Dear Friends, Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

this is Brother Frank speaking to you from the International Mission Center in Krefeld, Germany. We just love to share God’s Word with you, not only in one nation, but all over the earth, to accomplish what the Lord has actually said, that this Gospel of the Kingdom must and would be preached to all nations as a witness and then the end will be. This is our fifth continuation of teaching sermons that we try to prepare to show forth the Bible doctrines and to show how God from the beginning manifested Himself in various ways throughout the Old Testament and how all the prophets knew the Lord God personally, received divine commissions and became part of the plan of salvation which they had to announce.

Beloved Friends, we talked especially about the Godhead which is most essential and then we also spoke about the promises given throughout the Old Testament period, about Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour, the Messiah that would come to redeem us. We have shown forth that all the promises God made in the Old Testament came to pass in the course of the New Testament. John the Baptist was a promised prophet as shown forth in Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 3, and Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1, confirmed by our Lord in the New Testament in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. All the four Gospels confirm the ministry of John the Baptist as the fulfilment of what God had promised in the Old Testament that He would send His messenger before His face to prepare His way before Him, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and make ready a people for the Lord (Luke, chapter 1, verse 16 and 17). 

Then we showed forth that the promises about Jesus Christ, the Son of God, from all the Old Testament were a reality in the New Testament. As promised and predicted the Son of God was born in Bethlehem. He is described in the Word of God from the moment of His birth to the moment of His ascension to heaven. And then we see how the promises were fulfilled, and we also see how in the Old Testament 4,000 years have come and gone and through that period we always read about the Lord God. Never about Father, Son and Holy Ghost, leave alone of a triune God or a three person God, never and never. But we read in Psalms 2, verse 7, “Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten thee.” The one who spoke to Moses and said, “I am the I am, and tell the children of Israel: the I am has sent you.” And, Beloved, He still is the I am today. He still is the Lord today. But He also had to become man. As man He is somebody else. He represented you and me. He died for you and died for me. He had to be 100 percent man, born into this world, like you and I are born into this world – but without sin. As the Scripture declares, “The Holy Spirit will overshadow you and that which is born of you shall be called the Son of God, the Son of the Most High.” So, here, because of us He became man. As man He was begotten, as man He was born, as man He was like you and I. He wept and slept, He was in every way a human being, because we are human beings. So He had to leave His glory and the Lord Himself had to become a servant and so the Father was manifested in the Son. 

Therefore, if you read 1 Corinthians, chapter 6, we find here in verse 14 the text like this, “And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by His own power.” Now God is separated from Lord. In the Old Testament the Lord is God, the Lord is God, 6,000 times. Now “God raised the Lord from the dead and He will also raise us up by the same power He rose Jesus Christ, the Lord, from the dead.” In 1 Corinthians, chapter 8, verse 6, we read, “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.” So here we have a distinction. I repeat: The I am remains the I am right to Revelation, chapter 1, right to Revelation, chapter 22, the First and the Last, Alpha and Omega. But what happened? Here we have to see: in the Old Testament God revealed Himself for instance as the Angel of the Covenant speaking to Moses and the children of Israel, giving the law. But in the New Testament He could not reveal Himself as the Angel of the Covenant to us. We are in a body of flesh, so the Saviour had to come into a body of flesh to pay the price for our redemption. What for? Because sin, the original sin and separation from God and from eternal life happened in the body of flesh and blood with the first parents in the garden of Eden. And we all are born into that original sin. And every person born into this world must die (Hebrews, chapter 9, verse 27). So we understand the plan of redemption: the Lord of glory had to forsake His glory, had to become man for our sake, so that we can be placed back as sons and daughters of God, into our original position. That’s why our Lord says in John, chapter 20, verse 17, “I will ascend to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.” That’s why our Lord says in John, chapter 17, “I made Thy Name known to My brethren.”

Beloved, let me say this straight, and that before God: The time has come to show forth the revelations of God, the manifestation of the Father in the Son which happened at the beginning of the New Testament period, as recorded from Matthew, chapter 1. The Son was not born in eternity. And, Beloved, I have to say this with emphasis: the time has come to decide whether we are going to believe what’s written in a catechism, or whether we are going to believe as the Scripture says. My decision has already been for quite some time. I cannot believe a single man, not a religious man, nobody – nobody can I trust, nobody can I believe. And therefore, I have to declare in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord: the true believers, the true Church of Jesus Christ is not a denomination, is not a state church, is not run by anyone on earth, whereever that headquarter might be. The Church of Jesus Christ is the Body of Jesus Christ, existing of many members, where Christ alone is the Head. And in His Church the Lord placed according to what the Apostle Paul was writing to the Corinthian church, apostles and prophets and teachers. And also in Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 11. 

