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Yesterday we started looking at how Christians are supposed to treat strangers (foreigners) in their land. Our focus was on the Old Testament and today I want to focus on the New Testament.

We often deal with protecting our nation against the ideology of Islam. I have often told you that we must separate the issue of Muslims, the people, the ones following the religion, from the Islamic issue. They really are two different issues. Muslims, in themselves, are people, souls, that have been misguided, taught a lie, and they do what they do because of Islam. The problems we have with them is because of their attachment to Islam. Our real problem as a nation is with Islam. Islam is a dangerous ideology, it is against just about everything we in our country hold dear, freedom; faith in Christ, etc. are all a threat to Islam, and threatened by Islam.

The question most often asked by Muslims concerning the deity of Christ is, Show me in the Bible where Jesus said I am God. They may present it this way, Jesus never said that He is God. This is a false statement. Jesus may not have used those very words, but He certainly communicated to the Jews that He was God at least five times. He communicated it so clearly that those who heard Him thought it was blasphemy for a man to make himself equal with God and wanted to stone Him. If Jesus were but a man, it would be blasphemy for Him to have made that claim. But, because He was God in the flesh, God who became man, not man who became God, it was not.

The subject for the last few days has been about the deity of Christ. Muslims believe that Jesus was just a man, and that He was not the Son of God. One of the biggest problems for Muslims is, how could Jesus be God and have died on the cross. The question is, How can God Die? This is a good question, and we must be able to answer it.

Today we are continuing with the series on defending our faith. Islam makes outrageous claims about or faith and our Bible. Islam teaches that Jesus is not God, that He was just a man, and that Christianity has made a God out of Him. The Islamic scholars have learned that, unlike in Muslim countries, in the West you can’t just make claims, you must support your arguments with facts. As a result, they are taking Scripture out of context, twisting it, and trying to deceive Christians to believe that the Bible teaches something other that what it really teaches.

Muslims what us to believe that Jesus, in John 10:30 was not saying He was equal with God, but only that they were unified in purpose. Today we answered this accusation.

The Bible teaches that God is one God, yet He is three persons. One of Islam’s greatest attacks on Christianity is the attack on the Trinity and the deity of Christ. Muslims not only deny Christ’s deity, they also deny that God is the Father. It is the only religion in the world that does this. There are those, like the Jehovah Witnesses, who deny the deity of Jesus Christ, but they do accept God being a Father. This is why I call Islam the Antichrist Religion. It is the only religion that fits with the five times the word “antichrist” is used in the Bible. All of them are in First and Second John.

Today I want to take the role of a Muslim who is trying to debunk the idea of the deity of Christ. A hallmark teaching of Islam is that Allah hath no son, and Jesus is not God. One of the first things they will do is say, show me in the Bible where Jesus says He is God. This is a great opportunity to take them into the Scriptures.

Yesterday we started a series of Christian responses to the accusations of Muslims against our faith. Islam is the Johnny-come-lately religion and is telling us that the religion that has been around for 2,000 years, and whose Scriptures began with the Jews, has been wrong. They tell us that their scriptures are superior to those of the Christians and Jews. They claim that the Bible has been corrupted, the Old Testament by the Jews and the New Testament by the Christians.

This week I want to talk about some of the arguments we, as Christians, must use when talking to Muslims. There are four major areas that Muslims often use as charges against Christianity. We need to know how to defend these for areas.

I want to share with you what I believe are the best arguments to prove that Jesus is God. It works with Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, Islam, and any other ism that teaches that Jesus was not God manifest in the flesh. Islam teaches the Jesus was just a man, a prophet, but just a man. It teaches that Christians have committed the greatest sin and blasphemy of all, shirk. This is making a man equal to God. Making a man equal with God would be blasphemy for Christians also. We do not teach that a man became God, we teach that God became a man. The eternal Word, Jesus, the Son of God, became flesh and dwelt among us.

