SPEAKER_01: Thank you very much for that kind word of introduction.
SPEAKER_01: I'm Brother James.
SPEAKER_01: This is the Preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast.
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SPEAKER_01: Hope you can stay with us for the next half an hour.
SPEAKER_01: We believe with all of our heart that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, the life.
SPEAKER_01: That's what he said.
SPEAKER_01: We don't make him a liar.
SPEAKER_01: We believe him.
SPEAKER_01: He said, No man cometh unto the Father but by me.
SPEAKER_01: We believe there is a Father.
SPEAKER_01: We believe there is a way to the Father.
SPEAKER_01: We believe that way to the Father is the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Christ died for our sins and was buried.
SPEAKER_01: And the third day Jesus rose from the dead.
SPEAKER_01: That's the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
SPEAKER_01: Now, before we continue our study on the history of Islam, I want to ask you a question.
SPEAKER_01: I am as sincere about this as I can be.
SPEAKER_01: This is as simple a question as anyone could ever ask.
SPEAKER_01: It's not a hard question.
SPEAKER_01: The answer is not difficult.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to think for a minute about these words from the pages of the Holy Bible.
SPEAKER_01: If Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me, if those words are true, if Jesus Christ died and was buried and rose again, and that one may be saved, may receive eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Now that's what the Bible says.
SPEAKER_01: If that is true, never mind the errors of the Muhammadan religion, never mind the errors of the Mormon religion, never mind the errors of the Jehovah's Witness religion, never mind the errors of the Christian science religion, never mind the errors of the Seventh-day Adventist religion.
SPEAKER_01: Let me ask you something.
SPEAKER_01: If salvation is freely given to sinners who put their faith and their trust in Jesus Christ, what possible need could there be for another religion and another way?
SPEAKER_01: Let's suppose Islam contained no error.
SPEAKER_01: I simply don't need it.
SPEAKER_01: Let's suppose Mormonism contained no error.
SPEAKER_01: I simply don't need it.
SPEAKER_01: Let's suppose the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Christian scientists and the Adventists, let's suppose their movements contained no errors.
SPEAKER_01: I simply don't need them.
SPEAKER_01: Why would a person who has everlasting life through simple faith in God's own Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, why would I settle for something less?
SPEAKER_01: Now all of these religions tell me about good works and good deeds, and if I try hard, and if I try hard long enough, and if I do right, I do right long enough, I might maybe someday could be hope so, cross your fingers, get to heaven.
SPEAKER_01: Why would I settle for that?
SPEAKER_01: When I can know of an absolute certainty that all my sins are forgiven and that I have life everlasting given me by Almighty God.
SPEAKER_01: Now it's just that simple.
SPEAKER_01: It's just that simple.
SPEAKER_01: And so what it comes down to is you either believe the word of God or you are lost in a hopeless maze of trying to do enough good to please God and you don't even know who God is.
SPEAKER_01: That's a sad thing, in it.
SPEAKER_01: That you would trade the opportunity to have absolute assurance of eternal life, and you would exchange that for working real hard and trying to be real good and hoping that'll get you to heaven.
SPEAKER_01: That's what it all comes down to.
SPEAKER_01: The armies of Islam after the death of Muhammad, and may I remind you that after Muhammad died he did not rise from the dead.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus did, but not Muhammad.
SPEAKER_01: The armies of Islam swept toward all the quarters of the globe, irresistible as one of the fearful sandstorms of their own desert, Mecca, fell, then Damascus fell, then Jerusalem, followed by Constantinople, Seville, Grenada.
SPEAKER_01: All fell at last under the despotic rule of Muslim dictators.
SPEAKER_01: A little more than a hundred years, and they had captured the rest of North Africa, the southwestern half of Spain.
SPEAKER_01: They had captured Turkestan, Samarkand, Persia, Armenia, and Egypt.
SPEAKER_01: No, they had not gone into all the world preaching the good news that Muhammad saved sinners.
SPEAKER_01: They had not gone into all the world preaching the good news that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life instead.
SPEAKER_01: They had gone into all the world with sword and dagger, and through bloodshed, violence, murder, killing, rape, and plunder had spread their faith in a dead man.
SPEAKER_01: Cities, nations, whole sects and races, Arab pagans, Jews, Christians, Manichians, Zoroastrians, Tunerian pagans were swallowed up into this vast empire of Muhammad and his successors.
SPEAKER_01: Charles Martel turned them back from France at the Battle of Tours in seven hundred two, and thereby saved the rest of Europe from this bloodshed.
SPEAKER_01: Later when all Europe was aroused by their growing strength, the Roman Catholic Church sought to equal the Muhammadans in brutality and paganism and bloodshed and slaughter, and another false religion set forth in God's name to kill people who had killed in the name of their religion.
