Welcome
to all the German speaking people. Why don’t you allow your
mind to think about Jesus’ Way of Salvation. The first Jews who accep-
ted His Way of individual salvation, also had to leave their State-Church.
(Ac. 2: 40b,41)
The first Jews who obeyed the New Covenant commands of Peter and
the other Apostles on the Day of Pentecost, were courage’s people. Because,
most of their Jewish countrymen and relatives were not in favor of what they
had done. They had Jesus killed because of “the new Way”or way of faith He
had proclaimed. They also would try to murder His Apostles and other
followers of “the Way” or “new Teaching” later. They did then to the belie-
vers in Christ and His New Covenant, what the Catholic and the Lutheran
denominations did to the believers in Christ’s New Covenant for many centu-
ries. They identified the believers, arrested them and after these true
believers confessed Christ and their immersion into Christ they brutally
murdered them. This hostility against the true believers in Christ and His
New Covenant is still today a part of the mindset of the two big
denominations of the German speaking countries. They still consider us a
sect like the Jews and the Romans did in the days after Pentecost about 2000
years ago. (Ac. 24:14).
What would however be worse than being called a sect, like in the days of
Paul, would be, to be acknowledged by them as brethren.
Because of the persecution then and the hostility against the believers
today, the Jews and those two denominations are responsible for the few con-
verts Jesus has today.
We read in Isaiah about the Jewish people, “Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would
have been like Gomorrah” (Isa. 1:9).
From these two towns only Lot and his daughters were saved. Only a
small rest.
The Apostle Paul, a converted Jew himself, quotes Isaiah in his letter to
the Romans, “Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: ‘Though the number of the
Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved’”
(Isa. 10:22; cf. Ro. 9:27).
But, the few Israelites or Jews and the few people from other nationali-
ties who will be saved, were the goal of God’s eternal plan to create a people
for Himself; to create His very own nation. (Thesis # 47 and # 63; cf. also:
Mt. 7:13,14; Mt. 19: 23-26; Mt. 22: 1-14; Lk. 13: 23-28; 1. Pet. 2: 9,10)
Please, please, read all of these texts, so that the Holy Spirit of God can lead
you into this Truth.
All of these texts make an additional Bible fact clear. They show, that a
person seeking salvation through Christ has to go His prepared way of re-
demption. He or she have to do it with all their heart and mind and strength.
Just to believe in ones hearth and not obey the New Covenant doesn’t save
anyone. But many groups think that today. Or others tell there followers just
to repeat or say a certain prayer and they will be saved. There is no such New
Covenant command from Jesus or anyone else in the Bible. The People who
say such things are either misinformed or deceivers and those who believe
them are themselves misinformed and therefore open to deception.
Would you please read what your Bible says about the valid faith
since Jesus Christ died and rose again!
Please also read Eph. 2:1-22.
Verses 14 - 16 of that text state, “For he himself is our peace, who
has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of ho-
stility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regula-
tions. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus
making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through
the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.”
I hope you can understand this text. It simply states, that through Christ’s
death on the cross and through obedience to the New Covenant, Jews and
other nationals can become a new type of human being namely, people “in
him” or God’s children.
Most Jews then or now, and most German speaking people never accep-
ted, understood or were taught this fact of salvation. Many don’t want to un-
derstand it out of fear that their own and their parents faith is a deception. We
found this to be the true in our work in Europe. But despite their unbelief
there is no other Truth about Jesus’ sacrifice. There are today neither Jews
nor other nations in favor with God. Only those in Christ are in His favor.
There is no neutrality or favoritism of any nation or individual by God. Since
His Son died to take away sin, only those of all nations who obey His will
have a part in His Kingdom, the church. (Ac. 10:34)
The Apostle Paul explains this fact in many of his letters. He wrote to
the Galatians, “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all
of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are
all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abrahams seed,
and heirs according to the promise” (Gal. 3:26 - 29; cf. Ro. 6: 12,13; Les-
This text expresses who the true descendants of Abraham are today.
They are God’s, New Covenant people, those in Christ also called
Christians.
Questions you are able to answer now:
- How many people, both Jews and others will be saved_____________?
- How did God make a new kind of human being out of Jews and others_____
__________________________________________________________?
- Who are these new people today_________________________________?
- Does it take a Pope, etc. to create a spiritual descendant of Abraham______?
You know the answers to these questions only if you are honest.
In His wonderful love, Pastor Bert