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Sermon, June 1987Belief in God requires knowing that God runs everything, since the Quran shows that most who believe in God, like Satan, still go to hell. Dr. Khalifa proposes the daily dhikr God is running everything as a guard against objecting, complaining, and losing one's temper, and calls attributing action to anyone else idol worship. He also treats free choice, the contact prayer as an appointment with God, and eating in moderation.June 1, 1987Sermon, July 1987Priorities between the body, which dies, and the soul, the real person, which needs worshipping God alone, the five prayers, and constant commemoration of God. Dr. Khalifa contrasts a believer's morning with a heedless neighbor's, reads Sura 18 on the fleeting world, and stresses the Friday prayer. He then reads a passage on Rabbi Judah's defense of the numerical harmony of prayer, likening it to the contact prayer and Al-Fatiha.July 1, 1987Sermon, July 1987Dr. Khalifa contrasts the Quran's mathematical code, built on 19 and letter counts in the initialed chapters, with Israeli computer studies of the Torah dismissed on Larry King. He presents the end of the world as 1710 AH or 2280 AD, information not required for heaven. He also covers universal unity through devotion to God alone, abuse of polygamy, and the vastness of the seven universes showing that God is doing everything.July 1, 1987Sermon, October 1987A new finding about the word God, counted outside the span from the first Quranic initial in sura 2 to the last in sura 68, shows that the numbering of the Quran's suras and verses is dictated by God. Dr. Khalifa presents the mathematical code as perpetual proof of the miracles of Moses and Jesus, then reads Psalm 91 on God's protection of believers through His angels.October 1, 1987Sermon, November 1987Recent findings in the Quran's mathematical code based on 19, drawn from sums of sura and verse numbers for words such as Quran, salat, wahid and God alone, and for the pillars of worship. Dr. Khalifa also discusses the great event of the Day of Resurrection, the contact prayer, refuge from Satan, a visit from Saudi scholars who objected to God's name alone, and fallen governments.November 1, 1987Sermon, January 1988Starting over on New Year's Day 1988 through repentance, and happiness as a quality of the soul that wealth and fame cannot supply. Dhikr, the five daily contact prayers, and a new remembrance that God is here with me nourish the soul. Also covers Sura 56 on the multitudes of an early generation witnessing the message of God alone, and plans for a multilingual video and flashcards on the Quran's code based on 19.January 1, 1988Sermon, January 1988God is doing everything, and life is a test in which God nullifies every excuse, as with the changing times of sunrise for the morning prayer and the length of fasting days. Dr. Khalifa presents Dr. Mansour, a top Azhar scholar who preaches the Quran alone, recounting his imprisonment and release from Egypt and their trip together to the Vancouver community.January 1, 1988Sermon, March 1988God's kingdom and Satan's kingdom, and how to join God's kingdom now through repentance, a covenant with God, and the five prayers that nourish the soul. Dr. Khalifa then turns to God's mercy, citing the 40 years given to decide and the law of equivalence that favors compensation over capital punishment, and argues from the Quran that God never ordered Abraham to kill his son but intervened to save him.March 1, 1988Sermon, April 1988Dr. Khalifa recounts a night in April when repeated random openings of the Quran told him he was fired and doomed until he repented and resolved to announce that he is God's messenger. He explains why a messenger is no big deal, argues from the Quran that Muhammad is not the last messenger, and describes the restored contact prayer, zakat, fasting, and Hajj.April 1, 1988Sermon, April 1988Dr. Khalifa announces that he has been commissioned a messenger of God and explains why such an announcement draws resentment from ignorance and idol worship. He distinguishes prophets from messengers, citing the covenant in surah 3, and presents mathematical signs tied to Rashad Khalifa and the number 19. He also gives the Quranic method of zakat: 2.5 percent of net income on the day it is received.April 1, 1988Sermon, May 1988A summary for guests of the message God sent with tangible, mathematical evidence: the covenant all souls made before creation, the soul as the real person, and life as preparation for eternity. Dr. Khalifa explains Satan's dominion and the demonstration, and how the contact prayers, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage nourish the soul and bring perfect happiness here and forever.May 1, 1988Sermon, July 1988Satan's challenge to God's absolute authority, the test humans accepted, and the companion jinn assigned to each person frame a lesson on Satan's limitations. Dr. Khalifa describes Satan capturing religious leaders, announces a new finding that the Quran's numbers total a multiple of 19, and tells how the Quran's mathematical miracle was produced inside the world's biggest brewery, hidden from