of seattle washington proudly presents the ministry of bishop howard robinson tearing down the forces of hail 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  verse three say is what i am the lord your god the holy one of israel your savior i gave egypt for your ransom ethiopia and see for you for say is since you were precious in my sight you have been honorable and i have loved you therefore will i healed me and for you and people will for your from the beginning of time fire and water have been t he can not do it without the making but they can be turned into his works in fire and water in southern california there was a raging forest fire it destroyed dozens of beautiful and expensive homes as the people began to clear their property and make reparation for rebuilding they became aware of a your water but priceless after dealing with the fire the priceless water is she the water she it had been destroyed and with the coming of the winter rains or worse damage threatened then had calls the fire is anything more dangerous than fire and water you know because you know you can't control in this five in the trials of the sixty six and twenty the word well the meaning of abundance why plates a place of recovery a place of refreshment god described the trials and the troubles and afflictions of his children as fire and water indicating that they are very severe your trials your tribulation your truck your troubles he see them and he realize that they are very severe at first this would seem to be discouraging but the joy of the victory and the com wrapped up in that word through through through through through through through a christian is never submerged in the fl and he is not consumed by the fire he always passes through even at the end up by the psalmist declares through though i have passed through the valley of the shadow of death you know these metaphors do not necessarily refer to different types of affliction but teach the same truth all together teach the same truth regarding god's hand upon us so we want to consider the trial by fire the trial by fire just just just just just just just just bear with me for a moment joel compared his no solution to being cast into a furnace of pottery his hear drugs with pain and his friends falsely accuse him but he looks beyond his present fiery trial and shouts in vibrant reassuring fa i share come for i shall come through joe saw himself as go in the furnace david some of the children of god as silver in the refiner's fire refinery and purify of silver and courage them as gold and seal malakhov three three one here is his answer that they might also for unto the lord and of ring of righteousness is unfortunate you know when betty was appearing she was saying you know oh holes like in a baby mold for people who praise god you know this your hands give thanks to god you know you don't know where you're going to find yourself tomorrow you don't you don't you don't know of what tomorrow holds for you don't you know you you knew you have an opportunity now you don't know what kind of pain you could don't know you don't know you could be preparing for a very alone one tomorrow you know but right now when you really think about praise and what praise really means or what it let me say this way or what it should mean to you because god don't own you nothing you don't have to have no job you don't you don't you don't you don't you know you don't you don't you don't have to have nothing to have but but they're all to  thanksgiving then it's given you know you think you know because you got that job you think because you have that bank account you you think because of what you have god could say no more and  government want to you is fine he constantly talks in scripture about fire u k control fire so when you think about what's going on in your life you can't control  to be heard and what we need to be clarified and the end there is a divine objective john so we have the divine message five we have the divine motive to purge and to purify and so we have the divine objective and the divine objective is that we might come through our our righteousness our righteousness god does not allow  what comes into our guy because he don't love us and let me tell you something you're not going to do anything that's going to make god love you more you know we operate that way with people you know we buy gifts we we do our own kind of stuff to make people love his music but you need to understand you don't have to do that we go you're not going to do things that's going to make him love you more and you're not going to do something that's going to make him love you less now if you feel like he's that day air it could be that he wants you to cry out to him it could be a number of states it could simply be that you're seeing them separate you from him but the bottom line is is this guy is is a g who when he has say that he will do he has already done he has not turned his back on us there are five lessons we should and many learned from this resigning and purging process the and one of the things you have to be determined to do is never let satan inject a doubt into your man regarding for you and that's one of the thing that's why you so many of us say and sit here you know that's wh we're trying to fix other people's lives if we try to fix other people's lives because of our own insecure you know that's something i've learned is that we're trying to fix other people's lives because of our own insecurity never doubt into your man we've got in god's heart when that happens you need to go to the world and you need to find every portion of your that you can possibly for that talks about just how much god loves you and you need to begin to open your mouth my share and just declare the word of god the players that says so the word of god declares thus and so god cannot back he would take it he would take advantage of your present trial and grief to whisper in your ear satan we you need to know this that god doesn't care but he does you are so precious in his sight that nothing but the terms goal and see what can be describe is concerned if the goal is see of our precious to the refiner how much more precious we must be to god he paid a price far more than silver and gold for if that's what i do i remember christ our remember being mark from judgment hole to judgment home with open wardens and and a and a crowd of phones on his he and i and i just began to remember that i don't we give all that we have instead of sit without arms folded and popping gum and thinking about who we are and what we got to do after church and and and what we have and what we hold but you