 Hi and welcome to this special broadcast directly from our studios at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Orlando Florida. My name is Edgar and today I have a special treat for all the women who are listening and it's a special invitation to our 2015 Women's Conference under the title Tested and True Women and the Truth of Christian Suffering. This women's conference will be hosted at Cornerstone Baptist Church the 17th and 18th of July. The woman will greatly enjoy a time of fellowship, joyful worship, and music and biblical teaching. And speaking of biblical teaching allow me to present our special guest who is joining us via phone all the way from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ms. Susan J. Hegg. Thanks for taking the time to join us on this broadcast Susan. Thank you Edgar. It's a joy to be here also. In our last broadcast Susan you spoke to the women listeners about five keys to loving life and the importance of how women should view life from a biblical perspective. On this broadcast I like to ask you about the second and third session titled What to Do in the Fiery Furnace. Now it seems the temperature is going to increase these two sessions. What should the women expect to learn in these particular sessions that you're going to be speaking? Well it is going to be hot in fact so much so that we're going to have two sessions to cover what to do in the Fiery Furnace. We'll have two parts to that Saturday morning. And again Edgar I get concerned about Christendom today. I don't mean to be just negative but these are the things I see as I travel around the U.S. and even internationally and I see women who are not embracing suffering as a means to sanctification. And Elizabeth Elliott who is one of my mentors she just passed away last week and I thought about so many times I've learned from her in her conferences about embracing the suffering and seeing it as a means to her sanctification and even her husband testified that even her dementia she embraced that as God's will for her life and means to sanctification. And so we're going to look at what to do in the furnace. And you know all of us have trials and all of us have suffering that we go through for the cause of Christ. And I think one of the first questions that we ask is why Lord why is this happening to me? And Peter says don't be surprised that the Fiery Trial which is fit to test you as though some strange thing happened to you. And I don't know why Christians think they're immune to suffering because Christ has promised that in fact he told us he told the disciples you know consider the cost before you embrace me as your Lord consider the cost because Paul goes on to say in one of his epistles we must do much tribulation to enter the kingdom of heaven and so but we do ask why why Lord is this happening and then how how do you want me to go through this suffering or this trial and so we're going to look at seven reasons why we suffer and I hope that these will be an encouragement to the women and some of those are you know it's a promise it's going to happen to us there's a purpose one of the reasons we suffer in order to partake in Christ sufferings and and I know that that might be a difficult concept for women to endure or to enjoy but I know for me as I grow in my walk with the Lord it's a joy to be able to know that my Lord suffered far more than I will ever suffer and so it's a joy to go through him in the fiery furnace and sometimes we actually suffer because of our own sin and I know that you know I've suffered in my own life I've been chastened by the Lord and it's because of my own sin and so we're going to look at that as well and we're going to look at this this mysterious passage also where Peter says that judgment begins at the house of God and you know Edgar I think we're seeing that today in our nation that judgment has begun to fall and it's going to fall in the house of God and so that's another reason why we suffer then we're going to look at attitudes how should I how should I go through suffering and trials and it's not with the frown on our face Peter says we're a rejoice and rejoicing knowing that glory is to follow the Holy Spirit will refresh in us and we go through it unashamed and committing our soul to him and so this is going to be I promise a great two sessions we'll have together because Peter writes some very pointed but powerful words here and I pray to the Lord Jesus that the women will see suffering as a means to their sanctification and you know we want Christianity you know we want the health wealth and the prosperity but we don't want any of the trials and the suffering that come and I pray that women will see this as a joy and it seems like the most the most godliest people I've met are the people that have suffered the most for Christ and God has used that to refine them and bring them forth as gold as Job said so I hope the women will we'll get a glimpse of that and be excited about waking up Saturday morning and hearing what Peter has to say to the Holy Spirit thank you so much Susan for sharing a little bit of the great teaching that is to come and for all the women that are out there who are listening let me encourage you to register today so you can be a part of our 2015 women's conference under the title tested and true women and the truth of Christian suffering this conference will be hosted at Cornerstone Baptist Church the 17th and 18th of July you will enjoy a great time of fellowship joyful worship and biblical teaching so take advantage and register today you can do that online at www.testedandtrue.net once again www.testedandtrue.net and if you have any questions or need help with the registration process please give us a call here at our church offices at 407 971 7685 407 971 7685 thank you so much for joining us and we look forward to seeing you at the conference God bless you