Exposing the Darkness of Islam (Olin Giles)

0:00Okay, it's give a good South Jersey welcome to Pessoa Olan. Well, good morning, church. I am delighted to be here. As you heard, my name is Olan Jowls. I work with radical truth ministries. As you might can tell from my accent, I am from Boston. No, I'm kidding. My wife and I lived in the Carolinas. God has given me a heart for Muslims. He's given me a heart for lost people in general. I have the joy of just traveling all over the United States and sharing the gospel with people wherever I go. I'm just amazed at how God opens doors and how He provides and how He encourages His church through His Word. So I want to begin this morning by reading Matthew chapter 5 I'm going to begin with verse 13

1:01and read through 16. Matthew chapter 5 verse 13. You know, I'm just thinking as we were singing and looking around at the church, I think the pastor may have said this, but you know, the nations are going to be together in heaven, right? Are you glad that the God doesn't focus on one particular ethnic group? He told Abraham the nations are going to be there. But the world is divided up as believers and unbelievers. And what we're getting ready to read here in Matthew chapter 5 verse 13 is red letters in my Bible. It's the words of Jesus. And He's speaking to us His church. Matthew chapter 5 verse 13 says, you, you know, you can put your name right here. You are the solid of the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor,

2:05how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on the hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but all are lamp standing. It gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light, so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Father, we just love you. Thank you so much for this precious church. I just pray that the words of my mouth would be faithful to your text to your spirit. I pray that your church would be encouraged here this morning, Father. Use this church as I know that you already are to share the gospel and glorify you in this neighborhood.

3:07We love you. We thank you for the cross of Jesus Christ. This in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Well, my wife is not here this morning, so I'm going to pick on her a little bit, right? I mean, I got to pick on her. Every now and then she gets to travel with me, but I was in bed one morning and I was just kind of laying there. My wife's a school teacher. I tell people we both have very scary jobs. I like to talk to Muslims and she works with middle school students. I'll take the Muslims any day, but I'm lying there in bed. And I smell the unmistakable odor of blueberry muffins, right? It was pastor at, he said he liked to eat. I couldn't help but think of this story as he was sharing this. I smelled the unmistakable odor of blueberry muffins and I thought she got up this morning and she fixed me breakfast. That was really sweet of her.

4:08It was really strong. I mean, I could smell it. She took off to work and I thought, well, I'm going to get up and go get me one of those muffins, right? I got up. I could still smell the aroma in the house. I walked into the kitchen. The oven wasn't even hot. I thought, well, that's odd. I searched the whole house. I told the kitchen to part no muffins anywhere. I could still smell them. She come home that day and I confronted her. I won't tell you how that went for me. But I said, you got up this morning and fixed blueberry muffins. You could have at least left me one. And she said, what are you talking about? I said, I know where I smelled. I smelled blueberry muffins. She said, honey, there were no blueberry muffins. Long story short, she got up and put on this lotion that's strawberry daiquiri lotion. I'm not even sure a pastor's wife should be wearing such lotion. But I believed very sincerely that she made blueberry muffins.

5:17But what I believed did not correspond with reality. I believed in lie. And I tell you that story because first of all, I love to hear a laugh. We should be some of the most joyful people on the face of the earth. No matter what this world throws at us, one day we're going to spend eternity with Christ and new heaven and new earth. No more sickness, no more cancer, no more politicians. What a glorious day it's going to be. But until then, he's chosen to work in and through people just like you and me. And it doesn't matter what you think you don't have or you think you're lacking. God can use each and every person. He wants to use each and every person in his body. And that includes you. So I want to share with you a little bit this morning about what I do.

6:19But I hope that it will be contagious. I hope that it will encourage you to go out and maybe engage Muslims or engage Jehovah witnesses or whoever. This, you know, lost people in general, right? The Bible tells us in 1 Timothy 2.4 that God desires all men to be saved, right? God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now what I'm about to share with you, I've found that a lot of church people struggle with, especially some of us men, perhaps if you're veteran. We have difficulty loving Muslims and we often conflate Islam with Muslims. But God desires all people, including Muslims to be saved, but they must come to the knowledge of the truth. So we have to make this distinction between a Muslim who is somebody who's made in the image of God.

