The Assembly of God

[Allan Svensson]

The Assembly of God

The devil has always tried to make copies and falsifications of what God does. When
Moses by God's power, made wonders and miracles in Egypt, then the devil and his helpers
tried to make the same. Exodus the 7th chapter. Once the devil tried to make himself
like God. But he miscarried totally. Instead of be like God, he was so unlike God as it
was possible. Isaiah 14:12-17. Ezekiel 28:11-19.
He also tries to influence the Christians by his false doctrines so that we use
improper (wrong) words many times. In the English translations of the Bible, the word
"church" is used in the meaning God's people, those who believe in Jesus. But this word
"church" is an improper word for those who believe in Jesus and love him. Nowhere in
the Swedish Bible we can find the word "church" (kyrka). I think "The Assembly of God"
is a better name of those who love Jesus. I don't use the word "church" (kyrka) when I
mean those who believe in Jesus, because the Assembly of God is no church! In the year
1981 we got a new Swedish translation of the New Testament, where they have used the
word "kyrka". But this translation is a falsification with many grave perversions of
the bible word. And I would never give such a bible to anyone.
What is a church? It is an organized institution. And what is the Assembly of God,
those who have received Jesus as their Savior? It is a LIVING ORGANISM. Please, read 1
Cor.12:11-31. Eph.4:16, 5:23. Col.1:18. It is an essential difference between an
organization and an organism.
Jesus is the head of the body. Col.1:18. And the impulses to the limbs of the body
come from the head. It is Jesus Christ that is the Lord of the Assembly of God, and it
is first of all him we have to serve and obey. The Assembly of God is neither any
democratic society, and the majority do not demand what one member be allowed to do.
The Bible tells about the Assembly of God, partly as the universal Assembly, and partly
as local Assemblies. A local Assembly is bounded only of its geographic boundary. All
of those who believe in Jesus in a place constitute an Assembly of God in that place
In the chapter two and three of Revelation, Jesus speaks about the Assemblies in
Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. But observe,
these names are not the names of the Assemblies, but names of the places where these
Assemblies were. And nowhere in the Bible we can read that there were several
Assemblies in one and the same place, or that any great Assembly had authority over a
smaller Assembly, because the Assembly of God is the body of Christ, and he is the head
of the body.
That divide up the Assembly of God in another way than a geographic boundary, it is
unbiblical. We cannot divide up the Assembly of God according to unlikeness in the
doctrine, because we have only one gospel in the Bible. And God's gospel is valid for
the whole Assembly of God. "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a
gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternal condemned!" Gal.1:8.
Those who call them "Baptists" have no sole right to the baptism. They cannot say that
the baptism is something specially for us Baptists. Regarding lesser important things,
as food and drink, or celebration of special days, it is allowed for us Christians to
have divided opinions. (Romans 14th chapter). But the baptism belongs to the
fundamental truths in God's gospel. On the places in the Bible where we read about
baptism, we see that the baptism is for those who believe in Jesus. When people come to
belief in Jesus, they would be baptized. The baptism is valid for all of us who will be
saved.
If God in his great grace has tolerance with people's ignorance, so that some persons
have been saved without the baptism in water, yet this is no reason to change the
Christian preaching, and say that the baptism is not necessary. Since Jesus demands his
disciples to baptize, the baptism must have importance for our salvation. "Those who
believe it and receive baptism will find salvation; those who not believe will be
condemned." Mark 16:16. (According to THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE. NEW TESTAMENT. Printed
in Great Britain, 1961).
That Jesus would accept the so-called infant baptism of the church, it is inconceivable
and impossible. The infant baptism is from the devil and has nothing to do with a
Christian faith.
And they who call themselves "Pentecostalists" cannot say, what that happened on the day
of Pentecost, when the apostles were baptized with the holy Spirit, it is something
specially for us that call Pentecostalists. The truth of the baptism with the holy
Spirit has functioned ever since the apostles' days.
Nowhere in the Bible we can see that the first Christians established any Assembly of
God. When God's word was preached in a place and people came to belief in Jesus and
received him as their Savior, then those believers constituted an Assembly of God. But
nowhere it is written that they decided at a meeting that establish an Assembly (or a
church).
Since an Assembly of God is a living organism, and not any organization, we cannot
establish any Assembly of God by organize. Some form of organization can be necessary
in a Christian activity, but then we must make a difference between the Assembly of God
and the organization.
Let us suppose that a "Pentecostalist" in the 1920s comes to a place and preaches God's
word. And people come to belief in Jesus and they are baptized in water and with the
holy Spirit. Already now there is an Assembly of God in that place. But now the
friends begin to ask, is it not time for establishing an Assembly? And they come
together to a meeting and come to a decision to establish an Assembly.
Now I ask, what have they established? Is it an Assembly of God? No, there was an
Assembly of God all ready before they decided to establish an Assembly. But yet, they
have established something. But what is it?
When they had "established an Assembly", then they wanted to have a name of their
assembly. (Please, compare Genesis 11:4.). And they call it Pentecostal Church. They
must also have an administration, and they choose elders. Are now these brothers elders
in the Assembly of God? No.
But what is it that they have established? It is an organization, a false copy of the
Assembly of God. And the true Assembly of God, what has happened with that? Indeed,
that exists, but the true Assembly has been mixed with the false copy. Those who believe
in Jesus constitute yet an Assembly of God, but they are also members of an
organization, which they think is the Assembly of God. And when they read in the Bible
about the Assembly, they apply God's word to their own copy of the Assembly of God. If
someone wants to leave the organization, then they think it is the same as to leave the
