Now look at what it says in verse 9, it says,
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women?
What is thy beloved more than another beloved that thou dost so charge us?
They're saying, you know, what is so great about this guy that you're, you know, your husband,
you're praising your spouse, you're praising your beloved,
you're telling us how great he is, what's so great about him, they're asking?
You know, tell us why he's any better than any other guy that's out there.
Right?
And again, if we were to take kind of a symbolic view on this, you know, it's kind of like,
well what makes you think that your religion's right?
You know what I mean?
And everything else is wrong.
You know, why do you think that the Bible's right and that the Quran's wrong or that,
you know, the Book of Mormon's wrong or that the Tao Te Ching is wrong or whatever else?
And you know, to those of us that are saved, it's a ridiculous question because we know
that God's Word is so much greater than all of these other so-called holy scriptures.
They can't even hold a candle to it.
And it's funny because every once in a while somebody will quote to you something from
the Book of Mormon maybe or something from the Quran and you always just, you just have
to just shake your head at it like, are you serious?
I mean it's pretty easy to tell them, you know, you look at the Apocrypha a little bit,
you'll see a real big difference.
I mean God's Word cannot be duplicated and plenty of people have tried to duplicate it.
I mean that's what Joseph Smith was doing with the Book of Mormon.
I mean he's trying to duplicate scripture.
He thinks he can write his own scripture.
It's so obviously a fraud.
It's so clearly not God's Word.
Same things with these Apocryphal books.
Same things with the, you know, the Book of Enoch and all this, the Gospel according to
Thomas and the, you know, the Quran.
I mean you look at it, it's easy.
You say, well how do you know what's real?
You just put them side by side and it's pretty easy to tell the diamond from the cubic zirconium
because one's made by man and one's made by God and you can tell a difference.
You know it's, I always, I always tell people like this, you know, the cell phone towers
that are made to look like a palm tree, okay, you don't have to be an arborist to be able
to tell the difference between a real palm tree and a cell phone that's made to look
like a palm tree because what God made is much different than what man made.
Man tries to duplicate God's creation and basically, you know, these phony scriptures
are like a cell phone looking like a palm tree.
You know, we laugh at it.
Say it's ridiculous.
It's not even close.
But that's how these scripts are.
It's funny, I was giving the Gospel to some Muslim teenagers today because we were out
soul winning in what I call Little Africa.
It's these apartment complexes where everybody's directly from Africa.
So we're giving the Gospel to some Sudanese, you know, they're from Sudan.
And so they were Muslims.
And I gave the whole plan of salvation to these Muslim teenagers and basically I told
them, I said, look, I said, here's what the Bible says, you know, that Jesus is the Son
of God.
You've got to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
You can't just believe Jesus is a prophet like Muhammad teaches, you know, or believe
that Jesus is just a messenger.
No, the Bible says you must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
I said, do you believe that Jesus is the Lord?
And they said no.
I said, do you believe he died and was buried and rose again?
No, they don't.
And I said, you know what, the Bible teaches that you must believe on the Son of God.
And I said, the Koran says that Allah has no son.
So I said, can both the Bible and the Koran both be true?
And they said no.
Because one of them says that Jesus is the Son of God, one of them says there's no such
thing as the Son of God.
So therefore they cannot both be true.
So I said, you know, so I said, you know, and he's like, well how do you know that the
Bible's right and that the Koran is not right?
You know, it's kind of like that.
Well, what's your beloved better than the, you know, why is the Bible better than the
Koran?
I said, okay, I said, let me explain to you why the Bible's better than the Koran.
I said, I said, you right now believe that to be saved, to go to heaven, that you have
to live a good life, you have to obey the Koran, you have to do these, you know, abstain
from sin and do the right things and do the five pillars of Islam, you know, praying and
fasting and, you know, going to Mecca, you know, if you can or whatever.
But anyway, you know, I have to like water it down.
You know, you got to go down and bow down to that giant black, you know, game cube or
whatever it is, you know, a giant black cube that they bow down to.
But here's the thing, I said, look, I said, I said, you sin every day.
I said, you're a sinner.
I said, I don't even think you're good enough to go to heaven according to Islam.
I don't even think Islam is going to get you there.
I said, I said, you're not even that into Islam.
I said, you don't even follow Islam just because, you know, you just look at these teenagers.
They didn't look like they were just devout.
They didn't look like they carry a prayer rug everywhere they go.
You know what I mean?
They're just young teenagers playing basketball.
I said, you guys are, and they're like, well, we're a little bit, you know, we're kind of,
we're kind of follow Islam.
I'm like, you don't follow Islam, you know what I mean?
So then I said, I said, well, look, I said, you have all these sins, right?