7:20Somebody whom Christ died for. We love these people and by the way, they need our help, right? Just like my wife helped me to understand reality. God wants to use you to help these Muslims and these unbelievers come to the knowledge of the truth. So maybe you've heard that Islam means peace. It does not. It means submission. So you will have peace with Allah, basically when you submit to Allah. It's kind of the idea, but Islam means submission and a Muslim is one who submits. I mean, we could take this and apply it to any specific unbelieving group, right? We can love the Jehovah witnesses, but that doesn't mean that we love what they're teaching. In fact, we're called to confront their teaching. And if we truly love them, that's what we're going to do, right? So that's what I get the joy of doing.

8:22And you're going to see some pictures here on my slides. All of these pictures are for me. Again, I've had the privilege of traveling all over the United States. And I want you to understand because a lot of Christians are, you know, a little hesitant to talk to Muslims. I want you to understand that they love to talk. They come from a collectivist oral type culture. And by the way, this is also the cultural context of the Bible. You know, in America, we live in this individualistic culture where we, it's all about us. I was on campus at Rutgers University for two days. I mean, I was just shocked. The average person is walking around Rutgers like this. I mean, they're running into poles and walls and it's like, I mean, I'm just as guilty as them at times I'll admit. But we're very distracted today, very much distracted.

9:26Let me just ask this question right now. How many of you have a Muslim friend you interact with Muslims? Maybe at the grocery store or something? How many of you? Okay. All right. Well, that's very helpful. How many of you do not participate in surveys? Some of you will get that later, but again, I hope that what I say this morning will encourage you folks to go after these people. These pictures, you know, when I show them where I live, a lot of people are just shocked. The picture that you're looking at here on the screen is from Dallas, Texas. And by the way, when I get there, I go right into the mosque. People are like, how in the world do you do that? I just walk right in there. That's how I do it. I walk in there and I pray for them. My wife, I ate at a mosque one time. My wife said, you ate the food?

10:27It's like, yes, honey. God doesn't need a piece of chicken to take me home. He can take me anytime he wants to. I tried that once when I wanted the motorcycle, but it didn't work very well. These people love to talk. You will never have trouble talking to a Muslim about who is God and who is Jesus. They want to talk about these things, but they have the wrong God and they have the wrong Jesus. And you know, it's crazy. God has chosen to change the world in and through us, right? I mean, he could have changed the world anyway you wanted to. But he chose to work in and through us. We get to experience the joy of doing God's work. I just turned 61 years old. I, well, it's been a couple of months now, but I got up and took a shower and put my shoes on.

11:32I thought I'm exhausted, not, but 61 years old. I have done many things in my life. I've worked on an Ascar race team. I've done construction work. Sometimes I tell people the things that I've done and I just like I got to stop. They don't believe me. I have never in my life had such a sense of purpose as what I have right now. What a joy it is to be a part of what God's doing. We're going to step off into eternity someday. I mean, I just try to imagine these things. We're going to step off into eternity someday and we're going to say, Hey, I remember you. Were you the person that I shared the gospel with back in Jersey? That's me. Now don't get me wrong. God saves people right. We don't save anyone. God works through us. So we have got to help these Muslims understand who God is and who Jesus is.

12:37They take the great name of Jesus and they try to change him. They try to redefine who he is. And so when you're having a conversation with them, I want to try to give you a little something that I hope will help somebody. But I like to say that Islam uses Christian vocabulary, but it does not use a Christian dictionary. They use Christian vocabulary, but they do not use a Christian dictionary. So if you were to open up an English translation of the Quran, you're going to find words such as God, Jesus, sin, even the word gospel, but you can't assume that these are the same definitions of these words are not the same as what you and I would think of. But they don't have the same perspective. We can't make the assumption that they're talking about our Jesus because they're not. By the way, this is a $20 million shea mosque that was built pre-COVID.

