following program is sponsored by the havel open door church yet all open door church is committed to living god loving people and loving why our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church heavenly father i thank you for your words i think you for the power of your word to change hearts to change the lives i thank you lord for your holy spirit that takes the word and burns that word within our hearts to bring change to our life and i thank you father god for the promise of the holy spirit that lives within each believer that we have the holy spirit within us and lord you say that you want to baptize us with the holy spirit and with fire that you want to make us more like jesus and so lord god in you do all those things in this you put a fire within us and lord as me look and explore what kind of fire burns in our heart that would ask yourself what burns within us and the father god if it's anything besides you it needs to go so that we have just the fire god in his and not a fire for the things of this roll of fire for all the other stuff that's out there well the fire for you in jesus name min walk in the christian walk the reason is tough sometimes because we're not filled with fire we're filled with religion a whole lot of religion a d a good a little dab a jesus in a bunch of religion you know you've got a little devotees a whole bunch of religion you know you've got misery no victory in your life no excitement for the things of god there's prayer going on but you're doing something else you turn around and when there's worship all you can think about how that song's too fast is too slow why didn't they play this out of out of out and out of that's a miserable lie spirit filled smalls are ablaze for god is that true if you all i'll do anything for anybody no matter who it is have a love for people have a love no matter who you are what you look like and those who know me and know me deeply and know all that i do they know that there's a law of the flow sadly other times you don't see that or sometimes you read a role if i sit down with the person they say what you're doing is going to lead you to hell and i say with directness that doesn't mean i did means i did have love because i warn but out of that what about you where you add is the love that glows and people know that you love god you love people you love something they serve with  consumes if you have a fire and you know what you serve with devotion that consumes you can't help but serve you can't help but do something for the kingdom there becomes that they serve with a divorce that consumes the hate sin with and i hate what of the people they do what it does to our community to are ruled by it what it does to me to me to you he was sin does to you is there a part of you that you know is that good great part of you with sentence the way and the ugly part manifest itself as that of the good you you know i don't i don't know all your stories right now you're human beings have human beings you got to be sin that gets in the way joy not happiness happiness is based upon circumstances you know why i came in the church and i wasn't happy so i did worship i came to church and i had a chip on my shoulder so i'm not going to worship  hey you know why you probably don't have a joy that radiates the spirit of god in you you may not lift your hands feel led to lift your hands but you know what you are going to get hangry about it oh if he does if he says it one more time to lift our hands well i've been here six seven years as the senior pastor i've probably only said it about fifty times as not much out of three hundred sixty five days out of each year but maybe i said it three hundred seventy times or so that their love is perfect in the fire of god you know what it says it says that when you're feeling god's spirit and you have the holy spirit live it then you and you're being consumed by god's consuming fire that it builds love in you i don't have enough love i can't love those kind of people if you've got the spirit of god in you guess what you'll love those kind of people and there's certain people that i have said i don't love certain kinds of people if they do certain crimes i don't love them and they got put me in a spot about four years ago to turn around and say ok what about the guy that did this crime this change and transform and live in a different life do you love them and then he said you love the one that doesn't change the one that changes it's great what about the love that the one that doesn't if you feel god's spirit you have to love the way he loves does love every single person that you love their deeds not always but it is not every single person listen if you don't love every single bit listen i don't care what they smell like i don't care what they look like i don't care what they do if a person comes to you and they sit right there next to you your call to love them holy one your private pool was gotten gains is ok when that person comes in i'm going to have right there sit by that person right over there sit by that person five of you come next week and sit by all this get real up with i can't believe this person sit next to me oh god help me wash up if you got to pray that pray that but there's a co place you know i don't care what they're doing i'm focused on jesus and i'm in the throne room of god right now worshipping him and i don't really care about the other stuff how you know it takes the spirit live within you to be able to do that so that i think we're there are carmi and i filled with fire are we getting closer to being filled with fire we're getting closer ok all of us are different levels with our walk with god aren't we now right well looks like we're about the same right ok that's why god brought us together in you know what he brought us together because of the fact that both of us love god with all of our hearts and out of our love for god out of our heart he brought us together because we knew we'd be one no matter what our struggles are whatever it is both of us are filled with  trying to protect her because you don't have the reality is i have more fire in me than her right now ok we both have the holy spirit in us both as a born again believers but there's less fire maybe there's less fire besides effect she forgot her hat there's less spark as maybe she will spend time in the work like i do maybe she's not praying as much as i'm doing maybe she's not calling for the fire as much as this in the measuring stick isn't between  yes you are she's bring a bucket of water with she bring a bucket of water ok i can compare myself to her and i know oh i'm so much holier than her look at me compared to her if i do that my whole and this just went down the ball but you know what the problem is somebody is jealous somebody is upset that they don't have the same part of god they know it they go to do those who have the fire where they do they judge them they can do you know what you're looking for looking where i don't have fire you look at what's in pastor rich does give you can find one sin on him but you can ignore everything else he says is not what ha ppens and then there's some of that comes with the this is unheard of for sure somebody you know what they do instead of receiving what do they do they throw buckets of water to put the fire out i was going to get a fir see somebody who has fire in them help somebody walk down the stairs even if they throw a bucket of water at him and you hear me you just said bad things about me i'm not going to have any and do it you know you said some things a bad bad about me i'm still going to love you you see there's people who are not walking with god they don't come this church because they think i'm judging and condemning them because they're not walking with jesus if you have the fire with god and you're not judging them you're concerned about them and the fire god puts then you don't want to call them text them doing the you can reach out to them because the fire of god that you get away with not doing something to touch their lifes so in the midst of it the question is is a is are you baptized of the holy spirit are you