of seattle washington proudly presents the ministry of bishop howard robinson tearing down the forces of hell here the anointed word of this trailblazer as he demolishes tradition ignorance fear and religious bondage if you seek truth change an understanding allow yourself to meditate on the word of the lord as it is delivered through this anointed vessel empowering you as a believer in  who have fallen into sin if they needed to repent he says with them that they need to weep and they need two more there need to be contrary to repent before the lord almighty ye instead of leaping in morally they found themselves rejoined sitting in party with the belief that life is short and therefore there is no recompense to anything that i might have done wrong so i might as tear out your hear and put on sackcloth let's see there is joy and revelry slaughtering of cattle and killing sheep eating of meat and drinking wine let us eat and drink you say for tomorrow we die want to preach on the subject the folly of pleasure with no recompense the folly of pleasure with no recompense you may be seen there's a second scripture i want to read in the new testament and it's found in the fifteenth chapter of first corinthians and in this passage we know the fifteen chapter deals with the resurrection of if the day and i'm not raised at all why are people that ties for them and as for us why do we endanger ourselves every hour i die every day merely human reasons why game if they are not raised let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die do not be misled then company corrupts good character come back to your senses as you lot and stop sinning for there are some who  i say this to your shame as i said i want to preach on the subject and in the folly of pleasure without recompense and this time in which we live there are many who live their lives  no consequence to their attitudes into their actions they believe that if they just go to church every now and then they will octane some peace of mind some a well being and will bring to their favor prosperity and all and all sense of well being of living yet to come to yet to come to the place where they believe that there is a heaven and an afterlife that will cause them to give an account for the deeds that they've done they just don't believe in what i'm saying is that in this time in which we now live there are many within the church and live in the world who live their lives just in darkness who believe that this life is all there to get going to get and therefore you better limit to the next because when it's over it's all over there's nothing left exempt and empty nothing less that ends with when we draw sin someone to speak to his brothers and to warn them of the fact that there was a consequence to their life of folly and sin and the response was that if they sent back someone from the did they hundred children lost their lives died the captain was one of the first ones to jump off the ship is going to one of the last ones but you also most likely heard about the vice president of the school i mean the vice principal of the school who felt it was all luck it was his fault because he was the one that sent them on the trip and saw as a result he committed suicide he committed suicide because of the fact that he felt the burden of the responsibility for goals three hundred lives you committed suicide in other words what he was saying was that after he died there wasn't any consequence to this there would be better to die than to live with the remorse and the guilt of those three hundred lives that died because  set up a situation for them to go on this trip really that's how a lot of people are today they really don't understand they really don't see that one day this life will be over and we all must give an account today we like never before during the history of christianity and we see that there are people both within the church and outside of the church that are committing suicide giving up their life because of pressures because of circumstances because of traumatic instances that have occurred in their lives think commit suicide because they're not happy in their home situations and may die as tho there is nothing after death there's nothing to give an account to when this life is over we're out on that we now find ourselves becoming coming to the end of our life and finding ourselves surprised then again reality there is life after death we want to get to subjects today first of all the folly of frivolous living the folly of frivolous living and secondly we want to look at the reality of resurrected body ok and now i'm talking about the folly of frivolous living we have to understand what frivolous means the word fruitless basically means no serious purpose it means to have no value it means that i'm just an existing you know i'm here you know but there's no purpose to my life there's no meaning to my existence i just exist  and so we're finally basically talks about foolishness you know and so we want to talk about how foolish ideas to just merely exist without purpose or value because we live in a time where society teaches us to live an existential existence and we're next suspension basically means is the philosophy and the idea that this moment has no relevance to anything that has taken place in my past or anything that is that will take place in the future i live in this moment for this moment without any consequence without any recompense to anything in my past or anything that shall take place in the future i live for right now and today like never before we find people doing that they believe for the moment if it feels good do it if it seems right go look for it if you just have an election if you have scratch it you know we just moved without thinking about the consequences of our actions we really followed on from the last of the of our frank sinatra song when