We have told you that the Qur’an doesn’t teach that the Bible is corrupt. It actually teaches that the Allah guarded the Scriptures that came before the Qur’an, which are the Old and the New Testaments. We must ask why the Qur’an says one thing, and the Muslims of today are saying something different. The answer is easy. The Muslims of Muhammad’s day couldn’t read or write so they couldn’t check out the Bible to see what it says and compare it with the Qur’an. Muhammad was, therefore, able to claim that his revelations agreed with the Book, the Bible. Today they can, and they can see the errors and that Muhammad was a con-man. For this reason, the Islamic clerics tell them that the reason for the differences between the Bible and the Qur’an is that the Bible has been corrupted.

Today we are continuing on the subject of the Muslim claim that our Bible has been corrupted. Yesterday we saw that, not only does the Qur'an not teach such a thing, but it actually teaches that our Scriptures have been preserved. We also asked if Allah could not keep his first two revelations pure, how are we to believe that he could keep the third one pure?

One of the problems here in America is that those who understand, those who come to our meetings, are over 50 years old. The younger generations don’t seem to be paying attention to what is going on. In central Europe, those who attend the meetings are mostly under 35. Those in central Europe remember the totalitarian system of the Soviet Union. They know tyranny, it is not an abstract concept to them. They view Islam as worse that Communism. That call it Communism with a god.

On today’s broadcast we had Dr. Bill Warner. He is the founder of Political Islam, and the author of important books on the subject of Islam. He was a college physics professor, and about 45 years ago he started looking into Islam. He started by looking at religious mysticism.

We have been talking about the ten steps to radicalization of Muslims. When these steps are followed, the person will become a militant jihadist. Not everyone has the courage to follow through. Most of the jihadis hide under the cloak of being a moderate Muslim. They have a public and a private face. The sixth step is establish that Allah only rewards his faithful servants, and punishes the disobedient. This is important because Muslims have no guarantee of salvation without being obedient to everything Allah says to do. Allah very seriously punishes those who are disobedient, even with Hell. This means that if they want entrance into Paradise, they had better carry out everything, including jihad.

Today we continue with the steps to the fundamentalization of a Muslim. We need to understand that the reason the militant Muslims do what they do is that they are doing what Islam and Muhammad teaches them to do. Yesterday we looked at the first three steps and today we will cover part 4 and 5. Step four is establishing that the only way to contentment is to be fully submitted to Allah;s law, and will. They must believe that the only way there can be contentment in their lives, the lives of their families, and in society as a whole, is if they, and those around them, are fully, not partially, submitted to Allah and his law. Islam means submit, and Muslim means the submitted one. There are many who would have us believe that Islam means peace. They are just trying to deceive us.

Since we see so many Islamic terrorist attacks around us we need to understand what is happening. How are these people being “radicalized?” Another question we must ask is; Are the things they are doing consistent with Islam, or are they, as the media and our political leaders like to say, “radicalized?” The use the term “radical” to say that this is a radical version of Islam and there is a peaceful version of Islam is false. They want us to believe that if we could just get the terrorists to buy into the peaceful version we wouldn’t have the problems with terrorism and terrorists. We need to understand that we have had these problems through all of the 1,400 year history of Islam.

This week we have played broadcasts I did with Shahram Hadian about a year ago. Today I had Shahram back on the broadcast live. I wanted to get Shahram back on the program because of the news coming out of Iran. Remember, he was born in Iran, raised as a Muslim, came to the West, found Jesus Christ, and is now a preacher of the Gospel. He still has family in Iran so I can’t think of a better person to turn to concerning what is happening over there.

Yesterday we looked at the proof of the accuracy of the Old Testament manuscripts. Today we will start by looking at the New Testament manuscripts. There were no professional scribes. If you were a Christian that traveled, for example, from Ephesus to Philippi, you would probably take with you a copy of the letter written to the church at Ephesus. While you were there you would probably make a copy of the letter Paul wrote to the Philippian church to bring back to Ephesus.

