Welcome

to a wake-up call, on all of the German speaking people of

Missouri and beyond, to learn about and follow the Way of the New

Covenant with great confidence.

 

      Since God and Jesus had established the New Covenant before they crea-

ted the world, we can easily recognize, that our Redeemer Jesus,

was waiting a long time for His sacrificial life, as a human being on His

earth. But that too was a part of His agape love for His creation.

 

His waiting period transcended or bridged all the time periods that God

had planned for His creation mankind, but the last one, today’s. The Old Tes-

tament of our Bible describes these time periods or aeons. It also has much to

say about this last time period for this earth in which we live today.

 

     In Gen. 3:15, God sets the stage, so to speak, for those time periods, when

He reveals what will happen at the end of “these times”. Today we know,

that the seed or offspring of that woman was Jesus. Through the Cross, in the

beginning of the last time period, he took away Satan’s power i.e. crushed his

head. He took away Satan’s power to deceive people. He bound him (Mt. 12:

25- 29). Today, nobody can claim anymore that the devil kept him or her

from loving Jesus or believing Him. Because the power of Jesus is today the

strongest spiritual power on this earth. Every German speaking person, who

honestly desires to receive the grace of God through Christ’s  blood, will

succeed. Because the New Covenant works for anyone who seeks salvation

through Jesus.

 

       Whoever doesn’t take hold of Jesus’ Way of grace, the New Covenant,

has only himself to blame for his or her damnation. Please read again what

Jesus will do at His Second Coming (2. Th. 1:2 -12, especially verse 8).

Don’t you think it is important to be reminded about this? Because this text

explains, that those who are disobedient to Jesus and those who hinder the

seekers of Truth, like the two big Churches did  and still do, will have to

suffer eternal damnation. “This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed

from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.”

 

Do you, dear Reader, have relatives or friends for whom you would be

ashamed if you would suddenly be interested to accept and obey the New

Covenant of God? I know several who were laughed at and called sect mem-

bers. Jesus spoke about this in His days (Mt. 10:34-36; Mk. 8: 34-38).

 

We also know, that the sacrifice of Jesus brought not only changes in

man’s relationship to God, but also in heaven and in hell things changed.

                                                                      (cf. Mt. 28:18; Rev. chap. 5)

 

When Jesus spoke to demon possessed people during His ministry on

earth, they often fell down and confessed that He was the Son of God, “Mt.

8: 28,29; Mk. 1:21-28). When Satan noticed this, he tried to rush down and

help his demons, (Lk. 10:17,18). But Jesus tied him up, i.e. took the power

away from him and his demons.

 

        The fact that Jesus was victorious over Satan and his demons, is mentio-

ned several times in the New Testament. The time during which Satan is

bound is also called “a thousand years.” That expression stands for the time

from Jesus’ first Coming until He comes back. It is that time, during which

Jesus has all authority in heaven and on earth. Those who are being saved

during that time, reign with Him through their proclamation of His Truth and

through their godly life style.     

 

        The redeemed are His light. They need to live His way of life and not

hide their conviction. If they do, they will possibly lose their salvation again,

(Mt. 5:13-16; Mt. 25:14-30). A would be President of the USA said, “ that

he doesn’t wear his religious convictions on his sleeve.” But, to be a follower

of Christ or a Christian, that is just what one has to do. When people see our

life in Christ and inquire about our faith, we have to be able to show them

what we believe in their own Bible. Our faith needs to be seen by others in

our daily way of life.

 

         The Holy Spirit gives so much joy and strength to the redeemed, that he

or she will not be still but endure even under the strictest  persecution. This

does not only mean to be constant in word but especially also in deed.

 

       It is very important to the growth of your faith, dear Reader, that you look

up all the texts we refer to in your own Bible. This will prove to you, that you

are able to understand the Word of God without the help of these two big and

deceiving church hierarchies.

 

       The undiscovered heathen, who hasn’t had the opportunity to learn about

and obey the New Covenant, will be judged by God according to the state of

his conscience, (Ro. 2:12-16). All others will be judged according to their

compliance to the will of God for our days, the New Covenant. The Pope and

his henchmen and their followers will also fall under this judgement. Because

they had God’s Word, the Bible, but didn’t believe what it said (2.Th. 2:10).

For that reason, I have to beg you again, to accept the Truth, so Jesus

will be able to save you through the New Covenant in His blood!

 

     One time I visited a family that had just moved to Pforzheim. I just wished

to welcome them and to find out what their faith was based on. Martin the

husband welcomed me and made me a cup of coffee. As we talked, it was so

noticeable to both of us, that we had the same Spirit, the Lord’s Holy Spirit.

Because what I tried to share with him he agreed whole heartedly. This was

a great joy for all of us including his wife Emma who also had the Lord’s

Spirit. I also noticed however that they, even though they were of German

ancestry, had not been raised in a German speaking country.

 

I hope and pray that it is still possible for you, dear Reader, to see the

need to seek your salvation through the New Covenant in Christ’s blood.

To see the necessity to obey Christ’s provisions with all your love and devo-

tion to Him who died for you. Because, only through your compliance to His

provisions will you receive His grace and mercy. God does not want that any

should perish or be condemned to hell. He gave us sinners a last chance to es-

cape our sinful condition through the New Covenant.

 

Do you believe, that the man Jesus, who walked this earth 2000 years

ago, was and is Jesus Christ the Son of God? If you do, you believe a Truth

of God. Most Catholics and Lutherans believe that. Will this knowledge save

you? Of course not. Even the demons know that. Again, without your accep-

tance of God’s provisions through the New Covenant in Christ’s blood your

faith is incomplete and useless so is your love for Jesus. We learned that in

Lesson # 8. (Jam. 2:19-24)

 

James, the half brother of Jesus reminds us, “Do not merely listen to 

the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” (Jas. 1:22)

 

       The most German speaking people of the past and of the present time

have been swindled out of the promised redemption through Jesus Christ.

Their adherence to the doctrines of their deceivers the Catholic, the Lutheran

and other churches with their basic doctrines, keep them separated from the

grace of God. This is the biggest and greatest tragedy that is in existence

among all the German speaking people today. I attended several funerals of

friends and family who were members of these two groups. With nice talking

and the mourners consoling speeches they preached the death person right

into heaven. That too is a part of the deception of these helpers of Satan, the

Ministers and Priests of those two denominations.

 

When Martin Luther translated the New Testament into the German

Language, he was very much against what James was saying about the works

of the faith. He said that James’ letter was “a letter of straw,” not worth any-

thing. So he put it in his translation far into the back hoping,  that not to

many of the unread Germans of his days would read the Bible that far back

and find out what James had written.

 

Maybe you, dear reader, are not interested anymore in what the Bible,

God’s Word has to say about salvation through the New Covenant. That

would be to bad. Because there is nothing else that God or Jesus will accept

as a substitute. There is no other substitute for the forgiveness of your sins

outside of Jesus Christ and the New Covenant in His blood.

 

I hope you understanding that fact!  

                                     

Questions you are able to answer now:

 

- Who would be responsible for your damnation if you should die

   unredeemed, your church or you yourself_______ _________________?

 

- How will the people, who have never heard God’s Truth, be judged______

   _______________________?

 

- What is the biggest ongoing tragedy in the world today________________?

 

                                                                In His love     Pastor Bert

 

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