Son of Hamas Terrorist Leader Becomes Christian

Sheikh Hassan Yousef - Masab's Jailed Father

In an exclusive interview in Israel's Haaretz newspaper, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, Masab, says he has now turned to Christ.

Masab, who has now moved to the U.S. said he'll probably never be able to return to the middle east in his lifetime: "I know that I'm endangering my life and am even liable to lose my father, but I hope that he'll understand this and that God will give him and my family patience and willingness to open their eyes to Jesus and to Christianity. Maybe one day I'll be able to return to Palestine and to Ramallah with Jesus, in the Kingdom of God."

Speaking to Israel as a nation, Masab added, "You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death."

Talking to the Palestinian Maan news agency, Masab's brother, Suhaib, asserted that Masab hasn't "converted to Christianity."

Haaretz says it sticks by its story, and said they sent a reporter to the U.S., who did a personal innterview with him.

Jesus Christ: The Tree of Life - 6

In continuing on with our look at Jesus as the Tree of Life, I want to start off this time with the comment thousands of years ago by Soloman that there is "nothing new under the sun."

Taking that insight and applying it to Christ as the Tree of Life, I want to show some of the simplicity of this as it relates to the church.

Our walk with the Lord within, while it may be new to us, as far as experience goes, is not new at all, from the point of view of the Godhead. They have been walking this eternally.

What this means is we are partaking within of His existing experience and living it out among one another.

One easy to understand concept we can embrace and practice as the church, is to comprehend that much of we do when we practice our Christianity, or Christ-centeredness (which is what Christian means), is repeating how the Godhead has lived together before time.

So when we share with one another what it is Jesus is doing through our current circumstances or revealing to us, is more than anything else, reminding one another of what has happened throughout the existence of God.

The practical outworking, is that when we share, much of it is to remind one another of who He is, and help one another to learn more of who He has always been.

In other words, we do more reminding when we talk and share life together, than anything else. As a matter of fact, as we grow in Him, it simply becomes His life emerging out of us toward and into one another.

The reason this has become complicated isn't the only the unbibical way people meet and the whole pagan structure and practice, but many times even when people start to see the organic, they tend to share the things they've learned in schools or colleges, especially related to philosophy and related courses that are diametrically opposite of who Christ really is.

It's nothing other than the old alternative tree of the knowledge of good and evil being consumed.

So we again get the mixture that always weakens and ultimately destroys the testimony of Christ in His people.

Remember, Christ is writing His story within us, so ultimately people will be able to read us as a letter from God. That's why Paul one time said "you are my letter," referring to the church.

In the end, that's the overall purpose of Christ as the Tree of Life, to be eaten and internalized, so what is within will be shown without and read by all men.

Jesus Christ: The Tree of Life Series

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