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Series Code: GNFM
Program Code: GNFM000011S
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00:01 The Holy Bible says that the Lord spoke to you
00:03 out of the midst of the fire. 00:05 And you heard the voice of words, 00:06 but you saw no form, you only heard a voice. 00:10 And He declared to you His covenant, 00:12 which He commanded you to perform, 00:15 even Ten Commandments, 00:17 and He wrote them on two tables of stone. 00:20 What exactly are the Ten Commandments? 00:23 When we're done with the next program, 00:24 you will know exactly what they are. 00:27 So join us. 01:20 Welcome back to part 11 of a 13-part series 01:24 dealing with Islamic Christian issues. 01:27 Today we're going to talk about God's requirements, 01:29 what those requirements are, how they relate to us today, 01:33 and what do we do 01:35 when we realize that 01:36 we haven't kept those requirements? 01:39 Shahbaz, thank you again for being here. 01:41 Why don't you start out by just clarifying for us, 01:44 what the average Muslim thinks about obeying God? 01:48 And surely they do believe in the importance of that? 01:51 What does that mean to them? 01:53 What does it mean to obey God today? 01:56 Muslims strongly believe in obeying 01:58 the requirements of Allah, 02:00 and to follow 02:02 whatever He has told them to do. 02:04 And within the Islamic context, 02:06 we have the five pillars of Islam, 02:08 which are really designed to guide the individual's life. 02:13 And those pillars deal with faith, 02:16 for instance, the Shahada 02:18 that deals with the faith of a Muslim. 02:21 And the pillars go like the Shahada, 02:23 we have Salat, which is prayer. 02:25 And then they have Zakat, which is charity, 02:27 that's supporting the poor or giving money to the mosque. 02:30 And then there's Sawm which deals with fasting 02:33 the month of Ramadan, 02:35 which every year, once a year, they do that for one month. 02:37 And that's October. 02:39 Yes, it's not, it's actually closer to the summer months, 02:43 and then and then they have the Hajj, 02:45 which is the pilgrimage, going to Makkah. 02:49 And they do that once during their lifetime. 02:51 At least once during their lifetime. 02:53 Every Muslim is required to do it, 02:54 if they can afford it. 02:56 If they cannot afford it, 02:58 they are poor, they are excused. 03:00 But if they can, if they have money, 03:02 there is no excuse if they don't go on the Hajj. 03:05 And the other aspect of law is the Sharia law, 03:09 which controls, and has jurisdiction 03:11 over every aspect of the Muslim's life. 03:14 It deals with the mosque, it deals with the government, 03:17 it deals with social life, it deals with everything. 03:20 And when a thief steals, and they cut their hand, 03:23 that's part of the Sharia law, 03:24 or when someone's caught in adultery, 03:27 and they're beheaded in Saudi Arabia, 03:30 or stoned in Iran, 03:31 it has to do with the Sharia law. 03:34 And 03:35 so Sharia law is based on the Quran and the Hadith, 03:38 is that correct? 03:40 Yes, absolutely, the Quran and the Hadith. 03:42 And the Hadith basically are the sayings. 03:46 Basically, it's written 03:51 by religious clerics. 03:54 Could be very old, as old as Islam itself. 03:58 But these writings are supposed to guide 04:01 the people into understanding 04:02 how the Prophet lived his life, 04:04 so that they can copy him 04:06 and live like the Prophet lived. 04:07 And when it comes to the Ten Commandments, 04:09 I'm curious, do most Muslims think about 04:12 the Ten Commandments? 04:13 Obviously, they've heard about them, 04:16 do they know what they are? 04:17 They do not know what they are. 04:19 They do think about it, they have heard about them, 04:21 but they do not know what they are. 04:25 And that's something that 04:28 is not even required of them really, necessarily, 04:31 to know exactly what they are. 04:34 Now, you've said 04:35 before that in Islam, 04:40 they don't see the Bible, 04:43 as you know, as all of it 04:44 as being relevant for us today 04:48 are being correct, 04:49 but they do believe in the first five books. 