So we have to make a decision whether we are going to continue to believe what was decided in various councils, like in Nicea, in Ephesus, in Chalcedon, in the various church councils, and then put into a catechism – whether we are going to believe that. Every person belonging to a certain church they should and they must believe what that church teaches. I have got nothing against any person in any church. There are hundreds of denominations on earth. May everyone believe as they are taught. That’s their duty. I am not talking to the churches, and I am not critisising. They have a right to believe as they believe, to do as they do. But I am talking to the Church of Jesus Christ, and we are now nearing the return of Christ, promised in John, chapter 14 and shown forth in many, many places in the epistles the Apostle Paul especially has written. The time of grace is coming to an end. The Jews returned to the promised land. 60 years have come and gone since 1948, and the Lord says, speaking about the fig tree, the symbol of Israel, “When you see the fig tree putting forth its buds, then ye know the time is near.” 

Friends, let me say this very straight and strict: Every religious function happens in the recognised churches, starting with “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost …” But such a wording was never used in the Old or New Testament. Not, not, not a single time! Why should I use it, if Peter didn’t use it, James didn’t use it, John didn’t use it, the Apostle Paul didn’t use it? Why should I use a formula which was actually issued and made compulsary to believe by everybody in the council of Nicea. Am I to believe what Athanasius, what Arinaeus, what all the church fathers like Augustin said? I don’t think so! I don’t think so! I think that I am to believe what God said through the prophets and through the apostles. If you are of a different opinion: congratulations! Stay with your conviction. But please, please let me remain with God and with God’s Word. 

Now, where the forgery actually took place and anyone who read church history also knows how the hand-written manuscripts of the four Gospels were handed from local church to local church in the different languages Aramaic and Hebrew, and then, slowly but surely coming into the Greek language. But, Friends, Satan misled the people with Matthew 28:19, where we read that we should teach all nations, baptising them into the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. And from this the church fathers in Nicea gathered that there should be a formula and baptism and other functions should take place in the formula of “Father, Son and Holy Ghost”. And again I say with the authority of God’s holy Word which remains forever: Not a single prophet or apostle,there is not one time where anyone has used such a formula, as is known in the recognised churches all over the world. And, Friends, those who study church history, let them go to what men who searched the scriptures in the different languages and here we have got the Novum Testamentum from Nestle-Aland, and he states in Matthew, chapter 28, in the footnote, “The original words in Matthew 28:19 were like this, Baptising them into My Name.” In the original handwritten manuscripts this formula “in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” was not, was not! And this must be said straight and strict! 

You can go to the internet, you can find it out yourself, where the change, where the inserting has taken place. And so it’s my responsibility to tell you that even God’s Word has fallen into the hands of men. And, Brothers and Sisters, this hurts me. The time has come ot establish everything on two or three witnesses. And I challenge you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Do you find any action, any performance in the New Testament in the formula, “in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost”? No, no, no. Why not? Because it doesn’t exist! It doesn’t exist in the Church of the Living God! It exists in all the churches; that is true. But not in the Church of Jesus Christ! And, therefore, especially in Colossians, chapter 3, verse 17, the Apostle Paul had to emphasise this fact, stating, in Colossians 3, verse 17, “And whatever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.” So, I respect the Word of God. 

Beloved Friends, I say this again: We are now nearing the end of the time of grace, and we have to recognise that God’s Word never changes, and we have to confirm it or have it confirmed in at least two or three places. You go to the teaching of the Godhead, it’s always the same one God. But this one God manifested Himself in the Old Testament in various ways and we see His manifestation in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, for that great purpose: to bring us back into the family of God, to receive us back as sons and daughters of God. The importance is now that we all come back to the beginning: In the beginning was the Word. And, as I said, before the return of Christ all things, all things must return to where they have been right at the very beginning. 

This is God’s time for God’s people to search the Scriptures. Don’t believe me, but don’t believe anyone else. Just believe God, believe as the Scripture says and you will find out that the Holy Spirit will guide you into all the Truth. And then you will recognise the message and you will recognise the messenger and you will understand that God’s promised Word for this day is coming to pass now and the last ones are being called out and being brought back to the Word of God and to the revelation of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. We call this “the Bible end time message”.

May God bless you, may He be with you. If we can serve you with literature, dealing profoundly with the various Bible topics, just let us know. Feel free to call, feel free to send us an email. 

The Lord God bless you and be with you in Jesus’ holy Name. Amen.