This is not a religious response.
This is a significant response for those who
have heard your word and have received your
call.
Seal it in heaven.
Put an end to the natural life, to
the religious life, to the charismatic life, to
the well-meaning life, to the polite life,
and be radical.
Be raised up in this people that they
might lift their voice as a trumpet to
tell Israel its sins, Jacob their transgressions, and
Germany its error.
Its false ambition, its continuing imperialist desire.
For God has appointed a day in which
he will judge all nations by that man
whom he has raised from the dead.
Let your voice be heard in this earth.
Whether you were sprinkled with water or were
baptized and immersed, God is
not interested in the form.
He's interested in the reality made possible by
his own death and resurrection.
He gives you this opportunity to join him
in the waters of death that you might
be raised to newness of life, more than
politeness.
Rehearse this with him.
You who are down on your knees, Lord,
I receive my baptism, though I didn't understand
it then, I understand it now, and I
receive it as my death.
I'm buried with you, and when I get
up from my knees, I fully expect to
experience the resurrection for newness of life, new
thought, new expression, new impulse, new courage, new
love that's really love, beyond sentiment that can
be offended against and not fail.
For it is your love, your unconditional love
that Israel needs to experience by those who
will convey it, for they are in your
life.
Lord, I seal these children unto the resurrection
and raise up in this church an intention
beyond anything that men have conceived.
Maybe for the first in the history of
the church in Germany, an apostolic church whose
foundations are immovable, for whom the kingdom has
come beyond the petty religious ambitions of men.
Because they have repented unto death even of
their own design for the church that your
kingdom might come.
Seal it.
Perform it.
Be glorified by it.
Let this night be historic for the church
of Jesus Christ in this nation that
Israel might be blessed and your soul gratified
and your name glorified before all nations.
Thy kingdom come.
It's our cry and our belief, our real
hope, in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
And amen.
Give Him priestly praise, not something out of
your mind, just your spirit, freely flowing.
All obstructions removed.
They have been brought to death.
Your self-consciousness.
Give God your voice.
Express your gratitude for so great salvation that
He has made possible through our identification with
Him in death and resurrection.
Let's lift up our voices.
Beyond charismatic praise.
Priestly praise.
Uninhibited.
Full of God Himself.
God celebrating God through a people whose life
is not their own, whose praise is not
their own, whose prayers are not their own.
For whom to live is Christ.
For whom to worship is Christ.
For whom to serve is Christ.
Give Him your voices in priestly praise.
Hallelujah.
Precious God and the King.
Hallelujah.
And the Savior and the Redeemer.
The Holy One of Israel.
Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory.
My Father and my God.
Glory.
My Father and my God.
Hallelujah.
Only by that life could he have the
courage to express it.
And suffer the rejection that it must bring.
Only by the life, the Christ life, the
resurrection life.
That union, that oneness, would have shown the
Jew in your midst the difference between mere
religion and authentic spirituality.
That demonstration was never made for 2000 years.
So what alternative did they have?
But their own rabbinical Judaism?
Or secular culture?
And in that they perished.
We are called to move Israel to jealousy.
And Paul doesn't explain what that means.
As if this is a critical purpose for
our life as the church.
To move to jealousy the enemies of the
gospel, is ultimate requirement.
And the church that can answer it, is
indeed the church.
And will only become such a church, out
of repentance.
An awareness of its terrible historic failure.
And its present failure still.
And a repentance unto death.
Woe is me, I am undone.
Out of that death will come the life.
That will move Jews to jealousy.
Even in admiration for your courage.
To face them with an unwelcome message.
That you know they're going to reject.
And yet you're compelled by the love of
Christ.
You cannot keep silent.
You're Christ full.
And when they see this, that you're willing
to risk their censure and their condemnation.
You have the painful rejection, of a Germany
that so desperately wants Jewish approval.
That that very courage will move them to
jealousy.
Because they know it's beyond religion.
It's nothing other than God himself.
I'm a Jewish believer.
Burdened both for Germany and for Israel.
But I'm strangely chafed at this so-called
repentance.
Needing continually to be repeated.