04:53 The first five books of Moses, of all the books in the Bible, 04:55 they would see that as being the highest, 04:57 is that right? 04:58 A large number of Muslims respect 05:00 the writings of Moses, 05:02 and they consider them as still to be pure 05:06 and not have been corrupted. 05:07 Okay. 05:08 Well, let's look at the book of... 05:10 The books of Moses, or at least the second book. 05:13 We have the first book, which is Genesis, 05:16 then there's Exodus, and then Numbers or Leviticus, 05:21 and then Numbers and then Deuteronomy, 05:23 first five books of the Bible. 05:24 And it's in Exodus Chapter 20, 05:28 that we have the Ten Commandments, 05:30 which, you know, really, 05:34 is the primary biblical law 05:38 all throughout the whole book. 05:39 You know, the Ten Commandments were unique, 05:44 they stand apart from any other law, 05:47 because they were spoken, 05:50 and then written with the finger of God Himself 05:53 on two tablets of stone. 05:56 And, you know, I've been impressed 05:57 with Chapter 19, 05:59 describing the circumstances of the giving of the law, 06:03 when Israel came out of Egypt, 06:04 they gathered together at the foot of the mountain. 06:07 And in verse 16, Exodus 19:16, 06:11 "It came to pass on the third day 06:12 in the morning, 06:13 that there were thunders and lightnings. 06:15 And there was a thick cloud on the mount 06:17 and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud, 06:19 so that all the people that were in the camp trembled. 06:22 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp 06:25 to meet with God, 06:26 and they stood at the southern part 06:29 of the mountain." 06:30 Verse 18, "And Mount Sinai was all together on a smoke, 06:35 because the Lord descended upon it in fire, 06:39 and the smoke thereof was as the smoke of a furnace, 06:44 and the whole mountain quaked greatly." 06:47 So what a scene. Amen. 06:49 You know, there's all these people there 06:50 at the foot of the mountain, 06:51 the lower part of the mountain, 06:53 and then they look up and they see, 06:54 you know, this cloud, this fire, 06:58 they hear this trumpet sound, and people are just terrified. 07:01 Yeah. 07:02 I don't think, you know, there's never been a time 07:03 in history 07:05 when God, the God of creation has revealed Himself 07:11 with such fireworks... 07:12 Amen. 07:14 As He did on this mountain, on Mount Sinai. 07:19 And the reason why He did this was 07:20 because He was about to give 07:23 the people the Ten Commandments. 07:25 That's right. 07:26 So why don't we just briefly go through these, 07:29 as you mentioned, most Muslims, 07:31 you know, don't really think about them. 07:33 And it's not just Muslims. 07:34 It's, you know, the average person. 07:35 People haven't heard about the Ten Commandments, 07:37 they probably, you know, maybe watch the movie, 07:39 The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston 07:41 coming down off the mountain, 07:43 and his hair was white, and his beard was white 07:46 because he'd encountered God, 07:49 but actually knowing 07:50 what those Ten Commandments are, 07:52 most people have no clue. 07:54 So why don't we just go through them? 07:55 Why don't you just lead out 07:57 and just starting 08:01 and just kind of quickly, 08:02 you know, let's just go through them. 08:04 Okay. 08:06 Verse 1 and 2 is the first commandment. 08:08 It says, "And God spake all these words, 08:10 saying, I am the Lord thy God, 08:12 which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, 08:15 out of the house of bondage." 08:17 And verse 3 as well, 08:18 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 08:20 That's the first commandment. Okay. 08:21 So what's the essence of this commandment? 