Gospel Assembly Church Matamoros

27/10/2025

Wonderful gathering of God's people in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, sharing and celebrating with our brothers and sisters the 30th anniversary of the Victoria Gospel Assembly Church. God bless Pastor Mario Garza, his wife Malu, their family, and this wonderful assembly.

30/06/2025

"As the dew of Hermon, like the precious ointment upon the head" June 2025

29/05/2025

24/03/2025

God has given us a wonderful meeting in Mexico City this weekend, March 2025. We had the opportunity to work shoulder to shoulder with our beloved brothers and ministers from the different churches who came to bless God's people. Churches represented: Mexico City, Victoria, Juarez, Reynosa, Tijuana, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, and Matamoros. Our Lord is working, God bless all the people of God!

16/09/2024

06/05/2024

This past weekend we had the blessing of accompanying our brothers from the Reynosa Assembly in their fellowship meeting and 8th anniversary. We enjoyed the good word of God and the Holy Spirit. God is good!

Este fin de semana tuvimos la bendicion de acompañar a nuestros hermanos de la Asamblea de Reynosa en su reunion de convivencia y 8o aniversario. Ha sido un gozo convivir con todo el pueblo de Dios y ministerio, g***r de la buena palabra de Dios y su Espiritu Santo. ¡Dios es bueno!

12/12/2023

2023 Victoria México Fellowship Meeting

18/09/2023

Man of Sin - Mystery of Iniquity
William Sowders. May 4th, 1947.
Then “That man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God.” (2TH 2:3-4) Follow on in the context; don’t take the text out of the context to try to find out what he meant. You can’t understand the meaning of the text if you try to find the text and not the context.
Therefore as I said, Paul was warning the, showing them how Jesus Christ could not scorn then. For he will not come until there is a falling away of the church of the firstborn.
Then he refers to the mystery of iniquity. “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work;” (2TH 2:7) What is the mystery of iniquity? Sects, division of the people of God, great iniquity among the people. God hates the man that sows discord among the people. Could you say it was anything but discord out there? It is nothing but discord, and the seed of discord produces discord.
What the Bible says is not to them out there- it is only to the church of the firstborn and its lineage through the ages.
“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work.” (2TH 2:7) Paul was talking about iniquity – and he understood what the mystery of iniquity was. Speaking about that I will refer to another scripture; Paul was talking to Timothy: “Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some . . . Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” (2TI 2:18-19) What did he mean by iniquity? Was he talking about stealing, cursing, lying, drinking? Did he have something like that in his mind? The iniquity he was talking about was preaching perverse doctrines, causing discord among the brethren, overthrowing the faith of some. For that reason he said, “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2TI 2:15) “But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.� (2TI 2:20) He was referring to the church of God that came out of the upper room on the day of Pentecost. “In a great house,” that is the house he was referring to, not all the sects.
You will never get the things of the Bible unless you learn how to apply the scriptures. It is not applied to this and that, that is scattered out there. It is applied to one church. Therefore, “In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth… If a man therefore purge himself from these, [from what? this iniquity] He shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.” (2TI 2:20-21) That iniquity was working in Paul’s day. It is a mystery. Look at the churches and the ministers still working in divisions out there. It is such a mystery; they can’t see, can’t tell where they are. Separate a part from the body - - - that part is bound to die.
“The mystery of iniquity doth already work.” (2TH 2:7) I’ll bring that out, the Lord willing. Get that now - - get the context. Paul was talking about the coming of Jesus Christ, I’m telling you it won’t come except there be a falling away of the church first. When that church falls away, there will be a man take the place of Jesus Christ, and the mystery of that man is working right now. All this separation out there the mystery of iniquity doth already work, only he who now letteth, “Not hinders but lets will let, until he be taken out of the way.” (2TH 2:7) “That man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” (2TH 2:3) See the context there? Without the context how can you see that? “He who hinders will hinder?” He is not talking about hindering, he is talking about letting the thing happen instead of hindering.
We can get too mechanical, become too educated and try to get these scriptures in a mechanical way; you can’t do it. God has hidden it from the wise and prudent. It is the wisdom of God.
Therefore, “Only he who now letteth will let,” (2TH 2:7) you can’t make hinder out of that you couldn’t intelligently put hinder there and make sense. “Only he who now letteth will let, until he [whom he lets work] be taken out of the way.”

15/08/2023

William Sowders. May 6th, 1945.

Please explain the measuring of the cubits of water in Ezequiel 47 “Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.”