Affecting nothing in the church.
And certainly nothing for the Jews.
Repent.
For the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
This requires a valid baptism.
One that is a real burial.
Because our history and present life has persuaded
us.
That in ourselves, there's no man good.
Even our best intentions are not good enough.
Only Christ.
The resurrected one.
As our life.
Consistently.
Is our answer.
And God has provided the means.
And God has provided everything.
A baptism that is more than a religious
ordinance.
This is a burial of that which must
be buried.
Because there's no hope for it.
Even in its best German form.
Hope falls short of the glory of God.
Who will enter those waters?
That's once and for all.
And if there's no resurrection after that burial.
You of all men are most to be
pitied.
But don't think that you're going back to
your job.
Your business, your profession.
All of the nice amenities of your present
life.
Your hopes for the future.
You have no hope.
You've died.
This is a newness of life.
And it's radical.
And it has one motivation only.
The glory of God.
And not our convenience.
It's for the want of this that God
is waiting repentance.
We have practiced a Christianity of convenience.
And it left a great vacuum.
As it necessarily must.
And into it came demonic Nazism.
We made it possible.
We provided the vacuum.
Into which this evil came as a flood.
For nature abhors a vacuum.
And will soon enough fill it.
If not with the reality of God.
Then the reality of Satan.
Nazism is our fault.
Respectable and polite Christianity.
Not only made it possible.
But made it inevitable.
The kind of Christianity that we thought would
be polite.
And humane.
Where Goethe wanted to garland the cross with
roses.
Wonderful human sentimentality.
Becomes ironically exactly its opposite.
In the most ugly, bizarre, inhumanity and cruelty
beyond what we can think in man.
Be assured your sins will find you out.
And it will express itself ironically.
You celebrated humanism.
And wanted to be polite and nice.
Then here is the fulfillment.
Bestiality.
Unbelievable cruelty.
Utterly inhumane.
God is not mocked.
And whatsoever a nation sows.
That too will it reap.
There is no understanding of what is Jewish.
Independent of what is German.
We have affected each other.
Shaped a common culture.
Conspired against God.
And against his king.
And we have both suffered for it.
What would it mean for a German church
now?
That does not just seek its own cathartic
relief.
But will find a place of true repentance.
And brokenness.
Not only for itself but for its fathers.
For do not think that you would have
done any better than they.
If you had lived in the Nazi time.
No man is good.
We have all sinned and fallen short of
the glory of God.
God is waiting for that repentance.
And the laying down of that life.
And the evidence of the truth of it.
That we will find a new ability.
And a burning passion.
To tell Jacob of their sins and Israel
of their transgressions.
For that prophetic church that can warn of
the judgment to come.
Is alone qualified to speak of the restoration
that will follow.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my brethren.
For they have suffered double for their sins.
They don't need some kind of schmaltzy sentimental
pat on the back.
They need comfort.
That is by the spirit of God's own
word.
In the midst of their being judged.
By a people who did not withhold and
did not spare.
They spoke the word of judgment.
They called Israel to the recognition of its
sin.
They will also speak to Israel God's comfort.
That will be a comfort indeed.
The same comfort that you yourself will know.
Who have been raised out of death.
Unto newness of life.
And can rejoice in Christ Jesus.
As Savior and Deliverer.
Your comfort them.
With the same comfort wherewith you have been
comforted.
If indeed you have been comforted.
And your religious life is not a fraud.
So this is the deep repentance that is
needed.
Not the holocaust as some regrettable momentary lapse.
An embarrassing historical failure.
But the inevitable consequence of our own long
apostasy.
Our sin is Israel's sin.
And it is exactly the same sin.
We will not charge them with their sins
from some place of superiority.
From the place of brokenness.
The priestly place.
That is able to speak to a sinning
people.
As those who know their own sins.
And are exactly as Israel's.
A church willing to come under the Jewish
people.
In its priestly service.
For which they seek nothing for themselves.
No benefit, no satisfaction.
No personal relief.
For their sake.
And the Lord's sake.
A priestly church.
A broken church.
A repentant church.