he sings i did it my way really works on that song it goes like this it says and now of the year is near or about good and so i face the final curtain my friend i'll say it clear i'll state my case of which i'm certain i've lived a life this full i've traveled each and every highway and more much more than this i did my wig but then again no regrets i've had a few but then i did too few to mention i did what i had to do and saw through without exemption i've planned each shared course each careful step along the highway and more much more than this i did it my way yes there are times  sure i'm sure you knew that i'm going off more than i could chew but through it all when there was doubt i hated up and spit it out i faced it all i stood tall and did it my way i've loved i've left out of pride i've had my fill of my share of losing and now as tears subside i find it all so amusing to think i did all that and may i say and not a shy way oh no oh no not me i did it my way what is a man what has he got if not himself then he has not to say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who wields the record idea that life has self gratification and selfish intentions and then it's all about me it's all about what i want it's all about how i feel it's all about what i want to do if it's the empty its fuel and in reality it's foolish it's foolish is to live the life of a foo abominable works there is none who does good the lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there are any who understand who seek god really when we talk about the fool life as told there is no god and that you will not have to have a consequence to anything that you're doing i'm going to do it my way you know you know it's all about me you know i don't have to i don't have to worry about offending god i don't have to worry about you need responsibilities that he has for me i don't have to worry that after this life is over i'm going to have to give an account is to live your life as oh god didn't exist first people force one through six says this christ suffered here on earth now you must be ready to suffer as he did because suffering shows that you have to stop sinning i thought that was there he says you've got to be willing to suffer even like christ because suffering shows that you have stopped sending you a lot of times we want to turn that around then if i'm suffering then i must i'm done something wrong but really what it's saying is that i'm suffering because of the fact that i'm the one some of the right i'm suffering because i'm seeking to live to please god i'm suffering because of the fact that my flesh wants to go one way but god's intentions a so much greater than what my flesh wants to do and so it becomes problematic it becomes a struggle that i have to i have to fight it this thing i've got to i've got to struggle through this thing out i've got to put forth some effort here and it's difficult he goes on and he says he says in verse number two he says it means that you have turned from your own desires you've turned from your own desires and you want to obey god for the rest of your life not just for sunday not just for a week but for the rest of your life you've already lived long enough like people who don't know god you were immoral and followed your evil desires you went around drinking and partying and carrying on in fact you even worshipped disgusting idols now your former friends wonder why have you stopped running around with them and they curse you for but they will have they will have to answer god to god he judges the living and if that's contemporary nature basically what he's saying is there is a consequence to how we live our lives consequence to our life and the things that we may have done we may not pay now but i guarantee you going to pay for it is new in new international version tells us that every action has a reaction you can drop a stone into a pond and i guarantee you that that part will create a ripple effect that will spread throughout that whole pond because every action has a reaction and so we need to understand that what we choose to do in life how we live our lives has a consequence on not only us but on everybody around us how you choose to live has an effect on the society and on your community on your family or on your relationship with god you just don't live free unless you're a foo plan against you return now everyone from his evil way and make your ways and your doings good first world and they said it is hopeless so we will walk according to our own players and we will everyone obey the knight dictates of his evil heart i'm fortunately we finally we seemingly give up on life so of scripture it was because of first of all they were sending they didn't want to struggle through get right they wanted them want to struggle through coming online with the will of god but because it was such a difficult task that they couldn't see how they could make it they just decided i'm going to do what i want to do then i am just going to go and you know it may be for somebody else but in a for me i'm just going on you know i you know i can't do anything else i'm just going to be like i am has a purpose for your life he has reason and plan for you and the enemy does not want to see that for feel he don't want to see you in a place where god is glorified through you he really only want to see you happy and if the truth were told some of the stuff that we do is seeking to try to find pleasure it doesn't even give us any real pleasure because after we come out of our high after we come out of our stupor we are disgusted with ourselves many enemy to try to think that we'll get some relief if we just do it our way as a five verse eleven through fourteen says well to those who rise early in the morning that they may follow intoxicating dream you know you know they didn't have marijuana and cocaine and all of