Exploring Islam and Christianity

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Exploring Islam and Christianity
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Who Is Your Savior?
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I. The Reality of SIN
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SIN What Is It?

• 1 John 34, Whoever commits sin also commits
  lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
• Rom. 323, for all have sinned and fall short of
  the glory of God
• Jas. 417, Therefore, to him who knows to do
  good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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SIN Its Severity

• 1 John 36, 8, Whoever abides in Him does not
  sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known
  HimHe who sins is of the devil, for the devil
  has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose
  the Son of God was manifested, that He might
  destroy the works of the devil.
• Rom 87, Because the carnal mind is enmity
  against God for it is not subject to the law of
  God, nor indeed can be.

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SIN Its Consequences

• Rom 623, For the wages of sin is death, but the
  gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
  Lord.
• 2 Thess 18-9, in flaming fire taking vengeance
  on those who do not know God, and on those who do
  not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9
  These shall be punished with everlasting
  destruction from the presence of the Lord and
  from the glory of His power

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II. Islam Sin is Overcome by Works

• Surah 262, Surely the believers and the Jews,
  Nazareans and the Sabians, whoever believes in
  God and the Last Day, and whomsoever does right,
  shall have his reward with the Lord and will
  neither have fear nor regret.
• Surah 651, Warn those who fear, through this
  (Quran), that they will be gathered before their
  Lord, and they will have none to protect or
  intercede for them apart from Him. They may haply
  take heed for themselves.
• Surah 11114, Remember that good deeds nullify
  the bad.

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II. Islam Sin is Overcome by Works

• Surah 649-10, The day He will gather you
  together on the Day of Gathering, will be the day
  of Judgment. He who believed and did the right,
  will have his evil deeds expunged by God and
  admitted to gardens with rivers flowing by, and
  abide there perpetually. This will be the great
  achievement and success. Those who did not
  believe and denied Our revelations will be
  inmates of Hell, where they will abide forever,
  and how evil a journeys end!

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II. Islam Sin is Overcome by Works

• Surah 281-82, Why, they who have earned the
  wages of sin and are enclosed in error, are
  people of Hell, where they will abide forever.
  But those who believe and do good deeds are
  people of Paradise, and shall live there forever.

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Pillars of Islam
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• Faith reciting the Shahada
• Prayer Salat
• Almsgiving paying Zakat
• Fast during Ramadan
• Pilgrimage the Hajj to Mecca

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II. Islam Sin is Overcome by Works
Scales of Judgment

• Surah 77-9, We shall recount (their deeds) to
  them with knowledge, for We were never absent
  (and saw all they did). And the weighing will be
  just on that Day. Then those whose (deeds) are
  heavier in the balance will find fulfillment, And
  those whose (deeds) are lighter in the scale
  shall perish for violating Our signs.

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II. Islam Sin is Overcome by Works
Scales of Judgment

• Surah 23102-104, Only those whose scales are
  heavier in the balance will find happiness. But
  those whose scales are lighter will perish and
  abide in Hell forever. Their faces will be
  scorched by flames and they will grin and scowl
  within it.

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II. Islam Sin is Overcome by Works
Allah is Absolute

• Surah 144, God leads whomsoever He wills
  astray, and shows whoever He wills the way He is
  all-mighty and all-wise.
• Surah 2284, To God belongs all that is in the
  heavens and the earth and whether you reveal
  what is in your heart or conceal it, you will
  have to account for it to God who will pardon
  whom He please and punish whom He will, for God
  has the power over all things.
• Surah 3129, To God belongs all that is in the
  heavens and the earth He may pardon whom He
  please and punish whom He will. Yet God is
  forgiving and kind.

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II. Islam Sin is Overcome by Works
Peril of Works

• It is Bad for Allah!
• It is Bad for Muslims/ Mankind!

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The Hope of Suicide
The closest thing to assurance in Islam is death
in Jihad!
Surah 474-6, So, when you clash with the
unbelievers, smite their necks until you
overpower them, then hold them in bondage. Then
either free them graciously or after taking a
ransom, until war shall have come to end. If God
had pleased He could have punished them
(Himself), but He wills to test some of you
through some others. He will not allow the deeds
of those who are killed in the cause of God to go
to waste. He will show them the way, and better
their state, And will admit them into gardens
with which he has acquainted them.
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The Hope of Suicide
The closest thing to assurance in Islam is death
in Jihad!
Surah 3157-158, If you are killed in the cause
of God or you die, the forgiveness and mercy of
God are better than all that you amass. And if
you die or are killed, even so it is to God that
you will return.
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III. Christianity Sin is Overcome by the Savior

• Isa 645-6, You are indeed angry, for we have
  sinned In these ways we continue And we need
  to be saved. But we are all like an unclean
  thing, And all our righteousnesses are like
  filthy rags We all fade as a leaf, And our
  iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.
• Ps. 514, Against You, You only, have I sinned,
  And done this evil in Your sight That You may
  be found just when You speak, And blameless when
  You judge.
• Rom. 623, For the wages of sin is death, but
  the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
  our Lord.

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III. Christianity Sin is Overcome by the Savior
Cross Love Justice

• 1 John 48, God is love.
• Rom. 326, to demonstrate at the present time
  His righteousness, that He might be just and the
  justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
• Romans 323-26 56-8

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III. Christianity Sin is Overcome by the Savior
Shadow/ Type Passover Lamb

• Exodus 12

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Jesus Christ The Lamb of God
The next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and
said, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the
sin of the world! John 129
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Jesus Blood

• Washes away Sin (Rev. 15)
• Remission/ Forgiveness (Matt. 2628)
• Redemption (Eph. 17)
• Justifies (Rom. 59)
• Purchased Church (Acts 2028)
• Peace b/w God Man (Col. 120)

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III. Christianity Sin is Overcome by the Savior
Salvation Offered to All

• Ephesians 28-10
• 1 Tim. 25-6, For there is one God and one
  Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ
  Jesus, 6 who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be
  testified in due time
• 2 Thess 214, to which He called you by our
  gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our
  Lord Jesus Christ.

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Obey the Gospel!

• Faith Obedience
• Belief
• Repentance
• Confession
• Baptism

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Blood Baptism

• Washes away Sin (Rev. 15)
• Remission/ Forgiveness (Matt. 2628)
• Redemption (Eph. 17)
• Justifies (Rom. 59)
• Purchased Church (Acts 2028)
• Peace b/w God Man (Col. 120)

• Washes away Sin (Acts 2216)
• Remission/ Forgiveness (Acts 238)
• It Saves (Mk. 1616)
• It Saves (1 Pet. 321)
• Added to Church (Acts 240-41, 47)
• Sons in Christ (Gal. 326-27)

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Who Is Your Savior?