back to the holy spirit have the fire of god within you or you filled with god's holy spirit not a little devil do you are you consumed with god's holy spirit if you consume god's holy spirit there's going to be some kind of fire in you there has to be and here's the struggle next week we're going to do another symbolism with blood because of the holy spirit here's the struggle because there's things we don't understand we don't embrace where you turn a can turn around and say i want it i wanted i know what it is but i want more of god i want to be that my life is such that people think something ellison being baptized in the spirit doesn't mean you never sin never make mistakes never do this and that and everything else it just means that when you do you go back to god you can call up the god you call out the god you call to god and so next week when talk about the baptism of the holy spirit but here's the story if you're not baptized with the holy spirit you're not going to walk in the same authority and same power because how do we know that look at the disciples look at peter before and after peter was hanging with jesus guess what some rain in the church they're hanging around christians that's a good being  maybe one john john's over it with jesus but he's being crucified what happened because just having jesus isn't enough if you're going to walk in the power of god so jesus tells them to wait they get baptized the holy spirit and peter goes and that peter that h turns around and says to the people you killed jesus and three thousand people get saved what happened what was the difference what was the difference where the scriptures say he was baptized with the holy spirit of fire no way to get around that you can  those passages you can turn around you can throw them away you can rip that part of the bible out reality is that they are baptized only spirit there was a fire that was in them and a lot of you the reason don't have the fire of god where you are consumed by it is because you want to brace all that the words say you take what you want to take you through out the rest or you don't have to pay i'm not good enough so was peter good enough he wasn't but us all next week so what burns in your heart burns in your heart that's a question each and every one of us have to ask yourselves what burns in your heart if you if you if you don't have the fire of god burning in you you have something else burning in you if you don't have a pilot light in you and listen their bodies by lights different you know that the holy spirit and you've got all of us and you have everything in you you are dining going to hell and maybe every person here is born again or maybe you think you're born again and you're not i don't know but every person here is born again you know to worry about hell but the truth of the matter is some people are going to hell is that right is right or wrong is that truth so let me tell you something if you have people that have a fire in them the probably going to preach the gospel share the gospel testify of the gospel they're probably going to do something right but what about if you don't have god in you you have in you you don't you don't talk about jesus you don't care about jesus and care about anything do you you know so what about the people that are dying to go to hell that's a reality that's a reality no way to get around i don't  to because of a room full of christians wanting to preach about hell i need to preach more about hell though you know why i now have that i need to preach more about how they get you concerned about those that are going to hell i don't believe in fear motivation i'm not one that believes that i rather tell people god loves them and wants to turn to for them than tell god wants to judge them and bring them in the hell ok but hell is a reality and if we have the fire of god in this week our concern about people going to hell will do whatever if it means that we have to pray as a church every single day for saved for last was to become saved will pray every single day oh i don't need to come to church i can do it at home yes you can do it at home how's it working  get real how's it working god's doing something behind the scenes right it may take a while right but tell me something i'll finish here tell me something if but it doesn't really move my heart at all it doesn't really touch me at all i do think you'd be tears to go and when you think about it you've got thirty people here we're all praying and they got three thousand people at the other church and three are praying which church is going to work at this good honest which one is going to work at any work of golf of course you can but which one is the more likely you see i don't want to i don't want to get into the things of god that we don't understand and don't know i'm not going to build doctrine off of this this is what i know god calls us to pray and i know this the disciples did all sit around in their houses this is they were continuously devoted themselves to fellowship gather and praying do you know what is interesting is interesting paul is do isn't traveling around and he's trying to find the christians and in one town you know where he goes he goes to the river you know i went to the river because that was the place of prayer he knew if i want to find some christians are going to be at the river pra me tomorrow i'm asking you all to come here for prayer no i'm not you know why i'll be frustrated an irritated because most of you will come here tomorrow night for prayer this is a reality ok you got work you got this got the oh wait a second yeah all those things are more important than they are they yeah but when revival breaks tell people missed work you know that they said business is shut down business shut down when there was revival how did people make money they helped each other out so yes what if we turned around and we said we're going to commit to whatever it is right now it's saturday nights for prayer be better for the twenty eight to be home but god works and move in our lives in such a way that when we say god set a fire in my souls then a fire in my heart what does he do he sets a fire in us and things start to change when the fires in his don't you come to me pastor why don't we have more prayer baku who came to me says how come we don't do outreach you talk about it why don't we do it because nobody will join me why will you know he's going to say one saturday nights once a month is why do we have to do it once a month can we do it four times a month you have a fire and you want more not me coming up with it i didn't come up with a prayer every week is a book whose idea what fire burns a new set of spire down in my soul that i cannot contain that i cannot control i want more of you god i want more of you god that should be our prayer ery single person this room if you know jesus your lord you need of god if you know jesus you need more of god if you are filled with the fire you need more of god and that should be your prayer we're going to close and put this song on set afire my soul we're going to open up the altars come to pray if you want to fire god in your life you should be coming to these altars if you want more of god you should become in those altars if you want to be filled with this holy spirit you should become and does altars if you want to see god work a move in this church you should come to these  spirit is such a way that they can not but except jesus christ that should be our prayers if you have the fire you start to pray like that this all stay his best to ridge you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in robust and thirteen's as river calls upon the name of the lord will be saved john wants some says you must be born again x sixteen you have been listening to their resolve with pastor richard through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in during committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you are know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you their doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty ninth street in period next to the southwest courthouse