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Pastor Sergio continues this series telling us how the Spirit of God leads us through His voice! If we're Christians, the world should know it. We have to take inventory and see if we have a hardened heart. Obedience to the scriptures grows us up! Until we can read the Bible and start doing what we read, we'll always have a stony heart. How long it takes to get a new heart is up to us! God puts His Spirit in us so we can follow His lead. We can't keep leading our lives ourselves. If we're in control, we'll limit ourselves! Just receiving Jesus is not enough, it' the voice of His Spirit that has to awaken within us. The Spirit of God is trying to make us more like Jesus! Every relationship hurts, every person we love hurts us. Sometimes we have to let the Spirit of God lead us to the wilderness in order to become more like Jesus. If the Spirit of God is going to lead us, we have to let Him! The Spirit of God sometimes leads us to places we're not going to like and are uncomfortable.

Pastor Sergio continues this series telling us how the Spirit of God leads us through His voice! If we're Christians, the world should know it. We have to take inventory and see if we have a hardened heart. Obedience to the scriptures grows us up! Until we can read the Bible and start doing what we read, we'll always have a stony heart. How long it takes to get a new heart is up to us! God puts His Spirit in us so we can follow His lead. We can't keep leading our lives ourselves. If we're in control, we'll limit ourselves! Just receiving Jesus is not enough, it' the voice of His Spirit that has to awaken within us. The Spirit of God is trying to make us more like Jesus! Every relationship hurts, every person we love hurts us. Sometimes we have to let the Spirit of God lead us to the wilderness in order to become more like Jesus. If the Spirit of God is going to lead us, we have to let Him! The Spirit of God sometimes leads us to places we're not going to like and are uncomfortable.

Pastor Sergio continues this series talking to us about why those that are led by the Spirit of God are mature sons and daughters of God. It's not good to stay a baby Christian that doesn't know how to be led by the Spirit of God. Until we are mature, we can't experience the inheritance God has for us. We have to be where God wants us to be. We can't believe our own lies. The Word corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right, preparing and equipping us to do right! We are not led by our feelings, we are led by the Spirit! The Word has to be the primary value in our life. Life in the Spirit is not an ocean, it's a river with banks! The Word of God is a boundary for our spirits. We can't win in life when we're out of bounds. Our believe has to match our walks. God will never contradict His Word!

Pastor Sergio begins this new series talking to us about how we can be led by the Spirit of God. We have to be in a relationship with Jesus, He is our King. We have to listen, obey, trust and let Him lead us. God wants to lead out life by the Spirit! You don't have to do what your sinful urges and nature wants you to do. Your sinful nature tries to get you to do things that aren't good for us. We can't listen to what our flesh tells us to do, like gossip, be angry, lustful, etc. The sinful nature will lead us to death and kill our relationships! We have to learn how to be led by the Spirit of God because it's a sign that we're a mature son or daughter of God. God can trust us with our inheritance when we grow up in our relationship with Him. If we aren't submitted to His Word, He's not our Lord. Never consult natural circumstances! If we're Christians, we need to let Him lead us. We have to let Him lead us through His Word and His Spirit! Being led by the Spirit promises us tha

Pastor Sergio begins this new series talking to us about how we can be led by the Spirit of God. We have to be in a relationship with Jesus, He is our King. We have to listen, obey, trust and let Him lead us. God wants to lead out life by the Spirit! You don't have to do what your sinful urges and nature wants you to do. Your sinful nature tries to get you to do things that aren't good for us. We can't listen to what our flesh tells us to do, like gossip, be angry, lustful, etc. The sinful nature will lead us to death and kill our relationships! We have to learn how to be led by the Spirit of God because it's a sign that we're a mature son or daughter of God. God can trust us with our inheritance when we grow up in our relationship with Him. If we aren't submitted to His Word, He's not our Lord. Never consult natural circumstances! If we're Christians, we need to let Him lead us. We have to let Him lead us through His Word and His Spirit! Being led by the Spirit promises us tha

Pastor Sergio continues this series talking to us about how God gives us signs in our roads to guide us to things and away from things. We can't ignore the signs on our road! Pride will call us to judge everyone else's sin, but not our own. There are also things in our lives that we don't need signs for. Sin is a ladder we must climb. We can't let ourselves off the hook with our own sin. When we sin, it's decisions we make, but God is warning us along the way. Sin is not just a hole that we fall into. We are warning signs for others, we can't be concerned or distracted by our own fear or how we're looked at. We can't ask others or our Pastors what we're supposed to do. We also can't speak down to others when we're trying to speak life into them. When God wants to do something, He reveals Himself through His Word and signs, not in mysteries. God corrects us in secret with Him, with a look and tells us things we shouldn't be doing. God wants us to see His Word and

