1 00:00:04,690 --> 00:00:09,550 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a 2 00:00:09,550 --> 00:00:14,730 moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. 3 00:00:15,169 --> 00:00:22,350 Today, how should the Christian respond to Islam? This is part two of a series on how the Christian 4 00:00:22,350 --> 00:00:28,890 in the 21st century should respond to Islam as it becomes increasingly aggressive and militant. 5 00:00:28,890 --> 00:00:36,270 Our cowardly and backward and appeasing governments, and I include federal, state, 6 00:00:36,369 --> 00:00:43,649 and local governments in this rubric, are unable and unwilling to face the genuine threat that 7 00:00:43,649 --> 00:00:49,850 Islam presents to us. The recent Muslim terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and then in Orlando, 8 00:00:50,509 --> 00:00:57,850 our Exhibit A in this regard. How is the progressive agenda to appease Muslims working, let me ask you, 9 00:00:57,850 --> 00:01:05,069 has being nice and tolerant and diverse and open to Islam, has this brought us peace and 10 00:01:05,069 --> 00:01:11,310 understanding? Because we have opened the floodgates of Muslim immigration, are we safer? Are we more 11 00:01:11,310 --> 00:01:17,750 loved and respected by Muslims? And are we more united and integrated as a society, singing kumbaya 12 00:01:17,750 --> 00:01:23,730 together, holding hands? The obvious answers to these questions are all a resounding no. In fact, 13 00:01:23,730 --> 00:01:29,689 if we know anything about Islam, it is that all of our appeals to appeasement and understanding and 14 00:01:29,689 --> 00:01:35,849 mutual respect and tolerance and diversity are seen as weakness by a religion that only understands 15 00:01:35,849 --> 00:01:42,790 force and strength. This is how Islam grew as a worldwide religion, if you know your history, 16 00:01:42,950 --> 00:01:47,969 and it is how it is growing today. And we can predict the future without being prophets, 17 00:01:47,969 --> 00:01:53,450 because Islam has a track record of some 1400 years of doing precisely as it's doing today. 18 00:01:54,409 --> 00:02:00,530 In Islam, there is no middle ground. There never has been. There is no compromise. There is no tolerance. 19 00:02:00,750 --> 00:02:06,790 There is no diversity. There is no common center for mutual understanding. This is all Western progressive 20 00:02:06,790 --> 00:02:14,349 nonsense talk. In Islam, there is only the Dar al-Islam. That is the house of Islam. That is true 21 00:02:14,349 --> 00:02:20,770 Muslim believers. And even that is up to debate. Muslims kill each other over what exactly the 22 00:02:20,770 --> 00:02:26,789 definition of a true Muslim is. And then there is the other house, the Dar al-Harb. That is the house 23 00:02:26,789 --> 00:02:36,969 of war. And that is all non-Muslims. As the Dar al-Harb, the house of war, you, dear Christian, are either 24 00:02:36,969 --> 00:02:46,830 one or the other. You are either Muslim or you are else a faqir, an unclean one, an unbeliever. And if 25 00:02:46,830 --> 00:02:51,750 you are of the house of war, then you are the object of eternal hostility, even as we see today, 26 00:02:52,210 --> 00:02:58,550 until you either convert to Islam, die, or else become what is called a demi, which is a shamed, 27 00:02:58,550 --> 00:03:07,729 subjugated, despised, and severely taxed minority in a Muslim society. So, do you truly understand your 28 00:03:07,729 --> 00:03:14,430 options, deluded American Christian? So many of you are living in a fool's paradise of Americana 29 00:03:14,430 --> 00:03:18,810 that you think none of this will ever touch you. It's all for the headlines and no one else. 30 00:03:19,650 --> 00:03:24,110 Continue in your world of cell phones, revelation, red heifer, pre-trib, rapture hopes, 31 00:03:24,110 --> 00:03:29,729 and your contemporary Christian praise band good time feeling worship center Sundays. 