I just read an interesting report that Ramzi Yousef who was the “mastermind” of the first terrorist attack on New York’s World Trade Center claims to have converted from Islam to Christianity.
To that I say, PRAISE GOD! Isn’t it incredible how NOBODY is gone beyond the ability to experience the grace and forgiveness of Jesus! what a powerful testimony this will be to the Muslim world and to those who are in prison with him.
There are several who are skeptics of the sincerity of his conversion and I suppose that is justified, the man proclaimed himself a radical Muslim and took an oath to die killing infidels in Jihad.
His story is pretty familiar though and it is found in the Bible in the story of the Apostle Paul who prior to his accepting that Jesus is God was one of the most zealous of all Jewish persecutors of those who proclaimed Jesus as THE WAY.
Myself, I am praising God because regardless of this mans truthfulness, Jesus Christ is being recognized as God to potentially millions of people in the Muslim faith, some radical and others are your average person but all who see this will be able to hear that JESUS IS GOD.
Here’s the thing, so many of us think that one sin is worse than another…like there are degrees of sin but all sin is separation from God and the only one who can bridge that distance between our sin and God is His one and only perfect son, Jesus Christ who came to this earth and while being entirely human lived a totally sinless life.
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These are only a few examples but nonetheless, separation from God is separation from God and there is no difference in sin in His eyes.
The GREAT NEWS is that you can receive forgiveness of your sins by confessing them to Jesus and acknowledging Jesus as God.
I am praying for Ramzi Yousef, that his profession of faith is sincere and if not that he would be so convicted by the Holy Spirit that he would have no other choice than to acknowledge Jesus as God in his heart and in his mind and in his actions…I will pray for him the same way I pray for the rest of the church and for the rest of those who are far from God.