SPEAKER_01: And eight crusades, which lasted more than two hundred years, were waged as Roman Catholics battled Muslims for temporal control and power and the right to enslave the common people and plunder them and rob them and live off their toil and labor.
SPEAKER_01: But the church at Rome was unable through eight crusades to gain and hold the city of Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_01: Muhammad had begun this holy warfare with an attack upon a richly laden caravan which was on its way to Mecca.
SPEAKER_01: It was practically unguarded, for it was during a season which all Arabs observed as a time of peace.
SPEAKER_01: It was more than ten years before Mecca finally surrendered to Muhammad's armies.
SPEAKER_01: The forces of Muhammad from this time engaged in battle after battle with almost unvarying success.
SPEAKER_01: They would bring home to Medina great quantities of gold and merchandise, for that was the purpose of their warfare.
SPEAKER_01: They didn't go forth to introduce men to the true and living God that their souls might be saved and their sins might be forgiven.
SPEAKER_01: They went out to rob, they were a bunch of pirates on horseback.
SPEAKER_01: A revelation from the angel Gabriel, Muhammad said, sanctioned this warfare of the sword and prescribed the fate of all the infidels.
SPEAKER_01: Death to all unbelievers, death to the infidels.
SPEAKER_01: Muhammad said, Quote, different prophets have been sent by God to illustrate his divine attributes.
SPEAKER_01: Moses his clemency and providence, Solomon his wisdom, majesty, and glory, Jesus Christ his righteousness, omnipotence, and power, his righteousness by purity of conduct, his omniscience by the knowledge he displayed of the secrets of all hearts, his power by the miracles he wrought.
SPEAKER_01: None of these attributes, however, have been sufficient to enforce conviction, and even the miracles of Joseph, of Moses and Jesus have been treated with unbelief.
SPEAKER_01: I, therefore, the last of the prophets, have been sent with the sword.
SPEAKER_01: The sword is the key of heaven and of hell.
SPEAKER_01: All who draw it in the cause of faith will be rewarded with temporal advantages.
SPEAKER_01: Every drop shed of their blood, every peril and hardship endured by them will be registered on high as more meritous than either fasting or prayer.
SPEAKER_01: If they fall in battle, their sins will be at once blotted out, and they will be transported to paradise, there to revel in eternal pleasures, and the arms of black eyed maidens.
SPEAKER_01: Imagine that.
SPEAKER_01: Here is a man who says the angel Gabriel told him to go out and kill.
SPEAKER_01: And he told man, told his followers, that if they would kill and shed blood, not only would their sins be forgiven, but they would have his words, his words, eternal pleasures in the arms of well the some translations of his word render it black-eyed, not maidens but harlots.
SPEAKER_01: So the religion set forth by Muhammad is a religion that gives men sanction to kill in the name of God and offers them eternal life and eternal reward if they will shed blood and kill people who disagree with them.
SPEAKER_01: Now, Jesus Christ, who Muhammad just said, I quoted Muhammad as saying, Jesus Christ manifested God's righteousness.
SPEAKER_01: So Muhammad himself confessed that Jesus Christ showed us what God considered to be right.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says in John chapter 18, Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place.
SPEAKER_01: For Jesus oft times resorted thither with his disciples.
SPEAKER_01: Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth and said to them, Whom seek ye?
SPEAKER_01: They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus saith unto them, I am he.
SPEAKER_01: And Judas also which betrayed him stood with them, as soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward and fell to the ground.
SPEAKER_01: You know, Jesus didn't need a sword to subdue his enemies.
SPEAKER_01: He could have subdued them all by the word of his power had he chosen to do so, but he did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
SPEAKER_01: Then ask ye them again, whom seek ye, and they said Jesus of Nazareth.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he.
SPEAKER_01: If therefore ye seek me, let these go their way, that the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, of them which thou gavest me, have I lost none.
SPEAKER_01: Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear.
SPEAKER_01: The servant's name was Malchus.
SPEAKER_01: Then said Jesus unto Peter, put up thy sword into the sheath.
SPEAKER_01: The cup which my father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
SPEAKER_01: Jesus Christ the Lord told Peter to put away the sword.
SPEAKER_01: I do not want you to kill my enemies.
SPEAKER_01: I do not want you to smite my enemies.
SPEAKER_01: I do not want you to draw the sword against my enemies.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to put the sword away.
SPEAKER_01: Now that's what he told him.
SPEAKER_01: Muhammad claims that the angel Gabriel appeared to him.
SPEAKER_01: And the angel Gabriel appeared to him and said, Don't believe Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Don't follow Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Now I I know that's not the that's not the quotation from Muhammad, but Jesus said put the sword away.