13:41Absolutely beautiful place. Of course, they're teaching a false Jesus right here in the middle of this place. They're deceiving people. But right here in the middle of Florida, just as many places around here. We have Muslims who are very strategic, very intentional about what they're doing. I mean, honestly, my heart just broke being on Rutgers campus. To see all of those students, they're coming to the table, these Muslims, they put up what's called a dawa table. They were just lining up thinking there's blueberry muffins, but they were deceived. There are a lot of similarities in the Quran or in Islam as far as who Jesus is. And our culture wants us to focus on these similarities. If you're having a conversation with the Muslim, if you're having a conversation with the Imam or you go into the mosque or you go to share the gospel there,

14:44they're going to want you to focus on these similarities. Okay, and this is what the culture does, right? They have so much in common with us. They believe in Jesus. They're very sincere. So Jesus in Islam or really the word, the Arabic word is Issa of the Quran. He's bored of a virgin. He's the sinless son of Mary. He's a miracle worker, including raising the dead. He's called the Messiah. So what's your problem, preacher? Yet he's not the divine son of God who took on human flesh and came to this earth, laid down his life for you and I, and arose victoriously three days later. They reject all of this. So when it comes to what really matters, they reject our message. I like to say that the most powerful lie in the world is one that gets as close as possible to the truth while still remaining alive.

15:53It's exactly what Islam does. So we have to be aware of these differences and we want to, again, help them understand the reality of who Jesus is. We do that by sharing the gospel. And I've learned that in our churches today that we toss this word around quite a bit. The Greek word is you on Galeon. It means good news. Most of you are probably aware of that. But what is the gospel? You know, we can't share it if we don't know what it is, right? Three things. I mean, just three quick points. These are the fundamental elements of the Christian gospel. There's much, much more that could be said. But if you take away any one of these, you don't have the gospel. You take away any one of these and you don't have Christianity. The deity of Christ. Jesus is the God, man.

16:53That's who he is. Why is that important? Because, first of all, you and I have sinned against an infinitely holy and righteous God. We don't just stand in need of some righteousness. We don't just stand in need of good works. But we stand in need of the infinite and perfect righteousness of God. Only God can bridge that gap between himself and man. Only God can give us the righteousness of God. Only God can, as Peter said, help us become partakers in the divine nature. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5, 21, God made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That we might become good Baptists. No? That we might become the righteousness of God in him. The deity of Christ, the substitutionary death of Christ, not you glad this morning that

17:55if you were to leave this earth today, you're not dependent on your righteousness. Because Christ willingly laid down his life on the cross for us. I used to struggle with, you know, Riddest verse as a young Christian that I said something along the lines boldly walking into the throne room of God. I thought, how in the world could anybody do that? I don't think I could do that. And then the more I studied it, I realized I don't have that boldness because of myself. I have that boldness because of what he did for me. I have his righteousness. And the Bible promises us a glorified body someday. I just hope I'm getting my hair back, maybe. I used to have a nice little mullet, but that was before I raised two girls. But you know, I got a feeling that I'm going to care less about my hair.

19:01And I'm going to be just overwhelmed by the glory of God and my Savior. All right, so I want to talk a little about the goal of Islam. Just share with you a verse from the Quran because I want you to understand folks how serious this matter is. Islam is not in America to assimilate. They're here to dominate. If you don't know that, we were in Patterson. And there's probably about 10 out of 10. We're walking through the mosque. It was like just a couple of blocks away from the restaurant we were eating at. And this guy stops. He says, you guys are Christians? I'm like, yes, sir, we are. Can I offer you a copy of the NGO? He says, you don't do that in this neighborhood. I said, well, here we are. We're on our way to that mosque. He said, I wouldn't recommend it.

