How Muslims Must Serve The Lord When Converted To Christianity
By Dr. James. A McBean D.Th., MCC
Copyright © 2008 Library of Congress
Washington.D.C.20559
A Muslim who converted to Christianity cannot live the Christian's life base on the perception of main stream Christians. You cannot fit in their mold nor live like them. It is important for you to know that Christ did not call you to die for him but to live, so you can be able to bring others to him. Christ does not want to take you home but he wants to work you right here and now, he does not want you to throw away your life foolishly. God does not want you get beating up and broken up bones. God has no pleasure in the death of people much more his own people.
Our lord went away for forty days and night to prepare him for the task ahead. The apostle Paul went away for a few years, no one knows where he was for sure, preparing himself for the task ahead. Moses went away for forty years, preparing himself for the task ahead. I am not saying that you must be a coward and a hypocrite. Just do not be too quick to get kills.
Romans 12:7 (KJV) Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
Ezekiel 33:11 (KJV)Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
THE MUSLIM SCRIPTURE SAYS.
Koran 2:62-KORAN Section 8. Those who believe (in the Koran), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians, --any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, shall have their reward with their Lord: On them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.
Koran 2:136-KORAN Say ye: "We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to Allah (in Islam)."
JEWISH SCRIPTURE SAYS.
Isaiah 9:6 (KJV) For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
THE CHRISTIAN'S SCRIPTURE SAYS.
Acts 4:12 (KJV) Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
(1) Do not go broadcast your new found faith to hard hearted Muslims friends and family. Treat it just like a man who went into the hill and find a cave full of treasures, he keeps tight lips, and try to buy the place. No one knows where his great wealth is coming from until he is quite establish and strong. You are not strong enough and informed enough to go take overall Muslims empire. Your friend and family must see the new peace, love forgiveness in you and suspect that something must have happen but do not know what.
(2) Do not throw away your Koran, but keep reading it along with the Bible. Do not abandon old friends but keep seeing them. Do not abandon your original place of worship, but keep visiting something. Since Muslim call, Jesus Allah and Christians Muslims call Jesus Allah that is a good cover for you.
(3) Do not make Christians parade you before other Muslims and show you off, because they will love to do that. Your change must be a heart change, and not a clothing or friend change. Heart change meaning, forgiveness, love, peace, and so on. People must be wondering what has happen to you where this new joy came from?
(4) This is it now, watch this. Do not throw away your wives, if you did have more than one before you get converted. Do not make Christians push their one wife doctrine down your belly, for many of them do not do as they say.
LOOK WHOM THE BOOK SAYS MUST HAVE ONE WIFE.
( A BISHOP) 1 Tim. 3:2 (KJV) A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
( A DEACONS) 1 Tim. 3:12 (KJV) Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
( Anyone THAT WANT TO OCCUPY THESE TWO OFFICES) Titus 1:6 (KJV) If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. I will not say why since the article is not about that.
(5) YOU MUST BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO ANTI CHRISTIAN REMARKS WITHOUT GETTING OFFENDED.
As a new believer that converted from Muslim to Christianity, and still going among your old Muslims friends and family, you must be prepared to hear bad stuff about church, Christ, Christians and Jews. Do not make these bad remarks make you gets offended. Your faith is between you and Christ. Your job is to change you, not the world. You must seek a new revelation, seek to know Christ on your own, do not swallow down every thing you hear from Christians.
You will need to read the bible and pray daily, but whenever you are reading the bible always have the Koran alongside just as if you are reading and comparing them. I always have a Koran with me. That is in my home. I read it more than most Muslims.
Christians will tell you not to be ashamed, of Christ, and if you are afraid to own him on earth, he will be ashamed to own you before his Father. We know about all these verses. They will tell you what the apostle Paul did how he confesses Christ the same time he got save. You are not the apostle Paul. And you are not ashamed to own Christ. You just cannot take on a crowd on an empty stomach. When the lord is ready, he will put his spirit upon you, which will give you the boldness to do whatsoever the lord want, the gate of hell will have to flee before you. But until then wait.
WAIT UNTIL YOU GET POWER.
Luke 10:19 (KJV) Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Luke 24:49 (KJV) And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
Acts 1:8 (NASB-U) but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."
After I get the power, I was able to stand up to Muslim and tell them about Jesus, they want to string me up but could not do a thing. I did not do it disrespectfully nor go challenging them. I wait until they ask me about my faith.
