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The Real Jihad: The War Behind the War, one of its key contentions is that Islam is a “polished knife” (Ezekiel 21: 8-10) that has been raised up against the West by the LORD to challenge and chastise our growing idolatries. (Along with scripture verses and the many lessons of history, we will set out the chilling parallels between the “gaps in our wall” — those specific collective idolatries that have breached the hedge of God’s covenantal protection — and the tactical strengths of the jihadists. The parallels are extremely sobering and we believe a secondary proof of our thesis.) Like all chastisements from a loving, holy God, their purpose is restorative: to force us to confront our sins that we might turn in repentance and see our country healed by God. (2 Chronicles 7:14). But if we refuse to repent, God’s longer term purpose for chastisement will enter the picture: that is that He will allow the seeds of destruction that we have sown to reach full maturity. 1 The America that we know and love, with it freedoms and prosperity, will disappear. Our (and Europe’s) primary redemptive purpose at this point will be to serve as a warning to future generations: this is what happens to nations that are blessed by God and then forget and turn from the One who was the ultimate source of those blessings. The connection here to the themes of Amazing Grace and this workbook is that in the confrontation with Islam we are ultimately engaged in a struggle between competing gods and worldviews. There is no question that the West’s primary deity — the idol of humanism and multiculturalism — is no match for the transcendent, unapologetically all-subjecting god of Islam. But as the Church wakes-up and strengthens the things that remain (Revelation 3:2; Father, we pray that it happens!), as we (figuratively speaking) ascend Mount Carmel to confront the prophets of Baal, we had better make sure that the God we both call upon and present to the watching world (particularly the Muslim world) is the true God, the One who answers with fire. A God who is not completely sovereign, who offers the hope of salvation but is not all-powerful to secure it, who knocks on the doors of sinners’ hearts asking to come in and then walks away sad when 1 I speak humanly here. God knows everything past, present and future and only has one will and plan. But we don’t know the specifics of it and never know how our response to the details of covenantal history as it unfolds will precisely impact the future. But we do know many things about God and His promises concerning what will happen if, for example, we humble ourselves and pray and seek God’s face and turn from our wickedness. (2 Chr. 7:14) All we can do is what we can do: obey God, repent when we need to, focus on the Great Commission by winning souls and discipling nations (beginning, of course, with our own) and rest in the knowledge that all things work together for the good of those that love God and are called according to His purposes. (Romans 8:28) 7
He is turned down, who is impotent (to some degree at least) to subdue nations through His covenant people before a Devil who somehow has the power to overcome the world through his, will never be able to topple the fierce desert deity that Mohammed presented to the world. May the Holy Spirit, through the Word of God, lead us all into a true knowledge and deeper intimacy with the One who is mighty to save…and will do so to the uttermost. (Isaiah 63:1; Hebrews 7:25) Eric Holmberg , New Year’s Eve, 2007 Chapter 1: Opening/Overture (Video running time: 7:22 minutes) “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” - C.S. Lewis Eric: What follows is a three-part presentation that asks one of the most important questions the human mind can contemplate: “How exactly is a fallen, fallible and finite human – a sinner – redeemed before an infinitely just and holy God? 1. How do Christians answer that question? What are the key truths that underlie redemption that would be common to all evangelicals? On what points do they sometimes disagree? (You can use examples from the video, your own thoughts or what you have heard from others.) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 8
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commentaries of Matthew Henry, John
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suggestions that they were Anabapti
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Creator, is that there is an abunda
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discernment. God is not that way at
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ecome guilty before God.” Romans
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answer. Section I: History of the D
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God. Of course, many do choose to s
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God. And it is produced in us by th
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Luther: If only some of our people,
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seventh commandment. Ogler: Excuse
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deserve or earn it. 18. The issue o
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see the light of Christ who is the
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