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Restoration Ministry

Restoration 2005: To The Point

Randy Skeete

What I Like About Mohammad

The Real Truth About Sin

Can God Feel My Pain?

James Kyle

Clean, but Empty

A Dean’s Letter from God

How to Live Without Fear

The Science of the Resurrection

World’s Greatest Crime Part 1

World’s Greatest Crime Part 2

Research Suggests. So Does God.

How to Read Your Boyfriend’s Mind

How Safe is Safe Sex?

Lose Weight, Find Life

Are You Right or Righteous?

The Horror of Horoscopes

What and Where is the Kingdom of God?

Are There Degrees in Heaven?

All or Nothing

Phil Mills

Bible Study Hour

A Better Life Is Here

Question and Answer Session

God Used It. It Worked. You Try It.

I Am very delighted To see those of you who are here.

I am truly privileged for 2 reasons The occasion that brings us all here and the fact that every single person gathered before me is counted so precious in the sight of God that He sent His Son to die for you.

For that reason more than any other, I am highly, highly privileged to be with you.

Is that Elder Reed that I see sitting over there?

Let me show you a giant in the service of God.

This is Elder Zadok Reed, the last church I pastored.

A tremendous man who has served God almost maybe 60 years I am guessing.

So I feel very encouraged by the presence of Elder Reed with us today.

It is now 18 minutes according to this expensive looking clock.

After 12 I will release you by 10 minutes to 1.

10 minutes to 1 I am done every day for the 12:00 meeting.

The same does not hold true for the evening.

I understand I have a little more chronological latitude so it will be a little longer but for this morning or early day session, I will be done by 10 minutes to 1.

I want to let you know that the first sermons of the day will not contain as much meat as the evening sermons for very obvious reasons.

And I say that deliberately to entice you to come both in the afternoon and in the evening.

I urge you to bring your friends and I seriously mean it when I say bring your enemies because the messages that they hear will convert them from your enemies to your friends.

And this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

I will message for today what I like about Muhammad.

Let us if we can bow our heads reverently and pray.

Our Father in Heaven, this is more serious than perhaps any 1 of us imagines.

You are unseen, but you are here in the presence of your Spirit.

Father, upon me lies the burdensome responsibility of delivering the words of life as you communicate them to me.

Lord, I beg you from my heart, because I am made of dirt, The message passing out of me is subject to contamination Lord to prevent that I ask you to grant me the presence of your spirit the spirit of truth That he may speak through me that the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart may be acceptable in your sight I offer this prayer in Jesus name and for his sake amen what I like about Mohammed I have always said to friends and to myself that I wish God would give me the power to go back in time and spend a few days with certain individuals about whom I have read in the pages of history.

I can think of that great military genius Alexander the Great.

I would have loved to have spent a few weeks traveling with him as he went from Macedonia conquering his way all the way to India.

I would have loved to have sailed with Christopher Columbus as he, within the safety of quotation marks, discovered the new world.

I would have loved to have spent at least 5 minutes on the ark as it rode the global floodwaters.

I would have loved to have stood in the back of a crowd and watched Jesus as he said, Lazarus, come forth, and to see that man come forth.

I would have loved to have been on the battlefields of the Crimea in the 1850s and watch Florence Nightingale with her lamp going from sick soldier to wounded soldier.

I would have loved to have been with Marco Polo as he made his historic journeys to the east.

But here I am positioned in the 21st century and I cannot do that.

But there are some men I really really would have loved to have met.

Confucius was born at a time when the feudal system of China was collapsing all around him.

There were wars as feudal lords battle for supremacy and for control.

His father was about 70 years old and his mother about 17 when Confucius was born.

Tradition says that the father was a huge man, a very gifted warrior, and particularly ugly.

And Confucius, true to the line of genetic inheritance, we're told he was born a particularly unattractive child, a large head all out of proportion to the rest of his frame but perhaps the size of his head presaged the wisdom with which he would bless the whole world.

Confucius taught very succinctly that The value of a person was not to be found in the person's connections, the person's lineage, the person's genetics.

But the value of a person should be measured by the quality of life that that person lived, by the quality of deeds that the person carried out and performed.

Confucius believed that through education and learning and the development of the mind, the Basest person could be elevated to the level of the nobility purely by effort and work and following principles that are noble Uplifting and do no damage to one's neighbor Now, how can someone argue with principles like that?

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 10, whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.

And that has Confucianism written all over it in the sense that Confucius believed in hard work and the Bible preaches hard work.

That man encouraged people to develop the mind Develop the manners and develop the morals.

How can anyone object to that body of instruction and these?

Instructions have influenced and changed the lives of millions through the ages and today millions of people follow the teachings of Confucius almost as if those teachings constitute a religion.

I admire Confucius And Confucius died in about 479 before the birth of Christ, about the age of 70, 71.

About the time Confucius lived, 1 of his contemporaries was another outstanding person called Buddha.

And Buddha was born to privilege, royalty, lived in a palace until his later teenage years when he came into contact with the suffering in the larger world outside of his world.

And when Confucius saw the suffering and the sickness and the poverty, he set himself to try to answer the fundamental questions in life.

Why is it from the journey from the womb to the tomb is played by suffering and tribulation and trial?

And Buddha dedicated himself to coming into contact with a higher source of knowledge, the light.

Actually the word Buddha means the enlightened 1.

Buddha taught That human beings should not be controlled by material things He didn't say this should not have them He taught this should not be controlled by material things And Jesus Christ said precisely the same thing, take heed and beware of covetousness, for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things that he possesseth.

People measure themselves by the kind of car they drive, they measure themselves by the neighborhood in which they live, they measure themselves by the friends with which they associate, they measure themselves by the label that is displayed at the back of their shirts, on the back of their backpacks.

And this outstanding man, Buddha, he preached that we ought not to be tied by materialism, but we should rise to a higher level of living, so that we're not tied to that kind of life, but we understand what material things do we use them for greater good but we are not in that process materialistic he taught that among other things Buddha taught that we should always try to use right words we should Entertain right thoughts we should do the right kind of work and also work hard.

I Admire that man The Bible says by your words you shall be condemned by your words.

You shall be justified Jesus said every idle word a man speaks he shall give an account in the judgment.

And this man, Buddha, said, we must watch our words, watch our deeds, watch our thoughts, watch our ambitions, our aspirations, so that whatever we give off is not negative it is positive.

I admire some of the teachings of Buddha and then this outstanding man died.

In 570 AD, the Arabian Peninsula, there was born a man whose name is perhaps more widely known as the founder of a religious movement.

And when we think of Islam, we think of Mohammed.

There are some things about the religion with which Mohammed is so closely identified that I profoundly admire because they are almost perfect reflections of what my religion teaches.

Some of his pillars are precisely my pillars.

There's 1 God and my religious persuasion tells me there's 1 God.

Deuteronomy chapter 6 reading verse 4, Hear O Israel the Lord our God is 1 Lord.

The Jews say that today in their prayer, the Shema.

Another pillar of the Islamic faith, prayer.

They say 5 times a day, I wish more Christians would pray at least twice a day.

I try to pray as many times as I can on my knees walking in the supermarket on a plane in the bus before coming up here.

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