What a blessing for Israel.
A real blessing.
And what a blessing for the German nation
itself.
Who have such a presence in its midst.
Of a broken priestly people.
Willing to come under another.
And forfeit any self interest of its own.
I can't think of any single message.
That Germany needs more to hear.
I can't think of any demonstration.
Present Germany needs now more to see.
What is not only God's calling for the
church of Germany.
But the nation itself.
God's purpose is not your imperial ambition.
You should be a master people over the
nations.
He knows your secret heart.
And this ambition has never died.
That when the historic reconciliation between East and
West Germany came.
I personally did not rejoice.
Something in the inner man.
Now we will see it again.
The true Germany.
In its ambition and power.
Betraying God's call.
Not to be a great force in the
world.
But a priestly nation.
To the people of Israel.
So that they might be restored to Zion.
As the redeemed of the Lord.
For their redemption is his coming.
And his coming is his kingdom.
In which nations shall study war and peace.
Again, no more.
The Jew is not just another ethnic people.
They are at the heart of God's theocratic
design.
For only with their return will his law
go forth out of Zion.
You could do nothing more for the nations.
Not that they should admire your engineering brilliance.
And your masterful business ability.
But that you should affect Israel's true restoration.
That they might bless all the families of
the earth.
And all the nations will know.
That the God of Jacob is a long
God.
That's your task.
Go tell it at the Reichstag.
At the Bundestag.
But with apostolic conviction.
Not as a theory.
An opinion, a suggestion.
But as the word of the Lord.
To the nation.
Spoken with authority.
By a people whom he has raised from
the dead.
Because they have deeply repented.
Of their own sins and the sins of
the fathers.
Of which the holocaust was only a symptom.
The holocaust is to Germany what the crucifixion
of Jesus is to Israel.
Our Jewish sin is not the crucifixion of
Jesus.
It's the summation of all our sins.
Our long history of apostasy.
And the rejection of the prophets that were
sent unto us.
But when the Lord himself came.
We could not only not recognize him.
We were offended by him.
And had to crucify him.
He was the summation of our sins.
And not the sin in itself.
So also the holocaust for Germany.
It's not the sin in itself.
It's the summation of all your sins.
Through all your generations.
In converting the radical faith.
Into a domestic addendum.
A Sunday convenience.
To the burglary life.
Repent.
For your fathers.
And for yourselves.
For nothing has changed.
And God will not honor your false repentance.
That seeks only your relief.
He waits for this recognition.
This depth.
This death.
That he might be all in all.
Israel's destiny is at stake.
Our eternal destiny.
Waits more on such a church in Germany.
Than in any other nation.
The nation that cast us into the physical
fires.
Is the same intended by God.
To save us.
From the eternal fire.
Of his judgment.
You have a destiny.
A mandate.
Unfulfilled.
That you cannot fulfill in yourself.
But only in the power of his life.
In union with him.
Both in death.
Burial.
And resurrection.
I want to pray.
For such a repentance.
Such a church.
Such a nation.
Lord if this is your word.
It astonishes me.
But let the spirit of truth witness to
it.
Stab us in our hearts.
Even where our minds cannot lay hold of
all this.
So different from what we have understood.
Thinking we were doing Israel service.
To let them alone.
That we are polite.
Come Lord.
In this first speaking of this word in
this nation.
Let there be from among this people.
The first fruits of repentance.
The first breaking.
The first willing going down into death.
The forsaking of all interest.
That if there is no resurrection.
This people of all people.
Are most to be pitied.
And our Jewish people with them.
So in the name of Jesus.
As the minister of this word.
I invite you to repentance.
Authentic repentance.
For yourself and for your fathers.
Unto death.
A real going down.
Which when you are raised up.
Your life will no longer be your own.
His.
Christ fools.
For his last days purpose.
And his purpose alone.
Now don't mock God.
Don't come out of your seat.
For psychological relief.
As a religious reflex action.
Come out of your seat for death.
With the end of all your expectations.
Even of how you were going to serve
God.
It's no longer your problem.
It is his.
When he will have the total possession.
