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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with the

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moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And

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today that issue of life and faith is what are the fruits of Christianity and what are the fruits

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of Islam? Jesus said, beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly

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are ravenous wolves. Who is the false prophet? Christ or Muhammad? Who is the ravenous wolf? Christ

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or Muhammad? Jesus goes on to say, you will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes

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gathered from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? So every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the

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diseased tree bears bad fruit. What religion bears bad diseased fruit? What religion bears good

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salutary fruit, huh? Jesus goes on to say, a healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a

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diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the

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fire. Thus, you will recognize them by their fruits. Dear listener, today we are asking you, which

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religion, Islam or Christianity, bears the good fruit? Which religion bears the diseased, the bad

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fruit? Oh, it reminds me of the story of a very famous song, famous in the jazz world anyway, called

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Strange Fruit. In 1938, a New York City school teacher, Abel Mirapol, saw a photograph of a lynching

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in the South, a picture of a young black man hanging by the neck in a tree in a remote nameless woods in the

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South. This was the period in America when the Ku Klux Klan was still flourishing in the South, and parts of

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the Midwest, and the torches of the KKK illumined the whole scene in the dark of night in this picture. An

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amateur poet and composer, Mirapol went home, and he wrote a poem about what he'd seen, and then he later

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composed music to accompany these lyrics, and the song that resulted, called Strange Fruit, was recorded first and

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famously by the jazz singer Billie Holiday. Here are the lyrics to this jazz song, Strange Fruit, and see if

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you can see how this applies to Islam, as well as to Southern racism in the early 20th century. Here is

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the lyrics to Strange Fruit. Southern trees bear a strange fruit. Blood on the leaves and blood at the

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root. Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

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Pastoral scene of a gallant South, the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, scent of magnolias sweet and

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fresh. Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, for the rain to

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gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, for the tree to drop. Here is a strange and bitter

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crop. But this song, speaking then of Southern racism in the early 20th century, was far too pensive

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and melancholy and graphic ever to become an anthem in the civil rights movement, like We Shall Overcome.

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But nevertheless, its haunting, vivid metaphor for racism in the South made it popular in the

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underground culture. And it's been recorded often ever since, especially if you're a jazz fan, you'll

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recognize this song. Now, echoed throughout the song is this biblical metaphor, a tree is known by its

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fruit. Jesus said, if the root is bad, then so will the fruit be bad. And Mirapol eloquently reflects this.

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He says, southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Well, the

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doctrine and practice of racism bears consequent fruit from this bloody root, doesn't it? Black bodies

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swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Well, we also see this same

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strange fruit. Born, do we not, in Islam. We see it, for example, in Iraq and Syria today, where the

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Islamic State has conquered. We see in these places beheadings and crucifixions and burnings of Christians

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for merely identifying themselves as Christians. Many of these communities in Iraq and Syria, they've been

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there from the third and fourth centuries. And these Christians were, and this is so ironic to me, these

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Christians were protected under Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein indeed protected the Christian communities that

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had been there for so long, slaughtered far fewer people than the Islamic State is slaughtering, even

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amongst the Muslims. They're now being butchered. Muslims, Christians, anyone who disagrees with the Islamic

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state and the Islamic way of doing things is slaughtered. Oh, and we can say, ironically, that

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things were better. The Christian community, even Muslims, were better off under Saddam Hussein.

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Oh, what irony. So, we must ask of every religion, including Christianity and Islam, what fruits does

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this religion bear to its disciples? I have three points I want to make with you regarding these things.

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My first point of three is, what are the fruits? Is my transformation from within? That is, is it a root

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that produces true good fruit? Last week, we observed how our nature underwent a fundamental

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transformation under our first parents, Adam and Eve. While we were created in righteousness and

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holiness in God's image, they sinned. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, sinned and brought themselves

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and us into a state of original sin. With this fact, and in this circumstance, every mortal must

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contend. Every son and daughter of Adam and Eve must ask, how can I be saved? Now, we noted that every

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other world religion tells its adherents that they must do or perform certain outward deeds in order to

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achieve an inner transformation. But biblical Christianity is just the opposite, the only religion that says,

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Au contraire, you must first experience an inner transformation before you can ever perform outward

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deeds acceptable to God. And that inner transformation Jesus calls the new birth. He says, truly, truly,

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I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Oh, dear listener, Jesus was

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insistent that inner transformation precede an outward transformation of behavior. But this is not so in

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Islam. No. Abdul Salib, you may remember Abdul Salib, one of the experts that we've consulted, a former

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diligent Muslim who converted to Christianity, and he says this about Islam. Islam believes that humankind is

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not sinful by nature. Muslims say that Christianity makes man a weak creature who has fallen and in

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desperate need of help, but Islam gives him dignity. Islam says, rise up. You are morally capable of

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fulfilling God's will for yourself and your neighborhood and clean up your society. Unquote.