08:24 The essence is that 08:26 I'm the only God in the universe, 08:28 you will have no other gods before me. 08:30 You're not to make anything to be a god before Me. 08:34 He's number one. He's number one. 08:35 And He's a powerful God, 08:37 because He's the one that plagued the Egyptians, 08:41 parted the Red Sea, brought the Israelites out, 08:44 revealed Himself in a fiery way, 08:48 and in a loving way, because He delivered them. 08:51 You know, and it's also significant that 08:53 the final straw to get them out of Egypt 08:55 was the Passover, 08:57 where they were told to take the blood of a lamb 09:00 and put it around their doors, 09:03 so that when the angel of death 09:04 in the 10th plague passed through, 09:07 he would pass over their homes, 09:09 because of the blood. 09:11 Amen. 09:12 And we can talk more about that before we're done. 09:13 That's right. 09:15 And God established His divinity 09:17 before He gave them the Ten Commandments 09:19 through the miracles 09:20 and through the wonders He performed in Egypt. 09:23 He showed them that He is God. 09:24 He showed them His power and He delivered them 09:27 and then He gave them His law. 09:31 So keeping the law springs from an appreciation 09:35 of being delivered and of being delivered. 09:38 Amen. 09:39 Okay, so first commandment, God is first. 09:41 Now second commandment? 09:42 Second commandment deals with more detailed. 09:46 It's similar to the first commandment 09:47 where He says, 09:49 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images, 09:51 or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven 09:54 above or that is in the earth beneath 09:56 or that is in the water under the earth. 09:59 Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, 10:01 nor serve them: 10:03 for I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, 10:05 visiting the iniquity of the fathers 10:07 upon the children unto the third 10:08 and the fourth generation of them that hate Me, 10:11 and showing mercy unto thousands of them 10:13 that love Me and keep My commandments." 10:16 You know, Islam is very strong on this one, right? 10:18 Yes. 10:19 Mohammed got rid of the idols in Mecca. 10:23 That's right. 10:24 And idolatry 10:25 is strongly frowned upon in Islam. 10:29 That's right. 10:30 Okay, no idols. No idols. 10:33 And the third commandment deals 10:34 with holding God's name in respect. 10:39 "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, 10:42 for the Lord will not hold him guiltless 10:44 that taketh His name in vain." 10:46 So when we speak of God, 10:47 we should speak of Him reverently 10:49 and respectfully, 10:50 and not just use His name as a swear word 10:54 or just in a trivial way. 10:56 That's right. 10:57 But when the words about God come out of your mouth, 11:02 they should be with reverence. 11:03 That's right. 11:05 And so far, all these verses that we read, 11:06 these three commandments deal with our relationship to God. 11:09 Okay. 11:10 And the fourth one is, likewise, and it says, 11:14 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 11:16 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work. 11:18 But the seventh day is a Sabbath 11:20 of the Lord thy God: 11:21 in it thou shalt do not do any work, 11:24 thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 11:26 thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, 11:29 nor thy cattle, 11:30 nor the stranger that is within thy gates. 11:33 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, 11:36 the sea, and all that is in them, 11:38 and rested the seventh day: 11:40 wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day 11:42 and hallowed it." 11:43 Okay, so the seventh day is God's Sabbath. 11:46 And that goes back to creation, right? 11:49 That's right. 11:50 Goes back to the original creation week 11:52 in Genesis Chapter 1 and 2, 11:54 where the Lord God made the world in six days, 11:57 and rested on the seventh day. 11:59 And so He says, "Remember that, don't forget that." 12:01 That's right. 