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

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

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we want to continue to challenge you to think seriously about Christianity and Islam. Now,

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we have been examining in weeks past some introductory ideas covering Islam's origins

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and its five main tenets or pillars, including that less acknowledged shadow pillar, jihad.

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And we examine jihad. We saw that even this is broken into four types of struggle, including the

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inevitable element of armed conflict and propagation of the faith by means of conquest and subjugation.

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And we contrasted this with Christianity's principles of propagation of the faith by means

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of word and sacrament. And we demonstrated that from the Bible. So, we're going to continue to do

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some more comparison and some contrasting elements. And you'll hear some things that have been deliberately

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overlooked and played down in discussing our current struggle with radical, militant Islam. And today,

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there is a major feature of Islam about which you may or may not have heard that sounds the death

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knell for any Christian republic. And that is the concept of Sharia, which is Arabic for way,

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or the way, or the way, Sharia. Now, the way, or Sharia, governs every aspect of life, from commerce to

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marriage and family to the treatment of slaves. Yes, slavery is and always has been rampant in the

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Muslim world. And governs as well what you eat and drink in the dietary cold, all these things,

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all these things, Sharia, inextricably bound up with the Quran. And the more seriously and sincerely a

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Muslim takes the teachings of the Quran, the more he scorns the Western idea of a separation of church

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and state. In fact, the danger to Islam increases in proportion to the level of tolerance and diversity

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that is existent in a culture. Islam by no means is tolerant and diverse. The more liberal a society,

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the greater the threat to the Muslim who purposes to live his life according to Sharia.

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It is a strict code extrapolated from the Quran, an ancient 7th century tribal code,

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as narrow and unforgiving as the harsh desert from which it came. In fact, the scholar Bernard Lewis,

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and I just encourage you to pick up any of his works that you can find. I'm quoting from Bernard

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Lewis's book, What Went Wrong? And he says there, in an Islamic state, there is in principle no law

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other than Sharia, the holy law of Islam. The idea that any group of persons, any kind of activities,

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any part of human life is in any sense outside the scope of religious law and jurisdiction,

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is alien to Muslim thought. There is, for example, no distinction between canon law and civil law,

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between the law of the church and the law of the state, which is crucial to Christian history.

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There is only a single law, the Sharia, accepted by Muslims as of divine origin and regulating all

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aspects of human life, unquote, Bernard Lewis. So, Sharia is very static. There's no case law

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development, according to precedent, as there is in the West. All cases in Sharia are decided by judges.

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There's no jury of one's peers. Courts do not allow circumstantial evidence, and there can be no

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cross-examination of witnesses, and no appeal can be made to a higher court. Under a strict Quranic

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system of law, for example, the police are charged with enforcing moral codes of dress and behavior.

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That's why in many Muslim countries, we have film of police roaming the streets, arresting women in

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the streets for looking lewdly at men in the streets, for example. Does America even remember the Al-Qaeda

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in Afghanistan? Oh, when the Quran prescribes modest dress for women, all come the burkas. If the Quran

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demands death for adultery, then you have women being executed in soccer stadiums, as they were in

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Afghanistan. When you have ancient art and statuary in museums and temples, as the Buddhists did in

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Afghanistan, they get blown up and destroyed. One of the greatest tragedies in the history of mankind

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was the burning of the ancient library in Alexandria, for example, in A.D. 640, by conquering,

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butchering Muslims. And that library contained over 300,000 priceless volumes of antiquity. And then, when asked

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about this loss by one of his lieutenants, the caliph who ordered it said, they now have the Quran. Pray tell,

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what other book do they need? Unquote. So, if you want to know what life would be like in America if Islam had its

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way, look to the recent history of Afghanistan. Oh, is this the kind of system you want for America?

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All across Europe, where Sharia displaces Western law codes, you have vast Islamic ghettos.

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The ruling classes will not admit to this, but now, virtually, with Muslims being imported all

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across Europe, you now have vast swathes of major cities which are Islamic ghettos, where Sharia is

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practiced, where there's no more Western law codes. They don't call the local police. They enforce their

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own laws within their ghettos. In fact, they are often called no-go zones, these vast swathes of

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Islamic and Muslim ghettos, no-go zones for local cops and for local people, for that matter.

