The Islam Problem? There is only ONE Answer, Jesus Christ!

That is right,

because Islam is not the problem, SIN, is the problem, beliefs in false prophets is the problem, REJECTING JESUS CHRIST,

IS THE PROBLEM.

Did you know, Jesus warned, there would come a time, that they would kill believers thinking they were doing a service to God?

Yes, IT IS WRITTEN: John 16

1 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the hour is coming when those who kill you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their hour comes you will remember that I warned you about them.

John 15

18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘Servants are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Those who hate me hate my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’

26 “When the Holy Spirit, [Comforter, Advocate, Conviction of Sin] comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

The answer is not in flesh, warfare,

it is in Spirit, Obeying God, SUBMITTING TO GOD, RESISTING THE DEVIL,

we know, that those who hate, HATE, do not KNOW God nor is the Spirit of God in them, as IT IS WRITTEN:

1 John 4:13-21

13 By this we know that we abide in him and he is us, because he has given us of his own Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. 19 We love, because he first loved us. 20 If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother who he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Does this mean that we cannot Hate the things done to people, women, in other beliefs, including those who are false prophets within Christianity? NO! God hates evil,

God hates sin,

but we are to hate sin, love the sinner, as God loves us, as God sent His only Begotten Son for us, remember, God first loved us,

not the other way around.

We didn't seek God from our sinful nature, no, God, sought us out, to redeem us, to save us, to recreate us, from our fallen state.

“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 “Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

Romans 3:11-19, Romans 4:9

We can 'fight' laws and empires till we are Blue in the face,

until we Submit to God, TRUST in God, all human effort outside of God, will fail.

Sometimes, yes, God uses evil, including those who hate him, to speak to us, to woo us into REPENTANCE,

because God wants to save Souls,

not our comfort, not our welfare only, not our prosperity, God wants to save souls. Throughout the history, God has saved a remnant, for Himself,

in hard and perilous and evil times. The world may go one way, violent, misogynist, cruel, haters of God and haters of good,

but, question is, WHICH WAY DO YOU GO?

Do you follow the world? OR, do you Submit to God? NOT to religion,

to God.

We cannot submit to God if we don't know and trust God,

Fear of God, is more than simply awe, reverence, dread,

dread for those who refuse to repent of sin. [not legalism, you can be legalist and religious and still go to hell, its by FAITH, in God's Holiness and Grace, not by our own 'supposedly' righteousness because simple fact is,

we don't have any righteousness OUTSIDE of Him, God, Christ Jesus.

Oh, we may have knowledge of good, but that isn't the same, as being regenerated, or what is termed, Born Again [in spirit].

We live in a very evil world, and in these later days, we are living in the fruit of Satan, seriously, no other way to say it,

these last days, evil will be considered good, and good considered evil,

that is why, yes, you have regimes, professing god, who want to legalize rape,

its evil, its the worship of BAAL,

read the Old Testament, its all there,

its amazing, how many of the old practices and rituals, shedding of blood/cutting one self, sacrificing virgins, forced prostitution, burning their own sons and daughters in the fire, for Moloch,

are still practiced today, the old demons are still around, still wrecking lies and havoc on the earth. People are still ensnared,

that is why, Paul said, our warfare is not of the flesh, but in the spiritual realm.

OUR DUTY, IS TO BE OBEDIENT TO GOD, TO LIVE IN CHRIST, NO MATTER WHAT,

TO NOT SHRINK BACK,

NOT EVEN IN THE FACE OF

DEATH.

Yes, we are to be martyrs,

we are to take up our cross and Follow Jesus,

the church today, for the most part, is a fallen away church--apostate,

that is going to change however, God promised, in Revelations, Daniel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah, and Ezekiel,

God is setting apart, sanctifying, the remnant, the pure bride, the body of Christ.

The saints,

and, interestingly, did you know, in Revelations, the Spirit told the Apostle John, that in the last days, the Saints,

would be 'beheaded'?

Yes,

"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years" (Rev 20:4).

So, why fear?

Jesus told us, not to love this life, not to put our hopes and treasures of our heart, in this world, in this life, but to store up treasure in Heaven,

we need to go back, to the teachings of the Word of God, and stop, the love of this world, which will soon pass away,

the reason so many are wrapped up in fear, in wanting change on this planet, is that they do NOT BELIEVE IN GOD, IN JESUS,

THEY DO NOT HAVE THAT HOPE ETERNAL.