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Giving, indeed, succinctly, the Muslim view of the inner transformation, ostensibly, of man.

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Instead of salvation preceding works, in Islam, works done in the flesh must first be done in order to be

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saved. And I quote you here. This is from the Quran, Surah, number nine. Those who believe and suffer

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exile and strive with might in Maine, in Allah's jihad, with their goods and their prisons, have the

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highest rank in the sight of Allah. They are the people who will achieve salvation. Unquote.

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Salvation in Islam, it is not a matter of grace, of giftedness. It is not a new birth given as a gift

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of God to his creatures who could not experience this new birth otherwise, but rather in Islam, salvation

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is a product of works. That is doing, for example, the five things, confession, prayer for five times a day,

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alms, Ramadan, the pilgrimage to Mecca. And most of all, as we see time and time again, and we just read

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it for you, the thing that must be done, the work that must be done, that guarantees your salvation

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is jihad. Dying in jihad. So you wonder why Muslims all over the world flock to jihad, flock to the war,

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flock to fight the kafir, the unbeliever like us. And it's the fatal flaw in every world religion that

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bases its salvation on works meant to achieve an inner transformation. Oh, the fatal flaw. Because it

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is the fatal flaw, because even as you attempt to do these good works, you are still so flawed in your

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natural, unchanged state that these works cannot do the kinds of perfect things that God requires.

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If an inner transformation is to take place at all in you, then it will have to be done by God

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himself graciously before you do any good works. So this reality has consequences for these religions.

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The works they end up doing extensively to save themselves, religions that base themselves on works,

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they're done still yet in the flesh, fallen, sinful, and they're not done in the spirit. And so they

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thus produce fruits of the flesh. This is precisely why Islam is characterized by fruits of the flesh,

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fruits of evil, fruits that are corrupt and bad. Paul says the works of the flesh are evident,

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sexual immorality, and indeed Islam by nature is full of sexual immorality, multiple wives,

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temporary marriage. If you want to sleep with a whore overnight, it's filled with idolatry. We see

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indeed that Allah was only one of 360 gods of the Quresh tribe. Muhammad only singled him out,

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one of the pagan gods. So idolatry is rife in Islam. And then notice all of the emotions and the

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strife that you see all through Islam. Paul says the works of the flesh include enmity and strife and

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jealousy and fits of anger, rivalries. How many rivalries do you see throughout Islam? Dissensions

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and divisions, all of these things. Well, they are only following the pattern of their masters.

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All religions have their masters and all disciples seek to become like their masters. Muhammad, the master

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in Islam, the Buddha, Buddha Gautama, the master in Buddhism, and of course, Christ, the master in

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Christianity. So that brings me to my second point. What are the fruits? As a student, then will I be like

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my teacher? And as a servant, will I be like my master? In religion, we must say yes to all of these

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things. Who is the master? You will be like him. We often call ourselves disciples of Jesus,

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don't we? Without knowing precisely what Jesus meant in his own first century context by discipleship.

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Ancient discipleship did not mean that one went to a seminary or a Bible school, for example,

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and that you paid a small fortune for a battery of classes and then you stuffed your brain with

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albeit valuable knowledge about the master. But nevertheless, it was knowledge that wasn't put to

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practical use just yet and you didn't employ his teachings until it felt like that the brain would

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explode, right? Disciple in the ancient world was actually quite different. Disciple, the word

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disciple is actually a derivative of discipline because it required a disciplined life. The discipline of

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ancient discipleship was that once you committed to become a follower of a particular master,

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well then, you set aside what normally preoccupied you and you went where the master went. You ate what

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the master ate. You slept where the master slept. You did what he did. You said what he did. You said

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what he said, excuse me. You taught what he taught. And also, most importantly, you suffered what the

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master suffered and you shared in whatever benefits and rewards that master received. This is true in

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Islam, as well as in Christianity, as well as in Buddhism. Jesus himself gets at this in many of

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his parables of discipleship, doesn't he? He says, as they were going along the road, someone said to him,

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I will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, foxes have holes, birds of the air have nests,

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but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head. This indicated to that disciple that you aren't ready

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yet to eat what I eat, to sleep where I sleep, to go where I go. And then the text goes on to say to

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follow me. But the disciple said, Lord, let me first go and bury my father. And Jesus said to him,

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leave the dead to bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.

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Yet another said, I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to those at my home.

