Jesus Christ Vs Mohammand

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