32 00:03:30,530 --> 00:03:35,770 ISIS will soon be at the door of your worship center bookstore coffee bar to forcibly replace 33 00:03:35,770 --> 00:03:40,710 your Bibles with Korans, to put your women in burqas, and to have you confessing Allah is God 34 00:03:40,710 --> 00:03:47,870 and Muhammad is his prophet rather than Jesus is Lord. So, Christians, instead of responding like 35 00:03:47,870 --> 00:03:53,009 biblical sheepdogs of the gospel, which we should, we are nevertheless responding like mindless sheep 36 00:03:53,009 --> 00:03:59,849 to the encroachments of the wolf. Christians today and pastors and churches are passively allowing 37 00:03:59,849 --> 00:04:05,169 the beast to ravage the flock. You had better think through these issues, Christian, and clearly 38 00:04:05,169 --> 00:04:09,689 because we are going to be facing Islam as an increasingly militant force in our country for 39 00:04:09,689 --> 00:04:18,250 the foreseeable future. Islamic terror events will multiply and Muslims will only feel emboldened by a 40 00:04:18,250 --> 00:04:24,889 passive and ignorant Christian majority. You will find no protection, Christian, and you will find no 41 00:04:24,889 --> 00:04:29,750 relief from government quarters either. This administration rather has worked closely with 42 00:04:29,750 --> 00:04:35,829 the Muslim Brotherhood and worked closely with Saudi Arabia to arm and assist ISIS, that is the Islamic 43 00:04:35,829 --> 00:04:43,189 state in Syria, in its conquest in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, and now Syria. Obama is living as if he is a 44 00:04:43,189 --> 00:04:49,009 radical Muslim himself, even if he is not one in reality, and that's debatable. And he has also aided 45 00:04:49,009 --> 00:04:54,069 and abetted our enemies as they slaughter our brothers and sisters, as they crucify them, burn them, and cut 46 00:04:54,069 --> 00:05:00,509 off their heads. This administration has supplied ISIS with arms and military intelligence with the foolish 47 00:05:00,509 --> 00:05:06,189 belief that ISIS is better than the dictators they replace. Now our own troops are facing an enemy 48 00:05:06,189 --> 00:05:15,290 equipped with weapons that are the best in the world because they are our weapons. Oh, shameful. Obama should be 49 00:05:15,290 --> 00:05:22,629 tried and put in Guantanamo Bay rather than trying to close it. Well, how should the Christian then respond to 50 00:05:22,629 --> 00:05:29,750 Islam today in its current state? I have suggested six ways, three of which we detailed last week. For example, last week, 51 00:05:29,810 --> 00:05:35,750 we saw number one, the Christian must respond with the truth of Christ. Islam is not a companion religion to 52 00:05:35,750 --> 00:05:40,629 Christianity. Islam is not one of the three great monotheistic religions of the world. Islam and 53 00:05:40,629 --> 00:05:46,529 Christianity do not have shared truths to serve as common ground. Yahweh of the Bible and Allah of the 54 00:05:46,529 --> 00:05:53,550 Quran are not different names and different revelations of the same deity. No, this is all weak, sniveling 55 00:05:53,550 --> 00:05:59,230 drivel from teachers whose desire is to compromise and go along to get along, even if it means giving away 56 00:05:59,230 --> 00:06:06,550 all the essential truths of the biblical faith. Islam and Christianity are opposite, diametrically opposed religions, 57 00:06:06,790 --> 00:06:13,250 180 degrees in opposition to one another. Allah is not the God of the Bible. The Christ of the Quran is not the 58 00:06:13,250 --> 00:06:20,389 Christ of the Bible. And the ways of salvation in the Quran are those of works, while those of the Bible are the ways of 59 00:06:20,389 --> 00:06:27,689 grace. And secondly, we also saw that the Christian must respond with the love of Christ because ultimately Muslims are lost 60 00:06:27,689 --> 00:06:34,189 sinners like the vast majority of mankind. Even in the midst of their savage butchery, we saw Muslims can be 61 00:06:34,189 --> 00:06:40,709 humbled to see the love of God. The Bible says God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ 62 00:06:40,709 --> 00:06:48,029 died for us. We are obligated to show this in word and in deed as Christians to all, wherever and however 63 00:06:48,029 --> 00:06:54,589 possible. And when we are persecuted and slain and reviled, we are to nevertheless love those who are our 64 00:06:54,589 --> 00:06:59,810 enemies. Jesus said, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. But is this the only and 65 00:06:59,810 --> 00:07:05,730 the exclusive response to Islam that we should have? We also saw last week, no, there is the response 66 00:07:05,730 --> 00:07:12,269 number three. That