SPEAKER_01: Gabriel supposedly, supposedly, told Muhammad to draw the sword.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus told his followers not to kill.
SPEAKER_01: Muhammad supposedly told his followers to kill.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus said, when two of his disciples went to call fire down from heaven and burn up his unbelieving people, people didn't believe on Jesus, the Lord told them that they didn't know what spirit they were of.
SPEAKER_01: He said, The Son of Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
SPEAKER_01: In fact, on that night when Peter drew the sword and smote that servant of the high priest Malchus and uh whacked off his ear, Jesus said in verse 52 of Matthew 26, Put up again thy sword into his place, for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
SPEAKER_01: Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus didn't need Peter's sword.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus didn't need Muhammad's sword.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus Christ did not come to kill, he came to give life.
SPEAKER_01: He did not come to destroy, he came to save.
SPEAKER_01: You say, but Brother James Muhammad said the angel Gabriel appeared to him and told him to go out and kill people, and that he could get to heaven by murdering.
SPEAKER_01: Galatians chapter 1.
SPEAKER_01: And verse number 6 says, I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel, which is not another.
SPEAKER_01: But there be some that troubled you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
SPEAKER_01: Now far be it from me to call anyone a pervert, but the Holy Spirit of God warns you in the book of Galatians that people would come after Jesus Christ, people would come and pervert the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says in verse number eight of Galatians chapter one, but the we or an angel from heaven.
SPEAKER_01: Did you get that?
SPEAKER_01: But the we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
SPEAKER_01: As we said before, so say I now again if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed.
SPEAKER_01: Now you've got to make a choice.
SPEAKER_01: I can't make that choice for you.
SPEAKER_01: You can believe that Jesus Christ spoke the truth.
SPEAKER_01: You can believe that Jesus Christ is not for murder, killing, death, blood, shed, and violence, but he's for love, peace, joy, life, liberty.
SPEAKER_01: You can believe that.
SPEAKER_01: Or you can believe that an angel showed up and supplanted the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and ordained that the way to heaven was to murder everybody that didn't think Muhammad was entitled to their silver, their gold, and their women.
SPEAKER_01: Take you pick.
SPEAKER_01: Choice is yours.
SPEAKER_01: In the seventh year of Muhammad's reign as sovereign of Medina, he set out with an expedition of 1400 men to wage war against the wealthy Jews who had gathered in the fortified city of Khaibar, K-H-A-I-B-A-R, which is about five days' march northeast of Medina.
SPEAKER_01: Here he directed the attacks in person, and against the most stubborn resistance, the battle raged, day after day after day.
SPEAKER_01: Finally, the siege was broken, and the city fell.
SPEAKER_01: What did Muhammad and his followers do?
SPEAKER_01: Why, they looted, they plundered, they took all the valuables of the city, but they found much less gold than they had expected.
SPEAKER_01: And as a result they captured Kanina, K-E-N-A-N-A, who was the prince of the place, and they tortured him in unspeakable ways until he finally died.
SPEAKER_01: They were hoping that through torture they would get him to disclose the hiding place of his gold, but it was quite obvious he didn't have any.
SPEAKER_01: And so he died.
SPEAKER_01: And I suppose the men that tortured him left town believing that they would have eternal life with black-eyed maidens for their dirty deeds.
SPEAKER_01: Muhammad returned to Medina where he planned and carried out a pilgrimage to Mecca.
SPEAKER_01: Finding on his return that one of his envoys to Syria had been treacherously slain, he determined on vengeance and began the organization of a considerable force which he would use to attack the Syrians.
SPEAKER_01: Before this could be completely organized, however, he fell sick, and his death followed in a few days.
SPEAKER_01: His death left the direction of his armies in the hands of his trusted and faithful general Abu Bekr, who carried out the exposition, or expedition, I'm sorry, most successfully.
SPEAKER_01: Abu Bakr continued the conquests of Islam, bringing death and destruction, rape and plunder throughout Palestine, Persia, and Egypt, in a succession of bloody and hard-fought battles that lasted over thirty years.
SPEAKER_01: Upon the passing of Abu Bakr, the rule of that uh the rule that unbelievers must die by the sword was modified, and they were allowed, if they preferred, to pay tribute instead.
SPEAKER_01: So you could become a dead man, or you could uh pay a right to live tax to the followers of Muhammad.
SPEAKER_01: It was not until the fourth uh caliphate, that's that's the uh title given to the uh ruling dictator of the Muslim religion, uh the fourth caliphate, that of uh Muiwiyyah, I'm sure I didn't pronounce that right, M U A W I A of Damascus, that further conquests were pushed eastward, and uh people were murdered and killed in Muhammad's name.
