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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,

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

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

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but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. What religion bears bad diseased fruit? What religion

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bears good salutary fruit, huh? Jesus goes on to say, a healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit,

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nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and

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

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

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

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

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

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woods in the South. This was the period in America when the Ku Klux Klan was still flourishing in the

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South, and parts of the Midwest, and the torches of the KKK illumined the whole scene in the dark of

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night in this picture. An amateur poet and composer, Mirapol, went home, and he wrote a poem about what

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he'd seen, and then he later composed music to accompany these lyrics. And the song that resulted,

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called Strange Fruit, was recorded first and famously by the jazz singer Billie Holiday. Here

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are the lyrics to this jazz song, Strange Fruit, and see if you can see how this applies to Islam,

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as well as to Southern racism in the early 20th century. Here is the lyrics to Strange Fruit.

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Southern trees bear a strange fruit. Blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Black bodies swinging

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in the southern breeze. Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of a gallant South,

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the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth. Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh. Then the sudden smell

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of burning flesh. Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,

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for the sun to rot, for the tree to drop. Here is a strange and bitter crop.

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

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

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But nevertheless, it's 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

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this. 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.

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Where the Islamic State has conquered, we see in these places beheadings and crucifixions and

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burnings of Christians for merely identifying themselves as Christians. Many of these communities

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in Iraq and Syria, they've been there from the third and fourth centuries. And these Christians

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were, and this is so ironic to me, these Christians were protected under Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein

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indeed protected the Christian communities that had been there for so long, slaughtered far fewer

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people than the Islamic State is slaughtering, even amongst the Muslims. They're now being butchered.

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Muslims, Christians, anyone who disagrees with the Islamic State and the Islamic way of doing things is

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slaughtered. Oh, and we can say ironically that things were better. The Christian community,

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even Muslims, were better off under Saddam Hussein. Oh, what irony. So, we must ask of every religion,

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including Christianity and Islam, what fruit does this religion bear to its disciples? I have three

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points I want to make with you regarding these things. My first point of three is, what are the fruits?

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is my transformation from within? That is, is it a root that produces true good fruit?

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Last week, we observed how our nature underwent a fundamental transformation under our first

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parents, Adam and Eve. While we were created in righteousness and holiness in God's image,

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they sinned. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, sinned and brought themselves and us into a state of

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original sin. With this fact, and in this circumstance, every mortal must contend. Every

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

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

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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

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outward deeds acceptable to God. And that inner transformation, Jesus calls the new birth.

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He says, truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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Oh, dear listener, Jesus was insistent that inner transformation precede an outward transformation

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of behavior. But this is not so in Islam. No. Abdul Salib, you may remember Abdul Salib,

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one of the experts that we've consulted, a former diligent Muslim who converted to Christianity,

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and he says this about Islam. Islam believes that humankind is not sinful by nature. Muslims say

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that Christianity makes man a weak creature who is fallen and in desperate need of help.

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But Islam gives him dignity. Islam says, rise up. You are morally capable of fulfilling God's will for

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yourself and your neighborhood and clean up your society. Unquote. Giving indeed succinctly the Muslim

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view of the inner transformation, ostensibly of man. Instead of salvation preceding works in Islam,

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works done in the flesh must first be done in order to be saved. And I quote you here,

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this is from the Quran, Surah number nine. Those who believe and suffer exile and strive with might in

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Maine, in Allah's jihad, with their goods and their prisons, have the highest rank in the sight of

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Allah. They are the people who will achieve salvation. Unquote. Salvation in Islam. It is not a matter of

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grace, of giftedness. It is not a new birth given as a gift of God to his creatures who could not

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experience this new birth otherwise. But rather, in Islam, salvation is a product of works. That is

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doing, for example, the five things, confession, prayer for five times a day, alms, Ramadan, the pilgrimage

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to Mecca. And most of all, as we see time and time again, and we just read it for you, the thing that

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must be done, the work that must be done, that guarantees your salvation is jihad. Dying in jihad.

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So you wonder why Muslims all over the world flock to jihad, flock to the war, flock to fight the

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kafir, the unbeliever like us. And it's the fatal flaw in every world religion that bases its salvation

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

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because even as you attempt to do these good works, you are still so flawed in your natural unchanged

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state that these works cannot do the kinds of perfect things that God requires. If an inner

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transformation is to take place at all in you, then it will have to be done by God Himself graciously

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before you do any good works. So this reality has consequences for these religions. The works they

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

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

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

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

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and indeed Islam by nature is full of sexual immorality, multiple wives, temporary marriage. If you want to

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sleep with a whore overnight, it's filled with idolatry. We see indeed that Allah was only

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one of 360 gods of the Quresh tribe. Muhammad only singled him out, one of the pagan gods. So idolatry

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is rife in Islam. And then notice all of the emotions and the strife that you see all through

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Islam. Paul says the works of the flesh include enmity and strife and jealousy and fits of anger.

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Rivalries. How many rivalries do you see throughout Islam? Dissensions and divisions, all of these things.