20:02I said, will you sit back and watch us? They only intimidate you. This verse from the Quran says, he that is Allah is the one who has sent his messenger. That's Muhammad with right guidance and the religion of truth, making it prevail over all others. There's no greater threat to the Christian church. There's no greater threat to the gospel. You and I preach. There's no greater threat to our freedom and our way of life here. Islam, folks, is here to dominate, not assimilate. So we have to be aware of this. And they're very intentional. They're very strategic about what they're doing. And so I'm looking at the clock back there. So I'm going to try to speed it up just a little bit. How should the church respond? You know, I already shared with you the three fundamental elements of the gospel.

21:03Jesus said, go into all the world and preach the gospel. Preach the gospel. I mean, if you look at some of the words that the Bible shares with us, it reveals to us, the gospel is a verbal message. We should be people who are talking and sharing verbally what God has done through the person and work of Jesus Christ. Not saying your lifestyle is not important, obviously, we should practice what we preach, right? But our message is fundamentally verbal. I mean, there's numerous verses, Colossians 4.6, that your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you ought to answer each person. And by the way, if you go talk to these Muslims, you'll find out really quick that you're not quite as prepared as you might have thought you were. They're very well prepared. I have talked to middle school students in California that I don't think the average Christian could respond to.

22:10I mean, from a very young age, they are prepared to confront you and I. The Bible says that we should know how we ought to answer these people. First Peter 3.15, I'm sure you've heard this verse many times. Peter uses the word defense here in my translation. The Greek word is apologria. This was a legal term like what's used in a first century court of law. Always be ready to make your case for why you have hope in Jesus Christ. We don't have blind faith, folks. There may be times when we just have to take a leap in the dark and trust Jesus, but our faith is based on good evidence. And then there's second Corinthians 10 and 5. We love to talk about spiritual warfare, but here Paul talks about spiritual warfare as destroying arguments in every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God.

23:14So that's our calling. And let me just say that I believe God has given us an incredible opportunity here in America. And we must seize this opportunity. Folks, the 1040 window is practically on the doorsteps of the American church. I mean, we're sending missionaries overseas and rightly so. We know that we're to take the gospel to the ends of the earth, but we don't take the gospel to the ends of the earth and ignore what's happening right here. Because I believe unless the church wakes up, there's coming a time when we're not going to be sending people anywhere. They are here. They're very intentional. Very strategic about what they're doing. I think of the words of a spokesman with ISIS who said Americans have all the watches in the world. We have all the time in the world. They're very patient.

24:15And it is a threat, right? We love to focus on the threat part, too. And sometimes I really honestly, I just struggle with talking about it. Because this is the most important part right here. We have this opportunity. We have this opportunity to impact the 1040 window. These are some of the most difficult people in the world to reach. We were in Dearborn a couple of years ago. I share this story quite often, but there was a young man there from Senegal. You guys know anything about Senegal? It's 99.45% Islamic. You don't send missionaries into Senegal and they're able to freely share the gospel. At least not keep their head on their shoulders. But he's right here in the United States. We share the gospel with him. Talk to him for over two hours. And I just believe God uses that, folks. I mean, I'm just old-fashioned like that.

25:17I don't believe the gospel is broken. I don't believe the gospel needs an update. I still believe the gospel is the power God and the salvation. And I believe that God uses us. So think about this opportunity that we have. I would also say that Muslims are spiritually confused and they need the real Jesus. I've already made that point really. But think about this. There are two billion Muslims in the world. And they learn about Christianity by reading the Quran. So learning about Christianity for them is not an option. But here's the problem. Nowhere does the Quran accurately represent Christian theology. In fact, it thinks the Trinity is God, Mary, and Jesus. Hopefully no one here believes that. It thinks that Jesus is the literal son of God and Mary.

26:19The Quran says, how can Allah have a son? He has no girlfriend, basically. That's not what you and I believe. We believe as the gospel of John says, no one is seeing God at any time, right? But the son, who is at the Father side, has revealed him. It's where we reveal theirs where we get the word exegy. He has exegyded him. He has shown him to us. And then this is exactly what Jesus said, right? I mean, he said, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. But you and I have the real Jesus. And Christ has called his church to go. But I think here's the problem. It's optional for us to learn about Islam. I mean, we might learn about Islam if we're interested. We might hear about Islam, if we guess.