SPEAKER_01: In India and Turkestan and Samarkand.
SPEAKER_01: Here too they captured the rest of North Africa and the southwestern half of Spain, being turned back finally in the battles that we mention, the bloody battles of Tours, in the south of France.
SPEAKER_01: Under this ruler, however, the office of the caliph lost its elective character and became almost purely secular.
SPEAKER_01: He attempted to form a dynasty, and for ninety years the rule descended from father to son until some stronger ruler wrested the succession from him and founded a new dynasty.
SPEAKER_01: One other caliph, uh perhaps the greatest of Muhammad's successors, needs to be mentioned.
SPEAKER_01: Haroon al-Rashid, a fanciful account of whom the Arabian Knights is familiar, came to power.
SPEAKER_01: His capital was Baghdad.
SPEAKER_01: About him gathered the flower of the military and intellectual life of his time.
SPEAKER_01: His court was polished, luxurious, and unlimitedly wealthy.
SPEAKER_01: He enjoyed the tremendous bounty that was taken from those murdered by those followers of Muhammad who had come before him.
SPEAKER_01: After his death, the splendid intellectual life was destroyed and dispersed during the wars with the Turks, while the main forces of Islam were busy fighting the battles with the Roman Catholic Church that came to be known as the Crusades.
SPEAKER_01: Now we gotta take note of the eight crusades waged by Roman Catholics, not by Christians, who for centuries waged war to recover the sepulchre of Christ from the Muslims.
SPEAKER_01: It's an amazing thing that men will murder and slaughter and kill in order to get the tomb of Jesus, and they won't bow their knees and repent of their sins and by faith receive Jesus Himself.
SPEAKER_01: What do I want with the empty tomb?
SPEAKER_01: I've got the one who walked out of it.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Well, the crusade of 1095 ended by Jerusalem being taken by assault, and Godfrey of Bouillon was made king in 1099.
SPEAKER_01: Second crusade was preached by Saint Bernard in 1146, he wasn't a saint, headed by Emperor Conrad II and Louis VII of France.
SPEAKER_01: The Crusaders were beaten, and Jerusalem was taken by the Saracens.
SPEAKER_01: That's 1187.
SPEAKER_01: The Barbaroso Crusade lasted from 1189 to 1192 and accomplished nothing but a lot of dead people and another reason for college educated people who don't know the difference between Christians and Roman Catholics to reject Christianity.
SPEAKER_01: The Fourth Crusade was led by Emperor Henry VI, 1202 to 1204.
SPEAKER_01: The crusade led by Innocent the Third.
SPEAKER_01: How's that for a name?
SPEAKER_01: 1218 to 1221.
SPEAKER_01: The Barbarossa Sixth Crusade obtained possession of Jerusalem in 1229.
SPEAKER_01: The Crusade by Louis XIX, 1248.
SPEAKER_01: He was defeated and taken prisoner at Mansura, April 5, 1250, released by ransom, and there was a truce for ten years.
SPEAKER_01: And then the last crusade was led by Louis IX in 1270.
SPEAKER_01: The Roman Catholics were driven out of Syria in 1291, and not until the close of World War I did Europeans regain control over the Holy Sepulchre, as it was called by pagans.
SPEAKER_01: When Egypt was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1517 AD, the last of the Abbasid line sold the office of caliph to the Sultan of Turkey, who since that time was regarded as the successor to the prophet.
SPEAKER_01: And so we have these important dates in the progress of the Mohammedan religion.
SPEAKER_01: Mohammedan conquest checked in France by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732 afterward.
SPEAKER_01: A Mohammedan sect called Saracens conquered Arabia, North Africa, and a part of Asia in the seventh century.
SPEAKER_01: In the eighth century they invaded Europe, conquering Spain, where they founded the Caliphate of Cordova, which lasted until 1031.
SPEAKER_01: The Caliphate of Cordova was broken up into smaller governments, the last of which the Kingdom of Grenada endured until its subjugation by Ferdinand in 1492.
SPEAKER_01: The Moorish Mohammedans were finally expelled from Spain in 1609.
SPEAKER_01: So today we have the modern Mohammedan world with its pilgrimages to Mecca, the holy city, and millions of followers, and Americans who have mashed potatoes for brains, who know nothing about the Muslim religion except what they get on the nightly propaganda broadcast, which they call the news, and they continue to believe this propaganda put out by Imams in America, that Islam is a religion of peace.
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Islam's a religion of peace, and Santa Claus is real, and the Easter bunnies coming, and the tooth fairy left a quarter under your pillow, and don't forget, the cow jumped over the moon.
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