Contradictions In The Qur'an It is important to remember that the only source of Islam is Muhammad. No one else can validate what he said, and no one else received any revelation from Allah. There is no claim in the Bible that it was given all at once. We know that it was given by different people over a long period of time. There are some 400 years between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament.

Today I want to compare the Bible and the Qur’an. As Christians we believe that God’s Word is inerrant and infallible. We believe that God gave his revelation to man and that He has preserved it pure until this day.

Procrastination January 1, 2018 Tom Wallace I want to take this opportunity to welcome you to 2018. I want to start the year by sharing a few thoughts with you. Here is what Benjamin Franklin had to say about time: Dost thou love life?

We are about to say goodbye to 2017. Some of you are glad to see this year end. For some of my friends it has been a year of sickness, for others it has been a year of financial problems. For others it has been a good year, full of joy. All of us will say farewell to 2017 with mixed feelings. We have some excitement and anticipation for the coming in of 2018.

Today we had Tom Doyle as a guest on our broadcast. He is a seasoned pastor, been involved in missions for many years, and is on of the vice presidents and Middle East Director of E3 Partners. He does a lot of work in the Middle East. He is the author of several books, but I want to discuss his book “Dreams and Visions.” It is about the dreams and visions in the Muslim world that seem to be bringing Muslims to Christ.

Countless number of Muslims are claiming to see visions of Jesus Christ. Not hundreds but thousands! LAST DAYS ---- there will be Visions and Dreams. Ac 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

Today I want to talk about Jesus in Hanukkah. This is the season of Christmas for Christians, but for the Jews it is the season of Hanukkah. Where does Hanukkah come from? It goes back to the inter-testament period at the close of the Old Testament. There was a period of 400 years between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament.

The United Nations stood in almost perfect unity against Israel and the United States yesterday. The General Assembly held an emergency session to condemn the US for recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and saying we would move our embassy there. An overwhelming majority voted to condemn the US for this. 128 nations voted to condemn this move. Only eight other nations voted with us, and 35 nations were to cowardly to vote one way or another.

Since we are celebrating the birth of Christ, let us be thankful that Jesus was born of a virgin, and did not have man’s blood running in His veins. Without this virgin birth, our salvation would be impossible. Jesus was the sinless lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8), that man might have a way out of the consequences of his sin.

We have been talking about the Golden Age of Islam this week. We have seen why, except for the very short period of this age Muslims have not been very advanced in technology and why they have not offered much to the world when it comes to intellectual thinking and development. It all boils down to the religion of Islam. Islam is oppressive to the thinking process.

We have been looking at the Golden Age of Islam for the last couple of days. It lasted for 70 to 75 years. The Reason it ended was the trial of the Caliph, Al Ma’mum. I guess the best way to describe Al Ma’mum is call him a revolutionary. He was an anomaly in the Islamic world. He championed critical thinking and cultivated intellectual and scientific developments. He started what was called the House of Wisdom in Baghdad after they moved the seat of government from Syria to Persia.

Today I want to continue on the subject of Islam’s Golden Age that I started yesterday,. We hear so much today about how much Islam has contributed to science and the culture of the world. We are being fed the lie that we are indebted to Islam for the scientific development of the modern world. They tell us that we owe Islam for the advances in astronomy, alchemy, mathematics, medicine, optics and so forth.

Today I want to look at the claim we hear saying that Islam has brought us many great scientific advances, that they have brought enlightenment to the world, that they have given us innovation and technology, and that we are indebted to the Muslims for these things. Today and tomorrow we are going to expose the truth, and the lie, in this claim.

As you have probably heard, a couple of days ago President Trump followed through on his promise to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem and officially recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel. This move has been met by almost unanimous condemnation from leaders around the world. This is, of course, no surprise.

Today we are looking at information from Leo Holman’s book, Stealth Invasion. It grew out of two and a half years of research and writing for World Net Daily on the subject of Islamic immigration and all of the out of control programs. There is a lot of data in the book, but Leo has tried to make it as readable as possible. There are a lot of true life illustrations that have happened in various cities and small towns across America which have been transformed by the refugee resettlement program.

