Teaching about the Assembly of God
Everywhere in Christians meetings, books, magazines and
websites it is a teaching that always lacks - Teaching about
the Assembly of God. Why is it so silent about this? Teaching
about the Assembly of God must belong to each preacher's
duty. Now, before Jesus comes, the truth about the Assembly
of God must be preached.
The truth about the Assembly of God is so big and wide, so
it is not possible to explain it on a few pages, it needs a whole
website. Many bible words about the Assembly of God have
become misinterpreted and used on a wrong way in churches
and denominations. What the Bible teaches about the Assembly
of God they have applied on churches and free churches
although the Bible does not mention a word about churches.
Therefore, if we use these bible words on a correct way, then
people do not realize what we mean, if we do not also expose
and rebuke the churches' translation errors and distortions.
The translation KJ3 is better in this reference. There it is
written 'assembly' instead of 'church'.
Both Pentecostal churches and Baptist churches are established
in conjunction with a powerful revival from God. But the
establishment of churches was not from God. Can you find a
sole place in the Bible where it says that they established an
Assembly of God through to organize an association movement?
Is it written anywhere in the Bible that they in a meeting made
a decision about membership in the Assembly of God, and
gave membership cards to the members? A free church or any
pastor is not needed to make decision about membership in the
Assembly of God. Heaven's God has made this decision a long
time ago, already before he created the world. Eph. 1:3-14.
A short time after the establishment of Pentecostal churches
the revival began to stagnate, and after some years the revival
takes an end. Why did the Pentecostal revival take an end? It
was because they built their activity on a false doctrine about
the Assembly of God, and stopped to struggle for the truths
of the Bible. For soon 100 years the Pentecostal preachers have
continued to preach and practise a false doctrine about the
Assembly of God, and the Baptist preachers yet longer. And
the truth of the baptism by the Holy Spirit they understand
only partly.
How did the free churches become founded? Was there any
support in the Bible for such an establishment of churches?
Can you find a place in the Bible where it says that they had
several different assemblies of God on the same location,
with different ideas and rules for the assembly?
The dividing of the Christians in many churches and
denomination has not been to any advantage for salvation of
souls. On the contrary, it has been to hinder for people to
come to believe in Jesus. Of this we must understand that this
dividing is not a work of God. Has the God of peace shattered
the Assembly, the Body of Christ? No, this dividing is a work
of false doctrines and of evil spiritual powers.
Free church preachers and other members have yet not
understood the relation between the establishment of churches
and retrogression of the revival. It is through the churches'
false doctrine of assembly that the devil has been able to
destroy the one the revival after the other.
In the powerful revival in the beginning on 1900s they made
a fateful mistake. They began to lay the foundation to a new
church system, and this caused that the revival took an end.
Instead for establishing their own assemblies, they ought to
study what the Bible teaches about the Assembly of God, and
exposed all churches and denominations, and preached the
truth about the Assembly of God.
It says in Rev. 18:2 about the great Babylon that it has become
a dwelling place of demons, and a prison of every unclean
spirit, and a prison of every unclean bird. These evil and
unclean spirits are also in the free churches, for they belong
to the great Babylon. These spiritual powers did infiltrate the
free churches' assemblies already from the beginning when
they were founded. The evil spiritual powers not only infiltrated
the free churches. They also helped to establish these assemblies.
They are founded and built up on a false doctrine about the
Assembly of God.
Churches and denominations use lie and half truths and do
not want that us Christians shall know the truth about the
Assembly of God. Year after year they are busy to preach and
practise an incorrect doctrine about the Assembly of God, and
an incorrect doctrine about the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
When anyone becomes saved and baptized, then he at once
becomes involved as a member in a free church, but he gets
no information about in what he has been a member. And if
anyone wants withdrawal to move to another place, or want
to move to another church, then his name becomes not removed
in the member list before they received affirmation from the
other church that he is accepted as a member there. On this
way the churches and denominations have control so that no
members can roam freely.
According to the doctrine of the free churches it is obviously
that you as a Christian shall belong to an assembly. But if they
with the word "assembly" mean a free church, then it is wrong,
for the Bible mention not a word about such assemblies. Being
a member in a free church is equally unbiblical as the so-called
infant baptism.
The Assembly of God is the Body of Christ, and us that believe
in Jesus and are born again, we are limbs in this body. You do
not need to apply for membership in any free church for become
a member in the Assembly of God. And you cannot by people
become chose to a member in the Assembly of God.
There is no free church or pastor, or any priest in the Church
that is able to expel anyone from the Assembly of God. God
has never given such a power or authority to anyone, to choose
in or expel anyone out of the Assembly of God, not even to
any angel. This authority God Father has reserved for himself.
Thank God for that! "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." John 10:29.
It is He that sets in the limbs in the Body of Christ. "But now
God set the members, each one of them, in the body, even as
He willed." 1 Cor. 12:18. Jesus says in 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."
The Father is also the Vinedresser. John 15:1-7. Rom. 11:17-22.
It is He that takes away the useless branches that do not bear
fruit. (Here it means the fruit of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace,
long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control.
Gal. 5:22.)
In the Assembly of God, it is the Father himself that both
takes in, and expels members.
For also we all were baptized into one Spirit into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, even all were
given to drink into one Spirit, 1 Cor. 12:13, 31, also those
who do not speak in tongues. It is when Jesus baptizes us in
the Holy Spirit that we receive the new life in Christ and
become born on new. When God created the first man, Adam,
then Jehovah God formed the man out of dust from the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul. Genesis 2:7. When Jesus baptizes us in the Holy
Spirit, then it is a new act of creation. The Spirit gives us the
new life in Christ and we become new creatures in Christ.
"So then if anyone is in Christ, that one is a new creation; the
old things have passed away; behold, all things have come to
be new!" 2 Cor. 5:17. Gal. 6:15. Those who are born anew are
born of the Spirit. John 3:8.
Allan Svensson
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