Welcome to a self-examination directed by Jesus Christ.

 

Thesis: Am I a fool?

 

       You may not believe, how much it hurts to know, that the majority of the

German speaking people, my relatives, class mates and friends have no idea

about the plan of redemption, i.e. the New Covenant of God for our time. As

mentioned in Thesis # 9 they and I and our parents were deceived from the

time of our infancy. It is of course also possible, that the leaders of the dif-

ferent churches, we were placed into, never knew or understood this plan or

New Covenant of God. I would be very sorry about that. But ignorance over

the will of God didn’t change His plan in the day’s of the Apostle Paul and it

will not change His plan of redemption today. Paul had to change and re-

think his religion and so it is for everyone today (Ac. 9: 1-31). Whoever has

celebrated Christmas or the Lord’s Resurrection Day, which some call Easter

Day, and has never thought about why these days are so special, is a fool. I

didn’t give this name to those persons but Jesus Christ did.

 

I am not talking about the great achievements of the German speaking

people. Because we are not fools in these categories. I am however talking

about our preparations for eternity, for eternal life in heaven instead of in

hell. As German speaking nations, we have always had great minds. We pro-

duced first class music through men like Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart,

Schubert and others. We also invented first class cars. When it comes to the

inventions of machinery, the German speaking people built the very best that

includes the printing press. The government health system equals the best

anywhere. The label, “Made in Germany” is respected, standing for excel-

lence in the whole world.

 

German speaking people have also contributed their share, in the past

200 + years, in making this wonderful country in which we live, America,

including the German speaking nations of Europe, into the free and

democratic societies they have become.

 

But when it comes to our faith in Jesus Christ we get an “f.”

 

Because the two big denominations we worship, respect and defend as

our churches, have since their beginning, about 1600 years ago, deceived us.

Their teachings and doctrines were made a part of our lives from infancy and

that without our knowledge or agreement. The will of God and Jesus has

been kept from us for hundreds of years. We were forbidden to read the Bib-

le, therefore not even the church leaders know its Truth today.

 

           How much longer will it be until a breakthrough to “the knowledge

 of the truth” will come to the German speaking people?

 

I am almost convinced, that it is already to late for many of you. Be-

cause most German speaking people of today are unwilling to accept the New

Covenant or will of God through Jesus Christ. But maybe it is not to late for

you dear reader?

 

        Please, read all the indicated Bible texts of these Lessons once more.

Do  it at a time when you can really give your best attention to the texts.

Ask God to open your eyes before you start.

 

The first text in which Jesus calls certain people fools is in Mt.7:24-27.

These words of Jesus explain foolish and wise house builders.

 

Which spiritual house are you building? An answer to this question is

especially asked of those leaders and ministers who are serving in the two big

churches that still try to dominate the faith of Europe. Is your master Jesus

Christ or foolish Catholic or Lutheran church doctrines?

 

        According to another parable of Jesus there are also rich fools. There

 was a rich farmer who didn’t want to let go of his wealth. But then God

reminded him of the foolishness of his planned action (Lk. 12:16-21). The

same happened to the rich young ruler (Mt. 19: 22-26). His true God was his

wealth (Jam. 2:1-8; 5:1-5). It is so very hard, for a rich person to be spiritu-

ally humble and to obey and accept God’s will and New Covenant. “The

more he has the more he wants he never stops complaining” is a German

proverb.     “Desto mehr er hat, desto mehr er will. Nie schweigen seine Klagen still.”

 

      This fact is one of this life’s great tragedies. To think only on ones wealth

makes a man or a woman to fools in the eyes of Jesus. Because, even though

they are rich, they are not rich in the area that is worth more than all the trea-

sures of this earth, that is the spiritual wealth of eternal life in Christ.

 

         The Apostle Paul shared with the Colossian believers, that his struggle

for them was, “....so that they may have the full riches of complete understan-

ding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in

whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I tell you that

so that no one may deceive you by fine- sounding arguments” (Col. 2:1-4).

 

The reason why so many German speaking people are still deceived to-

day is because they like the “fine-sounding arguments” that are used by the

leaders of the Catholic and the Lutheran churches.

 

          Paul also wrote to the church in Rome. He said to them, that although

each person knows about God, they don’t honor Him as such. For this reason,

God has given up on those who refuse to know and worship Him.

                                                  (Please read the whole text Ro.1:18 - 32)                   

 

I hope and pray, dear Reader, that you don’t belong to those whom

God has given up on. Those whom He will not be able to save because

they refuse to acknowledge Him and when they die go straight to hell.

 

To the Corinthians Paul wrote, “For if someone comes to you and

preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a dif-

ferent spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you

accepted, you put up with it easily enough” (2. Cor. 11:4) The Apostle con-

cludes then with, “You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! In fact,

you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes

advantage of you or pushes himself forward and slaps you in the face”  

                                                                                              (2. Cor. 11: 19-20).

        How much longer will you, the German speaking people, allow these

two big churches to enslave you, to make fools out of you? What would

Jesus say to a people who have the Word of God, the Bible, and are therefore

able to read it on a daily basis. Will you not be fools on Judgement Day?

What do you think, dear Reader, what Jesus and his Apostles would say?

 

From the parable Jesus told about the rich man and Lazarus we learn,

that the rich man tried to evangelize his brothers after he had been thrown in-

to hell. He however was told, by Abraham, that they, just like all the others,

had God’s holy Word and were therefore  responsible for themselves to get

right with God (Lk. 16:19-31).

 

The Apostle Peter commands all of us to live a spiritual and sober life.

He wrote, “The end of all things is near. Therefore be self-controlled and

clear-minded in your prayers” (1.Pet. 4:7).

 

 

 

Jesus is being accused by the Jews. They demand His crucifixion.

 

       Were those who demanded Jesus’ death fools or deceived persons?

 

In view of the coming end of this world and in view of eternity, it is