is, the Christian today must respond with appropriate self-defense. The Christian 67 00:07:12,269 --> 00:07:17,610 must respond with appropriate self-defense, no matter how politically incorrect this may be in the minds of 68 00:07:17,610 --> 00:07:25,089 the progressive. This was an important segment because Christians are so ill-informed regarding the Second Amendment and 69 00:07:25,089 --> 00:07:31,750 self-defense. We observe, for example, that every Christian action can be guided for direction depending upon the 70 00:07:31,750 --> 00:07:37,410 covenant under which it falls. There are four of these covenants that are still operative today and for which God holds us 71 00:07:37,410 --> 00:07:43,550 accountable. There is, for example, the covenant of creation in which we find the dominion mandate to be fruitful and 72 00:07:43,550 --> 00:07:49,230 multiply and fill the earth and take dominion of it. And then there is the marriage covenant in which we find 73 00:07:49,230 --> 00:07:56,170 fruitful companionship and helpmates for our lives and progeny for the future in the marriage covenant. And then we 74 00:07:56,170 --> 00:08:02,290 also saw there that there is the covenant of redemption or sometimes called the covenant of grace in which God gave to 75 00:08:02,290 --> 00:08:08,970 his son, Jesus, a people, the church, and in which we, the people, find salvation by grace through faith in that 76 00:08:08,970 --> 00:08:15,730 Jesus Christ. And then finally, there is the civil covenant in which we order our lives under God, established in 77 00:08:15,730 --> 00:08:22,449 Genesis. We order our lives under God by governing ourselves according to God's will. So then, it is under this 78 00:08:22,449 --> 00:08:29,470 fourth covenant, the civil covenant, that appropriate self-defense and the Second Amendment falls. We saw in some detail 79 00:08:29,470 --> 00:08:34,830 how the Bible requires us to defend the weak and the defenseless, to defend ourselves and our families and our 80 00:08:34,830 --> 00:08:39,750 communities. And then for Christians today to just roll over and say, we are commanded to love our 81 00:08:39,750 --> 00:08:47,129 enemies. So I must let the Muslim jihadist rape my wife, kill her and my children, and then I must turn 82 00:08:47,129 --> 00:08:53,350 the other cheek. This is not only cowardly and stupid, but it is a misunderstanding of what action is 83 00:08:53,350 --> 00:09:00,350 appropriate when and under what covenant. Determining what action is appropriate at what time requires 84 00:09:00,350 --> 00:09:05,529 biblical wisdom akin to that of Solomon. You remember Solomon in Ecclesiastes chapter 3, he says, 85 00:09:05,850 --> 00:09:12,070 for everything there is a season and there is a time for every matter under heaven. And then he goes 86 00:09:12,070 --> 00:09:18,549 on to articulate some of them in contraries. He says, a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant 87 00:09:18,549 --> 00:09:24,889 and a time to pluck up what is planted, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time 88 00:09:24,889 --> 00:09:31,090 to build up, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast 89 00:09:31,090 --> 00:09:36,450 away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from 90 00:09:36,450 --> 00:09:43,470 embracing, a time to seek and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away, a time to tear and 91 00:09:43,470 --> 00:09:50,070 a time to sow, a time to keep silence and a time to speak. That's today. Oh, a time to love and a time 92 00:09:50,070 --> 00:09:55,889 to hate, a time for war, and a time for peace, unquote. Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verses 1 through 93 00:09:55,889 --> 00:10:00,809 8. So as you can see, there is no absolute prescription for any particular behavior as 94 00:10:00,809 --> 00:10:06,470 the Anabaptist pietistic pacifist school understands it. No. Rather, the man of biblical 95 00:10:06,470 --> 00:10:11,230 wisdom knows when the appropriate time to defend himself arises and when he should turn the other 96 00:10:11,230 --> 00:10:16,870 cheek when persecuted. The key to understanding our right to self-defense or any other act for that 97 00:10:16,870 --> 00:10:22,509 matter of the Christian, the key to understanding this is understanding under which covenant we are 98 