ANSWER: The door of the house, that was Adam. The house of the Lord, the Garden of Eden. And the waters begin to issue towards the east. From Adam down to this present time God’s people have been looking towards the east. That is where the sun rises and everybody that knows the Lord has been looking towards the east. The morning star rises in the east. “And when the men that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.” Here is a man with a measuring line. God always measured everything He ever did. He is perfect, accurate in all of His dealings with time, minutes, seconds. He is perfect, there is no imperfection in God. Nor in His way of living and dealing with humanity. As Paul said in the fullness of risking the moment, here Jesus comes. God is never a moment behind time. So here is a man Ezekiel saw measuring a thousand cubits of water. Of course, someone taking it by the natural mind, trying to fathom it out would say that was so many feet or miles. BUT LET us take a cubit for a year. The first thousand years from Adam, God gave to man His spirit as it were up to the ankles. In other words, God measured His spirit to man and in first thousand years he only gave His spirit in dabs - up to the ankles about two and one-half inches in first thousand years of man’s existence. That was when Cain and Abel were offering sacrifices. In the days of Seth, men begin to call on the name of the Lord. It was a scant measure. “Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees.” (Eze 47:4) That brings us down to 2,000 years giving us a year for each cubit. What begin to happen there that caused God to give more spirit than in the first thousand years? I see Noah building an ark and God gave more spirit to build the ark than to those with nothing practically to do. That brought it up to Noah preaching the gospel to again saying world and saying his family.

“Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.” (Eze 47:4) The first three thousand years - first three thousand cubits, gave water to the loins. My, my, it was away up wasn’t it. Ni**od didn’t use water to the loins to build the tower of Babel, but God called Abraham out “get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.” (Gen 12:1) Then we see again God trying him in the offering of his son Isaac. That took some faith. Abraham had some blessing of God on his soul or he could not have done the work he did.

I see Moses called by God to deliver the children of Israel. I see Aaron and Moses working miracles - see the children of Israel walking through the red sea - what a faith they had, given by the spirit of God. See Miriam standing out calling the women to sing to the Lord, and she took them out with timbrels and with dances. (Exo 15:20) My God, I imagine the power of God fell in a glorious way. God had men to raise the dead – working miracles, working in a wondrous way - that was while the water was only to the loins. “Afterward, he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not be passed over.” (Eze 47:5) My God, when did ever the spirit of God come into the World like that. I see John the Baptist which was the last of the law, and he said: “There is one coming after me, etc. - he shall baptize in.” Did you ever see a preacher when he is getting ready to baptize people in the river? He has a measuring
stick, he won’t baptize them until the water is up around the chest. We find in St. John 3:34. “For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God; for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.” (Joh 3:34) God sent Jesus Christ and all in the earth was His, and the spirit of God was not given Him by measure but all power in heaven and earth was His. The fountain was opened up - (Zec 13:1) Jesus wasn’t given the spirit by measure. But it was a river of water of life given through Jesus to the ministry out into the world. A river with no bottom, could not be crossed over. “THERE is healing in the stream” - That is a good song. To take a river that is deep as the river of water of life, no telling what kind of fish there is in it. You can go out and catch fish in a deep river and they are all good to eat. This river that flows from the throne of the Lamb of GOD - no telling what you might catch and enjoy from that river.
Don’t limit God. The river is full of every good thing and that is a time to get things from God, when it is flowing - you can get just about anything we have need of.

08/08/2023

William Sowders. January 7th, 1945.

“For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.” (Mat 11:13) Was the law until John? When did it cease?
ANSWER: It never ceased in John’s life. The law and the prophets were until John. When John went out, he went with his head cut off. The reason God had John’s head cut off was because man is through now being the visible head of the church, and God intended to put His Son as the head. If that hadn’t been, there would have been two heads - Law and Grace. When John was cast into prison from that time, Jesus began to preach. “And to say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Mat 4:17) Jesus started with His Ministry. When healed the sick, he would say, “Show thyself, to the priest and offer the gift [sacrifice] that Moses commanded for a testimony unto them.” (Mat
8:4) Though John died, God would not cut them off entirely. There were people who died between the period of John and the Day of Pentecost. Therefore, they were saved. God allowed them to offer their sacrifices, because He hadn’t offered His yet. When Jesus was offered up, then God refused to receive their sacrifices. The overlapping of forty days and nights that was a time He considered their sacrifices.
Then He gave Peter the keys of the kingdom. “And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, etc.” (Mat 16:19) And the kingdom of God was opened up on the day of Pentecost and they had the opportunity to enter into it. Now the kingdom was opened up and Peter rose up and bound the law, and God never accepted the sacrifices from then on. That just shows the mercy of God, his long suffering.
The law and the prophets were until John. Jesus was no prophet under the law. John was the last prophet under the law. But Jesus preached three and a half years and the people were offering sacrifices at the same time, showing the mercy of God. God accepted sacrifices, until He offered His. Romans 10:4 “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.” (Rom 10:4) The reason He was the end, is because He was the Sacrifice - God wouldn’t receive their’s.