Elevate City Church

This summer here at Elevate City, we are taking a deep dive into the book of Galatians and Paul's journey through the days of the early church. The question Pastor Joey unpacks today through Galatians Chapter 2 is What does Jesus demand? And what happens when Jesus gets what he wants?

Galatians 2:15-16: We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no will be justified.

What causes someone to stand as just before a Holy God? And Peter is trying to make clear through Galatians 2:15-16 is that the Law and works of the Law can NOT save you. Only be faith in Jesus Christ can we be saved. That's what makes Jesus and the Christian faith so radically different from every other religion, that we can NOT earn salvation from God but it is freely given by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

Galatians 2:20: I have crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

The 2nd part of the question today is found in Galatians 2:20 that it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. That my old self is crucified with Christ 2000 years ago, that in same way when Jesus died on that Christ, my old self before Christ died too.

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This summer at Elevate City our church is taking a deep dive together through the book of Galatians and looking into Paul's journey through the early days of the church of Galatia. 

The book of Galatians is written by Paul through the power of the Holy Spirit. Paul who was formally Saul was ravaging the early church and had the authority to chase down, arrest and in some cases murder Christians but then one day, as he’s on his way to arrest followers of Jesus — he is knocked off of his horse by Jesus, blinded, and then Jesus calls him to surrender his life to him and to build his church.

So Paul and Barnabas planted churches in Galatia and the gospel is spreading it’s great... But then there’s a problem... there arose this group of Jewish leaders known as the Judaizers who thought that Paul was watering down the Bible, and they began to preach a gospel of "Legalism."

They couldn’t fathom believing that salvation really could be received freely. The problem with the mindset of legalism is that it stands in opposition to the Biblical message of Grace.

Galatians 1:6-7: I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

Because the words of this letter from Paul are so urgent and he is so passionate, it’s as if he is writing them in ALL CAPS. Paul is so passionate that at the end of the letter in chapter 6:11 he says “see with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand”

Before Paul ever calls out their false Gospel, he reminds them of the true Gospel.

1. There is a God and He is good

2. There’s a problem, we have sinned.

3. There is Hope and His name is Jesus.

4. There is a response, the surrender of my life.

Don't miss this powerful message from our Campus Pastor Joe Baker!

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Elevate City Church is a Jesus Over Everything Church that launched in the Atlanta Perimeter area on October 4th, 2020.

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Jesus People are called, commanded and commissioned to Courageously Go.

Matthew 28:18-20 is the foundation of Jesus' heart for the world to know Him and for us, the church, to reach them. What we know as "The Great Commission." The last words on earth Jesus spoke. 

18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Jesus didn’t leave his people with a religion, he left them with a mission. Jesus People Go. Jesus People Make Disciples of all peoples to the ends of the earth. The idea here is that Jesus is making for himself a people from every people group on earth. That’s what it means to be Jesus People. To be a part of a family made up of every people group on earth. This is what Jesus people live for. This is what Jesus people die for.

Don't miss this powerful message from Joey McLaughlin and courageously say yes to the mission Jesus started 2000 years ago, to make His name famous to all nations.

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Elevate City Church is a Jesus Over Everything Church that launched in the Atlanta Perimeter area on October 4th, 2020.

Jesus Over Everything.

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Are you living out the adventure God has for you? If we want to be Jesus people, we have to realize the adventure that Jesus has called us too. Here at Elevate City we believe that God has SENT us and in order for us to live "adventure as our attitude" we have to live as if we are sent. We believe living this way isn't something "we do", it is who we are!

John 3:17 says "For God did not SEND the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him." Being sent starts with us realizing that Jesus was first sent to us. Jesus took on the ultimate adventure and came from heaven to earth to be with us. To love us. Empty himself. He left his throne and came to be fully human.

Adventure should increase for us when we're together. This is the attitude of us as a church. Luke 10:1 says "After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and SENT them on ahead of him, TWO BY TWO, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

Luke 10 goes on to say, 2 And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few,. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 3 Go your way, behold, I am sending you out lambs in the midst of wolves. 4 Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals and greet no one on the road. 5 Whatever house you enter, first say 'Peace be to this house!" 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you. 7 And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. 9 Heal the sick in it and say to them, 'The Kingdom of God has come near to you.' 10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, 11 Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near. 12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

Don't let the adventure God is calling you on pass you by. We hope this powerful message from Thomas Cheesman encourages you and challenges you to say yes to the adventure Jesus is calling you to.

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Elevate City Church is a Jesus Over Everything Church that launched in the Atlanta Perimeter area on October 4th, 2020.

Jesus Over Everything.

Give us a follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatecity.church/

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Elevate City isn’t in the entertainment business, we’re in the equipping business. 

Jesus People have been given a new purpose to push back darkness, rescue people and change the world. That mission is too critical to just go to Church, Jesus People get equipped to Be the Church. 

This message is designed to fundamentally change how you see everything we do. From Sunday services, to small groups, basecamp, equip, discipling relationships, prayer meetings, online content, camps, retreats, dream team - all of it. 

It’s not for your entertainment or enjoyment…it’s for your equipping. 

Don't miss this powerful message from Pastor Joey McLaughlin. 