12:02 That day, and we'll talk more about that later. 12:04 Now let's go on to the fifth commandment. 12:06 And fifth commandment, 12:07 from here deals with our relationship 12:08 with each other, human to human. 12:11 And it says, "Honor thy father and thy mother: 12:16 that thy days may be long upon the land 12:18 which the Lord thy God giveth thee." 12:21 And with Islam I understand, 12:23 you know, there's a strong family unit. 12:25 That's correct. 12:27 And in a definite, you know, respect for one's parents. 12:31 Parents must be respected. 12:33 And it's interesting that this commandment 12:35 is very gender specific, 12:36 you know, these days there's a lot of gender confusion. 12:38 Yes. 12:39 But the fifth commandment is your father and your mother. 12:42 That's correct. 12:44 It's not talking about having two fathers or two mothers, 12:47 but it's the traditional family. 12:50 And God made man. 12:52 He knows best. 12:54 That's the way He laid it down. 12:55 That's right. Okay, number six. 12:57 Number six, simple, "Thou shalt not kill." 12:59 Okay, let's talk about this. 13:01 This is a big one. 13:02 Now, here God is dealing with, 13:04 you know, first it's our relationship with Him, 13:05 and then it's this way, 13:07 our relationship with others. 13:08 And you shall not kill. 13:10 You know, the obvious meaning of this has to do with, 13:13 you know, taking somebody's life, right? 13:15 Murder. 13:16 I think some translations say murder. 13:18 That's right. 13:19 But there's a deeper meaning to this, isn't there? 13:21 Yes. 13:23 You know, God doesn't want us not just to kill 13:27 because we are not supposed to kill someone 13:29 or we shouldn't be killing ourselves. 13:32 Suicide is not permitted in the Word of God. 13:37 It's murder. 13:39 And killing ourselves through practices, 13:42 unhealthy practices, you know, smoking, 13:45 drinking, eating unhealthy foods, 13:48 and that shortens our life, 13:50 God will hold us accountable for all these things. 13:53 So it's not just me murdering someone else, 13:55 but it's me murdering me by the way I live? 13:58 That's right. Yeah. Okay. 14:00 Now, in the New Testament, 14:03 Jesus also shined a light on this 14:06 and talked about murder and applied it to the heart, 14:10 to hating people. 14:12 And in 1 John, it also talks about 14:14 "He who hates his brother in his heart is a murderer." 14:17 Is a murderer. 14:19 So murder is not just, you know, killing somebody, 14:22 but it's also killing ourselves and hating other people. 14:26 That's correct. 14:27 This is a deep commandment, actually. 14:30 Absolutely. 14:32 Now, you know, in the last program, 14:34 we talked about jihad, 14:36 and about suicide bombers and terrorists, 14:40 and those that got into hijacked planes 14:42 and flew them into the Twin Towers. 14:46 And from what I've learned, 14:49 and correct me if I'm wrong, 14:51 in Islam, at least for some, or for a percentage of them, 14:57 they feel like if they can kill themselves 15:01 as martyrs in the war of God, 15:06 that then they're guaranteed heaven. 15:08 Yes. Is that right? 15:09 That's correct. 15:10 Automatic ticket to heaven. 15:12 And what is the reward? 15:13 That they will get 70 houris or 70 virgins 15:17 that they will for all eternity. 15:22 But the Bible says you're not to kill yourself. 15:25 Murder, even for God, 15:27 killing yourself is not permissible. 15:30 God has never asked anyone to kill themselves for Him 15:34 in the entire Old and New Testament. 15:36 Now if somebody is martyred 15:40 because they were following Christ 15:42 and they were killed for Him, 15:44 they didn't kill themselves... 15:47 They're persecuted... 15:48 They were persecuted and then they were killed. 15:49 For being followers of God. Yes. 15:51 That's different. 15:52 And even then, they're not going to get 70 virgins. 