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                                   The Body of Christ   
                     the most valuable that exists on the earth   
      
   The Assembly of God is most valuable that does exist on the earth.   
   Already before God created the world he had planned for the assembly,   
   and predetermined us to be his children. Eph. 1:3-6. The Assembly of   
   God is a living temple, built up of living stones. 1 Peter 2:5. We are the   
   temple of the living God. 2 Cor. 6:16. Know ye not that ye are the temple   
   of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Cor. 3:16, 6:19.   
   Since the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed the year 70, God has not had   
   any other temple on the earth than his assembly.   
      
   Nothing on the earth is more important than that the Assembly of God   
   becomes built up according to the pattern of God's word. When God   
   was so strictly with that the tabernacle (Exodus 25:9) and the temple of   
   the old covenant became built according to the pattern, so that the workers   
   that performed the work must get special education through God's Spirit   
   (Exodus 35:30-35, 36:1-2), then he must be still more strictly with the real   
   temple that is the Assembly of God. How is the temple of God now? Is it   
   built according to the pattern? Which pattern? All that the Bible teaches   
   about Assembly of God constitutes the pattern for the Assembly of God.   
   What else would it be?   
      
   The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the truth. John 14:17. Jesus says in John   
   16:13 "...he will guide you into all truth." Here we see that Jesus wants   
   that we shall know the truth, lest we will be victims for false doctrines   
   and evil spiritual powers.   
      
   Jesus prays to his Father in John 17:21, "That they all may be one;   
   as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:   
   that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." Many other bible   
   words exhort God's people to unity. But yet the Christians have been   
   split up in many churches and denominations, and this is a serious   
   obstacle for people to believe in Jesus. Unity is important to that people   
   shall come to believe in Jesus.   
      
   Then the question is, what are churches and denominations? Has God   
   given his people any order to organize denominations and to building   
   of churches? Can anyone with help of the word of the Bible explain   
   how these denominations and church system have been established?   
   No, it is not possible, for churches and the denominations are not   
   founded on God's word, but on false doctrines. They are religious   
   black buildings. Can you find any place in the Bible where it says that   
   they established an assembly, as an organized movement with a   
   chairperson and directors and membership cards?   
      
   The common comprehension is that the churches and the denomination   
   have as their task and intention that preach God's word and to guide   
   people to faith in Jesus. But the truth is the straight opposite. The   
   splitting of the Christians in different denomination and churches has   
   never been to any advantage. Instead it has hindered people to come to   
   believe in Jesus. Through false doctrines and lies Satan has exploited   
   both preachers and other members of churches and denominations to   
   speak and work on the contrary against God's word.   
      
   Denominations and churches are not only organizations with a number   
   of members and preachers. They are also a spiritual power. Through   
   false doctrines and lies wickedness spiritual powers can affect both the   
   preachers and their hearers, and entire their activity. The real intention   
   of churches and the denominations is to hinder people from understanding   
   God's words, and to cheat them to hell.   
      
   Those who leave room for false doctrines also are influenced of wickedness   
   spiritual powers. The evil spirits seduce people to use wrong names. We   
   cannot use the word "church" when we mean the Assembly of God. The   
   Assembly of God is no church, and churches are no God's assemblies.   
   The Catholic church has tortured and murdered many million Christians.   
   If we use the same name "church" on the murderer as on the victims for   
   the murderer, how then can we know what that means when someone   
   says "church"? The biblical name on the Church is 'the great whore' and   
   'Babylon the great'. "The Assembly of God" ought to stand for "the Body   
   of Christ".   
      
   What the pastors and the members are speaking is not according to the   
   intentions and objectives of the denomination or the church. They   
   believe that the denomination and the church serve God, but the   
   denomination and the church cheat them all the time through false   
   doctrines, so that they do not understand what the Bible teaches about   
   the Assembly of God. Therefore, they cannot teach or preach about the   
   Assembly of God.   
      
   God has not given any order to build any church system or denominations.   
   They are not built according to God's words, and they are not God's   
   temple or God's assemblies. Then the question appears, whose are the   
   churches and the denominations? It is Satan's churches and denominations.   
      
   As soon as we mention something about churches and denominations,   
   and compare with what the Bible teaches about Assembly of God, then a   
   remarkable phenomenon appears. Many become afraid and nervous and   
   want not to listen or read anything about this. They are talking about love   
   and fellowship and that we shall love the church. What sort of love and   
   fellowship are they nagging about?   
      
   We can read in 1 John 1:7, "But if we walk in the light, as he is in   
   the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus   
   Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. " Most of those who profess them   
   are Christians do not walk in the light. They are walking in the church   
   darkness, and are averse to light. They have a sort love and fellowship   
   that does not endure the light. As soon as we mention something about   
   the Assembly of God and about churches and denominations, then this   
   "love" appears. It appears through contempt against God's words, and   
   through lots of questions. Spokesmen for this false love have no teaching   
   about the Assembly of God, only questions. They do not study what the   
   Bible teaches about the Assembly of God, and they do not struggle for   
   the truths of the Bible. Of such people we cannot expect any help, but   
   they behave as if they know how it shall be.   
      
   They are talking about that we shall love the church and not judge and   
   criticize. But what is it that they comprehend as criticism? It is God's   
   word! When we want to study what the Bible teaches about the Assembly   
   of God, then they say that we do condemn and criticize. They defend   
   churches and denominations and denounce the truth. What sort of love   
   and fellowship is it that wants to hinder people from study of God's word?   
   Instead of keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, according   
   to Eph. 4:3, this false love maintains split between the Christians and   
   holds   
      
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