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Jesus said to him, no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of

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God. Unquote. Well, this disciple was really having second thoughts and was looking for an excuse

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to bow out of true discipleship. Oh, dear listener, precisely in this fashion, that is by living the

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life of the master, the disciple became like the master. Jesus himself said, it is enough for the

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disciple to be like his teacher and the servant to be like his master. We are therefore fully expected,

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dear listener, to be like Jesus, if we call ourselves Christians, to be like him within the context of our

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own personality. But nevertheless, to be like him as we grow in our discipleship. And we should see

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then Jesus Christ, our master, reprised and viewed in ourselves and then in one another as well.

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This mode of discipleship, I submit to you, is no different for the Muslim. He must be like his master

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Muhammad. He must be like his teacher Muhammad. They understand exactly this principle. It is enough for

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the disciple to be like his teacher and the servant like his master. So, very few of those in the West

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in particular who pretend to understand Islam grasp this. All of those who followed Muhammad in his early

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years and those ever since, they too practiced this very same model of discipleship. In fact, Muslims look

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back to the early years of the disciples of Muhammad who were called companions. The Muslims look back to

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the early companions of Muhammad with the same fondness and reverence and awe as Christians look

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back upon the apostles of Jesus, the 12 apostles of Jesus. The highest compliment even today that one can

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pay to a Muslim is to call him a companion of the prophet. You hear this in the language all the time of

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Muslims. Osama bin Laden called the perpetrators of 9-11 paid them the highest compliment by calling

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them companions of the prophet. It means that one shares in the sufferings, the exile, and the life

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of the prophet. It harkens back to those early years of Islam when it was a persecuted, misunderstood

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minority among the pagan tribes of Muhammad's home tribe, the Qirash of the Arabian Peninsula.

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The seminal moment in Islam is Muhammad's hajj, that is, his pilgrimage from where he was being

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persecuted in Mecca to the small city of Medina, where he had been invited to stay by tribesmen there.

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Those companions, that is, the apostles, who went with him into exile and obscurity, these are the

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very models of what it means to be a Muslim. Oh, in fact, so significant is the hajj in Islam that the

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Muslim calendar is dated from its inception. The hajj was begun on July 16, 622 of our calendar,

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but was day one in the calendar of the Muslim. And what few outsiders realize is that this model

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of discipleship provided by Muhammad does not end with this ostensibly humble, quiet retirement into

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exile. No, Muhammad, while he was in Medina, turned palpably to a different course of leadership and

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practice in Islam. He turned to banditry to support himself and his followers. He began to slay his

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opponents now, including Jews and Christians, and he began to assemble converts by giving them a choice,

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convert or die. In other words, Muhammad became a bandit, a butcher, a beheader, and a debauched man.

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The entire tone of the Quran takes on a palpable change after Medina. The Quran now is violent and

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aggressive and uncompromising. Plunder and slaves and women, multiple wives, vengeance on one's enemies,

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and glory in war and jihad. This becomes the very marks of a disciple of Muhammad. Are we surprised when we see

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this reprise today? When we see Islam full of bandits and butchers and beheaders and debauches?

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Why? Ali Darhti, I encourage you, if you want a Muslim perspective on the life of Muhammad, read Ali Darhti's

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book, 23 Years, A Study of the Prophetic Career of Muhammad. Oh, yes. There, I quote from it now.

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Describing these days, shortly after his return from Medina back to Mecca, he says,

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10 years after the Hajj, the few men, these would be the companions of Muhammad, the few men who had

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left Mecca to join Muhammad, some clandestinely as fugitives, others openly as travelers,

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these would be the masters of Mecca, while all their opponents would be on bended knees, unquote.

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This is the attitude now of Islam all day long, isn't it? This is why you are a deceived fool.

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If you listen to Muslims who preach Islam as a religion of peace, those who understand Islam

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know that this is the Islam, which Muhammad finally inculcated as master and teacher. Indeed,

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Muslim, be a bandit, a butcher, a beheader, and a debauched man. These are the fruits of Islam.

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Behold them. And they were first born by the original fruit bearer, Muhammad.

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Then, thirdly, we must ask, what are the fruits of the religions that we are looking upon? What are

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the fruits? Will I produce fruit myself as a disciple? Will I produce fruit in keeping with

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the Spirit or the flesh? This is the third question I want to ask of these two religions.

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In the broadest sense, then, we must say, we can see the fruits of Christ, and we can see the fruits

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of Muhammad. We can see the fruits of Christianity. We can see the fruits of Islam. And we can see it

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both in the West and the rest, that is, the West and the East. We can see the fruits of Christ and

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Muhammad in the respective cultures that they bear. The West is largely a culture born of the fruit

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of Christ. Indeed, the best point of it, anyway. We see, indeed, the West leading the world. We see

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modern innovations. We see science. We see knowledge. We see tolerance. We see the blessings of liberty and

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a republic. We see all of these things born fruit in the West. And as I have demonstrated to you in

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many, many previous lectures, that these things have all had Christian roots from Christian principle.