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Well, they are only following the pattern of their masters. All religions have their masters and all

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disciples seek to become like their masters. Muhammad, the master in Islam, the Buddha, Buddha Gautama,

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the master in Buddhism, and of course, Christ, the master in Christianity. So that brings me to my

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second point. What are the fruits? As a student, then will I be like my teacher? And as a servant,

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will I be like my master? In religion, we must say yes to all of these things. Who is the master? You

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will be like him. We often call ourselves disciples of Jesus, don't we? Without knowing precisely what

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Jesus meant in his own first century context by discipleship. Ancient discipleship did not mean

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that one went to a seminary or a Bible school, for example, and that you paid a small fortune for a

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battery of classes and then you stuffed your brain with albeit valuable knowledge about the master. But

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nevertheless, it was knowledge that wasn't put to practical use just yet, and you didn't employ

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his teachings until it felt like that the brain would explode, right? Disciple in the ancient world

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was actually quite different. Disciple, the word disciple is actually a derivative of discipline

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because it required a disciplined life. The discipline of ancient discipleship was that once

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you committed to become a follower of a particular master, well then, you set aside what normally

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preoccupied you and you went where the master went. You ate what the master ate. You slept where the

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master slept. You did what he did. You said what he did. You said what he said, excuse me. You taught

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what he taught. And also, most importantly, you suffered what the master suffered and you shared

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in whatever benefits and rewards that master received. This is true in Islam, as well as in

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

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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

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have nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head. This indicated to that disciple that you

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aren't ready yet to eat what I eat, to sleep where I sleep, to go where I go. And then the text goes on

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to say to another, he said, follow me. But the disciple said, Lord, let me first go and bury my father.

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And Jesus said to him, leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom

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of God. Yet another said, I will follow you, Lord. But first, let me say farewell to those at

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my home. Jesus said to him, no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the

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kingdom of God. Unquote. Oh, this disciple was really having second thoughts and was looking for

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

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living the life of the master. The disciple became like the master. Jesus himself said it is enough

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for the disciple to be like his teacher and the servant to be like his master. We are therefore

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fully expected, dear listener, to be like Jesus, if we call ourselves Christians, to be like him within

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the context of our own personality, but nevertheless, to be like him as we grow in our discipleship.

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And we should see then Jesus Christ, our master, reprised and viewed in ourselves and then in one

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another as well. This mode of discipleship, I submit to you, is no different for the Muslim.

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He must be like his master, Muhammad. He must be like his teacher, Muhammad. They understand exactly

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this principle. It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher and the servant like his master.

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So, very few of those in the West in particular who pretend to understand Islam grasp this. All of

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those who followed Muhammad in his early years and those ever since, they too practiced this very same

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model of discipleship. In fact, Muslims look back to the early years of the disciples of Muhammad

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who are called companions. The Muslims look back to the early companions of Muhammad with the same

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fondness and reverence and awe as Christians look back upon the apostles of Jesus, the 12 apostles of

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Jesus. The highest compliment even today that one can pay to a Muslim is to call him a companion of

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the prophet. You hear this in the language all the time of Muslims. Osama bin Laden called the

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perpetrators of 9-11, uh, paid them the highest compliment by calling them companions of the

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

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It hearkens back to those early years of Islam when it was a persecuted, misunderstood minority among

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the pagan tribes of Muhammad's home tribe, the Qirash of the Arabian Peninsula. The seminal moment in

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Islam is Muhammad's Hajj, that is, his pilgrimage, from where he was being persecuted in Mecca to the

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small city of Medina, where he had been invited to stay by tribesmen there. Those companions, that is,

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the apostles, who went with him into exile and obscurity, these are the very models of what it means to be a

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Muslim. Oh, in fact, so significant is the Hajj in Islam that the Muslim calendar is dated from its

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inception. The Hajj was begun on July 16, 622 of our calendar, but was day one in the calendar of the

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Muslim. And what few outsiders realize is that this model of discipleship provided by Muhammad does not end

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with this ostensibly humble, quiet retirement into exile. No, Muhammad, while he was in Medina, turned

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palpably to a different course of leadership and practice in Islam. He turned to banditry to support

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himself and his followers. He began to slay his opponents now, including Jews and Christians, and he

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began to assemble converts by giving them a choice, convert or die. In other words, Muhammad became a bandit,

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a butcher, a beheader, and a debauched man. The entire tone of the Quran takes on a palpable change

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after Medina. The Quran now is violent and aggressive and uncompromising, plunder and slaves,

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and women, multiple wives, vengeance on one's enemies, and glory in war and jihad. This becomes the very

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marks of a disciple of Muhammad. Are we surprised when we see this reprise today, when we see Islam

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full of bandits and butchers and beheaders and debauches? Why, Ali Dashti, I encourage you, if you

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want a Muslim perspective on the life of Muhammad, read Ali Dashti's book, 23 Years, A Study of the

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Prophetic Career of Muhammad. Oh, yes. There, I quote from it now, describing these days. Shortly after his

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return from Medina back to Mecca, he says, 10 years after the Hajj, the few men, these would be the

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companions of Muhammad, the few men who had left Mecca to join Muhammad, some clandestinely as

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fugitives, others openly as travelers, these would be the masters of Mecca, while all their opponents

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would be on bended knees, unquote. This is the attitude now of Islam all day long, isn't it?

