During my Bible study, “Islam in the Light of the Cross”, people laugh when they hear my joke about how I became a Christian , “My wife was the bate and her mother was the hook”. Some times a parent will come to me at the end of the Bible study and say something like this: “My daughter is dating a young Muslim man in college; they are engaged and about to get married. We are so happy and exited for them because we heard your joke”. But they are often shocked and disappointed to hear the rest of my story, especially when I point them to 2 Corinthians 6:14-15 “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
These parents expect me to say congratulations and yes to this pseudo marriage. If I did that it could be the worst mistake they could ever make. It certainly could have been for my wife if it were not for her faithful mother, whose confidence in Christ Jesus empowered her to invite me to come to church when I asked to marry her daughter. This should be the first invitation every parent who really loves their daughter must ask. As a former Muslim, I believe this is an invitation every Muslim fiancée or boyfriend ought to answer with a “Yes”. We do not know for sure if this young Muslim man will in the future become a Christian, and we certainly can't expect that he will. I know of many Christian women whose children are forced to attend Muslim schools by their Muslim fathers. These wives and mothers detest their marriage and wished their children were raised as Christians. When they realize that marriage without Christ is not as God planned it to be (Eph 5:21-23), it is almost too late for them to save the day.
The Quran teaches about marriage in Chap 4:34 “ Men are in charge of women, because Allah has made some of them to excel others… and (as to) those on whose part you fear rebellion, admonish them, and leave them alone in beds apart, and beat them.
By the Grace of God, saying yes to my mother- in- law’s invitation to come and see Jesus (John 1:46) has indeed brought me from a world of darkness and wickedness into a world of light. Unlike what the Quran teaches, the Bible has taught me that the wife is to be loved as Christ has loved the church and died for her. Eph 5:25
I remember a pastor who asked me the same question, who knew and also received the same answer, but he still performed the marriage ceremony. Two years later the Christian girl asked for a divorce because her Muslim husband verbally and physically abused her as the Quran says above in Chap 4:34. Being afraid of losing members in their churches today, pastors would rather choose the easy way out, as Luther calls it “The way of the Glory”. They would rather spend one hour performing a pseudo marriage ceremony than catechizing the slaves of Allah teaching and baptizing them in the name of the one and only Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, thus turning them into children of the living God. Gal 3:27.
Ezekiel 3:18-19 When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. 19 But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself.” This is the Way of the Cross. Before you say “yes” to your future Muslim son-in-law, here is a verse you can share with your beloved daughters. This is what the satanic prophet of Islam had to say about women: “I looked at Paradise and found poor people forming the majority of its inhabitants; and I looked at Hell and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women”.
The Bible however teaches the opposite. When my mother-in-law boldly told me that Christians and Muslims do not worship the same God and invited me to come to church to see Jesus, my eyes were opened to what the Bible teaches about marriage in Christ: Ephesians 5:25-28 “ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Before I could say yes for Suzy to be my wife, and before I could ever become the husband who loves her as Christ Loved the Church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, first he had to cleanse me by the washing water through the Word in my Baptism.
~Yes to those who remain faithful in Christ Jesus. 1 Tim 1:12
~Yes to my first class in catechism. Deut 11:19
~Yes to God’s promise in my Baptism Gal 3:27
~Yes to growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 3:18
~Yes to knowing the truth about Jesus and him crucified. 1 Cor 1:13
~Yes to Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6) and Yes to the Gospel, the power of salvation to everyone who believes. Rom 1:16.
Amen.
These parents expect me to say congratulations and yes to this pseudo marriage. If I did that it could be the worst mistake they could ever make. It certainly could have been for my wife if it were not for her faithful mother, whose confidence in Christ Jesus empowered her to invite me to come to church when I asked to marry her daughter. This should be the first invitation every parent who really loves their daughter must ask. As a former Muslim, I believe this is an invitation every Muslim fiancée or boyfriend ought to answer with a “Yes”. We do not know for sure if this young Muslim man will in the future become a Christian, and we certainly can't expect that he will. I know of many Christian women whose children are forced to attend Muslim schools by their Muslim fathers. These wives and mothers detest their marriage and wished their children were raised as Christians. When they realize that marriage without Christ is not as God planned it to be (Eph 5:21-23), it is almost too late for them to save the day.
The Quran teaches about marriage in Chap 4:34 “ Men are in charge of women, because Allah has made some of them to excel others… and (as to) those on whose part you fear rebellion, admonish them, and leave them alone in beds apart, and beat them.
By the Grace of God, saying yes to my mother- in- law’s invitation to come and see Jesus (John 1:46) has indeed brought me from a world of darkness and wickedness into a world of light. Unlike what the Quran teaches, the Bible has taught me that the wife is to be loved as Christ has loved the church and died for her. Eph 5:25
I remember a pastor who asked me the same question, who knew and also received the same answer, but he still performed the marriage ceremony. Two years later the Christian girl asked for a divorce because her Muslim husband verbally and physically abused her as the Quran says above in Chap 4:34. Being afraid of losing members in their churches today, pastors would rather choose the easy way out, as Luther calls it “The way of the Glory”. They would rather spend one hour performing a pseudo marriage ceremony than catechizing the slaves of Allah teaching and baptizing them in the name of the one and only Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, thus turning them into children of the living God. Gal 3:27.
Ezekiel 3:18-19 When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. 19 But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself.” This is the Way of the Cross. Before you say “yes” to your future Muslim son-in-law, here is a verse you can share with your beloved daughters. This is what the satanic prophet of Islam had to say about women: “I looked at Paradise and found poor people forming the majority of its inhabitants; and I looked at Hell and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women”.
The Bible however teaches the opposite. When my mother-in-law boldly told me that Christians and Muslims do not worship the same God and invited me to come to church to see Jesus, my eyes were opened to what the Bible teaches about marriage in Christ: Ephesians 5:25-28 “ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Before I could say yes for Suzy to be my wife, and before I could ever become the husband who loves her as Christ Loved the Church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, first he had to cleanse me by the washing water through the Word in my Baptism.
~Yes to those who remain faithful in Christ Jesus. 1 Tim 1:12
~Yes to my first class in catechism. Deut 11:19
~Yes to God’s promise in my Baptism Gal 3:27
~Yes to growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 3:18
~Yes to knowing the truth about Jesus and him crucified. 1 Cor 1:13
~Yes to Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6) and Yes to the Gospel, the power of salvation to everyone who believes. Rom 1:16.
Amen.
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