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Is this the kind of system you want for America? Sharia law is diametrically opposed to all that we

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hold dear. America has a biblical foundation for law, despite progressive attempts to erase it from

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our collective memory. And there are three main points in this foundation of law based upon Christian

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principle, upon which we can only touch briefly. First of all, number one, the kingdom of God is a

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spiritual kingdom. We must always keep this in mind. The kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom,

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first and foremost. As we discussed last week, God is ushering in his kingdom by means of invisible

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spiritual forces which conquer the hearts and minds of men by the invisible sword of the spirit,

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not by means of jihad, the sword of the state, or Sharia, the law of the state, no. When Pontius Pilate

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asked Jesus about whether he was a king or not, because Pilate was threatened by earthly challengers,

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well, Jesus responded, my kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to

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prevent my arrest by the Jews, but now my kingdom is from another place, unquote. Once again, this is

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why Christianity does not build earthly kingdoms and laws as if they were one and the same with

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the kingdom of God. No, the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom. Secondly, we must also keep in mind

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that Jesus emphasized two spheres of authority for his followers. Number one, his kingdom, and number

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two, that of earthly kingdoms. Two spheres of authority. And this is especially clear in the

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parable of the coin where our Lord said, render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and render unto God what is

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God's. Though there is mutual influence, there is ultimately distinct spheres in which each has

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authority. The church must refrain from running and or dictating the government as the church and vice

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versa. The state must refrain from running and dictating to the church. Here, contained in this

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principle of two spheres, one has much of the history of the West. How will the two relate? Who will have

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predominance? The temptation was always for the bishop to lord it over the prince, and the temptation for

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the prince was always to lord it over the bishop. Here's a tension, utterly unknown in Islam, a tension

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they see as absurd. In Islam, law is always religious, and religion is always the law. And so that's why we

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have Muslim ghettos, where in fact, Sharia law reigns supreme, where it governs all aspects of life. In fact,

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there are no go zones in these Muslim ghettos, as we mentioned. The third thing we have to include here is that

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while there are two spheres in the West, church and state, each with its own sphere of authority, they were

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never intended to be separate, that is, without influence upon each other, as if they were hermetically

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sealed from one another, like the Supreme Court and the ACLU would have it. No, Christianity must have influence in

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shaping the laws and institutions of the government as a profound moral influence. Christians are exhorted,

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whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, Paul says. And this

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includes the making of laws. American jurisprudence, developed over thousands of years of tradition,

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has been inextricably bound up with the Christian religion. In fact, James Kent, who was a

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chief justice of the Supreme Court of New York in the early part of the 19th century, he said,

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Christianity in its enlarged sense, as a religion revealed and taught in the Bible, is part and

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parcel of the law of the land, unquote. Well, in the Congress of the United States, the walls are covered

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with statues and carvings of great promulgators of law in the history of man. I've been there, I've seen

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it. And guess who is predominantly, prominently displayed over the head of the Speaker of the House?

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None other than Moses and the Ten Commandments. The U.S. Supreme Court declared in a decision in 1980,

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religion has been closely identified with our history and government. The history of man is

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inseparable from the history of religion, unquote. So, the very ideals of compassion and justice and

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tolerance and diversity that are now DEI, right, diversity, equity, and inclusion, these are old takes

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on tolerance and diversity. Oh, they are all rooted in the Christian religion. Oftentimes, the biblical

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exhortation to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, for example, is held up for derision as

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an antiquated law of exact retribution. However, what most people do not realize is that ancient law

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codes in the primitive East, including the Code of Hammurabi invariably had provisions in them which

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let the rich and privileged of that society punish a poor man far in excess of his crime. If a poor man

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stole a chicken from a rich man, his wife and children could be sold into slavery or he could

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even be executed because he breached a code of conduct against the rich and well-placed in society.