that at that time you know but they they didn't get drunk you know and sometimes you know life you know our lives because of sin and because of rebellion and because of the fact that we've walked out of the will of god brings to us situations and circumstances of guilt sorrow pain that and so he says they rise up early and follow intoxicating drink who continue until night to wind in flames them the heart the strings into that temper renan the food the lived that i know god didn't please with can someone understand what i'm talking about but they do not regard the work of the lower nor consider the operation of his hands therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge they're honorable me and our fami multitude their pomp and he who is jubilant shall descend into it the things that we find security the things that we take consolation in the things that we feel comforted in and feel self confident about either because of the fact that we don't talk to kate and ourselves and w and so we've escape the farts of the reality of god and life with god or else the fact that i've come to the place where where my glory you know of who i am you know of what i've accomplished in life of of what i  for so that we can find ourselves just live in any kind of way no no no hope for he give time for us to be productive with our lives for us to have significant impact upon our environment and upon our circumstances then he is glorified through our living god is glorified all our lives not just lower five you were talking the other the other day about doubt about the king who had adorned himself and he went before the people and he didn't give glory to god because he is drawing himself in sparkling silver so that when he got up before the people the sunlight shine on him and the people were blinded by the light and they called him god and he didn't correct them and his life was required of him his life was required of there you go around today calling each other and not work and all this is the kind of nonsense you know a world that is been darkened by sin and self gratification god wants you to make a difference god wants you why god wants you to make a difference wars and sadness because of how you live and what you haven't done before god he says wheat and whale the whale is not you say for tomorrow we die and unfortunately you know sometimes we come to church and we hear messages where god is trying to you know us to come to the place where we tie to ourselves and to come before his feel i really need to do that and before we even get out the door good we're thinking about what else i've got to do in life and we forget all about everything he's been trying to bring us to say it's time to party i'm going to die tomorrow so i might as well enjoy myself today that's basically where the same as all there is no consequence there is no life after death there's nothing beyond this moment there are those who take comfort in their accomplishments but it's all in vain if you ever heard that the engine looked at twelve chapter verse sixteen to twenty one jesus speaks about a parable about  ground of a certain rich man you'll get plenty of plentiful you know he thought within himself saying what shall i do since i have no room to store my crops my bank account is loaded no room to store my crops so he said i'll do this i'll pull down my burns and i'm bill greater i'm damned and there i will store all my crops in my goods and i will say to my soul soul you have many goods laid up for many years take your ease eat dream and be merry last week you know i preach the message you know  be merry i'm going to be happy you know that that's that's where a lot of people are seeking after happiness i want to be happy i want to hear people say it all the time to get out of marriages because i just want to be happy i just want to be happy i'm not will be required of you then who will those things be which you have provided so it is he who lays up treasure and for himself and there's not rich to greater than you boasted about how much money you have in your bank account or what kind of car you drive and or or or how you got security and how you have well being you need to seek god you need to africa god is the most important thing that you need in life and without him we are nothing without god my life will be empty without god i surely will fail without god my life will be drifting like this ship without a sail just just here one minute here another minute no sense of direction no sense of purpose just just everything when that blows moves  down as i count on all things but loss for the excellent seal the knowledge of christ jesus my lord for whom i have suffered the loss of all things and count them done then i mean w about that he say and i mean you know we spend our lives attaining things possessions there's a net houses cars bank accounts all that stuff he says he says good named all of those things he says i count it all a loss i'm i'm just comes of it so to speak that army octane the excellent c of the knowledge of christ jesus my lord that i mean when christ what were your values what's most important in your life what is it that really counts to you is it georgie  meaningless if i end up busting hero i know print he said all of that is for nothing in comparison to our training the knowledge of jesus just the knowledge of jesus christ and having a true relationship with him that's what's really important in life and it's and we're foolish to think that all these other things are the things that bring us into the place can't let go of what has been i can reach out for what's going to be i got to make goal of what has been and in order to be able to reach out what's going to be i can't get the more of god if i'm holding on to the less of the world but i've got to come to the place resurrection and really that's what resurrection sunday easter as some