Pastor Sergio continues this series talking to us about how God gives us signs in our roads to guide us to things and away from things. We can't ignore the signs on our road! Pride will call us to judge everyone else's sin, but not our own. There are also things in our lives that we don't need signs for. Sin is a ladder we must climb. We can't let ourselves off the hook with our own sin. When we sin, it's decisions we make, but God is warning us along the way. Sin is not just a hole that we fall into. We are warning signs for others, we can't be concerned or distracted by our own fear or how we're looked at. We can't ask others or our Pastors what we're supposed to do. We also can't speak down to others when we're trying to speak life into them. When God wants to do something, He reveals Himself through His Word and signs, not in mysteries. God corrects us in secret with Him, with a look and tells us things we shouldn't be doing. God wants us to see His Word and

Pastor Troy Marshall tells us about how God's intent for creating us was to live through us and show people His will. Everything He has, we have! we have His Spirit without measure or limitation. The Fullness of God and His presence is who He is. We can't get soullessly addicted to just His character. We can't enter into His presence with worship, we enter it with praise! We can't hide in our worship. God has four main Ark-a -types: King, Lover, Warrior and Problem Solver. We can't be addicted to just one! We have to love the prudence and wisdom of God just like we love His presence! God wants to add more dimensions to us so we can manifest more at different levels. When we are in an identity crisis, it only matters what God says we are. Who does God say you are? what is God currently speaking to you about? We have to ask Him this. We have to pray for The Fullness of God!

Our special guest Pastor Troy Marshall talks to us about how we have to understand the Kingdom of we're going to manifest in our lives. The Kingdom is not something we can afford not to have a full understanding of. We can be faithful, but also not fruitful in our lives. The problem is we live in a Kingdom, but with a democratic mindset and don't understand authority. We have to have a prayer system to create momentum. Jesus gave us the system of His prayer in the Lord's prayer. Jesus told us to pray to bring more of the Kingdom into our life. The authority that God gives us is to bring order. Our authority comes from the Kingdom of Heaven. We can't function at our highest level when there is no order! When there is no authority, there is no order. When things are out of order, there is chaos. When there is order in our life, we aren't stoppable by natural means. Our goal is to bring order into chaos. The devil has no authority in our life! We have no hope of righteousness until we have th

Pastor Sergio wraps up this series telling us how the people of God are the 2nd stumbling block. We are all living stones, don't become a stumbling block! We can't stumble on living stones and get off the hard road. We have to get rid of excuses for why we don't obey God. We have to take extreme ownership of our obedience! The fear of God will keep you on the path. We cannot cause others to stumble. We can't profess to be sheep but really be a vicious wolf. Stumbling blocks exist in the church, we can't be naïve to this. We have to have proper expectations for people. We also cannot run from ourselves! We have to get ourselves our of the way and live a Spirit led life. We can't just listen to our heart and get our feelings hurt, the heart is wicked. We have to walk in love and forgiveness to make it on the road! When someone hurts us, we have to love them and forgive them. Don't leave the church because of someone else's actions. We can't run, we have to work it out. Unforg

Pastor Sergio wraps up this series telling us how the people of God are the 2nd stumbling block. We are all living stones, don't become a stumbling block! We can't stumble on living stones and get off the hard road. We have to get rid of excuses for why we don't obey God. We have to take extreme ownership of our obedience! The fear of God will keep you on the path. We cannot cause others to stumble. We can't profess to be sheep but really be a vicious wolf. Stumbling blocks exist in the church, we can't be naïve to this. We have to have proper expectations for people. We also cannot run from ourselves! We have to get ourselves our of the way and live a Spirit led life. We can't just listen to our heart and get our feelings hurt, the heart is wicked. We have to walk in love and forgiveness to make it on the road! When someone hurts us, we have to love them and forgive them. Don't leave the church because of someone else's actions. We can't run, we have to work it out. Unforg

Pastor Sergio continues this series talking to us about how we have to not get offended when Jesus isn't what we expected. We are made righteous by Jesus, then we are to go and serve whole-heartedly. We don't earn our salvation, it's earned by faith. Jesus preached to everyone, they got offended, then they crucified him. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever! Jesus tells us what it means to be a Christian in the Bible, we have to read the Bible. If you don't bear your cross, you can't be Jesus' disciple! To follow Jesus it requires self denial, willingness to suffer and to even die for His sake. We give glory to God with obedience! We can't praise Him with our lips, then live in sin and not be obedient. If we don't deal with our sin, our sin will deal with us!

Pastor Sergio continues this series talking to us about how we have to not get offended when Jesus isn't what we expected. We are made righteous by Jesus, then we are to go and serve whole-heartedly. We don't earn our salvation, it's earned by faith. Jesus preached to everyone, they got offended, then they crucified him. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever! Jesus tells us what it means to be a Christian in the Bible, we have to read the Bible. If you don't bear your cross, you can't be Jesus' disciple! To follow Jesus it requires self denial, willingness to suffer and to even die for His sake. We give glory to God with obedience! We can't praise Him with our lips, then live in sin and not be obedient. If we don't deal with our sin, our sin will deal with us!

