SECTION 10: ONE GOD ALONE GETS THE GLORY
God took the Protection
of His own Glory very seriously:
Probably no text in the Bible reveals the passion of God for his own glory
more clearly and bluntly as Isaiah 48:9-11 where God says, For my name’s sake I
defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that
I may not cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have
tried you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake,
I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to
another. (Read
this so important article from Desiring God.)
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Peter
repeated this in the New Testament when he says that it’s God’s call to all
humanity based on His divine glory or doxa (2 Peter 1:3).
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Paul
defended his ministry to Gentiles with the message of Christ by arguing that
God's honour required it (Romans 9:22-23). God's honour and glory is
revealed in Christ (Hebrews 1:1-3).
Islam put God's honor at stake. Islam stole that what is only belonging to
God. His Almighty Power and Glory; Him as the Only One on the throne.
Islam is not honoring the true God! Of all the religions in the world today, Islam most strongly rejects the
Bible message and the Only Truth of Jesus Christ as God by putting something
else in His place.
2. Our Creator God: Why? Who? How?
We asked this questions
in the beginning of this book:
Who created us? Why
are we created? How do we respond to our Creator?
I was sure all would
agree with me that we were all created for one reason – for God’s Glory (I
remember I put some Bible verses and asked you to yourself get the verses in
the Quran that should agree with this … Or was I wrong?)
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WE ALL
ARE CREATED BY GOD
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All of
us were created …FOR HIS SOLE PURPOSE!
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HE
ALONE IS GOD that should be SERVED AND PRAISED
3. God wants to be our Father.
the well-known Pakistan lady Bilquis Sheikh learned in her search for the true God. After a
series of visions and prophetic dreams, she was
In her book: I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God is also available as eBook.
Yes, God also want to be your Father. You must just accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. Why not ask God, like Bilquis Sheikh, to reveal Himself to you.
5. But how can God be most Glorified?
I enjoy doing some reading
about this: The Glory of God.
I read the following about
it here…
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Christian hedonism is a
Christian doctrine … coined by Reformed Baptist pastor John Piper in his
1986 book Desiring God. Piper
summarizes this philosophy of the Christian life as "God is most glorified
in us when we are most satisfied in Him."
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Christian hedonism describes
the theology of Jonathan Edwards: "God made the world that he might
communicate, and the creature receive, his glory; but that it might [be]
received both by the mind and heart. He that testifies His having an idea of
God's glory [doesn't] glorify God so much as he that also testifies his
approbation of it and his delight in it."
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Piper has said, "The great
goal of all Edwards' work was the glory of God. And the greatest thing I have
ever learned from Edwards ... is that God is glorified most not merely by being
known, nor by merely being dutifully obeyed, but by being enjoyed in the
knowing and the obeying."
In short, its all
about… To Glorify our Creator God maximally!
God wanted to be Maximally
Glorified as He alone is God. There is not and can’t by any other God!
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Isaiah 42:8 “I am the Lord;
that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols…
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Isaiah 43:7 “everyone who is
called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.” (NIV)
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Isaiah 43:10-11 “You are my
witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you
may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was
formed, nor will there be one after me. I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from
me there is no saviour.”
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Isaiah 48:11 For my own sake,
for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield
my glory to another.
Now, the Most Important Question: Who is the Only True God - Allah or Jahwe?
Muslims say: Muhammad
is the model in Islam.
The Question is: Muhammad…
Was he really focused on the Glory of God alone? Or… was it actually all for himself? Or…
Or… Was Muhammad ... a False Prophet?
This must be rectified
at all costs by sharing the REAL TRUTH of the GOSPEL!
By Sharing the Love of
God for all sinners; His Grace, also to Muslims!
Read more about the Creator of the universe
NEXT: QUESTIONING ISLAM
11.1.Why Muslims don't like Paul?
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