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What was new and just about the biblical rule of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is precisely

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its exact justice. The punishment was to fit the crime and no rich man could use the opportunity of

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a poor man's crime to plunder what little he did have. So, many other principles embodied in our legal

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system can be traced directly to biblical foundations. For example, corroboration of testimony from at

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least two witnesses, compassion in the courts for widows and orphans and the stranger traveling in your

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land. All of these were vulnerable peoples in society, and the law recognized that they were often subject to

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extenuating circumstances, and so compassion and tolerance must be extended to them. Yet all of these

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things were well established in the larger context of righteousness and goodness based upon a biblical

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morality, a biblical sense of right and wrong. But if they are going to remain compassion and justice

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and tolerance and diversity, or as we put it now, diversity and equity and inclusion, if they're going to

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remain these things, they must not be severed from their roots as they have been in our culture.

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Oh, they all have roots in the Bible and the centuries of Christian tradition, but have been twisted today.

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What happens when these things are severed from their roots? Oh, just look out upon our modern

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liberal progressive America. When compassion is espoused without the God of the Bible, you have a welfare state

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that funds everything from fatherless families to prisons filled with capital criminals and illegal

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aliens. When justice is practiced without the God of the Bible, you have fathers who spank their children

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that are thrown in jail while fathers who advocate sex with children are protected by the law. When you

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have tolerance and diversity practiced without the God of the Bible, you have prayer and the Bible taken out

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of the classroom and witchcraft and the Quran introduced as required courses as they have been in the past in

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the American system. It is time to return to a biblical model of law and justice. Our present course of

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indulging compassion and justice and tolerance and diversity without a Christian foundation will only

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provide aid and comfort to the enemy. So very briefly then we see the stark contrast between Christianity

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with its doctrine of two spheres of authority for law and religion and Islam with Sharia and its single

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sphere of authority for law and religion. Do we realize what's at stake, dear listener? It is the goal of

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every good Muslim, whether he is, if at all possible, wherever he is, that is, to establish Sharia.

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This is the great unconfessed secret that no Muslim wants to reveal here in the West outside of the

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safety of the mosque. This one question he hopes no political talk show host will ask him. If you had

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your way, would you like to see the constitution scrapped and replaced by the Quran and its system of

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Sharia? Oh, if they were asked that, if you would be an honest Muslim, you would have to answer, Allah Akbar,

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yes, of course. If he were true to his principles and beliefs, he would have to admit that this is the

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fondest hope of every good Muslim living anywhere in the decadent West. Oh, this is difficult now in

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America, except for those previously mentioned Muslim ghettos around the America, and no spokesman

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for Islam would find it politically expedient to openly admit this. But if they're honest, men like

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Hussein Ibbish of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or James Zogby of the American,

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or the Arab American Institute, and others like him, would have to admit in their hearts, as good Muslims,

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they want to see Sharia prevail. Millions of Muslims of every nationality have immigrated to America

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in search of a better life, and have begun contributing citizens, yes. But there is and

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always will be this inherent tension in their religion. As radical, militant Islam polarizes itself from the

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civilized world. It will drag the rest of the Islamic world with it. Whatever you may say about the

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radicals, they are calling all Muslims back to basic principles of the Quran, Sharia being one of

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them, and millions are listening. We shrink back in horror at what is happening, perhaps, comforting

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ourselves with the illusion that certainly no reasonable civilized person could approve of such

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barbaric things like Sharia law. Well, millions of Muslims do. Whether they can jump up and down

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in ecstatic joy in the streets of Palestine, or whether they can only smirk and laugh in the privacy

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of their kitchens at home in America, this is what they want. America, do you know what you are up

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against? The utterly naive tolerance and diversity which prevails in our culture is the very thing against

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which Islam fights and which they utterly despise. You will not win them over. They will not suddenly

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wake up one morning and say, oh, what was I thinking? Oh, we can't have Sharia. No, Islamic law will prevail

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wherever Islam held or holds sway. Ah, the kind of tolerance and diversity practiced by the

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Muslim world, severed from Christian roots, will tolerate the very cancer in its body politic that

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will kill it here in America. The kind of tolerance and diversity practiced by us, that is. Radical militant

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Muslims use the very tolerance that naive simpletons extend to them to live amongst us and destroy us in the

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process. Our lax and tolerant immigration policies allowed 19 hijackers to obtain visas in order to

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study our ways and appear to adopt our lifestyle. Diversity allowed five of them to learn how to fly

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commercial aircraft, not to improve their lot and become productive, contributing Americans, no, but to

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run them into our buildings and kill as many of us as possible in the name of Allah. So make no mistake,

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the struggle we face is first and foremost, a spiritual struggle, dear listener. A secular nation

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will never, never win against a militant Islamic people, no matter how sophisticated the weapons of

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the secular nation, because it is first and foremost, a spiritual struggle. And although Muslims have not

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always been consistent here, they at least teach that there are only two peoples, that is the house of

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Islam, that is good Muslims, and the house of war, which are the infidels, that is all the rest of us.