For the expression of his life.
Who will come forward for this?
Who will kneel at this platform for this?
You will validate your baptism.
And bring to it the meaning that God
had always intended.
God waits.
For this repentance.
Who will come?
God is at hand.
To it.
These words.
Spoken first by.
The Baptist John and Jesus.
Are inexorably joined.
Always.
You cannot speak of the kingdom without speaking
of repentance.
There's no entry into the kingdom without repentance.
So we have the reality of the kingdom
in exact proportion.
As we have authentic repentance.
And it's not a once and for all
repentance.
It's a continual state of being.
More rightly a state of death.
For true repentance is the awesome acknowledgement of
God.
As he in fact is and not as
we thought him to be.
And before that holy presence.
No man dare lift his head.
Job was described by God himself as being
outstanding.
The foremost of all men.
God boasted on him.
And yet at the end of God's dealings
with him.
The same man cries out.
I've heard of you with the hearing of
my ear.
But now my eye sees.
And I abhor myself.
And repent in dust and ashes.
This is classic.
This is definitive.
And we fall grievously short of this repentance.
And for that reason the kingdom does not
come.
It's the ultimate expression of God in glory.
And requires the most profound coming down of
man before it.
What does it mean to repent in dust
and ashes?
What does that symbolically represent?
Having gone under the ground in burial.
There's no place for me other than to
be buried.
Now that I have glimpsed you as you
are.
There's no place for me as man but
in death.
And God received that statement from Job.
And he said pray for your friends, your
comforters.
For my anger is kindled against them.
For you have not spoken as my servant
Job has spoken.
I am continually leaving bewildered saints in my
path.
And I'm remembering one occasion in America.
An outstandingly successful fellowship.
You know what my message for them was?
You think you have it all together?
You haven't even begun to speak as Job's
comforters have spoken.
Which is the most sublime spirituality in the
holy scripture.
It was not appropriate for Job.
But the statements in themselves are sublimely spiritual.
And despite that God says my anger is
kindled against you.
However spiritually insightful you were.
Deep in your understanding.
You still failed.
For there's only one statement that I can
receive from man.
I abhor myself.
And repent in dust and ashes.
Is there a nation in the world today
for which the issue of repentance is more
important than Germany?
You will live continually under the shadow of
the historic past.
Will you ever be washed from the stain
of the holocaust?
And yet there's continual reference to repentance.
And I've had opportunity to observe it.
Even most recently in the conference on prayer
for Israel in Berlin.
There's a continual theme of repentance toward the
Jew and toward Israel on the part of
the German church.
You would think that as a Jewish believer
my spirit would rejoice.
But the more that I heard these appeals
to repentance and witnessed the character of it
the more uncomfortable I felt in the inner
man.
Something is wrong with this kind of repentance.
One of the evidences of which is the
continual need to reiterate it.
How often are we going to feel sorry
for the same thing?
That it needs again and again to be
restated.
Maybe the problem is that we have not
rightly understood the matter of repenting.
And that feeling sorry falls short of it.
I got the impression that what these German
saints wanted was psychological relief.
They came to the conference in the hope
of getting it and had to experience it
in their desperate situation.
There's a word for this in psychology.
They wanted catharsis.
A relief for a burden of guilt that
evidently had not been met in any other
way.
And so I began to ponder this before
the Lord.
And here is my essay.
Notes on the issue of German repentance toward
Israel.
What's wrong with this kind of repentance?
Maybe it has to do with not rightly
understanding the issue of guilt.
That assumes that Germany is the cause of
the Holocaust against the Jew.
If that's your understanding you'll never be relieved.
Because it misses the truth of the Holocaust
itself.
The magnitude of that tragedy is beyond the
issue of German complicity.
And if we were students of God's dealings
in history with Israel we would be able
to distinguish between the judgments that God brings
and the rod that he employs.
Nazi Germany was the rod of God's chastisement.
But the cause was Jewish sin itself.
Historic and present.
The sins of the fathers never recognized or
acknowledged.
The cries of the prophets never heard nor
repented for.
And the sin continues.
And gathers its weight.