I said, well, I'm a sinner too.
I've got all these sins too, but the difference is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for
all my sins, and in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.
So I said, I just believe that to be saved, I just have to believe on Jesus Christ and
all my sins are forgiven.
I said, your religion teaches you just be good, follow the rules, follow the commandments,
and I said, you've already failed.
There's none that doeth good, save one, and that's God.
The Bible says, as it is written, there's none righteous, no, not one, for all have
sinned and come short of the glory of God.
And then he said, well, no, no, no, he's like, this is how it is.
In Islam, it's like our good is going to be outweighed by our bad.
If we get to heaven, it's going to be like, okay, you've done bad, but then the good makes
up for it.
I said, okay, try that, try stealing a car, okay?
Get arrested for stealing a car and then just go to the courtroom with a list of all the
good things you've done.
And I don't care how long that list is.
I don't care if that list is as long as a receipt from whatever grocery store, you know,
that's five feet long.
You know, I don't care how long that list is, it's not going to matter at all.
They're not even going to admit it as evidence.
The prosecutor's going to say, objection, your honor, you know, this is not relevant.
You've stolen a car, it doesn't matter how much you gave to charity, it doesn't matter
all the good things you've done.
I said good things cannot outweigh bad, but I said, you know, if you were in court for
having stolen this car and maybe it was said that, you know, you can either pay a fine
of $100,000 or go to jail for five years, you know, I said you don't have $100,000,
you're going to jail, but I said someone could step in and pay that fine for you.
Some benefactor could produce that $100,000 and pay that bill and get you off the hook
and free you.
I said that's what Jesus Christ did.
I said Jesus Christ is paying for your sins by the fact that he died on the cross for
you, and if you believe on him, it's paid.
But I said what you're doing is basically you're telling Jesus, no Jesus, I got this.
I got this.
I'm going to do this on my own.
I said you're going to jail.
And I said, are you really confident right now?
I said to these Muslim teenagers, I said are you confident right now to stand before God?
You really think all the good you've done is going to outweigh all the bad you've done?
Are you really confident right now to stand and look at God in the face with your life
right now and you think he's just going to let you into heaven?
They said, they didn't like that.
And I said, I want you to think about this.
I said, you know what, this is your life.
This is your eternity.
Just because you're born Muslim, just because you're born Hindu or Christian or Buddhist
or you know, you need to think for yourself.
You need to figure this out.
This is your, this is heaven and hell.
You know, they didn't get saved today, but hopefully a seed was planted.
You know, hopefully that will get them thinking about the fact that their religion offers
no real salvation.
So it's pretty easy to tell when you put God's word and when you put the Gospel side by side
with the so-called Gospel of Islam, it just doesn't add up.
You know, you put it next to the Gospel of Mormonism, you know, the King James Bible
is so dramatically better than the Book of Mormon.
You know, it's not even able to be compared.
It's not even close.
So that's what I think of when I see this scripture where they say, you know, well what's
your beloved more than another beloved?
Kind of like, well, you know, what's the Bible more than all these other holy books?
You know, ask some long-haired hippie wearing a tie-dyed shirt at the university, you know.
What about all these other holy books?
You know, yeah, here's the difference.
Because this book is in every nation in the world.
I'm sorry, every nation in the world is not filled with Muslims.
Every nation in the world is not filled with Hindus.
I mean, if you run into Hindus, you pretty much know what country they're from, right?
What country are they from?
India.
Okay, you run into people that are Buddhist, they're usually Asian or they're just like
these trendy rockers that are just like, yeah, I'm Buddhist, dude, you know.
But they're not really that, they're not really Buddhist, you know.
They're not, you know, they probably don't, they don't know kung fu or anything, you know,
so they're not really a Buddhist.
But anyway, you know, you run into people that practice Judaism, 99% of the time, they're,
you know, they're basically from Israel or that descendancy or Eastern Europe or whatever.
But the bottom line is, the Bible is in every Dollar Tree, every 99-cent store, every country
in the world, it's everywhere, every single person almost has at least heard John 3.16
or at least heard some, I mean, on the planet.
Because God's Word has gone forth unto the ends of the earth and people have heard the
name of Jesus, he's the most famous person that has ever lived.
He is the most well-known individual that has ever existed in the world.
And some people just say he didn't exist.
He's the most famous person ever.
There's more written about him, there's more said about him, there's more people following
him than anybody else, okay?
So, you know, it's pretty easy to tell why our beloved is better than their beloved.
And I like what it says in the Old Testament, you know, their rock is not as our rock.
Their God's not like our God.
All religions are not equal, my friend.
There's the God of the Bible and then there's everything else, which is just a cheap imitation.