15:54 Yeah. 15:55 That to me just, 15:57 you know, it's rather outrageous to think 16:00 that if I kill other people, 16:04 and then kill myself in the act of doing this, 16:08 then I'm, you know, earning my way to heaven, 16:10 I get a ticket to heaven, and I'll be rewarded 16:13 with all these women on the other side. 16:16 You know, I think, you know, that whole mindset 16:19 needs to run right into this commandment, 16:22 where God says, "You shall not kill." 16:25 So you know, killing other people 16:27 in that way 16:29 is not a ticket to heaven, 16:30 but it's a big mistake. 16:32 And it's a violation of the law of God 16:36 that He gave on Mount Sinai, 16:38 in thunder, and cloud and fire, 16:42 and wrote with His own finger. 16:44 Now, let's look at the next one. 16:46 Number seven. 16:48 Number seven, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." 16:52 Okay, explain. 16:53 Well, you know, adultery here is speaking about 16:57 a man being unfaithful to his wife 16:59 or a woman being unfaithful to her husband, 17:02 or having 17:06 physical sexual contact 17:08 with someone outside of the marriage 17:10 is also covered here. 17:12 But Jesus Christ in Matthew Chapter 5 17:15 made it even more meaningful when He said, 17:19 "I tell you, you had heard in the past that they said, 17:21 "Thou shalt not commit adultery. 17:23 But I tell you, if you look upon a woman 17:24 to lust after her, 17:26 you have already committed adultery 17:27 with her in your heart." 17:29 And this is something that 17:30 this principle doesn't exist in Islam. 17:32 Adultery is just a physical action. 17:35 But Christ said that 17:36 you can commit adultery in your mind. 17:39 And so Christ has put this commandment, 17:43 His jurisdiction goes far beyond 17:46 just the physical act. 17:49 And it has jurisdiction over our mind as well. 17:52 And isn't it true that in the history of Islam, 17:55 there's been a lot of, you know, conquests 17:59 where women have been taken, 18:01 and sexual activities have gone on, 18:06 which really would be a violation 18:08 of this commandment. 18:10 That's correct. 18:11 Do not commit adultery, 18:13 don't take somebody's wife that's not your wife, 18:15 be faithful to your spouse. 18:17 And then even deeper than that, don't even look as Jesus said, 18:21 "Don't even look lustfully upon a woman 18:24 or you've committed adultery in your heart." 18:26 The wives are of the enemies of Islam, 18:29 or the unbelievers or the idolaters. 18:32 Their wives are the properties 18:34 of whenever they take over an area like that, 18:37 the women of that area are the properties of the men, 18:40 they're part of their gift, 18:45 and they're legal to them. 18:47 The booty? Yes, they can... 18:49 So even this notion that in heaven 18:51 they will have 70 virgins, 18:55 that's breaking that commandment as well. 18:58 It's impure. That's correct. 19:00 You know, so the suicide bombers 19:04 are violating the sixth commandment 19:07 about murder, and conquest 19:11 and taking other men's wives. 19:14 And that kind of, you know, sexual immorality is violating 19:17 the seventh commandment. 19:19 That's correct. 19:20 That's right. 19:22 Okay, now, number eight. 19:23 Number eight, "Thou shalt not steal." 19:25 And very simple, very easy. 19:27 Pretty obvious. Obvious. 19:29 Yeah, don't take what's not yours. 19:30 That's correct. 19:32 Somebody once stole my car. 19:33 Long time ago, I walked out of my house 19:35 and my car wasn't there. 19:36 And I just was shocked. 19:38 Felt violated. Yeah. 19:40 So, you know, protect, 19:42 you know, stick with your own property. 19:45 Don't take somebody else's property. 19:47 Amen. Okay, number nine. 19:48 Number nine, "Thou shalt not bear false witness 19:51 against thy neighbor." 19:52 Basically don't bear false witness, don't lie. 19:56 And there is no excuse for white lies either. 19:59 I mean, there's no... 20:01 If my life is in danger, that doesn't give me an excuse, 20:05 I can lie and in order to protect myself. 20:09 Isn't lying justified? 