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  preach in their cities now when john had heard in the prison now when john had heard in the prison the works of christ he sent two of his disciples and raised up in the poor have the gospel preached to them and blessed is he whosoever shall not be of you and me and as they departed jesus began to say in the multitude be upon the reading of his word and be it you find light and guidance as you go from day to day i want to preach on the subject today what you're looking for what you're look i'm sure that there are there began to arise questions to his effectiveness for the good of the kingdom of god and his indorsement of jesus as being the messiah he saw all the scripture says that he saw all what jesus was doing and he said it is the cycles to ask the question are you are you the one or should we be looking for another implying ghost john made affirmation after affirmation about who jesus was yet john doesn't see what he was looking for in jesus and he gives the question if jesus john is in prison then telling the truth or telling the truth and speaking to against what was wrong and what here it was doing and he begins to examine the work of jesus and to examine what was his expectation of what he should be about comparing it with what he did not see he says the site was to jesus to inquire if that is if he is the one or if they should look for somebody else john no but but he says goal show john again some sometimes you know we need to be told again some of the foundational stuff because our situations and our circumstances can shift our perception and cause us to see differently then what we really should be seeing sometimes our trials sometimes our tests sometimes aren't john was was that he had begun to distrust who jesus really works how long thin is it that your perception causes you to come to the place praying preaching with you today in verse seven three nine he speaks to the masses about their desire with john verse seven he says and as they parted jesus began to say to the multitude concerning john why when she out into the wilderness to see talking about john i read change and with the wind when she out for to see a man told them soft rain mean is that there are many of us even here today who have come to a place where we have expectations that we are looking to see for feel it is about us and what we want opposed to being about what god is looking for from us and where he expects for us to come into kirk franklin recorded a song called what you are looking for within the lyrics god speaks to the hearts of humanity and says the following words what you're looking for i'm the one you're looking for what you're searching for i'm the one you're searching for you peace and joy feel your life with happiness don't you search no more because i'm the one you go searching for how often do we find ourselves in the place where we know what god says we know what god's intentions are we begin to walk it out but because things don't happen the way we think they shouldn't happen we get to the place where we begin to doubt w question and we begin to look for alternatives to what really really knew what was god i just think that what you look for if you look hard enough you will find it and many times our minds play tricks on us the cause i was the think that we're seeing something that really isn't there i  to the lives of of those who are hurt who are broken who are empty seeking to identify what it is the being a really are looking for and he is what they need in order to fulfill to be fulfilled with his presence joy and with his love they don't have to look any further and the reality is we don't have to look you need further god is the answer going down is the source of everything we need and when we really understand what god is saying to us in his word and what he has for us all of our doubts all of our searching all of our i we are about and what we want out of of our environment is nothing less than a reflection of our infancy or and less and so because we're like babes it's all about us when you look at the life of a baby they want to be fed when they want to be fear and if they don't like it then spit it out then they have a problem making a mess and they feel ok you can't depend on them for anything they are overly sensitive to what people do to them or how they look at bill and fail to see how they impact the lives of those that were around them that that's where it is and if you really take about it you know if you haven't if you haven't been around a bit you just keep a baby a couple of nights you want to sleep they want to be up and if you don't give him some attention they'll start crying and they'll start whining because of the fact it's all about the other than they have no concern for what your needs are all they can see is what they want jesus realising when or where they are and where they are not begins to ask the question of what did you come out to see or to put it in another way what you're looking for  of been focused around what we want where we want to be how we want to live and how everything revolves around where we are but i want you to know that god has a plan for our lives that oftentimes is totally different from our plans we focus our lives and our theology around us and not around  says that that that the gods hands or gun walks when in reality god doesn't have hands and he doesn't want because he's not limited to form the scripture says god is everywhere so he has no real want people to give you into our desires we we have our aspirations we have our ambitions we have what we're looking for out of life we know what it is that we want to where we want to be and we don't want to be  comfortable with trying to aspire and to get to anything else and then what we see or what we think we are obviously with this mindset we come to the place where our focus and our efforts all revolve around us and not around god as what he wants for us jesus raised the question what did they come out to see and i say to you today why are you here are you here so that god can bless you with all material blessings that you desire you know some people that's that's why they pay the tab as salt so they can be blessed that they can have money are you hearing today that your issues are your ones can be healed are you here today because