Prepare you to meet Jesus!
On Christian Websites, publications and books we can read
about what that are going on in the world, how this age will
take an end, and Jesus' coming is near. How do the Christians
prepare themselves for Jesus' coming? Most Christians have
not yet begun their preparing.
Revival is just this: Restoration of the Body of Christ, the
Assembly of God, so that all Christians become free from
churches and denominations. We have the promise of the Lord
in John 16:13 that the Holy Spirit shall guide us into all truth.
Before Jesus comes, the Assembly of God must be built up
according to Eph. 4:11-16, until we all reach the unity in the
faith, and in knowledge of God's Son.
We have the extremely powerful revival message from the
Lord in Rev. 18:4. The Lord commands his people to come
out of the great Babylon. Therefore, people must get
knowledge about the Assembly of God. They must understand
the difference between an organized church system and the
Assembly of God. It is an essential difference between an
organization and a living organism.
When Jesus died of the cross, then he opened a new and
living way to God for people. Hebr. 10:19-22. But religious
organizations and church system have no part in Jesus'
reconciliation work on the cross, and they cannot repent.
The Churches can never get forgiveness for their persecution,
torture and murder of God's people. The Lord does repay
them for their deeds.
Not even the free churches can escape God's judgement. They
have come into existence in conjunction with revival from
God, but they have destroyed and made an end on the revival,
in which they had been established. Why did the Pentecostal
Revival take an end?
As soon as God's Spirit begins to work and it seems to be a
revival, then a peculiar idea comes up that it must have a name.
People are quick to make a name of what God is doing. What
is this? This is Satan's first attack against the revival. When
Satan has gotten "revival people" to accept a new name, then
he has won his first victory against the revival. Soon they begin
to plan for making new assemblies (churches) with the new
name. When they have, began to make new assemblies, then
the revival is already in its retrogression.
It is not possible to live in revival, and at the same time build
up the entire activity on a false doctrine about the Assembly
of God. In that way they destroyed the revival, which God
sent a hundred years ago. There was no biblical foundation
for building new assemblies. The Assembly of God was
already existing. The Assembly was born on the day of
Pentecost, when the apostles became baptized with the Holy
Spirit. Notice this. The Assembly of God is born, not made
by organizing.
The Assembly of God is constituted of all those who are
baptized by one Spirit. The Holy Spirit has given them the
new life in Christ so that they have been born again. This
has nothing to do with churches or denominations.
When the Pentecostal assemblies became established and
they made decision for membership for all members, then it
was only a game of make-believe, which had nothing to do
with the Assembly of God, the Body of Christ. It is no free
church, no preacher or pastor, or any priest that can choose
members into the Assembly of God, neither expel anyone.
God has not given such a power or authority to any man, not
even to any angel. The Father has reserved this power and
authority for himself. Glory to God for that!
"For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to
separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord."
Rom. 8:38-39.
Jesus says in John 10:27-30, "My sheep hear My voice, and
I know them, and they follow Me. And I give eternal life to
them, and they shall not perish to the age, not ever! And not
anyone shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father who
has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to
snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and the Father are One!"
"No one is able to come to Me if not the Father, the One
having sent Me, draws him, and I will raise him up in the last
day." John 6:44. "No one is able to come to Me if not the
Father, the One having sent Me, draws him, and I will raise
him up in the last day." (Verse 65).
"I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. Every
branch in Me not bearing fruit, He takes it away; and every
branch bearing fruit, He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit."
John. 15:1-2. In the Assembly of God, it is the Fathers that
executes the taking in members and takes away members.
We do not need to complete the name of the Lord with any
party label. Using a party label, as Maranatha, it is in the
highest degree unsuitable. It is sabotage against the revival.
It confuses people so that they do not understand what it is
about? It is no question about to start any new denomination,
but to release all Christians from churches and denominations.
When people experience revival, then they annul their
membership in churches and denominations. Those who do
not want to leave church or denomination, they are spiritually
sleeping.
How shall we do when we have come out from churches and
denominations? Jesus gives us the answer on this question in
Matt. 28:18-20. "All authority in heaven and on earth has been
given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have
commanded you. And surely I will be with you always, to the
very end of the age."
During the whole church history the churches have counteracted
this. The preachers who want to preach God's word have always
had to struggle against the churches. Lots of Christians have
been persecuted, tortured and murdered because they believed
in Jesus and been baptized.
Allan Svensson
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