00:10:22,509 --> 00:10:29,970 acting in true biblical wisdom. And I refer you then to the entire lecture of last week for more 99 00:10:29,970 --> 00:10:36,549 detail. Just understand, dear listener, that there is appropriate self-defense expected of you, Christian, 100 00:10:37,049 --> 00:10:43,929 when Islam is at our doorstep and venting their demonic jihad upon us. But individual self-defense 101 00:10:43,929 --> 00:10:48,769 is not the only response the Christian should have. This brings me to Christian response number 102 00:10:48,769 --> 00:10:55,509 four to Islam. Christian response number four to Islam. Number four, the Christian must respond with 103 00:10:55,509 --> 00:11:02,710 appropriate cultural and societal defense. This means police and military, of course, but other things 104 00:11:02,710 --> 00:11:09,370 as well. Appropriate cultural and societal defense. Do not go hide in your basement under a bushel while 105 00:11:09,370 --> 00:11:15,190 Muslims advance what passes for culture in Islam while destroying our culture. Just in the last week, 106 00:11:15,250 --> 00:11:21,009 a Muslim smashed a church in Malmo, Sweden, and another Muslim defaced a statue in Bologna, Italy 107 00:11:21,009 --> 00:11:27,509 with the words, Allah Akbar. And when the Imam Ahmed Al-Tayyib met with Pope Francis recently, 108 00:11:28,269 --> 00:11:33,629 the Imam demanded that all of the statuary and crosses and artifacts in the Vatican be removed 109 00:11:33,629 --> 00:11:41,049 or covered. He was so offended. This weak and vacillating Pope went and did it. Know and 110 00:11:41,049 --> 00:11:46,029 understand as well in this cultural and societal defense that Islam does not allow the human form 111 00:11:46,029 --> 00:11:52,669 to be represented in art. This has consequences as well for art in general. When the Muslim army 112 00:11:52,669 --> 00:11:59,850 conquered Alexandria, Egypt in 641, for example, under the Caliph Omar, Omar was asked by a subordinate, 113 00:11:59,850 --> 00:12:06,230 what should be done with all of the books in the great world-renowned library of Alexandria and the 114 00:12:06,230 --> 00:12:11,009 renown of that library reverberated not only in its own day, but also down to our own day. So great 115 00:12:11,009 --> 00:12:16,970 was it? So many holdings that they have. And Omar said, these books contradict the Quran. They deserve 116 00:12:16,970 --> 00:12:22,110 to be burned. If they agree with the Quran, they are unnecessary and irrelevant. Therefore burn them 117 00:12:22,110 --> 00:12:29,269 all. It took six months to do it. This is an iconic example of Islam's attitude towards learning. 118 00:12:29,850 --> 00:12:35,690 And towards understanding the world around them. Islam also prohibits all music. Do you understand 119 00:12:35,690 --> 00:12:41,190 this? Islam prohibits all music with only a very small minority of teachers dissenting from this 120 00:12:41,190 --> 00:12:47,889 opinion. And this opinion is based on one Quranic verse that condemns, quote unquote, idle talk. 121 00:12:48,330 --> 00:12:55,649 And most imams interpret idle talk as referring to music. On and on we could go. But all you have to do 122 00:12:55,649 --> 00:13:01,610 is cast your attention across the world today and recent centuries and past centuries. And you observe 123 00:13:01,610 --> 00:13:08,590 a vast, rich, teeming culture and society in the West, which has been inspired by notions of liberty and 124 00:13:08,590 --> 00:13:14,289 freedom of expression, fostered by biblical Christianity, and then turn and compare it with 125 00:13:14,289 --> 00:13:21,669 the barren dead culture as the inheritance of Islam. Who goes to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan or Iraq for art, 126 00:13:21,669 --> 00:13:27,129 food or music? Where's the Pakistani symphony orchestra? Where's the art institute of Saudi 127 00:13:27,129 --> 00:13:32,669 Arabia? Can you find a bacon wrapped goat burger in Afghanistan or maybe find a single soup Nazi in 128 00:13:32,669 --> 00:13:39,529 Syria? Or can you find the series diners, drive-ins and dives of Iran? No. Where's the food channel or 129 00:13:39,529 --> 00:13:45,309 the music channel on Al Jazeera TV? Have you ever had a glass of Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon from Libya? 