This sermon was taken from a number of sermons on the subject of Islam
Grace vs Works
Colossians 2:4-10
Introduction:
A. I want to tell you about a true nightmare that happens every day!
B. A person dies and is taken up to the Great Throne Room to be judged.
C. God looks for their name in the Lamb’s Book of Life and does not find it.
D. This person starts to get nervous and says, "I don’t understand, I thought that you were going to bring out a scale and measure my good deeds and my bad deeds and whichever measured the most would be the destination of my soul. If I was good I would go to Paradise and if I was bad then I would go to Hell."
E. God says, "If I did it that way everyone would go to Hell."
F. "I don’t understand," the man says. " I was told that if I Was faithful in confessing You before others, if I was faithful in saying my prayers 5 times a day, if I was faithful in giving my alms to You, if I was faithful in fasting for a whole month every year, if I went to the Holy City one time in my life, that you would usher me into Paradise."
G. "Who told you that?" God asks.
H. "Oh, it is plainly laid out in the Koran, the book that you wrote through your Great Prophet Mohammed," the man says getting more agitated.
I. "I have only written one book and it was not the Koran," says God. "Who is this Mohammed, I do not know him?"
J. The man says, "Well, Mohammed is the last and greatest prophet you sent to the earth."
K. God says, "I did not send any Mohammed. I sent my Son Jesus Christ and he is the last and greatest prophet. What do you think of Jesus Christ?"
L. "Well, he was a prophet and I followed some of his teachings," said the man. "But he is nothing compared to Mohammed."
M. God says, "I sent my Son Jesus Christ and you did not listen to him. My son Jesus Christ died for you on a cross and was resurrected from the dead so that you could have the ictory over sin."
N. The man, beginning to become confused and very nervous, says, "I was taught that Jesus did not die on a cross. He was transported into heaven like Elijah and never faced death. The Christians just made up that story."
O. "No, they did not," says God. "And because you did not accept the gift of salvation through my Son, you will be cast into the lake of fire."
P. "No, No, It’s not fair! I was told lies! How could this happen? I was told lies ever since I was a child! You can’t do this; it’s not fair! I was faithful and sincere to my faith," shouts the man.
Q. "Yes, you were," says God, "but you were sincerely wrong. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and you chose to believe lies instead of the truth. Now depart from me!"
And with a tear God punishes this man eternally.
R. What a terrible nightmare! However, it is true. It happens every day in the Middle East and Muslim countries and in AMERICA!!
Colossians 2:8. 8Don’t let anyone lead you astray with empty philosophy and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the evil powers of this world,£ and not from Christ.
T. These past several years we have been
exposed to a religion called Islam.
1. he word Islam means "submission." The question
is "Submission to whom?"
2. The word Muslim means "one who submits" to the
teachings of Islam.
U. Many people are saying that Islam is just one
of the ways to get to God. How naïve!
Illust: The husband of Sharon Stone (An actress) almost lost his foot recently, when he entered a Monitor Lizard’s cage. He had been told it was safe; he had been told he needed no special protection. In the end, he learned that he was extremely naïve and that his advisors didn’t know what they were talking about. The moral: Don’t believe all that is being said about Islam; it’s intended to cause us to let down our guard.
Remember that Jesus said; "Be on the alert."
V. We need to be submissive to Jesus Christ; the followers of Islam are submissive to the teachings of Mohammed.
Thesis: How do we know the Islam being presented to the world is a fake and a danger to everyone?
I. Because it denies that Jesus is the Son of God!
A. They deny His deity!
1. Colossians 2:9 9For in him dwelleth all the
fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10And ye are
complete in him, which is the head of all
principality and power:
2. They deny Jesus is God; they call him a prophet!
One of the many prophets of Allah!
3. Confession of faith for a Muslim is, "There is
no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet of
Allah."
4. Jesus Christ was the prophet for His people in
His day.
5. The Muslim God is unapproachable by sinful man.
He is so perfect and holy He can only
communicate with mankind through a progression
of angels and prophets.
6. Jesus Christ could not be God because He was a
man and man is sinful. God cannot associate
among men.
B. They deny God’s Promises were fulfilled in
Jesus!
1. They trace their system back to Ishmael not
Isaac. Ishmael was firstborn of Abraham through
Hagar. They say that Mohammed being a descendent
of Ishmael is the fulfiller of God’s Promises!
2. It is through Isaac that your offspring will be
reckoned.
3. Mohammed: greater than Jesus, because he’s out
of Ishmael, and Ishmael was greater than Isaac
was because he was firstborn. Not what Scripture
says!