Satan.July 1, 1988Sermon, September 1988Dr. Khalifa recounts a vision during his pilgrimage to Mecca, in which all the prophets approved him one by one, and explains it as the fulfillment of Sura 3:81 on the messenger of the covenant. He argues from present tense verses that God keeps choosing messengers and that every believer who preaches worship of God alone is one. He also discusses opponents' name calling and the prophecy that Islam will prevail worldwide.September 1, 1988Sermon, October 1988Who is your God? Whatever preoccupies your mind most of the day, whether yourself, your job, your money, your spouse or your children, is your God, and Quranic verses on commemorating God a lot back this up. Practical ways follow to remember God all day, from waking in His name to the five prayers, with a baseball game of Sammy Khalifa's showing how God grants believers victory where it counts.October 1, 1988Sermon, December 1988Loving God more than anything else, explained through the origin of humans as creatures who sided with Satan's challenge to God's absolute authority and whom God, against the angels' advice, gave a second chance. Dr. Khalifa also explains why God permitted two false verses in the Quran for 1400 years, tracing them to the time of Osman, and condemns those who hate the truth.December 1, 1988Sermon, December 1988Dr. Khalifa answers what becomes of past generations, showing that most of humanity is yet to come and will receive the complete message. He explains the three classes of creatures arising from the heavenly dispute, this world as a temporary hell run by Satan, and previews a nineteen-based finding confirming the prayer units. He closes with Malachi 3 on the messenger of the covenant.December 1, 1988Sermon, January 1989A self examination built on the question, who was your God last week, walking through a day of mentioning God's name, praying on time, saying God willing, and thanking Him for food, warmth, and taste. Dr. Khalifa divides people into submitters, always happy, and objectors, always miserable, and explains that the longest sura is named the cow to teach obedience without argument. It opens with a 19 finding in la ilaha illa Allah.January 1, 1989Sermon, February 1989Dr. Khalifa traces the years from the revelation of the Quran to the revelation of its mathematical miracle in January 1974, a total of 1406 years, or 19 times 74. He then stresses performing the dawn prayer at dawn for the soul and body, and defends the announcement that God sent a human messenger as a test that sifts out dropouts, citing Abraham, Moses, and surah 17:94.February 1, 1989Sermon, March 1989God's foreknowledge of who deserves the high heaven, the lower heaven or hell, traced to the ancient crime of not upholding God's absolute authority. Citing Abraham, Joseph and 28:68 to 69, Dr. Khalifa explains why so few worship God alone and why those guided owe it to God, not their intelligence. He also warns against prohibiting what God did not prohibit and against blaming God for idolatry.March 1, 1989Sermon, September 1989Dr. Khalifa welcomes conference attendees who worship God alone, citing God as possessor of all things in sura 3 and idol worship as the only unforgivable offense. He argues the Shahadah is La ilaha illa Allah alone, rejects adding Muhammad's name, and answers the charge of following Rashad Khalifa. He warns that views contrary to the Quran will be heard and that tests sift believers.September 1, 1989Sermon, September 1989Dr. Khalifa describes accepting a human being as God's messenger as the most difficult test, recounting his own eight years of struggle and how revelation came to him through Sura 36, verse 3. He warns attendees who reject his messengership or befriend enemies of God and His messenger, answers a challenge to his translation of the Quran, and closes with Sura 57 on the hypocrites.September 1, 1989Sermon, September 1989The ego as the root of human rebellion against God's absolute authority, contrasting humans and jinn who refused the second chance to submit with the animals, stars, and mountains that accepted it, and why killing the ego is key to redemption. Dr. Khalifa also presents a 19-based confirmation of al-Fatiha in the contact prayer and answers an upcoming conference on the finality of prophethood.September 1, 1989Sermon, November 1989God's omnipotence and predetermination, shown through Dr. Khalifa's birth on November 19, the only day of the year whose number is a multiple of 19, and through the prophecies of the messenger of the covenant in Malachi, Luke, Matthew and Quran 3:81. The second sermon presents Quranic evidence that the righteous never taste death but go straight to heaven, while disbelievers suffer at death.November 1, 1989Sermon, December 1989Mathematical discoveries by members of the congregation confirming the five daily contact prayers and Surah One through multiples of 19: the units, bowings, prostrations, and Tashahhud of each prayer, the 19 meetings of the lips in Al Fatiha, and letter values matching the verse counts of the surahs Noah, Abraham, and Muhammad. Dr. Khalifa then shares his mother's death as a sign that the righteous do not die.December 1, 1989
