It is impossible for a true CHRISTIAN to see Islam as the ENEMY.

It is impossible for a true CHRISTIAN to see Islam as the ENEMY.

Impossible.

Truly impossible.

If we need an example, we already have one.

Look to Jesus and the Samaritans, a people hated and despised by the Jews of His day, yet lifted up by Jesus as exemplars of good conduct.
He could have adopted the prejudices of His time.
He could have mirrored the fears, the hostilities, the easy divisions.

He did not.

Instead, He stayed with them.
In their city.
At their invitation.
Teaching them.

That alone should slow us down.

Christians have always known that they would be tested.
Every generation has been told to expect it.
Every believer grows up hearing it.

Persecution is not new.
Pressure is not strange.
Opposition comes with the territory.

So the question is not whether Christians will be targeted.

They always are.

The deeper question is how we respond when it happens.

Because the real enemy of Christianity has never been merely outside the gates.

It is closer than that.
More familiar.
More comfortable.

It hides in plain sight.

It speaks Christian language.
Quotes Scripture.
Invokes the name of Jesus.
Builds churches.
Sings worship songs.

And yet, somehow, quietly,
it rejects the Cross.

This is not a rival religion.
This is something more dangerous.

A counterfeit.

A Christianity emptied of obedience.
Crowns without thorns.
Power without repentance.
Blessing without transformation.
Authority without submission to truth.

Islam does not pretend to be Christianity.
False Christianity does.

That is why Jesus warned us, again and again.

Not about enemies from outside,
but about deception from within.

Not wolves battering down the gates,
but wolves already inside,
standing at pulpits,
calling themselves shepherds.

Somewhere along the way, we were sold a gospel without a Cross.
A prosperity gospel.
A promise of comfort without sacrifice.

And it worked.

It trained believers to respond to pressure the way heathens do.
Shouting.
Threatening.
Calling down fire.
Reacting as though Christ never taught us another way.

Yet mature Christians have always known something else.

Persecution, rightly received, becomes an opportunity.

An opportunity to let light shine before those who hate us,
until hate is disarmed,
until hostility is softened,
until love has room to enter.

Every generation will be tested.
Even the false ones.

Especially the false ones.

Like the seven sons of Sceva, exposed not by persecution, but by confrontation with reality.
Counterfeits cannot stand forever.

So the real issue keeps returning.

How do we respond?

With outrage?
With threats?
With fire and brimstone, as though we were pagan priests guarding a jealous god?

Or with faithfulness.
With kindness.
With a strange, unsettling blessedness.
With a willingness to reach out, to make peace, directly or through emissaries.

What is so dangerous about charity?

People of God, listen carefully.

I am tired of repeating what should already be obvious.

Our refusal to behave as Christians has created a new and deadly problem for the Church.
Antichrists are now presenting themselves as “defenders of Christianity.”

This does not strengthen the faith.
It corrodes it.

These are difficult times.
And they will grow darker still if those who carry the light refuse to shine.

Decades of false teaching have raised a generation that no longer recognises the Shepherd’s voice.
So every stranger sounds like a saviour.
Every wolf looks like a deliverer.

The antichrist does not arrive denying Christ.
He arrives replacing Him.

And many applaud,
because the replacement demands less,
costs less,
asks less.

So now, since wolves crowd the pulpit,
the flock must rise early
and go searching again.

Searching for the Good Shepherd.

And when they hear His voice,
they will know.

Because Scripture says:

“I am the Good Shepherd. I know My sheep, and My sheep know Me.”
John 10:14

Jesus is the Good Shepherd.
He knows His sheep.

And His sheep,
even now,
still know Him.

A word is enough.

Don Kenobi
Don D’Baptist

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