Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

Several years ago, my dad, Dean Sheets, wrote a wonderful devotional entitled The Gold that Washed Ashore.

Now out of print, please don't order it and drive my staff bonkers trying to get it. In the book,

I contributed a short quote from one of my books for each day. Great little devotional.

Dad was old school in his sermonizing building masterpieces of homiletic eloquence.

Each day this week, I am reading one of his devotionals, adding a few, or adding a writing from one of my books.

The title of today's devotional from that is,

Let It Pass Through the Fire. Daniel 10-6, his body was also like the barrel, B-E-R-Y-L,

Burrell, and his face as the appearance of lightning, his eyes as lamps of fire,

his arms and his feet like in colored a polished brass and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

Lightning and fire together. Matthew 311, I indeed baptize you with water

unto repentance, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I'm not worthy

to bear. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.

From Dad's devotional, he says fire is a purifying element. The chosen sign of God's approval

is the sacred flame. Spiritual baptism kindles the fires of Christ

in the souls of men. They receive, realize, and reproduce his mind and his heart. The fire

kindles a fervent devotion to God, a passion for righteousness,

and a consuming desire for soul-winning. Let the chosen symbol of Christianity be a tongue of fire.

The heavenly current is brought down, making you a living witness for the living Christ.

Fire is also a purifier, he says, the best defense against corruption. Whatever you place between

yourself and God, whatever you rest on apart from God,

or what you make the aim and center of your life apart from him is harmful and must pass

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