Pastor Sergio continues this series talking about why we don't have the authority to change the road Jesus has us on. We cannot be a disciple until we change. We have to want change and to have a new life. The first bump in the road is Jesus! Jesus was a 'stumbling block'. We have to be willing to lay down our lives for Him! Jesus is offensive to the lost people. Jesus is the rock of offense! He never changed His truth, we don't get to either! The Jews were offended and they nailed Him to a cross. He made salvation available to everyone and they killed him. Jesus doesn't play political games. He brought a new Kingdom, a Kingdom of faith. Those who reject Jesus will stumble and fall. Those who accept Jesus will prevail! We have to love Jesus more than everything. When we get saved, we give up the right to ever be offended again. We cannot be offended by the Word of God!

Pastor Sergio continues this series talking about why we don't have the authority to change the road Jesus has us on. We cannot be a disciple until we change. We have to want change and to have a new life. The first bump in the road is Jesus! Jesus was a 'stumbling block'. We have to be willing to lay down our lives for Him! Jesus is offensive to the lost people. Jesus is the rock of offense! He never changed His truth, we don't get to either! The Jews were offended and they nailed Him to a cross. He made salvation available to everyone and they killed him. Jesus doesn't play political games. He brought a new Kingdom, a Kingdom of faith. Those who reject Jesus will stumble and fall. Those who accept Jesus will prevail! We have to love Jesus more than everything. When we get saved, we give up the right to ever be offended again. We cannot be offended by the Word of God!

Pastor Sergio starts his new series talking to us about why we have to walk on the road of redemption from the blood of Jesus that gave us salvation. When we've been washed in His blood, there are fruits and actions that follow. Only those who walk in God's ways will walk on this road. Walking with God is not easy! Church attendance along doesn't save us and put us on this road. In order to be on the highway to Holiness, it comes down to our decisions. He talks to us about what the path is on this road and the 4 levels of maturity come into play. These are all stops on the road! The road that we are on is the narrow and hard road. The church over the past 20 years has tried to make the hard road, easy. If your Christian walk has been easy, you're not on the right road! If we're going to follow Jesus, we have to do it His way. The point of salvation is sacrifice and what I lay down for him. Following Jesus, you don't get to do want to do with who you want to do it with.

Pastor Andrev Baltazar from Church Unstoppable in Santa Rosa, California brings an incredible word about how God brings us out of our past bondage and into the breakthroughs of the promises He has for us! God does not just deliver us from our past, He also delivers us into our purpose. The crossing of the Red Sea was a rescue mission, but the crossing of the Jordan River was about release into a promise. God's promise to us is that He will always be with us. What brings you into the promise is forgiveness! How do we cross the Jordan? We have to extract a vision from our seasons of trial. We have to invest into what God is bringing us into. We can't be satisfied during our periods of layover. God wants to move us from survival to significance, rescued to release and Baggage To Breakthrough!

Pastor Andrev Baltazar from Church Unstoppable in Santa Rosa, California brings an incredible word about how God brings us out of our past bondage and into the breakthroughs of the promises He has for us! God does not just deliver us from our past, He also delivers us into our purpose. The crossing of the Red Sea was a rescue mission, but the crossing of the Jordan River was about release into a promise. God's promise to us is that He will always be with us. What brings you into the promise is forgiveness! How do we cross the Jordan? We have to extract a vision from our seasons of trial. We have to invest into what God is bringing us into. We can't be satisfied during our periods of layover. God wants to move us from survival to significance, rescued to release and Baggage To Breakthrough!

Pastor Willard talks to us about spiritual growth! He gives us the 5 Behavioral Habits Necessary For Spiritual Growth. God has designed us to grow in our faith. He is the chef, when He's cookin', we have to get out of the kitchen! Growth takes effort on our part. We don't get to bear fruit if our heart is full of anger and resentment. The enemy will distract us, we have to be intentional in our growth! After we are saved, our process of growth is a process of understanding. God gives us our Pastors so we can grow and get built up. When we say yes to God, the world will always try to pull us out. Spiritual growth does not happen by default or mistake, we must go through a process and that process takes effort. The enemy knows when we are prideful, growth cannot happen! Are you still hurt when you're walking next to a person who hurt you? What is God asking us to do in fully surrendering to Him? God's goal is that we grow!

Pastor Sergio talks to us about why the most important thing we can do is be transformed into more like the image of Jesus. We are destined to be more like Jesus! We can't get distracted. We don't chase blessings, blessings chase us. When we have voids in our life, it's a natural response to try to fill this void, but most fill the void with sin. We cannot fill the voids with sin! The displacement of one thing in your life will make room for another thing. We have to make room for God! To get more of God we have to displace some things. The old you has to die so the new you can take it's place. Whatever you give God, He will fill! As long as we keep things from God, He can't fill it. If we want to grow, we have to make room. Nothing happens by itself. Growth happens when we are uncomfortable. Life is lived on levels and experienced in stages. Spiritual life unfolds progressively, growing in understanding and clarity. The reason we can't forgive is because we can't mature in our rel