In Mat 24, Mk 13, and Lk 21, the Lord spoke about the happenings during the period of time before the Return of Christ. He compared this generation with the time of Noah (Gen, chap. 6-9) and the conditions in Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19; Lk 17). It was supposed to be as it was back then, and it is indeed the case.

God’s Word and the entire divine order of creation are viewed by modern society as no longer being up-to-date. This applies to marriage, family, and other traditional values.

The Apostle Paul, who is being criticized in particular by the theologians, had to describe the general condition in Rom 1:24-32: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly …” This, too, is happening before our very eyes and ears.

Even the churches are obviously conforming themselves to the spirit of the time, just like everyone else. A recent headline read like this: “U-turn in the Catholic Church. Vatican approaches gays and lesbians. Explanation: Homosexuals can enrich the Christian community with their gifts and qualities …”

Every human being certainly has the right to live as he or she sees fit, and nobody may be despised, let alone discriminated against, because of his or her lifestyle. The dignity of man is and remains inviolable.

Nevertheless, for everybody who believes God and is truly born-again by the Spirit, the binding guideline is the Word of God, even today. Whoever belongs to the true Church of the Lord respects God’s order of creation for marriage and family as well as the order of salvation and the Church Order, which He had written down in His Word. Likewise, he or she lets himself or herself be placed into the divine order in the natural as well as in the spiritual realm.

However, what has to happen first is what the audience was told during the first sermon at the founding of the New Testament Church two thousand years ago: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” (Acts 2). The sermon today must be in agreement with that very first one, and the instructions for the believers in the last church age are still just as valid as they were for the believers in the first age. But whosoever is not convicted by the Spirit of God and does not personally accept the gift of redemption can also not be led to repentance. 

Nobody can save himself or herself; everybody must call upon the Name of the Lord and Savior, in prayer ask for forgiveness and deliverance, and can experience even today that it comes true: “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Rom 10:13). “I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
(2 Cor 6:2).

By the grace of God, the life of the believers is brought into agreement with the Word of God in the spiritual as well as in the natural realm. Because only someone who is in the Word can be in the Will of God, and that is the only way we can walk with God, as Enoch did back then, who was raptured (Heb 11:5). Thus, God shall be well-pleased with us, and we as the blameless Bride will enter the marriage supper together with the Bridegroom. Amen.

“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” (Eph 5:27).

For the coming months, there are once again numerous missionary journeys planned.

Please remember me in your prayers.

By His commission

Br . Frank

In Mat 24, Mk 13, and Lk 21, the Lord spoke about the happenings during the period of time before the Return of Christ. He compared this generation with the time of Noah (Gen, chap. 6-9) and the conditions in Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19; Lk 17). It was supposed to be as it was back then, and it is indeed the case.

God’s Word and the entire divine order of creation are viewed by modern society as no longer being up-to-date. This applies to marriage, family, and other traditional values.

The Apostle Paul, who is being criticized in particular by the theologians, had to describe the general condition in Rom 1:24-32: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly …” This, too, is happening before our very eyes and ears.

Even the churches are obviously conforming themselves to the spirit of the time, just like everyone else. A recent headline read like this: “U-turn in the Catholic Church. Vatican approaches gays and lesbians. Explanation: Homosexuals can enrich the Christian community with their gifts and qualities …”

Every human being certainly has the right to live as he or she sees fit, and nobody may be despised, let alone discriminated against, because of his or her lifestyle. The dignity of man is and remains inviolable.

Nevertheless, for everybody who believes God and is truly born-again by the Spirit, the binding guideline is the Word of God, even today. Whoever belongs to the true Church of the Lord respects God’s order of creation for marriage and family as well as the order of salvation and the Church Order, which He had written down in His Word. Likewise, he or she lets himself or herself be placed into the divine order in the natural as well as in the spiritual realm.

However, what has to happen first is what the audience was told during the first sermon at the founding of the New Testament Church two thousand years ago: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” (Acts 2). The sermon today must be in agreement with that very first one, and the instructions for the believers in the last church age are still just as valid as they were for the believers in the first age. But whosoever is not convicted by the Spirit of God and does not personally accept the gift of redemption can also not be led to repentance.

Nobody can save himself or herself; everybody must call upon the Name of the Lord and Savior, in prayer ask for forgiveness and deliverance, and can experience even today that it comes true: “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Rom 10:13). “I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
(2 Cor 6:2).

By the grace of God, the life of the believers is brought into agreement with the Word of God in the spiritual as well as in the natural realm. Because only someone who is in the Word can be in the Will of God, and that is the only way we can walk with God, as Enoch did back then, who was raptured (Heb 11:5). Thus, God shall be well-pleased with us, and we as the blameless Bride will enter the marriage supper together with the Bridegroom. Amen.

“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” (Eph 5:27).

For the coming months, there are once again numerous missionary journeys planned.

Please remember me in your prayers.

By His commission

Br . Frank