DO NOT GET CAUGHT UP IN SMALL MATTERS.
Titus 3:9 (NASB-U) But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
These small matters can get big, can easily turn out into one big religious dog fight. People get kill and a never ending fight continue. Leave that religious fight for uneducated people who has nothing better to do, but fight.
WE HAVE READ INTO THE KORAN AND MISUNDERSTOOD THE AUTHOR.
When the prophet said Muslim should not be friends with the people of the book, the prophet was not talking about hate and malice. When you examine those verses in the light of other verses, you will realize that the prophet was not talking about malice and hating people. The prophet mean. That people who are born into the Muslim religions with that background can never live like people who are of mainstream Christianity. Some of Christians teaching might not apply to people of Muslim background. For example, Christians preach love and talk about the love of God, but just look how black and white Christians treat each other. I have seen black Christians sit down in church beside white Christians, and the white Christians moved to another seat. Christianity among these people is a joke. Muslims that converted to Christianity cannot live like main stream Christians. We talked a lot, but do none of the things we teaches.
DO NOT LET PEOPLE FILL YOU WITH SPIRIT.
My advice to Muslim believers who are converted to Christianity. Do not let people fill you with spirit. God and Christ will fill you in due time. When people laid their hand on you and try to fill you with spirit, whatsoever kind of spirit that person had is what you are going to get, the whole nine yards. Frog spirit, lying spirit, spirit of bandage, or whatsoever, he she had.
WHAT FILL WITH THE HOLY GHOST DOES NOT MEAN.
The doctrine of interpenetrating (inter-penetration) does not mean physical entrance into, but union with, so the idea is that there is a measure and fullness, a partial union with and a complete union with the Spirit.
Filled with the Holy Ghost do not mean the Holy Ghost himself came to physically live in your body. The only spirit that is supposed to be in your body is your human spirit that you were born with. Any spirit trying to take control of or gain access to your body or mind need to be rebuke and cast out.
IDIOMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
When the Bible said that a man and his wife are one flesh, did you think it mean that the both of them stuck up into each other like two mating frogs? Of course not. Therefore, "one flesh" is nothing more that a terminology.
"Filled with the spirit" "Spirit Be in you" Spirit be upon you. " Walk in the spirit" "Live in the spirit"The Spirit fall upon them" "You are the temple of the Spirit"You are the body of Christ" Baptize in the spirit" "Christ came to live in you at conversion "All these are Idioms and does not mean literally what it says. Let us look at some English and American Idioms.
American idioms dictionary, by Richard A Spear. PhD
"Pulling your legs" When someone says that they are pulling your legs, they did not actually touch your leg, it mean that they are tricking you.
"I hear it from the horse mouth" This means that he or she has heard it from a good source. It does not mean that a horse has said something. "Greasing the man palm" If your supervisor is giving you trouble you will need to grease him palm. This does not mean that you must hold him down and full his hands with grease. It means that you must be friends him, be kind to him and he will loosen up, and treat you good. "The man jump ship" You went over board this time "When I was a boy, I heard the other boy. "John gives Valerie every thing he got. We said, then how come he is riding his bicycle." You said he gave her every thing he got "You fool, it is sex them talking about.
BEWARE OF A FALSE SENSE OF HOLINESS COMING OVER YOU.
This false sense of holiness comes from Satan; it is a facial expression kind of holiness. Holier than thou kind of thing. Some Christian's women stop having sex when this kind of holiness came upon them. They stop touching until these false feelings of holiness wears off. Then they get back into the foot over shoulder kind of stuff, which was seen as a sin two days ago.
James 1:26-27 (Living) Anyone who says he is a Christian but doesn't control his sharp tongue is just fooling himself, and his religion isn't worth much. [27] The Christian who is pure and without fault, from God the Father's point of view, is the one who takes care of orphans and widows, and who remains true to the Lord--not soiled and dirtied by his contacts with the world.
Sometime Only Jesus Can Help Us
Acts 4:12 (KJV)Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Romans 5:6 (KJV) For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5:7 (KJV) For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. Romans 5:8 (KJV) But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:9 (KJV) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Romans 5:10 (KJV) For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:11 (KJV) And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Matthew 6:33-AV But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Isaiah 55:6-AV Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Isaiah 55:7-AV Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
The Bearer's Of The "Mind Sword"
