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Friday Sermons by Dr. Rashad Khalifa, Dated December 9th 1988
In the Name of GOD, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
-Friday Sermon delivered by Dr. Rashad Khalifa on 12/9/1988 about:
Why we should love God.
Even in our worldly dimension, any enterprise expects its employees to be loyal and devoted to the welfare of the enterprise. If an employee is not totally dedicated to the enterprise, or is shown to have divided loyalties, he is immediately dismissed. Since the humans and the jinns sided with Satan, then turned down God's offer to reconsider their rebellious acts, the angels expected Satan and his allies to be banished from God's kingdom (Quran 2:30). It was IMMENSE MERCY from God that He granted us this ADDITIONAL CHANCE to denounce our crime and redeem ourselves.
To carry out this EXTEREMLY MERCIFUL PLAN of redemption, God "created death" (Quran 67:1-2 http://www.submission.nu/quran/). The divine plan called for bringing the rebels into another existence, where they have no recollection of the heavenly feud. Under the circumstances of this life, the humans and the jinns receive both God's messages and Satan's messages, then freely choose either side. Based on their freewill decision, they are either redeemed into God's kingdom, or become permanently exiled with Satan.
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