Today we had Leo Hohmann on our radio broadcast. Leo writes for World Net Daily (WND), and has written a book cald “Stealth Invasion.” He started looking into the illegal immigration problem, and as he did, he found that there was a big problem with legal immigration, especially the refugee resettlement program. There was a lot of positive media attention on the refugee program, but no one had ever looked at its dark side.

Many Christians, and sadly many pastors, are making some big mistakes when they try to reach out to Muslims. A big part of our ministry is reaching out to Muslims and we want to see Muslims come to Christ.

Today I want to look at a story where a Group of “Christians” tries to build bridges to their Muslim counterparts and share the love of Christ with Muslims. I am fully behind sharing the love of Christ with Muslims but this group is very naive. We are going to talk about some mistakes they are making.

I believe that President Trump is right in trying to bring back our nationality. The Democrats and the liberal left are trying to take away our nationalism. To them, being called a “nationalist” is taboo. They get upset with anyone who is for America, and for what America has stood for. The left is against America and does not want our Christian values. They want their multiculturalism that says every culture is equal to every other culture. One of their slogans is “Diversity is our strength.”

Irony of how the world wants to live without God and His rules but when trouble and moral problems arise, they complain! Want to Drink but don’t want the problems with drunkenness Want to abandon the 10 Commandments and live wantonly, free of any restraint but also free of the results. Want to have Free Sex but don’t want Consequences of Diseases or Babies. Want to eliminate the problem – the Baby – Kill it but don’t want the Guil

Today I want to discuss all of these sexual assault accusations that are in the news. The Bible tells us the importance of a good name: A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. (Proverbs 22:1)

The Bible tells us that if we are truly born of God, if we are truly Christians in the Bible sense, the Holy Spirit lives within us. If the Holy Spirit lives in us, we will have spiritual fruit: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)

I know that Thanks Giving is already past, but I want to give you my Thanks Giving message. We know that everything we have is from the Lord, and every day should be a day of thanks giving.

For the last few days we have been looking at sharing our faith with the Jews. The Jewish faith is very close to what we believe, but sadly you can be close and still not make it to Heaven. In the New Testament, many Jews believed in God's redemptive plan, but they rejected Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Many of them are depending on their own good works, and their self-righteousness. Many are still doing that today.

Today we are going to continue with our discussion with Ken Overby, a missionary to the Jews. How do we present the Gospel to someone of a different religion, for example a Jew? A good starting point is Isaiah Chapter 53. You can’t beat the power of this passage. Most Jewish people have never read this chapter. It is not in the daily Synagogue readings as they read through the Old Testament. Even in the time of Jesus, it was not one of the prescribed readings.

On today’s broadcast I had Ken Overby. He is with Jewish Awareness Ministries. We are looking at how to defend our faith when we come up against those with different belief systems. He have looked at creationism and other things. Today we are going to look at Judaism.

Today we are going to continue with our discussion on Islamic doctrine. The reason we are doing this is, as Christians, we are to defend our faith against those who make accusations and those to teach false doctrine. Islam makes outrageous claims, saying that their religion is superior to our religion and that our religion is flawed. It claims that Jesus is not the Son of God, that He was just a man, a prophet, but just a man.

Today I am going to start discussing some of the doctrines of Islam. My goal is to simplify the complexity of Islam. Islam has been around for 1,400 years and can seem very complex. They have about twelve major books that need to be studied to understand their doctrine. The first book is the Qur’an. Everyone thinks that is all of their scriptures, but it is only a portion of it. The Qur’an contains the words of their god, Allah. The other eleven books are the words of their Prophet, Muhammad.

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More about Tom's background

Today I thought I would talk to you about my background. It is good to know who you are listening to. It will help you understand what makes me tick, and why I do what I do, the way I do it.