This is the second and final installment of a two-part series called, “Enough!” We’re looking at the way in which other religions seek to edit the identity of Christ and showing how if Jesus isn’t God, He isn’t enough.

He is God, and therefore is more than enough. It is that fact which must inspire us to look in the mirror and say, “Enough!” Enough with any of the campaigns we come up with in an effort to excuse our lack of obedience and passion when it comes to our relationship with Christ. Let’s pick it up with Scientology.

I. Scientology
This one is a slam dunk:

In Scientology’s Class 8 course, lecture 10, (3 October 1968) Hubbard taught, “Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6 [a suppressive implant], and I don’t know how they found it, either by watching “Madman” or something; but since that time, they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ.” (Corydon and Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman?, p. 362).

So with Tom Cruise, you have a doctrine that says Jesus is a distraction if He even existed at all. They don’t associate Him with anything Divine let alone historical. That being the case, this one is easy to put to rest in that, here again, Jesus isn’t God. If Jesus isn’t God, Jesus isn’t enough.

II. Islam
According to Islamic doctrine, Jesus is a good Muslim.

The Qur’an does not record the words or acts of Christ; it claims, rather to correct the “corrupted” Scripture by saying Jesus was not the Son of God:

Christ the Son of Mary was no more than a messenger; many were the messengers that passed away before him” (sura 5:75).

The Jews say, “Ezra is the son of Allah”; the Christians say, “The Messiah is the son of Allah.” That is their statement from their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved [before them]. May Allah destroy them; how are they deluded? (Sura 9:30).

In the Qur’an, Jesus is referred to as the “son of Mary, ” but never as the Son of God.

The deity of Christ is central to His identity. If Jesus is being presented in a way where He is anything less than the Son of God, then you no longer have Christ; rather you have a facsimile of Christ and you’re trusting in someone other than who can truly save you.

While we looked at other Scripture in Part 1, John 10:30 is worth looking at. Jesus says, “I and the Father are One.” The Greek word for one in this case is referring to one thing, not one person. What Jesus was saying was that He and God the Father were One in essence, the same.

In addition, Muslims believe Jesus…was never crucified:

The Jews boast in sura 4:157, “‘We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Apostle of Allah’ — but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them.”

If there was no crucifixion, then there was no resurrection and Paul looks at the fallacy of that argument in 1 Corinthians 15:14. When Jesus was asked to provide some kind of sign or proof that He was the Son of God, He responded by saying that they were to look for the sign of Jonah; aka the Resuurection (Matthew 12:39-41).

The resurrection is the sign that Jesus highlighted in terms of that which would validate His claim to be God incarnate. The resurrection is the foundation upon which Christianity stands or falls. If you eliminate the crucifixion, you eliminate the empty tomb and if you eliminate the empty tomb, you invalidate Jesus’ claim to be God Incarnate — the way, the truth and the life.

Therein lies the strategy where Islam is concerned from the standpoint of Satan. Acknowledge Christ, but don’t ascribe to Him His Identity or give Him credit for the atoning work done on Calvary and through the resurrection. The end result of such a doctrine is condemnation and a victory for the devil (see 1 John 2:22).

III. Conclusion
The great Methodist preacher, author and missionary of the past generation, Dr. E. Stanley Jones, described how he was once addressing an Indian University on the verities of eternity. When he sat down the thoughtful Hindu president stood up and sonorously solemnized, “If what this man says is not true, then it doesn’t matter. But if what he says is true, than nothing else matters.” (Storm Warning, Billy Graham, p. 253).

Compared to Christ, nothing else matters. All human endeavors and relationships pale in comparison; or at least, they should.

However we excuse our lack of obedience, whether it be in the way we give or the way we serve — there’s really no excuse — and it’s not a dynamic limited to what occurs within the walls of the church.

Are you healthy or are you overweight? Are you fit, or is your muscle tone lacking? Are you moving forward in the context of 2 Corinthians 9:8 and Ephesians 5:1 or are you finding ways to assert and abide by practical sounding reasons for not living up to your God-given potential?

That is the take home today. While other religions insist Jesus isn’t God incarnate, we know Him to be just that and therefore more than enough to accomplish what needed to happen in order to atone for the sins of humanity.

If He is more than enough, then we must respond with a resolved and aggressive, “Enough!” when it comes to the way we entertain the notions of our sinful nature and the campaigns of the enemy deployed to distract us from fully obeying our God and King.

If Jesus isn’t God, He isn’t enough; but He is more then enough. Therefore, we must say, “Enough,” to the way in which allow ourselves to compromise knowing the rewards are more then enough to justify the sacrifice.

Let’ do this!