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But if you want to see the future of the world as it would be under a new caliphate, if you want

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to see, indeed, what culture would be like under Muhammadism, under Islam, or the Islamic state in the

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Levant is one prime example, ISIL, indeed, or ISIS, look to them. If you want to see what a world would be

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like under a new caliphate, look to the backward and the destitute and the tyrannized lands where

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Allah the Beneficent, Allah the Merciful, now reigns unopposed. Yes, you find there are cultures that are

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backward. Where? But in Islamic countries do you find such backward and poor, poverty-stricken,

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destitute cultures that are also full of tyranny? Yes, if you want death and ignorance and tyranny as

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your heritage, then indeed embrace Islam. Embrace the new caliphate that is being proposed by radical

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Muslims all over the world. Oh, welcome then to your new culture, dear Westerner. If you are indeed such

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a fool as to think there are no differences, that one culture is like another, that one should be

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tolerated as much as another. No, one culture is not as good as another. Indeed, if you want to see

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what will happen to you, dear Westerner, under a new caliphate, under the boot heel of Islam,

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women, welcome to burqas and beds and beatings. Oh, in fact, the Quran teaches you, and in fact,

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good Muslim Imams have courses on how to properly beat your wife. This is all you will know, women of

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the West, welcome to the burqas, beds and beatings. Oh, and you thinkers, those of you who think you

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are scholars, and that you indeed are those who know much and teach much, well, thinkers of the West,

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welcome to the religion that burned, for example, the library at Alexandria, when Omar the Great

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conquered Alexandria, Egypt in A.D. 640, and when asked what they should do with the Great Library,

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that was at Alexandria at the time, renowned throughout the world, still the volumes at Alexandria

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Library echo through the halls of history. When asked what they should do with all of these books,

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Omar said they will either contradict the Quran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree

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with the Quran, so they are superfluous. Burn them all, he said. And it took six months to burn all of

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the books at the library at Alexandria, and they were used as fuel for the saunas of the Muslims.

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Well, then, as well, if you think that there's no difference between cultures, dear listener,

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welcome, you gays and lesbians and transgendered persons who flaunt yourselves now in the West,

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and who think you are so persecuted here in the West, welcome to those of you gays and lesbians and

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transgendered, soon to be under the Caliphate, you will be killed, you will be beheaded, you will be

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burned. Also, welcome, if you think there is no difference between a Caliphate, between the boot

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heel of Islam and the liberty and freedom and true republicanism of the West, welcome to all of those who

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love liberty and justice, welcome to the religion of peace, as it's called, which is actually the

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religion of tyranny, the religion of death and ignorance and tyranny. Ask yourselves, then, whether

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the fruit of the flesh or the spirit match Islam. The works of the flesh, remember, are sexual immorality

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and impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger. You see this all

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through Islam, rivalries, dissensions, and divisions. Compare them with the fruits of the spirit, which

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the Apostle Paul inculcates to us as Christians. That is, the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,

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patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things

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there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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So says the Apostle Paul. These, indeed, are the fruits of Christianity, born in the individual lives

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of Christians, many of them being slaughtered under the booty of Islam, even today in places like Syria

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and Iraq. Dear listener, I welcome you to compare and contrast the fruits of these two religions.

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Jesus said, beware of false prophets. You decide whether Christ was the false prophet or Muhammad was the

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false prophet. Beware of false prophets, Jesus said, who come to you in sheep's clothing,

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but inwardly are ravenous wolves, and you will recognize them by their fruits. You will determine,

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you will decide, you must see for yourselves, dear listener, who is the true prophet, who is the

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false prophet, and you will see this by their fruit, born not only in the individual lives of its

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adherents, but also in the larger cultures in which they generate. So, dear listener, this has been

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Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We encourage you to visit us. Perhaps

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you've been listening for a while. It's time to cross our threshold to visit us to consider becoming a

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member of New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. One of my people encouraged me to exhort you to do

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these things, so I am doing this. I thought that was a good idea. Many of you have been out there in

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the shadows listening, perhaps agreeing, perhaps saying amen to many of the things that we've said.

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We encourage you to begin to join us, to begin to visit us, to see what we're about and the larger

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scope of worship of the Lord Jesus Christ and practice of our religion. Please, I appeal to you

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then, come and visit us at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sundays

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at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of Ortham Boulevard, and you can call us for further

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information at