27:20Baker comes and talks about it. So you see the problem here? Folks, at the current growth rate, Islam is set to surpass Christianity by 2050. And there's what's called biological jihad. They are having children, most of them, I mean, not most of them, but some of them have up to four wives. They're hoping to outbrew us. Here's another staggering statistic. I hope it doesn't bore you with the... I think this is really accurate. 87.4% of Muslims have never heard the gospel. So we're standing at the mosque, handing out copies of the New Testament, the word gospel in Arabic is in Geo. So we're standing there, would you like a copy of the in Geo? Folks, we stood there and handed out almost a box of these Gideon New Testament in Geo's or Gospels.

28:24And there's... In a worldwide, there's only one missionary for every 420,000 Muslims. You can go to Joshua Lengel's website, that's where I got these statistics from. I, two ministries. So I hope that really just makes you think a little bit about the opportunity that God has given us. And I'll close with this. I want you to understand, again, that God is at work and through His church right now. There are more Muslims coming to Christ right now than practically any other time in history. We go into Dearborn Michigan. You can see me in the middle there with my hat on, my wife looking at this picture, and she's like, where are the men at? I'm like, you tell me where they're at, I don't know. We go into Dearborn Michigan. How many of you know about Dearborn?

29:24Most of you, it's like being in the Middle East. You rarely see a woman with her hair uncovered. Every woman has a hijab on. It's a lot like Patterson, New Jersey. But we go into there and we put on a vacation Bible school. We don't call it a vacation Bible school, but that's basically what it is. And that's what we're doing right here. And let me just tell you what a beautiful sight it is to see all these Muslim women with their hijab zone, four or five, six children behind them coming into the church. And by the way, to come into this church right here, there's like this long, narrow crossway coming into the sanctuary. And at the entrance, there's three crosses. And you literally have to stoop underneath the middle cross to get in there.

30:24We were there a couple of years ago and I was with George Saeg from Ministry to Muslims. And George asked me to go pick up this lady. So I punched her address into my GPS and took off. And there was a, I got to my destination and by the way, I had somebody with me. I always have somebody with me. But I got to my destination and here's this lady who had just got here from Afghanistan. She's got her children around her. She didn't, she looked like she just didn't have a whole lot of joy. She looked very sad. She got in the car. We took her to the church and you know, I really didn't think much about it. Took her back home that evening. And then this past year we went back and again, George asked me to go pick somebody up and I thought, sure, I'll go pick him up.

31:25And I'm riding around dearborn following my GPS and I look around and I'm like, I know this looks familiar to me. I know where I'm at. I think I'm going to that same lady's house. I pull up to her driveway and I can see this lady's teeth from a distance. She's smiling from ear to ear. She just seems to be so full of joy. Open the car door, put her in the, took her to the church. Folks, the Holy Spirit was at work on this lady. That night she confessed Christ is Lord of her life. She brought her middle school son. He was evidently he was already a believer. He even knew what the word apologetics meant. You know, you have to explain that word a lot of times in churches. I think it means you're apologizing for being a Christian. And by the way, I just remind you that word means to be ready to give a rational defense for why you believe what you believe.

32:31We loaded this young man up with apologetics, books. And I don't think he could have been happier. I don't think he would have been happier if we'd given him candy or something. He was just so overjoyed that we give him all this material. The next night this lady brought her husband back with her. That night her husband confessed Christ is Lord of his life. The whole family got saved right here in Dearborn, Michigan. So don't let people tell you that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are not at work in places like Dearborn. We should be praying for these churches. We should be supporting them financially if we can. What a joy it is to be doing the Lord's work. I'll close with that.