this is where your family members are and you want to be around your family members are you here today because you want to see what's going on and how someone else is going to be moving you know sometimes we have all these other reasons for being and where we are which in themselves some of them maybe good for us and our own fulfillment but they really don't come to the place of what god is really speaking with a pastor and he was telling me that he had some visitors to come to his church and in the midst of them coming to the church they didn't like the worship service because it didn't move them they weren't entertain isn't saying if they don't have those who are definitely don't want to be there you know if the musicians aren't playing in the certain way if i'm not entertain that then i'm going to go somewhere else said if i don't see a crowd that's large enough to cause me to feel i'm in the midst of importance then i'm going to have to hear don't ask me to do that then don't ask me to be responsible don't ask me to serve somebody else don't ask me to give up my own aspirations it's isn't pleasing god if you're sitting up here with attitudes against your brother or your sister negativity in your spirit you're not glorifying god because you know coming here is not about people it's all because because because of who god is and because god wants to make sure our us and nurture us we're here because god wants to make a difference in us so that we can make a difference in your world as we look at our text for today let us reflect on just what and what is important and what we are focused on that god has desired to see manifested in us i want to deal with two things one should we be looking at what should we be looking for now what are you looking for what should you be looking for and then secondly what isn't god is looking for ok those two things in the room first of all what should we be looking for one of the first things that we should look maybe looking forward in our daily lives with god and in our time of worship really is found in john seventeen chapter verse nine hundred twenty one it's not up there but but in john understand what i'm saying we can't fuck to one miss you if i've got my position i've got my thoughts and i have there's no talking about it that's all to it because really if you hear i say you know the first chapter verse eighteen you're never going to come into one of us with god you're fooling yourself to think that you are ok with god and not ok with your brothers and sisters is there for we also pray always for you that our god would count you word of events calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and the word o know what i'm saying and i'm sure you've read it many times to but really to to understand what this passage is saying is really profound if you really get the deeper meaning of what's being laid out for us  in the definition of worship i told you that the worship is the acknowledging the worship of god we should also understand that we have his nature and are called to be li so if in order for our in order in order to be like him we have to take our eyes off of ourselves and we have to put our eyes on jesus christ our focus can't be on us our focus has got to be on him if we're going to be like him see who that is the case then god is looking for us to be counted worthy of this calling it is one thing to be called to his service as sons and daughters of god that's one thing but it is totally another thing to walk worthy of that calling  military and when he went into the military his life shifted completely and he became an alcoholic and all the years i knew him up until the last ten years of his life he was an alcoholic and he didn't have anything to do with church energy into ministry are you hear him say so so so so there are a lot of people who are called but everybody who is called is not unworthy even even those who are into ministry there are people who have intern into ministry that are not worthy of the ministry that they've been called to their lives don't reflect what it all to reflect i'm going about it because i was one and the desire something on the basis of its evident worth and value it is to judge worthy to make worthy interest and dean has being deserving or to make fit for something god calls you but are you deserving of the call that is placed on your life god's chosen you but are you deserving of you children are you deserving of the grace that are you taken advantage of it or are you deserving of it do you not get what i'm saying and all of us as christians have been called in to god's service and called to minister to those who he puts in our path but are that does the work of of making us feel good or worthy for the calling that he has upon our lives but he did is us who works with god to come into the place of work guy deems us worthy of calling and of the blessings that are associated with the call that he's placed upon our life secondly we are to fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power that has the second half of the verse fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness  that's what we're supposed to be about good food feeling all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power we should we should we should be looking to see the goodness of god fulfilled within our lives the term fulfilled in the greek basically is the greek word play row and the greek word play a role in the present tense which is the continued was action and it means the level up or to talk a good talk we can talk i love you out concerned about you we can talk that we can put on a smiley face but in our hearts you know there is something else that's in there you know what i'm saying but but but when it about god is good yeah all the time he's good and all the time god is good you know that everything about god is good and what we do you know he works in creation and it's good well when filled with all the good pleasure of his goodness and we're also supposed to be filled with the work of faith with power so really to understand what the work of faith with power is we have to really look at three key or conviction that springs forth from belief in christ to accomplish the work that is needed to be done in christ came to my own i so so so so basically if you understand thing by virtue of its nature and so