C. They deny His purpose!
1. What was Jesus purpose?
To seek and to save the Lost!
2. Muslims deny this.
His purpose was to teach the ways of God, to be
a spokesman for God. Nothing else!
3. His purpose was to save people so they could go
to heaven when they die.
4. Jesus purpose wasn’t to save people so that could
go to an earthly paradise of gluttony and sexual
gratification. This is the purpose of Muslim
teachings.
5. Their paradise is a place where a great number
of sensual women have been created for the
pleasure of each man; they will drink delicious
liquors and wines.
6. Jesus said that (Mat 22:30 NIV) At the
resurrection people will neither marry nor be
given in marriage; they will be like the angels
in heaven.
D. They deny He came in the flesh!
1. Moslem God can not come in the flesh
2. (1 John 4:1 NIV) Dear friends, do not believe
every spirit, but test the spirits to see
whether they are from God, because many false
prophets have gone out into the world.(1 John
4:2 NIV) This is how you can recognize the
Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from
God, 3. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt
among us- John 1:14
E. They deny He is the final revelation of God.
1. Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega; the First and
the Last.
2. Abu Bakr declared Mohammed to be the "Seal" of
prophecy, which means both the final prophet
and the validation of earlier prophets from
Adam to Jesus.
3. Mohammed was a prophet after Jesus Christ, 600
years after Christ. Even though the book of
Revelation says do not add or take away from
this book, meaning the Bible.
4. Mount of Transfiguration. (Luke 9:35 NIV) A
voice came from the cloud, saying, "This is my
Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him."
II. Islam is false because it denies the
blood of Christ!
A. They reject the charge of sin!
1. They teach that mankind is not prone to sin.
Basically good!
2. For all have sinned and fallen short of the
glory of God.
3. They say we don’t sin until after puberty!
4. Every Muslim who hopes to escape the judgment of
Allah must fulfill the works of the Five Pillars
of the Faith.
a) Repetition of confession of faith The
declaration that Allah is the only God and
Mohammed is his messenger
b) Five daily prescribed prayers daily prayers
five times a day, facing the city of Mecca
c) Almsgiving
almsgiving to the poor
d) Fasting during Muslim Holy month of Ramadan
e) A pilgrimage to Mecca, the Holy City.
and making a pilgrimage at least once in
one’s lifetime to the Muslim holy cities.
5. Bible says, "without blood there is no
forgiveness."
B. They deny the atonement!
Atonement-The reconciliation of God & man
Brought about by the Cross and Jesus
1. Muslims must fulfill the Five Pillars to
attain Allah’s forgiveness.
2. Salvation is by works.
3. Blood is not used in Muslim faith. Only one
time During pilgrimage to Mecca and it is not
for forgiveness. Old Testament says everything
must be covered with blood.
4. At Communion Time, This is the blood of the
covenant.
C. They deny the resurrection!
1. Deny that he died on a cross, so it is not
difficult to say that he was never resurrected.
2. (1 Cor 15:14 NIV) And if Christ has not been
raised, our preaching is useless and so is
your faith.
III. Islam is a false because it denies the Word of
God!
A. This goes almost without saying!
B The Bible and the Koran agree through the first 16
chapter of Genesis and then there are profound
differences. Muslims believe in the Law of Moses,
the Psalms of David, and the gospels of Jesus
Christ.
C. However, they believe that the scripture given
through Mohammed superseded those scriptures,
and that the Bible used by Christians
E. Scripture cannot be broken.
Conclusion:
A. Many of us have been hearing that Islam is a
religion of peace and that not all Muslims are
our enemies.
B. This is false!
1.Islam is not a peaceful theology! It advocates
global domination and the subjugation of all non- Muslims..
2.Their history has been one of conversion by the
sword!
3. Islam is an enemy of God and an enemy of the
church.
4. Whereas the God of the Bible gains converts by
conversions from among His enemies through
love; Allah, on the other hand, gains them by
coercion, deception and fear.
C. How to share with these people?
1. Share true nature of God. He is perfect in
every way, even in the way of love.
2. Deity of Jesus Christ.
3. Salvation is by grace through faith.
4. John 3:16.
D. The Muslims base their lives on the Koran and on
Mohammed. Christians base their lives on the Bible
and Jesus Christ.
E. Who and what do you base your life on? It is a
serious question. You better research it yourself.
Find out the truth before it is too late.
G. The truth will stand!
H. (Luke 11:9 NIV) "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.(Luke 11:10 NIV) For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door