know if you really stop and think about it there is nothing really that you can't deal and so when you think about praise even praise even our praise becky oh  here but not because somebody is standing up here big you not because apostle is preaching your or your favorite person is preaching but praise all to be something that you do on a daily basis god gave all but yet we act like it is hardly the year that thing that happened to you is his means of increasing the value of his precious property i belong to him you are his blood but child you belong to him you may be sure that he cares for himself the next thing you need to understand is that he clinches he he clean i believe we want to be cleansed but we need to understand that something has to happen you know it's just like a pot that need to be clean you know sometimes you can just take up a dish towel and wash going through i mean really going through and i have been asking god about something that that that i had i had laws did not know where it was had been hunting for it for several weeks in arm and a couple couple days ago i had gone to be in and i was just in agony on because of cramps and if you anybody has ever had cramps and you had cramps so severely that it literally means your body soul and soul i would go to sleep and i would wake up you know cramp in both legs cramp in my hands cramping just really going through just all night mon  and all i could do was just call on him on god and x god to hold me to to keep me and just literally crying literally crying out to god but in the midst of that amazed me that what i had been asking god about the next morning god want me up and told me exactly where to go and exactly where it was that i had been looking for and so that's what made me think about that right that you have to go through what is the dross in your life that needs to be curbed so you want to be you you know think about it we prayed leaders we prayed to become better we pray to become better people we pray to become better at leaders but there are things in our lives that god has to get rid of and the reality of it is that most of us when he begin to do that we begin to pray for something else it may be arrogance that needs to be gotten rid of immature to jealousy anger impatience love of money selfishness or unforgiving spirit oh all there is is nothing more than from us all search draws grief the holy spirit who do whales within us and so we must be like we must be refined and purge this weekend we must pass through the fire sometimes go into the fire maybe even in the midst of being corrected but there is some conflict for you here the refining has a purpose it is not to destroy his precious gold and silver but to consume the dross and bring out the beauty and boast and brag about how long we've been to church which is a sad thing when we are beginning to truly honestly look at our lives and to think that we can't read the scripture we can't do too much of anything in the church please note that they went into the fray his fully clothed and security baron but when they came out three things were apparent bait not a hair of their he was see him more than that the fire burn the same three things happen to the christians in the fiery trial first he is never harmed by the phone can you tell me that you you were ever harmed by all this doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt but always the hurry is for our and you know i was thinking just then and how many of us are just in the church because we want to allow god to purchase order refinements or to do for us and so we're just on the pre very real and precious in the final year the next time you feel the heat from the fire of affliction thank god that he is consuming not you but the drops out of your and your show but he sits by the fire and watches it closely so you're not thinking you know when you're on the job how you treat people how you talk to people i mean everything you do in the refinery sitting in he's watching he's watching he watches for that moment when the heat is sufficient to bring the draws and  i can't stand it or or is more than i can bathe here now with my friend is not more than you can bear when he sits by the fire he not also so you can stay handy at a time like that we call his going through right now you know god gives grace for everything cause you to be as well and complain i want to stand and now while i'm just sick of you know complaining just complain about the weather complain about what you hate complain about what you don't hate complain about your health complain about your family just complain complain i read some time ago about a train that was traveling through the night in a violent sto on at such a time of excitement amaze the passengers finally one man axed how is it that you can be so calm when all the rest of us are so worried she smiles sweetly and say it my father is the engineer and purge them as gold and silver in our form a picture of the refinery sitting by the fire we focus our attention on the fact that he is controlling the fire now i want to emphasize the fact that he sits by the fire to guard to protect and care for his precious metal secure as upon the one who sits by the fire he stay here by faith and take his hand look up into his face and then his presence reassure you because you need to understand that he controls he's in control he never loses control and you need to understand are they he now once he knows you see he knows when the work is done here we have the key to the entire thinking process sometimes we might think the fire in the fire is too long there is data purifying it will destroy and you say how does the over a fire know when the fire has done its perfect work and all refined it was axed a question by a visitor who was visiting a refinery and he answered to see how i sit by the fire the stranger answered yes then he says see how i have been over the pond again and the stranger said yes but how do you know when there has been just the right amount of the over of fire and looked up and see when but the image was terrible only defaced and marred by seen so dark we deemed as by the precious blood of christ and it is only in one and one only in one in the spirit of god to whales that the image and likeness of god may be reflected this is god's great and eternal purpose for his children to be consumed to the image of his son romans eight twenty nine and as we have bore the image of the earth also bear the image of the heavenly first corinthians fifteen forty nine god's will is that every christian might be conformed to the image of his son this is a process is in the life of every