
| Bible Text | Hebrews 1:1 |
| Language | English |
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