33:31Maybe I could take two or three questions real quick. I don't want to keep anybody. See if I have a question or I don't know it all. Yes. A dog or a table. So they're inviting people to Islam. They're being evangelists. They have a table set up for the ladies and they have a table set up for the men. By the way, the brother asked this question. Thank you for asking it. It reminded me of this. Don't take it personal. If you're a woman, you need to understand what Islam teaches. Because I've often said if the men are not going to step up and do what needs to be done, I don't know nothing about this church. You may be doing these things. A woman's testimony is worth half that of a man.

34:31A man can have four wives. Guess how many husband a woman gets one? A husband can beat his wife? Mom had said that he saw hell and most of its inhabitants were women because they disobeyed their husband. I have pastors all the time who tell me I'm not really interested in Islam. You know, all in this, all you talk about. The last time I was in my local mosque, which has a university campus close by, it was filled with blonde hair, blue-eyed young ladies. I don't know, but at one time that was the number one convert to Islam. They know absolutely nothing about Islam. They meet tall, dark and handsome, who has lots of money. And they find out the hard way.

35:32As I left that mosque that day, there was a young, blonde-headed college student confessing this yada as I left. She's taken the Islamic confession of faith. And then their eyes, she's becoming a Muslim. They're very strategic. Again, I tried to say that several times. They're on campus at every basic university. I'm just trying to think of how to say this. If you look at the university, folks, these are the future leaders of America. These are the people who are going to be running our country someday. Islam is very strategically and intentionally going after them. They have no trouble setting up a table. And by the way, the administrative people there were very resistant about us being there. You got Muslims who have the whole block taken over.

36:35Tables, bouncy houses, got Jehovah Witnesses across the street. But they came after us. Anybody else have a question? Yes sir. I have a wife who was Muslim. I've been to the mosque. I'm absolutely everything you're saying is true. Thank you for sharing that. She or some of my time must be up. Anybody? So you're all experts on Islam now, right? Yes sir. Why so many young American girls wearing Islam only to be like invited to some guy? Yes, I think you missed that. I just shared that they are at one time that that was the number one convert to Islam was young American women. And there are a number of different reasons, a number of different ways to answer that question.

37:41Of course, everybody is different as an individual. But I think the bottom line is that they just don't know about Islam. They don't know those things that I shared with you from the Quran about women. They don't know those things. So I'll come to you brother. I think Ephesians 5 says, do not participate in the unfrutable deeds of darkness. Instead expose them. Turn the light on folks. Paul, when he's in Athens, Paul had some knowledge of the stoic and epicurian philosophers. He's quoting their sources right there in Acts 17. Don't be afraid of, I mean I'm not saying everybody go out and buy a Quran, but we need to understand what these people believe. And we need to expose it for what it is. Yes sir.

38:41If you could really think about it, that is a really good strategy to get women involved in it. Yes. They'll call it beauty. You said it, I didn't know. They'll call it beauty. And so that's the easiest way to get a man into Islam is through the woman. Yes. That's the perfect strategy. Absolutely. Back after 9-11 there was a, the FBI discovered a document. And there was this trial, it's called the Holy Land Foundation trial. But they discovered this document and it's called the explanatory memorandum. You can google it. And in this document it said, it uncovered the Muslim Brotherhood's goal here in America. And it said that they were here to perform a type of civilizational jihad and to destroy our miserable house from within.

39:47And here we are, you know, after 9-11 and if we take a look at what they're doing, this is exactly what they're doing. They're using our own system against us. They're using our own democracy. And who would have thought a Muslim mayor would be elected in New York? Well, he was elected because he was placed there but what happened was they placed all these immigrants there who voted for him. And if you look at the numbers, yeah. Either way, they're here. Why do you need to be in the Bible? That's right, yes. And we need to understand, as your pastor said, why don't we believe what we believe? Folks, we have this abundance of riches and evidence. We are not searching for answers. We may not know them. If you can't trust this book right here, you can't trust any book from antiquity.

