Elevate Life Church

Pastor Sergio tells us about why we cannot remain ignorant in our walk, there are promises He paid for us on the Cross. The Lord brought us out of darkness to bring us into our promises! We've been saved because God has a purpose for our life. Jesus saved us on purpose for His purpose. We have to understand and learn about the unconditional and conditional promises God gives us in the Bible. We can't serve God with transactional thinking! Treating a conditional purpose as an unconditional purpose brings disappointment. We must contend and fight for the promises He has for us!

Pastor Jeremy Gonzalez from Bethel Church in Redding joins us and talks to us about how we have to be careful of the stories we tell ourselves! We are overcomers and conquerors, but we have to be careful of what we are telling ourselves we are in our identities. We cannot live in our past and continue to be stuck in our own fear! We can't continue to tell our story about identifying ourselves by our past traumas, failures and excuses. God wants us to live in the present and follow Him! We have to identify ourselves how He sees us, as His sons and daughters. We can't see ourselves as victims in hiding. We have to die to ourselves so we can live for the first time in our true identity in Christ!

Pastor Sergio continues this series talking with us about lessons learned from the church of Thyatira. The spirit of this text from Jesus is the Father trying to warn His children that if we don't repent and change our ways, this will happen. The Word is what we need! We cannot usurp authority in our lives. When there's lawlessness we will to to church without submission to God and live in immorality. God doesn't accept a mixture of a sinful lifestyle & grace! When we're on the throne of ourselves that's a problem. One reason we struggle in life is part of the judgements of the decisions we are making. We bring these things upon ourselves because of disobedience. We can come as we are into church, but Jesus won't let us let us stay as we are. All Jesus asks is that we serve Him with all our heart. We can't be adulterers with the world and serve him! We cannot have the blessing without the obedience.

Pastor Sergio continues this series talking to us all about lessons learned from the Church of Pergamum. This is the message from the Jesus with the sharp, two-edged sword. Sometimes we don't need validation, we need correction. Jesus has to give us correction because of consequences, but He doesn't correct to punish, he corrects in love! We can't fall into the teachings of Balaam that is about compromise, idolatry and immorality. A distorted idea of grace excuses sin. If God isn't Lord our of ALL, He isn't our Lord at all! Our blessings can go to somebody else if we don't accept correction and obedience. We cannot fall into deception and temptation and think we're still being obedient to the God! God doesn't ask us to do something that we cannot do without His help. We have to make sure God's standard is our standard!

Pastor Sergio continues his series talking to us about how when we don't have Revelation of who our King is we don't have the fear of God. We have to get to know Jesus to get the Revelation of who He is! We have to understand the Jesus in the book of Revelation isn't in a manger, He's the resurrected grown King on His throne! When we really know Jesus we have no problem with the price. Suffering is a part of serving Jesus. Really serving Jesus is going to cost us! If we're not willing to go through things for the cost of Christ, we have a knock off Jesus. Suffering doesn't mean we're not in God's will. Suffering and trials can make us rich in the Spirit! Suffering is a part of the Christian journey. The fear of God is respect to God! We have to know suffering doesn't come from God. God always brings life, the devil brings suffering, not God! On the other side of suffering is blessing. God isn't the author of what's causing us to suffer. He isn't interested in the act of suffering, He's interested in our heart!