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Sermon, 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, 1988
