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Mourning and hope
Posted : 2 May, 2011 03:42 AM
Brothers,
Our God cries about our brother Osama Bin Laden.
President Barack Obama shared the news with the whole world that leader of Al Qaeda organization, Osama bin Laden, is dead.
Let�s listen to the President Barack Obama:
Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children�.We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other, and our love of community and country�. We were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice�And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies�.For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda's leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda�Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity�The cause of securing our country is not complete�our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place�Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.
Yes, we all should be committed to implement the laws of justice.
But it is not always the case in this world.
We all are criminals.
We all are murderers like Osama Bin Laden.
God said if you hate your brother, you are a murderer.
We all have expressed our hatred to our brothers in different ways.
America celebrates his death. But the millions of people who are alive in this world are spiritually DEAD the same way like Osama. Those who do not conform their lives to live in peace with God and people are criminals in the eyes of God.
Should we celebrate justice which became evident upon the death of Osama?
We should MOURN because one of our brothers went to the Throne of God and he was sentenced to death. We should MOURN that one of our family members died. But we should deeply mourn about ourselves because our God Jesus is going to judge us the same way. We should mourn about millions of such brothers like Osama, living in Saudi Arabia and all over the world. But there is a hope. The light of God is shining to these brothers when they are still physically alive in this world. God does not sleep. He is calling them to repentance and His Son Jesus too. God is the ONE who is mourning the most about Osama.
Osama was judged by God Jesus for his crimes.
But what did he do when he saw the light coming from the pierced hands of the GOD of the universe Jesus in His Kingdom?
He was terrible disappointed that he knew God Jesus but He chose another god.
Osama offered to his Islamic god his wealth and life and even thousands of lives among which are Muslims and Americans. But knowing about God Jesus, Osama did not know God Jesus!
Hearing about God of Israel, Osama did not know this God.
Knowing about God who is God of our father Ibrahim, you Muslims do not know this God!
This God is LOVE.
This God loved you before the foundation of the world.
My brother Sazie Johnson said the other day:
I have a question for Muslims. But first let us talk.
When we do a study on love, we find that love has a need and a purpose. The purpose of love is to extend itself from one point to another. And the need that love has is to be accepted. Both the purpose of love which is to extend itself from one point to another, and its need to be accepted make it impossible for love to exist in isolation or total aloneness.
In other words, there love will die and dry-up if there is nothing to which it can extend itself. Here is the question: �If Muhammad�s god, Allah, is love, who did he love before creation? We know love cannot exist in total aloneness. Who did Allah love before creation?
It is bad to say, �(Islamic) Allah did not need to love anyone or anything.� That mean love is not original with Allah, but a added-on attribute after creation.
Brothers, but our Christian Allah said that He is God of LOVE!
He loves you unconditional, infinitely.
That�s why His heart is broken by seeing His son Osama going to the prison/hell.
But Osama knows now that Jesus is right. He knows that thousands of killings he made in the name of Islamic allah were a mistake. It was the result of his wrong choices.
But what did the love of our God do toward Oslama?
God have never stopped calling us -Christians- to pray about salvation of Osama. God was making our hearts to pray daily about His salvation. This God never stopped loving Osama! This God never stopped talking to Osama. Our God made the best to turn Osama to Himself.
But even our Almighty God could not violate his FREE will to choose his way.
Our God broke the heart of Osama by talking to Him but only Osama could TURN his heart to God. God did not violate his will and didn�t force him.
Because God loved him.
God said:
� Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.� Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD God says it to every one of us!
God�s love for you is an eternal love. It is filled with unfailing care and mercy. He does not say, �I will love you,� but �I have loved you with an everlasting love.�
In New Testament we read that the apostle John states the same wonderful truth:
�We love, because He first loved us� (1 John 4:19).
How do we know such an awesome fact is true? �In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for my sins�.
There has never been a time, or even a moment, when He did not love you.
This God, who LOVES you, made a wonderful Plan of Salvation to forgive all your sin. His Son/�Ibn Allah accepted your sins on the cross that�s why you are able to escape the Coming Judgment of God Jesus. Osama didn�t escape it but you can do it.
Ibn Allah was judged instead of you.
He descended to hell instead of you. But He brought here freedom and set people FREE. He set those people FREE who wanted to be FREE and follow God Jesus.
Even coming to hell after His death, God Jesus set the prisoners free!
This God whom we worship SAVES!
Jesus preached in the hell!
Jesus is preaching you daily in your life the same way, trying to TURN your heart to Himself.
He is God who SAVES.
God loved us and sent His Son/Ibn Allah to be the �propitiation for our sins.� God�s holiness is satisfied, and His wrath is turned away from us because of what Jesus did for us on our behalf. God�s justice has now been satisfied because His perfect, sinless Son paid our debt in full on the cross by accepting all our sins to His holy body.
God who is LOVE is God who is the consuming Fire.
His righteous indignation devours every one who is living in their own worlds governed by their own rules because such worlds are full of hatred, abomination and murders.
And it is YOUR world.
God is coming there and no one is able to be alive in His HOLY presence.
God�s wrath is a settled, controlled, holy, antagonism against all sin.
God says, �The soul that sins shall die!� �The wages of sin is death.�
But a righteous, just and LOVING God intervened to our lives and to the life of Osama in His sovereign grace. He said: REPENT and BELIEVE in the God who is LOVE and His Son and then you will follow the Way of LIFE. Because Ibn Allah said that ONLY He is the Way of LIFE and the TRUTH leading us to His Father.
�By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him� (1 John 4:9). �And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life� (5:11, 12).
God keeps saying over and over again to us, �I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving-kindness.� I love you and I have demonstrated that love once and forever in the death of My Son on your behalf. This is My demonstration of My grace to YOU.
We all see demonstration of death of Osama. But even the Son of this Almighty God was DEAD the same way. His heart stopped one moment. But this DEATH was demonstration of God�s LOVE.
This God DIED instead of you!
He did NOT kill thousands of Muslims and Americans.
He willingly decided to die.
This is what is contrary to violence.
This is was is grace and mercy.
This is the ONE who is worthy to be called millions of times during all our lives- AR-RAHMAN WA AR-RAHIM.
This everlasting love of God on the cross and in the heart of God gives us confidence and assurance of eternal life with Him in the New World created by Him for you:
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth
, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.
Also there was no more sea�.
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
�Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them,
and they shall be His people.
God Himself will be with them and be their God.
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.�
Then He who sat on the throne said,
�Behold, I make all things new.�
And He said to me,�Write, for these words are true and faithful.� Revelation 21: 1,3-5.
The wealthy Saudis like Osama use their oil money to promote Islam, to build mosques, to pay the salaries of preachers all over the world. And in many cases their money turns against them by killing their Muslim brothers in Pakistan and even themselves. Life of Osama is a demonstration of such way of life. Some of you, my dear brothers, live this way. But God didn't stop LOVING you. Your religion turns against these people and kills them and their Muslim fathers and sons. But we will not promote terrorism and hatred. We will hate sins and love all people. We decide to love you the same way like our God loves you! We will live holy lives being SONS of God and His inheritance. We will call you to RETURN to our Father until our last day and minute in this world! We will invest our time, money, lives and hearts to establish the Kingdom of God on earth like it is in the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the will of God for your life to be HOLY like He is HOLY! But this aim should not be reached by violence but by LOVE toward Muslim brothers and all people. Because our God is God of LOVE. Allahu Mahabba!
1 John 4 (New King James Version)
1 John 4
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Knowing God Through Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Seeing God Through Love
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
The Consummation of Love
17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.
Obedience by Faith
20 If someone says, �I love God,� and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
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