And though God may deter in bringing his
judgment he's not under obligation to bring it
immediately in a cause and effect situation.
But bring it he will in his own
time for his own purpose.
So you need to pray for the book
that Klaus is translating.
Utterly radical in its thesis Jews will rail
against it.
Segments of the church will be offended by
it.
The Holocaust as judgment.
In exact proportion to Jewish sin.
Yes, even in Germany.
The kind of influence that we expressed in
our history here.
Our substitution of German civilization for God's messianic
answer.
Encouraging German rationalism that is offended by the
supernatural God.
That had its final expression in God is
dead theology.
And in the Jewish reform Judaism.
This is more than I can say at
the moment.
God's judgments are always in proportion to our
sins.
And when Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem.
The lawyer, the condemning what do you call
it the state, the prosecuting attorney.
Gideon Hausner writes this in his memoirs.
A man's sin or his crimes or that
of a nation may go for a long
time unrecognized and unattended.
But there must come a time when the
culprit is apprehended and the righteous judgment inflicted.
So had it come for Eichmann.
Many years after the end of the Nazi
time.
As the scripture says be assured your sins
will find you out.
It found us out in the Holocaust.
And why was Germany the rod of our
chastisement?
Because it we so celebrated German culture.
There was no segment of the German population
more enthusiastic for Goethe, Schiller, Fichte and Hegel.
We could not believe that a Hitler could
come to power.
But not in the land of such celebrated
civilization and culture.
This has got to be a momentary thing.
This too shall pass.
But it did not pass and became our
judgment.
So to feel guilty as the cause of
the Holocaust is a false guilt.
One that God would not have you to
assume.
Does that mean that Germany is completely absolved
of all responsibilities?
Not at all.
You are still the rod of God's chastisement
and the willing rod and for that there
needs to be acknowledgement and repentance.
But not for a falsely assumed guilt.
There is a deeper sin than the Holocaust.
For which repentance God still waits and therefore
he will not honor your false repentance which
you are only wanting for your psychological relief.
The German sin is identically the same as
the Jewish sin for which the Holocaust is
the judgment.
What is that sin?
It is the betrayal of the true faith
by both Christians and Jews in taking our
inheritance and domesticating it and
making of it a Sunday or a Saturday
culture a bourgeois accommodation that
would not in any way threaten our real
interests and allow us a modicum of
religiosity That's the sin for which repentance
God waits The taking of the apostolic faith
and the making of it some kind of
addendum to our busy life Not just in
our liberal Christianity but in our orthodox It's
nothing less than the misuse of God for
man's own purposes and man's own ends It
is ultimate idolatry because it is performed in
the name of God and thinks it is
even doing him service and
so to seek psychological relief through repentance is
to continue in that same sin We are
the object of our religious life our relief
our satisfaction our happiness It's the way it
has always been and its character remains even
in its best charismatic forms We have not
seen this and repented for the misuse of
God in the framing of a religious life
in which our personal and selfish interests are
foremost that has no interest in a kingdom
come so that he doesn't want to experience
the inconvenience let alone be an object of
opposition or persecution better to supply a religious
accommodation It is still much better to somehow
adapt religiously to take the whole thing upon
itself and perhaps to sanction the goals of
the respective state and to give all the
imperialistic ambitions of such a state a little
bit of religious pleasure It's the sin of
Christian nations everywhere and the decline of Great
Britain is the evidence The land of Spurgeon
and George Whitefield the great missionaries is the
land of the rock punk culture and it's
celebrated Christianity has a funeral for Princess Diana
who is a jet set princess of the
worst kind such is the bankruptcy of British
Christianity I waited for the British church to
express its prophetic voice to protest the celebration
of this pagan and her illicit relationship with
a Muslim prince not a word not a
statement even in its prophetic publications there's
