Welcome
to a new lesson, that will make God’s plan of redemption, for
those who are honestly interested, even clearer.
Picture a drinking glass that is full to the rim with water. It will not hold
another drop. If anyone likes to drink wine out of this glass, what will he or
she have to do first? I am sure you know what? (Please read Mt. 9:17.)
The full water glass is like a member of the Catholic or Lutheran chur-
ches. He or she are full with false teachings. To recognize the redemption
plan of God, they have to totally empty themselves of the doctrines of these
enemies of Christ. This step of faith is a part of “repentance”.
The Holy Spirit will not fill you or lead you if you don’t give Him your
complete devotion and submission.
Such a repentance, I am very sorry to say, is only a very few German
speaking people possible. You can’t believe how much I suffer under this
fact. You can not have it both ways. You are either a Catholic, a Lutheran or
redeemed and in Christ. If you are still willing to study with us, I would be
elated. But I am sure, that some of you have already given up, claiming the
Lord’s way of salvation is to hard. I am sorry, but this attitude will not
change the Truth or the conditions of the New Covenant of God.
Now let us return to God’s announcements about His New Covenant
(Jer. 31:31-34). This prophecy has been fulfilled as we read in Hebr.8:8-12.
We are living now in the time period in which God attempts to save His
chosen people, i.e those people, who would obey His New Covenant. This
period will end when Jesus returns.
Vers, 31 - Today we live in the last time period of this earths existence
Vers, 32 - The New Covenant is different from the Old Covenant (Deut. 6:
4 - 7). The Israelites have never really obeyed their Covenant. That is the rea-
son God does not consider them anymore as His people, Hebr. 8:9. This is
the fulfillment of His Word written in Ex. 19:5,6. Because of their continued
disobedience, they also lost the right to the land they still claim today.
Vers, 33 - The New Covenant was to renew the mind and the heart. Its
provisions would, through the Holy Spirit, influence the lives of people from
the inside of their being. It would not be necessary anymore to go to the
Temple and offer sacrifices and different rituals. Jesus alluded to that(Jn.
4:21-24).
So, the two big church organizations today worship God not in Truth,
but like the Jews, through their own invented rituals and doctrines .
Today, the true worshipers have to worship God in Truth and in Spirit
to please Him. We have a New, a much better Covenant today.
The personal relationship we have today through the New Covenant in
Christ’s blood, has never been proclaimed or believed by the two big deno-
minations of Germany or other groups of like faith. They never guided their
membership to that connection with Jesus Christ. Their leadership, from the
Pope or Martin Luther on doesn’t accept this fact even today.
I hope that you can understand, that God’s Holy Spirit will not work in
a hypocritical system like theirs. But Satan is very happy over them. He uses
them and leads them like an angel of light (2.Cor. 11:14).
The New Covenant brings a total change of mind to the one who obeys
its commandments. The Word the Bible uses for this change is, “metamor-
phosis” (Ro. 12:2). After this change, the new convert will begin to really
understand the will of God and Jesus. Because the Holy Spirit has now ope-
ned his heart and mind and is guiding his will. People who don’t follow this
Bible way of Salvation, can’t understand why it has to be this Way. ( Please
read und understand 1. Cor. 2:14.) The word, “metamorphosis” is used
to describe the process that takes place, when a caterpillar goes into pupation
The change to a butterfly is so great, that anyone can see if it is a caterpillar
or a butterfly that he is watching. The same way with persons who have just
been redeemed. You can tell on the way they live, where they spend most of
their time and how the speak now. Their love is the agape love of Christ even
for those they didn’t love before. Like a butterfly in the spring makes one
happy, so it is with a person who is now in Christ. He or she make others
feel good.
The word “metamorphosis”is also used for Christ’s transfiguration
(Mt.17:2).
And again it is used to show the change that is happening after our day
of redemption. We are continually being transformed. We read, “And we,who
with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into
his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is
the Spirit” (2. Cor. 3:18; 4:6). The people of the world who have been
changed this way know each other through God’s Spirit in them. They don’t
go to war to make converts like the Catholic and Lutheran churches did.
Through their love for Jesus they become more and more His image like He
created them in the beginning to be in the first place (cf. Gen. 1:26,27;
Jer. 31:34; Isa.2:4).
Please think about this transformation some more. It doesn’t mean just
to try to be a better person, it is more then that. It happens through an inner
process that is performed by the Holy Spirit of God. A person is being newly
created. He or she become a totally different type of human being.
(2. Cor. 5:17; Thesis # 22)
I can hardly wait to hear this about you. And I would like to hear it
about all of you, dear Readers. To know, that my fellow countrymen have
started an awakening under the German speaking people, would be the
highpoint of my life in Christ . Would you please acknowledge Him yet
today? (Hebr. 3:15) Him who suffered so much for you.
An infant or an adult will of course, if they are only sprinkled with wa-
ter, receive nothing like the above.
Questions you are able to answer now:
- Is it still possible for German speaking people to find repentance today___?
- How does a person die to become a new creation (butterfly)____________
___________________________________________________________?
- Does everyone have to obey God or just the bad people_______________?
In His love, Pastor Bert
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