Arise & Shine
About this sermon
In “Arise & Shine,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, the condition of the church, prayer. Drawing especially from Isaiah 60, Isaiah 61, Hebrews 13, John 14, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise.
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Odle focuses on gratitude while working through Isaiah 60. The message argues that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Isaiah 60, Isaiah 61, Hebrews 13. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Isaiah 60, John 17. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on God’s commandments. The message argues that God’s commands reveal His standard and direct the obedient life. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on gratitude while working through Mark 16. The message argues that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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we thank you Lord for your word we thank you Lord God for this time that we have to worship you we thank you for all that you've given us Lord we really do Lord God we choose to draw near this morning we choose to worship you in spirit and the truth we choose to thank you for your goodness and your mercy we thank you for your word God I just can't thank you enough that you've given us your word Lord your word is alive and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword Lord your word is truth God thank you for your word I thank you holy spirit that you come and you guide us and you teach us Lord I just thank you for everything that you're doing I ask you to bless your people this morning I ask you to touch your people we pray this in Jesus name amen and amen Hallelujah you may be seated okay all right everybody got their Bibles this morning well I hope so um thank you sir that'll work and actually we're gonna go to here laughs I kind of doubt that we'll let this connect I guess it's just not wanting to pick it up all right well everybody I hope you have your Bibles this morning I want you to turn to Isaiah chapter 60. first of all I guess I'll turn there as well there's so many things going on in the world right now and of course [Music] since we were here last Sunday there's been a new development in the world everyone should know by now unless you've been living in a cave that Ebola has come to the United States
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and the way that it's being handled is unbelievable um unless you know the whole story but before we get on any depth of anything negative I mean I was listening a little bit we were we were where were we the other night oh Thursday night after Bible study we left GTR and John called me on the phone he said you might want to tune into this and listen and I just so I just caught the end of Michael Savage Savage Nation I don't know if you've heard of him he's a very popular talk show host but he comes on an odd time a lot of people not listening to the radio at that time but anyway he uh he was talking about um just how the bad news just keeps coming in waves you know there's just there's so much bad news that it's almost overwhelming and he talked about how he's worn and mourned and mourned and warned about things for years and everything he's warned and warned and warned about for years is happening uh to our world right now and I think that that ha you know we get that can happen to us it can be almost overwhelming because the bad news just keeps rolling in um of course to our church we shouldn't be surprised we should be prepared we should know what's coming um yeah y'all don't try to read all this up here I know it's tempting but uh let's do this here and get off that nonsense for a minute because we're going to get to um I just want to show you too this is this is another reason I brought this up I'm going to show you in a minute I'm having some interesting activity on our web pages and Facebook pages just to show you this as we get into this because there's a and there's a reason I'm showing you this because I want you to know that our little church here is making an impact I'm going to click on just the Diagnostics actually it's this one on reach here people reached in the last um 28 days that's not that's just the United States 13 374. in just the last 28 days is what this shows it goes down the list here of the country's United Kingdom Philippines Canada Australia and an interesting 130 um people reached in Pakistan South Africa 92 India 84 Ireland 46 Indonesia 46 you know Indonesia Pakistan primarily Muslim countries um I want you to notice this one right
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here because I'm going to get to this in a minute Elberton Georgia 166 visits since last week now that's very significant so I'm going to talk about that in just a second but I wanted you to notice that but I just wanted to see Indonesia we got Kenya um let's just keep scrolling down here Mexico 42 visits Germany 41 Puerto Rico look at this one United Arab Emirates 27 visits in just the last a few days now this is telling you 28 days but I know because I checked it a week ago I know what's new as well um United Arab average New Zealand Italy 26 I guess the popapodimus is checking us out Israel is 26 Malaysia another mainly primarily uh Muslim country 26 Dominican Republic Nigeria 20 Brazil Ghana Romania Saudi Arabia 16 uh Netherlands Singapore Austria Spain Belgium Ecuador France Hong Kong Poland Finland Zambia Uganda Colombia Zimbabwe Greece Guatemala Malta Hungary South Korea Switzerland Kuwait Japan Serbia and for some reason these are registered they shouldn't be registered if it wasn't so I don't know what they're doing there but anyway I just wanted you to see this is just this is just on this one Facebook page this doesn't count firing Grace Facebook page this doesn't count my personal Facebook page this doesn't count our websites either so we're talking about this in between iTunes podcast YouTube everything we're talking about just in the last month reaching about 20 000 people pretty amazing stuff and that's just what we can record that doesn't that doesn't tell you people that were reached with something that shared something out of their mouth so I want you to be encouraged because I believe we are going to see some good things happen in the midst of all of the bad news that's coming and that's why I wanted you to turn to Isaiah 60 before we get into anything that's too negative this morning I want you to see what I believe and let you know that I'm not just a pessimist I'm not I believe that God is going to do great things in the midst of this Darkness now a few weeks back I shared this passage of scripture in Wednesday night prayer but everyone wasn't there but I believe that it's a prophetic word and it's a very clear word for for us not only not only for us not only for fire and Grace Church and those who listen in but I believe for the true church at large the the true church that's scattered all over the world that loves Jesus believes he is God In the Flesh believes he is the only true Messiah the only way to heaven believes the Bible is the word of God um the true church that's trying to be
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disciples is trying to live for Jesus that's really genuine I believe this is a word for the church a prophetic word now God gave me this this passage these few verses Isaiah 61-5 he spoke these to me he hit me with his presence about this on January 15 1989 and he said this is a word for you that I want you to always remember always believe but it's not not for now okay so we're talking about 1989 right long time ago and here's what it is let's just read it because I believe it I believe it's for now he says this verse one arise shine for thy lightest come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee for Behold The Darkness shall cover the Earth and gross Darkness the people but the Lord shall arise upon thee in his glory shall be seen upon thee and the Gentiles and this term Gentiles means those outside the Covenant those unsaved he said in the Gentiles shall come to your light to the light of God that's within you that you let shine he says the unsaids will come to the to your light and Kings to the brightness of thy Rising Kings even leaders he said lift up your eyes round about and see all they gather themselves together they come to thee thy son shall come from far and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side then meaning after this you shall see and flow together your heart shall fear and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee and the forces or the resources of the Gentiles shall come unto thee now I know that this passage here is an end times passage because he's talking about the time period when gross Darkness will come upon the world now we know from the Bible we know that the Bible said Jesus said in the last days when the Great Tribulation comes he said it will be a time that's worse than any other time in the history of mankind Satan and his powers the trouble the things that we're seeing breaking out across the world now we have this Ebola plague we have these things this this horrible Darkness beginning to cover the Earth but God said this to his people and I want you to listen to me clearly he said for you to arise and let your light shine does that sound familiar I think I remember Jesus saying that right in Matthew Chapter 5 the in
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