a repentance for which God is waiting but
it's not for our relief it's for His
for we have offended against Him since time
memorial and what rubs the salt into the
wound is not to offend against Him as
pagans but as Jews and as Christians who
share together the same mentality of a religious
convenience that serves the purposes of man and
is entirely indifferent to the purposes of God
ultimate idolatry performed in the name of God
Himself and still continuing in seeking this cathartic
relief at Israel's expense and the fact that
this relief is never obtained and needs again
and again to be repeated shows how questionable
are its motives and how unrecognized the church
wants to repent on Israel I'll give you
a good reason your failure to have made
known to the Israel in your midst the
reality of its own Messiah and God in
whom you professed to believe allowing them to
co-exist side by side to have their
own religious institutions as if somehow the synagogue
is a valid religious reality and
not a statement of continuing Jewish apostasy from
Christ is there any nation in the world
that has had a longer Jewish presence than
Germany and has so little affected them by
your witness we had a direct mandate in
scripture this gospel is the power of God
unto salvation to everyone who believes to the
Jew first and then also to the Greeks
God's priority God's order which we consciously circumvented
because the Jews are so intimidating and so
bright and intellectual and professional and their lives
seem so well ordered better than ours how
dare we tell them that they are lost
without our Christ in whose name Jews have
suffered historically in Germany such an obedience to
the requirement of Jesus as Lord has got
to appear to Jews as being utmost arrogance
who would dare perform it only one that
one who is truly repentant and broken and
has so descended into death which is what
repentance is a burial of the inadequate religious
life and a coming forth in a newness
of life that does not need Jewish approval
and is willing to bear the offense of
the Gospel itself in that you have failed
you have not maintained an apostolic witness to
that people whom God has placed in your
midst it's the statement of your failure the
betrayal of the kingdom and it's gone on
historically and never been recognized nor acknowledged as
sin and therefore continues still the
scandal of the Jew is something that polite
Christianity cannot afford and if
German society has been anything it's been polite
more important to be polite than to be
radical no wonder Nietzsche said God is dead
he showed no evidence in polite German Christianity
for a Christianity that is polite is not
Christian it's a contradiction in terms the very
nature of the faith is radical and will
always bring upon itself reproach it's a reproach
for which German Christians were unwilling of
course Paul said he would wish himself accursed
for his brethren's sake that they might know
Christ of course that's Paul that's not us
that's a man speaking as a Jew in
his fleshly ethnic identification with his own people
of course we could not be expected to
have a burden like that really?
well I want to raise a question is
Paul crying out in Romans 9 out of
his Jewishness what he is in the natural
or is he crying out as an apostle
and that the grief he is expressing is
not some ethnic identification but that of the
high priest and the apostle of the faith
himself if that's true then there is a
possibility for an identification with the Jewish people
that is beyond sentiment it is the deep
heart cry of God himself for which we
would be willing to forfeit our own salvation
did Paul have it because he was a
Jew?
or because he was an apostle?
I'm not talking about his title I'm talking
about his apostolic union with God his repentance
was authentic it was not a little feeling
sorry it was a man who went down
into death and everything that he celebrated as
a man and religiously died with him all
his categories went into death and he was
raised to newness of life there is no
one in whom the resurrected Christ had greater
continuation than the apostle Paul that's what he
meant when he said for me to live
as Christ what's our excuse?
what did Paul enjoy that is not available
to us?
what expression of the resurrection life which bears
the grief of God for Israel and the
courage to express it is not available to
us also everything depends on our repentance
expressed in our baptism was it a burial?
the only thing that our humanity deserves?
for in the flesh is no good thing
at all or was it a getting wet?
