MORE THAN JUST NAME

DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT WE CALL GOD

A small story as reported in World Net Daily and also a segment on Fox News this last week has noted that the Bishop Martimos Petrus Maria Muskens a Dutch Roman Catholic, has stated that it is his belief that all Christians should begin to call the name of Allah as God.

He states that in order to be acceptable to those in Islam we must use a common name in order to appease their sensitivities.

In Europe the religion of Islam is named by millions and is growing exponentially.

In America the religion is growing quickly, and aggressively.

The fundamentalist in the religion demand that all serve the one they call Allah.

The lie of the devil is that all roads lead to God and no one really knows Gods name.

You may say that it is only one man who states that we should begin calling Allah as God.

Be careful for a small spark will ignite an uncontrollable fire, destroying everything and everyone it contacts.

In the U.S. the story has already been received joyfully by many, one of them the spokesman for the American Council on Islamic Relations, Ibrahim Hooper, who told Fox News that “ I don’t think the name is as important as the belief in God and following Gods moral principals. I think that is true in all faiths.”

What a foolish statement for any man to make as God takes His wonderful name very seriously, as evident in

Exodus 20:3 “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.”

Exodus 20:4 “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, nor make unto thee any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth, beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”

Exodus 20:7 “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”

Exodus 34:14 “ For thou shall worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous god:”

Proof enough that God is careful with His name.

Reading the quote from Mr. Hooper, we see that he thinks it is important to follow Gods moral principals.

Obviously another problem arises at this point. By studying the Quran and listening to those who teach its principals, the one called Allah has an entirely different set of moral principals than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Worldwide the god named Allah is honored and revered by the taking of innocent human life, and by the lie of domination, with that lie being, “submit or be killed.”

For those of us today living as New Testament Christians we see the true God revealed in His Wonderful Son Christ Jesus.

At many places in Islam with the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount being one, is the statement written in stone that “Allah is God and he has no son.”

Blasphemy, in its highest form.

The truth as recorded in scripture is that God was revealed to us in His Son, Jesus.

Acts 4:10-12 “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Carefully read the following scriptures as they reveal Jesus as Son of God and Jesus as God.

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

John 1:1 :In the beginnings was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

John1:14 “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

As you can see God is the Father, and God is the Son, God is the Word, the Word is Jesus.

NOT A BEING NAMED ALLAH

Read Matthew 4:1-11

In the beginning of Christ’s ministry we see where satan came before Jesus with the offer, that if Jesus would name satan as god, through worship, that he (satan) would exalt Jesus above all on the earth.

In the final days of the Church age we are seeing those who would willingly bow down before another god and name him as worthy of worship.

There are many names mentioned in scripture that God approves of for himself, among them are the I AM, Elohim, El Shaddai, Jehovah (YHWH) Shepherd, Judge, Father, Counselor, Comforter, Advocate, Lord, Almighty God, Redeemer, Friend, King, Jesus, Lion of Judah, and Holy, Holy, Holy, Worthy, Exalted, Eternal, all names of praise and honor that He is due.

Never is Allah mentioned as His name.

Allah was named as a god by some, approximately seven hundred years after the death burial, and resurrection of the one who is the true God.

Allah is a little late to make the claim that Jesus used in John ch8 vs. 5 “ Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”

I urge each of you who read this and believe that there is only one God Eternal, to be cautious as the days darken and time shortens to not listen to the lie of the devil no matter how convincing it sounds.

Gods name is important, Gods Son has been revealed, and man following the doctrine of demons can not change the truth as revealed to men by the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:16-17 “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.” “For he received from God the Father, honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Philippians 2:5-11 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth: And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Not Allah, not Buddha, not any of the three hundred million Hindu gods, not Mother Earth, not demons, not Confucius, not Hari Krishna, no name but the name above all names Jesus.

NAME HIM

JESUS THE ONE AND ONLY

FAITHFUL TRUE AND HOLY

HES THE SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

WORHTY OF THE GLORY

JESUS CHRIST THE ONE AND ONLY