Martin Luther:
"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every
portion of the Word of God except precisely that little point which the
world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing
Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages
there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the
battle front besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that
point."
If Christian preachers do not shine the light of God's infallible Word on the corruptions and perversions of true religion, we cannot expect the world to do so. If Christian preachers fail in this respect, they are failing Christ and the Gospel, regardless of how loudly they say otherwise.
Study so that you understand the hell-inspired realities that are facing the Christian church and Gospel. Meditate so that you might consider how you might deal with this and every other religious menace. Pray to the sovereign LORD that He might send His Spirit-empowered Gospel to convict all those who have embraced false religions of every kind.
And what is a false religion? It is one in which the grace of God in salvation is concealed or even denied. It is a religion that works hard to keep sinners away from Christ and His saving Cross. It is that religion that substitutes the Church for the Cross, orthodox theology for the Saviour, religious formalism for a personal saving interest in the Redeemer pof the world. It is any form of religion that does not clearly and pointedly present Christ as the only hope of mankind.
Islam falls into these categories. Like Roman Catholicism, and liberal Protestantism, it is a false religion that is damning millions of souls to a lost Christless eternity. This must be esposed of ever sinners held within the evil clutches of Catholicism, Protestant liberalism or Islam are to be delivered.
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