performing a religious obligation by those who did
not recognize that baptism is a burial and
if they knew it even now would not
desire it how shall we expect apostolic
reality from a church that is still alive
unto itself and has never repented unto death
and wants only relief and is itself the
object of its own consideration I am not
arguing now for a form of baptism because
my preference of course is for the full
immersion as burial but there are untold millions
who have gone down that way and came
up out of that water no more changed
than those who were merely sprinkled what was
their intention certainly not death not burial for
they were not persuaded that there was anything
about them that required so radical a thing
they are after all nice people who need
only to be reformed or improved not
buried you know what I am saying the
Jew finds us out and has always revealed
the condition of the church even Luther's condition
there is something about the unbelieving Jew that
reveals our secret heart and shows us where
in fact we are not only with regard
to them but with regard to God a
really repentant German Christian will tell Israel their
sins and Jacob their transgressions that's
what we are told in Isaiah do not
hold back lift your voice like a trumpet
and tell Israel of its sin and Jacob
of his transgressions and that the holocaust was
not some momentary historic aberration but the calculated
judgment of God promised in scripture in Deuteronomy
and Leviticus in the books of Moses of
what would befall us in the last days
if we will not acknowledge our transgressions and
that of our fathers that the sword would
pursue us and terror in the chamber and
the infant and the old man at the
bottom and the young man and the maiden
at the top exactly the way the bodies
were stacked in the gas ovens God
may deter his judgment but he will not
avert it for he is not God and
only the people who will tell Jacob their
sins and the judgment that is yet to
come of which I spoke last night of
which Jesus spoke that there will never again
be anything like it that eclipses all of
the suffering of the past even the Nazi
Holocaust itself and if that time were not
cut short no flesh would survive that time
is future the conditions for it are already
at work it's near who will tell Israel
their transgressions that you are going to suffer
again for your unrecognized transgression that
instead of coming out of the Holocaust broken
and repentant to ask why did we suffer
this where was God for his covenant people
unless he was required to be silent or
as the scripture says to turn his face
from us and that what we have suffered
is in exact proportion to our sins and
the sins of our fathers for which there
has been no capora no covering no remission
for without the shedding of blood there is
no remission for sin no Levitical priesthood no
place of sacrifice no shedding of blood two
thousand years of accumulated Jewish sin without
a covering open and naked to the retribution
of the powers of darkness only too happy
to inflict the judgment and take a malicious
delight in doing instead of crying out what
was our sin we cried out never again
not us we may have been victim in
the past in our Jewish defenselessness but now
in the possession of the state and the
apparatus of the state number one world's air
force military power never again and
who contradicts us who warns us who shows
us the word of God of the judgments
that have come and the judgments that will
come only a church that really loves us
loves our souls and wants to save us
from the eternal fire and will speak a
warning that will not be appreciated that will
not be understood that will invite angry reprisal
not to offend and to seek a reconciliation
which never comes nor can it come is
only serving our emotional need and offers nothing
to the Jew redemptively it confirms them in
their understanding of themselves as victims after all
for what sin should they have been judged
they live such a nice bourgeois life and
make their contributions to society and never hurt
anybody only
those who have the courage to speak to
them the truth can save them from the
judgment that is to come both in time
and eternity so long as they see themselves
as victims victim of what of the church's
failure the bankruptcy of Christianity and the corruption
of the New Testament that encourages anti-Semitic
attitudes so long as you condescend to them
you confirm them in their victim mentality in
their condemnation of the church and the church's
message and the church's gospel and therefore it
robs them of the only hope that could
save them out of death and hell brother,
what you're suggesting is frightening I don't have
the courage for it I don't have the
ability for it that's true in your present
condition of the resurrected Christ to whom all
authority has been given in heaven and in
earth the high priest and the apostle of
our confession the ultimate prophet who is also
truth as he is also love he would
not withhold himself he would suffer the death
of their disappointment he would suffer the pain
of their rejection he did it 2,000
years ago in his own body and he
will do it now in yours and you
will be able to say with Paul for
me to live is Christ here is your
sin you're falling short of the glory of
God and living beneath the resurrection applauding
yourself that you endorsed the doctrine but have
no necessity for its reality well able to
conduct services and programs as a church that
has its own satisfaction as its purpose for
being but take the apostolic mandate of God
seriously you'll have to say with Paul as
I have to say standing tonight in front
of you speaking this for a first time
who is sufficient for these things a church
that's sufficient is outside the faith is already
apostate and doesn't know it yes there's a
repentance for which God is waiting but not
the sentimental one that we thought that only
provides us with a relief it's a deep
repentance historically over done historically long standing and
the truth of the church still even in
its best charismatic forms how
dare you speak this to us German Christians
after what we have suffered at your hands
we have been your victim we have been
your victim