From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
                   The Assembly of God is no church   
      
   Some people mean that I do the same mistake as those who have   
   established churches. But I do not try to establish any church or any   
   denomination. I have written about restoration of the Assembly of   
   God, the Body of Christ.   
      
   God had chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world.   
   Eph. 1:3-7. Accordingly, God had begun his planning for the   
   Assembly all ready before he created the world, and when Jesus   
   baptized his first disciples with the Holy Spirit, then the Assembly   
   of God was born, and the same day about three thousand were   
   added to the Assembly. Since then has God had a living Assembly   
   on the earth. How then can anyone say that the Assembly of God   
   is a new church? When the Assembly of God has been restored and   
   all Christians have come out from all churches and denominations,   
   neither then the Assembly is any new church. No, it is the same   
   Assembly born on the day of the Pentecost and that has been living   
   here on the earth generation after generation.   
      
   Since I left the Pentecostal Movement I have had this as my   
   permanent prayer and aim: - Restoration of the Assembly of God   
   and a complete victory against the religious harlot-being. This is   
   Revival, that all Christians wake up and prepare themselves to meet   
   Jesus when he comes. The Christians must be free from all churches,   
   denominations and religious sects, so that the Assembly of God is   
   ready when Jesus comes. "Come out of her, my people, that ye be   
   not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."   
   Rev. 18:4. This must take place before Jesus comes. After Jesus'   
   coming it cannot happen for then the Assembly of God is home   
   at the Lord.   
      
   The local Assemblies of God are not the same as the Free-Churches   
   or other churches. God does not live in temples, build by hands.   
   Acts 17:24. He does not live in temples, build of wood or stone.   
   We Christians that believe in Jesus and love him is God's temple,   
   the Assembly of God. 1 Cor. 3:16-17, 6:19-20. God does not live   
   in the walls of the church, but he dwells in our hearts through faith.   
   Eph. 3:17.   
      
   All those who belong to Jesus on a place are an Assembly of God   
   on that place. Jesus knows who that belongs to him and he knows   
   where the boundary between the Assembly of God and the world is.   
   Establishment of any new assembly is not necessary, but it is time   
   for restoration of the Assembly that exists. This did not happen   
   when they established the Free-Churches. Then they established   
   anything besides the denomination that all ready existed, and so   
   they still more divided the Christians.   
      
   The great church systems that appear as any sort of authorities and   
   representatives of God, they are not from God. By their fruit (their   
   deeds) we will recognize them. Matt. 7:16-20. The churches have   
   always been against God's work.   
      
   When God restores the Assembly, then it is in the first hand a   
   spiritual releasing. Spiritual powers of evil hold the Christians   
   bound to churches and denominations and they want to hinder   
   the restoration and unification of the Assembly. We must conquer   
   these spiritual powers of evil, and it is through to unmask them   
   that we can win victory over them.   
      
   When the Holy Spirit by God's word reveals the truth, then the   
   devil's false doctrines and lies become unmasked, yet only to the   
   humble. It demands humility before God's word to understand   
   the truth. Humbleness is that be susceptible to teaching.   
   Psalm 25:8-14. James 4:6.   
      
   Like as we must be on our guard against occultism, we must also   
   be on our guard against the harlot-Christianity so that we do not   
   open for the spirits of evil that rule in the churches. They are   
   spirits of spiritual blindness and bluntness, pride, fear, enviousness,   
   suspiciousness and disbelief. They want to hinder people from   
   understanding of God's word. They confuse people and give them   
   a wrong way of thinking so that they use wrong names on things.   
   Many say the Church of Christ and do not know that it is the   
   Church of Satan. What the Bible tells about the Assembly of God   
   they apply to the churches.   
      
   The churches are founded on a wrong doctrine and they did not   
   build them up according to the pattern, which is valid for the   
   Assembly of God. Their membership cards are no free tickets to   
   heaven. If the members in the Free-Churches burnt up all their   
   membership cards and lists of members, it would not affect their   
   membership in the Assembly of God.   
      
   We must be like radical against the harlot-Christianity compared   
   with the spiritualism. It is the same devil behind. There is no certain   
   boundary between the church-Christianity and the spiritualism. It is   
   only a religious theatre. The using of candles occurs both in churches   
   and among spiritualists to produce a solemn atmosphere. In Christian   
   meetings candles have no other function than as lighting. We get a   
   solemn atmosphere through the Holy Spirit and through God's word.   
      
   To unite and restore the Assembly, God's people must be released   
   from all churches and denominations. Like as we cannot agree that   
   Christians are bound of alcoholism or the occult, we cannot agree   
   that Christians are bound to any church. Why are we Christians   
   bound to the religious harlot-being when we can be free? It is for   
   freedom that Christ has set us free. "Stand fast therefore in the liberty   
   wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again   
   with the yoke of bondage." Gal. 5:1."Ye are bought with a price;   
   be not yet the servant of men."1 Cor. 7:23.   
      
   Some Christians mean that I am against Christian love and fellowship,   
   but that is not true. I have not exhorted anyone to leave the Christian   
   fellowship. When we believe in Jesus, it is natural that we wish   
   fellowship with other Christians. Nevertheless, I do not want to live   
   in a fellowship outside God's word. What I have written here on the   
   Web site is a result of many years of prayer and struggle. I will not   
   deny or reject what God has given me certainness of only for the   
   sake of fellowship. A fellowship, which does not stand the truth,   
   is no Christian fellowship.   
      
   Someone wrote to me and meant that I exhort Christians to leave   
   the churches but do not show "anything instead." I answered, when   
   the Lord released me from the Pentecostal Movement, then he   
   neither showed me "anything instead." Nevertheless, he showed   
   me a way out from the religious harlot-being. Glory to Jesus!   
   Never at any occasion I have regret that I left the harlot-being,   
   or longed back to the bondage. On the contrary, I have felt   
   disappointment at other members have not left the bondage yet.   
      
      
      
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