40:52If you can't believe that Jesus claimed to be God, died on the cross, and even that he resurrected from the dead three days later, there's a New Testament professor. He's an atheist. I don't know why he would be a New Testament atheist professor, Bart Irman, anybody heard of him? He says, I don't know what happened, but something happened and the disciples believed that they encountered the risen Jesus. This is an atheist professor saying, why does he say that? Because the evidence is overwhelming. Yes, sir. I mean, you go out for women because women get birth and they have tons of kids. My wife and I have five kids. Praise God. Right, right. Is that awesome? Yeah.

41:54I feel like since I've been saying that it's like Christian, called the married couples. Oh my gosh, we have two kids. They have this fear, fear, you know. You're right. A big family. Well, I can't really afford one. I got five. I'm like, is it? I was invited. They just, they fear having large families. Yeah. Very very peaceful. Yes. And like I said, nobody can afford it. It's hard to just make enough money to support yourself. But God, you can really really God of the world. It's the industry in narrowly. We should be the people group, the faith that is true for the multiplied. Absolutely. I mean, that's from the very first book of the Bible, right? I mean, I think that continues on. Look, Psalm says that children are a gift from God.

42:54Absolutely. I have two girls and we have 10 grandchildren. But I think you're right. I think we have bought into this lie that we can't afford them. But yet we have the next and latest thing, whatever it is. And I was just thinking of even driving over here. You know, it seems like dogs are the new children. I mean, I love my dog. Don't get me wrong. I mean, I'm an animal person. I love my pets. Yes. No, it's right. Not in Islam. Yeah. My homies said to kill the dogs. Kill black dogs. Yes, sir. We're in order to work with Muslim populations without a population. You're having 5.7 kids or one of them. That's right. Yeah. What do you think of that? Yeah, we're not even at the replacement rate. The population will not be able to save so. And if you still think that's not a big problem, folks, look at the UK.

43:55I mean, we live in the age of technology. Get out of your phone and look at what's going on in the UK right now. America is practically the last stand. I mean, we are, if they can conquer us numerically. And by the way, they are very much focused on the South right now. If you don't know that. Texas and Florida. If they can take Texas and Florida, that's huge. I mean, I want to say it's over politically. But even if they do, I mean, I don't want you to leave here with this doom and gloom. Picture. Folks, we're just passing through this place, right? I mean, thank God we don't have to stay here. I mean, thank God we're going to spend eternity in heaven with Christ. And we're going to enjoy perfect, no sin. I mean, just try to imagine that. So I do have a YouTube channel. I mean, if you can't do anything else, you could subscribe to this channel.

44:59If you get bored one day, you want to pull up me on YouTube. And watch a few advertisements. I get like two cents an advertisement. If God lays it on your heart to get, I'm not here for money. God has graciously provided for me to be here. And I'm just amazed. I'm like the average pastor. I'm going to close with you this I promise. Thank you so much. I was a pastor, a youth pastor. God radically changed my life. I grew up as a PK, preacher's kid. Graduated high school and I thought I'm done with school. I don't want anything to do with that. I spent ten years of my life never read a book. My wife prayed for me for ten years. She told me to church on Easter and Christmas.

46:01My church prayed for me. But the moment I come to know Christ, my heart was changed. Now I'm not saying everybody should go out and get a PhD, but I immediately had this desire to learn and to grow. I went on to earn my masters. I was working on my second masters right now. And as I look back on that often and think, how in the world did I do that? I mean, there are times when I didn't even know how I was going to pay the power bill. God graciously provided each and every time. So I'm grateful for that. I asked that each and every one of you would pray for me in our ministry. I was a teacher's Tony Gaurule who was on the west coast. And then we have Christine Kiri who is in Texas. I pretty much have the entire east coast.

47:01I've been all over the east coast. Four years ago I'd never been on the plane. Hardly been out of the Carolinas. I even had posted pictures in New York City and I had friends posting, and I was just a little bit worried. Folks, that should not be our mentality. There's people here who need to hear the gospel. It doesn't matter if you're from Jersey or you're from Florida. If you belong to Jesus Christ, you're part of the body of Christ. And there is only one body. All right, I'm going to stop right there.