Assembly of God?
When the Pentecostal Churches and other churches were established, from where did they
get the thought that "established churches"? It came in any case not from God's word.
And which pattern did they follow? Hebr.8: 5. When they established the
Free-Churches, they had the older churches as a pattern. And the ideas that "establish
churches" came from the Catholic Church's false doctrine. The biblical name of the
Catholic Church is "the great prostitute" or "the great whore". Rev.17:1. And with
her false doctrine comes also her unclean spirit.
"And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." The great whore is the Catholic Church, and
other churches are her daughters. The foundation of the churches is from the Catholic
Church. No church is founded on God's word, neither the Free-Churches that have come
into existence in connection with true revivals from God.
"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 1
Cor.3:11. The foundation of the Assembly of God is Jesus Christ and his propitiatory
sacrifice on the cross. "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,
and shall go in and out, and find pasture." John 10:9. (KJV) We enter into the Assembly
of God by receiving Jesus Christ as our personal Savior.
On which foundation are the churches built? When they builded the Baptist union, then
they took the truth of baptism and laid it as a foundation for building of churches. And
when the Pentecostal Movement came, then they took the truth of the baptism with the
holy Spirit, as a foundation, for building of new churches. (But if the Pentecostalists
really had understood the truth of the baptism with the holy Spirit, then the
Pentecostal churches had never been built. Because this truth is incompatible with the
view of the Assembly of God that they have within the Pentecostal Churches and other
churches.) That detaches a bible-truth from its context, and that use it as a foundation
for building of a church, that is outside the Bible's teaching.
If the Baptist churches were Assemblies of God, then no one could be a Christian without
to be a member of a Baptist church. And if the Pentecostal Churches were Assemblies of
God, then no one could be a Christian without to be a member of a Pentecostal Church. Or
else he is outside the Assembly of God.
Many Christians are of the opinion that it is too loosely that have no membership cards
and no register. This is also the devil's opinion. He does not like that the Christians
roam freely. No, he wants to have them in a religious organization, for the purpose he
can have them under his control. This tactic the devil has used so long time now, so
that we Christians ought not to let him deceive us anymore.
When God will awake and renew his people, then it is not his purpose to establishment
and building of new churches, or that the revival shall be limited to a certain church.
No. God's purpose with the revival is to awake all of them who are willing to wake up.
In Mark 13:37 Jesus says, "What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!' "
But the devil is sly (shrewd). When he is not able to put out the fire of revival, then
he wants to set limits to the revival and confine the revival to a religious
organization. One trick he has used, is to give the revival a new name. When the devil
has enticed God's people to accept a new label, then he has limited the revival. The
revival is limited to those who accept the new party label.
When God's people begin to organize new churches, then they already have come on the
side of God's purpose. The Assembly of God consists of all those who are born anew and
love Jesus. Which other would it be? Where else is the boundary between the Assembly of
God and the world?
As soon as God does something new, people are ready to scribble on God's work, and to
give God's work a new name. These names and party labels are not so innocent as they can
seem to be. Behind them is a trick of the devil. It can seems childishly and stupidly
that warns of the name of a Christian activity. But it is just here that the devil does
the first attack against a new revival.
He comes in by the back door and begins so discreetly: It is not time to establish an
Assembly of God? He wants to give guiding principles and certain rules. (As if it was
not enough that follow God's word). In that way he builds up an own activity in the very
middle of the revival.
So it was when the "Pentecostal Revival" came. Though the "Pentcostalists" had met
Jesus to renewal and had received spiritual gifts, and had met with opposition from the
churches, they did not succeed to be free from the churches' false doctrine about the
Assembly of God. Therefore, they were not able to make any real counterattack against
the harlot-churches. They used the shield of faith, but they did not use the sword of
the Spirit in that way as they ought to do.
When they accepted the name "Pentecostalists" and began to establish own organizations,
which the meant were Assemblies of God, then the devil exulted. These Pentecostalists
were near to be free from the religious harlot-being. But now he had ensnared them
again. The devil knew that when these Pentecostalists had been bound up to their own
organization, then they were not able to combat and unmask the religious harlot-being.
It was only a matter of time when the revival would take an end.
The simple fact of the matter is that a revival cannot continue under such
circumstances. And if the Lord sends a new revival, then it must be new breaking out and
a new confrontation against the churches.
That a revival would continue within a church, is like impossible as to keep a burning
candle in a closed paper-bag. Either the paper-bag takes fire, or the fire goes out of
lack of oxygen. Either the revival came to unmask the church as a religious building
constructed without a building permit, and built on a false foundation, and the revival
would destroy the whole church. Or else the church came to repress and put down the
revival.
But the churches want to have a form of godliness, for the purposes that people may
think that the churches are from God. And therefore, the churches can allow a spiritual
awakening as long as the leadership can have the revival under control.

[Catherine Hampton]

Allan Svensson (alla...@algonet.se) wrote:
: The Assembly of God

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Why are you posting about the Assembly of God in a newsgroup about
a totally different church? We get enough spam here -- Please
restrict your posts to appropriate groups.

[Nick Finney]

Allan Svensson wrote:
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> The Assembly of God

It's not a post. It's a book!
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