20:10 I mean, in some circles, 20:13 you know, 'The end justifies the means, ' principle 20:15 that it's okay to lie 20:16 if you're doing it for God? 20:21 In fact, in the Muslim tradition, 20:24 there is grounds 20:26 for lying in order to save your life 20:29 and or promote the cause of Islam. 20:32 And this happens quite regularly, 20:36 but the Bible is very clear, 20:37 "Thou shalt not lie." 20:38 "Thou shalt not bear false witness 20:40 against somebody." 20:42 When you look at Jesus' life, He never lied. 20:44 No. 20:46 It says, you know, one of His regular phrases was, 20:50 "I tell you the truth, I tell you the truth, 20:51 I tell you the truth," 20:53 and Jesus did something that no other religious teacher 20:56 has ever done. 20:57 He said, "Which one of you convinces me of sin?" 21:01 You know, there was no sin in Him. 21:02 There was nothing that He did that was wrong. 21:05 And even Pontius Pilate when he finally questioned Him 21:09 before he turned Him over to the mob, 21:10 he walked out and he said, 21:12 "I find no fault with this man at all." 21:15 Amen. 21:16 You know, he washed his hands off 21:17 the whole thing 21:19 'cause he knew Jesus was an innocent, 21:20 faultless man. 21:22 Amen. 21:23 And Jesus kept all these commandments. 21:24 He said, "I've kept My Father's commandments." 21:27 Amen. Okay, number 10. 21:28 Number 10, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, 21:32 thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, 21:35 nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, 21:38 nor his ox, nor his ass, 21:41 nor anything that is thy neighbor's." 21:44 So covetousness is more than just, 21:48 you know, we're not just talking about 21:49 physical actions. 21:51 Now we're talking about the heart. 21:52 That's correct. You covet in your heart. 21:54 You want something that somebody else 21:57 has in your heart. 21:59 So the Ten Commandments really go deeper 22:02 than just physical actions. 22:04 They go to the mind, they go to the heart, 22:05 they go to the soul, and like Jesus said, 22:07 "Looking lustfully is adultery." 22:09 And 1 John, it says that 22:12 "Hitting your brother is murder." 22:14 And so this shows us, 22:15 you know, that the Ten Commandments 22:18 go deep into the human heart, 22:20 and they appeal to the human conscience, 22:23 you know, the conscience that God gave us, tells us 22:26 that we should put Him first, 22:28 we shouldn't have any idols, 22:29 we should respect His name, 22:31 we should honor our parents, 22:33 don't murder, don't commit adultery, 22:34 don't steal, don't lie, don't covet. 22:37 You know, these are basic principles 22:38 that appeal to the human conscience. 22:41 That's right. 22:43 Now, then, when you look at the rest of it, 22:44 or right after that, verses 18 to 20, says 22:48 "All the people saw the thunderings, 22:50 and the lightnings, 22:51 and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking 22:53 and when the people saw it, 22:55 they removed and stood afar off. 22:56 And they said to Moses, speak, 22:58 you speak with us, and we will hear, 23:00 but let not God speak with us lest we die." 23:03 They were so overwhelmed by the voice of God 23:04 and all the fireworks. 23:07 And then verse 20, said, "Moses said to the people, 23:09 fear not for God has come to prove you, 23:12 or test you." 23:14 I think some Bible say 23:16 that "His fear may be before your faces 23:19 or His reverence and respect, 23:21 that you sin not." 23:23 Amen. 23:29 He says that you sin not. 23:32 Is there a concept of sin in Islam? 23:34 I would imagine that word sin, do they talk about sin? 23:37 There is. 23:38 But it's not based on the Ten Commandments. 23:40 You know, in the Bible, we say, 23:41 a sin is a transgression of the law. 23:44 But in Islam, they don't have that view. 23:47 A clear view. No. 23:50 But Moses, whom Muslims respect, 23:54 is saying that God gave us the Ten Commandments 23:57 so that we won't sin. 23:59 That's right. 24:00 And that tells us that sin, by definition, 24:04 is going against these commandments. 