Ephesians 4:11-16

11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

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Elevate City Church is a Jesus Over Everything Church that launched in the Atlanta Perimeter area on October 4th, 2020.

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What side of the resurrection do you act like you live on? 

In Acts 2 the Spirit of Jesus shows up and Jesus people are never the same. Fear gives way to faith and the DNA of the disciples gets rewritten. These people who were nowhere to be found, silent at Jesus trial and hiding behind locked doors… begin to bleed boldness.

When theologians pick a singular word to describe the personality of the post resurrection early church, its: Boldness. 

It doesn’t matter the situation or setting. It’s Boldness. In freedom, under pressure, in a crowd, on trial…boldness. 

When you cut them, Jesus people bleed boldness. 

When life cuts you what do you bleed? What comes out? 

What is core to who you are? What is your DNA? 

What side of the resurrection do you act like you live on? 

Subdued in fear on Friday or Bold in faith on Sunday? 

The resurrection of Jesus & the Spirit of Jesus demands that Jesus people, bleed boldness. 

Don't miss this powerful message from Pastor Joey McLaughlin on the boldness of the early church.

Acts 4:13

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

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One of our jobs as Jesus People is to make sure that we never stop telling the next generation about the greatness of our God. This message is all about how we don’t just believe the YOUTH are just the church of tomorrow, we believe that they are the church of today! Kids and students matter here. We will do everything possible to help them fall in love with Jesus and lead the way in the Kingdom.

Now why would we take an entire Sunday to talk about this? Don’t we have other things to focus on?Why would we as a new church be so passionate about snotty nosed babies, wild toddlers, crazy kids, and the youth of today?

The short answer is because JESUS is passionate about the now generation.

The next Now Generation matters to Jesus—and if they matter to Jesus, they must matter to us. 

So my whole hope today, is to help you get a greater picture for the kingdom of Jesus, a heart for what He’s passionate about, I want the Spirit of Jesus thru the word of God to stir in you a heart for Young people, no matter how old you are or what stage of life you find yourself in. 

This is not a Ted talk on young people today — this is a message about the heart of God and His heart for the Now Generation. 

Jesus People value the Nowgen because Jesus values the Nowgen. 

Matthew 18:3-5

“and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, 

Matthew 19:13-15

13 Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them. 

14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

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Elevate City Church is a Jesus Over Everything Church that launched in the Atlanta Perimeter area on October 4th, 2020.

Jesus Over Everything.

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We’re never going to change the subject. We aren't going to graduate and go onto something else. It’s only, ever, always going to be about Jesus. 

We are trying to help you see Jesus is the focal point of eternity. Jesus' offer is the best offer. Jesus way is the best way.

For too long the church has been known for what they’re against. 

We want to make it explicitly clear who we are for. We are for Jesus. 

For his glory. For his ways. For his gospel. For his Kingdom. 

Jesus is who we want to shine the spotlight on. Jesus is the story we want to tell. Jesus is the banner we want to raise. 

A church who doesn’t have Jesus as their message, makes secondary things primary. They major on minors and miss the major. 

Works and morality become the message. 
Rules and rule following become the message. 

If your concerned with peoples clothes, Jesus isn’t your message. 

If your most concerned with methods, Jesus isn’t your message. 

Jesus was a fisher of men, and he knows the way to catch the heart of man is by not trying to clean the fish before you catch it. 

The message of Jesus is not about who’s most qualified or most holy, the message is that Jesus loves you and wants a relationship with you...whoever you are. 

Colossians 1:15-23 

"15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. 21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel…"

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Elevate City Church is a Jesus Over Everything Church that launched in the Atlanta Perimeter area on October 4th, 2020.

Jesus Over Everything.

Give us a follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatecity.church/

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Stop living a basic life when God has abundantly more in store for you. 

Don't miss this powerful message from Pastor Joey McLaughlin on Ephesians 3 and the MORE that God has in store for your life. 

Life is better when it's lived with Jesus and for Jesus. 

Ephesians 3:14-21

"14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."

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GIVE : We believe that generosity is golden. Freely we have received and so freely we give back to God. If you would like to give to support the work Jesus is doing here please visit: https://www.elevatecc.church/give.

Elevate City Church is a Jesus Over Everything Church that launched in the Atlanta Perimeter area on October 4th, 2020.

Jesus Over Everything.

Give us a follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatecity.church/

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Why do we find ourselves looking for life in dead things? Do you find yourself returning to that same dead thing over and over again seeking for it to provide something that it never does or never will?

A dead Jesus changes nothing but if Jesus truly is alive, that changes everything.

In Jesus alone is where true life is found. Why? Because He is alive!

Do you have questions or doubts about the resurrection? 

Don't miss this powerful message from Pastor Joey McLaughlin on the resurrection of Jesus!

Luke 24 -- The Resurrection of Jesus.

Luke 24:5-6 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,

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GIVE : We believe that generosity is golden. Freely we have received and so freely we give back to God. If you would like to give to support the work Jesus is doing here please visit: https://www.elevatecc.church/give.

Elevate City Church is a Jesus Over Everything Church that launched in the Atlanta Perimeter area on October 4th, 2020.

Jesus Over Everything.

Give us a follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatecity...

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