when we understand what is our nature our nature is now god nature second peter first chapter verse for our nature  effort to accomplish it so basically this passage is saying to us the god crams within us all that we need to have up within us all that we need to have the belief or the persuasion that we can accomplish the miraculous in our daily living well i was saying to  have the belief or persuasion that we can accomplish the miraculous in our daily living me an aspiration and an expectation that things are going to be different from this growing more and that i'm not going to see things the way i used to see them they're not going to be the way it used to be but because of what god has given  if you're not looking forward you're not going to see well secondly what is it that god is looking for is a common thing for us to question what man is looking for but we fail to try to look at what it is that god is looking for it's impossible for us to function in a capacity to minister to god when we fail to take the time to know he is and what he's looking for you can't really minister to god or to anybody else if you don't know what that person means all and god has called us his ministers and he has an expectation that we minister until the lord and so we're going to minister and to god we have to know what he had  god's looking for you know father's day you know a lot of times you know the used to make a joke about father's day how you know fine it can be assured he's going to get a brand new tag you know even though it's one of the he keeps on a hanger that he never wears because it really is and what he needs or what he wants if you understand and so where the person who's given it may be excited about it the person who's  just about what you want or how you want to be we've got to understand you know there's a feeling that what he desires is irrelevant with our daily living but i would like for you to consider the idea that the reason why we are not any closer to god and have grown and have not grown in the deeper in the our faith is because we have not considered what it is that god is looking for in our relationship moment the only basis we've been going to church ten twenty thirty forty years and we really are at the same place we were twenty years ago thirty years ago if not worse because for many of us we're going backwards rather than forwards and that's because we groan in our own feelings of what's happening to me or how i feel opposed to what it is the government's really wanting to come forth in us and what caused those arias you know as just something about getting older and coming close to death you know that causes people to look at themselves and look at their lives and begin to question how here's my life made a difference in and has this really worked out for my good and it's like it's a human thing to do this and unfortunately for some of us when that happens we're going to focusing more on us than we knew in the womb of elizabeth who jesus was there hadn't even seen him face the face at that point but he was staring at me who jesus was responded to there but here he is a grown man about these years we've been together for thirty three and a half years i've been dealing with you i've been wrestling with you i know who you are but now i was citing what i'm about to come to my hand on begin to question if you really are you god for yourself in order for us to come to the place where god where what god is looking for is important to us we have to die to our flesh we have to take up our crosses daily and be able the place where god can use us for his glory and he didn't design it is at this point that we are not only transformed but we become transformers of our society and our world it is here that we can see that the word fulfilled that the kingdom of god has come to earth as it is in him because until we die of us god's he can't be manifested through us until we get rid of our stuff god stuff can come forth and you are just fooling yourself and you just have a religious spirit if you think that you can be messed up and think that the glory of god is coming forth from you he's raising the question today who is capable of going who shall i say and who is capable of being used by me and he's looking for you to be able to say from your heart and from us to see your pure heart here on mine or and so we ought to be able to say rose twelve first we're going to have beseech you therefore brother and by the mercies of god that you present your body is a living sacrifice holy acceptable unt god which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is the good acceptable and perfect will of god we have to understand that he says he says that we are to present our bodies in the present to us though it was continuously present our bodies as a living sacrifice not something that you did twenty years ago but every day we're supposed to present our bodies as a living sacrifice in other you know there has to be that bad of us if we're going to come to the place where we can move into the good the acceptable and the perfect will of god you can't get there and still be full of  didn't change and so therefore because i have been changed and there are those who have seen me as me and these then they don't then they can't relate to where i am now  they say that the gospel you do draw your drive you know drive you away from god or draw you closer to yeah so what we have to do is be at the place where what we do is we present our whole life the what i really need a car because if i truly have god god is going to make sure that my means and taking care of you whatever it is i need he's able to supply and that  you may think you hurt me but what you don't do or what you does and that but you know god always ha bush and it's like a jaws of story once you've been for evil god been for good yeah so you're only person you're hurting is yourself because you're refusing to come an eternity with this beauty of his him with this anger in me and i'm really ready to face gun have i really accomplished what it is that he put me on earth to he will do because i'm good my father you know i just believe those words are hunting in some ways him and then set traps for him and he didn't know if you can still love them anyway and still do good to him do i really have that mind do i really have that heart where