24:06 It's a sin to have other gods before God, 24:08 it's a sin to have idols, 24:09 it's a sin to take His name in vain, 24:11 it's a sin not to keep the Sabbath, 24:13 it's a sin not to honor and respect our parents, 24:16 to murder or hate, or commit adultery, 24:21 or have sexual immorality, or steal, or lie, or covet. 24:26 These are all sins in the Bible. 24:29 And then we know that both the Old Testament 24:33 and the teachings of Jesus 24:36 show that the summary of the law is love 24:41 that the first four commandments 24:42 have to do with love to God with all your heart, 24:45 soul, mind and strength. 24:47 And the last six have to do 24:49 with loving your neighbor as yourself. 24:51 That's right. 24:52 So God's law is a law of love. 24:54 And if everybody kept this law, 24:56 you know, there'd be no prisons, 24:58 there'd be no jails, there'd be no suicide bombers, 25:01 it would be a wonderful place this world. 25:04 That's right. 25:05 In fact, just backtracking just a few seconds 25:08 about the sixth commandment, 25:10 "Thou shalt not kill." 25:12 I just want to emphasize that 25:14 in the Bible also gives us the health message. 25:18 Tells us that what animals we can eat, 25:20 what animals we cannot eat in... 25:22 Leviticus 11. Yeah. 25:24 And in Islam, yeah, in Leviticus 11 and in Islam, 25:27 clearly, the only animal that you're forbidden 25:30 from eating is the swine or the pig. 25:33 And almost everything that comes out of the sea, 25:37 most Muslim eat. 25:39 Shia Muslims will not eat fish that doesn't have scale on it, 25:44 but they will eat shrimps or they will eat clams. 25:50 And then in the Sunni Muslims 25:52 and amongst the other groups, 25:54 many other things they eat. 25:55 So when we eat these kind of things, 25:57 we're actually breaking that commandment 25:59 because we are hurting our body by eating things 26:02 that are not clean. 26:04 And that's all in Leviticus 11. 26:07 So, Leviticus 11, Exodus 20, 26:10 these reveal God's requirements, 26:13 His Ten Commandment law. 26:15 That's right. 26:16 And you know, when Moses said, 26:19 "God is giving this to you... 26:21 So that you don't sin." 26:28 When we realize that we've sinned, 26:30 that then brings up the need that we need to be forgiven. 26:34 And we need a Savior because we've all sinned. 26:36 And that's where the whole sacrificial system comes in. 26:39 That's right. 26:40 And that's where Isaiah 53 comes in, 26:42 that says, "He was," verse 5, 26:44 "He was wounded for our transgressions, 26:47 He was bruised for our iniquities, 26:50 the chastisement of our peace was upon Him 26:52 and with His stripes we are healed. 26:55 And all we like sheep have gone astray, 26:57 we have turned everyone to his own way. 27:00 And the Lord has laid on Him 27:03 the iniquity or the sin of us all." 27:06 Amen. 27:08 And that's where the sacrifice of Jesus comes in, 27:14 is that we've all broken these commandments, 27:16 if you're really honest, if you look at your heart. 27:19 You know, we've all failed in so many, many ways. 27:23 And that's why we need a Savior. 27:26 We all need a Savior. 27:27 And the word gospel means the good news. 27:30 It's the good news for all of us. 27:32 It's good news for Muslims. 27:33 It's good news for non Muslims. 27:35 It's good news for everybody, that somebody paid the price. 27:39 Somebody took those sins upon His mind and in His heart, 27:41 and He suffered and He died. 27:44 And we can be forgiven, 27:45 we can be set free through His forgiveness, 27:47 and His grace, and His transforming love. 27:53 We hope you enjoyed watching Good News for Muslims 27:56 with Steve Wohlberg and Shahbaz. 27:58 This entire 13-part series is now available on DVD. 28:03 To order from within the US, 28:04 call White Horse Media at 1-800-782-4253. 28:10 To watch the series online or for more information, 28:13 visit the website www.goodnewsformuslims.com |
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