Messenger Audio 15.2 (26-Nov-1982)

When you deliver the message, you are a messenger. You either submit a full Submission to God, or object; no in-between. Muhammad is the prophet like Moses (Deut. 18:18-19). Paraclete talk.

(0:01) You may find yourself a messenger wherever you go, wherever you deliver God's message, (0:10) you are messengers. (0:24) Telling them what makes them sanctified. (0:28) Telling them, worship God alone. (0:32) If they obey, they'll be sanctified. (0:37) Tell them not to lie and cheat. (0:43) They'll be sanctified. (0:54) But that verse does not refer specifically to Muhammad. (1:04) It can be understood as Muhammad. (1:21) I don't think the main descendants mean, the aligning specifically. (1:26) It's from the (1:27) subsequent generations will come after us, that there'll be Muslims. (1:36) 22:78 is another verse that we can refer to. (1:43) Page 232. (1:47) And strive in the cause of God as you should strive for Him. (1:52) He is the one who selected you and imposed no hardships on you in observing the religion. (1:58) This is the religion of your father Abraham. (2:01) He is the one who named you Muslim. (2:03) Thus, the messenger will be a witness among you. (2:07) And you will be witnesses among the people. (2:10) Now this is to all the believers too. (2:13) So observe the Salat prayers and Zakat charity and hold fast to God. (2:17) He is your Lord, the best Lord and the best supporter. (2:21) The messenger will be a witness among you. (2:26) He's not bringing in new regulations. (2:31) But he observes. (2:44) Okay, Dana, you're an expert on comparative religions. (2:46) So we'll go to you starting at 135. (3:04) So you believe in God as God and in what He's to do for us. (3:08) And in what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and Israel. (3:14) And in what was given to Moses and Ezekiel. (3:17) And in what He's given to all the prophets in the world. (3:21) we make no distinction among any of them. (3:24) We submit to God. (3:25) You've been with God. (3:27) If they believe this, you believe this. (3:29) Then they are rightly guided. (3:31) But if they turn away, then they have joined the opposition. (3:36) God has ... their opposition. (3:40) You have to bear it on yourself. (3:43) Such is God's might, and He's mightier than God. (3:46) You worship Him alone. (3:49) So if you are a believer, you have to believe in God. (3:51) Because you are His, and He is His. (3:54) And you are responsible for all of us. (3:56) God, you are responsible for us. (4:02) You can say that Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and Ezekiel, (4:05) they are spiritual Christians. (4:08) So you are more knowledgeable. (4:10) You are God. (4:11) So it's more evil than you want to conceal the testimony concerning God. (4:18) God is never on the way of anything to do. (4:20) This is a community thing to have. (4:24) They are responsible for their own work. (4:26) And you are responsible for your own work. (4:29) You are not answerable for anything you do. (4:33) Some people, some other religions, they just, like you said, (4:48) they say that you have to follow their service. (4:51) In order to be guided. (4:53) And if you don't follow that, please, you'll be bound to hell. (4:57) And there's no good in that. (5:03) God tells us to follow the religion of Abraham. (5:08) That he worshiped God alone. (5:20) And he believed in God alone. (5:25) And he believed in God which was real to us. (5:28) And that includes us all. (5:35) And God was real to all the prophets. (5:39) And don't make any distinction among the new prophets. (5:46) Prophets are prophets. (5:48) There's none, there's not one of them that's been better than any of the others. (5:55) And so in the teaching of the Bible, (6:05) then it's necessary that we be people who can be rightly guided. (6:12) Because it's just in a way that they're opposing you. (6:17) But God will help you. (6:22) It's in their opposition. (6:26) But when you tell them to worship God alone, (6:28) and they disagree with that, then you either in or out. (6:33) There's no in-between. (6:37) We're either Submitters to God, (6:38) because we're a real religion, (6:41) or we're not a Submitter to God. (6:46) And that's what God wants. (6:58) God's teaching is the best. (7:06) We need to talk about being responsible for our own works. (7:11) Nobody else is responsible for your work. (7:18) You can't blame anybody for what you do. (7:22) Your own fault isn't good if you do something right. (7:29) Yes. (7:30) You can't just blame your parents because they're your parents. (7:34) You can't blame your parents because they're right. (7:38) But you're not part of it. (7:40) Because it's your own mess. (7:43) But I thought you were in this. (7:48) I am in this. (7:51) Nobody's going to put you through this. (7:52) You're going to the church. (7:56) That's one of the biggest myths. (7:59) You're going to the church. (8:00) You're going to the church. (8:14) Christians don't even know what to think about, you know, whether Jesus was a Jew or a Christian, or whether Abraham was Jewish or Christian. (8:25) This reminds me of some fellow who said, you have to make it through Jesus, you cannot make it except through Jesus. (8:30) And a lot of people before Jesus said, what about Abraham? (8:33) Surely he's going to hell (8:37) Because he was before Jesus, he actually said that. (8:41) I said, what's the matter? He said, Abraham was a friend of God. (8:44) And God put his friend in hell? he didn't make it through Jesus. (8:49) So maybe it's like the Adam makes it through Adam and Eve. (8:57) Because it's up to you. (9:00) God didn't know the movement of Christians. (9:04) God didn't know the movement of Christians. (9:06) Go find out. (9:08) Okay. (9:12) A lot of Christians don't even have to think that Jesus was followed Jewish Law. (9:18) He didn't write that. (9:19) he was Jewish. (9:21) It was double ... Jewish. (9:23) Yeah. (10:11) this applies to ... (10:19) the gospels. (10:21) They stand at the coming of the Spirit of truth. (10:25) Who spoke in the Quran? (10:28) So they conceived these. (10:34) Referring to the Prophet Muhammad also. (10:36) He gives an idea. (10:37) A prophet like me, will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kinsmen, with him you can live. (10:43) And I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kinsmen. (10:47) And I'll put my words into his mouth. (10:49) He shall tell them all that I command him. (10:52) If any man will not listen to my words, when he speaks in my name, I myself will make him answer for it, they conceive these things. (11:02) And then you go to the gospels and it says, I will ask the father to give you another paraclete. (11:06) To deal with you all with the Spirit of truth. (11:09) That's Muhammad with the Quran. (11:15) Although The Spirit of truth is different from the Holy Spirit. (11:19) The clergymen, the priests, and ministers, they tend to confuse the two (11:25) you notice in the gospel of John 16:15