baptism

 " "So that people far from God will be raised to life in Christ." That is the mission of Elevation Church. It's the reason we exist. We want to present the Gospel and allow people to respond. For our series 'Raised to Life,' we gave those who hadn't, the chance to stand with Jesus and be baptized. That day. Right there on the spot. No hesitations, no excuses. And as the saying goes, "We can show you better than we can tell you." "
-Elevation Church

Dear children,
Let us not love with words or speech
but with action and in truth.

This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:
If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
Dear friend, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask,
because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.

And this is his command:
to believe in the name of his son, Jesus Christ,
and to love one another as he commanded us.

The one who keeps God's commands lives in him, and he in them.
And this is how we know that he lives in us:
We know it by the Spirit he gave us.


1John 3:18-25

Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. 

I write to you, young men,

 because you are strong, 

and the word of God lives in you, 

and you have overcome the evil one. 

Do not love the world or anything in the world. 

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 

For everything in the world -- the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does -- comes not from the Father but from the world. 

 The world and its desires pass away, 

but the man who does the will of God lives forever. 

1John 2:10.14-17

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 

So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, 

make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 

Bear in mind that our Lords patience means salvation, 

just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 

 Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, 

be on your guard 

so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position. 

 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

To him be glory both now and forever! Amen. 

2Peter 3:9,14-18

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 

So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, 

make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 

Bear in mind that our Lords patience means salvation, 

just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 2Peter 3:9,14-15

Through you have not seen him, you love him;
and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy. For you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1Peter1:8-9


Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, 
set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
But just as he know called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
for it is written; "be holy, because I am holy."
1Peter1:13-16

너희가 진리를 순종함으로 너희 영혼을 깨끗하게 하여
거짓이 없이 형제를 사랑하기에 이르렀으니
마음으로 뜨겁게 서로 사랑하라
너희가 거듭난 것은 썩어질 씨로 된 것이 아니요 썩지 아니할 씨로 된 것이니
살아 있고 항상 있는 하나님의 말씀으로 되었느니라
벧전1:22-23

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth
so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply from the heart.
for you have been born again, not of perishable seed,
but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
1Peter1:22-23



Like a newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,
so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
1Peter2:2

You desire but do not have, so you kill.
You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight.
You do not have
because you do not ask God.
When you ask, you do not receive,
because you ask with wrong motives,
that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

But he gives us more grace.
That is why scripture says :
"God opposes the proud
 but shows favor to the humble."

Submit yourselves, then, to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Come near to God and he will come near to you.
Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

James 4:2-3, 6-10






Now listen, you who says,
"Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there,
carry on business and make money."

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Instead, you ought to say,
"If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."

As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes, knows the good they ought to do
and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.

James 4:13-17







Is anyone among you in trouble?
Let them pray.
Is anyone happy?
Let them sing songs of praise.

And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up.
If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
Therefore confess your sins to each other
and pay for each other so that you may be healed.

The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
James 5:13,15-16

Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,
because judgement without mercy will  be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.
Mercy triumphs over judgement. James 2:12-13



You believe that there is one God. Good!
Even the demons believe that -- and shudder.
You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?
Was now out father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. James 2:19-22



Ot take ships as an example.
Although why are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilots wants to go.
Likewise, the tongue us a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.
Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.

Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.
James 3:4-5,10-11


But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure;
then peace-loving, considerate, submission, full of mercy and food fruit, impartial and sincere.
Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
James 3:14-18

 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If anyone of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding faults, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubts, because the one who doubts is like a wave of sea, blown and tossed by the wind. -James 1:4-6



 But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
 Don't be deceived, my dear brother and sister. 
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.  -James 1:14-18



 My dear brothers and sister, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.  -James 1:19-21



But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it -- not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it-- they will be blessed in what they do.
-James 1:25



Religion that God our father accepts as pure and faultless is this:
to look after orphans and widows in their distress
and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
-James 1:27

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