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Technically, the house of Islam transcends all nationalities and reaches to Muslims in every

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country of the world, including America. Oh, at one time, for example, the FBI thought that there were

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no Al-Qaeda in America. Oh, we've learned better. The estimates now are over, well over five to six

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to seven thousand in cells all over the country. What are we going to do? Bomb our own cities? No,

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that's not the weapon that we have to fight with. No, our battle is first and foremost a spiritual battle.

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Now, those secularists who trust in the outward fruits of our Christian foundations, they don't

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realize so many of the fruits of the West have roots in the Christian faith, and we can cover that

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at another time. But those secularists who trust in the outward fruits of our Christian foundations,

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that is, things like a strong economy, just laws and courts, freedom of expression, a strong and

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creative military, all who trust in these fruits of Christian culture will be ultimately disappointed,

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and they will be defeated. Why? Because the struggle we face is first and foremost a spiritual

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struggle, dear listener. As the Apostle Paul puts it, our struggle is not against flesh and blood,

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but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against

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the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms, unquote. If you are unaware of this spiritual realm,

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of these spiritual forces that we just talked about, then you will be a victim of their control.

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You will be manipulated by them, and those actors on their behalf who exist now in places of power.

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Evil always seeks power. Like water running downhill, evil always runs toward power because of the

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desire, indeed, to affront and oppose the living God. They seek power.

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And those who are not aware of that spiritual power at work and how Christ has triumphed over those

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powers will be controlled and manipulated and be victims of that spiritual power. So we must arm

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ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ and be ready, willing, and able to fight in this spiritual realm,

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to put on the spiritual armor that Paul talks about, for example, in Ephesians chapter 6,

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so that we might be equipped to fight first and foremost that spiritual battle. And it will,

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believe me, work its way then from the realm of the spirit to the realm of the physical.

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We, as human beings made in the image of God, are the only creatures in the universe that straddle

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these two realms, the spiritual and the physical. And so we must be equipped to fight the wars

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first and foremost in the spiritual realm, and then it will, believe me, make its way to the physical

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realm as well. Our strength as a people has always come, I would submit to you, our strength as a

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people has always come, incidentally, because we have first settled the issues of our spiritual warfare.

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We have first achieved victory in Christ over spiritual death by receiving eternal life and

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righteousness by faith. True life is life with God, and that life is brought on by a spiritual birth

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as one believes in Christ and his work on the cross that redeems us from the temporal world of sin and

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death and ushers us into the spiritual kingdom of God, the kingdom of the Son he loves, as the

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apostle Paul puts it. Our 1400-year warfare now with militant Islam is only the most recently visible

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manifestation of the struggle. If you wonder what the real issues are, where the real battle is joined,

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we invite you to a struggle that has been in progress ever since the Garden of Eden, a struggle whose

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victory is assured only in the King of Heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ. But it is a struggle. While

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we're fighting, dear listener, join us, because it means the difference between eternal spiritual life

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and death. Oh, as the great King Nebuchadnezzar had to confess, and this is from the book of Daniel,

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chapter 4, after going through his ordeals, the great Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had to confess,

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his kingdom is an eternal kingdom. His dominion endures from generation to generation.

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New Geneva meets for holy worship on Sundays at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and

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Boulevard Boulevard, and we invite you to come and join us for holy worship. But we also want to inform

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you that if you do want to join us, and we hope you do, that we will be meeting for the month of

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September while we do some renovations in the church building proper. We will be meeting for the entire

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month of September on Sundays at 10 a.m. in the Senior Citizen Center at the corner of 21st and

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Rowlandette, a beautiful facility, and we'll be meeting there at 10 a.m. all through the month of

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September. So come and join us there while our building is being renovated. Or you can call us

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for more information at area code 208-523-0196, or check out our website at newgenevaopc.org,

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newgenevaopc.org.