130 00:13:45,309 --> 00:13:52,009 How about a fine microbrew from Kuwait? Wherever Islam predominates, it brings a culture of death 131 00:13:52,009 --> 00:13:59,350 in its wake. Islam kills all of these things. And Islam is this dead culture of death, and they wish 132 00:13:59,350 --> 00:14:06,009 to bring it to us with these army of refugees flooding our borders and our cities. And yet cowardly, 133 00:14:06,110 --> 00:14:11,330 obsequious Westerners bow and scrape before stern Muslim Puritans as if these empty haters had 134 00:14:11,330 --> 00:14:17,230 something to offer to enrich and edify us in Islam. Americans have been so browbeaten and bitch slapped 135 00:14:17,230 --> 00:14:21,789 by Muslim apologists and progressives on how America is the source of all evil and has nothing 136 00:14:21,789 --> 00:14:27,289 to offer the world that we accept it. We accept it as gospel, and we're willing to give away the steak 137 00:14:27,289 --> 00:14:33,870 and lobster we have for the gruel and goat Islam has to offer. Even worse, Christians, who of all people 138 00:14:33,870 --> 00:14:38,730 should know better, retreat into their evangelical cocoons, and they put their blinders on and say, 139 00:14:38,730 --> 00:14:45,110 all we need to do is share the gospel and wait for the rapture, right? What a cop-out. The gospel applies 140 00:14:45,110 --> 00:14:52,769 to every area of life and culture or to none at all. It really is time for us in the West to come 141 00:14:52,769 --> 00:14:59,769 to the defense of our heritage and our homes, O Christian. This means a literal physical defense 142 00:14:59,769 --> 00:15:06,350 of our borders, a defense of our religious faith, and a national sovereignty defense as well. 143 00:15:06,350 --> 00:15:11,870 Well, Islam really has ambitions to conquer the world politically and militarily and religiously. 144 00:15:13,009 --> 00:15:18,950 The Quran says, for example, in Surah 61, verse 9, it is he that is Allah who has sent his messenger 145 00:15:18,950 --> 00:15:24,029 forth, that is Muhammad, with the guidance and the religion of truth to make it triumph over every 146 00:15:24,029 --> 00:15:29,590 other religion, even though the idolaters may be averse, unquote. Many other verses like this are taken 147 00:15:29,590 --> 00:15:36,110 by mainstream Islam as a license for world conquest. Do you realize, O Christian, how inspiring it is 148 00:15:36,110 --> 00:15:43,509 to Muslims all over the world to the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria? Omar Mateen pledged himself to ISIS 149 00:15:43,509 --> 00:15:47,850 before going on his slaughter spree in Florida. The same is true of the couple in San Bernardino. 150 00:15:48,250 --> 00:15:54,610 In fact, CNN reports that ISIS has either carried on or inspired over 90 attacks in 21 countries since 151 00:15:54,610 --> 00:16:00,330 its inception. And we will see them, ISIS, that is radical Islam, Al-Qaeda by another name, 152 00:16:00,649 --> 00:16:05,730 here in the United States with increasing frequency. Howsoever the individual Christian 153 00:16:05,730 --> 00:16:10,750 responds, we as a group, as a society, must defend ourselves and our families and communities. 154 00:16:11,389 --> 00:16:16,889 Worldwide, we must deliberately prepare to fight on a global front, Muslim aggression, wherever it 155 00:16:16,889 --> 00:16:22,690 appears. And nationally, we must stop our suicidal trend of self-denial in refusing to call the problem 156 00:16:22,690 --> 00:16:30,950 with Islam what it is. That is, Islam's cultural, societal, and military jihad upon the rest of us. 157 00:16:31,529 --> 00:16:38,269 The problem with Islam is Islam. Islam is intolerant of Christ, Christianity, and the West. 158 00:16:38,629 --> 00:16:43,070 Wherever Muslims go in the West, they sequester themselves in Muslim ghettos, and they practice 159 00:16:43,070 --> 00:16:49,309 a culture of jihad upon their host nations. It has done so wherever it has taken root. Wherever 160 00:16:49,309 --> 00:16:57,129 Europe or here, look around you, look in Europe at what is happening there or here, what is happening 161 00:16:57,129 --> 00:17:02,289 in Europe will happen here. Eventually, open your eyes, look about you. Oh, Christian, I'm speaking 162 00:17:02,289 --> 00:17:07,549 to Christians in particular. We must defend our own cultures and way of life against the jihad. 