believer but we are all beholding as in the glades the glory of the whole are changed into the same image from  him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death are you sick and discouraged weak and weary are you facing trials and troubles as gold our lives we're if we're not warring about one thing we're worrying about another worrying about you know wrong and children worrying about how we're going to make you what i mean worry worr not through christ jesus and ever to my father to where he had a serenity of fate of completeness of surrender a submission to god's wheel and a freedom from selfish ambition that i have not witnessed in any of the christian i saw him betrayed by our friends he trusted falsely accused by the enemies of the gospel disappointed in the wrecking of planes which were conceived through months of prayer and crushed by circumstances he did not create but i never knew my father too afraid i saw his heart broken and his family suffer but i never saw him lose his deep is the promise of god's word and i believe it is possible for every christian to a our greatest problem is that we have so much you now slavish to do you know when you talk to people about god it's just like when you talk to people about praying and they say what you got to do more and great you have it you never talk about prayer you hear people say some you know some really you know even to the place of anger so look at what is saying there is a relationship there is a coming together there is a trust and here i am whereby i am not sure i'm not looking at the situation i'm not caught up in what's going on what's happening us in here should be working on just calling good damn does not help the one who worries it is the one who is most anxious not to weary and is the most hurry back eat and i'm happy about it any magic formula and i do not pull professed to have attained the ultimate in this regard myself but what every degree of success abbe have reached to the simple formula outline in god's word is found in the word let us have a look at worry that disease the cure and the consequences the disease where is a disease worry is now recognized by a physician as a disease sometimes even a contagious disease dr james w bartley had to say it recently it is known that about one half of the patients consulting a physician have no organic disease he writings about the strains theory of disease see if stress is the trigger which causes disease emerson and outstanding christian phycologist stated there are five underlying causes of mental illness and frustration often caused by worry and often insecurity these may be analyzed as follows a super super sensitive to criticism think about it super sensitive to criticism but we don't criticize but we're super sensitive to you know somebody even criticizing those they discover in the us and where do we go to an excessive awareness of our weakness you just focus on your weakness proof of these how about our spiritual lives worry chokes the word of god and keeps our lives from being fruitful worry worry chokes the word of god and keep our among the bones is he that he read the word and the cares of this world shocked the world and he becom how often is he that's why there needs to be a real prayer but like we were talking about on saturday there needs to be a real prayer life and the only way you can really deal with government is you must pray you talk to go so when the enemy comes to tell you about how you're going to have no food you need to declare what the word say is that's why some of this stuff as as strong or weak as from kuwait severely with all the things that that that that that that there's some christians are saying that are coming you know to the believers and what's going to happen to the believer and how the believer is going to be without i mean what does that say about god someone  today is that to morrow you worry about yesterday today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday when we carry our words instead of placing them on the word what is the what i know this christian never talks about god never talks about god being able never talks about god never you boast of he'll so what i'm talking to another believer expect is something to come back perhaps it is flowers i'm expecting something to come back and there's some time some of us are offended when people don't want to walk with us in the bible declares you know two can't walk together except they t with you can understand why there is so much empt but i want you to know today that there is comfort even though you look around you and you see other believers dead that just don't seem to be growing don't seem to be changing don't seem to be  gone seem to be doing more of giving up than pressing he seemed to be you seem to be more you know not a warrior you know but but but someone who is who is running from you've got to leave every day when you see your family your children you know i really talk to myself sometimes i'm trying to watch myself that i don't be constantly trying to just life fix daniele's life fix this fix their because they they they they too need to learn how to trust in god to come to know god to have a relationship with god because i don't care how much you can fix i don't care how much you do there is going to come one time there is going to come a time when there's going to be things you can fix de steele believe god and god already have them and i don't care what's going on around you as why when you when you enter the church you know the smaller the church the smaller the number of people that are completely devoted to dedicate and then just that's just the bottom line you can sit up in bed you're the best christian in the world because you military thirty forty fifty years and because you can quote the bible you can call the old testament new testament you can call it all you want but let me give you  you're not going to just sit on sundays and holidays back at it is not god's we oh my goodness oh my goodness and yet some of us are so stressed out until we're we're not aging we're aging our sales because we so stressed out and love with your whole heart just like the babel sees but i'm learning you gave make no bad change they got to want to change and remember he gave so there may be some that you literally have to step over and keep  but you gotta believe god and you've got a little every day for him every day every day for him and it can't just be coming out of your mou been because one of the things that i have learned is that you don't you don't have to get a finger to defend yourself unless you are not quite sure that god can handle you