Welcome

To a Thesis that asks you the following question and also

answers it for you: “Are you ‘in Christ’ or are you not ‘in Christ’?”

 

The revelations of God’s will through His Son Jesus Christ and the la-

bor of the Apostles He chose, and the workings of the Holy Spirit, were then

and are today for a specific goal. That goal was and is, to redeem lost people

who want to be redeemed. To put them into Christ.

 

I believe, that each one of you, dear Readers, will understand that now.

If you have studied with us, you will have noticed this goal of God. The Holy

Spirit will have been your helper if you were honest in seeking His Truth.

 

Jesus explained an important fact of the faith to His Apostles. He said,

“If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him and

we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me

will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they

belong to the Father who sent me” (Jn. 14: 23,24).

 

How, according to the above text, can we judge if a person, denomina-

 tion or religion today loves Jesus or not? (Please read the text again!)

 

We read about the first believers, that they showed their faith by obey-

ing the teaching of Jesus, “Those who accepted his (Peters) message were

baptized, and about 3000 were added to there number that day”(Ac. 2: 41).

 

Remember  Thesis # 25? In it we found out, that a repentant believer

receives the Holy Spirit through immersion, which is the New Covenants

only mode of baptism. (Ac. 2:38)

 

Paul writes to the Romans, “The mind of sinful man is death, but the

mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to

God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by

the sinful nature cannot please God”(Ro. 8: 6-8).

 

This is one reason why the German speaking people are still so hos-

 tile to God’s New Covenant law or demands. Their mind is not control-

led by the “Spirit,” but is still controlled by their “sinful nature.”

 

     Our “sinful nature” will die through our compliance to the demands of

the New Covenant. Our sinful flesh will die sooner or later. But our life in

Christ, will take us, through the Holy Spirits action, from our body, at its

death, to heaven.

 

Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,

he is a new creation; the old (life) has gone, the new (life) has come”

               (2. Cor. 5:17; please read also verses 18 - 21; cf. Gal. 2:20).

 

The expression, “in Christ” is used many times by the writers of the

New Testament. If you look for and read all of the texts in which it is used,

you will learn to understand its great significant’s and true spiritual sense.

 

I would like to reach back once more to Gal. 3:27, “...for all of you

who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.”

 

         In one of Jesus’ parables, He told about a man who came to the Kings

wedding. At one point in the celebration the king noticed this man who didn’t

have on wedding clothes. What was done with this man? (Read Mt. 22:1-14)

The wedding attire is Jesus! We put Him on through our immersion into

Him. What happen to this man? The King (Jesus) had him thrown where?

                                                                             (Vers 13; cf. Ro. 13:13,14).

 

I am so sorry. But most German speaking people, if they don’t accept

God’s provision for salvation, will wind up in the same place were this man

was thrown by God. Even after you have read these lines, some of you will

still be hostile to the will of God. Because the two big deceiving religious

organizations have brainwashed you so thoroughly, that some day you will

not know what to say to the judge Jesus Christ. Just like this man. It will be

to late then anyhow. It will be the greatest shock for you. I am very sorry to

have to say that.