163 00:17:08,410 --> 00:17:13,650 Muslims do not integrate into their host cultures. Immigration from such cultures must be stopped. 164 00:17:13,650 --> 00:17:19,849 A broad program of education must be launched that takes pride in Western heritage again. For too 165 00:17:19,849 --> 00:17:24,349 many generations, progressives had deliberately inculcated shame and disparagement of the West 166 00:17:24,349 --> 00:17:30,210 in general, and Christianity in particular. We are losing what we once had, and who we once were. 167 00:17:30,470 --> 00:17:35,750 The Christian church has been complicit in this too, cowardly. In the name of pluralism, Christians have 168 00:17:35,750 --> 00:17:42,230 allowed the forces of secularism in religion, statism in politics, and socialism in our economy to 169 00:17:42,230 --> 00:17:47,289 overwhelm what we once were. That is, we once were and must return to Christ as the focus of our 170 00:17:47,289 --> 00:17:52,670 religion, the constitution as the focus of our political life, and capitalism as the ground of 171 00:17:52,670 --> 00:17:58,609 our economic life together. The three C's versus the three S's. The three C's, Christ, capitalism, 172 00:17:59,069 --> 00:18:06,390 and constitution versus secularism, statism, and socialism. Tolerance, pluralism, and diversity is the 173 00:18:06,390 --> 00:18:10,509 mantra of progressives, excuse me, unless it involves Christ and Christianity, though. 174 00:18:10,509 --> 00:18:14,809 Then, in the name of separation of church and state, it is the Christians that must sit down, 175 00:18:14,910 --> 00:18:18,970 shut up, and mind your place. While we, the progressive, nurture these poor, misunderstood 176 00:18:18,970 --> 00:18:23,990 Muslims who, in reality, practice the most intolerant religion on the face of the earth. 177 00:18:24,569 --> 00:18:31,750 So, our police, security agencies, and intelligence agencies must begin to protect us. The Obama 178 00:18:31,750 --> 00:18:38,630 administration has not protected the American people. No, they have been busy about creating safe 179 00:18:38,630 --> 00:18:46,130 spaces for LGBT people and other so-called minorities on college campuses. Oh, so busy 180 00:18:46,130 --> 00:18:52,009 creating safe spaces for these, while ignoring the safe spaces generally and broadly for the American 181 00:18:52,009 --> 00:18:56,710 people against terrorism. The New York Post reports that the United States has experienced 182 00:18:56,710 --> 00:19:04,269 a major terrorist attack every year under Obama, with many more abroad. We were safer under George Bush 183 00:19:04,269 --> 00:19:08,730 than Obama, even though I have my issues with Bush. It is one of the prime directors of government, 184 00:19:08,849 --> 00:19:15,190 period, is to keep us safe. Our own constitution, the preamble, says that in order to ensure domestic 185 00:19:15,190 --> 00:19:21,269 tranquility, and that's peace at home, and then provide for the common defense. Oh, dear listener, 186 00:19:21,430 --> 00:19:26,289 government is supposed to do these things. Even the Bible insists rescue those being led away to death. 187 00:19:26,710 --> 00:19:31,170 Hold back those staggering towards slaughter. That's for the magistrate. The magistrate, 188 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:34,930 the psalmist also says about him, may he defend the cause of the poor of the people, 189 00:19:35,589 --> 00:19:41,849 give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor. Rise up, then, Christian, 190 00:19:42,490 --> 00:19:47,130 out of your slumber and learn biblical wisdom. There is a time to turn the other cheek and love your 191 00:19:47,130 --> 00:19:51,569 enemy when our life and our actions and our witness fall under the rubric of the covenant of 192 00:19:51,569 --> 00:19:56,670 redemption and grace. But then there is also a time for the church to insist that government defend 193 00:19:56,670 --> 00:20:01,670 those. It is commissioned to protect. That is when those actions fall under the rubric of the civil 194 00:20:01,670 --> 00:20:06,990 covenant. You must understand covenant or you understand nothing at all about the Bible. It 195 00:20:06,990 --> 00:20:11,849 is time for you, O Christian, and it is time for your church and your pastor to defend your faith and 196 00:20:11,849 --> 