Eternal
life. Well, the Quran is very emphatic in telling the Muslim that every
Muslim will enter hell. And I said that to many of the Muslims in my discussions
with them. I really I am amazed, "How come that you would embrace a
religion who will not give you the assurance of eternal life?" And
I ask the many Muslims, and you can do the same. And they will confess that,
"Are you sure that when die, as a Muslim, will you go to be with God,
in Heaven? Are you sure of that?" No Muslim have that kind of assurance.
No Muslim, because the Quran doesn't give this assurance to any Muslim.
And then the Quran, in very plain words, you see, says that every Muslim,
every Muslim must enter hell. Every Muslim. And that is in surat Mariam,
surat number 19, and I want to read that for you, from there. Surat number
19, in the Quran, and we read the words, in verse 66, "And a man says,
when I am dead, shall I then be raised up alive? Does not man, remember,
that we created him before, while he was nothing? So by your lord, surely
we shall gather them, human beings, together, and also the devil."
Human beings and the devil will be gathered, and also the devil with them.
"Then we shall bring them round hell, on their knees." Allah is
saying we shall gather human beings with the devil, and we shall bring them
round hell, on their knees. And then, it is said in verse 71, in the very
same surat, "There is not one of you that will pass over hell."
If we want the accurate meaning, there is no one of you but will enter hell.
Passover, this is not a literal translation at all. There is no one, there
is not one of you that will pass over hell. This is with your lord, a decree
which must be accomplished." What does this mean? God must send every
Muslim to hell. Of course, when you come to the clerics and ask them, "What
do you think about that?" and they say, "Yes. Every Muslim will
go to hell for a time until he serves his time, and then he'll go to paradise."
But according to the Quran, anyone who will enter hell, he will be eternally
there." The Quran says that! When anyone enters hell, he will be there
eternally. There is no assurance for eternal life in the Quran.
On the other hand, when you come to Jesus Christ, and the gospel of John
5:24, "if anyone hears my voice, and believes on the one who sent me,
he'll have eternal life" He will not come to judgment. He is transferred
from this to life. Assurance. Assurance. The disciples came to Jesus rejoicing.
All, even Satan, obey the commandment when we tell them to get out of any
possessed person. And Jesus said, "Do not rejoice because Satan is
under your authority. Rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.
Rejoice because you have eternal life. That is the most important."
So when you go to the New Testament, and you go to the Quran, in the Quran
there is no assurance whatsoever, to any Muslim of going to paradise or
to Heaven after death. On the other hand, in the New Testament, it is a
guarantee. If you believe with your heart, that Jesus Christ died for you
on the cross of Calvary, receive Him as the only begotten Son who died on
your behalf, you'll receive eternal life immediately, and it will be eternal.
That is the difference between the two.
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