By Carlos Hernandez —
According to the Quran, Jesus was born of Virgin Mary by supernatural act while Mohammad was born the natural way, by the union of his father and mother. That’s what drove to Christ former Muslim Khallil Lambin, a professional soccer player in Switzerland.
“I came to know Yeshua by reading the Quran,” Khalil says. “In the Quran, everything is pointing at him saying that he is God. The true fact is most Muslims do not read the Quran. They just listen to the Imam. And by listening to the Imam, you can’t really come to an understanding of who is Yeshua, who is Isa in the Quran.”
Khallil was born in the Ivory Coast in a Muslim family. He lost his mom at age 12. Soccer became his life. He madehis way from Thai soccer as a youth, to Lebanon, Greece and then to Switzerland in 2017, where he played for Fribourg, Stade Nyonnais and Bavois.
“I was in Switzerland seeking for truth, lost, feeling hypocrite in my religion,” Khallil says. “Most Muslims if they look deep down in their heart, they know that they are insecure. They know that they are hypocrites.”
Along with the glamorous life of being an international soccer striker, Khallil was partying and drinking and going around with women, he says. He looked for direction and solace in the book of his religion. To his surprise, the Quran pointed to Jesus.
“Jesus, if you are God reveal yourself to me because the Quran is pointing at you,” he prayed. “So who are you?”
The very next day, a pastor on the street told him, “Jesus loves you.”
“That was kind of a shock,” Khallil says. “Who can love a wreck like me with no morals because I was lost in the world of football (soccer).”
He gave his life to Christ and eventually found out how Christ could love him despite being so sinful. Reading the Bible, he came across Rom. 5:8: “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
“While my eyes were not on him, his eyes were on me,” he says. “That was just remarkable because he did not wait for me to be perfect.”
Today, Khallil is a senior business executive at Patons Insurance in Liverpool, UK.
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