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This is why you are a deceived fool if you listen to Muslims who preach Islam as a religion of peace.

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Those who understand Islam know that this is the Islam which Muhammad finally inculcated as master

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and teacher. Indeed, Muslim, be a bandit, a butcher, a beheader, and a debauched man. These are the

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fruits of Islam. 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 the

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

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sense, then we must say, we can see the fruits of Christ, and we can see the fruits of Muhammad.

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

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

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respective cultures that they bear. The West is largely a culture born of the fruit of Christ. Indeed,

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the best points of it anyway, we see indeed the West leading the world. We see modern innovations. We

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see science. We see knowledge. We see tolerance. We see the blessings of liberty and a republic. We see

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all of these things born fruit in the West. And as I have demonstrated to you in many, many previous

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lectures, that these things have all had Christian roots from Christian principle. But if you want to see

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

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like under Muhammadism, under Islam, or the Islamic State in the Levant is one prime example, ISIL, indeed, or ISIS,

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look to them. If you want to see what a world would be like under a new caliphate,

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look to the backward and the destitute and the tyrannized lands where Allah the Beneficent,

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

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Where but in Islamic countries do you find such backward and poor, poverty-stricken, destitute

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

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

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all over the world. Oh, welcome then to your new culture, dear Westerner, if you are indeed such a fool

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

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

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happen to you, dear Westerner, under a new caliphate, under the boot heel of Islam, women, welcome to burqas

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and beds and beatings. Oh, in fact, the Quran teaches you, and in fact, good Muslim imams have courses on how

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to properly beat your wife. This is all you will know. Women of the West, welcome to the burqas,

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beds and beatings. Oh, and you thinkers, those of you who think you are scholars, and that you

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indeed are those who know much and teach much, while thinkers of the West, welcome to the religion that

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burned, for example, the library at Alexandria, when Omar the Great conquered Alexandria, Egypt in AD 640,

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and when asked what they should do with the great library, that was at Alexandria at the time,

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renowned throughout the world, still the volumes at Alexandria library echo through the halls of

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history. When asked what they should do with all of these books, Omar said they will either contradict

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the Quran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with the Quran, so they are superfluous.

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Burn them all, he said. And it took six months to burn all of the books at the library at Alexandria,

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and they were used as fuel for the saunas of the Muslims. Well then, as well, if you think that there's

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no difference between cultures, dear listener, welcome you gays and lesbians and transgendered

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persons who flaunt yourselves now in the West, and who think you are so persecuted here in the West,

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welcome to those of you gays and lesbians and transgendered, soon to be under the caliphate,

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you will be killed, you will be beheaded, you will be burned. Also, welcome, if you think there

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is no difference between a caliphate, between the boot heel of Islam and the liberty and freedom and

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true republicanism of the West, welcome to all of those who love liberty and justice. Welcome to the

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religion of peace, as it's called, which is actually the religion of tyranny, the religion of death and

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ignorance and tyranny. Ask yourselves, then, whether the fruit of the flesh or the spirit match Islam.

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The works of the flesh, remember, are sexual immorality and impurity, sensuality, idolatry,

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sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger. You see this all through Islam, rivalries, dissensions

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and divisions. Compare them with the fruits of the spirit, which the Apostle Paul inculcates to us

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as Christians. That is, the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

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faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to

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Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. So says the Apostle Paul.

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These, indeed, are the fruits of Christianity, born in the individual lives of Christians, many of them

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being slaughtered under the boot heel of Islam, even today in places like Syria and Iraq. Dear listener,

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I welcome you to compare and contrast the fruits of these two religions. Jesus said, beware of false

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prophets. You decide whether Christ was the false prophet or Muhammad was the false prophet. Beware of

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false prophets, Jesus said, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves, and you

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will recognize them by their fruits. You will determine, you will decide, you must see for yourselves, dear

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listener, who is the true prophet, who is the false prophet, and you will see this by their fruit, born not only in

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the individual lives of its adherents, but also in the larger cultures in which they generate.

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So, dear listener, this has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

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We encourage you to visit us. Perhaps you've been listening for a while. It's time to cross our

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threshold, to visit us, to consider becoming a member of New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

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One of my people encouraged me to exhort you to do these things, so I am doing this. I thought that

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was a good idea. Many of you have been out there in the shadows listening, perhaps agreeing, perhaps

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saying amen to many of the things that we've said. We encourage you to begin to join us, to begin to

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visit us, to see what we're about, and the larger scope of worship of the Lord Jesus Christ and practice

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of our religion. Please, I appeal to you then, come and visit us at New Geneva Orthodox

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Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sundays at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of

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Ortham Boulevard, and you can call us for further information at 523-01.