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                            The Assembly of God   
      
      
   To come to clearness about the disruption among the Christians, we   
   must observe how churches and sects have come into existence, and   
   compare with what the Bible teaches about the Assembly of God.   
      
   Many Christians think that the Free-Churches have come into   
   existence through revivals from God, and that they have revealed   
   truths from the Bible, but in the reality it is on the contrary. The   
   churches have not revealed any truth from the Bible. The Truth   
   is revealed by God's Spirit!   
      
   The Lutheran Church did not convey the truth of justification by   
   faith. The Baptist Church did not convey the truth of baptism.   
   The Pentecostal Movement did not convey the truth of baptism   
   by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit had revealed these truths long   
   before these Churches had come to existence!   
      
   When Martin Luther began to preach the truth of justification by   
   faith, then he was not alone to preach this truth. Many people   
   were justified by faith then. All of those who have received Jesus   
   as the Saviour and love him, are justified by faith. Without the   
   justification by faith they could not be Christians. In Martin   
   Luther's time, many Christians were baptized in that way as the   
   Bible says, but Martin Luther did not understand the biblical   
   baptism, and he despised those Christians who received the   
   baptism.   
      
   The Baptist Church did not reveal the truth of the Christian   
   baptism. This truth had been practised long before the Baptist   
   Church was in existence. The Pentecostal Movement did not   
   reveal the truth of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. This truth   
   had functioned all the time since the apostles' days. The   
   Pentecostal Movement censored away some part of this truth,   
   so that they only partially preached and believed this truth, and   
   the Pentecostal preachers have all the time preach a half-truth   
   about the baptism with the Holy Spirit.   
      
   When they have established a new church, the church has   
   already from its beginning been an obstacle to the revival.   
   Therefore, the one revival after the other has stagnated and   
   retrograded. We must understand that the churches are not   
   from God, neither churches which have come to existence   
   about real revivals from God. The churches have not supported   
   the revival. It is on the contrary. The Free-Churches have   
   choked and ruined the revival in which they had once come to   
   existence. God has never founded any church, and every   
   church is a false copy of the Assembly of God and is not   
   founded on God's word. By the fruit of the churches we shall   
   recognize them. Matt. 7:16-20. Through their deeds, the   
   churches have proved that they are not from God.   
   We who read the Bible and believe in God's word, know that   
   God is not a God of disorder but of peace. 1 Cor. 14:33.   
   Therefore, when God sends revival he does not create disunion.   
   All religious formation of parties is from the devil. The Bible   
   teaches that the Christian shall be one, as Jesus and the Father   
   are one. John 17:20-22. 1 Cor. 1:10, 12:12-31. The division of   
   the Christians in several churches and religious sects with   
   different names is a work of the powers of evil and false   
   doctrines.   
      
   Those who established the Free-Churches were Christians. How   
   can then the devil have caused that they have established these   
   churches? Is the devil able to use God's people to do his work?   
   The answer is, Yes.   
      
   In Matt. 16:22-23 we can read how Peter contradicted Jesus, but   
   Jesus said, "Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto   
   me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those   
   that be of men." That Satan could use Peter so that he did speak   
   words whose meaning he did not understand, it was because he   
   did not know better. Peter did not understand why Jesus must die.   
   Therefore, he spoke in that way.   
      
   The establishment of churches was a fateful mistake. Satan could   
   use believing Christians because they did not understand better.   
   The Free-Churches that have arisen are all daughters of the   
   Catholic Church, built on her false doctrine, and with her false   
   doctrine follows her unclean spirit. The Free-Churches became   
   parts of the religious harlot-being.   
      
   We must understand that the dividing of the Christians in many   
   churches and sects is not a work of God. Can the God of peace   
   have divided the Christians in many denominations? The idea   
   of establishing churches and religious sects did not come from   
   God.   
      
   Allan Svensson   
      
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   (Article 30. The Body of Christ is the Assembly of God)   
      
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