Welcome

       to the web-site whose goal it is, to create an interest in the Ger-

man speaking people of Missouri and beyond, to seek, get to know and

understand the New Covenant of God.

 

How does a Covenant of God come into existence?

A Covenant of God is simply the Will of God for His creation man. We

read in His Word, that He made Covenants with people like Noah and

Abraham. He also made a Covenant with His people,  the Israelites or Jews.

(See lesson # 47 - # 49 please)

 

     A Covenant of God, like the Old Covenant or the New Covenant, that is

the Old or New Testament, are not like a contract made between two parties

like a union contract or agreement. In a Covenant of God, He provides its

conditions and the punishment for disobedience. Since He knows His

creation mankind, He knows how to guide men and women. He knows that it

takes a tough love to keep them under His commandments or Covenants. It is

His right to expect full and blind devotion to all of His Covenant conditions.

 

I know, many of you don’t think of God as One who is so unbending

when it comes to His Covenants. You think, that doesn’t sound like the agape

kind of love you have always heard about. But, regardless of what you may

think, this love of God is right for His creation. Like any father who is deter-

mined to raise his children to be obedient can’t let them always do as they

please. If he wants them to be safe in this world, he has to have a tough love

for them or they might constantly disobey and be in danger of losing their

lives on the street or fall for any of the daily peer-pressures .

 

         The New Covenant is God’s last will for all of mankind.

         Through it, God gives each person personally a last chance to flee

eternal damnation. To many religious groups act as though God owed them

something. They are so consumed by this, that they will never take the time to

find the understanding, that salvation comes only to those who obey the provi-

sions of the  New Covenant. Obedience and redemption are coupled together.

God wants all of our devotion. He is not satisfied with only a little compli-

ance or faithfulness. Only our full submission to His Covenant provisions can

save us sinners from His wrath (Ro. 5:6-11).

 

As one of the Lord’s pastor’s or servants, I have to point out again and

again, that we can not and must not mix the teachings of the Catholic or the

Lutheran faiths with the words and teachings of Jesus, and still expect for-

giveness of our sins or salvation through Christ. Several of the German spea-

king people I know, who accepted the New Covenant, kept also the traditions

and teachings of these two big deceivers in their conscience. They thought

and still think, “that if the way of the New Covenant doesn’t save me, the

way of the Catholic or the Lutheran faith will.” They are like the Jews Jesus

talked to who believed  Him but had never given up their Jewish traditions

and wrong  faith in Abrahams fatherhood for salvation.

                                                                     (Please read Jn. 8: 31-45).

We read, “To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold

to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and

the truth will set you free.” (Verses, 31-32)

In the same discussion He also told them, “Why is my language not

clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your

father, the devil..... (Verses, 43 - 44a).

 

I experienced, what Jesus said about these Jews, many times in Europe

and Germany. People of whom I believed had understood the Words of Jesus,

left His church  after a few month or some years, to go back to the  churches

who had deceived and brainwashed them all their lives. Why? Jesus explains

it here in this text. They can’t hear the Truth, because their father is not God

but the devil. He builds himself up on lies and so do his  children, i.e. those

people, who are still agreeing with the doctrines of the  Catholic or the

Lutheran religious institutions.

 

        This is and was always very painful for me to accept. Because they were

not bad people. Mostly I trusted them with all my being. With some others I

could tell on their look, during the sermon, when their ears had closed. For

this reason, it is our earnest  request for you, to severe your spiritual ties with

these religious institutions. However if you are not really ready to give them

up for Jesus today then better wait until you are ready to believe Him more

than them.

Jesus said, “No one who puts his hand on the plow and looks back is fit

for service in the kingdom of God” (Lk. 9:62; comp. also Lk. 14:28-33).

 

I hope, that you recognize more and more, that you are able to under-

stand the meaning of the Bible texts the way Jesus wants you to understand

them. That comes through the influence of the Holy Spirit who helps those

who diligently seek understanding.  Soon you will also be able to under-

stand, why you need to obey the provisions of the New Covenant of God to

be saved. As your love for the Truth of the Word of God grows, so will your

devotion and desire to do the will of God.

 

Questions you will be able to answer now:

1) Who is the author of the New Covenant_________________?

2) Who is the mediator of the New Covenant_______________?

3) What are the gifts of the New Covenant_________________?

4) Do you understand the New Covenants provisions_____________?

             

                      May Jesus Christ open your heart to His love!       Pastor Bert

 

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