Hi Pastor John,
I have started reading your Father and Son book again. I wanted to find out what Muslims thought about Jesus, and I read some excerpts from the Quran.
Muslims believe that Jesus existed and that Jesus was born from a Virgin, and they believe he was the Messiah or prophet for the Jews and that Jesus is coming back again to set things in order for the Jews. But they do not believe that God had a Son or that Jesus was for them because their prophet is Muhammad, who came 600 years after Jesus. Believing that God did not have a Son is believing that Salvation DOES NOT comes through Jesus.
I was reading these verses in your Father and Son book:
John 17
20. Not only do I pray for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word,
21. That they all might be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they may also be one in us so that the world might believe that you sent me.
22. And the glory you’ve given me, I’ve given them, that they might be one as we are one:
23a. I in them, and you in me, that they might be perfected in unity.”
At the end of verse 21, Jesus said that if we were one with him and his Father, the whole world may believe that God sent Jesus. I thought about all of the divisions in Christianity and had to ask myself, if we don’t obey God and come out of that confused, divided abomination, how in the world can we expect Muslims or anyone else to believe the gospel and follow the Spirit?
Paul had an anointing from God through Jesus, because of his experience with Jesus. He had the message of the true Messiah for ALL of mankind. If only our Brothers and Sisters in Christianity could believe the message that Paul had, they would become one with the Father and the Son, then we would see more people leave that abomination and become examples of God’s righteousness for all the world to see. People, Muslim and otherwise, would see Jesus’ undivided love from the Father, and see true Holiness and worship of the Father, and happy and peaceful lives.
Reading the book and thinking on these things has given me a deeper thankfulness for Paul and the love he had for God’s people.
Hope all is well there and you’re getting some good things done,
Billy M.