people call it isn't really all about people come to church on easter and don't go to church the rest of the year because in reality they're looking for some sense of hope in their life some sense of purpose that goes beyond what i face on a daily basis that's the only reason why they go they are once on easter sunday other than tradition and then in about nothing  but they go because in reality you're in their souls their spirits are yearning and longing for the whole of the fact that there is something better than what i'm going through right now and the assurance that we have is found in jesus big because the reality is that jesus died one friday night that the reality is that he was crucified and then he hung on him in his resurrected for now i'm going to have evidence in the court of witness you have to have at least two verifiable persons who can testify to what they have seen to make it a fact but but the scriptu he rose from the grave and you hear what i'm saying so so we get me i have the position of faith saying that i just believe you know that he did it because there is a historical record that says that he rose from the great man and so with that what we know is that there is something that is beyond death that there is something beyond us taking our last br closing our eyes and sleeping the sleep for an eternity there is something beyond our existence here it's called life after death even so we also should walk in the midst of life for if we have been united together in the likeness of his death certainly we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection so so so really that tism is a symbolic sign of the fact that we have done i it to ourselves and we have become our lives we become born again in christ we entered into the new life the eternal life even though everything may not grant it's the same right now is different because you know because he brings me into a new place he brings me into a new relationship he changes my circumstances  am here situations like i have to grab hold of it in my hear but the reality is true in my soul in my reality i know it from the reality is that as we have day we're going to rise and as we as we don't write to our flesh god gives us new life but the more we die the more life we get the problem with some of us now and as long as you have that perspective the reality of the scripture when it says he that is in christ jesus is a new creature all things are passed away and all things are become   you have to know that that with the resurrection of jesus comes the new opportunity for us to enter into a new state of relationship with god because james the fourth chapter verse seventeen be the second half of that  judgment because i know i'm living my life right before god i want to be a cradle you know i can boldness come into the presence of god because of the fact that i know that i've lived right with god i don't have to be fearful to come before god because i've been slipping and tipping them to your stand but then in the second half of that verse he says this he says as he does so are we here in the world so in other words what god is intending to do is to reflect in us in our living we're called to be a reflection of him right now right now we don't have to wait till by and by when the morning calls well i have to wait till we die but we can come into his likeness now i know him praise the name of jesus know in other words because i know that there is a life after death because i know that jesus rose from the grave i have to live my life with that understanding with the consequence that there is something that's going on that my living is not but the reality is that the third day the third day jesus did that but the reality is that on the third day he rose the reality is that jesus died for the sins of the world but the reality is also that as you say hung up on the cross he said father forgive them for they know not what they do the reality is that because he ro is that because he sits at the right hand of god the father almighty he makes intercession for you and for me the reality is it's because he lives we can go to the throne of grace w boldness knowing that he hears us when we pray the reality is that when we have access to that then we have access to the father and we can find mercy and grace in our time of need because of the fact that jesus died and he rose from the grave the reality is that because he lives i can now face tomorrow because he lives all of my fear has gone because he believes i have an assurance that life is worth living just because he lived and the reality is that one day he's coming back for a church that's without spot or wrinkle god has done for us you don't even have to live your life you know one day in a way because he's looking for you to come into his likeness right here right here right h is purpose and heal your life doesn't have to be futile in frivolous but he has a purpose for you that is transformational oh what a great things god wants to do you if you could just come to the place where you know we is for yourself and give your life to jesus and walk with  the song i used to say it's to give your life to jesus the you don't have much time just put all your trust in here whom you'll make your life though he didn't exist not doing your own thing and trying to fit in with the world because really the world don't have anything to offer it's always been free and it's me and after you've done all you've done you still don't get the doctor has to say to you in the midst of what the lawyers say you can still have joy and know that all things are will how are you not who would want them i mean you know if you really have understanding if you really ha understanding who would want that really is for you so we want to want to give you this opportunity today to receive for yourself because you know sometimes we just live our li