00:20:17,349 culture against Islamic jihad and insist that government defend us militarily and criminally 197 00:20:17,349 --> 00:20:22,750 against the violence of Islamic jihad. And this brings me to my fifth point. That is number five. 198 00:20:22,750 --> 00:20:29,690 Christians must respond to Islam with the proven solutions of history. Christians must respond to 199 00:20:29,690 --> 00:20:34,849 Islam with the proven solutions of history. And there are proven solutions, even though there's 200 00:20:34,849 --> 00:20:41,269 been a historical blackout concerning them. How pathetic the politically correct ignorance of the 201 00:20:41,269 --> 00:20:48,230 American people are either incompetent or deliberately appeasing. Leaders treat the problem of Islam and 202 00:20:48,230 --> 00:20:52,890 fashion solutions to Islam as if it were some brand new phenomenon on the world stage. 203 00:20:54,049 --> 00:20:58,869 Oh, and they tell us, oh, this normally nice religion of peace has been hijacked by extremists, 204 00:20:58,869 --> 00:21:04,190 and we must scramble to come up with the ways to cope with them while not offending the bulk of 205 00:21:04,190 --> 00:21:09,690 peaceful law-abiding Muslims who mean us no harm and only want to practice Islam in an atmosphere of 206 00:21:09,690 --> 00:21:16,210 harmony, tolerance, diversity, and peace. Oh, my goodness. Isn't this something of the crack 207 00:21:16,210 --> 00:21:22,569 fed to us by this administration and others in the progressive apologist camp? We wring our hands 208 00:21:22,569 --> 00:21:26,890 in great angst and assemble study committees of the best and brightest to brainstorm strategies as if 209 00:21:26,890 --> 00:21:32,869 9-11, Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and ISIS have all appeared in an historical vacuum. How foolish. 210 00:21:32,869 --> 00:21:39,410 We have been fighting this war with Islam for some 1,400 years. This is the reality. It is not a war 211 00:21:39,410 --> 00:21:44,490 with extremists who have hijacked an otherwise peaceful religion. It is a war with a religion 212 00:21:44,490 --> 00:21:50,329 whose heart, soul, and essence is that of conversion and conquest by jihad. If you're told anything else, 213 00:21:50,369 --> 00:21:55,769 it's a lie, whether from the models of Muslims who practice the doctrine of takiyah, which doctrine 214 00:21:55,769 --> 00:22:01,849 says that whereby lying to kafir is no sin and actually a good thing if it advances Islam. 215 00:22:01,849 --> 00:22:07,490 Kafir are unbelievers. Or whether you're told this by weak, silly, and duped progressives, it is a lie. 216 00:22:07,829 --> 00:22:14,470 The truth is, in this 1,400-year struggle, we in the West have found ways to successfully respond to 217 00:22:14,470 --> 00:22:21,410 Islam when it is waxing aggressive, even as it is today. And one apt and pertinent example is from 218 00:22:21,410 --> 00:22:29,150 our own history. And it demonstrates that what Islam understands is force. Because at the dawn of the 219 00:22:29,150 --> 00:22:35,269 19th century, Muslim pirates off the Barbary coast of Africa in the Mediterranean Sea regularly and 220 00:22:35,269 --> 00:22:39,490 cynically raided merchant ships of the world, including those sailing the waters of the 221 00:22:39,490 --> 00:22:45,529 Mediterranean from the United States. Muslim pirate ships demanded tribute from then-President 222 00:22:45,529 --> 00:22:49,809 Thomas Jefferson for captured sailors and the right of American ships to pass over the waters 223 00:22:49,809 --> 00:22:55,410 unmolested. They were the equivalent of terrorists, following the example of Muhammad, who was a raider 224 00:22:55,410 --> 00:23:00,910 and a terrorist and a pirate himself. These were only following the example of Muhammad. 