And God, speaks this to us all through the Old Testament too, not just in the New Testament,

it was Always about,

us coming to Him, Him restoring and reconciling us fallen creation, to Him.

The more I read the Word of God, the more my heart rejoices, the more I see, His work, the more I realize,

He is in control, even if it looks, like He isn't, and He, will watch over our souls and protect us, IF we trust, obey, and follow Him,

no matter what.

Do I hate what the Islamists and other misogynists do, Yes, sure I do,

I just don't get all wrapped up in fear or hate anymore, because I see now, a much larger picture, and not only that,

a plan, that God had, in the days of Abraham,

there ARE going to be descendants of Hagar, that will know Jesus Christ,

all the haters of Jesus in the world, can't stop it, they can't stop God no matter how much they shed blood to do so,

no matter how much the Beast may look like he is in total control over this planet,

he isn't.

It just seems that way,

Prayer, there is such a need for intercessory prayer, in fact, I am finding,

one cannot live in this day and age, WITHOUT CONSTANT PRAYER, CONSTANT DEPENDENCE ON GOD AND CONSTANT LIVING IN CHRIST,

that means, putting down the flesh and its carnal sinful nature, living in obedience to Christ, walking in love,

it is NOT an easy walk, life,

it is a daily, daily struggle. The instant, I try to walk in God, the minute, I see, this sinful nature surge in me,

this lower nature, that must be put to death,

we do that, by living in the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, in Love. Why Jesus said,

pray for your enemies, turn the other cheek, stand up against sin, but do so, in love, lest you also fall into sin,

it sounds all good doesn't it? But, its not as easy as it sounds,

it IS a real, warfare,

a spiritual warfare.

But I am finding, God is good, God is so good in His Grace, that He loves us so much, and that He changes us, our hearts, our wills, even our desires,

if we so let Him.

And they aren't burdensome, or hateful,

we see God as a hateful vengeful God because that is what OUR sin nature is, hateful and vengeful,

we mold God or try to, in our image,

but you see, its supposed to be, us being molded into His image. [regeneration]

We should pray, for the Kingdom of Heaven, to be on Earth, as it is in Heaven,

that the powers of strongholds, false teachings, be Broken, in the spirit realm, and in the earth,

WHEN the Body of Christ, submits to Jesus, and Repents,

we will see the outpouring of God's Spirit in the darkest regions,

but WE must too, repent, submit, take up the cross,

and yes, they Will hate us, they will kill many of us, cause us to suffer--if they hated Jesus, they will also hate us,

it isn't like, we weren't warned.

This is why, we must, be secure in God, and we cannot do that, by living on the fence, by living half in the world, half for God,

God is a jealous God,

its either Him, or else.

That means, NOT religion, NOT politics, NOT our 'husbands' [the patriarchal idolatry of making 'men' little gods, and GOD will judge that, believe you me] and the same goes to idolatry of making women, into goddesses,

idolatry could be money, technology, our own knowledge, anything that puts itself Above GOD,

including religion--including religious rituals, legalism,

that isn't Faith, that is putting ourselves up as 'gods',

God condemns that.

Many legalists, lovers of the 'law' hate Jesus, because you see, they are still trying to either,

mold God into their 'god image' that promotes the selfishness and hate of man,

or

they are trying to show themselves as gods, as holy gods,

rather than,

coming to God, in brokenness, in contrite heart,

confessing sin, the need for redemption, forgiveness, and salvation.

OUTSIDE of God's Grace,

we can do nothing.....

the answer, to the world's problems, to violence, to hate, to misogyny,

isn't in changes in 'laws', because changes in laws don't change human nature nor human hearts,

no,

they don't change the consciousness of victims either,

no, the answer is,

Jesus Christ. The Cross,

its as simple as that.

I am closing, with an excerpt, of a sermon, that everyone, should read,

why Jesus Wept.

I pray, that God softens hearts, that He reveals His truth, to you, as you read....

love, in Christ Jesus,

Natasha [He is changing more and more every day, I am in awe, of His mercy, His love, His long suffering patience, towards me, I pray, the rest of my days, He never, cries, because of any thing I do...or think or say.]

Why Jesus Wept

By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.

As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace — but now it is hidden from your eyes." — Luke 19:41-42, NIV

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