225 00:23:01,690 --> 00:23:06,309 And only Jefferson and Adams were not politically correct in calling it what it was. They said it 226 00:23:06,309 --> 00:23:11,869 was the predations of the Barbary Muslims, the predations of the Barbary Muslims. And how did 227 00:23:11,869 --> 00:23:17,349 Jefferson respond? Well, with a brand new Navy at his command, Jefferson sent out Commodore Edward 228 00:23:17,349 --> 00:23:23,009 Preble, who sailed to Tripoli, Libya, and began a campaign of blockade of the Barbary ports and raids 229 00:23:23,009 --> 00:23:28,289 against Muslim cities all up and down the Barbary coast to the shores of Tripoli, he carried on this 230 00:23:28,289 --> 00:23:33,150 campaign. Does that sound familiar? From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. This was 231 00:23:33,150 --> 00:23:40,089 one of the Marines' first engagements, was the Muslims of the Barbary coast at Tripoli. And it forced 232 00:23:40,089 --> 00:23:46,769 the Tripolitan ruler Hamid Karamanli to sign a peace treaty, returning all captured American soldiers 233 00:23:46,769 --> 00:23:52,930 and promising to leave future American shipping alone as well. The war with Tripoli also intimidated 234 00:23:52,930 --> 00:23:58,410 the other three Muslim states in the region into leaving American shipping alone as they sailed the 235 00:23:58,410 --> 00:24:03,170 Mediterranean. It was the first major victory for the brand new, previously untested American Navy. 236 00:24:03,269 --> 00:24:09,349 What a glorious victory it was too. So this is what Islam understands. Force for the evangelical 237 00:24:09,349 --> 00:24:15,190 Christian to call for turning the other cheek or loving our enemy when it comes to defending the nation 238 00:24:15,190 --> 00:24:21,430 against an increasingly militant Islam. Oh, this is nothing, oh dear Christian, dear foolish Christian, 239 00:24:21,430 --> 00:24:27,829 is nothing but foolish, stupid, and sinful behavior. It is a response that Christ intended. The idea of 240 00:24:27,829 --> 00:24:32,349 turning the other cheek and loving our enemy is a response that Christ intended for the individual 241 00:24:32,349 --> 00:24:37,630 Christian when confronting his persecutor with the claims of the gospel. It is a response that falls 242 00:24:37,630 --> 00:24:42,710 under the rubric of the covenant of redemption and grace. It is not a response that a Christian government 243 00:24:42,710 --> 00:24:48,950 or a Christian magistrate or any other government, secular or religious, should exercise this idea of 244 00:24:48,950 --> 00:24:54,289 turning the other cheek or loving one's enemy. It's not a response that a Christian magistrate should 245 00:24:54,289 --> 00:25:00,869 exercise when resisting current militant Islam or the cultural and military jihad of Islam. 246 00:25:01,349 --> 00:25:06,710 That response should issue from the dictates of the civil covenant. In that case, we should be 247 00:25:06,710 --> 00:25:13,109 protected and defended Obama. Are you listening? The Obama administration has not protected us. The Obama 248 00:25:13,109 --> 00:25:20,410 administration has not kept us safe. It's been so busy giving safe space for LGBT groups and other 249 00:25:20,410 --> 00:25:26,349 so-called minority groups that it has failed to give safe space for the American people against militant 250 00:25:26,349 --> 00:25:36,710 Islamic jihad. Dear listener, we have a sixth response that we should meet the predations of Islam, 251 00:25:36,710 --> 00:25:43,109 and that is the Christian must respond to Islam with the antidote to political correctness. 252 00:25:43,309 --> 00:25:49,089 Oh, this is such a major role that we must save it for another lecture. But there is a six-fold 253 00:25:49,089 --> 00:25:53,410 response, remember, dear Christian, a six-fold response that the Christian should have with 254 00:25:53,410 --> 00:25:57,230 Islam these days. Number one, with the truth of Christ. Number two, with the love of Christ. 255 00:25:57,609 --> 00:26:02,089 Number three, with the appropriate self-defense. Number four, with the appropriate cultural and 256 00:26:02,089 --> 00:26:07,569 societal defense. Number five, with the proven solutions of history. And then number six, with the 257 00:26:07,569 --> 00:26:14,190 antidote to political correctness. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox 258 00:26:14,190 --> 00:26:22,450 Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 259 00:26:22,450 --> 00:26:30,630 4th and Boulevard. You can call us at 523-0196. That's 523-0196. Or check out our two websites, 260 00:26:31,130 --> 00:26:37,609 newgenevaopc.org, or our brand new website where we have chronicled for you past radio messages. 261 00:26:37,609 --> 00:26:49,869 And that website is omnispotestas.org. Omnispotestas.org. That's O-M-N-I-S dash P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S dot org.